Not really a red letter day here, just felt like brightening up the gray day.
It's the quietest it's been all week, guess Saturdays are like that around here.
I seem to be learning the "routine" and rythmmn of the world here. It pretty much follows the 'real world' what with most people getting up early, taking care of business, socializing, chores, and by golly by 10:00 P.M. it's like a graveyard, no sounds at all.

The vegetable garden is going great guns! Got green beans popping up, almost 6 inches high, the carrots have made an appearance, as have the beets! Found out that I have 3!! tomato plants planted, don't know who put in the other two, and the radishes continue to flourish.

My own little apt. is looking better day by day, I just need to get something to put into all the pots of potting soil I have. Went down to my son's a few days ago and re-potted his huge Spider plant for him, he hates messing with that. I don't mind. I find it rather enjoyable and relaxing.

I've sort of changed Chanel's name to "Charmin", a combination of Chanel and charming. She is too, charming that is. Only been here a month and I can pick her up, she comes when called, ( if I whistle) and she's finally given up on telling me when it's bedtime. Now she just conks out on my chair if I'm on the computer :)

I've been to the big Flea Market here in town only once, gotta find someone to ride with! They have great deals, and it's unreal how great the "people watching" is! Such an assortment of characters! One of the sellers looked just like a Twins baseball player and this dude was selling gloves and baseballs too....naw, couldn't have been him..

This coming week is chock full of medical appts. again, this is soooooooooooooooooo old. After that though the month of June looks awesome :) Glad they're getting their "so important info" the last week of this month!

Well it's about time for a nap, not anything really special happening here except for the blessing of peace. Then again, that is EVERYthing! I wish that for everyone, everywhere.

It's been a cold, windy and frustrating day.

I'm not sure what's going on with my body, that left ankle has been swollen and sore for weeks, staying in bed keeps the swelling down to a minimum, and keeps the pain tolerable.
It's all I can do to wash the dishes daily, clean up after Chanel, and take out the trash.
There's also the mystery of the swollen throat glands, sore left ear, and general malaise.

My youngest child got all pissed off at me today, we were online playing a word game like Scrabble and I had to make a pit stop. He got a freaky on me, and wouldn't talk to me when I came back, had signed out of Yahoo, after leaving a bunch of symbols to show his anger at my leaving for a few minutes.
Why do people do that? What is that all about? Do they think they're the ONLY ones in the world? What if I'd had a heart attack? Or been attacked by a mountain lion?
What IF??
His attitude reminds me of other relatives I have, that have that same attitude.
God.

So my brownies and bread didn't get baked today, it's all I can do to make a meal and sit up. I feel like crap.

Guess it's better than the alternative~!

Well it's finally starting to pour buckets of rain! Amen to that! Hope it's pouring rain up in the Boundary Waters too where the fires have been raging for the last two weeks.

Now I won't have to go out tomorrow and fight to get that hose dragged over to the flower bed. Thank God for miracles :)

Did I mention I signed up on this free dating website? LOL, the first guy to try to connect to me was only 26 !! years old!! What the hell??? That's younger than my son!!!!! NO WAY! NO thanks, and thanks anyway, just go away and he kept trying, 3 or 4 times! If I could only get that response from guys my age! Guess they're looking at younger ones!!

I bought a new set of double curtain rods for my bedroom and hung up the lace panels first then over that is the satin knit rose colored panels. Looks nice and all, want to hang one more layer of lace, so I bought a tension rod for the lace panels and will put the lace swags on the double, underneath the rose panels. Makes perfect sense to me.

I haven't decided what to do with the living room window tho. It's huge, 92 inches wide, and only about 53 or 60 inches long. Anything that has a reflective type foam backing, or solar panels would be good. My apt. faces north, however want to try to keep as much heat out as possible come the hot weather.
Since I have lots of green plants, and want to keep it looking like a garden or woodsy retreat, I think green drapes would work ok.

I've been watching that Wavelit.com site now for sometime, love to watch the animals come to the watering hole. I've seen an elephant walking around in the pouring rain, seen giraffes eating the leaves off the tops of trees, early in the morning, and watched warthogs scratching their backs in the mud. It's a delightful website.

Well the rain has stopped already, short rainfall. Guess I'll go take a catnap and see if some sleep helps with the pain.

later...

Trying to just get on Blogger is almost more work than it's worth, yet am ready for a new home.

It's been a difficult day, made a sad discovery online. The last few days have been thinking about an old friend, had mentioned his life story to a lady and today it kept niggling at me, so I googled his name, was re-reading his story and discovered that he'd taken his own life.

He jumped out of his 8th floor apt. building in December of this year. I don't know if what he did 17 years ago was more than he could live with, or if his illness was what pushed him into it, just don't know...
I have so many unaswered questions, it leaves a deep hole in my heart. He wasn't a bad person when we were teenagers. I don't know when he got sick, however that didn't make him who he was or what he did...

So far, I haven't truly ajusted to my new apt. I've made friends, for sure lots of those, and know where things are, how to get around, what's available for services, and can cope, just haven't found that feeling of "being home" that I thought I would have by now.

My new roommate, Chanel the 5th, has adopted me and cries to be in my lap if I'm busy doing something around the house. She has also taken over my bed, my easy chair, and today for the first time jumped up on top of my desk while I was typing. Almost knocked my coffee over, she was beside herself as yesterday I spent the whole day taking care of business and had not a spare moment to hold her. She let me kow that she had to have my attention!

She's supposed to be losing weight and I think she's gained a couple of pounds since moving in. The entire first week she hid on top of the refrigerator, only coming down to use the litter box and eat while I slept. The second week she spent checking out the apt. and making discoveries of her own. The third week she decided I have a comfortable lap made for cats and claimed it as her own.
Her former owner said that Chanel never ever jumps up if you're eating. Wrong! She did, just the other day and I promptly let her know that it was "a bad time" to jump up. OK, all I did was shoo her down...

Goldie the Bulldog, so much to say about her. I didn't know that it's normal for them to snore. Yep, and with all the wrinkles they have it's expected. Also those wrinkles need deep cleaning, every single day. No problem. They also crave affection, which is why I found her to be so special, since I love to give affection and time to dogs. Some of the people here were afraid of her, because her teeth stick out, which is how they're made. She is submissive to humans and if spoken to or called, she lays down and rolls over, and at the same time her whole body is wiggling with happiness. She won over quite a few hearts.
I had Goldie here with me only a short week, one morning while taking her to the elevator she changed from walking on one side to the other and I tripped over the leash, almost falling.
Several times outside when I was trying to clean up after her, she'd get to wiggling with joy and happiness and I"d almost fall down when she'd sit down abruptly and lean into my legs, add to that the fact that she's a Bulldog, her gait is rolling, her chest wide and massive and when she'd walk, I'd have a hard time keeping up.
I tried my dangest to train her in just the week she was here, however I knew that as smart and co-operative as she was, that it would be dangerous to both me and her if I fell. She could have gotten lose and get hit by a car. I do have to admit I think she'd have stayed by my side as she was that kind of dog, however I felt bombarded in more ways than these...

My son came up to see me on my birthday, the day I got her, and though he had planned on staying, when he saw her he decided he wasn't going to stay overnight as planned. He didn't like her, because she had an odor to her. Bulldogs do have that. It's part of their breed makeup. It's got to do with their digestion. Discovered that afterwards......
The manager here gave me a hard time about Goldie, saying how every single dog that's ever been here has peed on the carpet in the halls. She said that some residents were afraid of her, and also that I had "disrespected" her and her wishes by getting a dog that was toooo big to pick up and carry in the elevator, and one that couldn't walk down the stairs.
Between her constantly harranging me for a week, my son refusing to come up as long as I had her, and my trying to not fall down while walking her, my feet swelling from the walks with her, I gave up and asked the former owners to come and take her back. That was our agreement, if for any reason it didn't pan out for me, I was to call them to come and take her back. She is a $1200.00 purebred Bulldog, and they don't come any sweeter.

I find myself crying because I miss her, and the cat just isn't the same.

So that's it in a nutshell.

OH, lest I forget, I signed up on one of those dating thingys. Been 3 days now and not one guy has IM'd me nor left me a message. I'm not ugly, don't have hoof and mouth disease, and can speak intelligently, so what's up with that??

Oh well.

And with the price of gas, do I really want to buy a car if I get a lump sum from SS?? Wouldn't it make more sense to either A: save some, spend some, and give some? or B: Take a trip or C: Buy an expensive dog and be happy...

My radishes are coming up already, and yesterday I planted beets too. Now there's beets, tomatoes, carrots, radishes, and green beans. Hope it turns out great! Maybe before they come up I can learn how to can, now THAT would be an accomplishment!