Sunday April 3 2022

[Joe NightingMale, MSN, RN]

Tweety glad the anxiety level is better

Dianah I saw a few birds although less than usual.   Usually I just have the cornbread by itself

Stars the song was from Warren Zevon, I think in the late 70s

Ado I hope the vet  can come up with a solution for the dog

NJ22 glad Angus doesn't need treatment  right now

Going to have to skip morning meditation, forgot to set my alarm and slept in a bit

Was feeling good yesterday, perhaps because work is going better or because I'm working harder at controlling anxiety or both.

Was a fairly quiet day.  Bird watching in the morning, was cold and fairly muddy out.  Came home and made cornbread and amaretto.  Ran an errand or two, did some laundry, and watched Svegoolie.  Think I like Werewolf of London better than The  Wolf Man

Before church I'll cook some pasta and do some more laundry.  After church I'll meet J for lunch.  His birthday is Tuesday and while  he doesn't celebrate I'm am going to bring a card and pay for lunch, that should be low key enough for him.  I'll come home and finish the pasta sauce and exercise

Going to get up to 50 today, hoping for  no more rain

 

 

 

 

[Tweety, BSN, RN]

Good morning.

Good news about Angus, J22.   

Amo, sorry Villanova got beat but good on then for making it this far. Kansas is the best team in the country.

Quiet morning, dad made a vegan breakfast for me.  Mom and sister are still asleep. Mom stays up late and sleeps late   Her knee is really affected her.  anut she declined a replacement years ago and isn't a good candidate now.  

Dad is a Carolina fan and happy they won.  I watched a movie in Amazon.  I went to UNC and worked at Duke.  Duke as my pick but happy for UNC.   

Going to probably take a drive around.  Can't get list with GPS.  Might go to my old high school and settle some memories. 

Sats it's too cold for this Floridan.  Was in the 40s this morning. But sunny? and warming up  

[Just Julie]

Good morning/afternoon everyone. I expect today to be pretty uneventful. Going to make a low fat dinner for mom and take her some soup and Tylenol. She doesn't want to take the Percocet. She is super afraid of addiction because she only got clear of all the pain meds for chronic back pain a couple of years ago.

Other than that, I'm still cleaning and reducing the extra stuff in the house. 

Still vaguely flirting with the thought of selling the house or maybe renting it out. OK, maybe more than flirting. I made an appointment with a realtor just to see what options are there and if those options are realistic. 

Trying to not be too anxious about what this week may have in store for me.  I desperately want an answer, regardless of what it may be. Hate sitting in limbo. I can deal with whatever happens but not until I know what that's going to be. 

Seriously considering taking a break from everything and traveling around the country for a while. Not working, just exploring. My van is set up for road trips and camping already. It might be a nice change of pace. Having a small case of wanderlust just now. 

Realistically, I should probably stay off of Youtube and focus on getting things right in my life.  But what exactly "right" is, I don't know. Is it really just working and paying bills and taxes for another 15 or so years? Or could it be following my heart and actually living instead of just existing? Funny thing about that is that as far as jobs go, nursing is the only thing I have ever truly loved for work. And I am pretty sure travel nursing is off the table. 

OK, enough for now with these rambling and random things.

I hope you all have a beautiful day.

[amoLucia]

WOOP WOOP WOOP!  Finally made my edible steel cut oatmeal that I recd on March 25 delivery. I botched 2 prev attempts, so I'm just plumb tickled. Had to buy oatmeal from Amazon as my local shop-from-home delivery service stopped carrying it. Amazon did carry it, but I think some exorbitant pricing (Port of of Angeles) affected the price. I'm not spending $10+ for a box of oatmeal, so a generic brand was fine!

Oh, and my new socks are just terrific. My CHUBBY fat Fred Flintstone feet (with LL edema) needs super bariatric socks. These are wonderful!

I immed started using the replacement reacher-grabber sticks. It's weird when such simple things give such happies!

Couple other things I need to set in place.

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Sunny with cool winds, and a still-dissatisfied Nannie. ? (about the remainder of the cut wood that is still in the back yard.)

I'm sorry to say that I had no new song in my head when I woke up, just the starting verses in the one that was plaguing me yesterday. So, y'all are off the hook and don't have to 'listen' to my (typed) song lyrics today.

Not being sad about Ozzie, because I know it was 'time', but through-out the day I find myself almost about to do something he surely doesn't need anymore, like washing and refilling the water-bowls, or being really, really quiet when opening up some foods that have crackling wrappers, and, of course, making sure he goes out to pee BEFORE I sit down to supper. He always seemed to need to go out when I was part way through eating my meal. Just a bunch of little things that I was in the habit of taking care of for him. Don't need to block the door of my room with a baby-gate at night, to keep him in the room, stuff like that.

We have got a full-blown Spring season going on here...except it would be nice if it was in the 70's instead of in the 60's. But, OH WELL!!

Have to remember to call that little pharmacy to make sure they still have enough J&J vaccine, and see if we can just do a walk-in on Monday, or do we have to make an appointment? They aren't open on Sundays, believe it or not!

Joe, my younger brother is not a birthday celebrator, either. Best card I ever found for him was one with this emoji  on the front (only larger) ?, and inside the card were the words: "Have a day."

Julie, I am not a facebooker. Once, a LONG time ago I started to sign in, but the more I thought about it, the less I liked the idea. At the time, they sent me a message that said if I cancelled facebook, I didn't have to option to sign up with them again. Well, poop-poop-de-doop. Like I could give a ______(fill in the blank with your own word). Hubby is on facebook, and he's happy with it. It helps him keep in touch with old friends and relatives and ex-co-workers (we are both retired) I am, for the most part, not so great at staying connected with most folks from my past. Some of those I would've preferred to keep in touch with are kind of like me: move elsewhere, and disappear. Never have been able to track any of 'em down. Que sera sera...

Time to watch the 'gnus' on ABC---- (no emoji's resembling a gnu, and why would there be?)

One more thing- Tweety, There is a FROST WARNING for tonight in my area of NC. When do you get to go back home to the warmer weather? 

 

[No Stars In My Eyes]

Oh, I just went back and noticed Julie said Youtube, not facebook. I confess to skating through Youtube sometimes, mostly dog videos. I am a sucker for dogs. And I like to show Nannie amusing things every once in a while; she likes babies. If there is a baby or toddler on TV in a show or in a commercial, she says, "Loo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-k...oh, how precious." She says that EVERY SINGLE TIME. I have trained myself to NOT look, mainly because I either look too late to see what she was cooing over or because I have seen it, whatever it is (commercial) already so many times.