CLOUDS

I was really hungry at dinner time tonight.  On the nights I get out of work at 8:00 p.m. (Tuesday and Thursday) I usually wait until I get home to eat.  But tonight I was just starving at 6:00.  So I went to Wendy's and got a burger and fries.

As I was driving I noticed the beautiful clouds.  If you've been reading my blog for any amount of time, you know that I love skies.  I really wanted to take a picture of them, but I was driving.  Somehow the two things don't go together.

So after I got my order in the drive-through I pulled over in the parking lot.  I didn't have my camera with me, but I did have my phone.  So I pulled that out.  Not being able to compensate for the light or focus in any way I wasn't sure how they would turn out.  When I uploaded them, I thought they weren't all that bad.  See what you think.

KITCHEN HELP

When I saw this month's page I was at a loss as to what to write.  All year I have been giving myself these calendar pages as a challenge.  Just like when I was in school and my teacher would assign a topic on which to write an essay.  So I really have had to think hard about this one.

Kitchen help.  If I am cooking, I really don't want help in the kitchen. I like doing things by myself, working things out in my head and then executing them.  But I also know it is important if someone wants to help me to let them.  Joe is really my best helper.  Because he was a cook in the Marine Corps he knows his way around a kitchen.  He knows a dice from a mince.  He knows how to cook things.  And some things he cooks much better than I do.

Kitchen help.  If I am cleaning up, yes!  I definitely like help loading the dishwasher.  Or putting things away.  Since I am so short, I like it if Joe can put things on the higher shelves.  I am always afraid of stretching and not being able to reach and then dropping something and breaking it.  Believe me, I have done it in the past.  Now I either climb a step stool or get someone taller than me to do it.  And my friend, Carol, can clean my stove better than anyone I know.  Boy is she good.  Every once in awhile I will have Carol and Walt over for dinner and she always just jumps in and cleans it for me.  What a gem.

So kitchen help is a touchy subject.  Of course if any of you wants to volunteer to be my personal chef and have dinner on the table when I come home from work, feel free to apply.

CATCHING UP

It's 4:30 a.m. and I just woke up.  I had such a busy day yesterday.  Hopefully the rest of the week is going to be better.

I was so getting later and later and I knew I couldn't make it to work.  So I called in and asked for a personal day.

Joe had an appointment for an MRI at noon.  We had asked a friend to take him because I would be at work.  So we called her and told her we wouldn't need her and I took him.  It was a good thing I did because he needed me to fill out some forms for him.  His hands were shaking badly and he couldn't write.

When he was done, we went next door to x-ray and had my leg x-rayed.  I wasn't going to, but I had the script the doctor gave me with me and I had the time.  My leg still hurts from when I fell in August so the doctor wants to be sure the bone isn't chipped.

After that we went to see Joe's step-mom.  She had had an echocardiogram that morning and was still waiting for the results.  This was 3:00 p.m. by now.

One of the tires on my car had a slow leak.  I wanted to get it fixed and figured I was off anyway, so we left and went to the mechanic.  While we were waiting for the car Joe went across the street and went food shopping for the few things we needed.  While he was gone Mary Ann called and said she had been released and could we come back and get her.  

So as soon as the car was done we drove back to the hospital, picked her up and took her home.  It will be such a relief to not have to go back and forth to the hospital every day.  But this is what family does and I don't regret being there for her.

When we finally got home it was about 5:30 p.m.  We were both really tired, so we decided to lay down and watch TV for a little bit before dinner.  We figured if we fell asleep, we'd be in bed.  We watched "The Amazing Race", one of our favorite shows, which we had recorded on Sunday.  Then Joe fell asleep.

The phone rang a few minutes later and it was my girlfriend, Paulette.  We haven't talked to each other in so long.  Her work schedule and mine are totally different.  We ended up talking for over an hour.  It was so good to connect with each other.

By this time it was really late.  Joe woke up and said I was not cooking dinner and called out.  He got a platter, but I just got a sandwich.  Then we both went back to sleep.  This weekend has taken a lot out of me.  I must be getting old.

I just wanted to catch everyone up on what has been going on.  Thank you all so much for all your prayers.  I know I made the right decision to stay home from work because there is no way I could have done everything I needed to do if I had gone in.  Now back to bed to get a few more hours of sleep before I need to start my day.  It's going to be a long one.  And I will do my calendar page today.