Happy Labor Day

Ladies,

Today is Labor Day and I am so happy to be off work. Yeah!  Let me run get coffee and we'll talk

Good Morning Jeannie and OFF,

I have a quiet day planned.  I'm heading to Colleen's for lunch, but not sure what else the day holds.  

I never did get the organizing done in the bedroom.  Was in a ton of pain.  Feeling better this morning.

Praying for Mary, Vickie, and Connie, as well as everyone else.  

Love and Hugs,

Trish

Trish, 

Have fun at Colleen's.  The bedroom can always wait...hope you are feeling better.

Trish-  My old college roommate lives in Okemos.  Is that close to you?  I should hook you up.  Cindi

I live very close to Okemos.  That's where the closest stores, and mall are, other than the small grocery store and local stores here in town.

Would love to connect with someone my age.

Hugs

I'll PM her

Hello Trish....

Enjoy your lunch today with your family!! Your grandchildren love you so much!! We know how much you love them too!!!

Yesterday was a horrible day for pain. I hope you are feeling less pain today. We had storms coming and going. Temps and pressure going up and dropping down. Oh what a ride that was!  I am glad you set that day out. If not you would have been even worse tomorrow. Praying that the pain gets under control and you are able to get around easier. 

Love you...hugs....connie d

I am back. My DH is still sleeping so I have the coffee pot and the living room to myself. I was going to use this three day weekend to do some cleaning, but then my allergies started getting the best of me.  I swear, I should be dehydrated with the amount of fluid I've lost from my eyes.  I've used all my allergy medicine and have been doing flonase nose spray and benadryl eye drops every four hours and still my eyes are watering.  I hate it because my eyelashes wet my glasses and the salt in my tears smudge up my glasses. I guess I'm going to have to get back on steroids while the rag weed and golden rod finish blooming and die out.  Golden rod is so damn beautiful too but it is so full of pollen and the wind blows and there you have it.  

Yesterday evening, I was pouring ho****er  out of my steamer into my sink.  I do this a million times because I steam almost all my vegetables. Anyway, I had a pyrex pie plate in the sink and when that ho****er hit that plate, it shattered into a million little cracked pieces.  Even the tiny pieces had major fracture lines running through them.  It took me forever to get all that glass out of my sink.  I kept telling my husband that I couldn't believe the ho****er broke the pyrex and he said, well, it is glass and that was ho****er.  I finally had to tell him, I know, but I've done that a million times and nothing and today it happened and it's just weird and he tried to go all logical on me again and finally I had to say it...sometimes when I say that I cannot believe something happened, I don't want you to explain it because believe me I know what happens when ho****er hits cold glass but this wasn't cold and you don't have to respond just shake your head and say, wow, that is strange...today, don't be a husband, be a girl friend...respond appropriately...and he laughed and said, wow, I cannot believe pouring ho****er in a stainless steel cold sink with a pyrex dish could possibly break it....yes, he is a smart ass.

We think we have found our house.  You know we have been looking for a house now for a while.  We are signing our farm over to my daughter (yes, another reason she has it so rough), and we are going to buy something up here.  We have a little cabin up in the woods about 200 miles from here but that is too far to drive and we only use it a couple of times a year to get away. The rest of the time my grandson (the 17 year old) and my brother in law and the other men in our family use it to go fishing on the white river or to set up home base when they deer hunt.  But still, it is far away so we have decided to go ahead and say yes we are living here until we die so we are looking for a house.  I really want a larger house than I had originally thought because like DH says, we have the kids so often and we do have visitors who come here for the games and other things, so we are looking at homes that at least have three bedrooms.  We found a house that is outside of the city limits with few close neighbors.  It has four bedrooms and three baths and one little 3/4 bath off the garage.  There's two storage buildings, which my DH likes, and it sits on four acres.  The road directly to our house isn't paved but we did some research and it wouldn't take much to pay for the pavement because the county department will pay for most of the pavement.  There are some fruit trees and four huge grape vines that are old but still producing.  I will finally have my sewing room again and DH will have his puttering place too.  There is a little study off of the dining room that we both agree will be perfect for my office.  The only problem is that the people who own it now have leans against it so before we buy it, the owner has to clear the deed and it looks like he might be taking his sweet time.  I really want this house and don't want to keep looking.  We are meeting with our realtor next week and our lawyer so we are going to see how long it will take or what we can do to make it move faster.  I want out of this apartment by Christmas and I will be in New Zealand most of November.  Kenny keeps saying it's going to be next year and I keep saying shut up....he is too negative. I've already talked to a floor man about ripping out that nasty carpet and putting me some hardwood floors down...and my nephew said he could brick the entire house and outside buildings all to match for the cost of the bricks if I would agree to let them use our cabin in the woods for a couple of months next year. Hell, he didn't have to negotiate that because I'd let him use it and he knows it too.  

Well, I've gone on long enough. I am trying to decide if I should eat breakfast or just wait until lunch.  I am not a morning eater but do have to eat something when I take my MS meds because they are so harsh on my gut.   I guess I'll go eat a piece of bread and take the damn meds....

Ladies, I hope you all have a fantastic labor day...if you go shop, shop till you drop...by the way, Dillards is having a sale on spring and summer sheets so I am going to run over and get me two new sets of sheets for our bed and two sets for the twin bed that Mathew sleeps on when he visits.  The girl sleeps with me and the big boy sleeps on the sofa.   He and granddad stay up all nigh****ching war movies or horror movies or rated R movies that I won'****ch or the kids canno****ch...not like gross rated R but you know with a lot of blood and bad language.  

Have a good one and peace.  

Good afternoon Jeannie and everyone.....

Jeannie....The allergies are so bad this year. When I can have windows open I have to shut them anyway because I get so stuffed up and all the above you mentioned. My doctor said some of the problem is the smoke from huge fires. Oh well...keep on truckin....right!!

I love your hubby's sense of humor...and you telling him to be a girlfriend......that was good!! 

That house you have almost decided on sounds wonderful!! That would certainly be large enough for everything. Good luck...I hope it works out for you!

As for me.... nothing happening here. I will just putter around. I am being so slow with cleaning my file cabinets out. I feel like just dumping it all!! 

We had brats or burgers on the grill for lunch. I took a small brat...it was so good. I skipped the potato salad and chose a 1/2 ear of corn on the cob. The corn was not a good choice. I dumped not long after. I always think, maybe I can eat it this year...NOPE!!

I am going to lay down and watch a movie and rest my tummy.

Prayers for all our fantastic OFF Family and their families. Special prayers for Vickie and her family, Mary who is struggling too, also prayers for Judy's sister, Julia and Eileen.

Wishing you all a beautiful day!! 

Buckets of love and hugs for all....connie d   

Good morning sweet Jeannie and Trish and Happy Labor Day to all!

I am wondering around in a fog this morning because once again I did not sleep last night.  Ugh.  This ****'s getting old.

Yesterday was predictably difficult.  Carrie and I had a (small) fight yesterday, and then we both cried.  We got over our mad and went shopping a bit, which helped.  Then we went out to the lake house to continue with the big clean up.  It was difficult.  Y'all remember that we have 5 bedrooms in that house.  Butch took the "yellow" room and basically turned it into his closet.  I just couldn't face going in there.  I couldn't.  So Carrie worked on that room and it made her cry.  I did the master bathroom and most of our bedroom.  I was holding it together until I got to Butch's "junk" drawer in the dresser and then I lost it and I cried.  And cried.  And cried.  We both just finally had to leave.  It was too hard.

Poor Carrie threw up breakfast yesterday morning.  Then on the way home, we stopped to pick up Mexican food to bring home, and I had to pull over the the side of I35 so she could throw up again.  So yesterday, she ate a bowl of Ramen noodles and the charro beans from her Mexican plate.  Poor baby!

We have the boys again today, because of course, Chris and Mike both have to work holidays, but the schools and day cares all close.  But Carrie is staying all day until one of the parents can come get the boys.  So it's easier with the two of us.  Besides, as I tell her, she needs the practice!  LOL!

I think the new trazadone is making me constipated.  This is new.  For weeks--no months really--I've been dealing with dumping syndrome because I got back on the Cokes and candy.  Now, suddenly, I have all the same cramping and bloatiness (is that a word?), but I'm constipated.  Got to be the new medicine.

And besides, the damn medicine isn't helping me at all.  I will call my doctor back tomorrow and talk to him about it.

I wanted to respond to everyone, but my brain fog just will not lift, so I'll close for now.  I read all the posts, but then I can't remember anything 5 minutes later.  Grrr.  It's very annoying.

I hope everyone enjoys the holiday.  Love you all!