Not Me Monday!

This will be my first installment of “Not Me Monday!” It’s really quite clever really, check it out at (www.mycharmingkids.net). I will try to post this each Sunday night for you Monday readers – this is your chance to check out what I haven’t been doing over the last week.

This week, I did not run out of checks, pay all of our bills by phone (with some additional fees), because I was too preoccupied to reorder our checks two weeks ago when I saw we were getting low. That would be ridiculous. I am always on top of the ball and things never slip my mind. Nope. Not me!

Because of my newfound interest in politics, I haven’t missed an important Presidential speech for the last year and a half. So I totally did not skip over the President’s speech last week to stay up watching movies with my sister until 11 p.m. and miss all of the information that I was waiting to hear, partly because I was annoyed our regular programming wasn’t on for the evening. Nope. Not me!

I did not jump for joy because of the snow that we received last Thursday because I knew that Parish had to go to bed early to get up and plow (at 2 a.m.) and I could actually get some cleaning done. No way would I have done that. And obviously, there was NO WAY that after I got our whole house cleaned, dusted, vacuumed, that it was a complete disaster on Saturday morning. Nope. Didn’t happen here.

On Friday night, P and I went to a Chamber Gala in the cities. I was excited for a fun night away, with great company and a delicious meal. You could imagine my surprise when I found out that the dinner option was steak and shrimp. I did not forget that that one – it was Lent (and took a few bites of my steak) and two – my allergies to shrimp before moving the shrimp to the side (after it was laying on top of my steak). I also did not have to give myself medicine for the hives I had on my face and arms when I got home. Nope. I wouldn’t forget those things.

P and I spent the weekend at Josh and Kris’s house – we were all planning on going to the Science Museum on Sunday. I most certainly did not wake up Sunday morning only to realize that I didn’t pack any undergarments. So I didn’t make my husband travel to the store to buy new underwear for me. Nope. Oh, and my husband definitely did not return from the store with granny panties for me to wear. Nope. Totally didn’t happen.

I wasn’t just as excited as a child is on Christmas when we all arrived at the Science museum. Nope. I didn’t run around (with our friend’s 3-year old) pulling every lever, turning every crank, and pushing every button in order to see how science works. Nope. After all, I am an adult. And I certainly didn’t step in front of other children so that I could experience it first. WHO does that in public? Not me.