Friday, June 8, 2007
Thursday, June 7, 2007
Bad Tooth
I should be doing dishes. I think I'll do this instead. If I sit here and look intent on something, maybe everyone will think I'm doing banking or something. I'll be sure to let out a heavy sigh every now and again.
I had a crappy day today.
I had a dentist apt at 12:00. I woke up sick and it just got worse. It was so bad, I had "back sweat". I don't know if that's something only fat people get or if it happens to everyone who's losing their mind. As it got closer to the time to leave, the sicker I got. My Mom showed up at about 11:00 to drive me to town. They told me I would need a driver. We got half way there and had to turn around and come home so I could swallow some more stomache medicine. I was hoping she would just tell me to call and cancel. Everyone knows my Mother doesn't have a lot of tolerance. I think maybe she was getting some sick satisfaction from my misery....you know, like maybe she considered it payback for when I was a pain in the ass in 1983. Anywho, lucky for me I had written down the apt time wrong and I was already to late. Bummer.
Ok, so I have to go pick up another round of anti-biotics (the third) and go back in on the 18th. They also prescribed Valium. Quite a bit of it. I am to start taking it the night before my apt.
Whatever.
Gk is doing pretty good today. He is still having really bad swelling in his ankles and pain in his feet and knees. He is on his third day of prednisone and not noticing much of a difference yet. A physical therapist came to the house yesterday and will be back tomorrow. I don't know how PT will help with the swelling, he needs to just put his feet up. Try telling him that. I mean he knows, it's just getting him to do it.
Tomorrow afternoon we go in for his Lupron shot. That's the hormone shot for his cancer. It cost's a thousand dollars, so after he gets it we all joke around about GK and his "Golden Ass".
I made him and Wyatt sack lunches today to have while I was gone. Wyatt ended up going with us and GK ate most of his before I left. He is steadily gaining, when he got home his weight was downt to 171, now he's at 187. Still my goal weight, but great for him. He still has ten or so to go, but he's getting there.
Wyatt had his first day of summer vacation today. He cleaned his room. Did you see it on his blog yesterday? It looked like my room before I married Mike : )
He spent quite a bit of time in the pasture tonight looking at the dead sheep. It's been dead for almost a month now, so it looks more like a sheep skin rug with a skull that stinks. He thinks it's pretty cool.
I really need to go do the dishes now.
See Ya
I had a crappy day today.
I had a dentist apt at 12:00. I woke up sick and it just got worse. It was so bad, I had "back sweat". I don't know if that's something only fat people get or if it happens to everyone who's losing their mind. As it got closer to the time to leave, the sicker I got. My Mom showed up at about 11:00 to drive me to town. They told me I would need a driver. We got half way there and had to turn around and come home so I could swallow some more stomache medicine. I was hoping she would just tell me to call and cancel. Everyone knows my Mother doesn't have a lot of tolerance. I think maybe she was getting some sick satisfaction from my misery....you know, like maybe she considered it payback for when I was a pain in the ass in 1983. Anywho, lucky for me I had written down the apt time wrong and I was already to late. Bummer.
Ok, so I have to go pick up another round of anti-biotics (the third) and go back in on the 18th. They also prescribed Valium. Quite a bit of it. I am to start taking it the night before my apt.
Whatever.
Gk is doing pretty good today. He is still having really bad swelling in his ankles and pain in his feet and knees. He is on his third day of prednisone and not noticing much of a difference yet. A physical therapist came to the house yesterday and will be back tomorrow. I don't know how PT will help with the swelling, he needs to just put his feet up. Try telling him that. I mean he knows, it's just getting him to do it.
Tomorrow afternoon we go in for his Lupron shot. That's the hormone shot for his cancer. It cost's a thousand dollars, so after he gets it we all joke around about GK and his "Golden Ass".
I made him and Wyatt sack lunches today to have while I was gone. Wyatt ended up going with us and GK ate most of his before I left. He is steadily gaining, when he got home his weight was downt to 171, now he's at 187. Still my goal weight, but great for him. He still has ten or so to go, but he's getting there.
Wyatt had his first day of summer vacation today. He cleaned his room. Did you see it on his blog yesterday? It looked like my room before I married Mike : )
He spent quite a bit of time in the pasture tonight looking at the dead sheep. It's been dead for almost a month now, so it looks more like a sheep skin rug with a skull that stinks. He thinks it's pretty cool.
I really need to go do the dishes now.
See Ya
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
New Blood
Wow. Busy two days.
Yesterday we got Wyatt off to school and took the dogs (poodles) in to the groomer. When we got home, GK's ankles were swollen and KILLING him. We called the doctor and made an apointment. We had to go all the way across town to get to his Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday office. We had to use a wheelchair to get in the buuilding and up to his office. The doctor got a look at him and thinks it may have to do with his heart problems, the swelling anyway. He can't take a diuretic to take the fluid off though because his kidneys are still to dehydrated from the last round. Then there's the pain....it is so bad, it hurts just to stand .
So, Prednisone.
It has it's oogy side effects, but I guess it's better than the alternative.
So we head home, stop in the pharmacy only to find out nothing has been called in yet.
Go get the dogs.
Thats way the other way out.
We get the dogs and the groomer tells us the little one has a bad eye and needs to go to the vet.
We get home, call the vet and they say eye problems are bad news and we need to come in asap. We go in to the vet's office and sit and wait for an HOUR with half the dogs in the county. Stinky.
The vet looks at her eye and thinks she may been poked by grass or something outside. By this time the smell was gagging me and when I mentioned it, she said she should maybe check Ashley's anal glands. Sweet JESUS! Not the anal glands. Don't even SAY anal glands when I'm already so close to gagging. But not only did she say it, she did it. Gross.
Lucky for me, Ashley was not having any anal gland malfunctions.
Ok, so now we head to town to pick up GK's medicine and then home for dinner. I bbq'd burgers and they turned out really good. I was tired and GK was still hurting really bad and Mike had to get up at butt:crack o'clock to haul groceries to the coast today, so we all went to bed early.
We went in for a blood transfusion today. GK's legs and feet still killing him. He started the prednisone this morning, but it will take a day or two to kick in. We had to go to the lab first and then into day surgery where they have nice chairs and tv's set up. The transfusion takes between four to six hours. Once they got the blood going, I went to get the tabs for my car.
The DMV looks like Ellis Island.
Give us your poor, your tired and your taco's.
Good Lord.
I was there forever.
Then I went to Mom's to drop off her doggy playpen she forgot here last week. I got to see her new furniture and all her new landscaping.
She made me a little something to eat as I was suffering from low blood sugar.
Then I came home to get GK's med list that no one told me I would need. That's when I got the e.mail from Kate telling me the Texas Jackass was losing his house. My day suddenly got better. : )
As I started back to town I drove past a flat cat on the road. It was ours. I got kinda sick.
By the time I got back to the hospital with some Oreos (by the way, that was the name of our newly flattened cat)
and a coke for GK, General Hospital was on.
We sat there in the hospital, eating cookies, drinking coke-a-cola watching GH.
Life is good when your spending time with a friend.
By the time we got home, the flat cat had been removed from the road. That's a good thing.
It turns out, Wyatt got home from school early today, but "enjoyed the time to himself".
I asked how the kittens were and he said fine, Oreo and the kittens were upstairs sleeping.
I said "what"
He said..."Oreo and the kittens are upstairs sleeping"
I said...."No, Oreo got hit by a car"
He gave me the retard look and told me to go upstairs and see for myself.
Oreo and the kittens were upstairs sleeping.
I'm going to go start dinner.
Maybe later I'll go upstairs and play with the kittens and their Mother.
Yesterday we got Wyatt off to school and took the dogs (poodles) in to the groomer. When we got home, GK's ankles were swollen and KILLING him. We called the doctor and made an apointment. We had to go all the way across town to get to his Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday office. We had to use a wheelchair to get in the buuilding and up to his office. The doctor got a look at him and thinks it may have to do with his heart problems, the swelling anyway. He can't take a diuretic to take the fluid off though because his kidneys are still to dehydrated from the last round. Then there's the pain....it is so bad, it hurts just to stand .
So, Prednisone.
It has it's oogy side effects, but I guess it's better than the alternative.
So we head home, stop in the pharmacy only to find out nothing has been called in yet.
Go get the dogs.
Thats way the other way out.
We get the dogs and the groomer tells us the little one has a bad eye and needs to go to the vet.
We get home, call the vet and they say eye problems are bad news and we need to come in asap. We go in to the vet's office and sit and wait for an HOUR with half the dogs in the county. Stinky.
The vet looks at her eye and thinks she may been poked by grass or something outside. By this time the smell was gagging me and when I mentioned it, she said she should maybe check Ashley's anal glands. Sweet JESUS! Not the anal glands. Don't even SAY anal glands when I'm already so close to gagging. But not only did she say it, she did it. Gross.
Lucky for me, Ashley was not having any anal gland malfunctions.
Ok, so now we head to town to pick up GK's medicine and then home for dinner. I bbq'd burgers and they turned out really good. I was tired and GK was still hurting really bad and Mike had to get up at butt:crack o'clock to haul groceries to the coast today, so we all went to bed early.
We went in for a blood transfusion today. GK's legs and feet still killing him. He started the prednisone this morning, but it will take a day or two to kick in. We had to go to the lab first and then into day surgery where they have nice chairs and tv's set up. The transfusion takes between four to six hours. Once they got the blood going, I went to get the tabs for my car.
The DMV looks like Ellis Island.
Give us your poor, your tired and your taco's.
Good Lord.
I was there forever.
Then I went to Mom's to drop off her doggy playpen she forgot here last week. I got to see her new furniture and all her new landscaping.
She made me a little something to eat as I was suffering from low blood sugar.
Then I came home to get GK's med list that no one told me I would need. That's when I got the e.mail from Kate telling me the Texas Jackass was losing his house. My day suddenly got better. : )
As I started back to town I drove past a flat cat on the road. It was ours. I got kinda sick.
By the time I got back to the hospital with some Oreos (by the way, that was the name of our newly flattened cat)
and a coke for GK, General Hospital was on.
We sat there in the hospital, eating cookies, drinking coke-a-cola watching GH.
Life is good when your spending time with a friend.
By the time we got home, the flat cat had been removed from the road. That's a good thing.
It turns out, Wyatt got home from school early today, but "enjoyed the time to himself".
I asked how the kittens were and he said fine, Oreo and the kittens were upstairs sleeping.
I said "what"
He said..."Oreo and the kittens are upstairs sleeping"
I said...."No, Oreo got hit by a car"
He gave me the retard look and told me to go upstairs and see for myself.
Oreo and the kittens were upstairs sleeping.
I'm going to go start dinner.
Maybe later I'll go upstairs and play with the kittens and their Mother.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Sunday Evening
Well, another weekend on the Ranch winds to an end. The weather has cooled and the wind is starting to blow.
We had another busy day today, with John over finishing the floor this morning, Mike cleaning the garage and I cleaned the little house. Mike also took the old screen in the door in to be fixed and did some finish up grocery shopping in town. The little house is a nightmare. So much stuff and nowhere to put it. GK really wants to rent it out, but first we have to empty it and have the roof repaired. We showed it to two couples today. The top two. I didn't care for either of them. The first couple was really pushy. More like they were buying the farm instead of renting the house. Nope.
The other couple was young, and she has a roomate with two kids and he has a kid from another woman that he has on weekends.
Nope.
I think I will try and talk GK into waiting until the roof is finished to pursue renters.
We had bbq porkchops with a fresh green salad (spun dry), scalloped spuds and corn for dinner. Yum.
I need to get GK's ice cream ready and Wyatt out of the tub.
Soprano's tonight, school in the morning.
Later
We had another busy day today, with John over finishing the floor this morning, Mike cleaning the garage and I cleaned the little house. Mike also took the old screen in the door in to be fixed and did some finish up grocery shopping in town. The little house is a nightmare. So much stuff and nowhere to put it. GK really wants to rent it out, but first we have to empty it and have the roof repaired. We showed it to two couples today. The top two. I didn't care for either of them. The first couple was really pushy. More like they were buying the farm instead of renting the house. Nope.
The other couple was young, and she has a roomate with two kids and he has a kid from another woman that he has on weekends.
Nope.
I think I will try and talk GK into waiting until the roof is finished to pursue renters.
We had bbq porkchops with a fresh green salad (spun dry), scalloped spuds and corn for dinner. Yum.
I need to get GK's ice cream ready and Wyatt out of the tub.
Soprano's tonight, school in the morning.
Later
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Some Like it Hot
I am so flippin hot, I don't know how I'm going to make it through the summer. I think I need to buy a bikini at K-Mart tomorrow. I could just walk around the house in a bikini top and a sarong. Not a thong...sarong. Maybe not. GK is still recovering from a heart episode, I don't want to throw him into another. Could you imagine....what seemed to be the cause of Mr.Fahrenholz's stress? Well you see Doc, it was hot outside so I decided to put my bikini on. My Grampy got one look, threw up a little in his mouth, and that was it. The big one. I can't carry that kind of bikini burden.
We had a very busy day today. It started early when John came to finish the floor. I was making waffles, GK was eating waffles and John was contemplating the state of the floor. Molding. The floor has been finished for quite a while, GK has just been waiting for John to "finish" the finish work. Things were looking good, like it may just get done. There was a problem with the liquid nails. They didn't hold. So maybe tomorrow he will "finish" the finish work. Mike went and bought a differt kind of liquid nails for him. Cross your fingers.
Mike went to license the wagon. He passed DEQ and raced to DMV, but couldn't get the tabs because I had to sign for them. Dumb huh? I will go get them Monday.
While he was gone I cleaned 84 chicken eggs to take to my Mother to sell in her apartment complex. She already has buyers lined up, and for a couple bucks a dozen that will buy our feed.
Then we went to K-Mart and bought a salad spinner because Julie said EVERYONE needs a salad spinner. Now I have one.
Then we went to Costco and stocked up like Mormans. No offense Lindy, Mormans are prepared for anything.
Then we went to Target to buy bags for the seal a meal to save everything we bought.
Then we went to Home Depot and bought a tomatoe plant.
Then we went to Albertsons and got GK's medicine and some salad dressing to put atop ournewly soon to be dried salad.
Then we went to Blockbuster and got The Good Shepard and some Wallace and Gromit.
Then we came home.
Then we went to the Pink Feather for prime rib, Gk's treat.
Pretty nice.
I think the 80 year old waitress had her eye on GK.
Then Wyatt and I played ball in the yard and did his video blog.
Such a nice day.....only to end with a call from Jackass in Texas.
I think were done with him. I ended the call by telling him that from now on I only wish to speak with his attorney.
Since he hasn't worked for over three months and leads us to believe he wipes his ass with pages from the sears catolog because he's to broke to buy toilet paper, it may be awhile before we make contact.
Wyatt has business on the computer and I have a reservation in the smoking section on the deck.
See ya tomorrow
Friday, June 1, 2007
Good Morning
Another beautiful day, maybe not so hot though. That would be a good thing. I am to fat for hot : (
Everyone is feeling good today, except maybe for Wyatt who did NOT want to go to school today. You can see the exchange on his new blog. Never the less he got out the door and on the bus. Shannon is usually a good bargaining tool. No school, no Shannon. He seems to be adjusting well to the new digs upstairs. He plays outside more too. I'm not sure why, but things feel more comfortable now than ever.
Gk is still so happy to be home. He is always commenting on how good the air feels and smells. He loves looking out at the green pastures and thinks of all the things he can do again now that he's home.
He had a nice phone visit with Betty from the Coast last night. I think it put the lid on his normal life. Talking to old friends while sitting in your favorite chair. It doesn't get much better than that.
Kelly called to say she bought her new computer. YEAY! We are all Mac'er's now (Thanks J) and that means when Kelly gets good internet we can all three video chat (prison talk). I can't wait
Gk is getting ready to get in the shower. Doctor day. I'm sure we will be in for another glowing report. I still can't believe how great is doing compared to how bad he was. Unbelievable. Then we'll stop by the eye doctor and have his new glasses adjusted and then swing in to BK for a flame broiled burger. He's been thinking about that since he opened his eyes this morning.
Mom is coming out for dinner tonight, I think she is bringing a bucket of KFC. She has been planning a visit since he came home, but things kept coming up, so tonight's the night.
A lady just called about the little house. Gk wants to fix the roof and rent it starting in July. He wanted me to list it right away so we could have a good spread of people to choose from. I have recieved almost a hundred responses, about twelve good ones and one really really really good one. They will be out tomorrow to check things out. GK is pretty excited.
So, things are moving forward here on the ranch.
Life is good.
Everyone is feeling good today, except maybe for Wyatt who did NOT want to go to school today. You can see the exchange on his new blog. Never the less he got out the door and on the bus. Shannon is usually a good bargaining tool. No school, no Shannon. He seems to be adjusting well to the new digs upstairs. He plays outside more too. I'm not sure why, but things feel more comfortable now than ever.
Gk is still so happy to be home. He is always commenting on how good the air feels and smells. He loves looking out at the green pastures and thinks of all the things he can do again now that he's home.
He had a nice phone visit with Betty from the Coast last night. I think it put the lid on his normal life. Talking to old friends while sitting in your favorite chair. It doesn't get much better than that.
Kelly called to say she bought her new computer. YEAY! We are all Mac'er's now (Thanks J) and that means when Kelly gets good internet we can all three video chat (prison talk). I can't wait
Gk is getting ready to get in the shower. Doctor day. I'm sure we will be in for another glowing report. I still can't believe how great is doing compared to how bad he was. Unbelievable. Then we'll stop by the eye doctor and have his new glasses adjusted and then swing in to BK for a flame broiled burger. He's been thinking about that since he opened his eyes this morning.
Mom is coming out for dinner tonight, I think she is bringing a bucket of KFC. She has been planning a visit since he came home, but things kept coming up, so tonight's the night.
A lady just called about the little house. Gk wants to fix the roof and rent it starting in July. He wanted me to list it right away so we could have a good spread of people to choose from. I have recieved almost a hundred responses, about twelve good ones and one really really really good one. They will be out tomorrow to check things out. GK is pretty excited.
So, things are moving forward here on the ranch.
Life is good.
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