HOWDY FOLKS-
Happy friday to ya- what's happenin in your worlds? not much goin on in mine. seems like it , but at the same time, it seems not.
at the moment i am 'pen bloggin' again tho. as i am - i hope - importing my old blog into this one. a couple folks have asked to check out 'soul survivor' and i have it 'shut down' to the public.. so they haven't really had the chance to read it. aside from that, lately, i have been thinkin a lot about the whole 'blog thing'. it all used to be so important to me. like it was a part of me. if i neglected my blog - or my peeps, even for a day - i would feel guilty. not that i don't still that way, but it's a different type of guilt. and it takes a lot longer to feel it. i guess i never imagined that my 'baby' would become a 'duty'. when 'before' , it meant the world to me. if i didn't write here, i felt like i would explode. if i was away from a computer, i would write with a pen and paper, then scan it and post it . that's where 'pen blogging ' started.
i would have blog pals tell yall stuff when i couldn't blog. like if i was away, or times i was sick or in the hospital. i was in love with this entire experience. i don't know when it changed. not exactly. i do know it happened a couple times. and i know it happened during times of depression/ and mistrust. times when i felt that folks had or were betraying me. y'all know i'm bi-polar. surely that is the main reason i've had these issues. call it paranoia - call it what you want. the end result with me, is always the same-- guilt, and isolation. regardless, i can't keep hiding from my emotions.. i can't continue to hide from stuff i say on here, and move blogs whenever i think i've said to much. or not enough. or said the wrong thing. i am who i am. i have never judged any of you out there -- and some of you have similar issues. yet i feel judged a lot. so. anyways. judge me - or not. i have put many hours, tears, and a lot of laughs on these pages . years . i have helped , consoled, been helped, and been consoled. we have all laughed and cried together here. and i should not be ashamed of that. i guess that's why it has been so difficult for me to write lately. to let loose and be myself. i have felt ashamed, and somehow i have lost my sense of who i am. i have maybe done what i said i wouldn't do. and that is - i have let my diagnosis define me. i have become a mental case , in pain. and i haven't allowed myself to see anything beyond that for a very long time. i haven't allowed myself to believe that anyone else sees anything beyond that in me.
well, it's time for me to open my eyes and see that there is more than that to me. in me, and in front of me. i am not my diagnosis. it's time i stop bitchin', and get back to livin. i fell in this pit , and got way too comfortable here.
i hope the importing of 'soul survivor' works, and maybe you can get to know the 'real ' me.
yes -- there are many mood swings there too. but there is also a lot of 'Soul.'
ya know - soul was derived from 'soulmange.'. that's quite a jump. wouldn't ya say so?
maybe i just had a relapse. so, i may have mange now. but like m,y dog Midnight. she had mange every now and then, but with a little love and patience, it went away.. for a while-- and never came back quite as bad as the time before.
anyhow. i'm workin my way back. like Midnight, i won't heal overnight. i have some stuff goin on. mage takes a while to manage. i don't feel much like soul today. gimmee some time. i'll be back to the old me in no time.

oh speakin of dogs -- sorta -- my dumb dogs got in a fight last night --- over chips !!!! instigated by the el piggo - sushi. some chips got spilled out of the bag, we figured the dogs would eat em. of course sushi is first on anything that falls on the floor. eevee was in my room in her crate... finally sushi seemed to have had enough - she's just a little thing. so i called for eevee to come finish em off... soon as she came out - there goes sushi - bum rushin the chips, so eevee couldn't have any..then she has the nerve to start a fight with big ole eevee... and it was ON. i got up and 'thought' i was gonna break em up. then i guessed again. i was barefooted, and they were really goin at it. hubby came out of the kitchen and broke em up rather quickly, then i checked out sushi for any war wounds. ugh. they haven't fought like that in a long time . of course they got separated for a while. and all was fine. stupid sushi. i don't think she realizes what a little punk she is. she thinks she's rottie or somethin. -- ever since day one -

                                 see? -- dummies , on day one

 



"about an hour later"

good lawd, how long does it take to import a blog??? mine is still 'importing'. or so it says. for all i know, it's really not doing a thing. i have things to do , i can't just sit here and wait for this to download. so i spose i'll go do my stuff, and hope that a stupid cat doesn't lay on the keyboard and screw somethin up.
i have to go pick up an RX, and buy some new sheets. i think i have become sheet OCD. for some reason i like to buy sheets. some freak thing. don't know why. i just like new sheets :)) i may get some towels too. half my towels have gone missing-- or are crusty from friggin hair dye.-- speaking of OCD - my child dyes her hair - and uses a different towel every time. even though i say -- don't use a good towel! "ok".. does she listen? nooo. ugh. i better not get started on the towel thing. i have had a life-long towel issue - and it drives me crazy that when i go for a towel there is never a towel to use. even if i HIDE one-- she finds it! grrrr.
hmmm. what else will i do while out in the world??? ya know? i'm considering hittin the pond, and maybe try my luck at fishin for a little bit. it's a fairly nice day out today and it has been a while since i've fished. so yeh. just might give it a shot. wish me fish :))
oh ya know what? our stinkin dryer is broken. bummmmmmer. wednesday hubby had to use the laundry mat to dry a ton of laundry. there was no way i could carry that much wet clothes etc. so while i took the kid to school and her weekly appointment, he stayed back and washed about six loads of clothes (mostly mine OOPS ) and stuff, then had to dry them down the road -- and his favorite- fold em.) i sure was glad he could do that.
the dryer guy came yesterday -- we called sears first -- the were gonna charge over a hundred just to knock on the damn door :(( so he called another place. he came out , didn't charge anything to come out - cuz we're gonna let them fix it for a mere three fifty -- ugh, gag, choke, gasp!!! so much for gettin Douglass declawed and fixed this month. it was 311.00 to do that +neutered. i was lookin forward to that. it's always somethin tho- right?

                                           crazed douglass

　

so- anyhow... i reckon i better get UP, lest i remain on my arse for the remainder of the day. that is so easy to do sometimes. i don't like it - it just happens. sure is time to change things.
have i mentioned that tuesday - i'm havin the left side rhizotomy done? not sure if i did or not. so sory if that's a re-run. but just mentioning the sittin on my laze, made me think of it. i hope it heals fast and well. so far the last one seems to have done well. not that it cured anything. but it didn't cause any problems either.
welp folks. i'll cut ya loose for now. hopefully by the time i get back the import will have worked... i hope it doesn't mess anything up-- if it does, i hope it's an easy fix. with my luck, only God knows.
until then
ore vois :))

somethin to waste your time on ---

below was originally an email- thought it would make for good blog fodder seein as -- well -- it's all i got. check back tomorrow tho.  ya never know right? ************************

Welcome to the new 2010 edition of getting to know your family and friends.. Here is what you are supposed to do, and try not to be lame and spoil the fun. Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then send this to a bunch of people you know, INCLUDING the person who sent it to you.  Some of you may get this several times; that means you have lots of friends. The easiest way to do it is to hit 'forward' so you can delete and change the answers. Have fun and be truthful!  'getting to know you'   1. What color are your socks right now?  white/pink 2. What are you listening to right now? the  gas fire place. 3. What was the last thing you ate? chicken fried steak n eggs at brunch 4. Can you drive a stick shift? Yippers.   prolly couldn't these days tho.  5. Last person you spoke to on the phone? with a real voice :)) hubby 6. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes! i do. 7. How old are you today old enough to know better and too young to give a damn. 8. What is your favorite sport to watch on tv? if i have to? UFC 9. What is your favorite drink?   coffee, water, tea, OJ-with ice and salt 10. Have you ever dyed your hair? yup... haven't we all? 11. Favorite food? i don't have a favorite these days. i don't eat much anymore  12. What is the last movie you watched? ugh. some damn tear jerker on netflix. me n hubby.  i forgot the name of it. 13. Favorite day of the year? 4th of july-  our anniversary is the 1st, and nothing bad surrounds that day - so it's usually a good time :))  and it's always warm :)) 14. How do you vent? oh lawdy-- how do i not vent?  let me count the ways ---- 15. What was your favorite toy as a child whinnie the pooh and buzzy bee.  in my old age - i have found a pewter statue - miniature with what looks like christopher robin with pooh... and a replica of buzzy bee :)) different times and places of course- but it was like striking gold.(i'll show ya sometime) 16. What is your favorite season?  summer time !! I can't like the cold. 17. Cherries or blueberries? fresh cherries - or blueberry pie - YUM! 18. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? yes- or if ya have a blog, let me know if ya post this -- good blog fodder fluffy minds like mine :)) 19. Who is the most likely to respond? debbie -- it's on YOU :)) 20. Who is least likely to respond?  everyone else -- nuthin like some pressure huh?  prove me wrong peeps - :)) 21. Living situation? i live in a two-story nice house that we are buying.  and i find myself bitchin about it more than i should.  i just need some fairies to come help me straighten it up and it would all be good.  22. When was the last time you cried? OMG!!! can we say clinical depression?  i cry almost every day!! i hate it!  i used to NEVER cry. really. now i can't stop. well, once i start. you know what i mean. i don't 'always' cry.  but i cry a lot. and i sooo hate it.  it makes me feel weak.-i saw my shrink the other day- she raised my meds -- was i surprised? umm nope.  i just hope it makes me stop with the blubbering.-- but hey- i didn't cry today :)) 23. What is on the floor of your closet right now?  every-damn thing i own-- i went on a mad hunt for a calendar binder last night . -- and i wonder why my back hurts.  bleh. 24. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to?   audrey (we met at age 4 and 5) 25. What did you do last night?  not much of anything .  after runnin errands i was whooped so from about 7pm on i was in bed 'recovering', and watchin tv til i fell asleep 26. What are you most afraid of?  my daughter or husband dying, or havin somethin bad awful happen to one or both of  them. 27. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? spicy - no cheese -- add some guacamole' or green chili to that .. 28. Favorite dog breed? miniature pincher, and black lab :)) 29. Favorite day of the week? any day that i 'do' or accomplish somthin is alright with me.  add fishin-- all the better. 30. How many states have you lived in got a map?  hell if i know-- more than ten i bet. 31. Diamonds or pearls? i don't care for either much.  i had both and both are gone now.  can't have nuthin :)) 32. What is your favorite flower?    i like carnations, and roses.

what's up in y'alls world peoples?  speak to me.

face it folks , i got nuthin to say

but as usual, i'm sure i'll come up with somethin.
y'all prolly hate me by now.  i don't post- i don't visit- i wouldn't blame ya if ya just moved on.  in a way it looks like most of y'all have.  i hope ya come back.  i do mean well.  i think about y'all every day - and i do think about writin on here every day too.  i just haven't had it in me.  i had the rhizotomy done on monday.  i've hardly been on the computer at all.  i do facebook a little on my phone, cuz it's just easy.  sittin at the desk has been impossible and the laptop , just cumbersome, til today .    and even so --

the few times i have actually attempted to write -- 

nothing blog worthy came to mind.

i've been over medicated, over sleeping, and haven't left the house since gettin home from the dr. on monday.  there's just nothin to say. 

today , i can at least report that i am recovering real well from the rhizotomy.  so much better than the last one.  prolly in the normal range of the few days that most people usually do.   and i have to say i am thrilled to be able to say that.  i don't know how well the actual results are yet, but what i do know is that i don't have that awful , burning, constant pain i had after the last time.  so, i think, and hope this one will 'take', and i will have good results, and hopefully -- this will lead me out of the depression that has been holding me hostage for the past two months. 

so much has been goin on in my head these last many weeks.  maybe i should have just written - like i used to.  ya know? just let it all out right here.  i've been feeling like i can't or shouldn't write like that anymore though. not since i moved my blog. or changed blogs or whatever ya call it.  i don't know.  you tell me.  is holding back better or worse?  to me, it's worse.  for one-- i don't feel like 'me' writing.  and i don't know really why i feel so 'protective'.  i feel boring.  i don't want my blog to bore you.  i don't want to bore you.   i also hate to whine.  i seem to do that more 'here' than the other blog too.  is it cuz i'm not sayin so much other stuff?   there were times i'd not leave the house for days at a time then too, but i'd still find things to write about.  still find ways to be funny about nothing.  now?  ugh.  i feel like i can't think straight.  sometimes i think it's cuz not many folks comment back - and it leaves me with little to go on.  but hell.  i wrote here - there- for months before i had a single person comment at all. 

i need help.  or maybe i don't.  i just need to make a commitment i reckon.  it must be the time of year.  it's just not a good time of year for me.  i'll get back on track. 

i don't like to let people down. well, who does?  i guess i mean, i don't mean- to let people down. 

i can't help the way i feel at times tho.  i know some of you understand that.  and i appreciate those of you who do.  i have a buddy out there who has been calling me quite consistently lately.  i hope she knows how much that means to me.  even though i really hate to talk on the phone.. some days that phone call is the only time i smile that day.  maybe sometimes it's the only 'conversation' i have in a day.  'YOU' are important to me -- i hope you know that.  i never take people like you for granted.  i know you know who i'm talkin about -- too bad you live so far away. the good ones always do.

in fact, she is my motivation for posting today.  i was pretty much at the point of quittin again.  oh don't say it.  i know we all get there at times.  and i've done it a time or two already.  but really.  i hate watching my blog sink like the titanic.  i hate watching folks come and go.  worst of all?  i hate wondering what - if anything - it is that i have said... that maybe crossed some sort of invisible line , that offended someone.  scared someone?  angered someone?  and if that has happened, why in the world could that person not just tell me?  i mean WTH? 

the other day - i got an email.  sounded fine.  it was from someone who -- nevermind the details-- but i will admit , i second guessed myself in responding to it.  i have my reasons, and they are valid.  this person has a way of messing with my head in certain ways , and i am gettin pretty good at having figured it out.  but--- as short as the email was -- coming and going-- that's as far as it went.  i thought my reply -- deserved a reply. ya know?  perhaps an explanation.  as it ended with a question- of sorts.  not a word since.  i wasn't surprised tho when i didn't hear back.  i didn't get angry at this person.. rather -- i kicked my own ass.  because i knew better.  some sick pleasure is gained by this person to play head games with me.  when all i want is answers.  instead -- i need to finally lock that door behind me.  and move on.  "some are sicker than others".

found that today -- suits this person perfectly.

'while you're back there'

:))

well, anyhow.. did i mention... i think i will be back to drivin and maybe even cleanin up the house a bit by tomorrow.  the last rhizotomy it was well over 4 months before i even thought of doin a thing.  aside from sittin on my ass, takin pills, sleepin, and the sort.  this time-- they suggested the other side be done in 2 weeks -- which is gettin closer to one week now-- and i'm actually considering it.  not without fear.  but i just may do it.  i need a life.  i would say 'my life'.. but in all actuality, i didn't have much of one to speak of.  maybe if i get this done -- and have a good outcome-- i can get a life.  it's really gettin to me the way things have been goin .  physically and mentally.  i don't know how to just wave a magic wand and change things.  it will take work.  spiritual, physical, mental.  all that.  i know that nothing magical is gonna just happen over night.  i know i have to work.  i have to put forth action, to get any results .   but i also know i have to do something- in order to change anything.  and i know something needs to change. soon.  perhaps i should start a 'list'.  maybe that'll be my next post? mylist of thing to - maybe do. bleh.

cuz i can't like feelin this way any more.

or this way either.



oh!  one last thing--

it's Veterans day!

blessing to those who served in any military service!

especially those who gave their life - or became disabled in any way for this great country!

THANK YOU!

Well so much for that idea

Pen boggin  (11-3-2010)

Pardon my recent absence. I have been a busy sloth lately. If not busy, then recovering from it.
right now i'm 'pen blogging' in my car,  on my i-phone note pad.. whilst i wait for my child as she is in class.  i usually go find somethin to do.. but today, i feel like utter shit, so am not leaving.  just gonna wait in the car -- for two wonderful hours.  bleh.  so, i thought i'd talk to y'all for a while.

 I finally saw the surgeon yesterday. Omg what a miserable day. From beginning to end. I won't bore you with the drawn out details. I will say tho that it was pure torture in every form - for me.
*In no particular order :

1-I had the panic i get of running late
2- that was made worse when i got in the car and

1- noticed i didn't finish filling out my paper work - 6 pages of it!  I did that in a hurry / soul chicken scratch and surely incomplete. I know i didn't list any meds. Even tho i take a dozen or more a day. and have half as many allergies.

2- then. Ugh. whilst doin the papers i noticed a totally different address there than where i was headed!  I thought WTF?! I called- still in my driveway. I have NO idea where i thought i thought i was goin but at least i got that fixed. Or so i thought.
 
SHIT!

I was in hell. All f'n day. And this was just the beginning!
3- So. I get there.  The gps said i was there. That would be the same gps that is very close to finding itself on the highway one day in the very near future!  Yep really.  just like the day i threw all my dishes in the garbage!

4- I go inside. Of course i have not a clue where the surgeons office is. I can only hope that it is in gimping distance.
Ugh. So i ask. I'm actually pleased with the girl who helps me, she's very nice. But. Unfortunately,  my 'i'm so lost' instinct was right. Not only was i not in gimping distance?  I wasn't even in the right building.
FUCK!
5- So off i go. I am already limping. havin a frickin panic attack. I hurt. i'm cold.  I want to just go home and forget about the whole damn thing.
Oh have i mentioned that it was freezin outside? AND raining? Well it was. Did i have a coat?  A hoodie? Even a flannel or a sweatshirt?  That would be a big fat no!
can we say dumbass?  I was wearing a t-shirt and jeans! 
Ready for the good news??  I found where i was sposed to be!  Yippee.  Not really. My happy was long gone by the time i got there. I was in horrible pain. Freezing. Bitchy. Tired. i wanted to cry -- but i refrained. for the moment.

ola! now that nightmare is over.. the memory is still here.

i think i got PTSD from that damn day!

but now it's it's today - it's Friday! woo hoo!

to make that long story short?  yep, i found the office -- not an easy task.  it was like 50 degrees in there-- i was soooo cold. y'all know -- i don't do cold.  my body doesn't tolerate it.  at all. i got there , signed in -- and let's not forget they make ya PAY soon as ya sign in.  that was the ONLY thing that made me stay there.  i got there at like 1100- or so... know when they called me back?  at frickin.. 1230 !!!  i was in so much pain from sittin there-- not to mention the bein so cold-- it tightens my muscles and just plain hurts -- worse than i already hurt.  and get this--- i had no pain meds on me.  none.  AND i was hungry.  everything that pisses me off or hurts me was happening.  and i felt totally helpless about all of it.  i may as well have been chained up and tortured. (in my world.)  hungry, cold, in pain, waiting, and not knowing wtf was goin on.  i finally went up and ask if i got skipped or forgot about.  she said -- oh your next. i thought -- ahhh 'next' is good.  so i gimped back to my seat.  'next-- to me?  five minutes - or so.  right?  i waited another 30 !!  gettin more and more angry and hurty.  OMG i can't even explain to you how awful i felt.  anyhow-- i did finally get called back.  i 'vent' to the nurse.  she is speechless, at my mental attack.  she did at least give me a blanket and let me lay down while i waited even longer for the fuckin dr.

wanna know what he said???  after all that waiting and pain, and crackin up???   he won't do the surgery on me.  it's not bad enough yet.  i paid him 40 bucks and half a day for that!

so.  monday the 8th i am scheduled for the rhizotomy - that apparently i shoulda just gone with in the first place.  i fear the pain of the recovery.  i pray it won't last 4 months. or be as severe as last time..  and i hope and pray that i get relief from it.  i just can't bare this pain any longer.  it's ruining my life-- and my mind. 

so-- that's all i have time for right now-- gotta get this day rollin.

hopefully next time i'll have somethin better to say.

but i got thangs to do --

i'm fixin to go to the store with my child-- then later it's a movie (due date) and a steak dinner... i found out why i been so damn tired and dead feelin lately----  'iron deficiency '.  time for a steak  :))

catch y'all later --

ps -- yes peeps -- we did get the golf cart -- it's so cute-- i haven't driven it yet -- i have really felt like crap lately-- and been busy too.

i'll try to come back to life soon.. sposed to get some rx for iron and stuff.  maybe it'll help and i won't sleep so much.  yep-- i sleep a lot lately too.  bleh.

ok gotta run

talk to me!

so guess what

you wouldn't guess in a million years.  so- i'll just tell ya.  last night - i'm chillin in my room, hubby was in the livin room, watchin football- or baseball.. whichever. two games - two home team losses.  makes not a happy soulman.  so, he was cruisin online while the games were on.  he comes across a -- are ya ready?  a golf cart!  NO! we don't golf.  never have.  mini golf. sure. don't need a cart for that tho.  anyhow -- yeh sure call us lazy -- he texts me.  don't you text folks in the next room?  admit it - you do -- at least sometimes.  ok. so he texts me.. with a photo of

THIS:

and there i am.. it's like 10 or 11 pm, i've had my meds... so -- yeh.. i'm chillin...

 i'm like .. aaaaaand???

he says -- do ya want it? 

ummmm... whyyyy would i want a golf cart?   

you could ride it up to the creek , and go fishin!

hmmm.. my wheels start turnin.  -- it is awful CUTE!  :))  then i start thinkin....  hmmm, in a year or two i won't have a drivers license -- this sure beats a bike.  besides that-- my kid walks to the park/creek a lot and i worry-- she could ride this- and i might not worry so much.  and i just keep thinkin-- it's soooo darn cute!  and it's cheap too!  cheap as a weekend away.  i just think it's a cheap- good lil investment-- that we'll actually use.  i'd be much more likely to take that around the block- or to the creek- or even the post office -- than a bike... on a nice day.  even y'all know that.  even with my kid.  i think it would be fun.  or even me n sushi!!!  can you picture that.. me n sushi cruisin the neighborhood?  hmmmm.

so anyhow-- i go ahead and and tell him.. after very little thought... sure-- i'll take it!!  

he called from work this morning to make sure i was really 'ok' with it.. not just the xanax and oh it's so cute-- talkin.  :))  i told him yeh-- i want it.  hell.. a recumbent bike i want is like 300.00 and this isn't a whole lot more.  and if my legs and neck etc don't get any better-- it will still be able to be used-- unlike a bike.  right. 

you should see the images in my mind of it all -- 'souled- up".  hahahahaha

there's another angle.

you wanna go cruisin with me dontchya!?

there's plenty of room for rods and tackle -- or sushi and even eevee.  or like i said-- my kid.. even soulman, if he wanted to go along.  yes.  go on.  call me crazy.  but hey-- i have been without a drivers license before -- only a couple months.. and even me -- the one who hates to go out-- i had my moments that it drove me nuts to not be able to go get cigs or go fishin or at least somewhere.  with this i'll have at least the opportunity to go 'somewhere'.  i think it'll be fun.

anyhow- what else can i bore ya with?  hmmmm.  i don't know.  wanna hear somethin amazing?  my kid is actually upstairs cleaning!!!!  the music that blares down the stairs is about to kill me, but the fact that she is cleaning up there is -- well, that might kill me too -- of a heart attack from disbelief or somethin.  good lawd. it's like ripping limbs off that girl to get her to clean.  really.  but well.. i'm sure i'll pay for it in the end. i don't care tho.  whatever it is she wants-- if it means a clean house -- i'll take it!!!

i have been sittin at this desk for far too long.  i can tell ya that.  i have three choices today.  i think.  i could go take care of business.  i should rather.  or i could spend the day in my warm quiet bed.  you know that is prolly what will win out.  especially now that the pain is worsening.  or i could clean up a few rooms downstairs, and maybe do some laundry.  but-- that's too easy to get out of -- cuz 'i don't feel good'.  besides that?  it's freakin freezin in here.  and i don't know why.  that was a quick damnb turn of the weather.  bleh.  it'll prolly warm up quick tho-- so i don't wanna turn on the heat or anything.  but man i wasn't expectin it to be this cold this morning.

ok y'all... i shall shut my face -- uhhhh, fingers.  and set ya free.

i'll be around later-- i owe everone a visit - i suck as a friend.  i'm so sorry.

hope you all have wonderful weekends and halloweens-- enjoy the little ones!  yours or not--

we don't get trick-or - treaters .. and it gets boring.  we have never lived anywhere that kids come to the house.  :((  either we were always takin ours out-- or others just never came when ours started goin with her friends.  bummer.  they're so cute. 

wow.. that just made me wish i had room in my garage for my car-- freakin hoodlums!

bwa hahahahahaha

happy friday!

i don't know WTH to say wednesday

thoughtless. but here i am.  for your entertainment.  howya doin?  it's humpday!  yippee.  half way through the week.  isn't that special?  would y'all believe that i have ben busy all week.. well, today hasn't really started .. the busy has , but not the gettin out part.  i can't like it!  i might be gettin used to it.  but i don't like it.  gettin out i mean.  perhaps it's a 'fake it til ya make it' kinda thing, for now.  i know it's good for me.  especially the walking and the sunshine, and the bein forced to communicate with real people outside of my family type stuff.  but man i tell ya.  y'all know by now... i really would rather stay right here where i'm at.  inside my house.. away from people.  away from traffic.  away from anyone, and everything.  just me and my stuff, my pets, my people, myself.  it was- is gettin so bad - i haven't even been goin fishin.  and this is the last of the last good weather days.  WTF is wrong with me?   don't answer that. :))   i already know.  i know the 'real' answer.. and i know half a dozen sarcastic ones too.  but really.  it still doesn't make me 'want' to go or do anything.   

my girl still doesn't have her drivers license.  ugh.  i can't blame her for that tho.  i could. but i won't.  i do anyhow-- but i shouldn't :)).. on the days that i have free that we could go take her road test ?  she usually will tell me she isn't ready.  or she doesn't feel good.  well?  funny thing is?  on those same days?  i don't feel good either -- or i just don't wanna 'go' anywhere.  especially to a small FULL frickin government office, and wait in line etc, and then wait even longer -- and longer for her to wait and then to drive.  ya know?  so-- my bad i reckon.

but -- always a "but" - right?  BUT .. she really needs her license.  and i need her to have it.  like last week.  not only because i don't like to get out and all that.. but also cuz betwen her school, and appointments, and my appointments and errands?  at this rate...  i'm goin somewhere almost every day. and here? it takes hours to go anywhere.. much less two or three somewheres.   then.... once she gets a job?  it'll be even worse-- for me.   why the kid doesn't want her license-- i will never understand.  but she better get it soon. 

the surgeon finally called yesterday to schedule my surgery 'consult'.  i don't know why i thought i'd just waltz in and get surgery.  but i did.  not gonna happen.  i have to pick up my MRI films -- why doesn't the dr do that??? bleh.  then i have an appointment on NOV 2 for the consult - to see if and when i shall have this done. 

i am soooo anxious to get it.  in a good way.  this is the only thing that i have had any real hope in for any bit of pain releif in ages.  i mean that would last for any length of time ya know.  i don't know many people -- y'all know that.  most people i know - live in the computer  :))   in fact even a couple of the ones i know who had this surgery do... but i or hubby know a couple in 'real life' who have had it too.   and all have had good results with it.  and none have died. :))  so i really want to try it. 

especially after last night.  geesh - it was another fun filled evening.  sure it was.  i woke up every damn fifteen minutes dying in pain.  i'm lucky i didn't overdose on pain pills - but i did have my wits about me to watch the clock and not take em too close together.  finally i moved to the couch/recliner... then i only woke up maybe every half hour or so... kill me?  somethin has got to give.  i can't keep livin this way.  i'm sure it was pay-back for just tryin to have fun and play with my kid during the day.

she had an appointment - so after that she wanted lunch-- of course.  but i didn't mind -- we had fun-- she tried alligator tail.. first time since she was 2 or 3 (in florida). she didn't remember eating it-- so wanted to try it again.. she loved it!  and i love that she is finally trying and enjoying new things.

then after lunch we went to a halloween store and goofed around some.  then had to go fill her rx.. and we had to wait for it -- cuz i was not even about to go home and go back out an hour later.  so there was another half hour or so on my feet .  it was hell. but we were havin fun , so i  tried to not let the pain show.  and we did have a good day. 

wanna see part of it?

first is me and my new boyfriend -- until officer soulkid came and arrested him ! :))

so ---  today she has school.  i have to kill two hours 'somewhere' by myself.  then pick her up.  usually we have lunch somewhere afterwards, sometimes play around  or go junk storin or something.  so we will see what we do today.  the part i hate the most is the bein by myself -- in downtown - ish ft worth.  the not so great part of it.  i'll just wear my kick your ass hat .  think that'll help any???  bah!

it's not that bad.  i aint skeered.  been over there a dozen times -- no one has bothered me yet.  funny-- i usually get robbed close to home -

catch you folks latah -- i gotta go rattle sloth jr's cage!

progress; not perfection -

welp folks, i survived yet another - "worst day of my life ".  i couldn't have done it without y'all.. and my lil soul-clan tho.  that is a fact.  well... not the surviving part... but the makin it through the way i did.  hard to explain, so i won't even try - but i think some of ya may just 'get it'. 
so anyhow -  if any of you don't know what i'm even talkin about here ?  i shall show ya-

see him?

sweet huh?

he's my son. Patrick.  in that pic he was about 2 months old.

a little over 2 months later?  he was gone.  yes, as in dead.  yesterday was his birthday.  he 'should' have been 22 years old.  i can never help but wonder what kind of man he would be.  what he would like, what he would 'do', would he be kind, would he be nice to me in my 'situation'.. would i even have a freakin situation.  blah - i just thought of the last part.  that isn't even fair - to anyone - is it.  anyhow.  yesterday.  my first born's birthday.  it's never been an easy day for me.  it's even harder with a family.  when i was single- and alone.. i could do - or go - or feel - however i wated - or needed to .  now- and for the last many years-- i have others to consider -- and 'hold it together' for.  of course i have to admit, there have been times that was impossible for me to do.  (without help)   i'm still here tho. 

to be even more honest?  i had 'plans' for yesterday.  and things didn't go as i had planned them.  to those who love me?  that has to be a good thing.  ok .  i admit .  to me .  today?  it's a good thing too.  the past week- maybe two?  i woulda told anyone (well no i wouldn't have - cuz i didn't)  anyhow-- i liked 'my' plan, better.  even though i wasn't sure of the outcome.  it sure wasn't to hang out at home-- listen to my only surviving child tell me a dozen times that she loves me.. cook for me.  lay in bed with me.  get phone calls, texts, emails,  and FB messages from folks.  i was force fed love.  and reminded that -- i am not alone.  what i was thinking - planning -- just was not fair. 

i will never perfect my feelings or my thoughts on days like that.  i will never know how to feel or how to do the right thing.  or even say the right thing to people who care about me.  i will never perfect the knowledge of accepting unconditional love -- from anyone.    but yesterday was progress for me.  to just breathe, and accept that i can make it through those times.  if i just allow people to care.  and believe that it is real.  and not some sort of obligation or sabatoge.   it's just cuz.  it's cuz i am me. 

so i just wana say thanks.  you know who you are.  and i love ya right back.

wanna see more progress?

my soul-cave is almost finished !

i can't wait !



aiiighty peeps i gotta go take me kid to z dr.   at least it aint me this time.... bwa hahahahaha

hope you all have really good days in your worlds today.   lemmee know what you're up to.  i'm just doin busy work.

latah

and it happens again - cuz I AM ME

hi y'all.. well.  you want the good news or the bad news first?  the bad isn't 'that bad'.  it's just one - a - those things.  ya know.  one -a-those... soul thangs.

alright.  i'll start with the 'good' and work my way back. 
yesterday afternoon -- or day - was a good day -- in comparison to the last many.  my kid even surprised me with a home made lunch.  and boy was i surprised!  hand delivered to me .. as i was exiting the bathroom-- post shower.  :))  no.  of course i didn't eat it there.  we watched a recorded episode of criminal minds while we dined.  and we enjoyed ourselves.  that was some much needed alone time together.  that makes no sense but you get it. 

her new school schedule is all but stupid.  two hours a day -TWO days a week. wed and sat. ugh.  we're both goin crazy.  she has got to get a job.  lest we both go mental. (er)

so anyhow-- while we were wathin tv, hubby called (i don't know why that hi-lighted-- ignore it) ..
and asked if we wanted to meet for an early movie after he got off work.  well of course we would.  so we did.  we saw a movie called ' it's kind of a funny story'-- or some such thing.   i don't know.  it was OK.  the plan was to see "the town".. but that changed at the very last second-- literally-- at the box office.  it's ok.. i wasn't in the mood for guns and noise and crap anyhow.. so we end up in a movie about a mental hospital.  how ironic eh?  it was an ok movie-- but my main focus was on the bloopers-- such as .. lamps in the rooms, and unlocked doors; where patients would sneak out as they pleased - to other parts of the hospital. including the ROOF. that just does not happen.  but hey -- you may like it.  the fam did. and i didn't 'hate it'.

so -- here we go -- to the 'not so' good.   a funny thing happened on the way to the theater.....

me and the kid stopped at a lil convenience store for somethin to drink... she didn't want anything.. so i go in, and i get ONE bottle of water.  that is ALL.  rewind a sec-- back to the car-- she did ask me to buy a pack of menthol for her-- she has been quit for many months.. i admit there was a time i would buy them for her-- only so she wouldn't get someone else in trouble for buyin them.  yes-- against my better judgement.  but like i said - she quit many months ago- at least i think so.  i haven't seen her smoke in ages.  so-- she asks for a pk of menthols-- says she just wants ONE.  i said blatantly NO. i am never buyin them for 'you' again. (i learned my lesson) just NO.  so i go in.  i get a water.. i'm at the register.  while there -- with my 89 cent bottle of water .. soul-schleprock luck hits-- full force.
1st-- the sun is shinin right on the stupid debit card machine-- i can't see it-- 2nd it fails the first time, third-- in the meantime, whilst fightin with the machine and my blindness-- my kid is callin my cell-phone - a total of 4 times.  can we say -- DISTRACTED?   all i wanna do is pay for my water and get out of there.  well....  obviously -- the cashier can see that i am a frazzled mess... phone, machine, etc... so-- i finally paid -- took my water - and left-- i didn't see the total, and he didn't mention it-- thank you-- see ya next time-- ore vois-  off we go.

so. this morning-- ?  what am i doin?  the normal stuff i do most mornins-- drinkin my coffee , smoke my cigs-- and yes - i'm a chain smokin fool lately -- i'm a failure and i kick my ass every day for it.  ugh.  i was doin real good for a while-- hope i get back on track soon.  but-- it's the only crutch that doesn't destroy my life -- as fast as others might.  anyhow-- i see on my bank-- a charge for 6.19.  i wonder -- WTF?  i also notice -- there is no charge for 1.00 - or so.  i check for the rect. for the water-- i find it-- and guess what?  the damn guy at the store yesterday?  in my clumsy effort to pay for A water?  HE helped himself to a can of fuckin skoal!!!!!  on MY bill.  ERG!!!!!

i wonder if he woulda tried that shit if i had been wearin my hat?

what  do you think?

i think i look a lil less 'shit takin' with the hat.

guys????  why is it that i get robbed so much?  you'd be surprised if you knew of every time and every thing i have had stolen from me.  i would prolly too for that matter.  it has been so much and so often over the years, even i don't recall every little thing.  i can tell you that it has been a lot tho.  from family , to friends, to strangers, to businesses.  can't have nuthin !!!

i've had stuff stolen from my home, my car, my barracks room,  my credit cards, hell- i've had an entire car stolen. 
have i ever told you that my car was broken into while it was parked in a hospital parking lot -- when i was a patient IN a psych ward?  TRUE.  it happened.  they caught the guy.  but tell me.  what kind of person needs that shit-- while IN a mental hospital?  ugh.

i am not a thief.  i once had the opportunity -(more than once- but this is the most significant situation)

--  my family and i  - not the soul fam.. but many years ago -- my 'family/ family'.. we were beyond poor... you can't even imagine the state we were in.  i had the opportunity to take 700.00 in cash -- and never be caught.  there was no way i would ever be caught -- or seen again by this person.  it was almost like he was either testing me-- or 'offering me the the money'.. or opportunity to take it or leave it.  who knows? but, i left it... not before thinking about it, of course.  who wouldn't?  just think about it ya know.  this was a time that we lived- literally , day by day at a park, night by night in a cheap motel. meal by meal - by chance.  i did not take that money. 

if not karma?  why?  why do i get stolen from time after time?  

it's been just over a year since my jewelry was stolen.. by our movers!  of all people-- it was a guy i paid to help me.  invited into my home-- paid, trusted, bought food for.  i still feel 'raped' by him, and that business.  believe it or not-- i felt bad for the owner of that company -- because he had a truck stolen!  i never sued or fought for compensation.  the thief was never prosecuted. (lack of evidence!)- even tho-- he pawned two rings- i was at least able to recover those.  but not the rest-- and most of you know -- i am a sentiMENTAL idiot.  i don't have much- but what i do have -- i could tell you when and who gave me any of it.  so much is gone now. and i still hurt for it. 

so yeh.. a five dollar can of skoal?  some of you may think that's nothin... to me?  it's one more time.  and one more time too many.  how many thefts does it take to break a soul?  i wonder how long it's gonna take to find out???  i would really hate to be the one that does find out.  there sure won't be no timid about that.  i can tell ya that much.

oh - did i mention i did call the store- and i'm handlin it.  i'm gettin my money back -- and the guy will be dealt with.  i wonder what he drives.  hmmm. but i am on my way out the door right now to talk to the manager-- then off to take my kid to learn somethin at her school. 

wonder how i shall kill my two hours today?

y'all be happy today --
the sky is cryin here.
but i aint-

there IS some progress in this life of mine

see?  it's goin. 

and so am i -- it's nap time for me. 

OH -- look at this litho i got my paws on the other day -- i damn near stole it -- it was at a junk store -- already kinda cheap -- then half off -- now i just gotta hang it up-- HA! y'all know how well that goes around here tho.  maybe after i have my surgery -- IF ever.  i'll hang all my pretty pictures. 
whaddayathink?  it's numbered AND signed!  i really love it.

catch you peeps later -- just wanted to say hello -- so i'm gettin out of here before i say somethin depressing :))

happy weekend my peeples!