Daily Ooo's: Wednesday, December 3

[faerywings]

Good morning sweethearts.How are all of you today?
I am hanging in there. The initial shock and grief is receding, and now it is those semi-isolated moments that hits me out of well, not really nowhere, but where you feel ok one minute then, bam! Something triggers the sobs. Yesterday I brought the rest of Bunny's hay and food (and her favorite treats, Yogis) to my client whose DD has a bunny. I knew I was doing this, I knew it was in my car, but taking it out and bringing into the house- instant sobs.That kind of stuff I know will happen for quite a while.

Seeing the good, little glimmers and huge ones- Last year, Cait felt that she had no real friends aside from her BFF and her boyfriend. Going to school yesterday, she was overwhelmed by the outpouring of love and support from her friends. Scott has been with her and has been supporting her, listening to her, sharing her grief. I know I brag about my kids and my family all of the time, but damn, my kids amaze me with their compassion and love and friendship. Yeah, they fight and annoy each other, but the way that they look out for each other is kind of unusual.

They and Gary have been with me too. I had to steam clean Cait's carpet yesterday where Bunny had had some accidents Sunday night. I went in there, and lost it. A few minutes later Scott came in and rubbed my back and hugged me. He knew that I was going to have a tough time in there. But I was able to take that deep breathe and get everything done before Cait come home from school.

Today I will be busy at work, listening to the next chapters of Jamie and Claire.
Then I need to do some scrap therapy.
And Christmas shopping!!!!! Thank goodness for online shopping.

WWW
I wish there was someway to take the pain away from my kids.
I wish I could see Merlin and Bunny together at the Rainbow Bridge with Harley. I see them there in my heart, but I wish I could see them with my eyes.
I want to get my life and house back on track, I am so far behind in life for a regular month, but for December??? ACK!!!!

QOTD
How far along are you with Christmas/Holiday prep? Cards, gifts, decorating, baking?
I am nowhere near where I should be. But I hope to get my act together. I want work on my F-W's baskets on Sat and maybe do some baking on Sunday. Hope you are all better organized than I am!!

::grouphug

 

[faerywings]

Phyllis- I wish that I could write and journal, but when I sit down and try, I come up blank. Which is funny since I write novels when I am here. heheh!
I will have to look for that song. I have a free mp3 download at amazon, maybe it will be there. Or I can try Spotify. Thank you for the suggestion
Hope that the ice wasn't too bad by you. We were supposed to get snow/sleet, but it only snowed a bit, then turned to rain pretty quickly. Thank goodness!

nancy- hope that you had a good day. The temperature shifts have been really crazy!

Trudy- thank you so much for the kind words. I am so lucky to have my O-Fam.
Were you ever able to get that order placed for Heather's gifts?

Jean- thank you too, it really means so much.

Oh Phyllis!!!!!That is horrible! Why the heck can't they conform who you are by your SS# and birthday? So nuts!!!
When I was dealing with the issues with my healthcare crap, there was one woman I spoke too- friendly- but dumb as a rock. I had to spell my first name for her I don't even know how many times (How difficult is Christine???), by the time I got to my last name (OK, I get that you don't hear the P in Campbell, but it is not that uncommon of a name!! Could you imagine if it were my maiden name?? Iantosca?? Argh!!), I knew that this phone call was not going to go well.
I hope that this gets cleared up easily for you. I am sure you were doing this :frusty:

 

[nancyr]

Good morning - today it is cloudy and raining. Not my favorite weather. My Devils lost to the Penguins 1-0 but more importantly they lost 3 forwards to injury. One was a late head hit to Jaromir Jagr. I understand hard plays I don't understand late head hits. My team played hard and that is all I ask. My former Devils goalie Martin Brodeur signed with the St. Louis Blues. I am glad he found a team. One of my past Devils stars Scott Gomez resigned with the Devils Monday as I have so many injured forwards. He looked good. I did get my Christmas card done so today I must buy blank cards and get them printed and mailed.

Chris sending hugs. I am sure that moments will hit. You do have an awesome family!

Phylis what a pain! It is just like the government to not take responsibly for their mistakes and make you run around! Hope it goes better when you get there in person.

Trudy hope you finally got your cyber ordering completed.

QOTD - I have my calendars and Christmas cards done but need to get them printed. But I am having a very hard time coming up with ideas for gifts. Maybe that means we all have all we need. I am going to a craft fair this weekend so I will see if I can find something there.

Have a great day all!

 

[whatnext]

howdy. i am still dealing with trying NOT to think about the Social Security B*&^%$#. every time i do, i can feel it doing damage to my vascular system. apparently i have no choice but to drive into the city, pay $25 to park somewhere, if i can even GET a space, and go stand in line so that the FOOLS can turn on their computer and delete an extra "L." or i can drive into work with Hubby, do all the line-standing stuff, then go back to his office and wait all day until his work day is done. way to WASTE a day. :rant: whoever i deal with in that office is going to hear it from me about the charm offensive (or should i say "offensive charm") exhibited by the people who are the phone voice of their agency. i honestly can't believe how our culture has changed in the last, say, 30 years. what was unthinkable during most of my lifetime is now accepted and even SUPPORTED. i won't take it sitting down.

Chris, you're so lucky to have a supportive family. it means the world. you have lovely, empathetic kids. sometimes it's hard to travel through life as one of those, but they'll have their family and true friends. hang in there. make sure that, if you decide to get that song, it's ONLY the one by Paul Winter. i've heard some others, and they're terrible. also, there is apparently some bluegrass song with that name, or near it. NOT that one!!

Nancy, sorry about the game last night. i didn't listen to it, so i didn't hear about all the injuries. terrible! NO excuse for a head hit, late or not.

Trudy, did you finally get your order through? i'm sure the Internet was crazy and will be crazy all through December. but, TG for the Internet for shopping!! i was checking the news this morning online, and i saw that there were two SHOOTINGS in the big shopping district about 10 miles from my house. soooo, not a great idea to go over to the Mall then. i wish i could really say everything i think about this. but self-censorship is the rule these days.

i'm pretty much done with what i'm doing about Christmas. all my cards are made and cards and packages are mailed. the decorations have been dragged out of the cubby hole and tossed around the house. the only thing, and it's a fairly BIG thing, is that the In-Law family has to decide whether or not i'm hosting the Christmas feast this year. one of my nieces now has FIVE little boys under 7. she had TRIPLETS last year. and i don't feel comfortable asking her to drag that crowd of Little Dudes across the miles, probably in snow, to have Christmas dinner at my house. we'll have to see how this goes. the other thing i have to do is make Buckeyes with my daughter. probably this weekend. we have a division of labor where she gets to mix together a thousand tons of peanut butter, powdered sugar and butter with her hands. that's the part i always hated. so, she does that and rolls the balls. i dip them all in chocolate. win-win. except i don't eat any of them.

today i'm going to a winery down the road from my house to pick up something for my SIL and BIL for Christmas. then back to house cleaning. i appear to be getting NOWHERE on that front.

Happy Day, O-zies! :becky:

 

[whatnext]

Chris, here's the link for that song on Amazon :

http://www.amazon.com/Lay-Down-Your...17615050&sr=8-8&keywords=Lay+Down+your+Burden

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning O-Zies, very foggy this morning, but it seems our very cold snap is over with and hopefully some of this snow will melt today! We did not get too much and it actually looks pretty, but it can go away anytime now!! :becky:

Chris - You do have an amazing family!! Count your blessing dear friend! It will take a bit of time for you to not burst into tears every once in awhile, but it will happen!! :hug: Enjoy your next chapters of Jamie and Claire!! I am having withdrawal and have the urge to start the books all over again while I wait for the new one to hit the shelves! :becky:

Nancy - Oh dear your poor Devils are not having a very good season so far! Neither are our Bruins as they lost again last night, they outplayed the other team, but just could not get the puck in the goal. We also have many injuries and hoping that once everyone is back in the game they will look like the hockey team we love again!! No excuse for a hit in the head at any time in the game!!!! Hope he will be ok!

Phylis - OMG poor you having to listen to those dam Gov't b%@#'s Customer service really has gone downhill over the years hasn't it!! What ever happened to the customer is always right?? A thing of the past I know! How terrible about the shooting at the Mall close to you! My gosh we won't be able to leave our houses one day!!! Terrifying thought!

To answer everyone's question... yes I finally got my order through for DD, but I had to call the 1-800# and placed the phone on the desk while I was busy on the computer doing my calendar, after about 45 mins I finally got to talk to someone and they took care of the order for me. The girl was actually quite pleasant as we talked I said to her that she must have been pulling her hair out when the website crashed the day before, she was quite happy that I was not being a total B%$# and she told me about her horrible day. Poor thing I can imagine how frustrated her work day must been for her! Now its not to say that this order of mine might not get cancelled. This happened the first time I tried to order something for DD on Black Friday, they cancelled the order saying that it was not available??? Why the heck show it as being in stock then online??? So I am keeping my fingers crossed that this order will go through!

QOTD - I am not doing Christmas Cards this year, except the ones that I am sending to my "O" family and I think that I will only have one more present to buy for Jonah (DD's Man) and when I get these calendars done I will be finally finished! Not too stressful of a Christmas this year, no presents for DH and myself and not sending anything but calendars through the mail!! I have not started baking yet, but probable will only do shortbread and Naniamo Bars, just us and the In-Laws for dinner.

Have a wonderful day everyone, I am off to the pool

:wave:

 

[scrap-genie]

This afternoon the sun came out! and it's above freezing, so all good. I'm never ready for Christmas or so it seems. I'm probably only sending O cards by mail and that should be in order. We've now got all gifts to mail, but need to wrap and pack them, but just two boxes. I've got a long way to go for DH yet, but shouldn't be a problem. Last year I never sent the genealogy newsletter to about a dozen in the family of DH. Just realized I wasn't even thinking about it this year - yet!

Chris, so glad your family is all helping each other. You know we're here to listen and send our warmest thoughts.

Phylis, yikes on the SSA mess! Just going to have to send you warm thoughts too in hopes you make it through without going up in smoke. Just makes no sense.

Nancy all those injuries are so troubling. Now football, even CRICKET, is proving lethal. How did we ever grow up in an era without all the precautions of today?

Trudy, good luck on the order now that it's been placed. Good for you being sympathetic to the woman on the phoneline. A not stressful holiday sounds good.