Well my birthday was a quiet one.

Tessa took me out for dinner then my friend April took me out shopping, I bought Tessa a new pair of jeans and and myself a pumpkin nightie (very cute!).

My friend bought me a new pair of slippers, we ACTUALLY found a pair that stays on my feet! Because of the way my feet are finding shoes, slippers or even socks that fit right is hard to do, shoe shopping is NOT a fun thing for me.

Before we settled on the slippers we were looking at boots, we found a few pairs that we THOUGHT might work by the fourth pair I was almost in tears, it was so frustrating that even with help I couldn't get these things on.

THEN as I'm sitting there resisting the urge to tear apart the shoe department, April with her impeccable sense of timing, (can you hear the sarcasm dripping?)

tells me that there is just no way that we can go to the concert because 1. Hubby won't drive us and 2. She didn't buy the tickets like she said she would.

I sat there for  a minute and counted to 10 then 20, then I just got up and walked away, really more mad at myself then at her even though she PROMISED that if we couldn't find someone else to drive us she would drive we would just leave A LOT  earlier, and now she was backing out of it, I was still more mad at myself because I KNEW this would happen if I left it up to her but I did because she PROMISED, so ultimately not going  to the concert is my own fault.

April very wisely left me alone for a bit.

Part of why I got so angery is because of the new meds I'm on, they really help with the pain, but it is still morphine based and morphine makes me mean, I know this so I do my best to control it.

I have to say I think I did pretty good, I didn't rip anyone's head off even with frustration and dissapointment turning through my head.

Anyway.....

I walked around in silance working the crappy stuff out of my head for a bit then we stopped at the snack bar for something to drink and we ran into my Mother, she took one look at me and said "Tell your Doctor to lower your doseage."

Apparently I look like a REAL stoner...LOL!

I came home to quite a few messages wishing me a Happy birthday from friends and family, that was nice.

All in all it wasn't a bad Birthday....I am very Thankful for the friends and family I have and that includes you guys here in BlogLand.

Thank you all for for stopping by and  the birthday wishes.

BIG (((HUGS)))

XOXOXOXO

 

Both Tessa and my Mum couldn't wait and gave me my cake and gifts today instead of tomorrow.

Tessa gave me TWO bottles of my favorite perfume (one tiny one to go in my purse and a bigger on to keep on my dresser).

She told me her co-workers were very helpful , she went into work today and said "It's my Mum's birthday tomorrow, and I don't know what to get her....HELP ME!".....LOL!

Then half way through her shift she had 5 different people come up to her with things from thier departments for her to choose from. Wasn't that nice of them?

My Mum gave me a very cute and artistic cake in the shape of an old fashioned draw-string silk purse. It was very pretty, sorry I don't have a picture of it because Tessa cut it up before I could get my camera.....BRAT!

Mum also gave me some Halloween decorations, because I told her not to get me anything, so she got somethings for the house....Sneaky old BRAT!......LOL!

For tomorrow (my actual birthday) my friend April and I are going out for coffee and funky coffee cup hunting.

Then if and ONLY IF we can find someone to give us a ride, we will be going to Tacoma next Saturday for a Rick Springfield concert......

I'm not getting my hopes up though because everyone seems to be too busy or just doesn't want to drive that far.

April is just too afraid of getting lost that's why she won't drive and bus tickets just cost too much, so yeah if we get to go I will be one happy girl, floating on cloud nine, if we don't I will pout, maybe kick a wall or two but I will deal.

 

Awww HELL who am I kidding!

 

I'm GOING to get my hopes up and be VERY disappointed if we don't go, but I WILL get over it.

Take care all!

~ The Scooter needs a new battery VERY badly, the one it has started to leak last night Scared me a bit.

The people that gave it to me are getting me a new one over the weekend.

 

~ Tessa ACTUALLY got herself up for school and let me sleep!....Again scared me a bit.

I woke up at quarter after 8 freaked out because that meant she was late for school AGAIN....So there I am stumbling out of bed yelling for Tessa to get up, and I'm not getting any answer.....*BLINK BLINK*. It took me a couple of minutes to realise she ACTUALLY went to school on her own. Well I guess there's a first time for everything right?

 

~ My foot is broken AGAIN...Ok I have a "Marcher's Break"  in one foot, I've had it for years and years it never really heals and sometimes it slips out of place but it doesn't really hurt, today though it HURTS and it's making me CRANKY!

 

~ I'm going to get my passport tommow......I don't know WHY I'm getting it exactly (I don't go anywhere) just that my Mother has decided I need it so she is going to take me to get it.

 

That's it for now.

 

 

IS HERE!

I like it, it's a little beat up but I can deal, after all the price I'm paying (practicly nothing) a few cracks that can be covered by funky bumper stickers is no big deal.

It seriouly needed a charge, so I plugged it in a waited a couple of hours, then I took a little spin, well I guess I should have waited til the morning because I didn't get far......LOL!

that's OK I will wait and go for a longer ride tomorrow, I also won't be going full throttle like I did on my short spin.....drains the battery faster then I want it to....LOL!

I really like the idea of being able to get out and go farther  and not be in pain afterwards, most of the time if I have errands that are in two different directions, I have to choose, I can't do both in one day.

Now with the scooter I can do both, one I can walk too and the other I can use the scooter, that way I'm still getting in my daily walk and get more done.

All is good!

Well it will be REALLY good when I get the batteries checked out and I can get a better idea as to just HOW far I can go on this thing.

 

On Sunday I am going to get a scooter, and up until last night I was really excited about it.

Then as I was talking with a friend on the phone it hit me....A scooter is just a step away from a wheelchair....AAAACK!

I have worked so hard to stay out of a wheelchair  and here I am accepting something that is little more then a glorified electric wheelchair!

Doesn't help much that both my friend and my Mother voiced their concerns that if I get the scooter I will become lazy and not walk anywhere. Then I felt I had to justify why I felt I needed the scooter and that just PISSED me off They BOTH should KNOW better!

How many times Have I called my friend (Rick the ex) to take me to his friends place so I could go swimming to work out the kinks? And the whole time I'm swimming he's standing there all worried ready to jump in and save me if I get too tired. Which is really cute if you think about it because he CAN'T swim......

Or How many times have my Mother and I argued about me doing my own shopping or taking my clothes to the laundromat on my own? With her saying stuff like " Oh that's too heavy for you!" Or "You'll hurt yourself, wait for me to get there."

Yeah, the two people that are the worst for trying to baby me are NOW the two most against me getting the scooter, which will help me do more things on my own........Hmmmmmm, I think there is something to think about there, don't you?

Well I'm going to try and get the excitement back and try and NOT see getting the scooter as "Giving up" but as a way to extent my mobility.....It's hard though.

Anyway....

I hope everyone has had a good week so far and is looking forward to a relaxing weekend.

Take care.

(((Hugs))))

Hi, how is everyone?

I'm doing OK, same ole same ole around here.

Saturady night my brother, (and his wife) my sister and I took our Mother out for a second birthday dinner.

It was nice, Tessa is still mad at me for not letting her go.

Well, she had to clean her room, I'm not too picky about her room usually, because if she wants to live in a mess then so be it I can shut the door but there comes a time, usually about the time that I can't find a matching pair of socks I say it's time to clean it and that can take a while because between the two of us we have about a hundred and fifty pairs...Crazy I know but true.

Plus I had the boys and I needed her to watch them for me, I felt a little guilty about that but I got over it....lol!

Just so you guys know I am visiting your spaces and blog sites to keep up with what's going on with you but I'm not really commenting sorry!

It's just that I really don't know what to say a lot of the time, It's not that I'm not interested or that I don't care, I AM and I DO. I just don't know what to say.

It's bad really, it's like my brain is shutting down for winter.

I know I'm already getting antsy about being shut in like I was last year. It was HORRIBLE and I'm not looking forward to it happening again.

 

* Well it looks like I'm not going to get the boys until this afternoon (a phone call would have been nice) so once I get Tessa off to school I'm going back to bed.*

Do I have other things to do?

Yup.

Do I care?

Nope.

After telling Tessa that there was no way in hell I was going to let her have a dog in my house.....I caved *Hanging head in shame*.

As a very early Christmas & 16th birthday gift I agreed to letting her have a small dog.

The dog is a Pugapoo (a Pug crossed with a Toy Poodle).

She is 6 months old, all black and won't get much bigger then my cats and her name is Ami.

Honestly! I should be smacked in the head.

Tessa will be at school, work and such so guess who gets the joy of training this puppy......That's right ME.

But I have told Tessa that when she is home she HAS to help with the training not just play with the puppy.

At first this puppy isn't going to cost me much in the way of vet bills and such because the people we are getting her from have taken care of all that, but as time goes by I'm sure things will pop up and I told Tessa that since she has a job she can help with that too.

We will be getting the dog in about a week or two, we have to fix the backyard up first and make it safe for a little dog.

Yup, I've lost my mind....I'm going to go find it now, it's probably hiding under my bed sucking it's thumb.....

That happened this weekend,

~Tessa had a BLAST going for a ride on the Quad, when they got back she had the biggest grin on her face.

~ Tessa rode a dirt bike and again had a BLAST.

~ Sitting and having tea with "Fred's" Mother and  Grandmother was fun, the Grandmother wants to get her hair cut like mine.....LOL!

~ Being up country is EASY on arthitic bones, dryer air.

~ I didn't use my cane all weekend.

~ I went up and down stairs with very little problem.

 

I have decided that I HAVE to leave the coast, it is not a "want" but a "NEED" .

I need to get my strength back and I can't do that here on the coast.

I have always known a dryer climate would be helpful, I just didn't know HOW helpful it would be,

Being up country was like turning the clock back 10 years for me body strength wise, so I have decided that at the end of the school year we are moving.......I have two options of where I could live all I have to do is make up my mind.

I have to get going right now but I will be back later.

Have a great day all!

 

Or whatever higher power you believe in......

 

My weekend with Fred and Willma, (Names changed to protect......ME!) 

 

Since 4 am Saturday morning I have had 3 hours sleep, one of which was in the car on the way home.

I'm not kidding, I only had THREE hours of sleep since Saturday.

First off I have to say I did  NOT want to go on this trip, when I thought we were going to be staying  with "Fred's" parents mainly because we were driving up with 7, yes I said 7 dogs, SEVEN frikken dogs!

But also because I don't know "Fred's" parents, I don't do well with strangers butTessa does even worse so I knew it was going to be a bit stressful that way.......

 

 

It's morning now......

So on with what I was saying.....

Yeah we traveled up with 3 adults, 1 teenager and SEVEN dogs, it wasn't too bad because most of them (dogs) stayed in the back of the truck and I had taken Benadryl so my allergies didn't act up too bad.

When we got there I got the oh so wonderful surprise of NOT staying in "Fred's" parent's house but in a single wide trailer with NO RUNNING WATER!

SEVEN dogs and 4 people in a trailer AND NO RUNNING WATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the shock wore off, I was able to see that the set up wasn't really all that bad we had electricity, a full size propane stove and fridge, and a wood stove for heat.

All we had to do was once or twice a day is run the hose (if it wasn't frozen) from out side to the bathroom and we could use the facilities, and if we REALLY didn't want to do that we were able to  go up to the "MAIN" house (a five minute walk away) and use theirs, Tessa choose to do that....spoiled city brat!...LOL!

This setup didn't really bother me because as a little girl when I lived with my Dad we lived like that for a while, chopping wood , boiling water on the stove for washing and stuff like that, sometimes when you live up country getting a water line is difficult, then even if you have one there is always the freeze over factor so you do what you have to do and get on with it.

I even surprised the HELL out of Tessa and "Fred" with how well I can stoke a fire, first night we were there taking care of the fire was up too "Fred and Willma" ........By morning we were FREEZING and had no hot water, they were too tired to wake up.....PFFFFT! WHAT. EVER.

So I took over, we had lots of hot water and it was almost too warm in the trailer....When I stoke a fire I STOKE a fire! And it don't go out.

Anyway, none of that really bothered me what BOTHERED me  was the seven dogs that were very poorly behaved  and every time I turned around there was dog crap......If I ever have to clean up another pile of crap again I just may hurt someone!

"Fred " was getting all pissed off about it too, but did nothing about it. ARRRRG!!!!

"Wllma's" attitude was "Oh well I'll clean it up later."  Double ARRRRRGGGGG!

So THAT was left up to me and Tessa as well

So yeah I spent the whole weekend playing with fire and cleaning up dog crap, my hands are sore and chapped from all the washing and hand sanitizer using I did.

Tessa looked at me when we got home and said  "I'm never going to get a dog am I?"

I said "Not as long as you live in this house your not."

And to top it all off we didn't even have  Turkey dinner!

For Thanksgiving Dinner Tessa and I had McDonald's!.....That's just so wrong on so many levels I can't tell you!

So tonight I'm making it for us, I'm just going to buy a couple of turkey legs but I'm still going to have all the fix'ins , Stuffing, cranberries the whole works!

 

So how was your weekend?

 

* just so you know there were a couple of good points too, but I'll save them for tomarrow's blog*

 

 

 

Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving!

Have a wonderful weekend all.

 

 I leave at 5 am tomarrow morning.

I still have a ton of things to do to get ready so I will be around to visit when I get back.

Love and (((Hugs)))

Cindy

Hi,

Yesterday was my Mother's birthday. Tessa, my friend and I took her out to dinner to White Spot, it was good quiet because the other siblings that live close are out of town so it wasn't the usual loud family get together but, it was nice and we all ate too much.

The BIG get together will happen this weekend, for Thanksgiving (for the Non Canadians, our Thanksgiving is this Monday Oct. 8th).

Tessa and I won't be here, we are leaving for 100 mile Saturday morning and won't be back until sometime Monday.

That's all I got for now, I have to go and drag Tessa out of bed.

Take Care all.