Saturday, April 30, 2011

no fingerprints on grannie

so today was one of those days.  i washed dishes.  my friend came over and washed dishes.  and there are still dirty dishes.  i also did three loads of laundry, swept the floors at least 5 times, once for each child.  friends brought over various foods to feed the grandchildren - starting at 8am with a couple who brought veggies from a drop site where organic leftover foods get deposited.  the potatoes were lunch and the tomatoes dinner; and the oranges snacks in-between.  in the afternoon other friends brought more potatoes (yes, we need more potatoes) and four loaves of asked for white bread - toast; grilled cheese sandwiches; cinnamon and sugar toast; and the ever handy peanut butter and jelly that travels with us on 'pick the big kids up from school' trips - tides everyone over until dinner time.  the pow-wow got missed because i was on deadline to get the application for state healthcare in; without health care just how could i do this job?  but missing the pow-wow was a huge disappointment - to appease the masses they were taken to the library and filled up on videos so that one sits at the vcr watching Babies and the other on the dvd player watching a bollywood video with english subtitles. i never watched a movie with subtitles until i was in my 30s.  not bad for a gradeschooler i guess.  my hands are so chapped from diaper wet wipes, dishes, and washing hands and faces that i type with oiled hands in leather gloves.  failed the fingerprint card test by the state - apparently as you age your skin dries out and it is harder for them to capture your fingerprints (take note criminals) - i need to oil and soften these grannie hands up - without the fingerprint card they can't do a background check and any help from the state for the kiddos gets held up

this was supposed to be the first post

this is not
your milk and 
cookies granny
more like
roll with the
punches
take it like a
man
put a tourniquet
on the snake bites
hope for the best
©rendon

camel's back

maybe creator never gives us more than we can handle
but there are some jokers
working round the clock
to see to it that the
camel's back is broken
that humpty never does get fixed
jack and jill
do not make it up the hill again
and some children step on cracks
just for the hell of it
sing songy nursery rhymes
make this 'not your milk and
cookies granny' want to do
the proverbial finger down the
throat gag