November 4, 2008

• Up and On the Go

  Well, I’m up and all happy.  Not exactly sure why!  I have things to do each day for the rest of the week that will take me away from the house.  That doesn’t make me “happy” but I’m glad I’m well enough to do what I need to do.  I guess I just plain woke up happy this morning!

  I didn’t sleep particularly well last night.  That seems to be when my throat and sinuses swell the most.  Poor Jesse moved to another room because I snored so loud!  I woke up, at 5:05am, sure I wouldn’t be able to go back to sleep.  I took 2 Sudafed and 2 aspirin and “tried” to go back to sleep.  Chirper was all over me, falling sideways onto my face, nuzzling me, and purring REALLY loud.  Despite the distraction from Chirper, I *did* go back to sleep until 7-something.

  Now that I’m up, I feel better, but don’t sound so great.  Maybe a type of laryngitis???  And, even though I can breath, my voice sounds like my nose is stuffy, probably from my swollen throat.  It no longer hurts, but is still swollen when you look inside my mouth.

  BUT . . . enough of that talk.  Here’s the good and (sometimes) funny news:

  I’m not *IN* bed!  VERY GOOD news!!!  Whether I make the bed or not (today), I don’t really care.
  
  Me not care about an unmade bed?  That is funny (more like weird-funny!).
  

  
  I’ve chosen a dress to wear this afternoon.
  
  The “good” part is that I’m able to get up and get dressed.  What’s so funny about that?  I’m going to a clinic to have a doctor certify me “healthy” enough to have foster children . . .  despite the fact I’m actually not so very healthy today!

  I’m happy it’s November.  Don’t know why, but I have this excited thrill running through me that soon it will really be W-I-N-T-E-R.  Yeah, I know, I’ll feel different when it’s REALLY winter!!!  What can I say?  I’m a planner!!!   LOL
  
  

  
  I’m not exactly waking up easily today.  Some examples:

  1)  There was a phone call at 8:30am and a VERY nice voice said she was
  calling from the dentist’s office to remind me of Annamarie’s
  appointment tomorrow from 6 to 1pm.  “SIX TO ONE P.M.?!!!” I asked?  “What do you plan on doing with her??????”  “No”
  she said calmly, “November 6 at 1pm.”  At least I made her laugh this
  morning!

  2)  A few minutes later, Jesse called from the bedroom, “Babe.  Can you
  hear me?”  I answered, “Yes.”  Then he started talking.  I told him to
  hang on as I made my way back to the bedroom.  I said, “Sorry, I couldn’t hear
  you.  Start over.”  He said, “I thought you said you COULD hear me.” 
  My reply?  (hang on for this one!!!)  “Well, I could . . . until you
  started talking.”  I know, I’m dumber than a box of rocks!!!!

  Somehow, I was awake enough to make the cats their  breakfast this morning, but not awake enough for my own children.  (And, I’m going to foster someone else’s children???!!!  That’s down right spooky!)

  Fortunately, they took care of themselves!
  

  I checked out what they were eating and decided it was a semi-okay breakfast.
  
  Yogurt, orange juice, donut sticks and fruit.  Oh, wait a minute . . . that fruit is really the table cloth.  Never mind!

  LOL

  Speaking of food, I had a bad experience with dinner last night.  Jesse
  had taken ground beef out the night before to thaw, and put it in the
  refrigerator in the early morning.  That’s marginally longer than I normally
  leave things out to thaw.  It didn’t “look right” and, when I was
  frying it, my opinion was that it didn’t smell right.  But, I toiled
  onward with my skillet casserole.  We sat down, I took one bite and
  made everyone stop.  It didn’t TASTE right either.  We decided it must
  have been one of those packs that thawed when the freezer quit working
  several months ago.  I scrambled to the refrigerator to find
  leftovers.  I had no idea we had as many as we did, and that’s what we
  ended up eating.  I’m experimenting with stretching my recipes a little
  bigger for when the foster children arrive.  I was kind of looking
  forward to what I had planned to fix and eat: but, not if it was poisonous!!!  Oh well, maybe tomorrow.  It
  would be a good dinner for a busy night.

  My list of going places (other than from room to room within my own house!) this week is:

  *  I go to the doctor this afternoon to get a clean bill of health for fostering.  I’ll probably give the receptionist my cell phone number, wait in my car, and have her call me when the doctor’s ready to see me.  I don’t want to sit in their cramped waiting room with sick people.  I think that’s where my current malady came from – last week’s therapy waiting room.

  *  Tomorrow afternoon, the home study lady comes here to check us and
  our house (and our girls, I guess) out to deem us suitable foster
  parents.

  *  Tomorrow evening is my class with Glenn & Reba (from church) for
  parenting classes.  Maybe the lady doing our foster care home study
  will see that as an added bonus (????).  Stephanie will come here after work
  to watch the girls until Jesse gets home.

  *  Friday is my typical day for errands and the girls’ therapy
  appointment.  I don’t think there are more than a few items on my
  grocery list.  Shouldn’t be an overwhelming day.

  Finally, the good that has come of me not feeling well (this is stretching it, but it IS true!) is this:
  
  I’m up
  to *October* in my “Family Life” magazines.  Now I have to read “Blackboard
  Bulletin” and “Young Companion” magazines to catch up and life will be
  perfect!

  I’ve no idea what to fix for dinner tonight.  Guess I should go rattle through the freezer to look for possibilities!

  Be blessed  ~
  

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