Oh My

Well - its only been about four years since I posted here the last time - so not so daily should be not so yearly. Life has a way of keeping me busy and I'm finally getting back into what I love - scrapping. I was kind of forced into it you see - my almost 8 year old grandson is going to have a baby brother or sister in January and I've got to catch up on all the years I haven't kept up on for him (since preschool!). Funny how something so little can motivate you!

Do You Feel Lucky

I do feel lucky. With the way of the world today I have my family, our health is good, we have jobs with good benefits. So yes - I do feel lucky.

Only a Number . . . .

Sunset at Huntington Beach, CA - January 16, 2009




After 50 its patch patch patch! lol! I'll 51 this month - not a milestone in my mind - after all it is only a number but in my drs. eyes it is time for all those tests that you dread but know you need. The upside of a colonoscopy is that you loose about 10 pounds the day before the procedure - the downside is also the day before the procedure - drinking the soapy tasting liquid UNTIL IT IS ALL GONE! You've got to have a strong stomach and a loving husband who didn't make the usual football food for the Super Bowl because he knew it would be hard for me to smell them and not have anything but liquids! Why can't they make this an easier procedure? After seeing me go through this I know DH will NEVER go through it now!

Don't ask about why I scheduled it for the day after Super Bowl - when they said we have an opening in two weeks on a Monday I said I'll take it - conscientious minded thinking girl I am so that I would only have to take one sick day (being today) to take care of this task to pursue my health goals.

So far I've learned I've shrunk 2 inches and the bone density test shows I need more calcium and vitamin D, the annual mammogram came back just fine, my blood pressure and cholesterol is great, the 10 pounds I lost yesterday is only the start - I've got to lose about 50 more - and - the doctor feels he got all the the malignant polyp found today but they will have the test back quickly and I shouldn't have to do the test again for another 3 years.

So I guess I want to end this post on lighter note - life is what you make it out to be! Age is only a number and mine is just fine!

Snowing & Blowing

This girl is really my youngest daughter in disguise - she was in the Holiday Spectacular at ONU - a fun little elf named Pixel who won the heart of her nephew

Well - I am such a slacker - I know I need to update but I just forget. Something to do with old age I'm sure, or not enough time or numerous other excuses I could come up with. Nope - I'm pretty sure its just that I'm a slacker!

More soon - I promise! :)

Taking out the Trash!

Well - she moved out - I should be sad - and I am, some what - but what she left behind could fill her second bedroom in her new apartment! I shared with her that she needed to take it all and her response was she didn't want it just throw it away. I laughed at this and promptly responded "Not My Job"! I think I'll snap a picture of it just for prosperity! Don stepped in and said he wanted it cleared up this weekend as a birthday present to him - Yeah for Dads is all I've got to say!

Empty Nest

The day has come - our middle daughter who would never let me out of her sight when she was younger - is moving into her first apartment. Nothing like the first apartment I had - where a card table served as my kitchen/dining room set, an old wooden spool that electrical wire came on was my end table in the sparsely furnished living room, nope she is furnishing her apartment with IKEA and style! At 23 she has deveoped such a modern style of her own and I'm very proud of the young woman she has become!

For almost a year she has been slowing collecting 'things' for the day she moved out. Dishes, kitchenware, complete bathroom acessories - the kid has style!

All this is great - right? Sure it is - but over the past 23 years this middle daughter and I have gotten very close - our morning rituals of getting ready for work at the same time - fighting for (or I mean sharing) the mirror to apply make-up, hogging the hot water for the shower - and the conversations.

I am a morning person - up at 5:00 and on my way - I do my best thinking then. And I need to talk about things but my dear husband is a grunter in the morning - you know the type - honey what do you think about (insert topic here) - and his response is usually gutteral tones and looks that just state "you know I'm not awake - why are are asking me now"! But my dear daughter is a talker and shares things in the morning too - it sure will be quiet - or maybe I should say it will be weird having one sided conversations!

I'll be that crazy woman talking to herself again - - - oh well - - - at least I'll get answers that way!

Warranty, Schmarranty

Why is it when you do purchase the extended 5 year warranty, it doesn't cover the parts that are broken?

We have a Duet Washer & Dryer we purchased 4 years and 5 months ago - the Dryer died - it isn't the first time - the first time was 7 months ago - the warranty covered that problem - a simple fuse. But this problem - well its electronic - and the $179.00 we plunked down for the 5 year extended warranty on top of the way to much we paid for the W & D doesn't cover electronic. Go figure.

So - the repairman tells me - it will take 3 days to get the part in (why don't they keep those dang parts on their truck?) - this was yesterday and my dryer has been dead since last Thursday. And when you get the part check it out to make sure UPS didn't damage it then call us and schedule us to come out - which will probably be about a 2-3 day turnaround. You have got to be kidding me right?!?!?!?!

So maybe - if I'm lucky and the Dryer Gods are smiling down upon me my dryer - and an additional $300.00 for momentum - I might have my dryer fixed by the second Tuesday of next week!

How true you don't know what you've got til its gone!!!!