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5/14/2009 Going down Memory Lane 1There for a while, I thought I would just eliminate my blog site. I had no new material, no inspiration and no motive. However I’ve found that when I get bored, I go back and reread some of my entries. Aside from the fact that some of it was entertaining, I’ve restored some small memories that I lost over the past 3 years. So I decided that I should keep it up and running.
I don’t know if Alzheimer’s is genetic, but I’ve had a few people in my family suffer from some sort of dementia, so I’m going to need all the help I can get.
Do you find that the further computers come, the more problems they have? Maybe it’s just me.
I’ve put up new pictures of Jack and Kate. I don’t have new pictures of The Princess or Annah to show you. Their mother uses shutterfly.com, and for me to copy the pictures to transfer to spaces costs money. I just hate signing up for another app just to show you pics of my granddaughters. So my daughter has taken pity on me, she’s going to set me up herself. Just you wait.
Annah is still my day job. I watch her 3 days a week. I love it most of the time. I leave to go to my daughter’s house (I live outside of town and am way out of the way) at 6:45AM. That’s the part I don’t like. I am so not a morning person. Maybe not even a midday person!
I’ve been having a swallowing problem and so I went and got barium x-rays on Tuesday. I wound up spending
almost the whole day in the radiology dept. Somebody, whether it was my doctor or the radiology dept. or whoever, wanted to be present when they were being taken. And she took FOREVER to show up!!
If you’ve never had this particular x-ray before (or lately), just know that barium tastes like chalk, OLD chalk. And it’s nasty.
This procedure is cool in someways and horrible in others.
The x-ray is in real time. So it’s sort of like science fiction. You can see yourself on the fluoroscope ( is that word still relevant?) and can see all kind of movements. When you talk, your jaw moves. And when you move your head…well, it’s cool.
However….for them to watch how you swallow, you have to eat various foods bathed in the thick, evil barium.
It began with lemon pudding mixed with the barium mixture. Ok, yeah, I can do this.
Then swallow some sort of thick, evil barium liquid cr@p.
Eat some powdered, scrambled eggs mixed with a white sauce. Yep, barium cream cr@p. Gettin' tough.
Swallow some more liquid cr@p.Not bad.
Now some link sausages coated in a consistency of horrendous, thick, evil, white, major CR@P.
I've cooked worse.
-The ultimate…½ sandwich (no crust thank you, Lord) filled with a concoction so vile that I begged for the barium liquid cr@p just to clear my throat!
"No more", I cried!
As it turns out, I have a unique swallowing pattern. The food and liquids go into my airway then bounce back out and go down the esophagus. Don’t know if there’s a cure. The radiologist told me that in her 36 year history of doing x-rays, she’d never seen this before.
I knew I was special!
I told you that one of my inside kitties had babies, right? And she’s so young! I never saw her go into heat. What a mess.
Now, one of my wild outside cats is looking pretty fat. If I could just catch them! In order to do that, I have to go outside, sit on the grass and wait. Sooner or later, the kittens will come and investigate and I can start petting them and get them tame. Eventually, I will be able to cart them off to the Humane Society.
I seem to have a “Welcome All Strays” sign on my house. My fault. I leave food out for my own cats and the wild ones show up and move into the shop. I feed them and water them, but they just don’t listen to me.
I refer to my (actually Hubby’s) garage/shed as a shop. There is all kind of stuff in there. He welds, builds things and generally putters around. I know it's the alternative to me. It's got many tools, antique furniture, various collections, family keepsakes; you name it.
During bad weather, we park the pick-up in there. It’s a tight fit.
We built it ourselves.
I do mean 'we'. It took about 2 weeks and of course he had to work for 10 of those 14 days. It's metal and wood. I got to learn how to weld when we were building it. And we poured the concrete floor.
I think the worst part was laying down the dirt to level out the floor. I hated that part. It’s hard work. You buy fill dirt by the yard. I was in charge of ordering dirt. I had no idea as to how much I needed. You buy fill dirt by the yard. Just how much is a 'yard'? I think I wound up calling them at least 6 times and bought around 6 yards. I just know that every day I was callin' them back telling them to bring more.
Of course the dirt was piled up in the middle of it all and we had to level it with shovels. I even rigged up our riding lawn mower with a railroad tie to help flatten it out. My sister and her son (who wants to be in the construction business) came out and helped. He loved it. He was about 10.
Next time, I’m gonna pay someone to do that.
Didn’t mean for this entry to be so long. And mundane. Guess I just needed to get those memories out there.
On a side note, first of all, let me say that I LOVE comedy. My Sirius radio is set to the Blue Collar Comedy Tour (I do have to overlook the language) and Comedy USA setting. I can’t listen to RAWDOG, it’s too graphic. And Jamie Foxx is way out of bounds. ‘Specially after the Miley thing.
Anyway…I love comedy. old timers like Jerry Clower, motivational speakers like Jeanne Roberson and Pat Hurley, and the rough ones like Ron White and Larry the Cable guy (overlooking it!). Just love Jeff Foxworthy and Bill Engvall….
But I just don’t get Dane Cook. The hottest rising stand up comedian in Hollywood.
He just seems silly to me. Very goodlooking, too. Maybe he’s too much all over the place for me, but that’s so me. I’m all over the place, too. What am I missing? Am I just old?
FYI…some baby swings allow the baby to flip over and hang upside down. If you use one, please keep an eye on it and make sure that the babies are tightly secured. That happened to Annah yesterday and took 2 years off of my life. Don’t let this happen to you or your babies!
Ok, my insomnia period may have passed. It’ nearly 3:00AM and I need to get up at 6:00AM, so I will sign off for now. Till next…
Xoxo Dana 5/12/2009 Wow...I may not be a guy, but I can still relate~
Toilet snake attack: urban legend comes true?
Mon May 11, 4:56 pm ET
TAIPEI (Reuters) – A Taiwanese man became a sitting target for a snake, which bit his penis as sat on the toilet at his rural home, local media reported on Monday. "As soon as he sat down, he suddenly felt a knife-like pain and reacted instinctively by standing up," the China Times said. "When he looked down, he saw the big snake." The 51-year-old man, from Nantou County, was under medical care with minor injuries, a director at Puli Christian Hospital said. Wow.
5/9/2009 On a Saturday~I’ve been neglecting my blog family! Gotta get back to doing this.
There is nothing as good as a glass of ice cold water, early in the morning, during a mini-heat wave is there? I woke up at 3:45 am today, just dying of thirst. I am planning on going back to bed, sleeping in till about ?:00 if I can. I love being me!
Gosh, I love the lazy life. Although my house is a mess, but I do love being lazy!
The one thing I didn’t buy in my recent kitchen redo is a new refrigerator. Mine works fine, but has a non-working ice maker. A few months ago I bought a counter top ice maker. I love it. No leaks, no filters on the hoses…it’s great. I have nearly everything a 21st century woman could want. Except a man-maid.
Have you seen that commercial, it's about some weight loss pill? Xenadrine or something? One of the paid participants ends up her testimony by holding her left hand up and states, "I'm gettin' married."
That is SO Texas. It's a "Look at me" thing. It's hilarious!
OK, I'm getting new countertops. so "Look at me"
Love it!
Grandbaby updates:
Grace…(The Princess) (in the FIRST grade) has decided to start practicing her cursive writing. I didn’t learn that until….maybe 4th grade? And I sucked at it. I still do. She’s going to go far. Her lowest grade on her last report card was a 93. I know that First Grade is easy…but not to a regular 6-7 year old.
Jack….by the time I see him next, he will have no idea who I am. What a little man. I can’t wait until I meet him again. Boy, I miss him.
Kate….She is so cute. I can only hear her in the background for the time being, but again…I can’t wait. And yes, I miss her much, too.
Being away from Jack and Kate makes my heart ache.
Annah…She’s my day job. You do know that I don’t mean J-O-B, don’t you? She turns 6 months old next week and is growing like a weed. 18 ½ pounds.
I miss Jack and Kate so much. Now I hear that their dad may decide to make the Navy a retirement destination. What, 7/8 more years? I’m torn between watching Annah and Grace, or flying out every few weeks to visit Jack and Kate.
My daughter has decided to practice dentistry in Georgia. A Florida license costs a fortune and Georgia validates a Virginia license. I was hoping they would be moving to Texas within the next year, but we’ll see.
Moving on…
On my Face Book page, I mentioned that I have 4 new kittens. I had a critter carrier in my living room awaiting disposition when the Mama decided to park her katookis in it, and she proceeded to have her babies in the carrier. Lola checks in every few hours to make sure the Mama is doing it right.. Like she knows.
Speaking of Lola, she is one fat, lazy German Shepherd. She’s the Kirstie Alley of dogs. Beautiful, but too large. 95 pounds. (I know! Gotta get her on the South Bitch diet! {OK, I couldn't resist!}) I’ve mentioned it before, but I’ve never had a nosier dog. Whatever you’re doing, she’s right there with her big nose making sure you are doing it right.
It is now officially Tornado season in Texas. Hot, humid weather with a threat (or reality) of rain, thunder, lightning, hail and tornados every day. This will continue for a while. Up until mid June or until the weather gets to and stays in the 100s.
On the end note, today...This Saturday...May 9th...we're going to go buy some containers and (ta -da) actually de-clutter the house the way home organizers say you're supposed to do it. Amen.
De-cluttter, de-stress and dis-pose. I can only hope.
Tomorrow for me (Happy Mother's Day to all!!) includes a chinese restaurant. It's a good one, it's my son-in-law's favorite. I guess I'll be doing an "ok by him thing". I think we have a good relationship. i"m sorry that my other son-in-law doesn't know me this well.
Well, I guess I’ve wasted enough of a Saturday morning for you
…actually...well, not for me…there’s still a nap looming in my future!
Be nice, spay or neuter your animals and have a GREAT Mother’s Day!! Xoxo
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