Well, with any luck we will be at our house in Az tomorrow.  I am so glad.  It has been a long trip.  We left one week ago tomorrow and have will have put about 2400 miles on the car. 

Today, we went through Carlsbad Caverns.  It really was neat.  I think everyone should go if they get close to it.  I walked through most of it.  My husband took the handcapped trail and made it okay.  I walked the entire great room trail and I walked the 7500 feet that takes you into mouth of the cave.  It is almost straight down.  It really gives you a idea of how huge the cave is and how far down it goes.  Anyone else been there?

Theresa, I hope your surgery goes well.  I have a sinus problem.  I sometimes wonder if it is allergy induced or something else.  By the way, I told my hubby you got hearing aids from the VA.  How did you go about getting them?  He needas them but we don't have the 7000 at least to pay for them.  Are yours the digital ones?

WEll, gonna watch tv and hit the hay early.  We want an early start tomorrow.

Later Ladies and to all a good night.   

Hi everyone how are you today? I am good, thanks for asking, I also am having surgery in December.  For anyone in Minot that is reading this that has ear or sinus problems there is a new doctor at ENT at Trinity, he is marvelous. After years of pain he is doing sinus surgery on me.

 Curly that is a scary story with the cow poop on the car; do you know what I do all the time now? I carry my cell phone right next me and take photos of trucks and cars that are breaking the law, you should have called that truck in, that is not suppose to happen.  My prayers are with you and your husband every day.

KO you are nice not to take advantage of what is yours, do your kids with him have military benefits? When I was a First Sergeant, I was always on men to own to their responsibilities. Like your friend with the child of a military man, that child is entitled to a life time of benefits. Enough about that I was getting worked up sorry.

Marilyn if you are reading this I am sorry if I made you mad. This room is a separate forum; we all just dump our stuff.  Marilyn how about that bus accident in MN, and the today show had this story about boys hurting people for a YouTube moment.

Hello everyone! 

Anyone heard from Marilyn?  I have not seen a post from her anywhere on the forum and a long time. 

Well, I have been on a roll.  We left last Saturday for Fargo.  We stayed there until Monday morning and then we left for Minneapolis to see hubby's doc.  They are making application to Workforce safety for him to have surgery.  I am not sure if it is the right thing to do but the poor man needs to get releif and it is the only thing anyone has really offered.  They will remove the metal from his spine and try to clean up L3.  If approved it will be in Dec some time. 

Then after his appointment was over, we left Minneapolis for AZ as a final destination.  We are driving down a old car we bought for our use down there.  It is an old Lincoln towncar.  It is a 1999 and it is really still a very nice car and is perfect for what we need it for.  It was cheap too. 

The trip has gone pretty well, except for the fact that he is miserable and pretty high on pain meds so he can stand the ride.  Right now he is passed out in bed and has been for about an hour and it is only 7:30 this time.  We are in New Mexico.  I hope to make it either tomorrow or the nxt morning.  We will fly back to Bismarck on Dec 2.  We will be there until the surgery is done or we will just fly back to Az for the remainder of the winter. 

Gotta tell you a funny story.  We were driving into a little town called Hampton Iowa.  It was just getting dark and I was driving.  It smelled like Pig, chicken cow dung and it was pungent.  Well, a truck is coming from the front and just as it went by, one (or more) of the animals releived itself and it hit our car big time.  I almost hit the ditch.  Hard to see through that stuff.  GROSS!  The next morning I took the car to a do it your self car wash and spent 10 bucks washing the yuk off the car.  I almost lost it cause I do not have a very strong stomach and that was about at the top of my limit. 

Well, sounds like you are all fine. Si Ko I know you are very sad and I feel for you.  Wish there was something we could do to ease your sorrow. 

Well, good night ladies.

bye

Hello everyone, how are you today? I am okay; I had a busy day today. Of course I started with the paper route, and then I went off to the soup kitchen at about 0730hrs.  I made a banana cake this morning, if you ever have brown bananas; I have a great cake recipe. From bananas to cake in 45 minutes, if you want banana frosting an extra ten minutes.  I add chocolate chips, everyone loves my banana cake.  I helped get things ready for the soup kitchen, and then I had to get a CAT scan at 1130. So I had my CAT scan stood up and passed out, cold fish. I woke up to smelling salts, there were people around me and they wanted to take me to the emergency room.  I didn’t want to go, but they said I had to and I can’t wait to see this bill. I have problems with passing out, I have no idea what triggered it. I am home now all safe at my computer.

KO, KO, KO, smells like you had a rough day, I remember those days of sick kids and poop. I really don’t want to think about it.  Your x husband retired from the Military right? How long were you married to him, you know if you were married over ten years you are entitled to half of his retirement, did you know that?  That is why my husband hopes I never leave him, there is no law that says he is entitled to half of my military retirement, but I get half of his. I would never take it, when we split it will be clean, divorce in a do it yourself box, sells at office max $79.99.

Care how is the clean up going, okay let’s do it… Let’s do a looky look at the world of Care

Care if I was there, we would be going to see The Beatles tribute band

http://www.mainetoday.com/event.html?event_id=98234

OH how I love Maine!!  

You silly ducks thats LA, I fooled you.

For my Shoppe..

Now that is a DUDE, fore sure..?

Love ya Theresa

he only works 8 hrs and I work 10 hrs a day n with the stuff ive been going thru, and I do most of the cleaning, he better cook tonite! I did 5 loads of laundry last nite n put all of em away :)

Forgot, yesterday I was home with rugrat all day. He was not feeling good. I got ready for work n went to get him dressed..omg I about got knocked on my butt from the smell in his room! His sheets, pillow, pajamas FULL!!! got him in the tub, called daycare n work, got laundry in...lol my neighbors daughter was goin to school she asked her mom..lil man must be sick huh? The odor lingered in the hallway for about an hour! We ended up going to moms n washing almost all the laundry (cept for the whites) and we took a nap on their new couch. I love their couch!

Hey everyone, how you been? Theresa your ears doin ok?  Thinkin bout you! (this font is much easier to read then that purple..sorry Theresa!!!) Care, hows Shelbinators room going? Or shall I call her the swimminator? lol Oh man that has to totally suck! All that hard work and the mess!  Shoppe, hows the painting? Curly, hows the husband n gkids?

I was off on Tuesday. I was in Minot n didnt get to see my kids til about 545. We ended up going to Space Aliens to eat so the kids played games til about 830.  We went to their hotel room n spent a lil bit of time with them. It was really hard to see them go. My daughter got a dozen roses from her daddy when he retired so she gave me 11 of them and she gave my sister 1 of the roses.  I took the rest home and gave my adopted grandma 2 of them because she was one of Chazzerdoodles buddies. I gave one to my neighbor too.

This morning I tol rugrat were goin to daycare n she has the female verson name of my oldest n he just cried wanting to see his brother  ,

I texted them about 1230 and they were in Chicago so they should be there about 6 tonite.  They stayed in Des Moines last nite.

Tonite, Greys is on, my laundrys done, dishes are clean and Im goin to have the husband cook tonite. I dont wanna do SHKIT!

Loved that pic.  Theresa,  you must go to walmart everyday to get these wonderful pictures.   LOL..

Yes, the 93 yr old is my Aunt.   The trip was with only 2 of my 9 sisters....  The original two I like to say,  so we took our bio mom.   Aunt Mary is her sister.   

Hope you are all having a great marvelous blessed day.  :)   I plan on painting (or repainting)  Nates  red little boys room.    My daughter and I messed up so bad, we are repainting the whole thing, after we prime with some tinted kilzet paint...  I have painted 4 perfect rooms in  her house while I have been staying here this month, and only the red room is horrible.

viv

Good morning everyone, how is it going today? I am okay; I went the exciting city of Jamestown yesterday, fun, fun, fun, NOT!  Jamestown is a really small town; I took a few pictures I will post on Facebook today. I got my hearing aids, they cost of them are $9,000.00. How do people afford these things, the Doctor from the VA told me they are state of the art, the top of the line? If anyone is reading this that has heading aids, does noise hurt forever.  I hear everything, it was like noise overload, and it hurts.                                   

   Not much is happening today, I am not working the soup kitchen tomorrow I have a CAT scan and a doctor’s appointment. I am pretty tired once again, I have not been sleeping well, I take so many drugs at night, and I have a few new ones.

 KO you can text me any time, I am slightly a text slow person, so it you txt me, it may take a few minutes. I have a blackberry, so text should be east, but I am still slow. KO I don’t like the light purple font you use, I have some problems reading it. It might be my monitor, the colors and brightness is off I think. My son will be home for Thanksgiving, he is the computer god, and he will fix it. Can you please use a darker color? I have to cut and paste it on a document to see it.

Care a wet carpet sucks, I hope you get it before you get mold.

Shoppe I am glad your 93 year old fiend is doing well; I could not find where you said she was related.

I am going to go for now. I love you all so much.

Shoppe for you

WHAT!

Oh my dear Theresa, you are a gem.   I would never have sen it if you had not posted it.  I thank you so much.  I even forwarded it to my daughter in law and I know she will be thrilled to get it. 

You are right, I am not home.  We are in some little podunk town in Iowa right accross the border from Minnesota.  My hubby went to the doc in Minneapolis today and it is a go for the surgery if work force safety approves it.  Will more then likely take a few weeks.  It will be a quite Christmas for us I guess and that is okay.  He will have the metal removed from his back and then they will try to fix L3.  I am praying this helps him.  I will tell you this, it is going to be a long way to AZ.  He is already in misery.  I hope he will be better tomorrow.  It was a stressful day till we found our way downtown Minneapolis and back out again.  He drove and without any pain meds so he was ready to bite my head off at the least thing, but I didn't complain and we made it.  I feel so bad for him at times and at other times I am ready to go crazy too.  :)

Tomorrow we hope to be in Omaha neb to see my step sister and the next day into Kansas someplace.  It is COLD here.  Burr!  I have on my winter coat. 

I will send you my sons address as soon as we get to our house in Az.  I have his addy packed in my things. 

Later,  D

Yeah we have Thanksgiving. Not sure what we are going to do though.  We have turkey ham, chicken, veggies, potatoes, gravy, cranberries, stuffing, veggie trays, cakes, pies, frybread..the works.  My ex and my current dont really care for alot of turkey.. we all say that is the cheapest bird you can get so why eat that on a day of  thanks???? The ex would usually cook up a goose or pheasant or duck or we would grill...eat steaks n stuff like that.  This year its going to be quiet! Not sure if were going to my moms side of the familys dinner or my dad's side.

Yay! You got text!!! Im easier to get ahold of that way.  I dont like talkin on the phone when I have a kid screamin..Mom Mom Mom on the phone lol. If were watchin movies or something i have my phone on vibrate.  Do you have picture messaging too? I dont like to text unless I know the other person has text too. I will be in town probly Saturday unless we go to bismarck. If not I will be up on the 3rd or 4th. Taking a Sianna Day from everything lol if I can. That is my birthday weekend. I have That thursday friday saturday sunday AND monday off. After this week and thanksgiving, I know I will def need a break!