Strawberry Preserve Workshop...

June 1, 6-8pm, at Emery 5&10 on Chapman Hwy...

Yummm!!!!

From the Knox Permaculture Guild

Neighbors

Ok, yeah, I know - it's all in my reaction...

My neighbor is driving me up a tree!

I appreciate her help during the last 6 weeks, when I was unable to do anything, and her changing my dressing - That was something I just couldn't do myself...

But I'm wearing really thin! She's my neighbor, not my friend. There's a difference...

I've been unable to mow the lawn. It got really tall, so I asked her son to mow it and we agreed on a price. He had other things to do for 2 days, my lawn kept getting taller. I'd already found another person to do it - but he finally got it done - with his mom's help.

I'd offered to the kid as a way to teach pride of work. He's got a special-ed HS diploma, now, but still can't get this concept.

Why did mom step in? Can you spell co-dependency??? Now I can see why her marriage broke up. Putting the kids before the marriage relationship breaks up a marriage faster than money troubles or adultery!!!

On top of this little episode, the kid sets his alarm for 4AM and puts it right next to the window. It wakes me up. We have 20 feet between the houses, but his alarm wakes me up. EVERY DAMN MORNING!!! I've said something before, but if he doesn't move it, I'll break it. I'm tired and I need my sleep.

On top of all this, the woman keeps coming over every day. I need my space. It's my house, and I'm tired, unemployed looking for work, and my house looks like a tornado hit it. I'm fighting fleas and just generally don't want company.

So, it all boils down to me. I need to set boundaries again. I didn't feel comfortable while building this house - I felt like she was sitting like a spider, waiting to ambush me every time I came over to work. She is a total time-waster. I got the point across then, and I can do it again.

Life is Calming Down - Maybe Too Much???

Life is calming down. My health is returning to "normal" which means I need a good workout schedule. My finances are tight, but steady (that's the maybe too much calm). My love-life is non-existant (as far as I can tell) but I like that part of my life calm, so it works for me.

The house is a mess again, since I haven't been able to clean much. I'll get back on schedule with it, and get things picked up.

Meetings are coming back to normal. I still have trouble with the 2 meetings back-to-back on Sunday, but I've always had trouble with that. The meetings are in different parts of town, and I usually have just enough time to grab fast-food in between. If I want to sit down and eat, I have a nice Chinese buffet I can go to. I just hate spending that much $$ and eating alone. If I had company, it would be a lot nicer. The food is good, too!!

There's a recovery campout coming up over Memorial Day weekend. I want to grab a couple of friends and go out for Saturday; make the meal and meeting, spend some time with friends in recovery that I don't get to see very often. I got a Travel-Scrabble game, and with my Yahtzee!, there's enough to play with. I can even pack the inflatable mattress and my sleeping bag! I just don't think I'm up to an overnight right now. I don't have full camping gear, again, yet.

I'd like more work. I don't know about going to work part time at a fast-food joint or something. I don't think I could do the work! Ah well..... I'm grateful that the bills are paid (for now) and there's gas in the car. There's food to eat, friends to talk to, and the sun is shining today.

Yeah, life is OK right now....

Finally getting better & kitchen fire

I'm finally getting better, I guess. I don't like the new pain med. It doesn't seem to work at all, and it was a bit expensive. I've gone back to Ibuprophen, and movement. That seems the best combination right now.

I'm feeling better also because I'm getting my house cleared up a little bit. I had a little fire in the kitchen last night. I thought I'd turned off the stove top and instead I'd turned it to high. The knobs don't have a definite click when you hit the off position, and what off position there is, is very narrow. So, anyway, I had a little grease fire, that only ruined a pan and made a mess. Nothing else burned.

However - the pan was a teflon pan, and the fumes are deadly!!! Man! I'm getting rid of all my teflon after this. We had a storm overnight, so I couldn't open windows to air the place out. I've got them open now, though. And I turned on the fan on the A/C unit (not the cooler), and my one ceiling fan, both going high speed.

I've asked a friend to recommend someone to smudge the house. This is the third or fourth "accident" in this house since I moved in - 8 months ago. It's a brand new house - nobody has ever lived in it before. I have issues with it, and those are being addressed. However, it's like the place is cursed or something. Maybe the land underneath??? I used to know of a neighborhood built on top of an indian graveyard - all kinds of weird stuff happened there. Maybe something similar is happening here...


On another subject - "Money!"
I've had to temporarily stop working with the Census because of my health issues. It's nice to have that paycheck, but it was just too hard for me to do. Maybe as I get better, I'll do it some more.

Neither of the 2 quotes I sent out came back positive (yet) but other stuff is happening. It's a challenge, but I know that I'm being cared for by the universe.

OK - No Infection....

No infection! Cool....

Just the muscles complaining about things. THAT! I can deal with!!! I'm so scared of health issues, anymore. I've had so many surgeries, that it's just a matter of averages before something goes seriously wrong. Like riding on a bus, motorcycle or in a plane. Something will go wrong after so many occurrences....

Other than that, the pain med got changed and I'm not sure how it's working yet. I'll keep trying it, and get back to you on that. I don't want to become an expert in pain meds, but the other stuff was making me too agitated to sleep, so it wasn't really helping.

I miss my meetings terribly! I don't feel comfortable going out in public much. I've got today, taking care of a kitty, and then I'm pretty much done till tomorrow. I was supposed to go to this thing tonight, but I think I'll pass. I'm too sore and I don't want to stand around for 2 hours - no matter how good it would be for my business - and pay the price later.

Surgical Complications....

We never think it will happen to us...

I seem to have picked up an infection while in the hospital. It isn't responding to antibiotics - and it is at the same time. It's spread from only one side to both sides. It's internal, not just external. I'm concerned. Note - I'm not worried...

I see the doc again on Weds, and I'll have more information then...