Too Tired To Tango Tuesday

 

I was MIA yesterday because my To-Do list for the day was a LOT.

The first hour of my day is always one hour to get through the routine of getting Bob and Beau up.

Took out Garbage Bin and Yard Waste to curb, after filling them. 

Publix for Eggs, Walmart did not bring them.

Home Depot, AC filters

Back to the Eye Doc to pick up frames and get a refund of $381 for a new lens, which came out of our account. The girl did not catch that my insurance only pays for the lens every 2 years. I have to wait 6 months. She needed my debit card to be refunded.

The thing is.. Monday when I drove the Kia to the eye doctor, the check oil light came on. I knew it was fine, I just got an oil change 3 months ago. Still, I had to check the oil. I have never opened the hood to any of our cars. Bob is a retired auto mechanic so no need to.  I struggled to open it, and could not find the latch,

I came inside and watched a video on HOW to OPEN the HOOD of a 2007 Kia, was able to open it, but remembered the hood doesn't stay up, has to be propped open, found a stick, tried it, no deal, I had to flatten one end, and could not find a saw, so used the limb lopper to do that, found the dip stick and checked the oil which was fine. Now the stick rides in the back with the wheel chair, and the stick has to be used on propping that up because the last time the wheel chair was lifted out by ME, it would not stay up. 

I did the three visits, in 1 hour 20 minutes, after driving, East/North to doctor, west/South to Publix, South to home Depot and North to home.. I got all 4 and of course ran into construction traffic South and North.

Returned home at 10:30 and did two loads of clothes/towels,  

Called Spectrum to see why our bill went up 30 dollars, got it rebundled so its only up 3 dollars.

Paid all the bills, that should have been done on Monday.

In between all this took Beau out twice, Bob off you know what twice, Made lunch and collapsed in bed at 1 and slept till 3 when Bob was calling for help and said, were you that much asleep? I have been yelling for 30 minutes.

I answered " I have been on my feet since 3:15 which is 10 hours... and fed the dog and and took him out again.... when Beau goes out I follow every step he takes to make sure he doesn't eat it.... most of my days are like this, I will be erratic in posting/commenting. I typed all this to let everyone know why I am to tired to tango (blog) most days, each day I have been lopping branches off the powder puff tree to give it the annual pruning. I can only do 10 per day, still got 5 more days.

I did get a handyman number from the eye doctor. Hope it works out.

Solo Cups

 

Saturday at 7:30 AM, my groceries delivery from Wal-Mart appeared on my porch and as I carried the last bag inside, I thought what is this? Pulling it out of the bag I found 100 Red Square Bottom Red Solo Cups and Bob said what is that?

I stood at the end of his bed, holding it aloft, for him to see what neither of us even knew existed.

A small white car pulled in the driveway and a young man who looked like an NFL football player, ran up the driveway, I walked to the door and opened it before he made it to the porch, holding up the red cups and smiling.

His face split with a grin that lit up my porch, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU he said as he reached me, took the cups, and as he pumped my hand he said, I mean this, thank you sooo much.

He made my day Sparkle, I made his day Sparkle....

Sandwich Selfie of Beau

 

I was  sick, 2 nights in a row.. I threw up twice and paced 4 hours from, 9 pm to 1:30 am Tuesday and Wednesday had diarrhea with poo and rivulets of blood in it from 3:15 am to 9 am. I get really sick and Mama spends hours with me, holding, petting, hugging and following around the yard in the dark with 38 degrees. She wraps up like a mummy. It was so cold my ears were cold, and she wrapped my head in a baby blanket. 

Wed. Morning daddy fell, walking back to bed from breakfast with walker. PT came that day and cleared him, nothing broken. 

Mama went to her doctor Monday for 30 day check up on her new wonder drug, Lexapro and was changed from Lexapro to Zoloft because of one side effect. its been CRAZY-er because Mama took one Zoloft and fell back to where she was before all this started. She could not sleep, was wired, like on steroids, anxious, she yelled at daddy and me,  she was angry. She did not take a 2nd pill.

She called the doctor next day and said she stopped the Zoloft, and the doc sent a new prescription of the first drug.

Today at lunch, Mama said to Daddy from the kitchen where she was serving up his spaghetti, what do you want to drink, 7-UP or Gator-aid?

He did not answer. Just stared at the news he was watching.

Mama said in a LOUD VOICE

7-UP     OR   GATOR-AID?

Daddy said, Did you take that new pill? Your  yelling at me.

Mama said, there are things pills can't fix, answer me when I ask you a question.

Are you picking up what I am putting down?

We are Fine, we missed you

 I am sandwiched between my daddy

And My Mama, she has me as her screen saver on her laptop, and I am laying between her and Daddy. This is my happy place, when both are sitting beside me, I can sleep and know if anyone leaves the room, like say a trip to the kitchen,