Lady by the Water

Afternoon all. Some people (Landers) need to put up spew warnings on their posts. I almost spit coffee all over the laptop when I opened the latest one. It was a busy night but productive and I'm up too early is all I can say. The day is beautiful so why the pets are all sitting on the bed with me instead of out on the deck is a mystery. The moon and stars were glorious this morning and I miss the dark mornings now that daylight savings time is over. It was fun to come home and have a bit to enjoy the beautiful star filled sky. Early morning is one of the best times, before the world wakes up.

Not only have I decided to buy Thanksgiving dinner I am thinking of having the gal at work clean the house with me. She can use the $$$ and I can use the help. She's a wonderful person and her company would be enjoyable. She is the one who married the guy fresh from prison. Needless to say it has been a tough road for her. She has an issue with gambling as well, as did he. He is back in the big house after having been stopped for DUI while parole jumping. It's the best thing that could have happened to her. She has quit one of three jobs and is in therapy for the gambling. This had to be so hard for her but it's such a good step. She deserves someone who would love her for her kind heart and caring nature. She and I could power through this house. I am picking up Thanksgiving night extra for OT so I will be one day short on my days off. I don't usually do this but it's too late to weasel out.

The allergies and asthma are terrible again, I suspect from the temp changes and the warm up. I'm happy for the nice weather and the meds are on the way. Today I'm making scalloped potatoes and ham so I'm searching recipes. Hope you all are having a nice day.

The day has gotten away from me and it's almost time for me to shower for work. I slept until 4:30 and P has been sleeping as well. He's still tired and I'm wondering if he is on the verge of getting sick. His asthma is kicking up and this is how it usually begins. I hope not but we shall see.

I'm really reinventing the holidays in my mind as I have decided its time for me. I was talking about it with my daughter who told me I'm a bitch over the holidays. I am a totally admit it and the reason is I'm left to cook clean and do everything for Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. There is not much jolly left in me with all the work. I know it's the delight of some to run around and wait on everyone making sure they have a great day while running themselves into exhaustion, but it's so not me. I've tried for years to carry on tradition being the only one left to do it and no more. I picked up a flyer from our local grocer and I'm going to order Thanksgiving dinner. It looks fabulous and by the time I purchase everything I need it would cost about the same. I can always whip up dessert as there is no dessert included. That part is easy. It's not that I'm not looking forward to it, it's more of a need to enjoy it for a change, instead of running about all frazzled.

There sure has been alot of drama on the blog in the last couple of days. Fortunately no one can drag my name into it this time.I am staying far away from it all as I have had enough to last me a lifetime and I have vowed not to let it in my life ever again. There are still pathetic attempts being made to bully some off the blog but it seems ignoring it is quite effective and things are improving.

I'm working on ideas for a November series of posts. I have some ideas. One of them is Thanksgiving, long thought to be a celebration tied somehow to America's independence. It is no such thing and, in fact, much of what is tied to it here is not true. The whole pilgrim thing is not really how it came to be. I'll post more on it later. Tomorrow I must fetch my turkey up from the crawl space, not the one to roast but the plug in. It's felt with fiberoptic trim on the feathers. Thanksgiving is so glossed over and it's long been one of my favorite days. No presents no stress, just dinner.

Now it's time to dry my hair, having started and stopped this post several times in the midst of other activities. Have a good night all.

Hi all. Catching up on blog and with all of you. Yesterday I was out and had food and a movie. P needed to get out for a diversion and so we saw "The Fourth Kind." It was well done for a movie like this and made me jump more than once. The "based on a true story" stuff was done in typical hoax style but if you like this kind of thing it was worth seeing. I had a piece of pumpkin pie while out, something I rarely order as I make it so often. Now I have to figure out how they make the pie the way they did so I can duplicate it. I didn't think I could find one better than mine but I was wrong. After our day it was back to work last night and a busy night it was. I was so irritable I half expected to get sick today but I'm find so I guess I was just a bunch of hormones. The restaurant where I had the pie was playing big band music and that was making me teary as my parents used to dance to it in the living room when I was growing up. What a day. This morning I got home and almost fell into bed sleeping with wild dreams until I woke up this afternoon.

It's October in November here, our Indian Summer arriving better late than never. The deck doors are open and the skies are blue. The pets are enjoying the warmth and the sunny days as we had so few last month. I'm knocking around ideas for Thanksgiving dinner as this is the first of my run of holiday dinners. I want to deviate a little from tradition but knowing me I'll end up making the same old thing. Perhaps I'll take some of my magazines to work tonight in case the puters go down for maintenance.

No more ghost busting going on at the moment. The only thing the video did was reinforce how much I need to cut back my eating. It also made us laugh hysterically while I grumbled about this and that. I will try it again soon and see if we come up with anything.

Afternoon/evening all. I've been reading a few blogs and catching up on the latest tag turmoil. Oddly it hasn't impacted me, perhaps because I have been contemplating the blogging world at large, wondering if I would remain at all, on any format. I've come round now and realized it was a turbulent full moon as well as other things affecting my ability to reason. I do need to find a quiet space one of these days as I get wonderful ideas and beautiful words, but faced with the interruptions of daily life, they are often lost. This was the case the other night. I had the words right there, exactly what I wanted to say, at least in one place. Minus my laptop for a bit and they vanished into the wind. Perhaps it is time for the hardcopy journal to be reinstated.

The geese are back, gliding across the pond making their noise and I realize the weather now is what we should have seen last month. The pets are restless, almost to the point of distraction, at least the dog. At least the moon and stars have been beautiful, so bright the wee hours of the night seem almost like predawn as it shines down over the house.

Last night we decided to be a bit ghost hunter like as we hooked up the video camera in my room. Of course this was AFTER the CD player had been doing it's thing and all the activity seemed a bit quiet. Oddly, we could not find the ac adapter for the camera until now. Isn't it odd how those things seem to happen. At any rate, I was up late and the camera kept signaling as it was pointed toward one side of the room. The pets were still and so was I. After a bit the disc ran out, I guess, and it beeped so I turned it off. Truth be told, it gave me just a bit of the creeps at 3am. Why did it have to be looking at the closet? My son ran some preliminary viewing and thought he saw something so I will look again at it later. Oddly my little humble laptop seems to do better at some things than his all powerful desktop. I may hook it up again tonight if I sit with the candles. I will say, the one time I tried that with friends, their video camera broke. I'm just saying...

It's back to the kitchen now, stuffed peppers with Spanish rice, roasted vegetables and a couple slices of ham for dinner, NOT all for me. They had a buy a ham get a turkey breast free. I had my $20 gift card so I got them both for $10, at least a $50 value. My kids are not big ham eaters but our Kevin and I like it, me in great moderation. I need to get some potatoes for scalloped potatoes and ham and give my brother an invite to dinner.

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Hello all. It's a quiet Wednesday, the sun peeking out on occasion and a clear night for the moon ahead. I feel asleep early last night, trashed from the weekend of asthma and work. The lungs are clearing and the knee is not stiff today but is tender. As would be expected it does not like the tile floor in the kitchen, the impact on the joint too strong. I suspect the ligament managed to get stuck between the bone this weekend and that's what caused the stiffness. Could be wrong but I remember alot about knees and torn ligaments. Thankfully it loosened or I'd be at the doctors and possibly on my way to a procedure. We nurses tend to look at the worst scenario rather quickly. My kids could testify to that.

I was up in the middle of the night for a bit, watching episodes of a show on You Tube and because I remembered the garbage had not gone out. It was full and so I got up and put it out, thinking I'd have the rest of my take away. Took the garbage out and came in to find the dog with her face shoved in the carton enjoying the leftovers. Couldn't really blame her as it was delicious. The moon was so bright I thought it was almost sunrise when in fact it was about 3 something. I hope to have a look at the moon again tonight. This has been a strong one filled with change.

The cardinals were out today the lovely pair seen out the kitchen window. I should get some feeders up before the snow flies. No problem this week as it looks like we will have October in November and our Indian Summer is about to return this weekend.

Talk about timing. I just cleaned up the decorations all over the yard, picked up the mail and the rain started to fall. It was a job I had asked someone else to do for 2 days but I saw rain clouds coming and felt I should get the things inside. My asthma is so so and to add to it, my bad knee has decided to flare for unknown reasons. I guess being the "bad knee" is enough. Oddly trudging around the yard seemed to help it a bit and that was encouraging. Yesterday it was stiff, totally so, and painful to walk on. I could not walk correctly and only since I've been out in the yard am I not walking sideways, for lack of a better description. As I limped about I saw surgery in my crystal ball and wondered if I'd signed up for the right insurance plan. Enrollment ends today I believe so I'm tossing around the two plans in my mind. Knee surgery would certainly wipe out my funds on the one plan and I'd be stuck with a huge deductible. Now I'm thinking way ahead of myself.

My health plan is better than some and I am fortunate. It is certainly not perfect but compared to some of the folks I talk to, I am lucky. I had tears in my eyes more than once talking to some of my callers this week. One woman switching to Medicare wondered how she would afford a medication she could not function without. Our system is a disgrace becoming more and more slanted towards those who have. The latest thing I heard about was MD VIP. Apparently many physicians are doing this. How it works is you pay up front, a yearly fee, to see these doctors. Then you get good care, the type everyone should get. A caller told me she couldn't afford the $6000 for her and her spouse and as a result her doctor of 15 years was cutting her off as of the 1st of the year, leaving her to find another provider. Apparently it's quite a growing movement and my disgust with it is beyond any words I can find. I do need to read up on it a bit more as hearsay is never a good way to judge something or someone.

Having some peanut butter toast and browsing blogs is the the big activity for the moment. Hope all of you are having a good day.

Good afternoon all. It's sunny and cool this afternoon with howling winds. The cat has just gone out on the deck and I fully expect to see him walking by at an angle as he attempts to reach the door. The wind just blows him all over and he hates it but it's quite comical.
Halloween was chaotic and I think P finally realizes you can do a big haunted house OR you can have a party not both. Unfortunately our street is very quite and we just don't get people down here. Most of the neighbors do nothing and I wish we have moved to a street with a bit more lively neighbors. My neighbors are nice, don't get me wrong, just not into much.

Yesterday I was exhausted and last night my asthma hit with a vengeance experienced only a handful of times in my life. I thought I would have to leave work to be treated but moved very slowly and drank some strong coffee(it helps). I was able to function but still very wheezy upon my return home. It is manageable at the moment but I'm sore. Felt like I'd been kicked in the chest and my muscles hurt. Whine whine whine.

The moon was beyond spectacular and seemed to show up this morning just as I sat lost in though. I turned and there it was huge and I mean huge, cloaked by just the slightest of clouds giving it a seasonal look. It seemed to smile in on me. I'm going to cut this post short as I am making typos every other word. My brain is short circuiting from the lack of oxygen. Hope everyone is having a good afternoon/evening.

Happy Birthday Blckbird!

The evening is underway and it is a bit quiet. The set up is done and while it looks brilliant I don't think we did it fast enough or had enough lighting. P is a bit down I think but I told him it takes time to perfect such things. He can sit with me under the moon tonight as well. One gal came with her boyfriend and cousins but they were on their way to better things I suspect and left before things really got started. It's funny how you can judge someone at first thinking you don't like a look they have about them. The dog proved me dead wrong, warming up to that very person the entire time he was here. It was far too frantic an afternoon trying to get it all done in a short time. I don't know how to get P to plan and start early. He is so terribly creative.

I am off until Midnight and then need to contact work to get the rest off. I tried earlier but the fellow I spoke with was clueless and told me they were looking for overtime. I asked him point blank, "overtime for the night shift on Saturday? when the computers go down for maintenance?" That would be a first. At any rate I will wait until intelligence is on the other end of the phone and then call.

Two of his friends are here, both girls, lovely girls one of whom I could easily see in his future. She is a match and they are best friends at the moment. We have been talking about hauntings and now they are all outside in the chilly night air.

On a completely different topic, my bedding arrived. I think I said that but I'm not sure. The dust ruffle had a bit of dirt on it so I washed and dried it as directed. The fabric appears to have melted in some way, stuck together, full of holes and distorted, at least the white part that goes over the mattress. It no longer fits, if it ever did and I'm about to go after the sellers on Ebay. Ya get what ya pay for eh?

I hope all of you are having a good night. I need to go and make sure my son's night is special for him as he loves this night more than any other.

1. Are you superstitious?

Not at all.

2. Are you attending or hosting a halloween party this year?

My son is having friends over so we are working on getting ready for that.

3. What's your favourite scary movie?

I'm not really a fan of such movies but I love the old classics.

4. Trick or Treat?

Treats are you kidding?

5. The best Halloween costume is...?

The best one I ever made was a red devil costume for my oldest son. It was made from red taffeta and had everything right down to the pointed tail.