The saga continues...

My brother called early Wednesday morning and told me he had an ambulance coming for our mom. I threw stuff in the car and headed for the hospital, which is 4 hours from me. With her history of heart problems, we just knew it was her heart once again. Thank goodness, it was not! Turns out her nausea and dizziness was caused from vertigo and after one night in the hospital, I brought her home. Due to committments I had at my home, I rushed back to Texas yesterday. This morning I got a call from my mom. Seems like she fell in the night and was unable to get up for several hours until my dad came to check on her (he sleeps in the other end of the house). He had to call my brother to come pick her up. She is pretty sure she has a cracked rib now. She is such a wonderful woman and Mom that I just hate to see her have to endure so much. There is really nothing that can be done for a cracked rib and it is really quite painful. A pain pill will just make her even less stable. Every moment she is in bed just continues to rob her of her strength so she stays up most of the time in a chair. She is so tired of being weak and tired!!! If it continues much longer, I'm afraid she may give up. I need my MOM!!

Uuummm...NO...not so much!

Not the same caliber as a Finding Nemo or Madagascar...not even close!

AArrrrgggghhhhh!

Let's just say Time Warner sent a MORON to get me back on line. That man spent an hour toying with my computer and told me some spyware on my computer caused the problem. Well, I doubted that because the computer was working fine before the hurricane. He fumbled and fumbled trying to justify his diagnosis. He put anti spyware on my computer....ok, not a problem. I'm ok with that, but he didn't ask me. He also changed my homepage to the Time Warner Road Runner website. I immediately changed it back to where I had it. The kicker is that he messed with so much stuff that after he left and I started working on my computer, I found things were really messed up. My printer wouldn't print. He had done something with the driver. My Picasa, which I use a lot for pictures, wouldn't work at all. I had to do a complete system restore dating back to before he came and screwed things up. In the end he told me the network adapter inside my tower was bad. He changed it out and got me immediately back on line. Why didn't he try that first instead of trying to blame it on my computer and some obscure spyware? I'm so happy to have my Road Runner back and so happy that I had the common sense it took to get my computer back operating correctly that I couldn't even really get mad at the man!!! I am too blessed to be stressed!!!

In my part of Texas on Election Day, we only had ammendments to vote on. Normally, I wouldn't have a clue what they were about. I must say that held true on 8 of the 9 ammendments, but the one that got my butt out of the recliner was defining marriage as between one woman and one man. Well, Duh! Why do we have to define this? It just isn't right to hear one woman call another woman her wife!! I am not opposed to civil unions, but, please, call it what it is-not marriage-and leave the rest of us alone!!!

I love Road Runner!

Today I got my Road Runner restored which had been down since the hurricane blew in on September 24th. I missed it way more than the cable TV. During that time I was using a Walmart Connect dial-up program and it sucked big time!! I am so happy to be back on line. This was the last thing I needed to get my life back to normal. WOOO HOOOO!

I'm back!

Wow! What a ride these last two months have been! While I was in Louisiana trying to help Mom recover from triple by-pass, Hurricane Rita hit my hometown with a dead- on direct hit. I live across the street from the golf course and it lost 450 trees. The mess is still being removed on a daily basis. Fortunately, nothing was touched at my home. The windchimes are still on the patio and not a shingle is missing. Since I didn't have a chance to remove any valuables, I fully expected to come home to nothing. I had seen the pictures posted on the internet of my street and I just knew there was no chance for my home. I just could not worry about the THINGS that I might lose to Hurricane Rita because I was too worried that I might lose my mom. I think God knew that I didn't care about THINGS at the moment and nothing mattered to me but my mom getting well. Fortunately, my mom is much better and I have a home. I learned that THINGS don't matter.....people do! God Bless Texas!

Brief Update!!!! :)

AS soon as I get my road runner back from Hurricane Rita, I will be up and running again and really catching up here. I am just not in to Wal Mart Connect......a dial up program. I pity anyone who is still on dial-up! Later!!!

Just my freakin' luck........

I waited a year to buy my Ipod; as soon as I bought it....... a new, smaller, improved model is released!!!!

I live in one nation UNDER GOD!

Unfortunately, my nation has some MORONS in it that are judges!!!!

Yo..I ain't goin' back to the BET awards!

Everyone needs their mommy!

I am profoundly aware that at 62 years old I am very lucky to still have my mother and father. Their days on this Earth are growing shorter quickly. Unfortunately, my mom had her third heart attack 2 weeks ago and a subsequent triple bypass. She is in rehab now, but still in the hospital in Shreveport, Louisiana. Because visitation is very limited while in rehab, I took this opportunity to return to my home in Texas and re-group and get some "downtime" if that's possible. While I was staying with Mom one of those nights soon after surgery, she told me she saw the angels. I told her that I wasn't ready for her to see the angels. She can describe those angels to this very day.

Life Religions.....

Taoism -shit happens
Confucianism -confucius says, shit happens
Buddhism -if shit happens, it isn't really shit
Zen-what is the sound of shit happening?
Hinduism -this shit happened before
Islam-if shit happens, it is the will of allah
Protestantism-let shit happen to someone else
Catholicism-if shit happens, you deserve it
Judaism-why does this shit always happen to us?
Atheism-i don't believe this shit
Agnosticism-what is this shit

More Gentle Thoughts....

This makes me laugh!

Ipod Update

The Band (The Weight)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Give It Away)
The Doobie Brothers (Listen to the Music)
Starland Vocal (Afternoon Delight)
Atlantic Starr (Always)

Big Boo HOO!!

Mark Consuelos.....Not a familiar name to most people, but he is the hunky, handsome husband of Kelly Ripa. I used to watch him on All My Children and I just think he is one beautiful, male speciman. Well, he is in the new movie, The Great Raid. It's a war picture based on a true story....not really my kind of flick, but I went to see it just to see him! It's a fairly good movie, but he is barely in it. He has very little dialogue, so imagine my disappointment! I will get over it. I can find many more things than that to occupy my feeble little mind.

Gentle Thought!!!

Here's my message to the following: Cindy Sheehan, The U.N., Barbra Streisand, Rosie O'Donnel, Michael Moore, Bill Mahr , Alan Colmes, Howard Dean, etc.

WoooooHooooo! Finally.....

My bathroon has been finished! It's been over two months since someone drove through my wall. There were weeks when nothing at all was done toward completing this re-construction project. My incessant whining finally worked!

Two Thumbs Up!!

OK, I am not Ebert OR Roeper, but March of the Penguins is an awesome documentary. I know some sperm donors (fathers) who could take some pointers from these male penguins. Take your children to see this movie. They will love it and so will you.

GRRRR!!!

Since gas prices hit $2.49 here, my running the roads is going to slow dramatically. Unfortunately, it is I who will suffer the most from not going as often to work out. My gym membership is a 50 mile round trip away. I will not be going every day and I will have to plan my trips more carefully to coincide with other plans. Tomorrow I have an eye doctor appointment in the same city, so I can combine the workout with the doctor. I just live in my car and it is going to be quite a change for me. I used to think nothing of slipping over to Houston for the day, but that won't be happening very often.
Today I finally finished my 100 things post!!

Slug in a coma........

That's the only way to describe me all day yesterday. The only thing I can attribute it to is being too hot on the golf course on Thursday. I was either in the recliner or the bed sleeping all day long. I almost never sleep in the recliner, but yesterday was a BIG exception. I never even walked the few steps outside to the mailbox.....that's just how sluggish I was!!!