Howdy Monday
Howdy OFF family:
Where is everyone this morning? It's almost 1 p.m. I skipped the Y and stayed in bed til almost 11 a.m. I was tired, I guess. Heard the alarm go off and went back to sleep. Didn't even hear Gary get up.
So today's my Friday. Looks like rain out there. Feels like it, too.
Not much happening here. I'm sleepy and wish I could just stay home and nap all day. I have boxes all around the living room. I guess that's how it's going to be for awhile until we move and then get settled into our new place.
So what's up with you? Hope everyone is doing well, or as well as can be expected.
Hello Eileen and my sistas,
Eileen, I hope you pick up some energy today. I am doing okay today. Just a wee bit frustrated because the first big sofa cushion cover I made today does NOT fit! I'm going to have to pick it apart and start over. Grrr. So I'm taking a lunch break.
Maybelle got out of the back yard and ran away this morning. Thank goodness some golfers found her and called me. I didn't even know she was out! The yard people came and I guess she got out through the gate. I thought she was in the house, but she must have gone out with me earlier in the morning and I didn't realize she was out there.
I called my doctor and they're phoning in a prescription for ambien for me. I'm getting desperate for some sleep. I"m sure that's why I'm making so mistakes with my sewing. My brain is too tired and foggy to think right.
I just bought tickets for us to go see The Little Mermaid in San Antonio in September. I've been waiting for the boys to get big enough to go. They have a great theatre in SA that brings in Broadway touring companies. We're only taking Benny this time. Budder is still too little and the tickets are not cheap. But I want them to have the experience. I never got to take my girls to very many special things when we lived in small town Nacogdoches for obvious reasons. I did take them to community theatre productions and occasionally we went to Tyler (a little bigger community) to see some things. But on the whole, there just weren't a lot of options living there.
I'm really dreading my trip to Nac later this week. I find myself crying about it already. Sigh. I know I need to go, but geez, I just don't know how I'm going to handle it. I am staying at my SIL Karen's lake house with the dogs. Carrie is coming on Thursday and she'll be bringing her two dogs, too, so that will be four dogs in one house that's not my own. Thank goodness Karen is good about dogs. (She's the one who fosters all the ****er spaniels.) Mom has decided not to come. I don't know why. As much as she says she misses her friends, I would have figured she would have jumped at the chance, but she says no. Oh well . . .
I started back on my Thrive this week. I bought it last spring when I started gaining so much weight. Y'all remember that it's a vitamin patch/shake thing that's supposed to help you lose weight. I will say that my appetite for sweets has just about disappeared this week. That can only be a good thing. I'm up 30 pounds from where I was when we went to Belize last year. 30 pounds! It's time to put the brakes on--or buy new clothes, and I can't afford new clothes.
Well, I'd better go get started back on my sewing. I sure would love to finish those big cushions before I leave on Wednesday. Don't know how far along I'll get today. Picking seams apart takes for-frickin'-ever!
Love you all!
Vickie
Hello Vickie....sorry you are battling with those cushions again today. I hope by now you are having more success now.
I agree I think it is your lack of sleep that has your mind fuddled up. I hope the Ambien works for you. I had hallucinations taking it years ago. It sure did help me sleep!!
Sweet little Maybelle sneaking out to check out the golfers. That stinker. I am glad she had that nice new collar on so they could phone you!
Sweetie, I am so sorry you have to go back to take care of business in Nacogdoches. As always I wish I could be with you. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers that all goes well.
I think you will all love going to see "The Little Mermaid'. You are right about Budder staying home. Next year he might be at a better age and you can see something else.
I am sorry you will need to stay are Karen's later this week. They are nice people and they mean well. I just hope you are ready for it all. I can't believe your Mom isn't going. That does surprise me too. Oh well...nothing else you can do about that.
My weigh is up about 36 pound...I lost that 26 and now it is all back again. My doctor won't let me take the Thrive because of the caffeine in it. She said that will really mess with some of my other meds. I wish you luck....lots of people are losing weight with it!!
Have a good rest of the day if you can. I love you!
Lots more love and many hugs to you....connie d
Hey Eileen, Vic, and Ladies.
Well, today I am getting ready for my fall classes. Since I also teach, I have to divide my time between my director position and my teaching position. Luckily for me, I only teach one class each semester or I'd be in way over my head.
Vic, I know when I am anxious or in a hurry to get something done, that's when I flub it up. Also, when I am making something for the first time, I usually use really cheap ass material so I can make mistakes and take it out and redo it. Of course, I don't like to sew so for me, I really have to take precautions.
I am going to make me a red coat. I know, it would be so much better to just go buy one but I want a coat like my mom use to wear and it was made out of that really thick red material that isn't quite wool and I found some very much like her coat and I even found an old one like she wore at a thrift store so am going to take it apart and make my pattern and then put it back together as a practice run and then make my own. I even found these huge black buttons that are shiny like the ones I remember being on my mom's coat. I have a friend who also sews but she is like a real seamstress and she is going to help me with it all. Plus, and get this, she makes vintage purses and I showed her a picture of my mom's old black purse and she is making me one like it. I know...it seems a little freaky that I would want to recreate my mom's coat and her purse but aside from the nostalgia and the retro design, I loved her coat and purse and as a child I remember trying to play dress up using her old coat. So, you know, just gotta try it.
As many years as I've been sewing, you'd think I could classify myself as a real seamstress but not so much. LOL...I really struggle with patterns and cutting stuff out.
Vic, you will get those cushion covers and pillows right...btw, I hate long zippers too.
Eileen, I know once you get moved into a larger place, you and your brother will find your happy place but until then, just try and stay out of his way...if he is like my brother, oh man, it wouldn't take much to make him crazier.
Everyone else, have a great day.
Hello Jeannie.....getting ready for your class must be hard to do when you are also a director. You never cease to amaze me!!
I think it is so wonderful that you are making a coat and a bag like your mother's. What an honor! Your mom would be so proud!! I am glad that you have good friends that can help you out when you need it. Making a purse is nothing I would ever try to make. No...I know my talents don't run that far!! I have always wanted a red coat. I have never seen one I like or the price is just too outrageous! I had one many years ago. RED is my favorite color! I hope you will post a picture of it when it is completed!!
Have a great rest of the day!!
Love and lots of hugs....connie d
Good afternoon Eileen, Vickie and everyone.....
I am being so lazy today. I actually slept until noon!! If I hadn't looked at the clock I would probably still be sleeping. See Eileen you weren't the only one sleeping in today!! Sometime during the night I got up and turned the A/C off and also the fan in my bedroom. I must have done it sometime in the early morning hours when I went to the bathroom. I was so tired I don't remember doing it!!
I still feel like I could sleep some more...I guess I am just catching up from the lack of sleep lately!
I am thinking about taking a short walk....starting all over. I haven't walked since Gracie was here. Shame on me. I just was always hurting too bad to do it. Today my pain is about a 6 and considering our weather that is good!
One of my neighbors brought me over a piece of fresh Peach Cobbler. As I was putting in the refrigerator, I dropped it. Of course it landed top down on the floor. I guess GOD didn't want me eating it..LOL!! In the trash now!
Hope you all are having a good day. Been praying that all went well for Judy. I know how afraid she was.
Prayers for our sweet OFF Family and their families.
Hoping to see Mary sometime today. She thought she would be getting her computer back today.
Loads of love and many HUGS to all....connie d 
Hello Eileen...it really is quiet here at this time of the day. I think now we all posted about the same time.
Don't feel bad about sleeping in...I slept until noon myself!!
I think you are sleeping better because Gary is there an you can sleep meow soundly. You aren't listening to noises and things all the time. You feel safer!!
I always thought you had off Tuesday's and Wednesday's...did it change or am I just off my trolley??
It feels and looks like rain her too. We were supposed to have storms last night. I only saw a few drops. Maybe it will start raining soon. It sure looks like it will.
You are right...just get used to the boxes...they will be there awhile!! Gary will probably arrange and rearrange them several times between now and the actual move....LOL!!!!!
Nothing up with me...I am glad as I need a calmer day!!
Does Gary like to cook? Some men love it and some men don't. It would be nice it you could both do it together. I hope you at least like the same food!!
Have a good rest of the day....love and hugs..connie d
I am off Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so this is my Friday... last day of my workweek.
Gary does like to cook and bake. I think we'll probably do some of each for each other.
When I left for work, he was trying to navigate the healthcare.gov website and getting aggravated. I'm sure he will need a drink sometime. (I know I probably would.)
Have a good day.
Afternoon OFF family...well I had my tests....only needed blood test and chest xray. As far as the physical went (if you want to call it that) all the dr did was listen to my lungs and heart, measured my neck...said it was to check and see if I had any problems with sleep apnea! I told them no I did not have that problem. I told them I had hoops to jump through to get my gastric by pass back in 2006 and I didn't have it then and I didn't have it now. They said my neck passed the size test. WTH?????? Any how my EKG was used from when I had that back in May. Blood test had to be done over. To far apart they said. Fine. First poke used a HUGE needle!!! No blood...told him use the butterfly one...he said he had to get permission from the dr. HUH?? He said using that size has something to do with the outcome in readings of the blood when doing surgery. Something in the tubes?? Never heard of that before. But he did use it and got blood!!!! After tests done went to the dr's office to sign release forms for surgery. When I read the things that could happen from this surgery I FREAKED OUT!!!!!!! The dr never told me about all this stuff!!!!! I could bleed, have painful intercourse, (who has sex anymore?) scarring, I can't remember the rest but I freaked out!!! The surgery co-ordinator said they had to put all that in there but not to worry...9 times out of 10 they never happen. YEAH RIGHT!!!!!!!!! Easy for her to say!!!!!!!! With all that has happened to my sister and they want me to believe that?? I guess this is one surgery that I AM SCARED OF!!!!!! Never before have I been afraid. NEVER!!!
Any how we got home Rick got out of the car and yelled...actually screamed...I thought he bumped his head or something...I asked what was wrong...he said charley horse!!!!!!! OMG in his leg with the pinched nerve!!!!!!! He can hardly walk now. So he has been on the couch since we got home. Great. Just glad it didn't happen when he was driving!!!!! OMG!!!!!!!!
Chase...didn't do a dam thing while we were gone!!!!!! Only thing was wait for the repair guy to come and give him the key for the dryer!!! And then take him to apartment where the refrigerator is not working right. That is it!!!!! I got back and he comes back from lunch he did a couple things and then hid rest of the day!!! I get done with my surgery stuff I am interviewing a new guy for his job!!!!! My boss has found someone that is good and said if we like him we got a new guy. Sick of this one NOT working but getting paid. He IS a very likeable guy...everyone likes him a lot but that is NOT doing his job!!!!!!!
Got some rain/storms in the area here...muggy as all get out too!!!
Thought and Prayers for ALL that need them!!!
HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
