Dad and Ian on the drums

CLEAN LIVING ROOM

better

Thank you for your post replies ladies! I'm feelig much better today. It's even hotter today: 92, but inside it's 65.....ahhhhhhh. I'm doing a lot of dusting today....achoo. Now that I've cleared things in my living room, I can have more company over. wheee.

I found a cool book shelf recently for $20...."as is" but when I first saw it, I thought, "I won't be able to get this, it looks $$$." Lately I've liked things that have geometric patterns, 90 degree angles, compartments. This book case was all that. Now that it's in place, I''l take a picture later today and post it.

:-(

It's HOT today. It's 85 degrees F outside , but to me it feels like 105! Headache: yes. MY temp this morning: 101.7, but nobody knows why. I don't feel like painting today. I found a great quote from Dr Seuss! "Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." -Dr. Seuss

uh oh

I just popped a button on my new shorts. LOL.

ONE pant size

Yeaaaa. I've gone down one pant size today. It was very satisfying to go to the mail box and have to hold my pants up with my hand. So I just got out a pair of shorts that I've had but not been able to fit into for over a year. It feels so much better!! The old shorts were loose for about a week, but since I was *used* to them, it didn't register that I could go down a size. Small victories. Work ON.

In memoriam Mojo 1990-2004

I can't explain it!

I can't explain it. I don't know why it happens, how it happens and sometimes it scares the (fill in the blank) out of me. Here's what transpires: I will e thinking of a certain scene from a certain episode of a show. Then the next day, the episode of that show was on!! I'd say this started a few years ago. It didn't *seem* to be anything more than a coincidence.

In the last few months, the events have become more frequent. Sometimes it happens several times a week, scattered throughout the week and sometimes it happens in clusters. It happened today. I was thinking YESTERDAY of a certain Oprah guest. It was a fleeting thought. But today I watched Oprah and the guest WAS ON. Now, mind you, I hadn't seen any previews for today's show. Monday I was thinking of a particular scene of a particular episode of Law&Order: SVU and that evening, IT WAS ON! Again, hadn't seen previews. Tuesday it happened again and it freaked me out, I dropped Jeremy. (Fortunately he walked away unscathed.) Sometimes it's a song that I think of on the radio and then hear, sometimes it's a scene from a TV show. In any case a BIG: Hhmmmmmmmm!!!!

SECOND COAT

Does this hand look familiar? Does it remind you of something? Years ago when I was in High School I painted my room. At the "primer" stage, I put my feet in the primer and made foot prints on the closet door. :-) Tradition carries ON. Just above the hand you can sort of see the second coat of paint. In this photo, though, it looks maroon. It's not. It's dark purple.

...from PARTY DRESSES to BATHROOM WALLS...

Any suggestions (to improve the look of the pictures below) are welcome!

THINK **POTENTIAL**

SEE PICTURES BELOW. Last night around 8pm I got my second wind. I painted the areas that I probably should have done LAST. They say you should do the trim first and corners and the like, but I did the large empty wall areas that were easy to get to.

This morning I woke with another headache. I think this one is a Chiari and pressure HA. This morning, still groggy with sleep, I opened the door to the bigger bathroom and at first I was a bit startled. For an instant I had forgotten that I did the painting. It's very pretty: a very dark grape-ish sort of purple. I am pleased....with the COLOR that is. I know I'll have to do several coats.

painting resumed

PAINT HEADACHE

UUUgghhh, I only *just* painted a small portion of wall and I have a paint headache. It made me dizzy and nauseated too. So I had to put the top on the pain can, rest the roller, wash my hands and take a break. sigh. I may have to call some friends and get some help and maybe this weekend finish the bathroom.

Seattle Sutton Healthy Eating.

Every Monday and Thursday mornings I have meals delivered to my front door in cooler bags. In late winter I "joined" Seattle Sutton Healthy Eating. SSHE is a company that makes fresh meals that are portion controlled, calorie controlled with really GOOD fresh produce. (Seattle Sutton, a registered nurse and dietician founded the company.) The people who get meals from SSHE are folks who not only want to loose weight, but who are busy and want the convenience of prepared meals ad are too busy to do it themselves. From the web site, it appears that SSHE has a mostly mid-west U.S. distribution.
http://www.seattlesutton.com/aboutus.asp

Anyway I did some errands this morning and when I came back the old cooler from last week was still there…very flattened by the winds, but still there. So unless they are serving pancakes this week, the old bag is still there. He he he he.

I was very skeptical about SSHE at first. I studied the web site for a long time before signing up. I LOVE the meals…very yummy!! I’ve lost about 11lbs so far. But....”We still have a long wayyy to go…”

drop cloths

I found a cool product recently: Blue painter's tape and a dropcloth all in one. It comes in a roll. You put the tape at the top of a frame/mirror or, where ever you want, and the pull the plastic down, unfolding it.

ZzZz Blue Tape

I'm still taping up the bathroom. (big yawn) There are lumps moving across the floor: cats under tarp. LOL

Shhhhh. Cubby is sleeeeeeping.

Mom's root canal

Mom tells the funniest stories in the world!! Here is her story and drawing of her root canal revision from today.

"This morning I had Part The Second of probably the first of several root canals! AACCKKK!! It was awful! Mouth open for 1.5 hours, blood rushing to head due to being inverted, breathing restricted due to tooth having to wear a little cape that flopped over nose, dreadful noises at every turn. I suddenly felt deep panic (along with a hot flash) and wanted to run screaming from the office. However, my biofeedback from days of yore kicked in and I was able to endure.
This is how it looked:"

Jeremy,Tess and Cubby sun bathing together:

Painting the bathroom

BEFORE PICTURE
I've had several buckets of paint hanging around for a couple of months now in my (bigger) bathroom. AT one point I painted a 3x3 foot area to see if I liked the color. But that's as far as it got. The paint buckets have gathered dust. Because of how I've been feeling lately, I never completed (OK, started really) the project.

In the last month or so, I've really put an effort into cleaning the place up and DOING projects that I've been planning since I bought the place almost three years ago. I've had a professional organizer come a few times to help me with the "clutter" and she was AWESOME. She's really helped motivate me into de-cluttering my place. (www.newlifeorganizing.com) Together we have cleared paths and one day we did my entire garage! Yeeaaaa!!! Now I have room out there to put more stuff. LOL!! Marilyn said it helps to group like things together. I had home improvement stuff (tools, screws, nails, paint supplies) scattered throughout my house. I couldn't find half the stuff. Now I have it ALL out in the garage in colored bins that I've had for a while without really utilizing them.

ANYWAY, back to the paint. I have some really easy snap-together 4-tiered shelves in the hallway right outside the bathroom door. This afternoon I am putting all the bathroom stuff on these shelves: towels, soap, fixture plates, and light switch plates, removable wall shelves. Etc. Now I am putting all that tedious, necessary blue painter's tape up. Zzzzzz, nap inducing! Tomorrow I'll do the actual painting part! The BASE COLOR: a periwinkle. GLAZE COLOR: dark purple. Stay tuned!

"I didn't do it Mommy, honest!"

This is my biggest kitty Cubby. He is almost 3yo and weighs 17lbs.

You never know who you'll run into.

I didn't put any effort into my appearance this morning when I went out to do some errands. Big Mistake! I wasn't thinking of who I would run into. I was just feeling like yuck, so I went out as is.

Someone came up to me at the local coffee shop about two hours ago asking me if I worked at ---- Hospital. It turns out I was her nurse. She explained who she was and when I took care of her. It was at a particularly emotional time for her and her family.

I was embarrassed at how I looked and that I hadn't brushed my teeth yet. I was focused on this. But if she noticed, she didn't let on. She teared up and explained how much it meant to her that I took care of her.

Wow. I was very humbled. I told her that she made my day!

I have a hard time putting my feelings into words. So trying to explain how I felt today when my former patient came up to me is really hard. I'm feeling grateful, thankful, humbled. But somehow this seems to inadequate.

If I have any misspelled words, bare with me. I am clicking on the spell check icon, but nothing is happening.

Yawning Cubby smushing Tess

This picture was taken about a year and a half ago.

Such a forgiving kitty

Cubby is SO forgiving! Gee whiz. Since he is underfoot literaly 24/7 he get's tripped over or stepped on sometimes. He shrieks, but he doesn't run away! If I step on Jeremy,Tess, (or stepped on Ashley,Mojo, or Maggie) each cat would take off under the bed and I wouldn't see them for an hour. But Cubby shakes his paw off and returns his adoring gaze upward to my eyes.

Pardon me.

I'm trying to get the old posts to be first on the page. All of the setting changes are taking effect except for this one. Hmmm.

order of things

I'm trying to figure out what all the various settings are by creating three posts. I'd like the oldest ones first. That's how a book is after all.

Wheee!

OK Folks,

This is it: "Baby's first blog." (He he he.) I was inspired by my sister Anne and my friends Jason and Lauren.

Why the title "New Life For Cubby?" Well, I couldn't think of anyhting profound. No, Cubby isn't getting a job or starting a new business. I adopted him (oh wait, wait.....Cubby is a CAT for those of you who don't know him.) circa April 2005 from a friend from work. She had him for the first 7 months of his life and then wasn't in a place where she was able to kep him. SO I adopted him. He's doing WONDERFUL Sarah! There really is NOBODY on earth like Cubby.

OK, that's enough for now. My hands are getting too numb.