wed.

So I cleaned and cut the veggies for the veggie tray............made the fruit salad, baked the pumpkin pies, and made some pumpkin bread to send home with everyone. The ham is cooked............and the table is set.......................I'll bake the turkey and make the dressing tomorrow...............I'm looking forward to spending time with my sons, daughter, and my parents!

I'm on the couch with Mr. Bojangles watching The Diary Of A Mad Black Woman. It's kind of corny but I like it just the same...&...Medea cracks me up.

tuesday

So last week dad was in his garage scrapping rust off the legs of a table he got out of someones garbage. It was a pretty iron table with a tile top. I commented on how pretty I thought it was, and how it would last forever.I get home that evening and the table was in my driveway with a cute little birdhouse on top of it........and a note from dad telling me to enjoy the table. Now I love it even more........it will be perfect on my deck!

I didn't clean my house yesterday. i jsut didn't have it in me......................I paid daughter and one of her friends to do it for me...........I left while they cleaned...........enjoyed an afternoon and early evening out with boyfriend.......................came home to a clean house...........they even put up the Christmas tree. Yay! It feels like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders!
.....and they did a pretty good job........

Mom went to the doctor yesterday.
She has a urinary tract infection.
Hopefully she will be doing better in a day or two.

Mom and dad are coming to my house for Thanksgiving.
They've never been here for Thanksgiving. I'm looking forward to having them here.........
.............making a ham and turkey.......mom insisted on
a ham...&........she said "no boxed dressing." i agreed............................but it's what I'm making.........I doctor it though.........add sauteed onions and celery.........and a little bacon...................she will never know! :O)

Let the kitties out this morning................. surprised to see.everything is covered with snow! It looks beautiful!

monday

I'm on vacation. Yay!
I will probably turn my cell phone off
while on vacation so work can't bother me. :O)

Mom has been sick.
Most of my time off is spent with
her.
When she's sick she gets a little confused........since her car wreck this past June,
she's been obsessing a little about a rat in her house. When she has an infection her obsession gets worse......and she has delirium through the night.
I've checked every corner of her house looking for rat poop. None.
We've set traps........no rat. She has potatoes and onions on the floor of her pantry........ a rat would probably munch on them.........but no signs of a rat!
She bought rat poison.
I snuck it out of her house and put it in my trunk.
So for the last week she's had delirium and the rat thing..........probably has a urinary tract infection..........dad is taking her to the doctor today...................hopefully a simple antibiotic will take care of the problem!

I took her to lunch the other day. Sister went with us.
I mentioned her car wreck.
Mom: " I didn't wreck. I felt myself falling asleep so I pulled over."
Me: " Yes. You crossed over two lanes of oncoming traffic, drove down a 10 foot embankment, and parked the car in a fence."
She laughed.....................................................

So Igot allofmoms laundry done.......and put her Christmas tree up...........................today I need to clean my house, get my tree up, nd run to the grocery............

hi billy.u cracked me up on prof. comments

A couple nice paintings........

Mom and dads buffet.........knots in the wood............looks like an alien......or a face of some sort...

 

I've been busy...................................things will calmdown soon I hope.........work tomorrow then off 4  week....Yay!

wed.

  I can't     seem to shake this cold......and my lips are chapped........and my nose is irritated and raw from blowing..........

My vacation starts Monday.......7 days off...............looking forward to it more than anything!.........................and I'm taking another one, a longer one in December..............looking forward to it more than anything!

Friday part 3

It was a great day........beautiful, sunny, and crisp outside..............

Cleaned up the basement junk room a bit.............organized my paints and paint brushes...........

While sitting at the dining room table sorting through mail, I heard daughter who was upstairs getting dressed for work, singing along with the radio.......................she sounded so sweet and young....................made me smile.

friday part 2

friday

It's chilly outside, but sunny. It's a good day to be outside.
I think we're going to rake leaves
and I have a little house work to do.........
mostly though I want to work on a painting
and finish work on a little group of Christmas trees
daughter and I began putting together last night. They're cute!

I Christmas shopped most of yesterday. Everything is still
in the trunk of the car...........I 'm a little burned out on shopping!

When I woke up this morning I had a pounding headache.
I took a couple Advil and I'm drinking caffeine in hopes
that it goes away sooner than later....................then I can get on with my
day!

thursday

lol

wed

Went shopping today and out to lunch with daughter and my mom.
We had a nice time.
Mom bought new sneakers to wear to the gym. :O) They're cute.

saturday

I ended up getting the vacation time that I thought had been denied. Yay!

Went shopping and out to lunch with my older sister today..........we had fun.........
Daughter has friends over tonight for a bonfire. A couple months ago her boyfriend of 1 year told her
he was going to Lexington for the weekend to visit friends. While he was gone she went to his apartment to get her phone charger. He was there and in bed with a girl. Daughter hasn't seen or talked to him since that day.
She just came down the stairs from her bedroom with the clothes he left in her car.......a couple jackets, some sweat shirts, and a hat. They're going in the bon fire. .........I don't blame her!

friday

I stopped at Hobby Lobby on my way home from work.
I buy a few ornaments each year that I will give to daughter when she gets her own place.
I found some pretty heart ornaments tonight to add to the collection.

Work was crazy today.We started a new computer program with no training/in servicing. It's a giant cluster fuck of a mess!

One of the doctors my sister works for told her to tell me to take iron for the restless leg thing that kept me from getting a good nights sleep for well over a year. So I've been taking a multi vitamin with iron daily for a couple months. At the risk of sounding dramatic, it has changed my life. The restless leg thing is gone..........so is my craving for ice. I sleep like a baby most nights...............and when I do have trouble sleeping, which isn't very often, it isn't because of my legs.

I had a dream about my mom the other night.
In the dream I stopped by her house to see how she was doing. She was wearing a beautiful violet colored evening gown......just barely off the shoulders........with a little bit of cleavage showing. (when I was a younger girl I always thought mom had a beautiful cleavage.) And her face was the same as when she was 30 or 40 years old.......very pretty......her hair was dark again and up in a beehive type do..........she was all smiles...............and showing off to me her chiseled jaw line. She was so happy and joyful.........and I felt so happy................................then dad walked in....................he was dressed up in a orange suit with a multi colored tie........it had alll the fall colors in it................the outfit sounds hideous..............but he looked so handsome and healthy.........theywere celebrating......... I had to stop mom from swinging on a cord that was hanging from the ceiling..............Then I reminded myself that she wasn't sick anymore..........and if she wants to swing she should swing...................and then I woke................it was a good dream........silly but good!