Molly Hiding!

There is more than one way to hide a cat–at least Molly thinks so.   I’m going to have to put this box away soon but for right now it is Molly’s warm place!

Today is another 20 degree day but the need for bread and potatoes pried me from my warm place.   I made a trip to Millington (which is 5 miles one way) to fill the larder as they say!!  Well I didn’t fill it but I did bring home a few items.

While I was outside I filled the regular seed tube, the thistle tube, and the suet cage for my outside friends.   I don’t like to see them searching empty containers if I have something to feed them.

Tomorrow’s space on the calendar is empty–nothing to do.  Well not nothing because the decorations are still up in and outside.  But in reading the comments I’m not the only one in no hurry to pack everything up.  So we packing delayers will stand tall for a few more days before admitting we are procrastinators .  I can’t use the sick excuse any more because I am getting better–darn it!

Well I have stared at the blinking cursor enough—so take care everyone till we get together again!!!

No day this week marked changing medications.  It was almost a set back but the new pills are working well.  Most important they are allowing me to sleep longer and deeper between coughing jags.  In fact even the coughing has cut down.  I have eight more pills to go and hopefully I will be all better.

I have slowly started packing away Christmas but it is going to take more time than usual.  I work a little at that, a little at domestic  chores, and rest.  I did finish Stephen King’s ‘Just After Sunset’.  I found all the short stories in it very good.  They kind of grabbed you by the collar and twisted it.  The novel I started yesterday was a Christmas gift.   John Irving’s  ‘Last Night in Twisted River’.   With 554 pages I will probably be spending a good deal of time with this book.

The mail lady brought my box from Herrschners yesterday so now I have three more sequin projects to do.  The first is the four stocking ornaments but they are in Rose instead of blue like the last ones.  Next are the six Santa Boots boots  in red and black.  The last four are the  Frosty Fellows, snowmen in top hats.  So I will be taking time out every once in a while to pick up the pliers and thimble and play in the sparkly stuff.

My Holiday 'Mouses' !

My last item today is the ‘Mouses’.  I don’t remember where they came from, who gave them to me, or if I bought them myself.   All I know is every year I take them out of the newspaper nest and place them on the little shelf in the kitchen.  This year however they caught the eye of some of my Christmas Eve guests and I was forced to admit my lack of knowledge about their origin.  The only thing I know for sure is I love looking at them and they will appear on the shelf over and over until either I or they disappear!

Being true to myself I am declaring today and every second day of the week No–Day!  I will continue to talk of No–Day until I can confidently live through at least a month of them without trying to destroy myself.

Our Brandy is four years old today.

A call to my Doctor this morning asking him to change the medication or at least get me a gun so I can blow my F****** brains out because I am tired of choking, coughing, and aching all over.  Later when I went into the drugstore to pick up the new medication and saw the price on it I was almost sure he found me a gun.  I mean $78. for 10 pills is a little steep. But if they work I will be very happy.

As devoted as she has been since I first got sick  and because today was her birthday I thought that the penguin  beanie baby was  a good present for her.

Happy Birthday Brandy!!!!!

Good morning!  I am wishing you a Happy New Year–One much, much better than this past year!  A year we will look back on and say–yes this is how it should be.   One where we will stop letting ourselves to herded into running scared at every turn.  I don’t know about you but I am tired!  Tired of being told how things are bad–I know how bad they are.  Tired of seeing our own doing without or just squeaking  by while our resources, go to “save others”  that I actually think don’t want to be saved.  Also just being tired!!!

Did I stay up last night to watch the ball fall welcoming 2010?  No!  I have watch more than 50 of these balls fall.  Did I carry on the family tradition of eating fish at midnight?   No because it never made the year any better to live through.

This last year I lost my last sibling leaving me the only child left of my parents union.  My dear friend lost her husband just days before the year ended.  Many of those wonderful people that were an important part of my life and even people I had just begun to know have left.  To go to a better place?  I don’t know about that!  What could be better than to be surrounded by the people who love you for who you are.

True I have spent the last few days feeling like I am drowning in my own fluids.  Wondering how the human body can continue to produce disgusting mucus, the feeling of choking, and the aches from coughing my head off.  This dear friend is why the general theme of this post is a downer.

But things are slowly getting better and I’m determined to work toward an even greater  year than those in the past.  With that I repeat my wish for your happier New Year with better health, greater prosperity, and new hope for the year to come.