Daily Ooo's: Friday, May 17

[faerywings]

What a week. I don't know what happened but it is already (???) Friday. I feel like so much happened and yet nothing happened at the same time. It went by fast yet dragged on. I was happy and depressed. What a strange, strange feeling.
I am sure that you have felt this way before, isn't it odd? I wonder when the mood swings will be over. That is what is so crazy right now. I woke up this morning and realized how *quiet* this house will be with Caitlyn gone. That girl is a lunatic and makes me laugh so much. I don't know how other parents have their kids move out and get through it. I appreciate my parents so much at these times with my brother and I moving out literally within days of each other. He closed on his condo 3 days after my wedding.

I had such a panic attack after my mammogram yesterday. OMG- flipped out. The tech did the regular squishing but then had me do one more on the left side, said I have dense tissue which I know to be true. The "spots" that show up on my MRIs are on the left side (cancer was on the right). Then she told when I was done that the Dr will read them and if I need to be called back that I would need to go to the main Breast Center. (I was at an auxiliary site.) This was only my second year of not having it there with the immediate reading and I cannot for the life of me remember if I was told the same thing last year or not.
The rational part of my brain is saying that it is the standard response that they tell everyone. She is just the tech (no offense to mammo techs, they are wonderful people) and doesn't say anything one way or the other. The insane part of my brain was panicked that she saw something which was why she did the additional scan. Thankfully, my rational brain is telling me to not stress, nothing I can do one way or the other.

Kay- you said that your DD was 10 years out, does that fear ever go away completely? It has gotten better, but darn that kicked me in the butt yesterday.

It was sunny yesterday so I spent another couple of hours outside. I got some of the flowers into the buckets and cleared some of the leaves off of some other plants along the side of the woods. I have to get some photos of my azalea before all of the petals drop. This year, it is just so happy! Yes, plants are happy and I can tell when they bloom like this one did. hahaha!!

My mom is coming up today. She wanted to see Cait before her trip. I think she wants to see me too :wink: Maybe getting out of the house for lunch will "cheer" me up? I can't tell if I am even "sad."

Love and hugs to all of you!

 

[faerywings]

Trudy- did you ever find out what was causing the haze? I hope it wasn't fires. Are your legs feeling any better today? At least the views were worth the work. You must live in the prettiest area. I think that NJ is going to be banning plastic bags too. It is a good thing. Did you see that someone made a record-breaking dive in the ocean and found plastic on the ocean floor? Humans are disgusting. The Norwex bags sound like a great solution. I have canvas bags that I being to the grocery store but I forget to bring them if I shop anywhere else.
I am the same as you with fonts- I collect them, lots of them, but tend to use the same ones over and over.

Kay- that is a long night's sleep. I couldn't get out of bed this morning and fell back asleep for a bit. I rarely ever do that. Three mugs of coffee down and I am still tired.
Were your errands all successful?

Jean- I hope that the weather holds for you and for your DH tomorrow. Will you have any time to get over there after your genealogy meeting?
Yes, it is a huge relief that Cait has a reliable car and that I get mine back She will be happy to not have to dump so much money into it. It still has a warranty on it although it needs to get transferred over and the dealership isn't calling Gary back. grr.
Hope you had a really good time at the art class!


::grouphug

 

[BrightEyes]

Morning, gals. I woke up early again today. Guess I have caught up on my sleep. Yesterday was one of those days when good intentions went by the wayside. I did get my laundry sorted and over half of it done. But I just couldn't get the energy to go anywhere. So I ended up scrapping instead.

I need get the plants tagged that I want transplanted from pots to backyard. One of them is in a large pot with 3 plants and I only want the largest one moved. They should be here early tomorrow morning so I need to set the alarm to make sure I am up and dressed before they arrive. Also need to make sure that the water hoses are in front and back. We have been having some high winds this spring... and I noticed that the tree in front that I am having them take out is now leaning toward the sidewalk quite a bit. Timing is good that it is being taken out before it blows over completely.

Chris, I have had days like that... mood swings, etc. Hopefully they will settle down. Yes, I have had a scare like that a couple of times when having a mammo done. It always makes the heart race!! Since my DD had a double mastectomy, she doesn't have mammos anymore tho she still has check-ups. Will keep you in my thoughts and hope it is nothing.

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning ladies... It is very cloudy this morning and grey, not good for the long weekend campers who will be out in full force over the next few days. It will be a good day to stay off the highways! Yesterday is a blur, seems I got lots done, but don't really remember it LOL. I did have coffee with my sisters yesterday, that is always fun! I did get my bio done for the gallery and sent it off to the owner. I will go to the pool this morning and get my laps in today. I took the day off from swimming yesterday to give my legs a much needed rest LOL . Not much else happening today so I hope to scrap a page and work on the saw painting for BIL. It is about halfway done and is coming along nicely.

Chris - Yes we are a nasty bunch aren't we!! Littering our poor oceans with plastic and destroying the planet slowly but surely! So the haze yesterday was most likely from the pulp mill that is not too far away :mmph: Wish they would improve their pollution levels!!! It has gotten better over the past few years, but they still could do more!! Normally we don't get the haze from the mill because the wind blows in the right direction, guess there was a shift in the wind yesterday? :noidea: It's funny I always remember to take my bags to the grocery store, but never remember them when I shop anywhere else. I really have to get better at that! So happy for Cait that she now has a nice car and no more worries with repairs! Hope the dealer returns your Gary's phone call!

Kay - Sounds like we had a similar day yesterday and I couldn't seem to get the energy to do much else than send off my bio to the gallery. Wish I could have had the mojo flowing to do some scrapping, but even that seemed to take to much energy :becky: Hope you get your planting all figured out and it will be so good to have the landscaping finished!

:hello: Nancy and Felis and Jean!! Hope that you are all having a wonderful day!

Heather and Hunter will be calling me soon, so I will run and get the bed made and dishwasher emptied before they do. Hope the sun will shine on all of you today! :wave:

 

[felis]

I feel as my brain will explode! It was extremely long and unbearably boring working week till all other get fun!!!
The news about banning abortion comes as a slap in a face of all women, and I can understand how you are so chill, especially the US girls. I guess you aren't hear it yet. What is wrong with this world?
You know that I think that modern feminism is fake ideology used by sad girls to restrict other to living their life whatever they like it. But in case when from one woman is taken away the chance to decide for her own body, we all have to be feminist and warriors! I often needs Nancy to explain my some nuances (thank you, dear), just because historically the system in my country is been quite different than in the west countries. During the slavery and after that the World War many women are been widows, so many household are been led by the oldest woman, some grandma or MIL is been listening and respect from everybody at this household, including younger men. Then the communism, witch was a bad idea in many aspects, but also had some positive things as well, made the 'comrades' equal in the professional life, no matter of gender. That's not mean that women aren't been underestimated, and victim of violence and sexism, just this isn't been social approved.
I just finished to watch one detective TV series set in the 1960s "Inspector George Gently", it's with actor I liked much from other show, and that's why I was interested at first. But I was terrified!!! What I knew about 60s are The Beatles, so I was with impression for modern and cool time. Things like Capital punishment, illegal abortion, illegal suicide, and women which don't receive chance for career. Such a madness! I'm always thought that this is finished with the Industrial Revolution at 19 century. Which on a first place shows how big hole in my history education about the other countries have, and on the second place how naive I'm belived that freedom has made faster progress in the way of thinking. All this sounds so nonsense to me!
And then pufff, just like that the model and feminist advocate Emrata, yesterday announced that in some state in US are voted to ban abortion even in cases of incest and rape. At first I decided this is a fake news or she kidding us, but she post whole day protest stories about that.
The question isn't do you approve or not abortion, but do every single women is agree to allow someone else to decide what to happen with her uterus! I don't try to criticise decisions of other countries, I just say that in this case we watch how US killed its own freedom and prosperity! And this is so sad and discouraging!!!

I'm sorry, but I can't concentrate on personals after that kind of post! Will catch the daily life later! And you wrote me tomorrow, why this happening and if you think I'm wrong somewhere why and how. I needs to hear more view points!