What's Happenin' (Part 2)

[houghchrst]

No Clouds, their dog killed my dog. I remember the Rookies.

Going out to dinner with Jared for his birthday.

He is excited.

Already being asked to foster homeless pets. Put out some feelers and had such a huge response I had to tell them to slow down. I have a fractured leg right now. Just wanted an idea of what is required. There are hundreds of contacts and fosters that are chock full. Such a shame.

[clouds z]

killed?they should be arrested

[houghchrst]

It's all in the thread about my dog Brody. Nobody will do their job. I don't want the dog put down, I want them held accountable and put that dog in a safe environment. But now I get calls from her regularly letting me know they are taking their dog out. Just in case. I think she is trying to be friends.

It's snowing beautifully here in my little corner of the world. At least four inches on the squirrel feeder. So much big fat flakes that the snow becomes heavy and drops from the trees and it looks like it's snowing snowballs.

Today is Jared's 17th birthday. We celebrated yesterday. Went to the new Five Guys in my town. Good burgers. Saw them a long time ago on Food Network. Their walls have magazine articles that featured them as best burgers all through the restaurant. Then we went to some place we both have been craving and that is Donna's Donuts. MMmm fresh, tasty, generous. Family owned, the father died and everyone thought they were going to close but the daughter took over. they open at 4 a.m. and they have been there forever and have a devoted following of seniors who meet and chat and eat donuts and drink coffee.

One time when pre break up we went on vacation to Caseville Michigan which is up in the thumb. CJ insisted we couldn't leave town without some Donna's so we took a mixed baker's dozen with us. We got all situated at the campsite, went and got pizza. Had dinner and decided to go driving and exploring. We got back just after dark and I'll be darned if as we pulled up to our little camp site our headlights hit a raccoon stealing a piece of pizza and another carrying off a doughnut. CJ was furious that they got into the donuts but it was so funny we just watched those two back away to the woods like 'you don't see me'. We got out and scared them off but they had ransacked our campsite and broke into our coolers and had fun at our expense. Those raccoons were very brave because a few minutes later as we are sitting and chilling on the picnic table they came right up to us. The next day we found the wax paper covers they put on the donuts near the woods we were backed on to. We learned our lesson and started locking our coolers in the tent. Chipmunks and raccoons ran that campground.

I made semi meatless stirfry night before last. I say semi because I only put a little breast meat chicken in for Jared. He didn't even notice that it was almost all vegetables. Had rice with it he said he'd been craving rice which I found odd. There are leftovers that I am going to mix together for him. When I talk about trying different things he is still saying well you could try this or that but I am talking us buddy. i have been checking recipes for meat lovers lol. Has anyone ever used a Jackfruit?

Alright I shall release you, it's long enough. Hugs all around.

[tic chick]

hey all !

yes, the snow does look pretty today. i think we got about 3-4 inches.

i went to a memorial service for my bf's cousin yesterday. she died in california just before christmas and was buried there, but there is so much family and friends here in michigan. the cousin's father was a well known organ player at a local restaurant here back in the 60's and early 70's. the service (i would call it more of a remembrance gathering), was held at the place the restaurant was. it is now another restaurant...but close enough. they had a light lunch and scads of pics. it was nice to get out for a few hours. i did just sit and talk to people. some haven't seen me since my hair was red and didn't know who the new woman was with my bf (haha). i got a lot of compliments. i am still uncomfortable with compliments, but i manage to smile and to say "thank you so very much". i'm feeling better mentally, maybe the drugs from the surgery have all left my system. i still have some swelling around my stomach area, but it's minor. this lump i had from a few stitches on one cut has almost completely gone. i wanted to get up and dance during the grammys last night, but i restrained myself.

chris, you mentioned that the itching i get before bed when i take the norco 5 is an allergy. is it an allergy to the med or does the med exacerbate my itchy allergies? it's weird, but it's not really a one-spot itch and i don't scratch hard. it's like i'll itch one place , scratch it quick and it's gone. then it refires in a completely different spot. same thing. it disappears after about 20 minutes, maybe because i fall asleep?

chris, don't be afraid of doing stuff because you think you might have another attack. your cardio doc said you have no damage to your heart muscle, such positive news! i hope today is your first day without ciggies ! if you kicked crack and all that other crap, i think you have a fighting chance against the ciggies. one day at a time. practice sitting on your hands (i did that for something).

so, that's about it. i hope you're doing well, jingle. clouds, i'm sorry you're still suffering from the PHN.

thank you all for sharing and caring!
jeannie

[clouds z]

hello hello computer is slow -words going in after about 20 seconds , internet and tv stress me out

[houghchrst]

Jeannie I am sorry about your friend's cousin. About the allergy I don't know but I get the same effect if I were to take Darvocet or Vicodin. And youre right it does go here and there. If I am getting morphine at the hospital after two days I start with the itching and I made the mistake of asking for some Benadryl for the itching and they wrote in my chart I am allergic and cut me off. They don't seriously treat pain anymore. Now they pass out the Norco's. Compliments of the DEA mostly. I guess maybe it is the doc also. But when I went and saw him he was more than happy to write me a script for Percs.

Holy smokes he wrote me a script for ninety. That will last me forever. It is a relief to know that I have back up. I have only taken about six since he wrote it. Nothing in the last couple days. It hurts, I hurt but it is at a level I can deal with and I am still careful and try not to over do it. I went grocery shopping Friday without my crutches and I am still paying for it. I don't know what my pain management doc is going to say about the meds. I signed that contract and I just realized that I haven't called them to let them know like I usually do. Guess I better call them tomorrow. I need to make a few calls in the morning. maybe better make a list.

clouds I hope you are feeling better. It more than sucks when you're stuff doesn't work like it should.

I am so bored I have started trolling on FB. I will quit. It is mean. I try to slide by a lot of the political crap. if it has a picture of the orange head I don't hardly even look. I don't know what happened but my student loans that have been forgiven due to my disabilities; Yesterday I get a message that due to new policy they need to discuss repayment of my student loans. I am over my three year monitoring period. Maybe that is why they are calling. Well things have only gone downhill since I filed in the first place.

I don't know if I have mentioned CJ at all in a while. He is living with his new family. She has two boys. I have seen the youngest and he is an adorable child. Sweet blonde baby faced and smart as a whip. The oldest is about Jared's age but I have no idea how their interactions are. I have never asked, I guess I should. I try not to pry, I don't want to be one of those mother's. I was with my first but that was an all around bad situation and I worried. Rightly so as I was to find out. CJ is still around. He is going to sell my aztec and his car and get me something. First a replacement for him cause he works and I can use the one he drives now while he sells my aztek. Fortunately I have health insurance that will pay for my rides to doc appts., pharmacy, and therapy. I just need to get to the store every now and then. Some times Brandon gives me a ride they are less than two miles from me.

I get to see Brandon pretty regularly. Not so much Jen and the kids. They are going stir crazy at his grandma's. That woman has gone to new heights of wickedness and is outright mean to them, putting her hands on the kids, refusing lovingly crafted artwork from the kids asking 'what am I supposed to do with that' and she changes when Brandon is around or at least she use to she has slipped lately and Brandon has seen her true colors. We also think she may be getting a tad senile. I didn't realize it but she is 75. Brandon said she outright fell backwards in the doorway to his room and it was so off the wall, she never passed out or anything and when Brandon stood over her and asked what she was doing she calmly said she was resting. You know now that I think back I forgot to ask why they didn't bother calling an ambulance. She probably would have refused it. She is stubborn.

THey are both looking for work, he works but is only making minimum wage. they are playing make up from Christmas. Me too. I always fall behind at the beginning of the year. Thank God for child support. I don't know what I would do without it. CJ's will dry up this or next year. That's $300 a month gone. I get a whole 150 from Brandon's father who will be paying child support for the rest of his life because he owes so much and pays so little he is not even putting a dent in it. $35,000 and that is about what it has been for years. Well actually I think over the years he has managed to pay off 3,000 of it. I wonder if I can get it raised to make up for the loss. I would have valid financial reasons for it. well no not really because Brandon is no longer supported by me. Well not by much lol.

Rose I definitely am going to start walking when it gets nice and our road is no longer a sheet of ice. We rarely get a salt truck in here so it takes a while to thaw out. Jared plans to also. I have an application from my local Y asking to be accepted with a 'scholarship' for low income families so they can either get in for free or on an income based fee. Jared wanted a weight set for christmas I got him exercise bands that he can use while he is on the computer. I figure if he is going to start and be serious about it he will graduate from those and we will consider weights. If I ever get transportation I can turn in my app and he can use the weights and machines there. We will need to keep each other motivated.

I still have some Christmas stuff up, wreaths on front door, giant festive red velvet bow on pantry door. dangly legged edge sitter santa is still out. Yard stuff stacked in a neat pile outside my garage door. Door is broke and takes two people to open and it's a hot mess out in that garage so I haven't been out there in a while. Compliments of CJ and Jared. Two gifts that I have not given to my friends. Havent been out much.

Jared believe it or not does not know how to ride a bike. He has one. A nice brand new ridden only twice bike hanging in the garage. It is of the style that the extreme bikers use so he is not too big for it at least to start on. Maybe he and I should trade. I am a bit short for the one that I have lol. anyway he expressed a desire to learn. I was floored. He has never, not even as a small child had any interest in riding a bike. Even with training wheels though we have always had a bike for him. so I am thinking that he can learn at his old elementary in their big parking lot. I grew up there and have spent many years there playing ball in the fields and playing on the playground. Playing hide and seek in what we called the swamp on the school property. Even as an adult we partied there many times. It has changed but they have a big new parking lot. Perfect for riding a bike

Okay I have rambled on enough. Bored outta my mind.

[tic chick]

hey all !

chris, the itching also happens when i take tramadol after zumba for my ankle, but i only take that on occasion and certainly not while i'm taking the norco. i'm thinking it's more of a side effect of the drug than an allergy. i don't bother taking benadryl because i only take the pain pill at night, now and i'm going to be weaning off it this week because i'm really not in that much pain, i'm using it more to get a really deep sleep and that's not the purpose for it.

great that jared wants to learn to ride a bike! i love riding my bike, always have. as a child and teen it gave me a lot of freedom to go places that were a bit too far to walk. my gf and i rode our bikes like crazy, more or less avoiding our parents and just sitting around.

my legally separated from husband had quadruple bypass surgery today. he went in for a check-up to his heart doc on monday. the doctor didn't like the look of his ekg. so he did the dye in the arteries test and saw 4 blockages, put him in the hospital and did more tests and scheduled him for surgery today. he's out of surgery now, doing fine and the doc says his heart is beating well. i called my ex yesterday, wished him well and told him to try not to worry too much because everything would prolly be ok. advice i would not take from other people before my surgery, ha!. it makes me sad that my ex doesn't seem to want to take care of himself and yet i feel a sense of relief that i am not with him because i would now be taking care of him. i don't hate him, but i don't love him. i think it's different when you take care of people because you love them and are in an intimate relationship. this was not the case with my mom or husband. i didn't want a life of being a caregiver, something i feel i was forced into from an early age by my mom. i may be poor, but i am free.

enough of vent.

so, i'm feeling pretty good. waiting for spring, waiting to be able to do something besides walk. i'm going to go see "the shape of water" or whatever that movie is called, tomorrow.

making a nice big spinach salad for dinner today. about it.

thank you for caring and sharing!
jeannie

[houghchrst]

Jeannie I hope you enjoyed the movie, I have seen the previews and it looks interesting. I am sorry about your ex. Glad you are doing better.

I hope everyone is staying warm and dry.

Here we have about 4" of relatively fresh snow. Well they say we were supposed to get four but by the way it looks where I am at it was a bit more than that. CJ almost got stuck in my driveway. As soon as he left the neighbors went to work on the circle, plowing and helping neighbors, heard some noise and looked out and there was the man from down the street plowing my driveway. This neighborhood is very close and everybody knows about Brody and my truck and my leg so they helped out. I am grateful to have such good neighbors and the snow is beautiful.

I have been spending my days in a state of anxiety. My caregivers are behind. I need to find a new one. I can't leave the house except for doc appts. due to my truck. CJ never did fix my tire. Says this weekend but we will see. Especially after all this snow. I fluctuate between anxiety over quitting smoking and withdrawals from trying to quit. If my caregivers would stay steady I think that would help tremendously. I haven't been out socially more than a handful of times since I had my heart attack. My house is a disgusting mess. my leg still hurts but we need to get on it and do some cleaning. Even Jared noticed lol. My house hasn't been this messy since Brennifer and children moved out. Fortunately it is just stuff that needs to be put away and loading the dishwasher. I have mail everywhere. I am filing for a poverty exemption on my taxes so I have all that paperwork out and things I need to remember. Spread among three room. I don't live in my bedroom anymore but it still looks like I do. Been too long since it has even been cleaned and dusted. Maybe I will work in there today. I am tired of sitting around. I know my ortho said not to rush it. It still hurts but I don't know if that is from the muscle being stretched and torn or if it is the fracture still. He said 6-8 weeks. Should I still be sitting with it elevated or am I safe to do some work. Never had a broken bone before.

[houghchrst]

Well it is almost 7 a.m. and I have been up since 4. Seems the older I get the less sleep I get. I even stayed up later than usual. Prolly stress. and I think these heart meds they have me on. Went for an arterial ultrasound in my legs Tuesday and she said everything looks wonderful. I go today for another ultrasound I think this one is for my neck. This is the one that worries me. My mom had blockages in both sides of her neck and that damn surgeon was a butcher, put metal staples in her neck instead of stitches and they left long terrible scars on both sides of her neck. Course I'm sure it didn't help that she was drunk all the time which dulled the pain and made her more careless.

I miss Brody but I am over the tears mostly. I break down once in a while. Our county treasurers office headed by Deb Cherry called and wanted to know if I wanted to be a member on the board to help with dangerous dog legislation in our county. Somehow she got wind of my story. I was going to turn her down but I changed my mind and told her yes. Then it occurs to me last night that I don't have any transportation. I will see how it goes.

It is finally daylight and has taken forever for me to write this.

I sit here and cry because I want a cigarette so bad. I broke my more than 24 hour hiatus and bought cigarettes. Now they are gone and I am smoking the butts down so there will be nothing. I have to go out later and I will try not to buy any. It is my downfall. If I have no transportation and am sitting at home it is easier. I feel sick in my head with that niggling something is missing feeling. LIke I have forgotten to do something important and causes me terrible anxiety but then when I recognize it and say to myself that I don't smoke any more I can get through those couple of minutes. I don't want to smoke anymore. I am so tired of it. I am tired of the toll I know it is taking on my health. Am supposed to setup a cat scan for my lungs today. Just to monitor two tiny spots on my lungs that the doc says are benign and no one else has even mentioned them after numerous other cat scans over the years. I am afraid of what he will see. I am using my emergency inhaler everyday whereas when I got out of the hospital after my heart attack I quit smoking and got to the point where I didn't have to use it at all. I have two emergency and one daily maintenance inhaler but I don't use it. It is Advair. Anyway yes I am disgusted with myself. With my being weak. I also noticed that I am eating more. When I talk to MMJ patients that have quit smoking they said that at first they increased their dosage and once they felt confident in their quitting they went back to their usual. I guess that is better than taking more Klonopin to help with SEs or whatever the doc wants to try. No patches for me they make me suicidal for some reason.

[houghchrst]

Am done with my ultrasounds on my arteries and got a 5 star rating. No plaque build up. I have been thanking God for two days. Now to keep it that way. I feel as though a huge weight has been lifted. Next I want to see about getting off of some of the meds. They are really screwing with my sleep. Vivid dreaming again. I don't feel rested when I dream hard all night long. Not to mention I keep getting up early. I have been up since five that is just not me. I want my 8:30/9:30 back. It doesn't help when I try and nap either. This morning I think I may climb back into bed for a while.

We had a bit of a warming trend and much of the snow has melted so things are a muddy, slushy mess here. I wish it would melt enough to be able to get out to the back forty to fix the invisible fence. I need to find the wire.....again. I found it late last summer but then when I went to use it I couldn't find it anywhere. No telling. My garage is a hot mess but I will get out there and start looking for it soon again.

I guess i'm done. tired and nothing to reallly say.

[tic chick]

hey all !

just popping in for a bit.

the movie was okay. i guess i am not into romantic fiction with monsters. i would have rather seen the movie "the post", about katherine graham and her decision to publish the pentagon papers when she owned the washington post newspaper.

my daughter came in from new york to help take care of her dad when my other daughter (who my ex lives with) goes back to work. however, it seems like my ex is having a few complications after his surgery. he has fluid around his lungs (not pneumonia), which is getting better, but has not resolved yet. he had an episode where he felt he couldn't breathe when the nurses were changing his chest bandages and he was flat on his back. they gave him a xanax to calm him down, but now he's afraid to sleep because he's afraid he's going to stop breathing again. he wanted some vicks vaporub today. he can't have it because he can't put anything on his chest and he can't put anything inside his nose. i suggested to my daughter to get him an inhaler so he can put it in front of his nose. he said to her, "vicks is going to keep me from dying", which sounds really whack to me. i told my daughter to talk to the nurse and see if she'll call the doctor and get him something for anxiety. i think he is afraid to take pain pills because he's an alcoholic (not drinking anymore, though) and he's afraid he's going to get hooked on opioids.

my youngest daughter, who is his medical advocate and is dealing with him and the hospital, sounds fried. she has to go to work tomorrow. i am debating whether to go to the hospital and see him. i talked to him and the phone and we have talked on the phone about the dogs and stuff. he doesn't seem to have any animosity towards me, nor i to him, so maybe i can go and reassure him. that's about all i can do. maybe i will go and see how it goes the first 10 minutes.

well, i have dinner in the oven and towels to wash.

chris, getting up early indicates anxiety. are you still afraid of having another attack? your neck arteries have no plaques and you have no heart damage!!! such good news! build on that. hopefully your caregivers will get you your stuff and that might help with anxiety and sleeping better? i duuno...i prolly would be scared too, but that usually makes me want to do something. it's that fight or flight thingy.

i wish i could just help everybody. my caregiving instincts are kicking in, so i am trying to talk to my youngest and support her, validating that she is frustrated and tired and she has to relax tonight.

just feeling i could be more useful...

thank you for sharing and caring,
jeannie

[clouds z]

cold day nothing to say really

[houghchrst]

It's early again. Sort of. I was so tired last night because I had been up since three thirty in the morning that I went to bed at eight. So now I have my 10 straight hours and Bam! I'm awake. My clock is all screwed up. I think if not having to pee in the early morning hours I would be able to sleep later. I've tried staying up later but that was not successful. I sleep for 10 but almost feel like I haven't because of the time I wake up. I'm getting old. I am going to be one of those senior citizens that rises at the butt crack of dawn and is in bed at dark lol.

Boy I tell ya, that AARP, I started getting mail from them as soon as I turned fifty and it was not long after. Now I get their mail regularly. It's kind of annoying. Kripes I am going to be 53 this tax day. I feel 80 physically but my mind feels young. Okay I may have been having issues with memory and my driving is getting a bit off lol but I don't feel old unless I look in the mirror.

I haven't colored my hair in a while. It's kind of three colors right now lol, black highlighted with grey around my roots and then a dark, dark brown midway to ends. I have been coloring my hair for so long. I am noticing that my hair isn't as grey as I thought it would be. Need about three inches taken off and am thinking of having it long layered from base of neck length. I don't know it that would wind up leaving me with bangs. I don't know how that would look. I don't want bangs. I will probably color it after I get it cut.

Jared is gone for the night I don't know when or if he will be home today. They'll decide. CJ threw me some cash and told me to go do something so I hit the video store and was going to surprise Jared with Donna's Donuts but a little girl was selling girl scout cookies so I hit her up instead, way cheaper and for a good cause, so I made out there and my rentals came to like two dollars and some change. Hit one of my favorite places to eat and had stuff off their starters and sides menu, cauliflower, jalapenos, and fish. Yummy.

It is very windy here, if it were warm it looks like tornado weather. It's deceiving with all the snow melted, look out the window expect it to be warm lol. I have no clue if we are supposed to get snow again where I am at. Probably but it looks like it is already heading into a warming trend. I hope so then me and Jared can start walking. I am going to ask the neighbor if he can keep the area around the pond mowed for people as I would like to walk there also. It is almost as big around as the circle I live in and much more entertaining to walk.

I do want to take Dash around the circle and get him more socialized. He is going to bite somebody if I don't. We are kind of sitting here doing our own thing and every time somebody comes over he barks and jumps on them. If he knows them then his demeanor and bark change but he still does the same thing, he won't bite them though. He is very protective. I just read that Dachshunds are the second most dangerous dog with chihuahuas coming in first for attacking and biting.

Jeannie I am sorry to hear about your ex. Does he not have family that can help? I may have missed that somewhere. Seems a shame that your daughters have to shoulder the burden with no help from his family. I do know that depression and anxiety can affect sleeping patterns. I fit both those categories. I have changed my Klonopin dosage back to one in the a.m. and then the other two in the evening instead of all three at bedtime. I am hoping it will give me that extra coping ability. The MMJ helps tremendously, but try to keep my dosage down there too.


I may officially have a car again if cj finds one this weekend. I will be taking over his clunker until he can find me a new one. I truly miss my Aztec. There are so many on the road and cj says they are money pits but obviously a lot of people don't seem to care or he doesn't know what he is talking about but when it comes to cars he should know.

Stay warm clouds!!

Well off to watch movies. Scary ones first lol.

[tic chick]

hey chris! my ex was an only child and everyone except cousins are gone. he lives with my youngest daughter. i'm sure she never thought she'd be dealing with a health crisis with him while he was so relatively not old...lol, because i know many 77 y/o's who are doing fine. since she is his medical advocate, she gets the info from the doctor's and nurses on his condition and everything else. so, my ex was transferred to an inpatient rehab center in a hospital that is close to where my daughter lives. depending on how well he does there, he could go home after a 2 to 3 week rehad or he could go into a nursing home inpatient rehab for awhile. my daughter came in from new york just to visit her dad, thinking he would be home after 8 days in the hospital, about the usual time for recovery. but, with his complications, he has had to stay in the hospital longer and is now going to rehab for his wound care and activities of daily living rehab. my daughter certainly can't take care of him by herself, as she works. i'm sure she's going to hope that he can completely recover and return homw. i don't know what's going to happen if for some reason that isn't possible.

i'm just trying to support her because she is fried from dealing with this. she's 32 and has never dealt with anything this emotionally exhausting. i'd appreciate anyone reading this to send up some prayers or positive energy or good thoughts to my ex and my daughter.

thanks you for sharing,
jeannie

[houghchrst]

Going today for CT scan of my lungs today. Get to see just how much damage I have done. I am so tired of all these medical appointments. It is sad that the only way I get out of the house is medical transportation.

CJ said I could get his car when ever I needed to but he goes to work at three in the afternoon and that is about when I start fading quickly and the pain begins to settle in for the evening. Then I gotta pick him up at eleven and I am usually sleeping by then. It is just a pain. Guess I shouldn't complain I am grateful that he is so generous.

Belladonna wouldn't let me go back to sleep after getting up to use the bathroom, I can usually ignore her pacing and meowing and fall asleep but this morning it sounded as though she was trying to eat through the door. No sleeping through that. I am going to buy a new screen door for that back patio and if the fit is good I will be able to let her out onto the patio. maybe put something out there for her to climb on. Turn our patio into a catio. I have a couple of tiny dog harnesses I have thought about hooking her up and taking her for walks and see if she likes it.

Speaking of walks Dash and I went for our first of what I hope to be many walks. Monday morning I harnessed him up and he was so good, he didn't pull hardly at all. He stayed to the side of the road. I went only as far as the pain would let me. I have to have the ability to walk back so if I walk too far I'm screwed on the way back so I got just so far before having to turn back. It wasn't really far but it was a start. We didn't go yesterday morning because I was up running yesterday so got more than enough exercise.

Had appointments to hit two food distribution sites yesterday morning but I didn't have a ride so I had to call and cancel early. Just then one of the people that I have had an inner struggle with tolerating then loving for almost two decades messaged me on Facebook outta the blue to see how I was doing. I told her of my dilemma and she jumped right in and offered to take me so she came and got me and we hit both of those places and they even let her get a food basket even though she didn't have an appointment and after hitting those two I thought we should go to grandma's church and see if they have a food pantry well lo and behold we were there right on time for their food pantry. So we were blessed three times yesterday, me four with her contacting me. My cupboards are full and they even had meat and milk. Meat is hard to come by at the food pantries. It was a good day.

The weather here has been funky, all the snow is gone. My yard is a swampy mess. Time to put on my polka dot galoshes and go check the back forty.

CJ commented to me the other day that he had some time off in June and would clean the garage lol, June?, I'll have it cleaned long before then. Every time I clean it he screws it up and I am not waiting that long for him to get his stuff organized. I will put all his crap in a corner and get my stuff where I will have easy access to my projects. This year I want to work on my projects. He says he will finallly be able to get all his tools and stuff out of here. I would like to cut off a few inches from the legs of the work table my grandpa built so that I can reach it better. My grandpa was tall and it was perfect size for him.

Cj still has not found a car. He says he'll have one tomorrow but I am not holding my breath. I just get disappointed lol. I get a decent car I would like to do some volunteer work, maybe dog walking. I went to our Animal Control to see what kind of dogs they had because February is adopt for $10. It was sad all they had were a bunch of mostly pitbull mixes. They had a lot of empty cages. What happened to all the other dogs? Do the rescues come take them all because they are easily adoptable? Is the Humane Society getting them and adopting them out? They were busy so I didn't bother asking. I know they are a no kill shelter and hopefully someone will rescue the dogs before they become kennel crazy.

Jeannie I hope your daughter is taking time out here and there for herself.

Clouds is your puter still running lousy?

Later y'all.