Phew!

With Christmas finally over I now have a chance to sit down on the couch and stretch out for some much needed rest. It was a wonderful couple of days. We were lucky enough to have family come and visit and all went well. In a few days Ill be back into full blog swing once again and bring everyone up to date :o)

Tis' the season!

Ho ho ho! The season is finally here! Well it seems that I have been seriously neglecting my blog. So sitting here, looking at the tree, the freshly wrapped presents underneath it and the snow gently falling outside my window, I decided to pluck out a few lines. So I have a nice big cup of coffee, the dogs have been fed and walked, the husband is still in bed and I actually have 5 minutes all to myself with no interruptions. Imagine that!

I love this season. Christmas always has and always will be my favorite time of the year regardless of all the pains I have gone through during November and December. But the upcoming new year always gives me fond memories to think of. The newly fallen snow on the ground that squeaks and crunches under your foot the first time you step out on it always makes me smile. The colorful lights, flashy tinsel, ornaments and music of the season takes me back to when I was a young child and all the magic of Christmas was so real to me. I guess that feeling just never left me. I have my parents to thank for that.

My parents always made Christmas special for me growing up. It didn't matter if it was a good year and they made a lot of money or if it was a harder year with less to show for it. My mother always baked throughout the season. Lots of cookies and treats. Some I loved like Russian tea cakes, sugar cookies, gingerbread cookies and those magic cookie bars I could always count on being in the kitchen. Some I didn't care for much too, I'm sorry mom but I still don't like fruitcake cookies :) My father always loved them. I suppose they weren't too bad, but just not my cookie lol There were always brightly wrapped gifts under the tree. Even if mom and dad didn't make a lot that year, they would go without so I would have a good Christmas. In our family, Christmas meant love. It meant being together with your family.

Talking about Christmas makes me remember ones of the past. I once came across a tape recording my parents had made of me shortly before Christmas. I must have been about 3 or 4 years old. They asked me, what did I want Santa to bring me for Christmas. I was fairly adamant about what I wanted. They asked me again and I gave them the same answer. I'm not sure if I got it that Christmas, but what was it I wanted? What could it have been that I wanted so much I was going to ask Santa for it? A banana. Yes, you see correctly, I wanted Santa to bring me a banana for Christmas. lol I wonder if they remember that. I wonder what I did with that tape. Most likely was lost somewhere along the way of moving. I remember the Christmas I got my little kitchen set. My mom had saved all those little single serving boxes of cereal, empty boxes of mac n cheese and other containers to stock it with. I had that kitchen set for many years. It was olive green like most kitchen appliances back in the early 70's. I also got a bright yellow bean bag that year that I loved falling asleep in. I have a picture my parents took of me asleep in it covered with my Ragedy Ann and Andy sleeping bag, another gift from another Christmas of past.

I remember the very first music box I ever had. I got that Christmas of 1978 and I still have it. I also got a night gown that year, full length to the floor, it had a white top with a long very ruffled red attached dress that went to the floor. I remember taking that with me to camp the following year and it fell into the water of the showers one morning and the red bled onto the white. I cried for a couple of hours I was so upset over that. Luckily my mother is a whiz at fixing all types of hurt and was able to get the white nice and bright again.

I remember one Christmas that I know my mom will remember. Cabbage patch dolls were all the rage that year. I was about 13 and I wanted one so badly. They were pretty expensive and we couldn't have afforded it. My mom found a pattern to make them and went to work. On Christmas morning I had a cabbage patch doll who I named Amanda. My mom asked me, when you have a baby, whats the first thing you do? I was sort of dumbfounded. I asked, check whether its a girl or a boy? My mom asked, what else do you do? I said, I have no idea. She giggled and said you check its fingers and toes. I was like alright and I looked at them. Fingers and toes there! She starts laughing now, and tells me to count them. My mom in her rush to finish the doll for Christmas had inadvertently given Amanda 6 toes on each foot. LOL She told me she would fix it when things calmed down after Christmas but I told her I wanted them left alone. It was something that my mom made with love for me and I wanted it just the way it was. I still have Amanda and all 12 toes *smile*.

I could go and on about Christmas while growing up. I can count on one hand how many times I have been away from my parents on Christmas. This year we can't be together. I'm glad that my parents gave me my Christmas spirit. If it hadn't been for them, well who knows, maybe I'd be bah humbug. I miss them very much, they live too far away to get together this year. I cry when I think of us not being together but then I have to smile when I look around my house. Although we aren't together, my parents are both here, all around my home. They're in everything around me. Makes me feel just a little bit better.

So I thank my parents. They gave me gifts of love, gifts of happiness, gifts of Christmas spirit and the most important gift of all, the gift of life. I love you mom and dad. Always have, always will, no matter where life takes us.

A year older

Well, I didn't think I would get through my birthday but yet again, I'm a year older. My birthday was completely uneventful this year. Well if you don't count crying lol I have been missing my mother really bad. Even though I can pick up the phone and call her whenever I want, it's just not the same as being able to be with her and spend the day with her. So I called her on my birthday, talked to her for a few minutes, hung up the phone and cried. Then I took my shower, got dressed, dried my hair and then I cried. I miss both my parents so much.

So I pulled myself together and told myself I would have a good day anyway. We are on a very tight budget right now and well, nearly everyone in my family forgot my birthday so no one made me a cake, gave me a card or anything. My mother in law took me to dinner the other day for my birthday, so I guess she was the one person who remembered. I decided to make a cake for myself. I mixed it up, poured it into the pan, it smelt so good even uncooked. I set the timer and went into the living room. A while later, about 50 minutes later, I realize the timer hasn't gone off. I go to the kitchen and take the now burnt cake out of the oven. I set it on top of the stove and say happy birthday to myself. I look at the timer... I didn't push the start button *sigh* so I put frosting on it anyway, because my husband will eat anything burnt. The cake is crunchy. I cried again.

So through all the crying, midnight finally came and now its just another day like any other. Thanksgiving is in 3 days and that will be yet another holiday I struggle through. I will try to make the best of it just like I do every day.

Hope this finds everyone well and happy, stay safe!

Disc Drop

Autumn

With autumn in our midst it's now time to pull out the winter clothing and weatherize the house. So I've pulled the plastic storage boxes out of my closet, hung my sweaters and filled the dresser with warm snugly clothes. I dont believe winterizing is going to help us much. The house is fairly well insulated, but unless we spend a fortune on plastic for all the windows in this house, which there are many of, the cold air will blow in anyway. Older homes are always more difficult to weatherize.

After Halloween we had some trouble at our house. Some young teenagers came onto our porch and we believe were trying to steal 2 large cement eagles weighing around 60 lbs each. We heard them on the porch, the dogs barked, we heard giggling, got up to go open the door, heard them yell run, and yelled at them as they ran out of the yard. So we called the police. Lucky us, our town no longer has a police officer. Our law enforcement was apparently cut due to lack of funding. This means that we have to rely on law enforcement from the county and state. Calling 911 is no longer a 5 or 10 minute wait, its a 45-60 minute wait. So dispatch had me on the phone and asked us to follow the teens in question while they tried to get law enforcement there. These teens were so violent. I was shocked. At 15 years old and younger I never would have acted with such disrespect and anger towards an adult much less towards another human being at all. This 15 year old boy threatened us with bodily harm while another boy around 13 years old taunted him chanting "beat his ass". What has become of our youth? What has become of parenting? I never acted this way, my parents would have not only grounded me for life but I would not have been able to sit down for a month. My step children never acted this way and grew into upstanding young people of society. So why is it that people in their 30's and 40's can't control their children? Something needs to be done. The officer showed up at the scene with this group of teens yelling and screaming and sent my husband and I home. Wait, what is this? Yes, they told us to go home. They show up about 10 minutes later and say that they let the kids go. Not only did they try to steal the eagles off our porch, but they smashed our pumpkin in the yard, stole a strap off out boat and threatened us with physical harm. WTF? You let them go?? I exclaimed. The officer told us that he is unable by law to even question a minor without their parents or a lawyer there. So we ask, why didn't you arrest them? He says, the one kid said you hit him and his girlfriend with your crutch (my husband can't walk without them) and if you pressed charges they would too. We knew we hadn't done anything wrong and had not hit them so we said we want to press charges anyway. The officer refused to do so and left.

So in the end we are left fearing our property damaged or physical harm to ourselves and these teens who did this after dark on a Sunday night get away totally free, not even their parents were notified!!! I'd also like to know what has become of law enforcement. These kids now KNOW they can get away with ANYTHING they want because the police will not do anything to them.

So my husband and I have made a decision. We are going to move. We love the area here but a town with no law enforcement is dangerous. The kids around here are too volatile. We are not protected and the law is not on the side of law abiding citizens. So we looked at a house for rent where my husbands parents live. We are supposed to hear back on Saturday if we get the place or not. We may not as others have also applied. So we are praying that we get it. If we don't we will most likely wait until spring and then find somewhere to move.

So that's the excitement for the week. I hope everyone elses week is going smoother than ours :)

Happy Halloween!

It's October 31st and the witch's are out! Well, at least I'm out! Muahahaa! I love this night! I'll be passing out candy to kids tonight and watching all the scary movies I can find! I have a tooth ache so I wont be eating any candy *cry*

PLEASE EVERYONE HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

October!!

I love October. The leaves are changing, the cold air has blown in, the rainy season is upon us and snow is lurking just around the corner.

October is when we start getting excited about passing out candy to trick or treaters, decorating the porch with pumpkins and ghosts. I know as a Christian I shouldn't be so excited about Halloween but its just a childrens holiday to me. Just a day for young ones to get dressed up, pretend they're a pirate, a princess or a ghost... BOO!

I love fall weather. I get to pull all my snugly sweaters out of storage boxes and dress the occasion. I don't however enjoy the Flu season that comes along with the cold fall weather. I'll be making an appointment in another week I hope to get my Flu shot. I'm going to ask my doctor what she thinks about me getting the one for Swine Flu.

So I'm on lots of medications now. I take 2 pills for my depression, one for anxiety but that's a stand by oh my God I'm freaking out pill, one for my diabetes, one for my kidneys which incidentally is also for blood pressure, not that I have high blood pressure but its a multi use pill apparently. I also take a multi vitamin in a chocolate chew form because I couldn't keep the pill down. I do feel better now. I have headaches more often, but in general I feel better. My feet have been killing me lately. The cold doesn't seem to get along with them well. I'm going to bring that up again with my doctor that my feet are really bothering me. Anyhoot, Since my head is pounding I'm going to go lay down.

So bundle up everyone, keep safe and have a great week!

Headache again...

I dont know where this headache came from but ugh my head is killing me. It feels so tight. Im on my diabetes medication now. I dont think the headache is a side effect from it but only time will tell. I havent taken anything for it because it says not to take any nsaids without talking to the doctor to make sure its ok first so tomorrow Ill call her and find out. Also they called Friday about my urine test last week. I have protien in my urine which means my kidneys natural filters arent working the way theyre supposed to. This is a problem that a lot of diabetics have. She said theres no reason for alarm but that she wants me to go ahead and start taking a medication to protect my kidneys from damage. To me, this is a little bit scary. Kidneys are major organs, to me its like having a heart problem. The organ stops working you have some major issues. So its very important to me to make sure I take good care of them. Ive already started to lose weight. Due to the thyroid medication alone. I just have to be more concious about my health. Take care of myself.

Anyway, Im going to be doing some canning tomorrow. Pickling green beans and making salsa. Ill pickle califlower later this week too. Ill be posting the process on my cooking site.


So, I hope you all have a great week, Im going to go get rid of this headache!

Light at the end of the tunnel

Well today is a new day and I feel pretty darn good! I haven't felt this good in a really long time actually. I want to get out of the house, go pick up my prescriptions from the pharmacy, maybe do a little shopping too. I sort of feel like having home made subs tonight. We'll see, Ill probably change my mind before I even get to the store lol

So my doctor visit went well yesterday. I love my doctor by the way. I didn't know if I would or not, but she has proven to be very thorough and very attentive with my medications and answers all my questions well. She cares and it shows. She raised the dose of Celexa to 30 mg. I fell asleep last night it was wonderful. Last few days was hard to fall asleep. Today I feel mentally and physically better really. It must be getting into my system now. I want to smile, I want to do things, I want to laugh and have a good time! Yes it's working :) I think I'm in love with Celexa right now.

She added a new medication to my list. A diabetes medication, Amaryl. I haven't taken this one before and like always, Ill be leary taking a new medication. I don't like taking medications to begin with. I have to keep in mind that I trust my doctor. I guess I'm always paranoid about the side effects of medications especially if I haven't heard much about them. Like I'm going to have those side effects and then I'm going to die lol I need to relax I know!

So now I'm on Celexa, Synthroid, Amaryl and Ativan (for the occasional panic attack). She also wants me on a multivitamin to get my calcium and vitamin d, so Ill be picking one up today when I pick up my prescriptions.

In general, I feel great today. I feel like there is finally some light at the end of the tunnel. Like its the first day of spring and the sun is shining for the first time in 6 months. It feels great to feel great! I'm loving this feeling :)

I hope you all have a great of a day as I am having!

Oh joy...

Well I am now on day 19 of Celexa. The feeling of wanting to cry and feeling hopeless has gone away. But I still feel like I am not myself. Im not "happy" Im just... here. I can now get mad though. I got rather angry with my husband the other night. He did deserve it dont get me wrong lol but I dont feel I should have felt that angry over the situation. Also, today is Monday and since last Friday I have been having trouble falling asleep. Last night was especially hard. I laid in bed for probably about 3 hours or so trying to fall asleep. My mind was racing. Laying there in bed, yawning every few seconds because I was just so incredibly tired, but a million thoughts were going through my head, like my brain was wide awake but my body was begging to give in. When I did finally fall asleep I couldnt stay asleep. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I started thyroid medication the end of last week. I see the doctor in 2 days and I can tell her whats been going on. Maybe she will up my dosage.

Anyway, other than that its been pretty calm around here. The leaves are starting to turn, its so pretty. I keep telling my husband its going to be an early winter this year. I think we will have at least one snow around Halloween. He says not until after Thanksgiving. Im going to start practicing on my bow this week. Bow hunting season starts next month and I need to work on pulling quietly so I dont scare the deer in the next county. I have a 65lb bow, Id like to get a 50 or 55lb but this year mine will work fine. Just have to build up a little bit of muscle in my right shoulder and upper arm for pulling. Im pretty excited about this season. It will be my first bow hunt. Ill be suprised if I get anything at all lol Im hoping for at least a 4 point though.  Also salmon season is coming up and Ill be doing a bit of fishing too. Going to get some energy out of my system before the snow gets here and Im house bound except for doctor appointments and grocery store visits.

Oh also we will start decorating our house with the christmas lights before Halloween this year so we have time before it gets crazy cold. Im going to decorate the porch on Halloween and have a big bowl of candy for the kids to trick or treat. The last few years we lived so far out in the middle of nowhere that we didnt get to pass out candy so it will be a lot of fun seeing all the costumes. We will also eat junk food and watch scary movies into the wee hours as we do every year.

Alright, well I just wanted to give everyone an update. Im going to get a snack and watch a movie. Have a great week!

Day Twelve

Hi everyone. Well it's been 12 days I have been on Celexa. I'm falling asleep with no problems and sleeping well. It takes an unusual amount of time for me to wake up or to feel like I'm awake. I have had no panic attacks in the last 12 days although on 2 occasions I felt very edgy and anxious, I still have not had to take the Adavant which is supposed to be similar to Xanax. I still don't feel like myself. I go through the motions during the day but its as if its someone else and my mind is just along for the ride. I don't feel I have my energy back. My emotions still feel dull but I'm still getting irritated with things and feeling like if someone made me mad I'd jump all over them. I feel like I can't put up with anyone. Maybe that will change also I don't know. Last time I saw the doctor she talked about possibly going to 40mg if 20mg wasn't working but I think I need something different. Ill talk to her about how I'm feeling when I go in next week.

Onto other subjects!

My garden is so overgrown now but I have managed to keep the tomatoes somewhat clear, at least clear enough to go pick some just about everyday. The corn looks like I somehow stunted their growth lol Short little things they are, I have maybe 3 or 4 ears of corn about 3 or 4 inches long growing *rolling eyes* I'm not much of a corn farmer I guess! My onions are growing somewhere in the weeds lol Im going to try to get out there the next cool day we have and weed it out a bit to find the onions. I only had 2 rows so it shouldn't be too hard. I did pull one out. I thought it was going to be a decent sized onion and it was no more the size of a golf ball LOL Oh well, I chopped it up and put it into the quiche I made a couple of days ago.

My husband was playing with our cat Rufus today and so I made a video of it and put it to some really corny but catchy music and added it to Youtube.com which I tried to link here but I'm not sure if that's working well or not. Seems it keeps trying to put some random video I've never seen on there but the link I posted in today's post should work if you don't see the right video on the right side there.

Alright, I need to be off to do other things, like getting dinner together :) Hope everyone has a good week!

Oh my aching head!

Well the Celexa seem to be working for my insomnia and my panic attacks as its been 7 days today and I havent had one panic attack yet. I was anxious yesterday and today I feel very on edge though. Since starting the Celexa though, I have had a headache. Its always there, sometimes worse than other times. So I called my doctors office and talked to the nurse. My doctor is out today so she is going to talk to the nurse practitioner and ask about a medication change or what they think I should do. She is also supposed to ask if I can take some Tylenol because I'm not supposed to take certain things with Celexa.

I watched a video the other day of someone who also takes Celexa. She described her general emotions on it as "stifled" I didn't really understand what it was until now. Its like you know how you should feel but your feelings are sort of smothered. I can get angry, but not how I normally would. If something sad happened, I don't think I would be able to cry. I would just be like... numb. Thats how I'm feeling, just numb. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad I can sleep and I'm extremely glad I haven't had a panic attack. But I feel numb most of the time. I can get a giggle at something but then I go back to feeling numb. My body isn't numb but my mind sort of feels that way. I know medications take a while to really get into your system and your body takes time getting used to them so I know this feeling might not last. Thats if they don't change my medication to something else.

Well just got the call back from the doctors office. I can take Tylenol yay! They said the headaches are normal and they should go away so Ill keep taking this for now and see if they go away or not. Maybe my mood will improve where I'm not feeling so out of it.

Anyway, I'm going to take some Tylenol and chill out, maybe my headache will go away. Have a great day everyone!

Seeing in color

This is Monday and I started the Celexa last Friday. Although I don't feel it has improved my mood at all, I have been sleeping which is so wonderful by itself. When you can't sleep and you haven't slept, its like you look at the world in black and white. You see everything in front of you but you're not experiencing the full effect of life. When you finally get the sleep you have been deprived from it's like seeing the world in color for the first time. Yes My mood is still depressed but I have only been on this medication for a very short time. I need to give it a chance to bring my mood up. If it doesn't, Ill have to let my doctor know I need something better than this.

Tonight I have to fast and tomorrow I go into town to have my blood drawn for cholesterol, A1C, Thyroid and whatever else she wanted to check on me. I have been controlling my diabetes with diet but the last A1C test I had was a 7. I need to bring that down a little so I need to be on medication again for it. Its a big deal in the way I don't like taking medications at all. But I realize I need to if I want to get healthy again.

On a lighter side, tomorrow is my husband's 41st birthday! For the next 2 months I can rub it in that he is older than me. My birthday is rapidly coming though this November. I hate getting older! Oh well I guess its part of the whole cycle of life. He doesn't know it but I'm throwing him a surprise party. He thinks we are just going out to eat with his parents but his whole family is going to be there, it will really give him a 'pick me up' and put a smile on his face. He deserves it. Last year on his 40th birthday we were in a crappy Motel 6 in Waco Texas. We had to evacuate the day before for a hurricane. In fact we evacuated twice that week because of hurricanes and it was part of the reason we decided to move to Michigan, besides that he is from here and his family still resides here. So today Ive been just tidying up the house here and there. I painted a butterfly and some flowers on the new mailbox. We have to put a new one up because the snowplow hit the one that's up this last winter and just recently the door decided to fall half off lol.

Alright well I better get off of here to finish my other blog and then continue getting the house ready. I hope you all have a wonderful week!

A new day

Well today is a new day. After my doctor appointment yesterday I was well... rather upset. I wanted to be on a different anti depressant than what I was put on. I cried last night. I talked to my mom on the phone, I miss her so much. I listened to what my mom had to say. Then I had the rest of the night to think about things. I'm going to give this medicine a chance to work. Even though I have been on much stronger in my past, this is what the doctor chose so I'm going to give it a couple of weeks and if it doesn't help things or doesn't at least help my sleeping situation like she said it would, Ill tell her I want to try something different. So for now, I'm on the weakest off all antidepressants. She also didn't give me Xanax, she gave me Ativan instead which I didn't do any research on Ativan and when I had my panic attack last night I didn't take the Ativan for it because I didn't know anything about it and therefore didn't take it, I just rode the attack out, all 3 hours of it. I have to have blood work done on Monday. I couldn't do it yesterday because I have to fast for one of the tests, cholesterol, so instead of drawing blood for my thyroid and A1C test on one day and cholesterol on another, they're doing it all Monday. So Sunday Ill be fasting and have my blood drawn Monday. I see the doctor in 2 weeks, on the 16th I think, Ill have to double check that though, it may be the 18th. Then I should have all the medications I need. At this point anyway. Unless of course she makes me continue the antidepressant to give it more time. But if it doesn't help my sleeping... OK I think I went over that already.

So last night I was able to get a little bit more sleep than I have in the last 2 weeks but I did wake up 4 times. We were supposed to go to a graduation party for my son-in-law but being on the new med, not sleeping well and just the way I'm feeling in general, we felt it wasn't the best idea for us to go. Its a 2 hour drive one way, then a ton of people I don't know and a whole bunch of children, I just don't think I could deal with that today. Plus I have this major headache which I don't know if its caused from the medication or just one of those things. I do feel bad because my step daughter is upset with us now for not coming. But I hope in time she will understand why we didn't.

Well on another note, its just another rainy icky day outside today. It was cold yesterday, cold enough for sweatshirts and long pants. Yes its summer in Northern Michigan. Today its chilly enough we are sort of bundled up and I'm thinking about what type of soup Ill make for dinner. Maybe Ill make cream of potato but I'm also thinking of making Saturday soup too. But cream of potato sounds so good doesn't it? Well whatever I decide to make for dinner Ill be sure to post it on Kel's Kitchen along with the recipe for you. The link to Kel's Kitchen is on this blog, you should check it out sometime.

Well I hope everyone has a good day today. Im off to find something to do and maybe grab a snack before getting dressed and going to the store. Until next time...

New doctor!

I FINALLY got myself a new doctor! I am so relieved! I have to give praises to God today because this is something that I desperately needed to happen. So my appointment is on Friday, I'm so excited, I need to get on medication for my diabetes, thyroid and half a dozen other things lol Plus I am going to ask whether or not she can try to manage my psoriasis instead of my derm because my derm is just good for about nothing. She prescribes me a couple topicals and is like, go on your way. I want to have my vitamins checked too and I think I might have a chronic sinus infection, if not I have really really bad allergies and maybe I can get a script for that too because the OTC stuff just isn't doing it. In fact the Zyrtec I took plugged my sinus's up so badly I couldn't breathe. I thought it was just allergies but when I took the pill the next day they plugged right up again. So needless to say I'm not taking them anymore. I need something better.

So today is a good day! I'm thinking of making something for dinner that involves pork chops... Going to have to dig through my magic box and find a recipe :)

I hope everyone has a great day!

Continuing forward

I have one faithful follower on my blogs and I have 4 of them. I just realized I failed at doing something. I failed to put the "Subscribe to" button on here ugh!

I had started to think, well maybe my blog really isn't that good. Maybe the thoughts that come rushing through my little head are just simple ramblings from a madwoman. No, I just forgot to make it complete. I was going to give the blog up until I noticed that today. Maybe Ill get some followers now.

Anyhoot, I have had the biggest headache today. I did sleep ALL NIGHT in my own bed though yay! Ive been having some panic attacks during my sleeping hours and bouts of insomnia so it was really nice when I woke up to find myself still in bed! :) I still have not heard back from that doctors office. If I don't hear from them by tomorrow afternoon I'm going to call them again. I sent my application to them over a week ago so I know they should have it by now. If they don't tell me by Friday Ill drive to their office and ask them in person lol maybe they will get the point that I NEED to see a doctor right now, not next month.

I have another eye exam on the 31st, just a checkup to see how the surgery went from last month. I know as we get older we get tiny floaters in our eyes. But lately Ive been noticing some in my good eye. Not a lot like my left eye (I have retinopathy in my left eye) but I seem to have one tiny spot that's annoying the crud out of me. I just want him to take a look, even though the retina specialist looked last month too.

Almighty, you all have a great day and please Subscribe now that I have a button for it! LOL Ill subscribe back too!

Going for the visit

So my husbands brother is going to their parents house and were going down to take our nephew Ian back home so figured we would visit.

Anyway, we always love it when our nephew comes to visit. My sister in law actually has five children, but its the middle one we have somehow connected with the most. The oldest two kids, in their teens, have singing clubs and church functions theyre involved in and summer is just so busy for them. Theyre wonderful kids to get to know, if they could slow down for five seconds lol then the youngest two arent so busy but arent quite self sufficient yet. So until Ian gets to the age he is doing singing clubs and church clubs, we get to spend a lot of time with him. He is a breath of fresh air really. I cant tell you how much enjoyment my husband gets from playing video games with him. Plus hes laid back, sort of quiet, hes so much like us. He's been here for a week and it will be sad to take him home but they only live a couple of hours away and he comes up to stay pretty often.

So I better get to bed, have a long drive tomorrow. Hope you all have a great day!

And the tire saga continues!

So we went through going to get the new used tire 30 miles from us and he got it put onto my van. At this point I've needed to go to the grocery store since Saturday so we loaded up into the van and pulled out of the garage. I say to my husband, "the steering wheel is still jerking". He says no its not, its the road (I guess my saying this irritated him) so I pulled onto the "smooth" road and let go of the steering wheel. It jerked back and forth. This is the third bad tire and now I'm not letting him forget that I did not want these tires, he did. After having a couple of words with each other over it I finally said, "it's my van, it's my call and my choice from now on and I'm getting new tires on my van this week". So next time I'm in town I'm going to go get a couple of new tires on it so that all the tires he got from his dad are off my van.

Husbands, I ask you to LISTEN to your wives. Listen to what they say. They may not be "men" they may not be "mechanics" but we are very smart and if you listen you just might learn something. You are the brawn, WE are the brains, take us seriously! That's all I have for today :)

Men and used tires grrr!

So this is the story which started about a month ago. We had old tires on our van, but they were decent enough to get us another 4 or 5 months as little as I drive. Well you know men, my husband just didn't like those tires at all, oh no, I had to have new USED tires!

So we're at his dads house and he asks his dad about used tires. All the while Im saying, just wait and we will buy all new tires. His dad has 4 used tires that he took off of his pickup because "they're not any good anymore" = THEY ARE BAD. Hello!!! This is your indication that the tires aren't good anymore dear! So against my protesting he has the tires put onto my van.

On the way home, yes ON THE WAY HOME, the cables in one of the tires give out and we still have another 80 miles to drive on a now very bad and dangerous tire. The tire is so bad at this point, its rocking us back and forth. If you have ever seen those childrens toys its a clown car with wobbly wheels, you pull it on a string behind you, THIS is what our car looked like! My arms ached so bad when we got home. Then the next day we have to call all over the countryside to find another used tire because our old ones didnt come home with us, oh no, they stayed at the other tire place. So we finally get another used tire put on.

So the month goes by, I really dont drive that much at all unless its to pick up groceries or go to a doctor appointment. The reunion was this last weekend and we went to that, had a good time and lots of fun.

On the way home... SIGH! The same thing happens to another tire. Except this one is worse, but we spend the whole trip home wobbling like a clown car, not being able to go over 50 mph. Then we get about 10 miles from the house and it stats falling apart and let me tell you, at this point I am very unhappy with the situation. I have to drive 30 mph for the next 7 miles, then the tread comes loose on half the tire and Im driving 20 mph the last 2 miles. Get the car into the garage go in the house GAH this is saturday night, no one is going to be able to do anything until Monday (today).

So today Im calling around all over the countryside AGAIN to find another used tire to put on until we can buy all new tires. Apparently they dont make the same tire that my husband had put on my van anymore. Like they DONT MAKE THAT TIRE ANYMORE *head smack*. I had to find out what was comparable to it and then search for used one. Well I finally found a guy who has a tire. Of course its 30 miles one direction from us, but hey, when you live in the middle of nowhere you drive 30 miles for used tires. So my dear sweet husband who I do love very much is on his way to get another used tire.

If men would just listen! Why is it they think we are dumb? I used to work on cars all the time with my dad and with friends, I took shop in high school because it was where all the cute guys with hot cars were at... He should listen to me :)

Moral of the story? The woman is going to be right so just go with the flow, listen to your wife to begin with and you wont have to go through all this trouble!

Into the calm again

Well we have had a very busy couple of days. Yesterday we had our yearly family reunion. As usual it was tons of fun. It's so nice to get to see the people in your family that you don't see everyday. Aunts, Uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews who come from far away places and even some near places too. We eat and talk, the kids play games and even the adults too! We have an auction each year where we bid on things we have grabbed from here and there. I spent $21.00 this year! Got myself a vase with hand painted flowers, water globes to water plants, a blue lava lamp, a Christmas photo album and some friendships bracelets one of the cousins made. We have the auction each year and use the money to pay for the next reunion... pay for the pavilion, for food and so on. Its a pretty cool idea :)

I had a lot of fun. It was fun for Dennis too but it was very hard on him physically. He tried being in the swimming pool afterward but it proved to be too painful and hard on him. He did end up sitting on the edge and occasionally putting his feet into the water when the kids weren't near him and allowing them to splash him now and then. When we got home he was exhausted though. He took his pain medication and he said it just wasn't cutting it for him tonight so when he dozed off on the couch I allowed him to just sleep for a while thinking that might help him and I think it may have. When I woke him up he went on to bed, was just in general a rough day for him.

One of our nephews, Ian came home with us for a week. He enjoys coming up and we love having him with us and being able to spend time with us. Dennis' kids are grown, well almost and I couldn't have children so in a way its almost like having a kid for a few days.

I thought I was having a flare with my psoriasis yesterday possibly from the pool but today I'm nearly 100% better. This disorder is proving to be a pain in the butt!

Oh look at this! I went out to the garden when I let the dogs out this morning and found my tomato's are FINALLY turning red! I only had 2 cherry tomato's that were ripe for picking, had I left them on they wouldn't be good in another day or two so I plucked them off. Waiting for Dennis to wake up this morning to let him try one with me. It better not be sour I'll be mad! lol




Pretty big for cherry tomato's huh? They'll taste good anyway! :) Well I have a few things planned for today so I better get on with it! I hope you all have a wonderful day and that you enjoyed the read today! :)

So happy today!

Today was my 9th wedding anniversary. Im so happy! I'm as in love today as I was 13 yrs ago when I met him and 9 yrs ago then I married him. He is my everything. He holds me together at the seams.

Thats us!

We met when we were both truck drivers in a small truck stop in Georgia. When I first saw him I was like "Holy crap that guy's hot!" lol He left, but he returned after a few minutes and proceeded to spend the next 5 hours picking on me for being a "rookie" driver. (A rookie is someone who's been driving less than a year.) So the next day came and we ended up having breakfast together. The next weekend we both ended up laid over in the same place again. Same for the following weekend and every weekend after that for 3 months and finally we decided to just team up together. He stopped hauling houses and came to haul freight with me.

Spending 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with someone can be pretty hard sometimes. It doesn't matter how much you love someone when you're in a 8x10 foot area for every waking moment of your day. Most couples spend 6 or so hours a day today during the week. Try 24 hours! But you get through things, work out any issues, hang in there for the long haul. I have been to every state in the US except Hawaii and Alaska, been to Canada and Mexico with him. I've seen things being held in his arms that most people could only wish to see in their lifetime.

Without him I am nothing, held together only by his undying love for me. He is my best friend. My soul mate. My world.

I am so glad I married him. He has made my life incredible. Absolutely incredible! If I could give you one piece of advice, I'll tell you what my parents told me when I got married. Never go to bed mad. Always give your spouse a kiss and tell them how much you love them. Doesn't matter who's wrong or right, it only matters they know how you feel.


So with that being said, here are some pictures from out trip to Manistee Mi today :)

This is in the Manistee National Forest, it's so beautiful!

Pretty neighborhood decoration on a round a bout.

Uh yea, must be nice to be so rich you have to park your yacht out back of your house!

Manistee Lighthouse. It wasn't as big as I had thought it would be.

Manistee lighthouse just after sunset.

The lighthouse is on a long cement pier. It even has ladders so if you fall in you can climb out!

I love watching the sunset. Its so hard to get good color in pictures on my camera!

I could have just stayed here all night too, but then the bugs came. lol

Quack quack! I love duckies!

You could see the bottom nearly all the way out to the end of the pier. I love the patterns the water makes in the sand with the current.

I'm telling you I would move just so I could hang out here everyday.

I love beach grass, it's just so pretty.

Manistee Mi Elevation 606 ft. I learned something today!

Just a weather worn bench on the beach I thought was cool looking.

Last but not least my all time favorite sign in the state of Michigan! However, I've never seen a bear here!

Well that's all for now. Be good to each other, whoever you are :)

Im very happy today!

Today is my 9th wedding anniversary!! I'm very happy and I'll update later tonight or tomorrow on where we went to celebrate :)

My first Kitchen post tonight

Tonight Ill be cooking Mom's Corned Beef Casserole and posting it on my kitchen blog. It's a recipe my mom made as I grew up. It was a recipe that she created herself and I will even be posting photos as I go along so I'm quite nervous! I don't even know if anyone will notice it. I don't know if anyone has noticed this one with exception to my one follower, which by the way you might really like the recipe I'm going to be posting, for your family. I love it when I was young, still do!

Well I'm off to go grab some fresh ingredients from the store so I can get home and start cooking!

My garden

This year I decided to have a garden. In my garden I would have cucumbers, beans, tomatos, corn, potato's and bell peppers. Righttttt! lol My corn grew some, it still has a couple months to go. The tomatos, well you can see in the pics they're actually doing quite well. I have 3 types of tomatos. But everything else just didn't seem to do anything. My bell pepper plants are alive, but no fruit on them at all. Besides those 3 the others just didn't grow at all. Well this only has me more determined to have a fabulous garden next year. Oh I almost forgot the onions! I did plant onions thinking they wouldn't grow and I cant believe it but they're growing!


I planted Big Boys, cherry and big yellows. The cherry tomatos really have taken off like wild fire! They're super tall, I had to put stakes in to keep them from laying on the ground. They have tons of tomatos on the plants too.


I am going to have to find me a good sauce recipe. I want stew some and make sauce with some for canning. Since my cucumbers too a dive, I'm going to be buying pickling cucumbers and canning some homemade sweet and dill pickles. I'm also going to buy string beans and pickle some of those too. If anyone has any good recipes please feel free to leave them in the comments.

I'm already starting to think of ways to make a better garden next spring. One thing is Ill be starting some of the plants way ahead of time, indoors. Ill also be buying some plants, so I don't have all of one vegetable not come up. I'm going to have built raised beds, probably a foot off the ground and Ill have dirt brought in for filling them in. I dont want to fight with the grass and weeds and I think this will be one way I can avoid that.

I honestly don't think this is a bad first attempt. I cant hardly wait for the first ones to be ripe enough to pick :) So how many of you keep gardens? Does anyone even read this? lol

Long day today!

We drove down to the middle of Michigan for my husbands grandparents 60th wedding anniversary. Spent most of the day down there, it was so crowded!

I got to thinking about 60 yrs of being married. The average marriage these days lasts about 3-5 yrs and then people throw in the towel. It got me wondering about whether it was real love, soul mates or was it just that people from their day and age just didn't get divorced? People get divorced for many different reasons of course, but Ive never met anyone who was married for that long. My parents have been married for 48 yrs and my dad was married before he met my mother. Theirs was the longest I had known until I got married. I think it's incredible to spend that many years with someone.

For me, I know I found my soul mate, although I would love to lock him in a closet on occasion and forget he's there lol But all in all he's been a great husband. Loving, caring, supportive, all the things a good husband is supposed to be. I was married twice before I met my husband. Long story short, husband #1, married too young, he was abusive, I made it out alive. Husband #2 thought I was trying to not have children when I actually had cancer and didn't know it, he left me for a stripper who turned out to be a drug addict and now she has the kid and he pays for her drugs (child support). This is my husbands second marriage. He was unhappily married for 10 yrs and decided in the end that having children was not a good enough reason to stay in misery and they divorced. Age was a factor for them, he was 17 and she 18 when they got married.

It just seems that people give up on marriage so easily. Sometimes there are other circumstances that prove you should get divorced, everyone has a reason, but Ive seen friends give up after just a couple of years. For superficial reasons at that. Had they stuck it out, they could have become a perfectly happy couple together for the rest of their lives, who knows? They sure wont, they gave up.

So in the end I'm left with a question to ponder over. What factor is it that makes a marriage work out and last a lifetime? I may never know the answer to that. I don't know that anyone really has the answer.

People are so frustrating...

I honestly believe that Michigan is a different country. I have been going in circles with my doctors office for the last 5 months now, trying to get a female physician. For some unknown reason, when people who have the health program I have, go to this doctors office, which has 12 doctors, you only get to see the one. Well, I don't want to see him again. Hes an ogre. Literally. Hes like 7 foot tall, about 350 lbs, his hair is unkempt, his clothes disheveled and sloppy, this guy is a walking nightmare. It doesn't help that I have a problem with male doctors either. The thing is, this office could put me with anyone but they refuse to. The health plan I'm on allows me to go to anyone who will accept it. This is mean I could see a female doctor in one of their other offices! Its a special circumstance case and they just aren't trying to work with me at all. Besides this guys appearance, he is a moron. He took one look at my hands and told me I did not have psoriasis. Which I DO have and was diagnosed with having psoriasis by a dermatologist. Hes a physicians assistant. Also, I'm very concerned about the fact that I have diabetes and I haven't been on medication, just controlling it with diet. I did take medication at one time but I had bad side effects from it and stopped taking it. That was several years ago now. Anyway when I tried talking to him about my diabetes he didn't seem to really want to hear about it. He had not ran any tests and had not done a a1c test to check my 3 month average. He tells me he will give me a script for Metformin and I tell him I wont take it because that's the drug that gave me all the side effects. So he leaves the room and comes back, hands me a few samples of Actos and a script for that. Hellooooooo! He hasn't done any tests and has no idea if this medication would be good for me or if the dosage is going to be right! He literally could put me into a diabetic coma just giving me medication without checking me. Besides the fact that with my medical history this medication would be bad for me to try taking. So I ask him, aren't you going to check my a1c? He says yes but you can take this until we get the results. Um NO! So I leave. I'm mad as all get out. I walk across the building to have my blood drawn. Almost 2 weeks later he calls me and says "I got your test results back and well, YOU'RE A DIABETIC". O M G I swear this is exactly what the guy said to me. I said Um yea, I know, that's why I came to talk to you. What was my a1c number? He says "I don't have your records in front of me right now but I can get your file and call you back". So I ask about my thyroid, he says he didn't have that checked. I said to him that was one of the reasons I came to him, because I need a refill on my thyroid medication and I haven't had it checked it a while. Gah! So I get off the phone because I'm just so mad at this point I want to reach through the phone and rip the guys head off his body. He calls me back 3 days later. 3 days... it took him 3 days to get my file and call me back! He says, that my a1c is fine. I'm thinking, alright, I know I try to control it with my diet but whats my number? So I ask him, whats my a1c number? He says "I don't have your file right in front of me but if I remember right I think it was about a 6" OMG! I just go completely off on him. This guy says he is a professional but hes unable to give me my a1c, hes unable to get my file and put it in front of him and unable to give me answers to my questions. What kind of a PA is this guy?? Did he even go through any type of medical school, medical training at all?? Im think this guy did his training in the toy department at Wal-Mart.

I've had panic attacks in the past. Nothing major, I had one in 1999, one in 2000 and maybe 2 others between then and the first of this year. But this year I have been under much more stress than normal. Ive been dealing with a lot of things with my husband and his health care, my own health care for my psoriasis, moving to what seems to be a different country, its been rough and lately Ive been having panic attacks fairly often. Maybe once a week from February to July and in July 2-4 per week. Usually when I'm going to bed trying to fall asleep and bam, panic attack. It's a horrible feeling having a panic attack and feeling like something horrible is just about to happen to you and knowing its all in your head and yet not being able to control it. I end up having to sit up in bed until I calm down and get tired enough to doze off or I get out of bed all together. Well today, I had a bad panic attack. I sat up in bed, I tried to calm myself down. I keep repeating in my thoughts, this will pass, this will go away. Its not stopping. I get out of bed and go to the living room, sit on the couch, turn the tv on and try to relax. Its just not working. I'm so upset I start to cry. So I go get a washcloth, get it wet, sit back down and watch tv. Eventually the feeling subsides and I fall asleep, on the couch. I wake up 5 hours later and oh my goodness I have a headache so bad it feels like my head is being compressed in a vice. I get migraines every now and then, but this wasn't a migraine, this was just a very bad headache. 6 Tylenol and 6 hours later its just now going away.

Well this brings me to today. I NEED to find a doctor I can feel comfortable with. This stupid health program is terrible as in most doctors don't want to accept it. The program is meant for people who have no health insurance but have an income and don't qualify for medicaid. Funny how things works out sometimes. Anyway, I've been trying to find a different doctor, a female because I'm more comfortable. Its bad enough I'm limited with who I can go to, its worse that anyone would not be given a choice whether to see a male or female doctor.

Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy

Reflex sympathetic dystrophy (RSD), also called complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), is a chronic, painful, and progressive neurological condition that affects the skin, muscles, joints, and bones. The syndrome usually develops in an injured limb, such as a broken leg, or following surgery.

My PPPP Story (PalmoPlantar Pustular Psoriasis)

Pustular (pronounced Pus-tew-ler) psoriasis is an uncommon, but potentially very serious type of psoriasis. There are two main types of Pustular Psoriasis: Generalized and Localized. If it widespread over the body it is referred to as Generalized Pustular Psoriasis; if it is limited to just one part of the body, it is referred to as Localized Pustular Psoriasis. There are two types of Localized Pustular Psoriasis: Acropustulosis, which occurs only on the tips of the fingers, and Palmo-plantar pustulosis, which only occurs on the palms of hands and/or the soles of feet.

Palmo-Plantar Pustular Psoriasis

In general, Palmo-Plantar Pustulosis is localized to the palms of hands and/or soles of feet. It normally occurs in people between 20 and 60 years old, may be triggered by infection and/or stress. It has also been found to affect females more than males. As with Generalized Pustular Psoriasis, Palmo-Plantar Pustulosis occurs in a cyclical pattern, with new pustules occurring after a period of low-to-no activity.

How is Palmo-Plantar Pustulosis treated?

Palmo-Plantar Pustulosis often proves stubborn to treat. Topical treatments, such as corticosteroids, are usually prescribed first. PUVA, acitretin (Soriatane), methotrexate or cyclosporine (Neoral) sometimes must be used to clear this form. Combination treatment with PUVA and Soriatane (called RePUVA) may also be effective.

Notice that doesn't say "Cured". It only says "treated" because there is not yet a cure. I believe one day there WILL be a cure but until then, thousands of sufferers can only treat their psoriasis. Some will get their psoriasis to go into remission. Others like myself, battle it on a day by day basis.


My psoriasis story.

About 5 years ago I noticed that I had half a dozen small red spots and peeling skin on the soles of both feet. I thought it had something to do with my diabetes to be honest and since it didn't really give me any trouble I just kept putting moisturizer on my feet and ignored it. Not really a smart thing to do not just because I'm a diabetic but because when anything is going on with your body you should have it checked out by your physician.

So after moving with my husband to northern Michigan from Louisiana I came down with the flu, then I had bronchitis followed by the flu again and finally I ended up in the ER room with a case of strep throat. I had been running a fever of about 101 for 3 days at the time. The doctor gave me a shot of penicillin and although they couldn't get my fever to come down they sent me on my way. I ran that fever for another 2 days before it finally broke. That's when my PPPP went wild. At the time I had no idea what it was.

Well maybe 3 days later I start having little blisters pop up on the palms of my feet and hands. I'm like well this is weird and kind of painful. So everyone in my family says oh yea that's hoof n mouth, I'm like the COW disease? lol ok yes they're country folk. Anyway I end up going to the ER Room again where they tell me they think its Coxsackie Virus, (also called hoof and mouth which made me laugh) gives me an anti itch pill because at this point its really starting to itch, I go home, take the pill, fall asleep, wake up, OMG its worse. Like these blisters overnight completely covered the palms of my hands. There were blisters on top of blisters, skin is getting thick, old blisters turning dark red and I am freaking out.... FREAKING OUT! To make things really bad the anti itch pill which was Atarax. The only thing that pill did was make me sleep constantly.

So I go to the dr, my insurance doesn't cover a dermatologist, and he says, "I don't think its Coxsackie or it would be getting better not worse, I think its such and such Eczema (sp?) I'm like ok dry skin you're kidding right? So he gives me some steroid pills to take, alike a 5 day treatment to get the swelling down because my fingers looked like they were going to pop and a medium duty anti itch cream for the itching. Well the swelling came down dramatically, I only occasionally itch, but then my skin was thick like leather, my hands looked like they were rotting, literally, and new blisters coming up on top of the leathery skin which already still had blisters.

Anyway, I start talking to my brother after someone says something stupid to me "Oh that looks like Leprosy" lol Talk about freaking me out... he gets to looking on the web and finds pictures that look exactly like whats on my hands and they are pictures of palmo-plantar pustular psoriasis. NOW I'm freaking out. I frantically search the web, all I can find out? It cannot be cured. You get it you get stuck with it and your life is slowly taken over and ruined by it.... niceeeee! Just wonderful!

For 4 days I couldn't even pick up a glass to take a drink using my hands and now I'm thinking I have to live this way? So I finally find a wonderful website, The National Psoriasis Foundation. What did I find there? I found that no one there is freaking out as much as I am, so it cant be the end of the world if this is what I have.

So I go to the doctor again. He looks at it and says "No thats not PPPP that's coxsackie I'm positive." He gives me a script for some steroid cream and sends me on my way. At this point this had been going on for almost a month. I'm no fool, I knew there was something else going on and not what this doctor was suggesting.

I end up a week later at Urgent Care. The doctor looks and says he thinks that this is eczema and gives me Presidone 60mg a day for 7 days and a medium duty steroid cream to slather on twice a day. I clear up. Completely. But about 6 days later the blisters start coming back. So I go back to Urgent Care because at least that doctor made me feel he wanted to help. Well he is there but not working so he talked to the doctor who was on duty and she turned out to be very nice, very caring. She tells me that it 'could be Coxsackie' but she thought it looked like possible psoriasis. She gives me a super potent steroid topical. This worked great, although I havent been clear since I took the Presidone. She also went beyond what she needed to do and found a dermatologist who accepted my insurance.

Well I went to the dermatologist. I don't like her. But she diagnosed me right away with PPPP. She gives me a script for Halobetasol ointment which is a super potent steroid and sends me home.

I can only use steroids for 2 weeks at a time due to problems that can occur from it getting into the bloodstream and into my liver and kidneys. Occasionally you'll find me ranting and raving about how I'm feeling. That's part of why I decided to blog here. Although the National Psoriasis Foundation is a wonderful site for information and socializing, its a bit heavy with censorship. You'll know when I post things on my blog that I can't post on NPF's site lol Other than censorship, they're a great place and I recommend you checking them out if you have psoriasis.

That's all for now, sleep well!

Lets get started!

Well I don't think this blog is going to write itself so I guess Ill get started. How did I get here? (Explanation of the bat photo will follow lol)

Well, I'm 40 years old, I live in northern Michigan with my husband, 2 dogs and a cat. For the last 15 yrs Ive lived in Louisiana so this is sort of like culture shock. Especially with this crazy weather. They keep telling me its summer here but I keep having to put on a hoody and stay in long pants due to the chilly air. When we got here it was at the beginning of February and 3 feet of snow on the ground. Incidentally I ended up getting sick back to back for the next couple of months and it made my PPPP (psoriasis) go crazy which is another story all in itself. The snow finally stopped and warmer weather did come. We had 4 really hot days that even required use of air conditioning! Then it went away and its been cool ever since.

I don't know how much I really like living here. I'm definitely homesick. My grandfather passed away just one week after I left and I still feel guilty about not being there even though I spent a lot of time with him the days just before leaving. My parents are still in the south and I miss them so much. Ive always been a momma's girl lol

We had a bat incident the other night. We were sitting in the living room minding our own business, doing things on our computers when all of the sudden my husband says very calmly "Oh there's a bird". At first I didn't know what he was talking about and then I noticed this large dark bird like thing coming towards us. I'm thinking 'how did a bird get in? Did it break a window? Whats a bird doing flying around at 2 in the morning?' Then my husband yells "No its a bat!" Well, this changes EVERYTHING... Every living creature on the planet has a natural instinct called 'Fight or Flight'. I'm one of those who only have the 'Flight' part of this instinct. I commence to go into a pure panic. I start screaming, I'm trying to push my computer out of my way for a different path to safety all the while trying to duck down so the bat wont attack me. The dogs have no idea what in the world is going on and they both high tail it to the bedroom. Yea a lot of good those 2 would do if I was being attacked. My cat, he runs under the couch he's just terrified at this point. Im still screaming at the top of my lungs. My husband... omg my poor husband, who uses crutches due to RSD, I'm not even thinking about him, my ONLY thoughts at this point are BAT and OUTSIDE IS SAFE! lol I stumble trip my way to the door and go out onto the porch. My husband asks "What in the world are you doing?" I say, "I'm getting the hell out of dodge! What are YOU doing?" lol Well I end up having to go back inside, I dug the cat out from under the couch. Poor thing, I'm pretty sure he used one of his lives getting under there. I lock all the animals in the bedroom and I go back onto the porch where my husband now is. We look at each other and we're like 'what now?' lol So we end up calling a cousin who's wife works for a vet and they come over to catch the bat. My husband and I are still on the porch peering through the screen door and listening to our cousins who are now on the stairwell with blankets trying to catch this evil little bat. I hear him say "Oh look how cute he is" followed by "Ahhhhh" and a thump. lol They did in fact catch the bat in a blanket and brought it outside where we let it fly back off into the night. Then our cousins say "We only had 2 bats in 3 yrs that we lived in this house." ONLY 2 bats? ONLY 2 BATS?!? lol one is more than enough thank you very much.

So anyway, that was exciting. Now I'm back to doing crafty stuff. I'd currently doing some sewing. I've stopped going to my favorite forum which is yet another story for another day. I'm really enjoying some of the blogs I've found on here. I hope that someone, even if just one, enjoys mine as well. I will be tracking my Psoriasis on here. I will give updates on how my novel is coming along (another story for another day!). I will in general just update about life and life in Michigan.

Have a great day!