Impending Grandma

[mrissa]

I have just noticed that I have been so careful not to say anything about Grandma's moving dates in case something goes wrong with the people who are buying her house or whatever that I have not mentioned how soon it's supposed to be coming. I mean, it's not just superstition: even if the people who are buying her house have done everything right, things can go wrong with mortgage companies at the last minute. Strange and arcane are the ways of real estate transactions. It all makes me very nervous, because it doesn't feel like it just depends on people being sensible, it feels like it depends on people being sensible and having form XJ447b62 filled out properly instead of form XJ447b62a.

But: failing anything strange and arcane going wrong, my grandma will live here in the south suburbs in slightly less than two weeks.

Eeeeeeee!

I keep saying to her, "Everything is going to be so much better when you're here, Grandma." And I really do think it will.

She's coming up for her last pre-move visit this weekend, for my birthday, and we're going to see Aunt Ellen and Uncle Phil and the Smothers Brothers (consecutive, not concurrent) and generally have a fine old time. And then the next time I see her after that--good Lord willing and the creek don't rise--will be when she's moving in. To be 15 minutes away from me.

Eeeeeeee!

I have other pre-birthday things to accomplish--the making of the ritual birthday double-chocolate scones, for example, but that has to wait so they're fresh. Nobody wants stale scones. (Note to zorinth: I don't mean to taunt you, but they're very like my chocolate bread. Sorry.) It'll be a busy-ish week with that and other things. And then at the end of it there will be birthday and Grandma.

Comments

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

FROG!

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

>> Impending Grandma

Not that this wasn't a perfectly good post, but I expected a knock-knock joke

(NOT GRANDMOTHERIST)

On the other hand, tormenting people with double-chocolate scones is worth a masspost.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Knock-knock!
Who's there?
Impending Grandma.
Impending Grandma who?
Impending Grandma makes banana bread and goes out for Chinese food for lunch and helps paint the bedroom and likes her housewarming presents.

Wait, that wasn't funny.

Still good, though.

thumbs up!

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

Funny, as a way to evaluate a knock-knock joke, is overrated if there's banana bread and Chinese food involved.

Re: thumbs up!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Even when there's not banana bread and Chinese food, "surreal" is my favorite knock-knock evaluation parameter. But:

Impending Grandma.
Impending Grandma who?
Impending Grandma fuschia striped bicycle moose!

just did not seem like the thing.

Re: thumbs up!

[avocadovpx.livejournal.com]

Q: How many Impending Grandmas does it take to cross the road?

A: Fuchsia striped bicycle moose!

Alternate A: A priest, a rabbi, and an elephant all over!

Other alternate A: Because he didn't know a bare pope from a hole full of shinola!

Re: thumbs up!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think the last two were really more grandpa sorts of punchlines.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

It really doesn't seem right that your grandma is moving to MN almost exactly when we're moving to NE.

Have I mentioned how scared I am to be moving to NE?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It really does not.

You really have not.

So. I tried asking T's aunt and uncle for Kearney recommendations, but they lived there long enough ago that they didn't have any current ones. But I do have Omaha stuff if you end up going into Omaha.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

I'm *sure* we'll go into Omaha -- if only for our sanity. Denver, too.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, there can be restaurant and used bookstore recommendations.

Also you could come into Mpls. It's not really farther than Denver, is it? Not much farther, if so.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

3 or 4 hours farther, sadly. It is 5 hours from Kearney to Denver, or so I've been told.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

How far out of Omaha are they saying you are?

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

Roughly 2 hours.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Well, we're 5ish from O. Hurrah for the 70 mph speed limit hitting Iowa! It was a solid 6 counting gas stops and all of that before the 70 mph speed limit.