TGIF to me!

 Today is my Friday....at work at least.

StepDad is having a procedure this afternoon to determine what to do about his heart and the discomfort he experiences.  They are thinking defibulator or pacemaker.  Geeesh, hasn't he had enough of surgery?  He's feeling down lately, says they've just sent him home to die.  Since he is limited in what he can do physically anymore, he doesn't feel "worth" anything.  Poor pitiful me syndrome.

Mom keeps reassuring him that he still has a lot to offer.  He has wisdom and knowledge to share.  He can also ENJOY life instead of working himself to death.  But that's not what he's used to....he is normally a busy man, always has a project going.  Feeding his animals or mowing the fields or cleaning up the yard, doesn't matter, he just wants to be busy.

 

 I did a stuppie thing this morning.  I was tossing the last bite of a granola bar out my window and rolled the window up on my finger     ---   again!   Geeeesh.

Not too bad though....just one of those moments when you say Stoooooooooooopie!

I'm sill coughing like a mad person......it comes in spells.  When I do alot of moving around I get in a coughing fit.  Cough...pee...poot!  I'm a hoot!

 We're off this weekend to another dance competition.  It's about a 3.5 hour drive up and Miss T's solo dance is at 7pm.  That means I have to pick her up at from her field trip in town on Friday at 1:30pm and head on up.  Grab a meal on the way up; check in and get to the auditorium and get ready.

She has 3 group dances on Saturday and we have to be back around 9:30am to get ready for those.  Luckily awards are at 4pm and we're DONE dancing. 

Dinner and pool time!  We're staying at a different hotel than was suggested (the suggested one didn't have a pool).  I imagine I'll have several kids begging to come over to swim.

 

I wanted to go to the Hurricane's game   on Sunday on the way home.  But I'm coughing so much that I may not enjoy it.  They're on a great winning streak and are #1 in their division.  I know Miss T would LOVE to go. 

Hmmmmmm should I?????

Hubby reminded me that it's St Patty's weekend so don't forget to pack the green! 

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Pics and Jinxed, again.

 

I am going to stop reporting Tom's "great" status for everytime I do, he slips a bit.

Like last night....I'm at dance with Miss T cause he needed a break, being sick and all.

Yet it didn't stop him from having a few and not coming in until 1:30am.

Sooooooo  No more Tommy praises.

 

Today is a beautiful, clear blue sky day.  I stole out of the office for a couple of hours to take some pics of houses that my boss has built in the past oh 20 years....some we didn't have at the office.  The sun wasn't at the best angle and our grass hasn't greened up just yet.

I was hoping to go out this afternoon and catch some better shots.  One of the shots is of a house under construction (a 3 story job) and one even has it's own bridge to get to it (a green house).  Yes, we had to build the bridge first!!

All of these homes are well over 3000 sq ft.  Some on the Intracoastal, some on lakes/ponds and some on golf courses.  All of these are in the same neighborhood.

Maybe I'll "green" the grass in my Adobe, when I ever get the time.

I am expecting more pics from the guys in the field....some night shots with the houses all lit up and glowing!

Marching On

**** a PS at the top of this entry!!  As soon as I had hit "save" the HVAC people called and said my compressor was still under warranty!! YAY!!!  BUT.....all the other parts to go with this repair will cost $1030.  That is awesome....could have been worse...I was thinking upwards of $3000.  Whew!  Now I can breathe a bit better knowing I WILL have A/C for this awful NC summertime heat!! ..end of PS****

Now on to the original entry:

I gotta tell ya.......Tom has been a dear.  I've been sick and he's been good to me.  Except for the one incident last week of leaving Tara at dance while he plundered through the mall.........

He's been even tempered, not quick to jump to conclusions.

He even went to church yesterday too!

Friday POURED rain ... I mean POURED!  I didn't even leave the house until later in the evening.  I had planned to come into work for a couple of hours and get a head start on Monday's bills, but NO way was I going out in the monsoon!

We had dinner at the Macaronni Grill....Miss T and I shared the Lasagne and brought enough home for lunch too.  She is looking for a specific brown color and specific shoe...and is hard to fit with her narrow foot.  We're exhausting all shoe stores lately.

Just try to keep her out of Limited Too!  We did manage to go in and out without buying anything.

Saturday Miss T had solo practice and the teacher said it was the first time this year that she'd seen her actually put the emotion into the practice....YAY! 

It was a beautiful day.  I was able to get outside briefly and take some pictures of my pear tree that is in full bloom.  Can't remember what kind it is....it's the hard pear....it has pear babies but not yet been big enough for eating.  Maybe this year.

 

Temps so far this weekend held near 60.....and bright sunshine.  With a tad of wind we still had to wear a jacket.

Saturday night while T was at a sleepover, Mr Man and I went out to dinner.  We went to a local place with food and live music.  The band was great - playing oldies, the real oldies of the 60's & 70's.  We were going to a movie, but decided on staying to hear the band instead. 

I was still having coughing fits and being in this smokey restaurant/bar didn't help.  Home by 11pm ..... I just wish I wasn't still so sick.

Cough, pee, poot!  That's how it is.

Sunday Tom took me to the Pottery and we looked at some wrought iron chairs for the front porch....I may have him go back and get them.....$65 for 2 chairs not a bad deal.  The matching table was only $21!!

BUT.........as the day went on, he began to feel the ire of a cold coming on.  Yep, Mr "I never get sick" is getting sick.  The family that shares together............Poor guy!  I hate it for him.  First Miss T, me now him.

NOW I wake up on this Monday to FROST!  Frost I tell ya!  34 degrees and the high only to about 60.  Geeesh

 

Can you see the frost on these shells that were sitting on my porch??

Did someone forget to inform Mother Nature AND Jack Frost that EASTER IS COMING SOON??? AND Spring is only 19 days away.  There's alot of blooms yet to happen.

You know the pine trees always get the "golden crosses" on top and the Dogwoods need to be blooming by Easter Sunday - that's the rule!!!

We may make it in time.  Guess that's why we had all that rain.

Have a great week y'all!!

Anniversary Time!

 

It's hard to believe.

Time flies when you're having fun.

Getting to know each of you has been a very special pleasure.

 

Here's to more good times!

 

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Jinxed it & sick!

I was finally getting over that nasty cold I had last week...no more snotz, sniffles or hacking cough.

Until last night.  Just before bedtime I noticed my throat getting scratchy.

Today....full blown allergy attack of the throat, sinus running and I sound like a man!

Tharyngitis the Doc will call it.

I know why........Sunday we were down at Wrightsville Beach looking at the boats for sale, in the wind. 

I even said "I shouldn't be out here in this wind so soon after my cold" but did I listen to me?

 

Even the pelican thought so too!  He has this look about him like he's pissed off!

So today I'm lunching on Salsa and chips just for the salt and vinegar to "kill" whatever is going on in my throat. 

Monday was a warm 70 degrees here....and today 77.  Yesterday I spent the day "praising" Tom for his great attitude since our big talk on 2/22.  Mom wasn't aware of his "change"; neither was my friend DJ, who came into the office with 3 sales contracts; neither did my pal Dick.  So I sang praises........

.................

........and jinxed it.

The norm is that Tom takes Miss T to dance.  Dance on Monday is 6-7:45pm....she calls me at 8:05 and says "Tom's not here....he said he's at the mall and is on his way"....OK.  At 8:10 I call him & he says "I'm at the mall, I'm on my way"....the mall is 5 minutes away.

At 8:40 Miss T calls back "he's still not here" so I said OK I'm coming to get you.....from home....20 mins away.  I called one of the dance mom's to be sure she'd be there till I got there.  I was there by 9pm....stayed and talked a bit.  At 9:10 I call Tom and he says "I'm almost to her" and low and behold he's behind me as we're leaving.

Needless to say I was NOT HAPPY.  She had not had any dinner; she was about to panic -- after all, he said he was coming an hour ago....on a school night!

She wanted KFC....he followed us there.  I gave him hell over the phone.  WHY?  Why didn't he follow through?

He claims he just lost track of time "looking" in the mall.

While at KFC I asked him for some cash....he began looking in all pockets, then panic came over him and he couldn't find any.  I said "oh? lose it out the window?"  And he said that must have been what happened as he pulled his cigarettes out of his shirt pocket --- the money came out too.

I don't buy it.

He swears by it.

Why tell Miss T & me you're on the way........if you KNOW you're not?  I should have kept him on the phone and waited while he walked outside and got in the truck and cranked up.

But I shouldn't have to.

Oh she gave him a fit.

Strike ONE .... in the bottom of the 9th.

After 10 days of possitive.

He hasn't read any of his book since oh maybe Thursday.  Said he was taking a break.  Well, obviously the reading material was keeping him focused on GOOD behavior. 

Still keeping one eye open........

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Pay It Forward

Robin Tales of a Trailer Park Princess! is challenging us to a game she found in another blog:

Pay-it-forward challenge

A few days ago I saw the Pay-It-Forward Challenge on another blog and thought it sounded like fun.  I took the challenge.

Here are the rules!

1.~Leave a comment on my blog that says you want to play. First three folks to comment will get a gift from ME. (If I don't know it already, let me know how I can contact you, an e-mail is fine.

2.~Do the same thing on your blog! The first three folks who leave a comment and commit to doing this on their blog, too, will get a surprise from YOU at a surprise time in the next 365 days!

Sounds like fun to me! (Only thing is, I'm not sure how long I can wait to send you a surprise, so it probably won't be anywhere near a year.)

A Stand Up Guy

Many moons ago when Miss T was a wee little one, oh between 3yrs and 7 yrs, she was full of questions.....

One of her favorite's being "Why?" about everything you told her.

But her best one was "What do you and Tommy do when you go to bed?" and my favorite answer was

"Tell jokes!"

She bit and hung on to that one....and played along.  We'd tell "knock knock" jokes and she'd laugh and we'd laugh about it later on.

So tonight she was a bit freaked out and crawled in bed with me about 11pm ......after oh, 30 minutes or so, I said to Tom "let's tell jokes" (which has a hidden meaning to it).

One particular joke I will tell her is "What do you call a chicken crossing the road?"........she never knows the answer.

"Poultry In Motion!" and I just laugh at myself.  Of course, she doesn't get it.

So tonight she ANSWERS me! "Poultry In Motion" and says "I still don't get it!".

About 2am Tom wakes me........."badda bing" and we're laying there laughing, and I said "Let's tell jokes" (hidden meaning) and he comes right back with...........

...........My Stand Up Is Done for the night!!!!!!

ROFLMAOPIMP!!!!!!!!!!!!

I said "so, you're telling me that your stand up has SAT DOWN for the remainder of the evening!"

Laughter.....snicker....."still got it at my age" .... High 5's....

and I said.......

I gotta go BLOG!

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