What's on your agenda for today?

having survived the taxman yesterday today is one of those non days, bring in wood, wash clothes, sort some old stuff that grandson dug out of the attic and most likely get rid of a bunch...maybe a little reading and stuff.....but first coffee for it is 5 am and the dog needed to go out early so I am up and at 'em.....
 

Yup. It's morning and I have my coffee. I'm a happy camper:)

I flatly refuse to have a bad back, bad cough, bad cold, bad anything. Do you hear that, Universe? I refuse. I'm content to sympathise with those who do, though.

Not cold here yet. Temps supposed to go down all day long. Maybe or maybe not. The weatherliars never seem to really know.
 
Got some sad news last night... My husband's sister's husband... our BIL I guess is in a coma and expected to survive hours to just a few days.. Very sad.
 

Dentist AGAIN this evening.... Hoping this will be the last fitting and the next time I will have my new teeth... Geez.... I have been involved in this process since September.
 
Pappy, I never, ever go clothes shopping with hubby (or anybody). Wouldn't put them through the torture of my indecisiveness with buying clothing.

I was supposed to go for a teeth cleaning this morning but it's really difficult to cough with the dentist's hand in your mouth.
 
Aw, QS. Yes, you're right about still being a sad thing. So sorry.

It's cold here and gonna get colder. So far, it's being hinted that we'll have rain/sNOw on Monday and Tuesday.

Off to work with me, now that I've had my coffee:)
 
Grandson and wife are finding out the sex of our greatgrandbaby this morning. Now to see if they are going to share that info with the rest of us. My poor grandson married himself a doozy,I`m afraid. Weird just like her mother...
 
Well,they shared! Just got a text from him-it`s a boy!! Can`t tell you how relieved I am. His wife was a twin,sister died at birth. She and her mom are obsessed with her-mom even put her name in the heart on their bridal shower cake,along with grandson`s and his bride to be. Plans were to name a girl after her. I was worried for that baby. Sooooo relieved it`s a boy......
 
QS so sorry to hear your news, but of course it's still a great loss to your family I'm sure.



Today it's cold and rainy here..I haven't been over the threshold except to go to empty the rubbish bin...My back is playing merry hell, and it's very frustrating to not be at work and still not be able to get out and about doing stuff.

The burns on my back that I mentioned before have now blistered and burst so the pain from them is not helping..why are burns so firkin painful???.:(.I've been smearing ''very gently and awkwardly'' germolene on them or aloe vera gel every couple of hours to try and take the stinging out and to prevent any infection from setting in...so hopefully this won't last too much longer.

Sorry if I've grossed anyone out!
 
Holly, I'm sorry to hear your struggling with your back and your burn sounds bad and from your picture, it looks big. I wonder if your doctor might have some suggestions if he/she has not already done so. Having limited mobility is bad enough without pain added onto it. I hope you feel better very soon.:)
 
Poor Holly. How can you reach back far enough to put anything on the burns? I hurt for you:(

And Mrs. Robinson, thank heaven that they're going to have a boy...I hope the baby doesn't get saddled with a weird "masculinized" variation of the name of the twin who didn't survive.

Okay. Kids. If y'all haven't noticed, I've been MIA a lot in the past couple of weeks. Remember that S word? Stress? Nobody ever heard of stress when I was a kid; it's a recently discovered "disease". I've been stressed beyond imagination for a couple of months over my son's, shall we say, paucity of new clients/scarcity of work from current clients. He called just a few minutes ago--in the middle of the night--to tell me that he just got hired as a full-time, long-term contractor for a client he's been doing development work for from time to time over the past 10 years or so. Long-term translates to years.

He said he's just plain tired of the networking/schmoozing/grip-and-grin meetings required to get and maintain clients, not to mention the uncertainty of the income. He didn't mind, actually liked, doing it when he was in his 20s/30s/40s. Now he's 53 and just wants to work for a paycheck doing work that he likes and does well and let somebody else worry about the business end.

He'll probably keep his current clients and when anyone new contacts him, refer them to other developers that he knows.

I say woohoo! There's just one thing...he has this bright idea that he'll be making so much money (yes, a lot of money) that I should quit working and he'll share half his income with me. Yanno what? That's really, really generous but I don't want to quit working. I don't sit still very well. He insists that I'm working myself to death. I'd agree if I thought so, too, but I like being The Cleaning Fairy. I'm sort of making up for lost time, all the seemingly endless years that I spent "cube farming" in the corporate world when I could have been a cleaning fairy instead and doing something I really liked doing instead of doing what I was told or what was in the manual.

So. That's my news. It's 1:30 in the morning, and I'm going to bed. Stressless:)
 
OH Georgia what fantastic news for you...yes I had noticed you weren't posting as much this last few months but I hadn't realised the reason...but as a person who has a lot of stress in her life I can truly empathise with you, and I'm cock-a-hoop that all the bad stuff seems to be falling from your shoulders now...and a huge congratulations to your son too...your news has really cheered me up.. :woohoo1:

Annie...this has got to stop soon hunny chile...stay positive.

Georgia the burns are across my lower back so it's not too difficult to put the Germolene on..except I have to use the lightest fairy touch to just dab it on because it would be waaaayyy too painful to rub on. Hubs had a look last night when he got home from work and he says it's starting to look like it's healing now..it doesn't feel like it...but I'll take his word for it. Must admit it doesn't feel quite as painful this morning as it has done the last week.

Damp and grey here this morning but I think I might drive over to the farm shop and stock up on some organic food.. :D
 
Welcome back, Georgia.....and keep cleaning if you want to!
they will get better, Holly; so will your back..chin up!
i am painting......again!
 

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