good day!

Man today was an awesome day! It was so cool here that I actually opened up all the windows. I just hope that it stays cool.

Ryan is really picking up on his math. We started multiplication this week and he seems to get it. I am so happy to see him learning. Now dont get me wrong he has always been able to learn, but the "teachers" did not push him and they just let him fall so far behind.

Sometimes I wish that we could go back in time. I want to smack all the Navy doctor's that said he would never walk, he will ride a bike, he will never be normal! I also wish that I would not have waited so long to find "alternative medicine". Since we have cut out all perscription drugs he has not even had a cold. I sometimes wonder about these so called doctors. I guess thats why they say praticing medicine.

Nikki is at a "fun night" at her school. The middle schools ar not allowed to call them dances, so..... that is why it is called a fun night. Amber also got to go to her dance..... without us. Rusty gave her a watch and set it to his watch and told her to be home no later the 9:30. So we will see if she can be trusted to do this.

Rusty got some good news and bad news from the government today. He has been bumped up to only 70% disabled. However that does not include all of the heart attack paper work. So on Monday he is going to call his vet rep and file yet another claim.

Well I am off to go get Nikki and then sit down to watch the amazing race.

Today I am thankful for the ability to open up all the windows and not have the house turn into a sauna!

settling down for the night

I jsu got in fromwork. I made myself some chi tea and put on mu warm bathrobe! Soon I will be ready to crash.

Work actually went very well today. I did not yell at anyone, or piss anyone off, and I today was payday so that is really good! LOL

My friend Ray called me today. It is so nice to talk to friends. Sometimes life just gts so busy that we dont even think to stop for a momnet and call a friend. I can tell Ray anything because, well I just can. He can relate to problem children, and yet e can laugh about it too.

Rusty is just about back to him old self. It has not been super hot so he has been able to do more during the day. We are still washing his ear out, but so far no more hearing. We have gotten some crap out, but I think there is still more crap to come out.

Amber wants to go to the school dance. Rusty and I still do not trust her, so we are going to ask if one of us can go to the dance with her. We are still all over her, and we will continue to be until she can win some trust back. ray suggested that we scare her by bringing in a drug dog. That wont work because the dog would me!

As I am siting here writing I am bing watched by Mrs. Cleo. All of our critters come and greet me when I get home, and they dont go back to bed until I go! The cats are the worse, but what can I say they know who butters their bread.

I am still on the hunt for more stuff for the bathroom, but so far nothing. I know I will find everything when I stop looking.

Well I am off to get some sleep.

Today I am thankful for having all of my critters.

a calm day

Today was so quiet! I helped Ryan with his school work, cleaned up the house and changed the hampsters cage. I also got a quilt done. I am in shock that nothing has really happened today!

I think all of the cats are going to turn on me. When I took the hampsters out of their cage all of the cats came to watch. Then I took the hampsters and Rascle out side. Boy were the cats pissed! They have been wanting to go outside and I wont let them. I just know that they are going to turn on me one night while I am sleeping.

Rusty called the v.a. to find out what the hell is going on with his claim. The said that there has been a ruling, but the person he spoke with did not know what it was. So now Rusty is going to call tha d.a.v. in the morning and they should know.

So I have two quilts that are ready for sale. I hope they sell. I would not mind making a little extra money. After all Christmass is right around the corner. It is hard for me to sew for someone that I dont know. So I just hope that someone likes them.

I am saving all of my scraps and making some pet quilts. I am going to take them to the animal shelter. I am sure the dog and cats will love them, after all I can't get our pets off the quilts!

I have to go check out the Dr, Phil web page. I can't find him on any of the channels. I am going through Dr. Phil withdraws!

I am off to work on some pet quilts.

today I am thankful for a day of nothing happening.

good weekend

We did not do to much this weekend. Elli is back from Alaska and it was nice to see her. She even took her cat. Now the house seems empty! Gunner is walking around looking for his play mate. Oh well he will just have to pla with the other cats.

I had to work tonight and it went o.k ..... I guess. I chewed one of the other office workers out and she left before we even startd! Whats her deal? O.K. to be fair we did have a lot of work lft over from Thursday, so I told them to call me and that we would fininsh it before today. I never heard from them. So I go into work today and they are just starting on it! Then she is taking her sweet old time. I was like listen here chick you need to do it this way so that we can move on. She got her underwear in an uproar and left. For the record I did tell my boss and he just laughed and said that he could not handle her any more any way!

So My boss went camping for the long weekend. After everyone left he told me where he went. He went to somthing called the burning man festival. He said that it made the rainbow people look tame! Hell I want to go an a camping trip like that! Have weed will travel! What more needs to be said?

I am looking foward to doing nothing in the morning. Rusty will be gone most of the day, and the girls will be gone, so it will be just Ryan and I. I am going to kick back and chill once Ryans school work is done. I hope I can even catch one of my favorite shows......Dharma and Greg!

So I have gone off the deep end. I am hooked on the game show network! They show the amazing race! So I will sit and watch it for hours. This is so not like me. I am not a t,v, person, but I love the amazing race! Anyway, then something else will come on and I am watching a show that I watched growing up. Maybe Rusty is right and I am just a little bit out there.

Ryan is signed up to play ball this season. There were not a lot of children signed up so they are going to work on more of the fundamentals of the game. That is cool with me! Ryan jsut loves the fact that he can play baseball.

So my swing project was a bunch of cat quilts for Elli. She was very shocked that I would do that for her. I am glad that she liked them. I spoiled her cat, and her cat has gotten use to sleeping on quilts, drinking milk and eating pea's.

Any way, I am off to bed.

Today I am thankful that everyone actually let me take a nap!

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quilt day

I found out yesterday that the local tatoo shop is collecting stuff to truck to the gulf states. Ford and Chevy both donated the containers!

O.K. now this is awesome news for me. I have been wanting to give, but I did not know who in our are was doing anything. So I sat down today and made 6 baby quilts. The were not fancy by any means, but they were warm! Then I raided all of stashes of toys and off I went to donate! Then I was told that the containers were full! So they set up another collection point and were waiting on more containers to show up.

So I had to drive to the other side of the lake. When I got to the drop off  location I was shocked! Other people had brought in new toys, cribs, play pens, clothing, anything you could think of was there. It felt really good to help. I hope that 6 children will stay warm when they get wrapped up in one of the quilts that I made.

W went to the opening game for the new high school. Dateline did not show up because they are down in the gulf states, but man our team sucked! We lost 60 somthing to nothing! All of the kids thought it would be easy to beat a deaf team, boy were they wrong.

Well I am off to bed. today I am thankful for being able to help someone else, and the ability to sew straight lines.

watch your t.v.

So Amber calls me and asked if she could buy a ticket to the football game because Dateline is going to be there! Ambers school is going to play an all deaf team from Riverside. That is so cool. When I find out when it will be I will post it.

I went to big lots today and got Ryan some new leap pads and I put a few up for Christmas. I also got him the costume that he has been wanting. So this ear he will be going as the "scream". Rusty said that I am such a mom.

We are now able to start flusing out Rusty's ear. He says that it feel real strange, but we are hoping that once we get all of that dried blood and wax out that he will be able to hear again.

We also found out today that Rusty's package is at the review board. So we should know soon just what the government is going to do.

One of our friend who is in Italy asked me what I wanted from Italy, so I told him a tall, dark man. He ofered himself instead. So I asked for a funky purse. He asked what funky meant. well....... right now I am using an ammo bag for a saw! It looks really cool. I added some pins to it so now it dos not like something Rusty to use.

Today I am thankful that it is not so hot, and that the gardener comes!

not to much going on

Yesterday was real slow day. I needed a day of nothing happening! Rusty got the box for the built, so now the phone is locked up.

I did manage to finish a baby quilt and a duck pillow for a gal at work. Can you belive that she said she has never had a homemade quilt! That just shocks me.

I feel for the people who are in the gulf states. We donated some money, so I hope it will help someone. I told Rusty that we are very lucky. I can't imagine what it would be like to lose everything! We are very blessed.

I have to work tonight. I just hope that everything goes good since there will be someone other then our boss running the office. Oh well no since in worrying about something I can't controll.

Last night Rusty and I sat out and talked about taking some dream vacations. We are so different in this area. Rusty wants to tour the battle fields of the pacific. I want to tour the castles and churches of europe. We both want to go to Africa. Rusty wants to go so he that he can hunt big game. I want to go so that I can see everything running free. Weare so different, yet we are so connected.

Well I need to get moving. I have to go to the bank, get Ryans school work done, clean up the house and go to work.

Today I am thankful for a place to live. God bless the people in the gulf states.