Daily Ooo's: Wednesday, June 27

[faerywings]

Please, let today be a calm day. I can't take much more stress. Life would be *perfect* if I didn't have money issues over every darn thing.

In the last 24 hours, I found out that my heating bill is going up $100/month. The VUE's brakes are shot. And now Cait's car is back in the shop and most likely needs an alternator. Yes, she just got her car back on Friday, drove it once and now the alternator is going.

The last two months of events have also really put a ton of stress on my body. I feel like s*** today. I knew it was going to happen. I took this week off from Tindamax because I knew that this crash was bound to happen. It always does. That was at least one smart thing that I did for myself. :madgrin:

I felt bad for my parents. They got here right after we noticed the issues with Cait's car and I just didn't know how to cope anymore which means I shut down. Lunch was nice but all I really wanted to do was cover my head in bed. Gary was not feeling well enough to come with us, but Cait did and that girl makes me laugh. That also kept things a bit lighthearted for my parents.
Gary got me a *beautiful* faery sculpture. It is a purple faery with two wolves. But when I took it out of the box and saw the face of the faery-- it looks like Caitlyn! I swear to, that was my first reaction, it is Cait. I can't wait to take a picture to show you.
Scott got me some dogs toys and they were very happy with them. Caitlyn got me a Minnie Mouse planter. I simply do not know what I would do without my family and my pets. I have such moments of depression-- I will never be healthy, I will never get out of debt- but then they make me laugh and it breaks that cycle. (until something else goes wonky and that usually happens pretty quickly hahaha!!).

I am cleaning today and then-- who knows? Cait wants me to go with her to drive to her college. She has orientation tomorrow and has only driven there once before.

And that is about it. I apologize for being a downer. It happens... it will pass.

Much love to you all!

 

[faerywings]

Felis- thank you for the b-day wishes! Yes, it has felt like there have been a lot of celebrations, which may be part of what I am so exhausted LOL
Oh, I got lots of puppy kisses. J and W love opening presents and they were thrilled to run around with wrapping paper in their mouths. Give belly rubs and pets to your fur-babies from us.


Nancy- the sun warmed up a bit in the afternoon here but my house has stayed very cold. I am waiting patiently :wait1: for the heat.
You are right-- boys! mac and cheese is one of my favorites.
So neat that you have Little Libraries in your town.


Rae- good for you for being on schedule with the workload. Hope that you had a good visit with B.


Jean- I think that your weather is a day ahead of us sorry that you are having a heat wave soon.
yeah, I feel the same about the Paradise Lost LO. it is horrible that so many people aren't seeing the signs of what is happening.



Felis- I am back wrapped up in my blanket right now so I understand the need for an autumn jacket.

I am glad that my birthday made you feel festive!

I have never been one to keep a diary. I think that I did on and off when I was in grade school. But I am not good at keeping up with things. In some ways, I see my scrapping as "journaling."

I am looking forward to seeing what the others say on this too.

 

[nancyr]

good morning - cloudy and maybe some sun but high only in the upper 70s. I too find this chilly and I know that come the 90 heat wave we will be experiencing this weekend I will want some of these chills especially at night. Got some scrapping done but I want to look at them one last time before posting. Took a night off from cooking and just made grilled cheese sandwiches. They were so good! I have been a cheese mood this week. Yesterday the Hockey Hall of Fame made their selections for 2018 induction and the NJ Devils goalie Martin Brodeur was selected. Pretty cool. Also they finally decided to recognized Willie O'Ree who was the first black NHL hockey player. But what he has done since is to just inspire kids to play. So glad he was selected. So my NJ Devils will play the Toronto Maple Leafs on hockey hall of fame weekend. I guess the schedule maker thought Brodeur was be selected. LOL. Usually you have to be retired for 3 years before you can be selected to the Hall but they voted in Gary Bettman who is the sitting commissioner of the NHL. Seems to me like they should have let him retire before his selection but maybe in the building category that time frame does not matter. Gary gets booed at most functions so it will be interesting to see if there are boos when he gives his speech. Seems like hockey stories never end even when the season ends. My son was taking a shower and this song kept playing so I Shazamed it and it is by a singer I had never heard of Lord Huron. The song is "take me back to the night we met" and it is actually a sad song but for some reason it just hits me. I have been keeping a diary for years. I did it when I was high school and what I have is 5 year diary which has just enough space for a few lines. I write down before bed the things that during the day made an impression on me. I remember reading books as a kid from women who kept diaries. It is not like I think mine will be great literature but I would like to think that my kids might like to know what I was think when I am not around. I for a few years did a photo a day project and I used that as a visual diary. My sons liked to look through those. I think of scrapping books as a visualization of my life. I guess I like what Oprah said paraphrasing - writing is good for the soul.

Chris sorry you are feeling so down. Glad you have your family to keep you grounded and to make you feel better. Good thing Cait was there to keep things light. That is a bummer about the cars. But speaking to my mechanic son not surprised as he says once they start breaking a lot can go but then he says it can stabilize.

Trudy hope you are feeling better. I bet facetiming with Heather and the boys brighten you spirits.

Rae again I am always impressed by your organization.

Jean I think we will be getting your weather soon. Hope the thunderstorms are not too bad.

Felis I could never throw my diaries away that will be up to those that remain after I am gone. And that is so interesting that you all just let dogs bark all night - yes for sure a difference in cultures. And the last thing I would think was a burglar when Luther is barking. Luther is so friendly that he would like the human but it is more he is barking an some animal invading his back yard territory. I am not brave LOL.

 

[taxed4ever]

Morning ladies... I am so :sorry: that I was not here yesterday! Well I was really and had a nice long post almost finished and the a Facetime call came in and I shut down my browser!! :doh: :gaah: I hate that sometimes I am so stupid!! LOL oh well I just did not have the time to post here again yesterday. I was very busy getting everything ready for my sisters and the birthday get together that we had. We had the best time, chatting and laughing and they loved the lunch that I put together too. My sister brought a cheesecake that was topped with all kinds of fruit and berries, it was delicious! If my sister sends me the photos that she took I will post one here or even better make a scrap page of them. Today I am off on my hike, we are doing stoney hill, one of my fav's and very close to where I live. Probably won't take any photos this time as I have done this hike a few times and the weather on a couple of them was spectacular and sunny so I doubt I will get any better photos.

Chris - I am so sorry that you are feeling so down in the dumps after all of the fun celebrating that you have done! I hope this will pass soon and that the sun will come out and warm you body and your heart! I can't wait to see your photo of the fairy that looks like Cait!! It sounds so beautiful and what a special gift from your Gary! Such thoughtful kids you have getting you sweet presents! I wish that you could win the lottery and never have to worry about money troubles ever again!!

Nancy - I bet you are looking forward to the weather warming up for the weekend! Will it be your long weekend this weekend or is that next weekend? We are celebrating our Canada Day weekend this weekend and we are looking forward to a quiet one and just doing things around here that need to be done. Last year I was in Ontario for Canada Day awaiting the arrival of little Hunter. Hard to believe that he will soon be 1 year old already! DH said the same thing about Gary Bettman and that fact that he isn't even retired yet! I will have to check out that song that you Shazamed, don't you just love Shazam!! Good for you for keeping the dairy all of these years, yes journaling is always good for the soul and sometimes I wonder why more people don't journal more on their scrap book pages.

Felis - Thank you so much for the lovely comment on my page! I even got a GSO for that one, what a nice surprise! Hopefully my mojo is back, but mostly I think it is because of the beautiful product that I got to use on my page! Vicki and Foxeysquirrel put together an amazing collection! I hope that you are having a wonderful evening and I will have to check out your post from yesterday to catch up better with you.

Rae - Sounds like you are very busy with work etc. but that the new schedule is working well for you! Loved that photo of you and your MG on facebook, you look so good together!

Jean - Hope that the thunderstorms did not do any damage and that the weather will be better for you today!

Ok I need to pack my lunch and get my backpack ready to hit the trail. Have a wonderful day everyone! :wave:

 

[bcgal00]

Good morning, ladies. I dropped Taz off at daycare, popped into the organic store for groceries and have all the ingredients on the counter to make some muffins in a bit. I want to get a bit of work done first and then will take a break to make the muffins. Today is going to be busier than I thought b/c some blacklog files came thru this morning. Oh well, better that I got them today, not Mon or Tues when its a busier day. I won't be going to the hospital today. Jen will be there dealing with doctors and plans for B. We are so upest b/c today the assessment file should have been sent to UBC to arrange for their team to assess for placement for B soon. But, its staff turnover time at the hospital and the new social worker team leader decided that she wasn't comfortable following thru on the previous SW's plan that everyone worked on for wks to get ready for send-off today. She wishes to speak to B first WTH???? UBC only accepts applications once a week so now it'll be another whole week before they get a chance to see the application, just b/c this bimbo is on a power trip and wants to see if all the other doctors and previous team leader social worker knows what they are doing. I told Jen to go in there screaming today that they better get their act together for next week. They are also planning on lifting security too in the coming days so all of this may be for nothing anyway, b/c if B leaves she will probably not make it, either by her own hand or at the hand of a predator b/c in her extreme brain deficit she is not capable of thought processing anything. I don't understand how the medical system can be so messed up.

So, we are praying for things to work out but some things are out of our hands and we have to hope that God will protect her, as our medical system won't. We all know we've done our best and that is all we can do. Poor Jen, everything has been such a big battle for her to deal with the hospital and their decisions.

So, today I will stay home, work, get some chores done, probably talk to J on the phone a few times as she discusses what happens with her dealings with the hospital today, then will pick up Taz and try to make dinner before 7. We have been having dinner around 8 or 9 each night when we return from the hospital. I've handled it ok but its hard on D with his Crohn's disease to eat a big meal just before bedtime. So he will appreciate an earlier dinner tonight. Speaking of which, I'd better go take something out of the freezer. No idea on what I want to make yet.

Chris - sorry you're in the dumps today. I'm right there with you. Hugs to you. I agree that although health and financial problems are so distressing and frustrating, you have such a wonderful family and so much love to pull you back up from life's difficulties. I feel the same about my family. I don't know how I'd survive all this if it wasn't for the wonderful family support. I hope that you get some joy today and feel better.

Trudy - enjoy the hike today. Glad to hear you had such a wonderful time with your sisters.

Nancy - how wonderful to have kept a diary. I think that it would be great to look back in future years to what was important to you at that time, how you felt about things. I have never had a journal/diary but my scrap pages are my visual diary. I try to make some pages with my inner thoughts and feelings about things. I hope that someday some of the family will enjoy the journaling.

Jean, Felis and everyone else....hope all is well.

I'd better get to work now and then get the muffins in the oven. Have a great day, everyone.

 

[felis]

Good morning, girls!
I guess I'm still sleepy, because this morning I make only mistakes. At first somehow deleted long text for my weekly page, which I was prepared from yesterday and had to rewrite it again and I'm not happy with it at all. But it was what it was. After that I needed few tries before successfully to upload my pages, because here rain as from bucket and my connection is very slow. This create a little mess, but never mind, it's done finally.
So these two things described best by yesterday. Rain and scraping.
The good part: I'm so proud with my scraping mojo I count I'll do 21 pages this month, but 2 was Quick pages which I just quick edited.
The bad part is the rain. It's so strong that is make some damages in other towns, but fortunately here no! Just keep us inside (which is good for my creativity) and torment my wild and homeless animal friends (which is bad for them at first and for my heart on second). They are with summer tiny fur and babies are totally unprepared for this unusual cold. Mother Nature is angry, but is chose wrong scapegoat.

Chris, it's no need to apologize for your mood! Never. Here you always will have shoulder to cry on! And you always encourage us, so I'm sure we all don't mind! Are you sure that It is not in some of these car services which repaired one thing but secretly break another, so to increase your bills. I watched this at The hidden camera investigators show here. Maybe you have to go at other place, just for any case. Naive but I was thought that every man have to can replaces alone small car issues, as every woman have to can laundry. Your gifts sounds lovely and I definitely wants to see Cait faery, but I'm curious about Minnie Mouse planter too. My last page with pot wasn't successful, but you can scrap it better, I'm sure!

Nancy, thanks for the diaries opinion. I still wondering what to do. They have this magical power to bring me back to the old feelings, but do I want to be there again? Hmm depends on which period I guess. And if I burn them did dis will burn the feelings too? To be just a memory in my head, but without power on me?! I'm afraid I wasn't a smart as you in running my diaries, they are honesty and full with feelings, and never planned to be read by others. I'm ashamed from many moments of weakness in them. Anyway! I'm in some dreamy mood.

Trudy, is that photo of Orcas is taken by you?! You lives at small pieces of the paradise, and I'm hope some day your kids will be able to come to live near to you again! I just adore this page, so well deserved GSO!
Hehe, your Hunter is so much younger than mine . I actually was thinking the kids are a little bit older, just a 1 year old, that make more sense why not Facetime with you more often. So on what age Mason is actually? He is so sweet on a Soccer! It's sounds as a good idea for a change only to watch the nature around and not to make photos, after you already had some perfect. Enjoy fully to the moment! But I definitely would love to see this birthday page that you plan.

Rae, good luck to Jen with all these bureaucracy that have to do now!

Jean, :wave: hope the thunderstorm not makes your internet slow as mine! And also that you have funny time inside.

Have a calm and nice day, my dears! :cofbath: