Thursday, September 30, 2010

A wonderful Jumble

This afternoon we had a celebration lunch at the Tulip Tree, Thom & Judy are moving along soon, and we wanted to celebrate with them one more time.  Also Aunt Cheryl and Lynn had an opportunity to stop in and see the remodeled shop.  Scotty came over, the usual Thursday crew was all there (Fran, Adda, Byron, Sherlynn) we all had a fabulous visit.  I made sweet & sour turkey meatballs with brown rice, and we put together a great salad.  I'll definitely have to write down the recipe cuz the meatballs were dElish!  Oscar had a grand time bossing everyone and wore himself out being cute.


We had some amazing roses in the shop yesterday, they're called amnesia and they're a lavender/green/pink color.  They're my new favorite!


Gotta go tuck the birdy monster in, he's had a big day.
Live long & prosper!
-m

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

So tired, so happy.

For what's supposed to be the slowest month of our year, work's been crazy busy.  We'll take it.  I'm hating the piles of boxes and clutter that keep persistently appearing, and the 20 things I have to keep track of all at once.  But I still love my job.  I suppose we'll get used to being this busy & miss it on slow days.

Today was only mildly busy & I FINALLY got a chance to go visit with Lynn.  She's doing AMAZING, not ideal or rosy, but honestly ok.  My favorite example of this is when we were swapping stories about Mason and she stomped her foot while imitating him, the whole floor shook and both dogs jumped!  If she's strong enough for that, I have all kinds of hope for her healing quickly.  Aunty Cheryl is here for a few more days, and as always visiting with her was wonderful.  Also I discovered she has a facebook!  I know, it means I'm a freak cuz I find it so much easier and less stressful to keep up with all the people I care about via FB.  It's not cuz I don't care, it's cuz I hate to bug people when they might be busy.  I love hearing about the ups and downs and not having to bug anyone.

Lynn gave me guilt trip tonight about not blogging, I AM SORRY.  Honestly it's had a lot to do with all the negative emotions I had this summer during my constructive termination from AL&L.  I was so unhappy I didn't want to share.  I've gone through most of the stages of grieving for a job I loved (not that I won't miss the people still).  So hopefully I can share now and not hate doing it.

Thom & Judy have been in the parking lot of Tulip Tree for most of 2 weeks, IT'S AWESOME!  The parking lot, and my day are going to seem a lot more empty when they move on.  It's been a wonderful surprise every day to share our lives.  Also, Adda has more people to boss, watch, and worry over.  That's rarely a bad thing.  Scott & I have had several wonderful visits and dinners with them.  Today they brought me a catnip plant from Mike & Tiffs house!  Kitties are gonna be so delighted!  Though I may have to keep the plant at work and just bring home leaves...here's a pic of Royla from last year when Judy brought her a bag full of leaves



Taking Oscar for wing trimming first thing in the morning, still gotta look up the vet's address cuz somehow I've only got the old one...and it's already late.
be well!
-m

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Good-n-Bad

Life's full of ups and down, and we've had both lately.

Scott's mom's back in the hospital, things aren't too shiny & we're all worried.  As usual Mathew's a far better child than either Scott or I, but we're all coping in our own way.

I had an AMAZING stomach bug this weekend, and spent most of it horizontal doing everything within my power NOT to puke.  Good news is I'm feeling much better today, and actually got to sleep last night.


Thom & Judy moved into the parking lot at work late last week, and I'm LOVING having them there!  I get several visits a day, and even get to see Willow quite often.  I love that puppy!  Oscar had a brief visit with McCuy & Lymon he and McCuy look and sometimes act so much alike and yet have such DIFFERENT personalities.  They're both very interested in each other.  Tomorrow I'm taking my little green beast with me to work, and we'll see about another visit.

Works been a delightful mixture of busy & slow.  There's no telling what's going to happen from one day to the next, but there's plenty to keep us busy so we don't worry much.

Sider Kitty is fitting in nicely, he's going to be a good addition to our family.  Spazz & Yahzi seem to be growing tolerance for his 'punk' attitude.  He'll learn.

Several of our good friends were threatened by the fire that started at Camp Williams yesterday.  Fortunately they've been safe so far.  We're still thinking of them and keeping up our hopes and prayers.  Fire is a scary powerful thing.

I'm off to keep smiling and giving the world my best.
-m

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Life aint so bad

Today was AWESOME! got to arrange with pink intuition roses, hung out with Thom & Judy, skritched McCuey, and had fabulous Chinese food.

Adda called off our Wendover trip for today because she was worried we'd be too busy at the shop. The fun bus is always an adventure, but I'm kinda glad I got to spend the day with my "family". Things weren't too busy at the flower shop, so I got visit without having to feel guilty or busy. Thom & Judy are parked right next to the shop for a few days.

Short post, sorry. Oscar's busy singing the night night song & I need to devote so attention to the cats or else they'll snuggle me to death trying to prove how adorable they each are.

Keep smilin'
-m

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Yay Me!

I honestly can't think of anything I'm celebrating. But it seemed like a better mood to start on than I've come up with lately...

Work's predictably frantic...I'm pretty sure it's just all of us trying to figure out how to stress out about not having our usual slow season. We'll manage.

My personal pain patterns have rocketed. I'm sure it's the weather (barometer always gets me). Even still, it sucks!!! But I'm whining, and that's not cool. Most days I'm pretty good at blocking the ouch, and my life is exactly where I want to be. So I'm not gonna complain.

Sider is cuter than ever...every day he gives me a new reason to think maybe he's found his forever home. But he still isn't my cat...sorta funny that. He loves getting skritches from me, but when I'm not dispensing them he wants nothin to do with me. Scott's his people, and he'd rather sit and guard him than be near me. Guess it's fair. He's so much the punk kid brother to Yahzi & spazz, he'll mimic anything they do even when he doesn't understand why.

Happy Wednesday.
-m

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Some bad days never mend,

Some nightmares never end, some tears will never dry, my day is done and no one died!
(channeling Don Williams here)

Fran had a panic this morning when people showed up to get flowers for a wedding we didn't know we had! We made it work, but you can imagine how that threw off the whole day. By 6:30, when we gave up on cleaning and searching for the lost piece of paper we needed, I was more than ready to just find a hole in the ground and climb into it.

My friend Tracy called me last night to let me know that he'd totaled his truck and trailer but that he was okay. He was in the midst of hauling his extra firewood home from his campground to use over the winter when something went wrong in the universe & he wound up in a head on collision with another truck. It's amazing he walked away.

Tonight I am mentally about the equal of a banana peel. Sorry, all the good stuff's gone, if all you need is compost I might be of some help eventually.

I have recipes - spinach alfredo and cheesecake chimis - to share, but not the mental acuity to write them down. But having promised them I will now remember!

blaaaaaaahhhhhhhh......zzzzzzzz.....ehm....huh
-m