Short night!

My mom has to spend the night in the hospital for some sort of oxygen/pulse overnight test. She has already had one at home and it showed some cause for concern because her pulse gets too low. I just took her there and left her with the technician. I get to pick her up at 5:30 in the morning to take her home. OOOOKKKKKK! I have to set an alarm. Haven't done that in a long time!!!

OK...I tried!

I spent the big bucks on those quirky little energy saving light bulbs, but today I took them all out of the bathroom and put my regular 100 w bulbs over the mirror because it was too dark in there. A bulb that lasts for 8 years was a good selling point for me, but they also say not to dispose of them in the regular garbage because they contain mercury. WTH! So where do I dispose of them? I still have them in a light fixture over my kitchen table, so I guess I'll wait 8 years to worry about how to dispose of those......if I don't replace them with regular bulbs that put out some light before then!!!

Bluebird Taj Mahal

If I were a bluebird, I would totally want to raise my children in this beautiful home. What's not to love! Look! It even has a little patio. Do they want me to get out there and paint that sucker and put a little "welcome" sign on it? I watched for an hour this morning out my bathroom window as a young pair of bluebirds checked out the digs. It was 30 minutes before either of them would go inside the house. They would each look in the hole, but wouldn't go in until the female (of course) finally made the move and went inside. After she "manned up" and went in, then the male started going in as well. Isn't that how it always is? They spent an hour checking the place out. I had to leave to get started doing nothing today, so I don't know if they made a decision to move in and build their home.

My sentiments exactly!

Well, crap!

I love QVC and I order a lot of things from them. It's a great business and easy to deal with. Last week I ordered a Seagate back up external hard drive. All I had to do was hook it up with a USB and, voila, backups begin. I did that and immediately got a message that "installing onto a FAT32 volume is not allowed". HUH! I had no idea what that meant, so I emailed my computer guru. He said it meant it was not compatible with my current hard drive. WHAT! That was never mentioned as a possibility during the QVC presentation. I have packed it up and am sending it back!

Overloaded!

I have reached a point where I can't watch any of the news programs any more. Glenn Beck is my favorite, but I haven't been watching him either. Everything political just seems so hopeless and keeps going to hell in a handbasket (whatever that means)! I agree with Rush and Sean, but I just get tired of hearing the same stuff over and over. I don't want to sound as if I have given up because I haven't. I just need a break from all the Obama crap. Geeze....he is killing the nation I love. How can there be so many MORONS in positions of leadership? I would rather just go outside and talk to the flowers.

My life has been quite mundane lately...

My life has been quite mundane lately, so I have been negligent in posting to my blog. I guess I get my fix on Facebook. Today is a hang out at home day and that is quite alright with me. However, for some reason, I was up early so I went to McDonald's for their big breakfast. When I have a big breakfast, I'm pretty much worthless until it wears off, so I went back to bed. Tonight our krewe has a Captain's party about 30 minutes up the road from me in Walkerville, Arkansas. It still amazes me that I live so close to Arkansas now. Our theme this year was the Krewe that Never Sleeps with a concentration on Vegas, so we are having a fish fry at a member's deer camp and lots of Vegas type games. It will be fun.

It's always something!

I have lived in a new construction house for 3 years, so one would think everything would be in good shape. Well, it is...with the house, but the China made faux wood blinds are not. I had to order a whole new blind because a crappy little plastic piece in the housing broke and made my house look like a redneck house. Of course, this is in the garage, but it still looks crappy and the window faces the front. NOT acceptable. I took the blind down and thought I had it fixed, but I didn't. My brother came and tried to fix it and he is the one that discovered the broken essential piece. Yes, on some things I am just anal!!!! My house is one of them!

It's only getting worse?

I tried to give the prez the benefit of my significant doubt. I wanted to be wrong about the man, but every day I find out that I was not wrong. He is just very scary!

I'm addicted!

It wasn't enough that I have been addicted to Facebook for several months, but now I am addicted to the Facebook Farm Town. One would think that doing the real thing in the real dirt would be enough, but, alas, it is NOT!

Today is going to be another of those too tired to move days. I guess I did too much yesterday because today I am totally void of energy. Also, I have yet again whatever it is that doesn't allow any food to stay down. It's happening regularly now, so I'm thinking it is not a virus. It's OK with me because I need to lose some weight. It kind of sucks that it happens when I have fresh squash and cucumbers that I want to eat!!:(

Wow! What a Monday!

This Monday started around 6:30, which is highly unusual for me, but I needed to get some stuff done at my home before going to Dad's to work in the garden and yard. I was at his house by 9 and so was my brother. We both got busy tilling and mowing and gathering the fruits of our labor. Even Mom came out and helped me pick berries since we finally figured out how to beat the mosquitoes. I came home with new potatoes, squash, cucumbers, and berries and now I am too tired to eat.

When I got home, I called my computer guru because my computer shut itself off last night and started smelling of burning wires. He thought it was the power source going bad and directed me to someone else to fix it. I took it in to the other person and he agreed that it was a bad power source, changed it immediately and I was back home and hooked up in 30 minutes. Small towns ROCK!

As soon as I got finished with that. I had to go work at the Krewe den where we are moving out and getting ready to build a new den. Only 4 of us showed up to work and it was hot PLUS I was already exhausted. I'm too old for all this stuff in one day!!!!! Time for some ME time!

Change of priorities!

Now that it is officially (at least temperature wise) summer, my spending priorities have changed. During the cool months, all I could think of was putting in an acrylic floor in the garage and built in cabinetry. Yesterday my mind changed and a sprinkler system moved to the top of the heap. My house is the only one in the neighborhood that does not have one, so I have to drag sprinklers and hoses all over. It's not hard, but I just like the way the sprinkler system keeps it looking beautiful.

Perfecto!

The weather here was perfect today for working outside, so I took full advantage of it and took care of my yard. It won't be long before I cannot do it all at one time even though it is a small yard because it will just be too hot. Today I was able to do all the mowing, all the edging, and blow everything off without taking a rest. Right now everything is pristine and perfect...just the  way I like it. My caladiums are coming up and they are always very pretty, so I am looking forward to their showing off in a few weeks.

Yesterday, after lunch with the ladies, I went to check on the garden and dig a few potatoes for me and my mom. The mosquitoes were so bad that I couldn't stay out there, but I took a can of yard guard and sprayed all in the berry plants and my mom and I were able to pick the berries without being bitten once. That stuff is awesome, so I'll be buying more of it to use every time I   go to work in the garden. Our berries are planted along a fence, so picking them is easy and doesn't require much bending over. I hate spraying OFF all over me, but I still do it.i guess it's better than West Nile Fever!

Tonight I went to dinner with my bro and sis-in-law...fried pickles and boiled shrimp!! Woohoo! Fried pickles are a new gastric discovery for me and I love them at this restaurant.

OMG!

My mom had to be at the hospital for a carotid ultra sound this morning. That's usually no problem because it's our local hospital here in my town. Easy in...easy out! NOT TODAY! There were at least 15 residents from a couple of mental health homes there today all getting blood work done. They were all over the place...totally unable to sit down and be quiet! Those assistants that work with them are saints. I could never do it!

Problem solved!

Finally figured out that if gladiolus bulbs are planted under hydrangeas in the winter when there are no leaves on them, they will force themselves through the hydrangeas and the hydrangea holds the top heavy blooms up. I can't take credit for matching up the colors, but they match the hydrangeas exactly....both the pink and the purple!

I'm sorry..I couldn't help myself!

Remember those berries I picked yesterday? They magically turned into this!

Productive day already!

This was my harvest this morning. Lots of berries that my dad set out last year. They are bearing thousands of berries. The only problem is fighting the mosquitoes while trying to pick them. I sprayed down with off, but I didn't put it on my face, so the face was their target. These berries will turn into a cobbler before nightfall. I already ate fresh squash today that my mom cooked, but I may eat it again tonight. It's so good. The cucumber is the first one. I get to eat it because I am the only one that really likes cukes! I love them with Italian dressing.

These flowers are from my yard. I planted them a couple of years ago and gave up on them because of thrips, but they keep coming up each year. This year when they started to get buds, I started spraying and they are beautiful now.

Remember the REASON

Many thanks to all you vets out there. I am grateful for your service!

Party last night and party this afternoon, so I am through with the socializing for the weekend. Time to crawl back under my rock!

I love my mom!

Nothing bothers me more than to see my mom getting that elderly confusion. She was such a smart woman and was the one who kept us all straightened out on everything. Yesterday, she called me to tell me about hers and Dad's trip to the doctor. She was fine, but he had a vitamin D deficiency and would I go pick up his prescription for vitamin D. When I went to pick it up, they didn't have one for him, but they had one for her. It was Vitamin D. I stopped by the doctor's office and asked the nurse who really had the vitamin deficiency. Turns out it was her and the prescription was called in correctly! I'm glad I checked up on the discrepancy. I'm afraid that will be more the norm as time goes on. It makes me very sad to see her making mental mistakes....it's sooooo not like her!!!

I remember when...

all one had to do to watch TV was turn it on!!!! Don't misread me! I love technology, but sometimes it is just enough to make me crazy!! Last night after 12, my cable carrier downloaded a new guide for those using DVR's.....that would be me! All their info promised that I would not have to do anything...well, OK! That's how I like it ...nice and simple! But NO, my TV didn't work after the download and, of course, before it was all over I had clicked every button on everything. Next thing I knew, there was a screen that required a password! Parental blocks.....I never have used that and don't have a password. The screen was stuck. It would not go away no matter what I did. I jacked around with the thing until after 3 A.M. doing google searches trying to solve the problem to no avail. This morning I started making calls to the Geek Squad, since the TV is a Best Buy product. Someone there told me that if I would unplug the TV for a few minutes, it would re-set when I plugged it back in! Are you kidding me!!!! What a dork I am! It worked.