Summer is almost here!

It must be near because the deer are moving around!

Leaving on a jet plane!

Several things have indicated to me that I need a vacation and two of them in the last 15 minutes! Cut my apple all up, took the lid completely off the salt shaker and poured salt on my apple! What the hell! I have lost my freakin' mind! A few minutes later, after washing the salt off my apple, I dropped the caramel apple dip in my lap! I am in desperate need of some DOWN time! Thankfully, that will be happening this week. I will fly away to Utah and chill out for a few days!

I got nothin'!

WooHoo! Finally!

Finally, a day filled with sunshine that was not too cold to get outside and work....so......

• Vacuumed and washed clothes at my house
• went to Mom's and washed, cleaned
• started cleaning out stuff at her house
• gave some of Dad's clothes to charity
• planted collards and cabbage
• got a mammogram
  

Feels good to move and get stuff accomplished! Mom and I talked with the funeral home rep about a monument for the cemetery. We will wait until Stewart can join us to make a decision and get moving on that.

I need answers!

How is it possible to lose a salt shaker that NEVER leaves the kitchen? Mine is freakin' GONE! I guess I have lost my mind along with the shaker! I have looked every possible place that I could have absentmindedly placed it. Alzheimers is raising its UGLY head, I guess!

Hello, Monday!.

Hello, Monday! I ended my weekend giving up on making my Wii console find my wireless network and calling in my professional guru. Since he lives on my street, he was here in a few minutes on a Sunday. Can't beat that! He brought his 4 year old son with him. Took the guru about 5 minutes to hook me up and his son wanted to play bowling ball on my Wii, so he did. Then my guy wouldn't even take any cash for his house call! Didn't mean for him to work for nothing on a Sunday. Usually that's time and a half, isn't it?

            Mom's doing great. My brother is going on another vacation next week, so I will be on Mom duty every day, but that's OK. I will be taking a little R & R the next week. Have not taken any time off to myself in two and one half years, so I am due a little escape. Lot's has happened in that time to make me have to stay home. My brother has been gone on 3 trips since Dad died, so I don't have any guilt!

Big ASS FAIL!

CRAP!

I spent a monumental amount of time tonight tring to make my Wii console hoo k up to the internet through my wireless router. FAIL! I guess I will have to call in my computer guru and hope he has some knowledge of Wii. It really doesn't require much knowledge of Wii because it tells every step to take, but I get stuck when I need a password to get to my router...don't have one that I know of and the general password (admin) that is supposed to work doesn't work. I hate when I can't get something to work!!!

One Big Ass Mistake, America!

Prayers answered!

My brother took Mom back to the foot surgeon today and the news was good. He took the pins out. She still has to wear the "boot" shoe for a while just for protection for her foot, but she can soak it now and start walking more. WooHoo! Things are finally looking up around here.

I am keeping my vow to exercise 6 out of 7 days. The Wii Fit is very motivational for me and never boring. There are soooo many different exercises. I haven't even begun to do all of them yet. Today, I tried one that I was sure I wouldn't be able to do, but I did.....how does it know I ran in place for 10 minutes????

It has been so dark, dreary and cold here today that I have been unmotivated to do anything constructive. Of course, constructive, to me, means something outside in the yard or in the garden...not in the house!! I am just an outdoor person!

Oh...and I got my lab results back and my triglycerides were 312! WTH! In June on my labs they were 149. Doc told me to double up on my Omega 3 supplement.  Well, OK!

Happy birthday, Mom!

It was a happy 85th birthday for my mom. She got to go to church for the first time since December and it made her very happy. We took her out to eat catfish last night and she was happy to be able to get out. We are looking into getting a golf cart for her to use around the home place. My brother and I both want her to be able to get out and see things that we do around the yard and garden. I hope we can make that happen for her.

Love it!

Dumb insurance agent!

Why wouldn't the insurance people know that my collision, not my comprehensive insurance would be used to fix my car? The adjuster said I have $200 deductible because my collision insurance would be used to fix my car because obviously another car was involved, so I am taking it to the lowest estimate place simply because he said he would buff out the keyed strip down my doors for nothing. The other place would charge me $100 to do that!

I was a master cleaner today and was even up early doing it. That is so not like me....getting up early and cleaning early! What's up with that!!!! I'm trying to decide if that cleaning can count as my physical activity today. I had to get finished before going to Wal-Mart (which is pure hell for me) to get some stuff for Mom and then to take her to the hair dresser for the first time in a month.

I hate when this happens!

As I was exiting the EZGo golf cart store yesterday, I noticed that my car had been hit in the back and busted up the trim and scratched the bumper. It didn't happen there, so I don't know when it happened. Of course, whoever did it left the scene without leaving a note on my car other than the damage! So today I got to get estimates and now I will have to be without my car for 3 days whenever I get it fixed. That will be OK because Mom's car and Dad's truck are sitting at her house unused right now. It's always something! I am just grateful it wasn't more than it is. I will probably get the money for the highest estimate, then take it to the lowest estimate place to get it fixed and make a couple of hundred bucks!

My brother and I planted 4 rows of potatoes today. He had the rows fixed and fertilized before I got there, but I planted the potatoes. We did some more work around Mom's house as well. He has been doing a lot of hard work. He did most of it while he was staying with her during the day while I was staying with her at night and coming home to sleep during the day. He was using power tools such as a chain saw....I don't do chain saws! He cut down trees and chopped fire wood like a MAN! I can't do that stuff! I'm too much of a wuss!

Ash Wednesday

I am not Catholic, but I like their lenten practice of sacrifice or helping others during the lenten season. Although, I think this does not qualify as helping others or sacrificing I have decided to do some form of physical exercise during these 40 days for 6 days out of each week. It might be Wii, gardening, walking, yard work, yoga..whatever, but I must MOVE!I feel sluggish, have gained weight during the winter, and, in general, just need to improve my own health. Tomorrow, I already know we are starting our garden by planting potatoes, so I have tomorrow covered. My brother has it plowed and I bought the potatoes today. I just have to cut all the eyes out to plant tomorrow. Looking forward to feeling better and, yes, fresh groceries this summer.

Ouch!

Finally did some looking after myself today and went to the doctor for the first time in 8 months. I am supposed to go every 3 months for blood work, but I find that to be a little obsessive...not gonna do it! He froze a bothersome place off my hand, which now hurts like hell!!

I have done a lot of toying around with the Wii today including Wii Fit, Fitness Coach, bowling, and boxing. I need to be working in the yard, but it is too freakin' cold and the wind is bitter!!!! I have to get better fit, so I can work in the yard and the garden without having to sit down every few minutes. My brother will be laughing at me!

No more couch potato!

When I went to my mom's today, my friend had left me a Wii/sports...the whole shootin' match! Couple that with the Wii Fitness Plus that I had already bought and I am a happy camper. I dreaded hooking the damn thing up because I figured I couldn't do it, but I did and it works! WooHoo!!! He failed to tell Mom how much I owed him, but I will pay whatever he wants. I am so happy to get it......AND.....I am so FREAKIN' out of shape!!!! The Wii Plus has the balance board that shows BMI, weight, balance, posture, etc! YIKES! Did I even want to know all that????

My house...MY snow...ME!

I finally got Mom home yesterday, but not before she missed all the beautiful snow cover. It melted quickly. My brother got home from his vacation before we got home from the hospital.

I had planned to go tailgate with my krewe today, but instead of getting up and getting going, I made the bed and lay back on top of it and went back to sleep. Guess that was God telling me that I need to rest. I did!

Oops!

Mom thought she was going home today after another transfusion, but she was just confused about what the doctor said. I wasn't there early this morning to hear what he said, so I just took her at her word and expected to take her home today. Tonight when he came by, I was there and he had no intentions of sending her home today. She gets confused a lot lately. It breaks my heart because she used to be the brains of the family. So very smart! He did say we could take her home tomorrow. I just hope I can get out of my driveway. It's fairly steep and uphill and it is supposed to snow all night and freeze. It has been snowing all day, but not all of it has stuck. I think it will tonight since the temp will be below freezing. Oh well, I have a volunteer already  to come get her home if I can't!

I may have found a Wii console. A friend came to visit Mom at the hospital yesterday and I told him my dilemma of having the software, but not the console. He said he had one in a box that he thought he might use in his business as a physical therapist, but he probably wouldn't. I asked him to sell it to me!!! I hope he will.

BooYa!