TICKED OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bored outta mah gourd!!!!!!!!!!!!

Not much going on, as usual.  It's the time of night when Moss and I read together, but that is on hold until Sunday night, or maybe even Monday.  He is getting ready to leave very early tomorrow morning for a weekend family gathering, which I will have to miss.  I have missed every gathering this year so far, and there will only be 2 more, both too far away for me to attend.

So I am listening to books on tape.  I am on book 9 in a series of about 14, I think.  Then I will go to another series by the same author, which has about 30 or so books, the first 18 or so I have already read.  He also wrote another series that I bought when there were only about 6, and now they are in the teens.  I don't know if I will keep on with them or not.

I've played "Farmville" and "Farm Town"  Till I got plumb homesick for the country.  So I made a big ole pot of chicken and dumplings, and they shore are good!!!!  I'm gonna put some in the fridge for Brandy, my health aide, for lunch tomorrow.  She thinks I'm a good cook.

Well, back to my book for a while.

Love and blessings,

Me

Saturday again, already!!!!!

Not much going on around here.  Mostly, I've spent the week playing games on the computer and listening to books on tape.  I've just finished 3 of the Dorothy Gi8lman "Mrs. Pollifax" novels, and am now on book 8 of 12 in the William W. Johnstone "Last Gunfighter" series.  He also writes the "Mountain Man" series, and I see that the library now has several in that series that I haven't read.  So I'll have to order those.  Think I'll go do that while I'm thinking about it.

Love,

Me

Another Monday

Well, it has been a pleasantly eventful weekend.  The cousin I mentioned and I are now Facebook friends, I talked to her on the phone for almost an hour, then to her oldest brother for another hour.  Clyde used to live with us, and is more like an older brother than a cousin.  It was really great talking to them after about 6 years.  It sort of gave me a new feeling of being connected.  Family has always been important to me, even though I do tend to pick and choose which family members I am sincerely close to and which ones I don't really care for.  I grew up with the concept that ANY family, right or wrong, came before anyone else, and that family came first, no matter what.  Even as a child, that just didn't seem right.  Why should I give up my friends, whom I sincerely loved, to be with people I didn't even like, just because they were relatives???  That is when I started to rethink just what "family" means.  I have come to the conclusion that a family is simply a group of beings who truely and sincerely care for each other, as individuals as well as a group.  The saying that "blood is thicker than water" depends on how diluted the blood, and how muddy the water.  At least, so it seems to me.  And having given myself permission to NOT like my relstives, I have discovered that I really and truely DO like most of them.  Amazing how much easier it is to do something when no one is beating you over the head with "you HAVE to".  The truth is, you DO NOT have to.  Except eat, sleep, and breathe, of course.

I made it to the Meridian WRAP class this morning, and really enjoyed it.  Maybe that's why I'm feeling philosophical tonight.  I got a call about my roommate add yesterday, too.  She sounded like a good prospect, and was supposed to call back today or tomorrow when she gets off work.  She didn't call today, but maybe she'll call tomorrow.  I hope so, anyway.  Her name is Peggy, and she sounded like a good match for me.

Love and Hugs,

Me

OKAY, IT'S SATURDAY. NOW WHAT?

Well, it's officially past the crack of noon, so I guess I can admit to being up.  I've answered one e-mail, gotten my bill payments set up, and had my first cup of coffee.  In that order, but reversed.  Don't you know yet that I do everything backwards, even thinking.......................especially thinking.  Don't know just what to do with myself today, so I'm catching up on e-mail and playing games til time for lunch.

Speaking of time, I figured why Dr. Dodd got all the crazy information about my testing yesterday.  The time on my meter hadn't been set, and it was showing all my times 3 hours earlier than they were actually done.  So I got it set right, and now I can call Robin (his nurse) on Monday and tell her what the problem was.  I have written all that on the printout so that the readings make more sense.  They're still way too high, but at least I can figure out WHEN they're way too high, and adjust my insulin schedule accordingly.  Now if I can adjust my big mouth so it doesn't fly open every time my elbow bends, maybe I can do something about WHY they're way too high.  :o !

Luv & Hugs,

Me