Late Sunday evening, I got a call from oldest daughter to let me know that oldest grand-daughter was staging a protest. Yes, she was demanding a sleep-over with grandpa or yhere would be NO anything from her at all!
It has been hard seeing her this year because of all of surgeries and long weeks trying to just find my nose ... Eepah!, what a year! But I am her favorite in the family, even when she was just a new born! No one could calm her down as fast just grandpa holding her. It really freaked daughter out that her child was happier in my arms than hers! It was really just that I wear wool, I like wool on my skin - and so does grand-daughter! LOL
So now at age 9, grand-daughter insists on visiting with me at least every two weeks - and as daughter discovered - there is hell to pay if she can not!
I figured, okay, I can survive her and keep her busy with art projects. Nice thought Kris! Then her brother decided he had to come and youngest grandchild heard of a sleep over and now I had three to "plan" for. Well, with one leg, the inmates were going to run this show!
We watched, "George og the Jungle", Sunday night and they loved that one! I read them Dr. Suess', "Wish for a Fish" - another winner! I went to bed exhausted but very pleased ....
Monday morning ... well ...
Youngest grand-daughter woke deciding she was in love with grandson and so she was chasing him all over the house screaming about her desire to kiss him! Sigh, exactly like her mother at the same age! Grandson would have been a screaming but he has been mute for two years now.
Then she asked for paper and a pencil and started drawing - when she was complete, she showed everyone at the table her picture which had earlier had earlier looked like an open mouth but now was a confusing cross between a mouth and Salvadore Dali. She then looked at me earnestly and said, "This is your mouth and all of the dead things inside of it!"
"Huh?"
"It certainly smells alike someone, or maybe many, have died in you mouth!"
How does one reply when you had just brushed you teeth? Sigh ......
Breakfast was a bust as some put all of my hash browns in the freezer to make room for cupcakes in the refrigerators. So, pull the hash browns out to defrost and make Cup Noodles for them. We did get the hash browns but for a late lunch - and a real hit for them, as they were for my sister and I when we were young :)
(well time to shorten this as this has taken me almost two hours to type this far and am quite exhausted! time to close)
In all it went very well, much more humor but I just have nothing left at this point ...
April 5, 2017
April 3, 2017
Sigh
As if life has not sucked enough as of late:
First daughter moved back out
Son then moved back in
His ex is now visiting daily
Fell off my scooter and whopped the stump!
I had a minor heart attack
And Gaellic Girl had to blow up
Well actually threw a world class temper tantrum
Of course she dropped a Dr Pepper of all things!
I can't even walk but it is ALL my fault!
Fighting yet another infection in the wound
Broke a crown
Did I mention biting a chunk of tongue off and the blood blister ruptured
Living on codeine
sigh
What a life!
On the positive side:
Daughter's cat is finally gone
no real damage due to fall, just pain
The wound continues to heal
A theft at an antique show years ago was resolved
Very happy to have almost all items returned
Well back to building my Goodwill pick pile
First daughter moved back out
Son then moved back in
His ex is now visiting daily
Fell off my scooter and whopped the stump!
I had a minor heart attack
And Gaellic Girl had to blow up
Well actually threw a world class temper tantrum
Of course she dropped a Dr Pepper of all things!
I can't even walk but it is ALL my fault!
Fighting yet another infection in the wound
Broke a crown
Did I mention biting a chunk of tongue off and the blood blister ruptured
Living on codeine
sigh
What a life!
On the positive side:
Daughter's cat is finally gone
no real damage due to fall, just pain
The wound continues to heal
A theft at an antique show years ago was resolved
Very happy to have almost all items returned
Well back to building my Goodwill pick pile
April 1, 2017
Musical Saturday Morning
Yes, it is a first Sunday and historically I have posted 1980's videos but I no longer can remember what I have posted in the past.
So, to go with the theme of the past month for me - a song from 1967.
Hope you like it.
So, to go with the theme of the past month for me - a song from 1967.
Hope you like it.
March 31, 2017
Shades of '67
According to this blog, all through 2016 I was to experience the same series of dreams - which were really memories - over and over and over again! Well, I have no memory of them now!
And like last time, dreams are memories - reality floating through what is left of my mine. This time around, it is 1967 and seventh grade I seem to be lock in! Really? Seventh grade of all of the memories to now be stuck with! Good Loird, not the best of memories ...
Awkward. Yeah, that would be the word.
I was to be moved from my Zweibruchen Canadian school to a NATO school in Ramstein. Why? Because mother was blowing a gasket and father wanted to move her to an English speaking environment by relocating us to the NATO base housing in Ramstein. So German boy uprooted again, stuffed back into a foreign culture again and unfortunately I could not even write in English!
So, forget making new freiends.
Forget passing classes, except math and multiple choice history questions!
And begin the process of learning all about injustice and inequality.
Yeah, my new memory set is now set to 1967 and memories no one should have to have suffered through, much less be stuck with .....
Thank God 1967 was a year of some great music!
And like last time, dreams are memories - reality floating through what is left of my mine. This time around, it is 1967 and seventh grade I seem to be lock in! Really? Seventh grade of all of the memories to now be stuck with! Good Loird, not the best of memories ...
Awkward. Yeah, that would be the word.
I was to be moved from my Zweibruchen Canadian school to a NATO school in Ramstein. Why? Because mother was blowing a gasket and father wanted to move her to an English speaking environment by relocating us to the NATO base housing in Ramstein. So German boy uprooted again, stuffed back into a foreign culture again and unfortunately I could not even write in English!
So, forget making new freiends.
Forget passing classes, except math and multiple choice history questions!
And begin the process of learning all about injustice and inequality.
Yeah, my new memory set is now set to 1967 and memories no one should have to have suffered through, much less be stuck with .....
Thank God 1967 was a year of some great music!
March 30, 2017
Life
It has not been an easy recovery this time around.
TV on ox-codone is hilarious. Commercials such as JG Wentworth and Oasis are so pathetic that it is hard not to be the brunt of jokes and the more ox-codone, the more the hilarity!
But some commercials are so annoying that I am beyond my tolerance for them! Copper coated cookware, diamond vapor coated cookware - and yes, you can now get two for the price of one! (Dai mi pokoi!)
I have been restarting a study on the book of Lamentations, several times - as each surgery has forced a restart of all aspect in life! And I found some notes on the Kingdom of God, from 2016 - lost with the first surgery of this year. So, I have something of interest for you, for next week!
Until then, please keep me in your prayers.
Healing, closing of the wound, pain control, environmental stability, attention span and no doubt many more items I can not remember at this time!
Thanks ...
TV on ox-codone is hilarious. Commercials such as JG Wentworth and Oasis are so pathetic that it is hard not to be the brunt of jokes and the more ox-codone, the more the hilarity!
But some commercials are so annoying that I am beyond my tolerance for them! Copper coated cookware, diamond vapor coated cookware - and yes, you can now get two for the price of one! (Dai mi pokoi!)
I have been restarting a study on the book of Lamentations, several times - as each surgery has forced a restart of all aspect in life! And I found some notes on the Kingdom of God, from 2016 - lost with the first surgery of this year. So, I have something of interest for you, for next week!
Until then, please keep me in your prayers.
Healing, closing of the wound, pain control, environmental stability, attention span and no doubt many more items I can not remember at this time!
Thanks ...
March 29, 2017
I'm Baaaaaaaaaaaaaack!
So, as you might remember, the January surgery did not go so well - thus requiring a surgery in February. But this failed as well! In all, February and March saw me being hit with three major surgeries! :(
And as was the curse of 2016: my mind was wiped, wiped,wiped, wiped! There is nothing left of it I fear! :(
Of course, this time, I wrote out all of my accounts and passwords - and have no idea as to where I put it! Silly me! Sigh .... It took me two weeks to figure out FaceBook, but unfortunately my eMail still has me frustrated! But, I am having to relearn everything - such as typing. And even getting my computer to work in the first place! So my waking hours have been extremely busy!
Life is defined as using a kneeling scooter to travel bed to bathroom, tv, kitchen - repeat as necessary until next pain pill - sigh - I am so sick of being drugged! And while I am drugged out of my pain, life continues on around me, only I am not here! No one could have foreseen all of the complications which have beset this recovery!
On the positive side, I have been being cared for by my lone nephew, whom can be trying at times but he has a good heart and we have had many long conversations - which surprisingly to me has had a positive impact on him. He is learning tolerance and steps towards maturity - lots of things for him to think on.
Well time to go, this has been exhausting!
And as was the curse of 2016: my mind was wiped, wiped,wiped, wiped! There is nothing left of it I fear! :(
Of course, this time, I wrote out all of my accounts and passwords - and have no idea as to where I put it! Silly me! Sigh .... It took me two weeks to figure out FaceBook, but unfortunately my eMail still has me frustrated! But, I am having to relearn everything - such as typing. And even getting my computer to work in the first place! So my waking hours have been extremely busy!
Life is defined as using a kneeling scooter to travel bed to bathroom, tv, kitchen - repeat as necessary until next pain pill - sigh - I am so sick of being drugged! And while I am drugged out of my pain, life continues on around me, only I am not here! No one could have foreseen all of the complications which have beset this recovery!
On the positive side, I have been being cared for by my lone nephew, whom can be trying at times but he has a good heart and we have had many long conversations - which surprisingly to me has had a positive impact on him. He is learning tolerance and steps towards maturity - lots of things for him to think on.
Well time to go, this has been exhausting!
March 1, 2017
Surgery Again
So, at my in-home nurse's insistence, I went in to see the surgeon from all three of the operations on my right leg.
His assessment is that my weeks of travail with it are because there is an active infection in the leg and a blood clot on the right side below the knee.
Sigh.
So, I am back in for surgery today - a two month setback in my plans for the year as well as healing for the leg! (worse: another 40 days of suspended driving license!)
Sigh.
So very much prayer is needed.
My only solace is Dutchman told me long ago that all of this stuff is not for my benefit but for another - to wake them up, to call them back where they belong, etc. Yeah, cut Kris up and know it is not of any value to anyone listening ... I am not so sure on that theory.
His assessment is that my weeks of travail with it are because there is an active infection in the leg and a blood clot on the right side below the knee.
Sigh.
So, I am back in for surgery today - a two month setback in my plans for the year as well as healing for the leg! (worse: another 40 days of suspended driving license!)
Sigh.
So very much prayer is needed.
My only solace is Dutchman told me long ago that all of this stuff is not for my benefit but for another - to wake them up, to call them back where they belong, etc. Yeah, cut Kris up and know it is not of any value to anyone listening ... I am not so sure on that theory.
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