For me, I still need to be creative and fill the need to do something constructive around the house. My list of things needing to be done all at once is overwhelming. So much to the point where I have so many things to do that normally NOTHING will get done.
My first objective is to work with the teenagers here to shape up the yards. This will require me to get them out of bed early enough in the morning to get stuff while it is still cool. I am just going to concentrate my efforts on just the kitchen. All the dishes are done, so nothing to worry about there, it is just that everything needs to have a good clean and wipe down. Our entire house downstairs has 16" white tile floors with white grout. (yes that was my idea and I would like to go back in time and slap myself over my choice) From my wheelchair I have a thin scrubber brush with a full length handle on it so I can clean the not so white anymore grout in the kitchen. That will be my main goal.
For fun, We will have friends over Saturday night and we will have the fire pit going all night long while the beer and wine flows. No computers, no games, no distractions, just 6 or 8 adults hang out by the fire and talk smack about our jobs and our kids. :)
It's powwow Time! Everybody dannnnce! Ok so I can't really dance much anymore but I'm going to wear my regalia anyway and try to get out in the circle at least once. My husband is home for the week (he's a truck driver). and has already gone out to the powwow grounds to spend the weekend. My body doesn't allow me to sleep in the car or a tent anymore. It will hurt some to go sit in a chair for a while but he bought a new EZ-up canopy for us to sit under so that will help. I'm hoping to visit with old friends. make new ones, watch the dancing and let the drum flow through my heart and soul. We haven;t been able to go much in recent years but I miss the powwows so much.
I’m hoping to sleep in and then go watch my husband in a ride-a-long at the Milwaukee Mile racetrack for 3 fast laps. It was his Valentine’s day gift and something he’s always wanted to do. Seeing him happy will make me happy. He loves speed, so I think I’ll drive us home after going 130 mph! Good way to avoid pain!!!
Hoping to finish 20 pages of a PowerPoint on Sunday for a banquet on Wednesday. I can then rejoice knowing it’s finished. Then I’d like some grilled shrimp and salmon on the grill with a great salad!
I'm in SE Michigan. Most states have at least a few powwows a year. powwows dot com lists some of them. We'll be going to the Teaching Our Traditions powwow at the Brighton State Recreation Area. It's actually in Howell though lol. We live about 15 minutes West of Pontiac. We have tons of powwows in MI. Sometimes they can be found by googling your state, along with "powwow" and the year. We used to go to them almost every weekend in the spring and summer but I just can't handle as much now.
Texas is where my heart is. Most of our family lives in the Austin, Sam Marcos, Lockheart area. Sure hope that we have no tornadoes at all this entire weekend.
4:59 PM time to make dinner. Wife just called, will be home in 30 minutes...
( I am worn out from a long day of Business meet & Greet plus watching Star Trek I do NOT want to cook )
For dinner, I drove over to our local Super Market and grabbed 2 pre-cooked Tritips, some fresh deli-made Broccoli-Slaw with raisins and sunflower seeds. I nuked 4 baking potatoes and fried up some bacon and whipped up some sour cream, cheese, green onion and bacon filling for the potatoes. Grabbed a pack of dry brown gravy mix and whipped it with a cup of water and put the heat under it. Next I popped the Potatoes out of the microwave, cut them down the center scooped out half of each potato and mixed it with the filling mix and repacked the potatoes and sprinkled some cheddar cheese over the tops. Then I sliced up the Tritips and placed the 4 potatoes in the glass dish with the sliced Tritip in the middle. Now I pour the brown gravy over the Tritip and run out to the back yard and pop them in the gas Weber BBQ at 350 degrees for 12 minutes. While this is all going on I set the table, made a fresh pot of strong tea filled a large glass to the top with ice and pour the hot tea into her favorite cup as I hear her pull into the driveway. A quick look around to see if I left any store packaging out to give me away.. all looks good. I grab pot holders and head for the BBQ. As I reentered the kitchen with the piping hot food, the wife walks in at the same time. The look of amazement and joy on her face at a complete hot dinner waiting for her was priceless. We have dinner and chat about our day and I pull out some spumoni ice cream and we enjoy desert. It is now 5:59 PM. My mission is accomplished. The wife is curled up on the couch ready to watch the 2 hour Elementary special we have recorded on the DVR and I am free to do anything I want for the rest of the evening... Today was a good day. Only 5 Norcos, 2 cups of coffee and one energy drink and a Norco to get through the store and dinner. Wow. I still feel happy and I am totally NOT in manic mode. Maybe this will be a good weekend. *crosses fingers*
Know that I met my wife through the Church, and I was Music Director for 3 years and head of Pastoral Care Services for 5 years. Church was a 7 day a week second job for me. A job that I both loved and cherished.
Nothing has done more to keep me away from Church than Fibromyalgia. Not from the pain at all, which makes it hard to sit, kneel, stand, kneel, sit etc., but from the problems with my sleep patterns. The main problem with my sleep pattern is that I do not have one. For me, Church is often at what someone would feel like as 2:30 AM and you just went to bed at midnight after being awake for the past 38 hours before hand.
For the last 2 days I have actually been awake, showered and dressed by 7:30 A.M. Although this should be normal, my wife was seriously concerned and asked me if I was in fact OK. My hope is that tomorrow morning I shall again follow the same time table which will allow me to fairly safely predict that in fact I will be able to join my friends at Church. Several of my friends have commented upon this fact and with an excitement akin to the second coming, and plan to be upon my door step to collect me and my walker to head off to Mass.
Having missed both Christmas and Easter Mass along with every single service in between, it will feel good to just be there. I have never been this long away and I very much miss it.
I wish I could have learned what it was to be an American Indian. One eighth of my blood is American Indian from three tribes across both sides of the family. When you are the offspring of a rapped young blind Indian girl, a lot of information about family and racial history comes to a dead end. Now it can be seen to be fashionable and exotic to have Indian blood, but not so very long ago you would be outcast and driven away. Back then you are part of no one, no group, outcast by everyone and unfortunately even you own Mother. No doubt that child would represent a constant reminder of events which changed so many lives, and so many generations which were to follow. What I know about being an American Indian comes from my time in the Boy Scouts, movies, TV and various books upon the Nations and Tribes indigenous to North America. I know that within my blood there is much history, pride and betrayal. Here I am, generations away from one sad event, and even now I feel the dysfunctional pattern caused by the event which has been passed along down the line.
Looking back over the generations it can be clearly seen that each generation had made steps in recovery. There is a chain of abuse which needs to be broken between generations before some form of stability within a family can be obtained. The chain between my Father and myself has long since been severed. Thankfully before my children were born. I know that I was far from the perfect father. FMS will assure that, but I did go to all the plays, I cheered at all the football games, I made sure that each and every Christmas and Birthday was special, even when we had very little to offer, we gave of ourselves which for me as a child would have been a most wonderful gift...
Someday, I would love to attend a pow wow. I would love to dance to the drum under the stars by the light of a warm fire and perhaps find something sacred within myself which has slept, only waiting to be awaken.
Interesting how one word like powwow can bring around so many thoughts, ideas and memories, each crisscrossing over the other like the paths between the stars.
Wow! Now that is a wonderful Valentines gift! Know that he will have quite a few more points on his "Man Card" after that. Ask him how the acceleration felt from 0 to 130 in a high performance race car. It will make the hair stand up in the arms of most guys!
Shrimp and Salmon... Somehow I have never had that combination. If the Salmon comes out good, please let me know how to properly BBQ a Salmon? As to Power point? UGH! Sorry about that. I really need to design a new web site this weekend, but I do not think I will get around to it. I plan on having too much fun. Hope you make it through fast and it comes out beautiful!
I kind of went out sick when you came in, so "hello and welcome"!
Tomorrow my son is taking us out for our Mother's Day dinner, Japanese Hibachi always works for me! Then come home and crash! I'll have a lovely time, all the grandkids will be there, but the car ride alone will do me in, so I'll pull out all the big guns, and hope it doesn't knock me on my can! ha!
The fire looks good to me, though I would want my back against it!
Cutting this short, Ancient Aliens is re-running the part again that I missed earlier! I'm the ancient civilization nut!
I think I will be cheer leading tomorrow. My husband has had his eye on our sons vacated bedroom for some time now. He needs a man cave! One problem...do everyone's grown kids leave rooms full of stuff for the parents to get rid of? Since I'm still recovering from my vicodin incident I think all I'll be good for is a couple loads of laundry and a few cheers to the hubby as he works on his cave project. He will be happy to have a place to keep all of his manly hunting stuff together. I will be happy too!
Sunday is church, if I can get my body to move by ten. Then my church is having a baked potato feed, fund raiser in the afternoon. It will be good fellowship and a lot of community come to join in, which is extra nice. I hope I'm not called upon to help, but will if they need me. Helped today, slicing and dicing.
Kelly, I feel much the same as you with the housework. I need help now, with some of it. I had a friends daughter come help me the week before Mothers Day. Changing beds is hard and she did a great job. Things were nice for family when they arrived. I just can't do it all anymore either.
The days fill up fast. Nothing so fun as a bon fire, a pow wow, or race cars for us this weekend.
My Mother told me stories about an Alien visit when she was a child. I am constantly combing the back stories in the news about digs at ancient sites. Especially when they carbon date at 12,000 years old or more and were moving 400 ton blocks of perfectly carved stones... Feel free to link me any news page or video.
Me too... I would really like that. It is on my bucket list. Like going to the Redwoods and standing in a grove of 2000 year old trees. I got to do that last month.
Thanks for sharing with us! I got on while people were sending you gratz on becoming Mod. I believe you will find my post among them sharing both congratulations and pity that you have risen to the point where you have become responsible. Something I always try to avoid but seldom do.
I did have to re-read the start of your message a few times. I was still wrapping my brain around you in the cheer leader outfit, pom poms in hand and wondering how this poor little girl with FM was able to cope with the pain of doing cheers, and my heart going out to her for trying so hard to live that wonderful life then she was also married and I thought maybe in college until her husband was taking over a grown child's room and then there was the grand children... then it all clicked! My mind was racing so far ahead of the message that I was making assumptions based on limited information read prior to completing the entire message.
Oh what fun our brains can have and how quickly does the reality fall back into place.
But within my mind, it is now set in stone now. When ever I see L Kitty in the forums, I will envision you as that yellow and white Cheer Leader with pom poms waving in an attempt to help raise our spirits. The odd part about it is that I have never known anyone in a Yellow and White Cheer Leader outfit. I think perhaps that in my mind, you are the Sun, shining light into the darkness of our lives bringing cheer to everyone your light may reach. I am happy, for it has but briefly shown upon my life and I am better for it.
I’m an on call nurse and I’m working this weekend. I’m off all next week. I plan on hiring my niece to help me clean inside the house. I already hired her brother to do yard work. He’s 14 y/o and so far he’s cutting the grass, pulling weeds, and doing Spring cleaning in the yard. It’s a good way for the kids to earn money and it helps me get what I need done. Hang in there everyone and I hope you enjoy whatever you can this weekend.
Muir woods is one of my favorite places on earth! Love it there! Lived in San Mateo for about 2 years, had a Redwood in the back yard, a huge one! We actually found an eastern Redwood In WV at a nursery just after buying our home, HAD to have it and it is magnificent! Similar to a Hemlock, very soft and flexible needles. I never knew such a tree existed! My husband bought it for me, and he takes good care of it, feeds it every year. I'm glad you can get there, to the forest, it does a lot for you, at least I feel it does!
Yep, that's the fascination, had hoped to visit many of those sites, but that is now unlikely! I wanted to go to Egypt since I could walk, I think, and I did go in the 1980's! It was a dream come true to see the pyramids, obelisks, temples, museums! What a thrill! Hated the food other than the bread, and a breakfast food like a pancake full of dates and nuts with honey! What a diet plan!
I had NOT planned to be up this late, but after the Aliens, I stumbled across 'Apocalypto', about the fall of the Mayan empire, have wanted to see it since it hit the theatres, I recall the sneers and snickers, but I thought it was magnificent! Mel can be very proud! Was actually rated 3 stars, keep in mind that a sweeping epic like "Legends of the Fall' was only rated 2 stars!
For me, I still need to be creative and fill the need to do something constructive around the house. My list of things needing to be done all at once is overwhelming. So much to the point where I have so many things to do that normally NOTHING will get done.
