Daily Ooos: Thursday, December 4

[faerywings]

HelllllOooo!
How are the O-zies this morning?

I am a little tired and a little brain-foggy-scattered but not terribly bad. Yesterday was one of those days with best laid plans going *** over tea kettle.
I had just finished my yoga session (stress-release was the focus, hehehe), when I saw my BFF had sent me a text--she had gotten THE call from her mom's hospice nurse. BFF was fine. It had been a long time coming, since her mom had been in hospice since the end of June. But still, she needed to do all of the arrangements and asked if I would meet her at the funeral home. She took care of all of that, and then we went to clean out her mom's room. I teased her that she must have broken a speed record. She got the call at 5.15 am and by 1.30 pm, everything was completed. Arrangements are set for tomorrow, the outfit picked out, the room emptied, and the financial paperwork/final payment to the center have been submitted.

I was glad I could be there for her. We had a few laughs and a few tears. But more a sense of relief. She isn't having a wake/service. Just she and her DH are meeting at the cemetery for interment in the vault since she doesn't have any other family. Her kids have no love lost for her mom, she wasn't very nice to them (or to my BFF).

Needless to say, everything I had planned for yesterday is getting pushed to today. Today was supposed to be Jaida's surgery, but we still haven't gotten the ball rolling on scheduling the new one. Gary and I need to call this morning. The next few days are going to be a little chaotic but what is a little more chaos? I laugh in the face of chaos!


I would love to catch up on some of the challenges. I really wanted to do the ATC yesterday, but maybe today? (doubtful!)
I have a better chance of doing Vicky's challenge. She made it uncomplicated, which I like and need! LOL:
DAY 4 - One Word Challenge
Today's link:
DAY 4 - WINTER FUN DOWNLOAD


Wishing all of you the best day ever!

 

[faerywings]

Not much going on here today. I was going to Ilene's but not with this headache. With the Persnickety order there was a card announcing a 25% off sale so I want to have all of my pages for 2025 done and ready to order that first week of January during the sale.

Awesome news about Persnickety, I know you have had such good results with them and having a good sale/coupons makes that even better!
Hope your headache is better today!

Yo @Buddy the O' Elf ! Welcome to the Oooos! I love your new avi too.

Good morning. I have a big mystery...how did I work and get all the things done? Because now that I don't work, I don't get anything done. Of course, I read more now and I cook more now. And I nap more too! And I scrap more. Well, how about that? @Mystery solved!

All good things that you deserve on your retirement!

So I'm going to be practicing embracing the unknown in 2026! LOL

Let me know how that goes

I had a hitch put on my car today so we can take the bikes with us to Florida when/if we go next month.

That's awesome! I hope that all of the timing works out for your trip and David's surgery but I am sure that the hitch won't go to waste if you can't use it in January.
on dropping that many sizes!
Smart idea for the angel gifts and non-Target option.

For a couple years I volunteered with an organization that monitored stream health by collecting and counting the bugs in various places. I never could get any good at identifying them, they all look the same to me.

That is one of my favorite field trip rotations and one of the reasons I had to change my contact prescription. I'd have to ask the kids how many tails they saw on some of the smaller critters. I tried to phrase it so it sounded like *I* knew but wanted them to check it out. Meanwhile, I was lucky if I even saw the darn thing at all.

I struggle too. I get stuck on Stunning! LOL But if I'm commenting on a layout its usually because I found it stunning.

Uh-huh!! I use stunning quite a bit, too!

I almost never change out of my birks but yesterday, yeah needed extra tread.

Yikes!!
How was the church dinner? Feeling pretty ok? Hope you rested and stayed off your feet whenever it was possible.

Our area is now under a weather alert... may have snow tonight and into tomorrow.

Hope that the weather cooperates and that whatever snow you get melts off the roads quickly.

Your comments about snow make me laugh. I love to see pic's of snow. I can relate to all the comments, especially the mess as it thaws. How nice that you have your tree up and can enjoy it, did @Buddy the O' Elf help you?

I am a rip-roaring blast with my cranky comments about snow. Bwuahahaha!
I invited Buddy to help but I think he was busy here. Good thing my hubby is tall and can reach the top of the tree.

Tomorrow I have PT then I see the surgeon for follow-up I hope to be done with PT.

Fingers and toes crossed for the all clear! PT is such a PITB, even though it is necessary.

xoxo to you all!

 

[vickyday]

HelllllOooo!
How are the O-zies this morning?

I am a little tired and a little brain-foggy-scattered but not terribly bad. Yesterday was one of those days with best laid plans going *** over tea kettle.
I had just finished my yoga session (stress-release was the focus, hehehe), when I saw my BFF had sent me a text--she had gotten THE call from her mom's hospice nurse. BFF was fine. It had been a long time coming, since her mom had been in hospice since the end of June. But still, she needed to do all of the arrangements and asked if I would meet her at the funeral home. She took care of all of that, and then we went to clean out her mom's room. I teased her that she must have broken a speed record. She got the call at 5.15 am and by 1.30 pm, everything was completed. Arrangements are set for tomorrow, the outfit picked out, the room emptied, and the financial paperwork/final payment to the center have been submitted.

I was glad I could be there for her. We had a few laughs and a few tears. But more a sense of relief. She isn't having a wake/service. Just she and her DH are meeting at the cemetery for interment in the vault since she doesn't have any other family. Her kids have no love lost for her mom, she wasn't very nice to them (or to my BFF).

Needless to say, everything I had planned for yesterday is getting pushed to today. Today was supposed to be Jaida's surgery, but we still haven't gotten the ball rolling on scheduling the new one. Gary and I need to call this morning. The next few days are going to be a little chaotic but what is a little more chaos? I laugh in the face of chaos!
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I would love to catch up on some of the challenges. I really wanted to do the ATC yesterday, but maybe today? (doubtful!)
I have a better chance of doing Vicky's challenge. She made it uncomplicated, which I like and need! LOL:
DAY 4 - One Word Challenge
Today's link:
DAY 4 - WINTER FUN DOWNLOAD


Wishing all of you the best day ever!

I needed uncomplicated,, too, when I was creating the challenge, Chris! However, the surprise was that Ona moved it to today instead of being Day 6 as originally planned. Agata couldn't do today. I'm glad mine was done. I'm heading to Ilene's so I'll have to catch up to commenting later today.
Sorry to hear about BFF's mom, but sounds like it is for the best! I was glad Tim only spent 6 hours in the Hospice facility! If I had known it was going to be so soon, I would never have moved him from the hospital. Oh well!

 

[vickyday]

Awesome news about Persnickety, I know you have had such good results with them and having a good sale/coupons makes that even better!
Hope your headache is better today!

Yo @Buddy the O' Elf ! Welcome to the Oooos! I love your new avi too.


All good things that you deserve on your retirement!

Let me know how that goes


That's awesome! I hope that all of the timing works out for your trip and David's surgery but I am sure that the hitch won't go to waste if you can't use it in January.
on dropping that many sizes!
Smart idea for the angel gifts and non-Target option.

That is one of my favorite field trip rotations and one of the reasons I had to change my contact prescription. I'd have to ask the kids how many tails they saw on some of the smaller critters. I tried to phrase it so it sounded like *I* knew but wanted them to check it out. Meanwhile, I was lucky if I even saw the darn thing at all.


Uh-huh!! I use stunning quite a bit, too!

Yikes!!
How was the church dinner? Feeling pretty ok? Hope you rested and stayed off your feet whenever it was possible.


Hope that the weather cooperates and that whatever snow you get melts off the roads quickly.


I am a rip-roaring blast with my cranky comments about snow. Bwuahahaha!
I invited Buddy to help but I think he was busy here. Good thing my hubby is tall and can reach the top of the tree.


Fingers and toes crossed for the all clear! PT is such a PITB, even though it is necessary.

xoxo to you all!

Thanks, Chris. The headache is better but not completely gone.

 

[vickyday]

Quick in and out. Heading to Ilene's for the day. She is going on a cruise beginning Saturday. We were supposed to get together yesterday, but that didn't happen with the headache I had all day. It is better today, just not completely gone, so no bending over for me, LOL!
I was surprised to wake up to having my Day 6 challenge moved to today. But, no problem since it was ready. I just had to quickly upload my page to the gallery and switch out the jpg in the challenge thread.
I need to go to the store first to grab some things for Mark who will be on a restricted diet due to having an endoscopy tomorrow. So I'm off and running!
Have a great day and fun with the challenges!