Long Time No See or Write
Yes it has been a long time since I wrote anything on my blog but that is because I have been busy. Busy you say? Who me? Not really but it is hard to write when you are down in the dumps and who wants to read about that anyway. So anyway here is what has been happening in my life.
Bonnie and Clyde and Cuddles came to live with us while Jason and Andrea lived in a motel in St. Louis waiting to close on their new home. Time line---Spent Xmas at Springfield, December 30 they closed on the sale of their home in Springfield; weekend of New Years we traveled to Sandras to spend a Happy New Year with her because I stress we were invited, although this turned out to be the worst New Years I have ever had because we were made to feel totally unwelcome to be there (not by my sister) but her family. I now know without MamaO around we are not welcome there. After the New Years disaster, we brought Bonnie, Clyde, and Cuddles back to Michigan. Jon took Freckles and Boo-Boo home with him, leaving me with Hercules, Rocky and Poochie and the three elephants.
I posted pics of the elephants so Andrea and Jason could see what they were up to until I found out their lap-top was broken, so I stopped even doing that. I had to make a trip to Carbondale in January to help Jessica through knee surgery. She ran into a piece of stereo furniture and cracked her knee cap and tore a ligament. Also, Jason and Andrea met me in Carbondale to take charge of Cuddles. The Wednesday before I left on my trip on Sunday, Cuddles stopped eating hard dog food, her mouth was bothering her so I bought her canned food. She was able to eat two cans of that, but her appetite for food and life were leaving her. That Friday I watched as she had a seizure. That Saturday her stool became black and tarry. By Sunday on the trip she didn't want to be touched and she had been gnashing her teeth the whole time she had been with us. On the trip, I told her to just hang on so Andrea and Jason could see her one last time. After Jason and Andrea picked her up they had to face the hardest and most selfless decision they have ever had to make so far in their lives. Cuddles no longer is in pain. She has moved on to the next plain in her cycle of life. She now can chase all the "shinys" without breaking anything or stepping on anyone. I know the day that Hercules locked Andrea out of the truck at the gas station and she had to squeeze through the back window to get inside, Cuddles had that silly little grin on her face laughing at her mom and Herc. Andrea and Jason and Gary and I miss her terribly. She was a joy and a pain, but always loved.
After Jessica got back on her feet, Hercules and I went to St. Louis to see Jason and Andrea. Hercules decided he needed to stay with his original mom and dad to help them through their grief some. Hercules got to spend two weeks in the luxury of a motel, going everywhere everyday with Andrea. He was in heaven to be the "top" dog. He blew his diet off though. They fed him all kinds of people food and I'm sure he loved it!
Oh and by the way, Happy Birthday to me. January 31 I turned 53. February 1, I took Bonnie and Clyde to their new home in St. Louis. Boy was that a trip! Bonnie rode shot-gun the whole way. She kept having nightmares and I kept having to wake her gently because I was afraid I would lose an ear too. While she was at the house, Poochie jumped up on the bed while Bonnie was sleeping and scared her. Bonnie jumps quick as lightening and chomps half of Poochies ear off. Poochie just sat and cried, because she didn't know what had just happened. Bonnie just layed back down and went to sleep. Bonnie should be renamed Mike Tyson. Clyde spent the entire time going from one side of the SUV to the other. Never eat in a car around Clyde. I almost lost a finger over a french fry! I now know why I am not the owner of a big dog. I can't handle them. They are overpowering.
I was just going to run the dogs home spend one day and then come back, but I stayed a week and its a good thing I did because I got sick the second day of my visit. I picked up a virus. Jon brought my dogs to St. Louis this last weekend and Gary drove down from Michigan and Jessica came too. Jason and Andrea had a house full and we are all thankful to have been able to see them and their new house.
Jon was a little down this trip. Not sure why exactly, because he doesn't open up to me about his life. He holds everything in. I can only hope he's able to talk to someone. Just know that I love you Jon and if you ever want someone to talk to I'll try to just listen and not talk. I know he has been working on some big projects lately that are due shortly and he's been putting in a tremendous amount of overtime, so hopefully he is just worn out from that. He said he is creating and drawing more now. I know this has always been what interested him more at least I think I know-not totally sure because he doesn't open up much to me. He is great at creating and drawing that I do know and he has always been. Must be the time of the year, Jason and Gary are pulling down the overtime too.
Andrea is becoming a "work widow". Jason is working long hours and is finishing up his first project with Midcoast (he has been there a little over two months). While we were there he got a promotion to Program Manager and another raise. Garrett may have sucked but he learned a great deal while he was there! Congratulations Jason.!! But note, your work is not who you are. You have a life to live too. Right now you need to prove yourself in your new job, but when that pressure is off remember you have a life outside your job.
Jessica is limping around and still in re-hab but she is getting there. Ruff semester for her, but she has to expect it, accept it, due to her injury, but know that things will get better with the knee and if she has to take something again it won't be the end of the world. She's enjoying cutting up dead people though---yuck! It's her Chemistry that's got her struggling. Wish Uncle Win could help.
Well, folks, that's all there is. No squirrels to report on. Clyde pretty much scared them off. Ducks are currently wading around in 12 inches of snow looking for food. Haven't seen the possum since Clyde came here either. Watched all season one of Desperate Housewifes-recommend it, Sopranos one and two season, and Deadwood season one, HBO's Rome season one, and The Wire, season one and two, and Empire Falls by HBO. Recommend all these. Thank goodness for Netflix. It is helping me survive as a snow shut in. Also saw "Unchained Memories", a HBO documentary. It was created from the Library of Congress and the last of the living slaves recollections in 1930. Great documentary. Makes you wonder if we were made in Gods image is God capable of such atrosities as men are to other men? I suppose the Christian would explain mans evilness as the devils influence--but aren't we suppose to be from God's image?
Finishing up on Steven Kings Dark Tower series--wouldn't recommend any past the second book to anyone, just feel compelled to finish what I started. Reading Oprah's book Night. Read Million Little Pieces in December but felt there was something missing or not true and guess what my gut instinct was right. Felt angry after reading it. As a "food addict", I knew it didn't ring true. If that's all it takes is to decide the addition is over with, I would have been there many, many, years ago. Actually reading 4 books at once right now a mystery if you call Stepahnie Plum mystery (more humor than mystery), and Dean Koontz (my horror hero) book to add to Kings and Oprahs. Between reading, tv and dogs my days are full. My own little world, basically void of people. I have found it's the easiest and safest way to function in life.
Happy Valentines Day to everyone that bothers to read this.
Bonnie and Clyde and Cuddles came to live with us while Jason and Andrea lived in a motel in St. Louis waiting to close on their new home. Time line---Spent Xmas at Springfield, December 30 they closed on the sale of their home in Springfield; weekend of New Years we traveled to Sandras to spend a Happy New Year with her because I stress we were invited, although this turned out to be the worst New Years I have ever had because we were made to feel totally unwelcome to be there (not by my sister) but her family. I now know without MamaO around we are not welcome there. After the New Years disaster, we brought Bonnie, Clyde, and Cuddles back to Michigan. Jon took Freckles and Boo-Boo home with him, leaving me with Hercules, Rocky and Poochie and the three elephants.
I posted pics of the elephants so Andrea and Jason could see what they were up to until I found out their lap-top was broken, so I stopped even doing that. I had to make a trip to Carbondale in January to help Jessica through knee surgery. She ran into a piece of stereo furniture and cracked her knee cap and tore a ligament. Also, Jason and Andrea met me in Carbondale to take charge of Cuddles. The Wednesday before I left on my trip on Sunday, Cuddles stopped eating hard dog food, her mouth was bothering her so I bought her canned food. She was able to eat two cans of that, but her appetite for food and life were leaving her. That Friday I watched as she had a seizure. That Saturday her stool became black and tarry. By Sunday on the trip she didn't want to be touched and she had been gnashing her teeth the whole time she had been with us. On the trip, I told her to just hang on so Andrea and Jason could see her one last time. After Jason and Andrea picked her up they had to face the hardest and most selfless decision they have ever had to make so far in their lives. Cuddles no longer is in pain. She has moved on to the next plain in her cycle of life. She now can chase all the "shinys" without breaking anything or stepping on anyone. I know the day that Hercules locked Andrea out of the truck at the gas station and she had to squeeze through the back window to get inside, Cuddles had that silly little grin on her face laughing at her mom and Herc. Andrea and Jason and Gary and I miss her terribly. She was a joy and a pain, but always loved.
After Jessica got back on her feet, Hercules and I went to St. Louis to see Jason and Andrea. Hercules decided he needed to stay with his original mom and dad to help them through their grief some. Hercules got to spend two weeks in the luxury of a motel, going everywhere everyday with Andrea. He was in heaven to be the "top" dog. He blew his diet off though. They fed him all kinds of people food and I'm sure he loved it!
Oh and by the way, Happy Birthday to me. January 31 I turned 53. February 1, I took Bonnie and Clyde to their new home in St. Louis. Boy was that a trip! Bonnie rode shot-gun the whole way. She kept having nightmares and I kept having to wake her gently because I was afraid I would lose an ear too. While she was at the house, Poochie jumped up on the bed while Bonnie was sleeping and scared her. Bonnie jumps quick as lightening and chomps half of Poochies ear off. Poochie just sat and cried, because she didn't know what had just happened. Bonnie just layed back down and went to sleep. Bonnie should be renamed Mike Tyson. Clyde spent the entire time going from one side of the SUV to the other. Never eat in a car around Clyde. I almost lost a finger over a french fry! I now know why I am not the owner of a big dog. I can't handle them. They are overpowering.
I was just going to run the dogs home spend one day and then come back, but I stayed a week and its a good thing I did because I got sick the second day of my visit. I picked up a virus. Jon brought my dogs to St. Louis this last weekend and Gary drove down from Michigan and Jessica came too. Jason and Andrea had a house full and we are all thankful to have been able to see them and their new house.
Jon was a little down this trip. Not sure why exactly, because he doesn't open up to me about his life. He holds everything in. I can only hope he's able to talk to someone. Just know that I love you Jon and if you ever want someone to talk to I'll try to just listen and not talk. I know he has been working on some big projects lately that are due shortly and he's been putting in a tremendous amount of overtime, so hopefully he is just worn out from that. He said he is creating and drawing more now. I know this has always been what interested him more at least I think I know-not totally sure because he doesn't open up much to me. He is great at creating and drawing that I do know and he has always been. Must be the time of the year, Jason and Gary are pulling down the overtime too.
Andrea is becoming a "work widow". Jason is working long hours and is finishing up his first project with Midcoast (he has been there a little over two months). While we were there he got a promotion to Program Manager and another raise. Garrett may have sucked but he learned a great deal while he was there! Congratulations Jason.!! But note, your work is not who you are. You have a life to live too. Right now you need to prove yourself in your new job, but when that pressure is off remember you have a life outside your job.
Jessica is limping around and still in re-hab but she is getting there. Ruff semester for her, but she has to expect it, accept it, due to her injury, but know that things will get better with the knee and if she has to take something again it won't be the end of the world. She's enjoying cutting up dead people though---yuck! It's her Chemistry that's got her struggling. Wish Uncle Win could help.
Well, folks, that's all there is. No squirrels to report on. Clyde pretty much scared them off. Ducks are currently wading around in 12 inches of snow looking for food. Haven't seen the possum since Clyde came here either. Watched all season one of Desperate Housewifes-recommend it, Sopranos one and two season, and Deadwood season one, HBO's Rome season one, and The Wire, season one and two, and Empire Falls by HBO. Recommend all these. Thank goodness for Netflix. It is helping me survive as a snow shut in. Also saw "Unchained Memories", a HBO documentary. It was created from the Library of Congress and the last of the living slaves recollections in 1930. Great documentary. Makes you wonder if we were made in Gods image is God capable of such atrosities as men are to other men? I suppose the Christian would explain mans evilness as the devils influence--but aren't we suppose to be from God's image?
Finishing up on Steven Kings Dark Tower series--wouldn't recommend any past the second book to anyone, just feel compelled to finish what I started. Reading Oprah's book Night. Read Million Little Pieces in December but felt there was something missing or not true and guess what my gut instinct was right. Felt angry after reading it. As a "food addict", I knew it didn't ring true. If that's all it takes is to decide the addition is over with, I would have been there many, many, years ago. Actually reading 4 books at once right now a mystery if you call Stepahnie Plum mystery (more humor than mystery), and Dean Koontz (my horror hero) book to add to Kings and Oprahs. Between reading, tv and dogs my days are full. My own little world, basically void of people. I have found it's the easiest and safest way to function in life.
Happy Valentines Day to everyone that bothers to read this.
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