Monday, October 20, 2014

Day 238 - So Glad to Be Back Home!

Dear Reader,

We had a good time at my husband's reunion.  I looked great, if I do say so myself; and he did as well.  It was fun getting to dance, even though they had the worst DJ EVER!  Seriously. He was doing '70's music, but no one knew what the heck he was playing.  If was just awful!  I finally took him a list of the top 20 songs of the 70's and asked him to play them. Things got a bit better after that.  But he never even played "Color My World" and that's just unforgivable!

We got home pretty late last night.  I slept late, but then worked hard the rest of the day.  I looked for French main course salad recipes for dinner and chose one that turned out fabulous!  A definite keeper!  

I'm going to try to wake up at 8:00 tomorrow.  I have a horrendous to-do list for tomorrow!  Probably 100 things on it! But I'm starting to make some headway.  The bedroom walls are painted a soft yellow, and the ceiling an even softer yellow.  So it's looking really pretty  

Trying to get to sleep now,  I'm out of the klonooin and I just learned that I need a written Rx every single time it is refilled!  Good grief.  That means I have to drive to my doctor's office again tomorrow to pick it up!  

Cheers!
Lisa

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Day 243 - A Better Day

Dear Reader, 

Well, I handled today better, thank goodness.  I felt really bad when I got up, but I started right in on working through the lessons I've missed.  They were just what I needed, too.  All about feeling stuck and unable to make progress in your life.  So that was good.  

There were workers everywhere in the house today!  At one point, I looked upwards to someone on the stairs and my neck made a loud cracking sound and I thought I was going to pass out for a minute.  He thought I was going to pass out, too, and rushed down the stairs in a panic.  Wonder what that was?  

I called the attorney for the city of Houston to find out what in the world was going on there.  In case you haven't heard, the mayor has demanded that some of the pastors turn over their sermons to her.  Yeah, right!  A bunch of people have filed a lawsuit against this and  I was told they weren't answering questions during the discovery stage of the suit.  I knew  I wouldn't be told anything.  I mostly just wanted to communicate that this was garnishing national attention and that they were getting phone calls from housewives in New York, for crying out loud!

Then, I went to a Mexican food restaurant for lunch and made great choices!  I had a watercress salad with roasted beets, orange segments and a vinaigrette dressing along with three chicken tacos.  

Then I had a mani/pedi at a different place and really liked the Korean women there.  Much friendlier than the other local place I've been to.  

I went to a Jewelers to get batteries in watches and clocks and jewelry repaired, things I've had in my car for four months!  Then I went to the chiropractor for an adjustment.  After that I went to a health food store and bought something's for dinner.  I started to buy a bison steak, until I learned it was $18!  So I instead had a sweet potatoe with a veggie patty I sautéed with a bunch of mushrooms.  

I got some more laundry done, cleaned the kitchen, and met with the pet sitter who will watch the animals while were gone.  So, whew!  Hoping to get a lot more done tomorrow and get caught up in this course.  

Oh, plus ... I weighed last night because I felt like I had gained a ton of weight.  But, nope.  Not even a pound.  Wonder why I feel so much fatter?  Well, that's it for me.  

Cheers!

Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Day 244 - Loser!!

Dear Reader, 

My husband left early this morning and I had to get up early for the painters to start in my daughter's room.  I didn't feel well at all today from the cold, so I didn't accomplish much of anything today.  Ate shortbread cookies with Nutella this evening ... so that kind of tells you what kind of day I had.  Felt very captured by poor white trash childhood and like I could never escape.  The 18 years of living at home seemed interminable and it felt like I would never be able to start having my own life instead of tending to my mother.  Tonight was a weak night from not feeling well and my husband gone, so I gave in to feeling helpless.  Planning on a better day tomorrow.  

Cheers!
Lisa

Monday, October 13, 2014

Day 245 - Being Able to Go to Sleep is Interfering with My Blog!

Dear Reader, 

This klonopin seems to really be helping.  I don't need Xanax now to go to sleep and am able to go to sleep more like normal people.  Waking up doesn't seem to be as difficult either, but I'm not sure about that yet.  

News in a flash.  

My husband and I are being featured in a high-society glossy magazine for this area.  We may even be on the cover.  They are doing an issue about power couples.  That can so make me laugh to think of ME being included as part of a power couple!  They have requested more pictures of us from our wedding and other things, so that sounds good,  they brought a real photographer,like what you see in the movies!  He must have taken a million photos.  The interview went well, I don't have a problem doing that. What I do have a problem with is deciding what to wear.  I ultimately tut peg ether an outfit that looked real sharp, but still looked like something I'd wear.  

We leave Friday to go to our hometown for a reunion.  I have come down with a cold today, so I'm hoping I get well before Friday!  I've ordered an orange top on sale from Kenneth Cole and sure do hope it gets in on time or I'm not sure what I'll wear to the game.  Our colors are orange and black.  

We got a lot done outside for the interview and photo shoot, so all of the outside living areas are looking a lot better, which is a relief.  

That's it for now.  

Cheers!
Lisa

Oh, my study is actually looking like a study now!  It's going to be so fabulous!

Oh, and ... I don't have a tumor in my arm.  I have a torn muscle.  I have to have an MRI now to find out what else is going on in there.  I bet I've got some torn tumors, too.  All better than having a tumor!

Monday, October 6, 2014

Day 252 - Eventful Day

Dear Reader, 

A lot happened today.  We are being interviewed by this magazine this Wednesday, so I had a lot of things to arrange this morning to get the house ready.  Then my daughter and I went shopping  at Loft.  I had a bunch of $25 off cards that I pulled out, only to find they expired last week!  Boy, that hurt. 

I took her to the airport and, as I was driving away, I saw a pigeon with a broken wing in the road.  The porters were trying to scare it into moving out of the way of the cars and were satisfied when they got it to the curb of the sidewalk between two roads.  But, I watched and saw her try to hop the curb, but not be able to, and she fell onto her back in the gutter.  If you have learned anything about me, you know that it was impossible for me to leave her there.  So, I found a spot where I could pull over and got a box out of my car and made me way through the cars to her.  She was on her back looking terrified and one of her feet was shaking so badly.  I took off the scarf I was wearing and used it to pick her up and put her in the box.  Then I started the drive home with the box beside me in the seat.  She scratched around some, but seemed to respond well to my voice.  I called my vet, but they said they could not work on wild animals.  They referred me to a bird vet, so I called them.   They said they couldn't work on wild animals, either, and sent me to a nature center where they take care of wounded wild animals.  They said they would call ahead and tell them I was coming.  But, when I got there, way out in the country, there was no one there.  I was not too pleased and called them and they said, oh yeah.  We just got hold of them and they said there is no one there.  So, that was helpful.  

So, I brought her home and have created a small enclosed area in a Room in the basement that can be closed off with a door, along with bird seed and a shallow dish of water.  I hope she is still alive tomorrow.  I read up about what to do, and I may just take care of her myself.  Well see.  

Our daughter is still intent on moving here in November, so that is GREAT! 

I have massive amount of work to do tomorrow to have the house ready for the onto shoot and interview.  Plus I'm getting my hair colored and cut, getting a mani and pedi, and meeting with a stylist.  So I have no idea how I'm going to pull it all off for Wednesday morning.  

My husband and I went out to eat and then came home and started watching an episode of Housekeeper when we decided to take a nap.  We slept there on the couch for abut an hour!  Then we finished the episode and came upstairs and got ready for bed.  Then I heard barking and remembered one dog was still outside.  So I went to let her in and, in the process, managed to step into a fresh puddle of pee and fall down all the way to the ground, HARD, into the pee.  Wearing a fresh nightgown to boot.  I landed on my right hip and right shoulder, the one that's been hurting so bad, so I am not a happy camper right now.  

I tried on shoes at Clark's today at the mall and not a one of them fit me.  I have to have a flat pair of shoes I can walk in Manhattan comfortably in, and I need a pair of low-heeled dressy comfort shoes that I can wear with dresses to walk in the city.  I have two of the five pairs of shoes I need: a nice pair of low-heeled dress shoes with ankle straps that look really nice, and a pair of black low-heeled boots, since I wore out my Born's last winter.  Now I need the two pairs I just told you about and a pair of galoshes and I'll be set for the winter.  

SOOO tired.  Sooooo sore from falling.  Sooooooo discouraged by my food allergy test.  I know have 52 food sensitivities and do not know what I'm going to do.  

Cheers!
Lisa

Sunday, October 5, 2014

Day 253 - Ready for the New Week!

Dear Reader,

Believe it or not, I'm excited about the new week.  I know ... A your jaw is dropping!

My daughter and I will be going shopping tomorrow, and hopefully getting desperately needed mani/pedis!  He flight home is around 5:00.  I'll be stopping to pick up something easy for dinner, and my husband has agreed to go back to the dining table for dinners, instead of eating in front of the tv.  Then I'll clean the kitchen, bathe, and put on a pretty nightgown, and then watch some tv.  I think well get our schedules closer together doing this.  

The immersion program I joined begins tomorrow with the first lesson for the first week.  I'm really looking forward to this.  

I stayed home today while my husband and daughter went into Manhattan to go to sons museums.I worked like crazy to get the house just picked up and laundry done. My back got to spasming, but has calmed down now.  But the house cleaners come tomorrow and the house is actually completely picked up so they will be able to actually clean!  

We're going to be interviewed by a "high society" magazine as a "power couple"!  It's a huge, huge thing for our college to get this chance to open itself up to the community, and I'm excited abut doing it. A hair stylist will be coming and a makeup artist.  I'm meeting with a nordstrom stylist to pick out what to wear.  The only problem is I realized that they keep almost no 16 clothes in stock, so I ordered a really pretty dress today from Nordstrom, and a dress and top I saw at Kenneth Cole's store by Grand Central Station.  They said they didn't have them in XL, but they did online.  Now, if only something will get in on Tuesday.  The interview is at 10:30, which is not goo news, since I'm not usually fully awake at that time and certainly not feeling perky!  

The interview will be at out house.  We will sit on ...  I don't know what!  We have no furniture yet!  

The baby grand looks wonderful, super happy with it. 

I've got to get my eating and working out to start happening.  This week!

Oh, and really good news!  I'm not needing Xanax to go to sleep for the last several days.  Awesome, huh?  

Have a great week!
Lisa

Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Day 257 - Good Day!

Dear Reader,

I know you are gasping at my heading for this post.  Usually I'm whining and complaining by this time of night!  But today was a fun day.  

Workers came to the he's early and started drilling holes in the ceiling of the room right under me, but I was able to stay sleeping for the most part.  They had to break through a ton of plaster to get wiring through in order to be able to hang a light fixture in the living room.  It's going to make such a huge difference.  I'm also having a new fixture added to the large entry which is lit only by two sconces.  They got those things done and I'm pretty excited.  There's a lot of re-sheet rocking that has to be done, but ... that's just the way it is.  Tomorrow they are going to put a light fixture in the ceiling of my bedroom.  I can't wait to get a ceiling fan with a light fixture in here.  It's soooo dark in their right now.  I've found a beautiful white shabby chic ceiling fan I'm going to get to go in here which will look wonderful.  

The other great thing that happened is we got our baby grand piano delivered today!  My husband  was able to find a used Kawai at a fantastic price.  It looks beautiful and sounds great! 

My daughter and I went to a CAbi dealer.  If her not familiar, this is a clothing line that is only sold privately by dealers.  The designer, Carol Anderson, designs a spring and fall line each year which I almost always love.  I like the pants because they fit me better than any others, so I ordered three pants and two tops.  She had samples from previous seasons on sale and I were able to get our daughter several items for next-to-nothing.  Blouses were $10, a great skirt was $15, and a $200 jacket was marked down to $34, I think.  

She's looking at jobs up here now.  Chanel has a position for a graphic designer!  They want more experience than she has, but she's going to apply anyway.  Tommy Hilfiger has a position, also.  

My husband and I found out that a fancy, glossy, regional magazine is going to do an article about us as a "power couple"!  Crazy!  I'm going to be meeting with a stylist, apparently.  That's going to happen next week.  Thank goodness I already had a hair appointment scheduled for tomorrow!  

My brother responded to my email pretty angrily.  I sent a response back, addressing each of his arguments, except for one which was just an insult.  I haven't looked today to see if he responded back or not.  But it's a little weird because he sent my husband a Facebook friend request yesterday.  What's that about??

And ... I DEFEATED the evil Department of Motor Vehicles!! I did go to the other town and got everything done without a single hitch.  Thank goodness!  The town is very poor and a little freaky in places.  It looked like a good setting for a zombie movie!  

But, while I was leaving the dmv, a young man came up to me asking for money.  I had five dollars which I gave him and we had a long talk.  His mother died three years ago and he fell apart.  Started doing drugs and became addicted.  Lost everything he had, including his career as an underwear model (not something you hear everyday!)and is now homeless.  His dad is an addict and doesn't want him to come home.  His parole officer is recommending that he go to jail for six months to take care of some misdemeanors he has, get off the street and have food, and get six months sobriety under his belt.  We talked about it and I encouraged him to do this.  I asked him if he was at peace with God which opened up a great conversation in which I was able to affirm how dearly he was loved by God and how eager He was to forgive his sins and guide him.  He let me pray for him and I felt such love for him.  Poor homeless, motherless young man! I gave him my cell and asked him to call me before he goes into jail so that I can bring him things he needs and go visit him.   And I got his name in case I don't hear from him so I can follow up.  I have him a hug and he said he needed that so badly.  Our son has made some bad decisions and gotten into some trouble, but he always had us standing with him, loving him, and encouraging him.  So it breaks my heart to think of this kid with no one.  If you pray, please pray for him.  His name is Rob.  

We came home and went to eat at a Greek restaurant we all like and then watched a House MD and a Sherlock.  So ... fun day.  Only problem now is ... WHAT WILL I WEAR FOR THE PHOTO SHOOT!!!  Do you have any IDEA the amount of time and energy I can pour into something like this??  Of course you do!

Well, that's it for me.  

Cheers!
Lisa