Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Oh what joy!!! Today I got a letter from my docs reminding me that I am a year overdue for my smear test. Now that REALLY cheered me up..............NOT! I get embarressed when I have to show any part of my anatomy to anyone, actually lying there with all my bits on show is NOT one of my fave things to do.
I feel so slow and useless today. No enthusiasm for anything. I just wish I could get back to normal. I dont mean normal for me, I mean normal for most humans. I was that bad today that I didn't even take the dogs for their wak I feel awful about it, but I just dont have the energy. I let them all play in the yard together instead.
Took a cute pic of Shunya last night. She was waiting for me to shut down the computer.
She lay like that for 20 minutes!! Now is that a daft pup or what? :) At least she can still make me laugh.
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Monday, May 29, 2006
Not a good weekend for Tony Stewart. Two bad crashes in two days. I have read somewhere that he has a fractured scapula. Anyone know if that is right?
Didn't sleep well last night at all. But I was way too tired to get out of bed. So I just lay there, with my eyes closed, and tried to relax. Problem is, I tried SO hard to relax, that I got all tensed up and even worse then I was before. I just cant win.
Clives birthday today. Not doing anything special, just a nice, quiet, relaxing day. And I let him get away with all his really bad jokes. I laughed at them. But I told him that after midnight I am back to groaning at them! :)
I dont apologise for having this video on my blog. I may not be American, but I do know that if it hadn't been for your soldiers, and ours, we might all be speaking German or Japanese. Not that there is anything wrong with those people now. I have a lot of respect for each countries culture and people. But things might have been different if it had not been for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who gave their all, including, for some, their lives. God bless the armed forces.
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Not a good weekend for Tony Stewart. Two bad crashes in two days. I have read somewhere that he has a fractured scapula. Anyone know if that is right?
Didn't sleep well last night at all. But I was way too tired to get out of bed. So I just lay there, with my eyes closed, and tried to relax. Problem is, I tried SO hard to relax, that I got all tensed up and even worse then I was before. I just cant win.
Clives birthday today. Not doing anything special, just a nice, quiet, relaxing day. And I let him get away with all his really bad jokes. I laughed at them. But I told him that after midnight I am back to groaning at them! :)
I dont apologise for having this video on my blog. I may not be American, but I do know that if it hadn't been for your soldiers, and ours, we might all be speaking German or Japanese. Not that there is anything wrong with those people now. I habve a lot of respect for each countries culture and people. But things might have been different if it had not been for the hundreds of thousands of men and women who gave their all, including, for some, their lives. God bless the armed forces.
Big & Rich - 8th Of November Music video
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Saturday, May 27, 2006
Well, I dont know why, but the dogs actually slept well past their normal wake up time of 6.30-7.00am this morning. They didn't wake up until 9.30am. I could do with finding out why. I would love to be able to sleep that late a few mornings a week!
Finally managed to start breaking up the old fence panels that we had to replace. It had been raining too much before, but it was dry(ish) this morning so I had fun jumping on the old panels and seperating all the broken bits from the frames. A couple of the lengths seem to be okay, so we will keep those for repairing the little fence round the storage area at the bottom of the yard. I need to have that enclosed because of puppies trying to get in there, and there is some stuff they could hurt themselves on. I know I dont have pups right now, but I hhave to think forward. If I allow myself to focus totaaly on today I wouldn't get anything done.
Shunya is shedding her coat. I have never had a shepherd who shed as much hair as she is doing. It is hanging off her in strings. Even when I have just brushed her. Her undercoat isa gorgeous shade of wolf grey!! And her eyes are still very light. I think she really is going to stay a very light colour. Her black overcoat is spreading, but her light parts are not darkening up at all. And she gets prettier each day. She has the most comical expressions on her face sometimes. I like the one where she is trying to figure out what to do next. She almost goes cross-eyed when she really concentrates.
Clives birthday soon. I need to get around to making him a card. But I cant get him out of the way long enough for me to do it! He seems to be close to me all the time. Oh well.
Enough of boring you all. I'm going to make myself a cup of apple tea, and get around to reading some blogs. Take care.
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Thursday, May 25, 2006
Been a long, long day. finished of the fence this morning, then for some reason, and I dont know why, it seemed like the phone never stopped ringing. First my daughter phoned to tell me she is moving house. Staying in the same city, but moving about a mile further away from me. I think she must have been on the phone for nearly an hour and a half. Telling me all about the new house. Far better then the one she is in now And a bit bigger. Which is good as she is pregnant, and the baby is due in August. Then my sister phoned, I cant even remember what she wanted, but we spoke for about three quarters of an hour. Managed to eat some lunch around 3pm. Had about an hour when the phone didn't ring. Then, since then, it doesn't seem to have stopped! Why am I suddenly popular? We can go for days without the phone ringing even ONCE! yet today, it rings, and rings, and rings, and rings!!
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Well, I seem to have spent the last four days working myself to death! I still dont think I am 100% right after my bout of tonsillitis, but we had so much to do round the house that I had to help. We had really strong winds late last year? And it blew all our fence panels, on one side of the yard, out of the posts. They are only waneylap, but they provided us with security and privacy. Our landlord replaced one of the panels with a new one, but three others were damaged as well. Just not bad enough to warrant replacement thought our landlord. Since then two of those old panels have disintegrated, and one old panel was broken by next door dropping his ladders on it. We got a loan from social ( the benefits agency)and we bought new fence panels. They were not expensive, but more then we could afford without the loan. We spent the last two days sanding them down, coating them with wood preservative to prolong their life, then preparing to fit them. I dont have the strength to lift them high enough to get them into the concrete slot posts, and Clive still cant lift anything because of his hernia repair, so we had to wait for son to come over.He came last night and we now have a nice row of new fence panels in place. Just need to fit the spacers and tielinks and the fence is finished!
The rest of the time we have been preparing the back half of the living room for decorating. Which involved removing all shelves, pictures, ornaments etc from the walls, and then getting ready to strip the old paper off. Only problem we found was that someone had used strong glue to stick some parts of the paper down, its dragged some of the plaster off with it!! So we need to skim the walls before we decorate. I need some plaster stuff to do it with though. I might just use parrot food. You know, Polyfilla
So there is why I haven't been around much. Hope everyone who calls in and reads my blog is happy, well, and fit as a flea :)
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Saturday, May 20, 2006
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TONY!!!
Here's wishing my favourite driver a wonderful day for his birthday. Wish I was there to give him a birthday hug. Oh well, maybe one day.
Feeling a little better today. Managed to sleep right through the night apart from one trip to the bathroom for a potty break. Still feeling very tired, but that's hardly surprising as I had a lot to do yesterday, and felt exhausted when I finally got home.
I'm doing okay.
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Thursday, May 18, 2006
If it isn't one thing, it's another. Here I am thinking I am getting back to normal after the bout with the throat monster, then, for the last two nights I have been walking, and sitting, and lying down, and getting up trying to get rid of a horrendous pain in my abdomen. I couldn't find a position where it wasn't crippling me. It was so painful I was almost in tears. Damn it. I WAS crying with the pain. Then, just when I was about to get Clive to call the doctor, I got the urge to throw up. And BOY, did I ever throw up. I spent nearly two hours in the bathroom. Clinging on to the floor because it felt like I was trying to bring my feet up through my throat. And this was for two nights. I was fine during the day, but half an hour after I lay down, the pain started. Tuesday night it was 6am before I managed to get to sleep, and last night it was 5.30am I am so tired I could fall off the floor. Apart from that, everything is fine. I am still waiting for the hospital to send me my appointment for the ENT dept.
Anyone have any suggestions for a good FREE trojan remover? My son in laws computer is riddled with them, and I cant suggest one for him.
Hope everyone is okay. Sorry I haven't been able to get around to being "with you". I'll be back soon. I hope!
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Monday, May 15, 2006
Well, I know I have been missing for a while. This is taking a lot longer to get over then I expected. I was hoping to be totally back to normal by now. But I am still not quite there. Still getting very tired, very easily. And my concentration is still shot. I cant remember anything for long.
Had a visit from one of last years pups yesterday. The one we called Gidget, but her new owner renamed her Julie. She has grown well, and is a happy, and well adjusted young lady. Here's a pic I took yesterday.
She's ten months old now. And she looks like her Mum. She is so sweet.
Anyway. Thats about all for now. Thanks to you all for keeping me in the loop. I appreciate it.
Love y'all!!!!
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Thursday, May 11, 2006
Well, went outside today, for the first time in over four weeks. Went up to town. Only did a little bit of walking, but man, do my legs and back ever ache now!!! Now I need to start walking the dogs myself again now. Try to get myself back to my normal level of unfitness! :)
Feeling much better now. Still not all the way back to being right, but not far to go now. I feel far more able to do things, even though they still tire me very easily. I have set myself a target of trying to post something in my blog at least every two days for a while.
Clive has been such a help while I have been ill. He has taken on pretty much all of what I used to do, except for disciplining the dogs. He's WAY too soft with them. But I cant be cross with him for that. He's good cop, I am bad cop. They KNOW they have to behave with me. Or they DID.
Right. Off to bed for me. Hugs to all my online friends. Thanks for all your comments and stuff while I have been off ill. I am sure that it helped me.
Be good. Or be good at it!!
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Sunday, May 07, 2006
Well poooooooooooooooey. I didn't realise the race was a night race. So I missed it. I see Tony did okay, and way to go Jr. Tony has moved up nicely in the points. He needs to stay in the top five really, to be sure of getting in the chase. Although, those up front ARE getting away from the pack a little.
I am still feeling pretty weak. And I have no concentration. I hate that. I cant read, I cant even really watch tv. I cant follow anythng for long enough.
The dogs have all stuck pretty close to me since I got out of the hospital. I think they want to make sure i dont leave them again. Kita is being particularly stubborn about being near me. She is trying to chase everyone else away. She knows she isn't allowed to do that. But she tries anyway.
I hope I will get back into reading, and posting in the blogs more. And visiting the Tower too. And COTGO. I do miss you all, and I miss being there. But I just cant manage it right now. Keep the faith though. I WILL be there just as soon as I can.
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Saturday, May 06, 2006
Well, today I actuially got out of bed and felt like DOING something!! That is a HUGE improvement on how I have been lately. I am still not 100%, still get tired very easily, and still get dizzy, sick feelings from time to time. But I feel as though I am almost back to normal. That has GOT to be better then how I have felt for the last three weeks.
Thanks for all your support over the lastt few weeks. It really has helped me so much.
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Monday, May 01, 2006
Hi gang. Just a real short note to let you all know I am still alive. Still not well, but I am alive. After getting out of the hospital, I haven't improved as quickly as they hoped. So I have to be patient. They were hoping I would be back to normal by today. No way. Maybe by the weekend.
To those who have emailed. I am really sorry. I haven't been able to read any of them as I can only sit up for a few minutes at a time. Even typing this has taken me nearly half an hour. I promise, I will catch up just as soon as I can.
Take care my friends. I love you all.
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