clutterbug's journal

MERRY CHRISTMAS

{ 03:55, 2006-Dec-24 } { 8 comments } { Link }

JUST WANTED TO WISH EVERYONE A MERRY CHRISTMAS. I HOPE THE NEW YEAR BRINGS HAPPINESS AND GOOD HEALTH TO EVERYONE AND THAT EACH ACCOMPLISHES THEIR GOALS.....MERRY CHRISTMAS...SHERRY

BLAH DAY

{ 10:23, 2006-Dec-10 } { 2 comments } { Link }

Today has been a blah day, even though the weather wasn't bad at all. We had a little memorial service for Simba today. I found a xmas card with a dog on front. I wrote my message to Simba telling how much I loved him and how I enjoyed the almost 2 years that he had spent in the house earlier. I snipped off a piece of my hair and taped it in the card. Then my daughter taped 2 of her pictures and a some of her hair and taped it in the card, along with her message to him. Then we put this little Barney that has I Love You on it chest between Simba's arms like he was hugging it. Then I cut some of Simba's hair and put it in a zip-lock bag, along with his collar for us to keep. Some people may think that we are weird. I also do that sometimes when people die. When both my Dad and my brother died, I wrote letters to both of them and they were buried with them. By the way...my brother, Randy, died 3 years ago today...Dec.10,2003. He was buried only a couple of days of his 47th birthday. He had pulmonary fibrosis, which he was diagnosed with 2 years earlier. He had a routine of popping a big bowl of popcorn, grabbing a couple of pickles (I know..weird), and a glass of iced tea and settling down in front of the tv to watch Andy Griffith. His little granddaughter, Shelby would join him. She was 2 when he died. This was a nightly routine and I can't watch Andy Griffith hardly because of that. On Dec. 6, he called my mom saying that he wanted to be baptized that night. It was already 8:00 p.m. She called me and my other brother, Jeff. Then Jeff called this man we know that could baptize him, and we all met him over at Randy's. But when we got there we saw that he was in trouble. He could not breathe even with the oxygen. Instead of taking him to the church, we called 911. He was admitted into St.Thomas, where he even got worse, but still begged to be baptized. The man that was going to do it said he would have to be fully emerged, which there was no way. This woman at the hospital called a preacher she knew and he found somewhere in the Bible that would permit water to be poured over his head. I missed being there which I regretted. A couple of hours later, he fell out of the bed, hitting his head really hard, putting him in a coma. The doctor said that he would never come out of it and would die. About 5 hours later, he woke up. We were all surprized especially since he seemed better than before. We thought he had a chance, but about 30 minutes later, he went to sleep and died the next morning. The day before he died he was craving Frito chili-cheese cornchips. His wife couldn't find any in the cafeteria. I just wish I'd known I would have brought him some. Regardless, I can't eat those now. I know I'm weird. One day my daughter got some and when I realized what they were, it tore me up. Anyway my day has been not so good but I will be ok. The whole time that I have been trying to write this blog, Roy has been trying to call. I have ignored his darn calls for 2 days. I guess I will answer it when he calls again and yawn alot like I'm sleepy. Well, the weekend has come to a close. Hope everyones week starts off good. Until tommorow...Sherry

SIMBA

{ 03:38, 2006-Dec-9 } { 6 comments } { Link }

My precious dog Simba passed away today. He was an outdoor dog, even though he stayed in the house for over a year at one time. He was the best dog we have ever had. He got really skinny about a month or so ago. Our bully dog, Itchy, would bully him and we thought he wasn't letting him eat, so we started feeding Simba away from Itchy. His appetite picked up and was soon eating like a little hog. Just yesterday he looked so good and was trotting around. He was beginning to get a little weight back. He ate a whole can of dog food and 5 pieces of bologna. He was wanting more but I didn't want him to get sick and vomit it up. He plain ole' died from freezing to death and I feel so guilty because we didn't put him in the basement. When Lawrence found him way back behind the house, he was trying to get up but couldn't. so he carried him up to the house and came for us but he died before I got to him. I am so glad that I got to take him riding a few weeks ago. He loved to do that. We figured out that he was 13 years old. I am getting ready to go to see my Mom and I don't really feel like doing anything. I may write more later tonite or this may be it until tommorow. Everyone have a good weekend.......Sherry

EARLY BLOG

{ 05:53, 2006-Dec-8 } { 2 comments } { Link }

I decided to go ahead and do an early blog. I slept so good last night...8.5 hours which I needed. I woke up and actually felt pretty good. I made a couple of phone calls which I have been aiming to make for awhile and then I actually made out close to 40 xmas cards and got them in the mail. And then I started a little cleaning. It is so weird how you can start going thru stuff and throw something away that a month ago you wouldn't of. I have found that if it is something that you really don't know if you want to keep it or not to just rip it in half and that way you have to throw it away. My mom just called and said the doctor wants her to go to NHC for rehab and to finish her intravenous antibiotics for a couple of weeks. She stayed for several weeks in 2004. That place is really nice and beautiful there and the staff are wonderful. I'm still worried about her heart doctor saying that he is afraid of her having a stroke because of her heart rate being so high. Yestersday it came down some but her blood pressure also came down to 88/50. They had to give her something to bring it up. I think it will be the first of next week when she will go to NHC. Well, I'm gonna go clean a little more, since Lawrence has gone on some errands. That's the only time when I can do anything hardly.......Hope everyone has a good weekend....Sherry

JINXED

{ 10:29, 2006-Dec-7 } { 5 comments } { Link }

I believe that we are jinxed. First of all the trouble with my car. I get it back but it quit twice yesterday when Lawrence drove it to the drug store. I was told that the light in my trunk wouldn't go out and was draining my battery. I was all happy because they didn't charge me anything and now all this again and the service engine light popping on. Both times that it quit yesterday was when Lawrence went to turn into the drug store and when he went to turn into our driveway. So it is when you slow down to a crawl is when the engine dies. I'm hopping that I just need a new battery since mine is 4.5 years old. Okay....Today we go in the truck to take Kimberly to get 2 wisdom pulled. She does fine. We do 3 surveys while we are at the mall and get $15.00. A couple of days ago we made $39.00 total doing surveys. After we left, we heard all this noise from under the truck. We pull over. I get out and see the muffler hanging down. As if by magic, a police car comes up behind us. He tells us to go up and turn to go back to Sears Automotive at the end of the mall. I was scared that sparks would ignite the gas tank. Also the traffic was getting heavy. The policeman turned his siren on for a second, with lights flashing. He got all 4 lanes to stop so that we could get back to the mall lot. He followed us to Sears. One second he was there and the next, he was nowhere in sight. Was he real? What was weird was that 4 hours later as we were leaving Franklin we saw him at a redlight. Anyway, back to Sears...no one is there to help me. I wait and wait. After a few minutes I start out the door and these people are starting to come in. They were looking back and commenting about the muffler hanging down and I tell them what happened. Well, they had a coathanger and said they would wire it up until we could get it fixed. But after the guy got under the truck he saw that how it was it would be better to take it completely off and put it in the back of the truck. He had a time with it. Even his wife got down on the ground and was helping. His mother and little boy were also there. Here it was in the upper 20's and we were all freezing. They were down on that very cold pavement. It took about 20 minutes. He kept refusing my money afterward but I forced him to take $20.00. Now the truck is louder.....Then I stopped by a saw my mom at the hospital for awhile. She acted a little quiet, saying that she has been sleeping most of the day. Her chest had been hurting before I came in but they didn't think it was her heart. She said that she felt better but still she wasn't all like herself. I came to the conclusion that she was a little depressed. After her supper came, she perked up some and ate all of it. The nurse told me that the antibiotics were working, which is a miracle because pseudomonas is very hard to treat and if antibiotics don't work, you die. It is in her right lung, where the cancer was. Well I am back home now. I looked on my ID and Roy called only 12 times today, but after 15 minutes he called and I went ahead and answered. He talked for 1 hour and hung up because he was going to watch wrestling. He said that he would call me back when it went off. I think I will let it ring. Here I am writting a book again. Tommorow I want to stay home and try to get some work around here done. I would be so embarrassed to have someone pop in....Until later....Sherry

GOOD DAY

{ 10:44, 2006-Dec-6 } { 7 comments } { Link }

Today has basically been a good day. I got to stay home all day and it felt so good. My friend, Roy, who bugs us to death, called to say he was coming over and I stood up to him and told him no. He then said he would just stop by to see Lawrence and I kind of went off on him and said that if he came over that I would not come out of my room and that I was not going to cook for him. For almost 3 years I have put up with him calling every day and talking for hours. I have been a little hateful with him the past couple of weeks so he is trying to limit his calls to only 3 or 4 times a day and only about an hour each time. That is still too often and it is running me crazy. All this time I would put up with him because his wife of 30 years left him and he has tried to kill himself twice. But the past few months he has started doing a few back-handed compliments, and just been stupid. I have got to find him a girlfriend. My house and family have suffered because of having to humor him. Poor ole' thing. He bought this computer for us a year ago which was $900.00, and bought me a printer/scanner/fax machine which cost $188.00 for my birthday a couple of months ago. But I can see that he is trying to buy us. Maybe I shouldn't feel this way but I feel like I am just waking up to him. Just like today when I told him not to come over, he asked if it was ok to just drive past my house and honk. Last night when we got home I looked on my caller ID and saw where he had called 42 times........!!!!!!!! Wouldn't anyone go crazy? My mom's doctor called and woke me up this morning just to go over how she was doing. First time he has ever done that. The puesdomonas is tough to treat and often fatal. He said that he has seen a little improvement and thinks the antibiotic is going to work. If it doesn't she will die. They drained fluid from her right lung yesterday. She tells me that she is feeling alot better. The doctor said he wants to keep her a few more days. He was asking me about a living will. I told him that I don't like the way they are worded. The living will I saw lately says you either want life support or not. I know of a woman that would be alive today but her living will prevented her from being ploaced on life support. She had an operation and she had a complication which would require her to be on the respirator to give her lungs a rest, etc. but her children honored her request so she died. My mom has been on a respirator 3 times. If there is a chance of recovery and the patient is not brain-dead, I'm not telling them to not put them on it. Enough of that for now....I have gotten into a mood to clean out papers again and I threw out alot today, cleaned the kitchen, and even cooked supper which was chicken breasts with yellow saffron rice, steamed whole okra, and buttered carrots. I'm getting ready to go clean out some more stuff.....Until tommorow......Sherry

GLAD TO BE BACK HOME

{ 10:20, 2006-Dec-5 } { 4 comments } { Link }

I have been on the go for so many days now that I am sick of it. I'm so glad to be back home. I am exhausted but I wanted to do a blog. I will try to make it shorter than last nights. My daughter had to go to her gyn. doctor today. We are trying to get her all checked out before she is dropped from our insurance in early January. I don't know what she will do because the private insurance companies are so expensive. We live practically in poverty now and cannot afford anything. Also I do not see my daughter working because of nerve problems. I didn't get to see my mom today but I talked to her. She is still in the hospital. They did say that they found some type of bacterial germ in her called pseudomonas. They were doing scans on her at 4:00 this morning. Why so early I don't know. I went by Salvation Army and bought an antique looking picture of flowers for my bedroom. They didn't have that much. Thats about it for tonight. I need to clean around here but I am too pooped. Until tommorow........Sherry

I'M STILL AROUND

{ 12:15, 2006-Dec-5 } { 7 comments } { Link }

I guess everyone thought I had left town. I haven't blogged since Friday night. I usually like to do it every night but I got home late Saturday night and then Sunday I was on the phone. Everyone was calling and if I see that it is already midnight, then I had rather wait until the next night. So here I am. Saturday I went to Goodwill. I had seen a coat that I started to buy last week for $8.00. I really liked it and wandered around the store with it in my buggy, but put it back at the end because I already had coats at home. Then I regretted not getting it because it is a very warm coat without being bulky, like my other ones. Well, Saturday they still had it and I got it for $4.00 because it was half-price day. I also found a light-weight red jacket that sort of feels like silk for $3.50. I found several books, picture frames, and odd & end stuff. After that we had some good ole raw burgers at Wendys. We have had trouble with that before. I took mine back because it was completely pink and the whole center was cold. The lady didn't say a word, just got another one. Lawrence had eaten most of his but took it back and got a new one. Kimberly's was mostly ok but did find a couple of raw spots. My replacement was almost as bad but I ate what I could of it. I called the 800 number and we are getting coupons for 3 free meals. When the hamburger is cooked right, I like theirs better than anyone elses. It tastes so good with a bowl of their chili. Sunday I was the laziest person on the planet. I can't even say I did anything but talk on the phone. Here it is Monday night and I still haven't read the Sunday paper. Today I took Kimberly to the dentist, which is inside the mall next to the survey place. I did a taste test survey on granola bars and ritz crackers and also did a survey on shopping. I got paid $17.00. Kimberly did some kind of a survey that paid $20.00 and also another one that paid $7.00. All this took maybe 30 minutes and in all we got $44.00. We have gotten over $200.00 in one week doing them. We have stayed away from the mall lately so we need to start going every week just to do the surveys. We made some money at Comp USA also. The day before Thanksgiving I bought a Norton Anti-Virus for $40.00, which I will get a $30.00 rebate thru the mail on it. I also bought a Spy Wear for pop-ups which was $30.00. Then later I found out that they had a Thanksgiving day only rebate of $25.00 on the spy-wear which could only have that days date on the receipt and you had to mail off for it. Tonite something made me stop in there. I told the guy that I wished I'd waited to buy it that day. He just opened the cash drawer and handed me $27.00 and some change. I stood there dumbfounded. The rebate was only $25.00. Then as we were walking across the parking lot, we found $10.00. After that we went to Bilo, which is going out of business. Everything is 60 % off and I bought an embarrassing amount of viennas, cat food, and other stuff. Came to a little over $100.00 and then they took of the discount and added tax and the total was $43.00. I didn't hear about them going out until last night. I wish I had heard about earlier when they had more stuff. I went to see my mom in the hospital. She is doing good. Goodness...I got carried away and wrote enough to put you to sleep. Until tommorow...Sherry

BACK HOME

{ 09:01, 2006-Dec-1 } { 5 comments } { Link }

I'm finally back home. I have been gone since early morning. I went to my uncle's funeral. His daughter, Beverly, died almost a year ago. They had cremated her. Her son, Shelby, who lives in Texas, brought her ashes up with him. They buried them with her dad, right in the coffin with him. I had never heard of doing that before but I think it is sort of neat. Then we went to CiCi's Pizza and then on to see my mom at the hospital. She is feeling better and will stay for a few more days because she has some infection in her lungs. I finally got my car back and it really cost me so much money.....ZERO. The battery had to be charged twice and they discovered that the light in the trunk would not go out and that was what was causing my problems. They did not charge anything which is great. Now I am back home. I had leftover blackeyed peas so I heated some smoked sausage and some turnip greens and made some cornbread. Is that country enough? All I needed was an onion but I was out. Tommorow morning is the Christmas Parade at 10:00. I am going to try to go but you have to get there an hour early to get a place to park. And then it is off to the Goodwill...Remember....Tommorow is half-price day at all Goodwills...at least in Tenn. it is......Until tommorow.....Sherry

ONE HECK OF A DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

{ 10:56, 2006-Nov-30 } { 3 comments } { Link }

This has been one heck of a day. First of all I couldn't sleep because it felt hot. I ended up turning the air on about 4:00 this morning and fell asleep around 5:00 or so. I got up around 10:00 and got ready to take my daughter to the doctor. She made the appt. 3 weeks ago for Nov. 30th. We get there and we are told that she did not have an appt. I told her that I was right there when she called and made it. The exact same thing happened a couple of years ago with this same doctor. I was so aggravated and the girl could tell. She told me that the doctor never saw patients on Thursdays and didn't even come in the office. I didn't think to ask why the office was open on Thursdays if they don't see anyone that day. Now I have to take her back next Tuesday. With the drizzling rain, the traffic was horrible. We went to the funeral home to see my uncle after that and it took almost 3 hours to go from Nashville to Franklin which would normally be no more than 25-30 min. It was afternoon traffic at that. My aunt was going to take my mom to the funeral home to see their brother but my mom had a spell when leaving out her door and couldn't breathe. My aunt had to call 911 and she was taken and admitted to the hospital. I think alot of it may be anxiety. Anyway it has been a heck of a day. I am back home now and I need to read all the other blogs and then try to get in bed because my uncle's funeral is in the morning at 11:00. Until tommorow......Sherry

LAUNDRY NIGHT

{ 11:59, 2006-Nov-29 } { 4 comments } { Link }

I got my laundry done tonite. Would you believe that I still haven't gotten a belt replaced on my dryer? Lets see, how many months now? That means that I still have to take the towels to the laundromat to dry. I hang my clothes in the house to dry. That saves alot of money. Even when I get the dryer fixed, I will continue to do that some. It was 9:00 when we left the laundromat and it was so warm. Around 1:00 in the morning the temperatures are suppossed to start dropping. Today I had company , Roy, who has been a friend of ours for almost 24 years. Him and his wife and kids used to live 3 doors up from us. After 30 years of marriage, his wife up and divorced him. He has really latched onto us. Sometimes I feel like killing him because he is such a pest. Actually he tried to kill himself 3 years ago and we got help to him in time. At first I was so aggravated when he called and said he was coming but I jumped up, cleaned the kitchen and put on a pot of black-eyed peas. It is great that you can cook them so quickly. I also had smoked sausage & saurkraut, boiled potatoes, and cornbread. I even fixed a plate for Lawrence to take over to my mom. I need to get off here. My daughter put the CROOKLYN movie on and even though I have seen it at least 7 or 8 times, I think I will watch it again. It has to be the best movie in the world. Until tommorow......Sherry

LATEST NEWS

{ 10:58, 2006-Nov-29 } { 5 comments } { Link }

I just wanted to let everyone know that my Uncle Eddie lost his battle tonite (Tuesday Night). He passed away at 8:05. I appreciate everyone who remembered him in their prayers......Sherry

WHERE DID THE SUN GO?

{ 07:03, 2006-Nov-28 } { 2 comments } { Link }

I thought it was suppossed to be sunny today. I had already planned on working on the basement, but when I got up and looked outside I changed my mind. It is funny how your mood depends on how the weather is. It is funny how someone elses mood can change yours. I didn't really do anything too much but I did pay all my bills online. I don't think I watched any tv so I guess I have just been downright lazy. I did cook supper tonight which was porkchops, greenbeans, mashed potatoes and cauliflower topped with cheese. I have had an aggravating headache off and on all day and just a lazy feeling. My aunt, Pauline, was at the hospital to tell her brother goodbye. The doctor turned the respirator off of Uncle Eddie. Pauline said that she watched his blood pressure start going down and saw it flatline. She said she had a "wooshy" feeling go over her and thought it was over. All of a sudden the flatline started back up. He started breathing on his own and his blood pressure went back up to normal, with a heart rate of 90. He opened his eyes and was looking around. He would look right into everyone's face. All of a sudden his kidneys started working. The doctor couldn't believe it. His body is full of infection, fungus, etc. But he is breathing on his own. The doctor still says that he won't make it, but we will see. The Anderson's are tough ole' birds, words of my mom. I am going to close all this so that I can look over the grocery store ads. I love to do that now that I have started using coupons again. I'm really going to start working on saving money and paying bills down. Just started saving my change in August and I have almost $35.00 in quarters, nickles, and dimes and in pennies I have a little over $5.00. I don't even miss the change. When it gets to be $100.00, I am going to open a savings acct. That will be the start of my emergency fund. I think I will put some bills in the money changer at the laundromat just to have extra change to add to my little bank. Until tommorow......Sherry

TIRED AND SLEEPY

{ 09:05, 2006-Nov-27 } { 2 comments } { Link }

I am half-asleep sitting here writting this blog. I did good all day, even spent a couple of hours in the Goodwill. I never get tired until I get home. Then all of a sudden I am exhausted. My mom had a pretty good doctor's report today. We also went to tell my Uncle Eddie goodbye. He was unconcious and on the respirator but we talked to him and told him how much we loved him. I told him how I enjoyed going to Michigan every summer to his house. My mom just cried and cried while talking to him. All his organs have shut down and the doctor was in surgery today so Harold was going to have to wait until afternoon to talk to him about "unplugging". He did go ahead and go to the funeral home to make arrangements. It is all just so sad. We went to Shoneys afterward and had the buffet. I walked away feeling like I was going to explode. We went to Goodwill and my mom did the 10 items for $5.00. She could only find 7 items so I threw in 3 blouses. Of course I had to get some more books. One of them was the MESSIES 2 MANUAL by Sandra Felton. I also found a good medical book and a few others including the hardback book MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS. This saturday is half-price day at all Goodwills!!!!!!! I came home and the exhaustion just hit me full force. I had to watch WIFE SWAP which was very good tonite. I could have done without supper tonite after the Shoney's visit but everyone else was starving. I was not going to cook, especially since dirty dishes were everywhere (no wonder the exhaustion doesn't hit until I walk in the door). Finally I made some pancakes and everyone was happy. They called me about my car and said that they couldn't find anything wrong with it and that all of the sensors were ok. It was towed there late Friday night but they were closed over the weekend, so they looked at it when they came in this morning. They did say that the battery was completely dead and they had to recharge it. Oh well....I'm off of here...later.....Sherry

STAYED HOME TODAY

{ 08:48, 2006-Nov-26 } { 4 comments } { Link }

I ended up staying home and not visiting my Uncle Eddie. I was going to take my mom to see him but my Aunt Pauline said that he has been running a fever and was afraid for my mom to be around him. His son, Harold, came in today and has been waiting to see his doctor to see about "turning off" the respirator. I was feeling bad toward Harold but tonite my mom told me that the doctor told my uncle's wife early this morning that his organs had already started shutting down. Little did I know that when we borrowed his ladder a few weeks ago to paint our shutters that this would happen to him. My mom told me tonite that she had a good cry before she called me and that she would be ok. Uncle Eddie lives beside her and he has always been her big protective brother. I somehow wonder if it was meant for him to pass before her so that when she passes he will be there waiting to protect her again. In the past few months I have lost 2 uncles on my dad's side and then my aunt just this week but this thing with my Uncle Eddie bothers me the most. My two other uncles were only in their early and middle 60's. Uncle Eddie will be 82 on Christmas day. I have to take my mom back to her cancer doctor tommorow and if my uncle is still alive then I am going to see if it is ok for her to see him. I am dreading this but I do want to tell him about when he lived in Michigan all those years how I loved going there every summer as a child and teen. He moved back to Tenn. in 1972, into a house that he had built next to us. It's not right how things happen. Well...my bed is loaded down with everything that had been piled in my closet and around my room. I cleared the floor and vacumned. I need to get off of here and sort thru all that junk and decide what to do with it before I go to bed. Hope everyone has a good nite.......Sherry

SO-SO DAY

{ 12:18, 2006-Nov-26 } { 4 comments } { Link }

Today has been a so-so day. We wanted to get an early start but ended up being almost 4:30 getting out of the house. Of course I had to hit the Salvation Army. Good ole' Dave was on vacation but the lady that works there gave us a good discount which was surprizing. Went and did it again....books!! I do not have room but it is kind of like a sickness. We ate at Arbys and then stopped by Walmart to get dog and cat food. I was happy to see the new ALL YOU magazine out. That has to be the best magazine around and always has coupons galore in it. This issue has where you can get the o'cedar bathroom cleaning tool free and the long handle lint roller free. Came home and watched 2 episodes of MAXED OUT. I was glad to get back home because everywhere we went was depressing xmas music. I cannot hardly listen to it since my brother died. It just tears me up. I even stopped decorating for xmas, even though I might give in this year because my daughter has begged me for the past 2 xmas's. I also have bad news about my Uncle Eddie. I found out that his son from Michigan is coming back tommorow (Sunday) to have him "turned off" of the respirator. My mom is tore up. The doctors say he is doing fine. His eyes follow you but he doesn't move. Harold doesn't think that he will be any better. I didn't think you could do something like that if they weren't brain-dead. His brain scan came back ok. So why can't he wait to see how he may be a few days from now? He gave the doctor my uncle's living will last week. I just wish that I could run off and not let anyone know where I am for the rest of my life so that I wouldn't have to know anything about anyone. My uncle was still active. He was a young 81 year old that not only cut his own yard but my moms and another womans. Up to a few months ago he was walking 2 miles a day. He loved going to and having yard sales. He had a keen sense of humor. He just has to make it. Who knows....if they turn him off he may start breathing on his own. I think I should go see him tommorow but I don't know if I can stay straight or not. I'm gonna read some blogs for awhile and maybe go read. Hope everyone is having a good weekend.....Sherry

THOSE DARN ICE CREAM CONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

{ 01:02, 2006-Nov-25 } { 2 comments } { Link }

First of all, I hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving. Mine went good. There was no fights between my two sisters-in-laws which was good. They have never gotten along well and 4 years ago they ruined Thanksgiving by actually fighting. Ever since then, there has been a little uneasiness when they get around each other. But everything went fine. Previously, Lawrence came home saying that my aunt had died when she didn't. Well, she really died this time, late Wednesday night. Her visitation started tonite, or actually last night (Friday) since it is now officially Saturday morning. My mom, daughter, and I stopped and ate at the Country Buffet and ate fish with all the trimmings. It is a country hick little place where the same people repeatedly eat there every day. But they always have a good little buffet and they are real reasonable. In fact they only charge my mom $2.50. After we finished, we went to the funeral home. After I brought my mom home, I got in my car and started home. Then my daughter wanted to ride by McDonalds and get an ice cream cone. My car had made it over to my moms earlier without the service engine light coming on, so I thought maybe it would be ok. After we got the cones, we decided to ride around while we were eating them. I went down this backroad and was only about 2 miles from my house when the light came on. I turned into this cul-de-sac neighborhood, went down to the circle and was coming back up to the stop sign when the motor died and I couldn't steer and it wouldn't come to a complete stop, so I put it in park. I went ahead and called for a tow, at 10:30 p.m. Lawrence came to pick us up and he liked to never understood where we were. Here I was needing to go to the bathroom really bad, and finally Lawrence gets there and then the tow guy calls and can't find us at first and I almost went to find a bush. Well, here comes the tow guy and he looks like he came down off of a mountain with the bushiest beard I have ever seen. But he was nice and he only charged $47.00 which my insurance will reimburse me because I have roadside coverage that I only pay like $8.00 for a whole year for added on to my auto insurance. That is dirt cheap coverage and it has already come in handy for 3 tows over the years and also reimbursed me when I locked my keys in the car. Just $2.00 every 3 months. Those darn ice cream cones!!!!! I'm just glad that we had went to Franklin to the funeral home in my mom's car. I would have hated to of gotten stranded with her. What's weird was that the tow guy started my car and it started right up. I let him tow it because it would have quit again. Anyway I am back home. I am tired but I wanted to get this wrote and also catch up on everybody else. More later tonite....Sherry

EVERYONE HAVE A HAPPY GOBBLE DAY

{ 09:32, 2006-Nov-22 } { 6 comments } { Link }

This is going to be a short blog. I just got home from running around everywhere, getting last minute groceries, etc. I still have to wash clothes, get stuff ready for tommorow. Also my friend just called and said they would call back in a few minutes so I could get my blog on here. I just wanted to tell everyone that I hope you all have a very good Thanksgiving with your families. My brother, his family and my deceased brothers family and my family are cooking everything and taking it to my moms. My mom has done so well the last couple of days and is going to make her famous banana pudding. By the way....my crazy husband came home and told me that my aunt died last nite. Well, she didn't. My mom was told that she wouldn't make it thru the nite but as of tonite, she is still hanging on but breathing is very labored. My husband can't get anything right. You cannot explain anything to him without getting frustrated from repeating over and over. Oh well...Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.......Sherry

I'M BACK

{ 06:47, 2006-Nov-21 } { 4 comments } { Link }

I'm back. Where did I go? Nowhere. Our computer picked up a virus or something. It was haywire for several hours. Our virus protector has expired. My daughter had to go through all this recovery stuff, I could never have done it. Anyway...guess what? I had over 12 hours of sleep!!!!!!!! I still woke up groggy and with a slight headache but I got to feeling better in a couple of hours and I tore into some more papers and threw away alot of stuff. Actually it started out looking for a certain bill. I was aggravated because I couldn't find it. I was tearing through my assortment of papers, mad at myself and it worked wonders because not only did I find the lost bill but I actually accomplished getting rid of alot of papers. Lets see...yesterday I took my mom to her lung doctor and he told her to start back on Spiriva, an inhaler type medicine. She bought lunch buffets for us at Shoneys, which is always good. We saw my Uncle Eddie's son there and he said that they are now having to do kidney diaylasis (not spelled right) on him but it may be temporary and that he can now open his eyes and they will follow you. And my aunt that has been in the hospital will probably not make it. Remember, she is the one that has been like a vegetable for several years now. You are not going to believe this....Lawrence had taken some bananas over to my mom. He just now walked in and said that while he was over there, my mom got the call telling her that my aunt just died. She was my mom's oldest sister, age 89. It is sad but she hasn't really lived for at least 7 or 8 years. I know her children are hurt but they have devoted their life to her all these years. I'm glad that my mom wasn't alone. Her younger sister, Pauline was there when the call came. I have alot of blogs to read so I think I'll end this and catch up on them. Until tommorow...Sherry

LAZY DAZY SUNDAY

{ 10:00, 2006-Nov-19 } { 4 comments } { Link }

Today has been the laziest day ever. It has been dark and dreary but no rain. I have done absolutely nothing but watch tv today. I haven't even read the paper. Heck...I'm not even worth shooting. But I have felt pretty good. I just looked at the clock and saw that it was almost 9:00 p.m. I did not realize that it was that late. I don't know where the time went. We just got finished with supper which was pancakes and sausage. My diabetes will love that. My car has sat in the driveway over the weekend. Saturday I was running around for my mom and my service engine light came on. I immediately came back home. As I was turning into the driveway, the bell started dinging and the engine in the diagram on the dash lit up. Lawrence checked the oil and it is full. Does anyone know what it could be since it doesn't need oil? Lawrence does not know anything about a car. It is always something. He better be glad that he has a truck to drive me around in. Well, I am going to cut this short because I think I will read some blogs and then try to motivate myself to do something around here. Or I may just go ahead and read the paper. Who knows...Until tommorow.....Sherry

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