Pet peeve

Actually, I have a couple of them.

 Lately after I have been writing my blog, I use auto spelling, just in case. I had a couple of errors and when I went to delete them, the whole post was deleted, including pictures! Both times when it happened, I had written looong posts, after they got deleted I didn't write them over again because I was upset. I don't know what I was doing wrong.

 The other pet peeve is, when I write a comment in Sandy's, or Lizzie's or Mia's blog, I have to write a number and some letters (to show I'm not a robot?!) Well 9 times out of 10 I cannot read the damn mixed up letters, and I have to keep guessing, and sometimes I finally get so annoyed that I just don't comment! Has it ever happened to you?

 On to better things. This weekend Lizzie came over, we talked about her trip to Utah. I am so glad my 2 kids get along so well :) We went out to lunch to Taps, I had a $50.00 gift card I got for Christmas from one of my students about 3 years ago lol. It was good. Then for dinner we had take out from Geezers.

 Speaking of Geezers, a few days ago I met some of my teachers friends for Happy Hour. It was nice, but I am glad I am not working now, since the classes in kindergarten have gone up to 312 children, way too many for a teacher with no aides. It was fun listening to them bitching and complaining hee hee.

Well I am not going to risk having this post deleted so I am going to post it as is. Have a good week!!!

August recap

This month I made several appointments for myself.
August1, had a general check up, all is well. My diabetes is well controlled :)
August 10, I had my hair colored, cut and styled, nice.
August 22, Dentist appointment,  xrays and check up.
August 28,  Back to the dentist.  He always find trouble spots. This time it was supposed to be a simple filling but ended up a crown. Also had to have a deep cleaning of the gums, painful! I have a huge bruise in my lower right jaw.
He just did my right side, next appointment 2 more crowns and deep cleaning of the left side.
August 31, went to the podiatrist. My feet look great now and there were no major issues :)

Marvin's brother and sisters came to visit at the beginning of the month. They of course brought Petey, he looked a bit raggedy.

I had fun watching the Olympic Games from London!!!!

Marvin had a bad day on Tuesday, August 7th. I had to call 911, he was taken to the ER in Whittier Community Hospital, and was transferred to Kaiser Irvine where he stayed in observation for 24 hours.

Sandy had knee surgery on August 13th. All went well and she's in her way to recovery!  Lizzie went to stay with her for a week. Lizzie came to La Mirada the first 3 weekends of the month. It's always nice and helpful to have her around :)
Tristan started 9th grade on August 27th. I hope he does as well as he did in 8th grade. He's a smart boy!!! :)

Books I've read this month:

Elizabeth Adler - From Barcelona, with Love

Barbara Taylor Bradford - 3 weeks in Paris

Brian O'Reilly - Angelina's Bachelors

Liza Palmer - More like her

Anita Hughes - monarch beach

Meredith Mileti - Aftertaste

Katie Fforde - Wedding Season

 

Here's to a good September!

Grrrrr

I wrote a long post and I don't know why, it got deleted. I don't feel like rewriting it right now because I am p.o. :) Anyway, here's a video I took of Lulu and her new toy, a ball that makes noises. It's in You Tube because it's too long to download here. Here's the link if you want to look at it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCBX3m0rlbo&feature=youtu.be I hope the weather starts cooling down soon, it's hot!!!

Estate Sale

There was a Estate Sale down the street from my house. In an house with turrets, lived an old woman with her sons and daughter. There was always a bunch of things in the garage, they fixed fancy cars, etc. I don't know much about them. Marvin said the father was in jail. Anyway, the matriarch of the clan died  about a couple of weeks ago, and so they had a sale in their large front yard. I saw it driving by and told Lizzie about it and this morning, we walked down to see what they had, Lulu came along. I was afraid she would bark and growl at all the stuff but she was well behaved and strangely quiet. Overwhelmed maybe :)

It was quite a different sale. There was so much stuff. The main things were hundreds of stuffed animals, all sizes and shapes, mostly bears, but also rabbits and other species. Most of the animals wore outfits.



There was also a long table full of  cats, also all sizes and shapes. Most of them ceramic.

There were about 5 or 6 big doll houses. They were rather pretty. Fairly old, well made, Victorian style. Also at least 2  fancy decorative bird cages. I thought they were quite interesting looking and pretty. Some interesting furniture as well.

And dolls. All kinds. Some life like, some scary looking, there were also 2 large prams. This one in the picture had a beautiful dress on. You can see a doll house in the background.

I think I've become somewhat obsessed with the whole thing. I debated for a long time whether to go back and buy stuff (a birdcage for $40.00), a nice piece of furniture that was white with an oval mirror and 3 drawers, really nice (was $40, but I could have it for $30). I'm pretty sure if Lizzie had not been here I would have gone and bought them. But she kept me sane lol. I really have no room for it and I don't need more stuff.

Lizzie took a bunch of pictures and put them in Facebook. I will put some of the same here too. But it doesn't really do justice to the sheer amount of stuff they had for sale.

Today was the last day and there were tons of stuff left. I wonder what they'll do with it.

In other news, I fell off the bed and woke up on the floor this morning!

This and That

On Tuesday,  I tried to get Marvin ready for dialysis, but he awoke confused and listless and just wanted to keep sleeping. He was acting much like the way he was June 4th. It is very disturbing, even though I sort of knew what was happening, it is hard to deal with. Kaiser told me to call 911, which I did. In no time we had a huge firetruck, a paramedics truck and an ambulance in front of the house. 12 big firemen came in and worked on Marvin checking BP, sugar level etc and decided he needed to be transported to the nearest hospital immediately, and then proceeded to do so.
He stayed at the Whittier Communityt Hospital ER and after some tests, he was transferred to Kaiser Irvine. He was released today.
My friend Jennifer drove me to pick him up since I hate to drive highways and it's about an hour from home. We first stopped to eat at the Daily Grill in Irvine.

Marvin's brother and sisters have been visiting Friday and Monday. They brought their little poodle Petey. He has a bad attitude and is always trying to bite Lulu.

Petey is Dewey's dog but he seems to have become Mary's dog now. She's always carrying him on her arms, and she reluctantly puts him down in the backyard to play with Lulu. It was pretty funny.

Lizzie was here last weekend, the 3 of us went to Johnny Rebs and had a nice time, she's also coming this weekend, after spending a couple of days days in Disneyland for Dakota's 15th birthday.

Sandy is getting prepared for her surgery on Monday. I wish I could be of more help to her, but she knows I will be with her in my thoughts.

To my readers, I love you all :)

July Recap

July has been a good month. Is the first month since Marvin got sick, that we have not had any emergencies or setbacks :)
It was also the first time in over a year that Marvin drove to go to the store.

We had Tristan come over to visit for a week, and it was great to have him here. Sandy and Lizzie also came that weekend, it was good to be all together.



I had a hearing test and found out that even though I can hear "normally" I cannot hear certain sounds in 2 and 3 syllable words, therefore I say "huh?" a lot. So now you know why!

Lulu graduated from dog training 101 but she didn't get a certificate :(
but she's doing better. She also got a puppy haircut and looks cute.

She loves to play outside in the sprinkler, we have fun watching her!



Books I've read in July

Didn'r read as many as usual because Tristan and the girls were here and I did a lot of gardening and cleaning etc. But I enjoyed the books I read!

JULY

Jonathan Kellerman - Victims

Cynthia Harrod-Eagles - Country Plot

Polly Williams - A Bad Bride's Tale

Jennifer Weiner - The Next Best Thing

Susan Elizabeth Phillips - The Great Escape