Wednesday, September 5, 2007

FYIF--Abron

Just when I think I'm the only one on a roller coaster ride.......

Miss Abron Kelly is back at Duke....they performed a biopsy on her kidney on Tuesday and are awaiting results to see if the anti-rejection medicine is working properly.  Last Friday she was rushed back to Duke because of the lab results that were done here in Wilmington.

http://www.caringbridge.org/nc/abronkelly/index.htm

Lots of prayers needed for her and the Kelly family.  It is so sad to know that this special little girl has to go through so much.

Current Conditions
Fair
Temperature: 86°F 30°C
Conditions: Fair
Winds: VAR 5 MPH VAR 8 KPH
Relative Humidity: 46%
Barometer: 30.08 Steady
Visibility: 10.00 Miles 16.09 Kilometers
Feels Like: 87°F

 

Daydreaming on Hump Day

He's only a figment of my imagination......................

Not quite my type but he'll do in a pinch!

Tuesday, September 4, 2007

My New Diet

                     

Chocolate Calories 

A good piece of chocolate has about 200 calories. As I enjoy
two servings per night, and a few more on weekends, I
consume 3,500 calories of chocolate in a week, which equals
one pound of weight per week.

Therefore...

In the last 3 1/2 years, I have had a chocolate caloric
intake of about 180 pounds. I weigh only 165 pounds, so
without chocolate, I would have wasted away to nothing about
three months ago!

I owe my life to chocolate.  

                   

Seeeeee?  Told you it was good for you!

 

               

Miss T made brownies yesterday.....I love brownies, but I've stayed away from them.  As a matter of fact, I am going to go back to using Chitosan and White Kidney Bean to help with my so called "diet".

Tom's friends came over on Sunday.  I decided to stick around to "babysit" the drinking.  His NY friend is one wierd, obnoxious fellow, but of course I new that.  At one point during dinner he began to choke on a piece of meat....he got it spit out into a napkin after a slap on the back.  Get this.........he ate it out of that napkin.

Now, I get that it is not a regurgitated kinda thing, but YUK, ya still don't eat it!  Reminded me of a dog after he......well, you get my drift.

Anyway, be very proud of Tom.....he had 2 glasses of wine AND ate dinner and he wasn't stuuuuuuuuuuuupid.  He should NOT have consumed ANY, but....... baby steps are good.

OK, enough gross stuff.

I did not do anything special for the long holiday weekend. 

Saturday Miss T had solo practice - she's doing a modern lyrical to "Hallelujah" from Shrek.....then we went to the Mall to look for pants for her skinny self.  Tough job!  She's so tall and thin it's hard to fit her.  We ended up finding a couple at Limited Too! and they were having a sale....the ONLY way to shop there.

Dinner was at TGIF.  Love the Jack Daniel's sauce!  I get the Chicken and Shrimp.  Tom had fajita's and Miss T ordered the Tostada Nachos and a salad.

Roomie was not feeling well at all....her heart.  She has congestive heart failure and she has been experiencing crazy blood pressure.....her BF needs to get his act together and come through with the insurance info and $$$$$$.

Monday I took Miss T to Halmark to buy a Webkinz and I got her one for her birthday.  That will make 5 of them.  Tom worked.  Had a lady (waitress) faint at work...so he stuck around till the ambulance etc were able to assess her situation.  Must have been heat exhaustion.

Well, that's all I have for now..........

 


Saturday, September 1, 2007

September already!????

                

I can hardly believe it!  Where did my summer go?

I'm so disappointed in myself that I did NOT spend my summer on the beach or having any other kind of fun.  Summer '07 has been weird - not one that I'd like to do again.

Cindilouwho's wedding dramas.

Roomie's displacement.

Tommydrama.......the saga continues.

Lazy.........

Mostly meloncholy......no desire to do anything.

 The pool temperature this morning is 76 degrees....we've had a couple of cool (68) evenings that helped drop it down from the 80's.  I've contemplated getting a solar cover or the solar pads for the late summertime enjoyment...we have lots of nice days even through October that I could still enjoy the pool on the weekends.

So far Miss T has enjoyed her first week of school.....I so hope that continues.

Tom has a friend visiting from NY....he was here at the house yesterday afternoon.  Mr Man and I had scheduled a "date"......ready to leave the house by 5:30pm I said......

.........but he left at 5pm to take the friend to the other friend's house and didn't come back till  almost 6pm and couldn't understand why I was a bit upset when we were leaving the house at 6:15!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.....like I've always said to him, I come SECOND.  He of course says that isn't so.

But I reminded him that he's never late for anything else esp WORK.  I said "What time do you have to be at work?" 

"Ten"

"What time did you get there this morning?"

"Nine-forty five"

My point exactly.

However, we did get to one of our favorite restaurants and were seated promptly.  Tom always has the Stuffed Flounder and I get the Stuffed Shrimp or Shrimp Scampi;  the appetizer here is always the Crab Dip!  Excellent stuff!  Best I've had ANYWHERE!

Saturday is overcast here.....Miss T has solo practice at 2pm.

Tom wants to invite his friends over on Sunday for a Pool Party (grrrrrr)....I say NO drinking!  I'm sure THAT won't happen.  I am planning to go to the beach house with my friend T and her son K for an overnighter.  Hope it doesn't rain.

YIKES!  It's almost 1.....gotta get outta here!

Tah all!

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Last Comic Standing

Is anyone watching this Last Comic Standing show? 

I wasn't till about a month ago.  That's how it is with me....I let them weed out the not-so-good contestants on one of these type programs and then I may watch the finals.

They are now down to 4............they started knocking off one a week.

I've gotta say that I think the Canadian and the Redneck are funnier than the man and the woman.

So I'm voting for JON REEP!!  He's from Hickory NC and I think he's a hoot....he's also been in the Dodge Hemi commercials.

Yep.....check him out!

http://www.comedycentral.com/comedians/browse/r/jon_reep.jhtml

http://www.jonreep.com/video.php

and go vote for Jon Reep at

www.nbc.com/lcs

 

 

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

Hump Day Again

Wow....already?  Gee time flies.......

Sigh, let me see.....

 

Mr Man update.  The hospital called yesterday to check in on Tom...roomie had answered phone and I could hear him saying "yeah, fine, no problems.....Oh, I have a question.  Can I drink a glass of wine?"

Lady says yes...............HUH?

We call back and say to her "Do you realize you just told a chronic, active Hep patient that he could drink alcohol?"

Of course she didn't realize it and she immediately called him back to say "Ooops I made a mistake and just realized that as a Hep patient NO you can NOT drink alcoholic products."

This all stemmed from the fact that, once again, he had been drinking wine and said it was not a big deal.  So he wants to prove us right and asks this nursie person.  He didn't bank on being overheard and us BUSTING him on it by having her call back.

(I heard y'all ---- that's with a capital    thank you!)

 

Miss T is enjoying 5th grade so far.  She got the teachers that she wanted and needed.  I think that will help her a lot this year.  She is beginning to have the "big girl on campus" attitude and that is great....she's normally so docile.  '

But of course this morning she's ill with me - I'm the one on her case to get up and get going....we were working on an "All About Me" sheet.  I didn't like her answers and she didn't like my suggestions.  For instance, "Five words that describe me are......." and she wrote Johnny Depp .............. now, she is NOT JD at all.......

I said that they were looking for describing words like "fun, silly, nice, friendly.........etc"

"Moooooooooooooooooooooooom!"  Ugh!

Once Mr Man had returned from dropping her off at school I said "What shoes did she wear?".

him "Her tennis shoes"      me "Really?"

"yeah...she had those pink socks"

I said "the pink socks that are laying on the couch?"

He said "I don't know where they were."

I say...."the socks that are ON the COUCH?"

He didn't get it.

I said "Tom, the socks are still on the couch and both pair of tennis shoes are right here......what shoes did she wear?"

"I don't know"

I'm thinking she wore those nasty, blown out flip flops.  I almost went to the school to make her trade shoes.  When she gets home those flops are hitting the nearest trash can.

Here's a shot of her and my nephew on Monday.  He's a hoot!

That T shirt she has on LANNY is from my favorite sub sandwich place up on the beach.

I have been trying for YEARS to get one.  So I call the owner over and say "this is my 100th or 300th pizza and sandwich, don't I get a t-shirt with this?"  He says as usual NO.  Since my roomie is in advertising, she says to the owner "I'm doing an article and I'd like to plug your restaurant" so he turns on his heels and grabs.............2 t-shirts, one for her and one for Miss T !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

T has hers hidden from me - says she doesn't want me to take it over.  Roomie is still holding on to hers.

Speaking of the pizza....I had a leftover slice of the house special for breakfast.  I figure it's like having an omlet...without the eggs.

Sausage, peppers, onions, beef, roni, canadian bacon, cheese, sauce on "toast"...........that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

Gotta take a Prilosec now..................

Monday, August 27, 2007

First day o' 5th grade & such

Guess what I did last night?

Highlighted Miss T's hair!

It actually brightened up her looks!  So today my baby is an official 5th grader!  Wooo hoooo!

I took the day off......my muscles were aching, I'm guessing from all the stress of the weekend.

Mr Man was actually decent Sunday, quiet. 

Then this afternoon............after I took Miss T to dance, he went to the restaurant to get his $$$ from J......when I came home, he admitted to ......get this.....

2 glasses of red wine!

And he doesn't see anything wrong with that!  BUT - he has Hep C and ANY alky is not good for that at all!

So tonight he's a bit miffed that I've said to him "you are afraid to give up the drink".  He said "yes".

He has a friend coming into town on Wed and he said "we're not gonna drive, we'll need a cab" so I said "why can't YOU drive and just NOT drink?".

Megga upset then!  To the bedroom and shut the door.

Wants to dispute the affects of red wine drinking.

Right now I'm consigned that he is on a death mission and there is nothing I can do to stop it....his own words were.......

(if I can't drink)  "....might as well put a gun to my head then".

Lovely mentality.

Of course I said FINE....whatever!

Don't come crying to me.

So, is this the link that says to me, run forrest run???