Is This Week Over Yet??

Sometimes it just seems like everything hits at once.   Sometimes “everything” is great and sometimes it’s not so great, right?  I’ve been really antsy the past few weeks but yet I feel like I’m sitting in one place just spinning my wheels and going nowhere.  Or maybe it’s all these sub-contractors that keep not showing up that keep me from going anywhere.

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Stubborn Teenager’s basketball games have started which means my so-called “schedule” will be erratic and chaotic at best for the next 4 months.  WHY do these sports seasons last so long?  Don’t they know how hard it is on me to go back and forth and try to schedule my work around 2, 3, 4, and sometimes 5 games a week?

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Yes, I’m kind of bitching and whining here but hey…..it’s my blog and I can do that sometimes.

 

Things are winding up on the guest house project.  In other words, everyone is waiting on someone else to do something else before they can do something else.  You know the drill.    I’ve sort of finished most of my painting except for this big ass spiral staircase that we scored for nearly nothing on craigslist.org.    HBL has to cut it off because it’s 14′ tall and we only need it to be 8′ tall, then we have to clean it up, sand off the rust spots and paint the entire thing.  Sounds fun, right?   Anyone have any bamboo shoots they could shove under my fingernails?  That sounds like way more fun to me.

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My new little buddha belly baby came to Texas to visit over the weekend which was the one bright spot.  He’s so good and sweet and just never cries.  I never had a baby I could feed, burp and just lay down and he’d talk and coo until he fell asleep on his own.  I just wanted to squeeze him and hold him all the time…..and I pretty much did just that while his parents slept the entire 3 days.  I guess they were trying to catch up on what they’d missed.

Forgive me but I just can’t help myself when it comes to pictures of this sweet baby.

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Oh, and guess what else happened this weekend.  There was a real live slithering freakin snake in the bedroom.  My son stepped on it just in time to keep it from going down the heat/air vent.  While he was holding it down, I was calling HBL and screaming “I’M MOVING!!  I’M OUTTA HERE!!”  He was totally in the dark and thought he must have done something really bad.  Ha!   Then I was running around trying to find something for my son to kill it dead take care of it, and I realized I was just running in circles trying not to hyperventilate.

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I finally grabbed a big long knife out of the drawer and practically threw it to my son and ran out of the room.  He “took care” of the snake while I was trying not to pass out.  I would have posted a picture of the vicious creature but I was too scared to look at it again.  Meanwhile, I’ve made HBL line that entire bedroom with sticky traps just in case it wasn’t the fluke that he tried to convince me it was.  *I’m still shivering*

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On that note, I think I’ll go soak my tired sore body in a nice hot bath and settle in to watch The Biggest Loser.   There’s more to tell……..another day.

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HAPPY TRAILS, Y’ALL

Fun Times in The Emergency Room

Hunka Burnin Love had a little construction related accident on Monday.  His thumb jumped in the way of a fast-moving and sharp utility knife.  I was in more danger than he because he threw down said sharp object and it bounced across the floor and hit my foot.  Don’t worry, I’ll be fine but HBL was forced by me went to the ER and received stitches and he’ll live too.

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It wasn’t funny but yet…..it was funny.  Not the accident itself, but mostly the ER visit.

HBL wasn’t going to the ER but I finally made convinced him he’d better or else he’d better not complain about it later and if he bled all over our sheets or furniture, I’d cut his other thumb off too!   He’s a smart man and agreed to go and was convinced they’d probably just give him a tetanus shot and send him home.

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Wrong.  There were stitches involved.

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Did you know that now when you get a tetanus shot you also got a whooping cough and diphtheria shot too?  At least you do if you’re over 40 because they say our childhood vaccinations are wearing off.

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Imagine my shock and surprise when I turned around and saw THIS going on!!!  Honestly, is that really the what it takes to make a man’s thumb feel better?  *wink*

uhmm.....o.k.

Later that evening I was waiting on HBL to get out of the shower so I started looking through the pictures I’d taken with my iPhone. I was completely caught off guard when I saw this picture.   I started laughing and couldn’t stop.  I had to get up and go show him what I was laughing about while he was trying to shower with a plastic bag tied over his hand.

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He only wishes he’d had THAT much fun at the emergency room.  Ha!

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That little uhm….contraption wraps the injured appendage up like this and it was invented by a woman.  Did you doubt?

Since then, we’ve had some interesting conversations.  Here’s one example.

*We’re working in the barn and I turn around to see him wielding that utility knife while he’s straddling a 1 x 4 board and whittling away with the knife*

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Me: You’re using the utility knife again???

HBL: Yeah, but this time if it slips I’ll just cut off my balls.

Me: *after a short pause*  Well, if you do……give me a few seconds to grab my camera before you run out of here screaming.

HBL: Why doesn’t that surprise me that your first concern would be to capture it all on film?

Me:  *shrugging*  You’re the one aiming a utility knife at your own balls.

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HAPPY TRAILS, Y’ALL

I Will Remember

God willing……..

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I will remember to never forget the debt of gratitude I owe any and all Veterans.

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I will remember to never forget the price that was and is being paid for the freedom that I take for granted today.

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I will remember to never forget to fly the American flag proudly and in honor of Veteran’s Day.

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I will remember to never forget to mourn for the families left behind when a soldier has given the ultimate sacrifice.

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I will remember to never forget how proud I am of my dad who served voluntarily and proudly in World War II.

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I will remember to never forget how proud I am to be the wife of a man who served proudly and voluntarily during Vietnam.

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I will remember to always be thankful………….

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What will you remember to be thankful for?

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HAPPY VETERAN’S DAY, Y’ALL