Thursday's here...

The weather took a little turn toward cool today and down right chilly tonight! My teeth were actually chattering at one point. What's the deal with the weather...it is suppose to be getting warm and staying that way. Of course, I don't really care for the jump right into hot summer weather, I want some spring weather. Got my plastic eggs candy-filled and ready to go for the Easter Egg Hunt at church. Natasha is bring Dakota by here in the morning on her way to work and we are picking up Allyssa from Vickie's at 10:00. Last year Dakota was too young to even consider "looking" for eggs, but this year she is going to look!!!!! Still have dizzy spells, found out that to qualify for short-term disability you have to have worked at least 7 days and since I worked a 1/2 day on Thursday the 29, out from Friday, March 30 through Monday April 9, I have not actually not worked 7 days, since Friday, (tomorrow) is a holiday. So I won't paid at all for last week, except maybe my holiday pay. Since I was out on a doctor's note, it might fall under the FMLA (family medical leave act) and I will get paid for the holiday. So now, it is going to be 2 weeks before I get another check. Great, as if we were not struggling already with Vincent just now getting back to working a full time job. Finished a total of 5 scrapbook pages the past week. Pretty good, I should say!!!! Well, it is 10:52 pm and I am getting ready to hit the sack, after I go and get me a good cold glass of water, I am craving it for some reason.....

Spring-like Wednesday

Don't ask me what Dakota thought was so interesting about Papa taking off his work boots when he got home that evening. But she was all into it! The fist picture of her laying down just cracks me up. He sit down to take off his boots and she just lays down in front of him watching the process....she is soooo cute! Today the weather has been so pleasant. Seventies with a breeze blowing, partly cloudy. Beautiful.....So far this week, I have finished 4 scrapbook pages....a record for me since sometimes I cannot even get one done in a 2 week period. I guess being home all week and not being able to do anything that would require alot of excess work manages to allow you do being able to do that. Haven't even been able to drive in the last couple of days since I got dizzy driving on Monday to the store. Went for a little walk today and took some pictures of different flowers around the neighborhood. I guess some people who see me hovering over a flowering bush or looking keenly at a flowering dogwood tree probably think I am a little wacko, but who cares. If they think you are wacko, then they don't expect much from you, right?????? I finished one scrapbook page with the pictures taken of Dakota and Allyssa with Santa in Hendersonille, NC, this past December. I have looked at this pictures several times trying to decide how the relate the "goings on" on paper. When I looked at them this morning, I just was laughing so hard. One of the pictures shows Dakota turning around seeing Santa and the next one shows her with her mouth wide open cry up a storm, so instead of making a serious page I made a funny page. You would have to see it to understand. I will try to scan it and post it. Well, gotta go for now. Later...............

Monday already

There she goes on the run to find the easter eggs!!!!!!! This was Allyssa's egg hunt at school last Friday. She had so much fun. Each student could only leave with 12 eggs each. She had so much fun looking for them. I am still having the dizziness. Call the doc back today and told him. He said I should be feeling better by now, give a couple more days and if I am not feeling better he wants to see me again. Revised my time off through the week. So here I am at home not being able to do much of anything. I even got dizzy driving today...not good. Scrapbooked two pages yesterday, nothing today. Maybe tomorrow.......

Taking it easy...

Is this not just the cutest little picture of the duck trying to catch the drop of water and the other ducks playing in the puddles!!!!!! I found this in the vintage newletter I get when they have new things for each holiday that rolls around! They have cute little pictures of different things! Anyway, trying to take it easy, still having dizziness, tired, etc.... Mom and I went to AC Moore today. She had a tea at church from 11:00 til 1:00 and then she came by and picked me up. AC Moore is starting to carry alot of different name brand embellishments, etc. Could stay in there for hours, no wait, we did stay in there for hours....LOL....maybe a couple of hours. Mom had them make arrangements for Grandma and Grandpa's gravesites so we had to wait for them to get those done, not that we minded one bit!!!!! Vincent and I went for a motorcycle ride to Cracker Barrel in Hendersonville, then back through Traveler Rest and then home...nice little ride! Well, guess I had better go for now.

Will I ever feel better?..........

My Easter beauties! This was from last year at Easter....such pretty little babies! I love the way the color of the plastic eggs came out too. Since Monday I have been having dizzy spells, some headaches and just feeling yuck, yuck, yucky. Today I had a dizzy spell that was a little worse than the others so I had my blood pressure checked at work. It was high but my heart rate was high too and it concerned the guy taking my bp. He told me to call my doctor and let them know the problems I was having, which I did. Dr. Hammond wanted me to come in, which I did. I told him when he came in the room I was having "Dr. Hammond withdrawals"!!!!!! The nurse had checked my b/p and it was still a little high and when he came in it was checked for the 3rd time and it was still high. He also checked my heart rate which was high. He said it was not dangerously high, but racing. So he gave me some medication called Toprol XL that I have to take for 2 weeks. It is a beta blocker that is suppose to level out my anxiousness, I am to stay on the Benicar and Cymbalta and call him back in 3 weeks to let him know if I am feeling any better. If I am not, I have to go back in to see him. I told him about the little "pains" I feel like I get near my heart and the numbness in my fingers sometimes. "AM I HAVING A HEART ATTACK"!!!!, I ask. How hypocondriac is that. He chucked and said no you are not having a heart attack and we are going to get you feeling better. He put me out of work until March 4. I am to do nothing except rest or take a walk, nothing strenuous or tiring. Of course, every thing I do I go at it like a bat out of hades. I told him I guess I would have to go home and lay around and he said that is exactly what I want you to do, nice to hear a doctor tell you that, huh? You mean I can go home and do absolutely nothing, nothing at all??????????? RIGHT!!!!!! Exactly how is that done, do they give out directions of out to "DO NOTHING" all day??????? Is there a instructional DVD or handbook available! I just LOL at myself sometimes. I have been "busy" doing something for as long as I can remember and how do I stop doing that exactly????????? Hope I am not graded on it or anything! Well, I guess I will go in here and DO NOTHING, like go to bed! Don't let the bed bugs bite.

Pleasant Monday!

What a beautiful sunset! This was another picture taken during our beach trip in February, 2005. That was the year when Mom, Dad, me, Natasha, Allyssa, Wayne, Tina, Courtney, Lauren, Brittni and Chandler went. Mom and Dad was there for the week, the rest of us for a couple of days. I could be sitting right there on that sandy beach watching this sunset pretending that I did not have a care in the world. That's was you do on vacation, right. Forget about every day "things" and just enjoy the moment. Seize the moment, wishing the world would stand still. Miss Kitty is lounging here in from of me on my computer desk and yawning, like she don't have a care in the world. Wait....she don't have a care in the world. We make sure she has food, water, clean litter box, let her outside to explore, come back in and sleep, eat, sleep, eat, sleep. Sounds like a winner to me. George Clooney is in town right now. I say that like he is a relative or something!!!!! He is filming some segments to his romantic comedy Leatherheads. Mom and Carol got to get glimpses of him yesterday and got some pics. Mom and I went by the old Travelers Rest High School football field where the filming is being done on Saturday, but he was no where to be found and don't think we did not try to find him!!!!

Today has been a pretty pleasant day. Went to work, got off of work, went to the credit union to try and deposit a check that Vincent signed over to me and the girl said she could not take it b/c he was not on my account, got into it with her, left the drive thru with her still talking, then a mexican was taking 2 lanes at a stop light, had to tell him to get over in his lane, yes his window was down and so was mine.....then went on down the road and 2 more vehicles, driven by mexicans pulled over in my lane in front of me, fussed at them and then if that was not enough, I get stuck at the railroad crossing at Edwards Road and the train decides to come to a complete stop, sit there 10 minutes, it never moves, so finally decide to turn around and go another route. Other than that, I had a pleasant day!!!!! I am really laughing out loud right now, because as I type this, it sounds like something out of a comedy book or show. Do things like this really happen, "as a matter of fact, they do cubby"!!!!! My famous line from the movie Mask with Jim Carrey.....

Natasha was off today and tomorrow so I will not have the girls until Wednesday. Natasha is coming to eat lunch with me tomorrow. Had to turn the air conditioner on last night, I finally had had enough sweating and hot flashes.....well, guess i had better go for now...it is getting late and I have to get a shower before bed! . By the way, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie that opened in theaters Friday was the #1 box office seller over the weekend. Nick loved the ninja turtles, he was always leonardo! Cowabunga, Dude!!!!!!!!!!

Bike Ride

Look at that cute little girl 3 seat back on the first set of desks. Right in front on my best friend then, Rusty Moore. I think we used to walk home from school together. Take a look at those white socks with those dress shoes, STYLING!!!!!. Some of the girls have their Girl Scout Brownie uniform on. I must not have been in their troop, b/c I don't have mine on. Sure wish I had that uniform now. Don't know what happen to it, nor the little gold brownie pin, or tie....anyway.....We went on a bike ride after we left Mom and Dad's house where we stopped by after we ate lunch for cake. We did not go to Highlands, NC, where we intended to go because it was raining in Brevard, NC. So we took a nap and then our intention was to go to Cracker Barrel in Hendersonville, NC, but when we got there it was crowded so we rode on through Chimney Rock, since the shops were not open for the season yet and then came back home and ended up eating at Arby's near out house. Pretty long ride, 168+/- miles to eat in Taylors, SC, don't you think!!!!!!! It was a good ride though, the weather was really nice. Tired right now, since it is 10:20 p.m. I need to get to bed since I have to be at work at 6:00 a.m. yuck, yuck.....don't want to go......be back later!