D D Day 32 and I've never felt this old

Leaving the hospital after visiting Jay I felt sooooooooooo OLD.
I never should have gone there.
He gave his wife Kim so much grief because she didn't bring him a cigarette.
Would not keep the oxygen mask on.  Wanted fresh air. Wanted a fan.
At home he sleeps with a window open and a fan.
When his B/P was taken it read 153/115. Pulse was well over 100 and he was told to take deep breaths with the oxygen mask on  and only then did it move from 84 to 92. Normal is in the 95 to 100 range.
The only good thing was alot of his swelling has gone down and his weight went from 309 to 284.
Dang...I want to get in that hospital bed and lose weight. ;0)
I could use a pill to reduce fat cells .....wishful thinking on my part.
He says to Kim, " do I have to wear this mask when I leave here and do I have to quit smoking....because if I do I AM DONE.  I may as well be dead. I'm not doing it...Ive got nothing to live for."
I had to keep leaving the room.
He thought he had eaten lunch when Kim asked if he had. We arrived just before twelve.  After a few minutes of talking about if it was both breakfast and lunch he had eaten, he realized he didn't eat lunch yet.
Kim says the doctor told her his confusion is due to the low oxygen his brain is getting.
He was telling other staff that he wanted to talk to his doctor. The doctor  should know by now what's wrong with me, blah,blah,blah.
He was threatening to leave and go live with the homeless people under a bridge not far from where they live .
When his lunch came and she spied a package of salt and tried to take it without him noticing , but he caught her and he let her know under no uncertain terms he was pissed .
One of the times we walked out of his room a staff person had gone in his room and taken his supper order.
Kim asked him what he had ordered for supper. He said he didn't know, but if he was showed the food slip he would know. Of course they take that with them and it only returns on your supper tray.
Within minutes he had forgot what he ordered for supper.sigh!
When it came time for us to leave and I leaned over him to hug and kiss him, I told him that parents were not supposed to bury their children and asked him how I could go on vacation knowing he was killing himself if he didn't follow the doctors orders.
We held each other. Both crying ........ him telling me to go...me trying to reason with him and asking him how he thought Mike felt at times. He has even less to look forward to than you do, I told him .
. Tried to tell him that we all needed him even if he didn't want to be here.
As Kim and I left,  I asked her when they would put a fresh cigarette patch on him.
It was then she told me had none on.
HE HAD REFUSED IT and they can't make you wear it.
OMG! He is a glutton for punishment!   I shit you not!
I had seen a patch on his back...Asked her...That was a blood pressure patch I was told. sigh!



   Kim called while I was out with Tracie trudging all over the Rockingham Mall to let us know he will be in the hospital until Monday or Tuesday his doctor said. .
I was so tired in mind, body and spirit, but I let Tracie talk me into going to the Mall with her so she could buy a pair of shoes she saw in another Mall that didn't have her size.
This was nothing like going to a Walmart. I SHIT YOU NOT!
Every store window was decorated invitingly and poinsetta plants were adorning the inside walkways everywhere.
Where do they go after today? To the dump? They were still so beautiful.
At closing time they should hand each employee a plant to take home if they don't already.
Much too much beauty to just get thrown in a dumpster.  sigh!
We walked from one end to the other end  in and out of stores on the upper level.
We must have spent an hour in Hello Kitty. :0)  then ................:0( 
Never have I seen such things. I must live in a CAVE  or in a bedroom with an invalid.  I shit you not!
The cutest darn things for little and big girls in that store.
Every so often Tracie would say...come look at this.  When I had had enough I said, " I don't want to look at anything else."
"I'm sorry", she said.   Another store we stopped in was the Disney Store.  Again....such eye candy!
I wanted a little kid by then. Preferrably a little girl. ;0)
Saw a cute little jacket for an infnt boy with the Mickey Mouse ears on the hood. On sale for $12.98. SOLD!

The Beagles were Logan's gifts.  The big one plays I'm Getting Nuttin For Christmas and the lights flash..

That's the closest he is getting to owning a Beagle at this time.

Infant girls jackets like this were all sold out. ;0(   Every so often I see something adorable on sale and buy it to put away for when another great grand is born.
I have made up baby girl boxes and baby boy boxes.  Ain't I smart????  Did I hear DAFFY  ;0)
What do you call this kind of shopping and storing away  ???  
Fruitcake...........making a gift bag for a great grand some time off in the future ??
Only 6 of my 19 grandchildren are parents.    I apologize............ ;0)
    Finally we are at the shoe store called Walkings.  omg,omg,omg.
 Shoes ranging from ON SALE to in the hundreds of dollars.  Some of those shoes looked divine to wear. Comfy looking as well.
Gorgeous leathers and materials and mind boggling prices.
Even comfy looking slippers were $50 and higher.
( Didn't win the Mega Millions lottery last night. )    :0( sigh!
The shoes Tracie bought were $79 on sale and they definately looked worth it   $119 originally.
I could never see myself spending that kind of money on myself.   That's just me.
Maybe if I had slipped my foot into a pair of them shoes, I'd have changed my mind.
There was a cute Polar Bear ( only one ) that looked like it was purchased as a decoration in that store.
Had a $ 19.98 sticker price. Asked how much it was marked down and when the price was checked it was $3. SOLD!  Why did I want it??? Just did.  It's cute and will look good sitting on the tree skirt next year.

Isn't he soooooooooooo cute.or is he a she?  I have sweet little bows I so cruely put on my female ferret on a whim.       ;0) Me thinks the Polar Bear will tolerate them better. By this time it was 5:50 and the Mall was closing at 6 , so we headed out to the parkinglot. Trudge,trudge,trudge.   
It was too late to head to a Best Buy a few miles up the road to buy my laptop.
The way I figure it,......... whom ever would have waited on me is very happy he/she did not have a sale when he/she would have wanted to leave work and get ready to party.  :0) . 
Oh .......did I just  hear a Thank You....You're Welcome.
We drove down roads off our beaten path and admired some beautiful yard displays.
Took a few pictures out my window. We really looked suspicious as we would slowly roll to a stop and I'd snap a picture.  Dogs were barking at us. I was expecting John Law to come along and ask what we were doing.  Now come on.....does my face look like that of a burglar. :0)

To all that went through all this work to make so much EYE CANDY for passerby's. THANK YOU .

You know who you are. :0)

While I don't know any of the many,many people that lived in those gorgeous decorated houses and yards , each of you or your efforts to make my Christmas brighter did not go un-noticed. I shit you not!

   We stopped to eat at Mings and it was a Horror Show.
Throngs of people waiting for their Take Out orders, long line of people waiting for an empty table.
The poor waitress that FINALLY waited on us was inundated and needed ten hands instead of her two.
She too probably would have thanked us if we didn't step foot in there. ;0)
    Home Sweet Home never looked so good.
After feeding hubby I donned my jammies and went out back and yelled to my back yard neighbor who was sitting around a fire pit with her hubby and grown family ..." HAPPY NEW YEAR. 
Don't take offense, but I am lowering my shade to sit at my computer and give you privacy."
Robin laughed and wished us a Happy New Year back.

New Year arrived and hubby and I kissed and wished each other Happy New Year.
We both were sincere and it felt so good ....."why can't we both be nicer to each other and leave some good memories when we are gone to each other????????????????????????????????????
Life is so short. Nuff this shit..Getting tears in my eyes.

When hubby first spoke this morning I said, " shhhhhhh ,you will wake my husband up."
He heard me the first time... :0)  didn't have to keep repeating myself and get my tits in an uproar and end up wishing that I never said an efffin word which happens so often.  sigh!

W.B. came after he got off his shift at 8 this morning. Apologized to me when I went for coffee refills.
Began explaining it to me and I told him I knew what he said was factual.. It's hubby that doesn't understand any technology since the TV came out.
I bought him recorders FOR ME :0)  way back when Dallas was a serial on TV.
maybe I'm even calling that the wrong name. ??
Neither of us watched Daytime Soaps and he cared even less about Dallas, but when I went to bingo I didn't want to miss it.
Needless to say that machine became an antique . He never bothered to figure out how to record a program and even to this day with a new DVD player he has to be retrained on how to insert and play a movie, which in itself is rarely.
I want to watch the movie Idiocracy and that will take Jill to come into our bedroom to start it.
Grandson Ryan bought him a Clint Eastwood movie a few years back and he would go to play it and we saw the credits over and over and over.....sigh!  My nerves felt like fingernails on a chalk board.
 I shit you not!
One of my sons showed us how his Tivo worked one year ( maybe 10 years back now), so I bought one.
I learned how to use it..............yessssssssssssss     no commercials.
Hubby DID NOT learn how to operate it.
Told me to take the piece of shit back to the store. sigh!
He rather complain about the commercials.............oh well.

It's a brand new year. First to tackle is writing the correct date on my checks. 
After that..............it's anyones good guess on their best day. I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D Day 31 maybe the end of W.B.and my son Jay

The explsions have begun!

A WAR HAS BROKEN OUT!

Hubby is in a rage!  I shit you not!
The Effff word has been flying fast and furious from his mouth and I have been a Casper Milktoast trying to disfuse the situation..
He may have a stroke before the day is over. 
W.B. and Jill left at the same time yesterday afternoon. Each in their respective vehichles.
I was not privy to their destination.
When I went to bed at 11 she was not home.

Some time during the middle of the night I woke to pee.
Hubby was wide awake and SEETHING.
The phone has rung around 1 a.m. and woke him and he hadn't been able to fall back to sleep.
It was the W.B. and that in itself made for WORLD WAR III ! I shit you not!
Don't know how I managed to sleep through the phone ringing, BUT I DID.
I stirred a few more times before daylight and hubby was still awake and his rage was building.
He better never step a foot into this house again was one of his tirades.
Come 8 a.m. there was no way I could  grab any more shut eye.
Heard Jill in the kitchen and got up.
Went straight up to her and said " you mustn't have spent the night with Butchie".
Before she got a chance to speak, I went on.
"Why did he call here at 1 a.m."?
She told me that she phoned him to tell him she was home ( like he and I both need to hear) and they were disconnected.
He called her back on the house phone.
She chastised him for calling her on that phone line.
I told her that Mike was in a RAGE.
Get back to my room with my coffee and hubby is LOADED FOR BEAR.
You two getting your story straight.
Told him why he called her.
Making excuses for that piece of shit are you he raged.
Told him we never plotted an excuse and she had chatised him for calling her on the house phone.
It got worst...I shit you not!
You like him so much...you move in with him he rages.
Efff this, Efff that,Efff him..............................thinks he's so efffin smart.
 Still feeds the dogs from the table, told his little girl we don't like her.....
Just because he is a fireman he thinks he can get away with everything.

Jill just entered our room to apologise on her behalf and explain how this happened to him.
Her cell phone was dead and she called him on the house phone to let him know she was home.
He was asleep when she called.
They were talking and he lost her on his cell phone, so he hit  Send , not realizing it was the house phone she called him from.
She apologized over and over and kept trying to explain how it happened.
Hubby has no idea of how cell phones work or what Send means.
I hear him mutter every once in awhile...EXCUSES, FUCKIN EXCUSES.
He went on and on and I was trying to explain the  technology to him.
Even got Jill involved trying to get what we were trying to explain to him through to him.
Got out my cell. Last person I called was Jill on Dec.13th.  She pressed Send. Her phone in her room rings.
He still could not concept how this works. Redial YES...Send NO.
When he  MAYBE began to realize that it might have been a legit mistake on W.B.'s part, it was ranting about him feeding the dogs from the table and telling his daughter we don't like her as an excuse as to why he and Jill are not together at times.
Now more guff about him not understanding how that works. Can't fool him. She wasn't answering her cell phone so that's why he called here...on and on and onnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.
It got thicker and thicker and hubby insisted that she wouldn't answer her cell phone to his calls and he dialed the house phone on purpose.
How do you knock sense into someone I ASK!
Tried to explain to him that at the moment she was writing text messages to everyone wishing them a Happy New Year and at midnight all she has to do is hit SEND  repeatedly.
It's like talking to a Stone Wall.  I shit you not!
Even ME,MYSELF and I don't understand this new technology.
Don't use it. Never knew about it. Probably will never use it.
I'm exhausted from all this SHIT!
DIL Kim will be calling to take me up to the hospital with her. No shower yet.
Stomach in knots. Nerves shot to Hell.
Then when I leave I will be worrying about what's going on at home with him.  sigh!
He thinks that Jill and I are lying and covering for the W.B.  Plain and simple. I shit you not!
At one point he is saying he is going to keep a wrench at the table and when he spied him dropping food down to the dogs he was going to hit him with it.
In the next breath he said...not going to be at my table anymore so I won't need a wrench.




Another Subject

This picture would be hillarious if it wasn't so pathetic !
This is what my DIL Kim took from my sons coat pocket when he was admitted to the hospital.

He breaks the filter off his cigarettes. Smokes menthols. CANCER STICKS!

When she went to visit him yesterday she was on his SHIT LIST and he was divorcing her.

I raised an IDJUT!   I shit you not!

Maybe it's the steroids that are in the breathing treatments that have caused him to not think clear.
One would sure hope that was it.
On Lasix. Has a Nitro patch on. Being given high B/P med's.
Is borderline diabetic. They will try to control it with diet. Sure hope he omits the sweets when he gets home.
Somehow I don't think he will listen to one thing he was told.  sigh!!
Jay was 57 in October.  Which makes me.........OLD!

His B/P at it's highest was 173/115.
His oxygen level flucuated between 85-94.  Normal is 95-100.
It has been determined that he has Sleep Apnea.
His doctor hadn't okayed a patch for smoking to take the edge off. DIL Kim asked him  and he okayed it.
I LOVED my cigarettes when I smoked too. 
Am VERY THANKFUL that I stopped with the aide of Chantix and Wellbutrin with NO withdrawals and no urges to go back to smoking.
It probably helped that it was my own decision and not a MUST DO.
It will be three years come January 15th ( that was my mom's birthday and the day my sister Nancy died ).

Went up to the Town Hall at 3:30 p.m. yesterday.
Sign on door read:  CLOSED AT NOON.  I shit you not!
Guess they needed a head start on partying .
Off from noon 12/30/ 2010 to 1/3 /2011.
Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!


Hubby just took his B/P.  131/77   Damned good for the TIFF he was in.
Betting he thought it was worst.

DIL KIm called. Will be here in a half hour.  Jumping in shower.

That's All Folks!

D D Day 30 and my son is where he needs to be. :0)

We have been seeing alot of pairs of Cardinals around our feeders.  :0)
The fennel seed I buy for them is a favorite.
That and the cracked  sunflower seed.


My son Jay was finally admitted to the hospital after 5 p.m.
Took hours to get into an exam room and then the long wait for a doctor that goes between exam rooms.
Tests...blood, urine, EKG were run.

Then the wait for a room.
Why is that????
I've experienced it with hubby only to walk into a four person room and see only one bed occupied as I pass by other rooms that are not full.  sigh!
   The communication between DIL Kim texting Jill as to what was happening at the hospital  had been slow.
I know Jack Shit about texting.  I shit you not!
   Then she texts Jill to tell her that he was fighting with whom ever was working on him.
He needed a bigger oxygen mask as his oxygen level is low and he was resisting it as he is claustrophobic.
Kim was nearly at the end of her rope trying to reason with him so Jill took her some of the beef stew she made for supper and went to be with her.
Came home at ten.
He is on a Intermediate Care Floor.
After the 6 foot tall , 300 pound nurse told him he would be knocked out, interbated and catherized he decided to co-operate and wear the oxygen mask.
They gave him another Adavan for his anxiety .
Sad to say, but all he could think about was having a cigarette.
Jill purposely left her purse locked in the car trunk. He did ask her for one to sneak in the bathroom.
Jay definately has COPD.  Jill heard diabetes and high blood pressure mentioned.
I'm not surprised.  I knew he was very ill Christmas Day watching his labored breathing just sitting in a kitchen chair dozing off and on..
His stomach and legs are swollen. Retaining fluid.
When I hear more I will note it.
Once he is discharged it will be up to him whether he wants to live.
Jill says she doesn't think he thinks it's as serious as it is.

Logan got an air soft rifle from his dad for Christmas.
Erzi got an air soft rifle for Christmas.
When I asked who was going to supervise them using these guns, Logan said...no one.
I would NOT buy Logan one because an eye can be lost or worst.
Eleven and eight year olds don't need an air soft rifle.
The BIG HERO will be taking off for MS after the first of the year going back to college and Julie sure the shit doesn't keep an eye on them.  sigh!
He did the same for young Gil when he was that age. BB and pellet guns.
He who is by law not suppose to be around real guns since he tried to strangle my daughter, must get his KICKS this way.
Worries, worries and more worries!  I shit you not!

DIL Kim I M' d me awhile ago . Couldn't sleep. Exhuasted.
Son Jay's B/P was 173/115 at it's highest yesterday.
His blood oxygen level has been 93 the past few years.
Normal is 95-100
Even with the oxygen mask on yesterday it was fluctuating betweem 85-94.
He was given two breathing treatments also.
Gave Kim lots of grief from the time they entered. The long wait was his first bitch and from there it went on.
Knows she will hear it when he discovers the cigarette she took out of his coat pocket.
MEN! 
Love my sons but there isn't a one of the six that I would want to be married to. I shit you not!

I have been watching formations of Canadian Geese flying overhead all morning.
This has been their flight path today.
Beautiful sight to see.
When I hear the honking noise they make I look out and watch them pass by overhead. :0)

Hubby is still asleep. It's after nine.
Usually the tapping of this keyboard wakes him.
I need to go up to the Town Hall to a Notary.
To get birth certificates form CA you have to swear before a Notary how you are related to the person you are requesting a birth certificate for and also fill out a special form you download from the site in Sacremento,CA.for the Notary to sign and stamp.
This was implimented to cut down on Identity Theft.
It may be a pain in the ass, but all states should do it.
MA is not one that requires it.
   Decided I would send away for all but one kids born in CA  That would be  seven of them, but Sonny has been on cruises so I can assume he has his, so I'm sending away for six.
Not that I am saying my kids are clueless, but if asked I bet they don't know the name of the town they were born in.
Three oldest were born in Corona,CA. next two, Santa Ana, next two Orange,CA.
I will kill 6 birds with one stone so to speak and have them mailed to them.
Then it's up to them to keep them safe if they ever need them in the future.
After they were grown, I gave them their originals, but the long form is what is needed.
The way things are going ........I'd say they will.need them for proof of ID down the road.
We be ALL LEGAL!  I shit you not!
Read about the state of Hawaii's rules on not divulging ANYONES birth records yesterday.
Supposedly that's why no one can get Obamas birth records.
Seems to me while that may be good in some ways, if me I would get my own copy and PASTE IT ALL OVER THE NEWS. 
Put that rumor to bed ......once and for all.  HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Could there be some truth in it????
Just a thought!  I'd have shot down that rumor lickety split. That's just me.
I have more to worry about than someone elses shit.

Hubby has finally awoken .. Raise the flag!
9:50 a.m.
I can make noise and pound on this keyboard to my hearts delight!
He has the TV VOLUME turned up high. :0(
Gets TESTY when I ask him to lower it, PLZ. 
Dare I ask him to turn it down...............I can't hear myself THINK!  I shit you not!

DIL Kim has a huge head cold and will stop for something to take on the way to the hospital.
W.B. showed up a little after eight and had grandoise ideas of how they should spend the day.
Sledding in Nashoba Valley.
She reminded him that if he was able to get his $175 paycheck today instead of Friday that he owed $160 to the bank for overdrafts.
I knew you would be in a bitchy mood he says. The kids would love it.
She had to remind him that it costs to go sledding there as well as he had over drafts to pay.
She told him to use his head.
Sounds like she has 4 sons instead of the three she gave birth to. :0(
His daughter is not happy to eat at McDonalds either.
She does not select from a Kiddee Menu at a restaurant either.
Then she only eats a few bites.  He allows it and he owns it!  HIS PROBLEM!
Unless his upstairs tenant gives him some rent money,,,he is broke. No cig $, no gas $, no food $.
Guess sledding is out of the question. DUH!

Hubby is starting the day out bitching.
W.B. just called here asking where Jill went. He's out front and saw her car gone.
Told him to the bank.
Why the F he have to call here.... should have told him you don't know...blah,blah.
While I may not write about all hubby's petty ass gripes...trust me...there are many.
Just take my word for it. I shit you not!
Gripes and stupid ass questions.
My computer chair faces a window overlooking the neighbor on the next streets yard.
There is no way I can see in any other direction unless I turn my chair.
He on the other hand is in bed that faces the back of my chair and has a broader view.
Always with the what was that....who's in the back yard, who's in the kitchen, who just went out, who is home, yada yada yada.
Mentally I'm thinking...that would be...the people that live here.
Instead....my insides get in knots and I blurt out, "how the Hell do I know...I'm here."
I don't take well to ...what's that noise,( get up and look yourself), how many kids are in the livingroom ( what's it matter)( how do I know), ( get up and look for yourself), did my newspaper come yet( for the umpteenth time and I go check).
How soon I have forgot all the others that irk the hell out of me.
That can be good. :0) I shit you not!
The more he doesn't use his legs, the more he loses. sigh!
Yeah, I KNOW! At least I have a husband that I can bitch about.
That may just be what keeps me together at times.
There are some dark secrets that I am unable to reveal at this time. Maybe never while he is alive.
Let's leave it at that!  Okay.

It's a sunny day.  31 degrees at present... Saturday we will see a temperature of 50.
Jill is working New Years Eve at the Irish American Club's New Years Eve party.
Did last year and the year before.
W.B. is working his shift at the fire station too.
Regardless if Logan stays home or goes to his dads...it will be a quiet night with no worries of her drinking and driving. :0)   I like. I shit you not!

Thinking strongly of showering and taking the Hell off. Have his two exchanges to do and the Town Hall.
Tracie came last night and sat a good hour or more.
She was going to a few stores, Kohls and Michaels craft store and I declined tagging along.
I've been in the house except for going to the Outback on Sunday since the 23rd I think and I'm going stir crazy.
It is this time when the little things get to me. Not good!
Yesterday hubby was doubting why he was still married.    DITTO!

That's All Folks!

Click on a marble........

Where can I buy this ??????

D D Day 29 and Animals of YouTube sing "Deck the Halls"

 CUTE!
Everyone could use some more CHEER!

Not much news on the homefront!
No news can be good news.

Mack and Myre have been staying close to the nest. His dollars are low until Friday.
Jill did the grocery shopping yesterday and made a meatloaf supper that always turns out good.
Tracie showed up ad hour or so before the meal was put on the table and left an hour or better after she ate with us.
Today he works until eight tomorrow morning and he works again New Years Eve.
Unless he takes it off , that is.
   Hubby was wearing those dang lime green Grinch pj bottoms that he bitched about and I never thought he would wear.
"Why did she buy me these" I heard Christmas Day in a negative sounding way from him.
Told him she couldn't find GROUCH ones. 
I had left them on that lift chair beside the bed and he helped himself to them.
I'm sure Tracie was happy to see him wearing them. ;0)

    Quarter past nine and hubby is still sleeping.
Be still my keyboard!

Hoping I hear from DIL Kim as to her taking  my son Jay to the Emergency Room.
Know that sometimes it's hours before you are seen, but the first step is getting his ass there!
MEN!!!  SONS!!!!! 

I hear stirring and it isnt a mouse. I shit you not!
Hubby is awakening.

It's a nice sunny day. Not that I will be sitting out in my snow covered yard....any time soon EVEN.

Time to.....WHATEVER!

See there! You didn't think I knew when to put my pen down...DID YA!

That's All Folks!

NEWSFLASH!   Kim just called. She has son Jay at the E.R.

D D Day 28 and I bring to you....North Point's iBand

Monday Evening 12-27-10
The Wind! The Wind!
It's 17 degrees and with the wind chill factor its BELOW ZERO! I shit you not!
5:30 p.m.  The night has a long way to go.
The sliding glass doors in my bedroom are rattling and the howling of the wind is a REMINDER that IT'S NASTY OUTDOORS!
   Three times I lost my internet connection already today .  sigh!
There are those that have no power AT ALL, so I should not be complaining about computer service
We have been there...and where our heating system has an electronic ignition.....we have damn near FROZE TO DEATH!
Okay, I'm blowing those situations up some...but inside under the blankets it still was mighty damn cold.
I shit you not!
We can light our stove burners with a match when power goes out. Not sure about the oven.....or don't remember. Which is a good possibility. ;0)
Spending some time in FL is looking pretty good about now.  I shit you not!

W.B. didn't fall asleep right away.  He was ove tired. Come 4 p.m. he went was out like a light....or like my internet service.
   Jill is makiing herself and I, macaroni, tomatos and cheese.  YUM!
I made hubby oatmeal .  To each their own menu . I'm thankful that I can eat cheese without any repercussions. VERY!

Made a call to Alaska to my best friend Nancy while I waited to for my supper to be ready.
We talked in between my bites of food and  had a nice conversation until it was time for her to make her supper before her hubby made growling noises.
I was having a LATE supper and hers was going to make it to the table by five.
Four hours in time difference between us.
The stroke he had a year ago left his entire left side efffed up.
Norman went to the same Grouch School my hubby did!
Strange how our lives have played out.
I keep a log of when I call her.  With my phone service, AK is a FREE CALL.
Don't want to wear MY WELCOME OUT with her hubby, so I only call every 2 to 3 weeks. :0(

Tuesday December 28,2010

It's OFFICIALLY WINTER in my neck of the woods!  Shit you not!

12/27 Before shoveling

12/28 After

12/27

12/28

12/27

12/27

The blockade I set up so a hawk can't come swooping down.:0)

I also put our Christmas Tree to good use and will grab a few of the neighbors to give the birds more cover.

Some pic's were taken Monday and some this morning .

Been making calls for our birth certificates.

Salem,MA charges $10

Boston,MA charges $28

For kicks I checked out CA where my kids were born. $16

Called DIL Kim to see when son Jay will be seen by a doctor.

She had made the call and was told to take him to the Emergency Room.

He does not feel up to going today was his excuse. sigh!

She said she will take him there definately tomorrow.

All day I have been making my lists and checking them twice.

Called about taking Ginger in cabin. It was recorded and I pay $75 at the ticket counter when I leave with her.

Sent out in todays mail for our birth certificates.

Now I need to take a shower and feel human....I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D Day 27 and The 12 Days After Christmas

Still Sunday the 26th.

Bitch, bitch,bitch!
That's all I heard out of hubby this morning.  .  sigh!
Bought him heavy  pants on the idea of sweatpants only more dressier and the hooded jacket to go with it to keep his ass warm when we go out.
Right away he starts bitching when he went to put them on to go out to the Outback to eat.
"Where's the hole in the front so I can pee.?"
Told him that sweatpants don't have pee holes.  Sooooooo he bitched and bitched about how much harder it will be if he has to use the bathroom. He will have to pull those pants down. bitch,bitch,bitch.
Welllllllllllll excuse moi!!!!!
Handed him the new long sleeved Patriots shirt I bought him to put on.
Got it on and the bitching began again.
What kind of material is this....I don't like it.... I don't like anything up on my neck that high.
On and on he went. Reminded him when I met him his undershirts had that same neckline and I was the one that bought him V necks so they didn't show above his shirts.
He wore white socks at age thirty too. Now he can't wear any type of sock.
They make his feet swell, including diabetic socks.
Showed him that all his old Hanes colored pocket T shirts in his bueau drawer have that rounded neck and are made of the same cotton material. .
I don't care, I don't like it.  I'm not wearing it. blah,blah,blah.
Handed him one I bought to go with his Patriots pajama bottoms.
Sane song........second verse.
I'm taking the damn things back to the store and pocketing the money. .  I shit you not!
He was quiet Christmas Day ........so I should be thankful for that nice day...I WAS!
Bitched on the way out to the car, bitched in the car and finally the bitching ended.  sigh!

Got back to the house around 3 p.m. before the Nor'easter hit. :0)
He began to watch the Patriots game and fell asleep and I had some quiet time. yesssssssssssss!

Been out twice to shovel a small area for Lady to do her business and the bird feeders to be filled.
Once it stops snowing I will tackle a bigger area.
I always say to myself, "just one more shovel full" and I never seem to mean what I say.
 One more...means one more.
This snow is light.  SO FAR

This morning Jill was talkative.
She began telling me that W.B. had a Full Blown Melt Down late Christmas Day.
He began with saying she never paid him any attention all day.
I can't believe you didn't buy me a gift.
She reminded him that they had agreed to not give gifts to each other.
He did not have to go out and buy her diamond earrings she told him.
He's telling her it's his worst Christmas. Is down to his last $30 and that's not enough to fil his gas tank to plow for the town..
Needs cigarettes.
At times he was actually bawling real tears.
She said to me that she didn't mind it when he is missing his mother and he cries, but crying over not getting a gift from me. WTF!!!!
She wanted to take the earrings off and tell him to get his money back.
Last year he got her the same thing. These may be a pinch bigger. MIGHT BE!
Jill does not like getting jewelry on her birthday , Christmas, Mothers Day.
She has always been this way for as long as I can remember.
Three calls to the mother of his daughter and no reply back drove him deeper into depression.
He wanted to know if Alex had a good Christmas at her moms and if she got the doll she wanted.
Jill reminded him that Alex never asked him for the Yamaha keyboard and he could have bought her a dozen of those dolls with that money.
He is the one that wanted it...not Alex.
He whined about not even being wanted to stay here over night.
All I got was the gift your mother gave me. Hat, gloves, shovel.  sniff,sniff.
Not even a card from you he tells her.
She's telling him that he heard the kids all exclaiming what a great Christmas it was and that should be enough for him.
Christmas is every day for us she reminded him again.
Kept telling him to quiet down as she was tired and wanted to sleep.
She heard him get up around midnight and leave.
Sigh! Was back at 7 a.m. :0(
I told her that her dad was the same cry baby when he drank.
You do not want a man like your dad I have been telling her.
You can't respect them.  She agreed, BUT!

The town called him to plow the town roads at 7 p.m.
That's good money....WHEN the town pays him.
She must have given him money for gas....I can almost bet she did.
Probably a pack of cigarettes too.
Fed him good. Bought 2 thick porkchops and made them a meal.
Must have been her that bought the chops too.

Logan made a quick trip in the house to grab one of his new games.
Had Kenny with him . Imagine the trip to my town was two-fold. Pick up Kenny and pick up XBOX games here.
Dad and Julie were out in her van waiting and Logan commented that Christmas was lean because Julie didn't get her paycheck until two days before Christmas.
Stores were bare.
Let me guess. How many days are there in a year and she didn't know Christmas was coming until two days before it did. WTF!!!
I'm assuming they did buy the XBOX360 as a shared gift , but no games.
Wonder if I can get away with that next year. hmmmmmmmmmmmm
Social Security check doesn't come til January 1st... ;0)
   Grand daughter Shayla thanked me on Facebook for her gifts. She is 15 and with her earnings breaking down tables at the restaurant her dad works at she bought many gifts for her family members.
Even ice skates for her mom. :0)  She went overboard for her brother Trevor too.
Some days she can be a bitch to her mother, so I'm glad to see this side of her too. :0)


Monday 12-27-2010

HOLY BLIZZARD!
Over a foot and it's HEAVY SNOW now.  I shit you not!

Shoveled an area just big enough for Lady and the birds.
Threw out bird seed and need to get back out .....in time...in time... ;0)
Jill is out front using the snowblower and a shovel.
I have watched the wind blow the snow back at her ......whoooooooooooooooooosh!
W.B. made one pass into the driveway between the 2 cars.
Will be back when he is off the towns clock so to speak to do in front of the mailbox and where ever else Jill hasn't got to.
She usually has it all done by that time. The wind is sooooooooooooo STRONG!
Homes are falling into the ocean in Scituate.
Every year homes are lost to the high tide during a blizzard.
The Governor has ordered a State of Emergency.
After Christmas sales will be hurting.

    It's noon time.
   W.B. got the okayto quit plowing from the town dispatcher.
. Been at it all night. Jill made him a couple of grilled cheese sandwiches and some leftover spaghetti . Imagine he will be passing out in her room.
Did I see a bottle of rum on the counter?  BRB
IT WAS!  She made herself a drink. Can't see if W.B. has one too.  sigh!
Took a picture of  the back yard before the clearing away.
Wanted to take an after, but there are so many kinds of birds on the ground eating the seed I threw out...I don't have the heart to open the door and scare them. 
The wind is still howling .
Neighbors are still clearing their driveways.
I'm not going out anywhere.
I shit you not!
That's All Folks!










These pictures are not of this storm.

D D The Christmas Story by Kids

Too cute not to share :0)

D D Day 26 and all is merry and bright

From beginning to end it's been A WONDERFUL PAST TWO DAYS

Jill was a tremendous help in making all the foods  and being the HOSTESS WITH THE MOSTEST.

I was able to sit and enjoy my company and any heaviness was lifted.....until........I saw my first born .:0(

He does not look well. Has trouble breathing and his legs are swollen to where he can't close his sneakers with the velcro that goes across the top of his foot.

I asked him to please go see a doctor.

MONDAY P.M. I will make a call to him and will be calling every day until he does.

If Jay doesn't go see a doctor I fear he won't be alive much longer.

That's how bad he looks.

He needs to be on oxygen for his breathing.

If he went to an E.R. I have no doubt that they would admit him !

Around 9 p.m. daughter Cheryl calls me with a buzz on .sighhhhhh!

Thanked me over and over again and wished she could make my life better.

Told her someday I know she will be doing for her grands too and that's the best gift to me.

Her left hip has been in terrible pain for two days. Has had no injury to it.

When I suggested she try a heating pad, she told me hers was defective..."like me", she said.

With  that I told her not to use it.

During our conversation she is telling me she has taken 4 pain pills during the day and the pain has not lessened.

Must have leftover pain med's.  I'm thinking ........booze on top of pain med's . OMG!

Kept my mouth shut.  Cheryl can get very insulted and get on her high horse...if suggestions to her decisions are even questioned..so I know enough not to raise a red flag in front of her.

She becomes a raging bull. I shit you not!

Going back to Christmas Eve....son Terry and his wife Nancy came around 7 p.m. and stayed until 11.

Nancy hasn't been here in at least 4 years. I shit you not!

They live approximately 37 miles from me.

She acted like she had never been away and seemed to have the grandest of times.

Was laughing and saying she never had so much fun when Jill regaled them with stories of me and the critters.

Nancy is another animal lover. BIG TIME!

She has made enemies of ALL of her neighbors where ever she has lived.

If a neighbors cat was out in a snowstorm she went right up to their door and lets them know in no uncertain terms of what she thinks of them and demands they go get it and bring it in.

Terry has marveled at how she or a neighbor didn't kill each other.

MONTHS AGO he bought another house due to her neighbor fights and I heard her say last night that the next door neighbor's wife told her that her husband hated the chipmunks and shoots any he sees on their property.

WAIT A MINUTE Nancy said to her.

Terry and I feed the chipmunks and we have a favorite we call Rocky.

Your husband better not shoot our chipmunk!

OMG! here we go again!

The other morning around 6 a.m. she was up and saw two people headed across her property to the water.

They were carrying rifles.

She opened her door and stepped out and demanded to know what the father and son were doing.

I don't know you she told them.

We are here to hunt those ducks we see down there the guy said to her.

Those are my ducks and you are not shooting them! This is my property...you are parked in my driveway and you better leave right now or I'm calling the state police. I've already taken your license number.

With that the guy gave her the finger and told her,  efffff U as he walked back to his vehicle and drove away.

She said that afterwards she thought how she might have been killed by some nut by going out there in the dark.

Told her I'd have probably have done the same.

Terry and Nancy have been married around 25 years and I can truthfully say that Nancy hasn't been in my house but maybe a dozen times and even then I may be stretching it.

Each times she leaves she tells me "I'll be back."

True, but I didn't think there would be such a long time between visits. :0)

Nancy is bi-polar. Is not on med's for it. sigh!

We all agreed after she left that we have never seen this PERSONALITY.

We think this is #5.  I shit you not!

She invited Jill and W.B. to come visit them. Even gave them their address.

Hell! I didn't even have their new address. Just a P.O. Box.

They have been moved in maybe 6 months or more now.

As SYBIL she used to call Jill screaming and swearing at her when Jill took Terry's teen aged sons in to live with her after she didn't want them living with her.

The two of them ( Jill and Nancy ) would hang the phone  with each of them saying FUCK YOU!

NOW IT'S ,   Come visit and stay overnight. We have plenty of room.

I liked the Nancy that came to visit us last night. I shit you not!

Nancy does not drink and Terry has quit drinking.  :0)

Jill made me two drinks Friday night.

 W.B. bought me a bottle of apricot brandy and mixed with O.J. it tastes like a breakfast drink.

The fear of loosing a day and that MIGRAINE H/A keep me from imbibing more than 2 or 3 BREAKFAST DRINKS and then ONLY ON RARE OCCASIONS!  I SHIT YOU NOT!

Tracie was here both Friday night and Christmas Day in the afternoon.

Everyone was sociable and hospitible to her and Logan was truly pleased with and thankful for the 3 thick fluffy piled p.j. bottoms she bought for him. So pleased he did not want to take the pair he wore to bed off and wore them to his dads yesterday afternoon.  

COMFY was his word of the day. :0)

Game Stop XBOX LIVE O)NLINE receipt.

Logan's size 18-20 undershirts are beginning to look like midrifts.

Santa needed to bring Logan Mens Size Small undershirts.;0)

COMFY pj bottoms.

Alex between her Christmas and Santa's at dads and waiting for her mom to come get her for Santa at moms house.

I think I am getting what Tracie has. Runny nose, pesky cough, sneezing. sigh!

The forecast for today is ...........  a NorEaster!

Woke up to light flurries that have since turned to fully fledges SNOWFLAKES.

 

More happenings to write about coming. I shit you not!

That's All Folks!