Grandma

I just got some great news. A friends daughter is pregnant and her due date is February!
She was so excited when she called me, and I am so happy for her.
WOO HOO!
I wish for good health throughout this pregnancy.
;)

Stupidity

Last week I felt I was getting a urinary tract infection, I haven't had one of those in years. Actually I can't remember when the last time I've had one.
Anyway, I was feeling very cold at home thinking it was just because it was cold outside, so I got under the electric blanket and felt better. In hind sight, I had an extremely high fever and was chilling. Not wanting to pay the high copay if I went to the ER, I waited until Tuesday since it was a 3 day weekend, to be seen and get the necessary antibiotics to start taking. Allowing the infection more time to fester and get truly out of hand was horrible and I got extremely sick. I am much better now but man did it knock me for a loop. While I'm feeling better, I'm still feeling very drained and just tired. Next time if I feel I'm coming down with something, I'll bite the bullet and pay the higher copay and go into the ER.

A friend sent me this photo and I really like it so here it is; Today I'm cleaning my fish tank. I also have to get more food, they are ravenous! I'm getting more rocks and plants to change it up a bit.
I have the most interesting fish, it hurt me losing a few fish with the recent power outage we had recently. But it's probably a good thing with how fast they have been growing.

Mother's Day

What a wonderful Mother's Day I had, it's been a fabulous week. Not to sound too sappy here but it still is responsible for my great mood that I'm in ;)

I don't know where quite to start, so I'll start somewhere in the middle just to be different.

My son called me from wherever he was to wish me a Happy Birthday and Happy Mother's Day. I was in heaven for those precious few minutes. I know how hard it is for him to make time with his military work/commitments so this meant the world to me.

My daughter also called me and we will get together in a few weeks to get facials and pedicures together, what fun that will be. My birthday was wonderful as I described earlier.

At work I had these beautiful flowers delivered to me from my kids and everyone at work got to enjoy them with me. They all told me what great kids I had and of course that just made me beam with more pride, as I do have the greatest kids. I had to laugh as they know where I've been living lately, and it's been at work ha ha to have the flowers delivered at work. I moved the flowers around to different places at work to enjoy them throughout the day and now I've brought them home to enjoy.

Just being remembered in such a wonderful way is just the best, and I thank you all for it. A very humbling experience.

Rereading this I noticed that I keep referring to my kids as "kids". I must say they are wonderful young adults in their own right these days. So I shouldn't refer to them as kids. I do believe they will each change the world for the better in their own special way. Actually I feel as if they already have in some ways ;)

Birthday Surprise!

Today has been my birthday, one in which many friends and family remembered me and called, emailed and invited me for a birthday dinner along with cake and ice cream.
I am still whelmed. First to be remembered, as when a person gets older, celebrations seem to fade and dates are forgotten usually. So being remembered with a phone call was wonderful, but then to be given presents along with cake and ice cream was really great.
I have the best family and friends, thank you.

May Day Baby!

Today is my Daughter's birthday! I'm so proud to be her mom.

Smart, talented, gifted, focused, caring, loving, witty, artistic, clever, honest, thoughtful, zany, beautiful, considerate, gentle heart, good friend, loving daughter and sister, supportive, healthy, bursting full of integrity and honor.

Did I mention energy? That too!

Did I leave anything out? I hope not.

You shine every day and in every way.

I love you! Mom

The Circle Of Life

...........Barb, Barb, Me, Linda...........

Or should it be the circle of death. I lost a very good friend of mine the other day. She was taken way too early in this lifetime. The reality of her truly being gone is still hitting me.

Sean . Barb . John . Kip . Barb

I've been remembering all of the fun times that we shared. Telling and retelling the stories over and over again in my head. What a wild bunch we were back in that period of time. She was such a wonderful person, a wonderful mother and wife who brought laughter and comfort to many. One of my best friends.

John Barb me and Skip

All the crazy camping trips, drinking, hot springs, dating, closing down Max's and going to Kip's house staying up all night. Spending time at the ocean, and just being together laughing around the campfire talking about Bigfoot. Good times, Canadian Mist, Charter, and our beloved Home brew. Listening to The McKenzie River Boys, Mike Cross, all the frantic road trips, and just being together will always be wonderful memories that I will cherish. Getting proficient at walking past the dart game to get to the bathrooms ;)

Fennelli . me . Barb . John . Barb

To get together for a funeral, the first in my age group is really hitting me. First not in any particular order, it's the celebration of coming into your own, first car, the milestone birthdays, your own graduation, buying your first home, marriage, kid's birth's and their graduations. Then you have the accomplishments of your children and their celebrations of life. It seems that I've moved right up the hill to funerals. I'm not ready for them yet. Isn't there another step along this trail of life to have happen before funerals?

John Barb and Barb

I'll just have to come up with something. Meanwhile, here's to you Barb, I raise my glass of Guinness Stout in your honor, since I don't have any decent home brew nearby. You already are missed so much. I will make my next home brew batch in your honor and celebrate your memory wake fashion this summer.

Best Friends
A more recent photo;
I'm happy to say that I've lost weight since that picture was taken.


Sean . Barb . me . Barb

Kurt Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut died today.

link

I loved many of his writings. Time to get them out and reread a few....

I Did It!

I've been feeling pretty upbeat lately, a feeling that I haven't really felt in a long time. (man, why does everything remind me of Star Wars, I'm such a geek) I think it may be due to some of my hard work paying off slowly but surely.
Also today a real sense of accomplishment, I was able to deal with my phone and computer not working properly and I was able to fix it by troubleshooting using only me. I was having trouble going online and I fixed it! Yay!
Also anticipating this big spring storm that's coming in, I've prepared for it and that's also a great feeling.
So there! Not much else, but today has been a very good day. I'm still riding high from last week's April Fools joke too ;)

April Fool's Day In Action

Hawha! I feel so very devious ;) Snidley Whiplash reborn heh.

I got my daughter good with an April Fool's joke this time! WooHoo!

I've been riding high most of the day knowing this. ;)

I was instant messaging with her, I also emailed my son, and got him good too.

I guess it's all in the family..... ;)

What character are you?

Folks have been doing surveys all over, but I really liked this one.
I was Jean Luc Picard

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Happy Valentine's Day....

Well.....it's that time of year again......I've had friends trying to hook me up, fast forwarding to the 'get a guy' mode......pahleeze don't do me any favors. It'll happen if it's meant to be on my own time, but I'm not ready for any of it yet.

I still question my instincts for judging people, and I need to get more comfortable with myself first before I can even think of being with someone else.

Is this (link below) what I have to look forward to?

lol

Dating Losers

OMG!

The Long And Winding Road....

Well, everything is okay, or my new saying of "it's all good" is appropriate here.
While driving home last night from work, I fell asleep. I awoke when I hit an orange construction barrel driving up the mouth of the canyon.
Pretty scary, I usually pull over to take a nap, but with the snow there was no areas to pull over so I was planning on waiting until after I got through the construction area and then pulling over. I hit two of the barrels before I was able to steer the car back into my lane, meanwhile I must have scared the you know what out of the guy behind me.
My car is okay too thankfully. I don't plan to pick up anymore late night shifts, only day shifts.

Crazy Weather

I still have several feet of snow here at my house, while the snow looks so pretty, the wind however.....isn't as much fun.
Last week there were several ground blizzards that made the drive home interesting. All was good, but a bit scary that other cars may not see me, or me them.
I have wonderful neighbors, my driveway not only has been plowed, but nicely groomed to access my steps and dumpster.
With my southern exposure, my livingroom is toasty warm with the sunshine, and it enables me to enjoy looking out to the beautiful snow, while sitting in a sunny spot drinking a tasty brew.

Christmas

My daughter and I had a fabulous time Christmas eve with good friends, food and merriment, along with a white elephant gift exchange that is always a fun time.
Then this morning we enjoyed Christmas morning together. We went on a walk and it was beautiful out. It was fun getting out and seeing the neighborhood covered in snow. My son wasn't able to be here being in the military, where ever he is I hope he's safe. He is missed dearly. However, he called me and when I asked him where he was, he just told me "just don't ask", he sounded great though.
Last week Colorado had quite the blizzard. The airport was shut down for two days, and the hospital had declared a state of emergency not allowing any of us nurses to leave. I was at the hospital for three days and two nights, but it wasn't too bad, I had a clean bed, shower, toothpaste, and they washed my uniform. Plus, I got paid for every minute that I was there. I even got paid for sleeping, not too shabby since I was in major overtime. I was worried about a possible electrical outage at home, and having pipes freeze. I got home to find that everything was good, with no problems. There was easily 3 some feet of snow, and I couldn't see the railing on the deck outside while sitting at the computer. Pretty impressive amount of snow, but there were some drifts involved too. There is still a couple feet of snow here several days later, and my driveway isn't plowed out. A neighbor told me they tried, but it was too steep and the amount of snow was just too much. They told me they would try in a couple of days to plow it out again. I have the best neighbors.
As we walked up the hill to the house through the deep snow, I had crunched down a path kind of, we started singing over the mountain and through the woods to grandmothers house we go..., and changed it to mom's house. Having to hike up to the house from the road through the snow just made it more special. I just love it here. ;)
We enjoyed the hot tub after our walk and it was very relaxing. Sarah rolled in the snow:

jumping from hot tub into snow ;)'





I talked with M****, she was having a hard time, as B**'s birthday was the 24th. She told me that she went out to dinner with family to one of B**'s favorite restaurants in his honor. I thought it was great that they went there as it was keeping his memory alive. I asked her if she had watched the DVD of his birthday celebration from the year before, and she said no. I suggested that maybe it would be a good time to watch it with family. As it was such a fun time with many speaking honoring him. I do hope it helps, remembering the good times.

Never Forget

Best Of Times

I had to work Thanksgiving, so celebrated on Friday.
Since I live up in the mountains, I invited friends to stay over so as not to have to drive back down the hill to the city after eating and partying, (with those chocolate mint chip martini's that I have mentioned here before). So ended up having a wonderful breakfast deal as well.
What a fabulous time. Being together with great people, and good food is simply the best of times. It was a big group and everything came together beautifully. The preparation, delivery and clean up was simply amazing in how it happened so smoothly. Real pro's.
Thanks everyone for your friendship and caring,
I love you all.

She's a really nice girl but....

It's funny how you can say terrible things about a person, but if you preface it with;
"I really like so and so but...."
or "so and so is really nice, but..."
or "poor thing she really needed alot of help but...." (I'm guilty here heh.)
Saying that little phrase with the slam seems to make it okay somehow, or does it?
I've noticed that some folks I've been around lately have really perfected this practice.
I've started pointing this out in this group and it's begun to be a pretty funny deal. I'm kind of happy how it all shook out.

Icing On The Cake...

Most know that I've been working alot, but that it's a good thing. Today really sucked the big one. It was the last of a long string of days in a row, and one of my patients ended up having a psychotic episode which ruined my whole day. Poor thing she really needed alot of help, but meanwhile she was incoherent, yelling non stop, and incontinent hurling poop all over, throwing her food etc etc. Enough said, it was a horrible fucking day. Then after transferring her to a better place for her to get the right treatment, a lockdown facility, we learn that she had lice. They called me up to bitch that I didn't tell them she had the lice. Hell I didn't know that she had them and immediately started scratching. I stayed an extra hour after the end of my shift changing out of my clothes and showering with kwell, not wanting to contaminate my car or house. The end to a perfect day, NOT! Well now I'm home and my hair is brittle after shampooing with the kwell, wonderful stuff, but at least I'm lice free. Just one more application in a week. Sigh.

Rumsfeld

While visiting the music sites on You Tube, I came across this one of Rummy that I thought pretty funny:

Rumsfeld