Is This Real? As I sit here at home on this Saturday (wait..it IS Saturday, right?) morning, I am contemplating what is on my agenda today. Tackle cobwebs, vacuum, laundry-just normal Saturday morning stuff. But this is no normal Saturday morning. This is the first …
This one was a real curve ball. One moment we are making plans for spring break and looking forward to warmer weather, and the next moment…this. Coronavirus19 is here. Am I in some sort of a long, strange dream? Did I somehow walk onto …
Yesterday my sister asked me when I was going to write another blog post. It’s been a while, I know, and there are reasons for that. The main reason is that I just haven’t been feeling well lately, I’m still not exactly sure what’s been wrong but they’re doing tests.
I swear I’m usually not a hypochondriac, so this has been super weird to feel like crap for so long. My symptoms have ranged from fatigue, night sweats, nausea, some vomiting, weird intolerances such as an alcohol intolerance-suddenly I can’t even drink a half a drink without getting violently sick, strange reactions to certain foods(especially spicy foods), some days I have symptoms of severe allergies with uncontrollable sneezing (and my typical allergy season is just fall seasonal allergies), back pain, and other symptoms..but I just can’t think of all of them right now.
At this time we’re just waiting for my insurance to approve another CT scan of my adrenal glands, as I have a mass on one of the glands that was discovered years ago, but was benign when they tested back then. Some of my recent blood work showed some elevated levels that look to be related to the adrenal glands. I guess we’ll find out…maybe.
The latest strange stuff happening to me has been bouts of dizziness. I had one night that my dizziness was so extreme that I ended up in the emergency room. Every time I tried to lay down the whole room was spinning and it wouldn’t stop. This went on for hours and it scared me, actually it panicked me. In the ER they told me that they thought it was something to do with the crystals in my inner ear being off-balance and they prescribed me some stuff to take when this comes on.
This is the reason that I’m actually writing this post by talk to text. If you think my grammar looks really really bad in this, it’s because I’m talking.
Another reason I haven’t done recent blog posts is because for some reason I am unable to upload new photographs to my blog. I’ve tried several different things to try to get them uploaded and it doesn’t work anymore. It’s probably something simple and I probably need to just put some code in or something but I’m so non-tech savvy that I don’t even know how to do that.
If I was feeling better I’m sure I would take the time to really work at it and get it straightened out, but I just haven’t had the energy to do it. Some days I feel pretty good (even normal), but on those days I just want to do fun things instead of working on my blog, LOL. Many people have it much worse than me, healthwise..and I try to be mindful of that on a daily basis.
In the meantime I’ve been doing some re-posts of past blogs that I’ve liked, and some re-posts of some of my recipes. I have some new recipes that I would love to put on my blog, but without the ability to put pictures on it I can’t really do the recipes at this time.
Some good things have been happening in my life, too. The Kansas City Chiefs won their first Super Bowl in 50 years, which is awesome! I cannot describe how happy this made our family.
We finally got our bathroom floor replaced after we had to remove part of it when we discovered it was rotted out. This discovery was made when we were trying to work on our toilet because of plumbing issues that seemed to be nonstop at the time. That is still an issue from time to time but it’s either getting better or I’m just getting used to it, ha!
I have several blog posts in mind and I have been writing down my ideas when I can. I’m hoping in the spring I will be able to start writing more fun stuff.
Right now I’m lying here in my bed laughing because it’s probably only my sister that misses my blog posts. So, I guess this post is just for you , Jan (and anyone else that might wonder why I haven’t been writing posts). Excuse the crappy grammar, run on sentences, and poor layout.
Finally, (random thoughts that have nothing to do with the rest of this post)..
I decided today to finally delete some texts from my phone, because it’s been over a year since I’ve cleaned them out. In those texts, there were several from two people that have passed away in the last year. This made me think of something that a friend and I talked about just a few days ago. Remember, life is short and unpredictable, so get rid of anger and don’t forget to love and appreciate those you have in your lives. You won’t regret it.
See you soon! 😊
I have been a Kansas City Chiefs fan since childhood. My parents loved both Chiefs football and Royals baseball, and that love spilled over into most of their children (my sister Lorna detested ALL sports). Yesterday the Chiefs won the AFC championship to make …
Our Christmas tree went up yesterday. My husband found a “Sounds of the Season” channel on television, put it on for me, and went to the bedroom to hide out until the deed was complete. The end result is beautiful. But.. where’s the tinsel? 🙂
For me, decorating the tree really is a slow stroll down memory lane. My tree doesn’t have a bunch of beautiful ornaments that look exactly the same. My tree doesn’t have a theme..unless that theme is “life”.
If the kids brought us a homemade ornament from school, I saved it and that ornament has a spot in the tree. I laugh as I hang those ornaments, because there are several from certain kids, and only one (or none) from others. Perhaps there were more that never quite made the trip home from school. Perhaps the homemade ornaments went to the other parent (we are a blended family) because that parent didn’t see the kids on a daily basis like we did, and that’s fine.
There is the ornament with the nerdy guy from the Office Space movie. When the button in front is pushed, he mumbles phrases like “I’m going to burn this place down”. My son Barrett got this for me several years back, when my place of employment kept moving my cubicle until I was near the back of the building. I told my son I was beginning to feel like this character, and he bought me the perfect ornament.
When the kids were all living in the house, I bought an ornament from a craft fair. On this ornament are tiny mittens with the name of each family member on them. These mittens are actually hang on little hooks. After years of accidentally losing a mitten and freaking out until I found them, I finally got smart and hot glued them on. Now they SHOULD stay in place.
My set of ceramic gingerbread ornaments have been on my tree for twenty five years. Until this year, I also had some cinnamon applesauce ornaments that the kids made in pre-school. This year when I pulled them out, they had a nice little layer of green moldy stuff on them. Our house has been so humid lately, so I had to say goodbye. If you would like the recipe to make these ornaments I also use it to make Valentine hearts), you can find it here:
https://cookiesandcursewords.com/cinnamon-applesauce-hearts
I have ornaments that were gifted to me by co-workers through the years, and each one elicits a memory of a particular time in my life.
Hanging near the bottom of the tree is the ornament sent to me from another Air Force mom the first year that Clay was in the military. Those first few months were rough on this old momma, and that ornament brought a smile to my face.
What is Missing?
For some reason, I have no ornaments on my tree from my departed parents or my sister. Those would make my tree complete.
One other thing that doesn’t hang on my tree is the laughing stock in today’s Christmas world..tinsel. As a child, the decorations were not complete until the tinsel was placed. Some chose to slather tinsel on in big globs, and others (like me) chose to carefully place the tinsel one strand at a time.
My older sister Jan always hated the tinsel, but I liked it. I liked the shimmery strands that reflected the lights. I did not like the static electricity that guided the tinsel to stick itself on my butt..only to be discovered hours later!
Does anyone still use tinsel? If you do, more power to you. It is pretty. It is shiny. I know if my mother were still alive there would be tinsel on her tree.
After all, isn’t Christmas supposed to be pretty and shiny?
Many years ago, I attended a seminar for my job. Through the years there were so many different seminars and workshops, and, quite frankly I only recall a handful of them. One particular session stood out. The speaker drew a bunch of squiggly lines …
Picky kids. Picky husband. With seven kids and a super picky husband, meal planning was never easy. Our motto ..”you get what you get, and you don’t throw a fit”. I learned this from a former co-worker and utilized it on a daily basis! My …
My husband was a single daddy with three young children when we first met . He invited me over to dinner one evening, and had prepared chicken and noodles.
I was surprised that he had actually made his own noodles using eggs, flour, and milk.. rolled them out, cut into strips, and dried them.
The rest of his recipe, however, was far different from the chicken and noodles my mother used to make. He used Campbell’s condensed cream of chicken soup. I was skeptical, but impressed with the effort.. so I tried them.
It was fantastic! That was almost twenty years ago, and to this day I still make his recipe more often than I do my mother’s old fashioned chicken and noodles.
I do not make my own noodles, though. I use good old Reames frozen egg noodles, along with other shortcuts. Still tastes delicious and hearty. Of course, for me they have to be served over mashed potatoes (I think this might be a Kansas thing)!
Shortcut version of a hearty fall favorite. All of the deliciousness with half of the work!
This year I decided not to decorate for Halloween. The kids are grown. Most of the grandkids will only stop by briefly on Halloween night, and I remember just how hectic it was to try and get to all the places we needed to go …
