It’s raining, it’s pouring

It is a perfectly crappy day. It’s raining and cloudy and all I want to do is crawl back in the bed and sleep the day away. But I have the desire to actually post today, so a nap will have to wait.

First a BIG   for all the well wishes I have gotten the last couple of weeks. Its nice to know someone actually cares. And if you left me a comment and I have not got back to you personally, forgive me, I only get a noreply address in my email here lately. I will try to track down email addresses and get to all of you. It may have to wait until I am able to sit at the desk for more than 10 minutes at a time though. Its hard to post and visit my friends in 10 minute increments. I will get back to visiting everyone again soon. So if I haven’t slammed you with comments, get ready, I try to read all that I have missed and I try to comment at least on a few of them. And in some cases I have already missed like 20 posts! Anyway, I am working my way around to my blogging friends a couple at a time.

I went to my last physical therapy session yesterday. I found out what I could have told them without all the fuss. I am NO better than when I started. I can’t bend forward or backwards any better now than when I started. I called the doc and told them and said if he wanted a MRI I would like to get it BEFORE my appointment on the 6th. I finally heard back from them last night, they would run it by the insurance company and if approved they would get it set up. Now if the insurance company will approve it quickly I may get it before my appointment.

We have a new channel on the satellite, Investigation Discovery. I love this channel! I turn it on in the morning and leave it there all day. New Detectives, Sensing Murder, Conspiracy Files, I love these shows. Hubby is getting nervous! I like to point out how different murderers get caught, I told him I was learning from their mistakes! See now I have made one mistake, I said I was learning from their mistakes. I guess this post would get me busted! Oh well, guess I will just have to keep him!

I have been watching about a bunch of serial killers, they are CRAZY!!!! I find it interesting to see how they got caught. And some of them I have never heard of before. I just did a search to find a picture, you see every time I see the picture of the dad who threw his kids off a bridge in south Alabama, I kept thinking he reminded me of a serial killer. I finally found the name of the guy he reminded me of. The Night Stalker. He doesn’t really look like him, but something about him makes me picture this serial killer. Since the first time I saw him I couldn’t think of the guys name, but I kept seeing a face and I knew it was one of those serial killers, the night stalker, the Boston Strangler, the hillside strangler, someone, I just couldn’t remember which one. I finally did a search and after several different attempts I finally found the picture I was looking for.  See they don’t look alike, but he makes me think of him.

And Sensing Murder, that is neat. These two psychics get to close to each others descriptions and the actual crime. Hubby said they are all fakes and playing around for money. He watched one and thought it was weird that they kept giving the same info to the cops. Then he got mad because it didn’t tell if the people got caught because of the info the cops got. He don’t know how I can watch it and not know if the murderers got caught. I watch it to see if they give info close to each other or if they are in two different places on the info. I am not sure where I stand on this psychic stuff. Some are pretty convincing and others…. well, you wonder why they keep trying.

And I will watch anything on the JFK conspiracy. Now that is interesting to me. Some of the ideas are pretty far out there, but others make you think. Its funny the way one can “prove” it was Oswald and others can “prove” he couldn’t do it alone. I will keep my ideas to myself, but I will hint that I don’t think he planned it all by himself. And I wonder if he could actually get off 3 shots and hit his target so perfectly considering his target was moving. And all those people who died before they could testify before the Warren Commission. Makes you go “Hummm!”

Anyway, how are all of you doing? You are looking great! I believe you lost some weight, or are you doing something different with your hair?

I joined two groups before my computer went down, the banners are on the left on the blogspot site, and though I haven’t been able to surf around either very much, I think you should check them out. They are the League of Extraordinary wives and Blissfully Domestic Living. You can find the links on my Blogspot site or on http://fussypants.typepad.com/. I know Fussy has a link there.

I guess I I should go I have a few places I must visit and a few phone calls I must make. So As Always…….
HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!

Wow,It’s Wednesday already!

I have been so bad here lately about posting. Sorry, maybe everything will settle down soon. My hubby took off work yesterday, because as he puts it, “Somebody has to do the cleaning and washing around here!” He has patted himself on the back so much here lately, I fear he will develop a shoulder injury! I know that he has done a lot around here lately, but its nothing I haven’t done for the last 20 years! And I don’t recall ever requesting a pat on my back for doing anything! Everything thing he does, apparently, requires a, ” Great job! Way to go! Atta Boy!!!!” I do appreciate everything he does, I just wish he would quit pointing out everything he does. “Look, I picked up my dirty clothes!”  ”Hey Honey, I put a plate in the dishwasher!” ” Look I washed a load of clothes! They are on the bed for you to fold.” ” Everyone should have a husband like me!” ” I cooked supper!!!!!” ” Hey, I can clean, wash and cook. If I bought a blow up doll I wouldn’t need you anymore!”

And yes the last comment was uttered by my darling husband! I know that it was a joke, but I haven’t been in a joking mood lately and I feel bad enough about being down, I don’t need the sarcasm!

On to brighter items in my life. Little Miss has a boyfriend! He called her 8 times last night and 3 times after I told him she could not receive phone calls after 9 pm.

My nieces research paper is almost done, I hope! The teacher keeps changing everything. When told that my niece was having trouble coming up with 600 words on Flannery O’Connor and “The life you change may be your own”, the teacher was happy to give her 3 more authors to research so that she could discuss the differences and similarities of  their writing styles. Bug decided that she was not going to do the work of 4 research papers for 1 grade. She found more on the author. The teacher suggested a bio of the author as the first paragraph. But she did not want the normal date of birth and death, summary of awards, places of birth, where she lived. Nothing like that. I don’t know what she wants in the bio. She requires a block quote. When she assigned that one, the words in the block quote would count towards your word count, then she changed her mind. She started out with 800 words, she cut it to 600 words, when she found out all the kids were having trouble coming up with enough to get that many words. She doesn’t think 600 words is enough, she may change her mind again. We were able to come up with 592. Bug says that is close enough. The words a, an, and (and) the do not count. I hope she counted it right!

The Boy has waited more than his 30 days to get his license back. There is a disagreement on whether or not he has to have a letter from the state saying that his license has been released. No one seems to know and I can’t get the Driver’s reinstatement office to answer their phone. No one is ever available. I called the number in Montgomery,that the message gave me to call for exact requirements to get your license reinstated, all it does is give you the numbers for the offices in the state. I went to the web site the message gave me, all it does is tell you what the fees are. I will keep trying though. Of course he still has to come up with the $275. to get them back, plus the money to get his license, seeing how his had expired before he lost them.

On to my back, I have one more day of physical therapy! WOO HOO!!!! Its not helping I don’t know why they keep insisting that I go.  I guess because the doctor said 3 days a week for 3 weeks. They are going to reevaluate me. I can tell them, I hurt further up my back now and I still can’t walk far before my legs give out, I still get cramps in my legs, I am still uncomfortable sitting, laying and walking.  In other words, I am worse now than when I started the therapy. I am out of muscle relaxers and low on pain pills. I still have the ones I took before I went to the doctor so I guess I will survive.

Daisy is growing and getting more spoiled by the minute. She still refuses to get house broke! She thinks Bella is a chew toy and Misty is a mother figure. I am her favorite pillow and hubby is her good food supplier, Little Miss is a big ole plaything and The Boy, she can’t figure out what he is except an occasional bed mate. I knew she would end up mine. She can get on the couch now all by herself, if she wants to, sometimes she is too lazy to do it. Her favorite past time now is bringing one piece of food in to the living room and eating it and going back for another piece. She does that a hundred times a day. She is crazy.

Tomorrow is the last day of therapy, I may post or I may just stay at Mom’s all day. But I will be back on Friday, I think. I can never tell when Hubby will decide to stay home. I need to go and eat and take a nap, I don’t sleep well at night, could be the naps I am taking during the day, Nah!!! As Always….

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!

Going out of my cotton-picking mind!

Well, I am back again, hopefully I will manage a few post before I have to miss anymore days. No wait, physical therapy tomorrow IF I don’t tell them to take a flying leap! I had a BAD weekend and this week ain’t looking good!

Little Miss had a little girl spend the night on Friday, before the night was over they had invited another little girl to spend the night. Hubby, the wonderful man that he is, said what is one more? Well I will tell you what one more is… Little Miss getting left out at her own spend the night party! The second little girl is more of the first little girl’s friend than Little Miss’ friend, so they spent most of the night and next day playing together and Little Miss spent most of the night and next day whining! I was never so glad to see children leave, of course the second the last little girl left, Little Miss was BORED!!!! Ain’t life wonderful?

Well hubby and I took an opportunity to have a few minutes of alone time once the girls went to sleep and though I enjoyed it at the moment, the after effects are not pleasant. Saturday I was in a great deal of pain and having a hard time getting around and getting comfortable. So we gave it another try Saturday night and guess what…. Sunday I was damn near immobile! I am not talking about hanging from the ceiling fan, standing on my head, wild sex here, I am talking about mild, no frills stuff!

Well, everyone left me on Sunday afternoon and I took the opportunity to take a nap in hopes of relaxing and feeling better, this was not meant to be! My helpful FIL called to tell me the high dollar coon dog was running loose in his yard and I needed to get her before she run off. SO I dragged myself out of the house and walked across the yard with a chain, so I would have something to get her back across the yard with. I called her, she came right to me. She had slipped her collar so I had to wrap the chain loosely around her neck to lead her back to her collar and cable. No big deal, she walks very well on a leash. The problem came with the fact she is a GREAT coon dog! So when the cat ran in front of her, she wanted to “tree” the cat. So she jerked me, I held my ground. The cat continued his little “Neener, Neener, Neener! You can’t get me!!!” game and Molly continued to yank on me, I continued to stand my ground and puke in the yard from the pain. I finally decided to give the cat a BIG scare! I loosened my grip just enough that the cat thought Molly was going to get him, he ran up the tree! Molly got on the tree and barked, I told her good dog. I was finally able to get her to her cable. It took me like 20 minutes to get back to the house and it wasn’t that far. A good 5 minutes to get across a 12 foot wide porch! So I spent the rest of the afternoon, curled up in the fetal position and crying!

Hubby took pity on me and went to the grocery store and took Little Miss with him, of course that left me home alone with little Daisy the piss pot! She now, pees in the kitchen floor and then goes to the front door and whines to go out. She has also discovered that there are dogs at the house behind us. We have had to go get her a few times. But she is afraid of the dark so that helps some, she won’t wonder off in the dark, but you have to go out with her or she won’t leave the porch.

And don’t get me started on the fact that The Boy went to bed and left her pen outside and I had to go out at 10:30 at night to get it! I thought I would die out there and be left until morning! I was one pissed off women!

I think I will go and take a pill and lay down and see if the massive muscle spasms and cramps I am experiencing at the moment will go away. Sorry I had to gripe to someone and Hubby is tired of listening! Of course he did tell me to leave the house and washing and he will do it tonight. We shall see! As Always…..

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!

Just a couple of new pictures to share

I just wanted to share a couple of pics I just got downloaded to the computer. I have found Daisy is a bit camera shy, which makes getting her picture a huge challenge and since I don’t have a life outside of the house I have taken on this challenge.

So here are a couple….

Aren’t they too cute!

OH MY GAWD…. I AM STILL ALIVE!!!!!

I have been MIA for the past couple of weeks. The storms that passed through North Alabama struck my modem and it died! After several attempts to find one in town, I finally went to the phone company and groveled asked for a new one. And believe it or not they sent me one at no charge and over night! I tried to get up and running yesterday and because I couldn’t remember my password and their password change page hates Vista, I couldn’t log on and had to breakdown and admit I was whooped and call and ask for help. Which I got, after several attempts and very many minutes (74 to be exact) I finally was up and running again! YEAH!!!!!!!

OK quick update and I must run. I went to the doc and he says I am having muscle spasms deep in the muscles and that it is irritating my nerves. He gave me Percacet, muscle relaxers and an anti inflammatory pack and said to go to physical therapy. Love the pain pills, OK with the muscle relaxers, took the anti inflammatory pack and have been doing physical therapy. I am officially WORSE!!!! I eat pain pills and muscle relaxers day and night and still get very little relief. I go back on the 6th of March, but the therapist says if I show no improvement next week, they will call and request an earlier appointment. They have all but given up on the exercises, considering I am worse after I do them. And are pretty much just doing the ultrasound, electrical shock stuff, and heat pads. They don’t help but they keep on doing it. I have decided that there is something seriously wrong with me, I pay these people big bucks to hurt me. WTF!!

Daisy, the new addition, is having a problem with potty training. We go out and walk around for 15 minutes, she does nothing, runs up on to the porch, comes in and immediately pisses in the floor! She shits in her pen at night and walks through it or lays in it and then whines about it! She also has a slight worm problem and is due another dose of wormer, but I can’t seem to find the right time to give it to her. I’m gone all day every other day due to therapy and I hate to give it to her and not be able to take her out to go.

Hubby is due home sometime soon and I want to catch up on a few blogs before that, so I will go and hopefully post a better post on Friday. Physical therapy tomorrow, URG!!!

As always…..

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!!!

This is what I found…..

OK, I promised a picture of the new baby. Here she is in all her sleeping glory. Ignore the new rip in the chair, knifes clipped on hubby’s pocket, don’t mix with material on chair.

Now I must gripe! I went to my kitchen and this is what I found. I wish I had thought to take before pictures, but, alas, my brain, it do not work to good sometimes. Most of what is in the next two pics were on the counter waiting for the dishwasher to get unloaded so it would fit. I unloaded it and got all of this to fit.

The next picture, well, that was some of what was in the dishwasher. These bowls are stacked with several inside of the others.

Think he will notice that I washed the bowls and a couple of the pans?

This is what I found in the drain on the side of the sink where the dishes DRAIN! How in the hell did food particles get there? All I can say is GROSS!!!

This is my black iron skillet! Hubby made sausage and scrambled eggs this morning. And yes it was in the same pan. My MIL says do not wash a black iron skillet, just rinse it and it will be fine. I truly believe this is BEYOND rinsing. What do you think?

This is the same black iron skillet after 15 minutes of scrubbing. Nice, right? I will never mention to him that I did anything more than rinse it out.

I really do appreciate that he is helping out, but this stuff is driving me crazy!!! When I opened the dishwasher, I almost fell in the floor. Not only were Tupperware bowls in there, the dishes were sideways and caddy wompass and some of the glasses were laying on their sides. I know he tried, and his mother did not teach him how to properly load a dishwasher, but he honestly threw them in, I think. The bowls were laying on top of each other.

And washing, he will put 8 pairs of jeans in the washer and call it a load, but he will only put 3 shirts and a couple of pairs of underwear and call that a load. There is a happy medium. How about 2-3 pairs of jeans and 6-7 t-shirts and some underwear. Maybe more if it is the baby’s clothes. And if it is white, it goes in one load. It doesn’t matter if there is writing on it or a picture. Its white and it must be washed in HOT water. He hasn’t ruined any clothes yet, I try to go behind him and move some things. And a towel is a towel, white, red, green, blue, it doesn’t matter, its a towel and it goes in the towels. I put the white towels in with the white socks, I put the dark towels with the dark towels. I know I am picky, but that is how I do it. I am trying to get some washing done before he gets home. Wish me luck. And no really ugly comments, he occasionally gets to the e-mail before me, and though he normally doesn’t read the comments, just my luck, he will get the only one that truly shows that I have griped about his household skills. I guess I should go and try to get some more done. I just had to post a few pictures.

We have a couple of new members…..

The Boy has added two new dawgs to the crew of too many critters. Molly was added a week or so ago. She is another walker dog. No picture as of yet, as you know I am not much for the great outdoors just yet. At least not long enough to carry a camera out and cajole a dog into giving me a pretty smile. Saturday he came home with Daisy. She is an 8 week old Pit Bull. And she is to be another indoor dog, guess who is puppy sitting at this very moment? That’s right Momma has a new baby. She isn’t one for pictures, she seems to be camera shy, all we can get is a lot of pictures of the side of her face. I will upload pictures as soon as I get one that isn’t bigger than the blog page. She is really sweet, but that potty training and chewing is really not what I want to do right now.

I have been told I must blog about what a wonderful husband I have! I must tell of how he has cooked breakfast, supper and tea, how he is cleaning the house, washing the clothes and taking such wonderful care of me! I am told I must not complain about him in any way! How everyone should have such a wonderful husband, how lucky I am. I think I covered everything I was suppose to blog about! OK, not that I am complaining, but if I hear one more time, “Look at the house, I just cleaned it this morning! I have washed dishes 3 times today! Look at the kitchen! How many clothes do you people wear in a week? I have washed all day and the pile keeps growing! What are we going to eat? I can’t find anything to cook, at least nothing I want!” For the record, washing dishes means he threw everything in the dishwasher! Storage bowls, lids, pots, pans and all! I have storage bowls and lids in the bottom rack, I usually don’t even put them in there. The heat warps the lids and bowls and if I am lazy and put them in I put them in the top rack. But I am not complaining. Remember, I was told I can’t complain. So if he is told I am complaining I will DENY, DENY, DENY!!!! (Daisy is asleep on my feet, she is really cute, even though I really don’t care for the pit bull breed, I just don’t trust them. Of course it has a lot to do with how they are raised. ) I am about to go crazy. He does everything different than I do. He has his way and I won’t say it is wrong, but it is different than my way. My way happens to be easier and quicker, but I will keep it to myself. Lest I risk, him going on strike! And as of right now, I can’t have him go on strike. I was showing some slight improvement, slight but improvement still the same. I got cocky and sit up and walked around and went outside and slightly overdid it! Yesterday, I was back at square 2. Not as bad as in the beginning but definitely back close to it. And now I am going to be taking a puppy out to pee and shit every 15 minutes or cleaning up after her. And screaming, “NO DAISY!” she chews on everything. Fingers, toes, furniture, cats, other dogs and anything else that she runs across. Bella does notlike her! Every time Daisy gets near her she growls at her. She is getting better, now she just growls when Daisy climbs on her, or sniffs her, or tries to take her raw hide bone. And Daisy eats everything in sight. She is constantly looking for food! I don’t think you can fill her up. She has been wormed, but I don’t think it worked very well. Of course she just got it yesterday.  I think me children hate me. Why else would they bring a puppy into the house when I am down? She loves tug of war. She has a piece of t-shirt tied in a knot and she will shake her head and bark at it. She barks at everything. She barks at her tail and growls because it “runs” away from her. I love how stupid puppies are. She is going to be a treat I think. She is a Granny Grunt. She grunts all the time. Anyone want to puppy sit? I do warn, she is apparently not completely weaned and has not figured out she will not be getting milk from me.

I have a doctor’s appointment tomorrow, so maybe I will find out something or at least get something that will help me get some relief. I now have a cold on top of everything else and I have been coughing my fool head off for two days and sniffling every few seconds and Saturday night, my monthly visitor showed up in all her glory causing me a great deal of cramps and more back pain. I have barely slept in almost two weeks. In the last two nights I have managed maybe 3 hours each night.  Between coughing, being uncomfortable and a whining puppy I haven’t had a chance. Well I guess I should go and try to accomplish something. There is about 5 loads of clothes laying in the floor, the living room is a mess, the dishwasher needs to be started and hubby cooked breakfast this morning and so the kitchen is a mess. He took off Friday and this week he won’t be going in til 8:30 and he won’t be getting off til 5:00, so this will be different. He should be really ill, if he has housework to do. He said to put the puppy in the crate and lay on the couch all day and not do anything, but I know he didn’t mean it. Last night he went to the grocery store and he complained about the prices for a good 2 hours. He told me to lay and do nothing, I had done everybody’s taxes yesterday and I had been up to much. When he got home he complained that I hadn’t folded the load of clothes that was in the living room. So much for not doing anything. Well, I must go, As Always…..

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANKS FOR VISITING!!!!