What Did You Do Today?

[Janet]

Nothing really going on here. I did go to PT yesterday. I always hurt so bad after those sessions. Anyway he gave me more exercises to do.

Tomorrow....I go get the injection. Hope it doesn't hurt too bad, but it can't hurt as bad as my neck and shoulder area. Ricky has the day off so he'll take me since they don't want me driving home.

Yesterday it was 69 degrees and so nice, but the wind would knock you down. This morning it was 37, still have wind, but not near as bad as yesterday. Well, I feel a nap coming on, so I must give in to it.

[DianaB]

We must have had a small tornado south of here about 4 miles. A friend of mine posted pictures on FB of her son's house and talked about a line of damage. Her son and wife were in the house ready to head to the basement when it hit. The windows were blown out and the house was damaged but the inside was alright. So scary!

I'm getting ready to pack so I can leave when Dae Lynn comes home from work to head to my Aunt Marva's. Dae Lynn doesn't have to work tomorrow so I don't have to be here to watch the kids and my Aunt doesn't work on Fridays so I can head down early!! Her birthday is on the 12th so we'll have to do something to celebrate that. I think that she'll be 62! Hard to believe that's how old she is because she is so young to me!! I wish that all of you could meet her then you'd understand why she is so special! I'm not sure how much I'll be able to get on the computer but I'll be back home sometime on Sunday. Hugs to all of you!!!

[2tiredmom]

Diana, Enjoy your time with your Aunt. We never know how much longer we have.
Can't wait to hear stories.

[gja1000]

I'm enjoying my conference in Sa Antonio. I've visited with some friends I rarely see. It is tiring to sit all day, but I have got some good information. I'll be glad to go home tommow.

[judy]

What a tornado! Thank goodness you are all safe!

We finally had snow! It is goimg to melt soon though, because it is so warm out now. I had to bring my car in because I needed a new clutch. I don't remember if I posted about it, but I drove right into a ditch a couple of weeks ago. I took a bad turn too fast. What else is there to say? Having a clutch and AWD, I figured I could rock the car out......the owner of the farm nearby towed me out finally, and it burnt out my clutch!!! I have to admit though, that I have been smelling that transmission smell before that, so that may have just been the icing on the cake.

Cost me $1100!!! And, I have to bring it in next week because the "check engine" light is on, and the cruise control light is blinking. He said to drive it and see if it goes off. It's not!!! I am really broke now, but I got a nice check from my union for reimbursement for some medical costs. All retirees get this....don't ask me why we pay it and then get it back, but it is nice toi put a check in the bank!

I have had a bad cold all week, and have been feeling lousy. I think it's going away. I haven't been to the gym all week because I didn't feel up to exercising.

The kids are coming over. The girls are sleepimng here. I'm nervous to have Brandon since he has allergy episodes almost nightly.

[Janet]

Wow Judy, going into a ditch could have been a lot worse, like rolling your car. So glad you are okay. Cars are so expensive to have repaired. I'm lucky that both Rick and Ricky know how to fix most anything on a car or truck. It really helps keep the cost down.

Well, since I'm not really suppose to do anything for a day or two, I guess I'll be on the computer and paying bills...nothing too strenuous. He wants me to stay off work for a week, I really thought it would only be a couple of days. I guess since I bounce around in a bus he wanted me off longer.

This afternoon Rick is heading down to the east side of Indianapolis to attend his neice's wedding. I'm not going since the Dr. told me to not do anything but rest for a couple days and take this medicine to help the injection do it's job. So...I won't have to deal with some of his whacked out family. There really isn't many left, just his step-brother going and his step-sister who's daughter is the one getting married. His sister, the one I can't' stand is going to be there coming from New Jersey. She's going to stay a couple days since she owns a business in Indy so she can write it all off on taxes.

The wedding starts at 4:30, but it will take almost two hours to get to the location. It's a community center instead of a church.

Ricky is working today till 8:30 this evening so I'm going to have a long evening alone. I don't think Rick is staying for the reception, just the wedding since it will take so long to get there and back.

I think I'm going to enjoy the peace and quiet... Although I wish a friend could be here just to talk.

[judy]

Wish I was there with you!

[Janet]

Me too Judy.

[gja1000]

Janet, I'm glad to hear that you are feeling a little better. I sure hope that feeling lasts and lasts and lasts!!!

Judy, I didn't know about your accident - BOO! I guess you are going to have to slow down. LOL! Sorry the repair is so expensive - I just hate car repairs. Gary didn't ever know how to fix much on a car and now he can't so we have to rely on mechanics. Luckily we've used the same one for the last 25 years, so at least we trust him.

I made it home from my conference in San Antonio yesterday. It was a good conference and I learned lots of things I needed to know - but it will just make more work for me at school. Oh well, I guess that's the way it goes.

The weather is beautiful here, everything is in bloom and the early trees are leafing. This time of the year is so fresh and clean. I've been pulling some weeds in the yard - I don't use chemicals or anything other than organic, so that means you gotta pull your own weeds. It's OK cuz there aren't that many. I didn't have any last spring but i guess that's because there wasn't any rain! LOL! We've had consistent rain all winter (not enough to break the drought though), so now I have some weeks. Oh well, you gotta take the bad with the good.

[Janet]

Gayle, I hope you don't mind if I pick your brain a little bit. Does Gary have to take a medication with his injections? The medicine I have to take is called Gabapentin. I started off with 1 for 3 days and then 2 for three days and then 3 for supposedly a month. But, when I had my injection, he upped it to 3 in the morning and 3 in the evening. When I'm about to run out, he's going to give me something different, but didn't say what. I go see him again on Thursday for a check up after the injection.

So far I'm not feeling any pain at all. I do feel something kind of in the back of my arm pit, not sure if it's part of the nerve or what because I do feel a tingling every once in a great while. Dr did say it would/could take a few days or so. I really didn't think he'd keep me off a week from the bus. But he is, my guess is the bouncing around in the bus. I'll be able to ask him questions better on Thursday than I was on the day of the injection. He did give me something to relax me.

It's too cold to go do anything so I'm doing laundry....thrilling! I'm so envious that you can be out and picking weeds....lol. I wish it would hurry and get warm here. I got spoiled those couple of days when the temp got up to 69 degrees.

Doesn't look like we'll be able to do much this summer as far as entertainment. Gas is now at 3.99 here. Can't believe it. Sure wish we could be drilling for more of our own oil and not depend so much on others.

Ricky is still wanting to move. He just drives me insane, because he doesn't think ahead. The place he is moving to is a two story, but one bedroom. The one bedroom is upstairs with what I would call a foyer type area off to the side. That is suppose to be the room for Ricky. They are building a wall and putting in a door that will lock with a key. Ricky wants to take some things over before the wall is done because it might not fit in the door. WELL....not a good idea as far as I'm concerned. I ask "how will you get it out if things don't work out" and he says "I'll worry about that when the time comes". So I told him he wasn't taking anything from here until the wall and door were installed. He could take what would fit through the door. Which means....he will have a very hard time getting a box spring up the stairs and through the door.

My thinking is since his friend is living there....move his stuff into that room, he won't have to worry about getting it out. I still don't think he can afford it, even with the new job, because now he'll have to pay for more gas to work in Lafayette.

We aren't discouraging him, just want him to have his eyes wide open. He'll only be about 5 miles away so it's not like him moving to another town or state, but we want him to succeed. We won't be able to help him financially if things should falter for him.

Well, just heard the dryer buzzer so better go fold some clothes before they get all wrinkled.

[gja1000]

Hi Janet! The medication the doctor has you on is for nerve pain. You had a lot of tingling and shooting pain (if I remember correctly) so he is having you take that along with the injection. Gary's uncle had to take it when he had a disk issue in his back, but Gary has never taken it. Gary's pain is just constant, not shooting or tingling. I think it's a good idea for you to be on it, and I think it's a good idea to NOT be bouncing around in the bus.

Janet, I not only pulled weeds today, but I mowed the yard too (with the John Deere, LOL!). Our real grass isn't growing yet, but the (what I call) trash grass is, so the yard was looking shaggy. Believe it or not, I had never actually mowed with the John Deere. We had a lawn service last year (and will have it again this year too) before I got the John Deere, so I only used the it to haul things around in the little trailer. The lawn company hasn't started mowing yet, so I decided to see if I could actually mow the yard! LOL! It took me exactly 15 minutes to mow our 1/2 acre. Not bad. If I didn't have so much weed eating and places where the John Deere can't go, I could do the yard myself. Nah! I don't want to do that! LOL!

[DianaB]

I posted a big long post yesterday and ended up losing it before I got it posted.......fustrating!!! Anyway.....here goes again.....

I had a great time at Marva's. We really didn't have an agenda except for getting a little car that she had sold and to the buyer. We went to some flea markets and just shopped where we wanted to go. It was such a nice and relaxing time!! Marva has a birthday coming up so I bought some of the stuff she had picked out to buy for herself and bought dinner on Sunday.

We went to an ice cream store called Cherry Berry.....I thought that I could control myself......wrong!! I did have sugar-free ice cream.....but then added some other flavors.....and toppings!! It was sooo good!! If you like ice cream it is a definite go-to place!!!

We went to my cousin, Michelle's, home. She'd lived there for a few years but I'd never been there to see it. After they bought it they found out that it needed a lot of things repaired on it that hadn't been done correctly and they've been in the process of making repairs. The house was very beautiful and the rooms were sooo big! She fussed about having everything clean for me to see it but she doesn't realize that I have Dae Lynn AND two kids living with me and nothing stays clean anymore!!

We went to church on Sunday......it was so nice! They have such an awesome Praise and Worship band......I loved their music! The pastor....who is from Kansas and someone I knew....but not personally......preached a sermon that was so perfect for what I'm going through right now. Each time I've been there his sermon has seemed like it was just for me!

On the way home I stopped at my neice, Natasha's house to see the baby. She is such a little doll.....about 4 months old now. Natasha is my brother's daughter from his first marriage and she is going through a divorce and child custody. Since I was driving right through her town I wanted to stop for awhile.

Yesterday was Dean's birthday........Can you believe that he's TWO? The girls had planned a swimming party at the place we went the other day so we just turned it into a birthday party for Dean. We went to Big Cheese Pizza afterwards to eat and open gifts! I gave Dean several things and one was a stuffed Goofy. Dae Lynn bought a Mickey Mouse but is saving it for when Damon is out of jail so he can see Dean open his gifts.....Anyway, Dean kissed and hugged him.....and even tried to feed him his pizza!! You could tell that he loved it!! Too cute!!

I hope it's nice outside.....I have seeds to plant in the greenhouse! I'm so excited to finally be doing something out there. I have a few tomatos up and some radishes!! Fun!!

[Lindsey]

Oh my goodness! Mowing! Planting! And here we're having our first real blizzard of the winter! I can't even see across the street anymore. The highways were too bad to travel on so I'm working from home today. We had to cancel Layla's appointment for a urine culture. We'll take her in tomorrow if we can. We're supposed to get another 10 cms of snow today. I think it will be more than that!

[Janet]

Thank you Gayle for the information, I really appreciate your knowledge and your willingness to share. I love you very much! Today I'm really feeling great. Still once in a great while I'll feel a little numbness in my shoulder and down my arm, but only for a few seconds and NO pain.

Diana...how are you heating your greenhouse or is it warm enough? It is still too cold here also the temp today is suppose to get up to 60 degrees. It just so windy though.
Sounds like you had a great weekend, I'm so glad. You needed a break and you got to do the things you love doing.

We are thinking of planting a garden this year....course we thought of planting one last year and it didnt' get done. I would love to have a green house to start flowers to plant. They get expensive so having a greenhouse to get some started would be wonderful.

[DianaB]

I'm excited about starting things in the greenhouse but even the seeds are expensive. I bought some heating mats to start the seeds sooner.....and not have to heat the whole greenhouse. It gets plenty warm when the sun is out but at night is when it gets cold but the heat mats sit underneath the trays and keep them warm. It works pretty good and so far I have three mats. I'm thinking that I may get more but I'll probably wait until next year.

It's windy here too. If it's windy here at the house then it's really windy because we're protected by the trees. I've got something up on the roof that's whistling! I don't know what it is but Glen's going to have to check it out. He put something up there for a weather station and it may need a cap or something on it to keep it from whistling.

Oh....and the swimming last night was so nice! The water was a little cooler than last time but as long as I kept moving I was alright. There were a couple of other women there swimming and I guess they told Dae Lynn that we were a "rowdy" group! I don't know what they're used to but we were just swimming and playing around! You could tell that they were put out by us......oh well! You can't please everyone and it is a "public" pool!