It is almost that time

With Christmas over and a new year coming up it is almost  that time of year again. Making New years Resolutions. HA HA HA I make em- some I can do others start out ok then go right down the drain.
So this year I thought rather than make New Years Resolutions I would just make a small list of things I would like to change and if I can keep to the list great, if not well no problem its not like I committed a big ole crime by not sticking to my resolutions.

One thing I really want to do is get on that healthier list.
One way of doing this is eating better.
well this past year I had started that AND I even gave up drinking pop. Then I back slide and started drinking pop again. and you got it I put back on some of the weight I so proudly lost.
I had found a coffee I really like to drink too until I found out it had about 220 calories in it. That was one serving! YIKES. because I was drinking like 2 or 3 of those bad boys a day. some times more. so that had to stop. regular coffee was making me sick (plus I hate black coffee and hubby always said wanna little coffee with that sugar in other words I was using too much sugar)
So I was back drinking pop.
I still drink loads of water another thing I picked up last year. Something I really hated! Oh yeah I hated water. I would actually choke drinking water. Well when your threaten to be tossed into the hospital unless you drink water you kinda learn to drink water no matter how much you hate it. And its not that bad!

The other thing I really want to do is travel. I want to meet some of my blogger friends and have a little get together.
After the sudden death of fellow blogger G-Man this year, I realize that I am not getting any younger and my health isn't all that great and well if I don't do it this year (2015) I might not ever get to. So I want to get out  there and visit some of those blogger friends I've come to know both here in Blogger world and on Face Book. If I don't make it happen will wont happen.

And the last thing I really want to get done this year is get moved to Florida.
I was thinking of going back home to South Dakota but you know their winters are just as harsh as ours here in Minnesota and well I have nothing back there any more. Yeah I still have my farm but no house to live in and well family that was there passed away and family that is still there is distant. so it's not as important to me any more. Going to Florida was for hubby's mom and now its more about going for our health. The cold makes us hurt, the heat helps. I know we could go to Arizona for that but it's dusty there and thats not good for my lungs. And I really dont like California. So I guess Florida is the place to go for us. Although hubby has said he'd like to check out the Carolina's either North or South so I DONT KNOW MAYBE WE WILL END UP THERE INSTEAD!
Anyways I will make my little list not a resolution but just a list and we shall see what happens. until then be good to your self be good to one another.
See you again God Willing

I forgot something

If my parents were still alive, yesterday they would have celebrated their 62nd wedding anniversary.

I hope they are still celebrating in heaven.....but because I have a hard time believing in heaven I am probably the only one celebrating.

Hubby and I are up to 40 years now. My parents would have been proud to know their daughter stayed married! You see for my dad it was his second marriage. mom it was her first.  My oldest sister did not stay married to her one and only husband that she married. Neither did my older brother. My youngest sister is still hanging in with her hubby. 

But even though my dad had been married before my mom they always said if you get married stick with it dont just get married for the hell of it do it for love and then work on it. I had heard them talk so often about when you marry someone you dont just rush into it nor do you get married to just get divorced. Marriage was not a game.

Now when hubby and I met we met for like a few hours then he went into the army. Then when he came home we got together again and well that was Jan and by May we were married. and yes in Oct we had our first baby. and yes I was expecting when we got married! And no that is NOT why we got married. We actually had started planning our wedding and set the date tentatively for Sept. 17. Then I found out the baby was due in Oct! Ooops.

And yes many many people in both our families bet against us staying together. But we both knew just knew we belonged together.
It really was fate. even if we didn't believe in fate it was fate. When we think of all the things that brought us together, we know it is fate.
The biggest thing too is the love we have for each other. He is so my other half. And now that we are getting so close to..... well you know we are both in our 60's it can be any time now. SO yeah I don't have a clue to what I would do if he went first. I would be so lost.
But I need to pay special tribute to my parents. They had made it to I think 42 years together before mom passed from cancer. They are what gave me the courage to figure out what I needed to do to keep my husband happy. and not to ever give up. Fight and make up. and Love him. and yes I do.
Happy Anniversary mom and dad! and thank you.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas Blogger friends.


This has been a year to remember thats for sure.


A few celebrities who passed.

JANUARY:

Saul Zaentz, 92. Music producer whose second career as a filmmaker brought him best-picture Academy Awards for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," ''Amadeus" and "The English Patient." Jan. 3.

Run Run Shaw, 107. Pioneering Hong Kong movie producer whose studio popularized the kung fu genre that influenced Quentin Tarantino and other Hollywood directors. Jan. 7.

Amiri Baraka, 79. Militant man of letters and tireless agitator whose blues-based, fist-shaking poems, plays and criticism made him a groundbreaking force in American culture. Jan. 9.

Ariel Sharon, 85. Israeli general and prime minister who was admired and hated for his battlefield exploits and ambitions to reshape the Middle East. Jan. 11.

Suchitra Sen, 82. Legendary Indian actress known for her memorable roles in both Bengali-language and Hindi Bollywood films. Jan. 17.

FEBRUARY:

Philip Seymour Hoffman, 46. He won a best actor Oscar in 2006 for his portrayal of writer Truman Capote in "Capote" and created a gallery of other vivid characters, many of them slovenly and slightly dissipated comic figures. Feb. 2. Apparent heroin overdose.

Joan Mondale, 83. She burnished a reputation as "Joan of Art" for her passionate advocacy for the arts while her husband, Walter, was vice president and a U.S. ambassador. Feb. 3.

Ralph Kiner, 91. He slugged his way to the baseball Hall of Fame and then enjoyed a half-century career as a popular broadcaster. Feb. 6.

Shirley Temple, 85. Dimpled, curly-haired child star who sang, danced, sobbed and grinned her way into the hearts of Depression-era moviegoers. Feb. 10.

Harold Ramis, 69. Comedy actor, director and writer best known for his roles in movies such as "Ghostbusters" and "Stripes." Feb. 24.

MARCH:

Sheila MacRae, 92. Veteran stage, film and TV performer best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1960s re-creation of "The Honeymooners." March 6.

Tony Benn, 88. Committed British socialist who irritated and fascinated Britons through a political career spanning more than five decades and who renounced his aristocratic title rather than leave the House of Commons. March 14.

L'Wren Scott, believed to be 49. She left her small-town Utah home as a teenager to become a model in Paris, then a top Hollywood stylist and finally a high-end fashion designer best known as the longtime girlfriend of Mick Jagger. March 17. Apparent suicide.

Jeremiah Denton, 89. Former Alabama senator who survived 7½ years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam and alerted the U.S. military to conditions there when he blinked the word "torture" in Morse code during a television interview. March 28.

APRIL:

Mickey Rooney, 93. Pint-size actor and all-around talent whose more than 80-year career spanned silent comedies, Shakespeare, Judy Garland musicals, Andy Hardy stardom, television and the Broadway theater. April 6.

Peaches Geldof, 25. Model and media personality who was a daughter of Irish singer Bob Geldof and member of a talented, troubled family who grew up in the glare of Britain's tabloid press. April 7. Heroin overdose.

Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, 76. Boxer whose wrongful murder conviction became an international symbol of racial injustice. April 20.

Bob Hoskins, 71. British actor whose varied career ranged from noir drama "Mona Lisa" to animated fantasy "Who Framed Roger Rabbit." April 29.

Walter R. Walsh, 106. He captured gangsters as an FBI agent in the 1930s and went on to train Marine Corps snipers and become the longest-lived Olympian. April 29.

MAY:

Jeb Stuart Magruder, 79. Watergate conspirator-turned-minister who claimed in later years to have heard President Richard Nixon order the infamous break-in. May 11.

Jerry Vale, 83. Beloved crooner known for his high-tenor voice and romantic songs in the 1950s and early '60s. May 18.

Jack Brabham, 88. Three-time Formula One champion who famously pushed his car to the finish line to claim his first season title. May 19.

Ruth Ziolkowski, 87. She carried on her late husband's dream of honoring Native Americans by carving the massive likeness of warrior Crazy Horse into the Black Hills in South Dakota. May 21.

Jaime Lusinchi, 89. Former Venezuelan president who struggled to tame an economic crisis sparked by plunging oil prices in the late 1980s and then saw his reputation tarnished by allegations of corruption after leaving office. May 21.

Wojciech Jaruzelski, 90. Communist leader who imposed harsh military rule on Poland in 1981 in an attempt to crush the pro-democracy Solidarity movement but later allowed reforms that ended up dismantling the regime. May 25.

Bunny Yeager, 85. Model turned pin-up photographer who helped jump-start the career of then-unknown Bettie Page. May 25.

Maya Angelou, 86. Author and poet who rose from poverty, segregation and violence to become a force on stage, screen and the printed page. May 28.

JUNE:

Ann B. Davis, 88. Emmy-winning actress who became America's best-known housekeeper as the devoted Alice Nelson of TV's "Brady Bunch." June 1.

Alexander Shulgin, 88. Respected chemist famed for dusting off a decades-old recipe for the psychedelic drug ecstasy. June 2.

Chuck Noll, 82. Hall of Fame coach who won a record four Super Bowl titles with the Pittsburgh Steelers. June 13.

Casey Kasem, 82. Radio broadcaster with a cheerful manner and gentle voice who became the king of the top 40 countdown with a syndicated show that ran for decades. June 15.

Tony Gwynn, 54. Hall of Famer whose sweet left-handed swing made him one of San Diego's best-loved athletes and earned him the nickname "Mr. Padre." June 16. Cancer.

Eli Wallach, 98. Raspy-voiced character actor who starred in dozens of movies and Broadway plays and earned film immortality as a quick-on-the-draw bandit in the classic Western "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly." June 24.

Howard H. Baker Jr., 88. Moderate Republican ex-senator who, during the 1973 Watergate hearings, sought to learn Richard Nixon's role by asking what the president knew and when he knew it. June 26.

JULY:

David Greenglass, 92. He served 10 years in prison for his role in the most explosive atomic spying case of the Cold War and gave testimony that sent his brother-in-law and sister, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, to the electric chair. July 1.

Louis Zamperini, 97. Olympic distance runner who, during World War II, survived 47 days on a raft in the Pacific after his bomber crashed, then endured two years in Japanese prison camps; subject of the book and movie "Unbroken." July 2.

Metropolitan Volodymyr, 78. Head of Ukraine's Orthodox Church who was credited with stabilizing the church. July 5.

John Seigenthaler, 86. He edited The Tennessean newspaper, helped shape USA Today and worked for civil rights during the Kennedy administration. July 11.

Tommy Ramone, 65. Co-founder of the seminal punk band the Ramones and last surviving member of the original group. July 11.

Alice Coachman Davis, 90. First black woman to win an Olympic gold medal. July 14.

Dick Smith, 92. Oscar-winning "Godfather of Makeup" who amused, fascinated and terrified moviegoers by devising unforgettable transformations for Marlon Brando in "The Godfather" and Linda Blair in "The Exorcist," among many others. July 30.

AUGUST:

Chung Eun-yong, 91. Ex-policeman whose half-century quest for justice for his two slain children led the U.S. Army in 2001 to acknowledge the Korean War refugee massacre at No Gun Ri. Aug. 1.

James Brady, 73. Affable, witty press secretary who survived a devastating head wound in the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, then undertook a personal crusade for gun control. Aug. 4.

Robin Williams, 63. Academy Award winner and comic supernova whose explosions of pop culture riffs and impressions dazzled audiences for decades. Aug. 11. Apparent suicide.

Lauren Bacall, 89. Slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep" and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood's most storied marriages. Aug. 12.

Jay Adams, 53. Colorful rebel who helped transform skateboarding from a simple street pastime into one of the world's most spectacular sports. Aug. 14. Heart attack.

Richard Attenborough, 90. Actor and Oscar-winning director whose film career on both sides of the camera spanned 60 years. Aug. 24.

SEPTEMBER:

Andrew Madoff, 48. Bernard Madoff's last surviving son, he turned his father in and insisted he had been duped into believing history's most notorious Ponzi king was an honest financier. Sept. 3. Cancer.

Joan Rivers, 81. Raucous, acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated realm of late-night talk shows and turned Hollywood red carpets into danger zones for badly dressed celebrities. Sept. 4. Fatal complication during a medical procedure.

S. Truett Cathy, 93. Billionaire founder of the privately held Chick-fil-A restaurant chain. Sept. 8.

Rev. Ian Paisley, 88. Protestant firebrand who devoted his life to thwarting compromise with Catholics in Northern Ireland only to become a peacemaker in his twilight years. Sept. 12.

Deborah Mitford, 94. Dowager duchess of Devonshire and the last of the witty, unconventional Mitford sisters. Sept. 24.

James Traficant, 73. Colorful Ohio politician whose conviction for taking bribes and kickbacks made him only the second person to be expelled from Congress since the Civil War. Sept. 27.

OCTOBER:

Jean-Claude Duvalier, 63. He presided over what was widely acknowledged as a corrupt, brutal regime as the self-proclaimed "president for life" of Haiti until an uprising sent him into a 25-year exile. Oct. 4. Heart attack.

Oscar de la Renta, 82. Worldly gentleman designer who shaped the wardrobe of socialites, first ladies and Hollywood stars for more than four decades. Oct. 20.

Gough Whitlam, 98. Flamboyant Australian prime minister and controversial social reformer whose grip on power was cut short by a bitter constitutional crisis. Oct. 21.

Ben Bradlee, 93. Hard-charging editor who guided The Washington Post through its Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Watergate scandal and invigorated its newsroom for more than two decades. Oct. 21.

Jack Bruce, 71. British musician best known as the bass player and vocalist of the power blues trio Cream. Oct. 25.

Thomas Menino, 71. Boston's longest-serving mayor whose mumbling and occasional bumbling belied his political ingenuity and endeared him to a city whose skyline he helped reshape. Oct. 30.

NOVEMBER:

Tom Magliozzi, 77. He was one half of the brother duo who hosted National Public Radio's "Car Talk," where they bantered with callers and commiserated over their car problems. Nov. 3.

S. Donald Stookey, 99. He was the scientist who forever changed cooking with the invention of CorningWare, a versatile glass found in millions of American kitchens. Nov. 4.

Mike Nichols, 83. Director of matchless versatility who brought fierce wit, caustic social commentary and wicked absurdity to such film, TV and stage hits as "The Graduate," ''Angels in America" and "Monty Python's Spamalot." Nov. 19.

Marion Barry, 78. Former District of Columbia mayor whose four terms were overshadowed by his 1990 arrest after being caught on videotape smoking crack cocaine. Nov. 23.

Sabah, 87. Lebanese singer and actress who was an icon of Arab music. Nov. 26.

DECEMBER:

Herman Badillo, 85. Bronx politician who became the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a U.S. congressman. Dec. 3.

Queen Fabiola, 86. She was inseparable from her husband, the late King Baudouin, and popular across much of Belgium. Dec. 5.

Ralph Baer, 92. Video game pioneer who created both the precursor to "Pong" and the electronic memory game Simon and led the team that developed the first home video game console. Dec. 6.

Joe Cocker, 70. Raspy-voiced British singer with a contorted performing style, known for his frenzied cover of "With a Little Help From My Friends" and the teary ballad "You Are So Beautiful." Dec. 22.

These are just a few

I had a few close friends who passed one cousin in law one blogger friend and 2 pogo friends and two from High school.

Our house is finally torn down.

And we have no real plans as what to do next.

I hope 2015 is a better year.

Good Bye House

This is what is left of our home. Not a pretty picture is it?
When we came back to MN to take care of my dad we had a leak in the roof. Despite the many time hubby went over and re roofed it, it still leaked. And we were here so long that it wrecked the house. Oh how I cried.
Why would any one cry over a house? Well let me tell you.
This damn house is special.
We bought the house back in 1999. In 2000 my dad came over to stay with us so he could go to an all school reunion. Well he kept telling me he knew this house. I said I don't know how dad we just bought it. Then it came to him. He dated a girl who lived there. And the stories.... OH MY LANTA!
I didnt need to hear these stories.
I met the woman who used to live in our house and yes she verified every thing my dad said (again I didn't need to hear this)
Now my house is gone! DAMNIT! I love that little house. Good -bye house I will miss you. Now I gotta figure out what to do with the land now. Rebuild or sell!

Way to big Doncha think?

This is Our oldest grandson and me.
We raised him from a baby. he's about 6'3" talk about 300 lbs. and yeah not a baby any more. But grandma calls him baby all the time. I told him he will always be my baby.
When he was little we always told him he could come crawl in bed with us if he had nightmares. He text  me the other night and said he had a very bad night mare, can he come sleep with me? LOL
Umm well that is kinda hard. 1st you live way down town, 2nd it's the middle of the night. and 3rd well your a little too big to crawl in bed with me and grandpa now. He goes I know but it helps to talk to you. I know. I miss him. I mean I knew he was gonna move out some day. after all he is 19 now. But well in my mind's eye he is still 3.
He's still the little boy that climbed up the ladder to help grandpa up on the pole barn and freaked out grandma.
He's still the little boy who helped grandpa "build" the pole barn by nailing in a 5" spike that took him all day to get into the barn, but he was so persistent that he wouldn't give it up.
He is also the same little boy who every time we tried to go some place with out him would cry till he made himself sick and screamed I go with grandpa I go too.
I have a story for you.
He was three. we were here at this house in MN and our daughter was trying to keep him with her. (she wanted to take responsibility for him but he wasnt having it) It was the middle of the week and we were talking about taking a trip to South Dakota that weekend. We asked her if there was any way she could try to keep him? She said sure, she didn't have the problem but he did. Well about that time I said "Hey where is Tj?" and all of a sudden we hear...bump, bump, bump and here comes Tj with a suitcase bigger than him dragging behind him. We asked him if he was going some place? He said "yes South Dakota with grandpa and grandma." We laughed and said we aren't going right now and he started to cry because last time we said that we left with out him and then had to come back and get him. Daughter picked up suitcase and said"OMG what do you have in here rocks?" He goes "no my clothes" sure enough we opened it and he had it packed for a week with all the right clothes.  Underwear and socks included! HE WAS GOING WITH!
Well he did go with. We looked at houses out there and every time we went into a house he would run into a bedroom and go this one is mine. I whispered to hubby "what is he gonna do when he finds out he isn't coming with?" Hubby said "I dont know" Some times when he said this is my room I would say oh no that would be grandma and grandpa's room nut-ball! its the master bedroom and thats ours.
Well when we finally did buy a house he did move with us he had the small bedroom only for about 1 week then he took over the master bedroom and pretty soon we had his baby brother Aj living with us as well. (another long story)
And some how even though we came back to MN and he was suppose to be with mom he would only be with her a short time them beg us to let him come home to live with us again. And we would always figure out a way to bring him back to live with us. We are more his mom and dad than his grandparents but then again we are both!
As far as crawling into bed with us when he has a nightmare? He better just call me, because I dont thing he can fit in between grandpa and me any more!

My husband is trying to kill me!

So Sunday night we are here eating dinner. I get up and go out to kitchen to get a glass of milk. As I come back out into the living room and take a big swallow of milk hubby says something that is funnier than heck......I try I really try not to laugh, and I also try to swallow the milk in my mouth. It didn't work, I started to choke milk come flying outta my mouth all over the carpet and I run for the bathroom tears pouring from my eyes, and almost ready to wet my pants.
It was so funny NOT!
Then last night I am sitting here next to him and I'm eating a candy cane (yes I know I shouldn't eat one yet but there was no chocolate in the house) and there was a commercial on tv and what ever they said on there he miss heard and he said to me what he thought they said and of course I went to laugh candy in my mouth (minty flavor) and I inhale and start to choke and have to run to the bathroom again tears pouring down my face and almost wetting my pants again.
I tell him if your trying to kill me over dose me on my meds but don't choke me to death!
He laughs and he tells me he's not but it was pretty dang funny! NOT

What is wrong with some people?

I'm angry!
Oh my god am I angry.
Several years ago a young man whom I dearly loved like my son. He was sorta even seeing my daughter even though I knew what the reason behind that was.
Well you got it 9 months later along came my little Logan.
And the father?
Well he had all kinds of promises...but he was already married.
He was talking divorce. He told us so many different stories. None which were true.
Well then they wanted to share him.
Well daughter wanted support.
They took him off and on.
support came once in  awhile.
 Long story short daughter ended up going to court forgiving back payments to start anew and he could have Logan every other weekend.
Went well for awhile. Then he lost (OK I'm not sure on the order of this) But first his grandma then his mom. they passed away and threw him into a spiral.
Now he doesn't have a job and can't work (he can he just wont)
they went back to court because his license was suspended because he hadn't been paying child support. Daughter had nothing to do with this county did.
Judge ruled he needed to get a job and no he couldn't lower his monthly payments (they were already at the lowest possible,
So weekend comes its daddy's weekend and Logan is at daddy's BUT
Daddy isn't there. WHY?
Because mum found out daddy has been cheating once again and caught him. she kicked him out. WHILE LOGAN IS THERE!
Really? COME ON! Wait till you have brought him home.
So now Logan is upset about his daddy. Daughter is upset cause she knows support will completely stop.
AND this is NOT the first time he has pulled this crap. He has about 4 other kids older than Logan.
He is old enough to know better and to do this in front of his 7 year old! YEAH I AM NOT HAPPY.
He better not show up around here cause I will let him have a piece of my mind and maybe even a kick in the ass.

T.G.I.F.

Well It's Friday at last. So much going on.

I need to say one thing, with G-man's death it has brought a lot of bloggers together again. We are even talking about getting together in Ann Arbor MI. This time I'm going. I am not going to let "things" hold me back. Last time they had a get together I wanted to go I even got almost ready to go. But my weight held me back. I was not "sure" of myself. I didn't want others to see me like I was. SO I stayed home. Now it's too late. They all have memories of that weekend. I have regrets.

I know hubby and I have so much stuff going on and it may be difficult but some how some way I'm going to attend.  WHY? Because we are all getting older not younger and we can't turn the clock back and well you know that saying Sh*t Happens! Yeah it does. SO Yes I'm going.
I know one thing I'm going to be doing between now and then .....watching all the food intake so I'm not adding weight on/ EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THEY WILL ALL LOVE ME JUST AS I AM!
Have a great weekend. I may be back tomorrow or Monday God willing.

Updates

So it's been awhile. And due to the death of a Blogger friend, a lot of us are stating to Blog again. Get back to where we started. Most of us have new screens, some have same ones. I have a new one.
So Updates:

What has been happening in the world of me in the last several months?

Well if any of you have been on Face Book you have seen all my updates. And for those of you who aren't here goes:

Last year in June hubby retired. We were already to move to Florida. Then we got a call that our granddaughter's mom was using drugs and our granddaughter needed a place to live could we possibly take her? Well, yes of course. The last time her mom was "busted" we were in South Dakota working on tearing our home down, so they put our granddaughter in a foster home. BIG MISTAKE! She was put there with her dad's new girlfriends two sons and well she wasn't treated well. So we unpacked and took our granddaughter in. About 2 weeks later our oldest son (her father) asked if he could stay here with us for a week. against my better judgement I said ok. Well he moved in with his girlfriend and then her two boys and 7 months later was still here. Yes they paid rent both of them and she even paid me for watching her boys BUT they both drank and got into fights all the time and we were forever telling them to either get out or we were calling the police. NOT GOOD FOR MY BP.
Well our granddaughter left before her dad and his girlfriend did. I missed her so much. After having her for almost a whole year then all of a sudden she was gone.
In the mist of all this our oldest grandson who was 18 moved out. Yes that should be good but he wasn't finished with school. At first he kept going, then he just dropped out. Broke my heart cause he was in his last year.
Well, we finally got everyone out of our house, and I starting telling hubby I was having problems seeing. He said go get your eyes checked. I needed surgery. I had cataracts. So the month of July got sent up for that. Then I finally talked with my arthritis doctor about the lump in my arm and he sent me to another doctor who asked "do you want it out?" DUH! So he put me in the middle of my two eye surgeries so that every Weds in the month of July after the 4th I had surgery. Then in August hubby had surgery on his left shoulder. In Sept he had surgery on his right shoulder. And then in Nov. he had total hip replacement surgery, on his left hip.
Ok so you would think all is finally on right track right? NOPE
In the month of July just before my surgeries our daughter and her 3 boys moved in (we barely got over our oldest son and his girlfriend and her two boys moving out)
So now we have a house full again.
AND then my knee swells up. I try icing it. then heat. I elevate it. the swelling does not go down.
So after Thanksgiving I call the doctor and go in. He does x-ray. it's clear. So he drains it and gives me a shot of cortisone. Well that helps some but it still hurts and is still swollen. He sends me to have an MRI done. I get it done and he calls me and says I have a torn something or other in my knee. I can 1) learn to live with it (but it will not get better) or 2) have surgery. So I'm waiting to hear about that.
I just went to my neurologist yesterday and got good news there. Since I have my migraines under control (I haven't had to go in to the hospital in a very long time to get a shot) I don't have to come see him any more. I need to stay on the meds I'm currently taking which my regular doctor can prescribe for me. YAY I don't need one extra doctor any more!
So there ya are pretty much caught up.
Our house in South Dakota ....we hired someone to tear it down for us, to fill in the hole and take away the debris. All for the cost of all 5 of my tractors. UGH I did NOT like that hubby made that deal! But at least the city will be happy. We also have several people interested in buying it now, so yeah looks like that will be wrapped up too. Then maybe just maybe this spring (unless hubby needs his other hip done) we can finally go to Florida! I hope so.
I keep thinking about G-Man's death and about how short life really is.  He died just before his 65th birthday. I'm already 60. So it really brings to mind  how quickly stuff can change. Value life more now. And if your gonna do something you might want to do it NOW because you just never know what tomorrow will bring (or even today) This year has been a year of many losses for me. My own cousin lost her husband to cancer at a young age  (he was in his 40's) Another friend from Face Book also lost her battle with cancer. and I have yet another close friend whom I used to date way back in the day who also is battling cancer. You really never know the twist and turns of this thing called life. Live it to the fullest and love those who mean the most to you. Don't fight and if you do make up its not worth it to be angry or hold a grudge because if you don't say sorry now you might never get the chance to.
See you tomorrow God willing.

Good bye to a dear Blogger friend

We are all sadden today as we all learned the death of a fellow Blogger.Today would have been his birthday and I came here to sing him Happy Birthday like I always do only to learn of the sad news. He was funny, witty and all around sweetheart. G-man will be so missed by us all. This picture has been swiped from another blogger Jenn. Thank you Jenn.