Pizza Fries

Hello everyone.  Hope you are doing ok.  No lasting hang-overs or blisters on the feet from too much dancing at the J-land celebration I hope.

The cow to the left here, (or is it a bull?) is here because......no reason.  I saw the photo, liked it, the site said I could grab it so I did.  

He looks kind of mean huh?  He? Guess I have decided "it" is a bull.  He looks like he can see that hamburger you have you in your hands there.  You better put the ground beef away........

                

Swiped the above graphic from Jason (click on the money to go to his journal).  Actually I asked politely before I ran off with it.

I know everyone is thinking AOL and money don't mix so well.  But you might be wrong.  I was trying to balance my checkbook today and found a couple "odd" things on my statement.

Turns out some money had been deposited into my account.  Huh? Seems I did a couple of those "opinion polls" and they actually paid me for them!  Yep.  I got $5 for one and $3 for another one!  Cool. 

Ok, it might not actually BE AOL money, but the "opinion poll" place says they will credit your AOL account so to me that is as good as if it was AOL money!

Now there are some things I don't understand about men.  Or maybe it isn't all men, maybe it is just my dad.  When my parents got married my mom didn't know how to cook, but my dad did and he taught her how. 

Whenever we had pets my dad was always the one that ending up getting their meds into them.  No problem, he would pick them up grab open their mouth and shove the meds right in.

But something has happened to my dad.  Something really weird.  It happed at almost the exact second mom fell and fractured her hip.

Dad no longer knows how to cook.  Can't even open a can!  It is really weird I tell ya.  Sara - their cat -- is sick and needs liquid meds twice a day.  Suddenly dad doesn't know how to pick up a cat without being afraid of getting bit or something.  He has become incapable of putting liquid med into Sara's mouth.  He has done it before.  I know he has.

But when mom fractured her hip and couldn't cook or help hold Sara all the sudden dad can't do anything!  Well, he can and does cook breakfast (easiest meal of the day to fix).  So I go and cook lunch for them and put stuff in the fridge that just has to be re-heated for a light supper.  But he had trouble finding things in the fridge so I got tape and put numbers on everything.  Made a list and gave it to mom.  Now she tells him what number to get out of the fridge to microwave for supper.

I go twice a day, find Sara (the cat incase you aren't following), pick her up, wrap her in a towel, get her to open wide and shoot the meds right into that little mouth of hers.  Takes all of about 2 minutes for the whole thing?  She hasn't bit me or scratched me.  No one helps hold her.  It's a one woman job.  No biggie.

So here is my question.  When mom fractured her hip, what happened to dad's brain and ablities to take care of things?  Will he know how to cook and give the cat meds when the doctor says mom can go back to doing all those things?  Have you ever seen this happen before ladies?