Vicki's Blog

Apologies

It appears apologies are in order for not posting more frequently.

Life has been busy as it always is. The last couple of weeks I have been sick. I went in to the Dr. last week, only he was booked that day, so I had to see a PA. I told her when I went in that it was a sinus infection, so she checked me out a little, gave me a shot for allergies (the same shot that I had just a month ago), and gave me a prescription for Flonase….I was not impressed…so after a horrible night of being sicker than ever I went in to see my regular Dr the next day….He checked my throat, and my nose, said he didn’t know why they have treated me for allergies, and gave me an antibiotic, a steriod, and an inhaler. Apparently not only did I have the sinus infection like I thought, but I also had an upper respirtory infection that was bordering on pneamonia. Needless to say I won’t be seeing anyone except for my regular Dr, unless absolutely necesary!!

I am feeling better, although still not great.

Rearranging

Did some rearranging last night. You see the girls both got a Netherland Dwarf rabbit acouple of weeks ago. Because of the heat I had brought out their small cage to the livingroom, so they would have better air flow. Well now that they can move into the big cage, since we got rid of the girls’ big rabbits, I decided the little ones would not be happy stuck away in the girls’ room, so we moved a bookcase into the girls’ room, moved the other bookcase into the corner, and presto, there was room for the big cage in the livingroom.

The rabbits are happily racing around the cage having a ball. They still enjoy their time running around the livingroom, as they get to play chase with the cats. That’s always fun to watch!! The cats are very careful not to hurt the rabbits, even stopping to give everyone a breather. When the rabbits get tired they hop into their cage, and the cats leave them alone, even though the cage door is still open.

HOT!!!!

As mentioned in an earlier post, it has been unbearably hot here, with the heat index up at 110 degrees or so.

What makes the situation even worse is the fact that our ac is pretty much crap. It only gives us about a 5 degree difference between outside and in the house. Plus we can’t run the ac at night, because if we do, it will be 93 degrees in here at 9am, making it hotter in here than outside. We do not know what the problem is, but I’m going to talk to my landlord about it when I get the chance.

Softball Night At The Pool

So tonight was supposed to be the softball/baseball appreciation night at the pool. Rain clouds starting coming in at about 5pm, so we called to make sure they were still doing the pool thing and they said “yes”. So come 6:30 we head into town, just to find out they were resceduling the pool night. *LOL* Just my luck I suppose.

Anyway, we went to Dairy Queen for ice cream instead.

Tired

Here I’ve been exhausted all day, and with work to do…Only 4, or so I thought…I could still do them if I was tired, it wouldn’t take that long…right? *LOL* So I log in and find out I have 10 jobs….Joke’s on me!!

Anyway, I’m off for a quick shower in hopes it revives me, so I can get all the work done before I colapse into bed.

Things are not slowing down at all around here. I thought they would after today, but nope. Des won her game, so she has another game tomorrow night. Saturday we have the music show. Lord only knows what else is coming up.

So anyway, off to my shower.

Food

Well I’ve done a bit of work here. I still have more work to do on one of my other blogs, but that will be put on hold for a little bit while I get something to eat.

I’ve been racking my brain trying to come up with some simple meals to fix during the week. It seems I’ve forgotten everything I used to fix in that six months of no cooking at Bubble’s. I don’t usually fix anything really big or fancy during the week, but save that for when Dad is home with us, but I do like to, or at least used to like, cooking simple meals during the week as well.

I’m also having to compile major shopping lists to get us resupplied on what we need. In fact I need to locate my list, and will probably make a Sam’s club run this next week.

Chief

Chief has been doing wonderfully. We moved his corral around acouple of times this past weekend, so he could get some grass. We had a rope on him, fly sprayed him twice. Had his halter off, back on, and off again. I’ve had hands on him every day for the past 5 days I think it is….Meg even got to pet him tonight for several minutes, and feed him treats.

We did have an issue about the water with the people that live where we have Chief. They were wanting us to pay double what it actually costs to water Chief. Completely silly, but not unexpected as I didn’t like her from the first moment I met her. Anyway, we solved the problem by going and getting some 5 gallon water jugs. We are filling the jugs here at home, and driving them over in the car. It’s rather inconvienent, but well worth avoiding trouble with those people. I do kind of feel bad for spending over $100 dollars on hose, and now not needing it, but oh well.

Anyway, it’s time to get some work done.

Birthday & Softball

We had Meg’s birthday party on Saturday. It was a wonderful day!!! It’s always special to be able to see Mom, and my brothers and sisters, but doubly special that they take the time and make the effort to come to such things like birthday parties.

Sonia and Mitch even got to come, which made it triplely wonderful!! Sonia is usually working, so even though I know she wants to be here, she rarely gets to come. She requested the day off, just to come spend it with the family. It was so good to see her and Mitch again. They both are truly wonderful, the way they interact with the girls! Mitch play softball with them. When we went to go see them we all went to the park and Mitch and Sonia played with the girls. It does my heart good to know that Sonia and Mitch really love the girls!!

Unfortunetly we were missing Daniel, because he had to work. He truly was missed too!! He and Sue are great with the girls too! It’s endearing to know that “Uncle Daniel” really doesn’t mind being “Uncle Daniel”…He has nieces and nephews of his own, but some people wouldn’t accept having other kids call them “uncle” or “aunt”.

My whole family is like that though, I mean it’s natural for me to call Sonia and Sue my sisters, even though they aren’t blood sisters. The same goes for my brothers and Mom…They are my true family though….the one of my heart, and that’s what counts!!

In other news, Des and her team won their first softball game of the season. It was all quite exciting. Des really didn’t get to play all that much, but she did very well when she was on the field. She’ll get her chance.

Happy Mother’s Day

It’s starting out to be a quiet but nice Mother’s Day for me. Everyone is still sleeping, although I do hear Dad stirring.

The girls brought me loads of flowers last night. They are always bringing me flowers and such, which always warms my heart. They found an empty lot that has irises, some beautiful white flowers, and some sweet smelling purple flowers, so they brought me loads of them home. I have no idea what the white ones or purple ones are though.

Des also made a Mother’s Day card for me at school. It was titled “The Top 10 Reasons I Love You”. It was so sweet it brought tears to my eyes. She really put some thought into her answers, the handwriting was neat, and the coloring was wonderful.

The flowers and the card are what make being a mom so rewarding. I truly have my moments when I don’t think the girls care a lick about me, because they can be so uncooperative and difficult, but these sweet moments let me know they do care, and they do appreciate what I do for them!

In other news, Des spent Friday night at a friend’s house. She said she had a good time, but that she missed us. She must have been happy to be home, because she didn’t ask to go to the park or anything after she got home. *LOL* It’s a joy to see her growing up, even if it does make me sad at times. It was really hard to let her go and spend the night, I much prefer when her friends come over here, but I know this is all part of growing up.

When I was a kid, I was forever spending the night at my best friend’s house. She would come and stay at our house sometimes too, but most of the time I was over there. I’m not sure why really, maybe I just wanted to get away from my own family at that time, but anyway, almost every weekend we were together. I called her Mom “Mom”, I would be annoyed at her little brothers….*LOL* We were like sisters….In fact we called ourselves sisters. I still miss her!! Anyway, my whole point was that it is natural for Des to want to spend the night with her friends, and even though it’s hard for me to happily let her go, she’s growing up, and it’s the right thing to do. She needs to experience life in other ways.

Okay, well I’m off to my other blog to update. 3 down, 1 to go.

INTERNET!!!!

We have internet, in our house, on our computer!!! I am so happy!!!

I had to get rid of the internet we had through Alltel/Verizon, because it wouldn’t work here. Instead we are going through one of the cable companies, and getting internet for the same price, and it is MUCH better internet!

I am also looking to get rid of my Verizon cell phone, as I have trouble getting it to work here. I think I have found an alternative that will be about $40 cheaper!!! I’m excited about that, I just need to wait until I find out for sure that phone will work here, and also until we get a little money in the bank to afford the switch over. I’m glad for the opportunity to cut the bill down, and just pray that it works out.