tuesday

Joplin is still missing. I miss him so badly I can hardly stand it.
Daughter and her friend made "missing cat posters" and "reward posters" to hang around the neighborhood.
My 11 year old nephew who lives a few streets away has his friends keeping an eye out for kitty.
I'll call the shelter, and the pound tomorrow.
We-Ping keeps searching around the house for Joplin.....and seems a little restless. I think she misses him too.

Daughter, daughters friend, and I went shopping and out to lunch today. We all had a few Christmas gifts to return. While we were out, daughter wanted to get her ear pierced. The upper ear......where it's all cartilage. I'm not big on piercings and tattoos. I have single ear piercings, and that's it........though I have given some thought to getting a tattoo, I've never followed through. I think I'd get tired of seeing the same piece of art on my body, everyday, day after day for the rest of my life.
After daughter had her ear pierced, and because she had to buy a pair of earrings to get the piercing, she had an extra earring. So I too had my upper ear cartilage pierced. It hurt like a mother! I screamed. Daughter and her friend laughed till they nearly peed themselves.
I like it, the pierced upper ear. Daughter likes hers too.
We had fun today& It was a distraction from worrying about my Joplin.

milk carton cat

Joplin has been missing since 5:30 pm yesterday.
She ran out the kitchen door while I was bringing in groceries. But that wasn't a big deal because she(she's really a he but I call her a she out of habit) goes outside to play everyday.
I called for her to come in more than several times lastnight. But she never did.
I'm trying not to think about it because it's heart breaking. I keep thinking about Laquisha, another cat I had that went out to play and never came home, ever.
I'm hoping and praying will all of my heart and soul that Joplin returns.

christmas

Christmas Day was busy and fun. It was filled with family, food, gifts, conversation, laughing, and love.
I felt very grateful.

The above picture is of my 2 sons, my daughter, and my parents.

Christmas Eve

I have an apple pie and a cherry pie in the oven. My house smells so good!
Boyfriend, the kids and I are having dinner here today. I bought paper plates so that clean up will be a cinch.
I made the turkey and potato salad lastnight......and I spent the day cleaning house. So all that's left to do is make the bake beans and put ribbons and bows on the gifts.

The rest of my day will be spent soaking in a hot bath, reading one of the 6 books I found sitting on my front porch this morning (I don't know who put them there), and maybe watching a Christmas movie if I can find one on TV. :O)

Monday

I baked cookies today, lots of cookies........ Daughter helped me. It was fun spending time with her. I told her some of the Christmas stories from my childhood. I want her to know me. You know? And she talked a lot about school and her up coming skiing/tubing trip. I like listening to her talk about her life.

There's a lady up the street who has 4 kids. They don't have much money because her husband refuses to keep a job. He smokes weed and parties a lot with his friends. He's one of those irresponsible dicklicks that produces kids....................she tries to be a good mother. I guess her fault is in picking a dicklick of a husband and then making a bunch of babies. She tries to make the best of it. I like her children. So I make them lots of cookies at Christmas.

I keep saying it, but I'm taking a trip soon. I need to get away from the same old boring everything. All I can think about is February in Miami. It's positively wonderful there that time of year................and it's what I keep thinking about.

Sunday

My mom says she's feeling better today.
She still feels weak and tired, but says she feels better.
She absolutly refuses to let me and my sisters cook the Christmas dinner. We tried with every ounce of our being to talk her in to it, but she refuses. Made me feel a little sad cause I know she's not really up to it. My oldest sister and her daughter-in-law are going to moms Tuesday. They think they're going to help mom clean house and wrap gifts. But all of that has been done. So mom says she will let them help her do peeling, cutting, mixing and such so that mom will only have to pop things in the oven on Christmas day. That made me feel better.

My dad called me tonight to ask me if I knew whether or not my sister was doing drugs again. She has roughly 24 years sobriety. But in recent weeks I've wondered the same thing as my dad. I've also thought that maybe something else might be going on with her. None of those things good.
I promised dad I'd talk to her..............and I will.

My middle son is officially a college junior. I'm proud of him for sticking with it.

My oldest son stopped by this evening after he and my middle son did their Christmas shopping. They spent the morning and early afternoon hunting and then went straight to the mall to shop.
I've had a difficult time adjusting to oldest son being out on his own. Or maybe it's just that I miss not seeing him everyday. I'm a dork I guess. But I do miss him some of the time. It always makes me happy to see him.

Sunday

I spent the late afternoon and the evening with my mom yesterday.
She has been sick for a week with some virus I guess.My two older sisters and my dad have been tending to her the past several days. They said she was fine, and I guess she is. But she looked a lot worse than I was expecting. When I got to her house I could hear her in her bed moaning.
Her temp. is up, her blood pressure is down, and she's a tiny bit confused, she's pale and she's weak...........walking from her bed to the bathroom made her pant for breath. I gave her something for her fever, and made her take her heart pill that she hadn't been taking.(she decides what she's going to take, and when. She can be a very stubborn patient.)
And I'm 100% sure she's dehydrated. So I made her eat some jello, and drink some water.
She was worried about her Christmas presents getting wrapped. So she sat in the living room with me while I wrapped her Christmas gifts...........actually I ran to the store and bought a bunch of great big gift bags. So everything has been bagged, and put under her tree. I hope I have the right gifts going to the right people.
The last hour that I was there mom was very talkative and up and about a little. She said she felt like she was over the "hump".........and she was looking a little better. SO I hope she truely is feeling better and on the upswing.
Today mom needs me to run a couple errands. So I'm going to pay my bills, run errands for mom, and then I plan on baking some Christmas treats with my daughter.

12-17-08

2 more days until my vacation!

Tuesday 12-16-08

Three more days to work and then I'm on vacation. Yay!

I'm just going to enjoy my family and the Christmas celebration while on my vacation. Anything else is up in the air.

I love this time of year, the Christmas and New Year holiday season. But during this time of year I worry, more than my usual worrying, about all the people I love being safe. I get scared and worry that someone will get hurt in an accident or die. I don't know why I worry, especially during the holiday season, but I do.

saturday

Yesterday was my off day.

I got up before the sun, went out to breakfast with boyfriend, and then went to the mall.

We shopped until my feet hurt so bad I had to take my shoes off to continue to walk.

I think boyfriend thought I was exaggerating the pain I felt in my feet until we got home and he could see the blood blisters on the back of my heels. I left the shoes in my car and threw them away this morning before leaving to go to work.

All I have left to buy for Christmas is a gift card, and a present for daughters cheerleading coach.........Yay!.............



Boyfriend just called. He's bringing over Chinese food for supper. We have the house to ourselves until 10pm. Wonder what we will do with all that time?



My nephews daughter was born last week. She was transferred to Childrens Hosp. ICU where she's been for the past week.......until today. She's at home. They thought she might have all kinds of fancy sounding diseases because she didn't want to eat, and she didn't have a bowel movement according to their timetable. My nephew was beside himself with fear and worry. He was very emotional......very tearful. I felt badly for him..........and finally, on day two, because I know what I know, I told nephew THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR LITTLE GIRL! TRUST ME! THERE'S NOTHING WRONG!" He calmed down, and it turns out I was right. Thank goodness. :O) So sweet Taylor is at home in her warm little bed.

wed

State inspectors are at my work.
It's stressful.
When I'm really stressed my jaw hurts.
My jaw is hurting. It hurts to eat, hurts to yawn.....hurts to open my mouth.

I just watched the news. They did a story about the news lady that was beaten to death in her home. Sad story.............&
Now I'm afraid. Son is at his dads house tonight............
I put a chair in front of the door that opens to the basement stairs. Not that it will keep anyone out, but atleast i'll hear them if they open the door.......I have a hammer under my bed...and I called boyfriend to come spend the night.

work

I snapped at the HR lady today at work.
She's vengeful. So i'm a little worried.
On the other hand though I think our new administrator
isn't especially fond of the HR lady.........but i'm pretty sure she likes me.
I hate this type of crap.

weekend

MY weekend in a nutshell.....
grocery shopping and banking
out to breakfast and Christmas shopping with daughter.......(i love spending time with her. she's growing up......part of me wishes they didn't have to grow up.)
Dinner out with my mom and sisters....(we do it once a year at Christmas time. It's one of my favorite nights of the year.)
Wrapped a million and 1 Christmas gifts...(YAY! I'm relieved it's finished....and I enjoyed doing it!)
Dusted and organized dining room ..
Cleaned out broom closet...
hung 3 pictures with help from boyfriend......
Hung outdoor Christmas lights with help from daughter...

Joplin

Tuesday

While driving to pick up my daughter from cheerleading practice tonight I saw a falling star. It was pretty to see.........and yes, I made a wish. :O)

I was thinking about calling in sick to work tomorrow. But I won't.

Boyfriend took me out to breakfast this morning, and then we did some Christmas shopping. It was fun.