Exhausted.....But Happy.

Okay- so we have been working on a water-heater install all day. My son, Frank,( I don't know why I always explain who my kids are to y'all every time....by now I think everyone KNOWS Frank is my Eldest son, Julie is my only daughter, and Clay is the baby and is in Heaven now)...sorry.....
Anyway, Frank came over EARLY this morning and he and Paul managed to get the water-heater de-piped, (or whatever you call it) and drained of what water was left in it, and moved out of the way for a new one.
After two trips to the local home center for various plumbing supplies to install the water heater and all the moving stuff around and clearing stuff out of the way, it's still not done yet.

I'm utterly exhausted- I worked a 12 hour shift last night and still haven't made it to bed for even a nap yet.
I called my boss and explained the situation and he called the other night shift officer and asked him if he would mind trading shifts with me...tonight for tomorrow night...and Kev said yes!
Thank you to them both!

And a very special thank you and I appreciate it to my mom for loaning us her truck to haul the stuff in from the home center...and to Frank who came over and has spent the entire day working on this project even tho HE worked mudding TWO houses last night and yesterday and hasn't had any sleep either! And he did it without a word of complaint.
Paul, as well, hasn't had any rest today or last night with his various projects while I'm at work, so I suspect that we ALL will be glad to get a good nights sleep tonight!

Sorry Scratch...but today-
I FEEL BLESSED!!!!!
;-)

Dis N Dat.........

My week so far has been an odd, but good one.


Well, last night at 10PM Paul and I went for a walk.
Yes- at 10 PM. My Blood Pressure meds don't mix well with the sun, so I am truly turning into a Vampire. Like Edward. Only I don't Glitter in the Sun...I BURN like a REAL VAMPIRE!
I had been watching Biggest Loser and realized that I hadn't walked the day before. I had slept most of the day.So, since I had made a promise to myself that even on my days off I would walk at least a mile, I asked Paul if he would walk with me...and even tho he had already walked his during the day when he first got up- he went with me.
(He's so sweet like that!) It was really nice walking with him and us just chatting about normal stuff.


Paul and me and Frank, my son, went to scope out prices on a new water heater. We decided on a 30 gallon instead of the 19 gallon we have now. OMG- to be able to take a shower that lasts more than 5 minutes will be so NICE and I can't wait til in the morning to go get it!!! I probably won't be getting much sleep tomorrow- but that's okay. I don't mind.

The pollen is horrible here this year. We have a dark green car, but looking out the window this morning, it looks Pollen Green....and the pollen is about an 1/8th of an inch think on it too. Paul got out yesterday and finished mowing the lawn......he did the back yard a couple days ago. It really looks good.

I called about my wedding gown yesterday and it STILL hasn't sold yet. You would think a $2900.oo wedding gown would sell for $350.oo quite quickly. Eh- Oh well. Maybe I'll just go claim it back at the end of the consignment agreement and save it for one of my two little adopted Grand-daughters to get married in. Or maybe I should just give it away.
I dunno.

At any rate........................does anyone know a way to keep my cat OUT of my houseplants sleeping?
Lucy has taken up sleeping on the Peace Lily that was one of the plants someone sent when my dad passed and I cannot KEEP her out of it!
It's almost ruined beyond redemption at this point.
And I KNOW once she ruins it the one I have from Clay's will be next and I would have to cut her tail off right behind her ears if that happens....Dad's is bad enough.
If you have any suggestions, PLEASE let me know!!! The life you save will be her own. ;-P

And on that note...I'm off to get ready to go to work in a few.
Y'all have a good day!!

And That's Another Thing.....

Scratch made a comment on my post "Two Peas" about going to a certain website to "meet-up" with people to make new friends. She also wrote her on post on her thoughts......

So that comment has lead to another point I want to make. Don't get me wrong- I ADORE and LOVE the internet and my friends I've made on it. Some of my best friends have made on here. (As an aside, do you have any idea how many NUTTERS and CrackPots I met while I was finding my "GOOD" internet friends? HUNDREDS! It's scary how many there are out there!) Fully half of my friends in my life now are people I know from the internet. But a full 90% of those I have yet to meet face to face in real life! I talk to about maybe half of those on the phone a few times a year.

But that's not the same as meeting people face to face.
I can't stress to you how important I think it is to have real, live, flesh and blood, I can sit in front of you and have lunch or go have a beer together after work type friends.

I honestly don't think you can't have your life almost completely wrapped up in just the w.w.w. and lead a normal life. My belief is that you begin to lose a part of yourself when you stop having Real Life interactions with the human race.
I mean you may interact with a couple of people in RL- but when you are so immersed in the internet, you forget how to deal with people in RL. You become much more jaded and cynical. I think it's too easy to just be able to walk away from anything you don't want to have to deal with. If you're on the computer and you don't like the way a conversation or situation is going, you turn it off or leave the site. If that happens in Real Life, you can't do that. You have to deal with it in one way or another. Even if you DO walk away, you can't just instantly remove yourself from the situation and ignore it- you have to physically deal with it while you're walking away from it. There is no automatic shut-down.

Real Life face to face conversations and the human touch - even if no actual touching is going on- is something we all need to help us retain human emotions like compassion, and shame, and love.

We all need RL human interaction in addition to the internet connections we make. Don't you think?


(I looked at the website Scratch recommended and it looks interesting- it's not just a website- it's actually a website to find local RL interest groups to join. Yay! Thanks Scratch!)

Double Take

Okay- so I'm driving home this morning, half listening to NPR and half trying to figure out some things that have been going wrong the last few days, and into my ears came this tidbit from the radio- "...... is to instill filthy eating habits in children and young adults."

Say Whaaaaaaaaaaaa???


Oh...
Wait...it's NPR..........insert "HEALTHY" for "filthy."

I really should pay attention more. Maybe I'd fall down less.
:-P

Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?

WE ARE!!!!!!
Got a phone call from my darling daughter today. She's inviting us to dinner at her house for Easter. Yay!!
It's the first Easter dinner we've had since Clay's passing. And THAT was the last family dinner we all had together.

I'm so looking forward to it!!! She's become a really good cook!!!

Two Peas.......

Today I realized that my hubby and I are alike in yet another way. He hasn't had a chance to get out much and make any new friends since he moved here, due to our weird schedules and everything else thrown into the mix.
Well, today he and I got into a tiff about some odd thing- and so while he went on his daily hour long walk, I decided to take the trash off to the re-cycling center and stop to buy some trash can liners and cat food. I thought I would take my time doing it, maybe just spend some time away from the house so we both could calm down a bit.
Well, I got the cat food and liners....but then I realized altho I have a TON of people I consider my friends, I don't actually have anyone I can go just drop by and visit with for a while.

I can't really visit Julie right now- she's in bed with dental problems and she lives about 40 miles away too which makes it a bit cost prohibitive with us having to get the water heater replaced in the next week or so and even if she was feeling up to visitors and I had the gas to go down there, she and I work opposite schedules. Frank doesn't have his own place and I don't feel comfortable visiting him where he is living now for several reasons. I love Kathy too, but I don't feel comfortable just dropping by after she's worked at the school all day and just got home. My sister next door has her 4 grandchildren for a while and so that just wouldn't be a good place to visit and have a bit of a chat. My other sister lives about 60 miles away and again- she works dusk til dawn managing a store. My brothers both work long hours and my mom has turned into a jet-setter and is never home and just seems to not have time for any of us kids anymore, and altho I have loads of friends .........they all work strange hours or live miles and miles or even states and states away.

***...LOL_ as I'm writing this I have our TV on the classical music station and I realize there is "sad violin" music playing in the background....No respect, I tell you,I get no respect at ALL!!!***

I'm just as alone here as Paul is........what's the saying......alone in a room full of people?
That's us...two peas in a pod.

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

Sorry Babe

Despite having asked my son to come help Paul put in the new water heater, I decided to do a bit of research on the subject- just on the off chance there might be something we needed that we haven't thought of yet and wanting no big surprises, you know.

So, I read off the list of tools we would need, and the instructions on how to do it.

But, instead of easing our minds about any surprises....all I succeeded in doing was making my husband a nervous wreck thinking of all the things that might/could go wrong with the project.

I give up.
*sigh......*