Flying to NY

I was ready early and had to wait for the shuttle to pick me up to take me to the airport. I got to sit in the front seat. The drive was shorter than I expected and since I wasn't driving not that bad. When I got to the line for JetBlue I told them that I had called for special assistance. They took me to the front of the line where I showed  my letter that let Kateri fly with me and my boarding pass... Then there was the rest of he airport. OMG I would never have made it on my own and I would have gotten horribly lost too. I got to the gate early. After sitting there for a while there was an announcement that we were to go to a different gate. We sit there for a short while then another announcement to go back to the first gate. ARG!  The flight was pretty un eventful except for the screaming baby in the row behind me.

My aunt was waiting for me and I got a big hug. We took Kateri outside for a few minutes and then came back in for the bag. I put my bag up on my wheeled walker and gave Kateri to my aunt to carry. Worked out pretty well! It was about half an hour to my aunts house through small little town is and down winding country roads. It's a lovely old house but there are lots of stairs. So far they haven't been to much of a problem for me. She had cheese, crackers and some nice wine to hold us over until dinner was ready. We had green beans, corn on the cob, brown rice, sliced tomatoes & roasted turkey. It was all so lovely. We did some catching up and then I came up to unpack and write.

I'll be off to bed soon. See you tomorrow.

About Ready

Well I'm packed and pretty much ready to go on my grand adventure. Just have to give Kateri a bath and take a shower myself.
I have a bit of apprehension about the air port and getting myself and Kateri through security and to the plane.
I have house sitter lined up to take care of my Emma & the birds. Hope they don't eat each other while I'm gone.
I'm watching a movie now with my friend Mr. Adams It's a Nora Roberts movie,  Midnight Bayou. It's pretty good even if it's a bit different from the book.
Hopefully my posts about the actual trip will be more interesting.

Return to Blog?

  I haven't been here in a while. I guess I mostly started this to share with my kids but as they're still not talking to me I felt a bit discouraged. I did send cards out last week to them. And I will keep doing so. Maybe someday they'll realize that I never forgot them or stopped loving them.
  I'm going on a trip week after next and I'm a bit nervous about it. I haven't been on a plane since 1985. There have been very many changes in especially the airports since then. I think that's the part I'm worried about most right now. I have my list made and ready to be checked off. My tickets have been bought and paid for. My ground transportation is set up. And I've lined up a pet sitter for the pets that are staying here. I think I have a handle on it all. Now is just waiting time.  

Read down to my Good News

Had a rough go of it starting at the end of August to towards the end of September. My mom collapsed at the doctors office. Duane and I went up to take care of her. I spent 11 days pretty much taking care of her 24/7 at a friends house while Duane was getting his house ready for us to move to. After we all got there, lets just say I will not soon put myself into that kind of situation again. 


After I got home it took me about a week to rest up and get in the swing of my schedule again. I have let the apartment go a little bit, but it's not to bad. I have several projects waiting for me to get to. However I have gotten some projects done. The big one being getting my closet cleaned up and organized. I also took up the old, filthy rug up and replaced it with a nice clean one. I found my good curtains while I was doing the closet. They have been washed, but need to hang on the clothes line a bit longer then ironed.


But my biggest news is that yesterday I got a dog. She is a 14 year old Long hair Chihuahua who I have named Kateri. She's so overweight she waddles. Every time I sit down to eat she comes expecting me to share my dinner with her. Well she will get over that sooner or later. I bought her some Beneful Healthy Weight. She isn't happy about it but she has eaten some of it. Not a lot, but she is starting to get the idea. I am also making her walk (waddle) some. That will increase as she is able. 

She is starting to get use to me and trusts me enough to sleep up here on the bed with me. She started barking more this afternoon. I haven't figured out all her clues yet but we will get there. 

A good memory

I was sitting outside last night just chilling out at Stefani's house in the woods and a memory came over me. Ahh, it made me smile.

One year, Megan for her birthday, didn't want a party, she wanted to go for a hike in the woods. My friend Kathy knew a great place, so we loaded up Megan, Aaron, Jennifer, Eddie, me, Kathy, Duane & Chandra and caravaned to the site. We grabed the back pack of Twinkies (instead of cake) and took off for the woods. Kathy led us to a cool waterfall and we all just explored, played, splashed, chatted and ate the now mushed Twinkies for a couple of hours. We had a blast and it was the best birthday party I have ever been too.

What a crazy month

This month has been crazy and busy. First I started by helping Andrea create her blog for her jewelry. Took a couple of tries to get that right. Then we spent 2 Saturdays getting photos of the jewelry. Hot 95* days outside using the natural light as much as we could. Then I put the photos on the blog. (over several days) I did not like how I had done one batch so I deleted it and re-posted those. Now it's looking good and I'm still trying to find a way to promote the blog without spending any money. ASKreations...Jewelry

Got a new doctor at the VA who actually knew what fibromyalgia was and apparently can treat it. He put me on some new meds that do seem to be helping, but at the same time I apparently have a pinched nerve in my lower back. So I have been sent for lumbar x-rays and MRI. Then one of my teeth that had been broken for a while, started chewing up my tongue. Extremely painful. When I went back to the VA for this my doctor was running at least 2 hours behind so I saw another doctor who gave me more pain pills, antibiotics  and called the head of the dental department and left a message. Two days later I got my tooth pulled (after listening to numerous lectures on the fact that I didn't qualify for VA dental care and this was a one time, emergency thing and not to come back...really rude but I got the tooth out)

I have also started going to the YMCA for their Aqua Fit program 2 days a week. (I wonder how thats going to work in the winter, it's in an outdoor pool) and I go to The Digital Underground Cafe a couple days a week. So I have gone from a stay at home bed slug to and over scheduled on the go girl. In ways coming out of that depression has been wonderful. Interacting with people and life, but it sure can be exhausting. Even thought I'm doing better with the new meds for the fibromyalgia I still have to be careful as to how I do things and an active day can wear me completely out.  I look forward now, to the days I can stay home and not do anything, except maybe straighting out the apartment some. I'm trying real hard to keep up on that so I can actually have people in and not be embarrassed.

Well time to get going. Another day of Aqua Fit and The Digital Underground Cafe. Hope to be home by noon and be able to rest up a bit this afternoon.

As always, thinking of my kids, missing them and loving them ALWAYS & FOREVER!

My favorite photo ever!

I have just recently been able to deal with some hard things. One that I'm working on is sorting and organizing three shoe boxes of photos. It's going to be a much bigger task than I first thought. I looked through them and found some of my favorites. This one is the best of the best. This is my love of my children. I miss them so bad some days.

Me and my children, Aaron and Megan, and of course Clint