D D I'm married to a guy that's

THREE QUARTERS of a CENTURY .....OLD.   I shit you not!

He NEVER wants anything......nor does he lack for anything , so I kissed him and told him if he would be nice to me today, I'd be nice to him. :0)
He didn't even realize that today...WAS THE DAY.
Funny how when you are a kid you have the day right down to the minute.:0)
This morning didn't start out on a good note. He woke in pain. Dropped one of the two oxy's I handed him and we never found it. I think he was mistaken, but gave him another.
Then he sent mixed signals. I thought he was getting up for the morning and put a big pillow behind him so he could sit up and drink his coffee. Wr...ong! Sooooo I removed it and he laid back down. Told me he wanted the pain to ease before he sat up.  Within minutes " quick, quick, help me on the pot. I have to shit."
Another false alarm .  Back into bed and he wants to sit up and have his coffee. I GIVE!
No sooner than he had his two cups and a slice of apple pie...he dozed off sitting up.
Gil and Jill came in to wish him a Happy Birthday and woke him. It's 9:05 a.m. and behind me I hear moaning and groaning so i got up to see what's UP. He wanted to lay back down, so I pulled the big pillow out from behind him. The weight of him leaning/laying on it made it next to impossible for him to yank out from behind his head.  Last night he wanted no supper. All I got out of him was " I'm not feeling good."
Then he slept from that time on , waking only to take his 8p.m. meds.  UTI med was finished Wednesday morning. What's going on with him now....wish I knew. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh he's out like a LIGHT now.
My cold is in my ears now. I blow my nose and hear a POP.  :0( Leg pains and right arm pain during the night woke me .    GLUE FACTORY here we come.;0) 
    Had so much planned for my day and minute by minute I see it being a NO GO! I wanted to go to a Memorial for the man that use to live across the street at 8:30 a.m. I barely knew him, but I knew his wife as her mother owned that house and when she divorced she came back there to live with her kids...until she married this guy,Jack. Her son Glenn bought the house after his grandma passed away.
I called and woke Tracie and told her the Memorial service was a No Go. She is sick too. The plan we made to go to the Castleberry Fair today will most likely be a No Go too. Last day is tomorrow. 
Hubby's weekly med box needs filling. That takes more time than I care to give of my time this morning, BUT MUST.  Sniff, sniff, sniff. I'm not crying....my nose is running like a hose. I shit you not!
Checks to write to pay bills, birthday cards to make out, dogs to be let in and out, potty to empty. Today things appear to be insurmountable.  I can't even get out of my own way. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Last night my son Randy GOT INTO IT with the contractor and told him he is ALL DONE.  Randy demanded $500 of the $1500 I had just paid him BACK as the siding was $900 some odd. The contracor told me he had paid $425 to John out of those monies, ( his laborer ) that is working along side Randy . John bad mouths his boss to Randy, butI I'm PRETTY SURE that behind Randy's back he bad mouths Randy to his boss.  Randy hid the contractors "plank" for his scaffolding. I hear on my police scanner that there is a problem at my address.
HOLY SHIT!   Randy took off.  "G" knocked on my door and came in to talk to me. I told him that I would resolve the problem and BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, I WILL!
So much for, "ma, how do I upset you?" out of  Randy. " I don't do anything."  LIKE SHIT , he don't! NEVER AGAIN, will Randy be allowed to work with anyone I hire in the future to do work in my house. I'd rather hand him $ to STAY AWAY, regardless of him wanting to help me out. 
 I shit you not!  This is EFFFIN ridiculous!!!!!
MY MIND is on OVERLOAD! I shit you not!
Hubby slept for an hour and then made his won way into the bathroom to shit and brush his teeth. While walking with his walker without someone along side hi is a no-no, it saves me.  I'm tired of hearing "get the fuck away from me,"  If he falls and breaks something...so be it! 
    Listened to Randys ISSSUES with "G."  Some I am in agreement with, Some not. He took some of the things from this job site and when Randy confronted him he czame up with a lame excuse. Worried about it getting dented. Randy pointed out to him that it had sat in one of my sheds for three weeks and NEVER got a dent.  He tells me that "G" is a sly fox and I have no doubt that he is, BUT so is Randy.

Tracie called awhile go to see if eleven will be a good time for me to go to the Christmas Fair. EHHHHHH! How about checking back with me around 1 I told her. I HAVE NO AMBITION!  ZIP...NADDA. :0(
OMG! Looked at the clock. It's 11:45 already. How did that happen pray tell me!!!!!
   My insurance company was closed for the weekend.  Getting that check wrote out will have to wait. $615 sounds like what I would have paid for comprehnsive insurance on the Taurus, not a 2012 Toyato;s FULL COVERAGE. Even if I own it outright, I want FULL COVERAGE on it.

So many of you said you did not shop on Black Friday, including myself.  Looks like we all passed up those suppsoedly great sales for Christmas gifts. THIS DAY is suppose to be the biggest shopping day of the year for presents and the stores are mobbed with crazies.  It's assuring to me that my fellow  bloggers  are NOT OFF THEIR ROCKERS. :0) Now if I read "FREE", I might get off my ass and join those shoppers. Otherwise.....NO DICE!

Every once in awhile I go into my email and unsubscribe to some of the vendors I have ordered from in the past.  Two year ago i ordered from Victoria Secret for the grandson Ryan's wife Sarah's lingeie for her Bridal Shower.  For MYSELF....NOT happening. DIL Kim told me how to do it Thursday and I am slowly making my way through these pain in the ass emails.  .BE GONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Noon...going to shower, dress and see what I feel like doing with the rest of my day. BBL

Went to the Fair :0) Tell you about it tomorrw. 
Daughter Michelle and SIL JOE came with hubbies favorite,,,Banana Cream Pie .
He slept a good portion of his birthday away. 

That's All Folks!

D D Pigging out on PIE's

and the GUILT TRIP that comes with it isn't enough to make me stop.. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh  
Eating desserts for the past month or better has added THREE POUNDS to the scale and I'm getting "my just desserts! "  :0( tsk tsk tsk Why OH WHY does foods taste so good???
I could use a little of that "pickiness" I had as a child. I shit you not!
The turkey dinner was everything it should be and THEN SOME. Jill made it ALL.
Toward 1 p.m. I finally showered and as I get out of the tub I hear the fire alarms go off.
Knew it was just something burning on the bottom of the oven so I opened the door and yelled out," should I run outside naked? " ;0) Tracie chose this time to pull up out front and figured where we had the door open ,,,it was to air the house out and not run out. :0)  Ring up ANOTHER FUNNY FARM MEMORY!
Jill had turned the oven temp up to make the bisquits and whatever had spilled over earlier was the culprit.
I got the worst case of LAZYITIS after we did the dishes.  I shit you not! 
Jill went out by herself around 7 by herself, ( the W.B. was working ). She brought him a meal . Came home around 11:15 SOBER, but she was at The VFW. Tracie had just left. sighhhhhhhhhh We both got involved in watching Super Nanny while hubby slept just feet away. Episode after EPISODE.  I dozed off for awhile during a few of them,

Son Jay and DIL Kim came bearing a homemade pumpkin pie later in the day. Guess who is eating it???
Hubby asked for pumpkin pie ( if we had any ) after he ate his cereal this morning. Tracie bought store bought pumpkin pie. Guess which pie I fed to him.....I BE BAD! I shit you not!
l'll be punished when I DARE step on the scale again....... :0(  I'm my own worst enemy!

I'm sitting in front of my bedroom tv watching Anderson Cooper and getting EMOTIONAL. Two young women ( unrelated ) abandoned at birth (one on a deserted road in a paper bag and one in an alley in a Budweiser box ) and listening to their life stories.
I'b be happy to call either of them MY DAUGHTER. . I shit you not!
Heart breaking and Heart WARMING. :0)

Kathy has come and gone. 8:15 to 9:15 a.m. on Fridays. I stripped the bed and made it and that's the extent of what I've done today...so far. sighhhhhhhhhh
   Son Randy just came...it's 11:37 a.m.   My serenity has GONE.

  Tracie brought some Theraflu liquid with her yesterday and I've been taking that. :0)  She wanted to stop at CVS for me ( with me in the car ) the other day and I urged her just to go on by to my house.  That's moi in a NUTSHELL.  You all have me figured out. I don't take care of myself...LIKE I SHOULD.
I am woman ...hear me ROAR!   This is the first cold I've had since I quit smoking. Has it been going on FOUR YEARS this January coming up?????
I never marked the year in my memory...just the date of January 15th. My mothers birthday. She died of lung cancer in the bedroom that Jill uses now. Miss you mom.
What I do is figure out when I first needed to take scripts,,,which was for pre cateract surgery and knew I was seventy going on seventy one that March.
To be truthful...I didn't think that the Chantix would work cause I didn't want to stop smoking. I did it ON A LARK, just to see if it was THE ALL to END ALL where that patch and gum were not.
I can't figure myself out either, so DON'T TRY.  Just call me DAFFY! :0)
I smoked like a chimney and was an embarrassment to MYSELF!  Me who always thought ," nothing will own me."
Leaving my sister Nancy, my mom and dad's dying bedside to go have a BUTT .............. was ASSININE!
  Okay, I'll stop beating myself up over things that I can not change.

Now it's after noon time and my mouth is watering for a turkey sandwich with some stuffing PILED on it AND MY HIPS!

My son tells me the stores are CRAZY for BLACK FRIDAY. Maybe I do have some good sense afterall....I'M HOME and not out shopping. :0)

Turkey sandwich...may ass. Once I opened the cooler we have the leftovers stored in...I had almost the whole enchilada.
Did I tell you that I have a "love affair" with food.  I do, I do.
Hubby is FED, I am fed...Logan just got home from his FL trip. Life is good. Nap time...I shit you not!


That's All Folks!

D D What were you doing at 2 A .M. ???

  Two a.m. found me waking with some leg cramps ( off and on STILLl ):0(  Not as bad as I've had them, but bad enough to wake me up. I laid there thinking WTF....hubby is sleeping SOUNDLY and it's you that blows it. Made my coffee, knitted, cleaned out my purse looking for THE KEY to my small safe where I think I put the dozen or so methadone pills along with MAD MONEY, Was unsuccessful  in finding that key, ( but my HANDY DANDY hammer and screw driver) wiill open it. I shit you not! At that time I made  a decision to put all the crap I carry around in a hand held purse INSTEAD OF an over the shoulder. That is where all my right arm problems PAIN came from years back when I was working. If you needed a safety pin, I had it. If you needed scissors, I had a small pair. Get the picture?  :0)  Talk about weight draping over my shoulder.  My chiropratic  boss said , NO MORE carrying a shoulder purse FOR YOU and between that and the cortizone injection....things were gooooooooooooooooooo D!
Now I've gotten STUPID again or is that forgetful. ;0) When I throw that yarn forward to knit and that sharp pain hits....OBOY! 

Jill just threw the two half turkeys in the oven. It's 9 a.m. approx.
   Where was I ?????  OH...back to 2 a.m.  Hubby woke in pain around 3 and I gave him 2 oxys and he went back to sleep. When he woke for the day at 8:30 I gave him two more along with his other meds. 
Yesterday he wanted to talk to his sister Ann and I dialed it for him. ( ANN never married and is in the financial postion now that she needs to move out of another brother's house so that he can sell it ) and go into Elderly Housing.  She has a dog. A BIG DOG. One of those water spaniel types with curly tight hair. She's had this dog a good seven years or more. SHE LOVES HER DOG and is trying to find a home for him.
. :0( sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh NO BIG DOGS ALLOWED IN HOUSING.
They talked and talked ( which is something they never found the time to do before retirement ). :0)
I walked in the room after they hung up and asked hubby why he didn't offer to take her dog for her. He gave me no reply.........maybe he is chewing his cud on that. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
This Zoloft must be mellowing me out...cause the MORE THE MERRIER, right now. I know how I would feel if I ever had to give one of mine up.
    Four a.m. came and I took a swig of cold medicine and went back to bed and.....tossed and turned. Sleep did come though and I next woke at 7:30. 
Now here I sit and JILL is doing all the prep work. Even down to sharpening a large knife to cut the turnip.
I love turnip ...didn't when I was a kid. My mom loved it. My oldest Jay loves it, but he wasn't invited this year due to lack of space and energy on both Jill and my part.  Tracie said she loves it. Let there be TURNIP! :0)
Son in FL just called and we had some good laughs. Told him what I told my online friend of years Pea and he said," Go for it, mom." I have one sons blessing Pea.:0)  What's the closest airport to you m/f ? No time like NOW to look at airfares. I shit you not!  My old dogs are just fine as long as they have hubby, so that's A LOAD OFF my mind.:0) I shit you not!

Ya think I should shower and dress in case anyone shows up for pie later?  Jill has all the veggies peeled, cut and sitting in water. Shame on moi.   :0(   Here I am sitting on my ass still at 10:15.

Wishing each and every one of you a Happy Thanksgiving.

That's All Folks!

D D Logan's bedroom fiasco

Three windows ( of same size and width ) were purchased by the contractor and none of them were REGULATION by the fire codes. Five inches too short for a fireman and his gear to fit through. sighhhhhhhhhhhh   The next bright idea was to put a regulation window on the side wall of that bedroom and LEAVE the other two front windows ALONE.  Only one has to be the correct size to pass inspection.
I just stepped into that room ....and I NO LIKE.!  I wanted and thought all three windows would match. Who the HELL did my son Randy  talk me into hiring JUST SO HE COULD EARN A BUCK doing the GRUNT WORK?????  After I've paid that asshole contractor most of his agreed upon price for THE COMPLETED WORK....my Randy fires him .  WTF!  If I try to get ANSWERS from my son, he goes ballistic on me.  NEVER AGAIN! I shit yoiu not! Once that room is completed I will hire my own FUCK UPS!  That window that they had to remove is NOW going to go to replace the bathroom window. I wanted a smaller window than what I have in there now. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I'll attempt to ask if it can just be returned for a smaller size window. No Fire Code for bathrooms. Just bedrooms.

Just ate my morning Quaker Weight Control Instant Oatmeal and with the last bite my arm got that sharp pain.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  Earlier I was knitting sitting up in a hard chair at the kitchen table ( where I find that I have less pain) so maybe I have over-used that arm.  It's Hell getting old. Looks like the cortizone failed me this time. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 

It's just past eleven a.m. and both Jill and I are doing four things at once. Cleaning counters, stove top, china cabinet top in the diningroom, making bacon and eggs for herself and hubby, cleaning the fishtank top and draining it down some to get the water clear, changing the charcoal filter, looking for the box of baby things I know I still have ( somewhere). sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  It's definately not in hubby's closet. We both dragged shit out to look in there. Boxes of everything except for what we were looking for. She was determined and finally located one plastic storage box out in the shed where it was missed the day we hauled everything out of there to the hall. Many more clothes and toys were in there, but not the sweaters I made. Where or where can those sweaters I made be.,..oh where oh where can they be.................
   P.T. Debbie came and worked with hubby for an hour. It's noon and I made myself a sandwich . Jill is still elbow deep in cleaning the fish tank.  Randy and John (the contractor's laborer ) or is he now my employee, just came through the door.  Calgon....take me awayyyyyyy. ;0)

Hubby decided yesterday that he wants to try the methadone again.  Tomorrow is anyone's good guess!
Before that happens...I want to make sure his primary doctor writes the script for it.
I want it written in his medical records at the V.A. that he is ON IT and I will insist they give it to him whenever he is hospitalized. Right now i don't have a leg to stand on where this Hospice doctor wrote the first script and has tried to play Catch The Primary Doctor to follow through on his end.

Jill has been telling the W.B. to Get Lost.  It's falling on deaf ears.  Same old, same old. sighhhhhhhh
This morning he came in at 8 after getting off his regular shift at the fire department. Woke her.  WTF are you doing here, she asked him.  He chatted with me about the needed repairs in other rooms and said he would do the work for me. Acted just like she said nothing and was going to be in our lives forever.  That's his modis operandi.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh   Seven year itch is what he is ! It's been three years or two and a half. Lord help us!

Randy started in when he heard that Tracie was invited here for dinner tomorrow and he and his girlfriend were not.  He just wanted something to bitch about. Can't she wait to come here until after I leave, he asked me. I asked him who the Hell told him whom and whom not he could have in his house.

My cold is worst. Getting laryngitis. :0(
   It's nearing 8 p.m. Tracie just said she thinks she will head for home early tonight.:0) She bought blueberry and pumpkin pies for tomorrow. Think I will head to bed after she leaves.

My grand daughter had those tests done in Boston and by nightfall she was in ungodly pain. They took her to the doctor and he had her admitted to the hospital to give her some pain meds and do a Lyme Test. She was repeatedly throwing up in his office.  Hope they find out SOOn what her problem is. October 2010 to November 2011 is way too long for her to be sick and not be DX'd. I shit you not!

W.B. came here awhile ago after working his second job.  Itchie, ITCHIE!  
Sarah and Ryan are going to his dads in NH for their dinner tomorrow. Jill made him an apple pie today to take with him to his dads and Sarah picked it up on her way home from work. Straight from the oven. 
Looks like her ex Jamie and his wife Laurie will be enjoying her apple pie.  If Gil's dad and step mom were eating at home she probably would have baked Gil one ( his fave ) to tke home with him. He will eat some of the second pie she made for here. :0)   We keep it ALL IN THE FAMILY here. ;0)

Happy Thanksgiving to all and to all A GOOD NIGHT.

That's All Folks!

D D Bought yarn today :0)

It's not like i don't have any yarn, BUT I saw my great grand daughter Jessica today at baby Angelique's Blessing and heard how she tried to wear the lasr sweater I made her and it's a wee bit small for her. She loves that sweater and now that I know her favorite color is a turquoise blue I stopped at JoAnne's and got a gorgeous Teal blue yarn. Shannon ( her mom ) told me she has every single thing I made for her in a drawer to save for when and if she some day has a daughter.  What a compliment to moi . :0)
Tonight I feel like I have the itch to create, unlike the past 6 months or more.

Maybe I'm crawling out of my hole. ;0)

This is the pattern. It looks adorable on a boy or a girl given the right color. It's made with 2 strands of a 4ply yarn.  Great for Fall and Spring.

OKAY...I must have been drunk, insane,out of my mind...............

Have had sniffles and before I turned in last night , my throat was sore.

Not even two rows into the neck of the sweater,  my right arm began hurting like it has in the past. Sharp pain with every movement. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Maybe that's why I had put my knitting aside for all these long months and did crochet work instead. Could beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

I sit before you NOW at 5:30 a.m. sucking on a Sucret after I have cleaned ALL the shit off hubbys potty chair and the floor mat. That rubber floor mat was a

"brain storm" of mine and it saves me alot of work. Shit comes off of it so much easier than a carpet. I shit you not! WALMART $6.98 :0)

Five trips into the bathroom to change the water and add Pinesol to it and I'm WIDE AWAKE. Presently......sooo is he. Turn the heat up, he's bitching. Everything he touches is cold he says.

I have my pj sleeves rolled up on my arm...he's under the covers. Ain't happening. I shit you not!

Hubby woke at 8 a.m. OH JOY!   Bitch,Bitch,Bitch!

Turn the fucking heat up.

The room thingie on the wall reads 75 degrees.  When I let one or the other dogs out to pee....that blast of cold fresh air feels so damn good. I shit you not!

My Cher and her husband Dana are on the way here to borrow Jill's Taurus and GPS to take Shayla into Boston for a colonostopy and ( oh F it ) whatever the procedure is where a camera goes down your throat . I am too damned tired and cranky to try to think of the word. for that procedure.....I knew it yesterday.

PHEW! They are off to Boston.  They shall return................ 

It was good to hear Jill and her conversing. It's been a few years since either one would talk to the other. WHICH hurt ME of course. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh

9 a.m. No one is here to work on the siding yet.   sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Chuckle, chuckle....Randy will have a FIT when he sees Jill using my car today. She needs to take Gil home for clothes and to the bank...where he will deposit the CHILD SUPPORT check his step mom got from her ex.  It's almost, but not quite laughable. Jill rarely gets child support from her and the ex SIL from Hell and my car is being used to deposit a child support check from Julie's ex Victor for their son Erzi as young Gil was instructed to do when it came in the mail.    The irony of it all...................

Laughing at myself now....forgot that Gil drove her to the airport in her van and has it parked out front.

Which means....my car won't be used for that bank deposit. :0)

P.T. begins again today.  Andrea is coming  between  ten and eleven.

Whenever DIL Sombay any celebrations she always has her co-workers at them and I have met some lovely women that I have seen year after year. sadly one passed away two years ago. Sombay visited her every day in the nursing home. :0)  Yesterday Angela and Laura were at the Blessing. Laura's husband died four years ago and she has since retired.   She is so depressed.....I THOUGHT I HAD PROBLEMS....hmmmmmmmmmmmm  Her son and daughter haven't spoken to her in over a year. They want her to sign her house over to them and she refused. Her daughter told her to get the fuck out of her house and threatened to call the police. Won't let her see or talk to her grand daughter either. 

Now I know there are.......two sides to every story...........

I told her we should get together and go to lunch sometime and got no reply from her.

Something tells me I'd be opening a can of worms....so I did not make a second attempt to ask her again.

Upon leaving...Sombay gave me a little insight on how mentally draining she is on her.

I think I made the right decision. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I tried to help. She has been on a med for depression for four yeasrs and it doesn't help and her doctor just ignores her complaint. I told her to get another doctor that will listen to her. Hope she does for her sake.

9:30  Hoping in the shower and am going to try to look awake when Andrea comes to do some physical therapy with hubby. I'm tired. I wonder why..........NO I KNOW WHY ! 5 a.m was too early to rise. I shit you not!

9:45 a.m. My Randy is HERE.  Inspector coming at 10 to check the insullation before the sheetrock goes up..... I think...it didn't pass last week and things are done right now...hopefully.

That's All Folks!

 

D D Carlsberg stunts with bikers in cinema

Food for thought!

 No sign of my Randy and NO SIGN of the contractor and his helper. Yesterday he was laying the ground work for being "Missing in action" today. Getting a sore throat.  grrrrrrrrrrrrrr It's a beautiful day out to work outside today. probably what he is doing in his own domicile. Remind me not to hire this guy again, even if he agrees to work for FREE!

Visiting nurse has come and gone. Did the initial INTAKE after a hospitalization.
    I have to get my ass in the shower and get ready for a Cambodian Blessing of a baby. 
I find that culture so interesting. Any of the children I have met are so respectful of their elders.

Randy gave Tracie a hard time last night and WE HAVE TO TALK. Well I WILL TALK and he BEST LISTEN to me. I shit you not!
Then awhile ago hubby gave me some SHIT about her being here to eat with us Thanksgiving.
I'll stay in my room and eat, he told me. I told him even better, WE FOUR will go out to eat and leave him here. Jill,Gil,Tracie and myself. The W.B. is working that day.  Tracie does plenty for hubby. is always buying him desserts he likes and runs at night when he is out of his morning Lorna Doone cookies.
He's just being an Ass Hole. I shit you not!  He'll calm down.  He agreed she does plenty for me. Yesterday out of the goodness of her heart she bought me two Cashmere scarfs at the Christmas Fair she went to,  to wear with my winter coats. I told her they were early Chrsitmas gifts .   Use your money for yourself. I know tracie, that won't be it. Like myself...she loves to buy for others as you will see when I ever post those baby Shower pictures.

Must run.  It's twelve fifteen. Blessing begins at 1. 

That's All Folks!