Blog Archives

I’m going to get my exercise…

     I think I finally have all the Halloween decorations on the second floor ready to take to the attic to pack away until next year.  I know, it’s the lazy way to do it.  However, trudging two flights of stairs on many trips is not my idea of fun.

     This way I can pile everything by the attic door and then haul it all up in as few trips as possible. 

     Since I don’t do Christmas decorations, I’m done with attic trips  for the year.

Incentive helps

     The Curmudgeon carried the ladder upstairs yesterday.  This was a hint for me to take down the light fixture at the top of the stairs.  I’ve put this off for quite a while, but night before last the second light blew so I needed to replace both of them.

     (Another reason I put it off was it was filthy from the leaky roof–which is now fixed.) 

     Therefore yesterday afternoon I went up the ladder, took down the glass fixture, washed it, replaced the two light bulbs with new energy-efficient light bulbs, and put up the clean glass fixture.

     Oh my gosh, I forgot how bright that light was.  Now I can see how dirty the stairs and hallway are…

     I bet you know what I’ll be doing today.

Paper is to clutter as ….

     I can clean off my desk, I can clear the kitchen table, however, they never stay paper free.  A single piece of paper becomes a magnet for many more.  Once that first paper hits the table or desk,  my clutter free area is doomed.

     I swear the paper breeds faster than rabbits or mice.  My recycling bin is always full.

     Is there some sort of scientific phenomena that explains this occurence?

     How do you tame your paper? 

Fortune cookie wisdom

     “It’s amazing how much good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.”

     Believe it or not that lovely gem of wisdom was in my fortune cookie tonight.   It struck a chord with me.  I know many people who climb atop the wall and crow about their accomplishments expecting pats on the back and plenty of ‘atta boys.  They don’t impress me.

    The people I admire the most are the ones who work hard, keep their heads down, and seldom take credit for their good works. 

     Sort of reminds me of many of our military men and women.  Hey, remember to take a moment and thank a soldier the next time you see one. 

     Hugs all!

Black ‘n blue ‘n yellow ‘n brown…

 

     Bull Terriers aren’t for the faint of heart.  I’ve seen them gently kiss a baby’s face and then run full tilt into my shins immediately afterwards. 

     They will leap great heights just so they can land dead center in your body.  You are what they use to stop with instead of putting on the brakes.

     There’s nothing so tempting as a bed with you asleep in it–they must bounce. 

     A toy, hose, or ropie, if you have hold of it they will grab it with a bit of you.

      No, Bull Terriers aren’t for the faint hearted….

The toe bone is connected to the OW!

     Life with Bull Terriers is never dull.  My back is feeling a lot better now.  Then last night Gavin leapt on the foot rest of my chair taking out my ankle, foot, and big toe in the process.   My big toe–bruised, my ankle–slightly sprained, my foot–scratched and bruised. 

     At least I can get around without a problem. 

     “I just hopped up with Mom like always.  Don’t know why she suddenly yelled, ow! Ow! Ow!”  Gavin hanged his head.

    “I hided in my crate so I couldn’t get blamed.”  Said Patty.

     “You always hides in the crate.”   Gavin said.

    

I need to diet on the heart smart diet

 

     It seems to me that the heart smart changes in my diet have done nothing except put weight on me.   How heart smart can that be?

     I do believe that fruits, whole grains, and oatmeal like to migrate to my stomach and boobage.  My fat loves the heart smart diet and I am not amused… 

     It’s time to change again and this time go for what works in taking off the weight and controlling my cholesterol. 

     Now if I can only find my old hand written diet that I had years ago.  I managed to take off weight on that one with no problem.  It’s somewhere in this house…

I didn’t cook

 

     Second day, back was still painful enough that pizza was ordered for dinner.  The pups were thrilled they LOVE pizza–they get pizza crusts from DH. 

     Gavin decided he was my official heating pad,  he spent the day alongside me in the chair heating my leg instead of my back.   He believes he can make me better.

     Patty would come over every so often to kiss my elbow and let me know I had her sympathies.

     DH tried to keep me as quiet as possible so my back heals quickly–he needs me in good shape to take care of him.   He even told me that tonight it looks as though we’ll have Chinese food–his way of cooking for me since he no longer can cook.

     My guy and pups loves me!

New mantra; never make plans…

     I should know by now that when I make plans, something is going to happen.  I had planned to go over to the MIL’s house today to get some work done.  Well, that’s not going to happen.

     Last night, while standing at the sink washing my grill pan, my back suddenly went out on me.

     I hadn’t bent, twisted, turned, or lifted anything.  I wasn’t knocked about by a Bull Terrier either.  Go fig.  I’ll be spending the day on ice in my chair or bed.

Updates on DH and the snow damage

     DH is much improved from his several days of muscle spasticity to our great relief.  His recovery is slow and we hope he will recover fully.

     The night of the dreaded Halloween snowstorm you could hear trees and branches snapping and popping all over the place.  All I heard today was the sound of chain saws.

     I have to somehow pull two broken magnolia limbs out of that tree and so far it looks like only one more tulip tree branch I’ll need to get down from that tree.  How you ask?  You got me by the short ones.  If my tree saw won’t reach I don’t know what I’ll do.

     Then I need to start raking leaves and dragging them out to the street for clean up.  The way I’m feeling now, this is going to take forever.

Another bad MS day here yesterday

     Not as bad as the last two days but bad enough to make me tell him he must go to the doctor today. 

     The use of extra meds as we had discussed with his neurologist may have helped a bit, but it still wasn’t enough.  The spasticity in the legs is bad enough but this entire episode has also had his stomach muscles spasming.  This is new.  This is also quite painful for him.

     I sit here feeling completely helpless since nothing I can do is of any help to him.  I’ve been sleeping in my chair downstairs so I can hear him if he has a problem.  In other words, sleep much?  Nope.

MS spasticity problems

     I was going to write about our freakish pre-Halloween snowstorm, but since two a.m. yesterday morning DH has been having some dire spasticity problems.  He went down on the bedroom floor and once I got him into the bed, I knew I was up for the duration.  I’ve had very little sleep since our party.

     DH collapsed onto the bathroom floor again later yesterday morning he’d gone in there without a cane, calling me,  or any other means of support. 

     My back is out from all the bending to fill short people’s Trick or Treat bags, there was no way I could get him up.  G and her hubby weren’t home so I couldn’t ask them.  I pounded on the next door neighbor’s door and soon Carlos was over to aid DH in getting back into his bed.

     I put the walker by the bed so when DH made another run to the bathroom he had a better way to get there.  He was NOT pleased about needing the walker.

    The next time he remembered to call for me and I went up to be with him while he went from the bedroom to the bathroom and back again.  Success!  The walker worked in getting him back and forth without incident.   Now maybe I can get some sleep.

     It was probably the best day for this to happen since we had all that snow and no need to go anywhere.