Tears, Jokes, and Laughter

I went down to Grammie and Pa's today after work. I was so tired it's amazing I didn't fall asleep reading Harry Potter. When I finished, I took a nap while AJ got Grammie up. Then, AJ and I went over to the market place to get Greek food for dinner. After Pa, AJ, and I had eaten I went down to say good bye to Grammie.
I said, "Good bye. I'm going home and going to bed."
Grammie said, "Good bye. You need to go home. AJ will take care of you when we're no longer able to." At first I thought she thought I still lived with them, but then she started to get teary eyed and I realized she meant when her and Pa had died.
I said, "You've done a good job taking care of me."
"That's a nice compliment." Then she said, "Where's my little elephant?"
We had forgotten to give her animals back after she got up. I gave them back and was getting a little teary eyed myself. My nose started to run and I told her it was her fault.
Her reply was, "You give me Monk and I make your nose run."
She apologized for getting teary eyed and crying, but I told her not to worry.
To lighten the mood a little I decided to tell her a joke. I knew how much she loved the blonde jokes, so I told her about the blonde getting fired from the M & M factory for throwing out all the "W's." Grammie laughed so hard. Then, I started laughing because she couldn't stop. AJ came into the kitchen and wanted to hear the end, so I retold it. AJ stood there with a look on her face that said she clearly didn't get the joke. Grammie was still laughing as I explained to AJ that an upside down M is a W. She still didn't get it which made Grammie and me laugh even harder. Finally, after lots of explaining to AJ and telling Grammie that AJ was still thinking did she get it. Grammie's reaction? "That's choice!" I told 2 more blonde jokes and then I stopped because I was afraid Grammie would hurt herself from laughing so hard. AJ said that Grammie might be up all night thinking about the jokes. I'm so glad I thought of them.
P.S. Wednesday I read If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and If You Give a Pig a Pancake. Grammie loved them both. She looked at each picture for quite awhile before I turned the page. Any suggestions as to what little fun book to read next? I was thinking something of Dr. Seuss.

2nd Day of School

School has started. I am at a local junior high. It's different from where I was and not just different in location; but culture, attitude, and acceptance of others. Here is what my day looked like. I truly hope it's not like this all 175 days of school. :-)

5:00 Alarm goes off
5:15 Roll out of bed and get into shower
5:45 Start computer and pull bread for sandwiches out of freezer
6:00 Start studying
6:20 Stop studying and make lunch (remember to make a lot because I will be hungry)
6:45 Eat breakfast
7:00 Mom calls
7:05 Brush teeth and fill water bottle
7:10 Put on jacket and remember it needs to be ironed
7:12 Pull out iron and quickly iron while talking to Mom
7:15 Get ready to leave and remember windows are open- quickly shut them
7:32 Arrive at school to find a schedule for the day of which classes I need to go to
Start coping schedule when Reading teacher comes in and tells us we have a meeting for the first 2 periods of the day
7:50 Go to meeting after collecting paper and pen for note taking
9:30 Leave meeting for break- Eat 3/4 of an apple
9:45 Go to third period and get ready to give a reading test
10:45 Give a second reading test
11:30 Go to fifth period
12:05 Leave fifth period early for lunch
12:07 Find out I have 5 minutes for lunch before I work lunch duty
12:09-12:15 Find sandwich and eat half
12:18 Report for lunch duty
12:54 Leave lunch duty and go to 2 different History classes
2:30 Schools over-Why do I have a headache? Oh Right, I haven't had lunch.
2:50 Leave school and head to church for 3:00 meeting
Eat other half of sandwich in the car
3:10 Get to church hungry, hot, and tired
3:30 Finish lunch
5:30 Leave church and go to Home Depot
5:55 Get home
6:00 Type this post
6:15 Read a book and go to bed

I have a feeling that tomorrow might be a close repeat to today. Hopefully there won't be a surprise meeting in the morning and I'll head to Grammie and Pa's after work, but it will be similar just the same.
P.S. I have homework for Reading class, but I'll wait til the morning.