Monday Monday

Good Morning,

I wasn't on much yesterday.  I'm okay.  Just helping friends online and on the phone.

I am heading to Colleen's to help with canning tomatoes.  

Must scoot.

Hugs,

Trish

Hi Trish and my OFF family to come:

I got up way too early this morning ... starting coughing again at 7:30 a.m. and heard Gary moving around. Thought the clock read 9:30 a.m. so I got up. I was only two hours off. Oh well, I can try and get some packing done. If I can stay awake. Right now, I'm fighting sleep again.

I think I'm having a fibro flare. I'm so low on energy right now. This is the wrong time to have one, too, when I have to move. All I want to do is sleep.

Have fun canning tomatoes. I used to do some canning, mostly salsa. That was when I had a house and a garden in South Dakota.

Well, I should get off the computer and do something. This house won't pack itself.

Hi, Trish & Eileen:  I've never canned.  In fact, I have a cooking question.  I have to boil bison burgers for our dog.  It takes 50 minutes on the stovetop to do it.  I've been considering a pressure cooker.  Our vet said they must be boiled to get rid of as much fat as possible.  I see that there are pressure cookers on the market with a "canning" button and was wondering if that would work.  Anyone have any ideas?

I had another lousy nights sleep.  Just have a lot on my mind, I guess. 

Have lots of phone calls to make today.  Other than that -- probably clean floors as we didn't get that done yesterday.  Exciting, huh?

I hope you all have a good day. 

Cindy P.

Cindy, I have a pressure cooker.  I've never boiled bison burgers (), but I can tell you that pressure cookers cut cooking time, especially large cuts of meat like roast beef by at least half!  I only use mine occasionally, but you can google them and read some on-line recipes.  That should help you decide.

Good morning sistas,

Today is a new day and this is a new week.  I'm going to be better for myself this week!  I walked for 30 minutes last night, and this morning I took a longer walk (about 45 min) around a portion of the golf course.  I've got to start moving again.  I need the exercise for my health, for my weight, and for my sleep.  

Today my big new living room rug is scheduled to be delivered, so my chore for the morning is to clean my floors before it gets here.  I need to sweep up all the dog hair and then vacuum after that to be sure I get it all.  These hardwood floors are lovely and really pretty easy to keep.  I've just been apathetic about housekeeping the past few months.  Time to do better.

I think I sold my washer and dryer yesterday.  The lady says that they are coming to pick it up later this week.  And I have another lady coming to look at the computer desk at 1 today.  This is her third time to say she is coming, so I don't know about her.  Maybe . . . 

I'm grumpy and gritchy and just want to be left alone today.  My poor mom.  I'm sure she thought that when she moved here she would have more company, but honestly, it hasn't worked out that way.  Truly, if I can't live with my husband, I just want to live alone.  I like being alone.  I'm used to it.  I don't like trying to work out how to share my space with another person right now.  Even if that person is my mom.  We haven't lived together since I was 18 years old.  It's just not easy for either one of us right now.  I don't want company, I don't want to talk, I don't want to do things together.  I just want to be left alone.

Tomorrow I go to see my GYN for my "annual" checkup.  Ha.  It's more like biennial, but that's just the way it worked out.  I'm dreading going because I'm going to have to tell her about Butch and I'm going to cry.  But I do need to see her.  I've been having a series of mini-hot flashes for the past several weeks.  I'll just be sitting on the couch or in bed and I'll start to flash on and off.  Not sure I want to get back on the premarin (hormone therapy), because it's not all that bad, but maybe there's a homeopathic thing I can try.

I quit taking the trazadone a couple of nights ago.  It's not really working and i don't like taking all these pills anyway.  I figure I will sleep better if I exercise daily.  Anyway, I've done at least as well the past couple of nights without the trazadone as I was doing with it.  

Well, I need to get started on my floors.  I'm in the mood to clean house, which almost NEVER happens!  LOL!  I'd better strike while the iron is hot.

Love you all!

P.S.  Oh!  and I did contact Wayfair this morning.  Took a lot of patience on my part, but I got them to reduce the return shipping from almost $30 to $10.  Score!  But I still don't think I'll be ordering from them in the future.  Too much hassle!

Vic...have you tried the SPOONFUL OF HONEY BEFORE BED?? Supposed to help you sleep ALL night. Worth a try if you haven't.

HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Judy I forgot about that!   I will try it tonight. 

Ok let me know if it works...

HUGSSSSSSSSSS

Vickie, 

When i was working i would come home and want to drop. I was interacting with people all day. My roommate was in a cubicle all by herself and wanted to talk talk talk. Finally i made a deal with her.  I would rest for 30 minutes.  Then we talked an hour. We also had dinner and talked. Then i no more talking, just quiet. Perhaps explaining to your mom that you need space right now and understand she would like time with you. Maybe giving your mom one hour a day of undivided attention can give you 23 hours of peace. It is a sacrifice on your part, and may still gain you a lot. Just a thought.