hurry up, apartment people!! i want to be there while it's still warm enough to swim!!

So, see? That up there at the top left is total proof that Truman got all health-checked last week! I mean, the guy is so unbelieveably healthy...not a flea, nothin'! The only thing they said was that he needs to come back for a tooth-cleaning in the fall...he has tartar...:-/ And, how's this for synchronicity...he's 11 1/2 years old...weighs 11 1/2 lbs!

Then there's Tif & Mr Handsome...& at the bottom is my nephew's dog...she's so pretty! Stella, I think that's her name!

Do you know people who have grown up in the same family, but all live totally different ways? And don't you wonder how & why that happens? I just like to wonder about why stuff like that happens...cuz, personality-wise, Bro & I are the fun, outgoing personalities...the other...no. But Bro won't live in town for anything! Ever since he & his wife got married (I was only 12!), they had their first house in town, and lived in that for a few years, then sold that, & got their huge, old drafty, but beautiful 3 story old farmhouse & barns in the middle of cornfields...really...neat...but I would never want to live 10 or 15 miles out of town. The outside of the house & yards & barns was just a scary movie waiting to be written! Then a few years ago, they moved from there to 10 or 15 miles out of town in the opposite direction! It's a totally different looking house, very modern...no cornfields, it's just on a few acres of woods...but what happens if you wake up at 3 am some night craving Twinkies? Huh? Whatcha gonna do then? I spend most of my life worrying about stuff that's never gonna happen...well, maybe it won't happen cuz I already have a plan...I know that when Tif & I had our second apartment when she was about 2, I planned like crazy because we lived here in Marion, I drove to work every day an hour north...Heck, I even planned what if someone broke in & tried to get us? I don't have a gun, or anything, but the first thing I did was put my trusty Ginsu knife up on top of a picture frame in my bedroom. It was a framed 8X10 pic a friend took of Pilot Mountain in NC! Never had to use it, but, I always knew it was there.

Now everybody can see exactly what 3 grams of iv steroids does to your brain in 3 days to be followed by 6 days of oral prednisone...my brain works TOO fast then!

Well, Kevin1's son called at 1 this afternoon to ask if I wanted him to work on my mowing and I guess there's a lot of yard junk, like tall grass & wood out back behind the fence beside the garage & the alley. I never knew it was there, cuz, well, I can't walk out & look....but the health dept guy showed up here a few weeks ago, and said they'd received a complaint about the grass in my yard being too high! I felt bad for that nice guy, having to come here and bitch out a woman who came to the door in a wheelchair, cuz her lawn needed work...:-D. So I was im'ng with Kevin1 til about 430am, and I had said something about it , and he said he'd ask his son if he'd do it...And, OMG, he did! Wow...just wow...seriously, I still haven't got together with him, and it was way too hot to do the 4th of July thing with him & his wife...(and maybe their girlfriend...)...not for me, but, if it works for them, I'm happy for them! People are so nice, I'm amazed all the time! I just must be the luckiest person, cuz I never meet up with bitchy people.

ummm...one MORE day...

Okay...the left side is the other half of the master bedroom closet, and the picture on the right is the front closet at the back of the living room. Just a quick look looks like it's a really long closet (perspective-wise, you know!), but it's actually just a regular closet they poked in there because there was room for it (the people who designed these apartments were on their A-game, what with the w/d in a walk in bedroom closet, & fitting a closet in under the steps to the 2nd floor!). Brilliant! This is the kind of off-the-wall stuff I'm in love with!

Kevin helped me out Friday by taking our son (lol), Truman, to the vet to get caught up on his shots & a check-up...I didn't really want to go with them...Truman would shun me forever! But I paid for it...$100...he's lucky I like him..

So everything's done except for me getting to the bank tomorrow & getting my affidavit notarized saying I get no money from my first husband...as if! If I did, could I even be on my second marriage?? This is it. Two strikes is plenty for me!

After all that, I had an appointment with my neuro today, and that was full of nothing but good news, too! She said I look good (no, I didn't say 'I know that' lol). I actually walked a couple steps over to the scale...I'm only at 89 lbs, which just bites!! So she took my suggestion, and I get iv steroids Wed, Thurs & Friday, and then take prednisone for 12 days...that's what I've been begging for forever!! I am SO happy! And I was honest with her & told her, no, i haven't been taking my avonex shots once a week like I'm s'posed to, matter of fact, I haven't had ANY avonex since before my thyroid surgery in April! She said, well, you're doing nothing but better since you stopped, right? I said, right...so she said then stay off it. And she's starting me on the new ms pill that just got approved! Fingolimod, that's it! I was originally going to be in the phase 3 trial, but when they did my eeg, it showed that I had a seizure disorder, so I got booted...boooooo! At least it's a good drug now...must be the way it was supposed to go, I guess...

I even was able to find jeans that fit me! Ebay to the rescue...only place I could find size 00 jeans!! woohoo!!

More shopping...I got a pair of tennis shoes that look like Reebok or something...white with light blue trim from WalMart.com...$10.86 including shipping!! Gotta love online shopping when they have free shipping, & 'online only' deals!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

one day closer to it...

Well, after laying awake all weekend & picturing my furniture + my books + a new apartment...I caved & called them Monday and asked Amanda to get me a two-bedroom apartment instead....and really, I need it, cuz I have a big-screen tv from Mom & Dad's, a couple cupboards that look antique, but are really just old, I think...I don't care....I like 'em, anyway! So, the one view out the window is the fountain...but I have no idea if my place will look out on it. And the other picture is a closet in one of the bedrooms. Oh...& it's a two-bedroom & two bath! The only thing I'm gonna lose is the washer/dryer hookup in the closet, they're in the hallway...oh well, small price to pay for another bedroom & bath...

So...the apartments asked me for a copy of my first divorce papers...WTF??? That was 25 years ago, for heaven's sake! I don't know what happened to those!! Whattaya think? I kept 'em & framed 'em? Sheeesh!! *rolls eyes*

Oh, and I did go to Autumnforest's etsy shop and ordered a clock she made for the apartment...it's a haunted cemetery clock, but it's not haunted! She called it that because she made it and a few of the pieces on it are from a graveyard parking lot. I'm excited, it should be here tomorrow! She sent it Monday! I'll post a picture when I get the apartment put together! Oh, wait, I have to wait for the apartment to be EMPTY before I can fill it back up!

Okay, TTYL!!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

okay, I'll actually quit taking the easy way out. &,,,really write a post!

Okay, I've already started the 'application process' to get the apartment! I'm getting all kinds of excited about it! It's not a government-subsidised apartment, like I was originally applying for, things straightened out in my life, and I can get this one! I just need to get some more paperwork about this N that, out there..

I went and looked at a one bedroom, & a two bedroom one Friday, and, actually decided the 1 bedroom is better for me. It's big, anyway, with a lot of room & closets (these apartments are fairly new, built in the laat 5 years) The apartment complex has a pool over to the side of this pond...there's another pond with a fountain, too. The bedroom has a sliding glass door to the outside, and the biggest selling point (besides the accessible bathroom) is the huge walk-in closet in the bedroom, which is so big, that that is where the washer/dryer hookups are! So there's no taking the laundry anywhere, I can do it, & hang it up right there!! How NEAT is that??? I still have some phone calls to make to get stuff ready, like get Truman's shots up to date, but nothing else major. The girl said the handicap-accessible one should be ready in a few weeks. Kim asked me the other night what's the kitchen like? (she's the cook, you know!). I said...well, it has a refrigerator, a stove, a sink, you know...it's a KITCHEN for goodness sake! lol! ...can you tell, I'm not, and never have been a fan of cooking. I really admire people that are, it's just not for me! About the closest I came to "cooking" per se, was when I was working in Fostoria & dating a guy from up there, and he was at my apartment overnight, and I had committed myself to making a veggie tray for a family get-together, so I was cutting up the vegetables & arranging the tray...John walked out to the kitchen, and sat down & watched me, then said...Wow...you're actually cooking!! I actually wasn't doing anything more than I did at work everyday! lol!

I just got off the phone with my lawyer's office & they're sending a letter to the apartments to verify that Kev's not moving in with me...Bro just showed up here with some documents to verify some stuff...woohoo!

This is SUCH a big deal to me, you know? We bought this house in 1990...Now I'm finally ready to get the f* out of it! It just rubs it in my face that we bought this house especially for the big bedroom upstairs above the living room! I've never moved much in my life, I lived in the house I grew up in from age 2 to 18, for heaven's sake! And everywhere I've moved since was in this town!!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

Funny Tampon Commercial - Kotex Help Him Choose

Sexy mother - funny commercial

Funny Nicorette Shark Commercial

Evian Roller Babies international version

Burger King Breakfast Muffin Sandwich Ad

BEST AD EVER - Winner Of 2010 Best TV Advertisement Award

TIGER WOODS NIKE COMMERCIAL SPOOF 2010 BY IT FROM VH1

Banned Mothers Day Commercial! BAD BREATH SONG! 2010

Ghetto Hamster Deluxe - very funny ad

Never saw this before...kinda lame, but I like the car!

Cheez-It | "Interrupting Cheese"

i poo in blue...

I've just been admiring the marketing lately!!

Huggies Jeans Diaper Commercial

Sarge

yay for summer...and for me making a freaking decision...

...maybe this is the problem, I haven't been reading enough 'far side' stuff.

I did make a pretty good step toward my decision of where to live today. I have an appointment to fill out an application at the really cool apartment complex, right out of town. I had really wanted to stay in town, but, all the apartments in town aren't 'disability accessible', most apartments in town are old, therefore...the only new apartments in this town are out on the east side, and they really are nice. I looked at them a couple years ago, but did nothing then...now I'm really ready to go. So the one I looked at then was a one br, and it was nice, everything is w/c accessible...sucks, but I need to be realistic, I guess...can I just say, as an aside, life is REALLY not fair...mine wasn't supposed to be like this!! It "stinks on ice", as Glenn says! lol! So, I told Kev1 today that I was gonna look at a 2 br one and he says, what, for me? Total lol! I said, no one bedroom for me, and one for my books!!

I was supposed to go over to his house & watch the fireworks Sunday, but, my legs sucked so bad that I went in my room & laid down in front of the a/c, and missed his IM that asked if I was ready for him to pick me up! Grrrrrrrrrrr...well, it's probly just as well...it would've been him, his wife, daughter, mom, maybe brother...yeah, I live as far on the edge as I can..."if you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space!"

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

finally real summer!!

Had to put my grad picture from high school in here...just cuz, well, maybe tba...we'll see...

I took my scooter over to the JerZee last night and got a big cheeseburger & a banana split clipper (like a blizzard), & a mint choc shake that's waiting for me in the freezer now.

Kim & I are talking again...I just hate the attitude she seems to have sometimes, a "victim" attitude...when she is anything but! I dunno why she is so dead set against getting a freaking job, she's always acted as if it must be all embarrassing to work, people might see you doing that!

I had to call her today, cuz I got another im from kevin1 last night, & we were talking about a guy that...well, never mind. Suffice it to say, we ended up remembering everything all over again, you know, "remember this?" and "yeah remember that?" Funny, this July 4 will be 31 years from the first day we met!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

...June 16, 2010...

I'm just totally not up on life & everything right now! There's just all kindsa shit going on right now, & I just don't wanna dwell on it...basically, I've learned the art of 'compartmentalizing' my life, which means, well, I'm 'brainless', unless I force myself to think...Easier than I ever thought! Holy God, you mean I've been using my brain all my life, and it turns out I didn't need to?? lol...
No, there's lotsa books to read and all that...I got my newest one today in the mail...yeah, call me a sucker. I ordered it about a month ago off Glenn Beck's homepage, and it's #8729 out of the first ten thousand signed copies. I'm looking forward to reading it tonight...all I've read for months is nonfiction politics, but this is Glenn's fiction novel, The Overton Window.
I've got Kim's mom looking for a good apartment I'd like. She's been a realtor in town for 35 years! And Kim & I have been BFF's that long, Kim'll help her out on what I want!
Bro was here the other day & brought back the book I let him take on vacation when I was in the hospital :-/ He laid it on the desk & said he didn't get far, it was too one-sided for him!~lol...it's my signed copy of 2010, take the nation back...signed by Dick Morris...:-)
Okay, I really need to try to sleep tonight...my ms dr's had me taking melatonin for my insomnia, but it works for a night, then doesn't...A lot of nights I'm still laying in bed trying to go to sleep at 6:30 AM!!

spite & malice...

Okay...got a story for you today...

My best friend called me at noon today...her husband told her last night that he's leaving her...or maybe kicking her out, either way, they're done after 26 years! & three kids! She's not worked outside their home in the last 23 or 24 years...pretty much she was a stay-at-home mom & wife who cooked lunch & dinner everyday cuz the husband didn't want leftovers...EVER! ...ok, that leads up to the SPITE part of the story...

Sometime this morning before she called me, she was just crying & feeling the same way I did for a couple of years...and she was in the bathroom, and *idea*, she freaking scrubbed the toilet with his toothbrush!! I KNOW you're all out there laughing! Also let me tell you, she pushed me to post that!! I NEVER did anything like that! That's one of the things you think about doing, but you'd never ever actually DO it!! Well...she did it! I love her! She even went to church this morning before that!!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

...yup...I've become a slacker...

I'm back, and, believe it or not, I don't have much of a scar...it's just red, but...oh well. So my thyroid's out, & all I have to do is take a teensy little synthroid pill every day. And I have the printed record of the report of my 'dissected' thyroid, and it said "no carcinoma"! Fantastic! But then it went on to say that the thymus & the left side were 'unremarkable'...hmmmph! lol! Now I almost wish I'dve said, " There's nothing wrong with it? Well, can I have it back?" Naaaahhhhh...I'm not all up for more surgery...hell, I still can't talk above a whisper. But I talk better when I drink something really cold, or eat ice cream or popsicles (or have a milkshake!)

Hey, I have a question...who was the green snickery-guy up there?? I thought I was pretty up on obscure cartoons, but I can't for the life of me remember who he was!

I never did go to a nursing home to recover, it was such a PITA for Kev to have to spend 4 or 5 hrs a day on the phone with Anthem & Cobra and all that shit (cuz I couldn't talk AT ALL then!), that I was good just being home, and working my legs out a little bit, & reading & watching tv! Now the only problem is that with my voice being gone, I can't even call anyone on the phone! Not even my girl, Tif, & ask how's Talan??

So I've been sucked into FB, just because I've had nothing of any interest to post, except I've had a whole helluva lot to say about the country, national debt, politics, (the whole Sestak afffair...). But I don't write about that on this blog, this is the one for fun stuff.

I didn't have a lot of stuff to do over the weekend, but my faithful tv was here to keep me busy...Billy The Exterminator was on a marathon yesterday, and Hoarders was on a marathon today! I love A & E!

Okay, maybe tomorrow something'll happen to write about...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

HEY FRIENDS!!

...I'm only here for a few days, til I get into the nursing home for a few weeks, to recover. From my thyroidectomy, + the pneumonia I got after surgery...& now, on the x-rays I get everyday, they see I have a stone in each kidney. WTF?? I thought kidney stones hurt like hell! So now I hafta go see my urologist next week.

hopefully he can give me a mini-nuclear bomb type pill that would just explode each stone into eensy-weensy pieces, so I won't even know when they come out!!

And, hey, call me a racist if you want, but my surgeon is, I think, a Mexican...and if it makes me a racist to say this Mexican surgeon is one hot dude! And everyone in town knows him cuz he is the most popular surgeon in town!

Bro & Mrs Bro came to the hospital to see me twice last week & gave me these 2 books!! And Tif & little Mr T were there everyy day & Kev was out every day...he's done SO much for me...& his mom's been to the hospital for me too!

Okay, I'm done...be back after a while!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

voices outta the past...

I thought this was funny a few years ago when I got it in the mail.....kinda looked like a "WANTED" notice! (not my address anymore)

Lemme just ask a stupid question...if all of a sudden, a bunch of people from your past contacted you in a weekend, would you think, I never thought I'd EVER hear from them again...maybe this is a sign I'm gonna die.......

Thursday I got a call from my very first friend's mom...like I was about 3 or 4...they lived down the street & around the corner. My two big brothers were friends with all 5 of her brothers after we moved to town...yeah...there were 8 kids, and I remember the mom walking past our house every morning about 7 am, headed to mass. I remember my mom saying something about if she had 8 kids, she'd go to church every day too! Now all the 'kids' are scattered all over the world, a few are still in town, one lives out in Scottsdale, so Bro hangs with him & his family when he's out there, some live in Florida, One brother lives in Amsterdam, for heaven's sake! There was always something exciting going on at Chris's house, with all those big brothers & sisters! One time one of the brothers brought home a raccoon, & they named it 'Reefer the raccoon'...us 5 year olds had no clue what that meant...:-/

Friday night I got another email from Kevin 1, from 30 years ago...still haven't hooked up again, but, it'll happen...

Saturday night, I got a FB message from somebody I used to be terrific friends with 27 yrs ago...I remember that cuz she's my first husband's little sister! I im'd my phn number & she called me & we talked for about an hour & a half! She & her husband live in N C now, but they're moving to Wyoming next week! I've missed her!!

Sunday night, I got another FB message from a guy that used to hang out with "our gang" in Fostoria. He was always one of the nicest guys I knew...and that's not a bad thing...nice guys don't always finish last...only if they're passive & timid! One time we were all at a bar about 50 miles from my town, and 'Bart' got so plastered, I wouldn't let him drive home to his house (30 mi away from the bar), so I loaded him in my car with me & brought him home with me (Tif was at Gramma's for the night). When we both woke up Sunday morning, we got in my car & went back up north to the bar we had left his car at...that was some fun times! Now he's married and has 6, count em, 6 kids!!! I couldn't help it, I had to rag him about all the kids...(no sleep, huh?) He said, I was just doing it for fun...and she took it serious!!! No, they're very happy, married for 21 years, etc! He's gonna make Mousie come down here soon, he said.

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

April 8th...

How weird is this...I just realized that I was married the first time on this day in 1983....damn, forever ago! Shit, I was just a baby having a baby! Not like I'dve ever admitted it at the time, of course. The biggest thing about this is that I was a senior in high school, and after this, if I didn't want to go to school, I could just call the office myself, Mom didn't have to give 'permission' anymore! lol!
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Okay...now it's Friday....I have surgery Monday to remove my thyroid...yippee?? And, I need to get my stuff packed...Tif & Kev are going to take turns coming here & feeding Truman, giving him his ice water, and cleaning his litter box. (yes, I did say 'his ice water'...I don't want my baby to have to drink stale water!) I called Blue Cross/Blue Shield yesterday just to make sure my Cobra coverage is started, it is. I was just being paranoid, cuz I could just see me laying on the surgery table, and them stopping..."Wait. Does she have insurance??" *snicker* This health care bill is already tossing people every which way. The guy I talked to at Blue Cross yesterday said he's already had a ton of people call him already and ask him "Are you the one I call to get my free Obama-care??" And he had to tell them no...Those people obviously don't know that they're already paying for it...& they'll be paying for it for a few years before they get it! Yes, there are good things in this...but I promise, if you read the bill, you'll find much more bad...
Easter was fun! Tif & Mr Tif brought the baby over right after church that morning, & Bro & his wife took me out Saturday to the Dollar Store...I got Talan a cute little shirt that has a picture of an i-pod on it & says "I peed" Bro came back over & picked me up at 4 to go out to his house for Easter dinner...his youngest daughter called from where she's living (Phoenix) she's in college at Arizona, and she said "Dad! I just felt an eartquake!!!" Crazy, huh?
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

more old fun stuff...

I love this time of year...the snow is gone (leaving mud in its place, of course) and it's supposed to be in the mid to high 70's the rest of the week!! I transferred up to Fostoria in April 1986, and that was the coolest morning drive to make! I'd go about 8 blocks west farther into town, & drop Tif off at her babysitter's...then go east out to US 23, and go north for an hour, and that was all it took to get to work! I remember the sun was always on my right side...and I never was around any city traffic...we didn't have any here, & there was even less in the towns/cities to the north, unless you were going to Cleveland or Toledo! I always kept my doors locked while I was still in town, even though it's not a bad town, but, once I got out on the highway, I unlocked both doors (it was a Honda Civic)...maybe that was a stupid thought, but, I was always thinking if I wrecked and hit my head and needed help, I wanted someone to be able to open the doors...
This was also the start of the "festival season" in northern Ohio...well, probably everywhere else too. The first one I remember going to was St Wendelin's church festival. That was fun! You (or, we!) bought beer in a plastic bucket, & got a bunch of flimsy plastic cups! Now that was a good time!! The one festival I never got to was the "Testicle Festival"! Not sure what town that's in, but I know it's in northern Ohio. And they have beer & deep fried hog nuts!! Hmmmmmmmmm...maybe THAT'S why I never felt drawn there to party. Just as well...knowing how I used to do anything when someone said "I dare you...", I might've ended up doing the unthinkable... :-(
Well, risking a bunch of resounding 'boo's' here because none of you reading this have much in common with me when it comes to some of my tastes...(that's ok...at least it's not hog balls!)....I got 2 books today I ordered a few days ago. Dick Morris & Mike Huckabee, and they're both signed & in good leather boxes, & have certificates! I'm happy!
So, since it's gonna be beautiful into the weekend, I'm gonna do the same thing I did last year at this time, go down to the Dollar Store and get stuff to make Easter baskets for Tif & Mr Tif, and the baby, and their 2 dogs!

...let the buyer beware...

I got my hair cut today, I told H to make it really short so it won't get bushy when I'm in the hospital after my thyroid operation (which, btw, is 4-12-10!). Her youngest daughter is graduating next year, so H is letting her and some friends drive to Florida on spring break to stay at "uncle Jeff's", & H said she has to keep telling her brother, remember, you aren't the fun uncle on this trip, you're the PARENT! hahahaha...good luck with that one!

And Tif & Talan are coming over tomorrow. That's gonna be fun...besides getting to cuddle him, Tif's giving me a Mary Kay facial! whoo hoo!!...(I'm a mom, remember? Starting when she was 5 or 6, I was the guinea pig for everything she wanted to do...Now, I'm reaping the rewards!). I kinda wish that I was into wearing nail polish & everything, but I'm not...went through that stage as a senior in high school, then got pregnant & married (& graduated, of course!), and my life got too busy to worry about breaking a nail or chipping nail polish! Plus, long nails & nailpolish didn't work when I had the jobs when I unloaded trucks 6 days a week all through my 20s...Now, with my shaky ms hands, it's not even a consideration!

I'm getting all caught up in some tv lately *hiding my head in shame*...now it's "Hoarders" on A&E *snicker*...nothing will keep you motivated if THAT doesn't! And I LOVE "Pawn Stars" & "American Pickers" on the history channel, along with Ax Men & the regular history stuff. A&E has a cool show about Billy the Exterminator, & I used to watch Parking Wars when that was on. But, keep in mind, I ALWAYS have a book beside me for the commercials! Alright, I gotta go...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

...random funny stuff...

I really need to quit thinking today...no good ever comes from that, right? lol! My insomnia has been SO bad this week, I can't stand it! I'm going to bed at 1 am, and tossing & turning until I fall asleep...at f*ng 6:30 or 7 am!! I did give up & turn the tv on last night at 3 am...my favorite movie was on..."Phonebooth"! I used to be able to take a 25 mg Benadryl if I had a hard time falling asleep (which wasn't very often), but not now, even 2 25mgs won't work. Bullshit!

I was thinking about when Tif was in school, it really was fun...she was a cheerleader, & ran cross country, & was on the school's soccer team, and all kinds of other stuff! And she was the most popular kid I ever knew! And she liked me! lol! I was definitely NOT one of the popular crowd in high school! How did I get so lucky as to have THIS girl?

So, when she and her friends were getting their senior pictures taken, one of the girls was bitching about her hair, always! I don't know why, she had naturally curly dark hair, and if she ever let it be curly, it looked really beautiful, it was the kind of curls you can only hope to get when you get a perm, and her hair was down to the middle of her back. She flat-ironed it every day, cuz she wanted it straight so bad...wow, that had to take a couple hrs a day to do! So she was telling us all about how she ALWAYS wanted straight blonde hair. She had begged and begged her mom to get her Johnson's baby shampoo. So when she finally got a bottle, she had her mom use that on her, of course Moms always will humor their daughters.

After she got her hair towel-dried, Brit looked in the mirror & started bawling her eyes out...she thought that shampoo would've made her hair look just like the little girl's on the bottle, straight & blonde!! That was funny as hell! Not to the two of them at the time, though, I'm sure...

Then there was the time when Tif was in maybe the 2nd or 3rd grade, she and her friend across the street were walking home from school, & were arguing about something, & Tif whapped her friend in the stomach with her bookbag. Then Tif got home & she was crying about the fight. She got all the sympathy in the world...until Kev asked her about the way it ended & we found out that we hadn't known about the whap in the stomach with the bookbag!

And the time she had a friend stay overnight, and they found a way to have fun on the stairs...we were downstairs watching tv, and all of a sudden it sounded like a herd of rhinos! I got up & went around the corner to the bottom of the stairs, & Tif & her friend were sitting in laundry baskets, sliding down the stairs from the second floor to the first, banging to a sudden stop against the wall at the bottom of the stairs!

Wahh-hooo!!

Well, I went back to see my gp (Dr A) this morning, and I didn't have a heart attack! Cuz in the last 2 or 3 days, I've had a stress test, an echocardiagram, etc! But today, he was all smiley, and told me my stress test was great, & so was my echo...I said, well, what the hell was all that crap that had me scared half to death?? All he could think of was maybe Phyllis didn't put the leads in the right places...whatever....I still like Phyllis...

That pic up there at the top is Bro with Talan, and I'm at the bottom with him! I had everybody in my house the other day, so we NEEDED pictures!! And the other one is Truman...in his dreams!

So, anyway, I got back on my once-a-week avonex ms shots today. Thats what I was on for the first 13 yrs I had ms, then I stupidly got off of it & tried 3 other different things. I'm glad I did, cuz now I know what works for me & what doesnt! pheeeww...having ms is a f*n fulltime job!

Now I'm going to bed...they're scheduling my thyroid surgery tomorrow...

*Pads off with a self-satisfied smirk* LibbY!

..if it weren't for bad luck...

Well, so, Monday & Tuesday were my checkups with my ms dr (Monday) for surgery clearance, & my gp for the same thing Tuesday. Mon was fine...Tues my gp's assistant was giving me an ekg on my heart...she took the paper that printed out & went to the next room to show Dr A...he came hurrying back in and asked if I'd had any chest pain, and I said no...he asked if I was sure (no, I was lying...&*sarcasm*), then said "You've had a heart attack in the past, it looks like." Dear God, what else???
That brought me to the hospital yesterday for an *all day* resting stress test. Logically, now that I think about it...you go to the dr just for a once-over, and he tells you 'You've had a heart attack.', nope, no stress here...c'mon!
All of this stems from the one time Dr P did an mri on my c-spine too, just to check & make sure I had no ms scars on my spine...then she finds a node on my thyroid...then I get told I need a needle biopsy on it...it's 'indeterminate', so I need surgery...b4 surgery, I need checked...they find something else, & think I've had a frikkin heart attack in the past...just what the hell is up here?? Man! I'm the healthiest sick person I know...or the sickest healthy person.....
I really hate this part of my life, I really do.
I'm done for tonight....

slinks away, muttering... Libby...

time to laugh!

O-kay...I'm really sick of having to be serious! The movie "Shallow Hal" comes on at 4:00, and, even though I have the dvd, I'm watching it! That's about one of the funniest movies I've ever seen! Of course, I lmao'd at 'Weekend At Bernie's' 1 and 2, so...

I was on the phone with Kim last night, and she told me what she had done to her youngest boy a few years ago, when she & her kids went to Florida with her mom & dad (she's as good at the great American sport called "embarrassing your kids" as I am!). He was about 12 or 13, and they were at a motel. She & Boy2 were on the way to the pool, and he went around a corner in the motel, and said he had to go to the bathroom. There was a door to the bathroom, and he went in and locked it. Kim had her video camera, and was just wandering around filming this and that...then she went back to the bathroom door with the cam on, and started jiggling the doorknob "click-click-click-click". She said she heard him say in a low voice "There's somebody in here." She walked around for a minute, and went back to the door "Click-click-click-click-click-click", sounding more frantic. Here's Boy2, a little louder, "There's someone in here!" ...Kim takes one more circle around the lobby, then back to the door.."Click-click-click-click-click-click-click!", with an additional rap at the door. "There's someone in here!!" She said the camera got all shaky at this point, cuz she was laughing SO hard, but holding it in so he wouldn't hear her distinctive hyena-laugh! That's when he actually opened the door, & she zoomed in on his face. I can't wait to see this video! She's under orders to dig it out, I HAVE to see this!!

So you see...THIS is what I was lucky enough to immediately 'click' with in 8th grade & become inseparable with!

I went to bed last night with a bag of powdered donuts & a box of Cheez-its, & a can of Coke...*heavenly*! And I stupidly kept the tv on in there, so I had to keep watching 'Numb3rs' (I LOVE that show!)...maybe it's because of this....Charlie Eppes has it all on the outside, and, on the show, he knows physics, and that's...well puts his character at the top of the food chain. Or then there's this ...

Just in case anyone wonders...no, I'm not desperate for a guy...I prefer to be on my own at the moment! I'm doing exactly what guys do, ya know...appreciate something or someone that looks good!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

okay, i met the surgeon today...

Okay, now I know more of what's happening...I met the surgeon today. He wants to take my damn thyroid (Helene asked 'why? doesn't he have one if his own?'...she's good, wish I'dve thought to ask him!).Anyway, I was saying 'all of it??', and he explained that they don't know exactly what this "node" is, so, to avoid a future operation, he wants it all out now. Which is the best way, I guess...I'll be damned if I want him to slit my neck twice...he IS hot, but I gotta draw the line somewhere. So I hafta see my ms dr Monday, & my regular dr Tuesday, then he'll talk to them & set a date for surgery :-/ .

I'm thinking that I might ask Joe to go out for some beer before the surgery...that was not a mistake, yes, I did say some beer, not a beer. :-)

Anyway, the insurance is figured out, I'm keeping what I have through Kev's old job with cobra. Expensive, but cheaper than paying for all the hospital & surgery bills myself. And the drug company that makes my expensive ms once-a-week shot called yesterday & they'll work with me. Yeah, it has been a busy few days, why do you ask

Okay, done~! BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

OMG!! I see sun!!

...cuz it's finally sunny!!

I had to ask the guy across the street to come over & shovel off my ramp out back...hopefully for the last time this year!!

I had to just get a new template, because my personal hot programmer suggested that would be the best way to take care of it...soooo...

:-) sj!

I need to hurry, I have an appointment to meet a surgeon, for God's sake! Because my endocrinologist called last Monday morning (her, not her assistant) & said that my needle biopsy came back 'inconclusive'. I said, that means you don't know anything? And she said no...but I recommend surgery. Oh, holy crap, of course you would! Isn't that my luck in the last few years?? Grrrrrrrrrrrr!! And, of course...there's always that little fact about insurance...but...Kevin mentioned cobra (he's not getting it)...and I called the VZ benefits, and I can get it for myself, so I am, and probably at a reduced rate cuz my only income is SS disability! Yeah, it's way expensive, but surgery and the hospital stay would be a whole helluva lot more! So, I may write again later after I find out what he says...

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

...snow again,,,this shit is goign to drive Ohio & a lot of other states CRAZY...road rage? please...snow rage...

Tif brought Talan over yesterday! They were here all day, cuz Tif's nnot going back to being a hairstylist full time & she's only gonna do the dr's office on Saturdays. Good for her!! Look at Talan...he wants his Mommy! (& she wants him too!...can you blame either one??)

She's still selling Mary Kay, & she's gonna clean houses for people...I'll pay her for that! & I always get Mary Kay stuff! She cleaned here so well yesterday, even did about 5 loads of laundry! It's damn near sterile in here now! hahahaha!

Talan's hair is the same color as mine..reddish blonde!

So, yeah, I've actually been busy lately, attorneys, attorneys, attorneys...ergo, yadayadaya...

There's about 6 inches of snow on the ground now bleeeeaaaaaah! I am SO done with winter!!!

So, I don't have insurance after March 10. But whatever, I'm figuring all this out as it goes along...the great news is that I still feel really good, since I quit taking tysabri! And, actually, I got a needle biopsy Tuesday. I hurried up & got it ASAP when I found out Kev's job was gonna be gone at the end if the month. The needle biopsy really isn't quite as painful as it sounds. I think a lot of it is if you really like your dr., & trust her to stick a needle in your throat! I'll find out the results in a few days.

Bro's company does have a website. Which is good, if you need a business remodeled...http://stevensconstruction.net/

We were on the phone today, and he has as much attitude as ME at treasury secretary, "Timmy" Geithner. I guess what brought the subject up was me talking about doing my taxes, get it? I'm basically at the point "As soon as I see the secretary of the treasury do HIS taxes, I'll file mine..."

:-/

Haloscan quit its comments, so I spent all day today figuring out all kinda stuff in html..I still can't get rid of the bunch of numbers at the bottom...help?

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

740th post...

Wow, that's a whole helluva lot more than I knew!!

I feel lots better now...not "normal", but a whole helluva lot stronger...I can stand up from sitting without having to pull myself up by using the closest desk or counter, or table, or whatever! & my hands are strong again, I can cut my own nails again, for heaven's sake! You have no idea how crippled I felt two weeks ago...I can even straighten out my little finger on my right hand again, the one that my neuro thought I had nerve damage in my elbow! And...I have "goiter news" now! I went to the newest doctor in town, an endocrinologist, and she's really nice...she was with me talking for about 45 minutes and then she felt my throat, and she actually said she could feel the thing (I sure can't, & thank God I can't see it, either!) But, at that appt, she looked over the x-rays that I had with the radioactive stuff in me, and said it didn't look bad, not cancerous or anything, but give her some time to go over them in detail, & she'd get back to me to let me know if I needed a needle biopsy...well, I got a letter in the mail from her assistant today (she's super-nice, too!) that said she found nothing to worry about, just get back to her for a checkup on it in about 4 to 6 weeks! Wahh-hoo! I'm just so damn lucky, all the people I meet are always really nice, and I always have to wonder why everybody says people are awful...huh.
Even my dissolution lawyer...I've been told by Kevin 1, and another good friend from 9th grade that they each HATE him! Go figure...I like him...we get along good, he even goes to the back alley behind his office with me when I leave, so he can talk to me & have a cigarette. He's funny....I asked him once, "does the city realize how much more work you could do if you had an ashtray in youur office??" lol!
No, I haven't got together with Kevin 1 again yet...we both know that we will see each other soon, but both of us have shit-tons of stuff going on...he's been working 7 days a week for awhile, & he has an 8-yr old daughter who lives with him & his wife (that's ok...she knows all about me & he even had a girlfriend who lived with them for a few years...long story...he's lead guitar in a local rock band, you expect that, right? I always aspired to be a groupie, anyway!). This is the best kind of guy to get involved with, though...he won't want any more than I do...do you know what I mean? My goal is to NEVER get seriously involved with anyone again, & the only safe way to do that is be with someone else that wants that just as little as you do!
My friend from 9th grade, she hooked back up with me on FB...I have fun on there, really. But she was here Friday for a few hours, we haven't really been hanging around together for a few years, the last thing we did was go to a Def Leppard concert in Columbus in 1995...I remember telling her "they looked better in the 80's"...she looked at me, & said "didn't we all??" bwahahaha!! Dammit!! I didn't NEED to be reminded of that! She & her first husband hung out with me & my first husband, when I was pregnant with Tif! Now we're both single...she's a prison guard...Someday I'll ghostwrite some of HER stories too!!
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

I'm back...

Well, I'm back...I've actually been here, but, I had tons of stuff to deal with. Talan is GREAT, everybody! He sleeps all night, and needs to be woken up for his bottle, for heaven's sake! Sheesh! Tiff has the best baby, and a great husband...me, I had a fussy baby that never slept, I was 18, & in a miserable marriage, no $$, really hard labor (26 hours worth)...but I'm really glad her life is this way!! There's nothing better for a mom than to see her daughter have it easier than she did, right? I KNOW all the moms out there will agree with that!!
The reason I haven't been around at all is my f*cking ms, actually. It was getting worse by the minute, and I didn't know what to do...But, I finally put it all together, and decided to quit doing the tysabri, and I want to get back on my avonex once a week shots for ms, because it'd been 6 weeks since I had my last tysabri iv, and I was feeling a LOT better and stronger! Because they wouldn't give it to me at the four week interval, cuz I couldn't even stand up, and when I told the iv nurse that I had fallen 3 times that DAY before I got there, she said no, you need to see your neuro before I give this to you again. So, I did that, & it was pretty much the same...I was set up with another appt to get it again Thursday the 4th, but all of a sudden, I started to realize how much stronger I felt without it! My hands worked, and I could actually walk with my walker! OMG!! That's when I called my iv nurse, & told her take me off the schedule for the foreseeable future, I was SO done with the tysabri! And I still am! It's a great medicine for some people, but I'm not one of them! And, I know this is just a random thihngy on FB, but, wouldn't it speak to you??

On this day, God wants you to know...
... that today you have a cause for celebration. Today, you should celebrate what an unbelievable life you have had so far: the accomplishments, the many blessings, and, yes, even the hardships because they have served to make you stronger. Just as a gem cannot be polished without friction, nor can a life be perfected without trials. Take a time to acknowledge your life and to praise yourself.

Wow...damn..wow! So fitting...

Okay...I'm sitting here watching "Confessions Of A Serial Killer", on MSNBC, about Jeffrey Dahmer. Remember when that story happened? I do. I'll never forget that! I was at work at GTE then.Those were big 'news years' ya know? There was the OJ trial too. & the Laci Peterson story, which I could SEE that Scott Peterson was guilty the first time I looked at him! Am I sick that I can remember all this? And Caylee Anthony, and Haleigh Cummings in Florida...
Okay, I hafta order dinner...macaroni & cheese (their secret ingredient is cottage cheese!) & a big ground steak sandwich with mushrooms! (you can either get 1/4 lb or 1/2 lb!)
BoUnCeS!! LibbY!
Did you laugh your ass off when you made the connection that Mr Krabs (from spongebob) lives in Bikini Bottoms??

Talan Carter..

Born 8:05 am January 22, 2010...6 lbs 14 oz...19 inches...perfectly healthy...labor was only from 10 pm 1.21.10, Tif had no problems!!!
WEE~HAAWW!!! Now I'm going to bed...

fun with facebook...

Decade in review...(thanks, sj!!)....http://www.newlaunches.com/entry_images/1209/31/2000-2010.php





I stole that from sj's facebook page a few weeks ago...and, yes, I did ask permission to use it! See? There is good stuff on FB!





I also spent 2 hours Sunday night 'playing' memory games with the facebook friends I have that went to the same elementary school (K-5!). One of 'our' gang posted one of the 3rd grade pictures of the whole class, with about 25 or 26 kids in it, and about 6 of us from across the country were trying to name them all! And after a couple hours, we had almost all of them! I think I remembered the most last names. Then we started talking about the names of the kids...in our class, there were 5 'Jeffs'! Seriously, do you ever think of that, how different the names are now? Who is naming their boys Jeff anymore? Or girls named Lori (with an O not AU!)? Or Lisa? Or, we had a Mary, Jerri, & Terri, & a Sheri...or Ann...Amy...Arlene...Dan. Geez...well, I have no business saying anything about that...Tiffany isn't exactly a Lisa or Lori...:-/

I finally went to the doctor today about my flu symptoms that I've had for about 3 weeks. I wasn't going to, until Tif pushed me into it yesterday, and I thought about it & realized if I didn't, I might be barred from the delivery room!

~~~~~~~~~~~ oh, hey...congratulations, Scott Brown, new Massachusetts senator!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(R)

I watched this race all day!!! It's not so much a vote for Republican-ism, but it's more like what everybody thought when they voted for Obama....CHANGE!! And I'm not Republican...I'm independant or libertarian.

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

randoms...

Is anyone else catching the irony of the tv commercial for Viagra that says at the bottom "See our ad in Golf Digest".

I ordered another book from ebay, "Game Change". Next is "Lords of Finance", and the book about Cloward & Piven. I'm too much into the news & politics, and everything...

Still waiting for Mr Talan to make his grand appearance...at first he was in this big fat hurry, now he's settled down, he's a little bit ready, but the last time she thought he was ready, they sent her home, telling her to walk a lot. OMG! My poor baby! I know she's still got about 2 weeks to go, but she's so uncomfortable...acid reflux, which she's never had before! Her friends said to drink milk, but then her doctor said not to, cuz as soon as it hits your stomach it starts to sour....bleeeeaaahhh!

I've told you all about the friends I hooked back up with on FB, from forever ago...a couple of the boys (ok, men, now!) that I used to play with on recess in elementary school (the school that used to be 1/2 block down the street from where I live now!)...well, one used to be a lawyer in Chicago, but he just recently got appointed to be a federal judge...the other does documentary films for, like, the History Channel, TRUTV, etc...he's got pictures on his FB page of a lot of the places he's filmed, like Turkey, and Iraq...etc. Meanwhile, here I still sit...

I am still im-ing & emailing with my boyfriend from 30 years ago...we DO have tons of stuff to catch up on...not only does he have a full-time + job, he also plays guitar in a band And he's still hot...but I haven't gotten together with him...no time yet for either one of us...

I hope everybody will give what they can to the Red Cross for Haiti.. Text Haiti to 90999 and that makes an automatic $10 donation for ya, and I think that's a great way to make it easy for people! I don't have a phone to text with, but I just went to red cross.org.

Okay...I guess I'm done...I'm gonna watch Geraldo!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!

...short post...

Hey, everybody~! Sorry, I've been noticeably absent from all the blogs lately, not just mine (just so ya know I'm not prejudiced...I'm being a "blog snob" to everybody here)!!

I've been busy reading again, cuz, you know that's the favorite option on days where it's like 16 degrees F outside, and my deck & ramp get shoveled off every time I call the kid across the street that also runs my trash out to the street every week. I haven't asked him to shovel the deck/ramp this week. Bro came over and just out of the blue (Saturday), shoveled all of it, & out to the street, then sat down & asked could he go get anything for me? Wow! He's just a great guy. So he got me milk & candy bars & gum...etc...then my friend from church came over & helped me with a couple loads of laundry, & took my grocery list to WalMart for me, so I'm set...oh, and then her mom came over to get something from her, & she came in & met Truman too...my cat has groupies for God's sake! He's gonna need his own blog & FB page soon, I'm sure...sheeshhh...

Speaking of FB...I've been checking that a little more lately...and I'm really glad I must not've been totally awful to too many people in the past! Cuz between Google & this blog & FB, 4 people have got in touch with me (it's all okay), well, more than 4, but the others were from my high school class reunion, and today I got an email on there, and it was from Kim's first boyfriend, when we were 15 & running around with Kevin1...I'd go to his house & Kim would go in the opposite direction to B's...keep in mind, we walked all over town...we were 14/15! He just said he remembered me from 28 years ago...holy mother of God! He only remembered me because I'm using my high school graduation picture on there...oh, & duh, I use my high school last name too...

So, that's most of what I've been doing, I have lots of books from my ebay certificate, Middle East For Dummies, Bold Fresh, by Bill O'Reilly; Going Rogue by Sarah Palin; Always Looking Up...Adventures of an Incurable Optimist, by Michael J Fox! And that one means a lot to me, a blog friend in Arizona who is as crazy about ghosts & reading & writing as I am...! I've only 'met' one person that reads books the way I do (Christine, I'm talkin' 'bout you!) Read 3 or 4 at a time, just have one in every room you go in, and you'll always have something to read! The other night the scariest "Twilight Zone" was on. It's called 'The Librarian', and it's about a guy who's as addicted to reading as I am, but he works at a bank all the time & has an awful wife, & never has TIME to read. One day a nuclear (I think) bomb went off & wiped out the bank, his wife, his life...but he walked down the street & came upon the public library, which was all collapsed & everything...but there were books ALL OVER....the classics, poems, Shakespeare...he had all kinds of time now, he thought, so he grabbed an armful, & tried to find a place to sit in the rubble. Then he lost his footing, & his great big thick hornrimmed glasses that he was pretty much blind without fell off his face...as he's feeling around for them...he steps on them & they're crushed! I'll probably have nightmares about that tonight!

BoUnCeS!! LibbY!