D D It's Dec.2nd all day today ;0)

Making use of the hours in just one day is my goal today.
Already it's TEN a.m. Home Health Aide Kathy has come and gone.
During hubby's sponge bath time, I stripped the bed and turned the mattress around and made it. The mattress is only two years old, but where as he lays on it Day and Night I could see his side was looking a little tired. ;0)
   Went through some receipts and other odds and ends on my nightstand . Looks tidy , BUT for how long.
Already my bureau looks like a hurricane struck it. Kitchen counters are a Hodge Podge again.
Haven't picked up my knitting in days, but I'm bargaining with myself today. Do some housework first and then something you enjoy doing.  On my first break, I've chosen to blog. :0)
   Hubby's primary doctor called last evening. He DOES NOT want him on methadone. Said that his brain can not handle it.  I'm tired of fighting for it.  I have never seen hubby's brain scans and the damage his brain bleeds have done.  I'm assuming HE HAS! I'm going to try to give it to him FOUR times a day and see if the confusion returns or it was just a fluke.  Script is still for 4x's a day. Which reminds me. Jill or I have to go to the Lowell V.A. and pick the script up for this month.
R and R is over. BBL


MUCH LATER....It's a new day.............and this morning I woke with a headache.............
Hubby was on my pillow ( he'll deny it) and I only had a small corner of it. I can feel the discomfort in my neck . Popped two Advil .  Feeling nauseas.............sigh

Last night Tracie and I headed out around seven to Walmart .  After I was through shopping ,I spotted the tree near the entrance (put there by the Salvation Army ) with kids names on it. Put my purchases in the trunk of my car and went back in and shopped for Evan . Three outfits, warm footed pj's and a nice Fisher Price truck that made all kinds of sounds....Christmas is FOR KIDS!
Tracie did the same thing X's 2. 


MUCH LATER......Almost 3p.m.  Took a longgggggggggggggggggggggg nap and got rid of the headache and nausea. Jill left for work at two and while hbby continued to nap I refilled his weekely med container and folded clothes. Have to re-order some of his meds online at the V.A. before I FORGET! 
   Jill picked Gil up at the airport last night around eleven p.m. and they were home by midnight.
Funeral notice was in todays newspaper. He was NINETEEN, not twenty one as I stated/. Eitther way....TOO YOUNG to die.  If Jill and the EX SIL from Hell and his step mom Julie didn't get Gil away from his heroin source ( Victor ) that could have been the two of them DEAD on BAD HEROIN.
Gil has been CLEAN a few months now :0), BUT....everyone is remaining vigilante as we know this battle is not over. WAS THIS HIS WAKE UP CALL?????
Wake for Victor is tomorrow and burial is Monday.
RIP. 
Gil will be 21 the 7th of this month. I hope he learned from this and lives a long life.
   Today is hubby's baby brothers birthday.Just tried to reach him so that hubby could wish him a H.B. No answer. Must be out to dinner.  LATER.  Today is also my favorite SIL's birthday. Happy Birthday Frank and Judy. 
   I swear that my life leads like one of those emails that was sent around through the years. Go for this and notice that. Go to do this and see something else needing to be done. ETC,ETC,ETC.  Got a slice of pie for hubby and noticed  his main medicine case needing put away....BUT FIRST I have to get online for refills. A load of cl;othes just got through drying and need to be folded. Empty pie plate needs washing.
MY GREATEST ACCOMPLISMENT today was....while hubby showered, I stripped the frshly made bed from yesterday and put on the heated mattress cover I bought last night. Young Gill helped me move the mattress down from the headboard and got behind the bed to plug it directly into the wall. No extension cord as the directions said. :0)  Hubby hasn't mentioned YET that he feels warmer.  I napped with my side on #3 and I felt comfy. Picked up Osteo Bi-Flex last night also. This CONSTANT ache in my knees ( day and night ) just might be arthritis. sighhhhhhhhhhhh  Cramping is cramping. Constant ache is a constant ache. Have I said that it's HELL to get old. beats the alternative though.
Soooooooooooooo  hubby has been showering on his own. A NO-NO, but HIS CHOICE . SO FAR ....SO GOOD!    He also has been getting up to stand holding on to his railings and use the urinal to pee without help ( most of the time.) Sometimes during the night (like last night ) he used the pot to take a crap. Looked at the clock and it was 2:30ish. I dozed right back off and at 3:20 when I woke to pee, I emptied it. I'm getting LAX !  In some ways hubby seems almost, but not quite back .....and I seriously doubt that he will ever walk again using Canadian crutches. MY GOODNESS...I think he dialed his sister Ann's number. He's talking to someone and it definately sounds like it would be Ann. Neither of his other 3 siblings has a dog and I heard him ask her if " the dog ate it."
   Jill got me aside today and said that we needed to talk and I needed to keep this to myself.  Hubby ( whom she always calls "dad " has been coming to her . Right then and there I got nervous about what she had to tell me.  It seems.......after he watched me take a picture of the large bruise on my arm....he is convinced I am going to try that bruise against him and have HIM COMMITTED.  This would be soo sad if it wasn't soooooooooooo funny.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  He asked her if she would break my camera.  She told him that she didn;t want tp break my camera, but she could delete it. He brightened up at that...YOU CAN????????????/  So now he keeps asking her if she has deleted it. Not yet dad, but I will.
Asked me what I wanted to do and I told her I would , but I would and it had already been downloaded. NOT FOR WHAT HE THINKS. She told me that she told him that I probably wanted to show it to my doctor on the 19th of this month as I am puzzled as to how I got it.  Any whoooooooooooooooo I DELETED THE TWO PICS and told her to tell him she did.   NOW...my question is...why in Hell is he thinking this way?????
I do things for him beyond just tending to HIS BASIC NEEDS. In front of him I have told his doctor and other people that I DO NOT WANT HIM IN A REST HOME. I was given the option to take him HOME or have him go to a rest home upon this last hospital release and in his presense I said " I want him to come home." "I do not feel that this two days has set him back enough to warrant rest home care."  Sooooooooooooo WTF is going on in his mind????? 
   
7:04 p.m.  Hubby and I talked with his sister Ann for at least 2 hours.  Holy Hannah! The dog she can't take with her when she moves into elderly housing is ANOTHER BRAINDEAD dog. :0( Chews up paper too and she is missing the new registration paper for her car and has been going nuts looking for it thinking she misplaced it or the dog ate it.  Sighhhhhh
 Now he's on the phone with his brother Frank. heard him telling Frank how good I take care of him. HUH???  She does this for me...she does that for me. Go figure cause I CAN'T! I shit you not!
Tracie came around 5:30 . Now she has offered to go pick us up pizza and I offered to pay for her meal. A WIN WIN solution for our evening meal. ;0) She thought we'd go up to what we refer to as the Center. Our center of town with just a few stores in it. :0( The Dollar Store will be there as will Kmart tomorrow.
Just threw another load of laundry in and folded towels.
MUST, MUST,MUST order meds online for hubby.

Goodbye to Saturday.........maybe tomorrow will be a more productful day.
If I'm missing you with commenting, please forgive. Some people wonder why their stats are so high with only few comments posted. Welllllllllllllllllll...if those peeps are like me...sometimes I read a blog and before I can comment get called away. Then when I get back to my puter, I need to do something else. After which... I find the blog again and I'm distracted again.  Sometimes this happens three or four times.
This Reward system i thought I devised isn't working either.  :0( No knitting done today and very little housework and add to that ...it's taken me TWO DAYS TO POST. BUT...I made my SIL Ann happy to hear that she isn't the only one that loses shit, has a dog that eats socks and paper and stays in their pj's 24 hours. :0)
Life is funny. In past years we hardly ever talked on the phone and NOW...how much we appreciate that we have things to talk about . Like going down Memory Lane and what our childhoods were like and MOTHER SUPERIOR and nuns whacking your knuckles. She and hubby attented parochial schools their first years of schooling and I, only for catechism.

OUR FOOD IS HERE!

That's All Folks!

D D What ails me?

Nothing holds my interest for any length of time. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
I can't seem to focus on any one thing long enough to feel a sense of accomplishment.To be perfecttly honest...i can't seem to get out of my own way.  Oh dear....what can the matter be, (x's 3 )Johnny's too late at the fair. If you are old enough to know that song...that may EXPLAIN IT! ;0)
   I no sooner posted and Jill and Butchie came through the door with a flounder sandwich for us. Hubby didn't feel like eating. Another evening of him saying he doesn't feel well and he can't put his finger on it. 
McArthur said, "War is Hell". I say getting old is Hell. I shit you not!
   Michelle came at six and around 6;30 Tracie and I took off for Kohl's. 
No returns :0) just purchasesssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Bought Shayla a glorgeous black winter jacket . Brand name, Zero Exposute. Marked down half price to $80 some odd and on top of that I got another 20% off. Soft,soft,soft , mittens hat and scarf in white. The cutest of skirts in a knitted material and a top to go with it. Cost almost as much as the jacket.:0( Forgot the tights until I was at the register. Oh well....twenty four days left to shop. :0)
Bought my grandson Danny an dark olive green with a black inside half off jacket in the same price range as Shayla's.   Gloves, hat in black and black size 10 1/2 good name brand sneakers. Hopefully these won't crack and split on the soles when he is standing washing dishes where his step dad Dana cooks. Danny is closing in on age THIRTY, But ONE would never know it if they talked to him.  He's did drugs and drank since an early age and they did their damage. . sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
I can't see him ever being out on his own. Not in my lifetime anywayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy.
It's a BIG STEP forward that Dana got him to work...at all.  
When I worked I use to shop weekly for my kids and grands.  Mostly clothing. Since I retired that wasn't in the budget, but now that can afford to again.....I'm enjoying myself. Whatever I purchase will be from their parents at Christmas ( their money can go on the heat and rent and FOOD and I will hand them their usual card with a few dollars extra than it use to contain.  Talked with Cher yesterday and asked her what Trevor wants. A computer.  Would a laptop be better for an eleven year old ???  He is autistic and I'm wondering what kind of PC would be better and easier for him. The winter coat I got him last year still fits. :0) She doesn't know about these coats and things I bought yet. She didn't ask for them. Shayla will be seventeen in February.
Some of my grown kids can still use help and IF I am able to continue to help, I will.  While seeing INTEREST on my bank account does make me feel good,,,giving makes me feel better. BESIDESSSSSSSSSSSSS why not spend my $ and get the enjoyment NOW .
Sadly ...my dad's way of helping me out when our kids were little with food stuffs ( while greatly appreciated by myself and my siblings) was to spoil it by always reminding  us what he gave us. Drink in him....and he had to ruin it by reminding us. 

The news today from young Gil to his mom was heartbreaking. He was bawling his eyes out all day yesterday when he heard from a friend that his friend Victor was on life support. Last night the plug was pulled and he died within minutes. Twenty one efffin years old. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  Over dosed on heroin.
THAT was what he and my grandson did back when my Jill tried calling him and heard him sound in a BAD WAY and rushed to his dad's house some ten miles away, brought him here and KNEW he needed more help than she could give him and called 911. That was the first time he and Victor tried heroin. Was that just 5 months back??? Maybe even 4 months and here he is DEAD. This young man has sat at my table to eat more than once in the past few years. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhh
He died ONE death and those that loved him will die a thousand times over. 
Gil feels like he is to blame no matter how much Jill tells him he isn't.
When was the last time you read about someone robbing a bank to support their POT habit or someone over dosing on pot?
The government needs to STOP these senseless deaths and concentrate on the drugs that KILL PEOPLE . Fuck the POT.
Some Fat Cat (more than one ) is making money off this and doesn't give a rat's ass about our kids and grands.
Jill told Logan that Victor had died and how. He said ...that's why you and dad were watching Gilby and keeping him in your sight. I knew something was wrong. To that he added...Gilby made the wrong choices in friends.   WOW!  He won't be 13 til March 15th. Butchie said that Logan get's educated in school about drugs. I'm all for it and hope the message reaches alot of our youth.
Jill and I were talking as I was making hubby's cereal and back when Gil and Victor first tried heroin , Gil got sicker than Victor did on the bad heroin. Two months ago Victor overdosed and was in a bad way on bad heroin and this time....he DIED.  I heard that Victor's dad let him sell drugs out of the house.....but no one forced either one to try heroin and if his parent's didn't step up to the plate :0(  .....it's still all about CHOICES at that age.
Through Victor's death I hope another person will GET THE MESSAGE that DRUGS KILL! I shit you not!

The bedroom and siding work is coming along s l o w l y.  John doing inside work and Randy working on the siding. One day soon they need to put the rubber roof on CORRECTLY. I have purchased the stuff to redo the job. Last MUD work on the walls today,  then sanding, then primer. then paint. Then flooring and baseboard. . Then lighting fixtures up and shelving units put in the closets.  Did I miss something here ??? Tri- fold doors on the closet or was that bi-fold?

I was FULL when I left the house and at 9 p.m. Tracie didn't have to twist my arm to go into the Chinese buffet with her after we did our shopping.  All I intended to have was a hot cup of coffee, but at that hour Good Tymes closes and she wanted the buffet. I could have had a diet coke. It's all about CHOICES and when my clothes get TIGHT .....MY FAULT. I shit you not!

It's 9:30 am.  Let me do some piddling around and I'll be back.

Piddling around was a good choice of words.  Warning, WARNING....Never hire me! 
It's 12:15  and I've been fighting a nap for the past half hour. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Read that Cilitopram causes excessive yawning and also makes you tired. That's MY EXCUSE and I'm STICKING TO IT! :0)
   What I DIDN'T DO is fight the urge to bite into the Entermans chocolate frosted donuts my son Randy brought along with him today. sighhhhhhhhhhh

Jill is dressing for a wake. I found some good buys at $10 and $15 dollars on some dresses for her. She looks like a million bucks in these. Will take a pic before she leaves today, Just can't promise when I will post them. Where the Hell the latest pictures I have downloaded are in this friggin laptop is beyond moi.
I get frustrated looking for them and give up.  It's that orrrr flip out. I shit you not!
  I can buy moocho clothes for Jill, only a little bit for Cheryl's style of dressing and ZILCH for Michelle.
She is so petite and would look great if she would only change the style she wears in clothing and cut her hair and get it styled .Her husband Joe likes her hair long and it makes her face too long and tired looking.  Cher likes bright , flashy revealing clothing and Jill likes conservative " with CLASS "
This cowl neck dress made of a soft material ( belted ) hugs Jill's form and was marked down to $15. A pair of black thin tights under it and the outfit looks so smart on her. 
I get my kicks out of finding some great deals on trendy,fashionable clothing.
Since she has been off the rum and coke,,,,she has her figure back. :0) All three of my girls look in gr8 shape .....a few of my sons have that BIG BELLY look. In my household it's been pretty much me that has been up and down in weight. Hubby stays pretty much the same ...size L or M and is now down to 155 pounds. !76 at the beginning of the year, in the 160's in August and now 155 last hospitalization weight last month.  PISSES ME OFF!  I stepped on the scale the other day. :0(  173  ...and this week I'd wager that I gained more.
Which brings us back to CHOICES.

6:30 p.m.

Woke at 5.  It wa dark. How did that happen?  I'd say these things I'm calling naps are a wee might more than that. ;0)
Nodded off around 1:45. For some people , that's a nights sleep. 
Did a little more ....very little more and made hubby pancakes. He wanted those for a change.
Eazee peazee :0).
I boiled soup mac and had it with salt and butter. YUM!
Tracie came at 8. Went to the neighbor Rudy;s wake and back to the house, Then came here.
Jill went to her son Ryan; friend Jodi's wake. She's in for the night.:0) Is working Saturday . Wedding for 150. Hope she is strong enough.  Butchie took Logan to his house to help him bring down boxes from the third floor to the first floor. Twelve year olds have more energy to burn. :0)  In three more days he should be completely moved out. MUST BE OUT to get $2000 back from the bank.
He'll piss through that in no time flat. Money burns a hole in his pocket.
   Hope Tracie will be heading for her own place soon.  She can be a PITA . She is also a LOYAL,CARING person, but you all knew that. ;0)   I just need to define to her that I need some space.

That's All Folks!

D D Gravel Gerty is at your door.

I wake soooooooooooo hoarse! 

As the morning goes on my normal voice returns.

Excuse me, I have to sneeze. Ka......chew

Woke before seven this morning and spied hubby sitting on his throne. THE MORNING BEGAN!

Lots of footsteps going back and forth from the kitchen to our room, from our room to the bathroom. Urinal and potty cleaned and disinfected, coffee made. Round ONE is over. Round TWO coming up!

Dreamt I went to visit my internet friend Pea. She didn't live in N.Jersey though...she lived down the North Shore, Beverly...Salem area where I began my formative years.
She had company, three or four girlfriends and some knew people I use to know which they filled me in on. My only regret was that Pea and I didn't get any One On One time.

Yesterday my friend Tracie spied the package I received from Pea and the corners of her mouth turned down. :0(
I bought you one of those, she exclaimed.  What are the ODDS that two people thought of what I could USE. ?????????????????????????   Tracie is going to exchange it and I hope she doesn't buy something in it's place. She has already bought me lots of "eye candy" and I am truly "humbled" for her generousity.
   Jill made a delicious meatloaf and after we enjoyed our meals I went with Tracie up to Burlington Coat Factory with ONE RETURN and came out with more than I went in with. ;0) How does that happen.:0)

8 a.m. Folded a load of laundry and put each item where it belongs.  Jill is making herself bacon and eggs so in a Joint Effort ( she is frying an extra egg for hubby and I sliced the English muffin and popped it in the toaster oven, retreived the egg and cheese and HIS margerine from the fridge and that was my part in a nutshell.  Works for moi. I shit you not!
MOI????  I sat here earlier popping Little Dutch Maid lemon cookies into my mouth while drinking my coffee.  Picked those cookies up at the Dollar Store and they are delishous. A GOOD buy , but NOT GOOD for my shape. I get over "my guilt" too damned easy for my own good. I shit you not!
Give me lemon anything..........yesssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

More deaths in the neighborhood. One just around the corner of the side street across the end of my property. I can see the roof from my front window.  I had never met the man, but Jill has and Tracie knew them well. After they moved in...... she visited often.  I'm sure she told them the history of the house. Her grandparents lived next door to that house until they passed and were fast and true friends with the Mc Fadden's . So close that ....their graves are back to back and Tingley is on one side of the stone and McFadden is on the other side.  Both came here from Canada many moons ago.
Rudy was in his sixties.........sigh!

The so called friend that my grandson Gil first began experimenting with HARD DRUGS is on Life Support and he is feeling guilty. Jill and the EX SIL from Hell fought hard to get Gil cleaned up and his act back together. That could have been him. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

P.T. Deb is coming at ten.  It's 8:43 a.m.   Must get off my arse....after I visit a few of you. :0)

Some people have little kids fingerprints all over their sliding glass door. NOT ME!  Use to, BUT NOW I have Cash' gooey ooey saliva dried all over mine. He chews at the glass when he wants to go out or come in.  Screeeeeeechhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh SCREECHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It's a gorgeous day. Odd for the last day of Novenmber. I'll take it!

I'd like to share with you that I FINALLY remembered this morning to give my sample of poo to be tested for??? in the provided container and mailing envelope. What's it been? Two?, three weeks since I went to my primary??????
Patsy made a ca ca.
Too much INFO?

HEY! How about that Herman Cain??????????????
I personally don't give a crap about his affair ( alleged sexual behavior against other women...YES), but LIARS I have no use for.
What else are you lying through your teeth to us about???


Nurse Sharon just called to say she will be here between 3 and 4.

P.T. Deb has come and gone. It's almost noon and pa and ma are still in night clothes and might settle down for a NAP.   After I feed my face...that is !
Ut Oh.....caught with our pants down ( figuritively speaking ).  Came to minutes before I heard..."helloooooooooooooooo." 
It was Sharon the nurse.    I must have wore myself out JUST going through bags of Christmas stuff ( clothing ) and seperated it into a white trash bag with each persons name on it. Now I know what I have for whom...today that is. ;0)   Carried them out to the trailer that is chock a block full of other crap. :0( Now how hard was that??? sighhhhhhh
When I woke my voice sounded like Gravel Gerty again.  
Jill had gone off to lunch with Butchie ,Logan was at school and the pounding in that bedroom ddn't bother me a tad. 
   Michelle called to tell me she would come around 6 to sit with her dad if I wanted to go out.:0)  At the moment I have no desire to go out, but by six, I will.  If for nothing else but to see different sights and hear different sounds.

Soooooooooooooooo that's where I am now.  Taking up space............. eating a banana..


That's All Folks!

D D Down for the count

This cold has got me wiped out today. No cough...just that NASTY crap that comes out of your nose when you blow it.  YUCK!   My knees are achy....for whatever the Hell reason that is. sighhhhh
Showered and dressed before 9 and all I'm doing since noon is..... nappping.
My Get Up And Go has GOT UP AND LEFT! 
Til tomorrow.................

That's All Folks!

D D My nose is.....a Hose

Drip, drip, drip. Stock in kleenex has to have RISEN. I shit you not!

Wellllllllllllllllllllllllllllll...there goes my time at this laptop. Deb from P.T. just called and will be here between 9 a\nd 9:30. It's 8:42 and my bedroom needs straightening.  To be honest...it needs more than straightening up , but a "lick and a promise" is all I'm up to. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Showered and am dressed by 9:15 a.m. Halleluya !
 Deb is here. 
Hubby and I were bantering back and forth before I stepped in the shower. ahe looked like he was going to rise and head that way and I told him where I was heading. He make some smart remark :0) about it being time as it's almost a new month and I told him I had made NO New Years Resolutions YET!
Shoer and dress three days in a row...skip a day. Shower and dress five days in a row...skip a day.
The time of day is as erratic too. Be that as it may..............................

Every single BUD has dropped off that cheap Christmas cactus.  WTF?   This is bullshit! Now i'm kicking my ass that I threw away the pretty wrapper that was around it, cause it too would go back to the store. I save my grocery store receipts.  Why....YOU ASK????????????????  Maybe one day one of my great great grands will look at one of those receipts and say ...holy shit, look at the CHEAP prices of food back then. hehehe  hohoho

Almost ten a.m. and NO son Randy and John.  In one way....I'm enjoying it and in another I'm NOT. Efffin bankers hours.
It's a beautiful day out and there won't be many more of these. :0(

I have one Hell of a bruise on the upper inside of my right arm. May have mentioned it. If I have....appease me. ;0)   How? Where? What? ......I know not of.

Last night Logan told me that Julie his step mom is beginning to collect Dept.56 houses and has two.

I showed him a few of my pictures of my Dept 56 NewEngland village collection . he was "bowled over."  When he asked where it was because he has never seen it...I pointed to the attic and told him since he moved in eleven years ago ...that's where it's been. AND ...now that he is pretty much grown up and knows better to not TOUCH , we have THE BULL.   Cash. 

 Same with setting up the Christmas tree with all my spun glass ornaments.  :0(
Ohhhhhhh what we do for LOVE!

I'm overwhelmed .......what's new????? Don't know where to begin ...just like usual.  I look around me and....just get tired looking. :0(  Wrote ONE CHECK for my car insurance out and have the birthday cards due for December sitting on the table ( looking at me ). ;0)  Haven't sat to knit in what...three days ? sigh.   A nap sounds good to me about now and it's only 11a.m.  Going for the GUSTO. BBL

Nixed ...the nap.
Cleaned one side of the sliding glass door in my bedroom and hung up the newly purchased stained glass iris'.  They look better there...than on the counter in a small brown bag.    I shit you not!
   Pet Peeve....can anyone tell me how to keep Pinterest from jumping around all over the place on my puter screen.??? Annoying as all heck. I shit you not!
Frustration with a capital F !
   This fly that keeps landing on me isn;t long for thiss world. i shit you not!
That figures...............I go and get a fly swatter and no sign of that pesky fly.
  Delegated that job to hubby. :0)

Now I'm leaning towards picking up the grocery list and heading to the store. I sent Jill on one errand after she picks Gil up ( it's to Best Buy ) for her kids electronic gifts.  Son Randy can listen for hubby while I try to help lighten Jill's load today.  I feel like "MEAT LOAF", if she will make it. :0) There's a Mood To My Madness!

Back...A hundred and thirty dollars poorer.Happy to relate that the pesky fly " bought the farm." Hubby handled that.
  Before I left I walked across the street to give my condolances to Betty on the passing of her husband Jack and to Terry for the loss of her mother Mary,  Learned a thing or two ( like THREE urns of ashes can go on each casket burial in our cemetary. ) Must email my nephew and tell him he can be buried with my mom ( who raised him,) :0) I have 8 graves together. If my kids don't mind being cremated, there will be plenty of room for them.
I in turn told Betty that the V.A. will pay for a plaque for her husbands grave. He went into her mother's grave and she has a headstone, My DIL Deb's dad was buried in his mothers grave and her fasther's plaque is at the foot of the grave and his mother's headstone is at at the top.  :0) 

Got bad news today. The rubber roof that "G" did is ALL WRONG and will leak like a sieve. sighhhhh
I called him and told him just to DROP OFF of the supplies I paid for. WE ARE DONE! It is going to cost me another $1,250 to get it done right. That's just for the supplies. NOW... I am certainly  thinking of taking him to Small Claims Court. $200 filing fee and all I can recoup is 5K. Sounds worth it to me. sighhhhhhhhhhhhh

Visiting nurse was here when I got back with the groceries. Totally forgot that she was coming between two and three.  Hubby is having a good day.   Still waiting to hear about his primary putting him on methadone.

It is 59 dgrees at 4:45 p.m. Earlier our weather was warmer than it was in NewOrleans.
Tomorrow, rain all morning. 

Think I'll sit back and knit for awhile.  It would be nice to feel a sense of accomplishment. 

That's All Folks!

D D My effffin son Randy is giving me Stress up the YingYing

I shit you nor!
He ordered the worker off the job and hid some of the equiptmemt as collarateral that they would not take off with some of the materials I have paid for. 
He has  me in the middle of a WAR , I shit you not!
While it may be true that the contractor efffrd up on some of the work ) it's true ) I am at the point that I don't GIVE A GOOD SHIT!
The contractor showed up at my door this morning and asked me what I wanted to do. I told him I wanted HIM to finish the work. I want it DONE!
Then I placed a call to Randy who went ballistic when I told him of my decision and to please stay home.
That fell on deaf ears and he FLEW here to give those men alot of bullshit. They are not using my tools. ladders, staple gun, etc, AGAIN.
I had the two men take off to get some coffee while I tried to get through to randy that I am at the point that I don't give a shit what kind of work they do.  About now I want to burn the efffin house down than to put up with this day after day. I shit you not!Randy just kept blowing gasket after gasket. Time was going by. I called the men and told them to come back and continue. Randy is telling me that the roof leaks around the skylight and to make him fix that first,  I heard him call "G" a piece of shit and stepped out to tell him enough with the name calling.  Over and over since he came, I told him "THIS IS MY HOUSE !"  I also re-iterated to him that if he keeps it up, He just might find himself back in jail. He is on a one year probation ( stupid ass called a cop a rookie and gave him some disrespect. Told him that there have been times I wanted to tell the LAW off , but knew it would only come down on my head.   YOU CAN"T DO AND SAY what you want to authority.Right now...I can tell you that he is planning his revenge on them. DAMNED FOOL!
He started on them a few times and I've had to step out and tell him to knock it off. Of course...he's blaming THEM for him and I having WORDS.  Everyones fault, BUT HIS! 
As sure as SHIT, this is not the end of it. Jill and I were both shaking at times. Right now I'm waiting for the sky to fall..................................I shit you not!
I've come to the conclusion that I am dealing with a LUNATIC!

My yesterday was nice.............:0) 
Still didn't find the crafter with that ruby red wall sconse, but there was more eye catching things at this Fair than the last. :0)
I was starving and came across this booth that looked like it had muffins, etc.  wellllllll let me tell you THE ENGLISH KNOW HOW TO LIVE :0)  Bought a raspeberry and white chocolate scone. Never have I had a scone and I went to bite into it and heard,"take it home a nuke it a little."  HUH??? I wanted to eat it THEN AND NOW!  I listened................and let me tell you, IT WAS TO DIE FORwith my morning coffee!   Further on I spotted pretzel sticks dipped in different chocolate and woofed them down. 
Found a few more beautiful iris sun catchers. :0)   Two and a half hours later it was closing, 5P.m. and I was walking BENT OVER by then. OUCHY!    Off to WalMart ...at least I had a cart to lean on there. ;0)
Red valances ( the W.B. hung them up this morning ) and I love them.  Had while, mint green dec's and rose colored roses up on the rod and pastels are not my thing anymore. I want BRIGHT!  Red rug to go in front of the sink, but that will wait til I wash the floor.  Many more things in my cart later we left for Good Tymes to eat around seven. Why the Hell i ordered American Chop Suey, I do not know. Jill had made spaghetti for those that were home and that's what that meal tasted like.  I use canned tomato soup when i make mine. All the difference in the world. They use a marinara sauce.  Yep, tasted like spaghetti. Ate a small House Salad.  Then...on to home.    This truly was a great day.........and I want more, MORE,MORE of those days.

Workers left at 2 p.m. Don't know what time my Randy left. Jill, hubby and I...fell asleep from mental exhaustion most likely.  Woke close to complete darkness..................another day "Shot To Hell. "
I called Randfast one" y and he said if i didn't want him there, FINE. Then he proceeded to tell me what was done wrong FROM DAY ONE. Plans that Randy made were for sloped roof which would have called for 20 ft. boards( special order ) whatever. "G" played a Fast One. Used short boards , which meant the roof still wasn't completely sloped and would have a FLAT AREA. When the Inspector came he looked directley at Randy ( who had claimed to them that HE WAS THE BUILDER when we submitted this work to them.
Randy told me that IF WE HAD NOT KNOWN THE W.B. ( that knows those inspectors VERY WELL) the job would have been closed down right then and there. I asked him why he didn't make waves right then and there and LET ME KNOW so that I could nip this in the bud. 
Sooooooooooooo as it stands this evening, I need to determine if I want John and "G" to finish the work ORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR John and Randy.
DECISIONS..............DECISIONS!

My heart breaks for Logan. He just came in with a crystal baby carriage ornament that he was going to give to his brother Ryan for his Christmas tree and in showing it to us...........DROPPED IT!
It smashed to smithereens and he is heart broken. :0( Tears fell.

We both have spent hours looking online for one like it. We found one that is close ,IF NOT the same thing and it looks like the site has CLOSED DOWN, sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Sent off an email and HOPE I hear back. It;s now 9 p.m.
Tracie is here. We both comforted ourselves eating hot blueberry pie with ice cream. 

John called me to confirm that I said it was okay for him and Randy to finish the job together.
G won't have anything to do with it anymore. 
Like just get the fuckin job DONE. Mid September to present is just NOT ACCEPTABLE. I shit you not!

Hubby is flicking through channels and THAT is driving me up a wall. Just as I get interested....FLICK. POOF! 
Right about now, I'd like to bean him on the head with THAT REMOTE.
It's time for me to call it a day. If Tracie would only leave, that is.
No knitting, no nothing done,,,,except for refereeing.
Tomorrow HAS TO BE a better day.....ya think?

That's All Folks!