Explicitly Ambiguous

I’ve been working on family issues and health issues. I’ve lost nearly 50 pounds. After some other things get worked out and settle down I’ll be back.

It wants me to update. Should I or shouldn’t I? Gah… fear of screwing things up… I’ll decide later.

I don’t want to buy one of those cheap assed kid cameras that will break in an hour. I’m considering buying the kid a Kodak easy share. We love the one we bought a couple of years ago. Great camera.

Of course we’ll have to work on taking care of it… I wouldn’t want it on the floor smashed to pieces.

Hmm… think I’ll get mine out and show him how to use one.

Besides if we get him one if ours goes tits up we can borrow his…

Busy preparing for husband’s trip, fighting a kid who has decided to balk at doing school work, gearing up for the aforementioned brat’s birthday and birthday trip to the zoo, working on Christmas gifts (5 afghans down, 2 to go), and doing every day crap.

Don’t have time or energy to post anything more than this update.

And earaches (in your only good ear) suck when you’re an adult. Bah!

I’ve never been “girly”. I’ve never fainted or whatever you want to call it but yesterday was damned close.

We’ve been having problems with our AC. Two weeks ago we had a hellacious day (one of those over 100 or damned near it) with no AC. It made me sick and I didn’t eat right for nearly a week. It started working right again and I was thrilled. I’d just gotten to where I could look at a damned recipe without wanting to toss my cookies and then Monday the AC went out completely.

We had two days of over 100 degree days without AC. I’d tried to do my best but the meds I’m on for HBP make me more sensitive to the heat. Yesterday afternoon, we’d been waiting for the maintenance guy to come see what the problem was, I felt like I was suffocating because of the heat. I asked Richard to set up a fan in the bedroom so I could lie down. I started to walk down the hall and things started spinning and I stumbled. He helped me to the bedroom and my body must have had enough because it was goodnight nurse… I went out like a light. Didn’t wake up until Richard woke me up to tell me the maintenance guy had left mid-job to get a part (he also was working on another job he had). Richard got a tad miffed and let the answering service know it. He’d called the office earlier in the day and told them we’d been waiting and that I have asthma and HBP and was susceptible to the heat. They said they’d send him to us next. It was around 2 or 3 something. He didn’t make it to our apartment until around 7. Finally it got fixed around 9pm. God it feels nice in here.

I’m irked because I had to toss a bunch of food out of our freezer. It got so hot in here that meat in the freezer started to thaw out.

Screw it. Thinking about eating right now makes me want to gag. I lost 10 lbs with the last little escapade and not being able to eat. God only knows how long it will be till I feel like eating again. I could stand to lose more weight but it’s not a diet I’d recommend while having to keep other people fed. Ugh.

I’ve been occupied getting used to being up all night again. God, as you get older it gets harder. Of course the kid could go all night and ALL day and never get tired.

Waiting impatiently for a new toy we recently bought. A new vacuum. After examining vacuums of all kinds and deciding some were just too damned expensive I saw one that I liked. Read the reviews of it and decided on getting it.

98% of the reviews were positive. Two caused me to buy it. One had taken it to her Mother’s house (the Mother had an Oreck) and vacuumed her Mother’s carpets. Her Mother was shocked at how much gunk she hadn’t gotten out of her carpet with the Oreck.

The second review said that it “sucked like a crack whore”. lol

It’s also not mind numbingly yellow or green.. it’s red. Red is always a good thing as far as I’m concerned. lol

It isn’t going to be permanent but I’m tired of all the bellyaching, whining, and carping going on over political crap. I’m referring to those on my side. The other side’s bitching is getting to be too much as well.

I have important things to do. As an example an experiment with pinto beans in a glass jar filled with water so that my son can watch what happens for a science experiment. Earth shattering stuff for a first grader.

The election cycle is just too damned long for my tastes. Gah…

I’ll be back in the fall. If I see something that really twists my underwear into a knot I’ll post but beyond that I think taking a break will get me ready for this fall when all hell will break loose.

I will be back…

Pssst… I’ll probably still post over at my personal and cooking blogs. I’m just up to here (holding hand above head) with political crap.

I’ve been fighting off a sinus flare-up. Thought I had it beat and looks like I was wrong so it will be quiet here for awhile.

I was in the kid’s room day before last sitting on his bed, those of you who know how clumsy I am get ready for it…. he got up and ran off, my end of his bed hit the floor as the other end went up into the air. I landed on the floor hitting a metal folding chair as I went down.

It slammed into my right temple… talk about seeing stars. Didn’t pass out but it knocked me for a loop. Kid goes right into high panic so I tried to calm him down by telling him I was okay. I am okay. It’s a little swollen and sensitive to the touch but I’m okay. Had a headache for a couple of days but I woke up today feeling better.

So I made myself a rhubarb-strawberry cobbler (w/ice cream of course) for my birthday along with a dinner of fried chicken, potato salad, and corn on the cob. (I was bored so I cooked my own birthday dinner. lol)

NIce relaxing.. non-traumatic birthday.

My final internet activity today will be to remove my Gun Control layout. It gets old not being able to read text on my own layout. I’ll work on it later.

(Some of you are saying WTF is she talking about crocheting…. because it relaxes me and helps keep my hands from turning into claws. lol)

My Mother used to do mile a minute afghans so not long ago I thought I’d try and find a pattern for one online. Ye gods, whoever wrote the instructions might as well have been writing in a foreign language. Couldn’t make heads or tails of it and gave up. Richard,
sweetheart that he is, said to blow whatever I want on yarn and crocheting since I can’t do cross stitch because of my eyes.

Bad mistake. I made a run to a craft store, Hobby Lobby, and thought I’d died and gone to yarn heaven. Bought @cough@ some @cough@ yarn and while I was there drooling all over everything I found a pattern for MAM afghans. I bought it and tried it and when you see how to do it it makes a bit more sense than simple text instructions.

Mile A Minute? More like Mile A Year. The one I’m working on now the panels are sooo long that I’m thinking of making them shorter. I’m planning on giving it to my Aunt for her birthday. Of course starting over means ripping one whole panel out but I think I’d be happier if I could actually FINISH it before her birthday.

Next week is my birthday (43… good lord) and I’ll be hitting thriftbooks.com for used books and the hobby store again for yarn for my present.

I may need a UHaul for the yarn… just kidding Richard… maybe….