Scooter

With the promise of rain lingering behind the sun and clouds,  I am reclining in the chair fighting with myself as to whether I should go on and take Murphee girl for a walk. As I'm gazing out the picture window in my living room looking for the white squirrel that hops along the yard across the street, I see our next door neighbor is already up and at it.  He and his four-legged side kick, Scooter, (Scooter-butt to me and Murphee girl) are out for a Sunday drive. Scooter sitting proudly in the passenger seat just happy to be included in his human dad's plans for this morning, whether it is a drive to the nearby mountains or just a short drive to get breakfast. He is happy.

Every day when I arrive home from work and let Murphee out to enjoy the fresh air after being cooped up in the house all day, Scooter is waiting on us at the adjoining fence. Just waiting to be greeted or maybe get a small treat I have for him.

The neighborhood is walking up now,  so I better get to it.  So I will go for that walk now.

I will post a picture of him later.

Why is it that it doesn't matter where a person works,  there are always those that get by with doing absolutely nothing....

I. Just. Don't. Get. It.

On a brighter note...

This sweet girl always makes me feel better when I come through the door after a long day's work.   She greets me at the door with

tail wagging wanting some loving. 

Anna this crazy weather we are having busy blows me away.  One day it's sunny and warm, the next day it's raining and miserable.  Only thing I'm thankful for is that we are not neck deep in snow and blizzard conditions.  

It's been a while....

I think the last time I  posted here was 2010. Wow, nine years. There has been a lot of changes in my life since then!

I have been blessed with three more grandchildren, Shay,  Mya and Jayda all of whom have joined the ranks of my son, Nicholas and his wife, Savannah.

I was divorced in 2009 and moved back to my hometown of Travelers Rest. Several years later I remarried. Arthur was 2 grades ahead of me in school. One of his brothers was in the same grade as me and I  knew of Arthur. Of course, if you ask Arthur he will tell you I didn't know him! But,  he says he knew who I was! Wonder how?

So, in October Arthur and I bought a house after renting for several years. Same neighborhood as my sister and brother-in-law which is nice. 

Well, I have caught you up pretty much. But there is more to come...

Stay tuned...

Goofy Girls!

Annual Hendersonville Christmas Trip, 2010, we had a blast. This picture here is of two goofy girls, on left is my daughter, Natasha, who is more like my sister and on the right is my sister's daughter, Asheton, who is more like me. They were clowning around waiting on me, mom and Deborah as we browsed around the Hospice Store.

It was so cold, but there was no snow this year. We really ran out of time this year, and ended up exchanging our gifts with each other at Krispy Kreme on the way back home. We usually do it while we are eating lunch, but we ate on Main Street and did not have the gifts with us. And it was too cold to go back to the car and get them. We all had silly glasses on and all of us eventually had our picture taken sitting in this tub!

I think next year, it will be time to introduce Natasha's oldest daughter, Allyssa, to this part of our lives that "no man shall be allowed" !!!!!!! Wup!!!

I need Spring.....
Although I enjoy getting a little cold and having a small amount of snow before Spring arrives, I have decided today that this is enough of the cold weather....

Back in November the day before Thanksgiving, i was at work and had a chick-fil-a sandwich that i was going to heat in the microwave for lunch. Now I know in the back of my mind that these sandwiches are wrapped in a foil-lined wrap, but didn't think one minute about tossing that sandwich in the microwave..... i was standing there, just waiting on the timer to "ding", listening to the jibber-jabber of co-workers as they were eating lunch, when another co-worker, stumbling over her words was telling me to check my sandwich, it was on fire....yes, you heard correctly it was on fire, so intelligent me opens the door, pulls out the sandwich and proceeds to blow out the flames, of course black ashes are floating and flying everywhere, co-workers stop jibbing and are watching me not sure of what just happened! The first thing I thought of was grabbing the fire extinguisher, then deciding against it, than I thought, crap, what am I going to do for lunch now.....

Believe it or not, my sandwich was not harmed in this catastrophe and lunch continued in the canteen as usual...... Of course, after lunch several people asked me what happen and I reiterated the story with my laughing so hard at myself that I could hardly tell them what happen.

Life goes on....

Now since it has been sooo dang cold outside, I took my lunch on Friday, plus my Mom had told me she had plans so we were not going to meet as usual for our Friday lunch. I get to work about to freeze in my tracks, because, let's face it, I DO NOT LIKE COLD WEATHER AND IT WAS IN THE LOW 20'S, so I am trying to get everything together to jump in my truck to head to work. Go to walk out the door and what happens? I drop my lunch, I bend down to pick it up and head on out to my vehicle and head to work. Get in the parking lot, park, turn ignition off, put keys in pocketbook. I already have the plan in my mind as I get ready to get out, slowly walking fast, if that is possible, to get inside. Employee badge, check, pocket book, check, my "down-time-never-g0-anywhere-without-it" bag with my "emergency equipment" of a Food Network magazine, calendar, new book about journal spilling, and of course my colored pencils and markers, check, coffee, check, coat zipped up, check, lunch, check.

I get out of the truck and start to walk and what happens, yes, i dropped my lunch AGAIN. Now i had a plate of pork chop, green beans, creamed potatoes and a canned pepsi and a energy drink. After a few choices thoughts, I reach down to get the lunch and hoping that it mostly stayed in the container, saying to myself, "I don't believe this is happening, not once, but twice".

I get inside safely without the psycho lunch harming anymore precious time, clock in and go to my work space to try and salvage it. Now the container it was in was tin pie plate which had a plastic cover that fit snuggly over it, before it has been dropped 2 times. The second I pull it out of the bag to rearrange it, my friend at work says, "Nancy, you can't heat that at lunch in that pie plate. You know that, right?" Heck no, I wasn't thinking about that and Heck yes I would have put it in there. So now I have to find a paper plate to change everything.

My day proceeds smoothly thinking the whole time how good lunch was going to be, finally lunch arrives. I take my mouth-watering lunch to the breakroom to heat up, put it in the microwave, everything is going well, then I get ready to take it out and the plastic cover has started to melt, just my luck. I was thinking to myself, I hope no one has seen this idiot pulling another one of her crazy stunts. I quickly get it out and nearly run out the door to get back to my lunch table.

As it turns out, nothing was ruined and I thoroughly enjoyed my lunch to the fullest. Just another day in the life of me!!!

Undescribable....

Today is a day I don't think I will forget for a while. I had a major personal think happen today that I am not ready to discuss with anyone else right now. I am not sure what is going to happen in the next month.

We have Allyssa tonight. She is watching the Magical Kingdom with jet li with Papa. She is such a mess...

Natasha is going through some rough times as well and not sure what the outcome of that is going to be.

Maybe in a couple of days, weeks, who knows, I can get it all down in writing, but right now it is difficult to come to terms with.

I'm back!

Ok, I know it has been nearly a year since I last logged in and I hope to change that with this post! Allyssa has just turned 8 years old, Dakota turned 3 in October and Reagan turned one in December!

To catch up on my medical status, the last post was about the test on my gallbladder being negative and I was referred to a gastrointerologist who set me up for a colonoscopy. 3 medium and 1 small polyp later and the prescriptions for a some type of bacteria I am still have problems with my digestion. Don't really have the pain I was having though. So I am just dealing with it for now!

I am still working at T&S totally been moved away from devil child. I work in shipping now and love it!

Nick and Ashley are expecting a little boy (my first grandson) in February, woo-hoo! Natasha is done having babies, woo-hoo!

Vincent became the proud owner of "Vincent's Watersports" in June! He was actually working there before when it was "Hendrix Watersports", but Lance wanted out so he turned the business over to Vincent!

The only pets we have now are Hanzo our 1 year old Long-Haired German Shepherd and Miss Kitty our 9 year old tabby!

One of our neighbors was diagnosed with breast cancer about 3 months ago. She has started chemo and is doing great. She has lost her hair but is doing well with that also. She is a hairdresser so she has her wig styled just right! She still has Mazey (short for Amazing Grace) who is taller than Hanzo, but they play together all the time! She usually gets the best of Hanzo, maybe because he lets her, hmmm?

OK, I think that this is enough for now!