And Thursday is about over with.
I slept the day away again. I went to see the doc yesterday. She told me not to worry about sleeping the hours I sleep. She's quite aware of all my medical problems and she says if I want to sleep during the day and be up all night, there isn't anything medically wrong with that. Some folks are day people. Some folks are night owls. I'm a night owl. I told her to tell my family that. She said they'll just have to accept that I sleep the hours I sleep. One would think they would be used to it by now. I've been this way for damn near nine years. That car wreck totally screwed up my sleep patterns. I've always been prone to being a night owl, even before the wreck but before the wreck I was forced to be a day person cause I had a job and had to be awake during the day. I don't have that now. There is essentially no reason for me to be awake during the day if I don't want to be. And it's not that I don't want to be awake during the day, it's that it just works out that I am not always awake during the day. Lord knows I've tried to change the nights and days around so I will be awake during the day but it never lasts for long. There just isn't any rhyme or reason to the hours that I do sleep. I will show you what I mean. We'll start at the 1st of May
1 Friday 11pm to 4pm (saturday)
2 Saturday 9pm to 1:30 pm (sunday) this was my birthday
3 Sunday 11pm to 11 am (monday)
4 Monday no sleep
5 Tuesday 3am to 9am
6 Wednesday 4am to 10:30am
7 Thursday 6am to 2pm
8 Friday 11:30am to 4pm
9 Saturday 3am to 3pm
10 Sunday 6am to 6pm Mother's Day
11 Monday 6am to 6pm
12 Tuesday 12pm to 5pm
13 Wednesday 4am to 9am
14 Thursday (today) I slept from 4:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. ....... 11.5 hours
Do you notice what happened from Wednesday into Thursday? I woke up at 9 a.m. and I didn't go back to sleep till 4:30 a.m. on Thursday. That's 19 hours awake. This isn't a random thing really. It happens quite often. I will sleep for many hours then the next day I'll sleep hardly at all and then the next I'll be up for many hours. It drives me crazy!
I have little trouble most of the time in adhereing to other's schedules if need be. Like if I have an appointment or something and I have to be somewhere... I will just set the alarm and get up when it's time to be somewhere. I usually get that accomplished with not too much problem. And then there are times when I will just blow off what needs to be done cause I can't wake up to be where I need to be. That alarm just becomes a part of sleep. Doc doesn't seem to think this is such a bad thing in the whole scheme of it all. She says that other's will just have to understand that that is how my body works and there is little I can do about it. She, herself has been one of those blown off because I could not wake to do what needed to be done. She's much more forgiving than others are at times though.
On the days when I am supposed to be somewhere or have something that I need to do and I don't get out of bed and do those things, my phone message machine is full of messages with folks telling me to get my ass out of bed and be among the living! Not so much in those exact words, but you get the point.
All I can do is try to please those who need placated and try to worry about those that don't matter so much. That in itself is a hard decision to make. Who is the most important? And who should I blow off without a second thought?
Doc also gave me a new diagnosis on Wednesday. She tells me my thyroid is out of whack and I have hypothyroidism. I saw an endocrinologist in Jan of 08 and he said my thyroid was fine. Least that's what I remember and there were no drugs prescribed or anything like that. It was like, OK, I've looked at you, we've done the tests and there isn't a thing wrong your thyroid. Keep taking your metformin and eat like you should and keep up with the checkups with your regular doc. Done all that, pretty much. I don't always eat right but I've done the rest. This new diagnosis came as a bit of a surprise to me. Actually what I thought was: Oh, great! Something else to worry about in the health department. Like I didn't already have to worry about the polycythemia vera, the diabetes, the spinal cord injury that will always be there, the occasional migraine and the fibromyalgia which kicks my ass on a daily basis. And now my thyroid is screwy too. What next? Oh, the next is that my teeth have gone totally bad on me too. Dentist is the next doc I'll be seeing. I think the teeth have gone bad as a result of the diabetes. Even though my blood sugars are well within range of being normal more than they aren't, diabetes wrecks havoc in all parts of the body. She wants me to see the dentist and the eye doctor. My eyes aren't the best they've ever been either.
I am falling apart at the seams!
Thanks for listening to me ramble on about the sleep issues. I'm done with that for now. I feel much better!
I'm going to do some scanning and I'll be back in awhile to make another post with some pictures in it. I got my green and pink chunkys done but some of them still need danglies. I'll scan them without danglies. I have some ATCs to scan also. Now let's see if I can remember just how to do that with the new scanner!
I shall return!
Live. Love. Laugh. Make a little magic while you're here. You will find a lot of rambling stories, art and a lot of pictures. Enjoy!
14 May 2009
11 May 2009
Wretched Machine is a thorn in my side!
I hate this wretched PC of mine! Anti virus tells me I have a trojan of some sort. What the hell that means is Greek to me. I don't understand the workings of the PC at all. I know how to turn the thing on, I can get it to do certain things, but other things are like asking me to cook you a five course Swahili dinner. I've no clue what the devil Swahilians eat for any meal.
Needless to say, you all aren't getting any pictures again today. You didn't need any anyway! I made two more ATCs last night and got my pink and green things done... minus the danglies. (Think I said that yesterday!) My teeth are still killing me! I have a dr. appt on Wednesday to take care of that mess I do believe.
Ma just showed up with a big bag of Kibbles and Bits for Fred. I asked her yesterday if she would pick him up a bag of food when she went to Alco today. I thought I told her to get him some Gravy Train, but she didn't. Next time she will, she says. Ma acts like she doesn't like that fool dog, but secretly, she really does. She's always bringing him things to eat or play with. She pets him every chance she gets too. She just doesn't want him in her yard, digging up her flowers. I'm not sure where she got the notion he digs up plants from but she doesn't want him in her yard. That's OK though, he's got plenty of room to roam elsewhere.
I added another book to the list of books read. It was a stupid book! One of the stupidest books I think I've ever read in my life! No wonder the author didn't care to take credit for it!
I'm headed next door to have spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread. I'll come yak at you all another time! Be good each other. Collect your hugs and smile cause it makes folks wonder just what you're up to!
Peace
831
Needless to say, you all aren't getting any pictures again today. You didn't need any anyway! I made two more ATCs last night and got my pink and green things done... minus the danglies. (Think I said that yesterday!) My teeth are still killing me! I have a dr. appt on Wednesday to take care of that mess I do believe.
Ma just showed up with a big bag of Kibbles and Bits for Fred. I asked her yesterday if she would pick him up a bag of food when she went to Alco today. I thought I told her to get him some Gravy Train, but she didn't. Next time she will, she says. Ma acts like she doesn't like that fool dog, but secretly, she really does. She's always bringing him things to eat or play with. She pets him every chance she gets too. She just doesn't want him in her yard, digging up her flowers. I'm not sure where she got the notion he digs up plants from but she doesn't want him in her yard. That's OK though, he's got plenty of room to roam elsewhere.
I added another book to the list of books read. It was a stupid book! One of the stupidest books I think I've ever read in my life! No wonder the author didn't care to take credit for it!
I'm headed next door to have spaghetti and meatballs with garlic bread. I'll come yak at you all another time! Be good each other. Collect your hugs and smile cause it makes folks wonder just what you're up to!
Peace
831
10 May 2009
Machine Fixed? Nope, Don't Think So...
It ain't up to it's old tricks since the last post so I guess it's good to go. Is it fixed though? I've no idea! It's working, that's all that matters.
I still have no pictures to show you all. I have been busy organizing and sleeping. I should be organizing my sleeping so it doesn't interfere with organizing but I don't see that happening.
There are piles of stuff all over this room that need to find a permanent spot to sit. The spare room, which you all know is not really a spare room, is in better order than the deskroom where I sit at the moment. Sleep invaded before I was done putting things away.
I need to get busy and finish those pink and green pages for the Chunky Swap that is due on the 31st. That means I have about a week to get them done, packaged and to the post office on their way. I can do that.
I have four pages comepleted on the fronts with the back of one completely done. The other three are in various stages of the backs being completed. The thing is, I really wanted to make 8 pink and green chunkys so I'd have enough for a book when the returns came back. Eight may not get done, but 4 definetly will.
I did accomplish cleaning off the painting table. I know for certain now that it still has a green top. I couldn't see the top of that table on Friday morning. I slept the day away Saturday.
Fred is asleep on the floor behind me. Snoring and giving me a massage at the same time. That dog snores DEEP! Rattles the floorboards for my massage. I've pulled six ticks off his hide this week. They are thick this year.
RJ, T and Brenton went camping on Friday evening. I've not heard from them since RJ called me around 11:30 last night asking if needed, could he come borrow some blankets. Silly kids go camping when the temp is in the 50s and forget to bring blankets along! I didn't hear back from the boy so those that were expected to arrive still must have brought enough blankets for all. I suspect I'll see them sometime on Sunday.
RW's car is still sitting in the driveway. I went out there on Friday night when it was fixing to rain and put plastic over his window. Not sure it helped to keep the rain out though. The wind blew pretty hard and I didn't make a real good effort to make sure the plastic would stay with a lot of wind.
Fred and I went to town around 8pm Saturday. Filled the van with gas, bought me a big bottle of Coke, some smokes and a sandwich while I was there. I knew I should have filled that van with gas on Tuesday when I was in town. Gas went from $2.05 to $2.15 in that time. Cost me almost $33.00 for just over 16 gallons of gas. I can remember when gasoline was less than .70 cents a gallon. Memorial Day is coming and the price of gas will only increase. That is WRONG! The only reason it goes up is cause on Memorial Day Weekend people are traveling to other destinations and those who are in power of gasoline are greedy bastards who see dollar signs! That is WRONG! But they got us by the shorthairs, don't they? My van was sitting on empty and it won't run unless I put gas in it. I've no choice but to pay what they are asking.
I am going to turn on some tunes, shut down this machine and go sit at my painting table for a couple of hours and get my chunky pages done. I have other things that need to be put in envelopes to be sent out come Monday. I won't have time to do that tomorrow. I'm expected in Pburg with Susan in tow around 10 a.m. It's now almost 1 a.m. I might not get any sleep until I come home from Pburg tomorrow. I also have to wrap Ma's mother's day present. She's getting a new picture to hang on her wall. No. I didn't make it. It's a cloisonne picture. Really cool! That I found at a yard sale weekend before last. She will LOVE it!
I'm outta here for now. Collect your hugs. I'll do the same. Be good to one another! I'll come yak at you all again another day!
Peace
831
I still have no pictures to show you all. I have been busy organizing and sleeping. I should be organizing my sleeping so it doesn't interfere with organizing but I don't see that happening.
There are piles of stuff all over this room that need to find a permanent spot to sit. The spare room, which you all know is not really a spare room, is in better order than the deskroom where I sit at the moment. Sleep invaded before I was done putting things away.
I need to get busy and finish those pink and green pages for the Chunky Swap that is due on the 31st. That means I have about a week to get them done, packaged and to the post office on their way. I can do that.
I have four pages comepleted on the fronts with the back of one completely done. The other three are in various stages of the backs being completed. The thing is, I really wanted to make 8 pink and green chunkys so I'd have enough for a book when the returns came back. Eight may not get done, but 4 definetly will.
I did accomplish cleaning off the painting table. I know for certain now that it still has a green top. I couldn't see the top of that table on Friday morning. I slept the day away Saturday.
Fred is asleep on the floor behind me. Snoring and giving me a massage at the same time. That dog snores DEEP! Rattles the floorboards for my massage. I've pulled six ticks off his hide this week. They are thick this year.
RJ, T and Brenton went camping on Friday evening. I've not heard from them since RJ called me around 11:30 last night asking if needed, could he come borrow some blankets. Silly kids go camping when the temp is in the 50s and forget to bring blankets along! I didn't hear back from the boy so those that were expected to arrive still must have brought enough blankets for all. I suspect I'll see them sometime on Sunday.
RW's car is still sitting in the driveway. I went out there on Friday night when it was fixing to rain and put plastic over his window. Not sure it helped to keep the rain out though. The wind blew pretty hard and I didn't make a real good effort to make sure the plastic would stay with a lot of wind.
Fred and I went to town around 8pm Saturday. Filled the van with gas, bought me a big bottle of Coke, some smokes and a sandwich while I was there. I knew I should have filled that van with gas on Tuesday when I was in town. Gas went from $2.05 to $2.15 in that time. Cost me almost $33.00 for just over 16 gallons of gas. I can remember when gasoline was less than .70 cents a gallon. Memorial Day is coming and the price of gas will only increase. That is WRONG! The only reason it goes up is cause on Memorial Day Weekend people are traveling to other destinations and those who are in power of gasoline are greedy bastards who see dollar signs! That is WRONG! But they got us by the shorthairs, don't they? My van was sitting on empty and it won't run unless I put gas in it. I've no choice but to pay what they are asking.
I am going to turn on some tunes, shut down this machine and go sit at my painting table for a couple of hours and get my chunky pages done. I have other things that need to be put in envelopes to be sent out come Monday. I won't have time to do that tomorrow. I'm expected in Pburg with Susan in tow around 10 a.m. It's now almost 1 a.m. I might not get any sleep until I come home from Pburg tomorrow. I also have to wrap Ma's mother's day present. She's getting a new picture to hang on her wall. No. I didn't make it. It's a cloisonne picture. Really cool! That I found at a yard sale weekend before last. She will LOVE it!
I'm outta here for now. Collect your hugs. I'll do the same. Be good to one another! I'll come yak at you all again another day!
Peace
831
08 May 2009
I'll be Away Until I Can Fix this Wretched Machine -- It's being a witch~!
This box I'm typing in doesn't even look like it should and I'm not sure this will even post but here we go....
No pictures again. I've been battling with my anti-virus program today. It failed bigtime and this machine is infected with I don't know what! I haven't had time to upload pictures. They just didn't seem as important as getting my anti-virus going again, which I have yet to accomplish!
When not in front of this machine cussing it, I've been in my spare room trying to organize some things in there. I accomplished a great deal in that room! Still a long way to go till I can say it is done, though. I wanted to get the little desk in place so I can move my mailing station into that room. The spare room isn't really a spare room at all. It is an extension of the deskroom cause all my crap doesn't fit in the deskroom! I did make a good dent in the mess in there but the little desk is nowhere near where it should be in that room. There's still boxes to empty and sort and organize. We won't even talk about the closet which I didn't even LOOK in today. I know it is full though.
There was moving around of things going on in the deskroom today as well.
I went out to the pond to take another look for those goldfish. RJ was here at the time and caught me heading back to the house after having taken a look at the pond. Fred had been IN the pond, getting his feet wet, stirring up the muck on the bottom and I didn't see a goldfish one. RJ says they ARE there, but I've yet to witness the miracle fish in the flesh. Perhaps tomorrow.
If you all don't see me for a few days its because I'm working on this machine or I've given up and sent the damn thing to the PC gurus over in Hays!
Either way, you all take good care. Have a great weekend and I'll come back as soon as I can!
Get your hugs!
Peace
831
No pictures again. I've been battling with my anti-virus program today. It failed bigtime and this machine is infected with I don't know what! I haven't had time to upload pictures. They just didn't seem as important as getting my anti-virus going again, which I have yet to accomplish!
When not in front of this machine cussing it, I've been in my spare room trying to organize some things in there. I accomplished a great deal in that room! Still a long way to go till I can say it is done, though. I wanted to get the little desk in place so I can move my mailing station into that room. The spare room isn't really a spare room at all. It is an extension of the deskroom cause all my crap doesn't fit in the deskroom! I did make a good dent in the mess in there but the little desk is nowhere near where it should be in that room. There's still boxes to empty and sort and organize. We won't even talk about the closet which I didn't even LOOK in today. I know it is full though.
There was moving around of things going on in the deskroom today as well.
I went out to the pond to take another look for those goldfish. RJ was here at the time and caught me heading back to the house after having taken a look at the pond. Fred had been IN the pond, getting his feet wet, stirring up the muck on the bottom and I didn't see a goldfish one. RJ says they ARE there, but I've yet to witness the miracle fish in the flesh. Perhaps tomorrow.
If you all don't see me for a few days its because I'm working on this machine or I've given up and sent the damn thing to the PC gurus over in Hays!
Either way, you all take good care. Have a great weekend and I'll come back as soon as I can!
Get your hugs!
Peace
831
07 May 2009
2 books added to the list and lot of rambling from me
Actually I haven't yet added #17 and #18 to the list of books read, but by the time you all read this post Dear Mom and Memoirs of a Geisha will have been added to that list.
Dear Mom- Thank You For Everything is a book my oldest son gave me for my birthday. Wasn't a long book by any means but the sentiment behind it is HUGE! And it's a book read so on the list it goes!
Memoirs of a Geisha was an excellent book. It is hard to imagine a man writing such a book from a woman's point of view and making it so believable. He did a wonderful job! Loved the book!
I told you all last post I was going to show you some chunky pages but I have yet to get around to scanning all of them. Only one has been scanned just to check out the new 3in1 machine. It works wonderfully! No chunkys this time though cause I still have one more to make to get all of them done for that swap. I have three ATCs ready to scan as well so next post you'll get an eyeful.
I also told you all I would tell you about my birthday loot. I think the easiest way to tell that is by a list. So here's the list!
I guess it doesn't matter who gave me what... does it? Or does it matter???? Maybe it does...... It does matter to me, but it doesnt matter here I guess. I've already recorded it my journal and there it does tell who gave what so I've already covered that info.
1. 3 vintage glass coffee mugs with wood and metal handles in shades of pastels; blue, green and pink. I will be using these in my deskroom to hold pencils and the like.
2. 2 paperback novels---My sister Linda took one of them home with her to read. I forget what the name of that one is...She said she had started it some time ago and couldn't get into it and she wanted to give it another shot so I let her take it home. The other is a novel by Barbara Delinski. It is next on my to read list.
3. Black paper notebook. I have trouble finding black paper for my collages so this book will come in handy for more than a few things.
4.BUNCH of ribbons/arty stuff
5. Flag for the yard.
6. Windsock for the yard... a decorative one, not the real thing like you'd find at the airport. I'd love to have the real thing attached to the tall pole out in the backyard though! That would be cool! Not sure where this one will end up in the yard.
7.The glass mugs came in a nice basket to store things of the artsy variety in in the deskroom. I'm not sure the packaging can be counted as a gift as well, but I'm doing it.
8.Pad of watercolor paper! Yes! Yes! One can never have too much watercolor paper and it matters not that some of the pages from the pad are gone. I was very pleased with this gift! Very pleased!
9. A stack of pretty envelopes of different colors. I use tons of envelopes so this is a very useful gift.
10. Wooden elephant. He is pretty cool... carved, wood burned to show his features.
11. A very cute ceramic elephant that is pretty big. He's sitting on his knees! I love him! Ma gave me both of these elephants just mentioned.
12. A dozen red pencils with very fat leads. Most useful for drawings!
13. A dozen blue drawing pencils.
14. Some big push pins for my bulletin board. They are pretty cool. I've never seen any this large. They are metallic colored in different shades.
15. A watch with three different beaded bands that are interchangable. I needed another watch too!
16. Gel pens. Most useful for artsty stuff!
17. More ribbons and embellishments that I picked out myself.
18. 3 in 1 Machine and two extra ink cartridges.
19. Giant bottle of Tacky Glue. I go through that stuff like it's going out style!
20. 2 clay elephant votive holders and a dozen votives to go with them. The votives smell like magnolias if memory serves me correctly!
21. Book... Dear Mom-Thanks For Everything
22. $10 bill that I used as a bookmark and will use as a bookmark until I'm in dire need of ten bucks!
23. Very pretty box that I will use to store things of the art variety in. Again, I'm not sure you can count the packaging of your gifts as an actual gift....but I'm still doing it!
My friend Helena brought me the elephant votives and an Imitrex tablet for a killer headache I had on my birthday. The Imitrex tablet was the best gift of them all! I have a prescription for Imitrex but I didn't have any of my prescription left and I really needed a mega good drug to knock that headache out of me. I'd had it for almost three days by the time Helena brought it me. It did the trick and I was free from that killer headache within 20 minutes of taking that tablet.
I also recieved a lot of birthday wishes from my pals over at AFA.
There were hugs to be had and lots of love shared from those I love too.
And if that isn't enough...my sister Susan cooked my favorite meal of roast beef, potatoes, carrots, onions and gravy. Ma baked a chocolate bundt cake and my brother Sam showed up for the celebration too. Even though I felt like death warmed over on my birthday, it was an excellent day actually.
And yes, I still feel older.
I know you all are thinking, "Good Golly, she sure got a lot of presents!" Yep, I did! My family is like that on Birthdays and Christmas. You can expect a lot of presents for your birthday and you'll be most surprised by them too!
I always buy myself something for my birthday each year and this year it was a new set of 24 fine point sharpie markers. I was in need of a new set as the fine points are getting low on ink and I use my sharpies/markers a lot.
I finally got around to bringing all the presents I got at Susan's house home today. Only four days after the fact....Susan jokingly said she was about ready to claim them as her own as they had been sitting in the rocking chair in her diningroom for four days! I retrieved my garden cart at the same time. That thing has been at her house for better than a year now. I got a new garden cart and she cabbaged on to the other one. She was laughing when she said, "Bring my cart back!" I was about a third of the way across the yard and hollered back at her, "If you want it, it'll be at my backdoor!"
It is raining as I type this at 2:20 in the morning on Thursday. The dog was out in the front yard in the rain a little bit ago barking his fool head off everytime it thundered earlier. He acted like he had no clue where that awful noise was coming from. Thunder never bothered him before tonight. He's a silly thing!
I'm glad for the rain though. So far Mother Nature has been watering my 147 little evergreen trees. They are doing fantastic!
Billy was missing for three days. I found him on Monday morning in the burned house. Locked in. RJ fixed it so the cats could come and go as they please in the burned house. There are rodents out there that need to be caught and that is the cats' jobs. They can't do it if they can't get in there on their own and they don't want to be locked in there with no food or water for three days. Billy wasn't a happy camper. He was happy to see me, but you should have heard that pitiful yowl he let out when he discovered someone was close enough to hear him.
I need to take the van to Shorty tomorrow and have him change out that front passengers side tire for the one RJ put in the back of the van. The tire was still inflated this evening but it won't be for much longer... it has a slow leak, it's bald as a baby's butt and it makes the van drive 'funny'.
I saw the oncologist on Tuesday for this wretched blood disease....polycythemia vera.... He gave me good news though. No phlebotomy this go around. My numbers were sitting at 48. On the low end of high but he was pleased with them nonetheless. He wants me get my blood checked every three months and go see him in a year if all goes as planned with the numbers. He also said I HAD to quit smoking. He gave me the scare tactic... telling me about a man my own age who he was seeing after me who had lung cancer from smoking. It scared me but I've yet to put down the fags for good...yet. I need a plan for quitting smoking and I don't have a plan at the moment. It's on my agenda though. At the top of the agenda!
So, I'm a year older but not sure I'm any wiser... Guess that remains to be seen!
You all have a fantastic Thursday. Go get some hugs! You know they dont carry over from one day to the next. You have to go get new ones everyday for them to count. I missed out any hugs today....I'll see what I can do for Thursday! Be good to one another!
Peace
831
Dear Mom- Thank You For Everything is a book my oldest son gave me for my birthday. Wasn't a long book by any means but the sentiment behind it is HUGE! And it's a book read so on the list it goes!
Memoirs of a Geisha was an excellent book. It is hard to imagine a man writing such a book from a woman's point of view and making it so believable. He did a wonderful job! Loved the book!
I told you all last post I was going to show you some chunky pages but I have yet to get around to scanning all of them. Only one has been scanned just to check out the new 3in1 machine. It works wonderfully! No chunkys this time though cause I still have one more to make to get all of them done for that swap. I have three ATCs ready to scan as well so next post you'll get an eyeful.
I also told you all I would tell you about my birthday loot. I think the easiest way to tell that is by a list. So here's the list!
I guess it doesn't matter who gave me what... does it? Or does it matter???? Maybe it does...... It does matter to me, but it doesnt matter here I guess. I've already recorded it my journal and there it does tell who gave what so I've already covered that info.
1. 3 vintage glass coffee mugs with wood and metal handles in shades of pastels; blue, green and pink. I will be using these in my deskroom to hold pencils and the like.
2. 2 paperback novels---My sister Linda took one of them home with her to read. I forget what the name of that one is...She said she had started it some time ago and couldn't get into it and she wanted to give it another shot so I let her take it home. The other is a novel by Barbara Delinski. It is next on my to read list.
3. Black paper notebook. I have trouble finding black paper for my collages so this book will come in handy for more than a few things.
4.BUNCH of ribbons/arty stuff
5. Flag for the yard.
6. Windsock for the yard... a decorative one, not the real thing like you'd find at the airport. I'd love to have the real thing attached to the tall pole out in the backyard though! That would be cool! Not sure where this one will end up in the yard.
7.The glass mugs came in a nice basket to store things of the artsy variety in in the deskroom. I'm not sure the packaging can be counted as a gift as well, but I'm doing it.
8.Pad of watercolor paper! Yes! Yes! One can never have too much watercolor paper and it matters not that some of the pages from the pad are gone. I was very pleased with this gift! Very pleased!
9. A stack of pretty envelopes of different colors. I use tons of envelopes so this is a very useful gift.
10. Wooden elephant. He is pretty cool... carved, wood burned to show his features.
11. A very cute ceramic elephant that is pretty big. He's sitting on his knees! I love him! Ma gave me both of these elephants just mentioned.
12. A dozen red pencils with very fat leads. Most useful for drawings!
13. A dozen blue drawing pencils.
14. Some big push pins for my bulletin board. They are pretty cool. I've never seen any this large. They are metallic colored in different shades.
15. A watch with three different beaded bands that are interchangable. I needed another watch too!
16. Gel pens. Most useful for artsty stuff!
17. More ribbons and embellishments that I picked out myself.
18. 3 in 1 Machine and two extra ink cartridges.
19. Giant bottle of Tacky Glue. I go through that stuff like it's going out style!
20. 2 clay elephant votive holders and a dozen votives to go with them. The votives smell like magnolias if memory serves me correctly!
21. Book... Dear Mom-Thanks For Everything
22. $10 bill that I used as a bookmark and will use as a bookmark until I'm in dire need of ten bucks!
23. Very pretty box that I will use to store things of the art variety in. Again, I'm not sure you can count the packaging of your gifts as an actual gift....but I'm still doing it!
My friend Helena brought me the elephant votives and an Imitrex tablet for a killer headache I had on my birthday. The Imitrex tablet was the best gift of them all! I have a prescription for Imitrex but I didn't have any of my prescription left and I really needed a mega good drug to knock that headache out of me. I'd had it for almost three days by the time Helena brought it me. It did the trick and I was free from that killer headache within 20 minutes of taking that tablet.
I also recieved a lot of birthday wishes from my pals over at AFA.
There were hugs to be had and lots of love shared from those I love too.
And if that isn't enough...my sister Susan cooked my favorite meal of roast beef, potatoes, carrots, onions and gravy. Ma baked a chocolate bundt cake and my brother Sam showed up for the celebration too. Even though I felt like death warmed over on my birthday, it was an excellent day actually.
And yes, I still feel older.
I know you all are thinking, "Good Golly, she sure got a lot of presents!" Yep, I did! My family is like that on Birthdays and Christmas. You can expect a lot of presents for your birthday and you'll be most surprised by them too!
I always buy myself something for my birthday each year and this year it was a new set of 24 fine point sharpie markers. I was in need of a new set as the fine points are getting low on ink and I use my sharpies/markers a lot.
I finally got around to bringing all the presents I got at Susan's house home today. Only four days after the fact....Susan jokingly said she was about ready to claim them as her own as they had been sitting in the rocking chair in her diningroom for four days! I retrieved my garden cart at the same time. That thing has been at her house for better than a year now. I got a new garden cart and she cabbaged on to the other one. She was laughing when she said, "Bring my cart back!" I was about a third of the way across the yard and hollered back at her, "If you want it, it'll be at my backdoor!"
It is raining as I type this at 2:20 in the morning on Thursday. The dog was out in the front yard in the rain a little bit ago barking his fool head off everytime it thundered earlier. He acted like he had no clue where that awful noise was coming from. Thunder never bothered him before tonight. He's a silly thing!
I'm glad for the rain though. So far Mother Nature has been watering my 147 little evergreen trees. They are doing fantastic!
Billy was missing for three days. I found him on Monday morning in the burned house. Locked in. RJ fixed it so the cats could come and go as they please in the burned house. There are rodents out there that need to be caught and that is the cats' jobs. They can't do it if they can't get in there on their own and they don't want to be locked in there with no food or water for three days. Billy wasn't a happy camper. He was happy to see me, but you should have heard that pitiful yowl he let out when he discovered someone was close enough to hear him.
I need to take the van to Shorty tomorrow and have him change out that front passengers side tire for the one RJ put in the back of the van. The tire was still inflated this evening but it won't be for much longer... it has a slow leak, it's bald as a baby's butt and it makes the van drive 'funny'.
I saw the oncologist on Tuesday for this wretched blood disease....polycythemia vera.... He gave me good news though. No phlebotomy this go around. My numbers were sitting at 48. On the low end of high but he was pleased with them nonetheless. He wants me get my blood checked every three months and go see him in a year if all goes as planned with the numbers. He also said I HAD to quit smoking. He gave me the scare tactic... telling me about a man my own age who he was seeing after me who had lung cancer from smoking. It scared me but I've yet to put down the fags for good...yet. I need a plan for quitting smoking and I don't have a plan at the moment. It's on my agenda though. At the top of the agenda!
So, I'm a year older but not sure I'm any wiser... Guess that remains to be seen!
You all have a fantastic Thursday. Go get some hugs! You know they dont carry over from one day to the next. You have to go get new ones everyday for them to count. I missed out any hugs today....I'll see what I can do for Thursday! Be good to one another!
Peace
831
05 May 2009
A Fish Miracle, My Teeth Still Hurt and I've A New Toy To Play With!
No pictures for this post. That may happen later today when the 4x4s I've been working on are done drying enough to play with my new toy!
RJ and Terah bought me a new 3in1 machine for my birthday. T came over today to install it. She was so worried about it not getting done this weekend. She was indisposed and could not do it then. She had her appendix removed on Friday evening and spent the weekend in the hospital. But here she was bright and early this afternoon to get it working! I've not tried scanning anything as of yet. We know it prints though! That's a good start! T is decopaging a metal kitchen step stool I bought at a yard sale the weekend before last. She printed off pictures of various people and animals I know to put all over that stool. She's not done with it just yet but it's looking so cool .....
So my new toy is the 3in1 machine! Not sure what I will do with the old scanner. There is nothing wrong with it, I've just no use for it now. Perhaps I will pass it on to another who is in need of a scanner. That is how I acquired it a few months back.
I am still battling pain in my mouth from the bad teeth in there! The dentist put me on anitbiotics to get rid of the infection and then they will pull some of those teeth and we shall go from there. I'd just as soon they yank all 15 of those teeth out of my lower jaw and give me some falsies. But finances are the problem with that plan. Unfortunately GIVING me the falsies is not in their plan! I think the worst of the pain is behind me. I've not been sleeping anymore than normal for the last two nights as opposed to sleeping from 11 pm on Friday to 4 pm on Saturday. I've given up with anbesol as well as it makes the gums hurt even worse when the numbing wears off. I'll be fine....just have to get those teeth out of my head.
While T was installing the 3in1 machine, RJ and Devon were out in the garage doing whatever they were doing. I'm really not sure just what they were doing out there.....but anyway, they put the garden hose into the pond out front to flush it out. That pond has not had any attention at all for the longest time. Last summer it was dry as a bone with a nice layer of mud all over the bottom of it. RJ cleaned out most of the mud and found two live goldfish in that mud. That was shocker to find LIVE fish in the pond beings there was nothing but mud in it. He then filled it back up with water for the hyacinths and water lettuce Ma gave me for the pond. After that the pond was pretty much forgotten about till today. It had water in it, brakish water....lots of dead grass, weeds, things of that nature in it but it didn't appear to have any life in it other than the few waterbugs that skittered across the water. RJ came in the house and asked if I wanted to hear something really cool. Well, of course I wanted to hear something really cool! He tells me there are two (more) live goldfish swimming around in my pond. They must of been buried in the mud at the bottom of the pond all winter. A Fish Miracle! I've not gone out to see the miracle fish. I'm wondering how big they are. The goldfish we found last summer were a good three inches long if not longer. Those fish spent a happy winter in Ma's pond with her happy fish. Her pond is much deeper than mine and it doesn't freeze but the top three inches or so. Mine freezes about that far down too but Ma has a lot more space beneath her ice then my pond does.
I went out to take a look at those fish and I didn't see any fish....only a toad that would have drowned had I not made it possible for him to get out of the pond. Boy, that water was cold! I put a big rock on top of a cement block at the bottom of the pond so the toad could climb out on his own. That pond needs a good cleaning! The water hyacinths are growing nicely though.
Well, I'm out of here for now. I need to figure out to get things scanned with my new machine. I will be back later with another post with some pictures.
Stay tuned!
Peace
831
RJ and Terah bought me a new 3in1 machine for my birthday. T came over today to install it. She was so worried about it not getting done this weekend. She was indisposed and could not do it then. She had her appendix removed on Friday evening and spent the weekend in the hospital. But here she was bright and early this afternoon to get it working! I've not tried scanning anything as of yet. We know it prints though! That's a good start! T is decopaging a metal kitchen step stool I bought at a yard sale the weekend before last. She printed off pictures of various people and animals I know to put all over that stool. She's not done with it just yet but it's looking so cool .....
So my new toy is the 3in1 machine! Not sure what I will do with the old scanner. There is nothing wrong with it, I've just no use for it now. Perhaps I will pass it on to another who is in need of a scanner. That is how I acquired it a few months back.
I am still battling pain in my mouth from the bad teeth in there! The dentist put me on anitbiotics to get rid of the infection and then they will pull some of those teeth and we shall go from there. I'd just as soon they yank all 15 of those teeth out of my lower jaw and give me some falsies. But finances are the problem with that plan. Unfortunately GIVING me the falsies is not in their plan! I think the worst of the pain is behind me. I've not been sleeping anymore than normal for the last two nights as opposed to sleeping from 11 pm on Friday to 4 pm on Saturday. I've given up with anbesol as well as it makes the gums hurt even worse when the numbing wears off. I'll be fine....just have to get those teeth out of my head.
While T was installing the 3in1 machine, RJ and Devon were out in the garage doing whatever they were doing. I'm really not sure just what they were doing out there.....but anyway, they put the garden hose into the pond out front to flush it out. That pond has not had any attention at all for the longest time. Last summer it was dry as a bone with a nice layer of mud all over the bottom of it. RJ cleaned out most of the mud and found two live goldfish in that mud. That was shocker to find LIVE fish in the pond beings there was nothing but mud in it. He then filled it back up with water for the hyacinths and water lettuce Ma gave me for the pond. After that the pond was pretty much forgotten about till today. It had water in it, brakish water....lots of dead grass, weeds, things of that nature in it but it didn't appear to have any life in it other than the few waterbugs that skittered across the water. RJ came in the house and asked if I wanted to hear something really cool. Well, of course I wanted to hear something really cool! He tells me there are two (more) live goldfish swimming around in my pond. They must of been buried in the mud at the bottom of the pond all winter. A Fish Miracle! I've not gone out to see the miracle fish. I'm wondering how big they are. The goldfish we found last summer were a good three inches long if not longer. Those fish spent a happy winter in Ma's pond with her happy fish. Her pond is much deeper than mine and it doesn't freeze but the top three inches or so. Mine freezes about that far down too but Ma has a lot more space beneath her ice then my pond does.
I went out to take a look at those fish and I didn't see any fish....only a toad that would have drowned had I not made it possible for him to get out of the pond. Boy, that water was cold! I put a big rock on top of a cement block at the bottom of the pond so the toad could climb out on his own. That pond needs a good cleaning! The water hyacinths are growing nicely though.
Well, I'm out of here for now. I need to figure out to get things scanned with my new machine. I will be back later with another post with some pictures.
Stay tuned!
Peace
831
03 May 2009
Just a short post today.....
It might not be as short as I think, but it won't have any pictures and I really don't feel all that great to be sitting here yakking at you all.
I have a killer headache from an infection, probably an abscess in one of my teeth. I hurt like a big dog from the top of my head to the ends of my toes. The old eyeballs are slowly giving out and the lids are refusing to stay open. That is probably from the tramadol I took about an hour ago. I've slept the last couple days away.
I turned 48 yesterday. I hauled my beleaguered body out of bed long enough to go next door to eat my birthday dinner, some cake and ice cream and open my gifts from family. I came home from my birthday bash, took a shower, took a cyclobenzaprine and a tramadol and slept from 11 pm last night till 4 this afternoon. It's now a little after 8 pm and I'm ready to hit the sheets again.
I'll tell you all about my birthday loot and the good times had at Susan's yesterday for my birthday. Even though it was difficult to eat, I gave it my best shot cause Susan made roast beef with potatoes and carrrots and gravy. Ma baked me a cake and I got a boatload of really cool loot for my birthday.
Do I feel any older? Yes! Yes, I do!
Tomorrow I have a drs appt in Hays with the oncologist. I'm pretty sure a phlebotomy is scheduled for tomorrow. My hemocrit numbers are more than likely way too high. I blew off gettingblood drawn the last three months. I did go to the vampires last Thursday and gave them a bit. They had to poke me twice to get any blood out of me. No one has bothered to let me know just what the number are but doc will tell me tomorrow afternoon when I see him. I just hope this killer headache is gone by then!
Until next we meet: You all be good to one another and collect yourself some hugs!
Peace
831
I have a killer headache from an infection, probably an abscess in one of my teeth. I hurt like a big dog from the top of my head to the ends of my toes. The old eyeballs are slowly giving out and the lids are refusing to stay open. That is probably from the tramadol I took about an hour ago. I've slept the last couple days away.
I turned 48 yesterday. I hauled my beleaguered body out of bed long enough to go next door to eat my birthday dinner, some cake and ice cream and open my gifts from family. I came home from my birthday bash, took a shower, took a cyclobenzaprine and a tramadol and slept from 11 pm last night till 4 this afternoon. It's now a little after 8 pm and I'm ready to hit the sheets again.
I'll tell you all about my birthday loot and the good times had at Susan's yesterday for my birthday. Even though it was difficult to eat, I gave it my best shot cause Susan made roast beef with potatoes and carrrots and gravy. Ma baked me a cake and I got a boatload of really cool loot for my birthday.
Do I feel any older? Yes! Yes, I do!
Tomorrow I have a drs appt in Hays with the oncologist. I'm pretty sure a phlebotomy is scheduled for tomorrow. My hemocrit numbers are more than likely way too high. I blew off gettingblood drawn the last three months. I did go to the vampires last Thursday and gave them a bit. They had to poke me twice to get any blood out of me. No one has bothered to let me know just what the number are but doc will tell me tomorrow afternoon when I see him. I just hope this killer headache is gone by then!
Until next we meet: You all be good to one another and collect yourself some hugs!
Peace
831
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