A Piece of Work!

My mother should get her own reality TV show because, as I say, she's a piece of work!

I left work to pick up mother at 5pm. When we got home, I told her to relax. She said, "I've been sitting on my butt all day. I want to do something!" Then the cleaning tornado started.

She cut up our philodendron to make more plants...


She cleaned a drawer in our kitchen...


She cleaned and organized our utility closet...


She cleaned and organized under our sink...


She cleaned our front door...


She cleaned up the living room...


She cleaned up our table...


She organized the pictures on our bookshelf and said, "Why doesn't Brian have as many pictures as you do?" ...


She cleaned our shelf with plants and kept saying, "These plants have seen better days." ...


She cleaned the dishwasher...


and she put Brian's presents, which had been sitting in the middle of the living room, in a proper place.

Brian came home and found the tornado working. When she told him, "I would love to clean rich people's houses," he joked that it was because of her heritage.

We went to PF Changs for dinner because I promised my mother two years ago that we'd go. I made a reservation, but when I got there, they couldn't find it. I told them the person that I talked to and waited for them to seat us. It wasn't a big deal but it annoyed me.

My mom really enjoyed all the selections that Brian made (especially their banana dessert). As we were eating, my mother commented on the amount of gays in the restaurant. We saw a gaggle of them at a table and my mother asked, "Are they friends or couples?" When I joked that she should ask them, she got up and started walking toward their table. Brian nearly slid under the table until he realized that she was pulling a joke.

Brian, Me, and my mom.

After dinner we went to my sister's house. Looking at their two-toned walls, Brian told my sister, "I've never seen two-tone done very well." After a long pause, he finished his sentence and said, "but yours looks really great!" We all laughed at his inadvertent pause.

Me playing with Carly.


My mother pretending to be a terrorist with a TSA luggage card.