Hot Damn!

It's 101 actual degrees right now! Going outside is NOT an option. I took Mom to the senior revival this morning. She enjoyed it, but it was hard on her. The church is too big and involves too much walking from the parking lot (even the handicapped parking) to the chapel, then to the cafeteria for lunch. She was exhausted. When we got to the cafeteria, I sent her to a table to sit down and I went and got her lunch. I don't think we'll be going to that event anymore.

Meanwhile, my brother was taking care of getting Dad to his audiologist appointment. I believe tomorrow is a day that I can stay home. I hope so.

Things are looking up!

Mom called and told me that both audiologists had been in touch with them. Tomorrow afternoon I have to get Dad to the audiologist here and he is going to make a new impression and the manufacturer is going to make Dad a completely new hearing aide at no cost. This old one has never fit properly and has fallen out. Thank goodness it fell in his shirt pocket or we would have never found it.

Tomorrow morning I had already made arrangements to take Mom to a Senior Revival at my church. She used to go to it every year and one of the ladies from the church called me and asked me to serve coffee. Her main reason in asking me to serve coffee was that she wanted me to bring my mom. I agreed to it, so now my day will once again be full tomorrow. Maybe my brother will be able to take care of Dad tomorrow.

I'm tired already

It's only 1:30 and I am done for the day. My dad's hearing aide died again yesterday, so I found an audiologist here in my town and went to visit him to see if I could bring my dad to him. He said yes....so I went and got Dad and brought him to see the man. He told him something was wrong with the hearing aide and it was not just stopped up. We left it with him for him to send back to the manufacturer since it is still under warranty. Dad has had nothing but trouble with that hearing aide, which is supposed to be top of the line. He told Mom that he wished he could just die and get on out of the way. That makes me sad that he thinks he is in the way. He is not. We will take care of him just like he has taken care of us.

I picked a bucket full of okra when I took him back home. Okra is one of my favorites, so I'll be having that later on today. Right now it is nap time while I water the yard!!!

Well, Duh!

I have lived in this house 18 months and have wondered why the master bath is freakin' cold in the winter and hot in the summer. Finally, I climbed up tonight to feel in front of the vent...NOTHING is coming out! Now I will have to call the people who put in the AC Monday to come out and check it out. Since I waited so long, I will probably have to pay them now. I'm such a procrastinator...Now it could cost me. I hate for anyone to have to go in the attic in this heat. It was 100 degrees in my garage today, so it is 130 in the attic.

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Hotter than HELL!

The temp on my computer right now says 99 degrees. I don't enjoy hot weather, but I went with a friend early this morning to our Krewe Den where our Mardi Gras float is stored. It's a 40,000 square foot unairconditioned building and we were there to clean it up and get organized for the upcoming season. There were 6 of us and we knocked it out quickly so we could get out of there. Our theme this year is "Hello, Broadway" so we will begin soon to change the float up some to reflect that. I have to pay my $50 float riding fee and buy 2 cases of beads to throw. I'll probably ride in two parades. That looks like the most fun of all the activities.

When I left there, I had to go buy eggs and take them to my mom. Dad walked with me out to see the tomato plants that the moles are eating, but he went to his room to lie down after that. He is going to the community party at their church tonight. He wanted me to come, so I have to get ready to go back down there for that. What ever he wants...that's what I will do and I will do it without complaint!

Downer!

I called my mom a little while ago. Since Dad was not in the house, she told me that he was in bad shape, but he didn't want anyone to know how bad off he is. He cannot breathe in spite of the fact that he uses his nebulizer on a regular basis. He told her that he thought he was nearly dead. Lately, he doesn't even want breakfast. Usually, that's the only meal that he will eat. He weighs 147 pounds. He is tired and ready to go to his heavenly home.

Holy Crap!

When I walked out through the garage this morning to go get the paper, there was yet another ground rattler snake in my garage. It was smaller than the last one, but it was still a SNAKE! After that happens, I am traumatized for a while. No one is more afraid of snakes than I am. This one was traveling along next to the wall headed straight for the door. Thank goodness he was on that side of the garage where there is not much stuff. If he came in the other side, there would be lots of places to hide. I would just die!!!!

After lunch with the ladies today, I tackled my mother's prescription drug company. Her doc gave her a prescription last Thursday for some pain patches. The damned insurance company says that has to be pre-authorized! Forget that the doctor says she needs it....what does he know! Of course, insurance companies all know more than doctors!! I lost the battle and the pain patches are $200, which Mom will not pay. Those insurance companies really chap my ass!! I'm MAD! My mother should be able to put one of those on her hand that hurts all the time or her foot that hurts all the time. GRRRRR!!!

The best "living will"!

I, MAXINE , being of sound mind and body, do not wish to be kept alive indefinitely by artificial means. Under no circumstances should my fate be put in the hands of pinhead politicians who couldn't pass ninth-grade biology if their lives depended on it, or lawyers / doctors interested in simply running up the bills. If a reasonable amount of time passes and I fail to ask for at least one of the following:
Glass of wine

chocolate

Margarita

chocolate

Martini

Cold Beer

chocolate

Chicken fried steak

cream gravy

chocolate

Mexican food

chocolate

French fries

chocolate

Pizza

chocolate

ice cream

cup of tea

chocolate

Chocolate

Sex

It should be presumed that I won't ever get better. When such a determination is reached, I hereby instruct my appointed person and attending physicians to pull the plug, reel in the tubes, let the "fat lady sing". . . and call it a day!

Disclosure: I got this as an email and I totally concur!!

Just Damn!

First of all, Dell should show up on the caller I.D. instead of "toll free number". I don't answer toll free numbers. They left a message that my order ship date wouldn't be until August 28th and I would have to call them and give them the "go ahead" to complete my order. They are required to do this since shipping is delayed that much. I called and was on "hold" for over an hour before I gave up and used the email address they had given me to use. I would have preferred to talk to a person, but DAMN....I got tired of their asinine music and "we are sorry for your wait...please hold"! Well NO...I'm not going to hold any more and I came really close to cancelling the whole order because of that long wait!! I didn't, but I sure thought about it.

Computer update...

I finally called customer service to find out why my computer hasn't shipped or the status hasn't at least been changed to a new ship date. Finally a HUMAN that spoke relatively good English found that due to the color I chose (pink) there was a delay. Apparently, a lot of people have ordered pink laptops!!! Who Knew!!! New ship date is supposed to be tomorrow. That's just great because the young man who is going to help me set everything up wirelessly starts back to school!!! CRAP!

Too freakin' HOT!

We have been really, really lucky this summer with our weather because we have had lots of rain and not so hot weather. That all changed this week. I had to water my yard and postpone working to get a fall garden ready to plant at Dad's. I can't get motivated to get out and die of heat stroke.

Today I toiled on a much needed task of cleaning house. Even a new construction needs a good cleaning of the floors, baseboards, and under furniture. I have a problem with tiny little spiders that live under the baseboards and spin webs outside the baseboards. They are highly annoying. I bought some spider killer that I am going to spray along the baseboards and see if that helps. It seems that I am always battling some varmit.

Crazy day.....

First of all, it's tax free weekend in Louisiana. At Wal-Mart, that translates into redneck chaos. I didn't know it started today until I went to Wal Mart to get meds for my parents. The meds weren't ready, which could only mean that I would have to go BACK there later today! I didn't want to, but I did and the meds still weren't ready....which means I will have to go back tomorrow!

This afternoon I went to the funeral of someone I didn't know just because she was in my Sunday School class and they have no family. The pall bearers were all men from the class and most of the people in attendance were as well. Otherwise, the poor man would have had no one for her funeral. Sad, sad situation.

Tonight I went back to the home place and went to dinner at our favorite catfish place with the family. Let's just conclude that I am tired!!! mmmmmkay?

Where's my computer?

My estimated ship date was July 31. That didn't happen, so I just checked the website and it still says "in production" with ship date of July 31. Hello! It's August. I deserve an explantion or an update on my account.

Mission Accomplished....

I can't get in to the edit mode for some reason to edit the last post. I got the bird out. He was so exhausted that he just perched on the garage door. I was able to climb up to where he was and pick him up in a towel and take him outside. He did fly away, but not very fast!!

My hummers are Dumb!

For the 3rd time, I have had a hummingbird in my garage all day long. He just flies around the top and can't find the big huge OPEN door. I even took the car out and left the door open each time I left today. He has had no food all day and has surely used all his reserve, but I can't get him out. I even went to try to buy a butterfly net, but I couldn't find one. I'm leaving the door open tonight and the car out hoping he will find his way out. The other two that did this eventually found their way out. I never saw them get out and it might have happened after they fell to the ground and saw their way out. I give up. I don't know what else to do.

God at Work

Someone from my Sunday School class called this morning to tell me that another of our members had died. She and her husband were evacuees from Katrina and they lost everything. Both were in poor health, but they faithfully came to Sunday School even though they are Catholics. A fund was started by our class this morning at 8:30. I took my donation to the church this morning and told my cousin the story. My cousin and I were having dinner tonight at a restaurant when my Sunday School teachers came in with the husband of the deceased wife. My cousin had just given me some cash to donate to the fund. My Sunday School teacher came over to say hello and I told her that I had another donation to make to the fund. She said we didn't need any more. People had been so generous that one of the men from the class is taking the husband to buy him a suit tomorrow and we are buying some casket flowers and the casket. That's what it's all about.....doing the right thing!!!

Detour!

While I took a quick trip to McDonald's to get a Big Breakfast this morning, I had a message left for me from my cousin who was in the Dallas Airport headed this way. She needed me to pick her up in just a short while, so I did...then we had lunch and I dropped her off at the assisted living facility which houses her mother (my aunt).

Although it was raining in Shreveport, it was not raining at my house....so I managed to get the yard mowed.

Busy day...

Yesterday during church, my dad's hearing aide died. Without it he cannot hear it thunder. He cannot get an appointment for two weeks with the audiologist. I took him to Shreveport this morning to drop off his hearing aide in hopes that the audiologist can fix it without having to send it off. That took all morning.

I really wanted to get the yard mowed today, but that didn't happen because I had to work on a press release for the upcoming coronation of royalty for our Krewe. That's not easy since I have never been to this event and don't know anything about it. I went to the newspaper office and got the newspapers from last year as a guide. Then I had to locate some pictures to go with the article. It's all done and submitted to the proper reporter to probably screw it all up!!. I don't have much faith in the spelling and grammar skills of reporters. I know it was submitted with correct spelling and grammar. Who knows how it will end up!! At least it won't have my name on it!!

My day is done!

Early today I went to the store for Mom and then took the stuff to her. When I got there, she had already cleaned up from breakfast and said she felt much better. I knew she did or she wouldn't have had that done.

I went on to the garden and cleaned up the tomato row and planted 9 new tomatoes that are heat tolerant in hopes that we can get some more tomatoes before the first frost. My brother came and we picked peas. Now he has vertigo! I'm sure picking peas didn't help that any because bending the head over causes it to be worse.

I came home and mowed the backyard, treated some fireants that aren't supposed to be in my yard due to all the stuff I have broadcast over the yard to keep them out, and have now showered and ready for a rest and it's only noon!!!