saturday

nothing new here.
spend my day helping boyfriend with activities of daily living.
some of the time it is overwhelming, some of the time not so much.

almost 20 months since i quit smoking. it feels great! i'm very grateful to not be smoking.
i've lost 13 pounds. trying to eat healthier. i feel good.

i'm still looking for a new home. i'd like a one story. the market here sucks....very limited and the prices keep going up............so who knows if i'll ever find what i want.

thursday

I was stressing out about having to work tomorrow.
Boyfriend has dialysis and is not able yet to drive . Plus he has so much equipment to carry
he can't do it alone....................and then coming home and getting back into the house while alone would be impossible for him. To boot, he is on a new eye drop regime that goes on for 8 weeks.......a drop every 2 hours for 6 doses a day. The med is 6000 per week..........luckily his insurance pays all but the co-pay  is  1040. per week. The National Organization for Rare Diseases is paying the co-pay. He is not able to administer them. Doses can not be missed. It's his last chance/treatment for the eye that might allow the eye to be re-opened........and although I tried to figure out a way to get his needs met while I'd be at work, I wasn't able to. Finally I decided to just call my work and let them know what was going on and that I could not work my day in June, and if they decided to fire me then so be it.
HR was very nice, and supportive. They told me not to worry about missing that day and I will work a day in late July.
I am so grateful. I so much did not want to lose my job!

monday

" the flower that smiles today"

saturday

some of the pretties in my yard. the Daffodils were given to me by a co-worker. . i left them in my car, in the hot summer for 3 weeks after she gave them to me. they looked dead but here they are 5 years later still going strong! 

Woody being Woody. lol

little Easter baskets.

boyfriend is hanging in there. this is the longest he's gone without being hospitalized (I guess its been about 3 weeks) since Jan......................he's weak, and unsteady still but  maybe he's on the mend...............................his son was here over memorial day weekend.........................was nice having him here.........................................

friday

Today while waiting in the parking lot to pick up boyfriend from dialysis the garbage man arrived to empty the dumpster.
For some reason it made me remember the dumpster at the grade school  I attended when I was a child. The dumpster sat behind a brown gate close to the front playground. There was almost always a little stream of milk that ran from out of the dumpster to under the gate to just the beginning of the playground. On the warm, sunny, or hot days the milk would sour. The smell was nauseating!                 And that's it.....................lol................