Yellow Rose's Garden

I haven't posted a good long post in a while. LJ's power outtage withstanding, I have been doing a lot of introspective thinking. I suppose I could have posted my thoughts privately, but the thoughts were jumbled. Too jumbled, I think for me to put them into tangible form.

I'm about ready to strangle one of the household felines. The old one is just being a bitch, she knows damned well where the litterbox is, she just expects it clean thirty seconds after she uses it. Tomorrow, she will have a most unpleasant experience. Tom is cleaning out the large dog crate and she gets to live in that. I just can't keep up with cleaning up after her anymore. I'm tired of getting physically ill because she thinks she can drop where she wants. :(

A few weeks back, we started closing the cats out of the bedroom. My husband would roll over and find wet spots in the bed... eww. The weird thing was the bed had been fully made and somehow they crawled up under the covers and sometimes the pillows to do this. Some have put the old cat's behave down to old age, she's like 15, but it's happened on and off for years. Being old is the only thing that has saved her from becoming an outside cat, that and me telling my husband that I don't want her being killed by someone or something on my conscience. Caging her might seem very cruel to some, but the alternatives are far far worse.

6:55 PM

I need to start supper about 8:30. Making Banquet fried chicken and seasoned potatoes. Might do corn on the cob. Also need to finish laundry, clean living room and clear up kitchen. Tom needs to scrub his bathroom and do the dog crate. Crate can wait until tomorrow, but the bathroom should be done tonight.

May or may not RP tonight, not sure. Might hit the bed early, going to try to take the car tomorrow. Big event.. first time I'm taking it for the day since I broke my ankle in June. Kevin will be working at an easily found gate that's not far from home, so, this is good. Tuesday, I will clean my office.

If I take the car, I need/want to: go to the bank to make deposits, pay bills, grocery shop, hit Hobby Lobby for a few things. Might have the oil change done while I'm at it since Hobby Lobby is short walk from the Kwik Kar oil change place.

Been taking part in the AOL Sims 2 board. Most of the people use understandable language. One punk started babbling in some form of netspeak and got whacked upside the head. Apparently, it's a 13 year old. It was interesting to note that they really whapped her when she told the other posters that the game was for kids and not old people. Ohhhh boy.

Last night, my husband surprised me. He called home to ask for something and Tom told him that I was cleaning and was putting up the laundry. Originally, he had wanted to ask me to make the seasoned potatoes that he likes so much to go with the chicken I was planning for dinner. Instead, he asked me to call Outback and find out what time they closed on Saturday night and that he would take me out if they would still be open late enough for us to get dinner when he got home. Outback closes on Saturday at 11:30, so... out we went. It was one of his more thoughtful days for which I am most graetful. :)

I'm going to switch out my laundry again.

7:45 PM
One load (possibly two) to wash, one load washing, one load drying and another put away. Off to clean up Kevin's room. I try to go in there every week or so and clear up trash and stuff.

8:10 PM
Kevin's room cleared.

Recent audio books: Ginger: My Story by Ginger Rogers, The Body in the Closet and Plumbing for Willy : More Stories from The Lottery Winner by Mary Higgins Clark, and The Women of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor.

I back tracked about 3 days of LJ posts to see what all I missed.

8:45 PM
Chicken in the oven, need to make the potatoes so that they are ready when the timer goes off. Miles to go before I sleep.

11:50
More laundry done and put up. Dinner cleaned up, dishes done. Living room cleaned. Too tired and sore to finish the kitchen tonight. It's a good tired, though as I accomplished much today.

Had my last appointment with Dr. McAtee, today. The x-rays look great and you can hardly tell the one side of my ankle was broken. Some hospital in Oregon is gaining an excellent doctor. He's getting out of the Army and moving onward. I think he's one of the better surgeons I have encountered over the years. Straight forward and not giving false hope. He would say things like, "This is what should happen, but let's watch your progress and see how things go for you." That's a lot more honest answer in my book than "you will be healed by this point in time."

I keep wanting to turn on my Sims 2 game today and get lost in it for a while, but something in my head is saying, "Let me out, damn it, let me out," and so, I write. I have a house to pick up as well, but that will also keep while I get my thoughts into tangible form. Some things that I write are for stories and others are trippings down the pathways of my mind that I don't readily share with all people. There are some doors into our own minds that are hard to allow others past. I think that my thoughts on past lifes and a few other subjects are like that. Some folks are offended by those things for religious or other reasons and rather than offend anyone, I keep those things separate. Sometimes, I feel like I've been leading a double life, but the truth is, I'm not the only person that does not open their inner depths to every person they know. I'm honest about it, I think, while I limit who I open those discussions with, I am always willing to talk to anyone that will take the subject seriously or at least respect that I do and not begin one of those "ha, ha, you're a moron" speeches that people with differing opinions are so often subjected to.

I have this relaxation CD going that came with a gift box of various bath salts. It's doing its job, I start getting floaty when I listen.

( Cleaning crew )
( Medical Mishmosh )
And speaking of Europe, I have been thinking, of late, about the various places I have been over the years. I still say I will write about them one day, I have begun to do so, but it's not exactly a memoir.

My incense has finally burned down, so I will rest soon.

I know, the song is Just Another Day in Paradise, but it doesn't fit my house.

The exercises the PT gave me for my ankle are helping with the sideways motion. I can almost make a circle with the ankle and the swelling is less in size and it takes longer for it to do so.

I finished "Loves Music, Loves to Dance" by Mary Higgins Clark. I'm trying to get through Fleeced by Carol Higgins Clark. The audio quality is not so great, but it is a good story. I still have Daddy's Little Girl to listen to. I might just renew it, it's due on Saturday.

Tonight, I'm fixing meatloaf in the stack cooker for dinner. My son gets to do the hauling about. I'm thinking frozen corn and apple struesel, but I'm not sure if I'll go for the dessert or herbed potatoes. Maybe, I'll get ambitious and do both, the dessert tastes better after it sits a while.

I used my McDonald's thingies for tunes to download a few that I have on old 45s. I'd really love to hook up with someone that can put all of them on CDs for me. The more popular ones like Bay City Rollers are still out there, but I have some off the wall stuff that's not exactly findable. One of these days I want to get one of those all in one stereo deals with turntable, cassette, CD, etc. I know they exist, but the last one I saw was like 250 bucks.

I figure by the time the new Sims game is out, I'll be able to walk into the place and get it. At least I hope so.

Tom had his appointment for senior pictures today. I hope they come out well. Hard to believe this is his last year in high school.

So far, today there are six new posts in navarra. I'm rather please with my progress not to mention all the other writings I've unearthed. I'm rather pleased with the progression and that my brain is kicking into gear. I think the new piece for Rhiannon looks good, now, if I can keep up that momentum, it should be good.

Must attend to other writings before Tom gets here, I'll get dinner going when he arrives.

Yesterday, I pinned the quilt to what will be its new backing. Today, I need to sew the binding on it. I'm getting into the habit of doing crafts and writing on alternate days. Some days I do both.

While I would prefer to produce a piece of fictional writing suitable for publication, this is not always how the mind works. These days, I'm glad to get thoughts out of my fingers and posted. While this might not be the best thing, it does spur the creative juices. I'm likely going to be posting at least one story thread in navarra a day for the next few weeks. Of course, that's an average, it might be ten one day and zip the next.

( Ankles and knees )
( Money )
( Reading and such )

the laughter of a happy child.

While waiting in line in Hobby Lobby on Saturday, I was behind a family with three young children. The oldest was, perhaps, eight. The middle sized one was a girl that was giggling and laughing as she played one of those hand tag games with her father as the mom was checking out. It was a nice change from kids that wail and carry on like they are being murdered because they can't have whatever they wanted in whatever store they happen to be shopping in.

I took advantage of a couple of their sales and got the fuseable fleece to finish the baby quilt among other things. My son did the babysitting drill and pushed me around in a wheelchair to get me and my clunky walking boot around faster. I also picked up some charms. I have bracelets to make. I have too many projects in my "to do" pile and need to get my rear into gear.

( Possibly TMI on my ankle. )
I'm going to write something today. Not sure what. Ah.. I know about who, but not what. Been promising to write for her for a long time. My goal is to do a story piece for some character or a non RP piece every other day. On my "other" days, I want to work on my crafts. Today is a story day. Tomorrow, I think I get the quilt and bib washed to prepare them for the finishing touches, if not do said touches.

Oh, due to PT, they woke me up this morning to arrange the appointment, thanks a lot, it's going to be a fairly early night for me. By early, I mean I need 5-6 hours sleep to get up at 7 or so. Anyone looking to RP, tonight, needs to catch me ASAP when they see me on.

I'm going to put words to paper, in the figurative sense, and then stretch on the couch. I have bills that need checks written and an audio book to listen to. Rest for me while healing is not a luxury, it's a necessity. Even time with my leg propped while listening to an audio book or reading helps. I've got a few Mary Higgins Clarks to listen to as well as Irish Whiskey by Andrew Greeley. It's the third in a series, didn't know that when the title caught my eye, but hey... I like it so far and it gives me a new author to look through..

I wanna get off.

Something strange happened earlier. Based on what I did just now, I'll be erasing and retyping a lot. My ankle is apparently healed enough that it's chomping at the bit, as the saying goes, to start moving and get back to normal. I had a seriously nasty spasm in the tendons and muscles around that area. I've been trying to flex my toes, etc. The spasm was so bad and painful that I'm way drugged.

There's so much I should be doing, but due to reasons that are now beyond my control most of them will remain undone today. I have my post op appointment on Wednesday morning. I hope they change this dressing and cast if not remove them altogether.

Had my doctor's appointment today. The good news is the swelling is down on the left side of my ankle where the balance of the damage had been done. That means they can proceed with the surgery next Tuesday. The bad news is it doesn't look like they will be able to do surgery on the right side of my ankle. I still have fracture blisters. I had one large one and a bunch of small ones. Now, I have two large ones. At least I know why certain movements cause hella pain.

While in the waiting room I learned that one of my favorite actors from Classic Trek, James Doohan, has Alzheimer's. He also has Parkinson's disease. troz1958 pointed out this article http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/TV/07/07/people.doohan.ap/index.html

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