Monday, May 5, 2008

mindless monday mumbles

hiya folks...
i know i'm late today-- but as they say-- bettah late than nevah..

anyhow--- i haven't made my rounds today so i don't really have a clue what's goin on out there right now. but i shall be hittin a few pages in a bit..and hopefully finishing up before bed tonight.

not much happenin around soulland today...

soulman didn't have to work so we went fishin earlier-- we both caught one fish each-- might have done a little better but we didn't stay long, only about an hour or so.
we didn't get a pic of soulmans' but do ya wanna see mine? :))
nobody has requested a name for this one... so if ya wanna claim him .. he's yours-- first come first served-- i already have a couple ideas for a couple peeps-- so if your one of them.. it oughtta be easy to name him.. if not-- i will just have to get creative... :))
so anyways-- here he is--

(click to enlarge)






after that we went to chipotle for lunch-- to go-- and OMG-- i ate the whole damn thing. have y'all ever had-- or seen a chipotle burrito?? it is rare that i get through half of one.. but i ate all of it today-- the damn thing has to be two pounds of food. ugh. i knew i was done for soon as the last bite hit my belly. i told soulman.. i'll be asleep within the hour-- and i was. :((

which meant-- nuthin else on my to do list got touched--- except takin soulkid to ortho--- i got her from school at 245-- like ten minutes after i woke up from my nap :(
turns out, she will be released from braces jail tomorrow! woo hoo! no more worryin about the damned rubber bands .. yippee. now i just have to remind her to wear the damn retainer. the bottom will be "attached".. glued or bolted-- i don't know-- but they can't do that with the top-- lord i wish they could-- cuz i know it will be hell. they said-- if she had trouble with the bands-- she'll have trouble with the retainer. hopefully not-- i said i'll bolt the thing in myself!
i had to sign a "non-compliance letter today due to her not wearing the bands-- she has benefited as much as she ever will at this point without wearing the bands like she is sposed to... so i just told them to take em off! then they gave me this "letter" to sign.. ugh.
but what a relief.. for all of us.

so anyhow-- we just got home from there a little bit ago-- now we are tryin to figure out what to do for dinner-- i have pork chops out-- but it seems no one wants em.. and i don't much feel like cookin em.. sooo-- we shall see. personally i just wanna put my jammies on and stay where i'm at-- and have them go bring somethin home... and maybe watch a movie. we have sweeney todd, and the waterhorse--- they've been sittin here for days and we haven't watched either of them. both are sposed to be good. i will let ya know, if we get around to watchin one.

welp-- that's about it on my end-- catch ya on yours in a while--

Sunday, May 4, 2008

LOOK, BAITFISH

ok.. the last one was promised to coffee bean..
this one was reserved for jamie--
SO -
here he is---
i bring you ...
dum dum dum ..





"COCO"

i think i lost my mojo guys, the big ones are avoiding me, or i just plain forgot how to catch em.
the babies are cute... but hey.. where the hell is Walter? :))

anyhow-- i hope you all are having good days.. i am full and tired now, and goin back ta bed.
this 3 a.m crap is for the birds. or roosters, or fish or somethin. but it sure aint for me.

i'll be back later.


zero dark three thirty three


Damn. I feel like hell.

Like me, and everything else got hit by a train. wth??

i hurt all over. i don't know what's up with that. runnin to fast to catch up maybe, and just not seeming to stay that way i guess. it seems one day i will be right where i want to be, with just one or two more things to do... and BOOM, i'm right back where i started. and i'll be damned if i know how i got there.

oh well. such is life.

i'm not complaining.. so much. really. just observing. so it's alright. it won't take much to get back on track. i hope. in all actuality, it usually doesn't anyhow. it depends my frame of mind i guess. how i take things, or what i do with what's goin on at the time. whether i decide to do anything about it, or wallow for a while. and we all know , i wallow sometimes .

usually times that the physical becomes emotional, or the emotional becomes physical. or whatever. maybe how much good comes with the bad-- or bad with the good -- you get the idea.

well , i think i am at one of those points in my life that i am just kinda standing where i see everything around me, and i think for once it may be pretty clear. by that, i mean that usually , my perception is pretty clouded in comparison to others around me. this time i'm thinkin, maybe , not so much.

this time i think i have a pretty good grasp on the real situation of what's goin on in my life. and, i think, i'm not too thrilled with what i see.

could i be off again? sure. definitely i could be. it's part of how my mind works. it's part of how i get myself in trouble a lot of times. it's a big part of why "i don't do people". why i don't sleep right. why i do or don't do a lot of things the way i should, or the way the majority of other folks do. it's all about perception. mine , vs. most. but that's the way it is, and that's the way it has been most of my life.

apparently i'm not making too much sense here. at least it doesn't feel much like it right now. maybe i'll get there, maybe i won't. who knows. who ever knows with me. i know i'm one who doesn't very often-- and this is my damned blog. i can only imagine what it would be like to be a reader.

several of you came along after i had either deleted a major portion of this blog-- or at least made it more difficult to go very far back into it. i did that because, i felt that i had too much of myself laid out here for just anyone to see. too much of my heart here to just look at , analyze, judge, and , leave. ya know.? or maybe to study. or at worse pity.

God knows i don't want anyones pity. or judgment. or hell,worry, for that matter.
i feel when i get to the point that my posts will evoke nothing but one or all of those from someone, i just can't hardly bring myself to even write hardly anything on here. then from there even cruising or commenting becomes a problem for me. then before i know it, i've disappeared for a while. by the time that happens, half of you have gotten busy with other things-- or have grown tired of my whining or neglect. and soulland is all but stagnant waters.

it's a strange place to be this blogland of ours. dontcha think?
people come and people go. our blog rolls grow and shrink on a sometimes monthly basis.
our real lives sometimes go from mundane and slow--- to faster than we can keep up with.
our family lives go from so happy we can't stand it-- to so miserable we can't write about it.
we sometimes get so brutally honest on here that we wish we could snatch every type written word right back from cyberspace-- but it's already been read, already been seen by our peeps, and some people we don't even "know".

then again, we have held back so much at times that our closest blog friends who sometimes care more about us than our own in - life peeps who would have said or done anything in the world for us didn't even know what was happening. yet we stayed silent, and somehow still find a way to feel bad about "feeling lonely with whatever it is we were dealing with". is it human? or is it stupid? or.. is it me?

so anyways, what the hell?

people come, people go. people speak , people don't. we elaborate to make ourselves more exciting sometimes. or we downplay to make ourselves ok, when we aren't. we speak when we shouldn't. we're silent, when we should scream .
we crawl under a rock when we should flap our arms and draw attention to ourselves.
cry for attention and overreact when we should just keep our mouths shut.

we watch our friends go through troubles and not know what to say so say nothing...
or they go through troubles, and would never make it through without the amazing things that we somehow with no explanation, think of saying at the exact moment they need it. or the prayers that we say for them in combination, become hundreds, only to become miracles in their lives.

sometimes i feel like i'm in kindergarten in this blog world. it really is the only world i know with "people in it". i have some very strong feelings for many of you. i know two of you face to face. three of course counting smocha. it seems so hard to even think of her as a blogger . strange. she's my sis ya know. but ya. anyhow. aside from y'all.. my world of human interaction is extremely limited. yet my world of human compassion is not superficial. just in case you haven't noticed.

i don't do people well, i don't do relationships well. i don't "juggle" several close relationships very well at the same time. i get very close to someone, and will often back off very quickly if i begin to feel vulnerable. if the other someone, doesn't confront me on it... i will oftentimes continue my retreat into my safety zone.

correct me if i'm wrong--- but i feel like this last go round with the med issues-- i crawled back into my little cave, and i found i found a safe distance form many of you that i was feeling quite close with. much of this had to do with the fact that only days before i went in for my "procedure".. i found out that my daughters' ex girl scout leader-- a mother of her friend of 6 years-- who i was once fairly close with.. but not for several years-- but i will admit-- i had quite the internal struggle with over calling, checking in on, etc-- which hasn't stopped, because i still haven't so much as emailed this woman... but anyhow-- she had a cancerous tumor removed from her stomach just days before i went in for my upper gi test. i was afraid to reach out to a woman i have "known" for nearly half my childs life-- one of the only people who i have trusted with my daughter for more than an overnight stay.. a woman whos daughter i treated like my own... when she was THAT ill-- and may still be.//// it was that much easier-- to back away from y'all. and i did.

not only that-- i backed away from my own family as well. how can a person be as "not well" as i was feeling. not know why.. find out someone had cancer-- and not think it possible for themself??? i did. i will admit, i still feel it's a possibility. i am not healthy. i know that much. i haven't been "healthy" for years. i feel i am doing better now. and maybe i am. i have gained like 8 pounds over the last three months. some people think that's good.. my "weight issue mind" thinks, not really. but maybe it's ok. i was lookin pretty puny . and for now, my clothes still fit.. so ya, maybe it's ok.
i also noticed, in the pic in a lower post-- my bday post-- soulkid "airbrushed out my black bags under my eyes! and it is sooo obvious. it kinda made me feel .. i don't know if "bad" is the word.. but i asked her about it-- she said she was sorry and it wasn't cuz she thought i was ugly-- but anyhow-- ya-- i am not the picture of health, and it was weird that she would do that.

so.. i have NO idea where i am trying to go with this post AT ALL. or what i'm trying to say. i kinda do-- but i just don;t think it's gettin there. i guess i maybe changed my mind along the way about letting too much out here. (this time). i think there are some things about me that a lot of you newer folks should know-- IF you haven't figured it out already. that maybe could help you understand me a little better. why i am so "wishy washy " sometimes. why i am "flaky" sometimes if that's what ya want to call it.

i just want you to know that if i seem a little "off" sometimes.. or quiet, or even angry some days for what may seem to be for "no obvious reason"... maybe there is a reason... (for me).
and maybe one day.. i'll feel a little more willing to re-open a few pages of "Soulmange".
or-- just maybe you'll have to buy the book one day. it's in me somewhere.

i think i shall get my fishin stuff ready... today is a good day to fish....

(remember the indian saying? "today is a good day to die?... well i think it should say FISH!)

Saturday, May 3, 2008

surely y'all didn't think i could make it a week without incident--didya?

well... i obviously didn't----

well.. maybe I did.. but poor sushi didn't... cuz she is HER afterall :))

SEE THIS?



well that is my poor sushis' side....
it is a BITE --
from her supposed to be FRIEND-----

who would be
HER :


YUP eevee -
our fairly new soul - addition.
we had concerns , but didn't think this would really happen.

anyhow, they scrapped last night apparently....
we are headed to the vet now.
no way was i gonna pay an emergency visit late last night.

so--- i'm off--

have happpy days in your worlds today

i will...
(i hope )

maybe i can squeeze some fishin time in.. that's what i'm hopin for -
but first i must decide --
do i want groceries...?
or do i want to fish?
cuz both wipe me out-
and i can't have both in one day...
so, i'll get back to ya later on the outcome of my day-


Friday, May 2, 2008

holy crap - i'm all caught up !

it's a miracle !
well, a miracle that i am caught up with Y'all.. but no surprise at all that i should have been long gone about my errands and grocery shopping by now. :)) but that's ok. once i finish this post- i shall hit the door runnin.
i don't have a lot to say anyhow-- just some random stuff i wanted to show ya....


like ....

THIS:

HMMMM..
what could be in there?

perhaps :


strawberries!!!
yum!
yup, i actually made a pie the other day.
and it was oh sooo good.
no baking required. :))

ALSO :
we have
THESE :
my favorite shoe in the whole wide world -
slip on VANS !
and yes, SMOCHA, they are cute !




soulman laughed and said
"only YOU could pull off wearing those shoes"
yep, i think so-
i believe i keep VANS in business these days :))

NOW -
let's see the old lady day goodies ...
i mean birthday presents :))

HERE, we have
the digital photo frame
and SUSHI
(from the soul-fam)



NEXT?
would be the snowbabies
(from smocha)




and HERE we have
some very nice flowers
a complete and total surprise
(from jamie/simonsays)


and NOW if only i could take a pic of my butt --
i would show you ME
runnin my late self out the door !

HAPPY FRIDAY!!

Thursday, May 1, 2008

i really meant to get a decent post up today - but

i obviously didn't get there.

i was extremely busy most of the day.
then hubby got home from work -- and we decided to go fishin. we were gonna go to the pond where we usually go when we don't take the boat.. but we ended up at the creek. we haven't fished there in so long. it's been a couple months since i've even driven by there. we were just gonna drive through and have a look to see how it was doin, but it looked so good we figured we fish. it has to be close to a year since i fished there, but i don't even remember, but it's been since the big flood, whenever that was.

but anyhow, i got a fish on my first or second cast. :)) - on none other than a "coffee tube bait "
and the first thing i thought was that i had told Jyankee a while back that i would name my next fish after coffee bean for congratulations on her starting "big girl school" .

so in honor of The Coffee Bean,
i bring you



(he looks bigger if ya click on him)

"Joe Bean"

awww c'mon, cut me some slack, i haven't named a fish in a looong time. i'll be fishin more soon.

i'm almost caught up on my life--- now once i get caught up with y'all.. i'll be a fishin fool again.

happy night y'all

hopefully i'll be able to hit a few blogs before bed and the rest in the morning.

see ya then...

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

just poppin in to say howdy (w/video -n-pic)

and also to say THANKS for all the birthday wishes !
it was a good day today. busy, but good.
we went about our days, and after everyone got home and chilled a while, we went out for dinner.
soulkid was happy, and very talkative.

HERE"S THE VIDEO (she only was singin the rappy faster part;
the first verse-edited, of course)






she even tried to teach me and soulman a song.
a hip - hop song of all things. :))
i had fun with it.. but soulman was too cool to sing along.
we didn't sing very loud of course, nor did we sing very long .. due to my senile .
she had to go with about four words at a time,
and it got a little tough.
but , it was fun , and it made all of us laugh.
she sang the song about five times all the way through .
she made my day today.
i love it when she's in a good mood :))


she knows how much i love pictures, and she brought her camera
to dinner, and OFFERED to take our picture !
(she refused to let soulman take it- she wanted to do it herself-
that's why half her face is missing :))

as for gifts -?
she and soulman got me a digital photo frame.
i love it- but i haven't seen how it works yet.
too busy today, but soulman is workin on it now.

my sis sent two snowbabies - i collect them.
one is only like 1 1/2 inches tall,
and the cutest thing ever ! (with my birthstone in the middle)


and jamie sent flowers. :))
really pretty spring lookin flowers.
they smell real nice too.

i didn't expect anything at all from anybody-
i usually don't cuz it's rare i get more than a card and dinner out.
so ya... this was a special birthday for me.
and the extra greetings and friends i have this year
that i didn't even know last year this time...
makes tonight a lot less depressing than last night when i thought about
today.
my birthday has never bothered me before-- ever.
til this one.
but it's all good.

i hope you all had good days in your worlds...
:))

Monday, April 28, 2008

I'LL BE BACK, AND LURKING.

take a guess where i am goin ---

yep -
i'm takin my bad attitude out for an adjustment -



and the way things have been goin lately --
there's just no tellin how it will go.

all i know at this point is that it's 40-somethin degrees,
so i will be donning the ole "oompa loompa suit " :))
i'm sure it's like 35 on the water.

it's sposed to get around 70-ish this afternoon, so hopefully i won't be a cold crab-apple all day.

catchya when i get back this afternoon.

happy monday to all of you

Sunday, April 27, 2008

Summah made me do it (sunday pt 2)


skewered again!


1. Do you like blue cheese? Hells ya !

2. Have you ever smoked heroin? Nope- but, Call me stupid—but I didn’t know ppl smoked it!

3. Do you own a gun? Hubby has a couple.

4. What flavor do you add to your drink? Sometimes mango to unsweet tea.


5. Do you get nervous before doctor appointments? Sometimes.

6. What do you think of hot dogs? Depends on what they’re made out of.


7. Favorite Christmas movie? Not sure. I’m not too christmasee

8. What do you prefer to drink in the morning? LOTSA coffee (black)

9. Can you do push ups? I doubt it—haven’t tried in a LONG time.


10. Are you thinking about someone right now? Yes—a few someones actually.

11. What's your favorite piece of jewelry? My wedding ring

12. Favorite hobbies? Bass fishing, writing, blogging

13. Phrase you use most often? Can’t have nuthin!


14. Do you have A.D.D.? I’m beginning to think so


15. What's one trait you hate about yourself? Only one? Inconsistency perhaps.


16. Middle name? for almost 16 years , it’s my maiden name—mckinnon


17. Name 3 thoughts at this exact moment: I wonder if we will fish today? Will this damn headache EVER freakin end? Have I hit a midlife crisis – or am I ruined for life?

18. Name 4 things you bought yesterday? I didn’t leave my house. Damn I’m cheap. So why am I so broke?

19. Next vacation? Maybe jamieland!


20. Current worry? Will summer school prevent my “vacation” to jamieland”?


21. Current hate right now? I hate feelin like crap all the time.


22. Favorite place to be? Fishin. (although.. it has become a rare thing for me lately)
:((


23. How did you bring in the New Year? Same way as I have since soulkid was born.. home, watched the ball drop—toasted sparkling cider—and kissed soulman.


24. What’d you get for your birthday? So far—something unkown/unopened from my sis in the mail…my baday is still a couple days away yet


25. Name three people who will complete this? Hmm.. smocha, desert diva, foster/jess

26. Do you own slippers? YUP—I’m old and have cold feet.


27. What shirt are you wearing?
Burgundy t-shirt that I slept in.


28. Do you like sleeping on satin sheets? Hell no.

29. Can you whistle? Not very well. I’d almost even say no, but I can get by.


30. Favorite colors? Dark blue, black, perhaps khaki ?

31. Would you be a pirate? Oh ya—bad teeth.. no bills.. sailing… let’s roll!

32. What songs do you sing in the shower? I’m not sure that I do.

33. Favorite girl's name? Danielle, and skye


34. Favorite boy's name? caleb and Jacob


35. What's in your pocket right now? lint


36. Last thing that made you laugh? Golden girls—on friday

37. Best bed sheets as a child? Hell if I know—I was prolly lucky if I HAD sheets!

38. Worst injury you've ever had? Prolly some facial cuts and a back injury in a car wreck. (which most likely led to fybromialgia)


39. Do you love where you live? I guess so. Not enough to buy it. but I like the area. This is home to us. Someday we will find our dream home here.


40. How many tvs do you have in your house? 4


41. Who is the loudest friend you have? I gottta go with my sis here. Not always – but sometimes. ( but y’all gotta realize—I don’t know many peeps in “real life”

42. How many dogs do you have?? 2.


43. Does someone have a crush on you? Only if I don’t know about it.


44. What is your favorite book? Hinds feet on high places.


45. What is your favorite candy? Peanut butter M-N-M’S!


46. Favorite Sports Team? Hmmm.. not a team.. but UFC

47. What song do you want played at your funeral? I’ve never thought about it.


48.What were you doing
12 AM last night? Trying to go to sleep

49. What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up? Dammit!

odor update


not a lot to say this morning-- except that we finally made it up into the attic yesterday to investigate "the mysterious odor".

it was quite difficult a task, as the odor had now dissipated. i crawled through the entire attic, half bent over, and sometimes on my knees.. in maybe 90 degree temps up there. it was extremely hot, and painful. obviously. but i was on a mission, and was not about to give up, until i found what i was looking for. which i eventually did. at least i'm 90 percent sure i did.

of course not until after i had covered the entire attic. cut my shin, had the itchies from the fiberglass insulation, became dizzy from the heat, sweating, and claustrophobia, and was highly irritated from all of the above.

but then it happened.. i looked under the a/c unit.. and there it-- or they were.. one large-- sort of-- and two very small.. "areas" "spots".. whatever -- that looked quite a lot like .. well.. my best description would be molded cat vomit. yep. that's the best i can do. and no i didn't take pix.. at charlottes request. :)) i was tempted but really, by that time, i was just glad to have found it..and so very ready to get get the hell out of there. i laid more poison, and got down. satisfied the job was done.

i am hoping there are no more up there-- but i think that is doubtful at this point, but we will see. and i will let ya know.

so anyhow-- if anything happens worth sharing today i will let ya know.

happy sunday--

Saturday, April 26, 2008

flyin by the seat of my pants here




what a morning.. yes already. sorry -- wanna lay some bets on the table which will come first? -- me taking blog leave -- or y'all takin soul leave?i don't even know where or how to start this post. i am a cranky ass mood today. i woke up that way. extremely too early. big surprise there huh? ya i know. but i was really hoping to sleep in. i even took an extra sleeping pill, for that extra push for peaceful slumber -- which never came. well, beyond three or four hours anyhow. i can't remember . i either woke up at 3 or 4. but depending - i went to sleep around midnight.

i did manage to fall asleep again in my chair after a while - for a little while -- but not before i was already ruined.. and of course, even after the early morning nap-- still managed to wake up for the second time, still crabby.





i just wonder sometimes --
how the hell... do i go from

THIS:



to
THIS:




in such a short amount of time.




i've really been pushing myself around the house .. and out too actually, for the passed couple of days. this entire house has gone to hell -- and fast. ok maybe not so fast. but really it seemed fast. it was like i came out of the hospital the other day and looked around -- thoroughly disgusted. even though i had picked up here and there over the passed couple weeks.. it still managed to look just simply ghetto . for real. every damn dish was dirty and stacked around the the kitchen.. not even neatly-- just randomly. i had so much damned laundry i thought i would frickin die. it was everywhere. the washer and dryer ran all evening thursday night. for like three hours-- and CONSTANTLY yesterday. both machines... from fricken.. i don't even know 6 or 7 am.. til 6 or 8 pm.. and i am NOT exaggerating. the last blanket went in the dryer this morning. i lost count after load 7 !!! (BUT , the good news there? ALL is folded and put away! 9 times out of ten it ends up stacked in the living room unfolded and wrinkling waiting for it's rightful owner--yet stays there for days to only be filled with cat hair to be RE-WASHED!).

NOT THIS time.. bwa hahahaha

(BUT-- i am still awaiting the NEXT five loads of laundry to come out of soulkids room.. even thou i looked in there yesterday-- i didn't dare check the closet or under the bed .. there's no tellin what evil lurks in those places!)

my dishes are clean.. with very few dirty from yesterday to wash-- but the clean big ones are still stacked around ,and the dishwasher overloaded waiting to be put away.

i managed to half decorate my bedroom .. but really didn't have as much for the walls in there as i thought-- so it's not worth bragging about yet. so no pix for you yet. hubby didn't notice a thing-- or, if he did-- he didn't say anything. oh well.
anyhoo- if i get further there-- i'll throw a pic or two up today.

in my search for my bedroom nick naks etc.. guess what i found? my mom in laws LONG lost Christmas present !! i got a nice chuckle , and sigh of relief out of that. i have been looking all over for that since the move! boy will she be surprised. haha.

i also sorted through a mountain.. literally-- a small hill.. that had sat on my COUCH.. for days-- of papers, and crap-- bills etc.. FINALLY.. so now my LR-- looks like a Living room again. (rather than a landfill) -and my bills are in enough order to actually pay.
speaking of which.. i still haven't paid my damn vehicles or rent.
i think i may need to take a pill for that-- but i don't think there's a pill out there that i don't already take.. unless you count aspirin ! :((

*** note to CHARLOTTE-- i USED to be great at bills and banks online-- almost to that hobby extent too-- i found it fun and entertaining and a productive way to pass the time-- now it's a pain in my ass and only confuses me.. IF i manage to do it. i have no idea why it has become a problem.. it just has.

my mood has obviously gone to shit peeps and i am so sorry for that--- but obviously at this moment in time it can't be helped.
BUT if you know me at all-- THAT is always subject to change-- at any given moment. strange but true. could be this afternoon.. could be this time next month. we nevah know with me. cuz i am ME afterall.


welp-- i guess i would go work on writing my book for a while-- but someone has beat me to it :

isn't that a crack-up?

looks like a good one ! perhaps i'll try to find me a copy !

Friday, April 25, 2008

a fun little read (not by me)


i was just over at kelly's place, and came across this story she wrote. it is THE most awesome, cutest , creative, UNIQUE (that's the word i was huntin for) -blog post i have seen in my blog life. :))

it's not very long and it will be sure to make ya smile.
and might even make ya wonder why YOU hadn't already done it.
and now it's too late.
go see -

A MooHaa Adventure

hi - jacked from JLEES PLACE




Your Element Is Air



You dislike conflict, and you've been able to rise above the angst of the world.

And when things don't go your way, you know they'll blow over quickly.



Easygoing, you tend to find joy from the simple things in life.

You roll with the punches, and as a result, your life is light and cheerful.



You find it easy to adapt to most situations, and you're an open person.

With you, what you see is what you get... and people love that!

whineday part two --

oops--- i mean friday part two :))



i'm takin a break from my chores, and was just checkin my page. i noticed i hadn't passed along the gratitude award yet.


anyhow, i decided that i would do that now while i'm thinking about it and have the time to do it.

the five folks i will pass it to will be five folks that i haven't given an award to before. at least i don't think so. :}

( their links are off to your right ----> ovah there)

1 - Jessica @ Foster Communications : cuz she just rocks ! she's a young woman with a lot of spunk and talent, and a great attitude that she is never afraid to share..

2 - Smocha - at Cats On The Counter : cuz she gets through a life that people don't often see behind the masks that hang on her living room wall...

3 - Erin @ Life Unscripted : i can't think of the words for her. if there was ever a superwoman.. its erin. you'd have to know her like i do i think, to know what i mean. so just know she's an awesome.. mom, person, and friend.. i'd say wife too-- but i really can't vouch for that one :))
but i'm sure she is..

4- Blur @ The Day Went By So Fast ... - cuz she's just cool. a good friend, with some wild ass dreams.. and great insight, energy, and humor.

5 - Kelly @ The MooHaa - Kelly is a woman of faith and strength and always brings a smile wherever she goes around blogland.




back to work for me--

yep-- it is always sumthin--

mornin peeps--

i ended up with half this post in the previous comment box..
(it happens sometimes.)


but anyways---
as for todays?

i got nowhere in blogland yesterday-
but i did get some things accomplished in soulland.
it seems i've done close to nothing here for weeks.
just enough to get by . and that's not near enough to satisfy me.

yesterday, i sure did think that i was feeling "good" because they had stopped the stomach bleed and i was on the road to recovery. i was thrilled to not be bedridden, and to be in somewhat minimal pain, at least in comparison to what i had expected. it really wasn't terrible, but i would have taken something if i had it.
so, what did i do? i worked in my week long neglected house... and it was BAD.
i did lots of laundry..still goin.. as you know if you read the comments below.
i paid bills.. -- but only the ones i could pay online-- neglecting still-- some very important ones -- and i don;'t know why--
things like car, truck, rent... WHY???
i do that often.. i honestly do not understand WHY.
the money is there-- i simply cannot make myself write the check. wth?
the car and truck are days late already!



so ya.. anyhow.. half way through the day-- IF that far-- my headache from hell returned.
i swear , this is the same headache that i have been fighting for WEEKS. it comes, and goes, but it is THE migraine from HELL.
it'll hold on for a day or two.. go away for hours or days and return with a vengeance.
by 8 pm last night, i was in near tears with this SOB... and not allowed to take ANYTHING for it.
no aspirin.. and i had nothing stronger. i had never been soo damn tempted to go against dr orders before in my life. that may not be entirely true-- but i could have , and wanted aspirin more that i ever had in my life-- but didn't take any. you have no idea how hard it was to not take a simple friggin aspirin. it's almost just sad really.
i actually considered going to ER for a shot-- i just couldn't fathom the money it would cost to go to that length.. when it was almost bedtime, and sleep meds would hopefully---- ease the prob-- if only for a few hours-

which it did. thank God.

oh-- sorry-- lost my train of thought-- which is part of what i was gettin at---
it finally occured to me -- as the headache worsened , and i was thinkin about this headache that will not leave me.
it is not unusual for me to get a migraine to last two-four days..
BUT a month? never. it has never happened.
so.. i thought-- i wonder if it has something to do with the bleed.. the anemia???
so i google it-- well.. asked hubby to, cuz i wasn't online.
so he did.. he found that it sure does. along with alot of other shit i have been dealing with.
soooo-- i say
i thought they STOPPED the bleed???
he said noooooo---
"the med they gave you is sposed to stop it-- that's why you have to take it for 2 weeks"

well, aint that just freakin peachy???
guess i just had a second wind, and some false hope for a couple hours.
apparently i am STILL bleedin.. and who knows if or when it will really stop.

and the headache? when the hell will IT stop?
and all the other shit-- the sleepin, and bein tired, and ugh. just ugh.

somebody just shoot me now. :((





and while you're at it-- you can be my bill payer too :))
cuz i sure can't get motivated enough to do it--
they're gonna come take my cars if i don't pay the damn things.
holy crap batman.
i'm fallin apart.


and if i drank-- i'd surely be cryin in my beer !
but i don't have one to cry in--
guess i'll cry in my coffee.


by the way folks--- i hope you know ---


i hope you ALL have happy days in your worlds today--
i'm gonna do my best-

Thursday, April 24, 2008

a day

my house still stinks, and i still don't know if it's a dead thing in the attic or not-
cuz we haven't had a chance to move the crap under the ladder yet-
bey ya wish you were us huh?
i'll let ya know as soon as i know what IT is.
in the meantime-
i'm just gaggin along-
(actually- the smell is lessening- so it prolly is a rat-- nearly gone? )




her's about how i feel right now-
i have been bustin my ass all damn day.
dr appt.
dishes -- WOO HOO ! yes- i did them ALL-
trust me, there were LOTS too.
and i did a ton of other crap-- but still --
i have a looong way to go before i am done. but i am out of gas.




SO-- we're goin out to eat, cuz i don't wanna dirty my kitchen. :))
then i have to come home and start "MY LAUNDRY "
and other crap-
and watch survivor.
etc etc etc.

i didn't get around blogland today- but will try to later on.
if i don't make it , i will try again tomorrow.

latah peeps-

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

WTH is WRONG with blogger???

i keep trying to leave comments--- yes call me a glutton for punishment--

but everywhere i go-- blogger eats them ALL.... wth??? anybody else havin this problem??
or is it cuz i am ME???
just askin.

wanna get really grossed out?

i thought not-- but i'll tell ya anyhow...
last night i was leaving a message for jamie.... and i had noticed a odor in my bedroom. i thought it might be dog poop-- but i hadn't seen any . so i mention.. " i smell dog shit".. just randomly.

well... this morning.. soulman comes out from getting ready for work, and he says.. i smell... i cut him off and say "dog poop"? he says " no, somethin dead, i think there may be dead rats in the attic !"

well, hell... i didn't even think of that!

besides that.. we had noticed flies in here last night. several of them.. big, like horseflies. we have never had a fly in this house. i'm sure it's natural this time of year to see a fly or two now and then.. but i'm talkin 6, maybe 7 .. giant ass , buzzing flies !

so ummm, yup. now we both think there's somethin dead in the attic.. or maybe more than one somethin dead in the attic. i haven't been up there since before we went out of town last weekend.. and boy have we had some hotttttt days lately.
i would have gone up to look this morning, but the other day when we had the bad weather, we moved so much crap around we can't bring the ladder down now. hubby was already in his work clothes this morning.. so we have to move crap after work to check tonight. he will have to move the stuff... but i'll have to go up to check. oooh imagine the FUN !

he said he would go up, of course-- but y'all know he is just a big dude-- and attics are not built to support weight like that. miss a beam..and down ya go. i would hate that for him. so me it will be. i don't mind though. i used to do that shit for a livin. i never did have to recover rat carcasses though. i just laid the poison.. the homeowner had to do the dirty work. yuk.

anyhow--- as for me... i guess i consider myself lucky this go round with the stomach and throat stuff.
i have some pain.. throat to belly-- but it's fairly mild. i wouldN'T eat solid food yet. i'll stick with soup and jello. but otherwise it;s ok. i'm not trapped in bed like last time, but a bit wobbly. so i guess i get to skip any hard labor today. :)) but i do have a lot of bills and paperwork type crap to keep me busy.

i suppose i see a nap in my future as well.. hopefully though with the bleeding now stopped i'll be feeling a bit more energy soon. i can't wait for that ... woo hoo.

anyways-- i hope y'all have really good days out there today-

thanks bunches for all your prayers-- i'm certain that is what made the difference this time !!! really!
hugs to all of ya !

OX :))

Tuesday, April 22, 2008

just so ya know

i survived the EGD (upper GI test thing) this morning. and am home now. in bed. fixin to go to sleep-- or pass out.
i remember feeling a million times worse last time they did this. right now i am just kinda drunk and tired, groggy. throat is only a little sore-- but it's still numb from the gargle stuff.. so i only hope it still doesn't hurt as bad as last time. they dilated my esophagus again. like last time. and it almost killed me then. (well felt like it. i wasn't able to eat, barely drink..or take my meds for like 4 or 5 days. ii finally ended up at the emergency room, i thought something was really bad wrong, and couldn't get a hold of any of my doctors. plus i hadn't been able to take /swallow any of anti d's for so many days it began to afect me in a bad way and i became depressed etc. it was jsut bad. not to mention the awful pain. turned out to cost me 600.00-- for a small amount of liquid pain meds only so i could eat and take my anti d's. it of course turned things around and i got better within a couple days... but i have to say-- i am fearing a repeat. and even though i talked to the doc today about all that-- he still wouldn't give me pain meds ! WTH?? i don't have any-- and even if i did.. it would have to be liquid-- which i never have even when i do have any. can we say screwed?
anyways-- yep-- i'm hoping, praying, wishing, knockin on wood, etc.. that for whatever-- for any reason at all.. my throat will not hurt as badly as it did last time, and i will be able to eat and swallow pills. if that happens-- i think all will go ok.

i did manage to drink one of these... cuz i wasn't allowed to have any coffee this morning:



i was afraid hot coffee would hurt me-- so went for the cold-- same as last time.

also got some jello, soup, and lozenges.. just in case. ( well hubby did..when he went in to drop off my rx on the way home. i forgot the name , but it's some kind of stomach med.. same as last time. (caltrate? or somethin).

ok.. so anyways-- i don't know much about anything at this pont , i was barely even concious at the hospital before we left. they talked to soulman about stuff.. but i was drifting in and out of sleep like literally every minute or two.
i do remember being told
"no asperin, excedrine, or NSAIDS (?) NASAIDS" ?.. wth? ( motrin, advil,,,etc ) "EVER AGAIN"

that one is gonna be the toughest of all. i live in a world of near constant pain.. somewhere. and no more otc pain relievers. i also live in a world of dr's that are afraid to rx pain meds.
i can only hope that now that i have documentation that otc pain meds can KILL me... they will realize that they can allow me to suffer .. or give meds to help me. somethin has to here.

because the doc said that my stomach is bleeding. it is the massive amounts of asperin and excedrine etc.. that is causing ulcers.. and bleeding in my stomach.. and if i don't stop taking these meds-- i "could die". this is why i have been anemic..and am SO anemic now-- as the pain worsens, the asprine etc increases... as does the belly bleeding.

aint life just fuckin grand?????

so anyways-- i gotta get some sleep.. hopefully i will feel good enough later to get around blog land a bit-- i miss y'all...

i hope you are ALL having happy days.


OH SHIT- i almost forgot --
VAL ( Charlotte gave me an award !)


she said cuz i got "attitude"
is that good or bad?
take it any way ya want-
:))
cuz it depends on the day really
or the hour.
sometimes it is a good attitude-
and sometimes --
well i'm just a bitch
but hey
people love me-
and that's awesome


i love y'all too!

ok.. i must sleep now-
THANKS CHARLOTTE :))