Mama Sez13/02: Ice Storm of 2008
I didn't expect another ice storm. This one has not been anything like last year thank God and I mean that. Still, I think I have an idea what PTSS feels like, the way I feel when I see everything covered and I wonder when the power will go out and then I begin to remember how dark it is at night without electricity and I begin to panic a little.
The worst thing that happened to me so far is I fell on the steps going to work last Monday morning. Man, it hurt!!! I have a huge purple bruise on my left butt, where I landed hardest and a smaller one up higher where the step got my back. I wore a cold pack on my butt at work, strapped on with a gait belt. I felt like I was in a skit for SNL. My left cheek is about 5 inches bigger than the right one. And it feels like getting stabbed with a red hot poker everytime I accidentally sit wrong or back into something. What a life.....
Mike is going back to Iraq in March sometime. Amanda and the kids might be moving in with me. Like Miki says, I will have a clean house. Amanda is amazing. She thinks cleaning is fun......and she cooks and always invites me for supper on days when I work. All three kids are sick now with URI and get breathing treatments so she needs lots of help. Courtney and the blondes were there all day. Amanda really appreciated their help. Her Mom was there until I got there around 6PM. Now I am home writing you.....and whoever you are..."HI".
I joined the MV Arts Council.....it sounds fun to me. Robert introduced me to an artist here in town and it just went from there. I hope to get my self on track with painting because these people are like me, amatuers but avid about loving art. And they have shows that sell stuff.
Well, it is late and I go to work tomorrow. Two 12 hour shifts and I am off for the next 3 days. Big sigh..... I'll be glad when the weather turns warm, there have been a lot of deaths this winter and I am ready for it to slow down. I have known some of these guys for 6 years and it is not easy to see them go, even if I believe they are better off. I miss them.
I had to go to court again because of the guy next door. Another $47 I don't have. The old Walnut's is opening up, maybe someone over there will be more interesting and he will find another diversion.
Love to all
MedECal
The worst thing that happened to me so far is I fell on the steps going to work last Monday morning. Man, it hurt!!! I have a huge purple bruise on my left butt, where I landed hardest and a smaller one up higher where the step got my back. I wore a cold pack on my butt at work, strapped on with a gait belt. I felt like I was in a skit for SNL. My left cheek is about 5 inches bigger than the right one. And it feels like getting stabbed with a red hot poker everytime I accidentally sit wrong or back into something. What a life.....
Mike is going back to Iraq in March sometime. Amanda and the kids might be moving in with me. Like Miki says, I will have a clean house. Amanda is amazing. She thinks cleaning is fun......and she cooks and always invites me for supper on days when I work. All three kids are sick now with URI and get breathing treatments so she needs lots of help. Courtney and the blondes were there all day. Amanda really appreciated their help. Her Mom was there until I got there around 6PM. Now I am home writing you.....and whoever you are..."HI".
I joined the MV Arts Council.....it sounds fun to me. Robert introduced me to an artist here in town and it just went from there. I hope to get my self on track with painting because these people are like me, amatuers but avid about loving art. And they have shows that sell stuff.
Well, it is late and I go to work tomorrow. Two 12 hour shifts and I am off for the next 3 days. Big sigh..... I'll be glad when the weather turns warm, there have been a lot of deaths this winter and I am ready for it to slow down. I have known some of these guys for 6 years and it is not easy to see them go, even if I believe they are better off. I miss them.
I had to go to court again because of the guy next door. Another $47 I don't have. The old Walnut's is opening up, maybe someone over there will be more interesting and he will find another diversion.
Love to all
MedECal
