House Beautiful

House Fail

Want a closer look?

Yeah.  That would be the driveway/road to the house.  Bet you could buy it cheap!

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And now for the manic part:

What is the longest love relationship (partner) you have had, and if it has ended, why? 5 years (if you don’t count the never-ending marriage.  Don’t ask.)  Why did it end?  Wow. Um.  We both got together for so many messed up reasons.  My part in the end was I started  focusing on building a career and J. just wanted to work and party.  I gave in to things I didn’t want to , J. did the same and we never really communicated.  My fault just as much as J’s.  We won’t even talk about the cheating.  It became a tit-fot-tat thing and blew up.  Looking back, I wonder if we ever knew each other at all.

What is on your bedside table? My CPAP,  a bottle of my sleeping pills, The Far Sweet Thing, my shots, and my .40.

How many pillows do you have on your bed? Do you make your bed every day? Three.  When I lived alone, I had five.  I should totally pull the ones from the spare bed.  Yes, I make it everyday.  Isn’t that what good girls do?  I like things neat.  What can I say.

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Happy Monday y’all!

From the lake… more interesting pictures in coming days since I have nothing else.

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I know it’s a little long, but go ahead, it’s a Saturday… watch it.

It’s not to late to donate… Isela, Sam or Claudia

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Happy Saturday y’all!

They’re here!  The Team Crankypants buttons.  Cookie has finally said I could release them upon you all.  Remember, no hotlinking!  Save to your own computer.

First, the blog button:

And the Ravatar:

Important copyright schtuff: The bunny character was yanked from The Bunny under this Creative Commons license thingy.

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Since y’all want me to post and I have no content, I went out on the lake Tuesday and snapped some pictures.  It’s been far too hot to do it since then.  Well, unless I went out at 6 a.m.  It’s 7 am and already 80 degrees (26.7 C ).

Anyway, the point!  I had one before I got sidetracked.  Really.

Eye Candy Friday: Bird Edition

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Anyone else having problems with the new WP upgrade and using flickr?  I hate companies that “improve” stuff.  /sigh

Like soda.  Have you noticed the stuff they’re making with real sugar right now – around here it’s Pepsi and Dr. Pepper… it has less calories than the stuff with high fructose corn syrup in it.

Must.stop.  Before I go into my whole rant about hfcs.

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Thank GOD it’s Friday.  Happy Weekend y’all!

I wasn’t going to do this, but it’s a tough year for fund raising and this year, it’s kind of close to my heart. (and eye, and brain – harhar)

Readers who have been around for a while know that in November of last year, I was officially diagnosed with MS.  Here on the blog, I mostly joke about the “thing in my head” and barely speak of it at all anymore.

I literally woke up one morning and pretty much couldn’t see out of 3/4 of my right eye.  Within the first 48 hours, I saw 4 different doctors and had an MRI.  Which led to a lumbar puncture (ick!) and being wired up and made to watch a flashing checkerboard, a blood workup that used 18 (yes, 18) tubes and another MRI.

With two courses of steroids, the eye thing finally cleared up enough that I can drive at night again,  watch tv,  sit at the computer and read without getting a raging headache and nauseous.

Since then, they’ve found more spots, I’ve been wired up again  and had electricity shot through nerves in my limbs to my head, I’ve had some problems with my one leg* and other issues.  Let’s just say that MS can affect EVERYTHING.

* Heat intolerance is one of the icky things that happens. While you’re not having an actual relapse and new damage, you may have symptoms appear or worsen due to heat exposure.  (What makes this different is that once you cool down, the issues subside, there is no new damage)

Right now, the treatments that they have for relapsing-remitting MS (there are different kinds) are better than they were even 10 years ago.  But it still sucks.  The one I’m on is a daily shot that takes 9 months to become effective and even then, it might not work.  It’s suppossed to cut your MS occurrences by a third.  If I do get a flare, it’s the old standby of steroids – y’all know what those do to you right?

So, the point of this was to make it personal for y’all.  The MS Rides are this weekend and they need your help.

My wonderful friend Isela (of Purling Sprite) and her husband Sam are riding in Utah. Isela wants to raise $750 and is only at $500.  Sam wants to raise $500 and is only at $175.  (yes, click on their name and you’ll be taken to their donation page)

I’m sure everyone has heard of Claudia too.  Her goal is $30,000 and so far, she’s raised over $24,000.

So, pick one.  Donate.  Even a dollar makes a difference.

Help a girl out.

Happy Thursday y’all!

::: blows off the dust ::::

Yeah, it’s been a few days. *ahem*

I actually had to go to the blog because I forgot what it looked like.

O.o

It’s much too cheery.  I think I’ll need to look into changing it again.

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I’m here, I’m alive and I’m tired and cranky.

Call off the search parties, interventions and snipers.

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Speaking of cranky… I’ve been told that I am joining Team Crankypants and so, I am.

I’d insert a blog button and ravatar here, but I’m waiting for the grand pooobah to get image approval from someone – who lives in another country, so I’m totally not blaming her.  Really.

Plus, she got stuck with that job since she’s really good at making boys do things she wants.

O.o

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Random pictures from his week home:

Turtle, turtle… trying to get back to the lake after possibly laying her eggs. Or she decided she was going to take the shortcut walking ACROSS the point instead of swimming around it.

Heh.  No, that tree is not supposed to be  leaning on the other one like that.  And that other fresh cut at the bottom of the straight tree?  Obviously NOT the one that was holding the leaning one up.  Yeah.  I offered my support and adoration from up on the deck.  With a cool glass of ice water.

What?!?

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Happy whatever the hell day it is y’all!

So y’all don’t think I died or something.  Here you go:

1. I grew up thinking I was going to rule the world. (not really, but I had nothing else)

2. Joan’s was the last website I was at before coming here.

3. Why don’t you just f*%k off? (*ahem* this guns n roses song came to mind – I don’t know why)

4. Booze Cleaning or knitting helps me relax.

5. Thanks for the memories.

6. Rabid bible belt Christians are very off-putting. (it’s a little weird down here with mega churches and retreat centers and places to send your kids when they don’t conform to your Christian ideals and the little “faith battles” between the different denominations.  Doesn’t it all boil down to believing in the same person/deity?  Why are you right and everyone else is wrong?) :::stepping off soapbox:::

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to the day to be over, tomorrow my plans include picking him up from the airport and Sunday, I want to maybe come up for air and get our shopping done for the week!

♥ Happy Friday week y’all! ♥

I’m totally stealing this from everywhere I read it this morning. Eh, since I still have Jessa-Lu’s page up, I’ll credit her – I’m just nice like that.  Or something.

Ten things I like to do with “me” time

01. Take a nice long soak in the tub with smelly girly stuff and something to read

02. Knit – specifically lace since I have a hard time following a conversation AND a chart. Although I can follow a t.v. show and a chart. Hmmm. Don’t get it.

03. Read.

04. Clean and organize… shut up.  Yes, I do like to clean. Yes, I may have a touch of OCD.

05. Fish

06. Take care of the plants.  Maybe next year this will include a real garden. I’ve a plan in my head and just need a willing victim to help me implement it.

07. Be in nature.  Sitting on the deck watching the lake, the wildlife, the trees.  Maybe at the land on the tractor.  Air, sun, wind.

08. Do things to make our home nicer.  This week it happens to be waxing his old desk. Last week, it was putting stuff of the shelf above the door.  If he’d let me chainsaw, I’d take down a tree or two.

09. Embroidery and cross stitch.  I think I actually like embroidering (on hand painted canvas) better because I can pick a stitch for that section and just go.  Although, sometimes the counting of the cross stitch can be soothing.  See.  OCD & ADD

10. Wii.  I’ve not really played any of the games since I got the Fit.  I’d love to sit down and just play

Happy Tuesday y’all!

Saturday Sunday Sky

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Yeah, so what… I’m a day or so behind.  Even in my email.  Bad blogger.  Luckily, this week should be easier?  Well, besides the usual “OMG! He’s coming home!” flurry of activity.

And the waxing of the desk.

No, that’s not a euphemism for anything.  Just an old wood desk that need some TLC.

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I’m still adjusting to the new med thing.  I’m all hyped up one day and crash the next.

I’d love to film the hopped up days and watch myself.  It has to be amusing.

Guess what day today is?

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Here’s this week’s UM’s… actually sort of on time.

1. Hockey :: tonsil
2. Twirling ::tongue
3. Montreal ::vacation
4. Better :: than before
5. New :: directions
6. Rally :: cheerleaders
7. Stanley :: hardware
8. USB :: dirty stick
9. Scouted :: locations
10. Cough :: sputter

Happy Sunday y’all!