sunday

celebrated boyfriends birthday Friday. daughter and I took him out for a nice dinner and bought him a new television for him for the bedroom.
got in from the dinner and settled in for the night when
daughter called me to the living room.  a man was knocking at the front door and she didn't know him. i opened the dining room window
to get a look at who was at our door as we do not have a peep hole.
a man who i did  not recognize said "Sandra it's Daniel" it hit me that it was boyfriends son. him and his wife coming to visit from Colorado for boyfriends  birthday. it was a surprise visit.
my first thought was i wish i had spent my day off work cleaning the house. :O)
so i got them in the house.......they explained they wanted to surprise boyfriend on his birthday with a visit..........their first visit to Ky.
 i went to the bedroom and told boyfriend the neighbor was here, needed to talk to him. boyfriend was thinking they'd probably hit one of our cars. he was totally shocked to see his son and daughter-in-law in the living room..............and very happy!
so we spent the next 4 days hanging out with the visiting couple.
it was a good time.

work has been overwhelmingly busy.
they cut our staff again.
my patient load has increased by 6 or 7 additional patients.
doesn't sound like much but it is................and my computer at work has been broken for several weeks. takes forever to do a task with the way it isn't working.......................and to boot the chairs at the nurses station are broken.......have been for a couple of years.........mine flipped backwards the other day..........left me laying on my back on the floor.
it's all so disheartening some of the time.

i met 3 of my sisters at dads yesterday.
it was his birthday.
we had breakfast together and visited for several hours. it was a nice time.

my youngest sister makes homemade jams,  & salsa, and cans pickles, greenbeans, and such.......
she brought each of us grape and apple jams, salsa, bread and butter pickles, and some applebutter. it all looks so good.....
i cant wait to munch on the pickles. she gave me some for christmas and they are delicious.....the best i've ever had!