Grown Up Behavior

Hello Everyone:

Another day is coming to close and mom's obsessive behavior, centered around the Israeli elections, has died down.  I tried to set up her new phone yesterday but mom kept grabbing out of my hand. Rather than lose what little patience I have, I told her go to the store you bought it from and have them help you.  Better that way.  Mom is still addling me about Passover preparations.  Everyday, she has some new pronouncement about one thing or another.  For example, today she reminded me, once again, to clean out one the upper shelves in the kitchen.  I responded with my usual, "I heard you the first time, after that I stopped paying attention."  Then she announced that after the cleaning service finishes the apartment, the kitchen will be completely Passover-ready and not to touch anything.  Of this is two weeks in advance and a statement of the obvious.  The next big thing is the food issue.  I can be accommodating to a point but I'm not going to re-start eating animal protein for the duration of the holiday.  I have some recipes in a folder, on my desk top, that I can make but that has potential to engender another round of arguments over the ingredients.  While mom is trying to get me to do some of the cooking, I'm still quite suspicious of her because of prior bad experiences. Also, I reassured mom that if I prepare my own Passover food, I would most definitely use Passover appropriate ingredients.  Like would do otherwise.  In other news, the part-time BF texted me yesterday evening saying he was nearby and wanted to come over.  Booty call.  I politely told him thanks but I was getting ready for bed and perhaps we could get together another time.  I'm proud of the way I handled that because in the past I would have been so desperate for the company that I would've said yes.  While I don't mind his company, he is a fun guy, I really am not that desperate for a booty call.  I'm sure we'll get together another time and have some planned activity.  In the meantime, my "Girls" marathon continues and I'm feeling less visceral about it. I still think that some of the main characters need to grow up but I'm seeing tiny green shoots of maturity.  It'll be interesting to see how things play out for the characters.