November 6 - An update

It's hard to think of stuff to write every day, especially when nothing much is happening (as opposite of too many things going the last few weeks). I am not complaining.
Tomorrow we are going to the doctor to see what she has to say about the abdominal abscess and about continuing the antibiotic treatment. So far we have had a home nurse come daily to give the treatment and it has worked fine.
Marvin is feeling a lot better although he's still feeling weak. He's eating well and walking around with help from the walker. He even stands on his own for a while (he cooked breakfast today).
Norbert will be coming one day this week to installed a couple of smoke alarms and a carbon monoxide alarm, which is required by California law.
Have a good week everybody!

November 6 -

It's hard to write every day. There is not much going on, which is a good thing after too much going on the past few weeks!


Norbert was going to come by and put a smoke alarm and a carbon monoxide alarms as to install them.required by California law. Since my sense of smell is pretty bad, it's a good idea to have smoke alarms -we installed one a long time ago but it never worked). We decided to wait till Wednesday.


Tomorrow we are going to the doctor and see what she has to say about the abdominal abcess

November 5, Attention Deficit Disorder

I just finished reading Sandy's blog, and I reached an obvious conclusion: My husband and daughters are planners and organizers. I am not.
I make lists, and promptly lose them, or misplace them (I find my grocery list as soon as I get back from the store). I spend countless hours looking for things. I try to organize pictures, papers, documents etc. and although I really try, it just doesn't last.
When I worked at Jersey, I organized teaching units by the month, I always started the year knowing where everything was, but after a week or two, everything was upside down, because I never filed papers in the corresponding box and let things accumulate. For instance, If I looked for a Thanksgiving unit, I would find it in January. I of course would then have to create new units, which was good because I didn't like to do the same thing year after year, so maybe...

Because of Marvin being sick, it would be convenient for me to plan and organize. Lizzie told me to get a journal and write basically everything related to his care.
I got a journal, and wrote a few things, and told myself I needed to keep it up.
And I tried.
But I cannot find it.
(Not to worry, I have kept track of the important stuff, like appointments and medication)

I have been told I may have some ADD. Reading this site http://www.livingwithadd.com/ I find that both positive and negative signs describe me pretty well. Especially the completing tasks, organizing and focusing. I also agree with the positive traits.

So that explains it! :)

November 4 - Rain

Rain on the green grass,

Rain on the tree,

Rain on the housetop,

But not on me!

November 3- The Hawk

I was looking out at the backyard this afternoon and saw a bunch of birds flying into the orange tree, it looked like they wanted to hide. Then I went to the kitchen.

Marvin called me to come back and look outside, there was a hawk sitting by the handrail and he had just caught a bird and had him between his claws!

I hurried to take my camera and took a picture from the inside so it's not too clear, but if you click on it and make it bigger you can see the poor little bird :(

The hawk looked at me directly like daring me to do something, when I opened the door, he flew away still clutching the bird.

I have at times seen feathers on the grass and now I know why!

November 2

Another beautiful November day.
Woke up pretty early and was busy all day, but thinking back, I really didn't do much.
I wanted to go in the Jacuzzi but I got sidetracked and forgot all about it.
Where did the day go?
And now, I was ready to scan some pictures, and my scanner decided it doesn't want to work anymore. What to do? Buy a new one or take one of Marvin's? (he has 2).
And that's about it for today.

November 1

So October was not so great either, but I have high hopes for November. Marvin has been feeling pretty good since he came home from the hospital, plus we are having a nurse coming daily to give him antibiotics with an IV, plus a therapist also came by to give him pointers on doing some exercises to strenghten his legs and arms etc. He's been eating better and is enjoying going outside on the new ramp and breathe in the fresh air :)

Today was a pretty good day, the beautiful weather always makes me happy. I took Marv to dialysis, and after that I went to visit my friends at Jersey. I didn't stay too long but it was nice to see everybody and especially having so many of the kids that had me as a teacher come and hug me and tell me they miss me and wish they were back in kinder :D

I have also kept in touch with many of my exkinderkids in Facebook. I posted some Halloween pictures and they loved them, now I found more and more kids (well they are adults now) wanting to be friends and wanting pictures of them in kinder too.

In the evening I went to the Library, and it was one of those rare days when I found several books I wanted to read, now have to decide which one will be first, they all appeal me a lot!

November 1 is All Saints Day. In Spain they celebrate by going to the cemetery and visiting your dear departed, but is also a day where you eat yummy panellets, and roast chestnuts and just eat a lot of goodies. Here Mexicans also celebrate the day but in a different way, they make "Pan de muertos" which is like a sweet bread. I bought one and I am about to eat some with hot chocolate. Nice way to end the day (although probably the chocolate will keep me up all night) .