a cold day here, bout 17 below zero in my neighborhood. Typical for Minnesota.
Heard from my daughter on Wednesday, she's not doing well.
Hard to put it into words...........

My move is scheduled for Sat., 5 or 6 Lions' Club men will help load the truck along with a youth group from a church, and they'll have adult males supervising the youth. I might, for the first time in my adult life, not have to tote that barge and lift that box!

My cat is full of the dickens, it's like someone put a quarter in her! Holy cow, she just runs, howls, and plays like she's a kitten again....she's been spayed so it isn't that.

I can't believe how many things have been pitched out, or donated...moving is such a pain...
Just finished up doing the laundry, wonder how many loads of clothes I've washed over my lifetime????
seems like one's age doesn't determine how many loads one has washed thoooough.....

the bad part about moving is that ya get rid of all the food you can, so you don't have to move it! Makes for a hungry few days before the move...

So another Saturday night and I ain't got nobody.....

Today things seem much, much brighter.
I found out that I've got the apt. and that the church group, along with the Lions' Club, will be moving me in 2 weeks!

I just heard on the local news that a plane landed in the Hudson River. Good grief! Thank God they all made it out ok! How frightening for all of them. I have to seriously wonder if pilots go gray early...

We had record low temperatures here in Minnesota last night, I haven't heard what our town got down to, however neighboring towns went down to 28 below...so we were about that temp. For sure it was "stay home" temps!
My son, who is sick, had to go out to go to the clinic. I wished he'd seen anyone but the doctor he got. This doctor believes in giving as little medicine as possible, and started him on Prednisone and Albuterol. Good on the asthma med, not so good on the steroid....that will drive his appetite sky high, and he's trying to lose weight!
His eardrums are swollen, and this doc didn't give him antibiotics, even though he's been ill for over a week now....we'll see how he fares.

My cat is crazy, I taught her to do a "Sara Palin"....she turns her head sideways when I say "Sara" and sometimes she can wink just one eye, sometimes she winks both, can't seem to handle both all the time. So now when she wants a treat I get to see her version...

She's also funnier than heck with her sneezing routine, I didn't know if I could teach her that one. Dogs are easy to train, not so with cats...
so I taught her all right...only she seems to only do it when I'm online and want to left alone. Sometimes she combines her sneeze with a yawn, sometimes she'll yawn and end it with a sound. Whatta cat!

I really wish I could convince the new landlord that I need both my cat AND a dog.....maybe there's a way..doubt it though...

Don't know what's on tv tonight, I wish tv WOULD go to the dogs! The cable channels have a lot of programming revolving around dogs....maybe after my move is settled I'll have to revert back to cable to get tv I like...
I did enjoy the auditions on American Idol last night! What a hoot, and the good ones were so impressive!

One of my neighbors came over last night to bring me oranges, apples, carrots, and cottage cheese and to wish me well on my move. She left to go to the west coast for the remainer of winter and figures she won't see me again..isn't that odd how sometimes when we move away we don't stay in touch?
I want to stay in touch with a few ladies here, one of them especially has been a sweetheart to me.
She always has a pat on the back, or a hug, a kind word for all, and asks how my day is going.
One day we had a horrific summer storm and a lot of residents lost their phones, their tvs, ect. When I heard her phone was out I gave her one I'd gotten from my sister. I don't care much for cordless phones so it wasn't a big deal to me, however..................it WAS a big deal to her, her daughter and son-in-law....
This neighbor kept wanting to give me money, do me a favor, and one night when we were watching our favourite baseball team, the Minnesota Twins of course, she said to me: I just don't feel right not giving you money for that phone, I want to give you something". So I said the first thing that came to my lips.....oh these lips of mine could sink a ship......
I said to her: "I don't WANT any money, I don't want anything, I gave you the phone cause ya needed it and I had it there just sitting. If you're all fired up bout giving me something, get a signed autograph of those Twins!"
She looked sooooooooooooooo astonished, and asked if I wanted ALL of their autographs??
Well I quickly saw her distress and said: " oh ok, just one then, and she wanted to know if "Joe Mauers" autograph would be good.
Well I was estatic!
I hadn't done the phone thing for reasons other than her need.....yet a chance for an autograph was beyond belief. Her son-in-law couldn't get the autograph, however he gave a picture of Joe and also a Joe Mauer BobbleHead and I was happy beyond any words I could type here!!
It was a delight to meet my friend's daughter and son-in-law. They're neat people, so down to earth, and they are really, really good to her.

What with my one friend passing away just before Thanksgiving, and the health stuff, I sure was down yesterday, however we bounce back usually.
It's just a case of too much stuff for me at onetime....

It's sure good to be hungry tonight! Good thing I thawed out chicken breast!

Figured out what was up with my Canon SureShot camera, and need to get a second memory card for that Kodak camera. I'm going to try to post some pics here, although it's real easy over at Utube. I want to get more video of my cat doing her stuff, that should be a howl!
God Bless you all and hope the week goes well for you.

I'd like to be writing "in the pink" however red is more suitable for today's post.
Been a while since I was here, and of course it doesn't seem to matter to anyone anyway.

It seems the whole world is falling apart, war, devastating weather, and the economy.
All of it, somehow, is affecting all of us, in one way or another.

I have hopes the new president will be to do some good for all mankind.

Once upon a time someone once said to me, when they brought me food, "now don't count on me to be your great white hope". I didn't understand what that meant then, and asked for an explanation of the phrase.
NOW I understand the meaning....and I hope our new president is our great hope, period.

I turned in my notice to move, and of course I did it before I secured a new home...
IF I had called anyone, talked with anyone, perhaps my rash actions would have been prevented.

I, to this day, don't know if I will have an apt. to go to, I could be homeless in two weeks.
So why you ask, did I do this??

After getting the news that I'm in stage 3 kidney failure, I kind of fell apart, more bad news regarding my health is the last straw....

Many things are gone from my home, I've given much away....and I have't a care about them.

I'm pretty much at the end of my rope....I'm sad for all the heartache and sorrow the world is going through right, I'm not callous. Like a friend once said to me, "well you didn't create the problems of the world". No, I didn't, sometimes I just feel guilty for feeling so lost in my own problems.

And so it goes............
I sure need a friend now, and don't know where they are....some here are like vultures feeding at a house before the body is cold.

I know my son cares, I just can't burden him very much, I try to protect him from the depth of my hurt.

I reckon it'll be what it'll be....que sera sera.........
till later,
God Bless All