home alone.......

ok, so it is 5:00 pm or so.....and i have to ask myself....just where is everybody?........yeh, I know that my spouse is where he is supposed to be....and i vaguely recall that my daughter is with her 'mimi'......and that scw is at an academic team scrimmage...scheduled just days prior to the all-a classic saturday in richmond.......which essentially puts me home alone......i would say that i could get used to having first dibs on the new yorker.....and danville's paper which comes in the afternoon.......but the house seems so hollow sounding when it is only me here......well.....me and 3 pets, who are all wanting food.......and i am certain of the current location of the telephone.......when i got home yesterday....groceries in both arms....and the phone ringing but no one answering it.......it was my mother, desiring to tell me about her cat whose delicate health required an overnight stay at the vet.......i was talking to her when i realized that i had neglected to bring my cell phone in from my car.....parked in the garage too close to the workbench.....note to self- go back out as soon as blog is over and reposition car about 5 inches backwards.......at some point during the conversation with my mother, and going back to the garage, and turning off the cell phone,and repositioning the car, i left the portable phone in the car on the driver's seat. completely forgot about it.....so later when cayle wanted to use the phone to call her 'mimi'......i couldn't remember where i had put it....and 3 trips to the car looking failed to locate it because it is black and the seats are black......and i was at the wrong angle to see it......and thus my family considers me one phone call closer to senility....a pitiable state to be sure.........just as my alias obsession is pitiable.......on the other hand, thursday is l.county day, where 2 out of 3 of the office clerks watch alias and 1 out of 3 own the complete dvd set......i burned a cd of alias soundtrack songs for them....and you would have thought i had brought gold, frankinsence and myrhh.......it is epiphany, by the way.......i came from the west bearing a gift....that was close enough for government work, right?........ah well.....i will just go ahead and put supper on the stove....and put in an alias dvd....i am almost through with season 2.......speaking of alias.....the season premiere last night was aceptable, but not stellar......i felt that the producers were catering toward the desparate housewife crowd....and that may just be too blessed desparate for me.......i will watch, but i feel in my heart htat theya re selling themselves short in hopes of building back an audience....ah well....if i were queen, things would be different.......