Good Morning Calif

I owe, I owe, so off to work I go....Uunnnnless, someone would like to pay my bills so I don't have to work??? Any takers?

Good Morning Calif.......Wakey Wakey... Time to Raise and Shine.....When I was a little girl mom would say that wakes up in the morning for school...OOhh how I hate to hear that, but ohhhh what I would pay to hear it from her again.

Ok so I told you all DD was home and doing great. right?
Well yesterday, my OTHER sister Jonna had a heart attack and in Kaiser. Can I get a break? She is doing OK and right now they are just keeping an eye on her. Today sometime  they want to run some test and she how bad it was. I guess some one with higher power is keeping ME safe and for that I am so very thankful.

So today is day three for 4 - 12 hours shifts and trust me, I am feeling it. OMG I need a nap!! or 3

The weather man says today is going to be a great and wonderful day. GET OUT SIDE and enjoy your self, family and friends.

Sending much love to all

Lu 

Good Morning Lu and Cali Friends,

Lu, thank goodness you are healthy and doing well.  I will keep both DD and Jonna in prayers today that they are on the mend and start taking care of you!!!  Don't work too hard today.

Yesterday was our Nor Cal losers luncheon, always so much fun to get together for friendship, support, laughter and fun.  Can't wait for next month, we do out outing to Santa Cruz, whoo hoo.  Here we come Ms. Blues!

Today brings some shopping with my mother-in-law and dinner mixed with some R&R.  I need it.

Hope everyone gets out and enjoys this beautiful day.

Hugs,
Barb

I am sorry to hear about Jonna. She will be in  my prayers too.

Today brings some housework and laundry. I was thinking about going to Fresno and doing some shopping but I think I will stay home.

Ryan is coming to visit for a little while this morning. He misses his grandma! I love that boy so much. My DH is going to take him in the back yard and pick strawberries with him.

Well I hope everyone has a great day today!

Goodmorning Lu,

So sorry to hear about your sister. I will keep her in my thoughts and prayers. 

My Mum used to say that too, when she would come and wake us up for school, but then she would yell at me, because I would just ignore her. I hated getting up and going to school. Now come to think about it, my Mum still says that to me, when I see her. Usually means she wants me to get up and have a coffee with her in the morning. Just 2 short weeks and I get to see her. I can't wait. My weekend has been great so far. Had coffee and sat outside with a friend yesterday, and I think we are going to do that again today. It is supposed to be really nice out. Went to the North Cal Lunch, and that was good. It is always great to see everyone, and catch up. Then I went to dinner with a special friend, and we just hung out for the rest of the evening, laughing and telling stories. Life is good!!!!

Sorry your stuck working Lu, especially if it is going to be nice out down there too. Hopefully you will have a good day, that will go by fast!!!

Good morning Lu and Calif.....

So here I am sitting in a hotel room in Las Vegas all by my freaken self.  I'm so pissed right now it's beyond belief.  Short version......Mike and his brother drove to Laughlin on Friday.  Linda, Bob's wife and I drove to Vegas.  My car died in Baker.  Got towed to Las Vegas Ford dealer and rented a car.  Dealer can't find what is wrong with my car as it is starting up just fine now.  So tomorrow I will get my car back one way or the other and attempt to get home.

So, you may ask, or not, why am I in a hotel room by myself.  Well after spending two days trying to entertain three people who don't know how to not be miserable (Mike and Bob got here from Laughlin yesterday), they decided they wanted to go see the Grand Canyon.  Well, ok what a great idea.  I've never actually gone to the Grand Canyon.  Well, as Bob and Mike are on motorcycles and I have this really nice and comfortable rental (Chevy Malibu), Bob says, in only the way he can, "I'm not riding in some f*cking car. We're going on the bikes and you can put your fat ass on the back of Mike's bike or don't go". Well things pretty much went down hill from there.  First off, I made it clear to everyone from the start that I will NEVER ride or drive a motorcylce. I had a bad crash on one when I was a kid and, frankly, they terrify me. So I just walked off and left them all.  They made their plans for the day and off they went.  So here I am in a damn hotel room and I'm feeling really sorry for myself right now.  I really dislike Mike's brother on a level that is pretty much immeasurable.  Linda is ok as long as Bob is not around.  Bob is a bully plain and simple.

So now I need to find something for me to do today that doesn't involve alot of money as I don't know what my car is going to cost to fix and it already cost me $150 for the tow to Vegas, plus at least $120 to the dealer for the hook up to their diagnostic so I think it's best for me to not spend anymore money.  So here I sit.  I'm just really angry right now and needed to try to get this anger out of me and now that I read what I wrote, it isn't helping.  I'm just angrier. How could they all have just left me here? How selfish is that?  Or am I being the selfish one?  Mike just text me that I should please do something fun.  What should I do for fun all by myself.  I'm not good at having fun all by myself, especially when I have no money to do it with.

Ok, I need to stop this now. I'm just getting myself more angry.  So on that note, I shall wish everyone a great day.  I'm going to go find myself a cup of coffee.  At least I think I can afford that.  If you've read this far, sorry for the downer post.  But thanks for letting me vent.

Steph

P.S. Lu, please tell me you will be able to join us on Tuesday.  I just can't take much more of all of this without somebody around who loves me and I can actually have some fun with.

Take advantage of that car and take a drive out to red rock canyon.  It is not the Grand Canyon, but it is beautiful none the less. 

Hi Judi,

Thanks for the advice.  Only problem with that one is that I lived in Vegas for over a year and have pretty much seen everything it has to offer.  Sure I know some great discount shopping places, but that's not what I had in mind.  Thanks anyway.

Stephanie

I am so sorry your trip is turning out so badly. You were so looking forward to Mike's family coming. How many days until they leave? I was going to suggest some shopping therapy but I understand why you don't really want to spend more money. I think Mike should have stood up for you about the Grand Canyon Tripp though. You will need to talk about it with him when you can. I totally understand that family can really suck! I do so much better when I am not around mine. Maybe you can take in a movie. I don't know Vegas very well so I really don't have much in the way of advice. I know that most of the casino's have theater's but I am not sure how much it cost to get in. I took my niece's to one to see a movie it was a couple of years ago and I don't remember what I spent. My sister lives there. (but like I said I do better when I am not around my family! I do even worse around my husbands family) You hang in there and hopefully the time will go by fast when they are to leave.

Thanks for the thoughts Elizabeth.  The day is almost over and hopefully tomorrow I will get my car early and be on my way home.  They don't leave until Thursday, but I'll be at work at least Wednesday and Thursday.  I'm supposed to take his sister in law sight seeing around LA on Tuesday.  Fortunately, Luana is supposed to go with us.  I hope she still will be able to do that with all that she is going through. I think if she can't I will tell them that I have to go to work and Linda will have to go along with them on the bikes wherever it is they plan on going.  Maybe even if Luana can go, being as I have the day off anyway, I'll just plan a day with Lu for just the two of us.  A day with my Lu La Belle always makes me happy.  And yes, Mike and I will be having a long discussion on his behavior towards me in all of this.  Oh yes, a very long disucssion.

As for now, we have tickets for a 10PM show tonight.  I don't know if they'll be back now in time but I will go anyway.  I've always wanted to see the show Legends at Harrah's so I will go.  Going to jump in the shower now to start to get ready.  At least I got to take a bit of a nap this afternoon so a 10PM show should be ok for me.

Time to start getting ready.  Have a nice evening.

Stephanie

Hi Lu and all,

Lu, my thoughts are with you and your sister. I hope she recovers well and that you can get some relief from the drama going on around you.

Stephanie, what a disaster! I am sorry you aren't having a good time in Vegas. Go get that cup of coffee, sit somewhere and do some people watching. Vegas is always a good people watching place. How about sitting out by the pool with a good book or magazine? Maybe that will life the spirits. Go play penny slots!

I missed several things I wanted to do yesterday, including the NorCal lunch, but spent a very nice time with my mom and other family members. My poor mom is trying a low dose chemo to shrink the tumor that's giving her the most problems. She was told she wouldn't have the side effects of the usual high dose chemo, but unfortunately she had a bout of being ill yesterday.  Then she told me she isn't doing the low dose chemo because she wanted to, but said because the family told her she should try the treatment. Ugh! I told her she should do what she wanted and we'd all support her. I really hate cancer.

Today we're celebrating my aunt's birthday with a large family dinner at a very nice restaurant in Capitola. I am missing my team's softball game to go. I am realizing I have to just suspend what I normally do these days and that's OK.

I am looking forward to seeing everyone in Santa Cruz next month. I just hope I can be available. I am pretty sure I can.

MsBlues