SO you would never believe it...but my family actually moved their butts the 800 miles and came to see me this week!! Okay so maybe it wasn't so much to see me as it was to say goodbye to our most lavishly sweet granny. ANyhow, it was is always a grand ol time when the McDonald girls/tomboys get together. Here are a few hightlights.
1.) Bree read in Grannys obituary that grandma did German name extraction...Bree replied in amazment... "I didn't know Grandma knew GERMAN!"
2.) After I told Bree what an idiot she was I told her that Grandma didn't speak Germish...then waited to see if she caught on that Germish was not a word.
3.) Waking up to Kristinas kids at 2, 3 and 6 am. Each time being greatful they weren't my kids.
4.) Throwing my neon filled snot rags in Tasha and Molly's beds without them noticing. The priceless part was the look on their faces when I announced the presence of the snotrags laying amoungst them in the form of the song , " I have a lovely bunch of coconuts."
5.) Watching my Kristina burying fruit at 11pm in Grannys field so that she could have the mason jars.
6.) Dad getting mad at us for staying up too late. So we talking like teenagers on our phones about how young and hip we were and how smart we were for Dad not figuring out that we were textimng each other for the past hour.
7.) Sharing a bed with Chewy and having her body heat literally radiate to me without any surface of my body even touching her.
8.) The stuffed monkey that attacked your face if you weren't paying attention.
9.) Kristina FILLING the back of her van in a SINGLE shopping stop at big lots.
10.) Bree talking in her sleep and her responding "yes" when I said, "
Bree likes it when I fart on her...don't you Bree."
11.)Spending an entire day with Granny Mc without her flipping us off once....or at least not that we saw.
12.) Kristina's amazing CLOGGING AVERAGE for the week: One toilet every two days
13.) Seeing the worst bridesmaids dresses in HISTORY
14.) Laughing because my youngest 16 year old sister is lapping me when it comes to boyfriends..and I am ten years older then her.
15.) The wonder and amazment that came to BOBO and CHEWY's minds as they realized the possibilites of fun that could come to be at the self serve car wash.
16.) Having kids feeding contests with Kristina's kids and shoveling food down their throats as fast as they can chew..or not chew (Bree made Mia gag)
17.) Solidifying a new nickname for Kristinas kid...the name being KID LITTLE (aka Kaylee)
18.) Mia being pure genius at such a young age and licking all the cinnamon sugar off the cereal and then putting it back for her younger sister to eat
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FOR HEADLIGHTS
SO HERE IS YET ANOTHER STORY OF MY BELOVED BLUE L.S.S. CAR THAT ENDURED SUCH A LONG AND HARD LIFE, SHE CAN RUN CIRCLES AROUND THE ENERGIZER BUNNY AND THEN DRIVE ACROSS COUNTRY A DAY LATER.
SO THE OTHER DAY I NOTICED THAT MY CARE SMELT OF AN UNUSUAL ASSORTMENT, BUT DUE TO MY INABILITY TO SMELL I COULD NOT DECIEFER THE SMELL ADEQUATELY TO DIAGNOSE HER.....SO I DROVE ANOTHER WEEK.
SO AFTER A WEEK OF HEARING MY BRAKES SQUEAK i ASSUMED IT WAS THE BREAKS AND WENT AND BOUGHT THE PARTS. BUT WHEN I EXAMINED MY BRAKES I SAW THAT THEY WERE FINE.....SO I DROVE ANOTHER WEEK.
SO THEN THE SMELL CONTINUED AND I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WAS BURNING RUBBER OR JUST THE SMELL OF BURNING ANTIFREEZE...AND I DROVE AN0THER WEEK.
SO THEN WHILE MY SISTERS WERE IN TOWN I ASKED THEM TO DECIFER THE SMELL FOR ME AND THEY CONCLUDED ON BURNING RUBBER. THEN MY BATTERY CHECK LIGHT CAME ON AND I JUST KNEW THAT IT WAS MY ALTERNATOR BELT. SO I GOT AN ALTERNATOR BELT.......SO THEN I ALMOST DROVE ANOTHER WEEK.....OR TWO...
SO SAT COMES ALONG AND I HAVE NO TIME TO CHANGE MY BELT UNLESS I SKIP MY AFRICA HUMANITARIAN PROJECT AND I FIGURE THE LORD WILL BLESS ME FOR PUTTING OTHER PEOPLE FIRST.......I WAS WRONG
SO AFTER THAT, I DROVE TO SOCCOR AND I NOTICED THAT I WAS HAVING A HARD TIME SEEING BETWEEN MY WHITE AND YELLOW ROAD LINES. I ALSO NOTICED THAT MY HEADLIGHTS WERE QUITE DIM AND THAT I FELT LIKE I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH ABOUT THE AMP AND POWER OF TWO CHRISTMAS LIGHTS LEADING MY PATH. I ALSO NOTICED THAT THE RED BATTERY LIGHT ON MY DASH WAS THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN MY CAR AND THAT MY DASH LIGHTS WERE MORE OF A GLOW IN THE DARK TYPE THEN THE TYPICAL ILLUMINATING TYPE. I KNEW THIS WAS NOT GOOD. I JUST NEW THAT MY BELT WAS SHREADED AND THAT I WAS NOT TURING MY ALTERNATOR AND THAT I WAS RUNNING OFF PURE BATTERY JUICE, AND I WAS ABOUT TO THE END OF MY CUP.
SO I THINK MOST PEOPLE WOULD TURN AROUND, BUT I HAD A SOCCOR GAME TO GET TO, SO I LAUGHED AN PROCEEDED ON MY UNLIT JOURNEY.
AT THIS POINT THE AVERAGE PERSON WOULD ASK FOR SOMEONE TO FOLLOW THEIR UNDETERMINED SAFE ARRIVAL HOME. BUT ME, BEING THE EXCESSIVELY PRIDEFUL AND INDISTRUCTABLE PERSON THAT I AM, I DROVE HOME BY MYSELF...THIS TIME WITH NO HEADLIGHTS....AND NO DASHLIGHTS....AND A OFF AGAIN ON AGAIN RADIO....
AT THIS POINT MY BIGGEST CONCERN WAS NOT GETTING CAUGHT BY SOME COP, BUT AFTER A FEW MOMMENTS OF THINKING I DECIDED MY CHANCES OF BEING CAUGHT WERE LESS SINCE HE COULDN'T SEE ME COMING SINCE I WAS TRAVELING IN THE COGNITO OF THE DARK....... AND I LAUGHED LIKE SOMEHOW I WAS SUDDENLY CLEVER.....THEN I NOTICED THAT THE LIGHTS INSIDE MY CAR GOT A LITTLE BRIGHTER, AND THAT WAS BECAUSE A NEW LIGHT APPEARED....MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT!!!!
MY EMOTIONS WERE MIXED AT THIS POINT AND MUCHLY APPRECIATED RIDE HOME CONSISTED OF BURSTS OF LAUGHTER INBETWEEN PRAYERS OF GRATITUDE THAT I WAS YET ONE MILE CLOSER TO MY HOUSE.
SO LONG STORY SHORT, AFTER PUTTING ALL PEICES TO THE PUZZLE TOGETHER I REALIZED THAT I NEED A NEW ALTERNATOR...AND PROBABLY A NEW BATTERY TO BOOT SEEMS AS HOW I SUCKED THIS ONE DRY, LIKE A KID SUCKS THE LAST DROP OUT OF A CAPRI SUN TYPE OF DRY.
SO THAT IS THE NEWEST ADVENTURE OF RONNIE AND HER BLUE L.S.S. BUT I JUST KNOW THAT IT WILL ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE I SPEND A GREASEY MONKEY DAY WITH HER SLAPPING ON A NEW ALTERNATOR AND SHE WILL BE RUNNING LIKE A CHARM AGAIN. I JUST HAD TO SALUTE HER FOR THE OL TROOPER SHE IS AND FOR ALL THE CRAP I HAVE PUT HER THROUGH.
SO THE OTHER DAY I NOTICED THAT MY CARE SMELT OF AN UNUSUAL ASSORTMENT, BUT DUE TO MY INABILITY TO SMELL I COULD NOT DECIEFER THE SMELL ADEQUATELY TO DIAGNOSE HER.....SO I DROVE ANOTHER WEEK.
SO AFTER A WEEK OF HEARING MY BRAKES SQUEAK i ASSUMED IT WAS THE BREAKS AND WENT AND BOUGHT THE PARTS. BUT WHEN I EXAMINED MY BRAKES I SAW THAT THEY WERE FINE.....SO I DROVE ANOTHER WEEK.
SO THEN THE SMELL CONTINUED AND I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WAS BURNING RUBBER OR JUST THE SMELL OF BURNING ANTIFREEZE...AND I DROVE AN0THER WEEK.
SO THEN WHILE MY SISTERS WERE IN TOWN I ASKED THEM TO DECIFER THE SMELL FOR ME AND THEY CONCLUDED ON BURNING RUBBER. THEN MY BATTERY CHECK LIGHT CAME ON AND I JUST KNEW THAT IT WAS MY ALTERNATOR BELT. SO I GOT AN ALTERNATOR BELT.......SO THEN I ALMOST DROVE ANOTHER WEEK.....OR TWO...
SO SAT COMES ALONG AND I HAVE NO TIME TO CHANGE MY BELT UNLESS I SKIP MY AFRICA HUMANITARIAN PROJECT AND I FIGURE THE LORD WILL BLESS ME FOR PUTTING OTHER PEOPLE FIRST.......I WAS WRONG
SO AFTER THAT, I DROVE TO SOCCOR AND I NOTICED THAT I WAS HAVING A HARD TIME SEEING BETWEEN MY WHITE AND YELLOW ROAD LINES. I ALSO NOTICED THAT MY HEADLIGHTS WERE QUITE DIM AND THAT I FELT LIKE I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD WITH ABOUT THE AMP AND POWER OF TWO CHRISTMAS LIGHTS LEADING MY PATH. I ALSO NOTICED THAT THE RED BATTERY LIGHT ON MY DASH WAS THE BRIGHTEST LIGHT IN MY CAR AND THAT MY DASH LIGHTS WERE MORE OF A GLOW IN THE DARK TYPE THEN THE TYPICAL ILLUMINATING TYPE. I KNEW THIS WAS NOT GOOD. I JUST NEW THAT MY BELT WAS SHREADED AND THAT I WAS NOT TURING MY ALTERNATOR AND THAT I WAS RUNNING OFF PURE BATTERY JUICE, AND I WAS ABOUT TO THE END OF MY CUP.
SO I THINK MOST PEOPLE WOULD TURN AROUND, BUT I HAD A SOCCOR GAME TO GET TO, SO I LAUGHED AN PROCEEDED ON MY UNLIT JOURNEY.
AT THIS POINT THE AVERAGE PERSON WOULD ASK FOR SOMEONE TO FOLLOW THEIR UNDETERMINED SAFE ARRIVAL HOME. BUT ME, BEING THE EXCESSIVELY PRIDEFUL AND INDISTRUCTABLE PERSON THAT I AM, I DROVE HOME BY MYSELF...THIS TIME WITH NO HEADLIGHTS....AND NO DASHLIGHTS....AND A OFF AGAIN ON AGAIN RADIO....
AT THIS POINT MY BIGGEST CONCERN WAS NOT GETTING CAUGHT BY SOME COP, BUT AFTER A FEW MOMMENTS OF THINKING I DECIDED MY CHANCES OF BEING CAUGHT WERE LESS SINCE HE COULDN'T SEE ME COMING SINCE I WAS TRAVELING IN THE COGNITO OF THE DARK....... AND I LAUGHED LIKE SOMEHOW I WAS SUDDENLY CLEVER.....THEN I NOTICED THAT THE LIGHTS INSIDE MY CAR GOT A LITTLE BRIGHTER, AND THAT WAS BECAUSE A NEW LIGHT APPEARED....MY CHECK ENGINE LIGHT!!!!
MY EMOTIONS WERE MIXED AT THIS POINT AND MUCHLY APPRECIATED RIDE HOME CONSISTED OF BURSTS OF LAUGHTER INBETWEEN PRAYERS OF GRATITUDE THAT I WAS YET ONE MILE CLOSER TO MY HOUSE.
SO LONG STORY SHORT, AFTER PUTTING ALL PEICES TO THE PUZZLE TOGETHER I REALIZED THAT I NEED A NEW ALTERNATOR...AND PROBABLY A NEW BATTERY TO BOOT SEEMS AS HOW I SUCKED THIS ONE DRY, LIKE A KID SUCKS THE LAST DROP OUT OF A CAPRI SUN TYPE OF DRY.
SO THAT IS THE NEWEST ADVENTURE OF RONNIE AND HER BLUE L.S.S. BUT I JUST KNOW THAT IT WILL ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE I SPEND A GREASEY MONKEY DAY WITH HER SLAPPING ON A NEW ALTERNATOR AND SHE WILL BE RUNNING LIKE A CHARM AGAIN. I JUST HAD TO SALUTE HER FOR THE OL TROOPER SHE IS AND FOR ALL THE CRAP I HAVE PUT HER THROUGH.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Ronnies thoughts on dementia
SO am just getting off work this morning and I was thinking about one of my patients who has dementia. I thought about how scarey it must be for this patient to wake up in a hospital and not remember people or faces. But then I started to wonder if a person can actually be scared with dementia....I mean really...how long can they acutally remember what it is that scared them? Can they be scared on minute and completly forget that they were scared the next? Can they just forget what it is that scared them? Can they just forget to be scared? And so my mind turns with the deep thoughts of ronnie. I am nearly conclusional that dementia really isn't all that bad of a thing to have.
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