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!!!!

What pathetic MORONS!

Click here to see just how pathetic some Obama supporters are! I already knew this, but it is confirmed here. It's Howard Stern's show, so the language at the beginning may be offensive to some. Sorry! If you go to this page, scroll down and read some of the comments! Very interesting, indeed!

OK..I'm done!

• Got the check up...all is well
• Got the pap..all is well
• Got the mammogram...all is well
• Got the teeth cleaned...all is well

Now I just want to be left alone...thank you very much!

WTF!

I just got a porno photo on my cell phone! VERY FEW people even know my cell phone number and none of them would do that. PHONE SPAM has found me! I deleted the picture and, apparently, I deleted the number as well. CRAP! Now I can't even block the number!

OMG

I just ate the best cheesecake that I have ever tasted. My buds and I went to see the movie, An American Carol, this afternoon. Since all of us are conservative minded politically, we laughed a lot. It ripped Michael Moore and his "documentaries" lies to shreds. I have never wasted a dime on one of his films and I never will, but I have seen enough clips to make me really enjoy the satire in this new movie. Liberals will hate it, but I thought it was right on target.....from Michael Moore to Rosie O'Donnell to liberal college professors and the ACLU. It got them all!

Now...back to the cheesecake...the best part of the day! We went to Copeland's Cheesecake Bistro for dinner after the movie. I knew I could not eat dessert there because I was full of clam chowder and lump crabmeat and crawfish (hey, this is Louisiana) in a rich, creamy cheese sauce. It was to die for as well! I brought home a huge slice of white chocolate strawberry cheesecake, which was adorned with white chocolate dipped strawberries and strawberry sauce...don't hate! It was scrumptious and only raised my blood glucose to 158!! I say that's not a bad trade off! Edited to add: Ooops! I checked my BG an hour later and it was 198! Re-wind! Next time, don't eat the whole thing!!!

Waste of skin day!

After going to check on Mom and Dad early this morning, I came home and became a recluse. Standard procedure is that if I don't want to be bothered am petending not to be home, I close the garage door. That's what I did and took a nap, watched Wild Hogs, and basically closed out the world. Sometimes I just do that and don't even feel guilty about it. Today was Primary Elections in Louisiana, postponed due to Hurricane Gustav, so I voted before I became a hermit. Tonight I will watch some election returns and hope for no run-offs so I can stop seeing all the CRAP they put on TV. My brother was mayor of his small town for 9 years, but due to some political mess that he couldn't agree with, he resigned last week. As a result, he has been on all the TV stations. Today, he was sick of it, so he went to the woods deer hunting. I'm glad he did. He is much less stressed now. My dad was mayor for 30 years and he was always stressed as well. It isn't even a paid position and is totally thankless. The constituents are quick to criticize when something they don't like happens, but they never say "Thank you" when things go well. I say, "Good for you, Brother!"

GREAT JOB!

After all the negatives this week aka "gotchas" by Katie Couric, I was afraid. She pulled it out. Biden did a good job as well. Both of them showed decorum and knowledge. Of course, he is more knowledgeable as he should be, but she did a fine job. Crap...I can't find a spellcheck on the new Blogger in Draft!

Slow day

I have seen the writing on the wall and heeded. Today I spent more time going through more junk in the attic that somehow got moved here from Texas. I figure if I didn't know I had it or I haven't used it in the nearly 3 years I have been here, then I don't need it. The local Humane Society is having a garage sale, so I have a bunch of stuff to donate to that. The writing on the wall is telling me that it won't be long before I will be physically restricted to not going up and down that ladder into the attic. It's not a problem now, but I know it will be eventually, so I don't want a lot of junk up there for someone else to have to get out.

After lunch with the ladies today, I went to check on Mom and Dad. On my way there, I stopped at our new ice cream parlour and got Dad a chocolate shake. He drank almost the whole thing. He isn't feeling very well, but he keeps trying to do a few things.

I have plenty of these for slow days!

Dear God,

I drove Dad's truck down in the pasture to  a chinquapin tree, but Dad stayed in the truck while I was picking chinquapins. The door to the truck was open and I heard my dad start to talk. I thought he was talking to me, so I turned to look at him. He was praying.. thanking God for the day and for his children and daughter-in-law. Of course, I got big ol' crocodile tears in my eyes when I heard him, but I just kept on picking the nuts off the tree. He never knew that I heard him. I get teary eyed right now just remembering it. It was a sweet moment...not one that I am likely to forget!

Laid back Saturday

I was deeply involved in getting started on a scrapbook this morning when my cousin,who is in town for only a few days, called and said we needed to go to this Bluegrass Festival while her mother was taking her nap today. OK. We went for a little while and listened and looked. The only reason it was OK is because the weather is divine and I wasn't sweating. Otherwise, I would have been ready to go much sooner. Bluegrass....No...not so much!

Another pet peeve...

The debates are over! STFU now! All the damn pundits, who think they are smart just annoy me enormously! It's over....no one won....no one lost! Give it a rest!I stopped watching after an hour just because I lost interest. I have the attention span of a gnat!

Busy day...

My cousin is visiting from Virginia and she called me this morning to let me know she was in town and that I should come to the assisted living place where her mother (my aunt) lives and see a presentation given by a couple of friends of mine. I went and they couldn't get the projector to recognize their computer to present their power point slides. Technology of that nature left my brain when I retired, so I went across the street to an elementary school and got help. (The presenter is the former superintendent and his wife is a current administrator) Since the people at the school knew them, they sent someone right over to help get them going. I watched their presentation on a trip to Israel and Egypt.

Tonight, we all went to eat at our regular favorite catfish restaurant. The big surprise is that my aunt, who is 92 and my dad's only sibling remaining, wanted to go. She never wants to go anywhere, but since Dad has been diagnosed with lung cancer, he doesn't go see her like he used to. She wanted to see him, so she went. It was a priceless evening and will probably never happen again.

Enough, I say, enough!

This morning I had two medical appointments, both made by my primary care physician's office....otherwise, I wouldn't be going! I was a year overdue for a mammogram, so now that is done and about 10 years overdue for a GYN appointment. Now that's done! When I left out of there, they said,"Come back in 3 years." Yeah, right! Not unless I am once again forced by my doc.....he is just so thorough!!! A little too thorough for me. I want to be left alone! So there! Well, at least until I get sick!

Killer day...

Since brother was taking Dad for his treatment today and also to an appointment with his urologist, I went to Mom and Dad's early and started mowing. Usually, my brother and sister-in-law each get on a mower and finish it off in an hour, but with only me it took about 3 hours and I got it all finished just before they got back from the appointments. Bro was glad I had done it. He is just so busy.

I checked my little fall garden. Something is eating the turnip greens and broccoli and tomatoes. Some carrots are coming up, but they are obscured by weeds and I can barely find them to pull the weeds away from them.

Looks like we may have a good pecan crop for the first time in two years, so I mowed under all the trees so we can find the pecans when they fall.

Usually, on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday , we go to the rec center for exercise. I emailed my buds today and told them I would not be joining them since I had already had my "rec" for the day.

Much better today...

Dad was breathing much better today and looked better as well. We visited with the doctor in the elevator going up to chemo and he could tell Dad felt better today. Today was the short day, so we were finished by 10 A.M. and I already had a 30 minute nap. I just can't get used to getting up at 6 A.M. Thank goodness, I won't have to any more this week.

Dad update...

Although he is having trouble breathing again and is very short of breath, the doc could not hear any wheezing. Dad was as weak as I have ever seen him today. He just looked so incredibly old and sad. It was just a long, emotional day. Tomorrow will be shorter. He slept the entire 3 hours of chemo. For that I am very grateful.

I barely had time to sit down a few minutes before I had to go pick up a meat and cheese tray I had ordered for my buds in the krewe to snack on while we worked on the float. I just got home and I am exhausted.

Full speed ahead...

This week is filled to the brim with appointments and other things I have to do. Dad is not feeling well. He says his breathing isn't right. It doesn't hurt, but he is short of breath. It makes me wonder if the tumors are not growing again. He is scheduled for doc and chemo tomorrow. Everything I have read says that this cancer can only be slowed by chemo and may only prolong life a few months. I'll take Dad on Monday and Tuesday, then bro will take over Wednesday and Thursday. I'm afraid this time!!

Check this out!

This is a picture of trucks waiting to be dispatched in my former home town of Orange, Texas. I guess they learned a lot from Rita because it didn't look like this after Rita.

Two new toys

I have a new toy! Never, ever have I used a hedge trimmer. I don't even have a hedge, but I have some plant with red leaves that just grows out of control. Many times I have cut it back with hand trimmers, but it grows so quickly. Finally, I gave up and bought this little jewel. Yep, I'm pretty much a master at it now. I'll probably turn everything in the yard into a topiary now!!!

My other new purchase is a t-shirt. Check it out! It says " I support the pitbull with lipstick".