Enemy territory!

Tonight I went to a church party at my Sunday School teacher's house. He and his wife are huge LSU fans and alumni. When I arrived, there was a sea of purple and gold...but, never fear....I had on my Longhorns sweatshirt! Some of them told me that they didn't blame me for wearing a shirt supporting the #1 team! Whew!

Freak Day!

The FREAKS come out today! I will not be joining them! Tuesday will be FREAKY enough for me!

No one ever reads a title...

Dad is home. His urologist, who did a microwave prostate procedure on him a month ago, said he knew exactly what was wrong. There was infection where he had done that procedure. They loaded him up with $300 worth of meds and he is home still not feeling so well, but better.

So very true!

Dad update....

Last night he had an episode of high fever that  scared the hospital staff. They even asked him if he wanted them to call his family. They were afraid it was curtains for him.  His fever spiked and was 102.9 when they checked it. It made him not know what was happening and lose control of his body. They called the doctor and he ordered a CT scan at 10 last night to scan his brain and see if he had a stroke. It was negative. After his fever broke and he got over his chill, he went to sleep and woke up feeling good this morning. He has had no more fever all day. I have been gone to yoga tonight, so I don't know what the doc had to say after his evening visit. Yoga was something that I really needed to do tonight and I feel good now. Dad sent me home about 3 this afternoon, but my poor mom stayed there all day.

 

Yet, another frustrating day....

My day started early at Wal Mart getting some groceries for Mom. As I was taking them to her, I got a call that they were on the way to the doctor's office because Dad was still having fever and chills...since Saturday for no apparent reason. Doc still could not find a reason, so we spent all day waiting for the call that the hospital was ready for him. At 5 P.M. we got him settled in a room. Holy Crap! I do not understand why people are so incompetent. They stuck him 3 times trying to get an IV in for a CT scan....and left the damn rubber cord around his other arm until he complained about it hurting to Mom. She had to take it off....MORONS!

Squashed plans...

This morning when I went to see Mom and Dad, he said he was feeling better. Brother has been taking him fishing and they have been catching fish, so he was more cheerful than usual. They made plans to go fishing this afternoon and then we were going to our favorite restaurant to eat some catfish and onion rings. Shortly after I got home, Mom called and said we couldn't go. Dad had 102 fever and was freezing. Oh, no! I really hate for him  to get sick. He was doing so well. CRAP! I told her to monitor him and if we needed to, we would go to the ER. His oncologist really does not want him to get sick and he has not had his flu shot yet. The plans are to get it on Thursday. I hope we are not too late with that!

It was painless!

There was a very short line and I was finished in 5 minutes and I even voted on the 7 amendments as well. Voting is your patrioitic duty. Do it or forever STFU!

After I voted, I went to the assisted living facility where my 92 year old aunt lives and got her absentee ballot filled out and mailed for her. I asked her, "Who do you want me to mark...Obama or McCain? "She got downright indignant and told me I knew the answer to that.

Very random day..

Sometimes I lose my mind and do something totally off the wall random. It's not

a new phenomenon...but one I have always embraced. My mom called this morning and said the bank wanted her, Dad, me and my brother to come show some ID for a new system they were putting in. Both my brother and I are authorized to sign checks on my parents'  checking account. I do it all the time because I buy groceries for them a lot. My brother just doesn't do it. Anyway, I went to get Mom and Dad and took them to the bank and got that chore done. OK....my daughterly duties done, I went to lunch with the ladies at a place we had not been before. As I left there, I realized I was on the road that I used to take to college since there was not yet an interstate there. I took the road less traveled today and ended up back in my old college town by way of the country road that I took many times while I was a student there. The college has nothing much left there that was there when I was. It's mostly all new. I want to go back on a Saturday or Sunday when I can park and get out and look around at the core campus. I've been told the "Lady of the Mist" is still in the center of the campus. She's a statue in a fountain. Hey, I found a picture of her.

I'm such a bozo!

The house being built right next to me is in a flurry of activity because the new owners are moving here on Saturday. The builder is a friend of mine and also the builder of my home. We sometimes take a rest in my chairs in my yard, but today I missed the party. They had it.....I just missed it. They told me they opened my door and yelled at me to "come out and play", but I never came out. Guess I was napping!


I have a sausage/cheese quiche in the oven now. Dinner will be served in about 40 minutes. Come on over! Real men do eat quiche, but I don't know any!

George is twirling in his grave!

My dad.....

  Today I took chili to Mom and Dad for their lunch and Dad had a few little projects for me to help him with. It just breaks my heart to see him not be able to do anything. He is just so incredibly weak and really just has no quality of life. His macular degeneration is worse...so much so that he is going to have to stop driving the 1/4 mile to the post office. He told me today that he couldn't see well enough to do it. His hearing aid has been sent off to get repaired and his loaner stopped working today. Thank goodness, his got back this afternoon and he has it now. It's just sad! I miss my daddy!

All before noon!

• Drank coffee
• Did some yoga
• Did the crossword puzzle in the paper
• Made a pot of chili
• Called the yard people that I am paying to keep the weeds out of the yard and keep the grass green to complain about all the weeds
• Mowed all the yard
• Did all the edging
• Did all the blowing off
• Cleaned out flower beds
• Ate chili

I don't know why I try to do it all at once. Now I am tired to the bone, but the yard looks good. I'm taking aspirins and taking a rest.

I don't need this!

My computer monitor is turning all shades of pink. If my mind serves me correctly, that means it's about to go belly up. I was hoping it would wait until after Christmas or until I get through paying hospital bills...whichever comes first. I have already been shopping around because I knew I needed a new monitor. I still have one of those huge, heavy ones from the Dark Ages and it has served me well, so I won't complain. I just need a little more time.

Full speed ahead..

I have been a scrapbooking fool the last two days and my house is a mess. That stuff gets scattered everywhere, but once I get going, I don't like to put it all up only to have to drag it out again. I get on a roll. I really got lucky today and found scrapbooking papers for 4 for a dollar. That's unheard of. Never have I found that before, but it was at Michael's and I usually go to Hobby Lobby for my scrapbooking needs. I'll be going to Michael's more often now, I believe. Those papers are normally 69 cents each, so that was a real find. I should have bought more, but I had just been to Hobby Lobby during Dad's chemo on Monday and bought a bunch of stuff. It's a fun project that I enjoy doing, but I am way behind so I had to step it up a notch. I'll get it finished on time since I'm off to such a good start. Usually, by this time of the year I am almost finished.

Just 'cuz I can...

I would rather have Hillary than Obama! Actually, I'd rather have Maxine!

WooHoo!

Finally, I feel rested and I have a day to catch up on stuff that I need to do for me. With the reunion over and my brother taking Dad to chemo today, I am free! Well, sort of. Mom handed me her grocery list as I left there yesterday, but she is gone with Dad today to his chemo......sooooo, that's a job I can put off until the afternoon after I get stuff done at home. Edited to add: Well, it wasn't my day afterall. I went to get Mom's groceries, took them to her and she was at home. She didn't go with Dad and brother to chemo. Brother called while I was there and told me to stay there until they got home. He had a script for me to take to the pharmacy for Dad. Seems Dad has a cold and his port is infected. The chemo nurses called the doc to come downstairs and take a look at him...thus....the new prescription. Needless to say, I didn't accomplish much at my home! Maybe tomorrow.

Last night we started yoga again....this time it's Yoga II. It really does make me feel so good, so why don't I do it every day? I don't know! I am going to try to do better. I even bought a little book of a 15 minute yoga routine to do every morning. I haven't done it YET! Why? Again, I have no clue!

I'm DONE in!

Exhaustion is the only suitable word for me right now. The reunion is over until 10-10-10 (oooowwww...that's spooky). That date will probably have some sort of connotation by the time it happens. It was fun, but it's just tiring for the co-chairs. We tried to pawn it off on some new co-chairs, but nobody volunteered. Of course, we knew that!

Starting tomorrow, Dad gets his last round of chemo before a nice, long rest. After this week, we will wait a couple of months to get a CT scan and see what's happening in his lungs. He attended the festivities today and enjoyed it. There was one other graduate there older than he is and he's 86. I will NOT be going when I'm 86 if I live that long! At this rate, I will not live that long!

CRAPOLA!

Facebook told me I needed to be using IE7 instead of IE6....so for the 3rd time I downloaded IE7. The last two times, it pissed me off that none of the links in emails would open after I downloaded it. Those two times, I uninstalled and went back to IE6. This time it wouldn't let me do that, so I have spent 2 freakin' hours googling it to try to fix it. I finally got it fixed. I must admit, I do like IE7 better, but I also noticed that there is now IE8 ready for download in beta. Crap! Just as soon as I get used to this one, I'll have to get the next one.

Long, long day!

Twice a year I take my mom to the cemetery where her family is buried for dinner on the grounds. She and Dad , me, my brother, and sister-in-law will be buried there as well. I would just as soon be cremated and scattered over the Rocky Mountains or in someone's garden to help their vegies grow! Anyway, today was that day. I had just enough time to come back to my home after that event, go to Wal-Mart and get stuff for our school reunion tomorrow and go back to the town I grew up in to decorate for the event tomorrow. I met my co-chair there and we got everything all ready for the bi-annual reunion. We are going to church there tomorrow and having the reunion immediately following. I will be glad when it is over! I really don't enjoy doing it. If it were just my class and the one below and above me, I would like it, but this is the whole school. Anyone who ever went there.......MY DAD WENT THERE! It's closed now, but some people just can't let it go. I have been co-chair for about 8 years and I'm not enjoying it any more!! Enough with the whining already!!!!