D D I've been bad....

After playing some poker for "funny money" and watching the bears, I went out shopping with Tracie. 
Then....we ate at her favorite place, Good Thymes.  .  Got home just in  time to give hubby his evening meds. If I had any idea I was going to be late, I would have left them for Jill to dispense. Keep some on my person and the others I am not giving up my hiding place to anyone. The afternoon and evening...FLEW! She wanted to drive her new car so i was more or less at her mercy ....which was fine by me as long as I got home by 8p.m.
Jill had a person she met yesterday that is a licensed gas water heater installer amongst other things he can do. He came out today and looked at the job ( I have the new waterless water heater already ) and gave her an estimate.....which I am very happy with. $250. My son Randy won't be too happy that I didn't let him do the work and give him half that amount of money....but too bad. I want peace of mind, PLUS if the house ever caught fire and that heater was the fault...insurance won't cover the damage to the house.  Hubby installed the other one near twenty years ago. He knew what he was doing. My son Randy...NOT so much. I have alot of unfinished jobs he has started. :0( 
Thanks...but NO THANKS!   This job will be done Thursday after this guy gets out of work. :0)
NEXT...I will get brave and have her put her feelers out there for someone to do her bedroom top to bottom. By brave, I mean suffer the hurt look and sounds that my son will make. Even if he was doing it for FREE, I rather someone that has put a wood floor down and has all the tools needed to do it...DO IT!   IN and OUT!  

Logan had a wonderful time at that birthday party.  :0)
His mama and the W.B. went to the Moose after going to eat at The Anchor and got shit faced ...I hear.  I was not awake when they came in.  I told him that if I lived like he does , he wouldn't be sitting in that livingroom. There would be NO HOUSE. He hinted at what were they suppose to do...watch a bear.  Told him it was sure as Hell cheaper than Foxwoods and the Anchor and the Moose. What is it with people that "live for today?" My Cheryl use to tell me that I didn't know how to live.  Sure I DO! Sure I DID! I just had a brain in my efffin head.  Imagine she is happy now, that I "didn't know how to live".

I wasn't going to write any of this shit... guess it's just my nature.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh...just checked my med box. Forgot to take todays pills. Will take care of that now and get into pj's. It's 9:30 p.m.  Too early for bed and too late to watch the bears. ;0)What's a girl...to do!

THAT...could be ...MY PROBLEM. ;0)
(((hugs)))Pat

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D D I can dig it!

Not much going on....what is , I try to close my eyes to it.
Tracie came after 3 today and was gone by five.  I was boring....kept my face in my laptop ....oh I'm sorry, did I say boring. Make that RUDE.
After going to the chiropractor, I went to fill my gas tank and from there It was the small plaza in the town center to The Dollar Store and next door to the grocery store. I ask you...how the Hell does someone spend 2 1/2 hours doing that????   I CAN. I shit you not!

I pissed the morning away doing little of nothing. Now.....I'm ready to do more of the same.
   One of my neighbors daughters moved back in....with her pig. The pig is wrecking her house.
The daughter says the pig is her best friend. Looks like there is more than ONE NUT HOUSE on my block. ;0)
Daughter Jill and the W,B, have gone to The Anchor about thirty miles away to eat. Steamers tonight and the W.B. was drooling. Jill only eats the pizza there. She has never liked seafood.  I don't think she is my daughter.;0)
Logan is going to a birthday party for one of the girls in his school. Faith is an ONLY CHILD. The Elks Hall was rented ( that's a cost of over $400. ) Her parents have their own small band and she is my dog groomer, also. It's Faiths thirteenth birthday. Sixty guests. I've watched her grow all these years. She's cute and TALENTED. I'm watching the clock...... He has his friend Kenny here and the two of them are making enough noise to wake the dead. Can't wait til it's time for his brother Gil to drive him to the party. ;0)

SOooooo.....what does one have to say that watches a bear in her den all day ???
NOT a darn thing! Know what? It's gr8 to kick back and have nothing to say.Geez...what ever drug I'm taking must be just now taking effect. ;0) Or is it that...I just see some things as.... never changing ,so why FIGHT IT!
Hubby has called me... ma,  a few times today and I've called him hon or honey.
Logan just used three towels to take a shower. :0( His mother needs to PUT THE BRAKES ON THIS! I shit you not!
Inhale.....exhale.....slowly.

Oh Boy! Cubs eyes are open. Mama bear is going to have a hard time keeping them down on the farm. ;0)
It's 7:10. Just hubby and  I and the dogs and the squirrel. UNTIL Gil gets back from driving Logan to the party.sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh And just think....it won't be long before we have a baby in the house. ;0) Sarah should be going back to work soon and will be dropping off great grandson #12 , Gavin.
He'ssssssssssssssss back
I didn't even get to miss him.;0)

(((hugs)))Pat

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D D I just might.....

have nothing to say. Can you believe it  ???  Me neither.!

Took a nap today after watching Jewel and her cubs, .toooooooo many hours. sigh!
Woke to find a note on the table ,. Logan is over Chuckies.  We're gone to spend some of Butchie's money.  He said we'd be back around 10ish. Logan, if i am not home by 9:30 GO TO BED.
   I heard the W.B. on the phone with someone to day saying...I'd love to go to Foxwoods.
I CAN ASSUME they took Gil with them. Nice, efffin nice. :0(
Meanwhile, I'll enjoy the quiet and watch the snow continue to fall. It's a light snow ( heavy though )must be mixed with rain.  Shoveled earlier a few feet out back to my bird feeders in my pj's, no coat...wearing slide on slippers.  No coat, gloves or hat. I like to live dangerously like that. ;0)
   Son Randy called me to tell me that Obama was just down the street from where he lives at Amhearst College  and the roads were tied up ( at a stand still ) with his motorcade.
Guess I'm not the norm....cause not one politician or past President could  draw me out of the house. Nor movie star. A whole world of people like myself and life would be.................  You end that sentence!
Son Randy  went out to get some groceries and that's how he came upon the EVENT

   No Tracie last night. When we parted the night before...I made it known  a snow storm was coming this way , I was staying in and she would be smart to do the same. ( New car and all.) She heeded my advice and today at 4:30 p.m., it's still snowing and hopefully she will stay in again.
I did talk "stern" to her when I told her she'd better get her new car cleaned out of all the shit she transferred into it. You know....like a mother ! :0) Maybe that's what has kept her away. She always has the excuse that she didn't have time to do this or that. She sleeps til 3 p.m for goodness sake. Her days and nights are MIXED UP!
Lookeeeeee here...I'm trying to put my two cents worth  into someone elses life. Ain't I something else!

Did I tell you that I'm bored?
Did I tell you that I'm in a rut?
Did I tell you that I am beginning to feel hungry and not feel satisfied on the foods I've been eating for a good month? Well, I am and I AM and I AM!

Looks like I found something to say.................... ;0)
Bear with me blogger friends....OMG there's THAT WORD... BEAR ;0)
If I'm not watching them on my laptop...hubby is on our bedroom  tv screen and is yelling to me to come watch. (Mama bear is stirring.) Which means we might get a peek at the cubs. Got to see them a few times today. :0)
These bears are cutting into MY SOCIAL LIFE. ;0)

Hope I'm not speaking too soon. Have had no right arm pain for a few days . :0)
Son Randy did get an rx for more steroids. Daughter Cheryl is weaning herself off of her pain med ( post surgery.) Daughter Michelle has back pain....this after having surgery on her back some months ago. She is small and does alot of lifting in her catering business. Those huge Heat Keepers arn't light! I shit you not!
We all can't be getting OLD, CAN WE??????

This SHIT is going to FREEZE and the roads are going to be icy. Here I go worrying about the ones that left for Foxwoods. It's  two hours away if you speed....and THEY DO ! Years ago I had the pleasure of driving there with Jill and I'm amazed that I'm still alive to tell it. I shit you not!
My right foot kept hitting out like I had a brake pedal on my side. Once...I drove to Fl with Jill and Michelle after my mother had open heart surgery the day before we left. I DID NOT SLEEP THE ENTIRE TRIP ( we drove straight through.) As soon as my eyes would close, Jill would gun the gas pedal and I'd WAKE. They still laugh about that!
Hubby drove us to FL many,many times and I never had a cause for alarm. I could doze off with THE BEST OF EM ! CREDIT where credit is due.  He wa a safe driver. Drove tankers loaded with heating oil for a living. Industrial heating oil...it's like tar. He was a "worker" and "good provider" too. Like I said...credit where credit is due.  Outside of an F U from him to me and a  F U from me to him this morning..WE UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER and got along good. Hijs words arn't as "effective" on me any longer!

Put my head out the door to feed Sharlie a second meal . Leftover chicken and gravy. It's a wet sleet and it's damn nasty out there if you are driving. Cats eating better than me! I nuked frozen cauliflower and added a brushetta sauce to it. Want spaghetti,.... but don't want to Pay The Piper. While it didn't fool me into thinking I was eating spaghettti...it was good.
   Looks like I have been able to ramble on.....despite being a shut in yesterday and today.
SCREW IT! Grandson Logan  just ordered from Domino's and that pizza inches away from me is calling my name.
Just one slice......sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  
BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD....tomorrow! (((hugs)))Pat

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D D I'm ADDICTED!

to watching Jewel the black bear and her two cubs. Such excitement to catch a glimpse of a cub...or two. ;0)
Soooooooooooooooo if you don't see me much....that's where I'm at. 
Doesn't take much to make me happy  and hubby even is enjoying it. Of course....we donb't see eye to eye on what we are seeing most of the time...but then again...he's half blind. ;0) I'm like a teacher with a stick pointing up on the tv screen to the bears....PARTS.
Once in awhile, I do a little housework.  VERYLittle...I shit you not! With a daughter sleeping in one room half the day and a grown grandson in another and hubby taking his naps....my energy level is in my ass.
One claims it's Zoloff, another claims it's her meds, hubby's been taking naps for years , what with spending 98% of his time in bed. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh  A resthome sees more ACTION that this house does when Logan is in school. I shit you not!  At this very moment, Butch and Gil are playing XBOX, Logan is waking from his nap...he burns the candle at night talking to friends, Jill woke from her long afternoon nap an hour ago and is making supper and lazy ass me is STILL contiplating taking a shower and donning clean pj's. NOW...how's that for the height of lazyness!!! It's 5:50. Daughter Michelle is on the way over ( lives in the same town ) for her regular Wednesday night visit with her dad. They watch American Idol together and sometimes I go out. Tonight won't be one of those nights. it's been lightly snowing since noon and I have no desire to go out in the cold weather.  You will find me either watching the bears or playing Texas Holdem.
That game is another thing that makes my heart go...pitter pat.  Using funnny money....what's not to love. ;0)

I purchased a table set yesterday. Delivery in 3 to 5 weeks. SEEING IS BELIEVING!
It's not what I wanted, but I can live with it.  Dang..I forgot I have a camera. Could have taken a picture of it.
May...still do that. What else do I have to do. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Daughter Cheryl's heating oil ran out. :0(  The heat program was cut 60% this year. sighhhhhhhhhh
 Her husband got a ticket in the mail with a fine of $150 . Apparently the area he drove to get her her RX that day when the doctor taking over for her doctor refused to give her a script when she and I were there had a CAMERA.  Unlicensed vehicle. IF he was stopped,  the car would have been towed. MORE MONEY!   He's been asking the Lord for a break he told me today. Guess the break he got was it was a camera and not a cop.  She has not gone back for therapy.  Has anxiety just thinking about entering that building and the way she was treated there. They had one of their landlord's workers working on their van and have put over $150 in it...spark plugs, wires, this and that and it's still running like shit. Misfiring. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
What other cheerful things can I write about.................................
Son Randy has been laid up with a bad back. They won't give him any more steroids. He has had cortisone in his spine.

The reason Tracie didn't come around night before last was because she was busy buying herself a car. Bought a 2011 Dodge Avenger and traded her and her mother's car in on it.  She piled all the SHIT that was in those two vehicles into this newer vehicle and IT LOOKED LIKE SHIT! She had to work forever...to make room for me to get in the front passeneger seat last night.  :0(
We went to the Outback. I threw caution to the wind and used one of my free hor'derve things and ordered coconut shrimp with our meals. YUM!
Okay.....I need to get my laptop off the table so we can eat supper on it.  What an INTRUSION on my life. ;0)  Hubby has the bears up on the tv screen,  so I can't use my main PC. DANG!
As you can plainly read...I'm in A RUT!  OH yeah...I still need to take my shower. Another INTRUSION on my BUSY LIFE. ;0)  Can't wait til supper is over so I can get back online to watch the bears. I shit you not!
(((hugs)))Pat

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D D Discombobulated

Thought I posted this last night ...this is OLD NEWS!  Shit happens like that! I shit you not!

Tuesday's POST

It's been one of those dazeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. My laptop went kerfooey and I can't figure out how to fill the online cruise registration. Get so far and loose it. Called the  800 number and the first time was disconnected. Second time I got so far with the online person helping me and she became a garbled voice. sighhhhhhhhhh :0(

Called son in FL and he told me how I might get back into my laptop.He was on his way out. Couldn't be of much help. . So I took the 'bull by the horns" and gave it a shot.  Boy...I'm living dangerously! ;0) Got my laptop running, but now have lost everything I had in it. booooooo hoooooooooooooooooooooooo :0(
No favorites....no pictures....woe is me.

Tracie didn't show up last night.....at least I have one good thing to report. :0) 
Now I'm going to call the 800 number of the cruise line to get assistance filling out this boarding registration so i can print and take it with me as was requested.
Then I'm going to call my son about my laptop. 
It was corrupted...NEVER have I had that happen in the past.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

This too shall pass....................(((hugs)))Pat

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D D SHIT! I have hit a rock!

In filling out the pre registration sent to me by the cruise line, I discovered a "fly in the ointment."
It seems........I may have a problem with my name. :0(
Son registered me as Alyce....so what's wrong with that you ask??????????? Wellllllllllllllllllll  ...for one thing....I wasn't counted in the census from the day of my birth 3-21-37 til 11of 1948.
Damned docotor that delivered me at home never registered my birth and not til after he died, did the doctor that took over his practice find my birth ? and send it on to the town hall. 
In 1990 when I decided I wanted something OTHER THAN (female) as a name and went to Salem,MA to do something about it, did I get a name. NOT THE ONE that my parents gave me ( the one I never liked as a teenager ) but liked it as an adult. Oh noooo. All the clerk would agree to was a capital A. for my first name. I went by Patricia in school and THAT WAS THAT!    A.Patricia.
Now IRS never gave a shit what name I filed taxes under !!!!!!!!! My drivers license reads: Alyce Patricia. The cruiseline wants BOTH forms of ID to read the same. UT OH!!!! So, I called the number given on line and was told...I NEED A PASSPORT! Both my drivers license and my birth certificate have to read the same......or I need a passport.  Holy Crap!   Now I need to run my ass up to the Town hall here to try to rectify the error that sorry ass doctor that delivered me MADE! sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
What would have happened if I tried to board that cruise ship? I shudder to think! :0(

SCRAP THAT idea! Passports ( first time passports) are not  issued FAST!  Called the town hall where was born and they agreed to send me a letter of explanation as to how my name...came about. I'll bring that to board ship and if that isn't satisfactory, I'll drive the car back to their house and spend my vacation watching the dogs. JUST MYSELF and the dogs...that should be a nice vacation. :0)
Maybe...I'm over re-acting. Maybe I have nothing to worry about.     MAYBE!
Does my face look like the face of a terrorist?????????????????
Went to get a cortisone injection in my right arm today.  Last shot, I was told.  We shall see about that...but I'm hoping this third shot is the "charm." From there ...I was just a few exits away from New Hamphire and furniture stores. Looked in two.  Geez...what's with all the DARK WOOD????????????????  My 80's taste is OUTMODED and the young like DARK, I was told.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh What the hell is the matter with them...it shows dust.;0) 
 There was one set that I would consider. Needed to measure in my eating area and see if it would fit. It will! Corner benches, plus a few chairs. Bonded leather backs and seats.
Was told TODAY and TODAY ONLY... if I bought, I would get a good discount. hurmmmmph!
I'm going to live dangerously and go back tomorrow with Jill. ;0)  She had an appointment in Boston with Logan, ( he has not healed and is oozing fluid , by the way ). Needs to be seen again a week from Thursday as she can't do Monday again. Son Gil has two appointments Monday.  She was told to dilute peroxide with water and apply it 2xs a day and KEEP IT DRY when he showers. She don't feel up to more highway driving and this is the time of day when we have to compete with TRAFFIC and I want to watch The Batchelor from 8 to 10.....They close at 9p.m.   Priorities, priorities!
I do like the set...BUT I didn't say that I love it.   Either they give me that same deal tomorrow...orrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr they don't want to sell a kitchen set that bad.      With this style set it will be....stand in line, fill your plate and file into the booth from either end.  Lucky person that has a single chair...gets to be.... the Gopherrrrrrrrrrrr ;0)

IF.... you were wondering or are wondering if Tracie came last night....that would be yes. sighhhh
She's been looking at Used Cars to buy and came to ......shoot the shit.  Fixed hubby something to eat and went to eat with her. Last night I had a salad with teriaki chicken pieces in it ( brought my own 2 Point dressing ) , while she had two gorgeous looking pieces of a lightly cracker seasoned baked in butter or broiled? salmon, a loaded baked potato :0( and a salad. Loaded baked potatoes are a weakness of mine.
   Chiropractors scale and the orthopedic doctors scale and My Weight Watcher scale all read the same damned thing. 176.  grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Guess this is the plateau that I have heard about.
This is THE TEST. I shit you not!

It's after six. Going to nuke a Smart One dinner for myself. Jill is cooking for the rest of those that live in this house. :0)
Guessing Tracie will be along and sit to eat too.

Trish....the bears are on Ustream .   Jewels Den at WildEarth .Hope you can get it.

Til tomorrow (((hugs)))Pat

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D D Life goes on

in the NUT HOUSE, aka Funny Farm.  
It's still Saturday. Butchie, aka W.B. FINALLY took ou the Kohler faucet he installed way back in April or May of last year. It leaked almost from day one.  I've been increasingly hinting and today was the day he took it off and went with the old receipt for an even exchange.  GUESS WHAT?????? I have a card from Home depot with $8.17 credit on it.  The faucet is cheaper this year than last. How the efff did that happen?  It was a Free replacement and I get store credit.  ???????????????????????

DIL Kim came for an hour visit with me. :0) 
WE ( Jill and I ) have been keeping her abreast of what has been happening and today was no exception. sighhhhhhhhhh

The part-time workers went off to work at 2.  Sometime later I laid down  to nap and slept a couple of hours. Was going to type ( good couple of hours) , but the aches and pains kept waking me. Sleep is SLEEP, I guess. 
It's now 5:30 and the squirrel cage, dogs pee pot and some laundry is pretty much the extent of what I've done today.   Ohhhhhhhhh welllllllllllllllllllllllllll. A hundred years from now, who the Hell will know???????????I thought I'd go up to the grocery store and Kmart in the Center. Both are in the same plaza there. Didn't happen.....YET!   I have clean undies  pulled out of a drawer, but that's the extent of me taking a shower and dressing.  Moi BAD!

Tracie had a relatives baby shower to go to today, so I know what has kept her away from my door, BUT the night is longgggggggggggggggggggggggggggg. 
Tomorrow is the Fund Raiser   for an ex co-workers 19 year old grandson.  I'm looking forward to going and seeing Tre, .......if I have to, I'll go alone.  His parents both were in the Curtis Knight Band. That's where they met. Hubby and I use to love to follow their club booking and go dance to their music. If they were the band at a wedding , OR the band  New Years Eve  ...EVEN BETTER. They put on a good show. They are the ones throwing this fund-raiser.

It's 6 p.m.  A different time...SAME STATION. I'll BB tomorrow.

6:30 Tracie arrived and took up space for the next two hours.  sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh 
Why did I wait two hours before I announced I wanted to go watch tv???????? Which I didn't. I was watching the black bear den on Ustream and listening to the noises the 5 week old cubs were making and didn't want to miss any of it ......when she came. :0(
Then as she was out the door I told her I'd maybe like to go to a furniture store today and she said she's come and take me. It was only later that I realized what I said. I WON'T BE HOME! I'm going to a Fund Raiser today.   Day................AM! So immediately I started to worry. She is going to come here and I won't be home and I have no way to contact her. Her phone minutes are depleted until March 1st. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh What to do, what to do? All I can think of is put a sign on the door if no one else is around when I leave.  WHY do these things bug me and FILL MY HEAD??????? Hubby still hasn't been told about TODAY. In the back of my mind...I'm hoping he doesn't want to go. sighhhhhhhhhhhhhhh We'll be IN AND OUT if he goes and I'd like to stay and visit Tre and Joe and listen to the music.
   Back to ustream and Jewel the black bear and cubs....Fot those of us that have nothing to do, cough,cough, watching and listening to bears in a real den...is EXCITING. To me it is!
This is soooooooo different  than watching a bird nest.....something that the eyes normally don't  see.  I CAN'T GET ENOUGH!  Did you know that when the cubs are born they are the size of a stick of butter? I didn't, but that's what I read on this site. Right now all is quiet in the den and I want to pinch them. ;0)
   It's 7:17. Hubby is still asleep...............  good, good, good. No one , EXCEPT.... Lady is stirring and she is patiently waiting for hubby to wake and give her a dog cookie as he does every morning. Her eyes are trained on him waiting for him to stir and if he does...she wiggles her tail in anticipation....only to be disappointed that he didn't wake....over and over and over.  

Someone is playing a cruel joke on me. I haven't lost any weight since Tuesday. IN FACT, I've gained a few pounds and that isn't possible!!!!!!!!!!!! NOT with what I've eaten,  it isn't.  I'm wondering if that W.W. yogurt is the culprit. Only once have I had two in one day and supposedly they are 2 Points each. I think...THEY LIE! It's the only thing new in my weight loss journey.

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   No goodies. One cup of mac,tomatoes and cheese and 1 cup of Kraft mac and cheese fit into my Daily Points is the only thing different I've eaten besides 'the yogurt." . This DOES NOT COMPUTE.   My mind can't wrap itself around this! :0(     I shit you not! Who...has a foot on the scale behind moi? ;0)

I have more to worry about than my weight..........................you remember my birth certificate ( or lack of...until Nov. of 1948.....  more about THIS tomorrow.
(((hugs)))Pat

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