YES!! It ia hump day and it is all down hill from here! Vacation is just around the corner. I feel like I still have so much That I need to do. I have my clothes all packed. Elephants of my mother for my brother and sister in law. but hummm what am I forgetting keeps floating around in my brain. HAPPY WENDSDAY! HUGS TO ALL
Here we are getting down to the wire in preperation for my vacation. I am counting the days!
I had to take the dog to the vet again today! She has alergies and I guess she will now have to get an allergy shot every month. I would rather her get a shot every month then to have her skin and ears get so iritatedevery couple of months. Plus the monthly shot will be cheeper than getting the allergy shot and the antibiotic shot and the oral anibiotics.
Yesterday at work we(the union) had our quarterly meeting with the company. There are big changes happening since cingular has changed to the new AT&T. We are excited and think that the meeting went very well. One thing that was brought up was the turn over that we have and how to keep the employees that are there. The truth of the matter is that todays work ethics are no where near what they were when I started to work. Todays young people for the most part change jobs the way most people change there underware! But there are big plans at my calll center as to what we can do to keep the people already there insteas of spending the money on training people who really have no plans on staying very long. I can't believ that in january I will be there 6 years now. I was brought up knowing that seniority ment something!
Any way more about all the prep for vacation. We are getting things packed up that we need to take with. I packed some of my mothers elephants that I am giving to my brothere with my dads blessings. We have our guns that we are taking packed in locked gun cases. We can not take any ammo with us we have to buy it once there because of crossing state lines we can not take both. I am finnishing up the laundry today so I can get the rest of my packing done. I have to get everything here at home done out side of work.
Nest week mty hours changed at work and I will be starting an hour later which means I have to stay an hour later. That stinks but I guess that is life. Have to make sure that Ted has everything that he may need here at the house while we are gone. I have all kinds of friends who are going to be checking in on him while I am gone. I trust him I just don't trust all of his friends. No one should be here while we are gone.
I will try to come by and visit you all a little later. HUGS to all.
Here it is today July 7th I am really getting excited about my vacation! I am trying to get things in the house done before then. You know things like getting the place all cleaned up and getting all the laundry done that needs to be done. I don’t want to have anything laying around when we leave that way Ted will have to be responsible for what ever mess he makes. So far this morning I have started to organize the cabinets. They are all tore up things not put where they should have been. Ted tries to put stuff away but he just stuffs the things where they will fit. Not always in an organized way. But at least he tries. I was going to try to pressure wash the house today but not going to happen. Not high on the priority list. That can wait till after vacation. My main goal is to get the yard and the inside done for now. Today’s plan is to organize the kitchen and to get my laundry and yard work done. Oh yea if my friend brings her steam cleaner for carpets over I will be working on the carpets in the living room and family room. Hopefully I will be able to come by to visit you all. But if I don’t I have been thinking of you all I just have been so very busy. HUGS TO ALL
Wow I have been gone for some time. Been very busy. Trying to get everything organized, cleaned and ready before my vacation. It is that time of the year again where I seem to do nothing but work in the yard. This past weekend I re did my flower bed in front of my house. I made it bigger which of course ment I needed more dirt and more flowers. Here are some pictures of the finished bed.
The flower bed is so big now that I could not take just one picture of it. So I had to take the picture in three shots. I moved all my gnoms in to this bed. I am going to ave to pait them they are getting a bit faded. But let me ask you all. Has anyone ever seen a lady gnome? I am still looking for a lady gnome. All I can find are man gnomes. That is discrimination dont ya think? LOL I guess you can see home brown the grass is we need sooooooo much rain. I water the flowers but I do not water the grass. still have to mow a couple of times a week because what is there is growing. I have to wear a mask when I do because the air is like a dust bowl then. Any way the flowers I planted are begonias and heather. The begonias are all aroung the out side edges of the bed and I put the heather aroung my sego palm. I started that from seed years ago and they grow very very slow. I baby that like you would not believe. I have some caladeums poping up behind the sego palms. I planted those bulbs last year and I am just hoping they all come up again. If not I will plant more maybe after vacation. Or I will buy the plants and Ted can plant them for me.
I am getting so excited about this vacation July 20th can not come soon enough. I have 2 weeks vacation and the family reunion is july 28th. We will be touring Gettysburg while up there and if we go thru Virginia maybe we can stop at some of the more famous battle field while we are there. We will be leaving her hopefully on Friday the 20 if I can get the day off. That would be great but if I cant we will leave saturday morning on the 21.
I am hoping that my son comes to the picnic with the kids. I would love to see them and spend some time with them. I dont have to see my sons wife I can do with out her I feel that she has cause so many problems and I am no longer going to be the only one to be civil. My mom alway sraised me that If I did not have something nice to say dont say nothing so I will not say nothing.
I have also been having alot of UNION stuff going on at work. As a Shope steward I have obligations that I have to follow. I have several grievences that I am working on and they are still on going. I will try to visit you all my friends but at the moment can not promise that. Just know that I am still here and thinking of you all often I hope all is going well for you all. HUGS TO ALL
Well I guess my time of long weekend is now over for a while. The next holiday that we have will be 4th of july and thta is not a weekend. I really did not do anything special this weekend. I stayed home got some things done around the house that needed to be done. I was kind of nausiated chugging pepto bismal but I knew that I may get kinda sick from my new insulin.
I have been working on writing my Dad a letter the whole weekend. Not that it is any different than any other letter that I send him you know same stuff different day. But I know that being in jail he kind of looks forward to those letters. That is really all that he does and can look forward to. Ted wrote dad a letter too that I have to mail out to him. I have a bunch of cards that I bought and I can not dind where I put them. I put them away so good even I don't know where they are.
Some times Ted drives me nuts. I am habitually early expecially when I comes to work. I have to stay on his ass about being to work on time. He just does not understand what punctuality means. I know that if I had a business and I had someone who was on time all the time and someone who showed up late even a few times the person on time would be the one that I would keep. He just does not get it. He thinks I am being mean when I keep telling him what time it is. So far though he does like hisjob and he is not sure how to act because he is given a lunch break every day. When he was working at Sonnys BBQ he never got breaks there. It was not something that was done.
After spending 450 dollars at the vet the other day on my dog she is doing just fine. she will be on antibiotics for about another week but other than that hers tone his healing up and her fur is starting to grow back in. She may have to go back to the vet in another month or so for another alergy shot but other than that rabie shots are good for three years now. Living in Florida with a dog who is alergic to flee bites really stinks but I guess I will just have to put up with it. I try to be a responsible pet owner so I do take very good care of my animals. I lost a year on my dog though. I thought she was going to be 8 years old but by the vet records she is going to be 9 years old. By dog years she is 64 years old. I exspect her to be around for a long time still.
I did get to watch my soaps live today. That is ok if I cant because I just T vo it. I love this digital tv that we got. Well we have regular cable but we pay for the tv box. It is kind of cool being able to pause live TV and resume when you want to. so many times I would be watching a movie and have to go somewhere and miss what I was watching now that will not happen no more. Ted is happy because now when they have the Pay per view Wrestling he can order it. He knows that He has to pay for it but we can still order it.
That is all I have to say for this blog. happy what ever to everyone. HUGS
READ THIS VERY SLOWLY.. IT'S PRETTY PROFOUND.
Too many people put off something that brings them joy just because they haven't thought about it, don't have it on their schedule, didn't know it was coming or are too rigid to depart from their routine.
I got to thinking one day about all those people on the Titanic who passed up dessert at dinner that fateful night in an effort to cut back. >From then on, I've tried to be a little more flexible.
How many women out there will eat at home because their husband didn't suggest going out to dinner until after something had been thawed? Does the word "refrigeration" mean nothing to you?
How often have your kids dropped in to talk and sat in silence while you watched 'Jeopardy' on television?
I cannot count the times I called my sister and said , "How about going to lunch in a half hour?" She would gas up and stammer, "I can't. I have clothes on the line. My hair is dirty. I wish I had known yesterday, I had a late breakfast, It looks like rain" And my personal favorite: "It's Monday." She died a few years ago. We never did have lunch together.
Because Americans cram so much into their lives, we tend to schedule our headaches.. We live on a sparse diet of promises we make to ourselves when all the conditions are perfect!
We'll go back and visit the grandparents when we get Steve toilet-trained. We'll entertain when we replace the living-room carpet. We'll go on a second honeymoon when we get two more kids out of college.
Life has a way of accelerating as we get older. The days get shorter, and the list of promises to ourselves gets longer. One morning, we awaken, and all we have to show for our lives is a litany of "I'm going to," "I plan on," and "Someday, when things are settled down a bit."
When anyone calls my 'seize the moment' friend, she is open to adventure and available for trips. She keeps an open mind on new ideas. Her enthusiasm for life is contagious. You talk with her for five minutes, and you're ready to trade your bad feet for a pair of Rollerblades and skip an elevator for a bungee cord.
My lips have not touched ice cream in 10 years. I love ice cream. It's just that I might as well apply it directly to my stomach with a spatula and eliminate the digestive process. The other day, I stopped the car and bought a triple-decker. If my car had hit an iceberg on the way home, I would have died happy.
Now...go on and have a nice day. Do something you WANT to...not something on your SHOULD DO list. If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? ;And why are you waiting?
Make sure you read this to the end; you will understand why I sent this to you.
Have you ever watched kids playing on a merry go round or listened to the rain lapping on the ground? Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight or gazed at the sun into the fading night? Do you run through each day on the fly? When you ask "How are you?" Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done, do you lie in your bed with the next hundred chores running through your head? Ever told your child, "We'll do it tomorrow." And in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch? Let a good friendship die? Just call to say "Hi"?
When you worry and hurry through your day, it is like an unopened gift....Thrown away.... Life is not a race. Take it slower. Hear the music before the song is over.
It's National Friendship and FAMILY WEEK Show your friends how much you care. Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. If it comes back to you, then you'll know you have a circle of friends.
To those I have sent this to... I cherish our friendship and appreciate all you do.
"Life may not be the party we hoped for... but while we are here we might as well dance!"
I am sooooooooooooo excited about my vacation this year! Last week in July the first week in August. Our family reunion is on July 28th. And this year my better half is going with me. The family is finally going to see that he is real and not a figment of my imagination. I have so many plans. I do not plan on visiting much of the family while there because I will see them all at te reunion on the 28th. I have plans on doing things with my honey! There are some friends I do plan on stopping by to see if only for a few because I only get back to Pennsylvania every couple of years.
But I am so excited because tonight I made reservation at a B&B in Gettysburg. If you already don't know my honey and I are into the Civil War re enacting. We get dressed up in period costumes the whold nine yards. This is going to be a surprize for my honey. I figure we can spend the night at the B&B and then spend the following day touring the Battle fields in Gettysburg. It is only going to cost 125.00 and that is for a suite. The LEE Suite to be exact. That includes a full breakfast. I just hope that I can keep my mouth shut and keep it from him till then probably not I will probably tell him.
We are going to take the Auto Train up it will only cost 350.00 for that. With the price of gas that will be cheep and we dont have to do the driving. We will leave about 4 PM on july 21 from Sanford Florida and it will take us just out side of the DC area by Sunday morning. We will be mostly rested and drive the rest of the way To PA. The way gas prices are going up till then prices just may be over 4 dollars per gallon. We are going to make our reservations now so we are locked in to the price. I and so excited! I do hope that when I get up there I will be able to see my grand god daughter. She will be about 6 months old by then. I haent seen my god daughter in forever. I talk to her ofter and my friend hr mother but that is about it. Some of my friends will probably come to the family picnic they do every year that I am there. Well that is all for now. I jsut can not wait. July 21 can not come quick enough!!!
ME AND DAD MOTHERS DAY WEEKEND 2007
| Diabetes Doctor visit 05/14/2007 |
| Well went to see the diabetic doctor today and he put me on a new type of insulin. It is really exspensive! 60 dollar co pay for a 30 day supply and then another 20.00 for the special needles that go with it. It is called Byetta and it is like a pre messured pen, The tip is just a little bitty needle I no longer have to pinch to inject. We will see. The doc5tor told to to watch out for one of the side effects it makes you nausiated. He said to keep dry cracker on had for such a case. But in the mean time I am to stop the other fast acting insulin that I am on and still take the slow acting at bed time I am up to 70 units of that one. I sure do hope this works. Another one of the side effects is you loose weight. So of course I am looking forward to that! I was telling the doctor that I go back to the pain clinic on the 16th jut 2 days from now and once he clears me4 I will start an excersise program. Slowly at first and work my way along. First I will just start using the tread mill and then start the low impact arobics. A freind at work and I have been talking about joining a gym together. We just may. I just do not want to get a head of my self. I will just take things slow. I am just so darn excited. Best news I have had in a very long time! |
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