Cemetery day

Picked up Mom to take her to the cemetery where her parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents are. Yes, Mom's family is in 1 cemetery while Dad's is scattered everywhere. Found the mystery person was by with peonies in coffee cans. Mom can't figure out who this person is.



Mom has to complain how hot my car is (when it sits in the day all the time, it does get hot) and my A/C is not cold enough for her liking. She is also wearing pants on a 85 degree day. I guess she sits in her A/C'ed apartment and never opens the windows so she doesn't need to wear shorts. She says I need more coolant or Freon. OK, Mom.



Take Mom home and go to my Dad and his parents graves by myself. My sister took Mom yesterday to Dad's grave. Sister didn't leave flowers for our grandparents, just Dad. I had 2 extra flowers so left them with Dad. Went grocery shopping and came home. Cats love the balcony and watching the birds and squirrels in the trees. Ah, milkshake.

Happy Memorial Day

Does Happy Memorial Day seem like an oxymoron. Like we are saying, Happy Celebrating Dead People Day.



I worked all weekend and will drive Mom to the cemeteries tomorrow. Mom was disappointed we aren't visiting on the weekend, but what can I do. She wants to wait for my schedule instead of asking for certain days off a month in advance, then that is what you get.

RIP Jeff Conaway

RIP Jeff Conaway. (Pete's Dragon, Grease, Taxi, Bold & Beautiful, some sci-fi thing, Celebrity Fit Club, Celebrity Rehab) He was a good actor who could have been great, but the drugs got in ther way. He will be missed.

Nice

Heard it is law for manufacturers to phase out incadescent bulbs by 2013. Would be nicer if light fixtures in my apartment ceiling and new lamps I have bought didn't say "incadescent only". They also say putting in a compact florescent bulb will cause a fire. Nice.

Coworker chat

Coworker told me a friend of hers paid top dollar for a purebred white German Shepherd pup and after it peed all over her carpets from her not training it, is now selling it on Ebay. Am I alone in asking, Why did she get a puppy in the first place?



Coworker said she has trained dogs for years and this friend didn't have the patience for dog training and would never listen to her advice on how to train. She asked me about traning my cats. I call it a work in progress. But, mama cat trained my kittens in litterbox etiquette so all I had to do was place my new baby near the litterbox and scratch at the litter so they knew where it was located. I taught them Off, Down, and their name also means Come. They know each others names too so if I call one cat, the other cat will start looking for them. I also taught them to walk on a leash, but they don't always accept it. I got a lot of patience. I also allow them on the furniture and top of the cupboards so less training for me.

Oprah's last show

Oprah had her very last show and I missed it b/c I grabbed a full disc and DVR's don't record stuff already there like VHS did. I swear the more they improve technology the worse it gets. I hate Digital TV. Since I found no erase function on the DVR, I went on my computer and used the DVD burner to erase all my discs. Won't be having that problem again.

Random act of kindness

Leave windows open today since the forecast is sunny all day. 20 mins before leaving work it pours rain. Go home expecting a mess to clean up and wet furniture. Come home to find the maintainence guy who was suppose to inspect the water damage from leaky ceiling today had closed the windows. How nice. Would be nicer if he not left paint on the window when painting over the damaged ceiling. Oh well. Any bets how long it will take before the ceiling leaks again?

Todays agenda

Today I did laundry, went to chiropractor, grocery shopped, and had supper with aunt from Omaha. Now sit with a root beer float in my hand and kitty napping in my lap. Life is good.

Surprise in laundry

Did laundry today and found a cat toy among the clothes. I wonder how that got there.

Bogus coupons

Found out someone is making up bogus internet coupons. Apparently this pops up once in a while. My story of the day.



So this is the end of the world. Funny it looks the same to me.

Saw the chiropractor

Saw the chiropractor today and got my misaligned hips, mid back, between shoulder blades, and neck adjusted. Feel better and wait for the pinched nerves to heal.

One more day

One more work day to go and I get a day off. I'm worked 6 days in a row (tomorrow is 7) w/my back killing me I can barely move. Been taking Tylenol, Aspirin, and Advil together and still in pain, but can tolerate it. Realized coming home that I left the heating pad on all day. Asked around for a good chiropractor at work to hear nobody lives around here or not on employer's insurance to give me a name. SO tonight look up people on the insurance's website. Hopefully I can make an appointment tomorrow morning before work and get an appointment for my day off. I hate to go and call in sick to relieve stress on my back after treatment. And hope it is just something out of place and not serious. Had a friend go in the doctor cause she fell off a ladder, hurting her back, and they discovered she had colon cancer.

Hmmmm

Ok, so go to mailbox and there is a flier announcing the world will be ending on May 21, 2011. Funny, I thought the world will be ending December 21, 2012 when the Maya calendar runs out. Oh well, people said the world would end at the stroke of 2000 with Y2K fears broadcating famine and planes falling the sky; and yet I sit here typing this. Whatever.

Ouchy

Yesterday , get up, feed the cats, go to dentist, come home to pet cats, and my back starts to hurt. Take lots of aspirin and lay on a heating pad for eternity, it doesn't go away. Bon Jovi concert is that night and I ain't missing it. I would have enjoyed it more if I was not in terrible pain to the point of my hands shaking and breathing deeply to avoid crying. I don't know which was worse, Sitting or Standing? As we left the concert, 2 Bible beaters were standing on podiums preaching against sin to an audience ignoring them. Saw people selling Bon Jovi shirts for $10. I'm thinking license/copyright infrigement?

Then today I'm still in pain and can barely move. I have so few hours this week and not earned any sick days, I have to work. I struggle to dress and put on shoes. I actually prayed to God to please let me get to work. I tell only coworkrs my trouble in case they notice I'm a little stiff. I even excused myself to take more aspirin during my shift. To customers, I'm happy as can be and should have earned an Emmy for my performance pretending I'm having a good day. I doubt any of them would care if I said I wasn't good. Come home to lay on a heating pad a couple hours to feel a little better. Sister called requesting babysitting while I was at work. I called back to have Mom pick up the phone. Requested she cut out the newspaper photo of Bon Jovi I saw and asked for more money. Please God help me find a better paying job so I can stop begging for money.    Now to bed.

Adventures in Babysitting

Pick up niece and nephew. Brother-in-law is still home so kids spend 4 minutes with their Daddy before he goes to work and we go to the park. It's 90 out so slides and everything else are hot. Nephew pouts in the shade drinking his ice water b/c the slides are hot. I say he can sit there and pout if he can't pick up his bare knees so only shorts and shoes touch the hot slide. I get on a swing and eventually nephew wants to swing. Niece comes in right behind him to steal his swing from him. Before I can say, Nephew was there first, he stands right behind my swing (I can't see him) and send him flying. Nephew is scraped up and shedding blood so we are going home. Niece wants to stay and play some (it's only been 15 mins). No, nephew is bleeding so we are leaving. Band aid him up and watch a movie. Have dinner. Nephew has calmed down so go fo a walk. Nephew on trike and niece on scooter. Then we play in the back yard until kids are tired. Watch TV shows and play on computer until bedtime. Getting ready, I hear laughing and shouting. Nephew keeps peeping at niece when she is naked. Order nephew to his room to change into pj's. Niece brushes her teeth. Reading stories, my sister comes home so I give my report and leave.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there.

Joke of the day

Coworker 1: Any guesses who will win the Kentucky Derby.
Coworker 2: I don't know, a horse?

Bad Precius

Did laundry today and Precious snuck while the door was extra wide open from me holding a laundry basket. So we had a walk as I did my laundry. Precious followed me to the laundry room and meowed as if tortured when I refused to open the door. Then we left and he was happy eating the plants and eventually came home. Tried to take him out again when left to remove clothes from the dryer, but he was busy with a nap and not wanting to be disturbed.

Big News

As a movie ended, I switch channels to watch the news. There is big news forever broadcasted. Osama Bin Laden is dead, confirmed dead, by US forces. I ask, Now what?