09.27.06
Posted in Family at 11:19 pm by Think-Tink
My great aunt that Celtic Mama has been taking care of died tonight. She had been in the hospital last week with what started off as back pains. The doctor determined it was her heart and did lots of tests. The tests didnt show anything. My aunt had been feeling bad since then and had not been eating alot. She was ready to go, and has been for a while.
Tonight, she was having stomach issues and needed CM to help her. She basically got up and passed out on CM. Aunt Mary died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital.
Mary Josephine Iuliano Caldwell was a wonderful lady ( don’t tell anyone I said her middle name, she hated it). She raised 3 children who weren’t hers biologically but they were definitely were hers in emotion.She was the only woman I know who could make a spaghetti sauce from scrath in all white and not get any one herself. She loved to do needle point and latch hook, to the point it gave her tunnel carpal syndrome.
She will be greatly missed.
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09.24.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 1:40 am by Think-Tink
Where did the last week go and why didn’t I get time to post anything? Weird.
I have been kind of distrated…my 20th high school reunion is next week. I can remember when my mom went to her 20th and I thought she was old. I AM NOT OLD. I keep telling Celtic Mama that I am having my teenage rebellion in my 30′s. I don’t feel old. Heck, I don’t even have children yet.
This upcoming week looks as busy as the past ones have been, including probably getting yelled at on Monday for forgetting to put someone’s easels and such in her classroom. Monday should be fun.
Am I where I thought I would be when I graduated from high school? Heck no. I was going to major in business and help my mother in her real estate or whatever. I didn’t even graduate from the college I started out at. I was dead set on that specific school. The supposed guidance counselors at my high school didnt think I would finish college at all. One did not feel comfortable writing the recommendation letter for me.
In a way, I have almost been wandering aimlessly for 20 years. I can say now, that I have a goal in mind. It won’t happen quickly or easily but I finally have something to aim for. That is something I haven’t been able to say for probably 19 of the past 20 years. It is truly amazing how life changes, 10 years ago I was still married, 15 years ago, I was married and still thinking my now ex and I would have children.
I will say that I have learned something very important over the past 20 years, and that is to adjust with what life hands you. It wasnt something easy to learn.
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09.17.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:22 am by Think-Tink
AS you can tell from the lack of posting, last week got really busy. I got some type of food poisoning, and from there was either asleep or at work most of the week. Not alot is going on. I finally did feel well enough to make my earring board. I got tired of having to search for pairs of earrings, so I made something so that i can keep my pairs together. I will try to get a picture up soon.
Today is a picnic for CHK and that is it.
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09.11.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 4:31 pm by Think-Tink
In more ways than one.
I found a palmetto type bug in the kitchen. I dont think it was a roach as we keep things pretty clean. OK, I am telling myself it isnt a roach.
Stomach distress are the words of the day as PR and I are home with what we think is food poisoning. We have it narrowed down to either our steaks or the sweet potato (Anime Man isnt sick though). It wasnt a pleasant morning. It was wonderful while we were eating at Texas Roadhouse yesterday. I will definitely give them a second try. I don’t know what happened but after eating dinner with Anime Man and getting home it was all I could do to keep everything down. I barely made it home.
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09.07.06
Posted in Here at 9:29 pm by Think-Tink
Why does everything at the Chinese place take 10 minutes to cook?
Why is it that there will always be one that didn’t realize a deadline has past?
Why is it when you have those last 10 pages of a book to read that you are constantly interrupted?
I am out of practice cooking.
My office hasn’t been above 64 degrees without help all week.
I get to wear jeans tomorrow!
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09.05.06
Posted in Uncategorized at 9:21 pm by Think-Tink
This was going to be Tuesday thoughts but really this is just one thought. If someone says they want closure with you what does that mean? To mean it means you become a footnote at the bottom of a page in their book of life, never to be heard from again. This person wants closure with me and SB even though he hasnt made any real effort to get together with either of us in over a year. Yes, we have not seen this person in well over a year. We have been in the same place, same work, no emails or numbers have changed. I quit inviting him to things when I heard the words minister friends a few too many times as an excuse why he couldnt do something.
Honestly I had my closure with this person. Respect is what brought about for me. He didn’t respect that I might not be wholly Chrsitian any more or other things that interest me. At one point he also thought I would wait silently in the wings for him to make a decision on something that would affect quite a few people. I wasn’t going to wait. As I told him then, it was his decision, he has to live with it. I have moved on.
He does still make great candles though. Have a great life Candlelight. Only you can make it great.
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Posted in Uncategorized at 9:08 pm by Think-Tink
Anger Management Edition.
1. What really “burns your biscuits”?
Inconsiderate people, rudeness, expecting something for nothing
2. How to you express your anger?
I cry or write letters that I dont send.
3. Does internalization of anger cause, in your opinion, health issues?
Yes, as my stomach gets upset.
4. Can anger be beneficial?
It can provide an energy, so yes.
5. If you say some things in anger and feel the need to apologize, do you? How?
No, usually I just try to keep those thoughts in my head. Diplomacy is key.
6. If someone angers you and THEY apologize, what does it take for you to accept?
Not alot. Keep doing it though and I will get to the point of not accepting it.
7. Is there something beyond being angry (i.e., is being “pissed off” beyond the anger setting)?
No, not really as it takes alot to get me angry usually.
8. How do you control your temper/anger?
Trying to calm down and breathe.
9. Do you carry a grudge? If so, for how long (normally)?
Time heals all things even grudges. I don’t even have one now with my ex-husband. It only took about 5 years for it to go away.
10. Ask me something.
Does a high emotion spark more heart attacks and strokes than not?
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09.01.06
Posted in Here at 12:45 pm by Think-Tink
The rain has been falling since last night. We have anywhere from 2-6 inches right now in the area. The basement is still dry thank goodness. And we still have power! Oh, it has been flickering but it hasnt gone out.
Time to work on Christmas presents and some other things…
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