D D Enough of The Rusty Years already!!!

I'm looking for The Promised Years.  GOLDEN!!!!   Foolhardy...you say?????
It's still Friday June 24th.
Todays post  omitted alot of aggrevations as will tomorrows.
If it isn't one thing, it's another.  A  parade of people in and out. Logan's friends, Tracie, her brother Marty, Logan's friends, Randy. Then the phone calls.
After I post the following pictures you might ask why I sit on my ass at all.  I shit you not!
I'm beginning to think though while not all of my time is spent at a computer in my diary....TOO MUCH of it is, when I could be doing something more constructive.

No caption needed

Pure CLUTTER!

The cleared out cabinet.

The cluttered cabinet.   I'm too tired to rotate this pic or the one above

Counter tops

My rug stained from Lady and now Cash.

Granted it's old, BUT even a new one would look like this in no time flat. This pup should have been trained by the age of 5 months. Imagine he would have been if someone had kept on top of the potty training. Ya think???

Mind you...there are two women in this house.   This is only a portion of what I look at daily. I'm ashamed to even post it, but maybe it will shame me into doing something about it .  I have no energy for this, but MUST dredge some up.
This was the inside of my home back eleven years ago, before daughter Jill and her 3 sons moved in and hubby was as incapacitated as he is now.

From these lower pics to the above ones is a world of change, as was the decor inside before I finally was able to remodel and refurnish .

What makes it doubly hard is these bottom pictures were only a year in depicting the way I fixed my home to reflect a surrounding I was happy to spend my later years in. . Before that I had Early Distress and Hand Me Downs for furniture, etc. and my parents or grands and their parents or my young family to raise or care for.  Okay, I know I myself have said that possesions are not everything.  BUT  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh ? When will there be calm??? Just turmoil and clutter abound. Pictures don't lie. I shit you not! There is a lived in look and THEN there is a ..........................words escape me. I shit you not!
Somebody or something needs to slap some sense into me. Yuh think??? 

Hubby's doctor wasn't much help. I asked alot of questions. Did state that we need to find the WHY of why hubby has been retaining urine.  Wants him to come back in two weeks. Gave him an RX for an Athletes Foot Cream.  :0)  Too funny. Told him I had been using Lotrimin.  Quite possibly this is a better product than Lotrimin.  I had it filled at their pharmacy before we left there and got Gabapentin refilled too. :0)
Wonder if a months supply that I ordered by phone last night will still come by mail. Oh well, one can never have enough,....I guess.

Before I forget...here is a picture that I took of Cash not too many days ago.
Hmmmmm looks like he has done something wrong. Me thinks he needs to go to Obedience classes. 
Does not mind for crap and DOES NOT come when he is called.
Logan thought his mom didn't feed him last night and fed him again around 9 p.m. He shit on my bedroom rug right after he ate. :0(  
Jill feeds him around 5 or leaves his food out in a bowl to be fed at that time if she is working. 
I can't remember the hour she asked me for a ride to the VFW . I'm thinking it was close to 6p.m. last night.
Thats A FIRST! :0)   Didn't come home all night :0( That's not the first time. sigh!
Came in at 8:30 a.m. this morning. Think she said yesterday she and her son Gil have to leave for work in Gloucester by noon.
Hubby didn't have a good morning. Woke around 6 and used his urinal. Went to sit back down on the bed and pissed himself.  Moaning and groaning and wondering how that happened. Then he asked me to look at his who whoo as it felt swollen more than double it's size.  ( men should be so lucky ;0)  ) It wasn't!
gave him clean clothing and laid  back down on the bed after letting Cash out of his kennel ( he was whining ).
It was thundering out and one of those days you just want to crawl back under the covers and sleep....SO I DID and hubby as well.  Woke again at 8a.m.
Since then hubby has used his commode/porta potty and I emptied the shit and disinfected it.  Keep sitting on my ass at my computer looking for all the world that I have nothing to do.  HA! HA! HA!  
Jill has had her cell phone to her ear since she has been home while either sitting on her bed or moving from room to room.  Did manage to ask her a question soon after she got home. Told her I was not trying to incite an argument, BUT WHY does she not respect herself and why did she get drunk last night.
Told her that she herself has been sober and seen drunks and commented on their facial expressions, etc.
I know mom....I hadn't seen alot of these people in a long time. They were buying me drinks. Me: "You don't know how to say no????" Yeah but I was having a good time and I didn't drive and, and, and. 
Here's the killer: " I never paid for a drink. Have the same amount of money in my purse as I did when I left." This spoken like she pulled off a FEAT and was proud of herself. 
Sickened me. I shit you not!

Hubby isn't having a good morning. Just called me. His heart is racing. Took his B/P which was good. Pulse 93.  While that may be good for me, his has never run higher than 70, mostly 50's and 60's and when he feels his heart beating in his chest ( which I don't ) he gets scared now. His doctors in the past had him on Metopropalol ( spelled wrong I'm sure and I am too lazy to go to where I have put away this med since it was discontinued recently or to check online. )  It isn't that much of an issue....am I correct?
That med was the reason his pulse had been low for years and then to have it changed to Atenolol 100 mg was a blunder.  With me cutting it in half it was better, but taking neither is better and his pulse is now up and sometimes UP,UP,UP. Turned to look back at him now and he looks exactly like he did in the first picture I posted.  Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

:0) Recently picked up a bag of Folgers Caramel Drizzle and Hazelnut Creme . Have never seen nor tried these before and am enjoying the Caramel Drizzle this a.m.   It's good! Unfortunately I have only enjoyed a few HOT SIPS and have to keep going to nuke it. 
Jill washed a load of clothes and they are in the dryer.  TV is on in my room and hers. Kenny stayed over last night and I sent them to Logan's room at eleven last night even though they didn't go to sleep, but at least were behind a closed bedroom door.   Kenny is up now, Logan is still snoozing. It's eleven a.m.
LOOK at the time already!  Eleven a.m. and I have done Jack Shit !  I'm disgusted with myself! 


That's All Folks!

D D The Rusty Years Chapter 13

Thursday June 23rd  ...........Knew that hubby was mechanically inclined.  Knew he also has had a knack for figuring out how to build a better mouse trap and save a buck ( in this case $284 plus shipping ).   He figured out that he can just edge his behind up to the tub, grab the mounted tub bar and sit down on his bath chair ( it has no back ) turn around slowly and get his legs up over and  into the tub.  
No tub mounted sliding swivel bench chair needed. :0)

Physical Therapist came at 12:30.  She thinks he is doing much better.   Most definately better than he was on her first visit here. Liked his tub demonstration . :0)

Spent some hours trying to clean out one of the diningroom display cabinets. ONCE AGAIN it had become a Catch All cabinet. I can't blame anyone but myself for that. It's a bad habit of mine to plunk odds and ends in there instead of finding the righful home for them. Still have stuff on my table to find a home for. Three bottles of Elmers glue that Logan uses gor his school projects and a stick glue are amongst the find a new home for mess.  Looks like we lost a bottle of glue and replaced it , only to lose that and replace it again. sigh! Who needs THREE bottles of Elmers Glue !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Never did get the bottom part cleaned out where we keep phone books and extra light bulbs and, and, and.  It has a door and the stuff behind it is hidden.  :0) Only annoying when you open the door and stuff rolls out onto the diningroom floor.   ...............................another day. Rome wasn't built in a day.  Of course by the time I get to the bottom of that cabinet, the top will probably be another story.   Unfortunately ...there are two cabinets and the second one is even larger and you can't see the dishes on display there for the shit piled on top of them and around them.  Again....by me!  I bought a picture frame to put Logan's 5th grade diploma in this same time LAST YEAR.  It is still sitting in that cabinet where I plunked it...sans diploma which lays under it.  I think that I am half of my problem here....I shit you not!
The drawer holds everything known to man , scissors, dice, pens,pencils, staples, rulers, cards, thumb tacks, white out, shoe strings, erasers, paper punch, paper clips, elastic bands, picture hangers, colored pencils, markers, storage clips and, and, and. Closing said drawer is beginning to become difficult. I shit you not!
Heck, did I say " beginning ", HAS BEEN.   If it wasn't well built... the bottom of the drawer would have fallen out long ago.  It's been cleaned out and everything returned nice and neat more than once since it took it's place in the diningroom and when I get around to it again...it won't be the LAST TIME. I shit you not!
Another scare!!!!!!!!!!!! 
Around 6 p.m. hubby began complaining of his heart beating wildly in his chest. As I went to lay my hand on his chest I noticed he had not taken his noon meds that I gave him in a med cup sitting on his nightstand. He must have needed to use his urinal at that time and forgot about them. sigh!
Gave him his meds and got out the BP cuff.  Heartrate was 100.  He was scared and anxious and wanting Jill to drive him to the V.A.Hospital. The more scared and anxious he got the worst he became.  sigh!
 I kept telling him to relax and he'd probably feel better after his meds had been in him awhile.   No dice. He had gotten himself too worked up.  Jill finally got him calmed down some and told him that she was calling 911. If he checked out good enough to be driven to the V.A. she would drive him there. If not he was going to a local hopsital.  All in agreement say AYE.  AYE!!!!  We ran around putting the dogs away and clearing a straight path to hubby. ( Removed gate we keep across the opening to the livingroom to keep Cash and Lady out of there to save that rug.    Four of our FINEST on the fire department came very quickly and by the time they packed their stuff up to leave, he was doing much better.   So much better that he had calmed down and his pulse was 71 and I felt comfortable enough to go up to the center with Tracie who was here when all this went down for a salad and a slice of pizza. 
It wasn't worth leaving home for.  :0(  Hasn't improved in the ten or better years it's been here. Brick oven pizza that was like a brick.. The two or three times I was stupid enough to eat their pizza it was soggy in the middle. So.... I asked that the bottom crust be cooked and get over cooked. crust.  sigh! 
It will be a longgggggggggggggg time before I forget how bad it was.  I shit you not!
   Once back home I took hubby's B/P again. Pulse was 61. :0) He was watching So You Think You Can Dance and we both called it a night after it was over.  I was sitting at my desktop trying to read blogs and kept nodding off to find my head almost on the keyboard.    Tired....you bet! 
Had no nap ;0( and broken sleep during the night doesn't make for a good nights sleep. 
It isn't all hubby ........efffin right arm and sometimes my right leg is in so much pain it wakes me.
You ask .....when I am going to do something about it?????   I'm a mashochist!  Must be.......I shit you not!


Friday June 24th
Hubby has an appointment with his primary doctor at 1 p.m. today.  Maybe he can look into his medical records and see if there is any new information there. I did not know what to tell the EMT's as to his recent DX when they inquired as to what he is being treated for.
After hubby took his morning meds ( I stood over him ) he went back to sleep until 7:30ish and I took that quiet time to read blogs.  Sorry Auntie.  taking pictures hasn't been "right up there" in my priorities. Logan's report card is still sitting on the kitchen table. I'm surprised that I haven't put it in my china cabinet to keep it safe from spills,etc.
Mary...a Steak Bomb is shredded beef cooked with cheese, mushrooms , and ?? peppers? in a sub roll. Delishious! Sort of like Philly Steak n Cheese.  Hmmmmmmmmmmm maybe that's what I should have had instead of that Philly Steak and Cheese brick oven pizza which was like a BRICK! 

It's minutes away from 8:30 a.m.  Must, must , must get motivated. 
Someone needs to light a blow torch under my arse. I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D The Rusty Years Chapter 12

Thursday, June 23rd. 

Breaking headline news this morning. They caught Whitey Bulger.  :0(  I was hoping they never would. The FBI USED  him as an informant and he played both sides. .....He was the egg on their face and they only wanted to save face. What's it been ...18,19 years he and his girlfriend have been on the run? Whitey is an old man now. 
All he is guilty of is killing or having killed other mafia types.  I use to say that if he lived next door I wouldn't turn him in for the LARGE reward.  ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmm  I don't think so anyway.

Yesterday was my nephew Drews 50th birthday and my oldest grandson Larry's 38th.
Where have the years gone ???????? 
   It rained and rained and rained.  More of the same is predicted for today and the next day and the next.. 
Logan was home by eleven . Promoted to grade 7. All A's and B's on his report card. :0)
He and Kenny must have stayed up half the night before. Noontime he went to his bed and slept and slept and slept until 6ish when hunger set in.  Noontime his mother napped, so did the pup and the other two dogs and yes.........so did hubby and I.  Needed that hour plus nap. I shit you not!
Earlier hubby went in to shower and I made our bed. He never called me to help him and thankfully he didn't fall or need me to wash his back.  Almost like the days before we went to FL in February.  :0)
Did you know the reason he hasn't shit right since February is because I have been feeding him Instant foods???? What's that you say??? That's what I say too.  Bull crap! Such nonsense.  I told him to ask the doctor if he thinks that Instant oatmeal is causing his bowel problem when we see him Friday.     I eat Instant oatmeal and I shit just fine. I shit you not !
He claims he isn't going to eat any Instant ....I told him I'm not standing at the stove cooking it . You can't cook for me he asked indignantly.   Looks like oatmeal is off his menu . Cold cereal will prevail.

The pair of mallard duck came back a few more times to swim and laze poolside in the rain. Goofies.  Guess they don't realize that on a hot sunny day this pool is hopping with actvity. They will learn....all to soon. Just not for the next four days or so. Monday we will see the sun.
   Three o'clock Tracie came a u hooing.  Knew she would be here before five.  While I'll admit I was ready to get out of the house, I wasn't dressed and ready.    She decided we should go to/Kohls  in Burlington. instead of the one closest to us.    Fine with me.......except on the way home it was bumper to bumper traffic and took us over an hour for a twenty minute drive. I was famished. Called Jill to ask her to run for a Steak Bomb sub for hubby and after dropping off my purchase at home and giving hubby his 6 p.m. meds we were back on the road again and went to the Outback.
Who says the economy is bad.??? A half hour wait to be seated.????  I shit you not.
This was a Wednesday afterall.  I ordered the talapia and some citrus rice. Tracie had prime rib a salad and a baked potato.  Now.... you might know what I was thinking.....yeah, who's paying for this.  Tuesday she had $5 on her and one day later she is ordering this meal. . My mind wasn't computing that. I shit you not!
She pulled out money for her meal.when it came time to pay. :0)  This after she told me she cuffed a steak dinner at Good Tymes the night before.  It was only natural that I wasn't at ease when she ordered prime rib.   Turned out my worry was for nothing. :0) That was a nice surprise!
Back home at 8:30 and we parted company in the driveway. I broadly hinted I would not need to get out either for a mental day or to shop until at least by Saturday. "I'll stop by tomorrow to check" was her reply.  sigh!
   Her parents house has been sold. The 30th of this month her brother signs the papers.  THAT will not deter her in anyway from being in this neighborhood EVERY DAY. I shit you not!  Already she is saying what she hopes the new owner does and does not do to fix it up for rent/sale ?????
This was the home she came home to from the hospital as a baby.  Yes, it has to be emotionally difficult to let go of the past.  If there is any truth/merit to that saying " rolling over in their grave ", her mom and dad would have their face pressed in the soil.  Siblings have not been on agreement in many things.  MINE will be the same way.  I shit you not!  Human nature is ....the nature of the BEAST!

My goodness! I got up early. It's only 6:24 a.m.  Hubby is sleeping soundly still. Meds are late.  It won't kill him. He has done this himself more than once when he took control of his meds. 
Cash is annoying Ginger.  Hubby won't be sleeping too much longer with that noise by the bed. :0(

Dear Diary.....my hope is to get to the point that my days AND NIGHTS are.........................dull and boring.  Wish that for me too even though it means I will be doing less writing.


That's All Folks!

D D The Rusty years Chapter 12

So far this morning , this day doesn't look like it's going to be any better than yesterday. :0(
Hubby woke a number of times to use his urinal. Sometime around four he couldn't get his legs up on the bed, so I got up and assisted him. Five thirty finds him on his POT and somehow  he got piss on his pants leg. I took them off and he got back into bed telling me he was going to have to use the POT again and just leave it there.  Half hour later he does. He decided he would stay up, so I made his coffee and that's where I am now.................he's sitting up in bed drinking coffee and eating his Lorna Doone cookies. 
As I'm emptying out the porta potty pail and deoderizing it I thought back to the other times I have emptied this very same pail.     1986 for my mother. 1997 for my dad .
Before that I emptied the family pail in the winter months when the weather was too cold and weather conditions made travel to our outhouse out of the question. :0(  That would have been the years 1946 through 1950.  Hip hip hooray............we moved to California and had a working toilet. :0)
Moving on up....to the big time !!!!!!

Randy  came yesterday and calked around the A/C he put in. Expected me to just jump up and go get my vegetable plants when he was ready. Physical therapist was here working with hubby and that could not be done. He paced and paced which made me edgy. Noon I threw my purse over my shoulder and we took off to the closest nursery.  Once back home I noticed that the Burpless cuke plants I chose from the section that advertized them ....were pickling cukes.  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr  I should have looked at those name tags stuck in the dirt.   Won't be the first time, nor the last that I do that. 
   The rain we are expecting wasn't suppose to be until tonight. Guess what....we have already had showers this morning.  I have MUCH TO DO before I can get anything planted.  :0(  Weed paper isn't down yet.
Maybe I'll feel different when these plants bear fruit, but right now I am thinking store bought this year would have been fine. sigh!
   Tracie was already at her parents house at noon. She was cleaning out her mother's car that she has piled to the rooftop with her junk/possessions/treasures ????  Asked me if she could have a cold water to drink.  Stopped long enough to hand her one on my way out to the nursery.  She was making room in the car for someone to get behind the wheel so she could have it towed to a local garage to see if it is saleable.
Last I looked before dark, it was still there. 
   Once the sun wasn't as hot I went out to gather what I will need to get this garden planted from the shed .
Guess who shows up again. sigh!  Begins to try to help me pull weeds here and there and deadhead flowers.  sigh!  Mosquitos were beginning to bite and still she hung around. Even with me making waves about not wanting to be mosquito bait. sigh!  Only had $5 to eat with. I didn't bite. Loaned her $20 Saturday and have treated her more than once to a meal since I have been back home. She asked me what time today did i want to go to Kohls. With no hesitation I said, 5 ...I want to watch the trial on TV. ( oopsie, forgot it is a short court day. It ends at noon. Oh well.... Five is good. ) Now lets see what time she is at my door.  She mentioned she visited someone else ( they have lived here over 50 years ) after she left here the evening before. GOOD!  Sorry if I don't sound grateful for her ferrying my arse around.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
    Hubby just questioned me of the time we have to be out of here today. HUH!!! Last night I AGAIN told him it was Friday that he would be seeing his primary doctor. 
My train of thought...went POOF!  Let me regroup my thoughts.....................................
Tick, tick, tick.   I'll be back. This isn't working out. :0(

Moments after trying to collect my thoughts, Jill tells me that the pair of mallards were mating on the pool.  They have been coming back every day and some days more than once.  We need to change our pool sign to No peeing in the pool to no peeing and no sex in the pool. ;0)
This is the first year that mallards have made it a habit of returning to our pool.  Maybe once or twice and never to be seen the rest of the summer. 

Today is the last day of school. half a day. Kenny stayed over last night and he and Logan went to school this morning together. At ten p.m. I had to knock on Logan's door and tell them it was time for bed. Jill came out of her room shortly after that and enforced it! :0)
   WB came here right around supper time. Jill was cooking for Kenny and Logan. She tells me his parting remark to her was, " call me when you have time for me."  She claims it will be a cold day in Hell. 

Showers and rain are forecast for the rest of this week. Sunday we will see sunshine.  Don't look forward to working in the mud....so I won't.  Plants are sitting in Logan's wagon from his little boy's years and will be just fine there.

Hmmmmmmmmmm hubby just managed to make his way into the bathroom on his own.  Is that a good sign ??????????  
I've eaten my oatmeal with blueberries. Just looking around at my surroundings is depressing.  Too much shit! Too much clutter!  Every room in my house could use a pantry. I shit you not!
   Now hubby is asking for REAL OATMEAL .  Argument is ensuing.  I shit you not!
Now he's on the  mac n cheese I make him being instant too.  He likes REAL FOOD and the real stuff that Kraft puts out. You boil the water and cook the elbow macaroni, then add the cheese package.  No vitamins in the stuff I feed him, no fiber , blah, blah, blah. No wonder he can't shit.    blah,blah,blah  He isn't through yet. :0(  I'm not giving in either! I shit you not!
He has my B/P up ...... If he keeps it up, I will get in my car and get the Hell out of Dodge!  I have just about had his shit.
I need to get an air card??? whatever the heck those things are called that you can use your laptop/ipad anywhere you go ie: car. Find a quiet spot to park and just read/type whatever, without confusion and upsets.
Am I a dreamer .....or what ????????   YEPPER!!!!

That's All Folks!

D D TRY's Chapter 11

Happenings since I last posted.

The pup chewed up an under water face mask of Logan's. He had two friends swimming last night and has been warned not to leave anything where the pup can get it.
I have been warned too. Slipped out of my Sketchers to eat supper ( just bought leather shoe polish to spiffy them up )and at some point I looked out back and saw him tossing around two items and in general having a ball. Nooooooooooooo my Sketchers. Teeth marks on the back of the leather shoe that no shoe polish will cover. sigh!  I'm about to knock him into next week ! Just kiddin.................. I think. ;0)

Jill told me that her first LOVE (puppy at age 15) Chris in FL is paying her way to FL to visit him for a week in July.
No more big meal suppers for her as she wants to lose some weight, she said. Hmmmmmmmmmmmm  wonder if she remembers the rum and cokes she puts away.
She never has been a big eater.
Saw a bill ( cell phone ) on the table and asked her about it. Julie hasn't mailed any money to DOR for Logan's support since sometime in May.  She tells me she better get some money from her soon. Don't care if she is in S.Korea.  I gave a dig about checks mail from anywhere to anywhere there is mail service. Then I added , if she doesn't send any money I am notifying the unemployment office and letting them know that if she has filed to collect unemployment she is in S.Korea and can't possibly be looking for gainful employment as required in order to get a check from them.  Yepper....I'm a SOB . I shit you not!

Hubby just requested and got OATMEAL.  Is this Instant shit he asked. Yep.
 I want the stuff you cook. This isn't doing me any good.    HUH!!! You ate it in FL, you have eaten it here since we have been home. I"M NOT COOKING OATMEAL on the stove I told him in a rather irrated tone.  Case Closed!  I shit you not!

Tracie came yesterday about when it was time to put supper on the table. She sat and sat as Jill whipped the mash potatoes to go with the roast pork and pork chops I made.  In so many words ....I told her I would make her a To Go plate after we eat and indicated that hubby was coming out to eat at the table. She left saying she had bottle returns and would be back.  (Thanks for the warning Tracie)
Hubby complained about the chops being tough to chew. I'll concede, they were ....somewhat.  I made him the chops smothered in butter and onions and the roast cooked in one of those cooking bags with spices that they have to make cooking easier. Knew he would complain about any spice, so cooked his the old way like I use to.  Only cooked the chops for 15 minutes. They were done, BUT on the chewy side. :0(
Once I had the To Go food packaged up in a throw away food carton from Chinese food, I walked to the front door and spied Tracie in her driveway. Over she came  and there I stood and she stood with me with me making no movement to go inside.   Told her after I cleaned up, I was going in my bedroom and getting off my feet. Head down and sheepishly she said " Do you have a fork and knife I can borrow".   When I inquired if she didn't have silverware at home she explained that she was going over across the street and using the microwave there instead of going to her own apartment.  I obliged her and we parted with her saying " see you tomorrow or Wednesday". I said, Wednesday ....as that's Kohls senior day and she bought a pair of capris on my receipt with my discount she needs to return and I have a pair of pj's to return. There's a mood to my madness.....If I see something I want to buy , I will get my senior discount by waiting until Wednesday.
Let's see if she stays away today.....I have my doubts. Serious doubts.
Did I tell you that she told me she visited a church friend after leaving here the other day and before she knew it, it was 11 p.m.   I can tell you right now that this church friend IS NOT YOUNG! Poor woman, but better her than me. I shit you not!

It's 830 a.m. Tuesday June 21st.
Today is a very good online friend's birthday.  We have been there to support each other if only by email for ? ????? years.  Help me out here Pea. 
Happy Birthday. Many More. xoxoxoxo XOXOXOXO She never lets me forget that I am older. Yeah, by 3 months. ;0)

Hubby wants his shower. 
He is able to make his way into the bathroom and into the tub on his own. Washes himself except for his back and then I help him out and dry him off , spread Lotrimin ointment on his WhoWhoo and Who Whoos and help him dress.   Seriously.... why can't he apply this himself. Me thinks he is getting his Rocks Off with having me do it for him. ;0)  You don't have to see your whoo whoo and whoo whoos to apply ointment there. Just FEEL around. He should know where the head of the whoo whoo is.  Right???? 

No WB yesterday. So far no WB this morning. :0)

Oh, I remember what I was doing yesterday while waiting for supper to cook when Tracie was here.
Making copies and putting hubby's medical bills from FL hospitals and doctors into seperate envelopes getting them ready to mail to the V.A. for concideration of payment of what Medicare did not pay.
Did you know????? that I had put these all in a mailing envelope intending to send them altogether and in that way they did not make sense to anyone that would open it. The light finally dawned on me yesterday that there was a better way to do it.  Just by getting these ready to  mail, I feel another weight lifted off me.

Went to check on hubby. He ...for some reason???? could not regulate the water temperature.  Did his back and I AM BACK.   UT OH, bed making time. I'd forget my head if it wasn't attached to me. I shit you not!

That's All Folks!

D D The Rusty Years Chapter 10

Not BAD! Not bad at all. :0)
Hubby didn't blow a gasket over the walls and siding being cut into for the A/C unit to go in. 
He heard the noise coming from Jill's bedroom while he was towel drying and asked me what the noise was. Matter of factly, I told him that Randy was installing an A/C in her room.  All he said was that the walls were thick.  Yep, Randy found that out.  Later he walked down to look at it as Randy was cleaning up and didn't say anyhting..... good, bad or indifferent. :0) I shit you not!
All that is left to do is the framing inside and outside. Me thinks the inside will get done sooner than the outside. That's the way Randy works.  Sticking with one thing too long is not something he has been able to do. Hops from one thing to the other.   His attention span has always been s h o r t . I have never known him to watch a complete one hour show .....let alone a movie.  Doubt if he has changed from the years he lived at home. His mind is always working.  Completing a task has never been his forte'. Board games....FORGET IT!
The sleeping pills he takes to get some sleep cost over a thousand dollars a month.  Yah, EEEEEEEEK!
My problem child is my middle child and will be 54 on July 24th.  He has a heart of gold, BUT !!!!!

It's Father Day. Some of out kids came and went. Some called.  Logan helped me get papa into his wheelchair and out the back door and ramp to the car. Did it all by himself and same getting the wheelchair out of the trunk and getting him back inside.  Saved my back that RISE coming into the back yard.  :0)
Both of them got the royal treatment from Lydia . Logan got a Thunder Down Under for dessert. First he has had and he says IT"S THE BEST!
Jill came home from work around 7:30. Seemed late to me, but those things are not exactly an 8 hour job. Once you load the truck back up you go back to the shop and put things away after you clean them up.
Fave SIL had 8 cookouts yesterday and 2 sit down meals and then the one cookout today. 
Daughter Michelle said he was stressed and UGLY, was snapping at his help and her. MEN! 

Once home and hubby in bed, I went to the grocery store.  Needed fruit and, and, and. You know how that goes.  Had the trunk just about unloaded of groceries when Tracie pulled up.  "Where have you been " she yelled out as she pulled into the driveway.  OH SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   Told her it wasn't where I had been, it was where I was going. To rest my tired feet.  Here I was hanging onto a 12 pack of tonic and praying she would get the message and leave. After a little more small talk, she did. :0)
This brings me to where I am now. Sat in my computer chair and typed this. Hubby is still snoozing. It's 8:15 p.m. 
   Two more things to mention before I forget them and take my leave until tomorrow.
Sombay's oldest son Jeffrey and his wife Valerie are expecting their first baby in August. A girl.... I must, I must get busy knitting.  Jeff is career Air Force and worked under Gen Patreous in covert operations. He retires in a year or so. I am so happy for them.  She had a miscarriage a few years ago. 
    In front of me in the grocery line was a new born baby. Asked the dad standing near me how old. She's a week and four days, he said. OM Goodness. The tiny hands. I have forgot how small they are.
That wasn't what I wanted to remember and say.  Oh well. maybe tomorrow I will remember. 
CRS is happening oftener and oftener. I shit you not!

Monday June 20th

Nurses have come and gone. SCI nurse won't be back unless I call her. From what I have told her and her observations and in talking with hubby....he is doing much better.
Visiting nurse will cut back to one time a week.  
Had hubby bathed and fed by the time the first nurse came at 9:30.  Ma was still in her pj's.
Noon came and ma took the phone off the hook and climbed in bed and NAPPED til 2 when Logan came through the door from school. :0)  Jill left at 11:30 saying she was going to go visit that friend in the hospital when I inquired of where she was off to. 
George.  ;0(  
Heard Logan call her after he came in the door.  Asked him when she told him she was coming home. His replay was , she said "later."
Ma is still in her pj's.:0(  My first nap since I've been back home. :0)
Hubby napped right along beside me, got up to stand using the urinal minutes ago and went right back to sleep.  I'm envious....U BET! 
Jill is home. It's 2:33. Looks like she did when she left.  Today looks like it's a good day for all of us all around. 
WB didn't come around this morning....he called the house at 7:30 a.m.  when she didn't answer her cell phone.  Heard her say something about her blocking his calls on her cell.  He left a text saying he was at the beach with his boat, daughter and friends and just make the call and he will come and get her and Logan.
He got his official notice from the bank that he is no longer the owner of his house.  This has been long overdue. Where can you live rent/mortgage free for two years at the very least. 
Still...it will be quite awhile before an auction is held.  He is constantly saying, " marry me." 
She'd have to be a bigger fool than I take her for to marry him and so far that's what she tells him. 
Not living together under my roof either way and she has been told and T O L D!   I shit you not!
Huuby woke again. Has to pee again. That can't be a good sign....can it???? Thirty minutes later you feel like you are going to piss yourself!

I did a little more cleaning up of the area right outside my sliding door and the storage box has been cleaned out and re-arranged. Used the big shop vac ( vrooom vroooooom ) . One fraction of the back yard has been touched, but it felt good to care and try to improve it. :0) 
    Hubby just got pee on his pjs and underwear.  Could not hold his urine long enough to stand and drop his pants. That CAN NOT be a good sign,  :0( sigh!  Urine was clear, but he is only putting out a about 200 cc's each time.  The large area I am applying the Lotrimin to...looks much better to me and the nurses.  That's a good sign. :0)   OMG! He just felt the urge to pee again as he was changing into the fresh clothes I handed to him and he had about 150 cc's of clear urine in his urinal. WTF is going on ! 
Please don't let this be a bad thing. I remember one of the nurses today asking him if after he urinates he has to urinate again within minutes. 
   Today has been a good day ....going by what it's been.  I need more of these. I shit you not!
I'm just going to ignore his last statement. The Ocean Spray cranberry juice I gave him when the nurse was here tasted much better than the Ocean Spray in Florida.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh at first what the mind conceives..................something like that. ;0)

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D D The Rusty Years Chapter 9.( The real 9 )

Appears that I skipped Chapter 8 . Geeez, wonder how that happened??????? 
Let me start off by saying that yesterday was b e t t e r.  Not that it was a walk in the park, but better than some others.
Yep, it was the wind up alarm clock that hubby was monkeying with.  I inquired as to why and was told he was taking it apart to oil it. It kept stopping and he had to keep shaking it to get it going again.
It's an el cheapo, so I just let him do his thing. ;0)
A few hours later I see him shaking it. ????  Then he asked for some sandpaper. A rough edge somewhere was the explanation.  A whole lotta shakin went on during the day ;0) he said it was wound up too tight .    I picked it up andddddddddddddddddddddd the clock part wasn't wound...it was the  alarm that was wound TIGHT. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeesh. Sur...PRISE!  It's still tickin this morning.

Happy...Happy...Happy.  Hub got to the bathroom on his own, into the tub and showered himself all except for his back, which I was HAPPY to do.  Yes, he could have fallen. He didn't.  :0)
That area ( scrotum ) looked horrid. Explained why the stuff I used the day before burned to him and put the Lotrimin back on him.  "This is the fourth day isn't it ", he asks.   ????????????????? Nooo I bought it the night before. "I could have sworn it's been longer than that you have been putting that on me."  Nooooooo we used another type cream. One that didn't contain an antifungal. 
I'm having him wear his Hanes briefs ( where he is not shitting his pants ) and putting a small pad in the crotch area to catch any pee drops. After I use up the ones I had , I'll buy the mens ones.   Gotta air that area out and plastic from the Depend around his upper leg isn't hacking it. OMG...the red rawness.  GOT to catch this before it turns into something worst. I shit you not!
   Sooooooo I can see his confusion there. Ointment is ointment . Cream is cream.   So on and so forth. ;0  He was awake most of the day...but still isn't drinking the amount he should. :0(  Complained of stomach pain occasionally.

Chrys the hairdresser that comes to our house came to cut our hair and DYE mine. My first professional hair coloring in maybe twenty years. :0)  That Clairol Gray Solution is no longer available at drugstore.com and I've decided ....Screw It, I'm worth the money. She thought she remembered the color I was back in January when she cut it. ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm I think the color is a weeeeeeeeeeeeeee bit off. Too much orange highlight in the sun.  Next time...she can change the formula. I'll live with this color for six weeks. :0) Hubby got his haircut too and his eyebrows and his ears that were growing a forest. :0)
Dang....men sure do get hairy as they age. Wonder how much she charges to shave someone's back. ;0)

Got a call from Sombay my son Larry's BETTER HALF.  He has a pessimistic and grumpy persona about him and has for years.  Gave me the warmest hug goodbye when he dropped me off back home and said " I love you", before I did. :0) This is the side that has come about in his later years that makes him endearing. He stopped for a mother goose leading her babes of a dozen or more across a road on our way home. Years ago ... he would have went duck/goose hunting or hit one if it was in his way :0( Was worried some A Hole would hit them. What a NICE CHANGE !!!!!!!!!!   I shit you not!
He is deeply passionate about what is going on in this country and fears we are losing our country Feels bad for his grands and what they will encounter down the road. etc, etc, etc.
Wanted to take us to the Outback to eat. I went around six thirty with them and brought Won Ton soup home from the Chinese place here in town for hubby ( son paid ). Hubby ate every bite and spoonful and the bread.  :0)  Larry always has complaints, service too slow, what's holding up this or that, I want a booth when I go out to eat, I eat at a table at home, but in the end he did enjoy his meal and tipped Lydia well. Very well. Something he would not do not too many years ago.  He kept asking Sombay if it was enough and would put a few more dollars up even without her saying more. WOW! That's so different than me lagging behind as we get up to leave and adding to the tip he left . :0) :0)  He would say the employers were the ones that should be paying them, not him.  Maybe Sombay got through to him that our meals would cost us much more money if they did. ;0)
Old mom here still can make it UP in and OUT of his diesel truck. :0)
   Jill and Gil just got home from catering a cookout for a wedding before I left.  A couple in their fifties got married and they said it was a nice time. :0)
   Hubby had just sat at the table to eat his soup when Tracie came and she stood feet away from the table and stood and stood and stood. SO DID I!   Asking her to sit would have invited trouble. I shit you not!
No matter how many times I said that I needed to get off my feet, she did not take the HINT!
I NEED TO DO SOMETHING to make her realize without hurting her feelings that stopping here to kill an hour or two of her boring evening every day is taking time away from me.
This seems impossible to do.  sigh!  When she talks foolishly of moving away to Virginia where an uncle lives ( it can't/won't happen ) my mind screams YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Sooooooooooooooooo Dear Diary...if it's that much of an intrusion on my life for her to come here every single day...........why am I allowing it?????????   I would feel the same way if it was my best friend Nancy,
I think.........................................

We both woke around 5:45 this morning. Turned the TV off at 11 and Logan and his friend Kenny slept in the living room each on a section of the sectional, BUT not before they chatted and chatted away half the night. 1 a.m.I yell out, Logan go to sleep. 2 a.m. Logan go to sleep. 3 a.m. Logan go to sleep and I got up and threatened to wake his mother. BINGO! That did the trick, BUT no more sleeping where there isn't a door to close. Granted they were just talking. Sometimes their tones rose. I still am not sleeping good with the arm pain and have been getting painful spasming in both legs as well. Sciatica.  ouchy,ouchy.

Sorry for the skipping around, but just have to say that it felt good to change from clothes I wore to get my hair dyed to dress up into something nice, size 14 Daisey Fuentes and a pretty top to go out to eat, BUT must watch myself. I'm getting lax and not doing what I did in FL and it is going to catch up with me. :0( So there....you are put on WARNING Pat.
Even applied a little makeup to my face and lipstick. :0)

Watched some of the trial and some more on KFTV online ( available to watch all the way back to Day 1 jury selection ) and WOW did Baez get himself in a heap of trouble with the Honarable Judge Perry.
As for the testimony of Dr.Werner Spitz................this aged man has credentials up the ying yang, but it's time to retire.  He has become a sensation seeker . His testimony was just as ridiculous as it was when he testified for the defense in the Phil Spector Trial . I shit you not!
The skull of Caylee when it was found and photographed was staged????  Autopsy pic's of skull... staged???? Even some on the jury had smirks on their faces as was told by Kathi Belick who is a reporter and sits in the courtroom each day.
This man....dropped the skull when he examined it andddddddddddddddd broke it. Hang it up Spitz!!!
For those interested to watch. I believe yesterday was Day 33 and there are 3 sections. Section 2 is where Judge Perry gave her attorney Baez a dressing down , so to speak.  This judge is a GREAT JUDGE and not just because of this. I'm in love with him. ;0)

It's a new day. Fathers Day.
Jill just wished him a Happy Fathers Day as he made his way into the bathroom.
He's speaking pleasant today....so far, so good! I shit you not!
Here's where I should get up off my arse and make the bed for him to just get back in it. Oh wellllllllllll !
Jill and Gil are working today. WB just showed up. Son Randy too.  He is here to install a air conditioner in Jill's bedroom. has to cut a hole in the wall...siding on the outside  ...what happens there???? Ut oh! I hear a saw, drill???  Wonder how long it will be before hubby questions what is going on down that end of the house. :0( :0( :0(


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