Mama lost her voice!

Ellen Cherry Charles reporting to you LIVE from the living room...and Mama has had a cold off and on for a few days and she lost her voice today! So we are running rampant and she can't yell at us - well, she whispers at us, but its not the same, I mean, we don't hardly flinch when she yells at us so you can imagine a whisper and how fast we move then - HA. Anyway, she managed to clean the catbox and did a little drawing and did some crossword puzzles and watched "Finding Nemo" for the first time, which she said was a rather sad movie, all things considered.

Words that are strung along for a long long time that Mama is paying attention to instead of me:

Shopaholic and Sister by Sophie Kinsella...the heroine is a bimbo who tries to make friends with a sister her family had just found - her dad had an affair before he was married. As predictable, the heroine is a "shopoholic" and her sister is as granola as it could get. After beating their heads against the wall for 370 pages, they find a tiny corner of common ground that they both cling to, and happily ever after. This Kinsella woman has a lot of books out - mostly "Shopaholic" as far as I can tell. I sat through one, I doubt I can sit through another, but it was mindless and easy to read, so who knows?

Song on permanent loop in Mama's head:
Girl, before I met you I was F.I.N.E. Fine
but your love made me a prisoner, yeah my heart's been doing time
You spent me up like money, then you hung me out to dry
It was easy to keep all your lies in disguise
'Cause you had me in deep with the devil in your eyes

---What it Takes, Aerosmith

you gotta catch me first!
Ellen