Avery and CiCi

The weekend is here and I'm beside myself with anticipation. Anticipation of sleeping late, doing a little housekeeping and then working on the taxes. But I hope to mainly just chill.
I have told my beloved David, we must make a dent in the boxes in the garage. With this cold weather it is crazy for us to be parking outside.
Avery (#4) grandchild spent the night Tuesday night. She is now almost 5, and she called me on the phone and asked if she could spend the night, I told her no, not until either tonight or tomorrow night. Well, according to David who was with her at the time, and I quote directly--"she threw down." Cried with tears dripping down her cheeks--honestly Susan Lucci couldn't do any better. Anyway, of course David brought her home, and of course she slept with me and of course she kept me up all night. You might wake up with her foot in your mouth, I swear she is such a restless sleeper.
Anyway, we got up Wednesday morning, and I was dragging. And this is some of our conversations.
Me: Avery, do you love Nonna?
Avery: Yes, but I love CiCi and Ginger the most.
Me: Somehow that doesn't surprise me.
We of course are late and I can't find my glasses. I am positive I left them on the nightstand. After frantically looking all over, it occurred to me that Ginger probably got them off the nightstand and had hid them under the bed.
Me: Avery look under the bed and see if you see Nonna's glasses. Do you see them?
Avery: No.
Me: Avery put your glasses on, look under the bed and see if you see Nonna's glasses. Do you see them?
Avery: No.
Me: Avery get a flashlight, look under the bed and see if you see Nonna's glasses. Do you see them:
Avery: No.
I lie flat on my stomach, look under the bed and and see my glasses and of course they are just out of my reach.
Me: Avery see if you can reach Nonna's glasses. Can you reach them?
Avery: (lying beside me) No.
I get the flashlight and manage to move them just enough to get my hands on them.
We were about 5 minutes late.......The picture above is Avery and CiCi at the dogshow last night. The received a ribbon for third place in "Most well behaved." Hmmm

A Bathroom With A View

Monday Monday......busy busy. I didn't make my deadline for our usual meeting...in other words, I was supposed to get the agenda out today, but it seemed that everything was just pushing my hands away. Anyway, I'll get it out tomorrow.
Yesterday morning, I had just gotten out of the shower getting ready to go to church, when I looked on the bed and saw Ginger eating one of my lactaide tablets. She had gotten the bottle out of my purse and I guess the lid wasn't on tight, and there you have it. I had placed my purse on the bed. She and CiCi are very interested in anything that is mine. And my purse is very very interesting. So I called the Vet School at Mississippi State and they felt that it would probably be okay, but just in case gave me the number for pet poison control, which I called (charge of $35.00 to your credit card) and the lady was very very nice helpful. She reassured me that it would be okay and what to watch for. Soooo, I didn't go to church and then stayed home the rest of the day and worked around the house.
It seems that since we have moved here and I can see the lake from just about every window in the house, I have become obsessed with which way the wind is blowing since I can see the ripples on the water. I'm constantly saying hmmm, the wind is from the east, hmmm the wind is from the west....hmmm the wind is out of the north.....and only rarely do I see the water rippling from the south. I'm still amazed at the stars and the moon and the clouds and the trees and the birds and the deer and the ducks and the geese. You would think that I never lived in the country. Picture above is the view from the bathroom, one of the corner windows. And no we don't have curtains yet...but no neighbors on this side...and we bathe in the dark!!
Morelater--AngelMc

This has been a great week. I took the day off yesterday and cleaned up my house and caught up with the washing. Now I have the whole day to……work on our accounts, pay bills, balance check books and maybe, just maybe, deal with a few of those boxes that are stuffed in the closets and in the garage.

Right now I’m watching “Fashion in Film”, blogging, reading the book “Twilight” and I just finished my buttered biscuit…….well my two buttered biscuits……no coffee this morning—sipping on Diet Coke. The puppy girls are right here with me.

I may take a shower and go back to bed with my book……..whatever the whole day is mine. I did that for a little while yesterday morning. I was lying in bed with my book, gazing out the bedroom window at the ducks on the lake and the puppy girls were cuddled on top of me. And I was thinking, how great is this? I felt so comfortable, so cozy and so at home.

I am really enjoying this new house. I have to admit, I had my doubts because it was such a transition and struggle……finishing, moving, closing with the bank. But it was all worth it.

I have ordered sheers for all of the windows except for the dinning room and I think I’m going to put roman shades in there. The last thing will be to finish unpacking those boxes and either putting stuff in the attic or up for a garage sale. Again, I knew I had some stuff, but honestly—it is embarrassing. Also we need to put up the pictures. David needs to finish the deck and there are a few other things that need finishing—the entertainment center, some toe molding needs putting down, the microwave needs mounting under the cabinets, oh and my doll cabinet has got to be finished. Hmmm seems like more stuff than I thought.

Have I told you that I am in love with my dishwasher? I give her a little kiss every now and then. I have totally quit the paper/Styrofoam plate thing. We eat everything off of the fine everyday china. (Royal Doulton--"Ting" above--love it because the pattern is embossed into all the pieces) Am I helping the environment as well? And doesn’t a dishwasher use less water than washing/rinsing in the sink?

I’m constantly turning on and turning off the lights. I’m trying to keep the electric bill down. But I wonder what the neighbors think……..when they seen the lights going on and off all the time.

Morelater--AngelMc

I started the new year out right. I went to church this morning. I have not been going lately. I have no real excuse. So since we moved, I decided to go to a small church in the country and I really enjoyed it.
The sermon was about how we all have a rebellious nature....and about our complacency when things are really good---it hit me right where I live, because God has been so good to me and my family, the very very least that I can do is go to His house on Sunday.
We didn't get our house sold, but we do have a renter. He and his son moved in yesterday. They wanted all of the furniture that we left behind as well as the washing machine, dryer, refrigerator and stove.
It was sort of strange walking around it our old house with it empty, but I have to say I really don't miss it because I am enjoying this house so much.
The scenery here is so amazing. Earlier today their was a solitary duck on the lake and he was swimming along and I noticed the little wake behind him. And then it started to rain so very gently and every drop made tiny circles in the water..............

Morelater--AngelMc

Two of my gkids spent the night with us last night. They slept with me. Yes they slept and I napped. I might have slept 4 hours. We were all up bright and early at 5:15 and we have been wide open ever since.
I washed/dried/did not fold nor put up our clothes/vacuumed half the house/cleaned up the kitchen/worked on our accounts/called tech support and fixed the wireless card for the PC and the main thing--played referee for a 5 year old and a 10 year old. I also tried to protect the fur babies from being loved too hard.
So now the house is fairly straight (not counting the dozen boxes that still need to be put up), the kids are gone, I'm kicked back blogging, watching a show about prisons, soon I'll go take a shower and hit the bed. Life is good.
Morelater--AngelMc

Now that we have moved I have a little longer drive to work. Maybe 5 minutes.
No big deal except for two things. I have to pull out on the highway and then drive a very short way to the cross over and get into the east bound lane. I have to be very careful because our driveway is under a hill. If you don't stop and really look, you might pull out in front of a car.
But the other thing. I drive past a truck stop and a major intersection of two 4 lane highways twice a day.
Trucks are constantly pulling into/out of the truck stop and onto one of the two four lanes.
And yesterday I realized something.....I'm playing chicken with semi trucks!! I'm in the right lane, they need to merge or pull across to the truck stop, or cross to the other four lane, they plainly see me, but they just ease right on out......and I'm thinking I'll be darned if I let them push me around.......I'm not moving just because they are a big semi truck weighing 50 million tons. No sir, I'm not moving an inch.
And by the way if I'm in the right lane and they are trying to merge, do I have to let them in?
Why are they pulling out in front of me? Just because they can. This is the rant that I was having with myself, when it occurred to me...AngelMc, you dummy, you are playing chicken with a semi truck....you can't win.....they can and will squish you......back off and let them in for goodness sake. What comfort will it be when you are in ICU saying, "yeah he may have run my butt over, but I didn't let him in."

This week so far

Thank you all for your kind wishes on my birthday. I have had a great week.
Today I feel like I have been let out of prison. The Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) recertification that has been hanging over my head for the last few months is over with and I passed!! Yea me. I was worried because I just haven't had the time to study. So I took off work early yesterday and studied. And when I got to work I was so stressed out. But the teacher was great, he made it fun and we learned a lot. For the first time since I first took it in '85 it was actually fun. The American Heart Association--bless 'em--keep changing how things are done when a person arrests. And when you have done something in a certain way for years, it is hard to get your head around that change. But they spend a lot of money on research to figure out the best way to resuscitate someone. I have been a nurse now for 33 years and I don't know why I let things like this get to me. There is just something about being put on the spot in front of your peers.
Last night Avery (#4 gchild) had a solo in her school's Christmas play. She sang "Happy Birthday Jesus", which kinda came out like this Happy Birthday JEE-SUSS, I'm so glad it's KRIS-MUSS. It was so cute, but I had to leave early to get back to studying and missed dinner at the Mexican Restaurant.......but remember I passed!!
We are moving tomorrow. David has told me that he is moving tomorrow with me or without me. I don't know why I keep dragging my feet. But now that ACLS is not hanging over my head I feel better. So tomorrow night we will be sleeping in the new house.
Oh and Direct TV can't install until the 23rd. Do you think we can make it that long without TV? And no internet until Monday. I'm getting a wireless card, 'cause there is no DSL where we are moving. I can read a book and entertain myself but David.....I don't know what he will do......fish maybe.
Saw my urologist Wednesday and the stone has shrunk form 10.6 mm to 0.8mm, but I still can't pass it and will need to repeat the lithotripsy. I told him that even though I'm in 100% pay now with my insurance, I just can't be put to sleep again right now. That would be 4 times in 4 months. I'm going to try to wait till February.
David just called renters of house #4, seems they have been gone for 2 weeks and left the key on the kitchen counter. They said that they had tried to call us and couldn't get us. Impossible, we both work at the hospital and one of us always there except for every other weekend. Plus we are in the book..and they haven't been on caller ID. Now houses #3 and #4 are both empty. Not good. Not good.
I'm almost done with my Christmas shopping. The gkids are only getting one small toy and the other presents will be clothes except for Avery who is getting a new bed spread and sheets. The big kids have told me what they want and I have gotten that. David and I are getting each other the new house. My uncle...hmmm I don't know. I'm going to tell my friends not to get me anything....unless they want to drop a few coins in the Salvation Army bucket and just say my name.
Oh and one more thing, I lost my glasses again and Ginger (the youngest furbaby)--kindly found them and brought them to me minus an ear piece but according to the glasses lady can easily be replaced.
Morelater--AngelMc