Every so often, when I feel that my life is boring or just in chaos and out of my control, I do something drastic to stir things up ( Read more... )

The whole month of July I dealt with my Dad being very ill and in the Hospital. It culminated in a good family friend dying this past week. Funerals are still very hard for me and I have to talk myself into attending and then talk myself out of the crying jag and depression that follows going to the service ( Read more... )

Yesterday, on the way home from spending the day at the hospital with my Dad, Mom and I were given a rare glimspe into the mind of a fawn ( Read more... )

If you don't have little tots around very often you tend to forget the truly wondrous way they learn. My niece calls me often and the children are usually playing in the background. Her 20 month old daughter, Paige having learned from watching her older siblings usually takes shortcuts when learning things. However, some things just seem to ( Read more... )

This ridiculous bronchitis and resulting breathing problems have left me ready to run screaming into the night. That is if I could come close to something resembling a scream ( Read more... )

Okay, so I know that I have been running a lot more than I should of late - but all with good cause, so why not ( Read more... )

I am having the most weird evening. I was in the living room most of the evening with the tv on and working on some paper work during commercials when I got this funny feeling that I was being watched. Before I even thought about it, I looked toward the kitchen, fully expecting Steve to come walking into the living room. This happened several ( Read more... )

It has been a frustrating day for the power companies in Florida and they in turn have made my life just as frustrating. Mother nature took down a tree about noon and not only blocked the road but tore out the electric wires to my parents house. Picture it: wires all over the road and local yokels driving across them without knowing whether they ( Read more... )

Well thanks to some good friends and a relentless Mother, I reclaimed my living room and most of the bathroom and spare room before my sister-in-law and her boyfrend arrived. It was a real struggle for those helping me. I kept wanting little breaks for naps - as I have said before cleaning house makes me want to crawl into a bed and sleep ( Read more... )

Well, it has been a roller coaster day. Dad had to go for an echocardiagram today and to make a long story short, his heart is in atrial fibrillation (where the top part of the heart quivers instead of pumping correctly). The doc called the er doc and sent him over. The er doc came out to the waiting room and basically said there was no room at ( Read more... )