KaLynn

Slip sliding away!

2012-01-26T12:17:00.001-06:00

It's been rainin!! YAY!! Paper said this morning that we are almost out of the drought!! Almost but not quite!

I'll take almost and then believe we have more comin!

Though my back yard is not in a drought!

I have a leak somewhere and can't find it!

I think it is a slow one and hope to find it before it turns to a big one!

Though I must say the roses are sure appreciatin it!

I'm tired of soppy mud though!

About the time I think it is dry enough to go dig it up, it rains again.

Not complainin mind you.

Just kinda hard to find a leak in the rain, doncha think?

Cheers my friends! Have a great weekend!

How I keep followers is beyond me...

2012-01-23T11:49:00.002-06:00

I am so sporadic lately it's a wonder I have any one following this blog or my other one!

School has begun.Well sorta. The first week is really slow for these two/three classes. (One class is a lecture/lab class so I have 2 sets of homework from Environmental Science, which I can't even spell correctly. Thank you someone for spell check!)

Couldn't spell sporadic earlier either...........

I wanted to get so much accomplished while I was not in school. Ya know I didn't have anything on my mind or going on in my life. . . . .

I have material for baby blankets that have been waiting for almost a year......

I have a painting that I was asked to paint that she never gave me money or came by, called, etc. so I am going to add 2 more canvases to the group and make a 4 piece painting. May keep it or if someone has a wad of money they just don't know what to do with, they can have it, if we agree on how big the wad of money is.........LOL!!

Went to see Mom last weekend. That will be another blog at another date because it is sitting like a dark cloud over me right now, not as a depressed things as much as a smoke cloud from being so angry at someone. So I am working on cooling down.......and releasin' the hurt feelin's that have turned to angry, very angry, thoughts.....

Harlie Monster is doing fine. She was jumpin and twistin and actin a fool even before she got those stitches out. Now everything is back to normal......CHAOS!!!!!!

But it's my chaos and I love it, well almost love it.

Hugs, hope all is well with all of you!

Ciao!

Harlie Monster

2012-01-09T08:54:00.000-06:00

Harlie, the basset mix, was spayed Friday.

She has never been hurt before.

She does not deal well with her tummy hurting.

Not. At. All.

Friday was a nightmare.

She refused to eat but drank about 6 gallons of water.

Then puked.

Saturday, she laid around and whined.

But refused any medicine to make her feel better.

Also refused to eat any dog food in the bowls.

Might I add it is DRY food.

Saturday night Michael and I are so worried because she has refused to eat and refused any attempt of pain medicine.

Finally I remember a large can of dog food. So Michael ground up the pain pill and put it in the canned food.

She gobbled it up.

Amazingly, she felt better.

Sunday she whined and whined and whined.

And did some more of that stuff.

ALL. DAY. LONG.

We gave in and again mixed some pain meds with half wet and half dry food.

Again she gobbled but refused to eat straight dry stufff.

She was whining when I left for work.

Wonder if Michael will give in and feed her some wet food with dry food to SHUT. HER. UP.?

I think we have created a Harlie MONSTER.

Cheers my friends!

I'm so bad.........

2011-12-29T12:52:00.002-06:00

I forgot to come back and tell you all the news over the Christmas days.

Michael got a super, repeat SUPER, good report last Wednesday! He is doing so good he does not have, repeat HAVE, to go back to doctor until APRIL of 2012!!!!

His viral load, which was at 1.3 MILLION in August is down to 62. Yep you got that right. 62. (Average for HIV patients is 48)

His CD4 counts that were down to 47 in August are 362 or 369!! (Average for HIV patients are 600-800)

His platelets are 82, up from 6 in September. YAY!!! (Average for people in general is 150-450) Thousand that is. This number is in thousands so it is up for 6,000 to 82,000.

So we had a blessed Christmas just with this news!!

Next the root canal did great. No pain. Wonderful piano music, warm blanket, roaring fire, red wine......ah it was so peaceful.

Well until Doc brought the jack hammers in and destroyed my image in my subconscious! Go back in a couple of weeks to get fitted for the crown.

Had the grands for about 3 days while I was off and it was super grand let me tell ya!

Then we all had Christmas at Layne's, including Dad and Mrs. Dad, and it was another super grand day! Even had all the kids and grandsons! Couldn't have asked for a better Christmas!!

Hope all of yours was grand too!

May the Good Lord bless and keep us throughout 2012!!

Hugs!!

My Christmas Present to me........

2011-12-20T08:28:00.001-06:00

A root canal on Thursday......

Go me.......

What a super wonderful painless gift...........

Right??

We shall see. ..

How many shopping days til Christmas?

2011-12-14T11:50:00.002-06:00

How many do I have to get Christmas presents?

I have gotten this many so far: ZERO!

I have no clue what to get the kids....

I liked it better when they were little and had a list of toys......

Grown kids are much, much harder!

And not so much fun.........

Any suggestions??

No Clue

2011-12-13T09:22:00.000-06:00

I have a really really great idea for a blog!

I just can't remember what it is.........

Grins and giggles!

Well, it's Monday

2011-12-12T10:17:00.000-06:00

It's another Monday.

Not a bad Monday.

Just another Monday.

The older I get the faster they follow Friday.

I'm not likin' that atall...........

Not atall..........

Have a happy, or contented at least, Monday!

Hugs!!

Thoughtlessness

2011-12-08T11:32:00.001-06:00

Sometimes in our lives, we hurt people we care for the mostest.

Yesterday that was me.

I acted like the old me that I can't stand.

I am so very sorry.

There are no words to express my feelings.

I love this person so very much.

FYI-Instructions are important

2011-12-06T11:15:00.001-06:00

Just an FYI-

Make sure when cooking in a microwave you read the MICROWAVE instructions........

For some reason CONVENTIONAL oven instructions do not, repeat do NOT, work in the microwave......

They will turn pizza into CHARCOAL in 7 minutes.

PLUS cause lots and lots and LOOOOOOOOTS of smoke........

Just saying...............

Muddy dogs for sale or trade

2011-12-06T08:59:00.001-06:00

I have a yard without grass.

We have had rain for five days now.

(I am not, repeat NOT, complaining about the rain.)

But because I have a yard without grass, I now have mud.

I also have a pet door, or rather a pet screen.

So when the 4 leggeds need to go potty they can go without waking me up.

They only wake me up when they come back in.

Cold.

Wet.

Muddy.

As they crawl in bed to get warm and dry.

Do I hear any offers?

Trades??

Hello??

Anyone???

It seems strangely quiet in the audience today......

Hmmmm.....

Guess that means I am stuck with the muddy monsters.

At least until the yard dries up.....

Happy Pre-Hump day!!

indecent exposure

2011-12-02T09:41:00.001-06:00

As I was drivin along the other day and saw a runner.

A male runner.

Well, he was tryin to be a runner.

With a white rather hefty torso.

No one deserves to see this.

I am a thinkin there should be law against half naked men runnin along side the road.

I was blinded.

There there was the issue with the man boobs.

I almost had a wreck.

Trying to get away.

This was definitely indecent exposure.

I can promise you no one would want to see a half naked me running down the road....

Happy weekend!

World AIDS day

2011-12-01T10:09:00.001-06:00

Today is Wear Red Day and of course I forgot!

World AIDS Day

It is World AIDS day and with it all in our face at our house, you would think I would remember to wear red......or put on a red ribbon........or something.

Nope got up as usual, in a sleep stupor, and got dressed and went to work..

Woke up about halfway to work and remembered it was Wear Red today......

OH! Wait! I have red underwear on!!

YAY! \

So does it count if I can't show it??

Hugs!

Pray for a cure!

Love ya'll!

I thought he was jokin, really.

2011-11-08T15:29:00.000-06:00

Michael wanted some crawdads from popeyes yesterday. Ok it's sorta on the way home so I said sure.

I drive up and say I would like to order the Crawdad Lunchbox, a large order of tenders, and two wraps.

Silence.

Still silence.

Finally, the kid comes back on and says:

We don't have a large order of tenders.

I reply, knowing full well they have a 5 piece and a 3 piece:

Me: Soooooo what DO you have?

Idiot replies: Well, we have a 5 pc and a 3 pc.

ME: Ooooook, well, um, let's see, I think, uh, I'll take the fiiiivvvveee piece..

Prozac MUST be workin, otherwise, I would have spouted off some very obscene words about morons.....

15 minutes after I finish the 10 minute dialog to get my food ordered, Moron brings my food.

I didn't realize that they had to CATCH the crawdads when I ordered them......

He hands me my food with a "Sorry for the wait" and walks off.

I reply: "Thank you and have a nice day. Come back to see me, why doncha?"

Of course by that time he is walkin in the door.....so he probably missed my positively sweet sarcasm......

I almost took my receipt in before he got there and asked them just where did they go to catch the little buggers.......

Prozac was holdin me in the car........for reals........honest......

Layne is amazed at my control lately...

So this must be a good thing.....

Bossman told me that the crew at work was gonna to get a collection up to make sure I would always buy my meds, because I'm much happier.

Happier is good for EVERY BODY he says.

Like the saying, "If Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy", I guess .......

Though Jesse did call up the other day from the floor to tell me I needed a better attitude.

My response was he didn't have to call me.

He said I should be nice.

I responded, I can hang up........

Maybe I need stronger Prozac...........

Cheers my friends!

He is HOME!!!

2011-11-02T15:28:00.001-05:00

That's all folks!He's HOME!!

A Michael (aka Micael) Update

2011-11-01T10:39:00.000-05:00

Good news: He has stabilized over the past 24 hours with the platelet count! They are thinking it is the Atripla that is making these counts go up and down. I don't think they have had a lot of experience with this drug since it is fairly new.

He could be coming home soon, which is a far cry from yesterday's diagnoses of you are here for an indefinite period! I'm so happy I could bawl like a baby!

All the tests are, once again, coming up negative for anything except HIV.

So he have to go back for more frequent labs, not just once a month anymore. I can deal with that!

More good news: In one month this medicine has increased his t cell count more than in several months of the other drugs he was on. It also brought his viral load down amazingly fast too. Last drugs he was one took 2-3 months to get up over 300 and Atripla got him to 365 in one month! That much closer to the 600-700 that I think they are aiming for! Where he will feel almost human again! I'm ready and I know he is past ready!

Thanks for all the uplifting and prayers! I don't think without them he would be where he is today! We have been given more time to spend with Michael! How blessed we are!

Love and hugs!

(aka Michael's Mom)

Missing in Action

2011-10-31T08:33:00.001-05:00

As you know I have been missing in action lately.

Michael started a new drug, Atripla, (I think that is the way you spell it) the end of September.

Has some purty nasty side effects: hallucinations, dizziness, tremors, tics, etc. These have finally gone away for the most part. Purty much only happens at night now after he takes the meds.

Then he goes in for labs so that all the blood counts will be ready for his appointment on November 11 and we have not gotten in the door and the doc is on the phone.

Michael has to check into the hospital. His platelets are at 6. Which is down from 9 just after he started on the meds, but way down from August, which was 95. Low platelets can cause brain hemorrhages, eye hemorrhages, dementia, all sorts of things, with the worst being the brain hemorrhage.

We live so far from a hospital that the doc didn't want to take any chances.

Good news though is that the Atripla has brought his viral load from 1 million plus to 13 thousand and his T cells up from 47 to 365. But it is reacting with the blood it seems.

Scary thing is the docs are perplexed.

They have taken him off the Atripla without telling him. So now he is on a tear this morning, and I don't know how many of you have ever seen him on a tear but it is NOT a purty sight. He can outdo me, and that takes some doin.

This is where I am and do not know when I will post again. I am going to the hospital every day and getting home late.

To make matters worse, he feels fine. Which makes it hard to stay cooped up in a hospital room 24/7.

Please remember to lift us up.

Hugs to all!

Kentucky

2011-10-19T09:49:00.001-05:00

The first week of October I was off to a trade show.

Went up in a bucket truck.

This is what it looked like at 85 feet above ground:

If you look real close over the top of that building, you will see downtown Louisville.

It was pretty fun.

AND beautiful!

I think I want to live there.

Yup. It is soo pretty.

Have a super duper day!

Cheers!

Walk like an Egyptian

2011-10-18T13:03:00.001-05:00

Nuff said..........

Happy Day!

What in the World was I thinkin?

2011-09-28T09:08:00.000-05:00

I had this ~~great~~ stupid idea when I first got Scrappy and Lady that they could sleep on the bed with me.

It was all well and good until it got cold. Then they slept IN the bed with me.

Ok, so it's just 2 little dogs. No biggie, right?

Then Lady got sick and ended up with 2 more to help Scrappy though when Lady had to move on.

I got stairs for the new "kids" on the block so they could get on the bed.

I got rid of the stairs when Baxter kept bringing in leaves and sticks on the bed while I was at work.
(Does this sound familiar?)

Now the four legged kid family has grown to 5 (or 6 if you count Winnie). Scrappers, Crystal, Baxter, Harlie and Jack.

Two of which are NOT little dogs.

Crystal sleeps on the other pillow.

Scraps sleeps next to my shoulder behind me or ON MY pillow, which he gets bumped off of when I realize it but as soon as I turn over he is back.

Baxter sleeps either on the floor or under the covers growlin and snappin at everyone.

Jackson sleeps at my knees, in or out of the covers,

Harlie sleeps at my feet on top of the covers or under the covers butt to butt with Jackson.

And somewhere in the queen size bed is me.

Winding my way through the stinking dogs.

What in the world was I thinkin"?

The bat mobile

2011-09-27T07:28:00.002-05:00

While visiting JD a couple of weeks ago, I saw a car that made me laugh soo hard I forgot to grab the phone to take a picture.

Picture this car:

painted that light baby blue

with a stencil of this on the front door:

No yellow. Just the black bat. No circle just the bat.

Very bad stencil to boot. Smudged edges.

I laughed so hard that I almost sat through a green light.

I almost turned around right then and there so I could get a picture to share but JD was hungry...And you know how hungry boys are.......vicious......HAHAHAHAHA

Have a laughin good Tuesday!

Cheers!

Mini Donuts

2011-09-17T08:30:00.000-05:00

Last weekend, the grands came to stay the night.

I just love it.

They make my heart sing!

I try to do something fun when they come.

This time it was this:

A mini donut maker!

Use a cake mix and you have cake donuts that look like this:

Powdered sugared or plain. They like the sugar ones and I like the plain.

Funfetti donuts!!

These are the ones that eat them:

My very own personal donut eaters!!

Lights of my life!

Have great weekend!

New Painting

2011-09-16T20:32:00.000-05:00

New Painting

Actually it is two paintings.

And it is SOLD!

Have a few touch ups but for the most part it is done.

And yes it is two canvases.

I have never in my life sold a painting.

Or a drawing.

Just recently I have sold 4 bags.

It feels weird to sell something I create.

But I think I will feel weird with my hand out, palm up.

Thank ya very much!

I get Brownie Points!!

2011-09-15T14:12:00.002-05:00

Michael had a doctor appointment yesterday.

It is all good. Nothing new. Which is what we knew but it was still good to hear.

He lets me go in with him to see the doctor. Which I appreciate.

I usually open my mouth.

I opened it and words begun to fall out.

I thought-WTH?? SHUT UP.

So the nurse asked what I said.

I replied: nothing.

No. Really, nothing.

And went back to reading the kindle book.

Doc came in and chatted with Michael.

I stayed quiet until the doc asked if he ate a lot.

I shook my head.

Doc looked at me and said Mom is shaking her head, why is that?

I said He FORGETS to eat.

Doc: FORGETS?? I never forget to eat!~

Me: Yeah, me neither. (As is VERY evident when you see me!)

And I once again shut my mouth.

So I get at least ONE brownie point??

Told him on the way home, I was gonna drop him off and I was going shopping next time.

He's well enough I don't need to know what is going on.

Michael can tell me.

Shoppin' here I come!!

YEE HAA!!

Michael's and my conversation via IM

2011-09-14T09:56:00.001-05:00

Micael says
better today?
K says
well, so far I havent punched, ran over, screamed at, or killed anyone..............
so is that a plus for today?
Micael says
i would think that a good thing
K says
and so long as i dont drink or eat anything hot, my tooth does not hurt.
or sweet
forgot and ate a mini dark choco bar and about died
or cold
so so long as food is mushy and luke warm i am good
tho if i have to drive that car too much farther, i will take it back to AS and drive it up someones ass.......
Micael says
are they swapping you out another?
K says
they are scrambling to find another or i take my car back
and I am calling onstar to see if there is another servivce center i can use besides this worthless piece of so called service department at the dealership......
and so far today the worst word i have said is shit......so go me...
AS has one hour and 12 minutes to find another car...........
shall we make bets???
or maybe, MAYBE, they will have MY car fixed..........
any bets??
takers??

no bets so far.....

do you feel Michael's pain in talkin to me? see how I switch from one topic to another without warnin?

that happens in person too.

drives him up the screamin mimi wall.

some days, minutes, well, er, seconds we swap topics, like, uh, 12 times.......

and sometimes he doesn't even know it because i can come back to the original one in one breath...

yeah, i, eh, rattle off alot, sometimes about not much of anything....

just like on here.......

poor you guys and Michael......

NOT!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers!

Welp, I am unfit

2011-09-13T13:27:00.001-05:00

Because I have a DUI in my past I am unfit to mentor to children.

Also because the school chose to turn me in to Department of Human Services because of a bruise on Laynee's leg because of 4 licks she got because she lied to me. I am unfit to mentor children.

But I am still in the running for Secretary/Treasurer at school.

Ironically, I am dropping all my classes this semester. And the funny part is that if I would finish these 3 classes I would have my associates degree.

But I have a teacher who will not work with me, will not answer my emails, and will not let me make up a test I missed while Michael was in the hospital. All quizzes are 100% of the grade.

I have a 3.7 average. I am not going to mess it up because the teacher is a jackass jerk. I will start over. He is supposed to be a great teacher in person. So we shall see what happens next semester.

Maybe I will take art classes instead.

I am too tired. I am worn out. I can't sleep. I'm about to explode at any given moment. I want a vacation.

Even work sucks.

What in the world was I thinkin??

2011-09-09T10:35:00.000-05:00

Just put my name in for Secretary or Treasurer for the English honor society at school.

What in the world was I thinkin???

Also checked on volunteering for the Communities In School program for an hour a week mentoring a child.

What in the world was I thinkin???

Have I lost my mind???

What in the world was I thinkin??

The life and times of Jackson, in pictures

2011-09-06T21:56:00.001-05:00

These all happened in no less than 10 minutes.

Honest.

Jack staring out in to the back yard.

He did this for about five minutes.

I didn't know he could sit still this long.

Then all of a sudden out he goes!

Faster than a speedin bullet, and jumped all dogs in a single bound,

to get to this:

(ignore the screen lines, the back yard is NOT plowed)

This is what Jack sees. . .

(I see nuthin. . .)

He comes barrelin back in with this. . .

A stick. . .

It must have moved in the dead grass. . .

A walkin dead stick. . .

He started to look out the window again but

decided to pant instead

Oh, aren't I cute?

Huh? Huh?

I know you put alllll this pillows up here just for me. . .

You wuvs me . . .

Cuz I's cute and I wuvs you too. . .

lots. . .

(Really he just found the breeze from the fan in the background.)

Hugs from all of us to all of you!

Michael is home

2011-08-31T20:48:00.000-05:00

Michael told them at the hospital that either they could discharge him or he could walk.

Choice was theirs. They were through with tests so why was he there?

They discharged him tonite.

Winston is one happy happy dog.

He has not left Michael's side.

Start regular meds tomorrow and ARVs about a week and a half.

He has to finish antibiotics first.

Monday update

2011-08-29T18:58:00.000-05:00

Well, I THINK all the tests have been run. Today was a lung biopsy and a bone marrow. Both extremely painful.

Spinal tap came back no minny gitis.

Prelim blood results came back no CMV, but we will have to wait for positive NO from bone marrow test.

He is going crazy because he does not feel sick, even though the tests say he should be in bed. He has lived this way so very long that this is the norm. One nurse told him she didn't know how he was doing so good because if she had all that he she would be in a ball crying.

Today he is still steady. It is weird, he went to the doc to get back on the meds and then we couldn't leave. Got stuck in a examining room for 8 hours because of all the counts. What should have been high was low, what should have been low was high.

I must admit that it scared the crap outta me. When docs look worried and concerned, it makes me worried and concerned. Yesterday, another ID doctor came in and explained so much stuff to me.

So that is all I have today.

Plus I think the auditor at work is gone. I think. No guarantees though.

Cheers my friends! Thanks so much for the prayers and well wishes, and thoughts and all the good stuff that you good guyeses do.

update

2011-08-28T17:02:00.000-05:00

Well when the REAL doctors finally came in today, the news was up lifting.

Hopefully he will be released Wednesday or Thursday. They just have to wait for prelim results to see which way to treat whatever it is that he has.

Update!

2011-08-26T14:54:00.000-05:00

Talked to one the med students that is taking care of the kid is not expecting us to be in here for a very long time. The vampires have taken blood 7 times so far plus blood gases. X rat has been done. He's calling the docs Bert, Ernie and the sesame street gang so the snarky - ness is in full force. He is able to walk around, not on iv tie down. Right now it is a wait and see game.

Hugs and much love to all

Note from Michael

2011-08-26T10:17:00.000-05:00

"effin hell. looks like bert, ernie and the sesame street posse are goinmg to be up my snuffleupagus for the duration of this visit. throat punches are inevitable."

so things sound normal from his state of mind. . .

Contact info for you guyses!

2011-08-26T09:46:00.001-05:00

I need contact info for those of you who want me to write you back. I realized as I was sending personal notes to all who commented yesterday that some went back to no reply.........and then I couldn't find a way to contact you guyeses off of your blog. I do not have access to contact info from Michael. So if you send me contact info I will not publish it. And for those of you who did. I will remove that comment. I apologize. I was not thinking very well last nite.

I am at work at the moment, trying to catch up and then run to the hospital. Prolly for the weekend.
If you want to contact me here is my email: klaws256 at hotmail dot com.

I have nothing new to share so far. When I called him a bit ago the herd of docs had just walked in.

Hugs and kisses to all you guys! I have sent a special thank you to the Man upstairs for all of you and asked for special blessings for each and every one of you.

love and hugs,

Michael is going back on hospital

2011-08-25T15:33:00.000-05:00

We are waiting for a negative air room to open up or get cleaned up. I do not know which. Joe Tcells are back down. 47 this year as opposed to 43 last year. Platelets are 15,000, viral load is over 1 million. X rays, bone marrow biopsy and other tests are being ordered while we wait. Internal medicine have been 3 times, 2 different docs and then the whole friggin team troops in with the same damn questions and same damn exam. Geese Louise get us up to the 7th floor already.

Will post more as I know it. Ask God to give us strength to get through this! And to restrain or hands and mouth! Michael is ready to pinch someone and rip them a new one!

Hugs!

Auditors!!

2011-08-24T21:21:00.000-05:00

THE AUDITORS HAVE TAKEN OVER!!

Good grief I have forgotten what it is like to have auditors at work!

I came in yesterday and laid on the couch.

Crashed.

DIDN'T EVEN WATCH WHEEL OF FORTUNE!

Until 7, ate cereal for supper.

Laid on the couch til 9.

Crashed.

At nine, got up and went to bed.

THEN IT TOOK AN HOUR TO GO TO SLEEP!!

Geeze Louise!

Back again today.

But since Michael has to go to the doc tomorrow, then I will miss Mr. Auditor!!

At least he's nice.

Real sweet kid.

Sad to think anyone under 40 as a kid...

Man, I'm gettin old.

Dang auditor!

Along with wipin me out each and every day, he makes me feel my age!

Bleh.......

Won't see him til Monday afternoon.

So maybe by then I'll be over it, ya think??

Hugs!

WHEW. . . .

2011-08-23T08:44:00.000-05:00

Well, the IT guys at school uploaded ALL Texas Politic classes at the beginning and have now UNloaded the ones that dint belong there! So life has slowed down for 8 weeks! WHEW!!

So I"m back on making my bags and baby blankets!!

Michael goes back to doctor on Thursday. Please remember him in your prayers or thoughts.

Hugs!

School has begun..and faster than anticipated too!

2011-08-22T11:34:00.000-05:00

Well school has begun.. .

AND faster pace than I had anticipated at this point.

Why you ask.

Because the fast track class I signed up for in the middle of October is beginning in August.

SOOO......

My slow start to school has advanced to an extremely fast pace.

3 tests a week in Texas Politics class.

Then an Enviromental Science class where I have to go find rocks.....

Joy.......JOY..........

NOT..

But it makes me 2 classes closer to the AssDeg.

Or associates degree as most of you call it....

So I may be scarce again.......

Unless I'm stressin so bad I need to talk to someone

Then you guys are on the top of my list to talk to.

Don't you feel special??!!!

Cheers my friends!

Happy Monday!!

PS. Scrappers got released from the Doc on friday!! YAAAAY!!! Still have meds to finish and one he will be on for the rest of his life. But all is good!!

NOW I'm gone!........

Where's my electric prod?

2011-08-18T09:32:00.000-05:00

I'm a controller.
I've been a single mom since 1989 of 4 kids.

"My way or the highway."

"Because I said so."

"If you do that again, I will beat you bloody."

"Choice is yours: I can be the coolest mom on the block or I can be your banshee from hell, which will it be?"

"You're stuck with me til you are 18, and if you think that you want to make my life hell, remember that I have 26 years on you, so do you really want to go there?"

I have a tendency to do this at work.

Rather small tendency.

So small, it's tee-ninsey.

Almost minute. . .

"Hello, dufus, where'd you wake up this morning? Under a rock?"

I got asked why I wasn't colorin my hair anymore, my answer:

"I couldn't keep up with the gray you are causin by askin your dumb questions"

The other day Jesse kept buttin in while I was talkin to a temp, finally I looked at him and said:

"Ya know there are days when I just wanna punch someone, and one day you're gonna keep on and it's gonna be YOUR day for me to punch YOU."

He continues to mouth.

I look at him over the top of my glasses and say:

"TODAY COULD BE YOUR DAY. SHUT. UP."

He snickered.

I got high five's from everyone else in the breakroom.

These men that act like kindergarteners that can't figure out why I can't remember they worked through lunch.

HELLO? Do you not see me talkin with another employee? Moron. . .

Then on my way back to my office the Production Mgr, catches me tells me something, our Engineer catches me on the next stop, the the Pres once I get upstairs, then phone rings and it is a customer or a trucker wantin directions to our place.

HMMMMM, who told me they worked thru lunch?????

I can't get it through their heads, call and leave me a message!

They need something fixed, fill out the freakin form!

Some days, I feel like I'm a pig herder.

In the muck and mud of mouthy men.

Where's my electric prod??

For that matter, where's the electric fence?

They love me.

Really.

They love to be abused.

It's a great place to work!

Honest!

Cheers!

I'm so mad!

2011-08-16T15:55:00.000-05:00

I'm so mad at Michael's Mom!

She left kleenex in her pockets and washed her jeans with my jeans.

Now there are bits and pieces of kleenex all over the jeans that I was gonna hang out.

Now they have to go in the dryer after line dryin.

THAT WOMAN!

GRRRRR........
I know.......I know........I should give her a break.......

But Blast it!

Those white pieces of paper will just NOT shake off!

I've tried to yell at her but when I see her, I just can't...

It just seems so pointless....

I know she will forget again...

And I'll get aggravated.....

But I can't yell at her.........

I feel really stupid yellin at the mirror.........

Cheers!!

Jack and his paci

2011-08-14T21:27:00.000-05:00

Jack has to have something to chew on every night. Normally it is a rope with big knots.

Lately though, it's something different.

It's this:

Yes it is a piece of concrete.

It used to be bigger.

Here is Jack sleeping with his paci:

And yes I have concrete crumbs in my bed.

Cheers!

My son the snarky

2011-08-12T18:38:00.000-05:00

I was watching the game show Lingo the other night with four of "the not the brightest bulbs in the box" on there.
For those of you that don't know about Lingo, it's like Bingo only with words. They give you the first letter and a clue and one team has 5 tries to get it right and if they can't it goes over to the other team for a chance. The game tells you whether your word is right, you have the right letters in the wrong place or the right letters in the right place.

So here is a tee ninsey bit of the show:

The clue was: It goes on and on and on. Beginning letter: C.

The females come up with I don't know what 4 times. Time number five, now mind you I'm kicked back in my recliner, with all remotes, almost all dogs, well that is until I start screaming: CHAINS!!
CHAINS!! then all 4 legged kids leave the premises, in favor of something quieter.

The females spell....ChaiMs................Are you kiddin me? Seriously?? Tell me you didn't just do that!

The guys can spell this one. They get it right.

A few more times down the road the guys have given control back over to the girls. Which says a lot from what I have just told you. . OK?

The clue: Come together. Beginning letter: U

Girls are down to time number 4. The letters they have are: UN_ _ E

One of the guys, NOT THEIR TURN MIND YOU, yells out: UNTIE!!!

Bill Engval, the host, turns and says in his "Here's Your Sign" voice: Not your turn. BE QUIET!

The girls use Untie. "Come together"? Untie?? Really? Seriously? WELL, Alrighty then!

Of course, it is wrong. But they do see that the t and i are in the word, wrong positions.

They at the last moment, of their last try, realize: UNITE!!!

YAY!! They get to go to the bonus round. Now this oughta be a GREAT time...... Not....

Michael walks through the room and states in his deep monotone voice: "I think those four have licked too many window sills as a kid."

I can just picture these four at the window sills of their old homes lickin the sills: "Hey Billy Bob, I'm 'bout dun o'er heer, wanna go to the dinin room and check them winders out?" My visual imagination just goes crazy! I almost fall out of the chair laughin!

Finally I stop laughin enough and ask him where he comes up with this stuff. He looks at me and says in his "Here's Your Sign" voice: "Well when you were a kid, didn't they use lead in the paint?" and proceeds out tha back door.

I know this stuff but I never, EVER, REMEMBER this stuff! Until he has his snarky moments. And sometimes, like this time, it still goes flyin over my head. . . .like Harlie after a frisbee. Whoosh!

Cheers my friends!

Have a grand weekend!

Dairy Queen Miracle Treat Day

2011-08-11T12:26:00.000-05:00

Dairy Queen Miracle Treat Day August 11

Go get a blizzard from DQ today!

A $1 of it goes to Children's Miracle Hospitals!

Even has a place to enter you zip code to find the one nearest you!

Eat it in a hurry if you be in Texas!

It'll melt purty darn quick, even in the air conditioned car!

I know!

I have 'sperience!

Go have dessert tonite at DQ and support a good cause!

Cheers!

Tueday evening temp

2011-08-09T22:26:00.008-05:00

Here is the temp on our back porch after I got home.

Around 6:30 pm: ( I think if you click on the pic it will enlarge if not see below)

It is about 112-114! I can't tell for sure I'm too short!

But I do know it was HOT!!!!!!!!!!

It's gonna be a ruff week. . . .

2011-08-08T13:16:00.016-05:00

So let me whine a bit. And yes Cheese would be great with it.

Over the weekend I made a new bag. If it could go wrong, well not necessarily WRONG, but not quite right, it did.

I sewed the strap with too much seam. WHICH I figured out AFTER I had wrestled with it for 45 minutes getting it turned right side out. . .

Then had to rip it out and start again......AND since I had cut the corners off, I had to shorten it. . .

Then I measured the buttonholes, did then, cut them and realized that the last one was not right. Oh well. . .

Until Michael said, well if he wants a longer strap, then that won't work........

So I cut the strap again, in the middle of the last button hole, undid the sewing and resewed.

Instead of 4 buttons now , (not 5 because the store did not have 20, only 16), the bag got 12. . .

I laughed so much over this stinkin bag! I figured that was MUCH better than cryin! (or cussin!)

Even had to take the buttons off a couple of times... They are sewed together on each sid,e so two buttons came off and once and went back on together.

Then last nite, I wanted to make enchiladas, rice and beans.

So off to the store I go. Get the stuff and come home to begin dinner.

No chili powder! No cumin! No red pepper!

WHAT? How can I make enchiladas??? Tony's will work Michael says.

Ok, so I use that. Cut the onions, fry the meat.

Get the corn tortillas out.

Try to roll them into enchiladas.

Try again. And again.

FORGET IT! We're have enchilada casserole!

Michael laughs and says why not enchiladas?

THEY WON'T EFFIN ROLL UP AND STAY!!

Again HE laughs!

I get ticked! The flat tortillas out of the pan THROW them on the table.

And calmly try AGAIN.

DAMN! THEY WON'T STAY!!!

He is in the floor laughin by now.

It is NOT funny.

We end up having casserole.

So I start on the rice.

It is rice a roni stuff.

I forget that I am to saute the rice in butter.

I put the water in the pan, add the butter and throw everything else in.

THEN read instructions.....

OH. WELL.

Turns out I was suppose to DRAIN the tomatos.

We had soupy rice, unrolled enchiladas, and refried beans.

BTW-You can't cook soupy rice til it is not soupy.

It burns.

You have to then change pans.

So today, Layne, who works with me, leaves to go see boyfriend graduate from Boot Camp in Cali.

She will be gone a week.

Guess who gets to do all her work? Me, all my work that I have passed off to her to do, is once again, MY work. . .

And most days I will be all alone, by myself, up here.

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

GODD NEWS??

I get to turn the music up WAAAAAAAAY loud!!

Cheers!!

Patience. .

2011-08-03T12:21:00.000-05:00

My Bossman wanted some different shirts besides the T shirts he wears to work. So he went shopping.

The store only has 4 shirts in a color he liked and in his size so he had them order 4 more.

The ones they had in the store were black ones and grey ones. He thought he would interchange them with some teal green ones and he wouldn't look like he was wearing the same shirt every day (cuz he KNOWS that I would ask him if he was wearin the same one over and over).

So he placed an order for 4 teal shirts.

About 4-5 days later, store called to tell him his shirts came in.

He troops down to the store to get his shirts. They were the wrong size, right color.

He said no, he needed the size he ordered so he sent those back and re ordered the 4 teal shirts.

Another 4-5 days go by and the store calls him that his order is in.

He goes in to get the shirts.

Opens the package to look at them.

Yep, you got it.

Not right.

They are the right size but they are all black. Not teal.

Now my boss is VERY patient. (Ya know this is true because he has put up with me for 6 years 11 months and 29 days and most days I try his patience. It's true really. Just ask him.)

He sighs and says Well, he would go ahead and take them but he had ordered the teal shirts because he already had black shirts and gray shirts and wanted something different but he was tired of the waiting game.

So he takes the shirts and goes home.

Two days later, the store calls again.

His order was in.

He said I don't have anything on order anymore.

They tell him yes sir, you ordered 4 teal shirts and they are in.

He reminds them of the black shirts.

They sent them back.

Makes you wonder tho, who didn't get them black shirts, don't it?

Reversible bag

2011-08-01T15:07:00.005-05:00

MIchael found a website or maybe a blog that had a reversible bag to make on it. Instructions included. It was too cute. So I printed the instructions. The link is Versus and she has some cool stuff there but she got the idea from elsie marley so I ended up over there looking at stuff there too.

I made one for one of my adopted kids. She had a shower on Saturday afternoon so I made her a little diaper bag for those quick trips. It is so cool. Reversible, has buttons on the side so you can make the handle short or longer. Totally awesome.

Well Michael and I wanted a messenger bag. Him for his art stuff and me for my school stuff.

So I modified it. I added pockets, a longer strap and a flap. It is made from heavy denium and striped ticking I had left over from a rag quilt I made JD a couple of years ago.

This is it without the buttons or button holes. I am going after work to look for buttons that will go on both sides. The buttons are sewn on the ends of the bag both inside and out so you can reverse it. The button holes are on the strap.

This is the blue jean side closed.

This shows the flap and pockets.

On this strap is where the buttonholes go.

This is the inside that is now on the outside!

WaLa!

The reversible bag!

If I can figure out a price, I have 5 sold already! Everyone likes it because you will be able to decide whether to wear it on your shoulder or across your body. With the buttonholes and buttons you can make the strap any length you need or want.

No pattern, just measurements! This one is cut at 16x17 (2 per material) with the flap at 15x16 (1 pr material), strap 3x63 (1 per material). From cut out (onthe second one) it took about 5 hours til it looked like the pictures. The pockets are just left overs from pieces of material laying around. Ithink the are 3x6 with one edge finished and the others not.

One person asked me to put a big pocket across the back so she could carry her customer files and then her laptop in the bag. She wants 2 and she will show it to her co insurance agents!

My boss wants 3!

Now I'm looking for material so I can make these 5 and have a little extra cash!

WooHoo! How's that for a Monday???

Cheers!

Sports cars

2011-07-29T11:46:00.000-05:00

Do you have a sports car, hereafter know as "SC"? A Mustang, Camaro, Vet, etc.?

If you do, have you noticed that as you are ~~flyin low~~ ridin down the road, a car comes racin up in your rear view mirror?

A Tiny Tot of a car.

A car like a Dodge Neon, Chevy Cobalt, VW Bug? Ya those TT cars?

The ones that have squirrels in cages, runnin hard and just tryin to keep the posted speed limit, as engines. The ones that pedal to the metal, flat out, is going all of 75 tops. Yeah, those TT cars.

Their owner decides they want to go faster than a sports car.

With caged squirrels.

Ok, bring it on.

These poor little squirrels!

Can you imagine their feet?

Worn and bloody from tryin to go faster than they were meant to, which is usuallyis no faster than 60.

They are outta breath.

Huffin and puffin.

Sweatin up a storm.

And in this heat!

Can you imagine those poor little exhausted animals?

All for show off sake.

After my trip to Minnesota, I have realized that these little cars were made for Minnesota. Their top speed limit is 60, 99% of the time. If you get lucky, (and I mean REAL lucky) you will have a 10 foot span of a 65 mph speed limit and then it drops like a lead bullett to 55. With a cop sitting 1/2" on the OTHER side of 55. Waitin. Waitin. Waitin.

So beware if drivin in Minnesota. The cops grow like trees out there. Can't turn around without seein 6!

I'm serious. And NO, I did not get a ticket. Not even got stopped.

I was good.

For once.

Oh yeah, back to my story.

So here we have the sports car toolin down the road mindin her own business.

When up pops a TT.

With squirrels.

In the inside lane.

And Grampa in the outside lane.

The sports car gets jammed in behind Grampa out for a Saturday afternoon drive on Monday morning.

SC can't go any where because Gramps is in no hurry because all he wants to do is get out of the house before Grams gets her honey do list finished and starts in on when is he gonna get it done and why wadn't it done yesterday.

He really just wants coffee with the guys before any of THAT begins.

Just relax and enjoy the day before madness and mayhem descends.

The squirrels in the TT have begun to run out of juice and they are just tryin to maintainin their speed along side Gramps. At 60. or maybe 58. or . . .

So here SC sits doin 60, or 56, in a ~~710~~ 70 mph zone, stuck.

Behind squirrels.

And No Hurry Gramps.

Tryin to get to ~~work~~ anywhere.

Squirrels and Saturday afternoon drivers are really pput in our path to make us stop and smell the roses.

Observe the world through rose colored glasses.

Whether we want to or not.

Today was not a "A rose colored glass" day.

I passed.

I wanted breakfast.

I was a hungry hungry hippo!

The guys at work were waitin on me!

I had to go!
Enjoy your weekend!

Cheers!

PS Yes breakfast was great! Eggs, jalepenos, onions, crisp bacon and picante sause!! YUMMMMM!!

one liner

2011-07-28T13:33:00.000-05:00

Saw this on the bottom of an email:

I have learned that trying to please everyone is so hard but pissing everyone off is a piece of cake.

I LOVE IT!!
Cheers!!

No rain in sight. . .

2011-07-27T09:43:00.000-05:00

Today

Sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 104. South winds 10 to 15 mph.

Tonight

Mostly clear. A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms in the evening. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph becoming south 5 to 10 mph after midnight.

Thursday

Mostly sunny in the morning then becoming partly sunny. Highs around 102. South winds 5 to 10 mph increasing to 10 to 15 mph in the afternoon.

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph becoming south 5 to 10 mph.

Friday

Mostly sunny. Highs around 102. South winds 5 to 10 mph becoming southeast 10 to 15 mph by noon. Highest heat index readings around 110 in the afternoon.

Friday Night

Mostly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s.

Saturday

Partly sunny with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs around 101.

Saturday Night and Sunday

Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Highs around 102.

Sunday Night and Monday

Mostly clear. Lows in the upper 70s. Highs around 104.

Monday Night and Tuesday

Partly cloudy. Lows in the upper 70s. Highs around 106.

Sad, sad, sad.

Could some one Cry me a River?

Cheers! I'm still 3 notches above AWESOME!!!

Three notches above AWESOME

2011-07-27T09:07:00.001-05:00

Isn't that a great way to say what kind of day you are having?

When customers call, I always ask 'How are ya?'

Yesterday one called and this was his answer: "About three notches above awesome!"

His answer and his cheerfulness made my day rise about threes notches above awesome too!

So I hope your day is about three notches above awesome today!

Cheers my friends!! Have a great Hump day!

Dogs

2011-07-25T08:19:00.000-05:00

Well I have had fun behind the phone yesterday taking pictures.

Here are a few I thought I would share.

Crystal begging to sit with me

Harlie acting like Crystal

Baxter watching all the excitement from a safe place

Baxter is wanting Crystal to play and she is NOT accomodating.

Have a super, duper Monday!

Cheers!

Scrappers doc visit

2011-07-23T06:43:00.000-05:00

Scraps got another good check up yesterday. It is healing VERY good! It will eventually have a white spot and he will not be able to see out of this spot but should be able to see out of the rest of that eye. Right now this spot is sticking out a little but over time it will go in. It is also pulling back in toward his nose and may continue to do that so it is back in align.

He's become an even bigger lap dog since this began. He is never very far from Michael or me. Usually at our feet if not in our laps.

All is good! It is a new day!

Cheers!

reading instructions

2011-07-20T13:41:00.001-05:00

Ole Michael and I had this conversation yesterday about me not reading instructions. I buy him Chocolate LOW FAT ice cream. What the hay?

I buy him ice cream so he can get fat. I buy him chocolate because he looooooves chocolate.

I never noticed that it said low fat.

Until he wouldn't eat it.

THEN I realized it said low fat.............

THREE WEEKS later........

So as you know, my blog is no longer available to all people, (And you can bet every dollar you have that I studdered reeeeeeeaaaaaallllllly good on 'ALL PEOPLE' because I honestly wanted to come out with some extremely foul words....) so I have to send invites.

Michael asked for addresses and then sent them out for me.

I realized that I had not included all my friends, I had just given him the ones that had commented in the past several months. Some of the ones I know is 3D life, do not comment but read my stupid stuff, so I wanted to give them the opportunity to continue.

Find box, enter emails, click INVITE

Blogger says "Emails cannot have more than one @ in the address."

HUH? So I go back through and make sure all have only ONE @.

Click INVITE.

AGAIN: "Emails cannot have more than one @ in the address."

WHAT THE HAY?????

So I go BACK through it again and once again and

JUST HAPPEN to see the instructions:

"PLACE COMMA BETWEEN ADDRESSES."

DUH.

Works every time............

Read instructions first.

Sometimes I think I have too much testosterone...........

Cheers my friends! Or Chuckles even!

Stalker

2011-07-18T17:41:00.000-05:00

I am not sure what direction I am going to take with this blog. At the moment I am considering closing it all together. I am tired of watching what I say because of cyberstalkers. I'm am tired of the crap load of hell they cause my family.

This blog was originally started so I could find something funny every day to focus on. Some story about my life to make you laugh. It was my therapy.

Cyberstalkers have invaded my life. Both in real life and cyber life.

This blog is no longer therapy. It has become a way for cyberstalkers to find out what is going on in my family and try to us it against us in some form or fashion.

It sucks. My family and I do not try to make others miserable. We do not go out of our way to harm others. We do not go out of our way to hurt someone's feelings. I am not saying in the course of life we do not inadvertently hurt someone's feelings. We do not do it on purpose.

I like most people and most people are welcome at my home. I try to make everyone that walks through my door feel welcome, everyday, anyday, holidays, anytime. Freinds are the family we pick for ourselves. And for someone to come into our lives and want to trash it, just makes me sad. It also makes me very mad.

The latest stalker has called my work and my cell phone too, leaving long messages for me to leave them alone. I have not contacted them in nine months. .

They are following my blog as UNKNOWN. .

I'm very sad. I like talking to you guyeses. I like making you chuckle, or laugh, with some story in my life.

I don't like having a shadow, much less a shadow that is evil. So I don't know where this will go.

Things have changed

2011-07-15T12:48:00.000-05:00

Comments will no longer be available right away. I will have to approve them first. there are other changes that may take place also. .

If any of you get comments or emails about me or my family, please contact me and let me know.

Sorry for any inconvenience this causes anyone.

Scrappers latest update!

2011-07-11T12:20:00.001-05:00

Just a note to let you guys know that Scrappers had a good check up on Friday and the doc almost did a happy dance! He was sooo dreading see Scrappers but I did EXACTLY what he tole me to do and he will be able to keep the eye!! YAY!! Thanks for all you concern and prayers for my little guy!

Hugs to all!

PS. I HATE the new blogger thingy.........

Just ramblin. . .

2011-07-06T08:56:00.000-05:00

I hope everyone had an awesome holiday! I took advantage of the time away from work (and school) to get a couple of things done around the house.

I scraped, sanded, wire brushed the scrolly bars holding my porch and painted them black. They had ATLEAST 2 coasts of hand painted paint on them along with tons of rust. Took 1 day for each post. Mowed both yards at the end of those days. That was Friday and Saturday.

I'm purty proud here! What a difference it made!

(This is the blue chair I talk about 2 paragraphs down.)

Sunday, I installed a new kitchen faucet that I have had for 3 years, I repainted the hall. It was a dreary tan/brown/beige. Totally. Walls, baseboards, doors, ceiling. Everything. Now it is the same cheery yellow of the kitchen, which it flows into, with white trim and a white ceiling. Repainted the door frames, baseboards in the kitchen too.

Go me!!

I notice I forgot the paint the edge of the door.. .

From the kitchen going into the hall

Michael and I painted a couple of white grungy plastic chairs a red. Can of paint says burgundy but I think it looks more like cherry red instead. But still cute! He also painted an old green wooden chair to an oxford blue, (again can color) that looks more like bright royal blue. But again still cute. Now I need a can of white to repaint the bottom of the storm door to get the rust spots off.

I also painted the pots terra cotta orange too.

Monday, I was just going to dig up the pecan tree babies in the flower bed next to the driveway. Instead, I pull all irises, scrape the ground almost level in the front half, haul Austin Stone from the back yard and make a divider so that all flower beds are the same size, replant the irises, transplant a maple tree baby, and lay 29 bricks in the front half of the flower bed that will take a total of 180 when I am finished.

My poor friend, Arthur Ray Tus, was sure hurting when this was all said and done. Hands, findgers, feet, knees. The whole sha bam was hurtin to the point of almost tears. But I just can't stop. It has to be done.

(And might I add here, that I think the temp was hovering around 101-102 the entire weekend. I shudda sweated off about 10 pounds, but alas, my scales are stuck at. . . . you honestly didn't think I was really gonna tell you what I weigh, did ya?)

This is my only holiday that I have nothing to do all year. School year holidays are NOT holidays. Things are always trucking along. THERE ARE NO HOLIDAYS WHEN IN SCHOOL. Then on those holidays that come inbetween, like Christmas, haha getting something done there, right! Memorial day, that is a catching up on sleep day.

Keep ole Scrappers in your thoughts and prayers, we will find out on Friday if he gets to keep his eye or not. He got grass in it and rubbed the little lesion into an ulcer that won't heal. His tear duct is not working so the eye is not being kept moist unless we put drops in it every hour or so. So he is on different meds now. He now runs when he sees me. It took me 10 minutes of looking for him this morning. He has found new hiding places. . . Dogs and kids will drive you AB-SO-LUTE-LY nuts.

Next week is my quick trip to Minnesota. Ya'll go keep Michael company. He will probably love the peace and quiet but ya never know. . .He might actually miss his ole Ma!!

Hugs to ya'll!

Jack did it to me again. . . .

2011-06-28T08:19:00.000-05:00

I was soo tired last night I crashed on the couch watchin tv.

This is gettin to be a habit.

I get still and zonk out.

After about 2 hours of zonk on the couch, I decide it's time for bed.

I get in the bed and almost immediately zonk out again.

Midnight rolls around and the dogs have to switch places. Jack goes under the covers, Harlie comes out. Scrappers stays put.

Now, I can NOT sleep bunched up like a wadded up paper towel goin in the trash.

I have got, GOT, to have leg room. These dogs like to sleep close, so trying to move them all about with my feet becomes a chore.

Harlie decided she was sleeping ACROSS the end of the bed, and even on a queen size bed that's a purty good chunk of my bed.

Jack wants to sleep snuggled beside me but touching Harlie.

Scrappy is next to me on the other side.

WHERE DO MY FEET GO??!!!

So I begin the chore of moving dogs so I can stretch out.

In the process, I think Baxter is in the bed too. I feel a fuzzy round head.

Wow. Bax is here.

HOW did Bax get here?

I din't put him up here. He cain't get up here without me puttin him up here.

WHAT IS THAT THING IN MY BED???

I immediately wake all dogs as I scramble across the bed for the light on that side of the bed and begin to ever gingerly, so as not to waken the thing in my bed, pull up the covers to see WHAT is in my bed this time!

PLEEEEEaSE do not let it be another dead animal!

Turns out it is this:

only in purple. . .

Jack had brought it with him when he went to bed last nite and I din't notice. I din't stay under the coers either. It went out! Across the room. .

To scare me when I get up in the dark and step on it, I guess. . .

Happy day! Hugs!

Scrappy

2011-06-26T22:18:00.000-05:00

Yesterday morning, I woke up to the original stitch sticking out of Scrappy's eye lid.

We went to vet and he removed them both. Since today was 10 days, he felt like it was close enough.

Scrappy will more than like never look like this again.

When whatever hit him, it seems to have tore the muscle in the inner corner of his eye and so it will not pull back in. It looks to the outside corner. The muscle could heal but it could not too.

He can see a little bit, I think. He now closes his eye if I come close to it. I am going to call my eye doctor tomorrow and see if there are exercises that could help.

If not, he's still my baby.

Thanks for all the prayers! They were answered. He has sight and he gets to keep his eye!

Hugs to all my friends!

Scraps sends hugs too and if you're in the neighborhood, he would love to sit in your lap and act puney. He's good at that. . . .

Scrappers update

2011-06-21T13:07:00.000-05:00

So last nite, after a long day and a class in blood borne pathogens/CPR, I come home to put meds in Ole Turd Dog's eye.

Michael couldn't do because Kranky A$$ Turd Dog was baring teeth and snappin at him.

I just cain't imagine why Michael would not want to deal with that. . .

So I get it all ready: warm wash rag, bowl of warm water, gauze, meds. .

Pick him up.

He then realizes what is about to happen. .

The tussle begins.

I put the warm rag on his eye, which he tolerates for a whole30 seconds, (includin the tussle to get it on his eye) and shakes it off.

So I do it again.

Hold his head, look him eye to eyes.

I have to do this. So BE STILL!

That done, flip him over, again another tussle. Head flippin around, legs goin in all directions, body writhes like a stinkin snake.

Finally, get him still and. . .

The stitches closest to the inner corner of his have pulled lose.

We have a gapin ~~white~~ pink eye.

No pupil showin but a LOT of pink.

Grab him.

Grab phone.

Grab keys.

Grab purse.

Call vet.

On way out door.

Here is the conversation:

ME: Hello this is KaLynn Dawson, my dog Scrappy had surgery on Thursday for a protracted eye. The stitches have come loose.(Now granted I talk fast anyway, REEEEALLY fast when I'm upset, but. . . )

Stupid A$$ phone answerer: Scrappy?

ME: Yes

SAPA: Last name?

ME: Dawson, first name KaLynn

SAPA: What was your last name?

ME: Dawson

SAPA: WATSON?

ME: DAWSON AS IN D-A-W-S-O-N

SAPA: So Ms. Watson, when you took stitches out, his eye came out?

ME: NOOOOOOOO. The name is DAWSON. The stitches BROKE! He is not suppose to have them removed til NEXT Monday!

SAPA: oh, so the eye came out when the stitches broke?

ME: NOOOOOOOOOO. HE..HAD..SURGERY..LAST..THURSDAY..NIGHT..TO..PUT..HIS..EYE..BACK..IN..HIS..HEAD.. THEY ARE NOT DUE TO COME OUT TIL TUESDAY.. I NEED THIS REPAIRED!!!!!!! (YES, I am talkin through clenched teeth at this stupid moron)

SAPA: ooooh. ok.so i'll talk to the doctor and call you back.

ME: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.........I AM ON MY WAY IN NOW! WE LIVE 30 MINUTES AWAY. I WILL SEE YOU IN A FEW........

"click" I hang up. (I'm also REEAL bad about hangin up on folks when I'm peeved. . .and I'm just a teeninsey bit peeved. . )

So when I walk through the door, SAPA is halfway cleaning the table off. (SAPA forgets the dried blood on the front edge of the table. I end up cleanin the table again when she leaves. . . )

She tells me to bring Scrappers in to the room.

Then SAPA looks at the notes from Thursday and says: So I see here that they removed his eye and replaced it with a new orb.

Me: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. (Seems I can't say this enough to this SAPA) The Doc put his eye back in his head and sewed him up. We are hopin he will regain his sight when stitches are taken out.

SAPA: Weeeellll, that is not what it says here. . . .

ME: WEEEEELLLLL, then what is written there is incorrect. I should have brought MY copy of what happened on Thursay because it coincides with what the Doc told me.

SAPA sighs and leaves.

I guess it was becomin purty evident that I was gettin even more peeved the more she opened the pie hole in her face.

Next doc comes in.

Turns out SAPA can't find her a$$ with both hands AND directions.

Nor can she read notes in a file........

I tell him that his eye is still there not removed and replaced.

He says Yes, that is correct. and looks at me like I have lost my head.

I say: Well the girl said the report says that he had his eye replaced with a new orb.

He says: No it says that Dr. Jones re-placed the eye. Not removed it. He just put it back in Scrappy's socket.

I had begun to wonder what I had gotten Scrappers into until then.

Docs know doc language, SAPA's do not.

So he looks Scrappers over and says No Problem.

We can fix AND he can go home tonite. . .

YAY!!

3 minutes surgery, 20 minutes recovery, 10 of which was in my arms writhing like a stinkin snake again.

Heeebeeejeeebeees from that knock out juice. Along with the fact that his cone of shame is tight.

Doc comes out again, looks him over and okays everything.

Tells me to keep on doing what I was doin. I dint do anything wrong. Sometimes they just don't hold. Keep appointment for Monday stitch removal.

Off we go.

With the writhin, snakelike animal that sorta looks like my dog in lap.

I put him in passengetr seat.

He refuses to stay in passenger seat.

So here I am tryin to drive with wigglin, squirmin, head slingin dog in lap.

GRRRRRRRR

Finally, I can pull over and loosen cone. AHHHH.....

Stillness........

He has wadded himself up in a furry ball in my lap.

Under the steerin wheel.

Butt on my calf of left leg, hind feet in crook behind knee, front legs over left thigh, and head slung back far enough to break, lookin at me while I drive.

Rode home 30 miles like this.

Him lookin at his Momma....

And his Momma tryin to drive and look down into those eyes of so much love. . .

We get home, go to bed, only to wake up this morning to find that he had wiggled out of the cone of shame.

It is back tight.

None the worse for wear.

Don't care how many times he slings that head now.

IT

WILL

NOT

BE

LOOSENED.

mean momma. . ..

Scrappy

2011-06-20T16:16:00.014-05:00

Scrappy, one of my original poops, had an accident on Thursday.

What we don't know.

I got a call from Michael at 4:14 to come home and get Scrappers and get him to the vet.

His eye was coming out of his head.

I made it home in 20 minutes.

Normally it is closer to 28-30.

Was at a vet 3 minutes later.

He had left for town.

I followed him to the Emergency Room for pets.

The longer we had to wait the more it popped out of his head.

It was 6:40 pm before a vet showed up at the clinic.

He has had an emergency just as he was leaving his practice.

He has Scrappy in surgery about 30 minutes later.

We shall see if he has sight in his eye, if his eye will stay in the socket. If if if if if if...........

On the 27th.

Scrappy normally (though a tad skinnier here in '07).

Scrappy thursday nite

Scrappy on Friday morn

Scrappy on Saturday

Scrappy on Sunday.

As you can see the progression is improving daily. He still has great movement in his eye. The vet said that before surgery, his pupil was pinpont but after surgery it was larger. The swelling is just about gone. It was not as oozy this morning. So Maybe, all will be good.

(FYI-rewetting/lubricating drops for contact lens is great to keep the protracted eye moist. Which is EXTREMELY important. We went through a whole bottle in 3 hrs.)

We are thinking that something fell on him because he is real, and I mean REAL, skitish when things move unexpectantly. He about jumps out of his skin. Poor baby.

He has to stay this way til 3 pm on Monday, the 27th.

Needless to say, yesterday and today, he has begun to milk it.

BAD.

Michael says Miss Scarlet has nothing on Mr Scrappers.

Except maybe that she can put the backof her hand on her forehead and say Ohhh Myyyyy.....

He groooooaaaans.......

And another day goes by.........

Rotten

Pure de ROTTEN.

Adele

2011-06-16T15:57:00.000-05:00

I'm hooked on this singer.

She has an awesome voice.

Adele

Try it out.

Maybe you will get hooked too!

Some take a looks

2011-06-15T09:22:00.000-05:00

I used to give awards. My own awards. Then it got to be such a hassle getting the award to load, going telling the person they had the award, them coming to get it, copy, paste, yada yada yada. So no more.

Today I want to share some picture blogs that I think you should go check out:

No particular order either.

Kay's Photoblog

Patrick Tillett

A Mixed Bag

I can see clearly now

Through Squirrell Eyes

Picture Imperfect

A View from the Edge

A couple of these are not totally picture blogs but they have alot of pictures in the blogs so I included them. I hope you enjoy!

Seriously? Really?

2011-06-08T14:31:00.000-05:00

Can you imagine walking into a home with this on the walls?

From hgtv.com

Now you guys know I LOVE purple, but honestly, this is a bit much. It makes my eyes hurt just looking at this itsy bitsy picture. I cannot imagine what a whole ROOM would be like. Even just one WALL. . .

Think I"ll stick to my boring walls. .

Jack

2011-06-06T15:16:00.000-05:00

Well, I figured out what Jack is good for.

Making my stomach turn flip flops.

He jumped on the bed last night with some stick in his mouth.

I was trying to watch the tube and couldn't hear it over the crunchin.

Finally looked at what he had.

It looked like a skull. A small one.

I thought ewwww, he had gotten into something from the clean up going on at the house next door.

And yes he had but it wasn't a cat or possum skull that was old.

It was the fresh head of a snake.

The clean up guys had killed a chicken snake I guess next door.

Either that or Jack did it himself.

Which wouldn't surprise me since we live 5 houses from a farm field. This year it was wheat, last year it was corn.

And between them cutting and the house next door being trashed. . . .

Anyway. . .

I was cleaning out the garage yesterday and found a BIG snake skin.

Just looking at it I wanted to get on a chair......

So when I took the head away from him, I thought I was going to lose my dinner.

Stuff was still there.

Black yuky stuff.

Glad I picked it up with a wad of napkins.

I still had to wash my hands 3 times.

Happy day.........At least it was dead, right?

Protecting the newspaper!

2011-06-02T09:46:00.000-05:00

This what happens when the fire ants decide to protect their newspaper.

And you don't know it.

So you pick up the paper YOU pay for

and stick it under your arm.

Start to get in the car to go to work

Realize that your arm is on

F I R E!!!

Pull the news paper out from under your arm

THEN

realize that is it covered with ANTS!

FIRE ANTS!!

They were all over my arm, my purse, IN my purse.

BUT I DID NOT DROP THE COFFEE!!!

All the way to work, I felt these little buggers

all over.

On my legs, my feet, my side.

The mind works in strange ways, eh?

Have a great day!

A memorable Memorial Day

2011-05-30T23:08:00.000-05:00

Well, we had a rather active day today. A roaring house fire, a duples, that caught the house next door on fire, that jumped several houses, a mobile home, and hit a shed, then jumped another house and garage and a street and caught another shed on fire. All within a block.

Four families lost their home, one has a home that is damaged. One has a shed that is gone that almost melted the one side of his mobile home, and then the shed is owned by a lady that lives several street over.

Rumors have it that 5 or 6 kiddos under 5 lived in the duplex, two separate families, in the larger side. An elderly gentleman that had lived in the other side of the duplex has lived there for decades. I'm not sure about the last house to burn.

Three of the places have been bulldozed. And is still smouldering.

We had 14 fire departments here, 27 units and 87 firefighters, police, EMTS here. It started at 3 pm and they drove away about 9:30 pm.

Mic and I were over at a neighbors house wetting her fence, house and roof, and were amazed that the heat was sooo very strong 3 houses away. It was like being in an oven. And the firefighters were in the midst of all this.

I salute all these guys and gals.

Red Cross is taking donations for these folks and if you contact me with donation wants I will give you the local information.

Please lift all these people, homeless and firefighters and crew up in your prayers tonite.

I still smell fire.

5 months old Saturday

2011-05-26T12:57:00.001-05:00

This little kid will be 5 months old Saturday.

I saw him (or her, I can't tell from the road) on December 28, 2010 early in the morning trying to stand. It was rather difficult so I assumed he was pretty new.

Mar and I stopped to take a picture of him and he came up to the fence. It was soo cute! When we started to drive off he walked with us.

I want to stop and ask if we can bring carrots and apples for the three of them to eat. Mom and Pop are there too.

We would talk and the little guy would shake his head or nod. It was too funny! It was like he knew exactly what we were saying!

Have a great Memorial Day! Be safe!

Since I've been gone. . .

2011-05-23T22:15:00.000-05:00

Well, Mother's Day came and went. TWICE. Once I spent with Layne, shoppin. And then later dinner with the ones that live here. Then I've been to the zoo with the grands and their momma the followin weekend.

Done a new drawing.

Cleaned out a big ole flower bed, transplanted 45 irises, pulled the weeds in the alley. (BTW-my hand hurt. My legs hurt. My arms hurt. My butt even hurts.)

Then Mom's coming next month, the month after that I'm off to see customers, then, then . . school starts the next month. . .

But I've thought of you guyeses often.

I talk to ya.

I've taken pictures of the zoo for ya.

Just for you guyeses.

lions

tigers

oragutangs

waterfalls

and otters after bird feathers!

oh my!

Cheers my friends! Til we meet again!

A spot on the contact. . .

2011-05-11T22:06:00.000-05:00

Well, just in case you dint know.

You can't SCRAPE

a spot off the contact

lens with your

fingernail.

This is what happens:

So go have you some grins and giggles over this one.

I've been wearing contact for 20 years.

I should know better.......

Notice the word SHOULD....

yellow flower painting

2011-05-09T22:20:00.000-05:00

This photo is rather dark and the pic really isn't. This was fun. Used DAP for 'draw' in the petals and add the 'seeds' in the middle. did another one with dap and i'm not liking it today. So I'm sure you will get to see it 'redone'!! Then again you may not get to see it at all! It may be trash!!

Have a great day!

My son

2011-05-07T08:55:00.001-05:00

My son is so talented!

I sit in amazement every day with the new creations he comes up with.

Since he has been living with me he has shown me all kinds of stuff to do with my own art.

Today I am searching pictures of flowers to paint.

I want to add texture and paint a simple flower.

He has shown me all kinds of stuff.

Things just pop out of his hand and head EVERY DAY!

SEVERAL TIMES A DAY!!

Click Here, go look!
Have a great weekend! And find something to create!

And we use Facebook, WHY?

2011-05-06T18:28:00.000-05:00

I have been on facebook, been off facebook, now i'm bored and am on facebook again.

what in the world for?

so i can count how many people i know?

i went to school with 90% of them or grew up with them.

do they know anything about me?

crap no.

it's kinda fun to keep up with grandkids of others,

easier than emailin photos

one place and wala!

there you have it.

but then so does the whole blasted world.

photo there forever.....

ok that's my thought for the day

cheers my fiends!

happy mothers day to those of you who are mothers

happy mothers day to those of you who live with mothers.

make sure they are happy

because we all know.........

if momma aint happy aint nobody happy!!!

HAHAHAHHAHAHAAAA!!

Rabbits and maters

2011-05-05T12:28:00.001-05:00

My friend, B, lives in a really nice section of town.

She plants a garden and an influx of rabbits appear.

Everytime!

Told her she needed to put a sign out telling them to keep away.

She suggest maybe a bunny with a line thru it.

I say YEAH!

She comes back with then her bunny would bring all the other bunnies in protest.

I say bunny pot pie!

She didnt think I was funny.......

Said animal rights people would be all over her....

So I gave up.

I think bunny are really cute.

We used to have some.

Then we had babies in the Boys cage.

And realized that one was a girl....

So that was the end of bunnies at my house.

Mom gave them all away.

Even Thumper.

The Thumped and bit. Me.

So it came to be okay.
Have a lovely day!

P&V

2011-05-04T22:04:00.002-05:00

Well I got told today that since I got my new hot rod I'm full of Pi88 and vinegar.

All because I don't believe the news.

All because I think the whole thing is orchastrated to make certain people look good.

All because I think he was gone a long time ago thus there is no fish food this week.

All because I believe this is an elaborate hoax.

So I guess I'm full of it........but I must say it has been along time since anyone told me it was p&v! Normally it is lots of Poo........

But what I can I say.........I'm soo full my eyes are brown and I float when it rains........

Kackle will ya? It's all good!!

What's the deal Mother Nature???

2011-05-02T12:34:00.001-05:00

Last month it was 90.

No rain for months. Burn bans all over.

Then last week rain, tornados and other severe weather.

This month it is snowing in Amarillo TX and it 50 here in Central Texas!!

What's the deal, Mother Nature?
Think she's kacklin' at us??

My favorite painting so far

2011-05-01T16:00:00.000-05:00

Life

2011-04-27T12:57:00.000-05:00

Life has been a struggle lately.

School-whether I want to go another 4 years to get accounting degree.

Work-where I have been moved to sales totally. First time in 20+ years accounting has not been my main job.

Home-watching Michael get sicker by the day.

Knowing that I do not have that many days left with him.

Knowing that I will not grow old with him.

Knowing. And not crying.

He tells me I have been EXTREMELY cranky lately.

Some days I just don't cope well.

Some days it's all I can do to wake up to a new day and knowing that he is getting sicker again.

Knowing there is nothing that will cure him.

Knowing that his choices are limited.

Knowing that God has given us another chance to get to know each other but that we will probably not have another 35 years so we best make the most of it now.

Knowing. . .

So I've been lax. . . sorta

2011-04-23T14:38:00.000-05:00

Here are two are two artsy fartsy things I've been working on (along with school)

I did this for my friend, Robin's, birthday

This is one of my instructor's puppies.

I have done two or 4 others but for the life of me cannot find any of those pictures on my computer.

I guess old age is settlin in. CRS

I hope it goes away before next week! i have finals!!!

Happy Easter! Remember the real meaning of it.

May you and yours have a blessed day!!

Hugs and kackles!

I'm such a dork. . .

2011-04-19T21:23:00.000-05:00

Ya know that post last week or maybe the first of this week about the associates degree? WEELLL, if you read the teeninsey print even thousgh I did read what I thought I read. It says AFTER you complete all the above you will be eligible for the AssDeg......I still have 3 more classes......dang.........

So go ahead and kackle again..............imadork.......

Go ahead Kackle at me

2011-04-13T20:24:00.000-05:00

I was scrolling thru my automated degree plan for school going to check out teachers for my last 5 classes. Making sure that I have the right classes.

As I scroll, I see these words: REQUIREMENTS FOR ASSOCIATE DEGREE (COMPLETE)

I continue on looking at what all is complete and what all I still need and scroll back up.

I see those words again. and continue to scroll back up to the top making sure I have written down course numbers and classes correctly. Double checking my list against the list on the computer screen.

STOP!

WHAT DID THAT SAY?

Now comes the frantic scroll looking for those words a THIRD time.

BY GOLLY GEORGE! THAT IS WHAT IT SAID!!

My youngest son and I had a discussion about my assdeg. he said everyone gets one when they get a bachdeg. I had to enlighten him. That is not correct. I could have by passed this little tee ninesy degree but chose to take the extra classes to get it. So then I will have a tee ninesy degree and a mid ninesy degree. Don't think I'm gonna pursue that majdeg as in MASTERS. I'd really be in a walker when I graduated.....

It is sooo cool to find out I was working on my bachelors degree and dint even know it!

Now I have got to do the graduation paperwork so I can get that itsy bitsy teeny tiney piece of paper!!

Go ahead. Laugh. Throw back your head and just let it go. A big one! I'm a dork.

Camaro pics

2011-04-10T20:15:00.000-05:00

There you have it folks!! Ran down to see the kid yesterday with the grands. It was totally cool! Gets bout the same gas mileage as the Impala, which impressed me.

Things. . .

2011-04-05T22:19:00.000-05:00

Well, it seems to be have been for-ever since I last chatted with you guys! Oh Wait! It HAS been for-EVER! Life seems a blur anymore! Babies being born! Teeth being torn from their sockets! Weddings called off! New beginnings! New households needing to be set up! Looking for a new car for both Layne and me.

I FINALLY sat in my dream car! Remember the post about the Camaro? The red one? Can we change that to Metallic Imperial Blue? Do NOT turn up the music. It stinks. Take away the stripes please and make it a 2011 and call it MINE!!

Signed the paper on Friday, took possession on Monday! Why you ask? Welllll I had to haul some furniture down to JD for his new residence and I had to use the truck to pull the trailer. Which means that I had to trade vehicles with Layne. NO WAY WAS SHE PUTTING THE FIRST MILES ON MY CAMARO!! So I waited til Monday morn. It was all purty and clean and a storm blew in and now it has dirt drops on it! BOOHOO!!!

It is a dream! Yahoo/gmail and my phone are not linking up very good so I can't show you a pic right now but I will!

Have a super great day! And until we meet again, kackle til you get kackle lines!!

a visual for ya

2011-03-24T08:51:00.000-05:00

No there is no pic. but let me see if I can describe what I saw. . .

Leavin work, I see a guy on a bycicle.

Big guy. As in he was probably atleast 6-2.

Not fat, but not toned muscled either.

No belly.

Just a regular joe.

Helmet, green backpack.

Bright yellow sleeveless shirt, black bike short.

Then the thought crosses my mind.

Underwear or jock......

As I pass him, I see that what I was seeing was

bike shorts streeeetched to the max that lets air in and

a view of his butt crack..........

I kackled.

and

kackled.

Hope you do too.

This week, whew!

2011-03-19T13:39:00.000-05:00

This week started out as usual with payroll. Then customer quotes, replies, etc.

Tuesday, Mic got new teeth.

Wednesday, Mic passes his dental checkup

Thursday, Laynee had her wisdom teeth removed.

Thursday, Megan, one of my extra kids, went to hospital to get ready to be induced on Friday.

Friday, 4:50 am got text message from Jared, water broke!

7:30 am I am checking in as a good extra Mom would. All sets of their parents have taken different days off to be with Megan and Logan when they come home so they couldn't be there. (All live out of town)

8 am I leave to go check in at work.

9 am I am on my way back to Labor and Delivery. They are giving her the epidural.

13:30 (1:30 pm real people time) we are starting to having a baby!!

14:14 (2:14 pm real people time) We see Logan in person!! YAY!!

9 pounds 2 ounces 21 inches tall!!!

Here is Mama and Logan about 15:45 (3:45 pm real people time)

This was taken with my phone in a dimly lit room.

Aren't they precious??

Once again, I have another grandbaby!!

Happy Birthday Logan Hunny!! MiMi loves you!!!

And I fall . . .

2011-03-13T22:58:00.000-05:00

The grands were over Saturday. It was such a beeeuteeful day. They were on the trampoline rough housing.

I dug up concrete sidewalk and laid brick. Yes straight into the dirt.

Then I thought hm. I'll get on the tramp and lay down. And bounce.

Then the dogs had to get into the act. Mic put Harlie up and we played. Then Jack came up and we played.

The boys came back out and began jumping.

I moved to the edge.

Feet danglin.

Ok. Time for me to get off.

So I lean to skooch to the side. So I can hop down.

Well down I did go. But it was not a hop.

It was a flop.

A belly flop.

On the ground.

AND nobody saw it! Two grands on the tramp and One son standing by the tramp.

All within 3 feet of me in different directions.

So I hit. Hard. Fast. KABOOM!!

Can't figure if I hurt enough to cry. Cuz by golly it DID hurt. The dogs come check on me, Mic runs over to see if I'm ok. The grands show up. No one can figure out if i'm cryin or laughin, includin me at that point.

All they see is my body in convulsions. I was laughin so hard I couldn't speak. The dogs were kissin me all over. Standin on my back. On my head. and lickin my face. Mic and the boys had to move them off of me to get me sit up.

I'm fine, but I think about it and start kacklin all over. Except today it hurts to kackle. And breathe. And move. So I'm living on advil.

But its still funny. Arms flayin, kacklin funny. So go ahead and laugh. I do.

drivin and watchin

2011-03-12T07:49:00.000-06:00

Comin home Thursday, I got behind a truck, actually it passed me only to get in front of me and slow down.

Because of that I got to watch what was goin on in the truck.

First it was just a cowboy, I know this how? He had one of those big rim hats on. Ya know the kind that goes out almost flat? Not at all like mine, which is more of a TK crunched hat. Hand rolled on the sides, smushed down on the top. Looks well worn.

This is what I was thinkin about and chacklin a little, how funny those hats look.

When outta the passenger seat head rest come a dark haired woman, yakking pretty hard with that finger goin, pointin at him, and just goin at it.

His reaction?

Look out the driver's side window.

I almost lost it! I startin kacklin fer shure!

Then she goes away and a few minutes later ~ out she comes again!

He just shakes his head.

THEN he starts firin back! HIS hand is helpin to make his point I guess too. On the steering wheel turned to the side, flat out, like: WHAT?????? Then his head starts bobbin, and he slows down even more.

I pass.

He looks at me.

He a is sad lookin young man in his early to mid 20's. The woman looked late 30's, early 40's.

So I'm guessin Mom was chewin on Son.

I smile and go on.

Thinkin.

How many drivers have seen such an exchange with our family.

Lots I 'mgine.

Kackles to you today!

Have great weekend!

Somebody please explain!!

2011-03-09T13:56:00.000-06:00

Why grown men and older teenage boys wear their caps cocked off to the side. To me, yes, i'm now considered a senior citz, it looks like they got up in a hurry and just slammed it on their head.

So if that was the case, why not fix it?

And since it is not fixed, what is the point? It only shades the sun for half of your face.. and if you're in a car, as were the 2 this morning, atleast cock it to the sun side, not the inside of the car side.....

So can someone tell me the purpose of this?

Cuz right now, I'm just kacklin at these crazy dressin guys!

Trees sleepin wif me

2011-03-06T15:05:00.000-06:00

Some, scratch that, most days I forget to make my bed. I'm trying to get up and outta here in an hour or less. So the bed is not, never has been, my priority. Though it could become one of the main prioritys.

The four legged kids love to chew. They love to chew branches, roots, toys, furniture, whatever comes to their mouth.

Their favorite place to chew is my bed.

Amist all the covers that are not made.

So every day I ~~don't care~~ forget to make my bed, I come in and have trees in my bed.

One day I will remember to scat these kids outta my bed before I leave and make the dang thing.

Maybe. Don't bet on it though.
Have a kackle on me!

In theory. . .

2011-02-23T20:30:00.000-06:00

From an email THE bossman sent me today. Don't know who wrote it but it is rather funny.
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A new book has confirmed a theory that I first proposed in 1987, in a column explaining why men are physically unqualified to do housework.

The problem, I argued, is that men -- because of a tragic genetic flaw -- cannot see dirt until there is enough of it to support agriculture. This puts men at a huge disadvantage against women, who can detect a single dirt molecule 20 feet away. This is why a man and a woman can both be looking at the same bathroom commode, and the man -- hindered by Male Genetic Dirt Blindness (MGDB) -- will perceive the commode surface as being clean enough for heart surgery or even meat slicing; whereas the woman can't even see the commode, only a teeming, commode-shaped swarm of bacteria.

A woman can spend two hours cleaning a toothbrush holder and still not be totally satisfied; whereas if you ask a man to clean the entire New York City subway system, he'll go down there with a bottle of Windex and a single paper towel, then emerge 25 minutes later, weary but satisfied with a job well done.

When I wrote about Male Genetic Dirt Blindness, many irate readers complained that I was engaging in sexist stereotyping, as well as making lame excuses for the fact that men are lazy pigs. All of these irate readers belonged to a gender that I will not identify here, other than to say: Guess what, ladies? There is now scientific proof that I was right. This proof appears in a new book titled "What Could He Be Thinking? How a Man's Mind Really Works".

I have not personally read this book, because, as a journalist, I am too busy writing about it. But according to an article by Reuters, the book states that a man's brain "takes in less sensory detail than a woman's, so he doesn't see or even feel the dust and household mess in the same way." Got that? We can't see or feel the mess! We're like: "What snow tires in the dining room? Oh, those snow tires in the dining room.''. And this is only one of the differences between men's and women's brains.

Another difference involves a brain part called the "cingulate gyrus" which is the sector where emotions are located. The Reuters article does not describe the cingulate gyrus, but presumably in women it is a structure the size of a mature cantaloupe, containing a vast quantity of complex, endlessly re-calibrated emotional data involving hundreds, perhaps thousands of human relationships; whereas in men it is basically a cashew filled with NFL highlights.

In any event, it turns out that women's brains secrete more of the chemicals "oxytocin" and "serotonin", which, according to biologists, cause humans to feel they have an inadequate supply of shoes. No, seriously, these chemicals cause humans to want to bond with other humans, which is why women like to share their feelings. Some women (and here I am referring to my wife) can share as many as three days' worth of feelings about an event that took eight seconds to actually happen.

We men, on the other hand, are reluctant to share our feelings, in large part because we often don't have any. Really. Ask any guy: A lot of the time, when we look like we're thinking, we just have this low-level humming sound in our brains. That's why, in male-female conversations, the male part often consists entirely of him going "hmmmm." This frustrates the woman, who wants to know what he's really thinking. In fact, what he's thinking is, literally, "hmmmm."

So anyway, according to the Reuters article, when a man, instead of sharing feelings with his mate, chooses to lie on the sofa, holding the remote control and monitoring 750 television programs simultaneously by changing the channel every one-half second (pausing slightly longer for programs that feature touchdowns, fighting, shooting, car crashes or bosoms) his mate should not come to the mistaken conclusion that he is an insensitive jerk. In fact, he is responding to scientific biological brain chemicals that require him to behave this way for scientific reasons, as detailed in the scientific book "What Could He Be Thinking? How a Man's Mind Really Works", which I frankly cannot recommend highly enough.

In conclusion, no way was that pass interference.

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We joked today bout it remindin us of my post Cubbies, Boxes with lids and TV's. We did figure out that until the bathrooms have enough dirt to grow corn they would not notice it was dirty. Glad I don't like corn. Specially some grown in a dirty bathroom. . .

Kackle! It does the body good!!

Harlie and schoolwork

2011-02-17T09:53:00.000-06:00

I sit at the computer desk studying, either doing homework on the computer or just reading. Harlie comes and sits at my side, places her head on my thigh, looking straight up at me. Nudgin me if I forget to look at her. Tail waggin if I do look.

Last night, I back up to talk to her. Upon which she takes as an invite to sit in my lap. She does not realize that she is really NOT a lap dog. So she gets all turned around and we, mind you, WE, read. She looks over at my national government book like she is readin too.

Here is a picture of her in my arms the other day. I had been holdin Crystal, who is the size of my shoe, and she wanted her turn. So she got it.

Hope you kackled!

Am I CrAzY?

2011-02-15T21:14:00.001-06:00

What in the world is a almost 55 yr old going back to school for????

Economics is kickin my behind baaaad! Then add National Government to the mix. I've lost my ever lovin mind.....

Kackle ya'll while I find my way to the funny farm!

If all bowls

2011-02-11T16:02:00.000-06:00

were the size of the little Dixie paper bowl, I could lick my dish clean every time and not have it on my chin or nose.

I got all the greek yogurt and honey out of that little bowl and am happy.

Have a great weekend and kackle often!!

And above all STAY WARM!!

License Plates

2011-02-09T12:47:00.001-06:00

For years as driving, I read license plates and make up words or names for the driver. Ya never know when you just may need to remember that license plate. Plus it keeps the boredom at bay. Also you look the car over and find a name that fits.

LPW =Little Petite Woman, Loud Pauchy Worker
BW1K=Bwick (lighter), Red Bwick house, Big Walked 1 Kilometer
BJX=Betty Jo Xavier, Billy Jean X
AB5=#5 on the ABs scale, Anna Bell ate 5
GJN=Gunner Joe Natty
TNG=TiNG, Talking Naughty Girl
JGE=Jesse Gone Eating
DZZ=Deaf Zany Zebra
PHH=Purple Heart Hero
ANO=And Nuther Out
CLP=Classey Little People
FVV=Firey Vice Vegetable
SPH=Silver Purple Hat
HZS=HaZard Silly
RT2=Red Top 2
CC6=Carbon Copy 6
JTS=Jeans Too Small
MLJ=Many Long Johns
KLV=KaLynn Victory

Hope you kackled on this cold day in February!!

IT'S GONE!! IT'S GONE!! YAAAAY!!

2011-02-06T10:43:00.000-06:00

Well the massive snow here in Central Texas is gone. The MASSIVE, and I mean, MASSIVE, amount was THREE inches.

The dogs wouldn't even go out on their own. Well, the smaller ones wouldn't. I guess they didn't like the whole lower half of them being froze. Which made me stand on the porch steps and chunk them to the middle of the yard to potty. They are glad that the snow is gone and they can go on their own now.

And no, I really didn't chunk them. I picked them up and walked in the snow to a spot that didnt have much if any snow and put them on the froze grass and waited for them to potty and picked them back up, wrapped up, and came inside.

So really I'M the one glad the snow is gone.

But I did get a three day weeend out of it!

Hope you guys are warm and well! We are in the 60-70 degree range today.

So today I'm a kacklin but it is suppose to turn nasty again in a couple of days and I won't be kacklin too much then!

Have a great weekend and coming week!!

Call me

2011-02-01T20:13:00.000-06:00

A baby, a sissy, a whiney baby, call me whatever,

But I still don't like cold. And I definitely don't like teens as degrees either.

Well for that matter, they aren't real fun when they're kids either.....

Hugs! Find a fire and cuddle up and try to kackle, it just may come out as a shi akkle! like a shiver-kackle!!

Keep the pet or the spouse/lover?

2011-01-30T14:25:00.000-06:00

That was the topic on the radio the other day.

Of course, I had to chime in my two (or 6)cents.

Keep the pets of course!! They love me not matter what! And I them. Well, most of the time.

They share my couch and recliner with me on occasions, also they let me sleep in my own bed and keep me VERY warm. They like to share my pillows with me too and snore in my ear.

For the most part, they are happy four legged roommates, which I can't say for any of previous two legged roommates. The fartherest the 4 leggers go with my stuff is the back yard. And yes granted it could be in pieces or have teeth marks on it but they have not taken it off premises as do the 2 legged kind.

One roommate moved out and took my clothes, of which were 4 sizes too big, (she wore a 2, I wore a 6)dishes, towels, sheets, blankets, etc. When I got home I felt like I had just gotten a divorce, AND she cut the water off. . . So far no 4 leggers have done ANY of that. . Granted my clothes and shoes may not be exactly where I left them but I'm pretty sure I can find them, or at least pieces and parts of them.

My 4 leggers scream happy statements at me when I come home! They knock me down and leave slobber all over my face. They LOVE me when I come home as opposed to the Ugh, you're home. .

They don't get upset because I didn't wash clothes, they get upset at the new washer's noises while it's washing my clothes.

If they are hungry, they follow me around til I feed them. No smack is talked. Just hungry eyes, pitiful, starving eyes. . And you know this happens so often., don't cha?

They don't care if I don't make the bed, the sprawl on it anyway and snore away. They don't care if I haven't washed the dishes, in fact, they would prefer if I didn't, just let them take care of that and they would be supremely happy.

All is so much easier to take from 4 leggers than 2 leggers.

So yes my answer was get RID of the 2 leggers and KEEP the 4 leggers!!

What would your choice be??

My morning at the beach. . .

2011-01-27T22:46:00.000-06:00

I was all kicked back in my reclinin chair. . .

Just laid out. . .

Feet up. . .

Head back. . .

Listenin. . .

To the ocean waves comin in. . .

Waves goin out. . .

Eyes closed. . .

I could see those waves crashin in. . .

The water headin back out to sea. . .

The sounds were so relaxin. . .

Breathin deep. . .

Sighin. . .

Droppin off the the never never land. . .

THEN WHAM!!

I was interupted. . .

With the sound of jack hammers and saws. . .

It seems Lockness had decided to do a little work that day. . .

I tried and tried to keep him at bay. . .

CONCENTRATE!! LISTEN!!! HEAR THE WAVES???? LISTEN TO THE WAVES!!!!

But to no avail . . .

Yeah I heard the waves alright. . .

The waves of jackhammers and saws!!

What is this world comin to when your own dentist refuses to let you releax and nap to the sound of ocean waves. . .

I mean, really, what'd he give me the funny gas for if not to relax and snooooooze by???

Or lay out the chair, feet up, head back?? I mean really, wasn't that the purpose here???

Ya think it mighta had to do with the fact he was jackhammerin and sawin in MY mouth on MY teeth. . .

No, not just one but THREE. . .

Three that were just shy of root canals to boot. . .
Normally, I don't even hear the jackhammers and saws that much but this time even the waves couldn't drown out those sounds. . .

But he had to take those metal fillin's out and put purty white stuff in there. . .

So today, everyone I saw got to see my new teeth. . .

I would say prolly tonsils too but them suckers were taken out back when I was 10. . .

So they had to settle for just all white teeth on the bottom now. . .

And yes, they all thought I had lost more of my marbles. . .

THE GOOD PART?? I didn't feel a thing and I have a tooth now that I broke when I was a Senior in High School!!

And NOPE! No Siree, I will NOT be tellin you guys how long ago that was. Nor will I be tellin you how long it has been since I was able to chew on that side..

You'd think I was OLD then. . .

I just LOVE my dentist and his staff! They are the most awesome!

I used to get jitters just THINKIN bout headin to the dentist. Actually I would freak. I didn't go. (A small car could be bought with the money that is bein put into repairin my teeth.)

But no more do I get sick when I think dentist!

So if you live in Central Texas, I got a name for you if you need a good dentist! He's worth drivin for, let me tell you, yes siree!

Hope ya kackled a tad today!! Does a body good!!!

Bailey and Becky Drawings

2011-01-24T20:30:00.002-06:00

These are some of the other things I have been doing instead of bloggin:

I did these last month. I forgot that I had not posted these and if I have than I apologize for puttin you through lookin at them once again.

This is my niece with her baby girl's hands and feet (with becky holding her feet between her hands). Another one of those give away gifts. It is so much fun to do these and give them away.

Hope you have kackled much since last we met!