So what if it's been four months?

What's it to you?

I love CNN, and when I go to sleep, I have it going on my TV, just in case I wake up to pee, and something has happened.

To you it might be crazy, but today it proved not such a crazy quirk after all.

I woke up around 4:00 to go potty, and saw "Holy crap, breaking news, the world is coming to an end..." banners on CNN. In reality, al-Zarqawi had been killed which in itself is big news. It is, the president says so.

But that's beside the point. This website is about my crazy mother, isn't it?

I talk to my mother every morning before she goes to work. Really, it's her talking, and me grunting as I'm still asleep and just talking to her until she stops yammering and I figure I will call her later to find out what she really wants to talk about. It's normally nothing, but she's my mother, right?

So this morning, in an excitement that normally only Christmas morning brings, she proclaimed to me that they finally had bombed Zimbabwe.

Yes, she said Zimbabwe.

Thankfully my CNN watching habits serve me well, and I knew what she was talking about so I was able to to play with her a bit.

I then asked, "the entire country?"

"No, just Zimbabwe."

"The country, they bombed the entire country?"

"No, just Zim-bab-we!"

Yes, I'm this evil.

"What did Zimbabwe ever do to us?"

"Oh...you know, the terrorism and stuff!"

"Zimbabwe? The country in Africa? I didn't think they were known for their terroristic activities!"

"No, no, no, the guy...the Bin Laden guy...you know, Zim something or other."

At this point I let the poor soul off the hook, and I told her that I knew what she was talking about.

So, contrary to popular Christopher theories that my mother just can't hear me because I have a whiny voice, so he says, she really can't hear anyone.

There's a dose for you. I know that there are letters piled up in my email from months ago, that have since tapered off since people think my mother was being aloof and didn't answer them, we've just had a busy couple of months.

In other Mumsy news, she is officially one step closer to retirement, and as promised she will be plugged in and ready to correspond with everyone and give her advice first hand. She now has a laptop that she's really unsure of how to use, but she's able to check her emails which impresses me beyond belief.