Boomerang Kids and Mylar ballons

When my daughter's lease was up she moved in with me in my tiny apartment. This is temporary until she finds a job as a hair dresser and knows where she wants to live. We both work a lot. We don't see each other too much, but when she is there, the TV is always on Comedy Central. I've seen more of TOSH.O than I ever wanted to see. 

Having my daughter home after a year on her own is so different. She's funny now. She used to be mean all the time. Now, she's only mean some of the time. 

Last night she said she an elementary teacher that used to call her Marcia, Marcia, Marcia. I said your teacher obviously thought you were a drama queen like Marcia. She said it was only because she looked like her. She proved it to me. Hayley on right. Marcia on left. Then, she pulled up a recent unattractive picture of Marcia and said "Mom, that's me in 30 years."

Later, on the way to Texaco (also known as the local wine store) she is telling me about The Office when the mylar balloon finally lost its air so the whole office went to the warehouse to finally retrieve the balloon and realized how sad their lives were since that was the most exciting thing that had happened to them in a while. I have no idea why she was telling me this story. I'm trying not to put a lot of thought into it. Could be random chatter, or maybe our lives are too boring. Did make me think of the movie The Heat. Mine and Nicky's favorite quote when the cat is missing.  "Your cat got one look at your s***** life and said, 'no f******* thanks, man."

After picking out licorice and Cheetos, Hayley asks me to show her the fitness center at the apartments. We go there in a our work out clothes. She takes a look at the equipment and goes home. I guess walking up the stairs to the fitness center was her workout. I stayed and worked out.

I told Hayley I was going to make Chicken Alfredo with spinach and mushrooms. She tells me she just pinned a recipe for Moroccan chicken and she wants that. So okay...change of plans. 

I still had mushrooms and spinach, but we also made Moroccan chicken with lemon rosemary potatoes.

http://tamingofthespoon.com/moroccan-chicken/

You are supposed to refrigerate the chicken in the spices for 2 hours. We did 20 minutes in the freezer because we were hungry. It was good, but not earth shattering.

So as my cat's scar is healing, it has turned into a black heart. 

I hope everyone enjoys the wet Texas weekend we are going to have. I know we need the rain, but I need a golf fix soon. Nicky and I went to Florida a few weeks ago to play golf during the Texas ice storm. We can't afford to hop on a plane every time we want to play golf.