SICK!

HERE we are a week before Vacation, I wake up with a sore throat and an earache. I go to work and I have my “sexy” voice. My boss says. “Go home” I don’t want any illness in this office.” I feel fine. I did at the time. Well She goes to lunch and says I’m going to lunch and I don’t want to see you here when I get back.” So I wait till my guest auditor was done and out the door at 1 pm I git…….
As I am driving my 40 mule commute I start coughing. THAT’S not good. I am less than 12 hours away from having a basal cell carcinoma removed and its too late to cancel the appointment! Damned if I do and damned if I don’t! I get home and strip to jammies and start gargling and drinking,,powerade. Made chicken soup for supper….
Maybe if Im really lucky she willSTILL remove the cancer and give me antibiotics cos I GOAT SH*&&^^%T TO DO!!!

Back to Blogging

I lost my address to this thingy. Do you believe that? You Don’t?Well its the truth!…. I need to get back to blogging. There’s so much going on, Been going on.  Went on!!

People in and out of my life. Lost my father in 2009, Aunts and Uncles as well, Brothers & Sisters in Laws. If they hadn’t passed away, some have been REALLY ILL , In and out of the Hospital.

But there HAVE Been GOOD things too.:)) One son almost married (a disaster waiting to happen) and didn’t thank God. The other son got engaged and we have a wedding to look forward to next year!. Mom’s been a travelling fool. Hawaii, Europe and now Figi and Australia., No knees are going to keep her down!

We found another house to dwell in, LOVE IT! Try to go there as much as we can,(9 hour drive) trying to furnish it, try to change things in the “old” one. As much as finances and time will allow. The dog loves it she can go out without a leash and waltz around in freedom that she doesn’t have here.. The cat seems to like it too , He has new places to hide and he ‘s been outside too, but NOT with that much freedom with the fear of losing him.

This November the Big Kahuna & I will have been married 10 years. Wow doesn’t seem that long, but some times it seems like we’ve been soul mates forever.. Trying to plan something special to celebrate, little simpler than the 5th anniversary( we went to Hawaii & renewed our vows). We still want to renew our vows but the question’s are who? what ?where? & how? We shall See won’t we……

I  am craving a cruise but I cannot take the time off for a cruise. I am going to be in the Boo-Hoo boat for the Bloggers Cruise in Feb. I have to save my PTO for June and October for previously promised Planned Ceremonies.. S I G H !

Mac the Cat is doing ok getting Insulin 2 times a day. He will have his check up this mont. He has gained some weight back and is looking good!Well that’s all for now. Gotta Go, TTFN  Da Boop

Big Mac to Medium Mac

Had to take Mac to the vet today, He’s down to 11 pounds. HES PEEING ALL over my dining room… What the Hell,,,,,, he’s a sick baby. We do not know if it is Diabetes, his thyroid kidneys or cancer or what? He’s gotten soooo skinny, He wants to eat ALL the time.I’ve not seen him real thirsty so I don;t think its Diabetes . He was soo darn cute at the vets office. snooping around, purring up a storm , rubbing up on the Dr.  nurse, inspecting the room. Fur all over the place…UNTIL it came to them taking his blood, Boy was he one pissed off kitty. Not a happy camper, and if you think THAT was bad. How but taking a urine cath sample. MEOW! SO BY TOMORROW WE WILL KNOW…. I guess the  BLOOD WORK WILL TELL us why we have a Medium to small MAC

EASY COME, EASY GO……

Ok ! We know,,   No Posts in a While
Holidays.    Come and Gone
Sons , Come and Gone
Presidents old and new, Come and gone.
Penny has grown, six mos old, puppy yet a little woman, has to be spayed,

puppyhood come and gone
As  many of my friends face the unfortunate  loss of their jobs or the outlook of possibly losing their jobs in this recession,
It is not so EASY to Come and Go.
I thank God each day for my job and pray that it is stable and will remain so, as health care appears to be on NOT so shaky ground.
We shall see as we come and go in 2009………………….

HOWEVER

In the meantime

We are preparing for what we love best,

another CARNIVAL cruise,

soon to be here,

Next Week

,   one whole week  

  SO NEW ORLEANS  HERE WE COME

FANTASY HERE WE COME

EVIL KREWE LOOK OUT. HERE WE COME  TO MEET YOU!

 Then we will have come and gone….

MESSAGE FROM MAC

 

I was the “BABY CAT”, I am BIG MAC!

Sure I bite them Occasionally, Sure I was a cat, I didn’t come when they wanted me to, I’m a Cat. I slept in the bed when I wanted to. I bit DAD when I WANTED his attention!

Boy oh Boy…. I dunno what got in to my parents…

They bring in this little pistol of black & brown fur, they call it “baby Girl”, “Penny”, she runs to me with that pointed cold nose of hers barreling toward me like a freight train. What the mell does she think I am? 18 lbs of concrete? A ram rod? Then she stops short and starts barking at me in a high pitched

Sound, arf arf? What is that? I’m a cat darn it! I don’t want to play with you, you young whimper snapper. You come in here you take my snake! Ah yes! You didn’t think I saw you take MY snake in between your teeth and run down beside the sofa as if you were running that last touchdown for the Bucs! NOT! Thank Goodness Mom saw you and took it away from you. That’s MY toy and speaking of Toys1 what is that mess you left on the floor? Not the wet puddle,, NO that was MY Mouse my mouse that I toss up in the air and play with , you took it and slobbered all over it , its green and white and spit all over, and the eye is missing!  IS that all? Oh NO! My Cat food is missing. It gets moved to the top of the kitchen table, then when I cannot find it I meow and raise a fuss, so I eat the BABY”S FOOD,, HA ha ha! Big Deal I get in T- R- O- U- B- L- E! So Dad decides to place my feeder on top of a box on the floor, yeah right so I get to stand on my tip toes to eat. Ever seen an 18# cat stands up to eat? Is that good for digestion? Good for dieting? Well I’ll shows them I’ve got into Ms Prissy’ puppy foods, not too bad. It’s for puppies and lactating dogs.. wonder if I’ll produce milk. LOL  MEOW!

All I wanted to do is lay around and go out once in awhile, Now every time she wakes up she’s going out and I’m trying to sneak out with her…Well why not?

Well I am trying to get along with this Ms Thang. When she goes to her sock I go to make sure it’s hers and NOT Mine.  I’m letting her come closer before I slap her, just to show her I’m still the Alpha cat around here.  Sure I’ll let her walk under my belly, Ill even let her sniff my as*. I even get on the same lap with her, not too close, just to show her, to make sure she knows… I ALWAYS have the upper Paw if you know what I mean…

Oh OH, She just got my nip, Oh no she didnn’t,

CATS RULE ! DOGS DROOL

Gotta Go  Here comes Trouble CYA

Penny is a Pistol

Penny

Penny came home yesterday.

She is spoiled. We didn’t do it!

she is a pistol and she has a temper, she backs Mac into a corner and all he does is back up and hiss at her until he can jump up into a space, when Big Kahuna  holds her, MAC jumps up into the lap as well, when she took MAC’s toy snake I though the look alone from him could have killed her, its like watching a toddler, I just placed her in her cage and she’s in there whining and crying, she did this at 6 am and 9 am Every3 hr round the clock, she will tire and finally sleep, but boy has she got vim and vinegar and TEETH! She already knows when she wants UP in the Chair to sit.! We didn’t train her THAT either. She’s 8 weeks old!

AND MAC? HE’s whining and voicing his discontent as well..

Welcome to the Zoo!

New star in heaven tonight

There is a new star in heaven tonight

Arnold’s niece Deborah passed away this morning from Cancer,

she was either 50 or 51.

We saw her last Tuesday.

Thank God we did..

 

She had cancer of the tongue and she was in remission this time last year. It started out a year ago because she thought she had canker sores in her mouth.

when we came back from our trip in October we found out she had been in the hospital where they had taken out more of her mouth & neck where it had progressively & agressively spread.Then last month her husband called and said it spread from her neck to her shoulder into her bones and into her lungs. In May when I got back from Ca she had been in Moffitt She was at home under hospice care and on a pain pump. She had a trach and a feeding  tube into her stomach because most of her mouth and neck were taken out and she had a metal plate in there because of the last surgery in May because she could not eat or talk normally with most of her mouth missing. We often wonder if she had of gone to Moffitt initially instead of Lakeland Cancer Center in the Beginning as Arnold had of suggested if maybe things might of come out better. She didn’t get to Moffitt until Lakeland Cancer Center couldn’t do anything else for her.

I am sorry for her father, he has lost his 2nd wife and a daughter in less than 1 year. I am sorry for her husband because he has no one else left in his family to turn to and I hope the Tuckers don’t turn away from him , because this in one Tucker who will NOT turn away from him.

I fell sorry for Deb’s grandbabies, those pretty little girls who will grow up not knowing ther gramma. one will remeber her, Shiloh is 4, but the others are too young and they won’t remember her. Her father lost his wife 9 mos ago and now he lost his daughter.

WE have lost Deb to this Disease. Three weeks ago my Godmother, My Maternal Aunt lost her left Breast to this Disease, Stage 1 Breast Cancer. She hada hematoma and almost died 1 week later, had to have 4 units of blood transfusions, and now is on the road to recovery. We lost my uncle Gene 2 years ago to this disease, to stomach & pancreatic Cancer, My Dad’s “BABY Brother, he shouldn’t have had to go. My Aunt Nancy, we lost her 5 years ago, my Dad’s sister to bone cancer, Oh yes, My Aunt Julie, we lost her 9 months ago to Pancreatic Cancer & Colon Cancer, again my Dad’s Baby Sister….

Yes ther is a new star in heaven tonight, may she be pain free, cancer free, happy and shine on us brightly as we miss her smile, her laugh. her heart, and her smile and  her love….. Especially the void in her husband’s heart.

There’s times I really hate this disease and we really need to find a cure!

Vacation Blues

Here it is June 2007 going toward July 4th and everyone is either planning on vacation or going on vacation and I am waiting for February, DARN its a long time till February,2009. I’ve got no place to go! Thanks to the economic stature or our accountant, or President Bush or Mother Nature, (I’ve got to blame itt on somebody! ) I know I know. complain complain…. I have 95 PTO hours saved up. I have to use them somewhere somehow. TOO MANY GRANDKIDS (others) in the community pool. I have to find something to do. economical yet close to home.I could catch up on my reading, do some scrapbooking? sewing? that all sounds boring.watch Big Kahuna Snore? NOW THAT”S BORING! Blogging. hmmmm.Listen to my EyePod!.hmmmm. Racking my brain here/ My next work adventure is a weekend to Denver in Sept. other than that I’m open… What to do. What to do, cheap, economical and fun, no sunburns and no gardening Please. I’m open to suggestions.

Take Care

Betty Bo0p.

Cruising Capabilities Again

Well Thanks to my hard work, President Bush and his stimulus pkg . We have plunked down half our IRS payment on the Bloggers Cruise for next February out of New Orleans. The cruise will be a 5 day and we have a cabin on the VERANDAH DECK. I’ve never been up that high and always wanted to be. I also have never been to New Orleans. ALL of my immediate family including my ex husband have been to New Orleans and I have nevah been and always wanted to go. Im not complaining, its just somewhere I never got to go yet and  now I will hopefully make it, sight and catastrophes unseen. We didn’t toally blow the IRS funds, we paid some bills and got myself a new cell phone, mine went kaputzkie since the Mr dropped a coke into my purse 3 weeks ago. He didn’t do it alone my mom’s golden retriever helped, She jumped into his lap. Well that;s all for today. Now I have something to save my pennies for, New Orleans here we come!

Decorations for Memorial Day

Memorial Day started out May 30,1868 as Decorations Day inspired by local and regional ceremonies to honor Union War dead. It wasn’t;t till 1882 that it became known as Memorial Day. In 1968 It was moved from May 30 to the last Monday in May. The 30th of May in 1968 was designated for the purpose of strewing flowers or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who dies in defense of their country. When I lived in Alabama in the 1980′s I first heard of Decoration Day from my friend Jane who said they were going to a family picnic after all the family got together to decorate all the family graves in the region of Birmingham. What A nice thought & idea that was, she told me it was a “southern thing”.

Well let us unite on this day, put aside the BBQ, put aside the FOOD for the picnics, put aside the GREED, for the stores and the automobile dealerships to have their INFAMOUS 3 DAY MEMORIAL DAY SALES for the ALMIGHTY DOLLAR, and think for one moment what the day was meant  for, Let us then at the appointed time gather and reflect around their sacred remains and if we cannot gather, at least close our eyes, clear our minds to reflect, and gather the flowers and the garland like they did on Decoration day in 1868 and decorate the mounds of clay of earth , the mossy blades of grass, the wispy wheat amongst them, with the choicest brightest flowers of springtime, AND LET US RAISE ABOVE THEM the dear old flag they saved from dishonor,let us renew our pledge of allegiance, vow those soldiers they have left to aid and assist among us whether they are veteran’s now or veterans they will become.We give to them A sacred charge of Thanks of a nation’s gratitude to the soldier’s, the sailor’s, the widow’s,mothers’,and orphan’s.Let them see that as their light has dimmed and the heart has grown cold their solemn trust ,ours shall keep it well as long as the warmth and spirit of light shins within us and remains alive within our spirit of freedom.