sunday

Little buddy had his surgery and is doing well. He can sleep through anything! He loves to sleep on his back.......cute little friend. They tattoo them down by the incision. A little green line so if they are ever picked up the pound will know they are already spayed or neutered. It's universal. I didn't know.......

I spent the morning cleaning and doing laundry. I got a lot finished. It looks and feels good!

I was supposed to work today......... signed up a month ago........decided to stay home with boyfriend until we got things squared away with him.

When we went to the doctors the other day the NP wanted to send boyfriend to the hospital for a direct admit...

He said no. So she sent him home with a prescription for oxygen and an order to reduce  the dose of one of his meds by half. The med. slows down the heart. His rate is too low. 

We will see the doctor again this Wed.

thursday

I have some cabbage soup cooking. It has carrots, onion, tomatoes, green beans, spinach, cabbage and garlic in it. It's really yummy!

It makes the house smell good too.

Boyfriend is having a problem with low blood pressure and low oxygen saturation.

His oncologist thinks, in re to the low oxygen saturation, that boyfriend probably needs to be on oxygen. So we have an appointment with the family doctor tomorrow to see what he thinks.

Groucho, my neighbors cat is being neutered today.
Daughter dropped him off at the vet this morning. My neighbor gave us permission to get him neutered.....
He gets to come home tomorrow. Neighbor is letting him stay here for a day or two to recuperate.
He's such a cute, and funny little cat.

I get to meet daughters new boyfriend Monday. He's coming to our family picnic. They've been dating for about 5 months. He's a cop, has a dog named Lucy and lives in an apartment. He's 2 years older than daughter. That's about all I know about him.So I'm anxious to meet him.........and make sure he's OK. :O)

tuesday

Today I cleaned the cars . It took me five hours. I used to be able to do it in about an hour.
I played my Nora Jones CD while I worked. Her music relaxes me. Plus it was warm and sunny........very nice outside. So I did take my time while I worked.
The cars looks great!

Oldest son text me yesterday a picture of his Magnolia tree.
It's a mature tree but has never had flowers in the 6 or 7 years he's known the tree.......until yesterday. When he arrived home from work there were large white flowers all over the tree.
It was what would have been his 1 year marriage anniversary.
He believes his deceased wife was letting him know she is OK and that she was acknowledging their anniversary.
I think so too.......and I'm glad t brought comfort to and made my son smile.

saturday

We got an email last night from boyfriends oncologist.
The Pet Scan results  showed improvement again and no new cancer!
We cheered and kissed........then called all of our family to share the good news.
And so now we can exhale and relax a bit until the next time!

We gave the kitties each a flea treatment today.
Weeping hates it the most.
She will keep a low profile for a couple of days. Poor baby.

friday

For whatever reason I've been thinking about an old friend today.
She grew up down the street and around the corner from my childhood home.
Her dad was a raging alcoholic.He was a mean and verbally abusive man. He tormented my old friend with his raging, drunken, abusive behaviors. He could barely walk as he grew older because the years of alcohol abuse caused nerve damage to his legs.
When my friend was about 15 years old and after a morning of the usual abuses by her drunken father she snapped I think. All the years of hate, fear,and rage she felt towards her father came to surface. So after he crashed from his nightly drunk and morning abuse, my friend took a baseball bat to the room her father slept and she hit him in the head with this bat several times.
She didn't kill him. He wasn't even hospitalized. But she did cause him to bruise and bleed.
He didn't call the police.
I think he knew he deserved what she did to him.
She called me, invited me over to tell me what she had done, and to show me
the blood in his bed. In retrospect I think she was in shock..........
So yeah, I've been thinking about her.................it's sad how crappy some parents can be......how badly they damage their own children.
I've talked to my friend through the years.
She married once for a couple of years.........turned out he was a lot like her father.She left him. She's never remarried or had children of her own.
She doesn't drink or use drugs. Never has............she works hard at whatever  job she works........takes care of herself...............I hope she is doing well.

Yesterday boyfriend and I went to a little antique store.
I bought this ashtray straight out of the 60's or early 70's. I fell in love with it...........not to use for
smoking.....I don't allow smoking in my house.....but I've put it on my DR table for now.....it's huge.....reminds me of something you'd see on a 60's television show.........or in my childhood home even.........it's a neat little piece of art I think

My dishwasher will not shut off. It's been running continuously, in the drain cycle since last 9PM.
Even when I open it, it continues to run.
I've gone through the checklist of things to do before calling for help.
Finally I called for help.
They wont be here until Monday.
Their best advice for the mean time is to pull the circuit breaker. Whatever....

I have poison ivy on my neck.
I was really careful while pulling it out of my yard so hopefully mt neck
will be the only place I break out!

wed

I had a nice Mothers Day.
My adult children came over and we had lunch together on the deck.
It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day......
I always love spending time with them.

Today I transplanted my tomato, green bell pepper, and red bell peppers in to the very large
flower pots that I use to grow them in........
I also planted some flowers that son gave to me for Mothers Day....and
I cleaned the porch, hosed it down and cleaned the outdoor rug that's on the porch.

I fnished the Etan Patz book........it was a little depressing........and reminded again how inept some police departments can be.
Dad dropped off a new stack of books.........I've started reading "Blind Faith" by Joe McGinniss........another true crime.......then i'm finished reading thta type of book for awhile....

Boyfriend had a PetScan yesterday. We have an appointment with the oncologist this Monday.
We hope he calls us by Friday though with results.

friday

I cleaned the kitties litter boxes today, changed our beds, did a couple loads of laundry, and planted my pumpkin seeds.
Then boyfriend and I picked up a drive by breakfast and headed to the casino.
We didn't do so good until we were  on our way out. Then we hit a jackpot for 165 bucks, and another for 280.
It was fun!
I think United airlines made a mistake paying that I'll give u drugs for sex, doctor, who threw a giant temper tantrum after United over booked then told him he would have to take a later flight.
Every Tom, Dick, Harry, and Jane will throw a huge fit causing self injury and then expect a pay out from the airline. It irritates me.
Dad left a book for me in my mailbox.
This one is "After Etan"......the true story of Etan Patz, the little boy taken while on his way to the school bus stop and then murdered by some child raping sicko.

This is Groucho,our neighbors cat. He sleeps on our porch at night. This is him at midnight. He seems comfortable I think.