I Googled myself today.............

Pretty in Pink

Poor Sammie got a Growth Plate Fracture....had to take a pic of it as the tiny crutches were too cute. Not to mention the pink cast. She is doing good walking with the crutches and oddly enough is not complaining of any pain. She was that way before when she took a nasty fall on some rocks..a high tolerance for pain (takes that after her Aunt Dona) :)

Cute pic huh...with the mischievous smile and all.

Its Official.......

I am an Idiot......


I mean really...I have had some weird dreams to say the least...and I wonder sometimes if it has to do with what I had to eat later than usual the night before when I dream crazy stuff..and I have been doing a lot of thinking about cars lately...we are trying to trade ours and have looked at every stinking car or truck on the planet..........but last night was a strange dream. Well not too strange, as I have had stranger.... just made me know I am a real dork.

Cathy was there, and I have been dreaming about her an awful lot lately and either I miss her more than usual as this would have been the year she turned 50, or something is going on with the kids or Granny or Poppa and I need to give them a call....but anyhow, we were eating at a place where it is buffet style, but its a long and unusual buffet, and its got conveyor belts that you can use or not( I said it was weird) and I know either I have dreamed of this place before or I have actually been there...but I have no idea. Anyhow for some reason after eating we both went to rent a car...and both of us had to rent a car each. Cathy told me to go first and when I was asked what kind of car I would like, my mind went blank and I just said.."I'll take a Volkswagen!" The guy asked me what model? I go, "OH I'll take a BEETLE!" He informs me that they did not have a Beetle but they did have a Karmann Ghia. I got overly excited as I have wanted a Karmann Ghia since I was 16. (Now I know my prior post says I wanted a Porsche at that age, and I did want one of those too, and this sounds like I am simply out of my mind, or fickle, but this is my blog and I guess I can say whatever I want.) But I love V-dubs and would have any of them. Yeah my taste is off as I can love expensive or cheap...doesn't matter as long as I love it!
Anyhow, I awoke just after that so I don't have a clue what was going to happen or what I was dreaming about, but I ask you, why on earth would anyone in 2007 go to a car rental place and rent a Karmann Ghia? I mean what about a Lincoln or Caddy? Or a Porsche for that matter? But a Karmann Ghia? Geez....I mean, really.

So it is official...I am an idiot.

(by the way this is the color of Karmann Ghia I would have wanted...cool huh?)

Porsche 944..may she rest in peace.......

Back in the late 60's early 70's for some reason I don't recall now, I decided a Porsche would be the car for me.

I mean I always had thought it would be real fun to be able to come up behind a Cadillac and just go breezing by at about 140 mph, all the while smiling with your hair blowing in the wind. I had heard that if you got it just right, nothing would handle more sweetly than a 944. And that you could get just as much out of a Porsche at 25 mph as you could at 125mph. The body detail I thought, was just simply magnificent.
Although, even then the price was too much (for me anyway) and I knew I would probably never get to where I would be able to afford one, I still made it my "have to" car.....in my dreams.....

Sometime after Frank and I were together for some time we went car hunting. That was a weekend thing to do for us, a kind of entertainment if you will. But at one point we decided to purchase one and we came upon a Porsche 944 and, at a price within our reach, almost purchased it as we fell in love with it instantly. I don't remember if Frank had always wanted one too or not but fell in love when we stumbled on this really nice 944.
We ultimately decided not to purchase the car as it was either just a two seater or the back seats were too small and between us we had 3 small kids at that time and thought it was really not the thing to do so we walked away from a sweet deal and something we both dreamed of for many years after the fact.

Today, 20 some odd years later, we were driving on the highway and came upon a car and both of us at the same time said "LOOK....is that a....YEAH ITS A 944!!!!!!!!!! SWEEEEEET!" We got all excited as we honestly have not seen one since the one we almost bought and there it was right beside us and we were passing it...in our TOYOTA.....and we passed it, and both of us just sort of made a face at each other and said...we really liked that? What the heck? Ye ch.
It was a good laugh as we didn't really like the one we saw and Frank thought it might have been because of the color (light faded blue) and a bit rusty and so I said, "Yeah the one we wanted was GOLD with Black, a really much neater color and all"...and Frank said, "No, wasn't it Midnight Green, with stripes?"

Then came an odd moment of silence.

After a few minutes we both pondered on the idea that it was maybe just a dream we both had so many years ago as neither of us could agree on the actual color of the so beautiful Porsche 944 we found at such a good price we have talked about and told so many people over the years that we almost purchased.

It really sucks getting old.

I hate SKUNKS

THEY ARE BACK!

GEE WHIZ, just when we thought we were safe. It seems that the past few weeks have been nothing but one thing after another of problems we can't or don't have the means to solve.. and even though the Raccoons have been here and gone...they didn't do much other than be noisy and irritate us by just knowing they were here and we could do nothing about it. But after 2 years of not having to worry about the skunks...they are back with a vengeance. After the skunk incident of 2004, I knew I never wanted to see another skunk, let alone smell one.
Elvis got the brunt of it last night just before going to bed. Poor thing. As I let them out, Lil Bit was slow to get off the porch, but before we even got off the first step, Elvis was running back to me and it was then I heard and noticed a Large Black Dog running down the driveway. Although I thought it was funny Elvis was running to me instead of running after the dog, I just thought he finally, after all these years, was minding me! Boy, was I wrong. We have a stray Black Chow that runs around town and usually ever so often is in our yard especially at night. So when I saw the big black tail hiking it down the drive I was sure it was the chow again. But as I moved over closer to the edge of the deck, I got a wake up call...PEEEUUUUUUUUUUU
Oh my gosh, that smell was sooo bad and it was then I noticed it had gotten Elvis head on! Poor thing, his eyes were closed and he was sneezing and he couldn't see and well let's just say he just wanted to go inside!
I had to get Frank up and he had to go out at 11pm looking for Tomato Juice. The skunk must have been close to our car as he said when he got into the car he took a minute to look in the back seat as he was sure the skunk was in there with him it stunk so bad.
Luckily there was still some snow around and he kept rolling in it to try to get it out of his eyes...I think it helped some, finally his eyes were open. At least that kept him busy until Frank got back.
So our night was not the greatest as we stood out in the cold pouring Tomato Juice all over poor Elvis freezing our butts off...not to mention his. Then we kept taking turns pouring the juice on him and then Frank was in the shower hosing him down with whatever we could think of to get the smell off. By this time, we didn't know if it was him smelling or us or simply the house! It stunk sooo bad. Frank took a whole bottle of baby powder and dumped on Elvis and spread it throughout the house on the floors! Let me tell you, skunk and Johnson & Johnson's baby powder does not mix too well. But anything was an improvement.
We finally figured it was all we could do and at about 1am we were done in.
Elvis was too.
This morning we opened all the doors and windows we could, and finished washing all the blankets and towels and throws. I still think we will smell it and smell ourselves for days. Its almost worse than in 2004 when mom was here and that was bad. I can still hear her telling dad that we told her we were having skunk stew, as she kept asking what the smell was, so we just told her we were cooking skunk stew thinking she would be satisfied with that. She was until dad got home and couldn't wait to tell him. I remember she only would eat food that was red and we fixed her tomato soup that night and she whispered and told Frank that was the best Skunk stew she ever had.

I went ahead and give Elvis a haircut as his hair was too long as I haven't been able to give him his regular cut since my surgeries. Glad I did as he smells fine now. But I thought I would choke while trimming him. I mean all night I would awake to a skunk smell and I thought the darn thing was next to me...man its in my lungs, I can hardly take it. I even think I am burping up skunk....I have a skunk headache too.....

Yeah, yeah...gimme some cheese with this whine, or heck just gimme some wine,
as I am gonna need it, cause who knows whats gonna happen tomorrow.

Procrastinate

I am mad at myself today....heck, who am I kidding? I was mad at myself yesterday, and the day before and the day before.......... For what, you might ask? Procrastinating. Yeah....me....Mrs.neversitsstillalwayswantstobedoingsomething. But I am not doing the things I wanted to get done. Is that procrastination? What is procrastination? Is it when you don't do what you wanted to do or not get to what you wanted to get to....wait a minute that's the same thing....or is it? Or is it when you put it off so long that its too late to do what you wanted to do? Yeah maybe that's it. Ok its official then........I am a procrastinator.

SO I am mad at myself. How can this be that I put something off that might in the long run help me? I mean I do what I can do for others when they ask but when it comes to myself...I just don't or am not getting it done. SO is that procrastinating? Or just laziness?
NOOOO I am not lazy. Not me, not when I go on vacation to visit my sister and end up cleaning her house, that's not lazy.....is it? I mean its not like her house is so bad I have to clean it in order to stay there and be comfortable....she is just a lousy housekeeper...(sorry Anna, if you ever read this you know it to be true!! :)
So I do not think I am lazy by any means....but I really do not want to think I am a procrastinator either...Hey maybe this is just my word for the day...and I am using it to the extreme. You know like..ok the word for today is Procrastinate...use it in a sentence! Maybe that's it, I woke up and thought Procrastinate...so its stuck in my mind and I have to use it.
SO, I am not a procrastinator.

But I think I am.

I wanted to do certain things in order to be able to take care of certain things when they arose. I didn't do those things and now the other things depending on it are here and I am outta luck.
Its time for car plates, insurance and lot rent. All at the same time, not to mention more medical bills are arriving daily, but that's a given. And just when you would think you could not take just one more thing, the phone company calls and informs me "they" made a mistake and now "I" have to pay for it. Hmmm, now that just seems a little unjust to me. It seems to me if "they" made the mistake...shouldn't they eat it? Sounds about right to me....cause if I made the mistake I would surely be the one to eat it....so if the shoe fits? But "they" didn't see it that way.
SO I had to eat it. And will have to on the next month's bill as well.

So to get back to my point...I guess I am a procrastinator. I made the mistake and now I have to eat it.
There is a Procrastinators Creed......This is one on the list. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind.

I liked that one. So I guess I just have not decided to do the things I needed to do yet..............hmmmmm

I wish I would have changed my mind.

Knee Knockers

Took a drive by myself today for the first time since my knee surgeries. Have to say it wasn't so bad. I was nervous a month or so back when I just moved the car and when putting on the brake I really felt a bad twinge in the knee and so have put off the driving until today. Its funny how the older I get the more nervous I get about certain things. Seems like only yesterday I would not have given it a second thought and just got into the car the minute I could walk. Weird.
But anyhow, today I felt the need for some home made cole slaw and was missing the cabbage, so I just decided to try it out for myself. Dad had brought a friend of his over, to try to help him fix the water heater, as it is still blowing fuses and every other day there is no hot water(yet a whole other post) and his truck was blocking the short driveway, but I backed up far enough to drive down the long way...little did I know the ice was still on the drive about halfway down and the ice and wind had blown down so many of the pine tree branches and they were laying everywhere on the driveway, and I felt a bit like I was driving into purgatory cove. (You know Purgatory Cove...from "On Golden Pond"?) Ok so maybe a bad analogy, Maybe I should compare to the icebergs in Titanic? I mean we are talking some big butt ice layers down there on the driveway...Anyhoo, I was weaving in and out to miss the branches and BOOM there it was..ICE about 10 inches thick, and all across the driveway and into the yard on both sides..(yeah 10 inches..that's my story and I am sticking to it!) now at about 100 feet from the road and from what I could see the ice was from this point to the road and I was sliding all over the place...I got so nervous as I didn't have my foot on brake or gas pedal and usually you have to stop or the people on the road plow you down...Now I have been driving on this driveway since I was 16 and at 51 I do believe I could drive up or down this driveway blindfolded, but now without stopping before I drove into the road? I don't think so!!! Not as fast as these nuts drive down this road...but as I looked to the left there was a Jeep speeding down the hill and I was sure if I didn't slide on over into the ditch which is where I was heading without trying to, I was bound to hit him....luckily, as usual he was speeding fast enough that I missed him and lucky for me there was nobody behind him or coming the other way, as I could not stop and just managed to keep my car steady straight and out of the ditch and right out into the road.... WHEW! I made it, but immediately called Frank up on the cell, and told him I was staying gone til the guy left so I could come up the short drive! There was no way I was even going to try going up that icy path.

I got to the grocery and back just fine. No incidents. My knees did not give out and I didn't have to brake suddenly harming my knees... I did ok, if I do say so myself.

Oh and did I say I bought a really scrumptious Entenmann's Cinnamon Danish Twist at the grocery?


Well I did.