Stuff

I know I haven't been doing so great with the blogging this year. It's like my brain wants to, but my fingers don't, or vice versa. I don't know.

On the other hand, I've had so much going on health-wise too that I just haven't felt like it.  I was sick for most of January and February and while I have felt much better this month, I've had to other issues they're looking at involving my liver and gallbladder and now my spine, complete with MRIs. I have to go next week to have another MRI, this time for my chest to look at my spine.  Not looking forward to it at all...I've never really been claustrophobic before (well, except when I have a stuffy nose) but last week when I had the MRI on my liver I was like, whoa! For some reason I just figured my head would be sticking out of there, but oh no...I was in there and that thing was right in my face. it took me a few minutes to calm down some and get through it.  When I was done and in my car, I got a call from them, asking me if I had left yet and I said no, and they asked me to come back in and have a few more pictures taken because they had missed a note my doctor had added. So I had to do it again!! Yikes! 

And now I have to do it again next week.  Hopefully that will be it because from what I've read about abnormalities on the spine, its usually just because of aging. Which is what I'm doing. Aging. Quickly.  At least the MRI on my liver came back mostly okay, I do have fatty liver (big surprise...though most of the time it is associated with drinking and I may only have a drink a couple of times a month) and I have gallstones (which don't bother me).  I can reverse the fatty liver thing, just have to set my mind to doing it so it doesn't cause other problems.

Getting old sucks.

I'm going to be 60 in 26 short days. And I'm no where near what I had planned on. Most of it my own fault, but some of it not.  I really would have liked to have retired, but it looks like that is on hold until I'm 62, though I'm hoping that it just might happen next year instead if things go through work-wise. We'll see. Keep your fingers crossed. But I'm not holding my breath.

In 24 days I will be in California to celebrate mine, Vanessa's, Janie's, and Teresa's birthdays. I bought us tickets to go to a dinner play at Roger Rocka's which should be fun.  And I have things planned to do at mom's while I'm there, like measuring every room and planning them out and probably buying a bed this time around. 

My retirement just can't get here fast enough!!!

Picture Time!

 So last weekend I took the dogs out and I see this bird fly by and I look and see it's a bald eagle. He landed in the tree right across the street, and I just knew I had to get his picture. So I hurried the dogs back inside (finished or not with their bulldog business) and I grabbed my camera and rushed back outside where yay! he was still sitting on the tree. The pictures aren't the greatest because my camera was having a hard time focusing because it was getting dark and it was already cloudy. Still, I'm happy I got the ones I got:

 And this past weekend I finally went down to NC to celebrate Nicole's birthday and of course took more pictures.  Beau and Nicole:

 Awwww! look at Beau being sweet to his sister!

Beau, Bri, and Nicole:

 And of course me, Beau, and Nicole:

We stopped at a bakery nearby and bought Nicole some cupcakes and other bakery goodies:



 (The cupcakes look a little smushed because, well, they were. They accidently got dropped. Thankfully though they were in a container):

And last but not least, last week I made our office Christmas tree into an Easter tree (it was a Valentine tree in February but I forgot to take a picture of it):

So there ya go.

Always Remember (Even When It's hard To)

And Some Of The Things We Did Say

Random....

I love Thursdays

You can buy funeral urns on Amazon (who knew?)

I have an unremarkable pancreas (good)...

...but my bile duct could be a different story (bad)

One month, thirteen days from now, my happy self will be in Cali (now if that time would just fly by so I can get there)

You never know how much you're going to miss someone until they're gone (seriously, you don't)

Vanessa is over it on National Get over It Day

This weather is really messing with my allergies and making them go wonky; my eyes are so itchy and red that people think I have pink-eye (I don't)

I didn't have Starbucks at all yesterday (grrrrr)

I did have Starbucks this morning. (and I could use another)

Because I Can

😁I do have other topics to talk about, just don't feel like it at the moment. So here's this:

I mean you just can't get much more adorable than this.