Daily Whine and Shine - November 1, 2007

Last night, I looked up and down the street and didn't see a person in sight. So I slipped across the street to visit with the young couple and their baby. The baby is 3 1/2 months old and it was the first time I saw her! The dad has red hair; both parents are tall. (He has to be 6'4".) The baby is long, and I don't know if she has his red hair...but they dressed her as a carrot. (You know, "carrot top"?) Really cute.

Anyway, after a few minutes, I noticed some kids and a mom heading for my house across the street, so I went back. The kids were just reaching into the candy bowl, and I told them to take only one. They did.

A few minutes later, I realized that the extra candy that I had placed behind my chair was gone. In my mind, I blamed the kids. But you know...that mom had a grocery bag in her hand when she left (which is what the candy was in). Now I wonder... Grrr.

Today, I'm cold. It's not really that cold outside. Brisk, I guess. But our house doesn't have much insulation. And the kitchen - where my computer sits - has this huge bay window that is impossible to cover with curtains to help keep the cold out. Seriously. The hubby and the guy who put the window in (way before my time here) didn't design this window very well. There are no convenient places to put hardware for hanging curtains.

Marilyn, wrap yourself in extra afghans while at the puter.

I am sleeping more these days. The days are dark and dreary and i have been eating more sugar than I should. I'll have to stop that and see if it is the SAD on top of anxiety or the sugars.

Not too sore today. Shoulder could use some stretching but other than that, it is an easy day.

It is possible that she did that. I wonder if her children saw her. What kind of example is that for them??

Get warm soon!

Hey, Dina. I'm sleeping more too. Used to only get 5-6 hours of sleep a night. Whether sick or well, in pain or not. I might take a 2 hour nap in middle of the day too. Now, I can sleep for 12 hours if I let myself...and still want a nap. Not getting much done that way. The house looks like doo-doo, but I really can't clean like I used to. If I ever get approved for disability, one of my first expenditures is going to be to pay for a good house cleaning, then have someone come in maybe every two weeks.

I know. 9 hours, got up and put son off to school and went back for another 4. That is insane!

Sounds like a good plan. I am feeling better today so will see if I can get some laundry folded, it is clean and sitting here in the baskets. Son can run the vacuum so I won't need to do that. And, the dished we washed last evening. So just breakfast coffee cup to worry about.

My whine is there are just too darn many kids these days.

I stopped by the grocery on the home from work last night to buy Halloween candy (man, I hate Halloween). I bought a LOT of candy; mostly what I like, so when we had some left over, I'd have something good to snack on.

Dadgumbit if all the stuff I bought wasn't gone before the two-hour T-orT time had expired ... and I have no treats for myself!

GRRRRRRRR

Was that good enough? ;-)

Good rant, David. I know what you mean. With the bag of goodies that was taken from our porch, we were running out of candy with an hour left, so hubby went to the store. He wasn't able to buy anything we liked, and now there's some of that left over. Not much. Just enough to taunt me. Grrr.

I am really, really, really upset about something. I'm remembering now why I always wrote out what I wanted to say, what I thought about and pondered over, in a notebook. With pen and paper. My handwriting isn't all that good anymore, with the pain and with my left side (my writing hand) getting weaker. Twice this week, I totally lost what I was working on.

The first time, something came to me. Well, I was inspired by the writings of someone else here - to write about the Proverbs 31 woman. Foolishly, I typed it right into the "publish an article" space, thinking I'd go ahead and save it to draft status early on, then continue. But I got going and didn't save it to draft status soon enough. My computer froze up and in the re-booting process I lost the words that had spilled so freely from brain to fingers to page. Grrr. I still have not found the words again, although I've asked God's help...

Today, I was pondering a quick "conversation" I had with someone here who is not (and has not been for a while) going to church. I wanted to share some of the 40 Days of Community - Better Together - notes I have. This time, I thought I was being smart in typing them into a word file first and saving periodically. But NO. When my computer froze up this morning, I lost that writing as well.

Grrr. So...I know I need a new computer. I am using one that I bought way back in 1999 with very little memory and speed. Still...is it the computer...or maybe Satan doesn't want those words published? Or maybe both?

Good morning!

I've put my car in the shop and am now waiting for a loaner. It's the first time the dealer ever offered me a loaner. It must be because so many little piddly stuff is wrong with my car. Enterprise was out of cars but they did come and get me and take me home. They're going to call when they have a car available.

My warranty is almost expired on my Taurus and that's a bit scary. I'm thinking of going with a Toyota next.

I am still worried about my neice's problem but I think the best thing I can do is leave it up to the lord to take care of here and I also think that may be what you all need to do about our own problems is leave it to the lord to fix instead of leaving it up to someone else to make better and maybe spernding money we do not have to try and get it fixed we need to fix and work out old problems and debts first of our own.