I love the Internet (part 2)

I love the internet, butI hate incompetence. I received the make up today and it was the wrong freakin' kind! In the box there is a note that said the box was carefully inspected! I don't think so. A few times I came home from Dillard's with the Creme makeup instead of the Natural Finish, so I finally learned to double check the morons. I tried the creme one time. That's how I knew it was the wrong kind. I didn't like it. Both kinds are in exactly the same box, so you have to read the box to get it right. Morons obviously didn't do that. If I am going to pay that much, it must be the correct kind. I have called customer service for Borghese Cosmetics and had to leave a message. It has not been answered. I sent an email and it has not been answered. Not only that, but the packing slip says they will not pay for shipping it back. So I will have to pay to ship the damn thing back and wait yet again for the correct one to be sent. I am out of makeup and I am steamed!!

I Love the Internet!

I have used this makeup since sometime in the '80's. Dillard's has always carried it and now that I also have my mom using it as well, Dillard's doesn't carry it anymore. Fortunately, I came home and found it online and ordered immediately. Only problem is shipping is over $6 making the total price over $40. Why can't I like the cheap stuff EVER? I have tried the cheap stuff and just have not found any other make up that I like. I guess I'm just rotten!

Hella Day....

I was up at 6 this morning to take my mom for her colonoscopy. What should have been rountine......well, not so much! I paced a hole in the floor because they told me 30 to 40 minutes and it would be over. An hour and a half later, they brought her back. I was so afraid something had happened. Right after they brought her back there was a Code Blue for the Endoscopy wing. If I had heard that before they brought her back, I would have died. Turns out she has way more than the average colon in length with lots of sharp twists and turns, so it just took longer. Plus, they found 3 polyps which they removed. The doc said they looked benign, but still had to be sent to pathology. She will hear from them later. She told me this one really hurt. I didn't know there was ever any pain with one of these tests. I never had any and never remembered anything. I think it's nap time for me. I'm exhausted!

Alive again!

My energy was back today and I got a lot accomplished. I was most surprised when I moved a bookcase away from the wall and found all kinds of dead bugs...no roaches, but BUGS! I decided then that I would call my pest control people, who only do the outside for termite control, and get them to start doing the inside as well. I have a problem with tiny spiders all along the baseboards as well. In fact, I have had a place on the top of my hand that I don't know what happened there, but it has been sore and hurts a lot. I cannot even let a shirtsleeve touch it. It has been there for about 3 months and I have decided it must be a spider bite. I was going to call the doc this week, but they are on vacation this week.

I also found some strawberry plants today....pricey ones, but nevertheless, strawberry plants. I have some hanging bags to plant some of them in and I did it and then read the directions. Of course, I did it all wrong!! As soon as I have them rooted good, I will take one bag containing 5 plants to Dad so he can watch them grow. I will keep one bag here because I will fertilize it. He won't do anything but water it. Tomorrow I will go to his house and fix a bed to plant the others in the ground.

I feel sorry for Mom. Her tooth had to be pulled and she cannot eat today or tomorrow. Today because of the tooth....tomorrow because she is having a colonoscopy on Wednesday. It's not fun being her.

Sinfully WORTHLESS!

Yesterday I spent the whole day taking naps. I was completely worthless. That seems to always happen if I don't have anything on my agenda and I have taken Tylenol P.M. the previous night. I thought we had a work day scheduled to work on the Mardi Gras float, but when I got to the float den, no one was there, so I went by Sonic for a breakfast wrap and went home to start my naps. Today hasn't been much better, but I did make it to Bible Study and church and to my brother's for lunch, but I haven't hit a lick since then. Tomorrow I will be taking my mom to the dentist for another broken crown. I hope he can fix it and not have to pull the tooth because she is about out of back teeth on both sides. She will have nothing left to chew with.

Thanks to the Veterans!

Non-stop day...

Most of this day has been spent working between two computers that don't like each other. I am the chairperson of the Grande Ball Program this year for the krewe. This involves getting head shots, bios and ads for the program. I don't have to sell the ads, but I do have to get them into the program and ready for the publisher. All of this is coming to me through email. It's a pain in the butt trying to do things right and learn how to do it all on a new computer with Vista and a new Windows Mail program, which isn't playing nice! Vista tells me I need Microsoft Outlook to use the "sent to" option in Microsoft Word. I have to try to find some answers to this online because I have Windows Mail that came with Vista and not Outlook. I tried to just attach the file to an email in Windows Mail and it told me it couldn't find all the attachments. WTH! It's just one page with a paragraph and a picture. Does that seem so hard to find!!! Damn computer can't find it!!

We had our ladies day out lunch today, but I ate light because I knew we were going to my brother's favorite restaurant for dinner. Today was his birthday and we ate catfish. He has everything he needs so since he didn't need anything, I gave a gift in his honor to his church's building fund. He said that was the best thing I could have done. Looks like I may have solved a Christmas gift problem as well. Of course, we have to have a few little gifts to open on Christmas Eve, so I still have to come up with something.

STOP! PLEASE!

Is this ever going to STOP?

Today was not my day....

I don't mean that in a bad way. It just was entirely devoted to helping out others. I love to do that, but it usually doesn't take the entire day. This morning was spent taking my friend's son to the dentist, then taking him back to school. This afternoon was devoted to getting my mom to a cardiologist appointment in Shreveport. She doesn't have to go back for a year barring any unforeseen emergencies, which we do usually have at some time during the year. She got a good report and for that I am grateful.

Funny story..

My mom dreamed last night that Dad came to wake her up to cook breakfast. She got up, cooked breakfast, and went to get him from his room. She said he was fast asleep and she didn't know why he had gone back to sleep after telling her it was time for breakfast. He got up, came back to the kitchen and asked her what was wrong. She said nothing. Breakfast was ready. He asked her if she had looked at a clock. Well, no! It was 3 A.M. He said there was nothing to do, but eat the breakfast and go back to bed!!!

Please, please NO!

Both my TV's and my desktop monitor are on the verge of going belly up! I cannot even think about replacing any of these right now. I'm still paying for my extended road trip!! I also have some expensive car repairs that need to be done. I hope the car doesn't go belly up, too!!! I refuse to go into debt if I can possibly avoid it. Time to suck it up and watch the terminally pink TV. The desktop monitor isn't much of a problem because I have my laptop to fall back on and when I do get a TV, I want a nice one.

I'm done!

It's been a wonderful day in the neighborhood....well, at least it has for me. I have been in the yard all day getting the yard winterized in preparation for our first frost this week. The mowing, edging, blowing, winterizing, and watering is all done. The flower beds have been cleaned out and I have even planted a few bulbs in some pots. They are always good for a nice surprise when they come up and bloom.

As for the rest of the neighborhood.....not so much! I found out today that another "across the street" neighbor almost died and went back to the hospital today. Another neighbor 3 doors down DID die and I didn't know until last week. She was elderly and her husband died a few months ago. Their daughter had moved them up here from South Louisiana because she was tired of getting them out of the path of hurricanes. Her father fell almost immediately and had to go to a nursing home where he died soon after. Then just a few months later, her mother died. My neighborhood is really quite small....only about ten houses, so I really should be more in tune with what's going on. I'm not a very good neighbor!!!

Laid Back Day

This morning was nice and cool and perfect for me to get out and plant some new flowers. Yesterday I found a nursery I have never been to. It's beautiful with plants that are well cared for. I am on a mission for my dad to find some strawberry plants, but that's not happening. Even the places online all say "sold out". I did, however, score some fall plants for me and I got them planted today. Also, got some other yard work done.

In between my naps, I also got a lot of scrapbooking done. Between last night and today, I got 8 pages done. That's a major accomplishment.

Tonight I went to a friend's house for dinner. I was in the middle of watching the LSU/Alabama game, but I knew the right thing to do was go to dinner. I did and I still don't know who won. I guess I'll know in a few minutes when the news comes on. My pastor is big time Alabama. I am going to my mom's church tomorrow, so I'll miss his antics over the football game. The majority of the congregation is LSU, so he is in the minority!!

Holy Moly!

I spent all this week going through crap for the garage sale. Trips up and down a tiny ladder into the attic are hard on this OLD gal, but I had everything down and marked and ready to go. WTF! I went to lunch with some ladies and found out an email had gone out canceling the garage sale due to lack of interest and not enough items. I didn't get the email! I spent the afternoon putting everything back up and out of the garage. Tonight I went to work on the float. Riding in those parades and throwing beads is going to be so much fun!! I have been ordering more beads off the internet. Those things aren't cheap. It's like throwing money away...Oh yeah.....that's exactly what it is...throwing it!!!

WooHoo!

Once again I have shocked myself. Having never had a computer that would burn CD's, I have never done that. Well, today I was playing around with my new laptop and decided to see if I could burn a CD of songs from my Ipod. It was so easy and right now I am listening to that CD through my home system. It's awesome. Elvis is singing "How Great Though Art" right now. Technology always just amazes me!!! I'm even more AMAZED when I do it and it WORKS!

BOO!

Good intentions...

Today I went to Mom and Dad's early to make some fried fruit pies so I could take some to my neighbor across the street. When I got there, Dad's hearing aid had just died AGAIN! He has so much trouble with that thing, but he cannot do without it. I took him to the hearing aid man here in Minden, but he had to send it off to get it fixed. Thank goodness, he made Dad a temporary hearing aid to use while his is sent off. It seems to help him hear better. After all that drama, I didn't feel like cooking fried pies. Maybe another day!!

Awesome day....

There were so many options for me today and I did most of them. When the weather is as perfect as it was today, I am energized and get a lot done. I made one trip out to where our garage sale tent will be on Saturday and took STUFF. Tomorrow I will continue to go through and get rid of stuff. There is so much stuff in the attic that I just don't need. Two tennis rackets that were very expensive twenty years ago are finally going to have to go. They survived the move to Louisiana, but now they are going to have to go. The strings, of course, are dead in them and I'm sure a real tennis player would laugh at the rackets, but a child just getting started could use them. It's hard for me to part with that part of my life. I used to play competitive tennis and had so much fun. I still have my $12 wooden frame racket that I bought when I took tennis in college. It's staying!!!!!

Overwhelmed...

I get nervous when I am in charge of doing something that I have never done before, so until this program gets printed I will not completely relax. The Bal' is on January 4th this year, so there isn't much time. After I spent the morning working on the float, I spent the afternoon looking for stuff for a garage sale that will be happening next weekend as a fund raiser for the royalty this year. It is very expensive to serve as royalty. Next weekend is an annual event called Main to Main and there are garage sales set up along the highway from Main Street in Springhill, Louisiana, which is about 30 miles north of us, to several miles south of Minden Main Street. We have a big tent that will be set up in a prime location for our garage sale. I'm glad to get rid of some more stuff. I got rid of a lot before I moved, but I figure if I haven't used it since I have been here, then I don't need it. Next week I will continue to get rid of stuff!! I like doing that.

AWOL?

We have seriously begun working on the float for the Mardi Gras parades and all events are beginning to heat up. I am heading up a committee to get the program booklets printed for the Mardi Gras Bal' this year. The Mardi Gras season is short this year, so time is of the essence. I feel like I am in over my head with this program because it is filled with paid ads and all kinds of good wishes for the Royalty...plus all the bios for the royalty. It must be done correctly, be pretty, and done on time!! I think I have committed myself to riding on the float in three parades. That's lots of beads that I have to purchase and I have purchased none yet!!! Our theme this year is "Hello, Broadway!" I like it!