Sunday, Sunday

Good Morning.  I am thinking healing thoughts for our Vickie, Annette, Trish -- and all who are struggling with health issues these days. 

I've been absent because -- well, things here have been upside down.  It has been depressing and I didn't want to bring that to OFF.  Suffice it to say that it's been a very up and down road for the last few months.  I think things are beginning to look UP and I am grateful.

Debbie, I love your quilts.  Have you considered selling them? 

I guess that's it for now.  Take care and know that I am pulling for each and every one of you.

Cindy P.

Good Morning Cindy and OFF Family,

Well, I missed church this morning.  I needed a sleep-in day, and today was it.  Utley had another accident last night.  Not good.

Vickie, I'm with Connie on the suggestion you go get your hair cut.  I did it two days out from my gall bladder surgery.  You will feel like a million bucks when you're done.  I hope Carrie gets through this period of cramming for her research, and the conflict with her boyfriend okay. 

I'm praying for Annette.  I hope she's better right away.

Today, I finish cleaning this disaster area.  Plus, I'm finally taking my Christmas tree down.  I started last night, but must finish today. 

I'm praying for everyone.  I wanted to reply to everyone from yesterday's posts, but my brain is Jello, and I can't remember the details.

Hugs,

Trish

Good morning Cindy and everyone....

Cindy...I am sorry you had such a hard time. I am also glad to hear that you are feeling better. PLEASE don't feel like you can't share with us when you are feeling down. We are all here for each other.  We are here to support each other with the good and the bad. We are all friends and we all care about you. Also you can personal message me at anytime. I will continue to pray for you. My OFF friends are always in my prayers. You have been missed very much!

As for me...I spent a lot longer at my granddaughters yesterday then planned. Kyleigh is all moved in and pretty much unpacked. She was so excited to have her apartment!! She wanted me to hang around for company why she unpacked. She just lived in an efficiency apartment in Minneapolis. This is a pretty large apartment for a one bedroom. She just kept walking from room to room with a HUGE smile on her face.  I came home about 9:30 and fell into bed with a smile on my face!

Today I am taking her grocery shopping. Kyleigh pretty much has let everything run out the last few weeks at her old place. No... I won't be carrying groceries.....I will be the person holding open the doors. That was my job yesterday.

I will check in again later. Hope all is well with everyone.

Have a good day everyone!!  Prayers for so many of our wonderful OFF family. Special prayers for those with health issue.

Love and lots of hugs to all...connie d

Morning all! 

Cindi, it's nice to see your post. So glad your feeling better. I do hope you know you can bring anything to us. We love you no matter what you bring! Thank you for the wonderful compliment on the quilts, for selling the quilts of course I would, but with being a beginner I feel I need to become a lot more professional before I did that. Well as they say any thing is possible.

I hope you all have a great day, thoughts and prayers for all,

Debbie

Good morning OFF and Cindy P -

I agree with what all the others have said Cindy P you should feel free to vent on this forum, it helps to get the thoughts out.

Well, I finished cleaning the RV this morning and I'm feeling much better about my environment.  I consciously left the book alone all day yesterday and declined to dine with one of the photographers so I could rest and take a break about worrying over the book.  Had a horrible smell in the RV which I was convinced was a dead mouse but I think it was just the chicken container that had been in the trash and had gone over to the dark side.  PHEW!  It stunck.  I got out the Febreeze and liberally sprayed that.  Of course when you live in an RV you will have mice once in a while.  Sylvester is lousy at mousing and with the Polar Vortex this week he brought two into the bed to play two nights in a row.  One I found dead the next morning, one was never found, thus I was convinced that we had a body rotting.  I took apart the air duct vents to check and opened all the outdoor compartments to check.  But now that the garbage is out of the RV the smell is gone.  Oh well, life lesson #? take chicken wrapping right to the garbage can outside.

Beautiful sunny day here but I feel guilty even saying that since so many of you are in the upper midwest and northeast where all the rain is coming down.  Yesterday I went to deploy the awning on my windows and out fell all the hornets and wasps that had taken shelter from the polar vortex late last week.

Got the road maintenance resignation letter all written and ready to print.  Later today I'll drive to the Refuge HQ building and use the laser printer to print the letters as they can do multipage double sided printing faster than my inkjet.  Printed all the envelope labels last night but had a technical problem with printer and since they were the last labels I had, I had to get creative with the scissors and salvage them.  Thank you Connie for the kind words about people will miss me when I'm not doing the road anymore.  Many of them already know and have tried to guilt me into continuing but I just don't need the headache anymore.  The feel bads outweigh the feel goods, that means it's time to quit.

Vickie-get your butt to the hair salon for a hair cut, a good wash and head massage!  While you're there have a mani and a pedi!  You deserve it, you've been through hell!.  I remember when I had my appendix and an ovarian cyst removed many years ago, sneezing required bracing for several months until everything healed up really well.  It's the unexpected sneezes that are the worst!

Yesterday I helped one of my fellow volunteers order a wireless hotspot for their computer.  Dorothy turned 81 last week and Bob is 76.  They use the computer for email and both have Nooks now so a wifi hotspot was the solution for them.  I've been volunteering with them for the last 6 winters.  I'm their Texas technical support and their daughter in Nebraska takes over in the summer.  Dorothy works the Visitor Center/Nature Store and Bob helps the maintenance staff with all sorts of construction projects.  Last year he single handedly replaced the decking on a board walk of about 300 yards plus helped them put up sand fencing to do a beach restoration.  In his spare time he built a photography blind and put tile down in the volunteer community building.  We're up to 12 volunteers now since two more couples arrived after Christmas.  This will be the largest number of RV volunteers they have ever had here at the Refuge.  The staff is very grateful to have us here as many of their peers left over the summer and with budget cuts they are not allowed to replace those positions.

Trish kudos to you for going to the Zoo to become a docent.  I've considered doing that when I retire from FWS volunteering.  Or I may volunteer at a wildlife rehab facility.

Debbie, love your quilts.  You are not a beginner based on your photos!  As a beginner, I sold a couple of lap quilts, so I encourage you to pursue selling quilts.  I have done one quilt under a deadline and will not repeat that in the future as it spoils the joy.   Even doing baby quilts sometimes become stressful but I convince myself that as long as I deliver the quilt before the first birthday I'm sucessful.

Judy hope your feet are dry today!  Don't let that new computer get the best of you, it is a machine and will help make your job easier going forward!

Well, ladies, time to get off and do something for me today that doesn't involve eating.

Cindi 

Cindy we must have been posting at the same time...lol

OMG mice in bed!!! OMG!!!!!!! I would be freaking out big time!!!

I know the new PC will be a lot better for me in the long run but learning it long distance and learning on THEIR time is another story...

I hope all those bees were dead...or alteast dormant when they fell out!!!! WOW!!!!

You take care and know that you ARE doing the right thing!!!

HUGSSSSSSSSS

Afternoon OFF family!!!

Cindy!!! You can come in here no matter what mood you are in!!! We are here for you!!!!! Please share your feelings so we can help you!!! HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Connie I am so happy that you have family close by you now!!!

Trish what is going on with Utley?? Hope he is ok!!!!

Debbie hope your trip is going ok...wish I could do a trip where it is nice and warm!!! LOL Your quilts are so pretty!!!!

Ok CR**** forgot who else posted...sighs........

Just got back from store just went to our local store where it is expensive...picked up a roast for supper...got a couple other things they had on sale also. Rick is hungry for roast so I will make it for him. He has been so sick with a cold and working in this crappy weather also and he deserves it.

Went to Bingo last night...I won...BUT I had to share it with 3 others so ended up with only $10 lol. Had so many chances it was unreal!!!!

Tomorrow I have so many things going on I need three of me!!!! I have a woman coming to look at an apartment at 11...a recert paperwork signing at 11...forgot woman coming at 11 to look at apartment...grrrrrr another recert at 1....boss coming after lunch...omg I am soooooooooooo busy tomorrow and not sure when I can get to chiro!!!!!!! Will call the recert woman scheduled for 11 to reschedule for later in week. Other one for later on also. Where is my head?????? Off in lala land??? I am thinking in over load...I still have no idea how to do the recerts in new pc yet!!!! Will find out tomorrow I HOPE!!

Well off to play some games and relax........

Thoughts and Prayers for ALL that need them!!! Extra ones for Annette...hope she is doing better!!!!

HUGSSSSSSSS

Hi Cindy and my OFF family:

Good to see you again, Cindy. Please feel free to share with us. We don't judge. I have brought my troubles here so many times. I'm glad things are looking up again.

I agree with Cindy, Debbie, your quilts are beautiful. My SIL quilts and does a wonderful job. Yours are just as nice as hers (I love your baseball quilt). 

Cindi, I'm glad your book project is moving along ... sorry I kind of dropped off the face of the earth on it. I sometimes feel so drained after work lately I can barely think. On my days off, I barely get out of the apartment unless absolutely necessary. Especially recently, with us being shorthanded and stretched thin. 

Connie, sounds like you enjoyed your visit with your granddaughter. 

Judy, you have a busy week ahead of you, too. Enjoy your day off. 

I need to get in the shower and have lunch and get ready for work. It's nearly halftime in the football game. Have a good day.

Hello sistas!

I haven't posted all day, mainly because I just have nothing to say.  It's been a long, dull day and I'm sick to death of being inside this house.  I'm sick of lying in bed, I'm sick of sitting in the recliner, and I'm sick of feeling so weak.  See?  Nothing good to say today.

Tomorrow, I will make sure I get out of the house, if only for a little while.  It's too easy to get depressed when I just stay inside all day.  I'm too tired to sit up and I'm too sick of bed to lie down.  Doesn't make for a happy camper.

On Tuesday, we are going to Waco to be with Carrie.  We will stay 2 nights.  She is just really having a tough time and she needs our support.  I don't know what we can do to make things better for her other than just be there for her and love her.  She and I talked on the phone again today and she was just so shaky, it scared me.  This is not like my girl. 

Well, nothing more to tell.  I read all the posts.  I love you all.