September 5, 2005

• I want to have a wiener roast in October.  I want to invite all my
  friends and everyone can bring a dish and we can just talk and laugh
  all evening into the night.  I have a friend with a guitar (dan
  huscusson, he has the first song on the compilation I have chosen) and
  he can sing as long as he wans to, and fun will be had by all. 
  There could be a wagon ride up into the woods and little kids would
  love that. I just want a night of fellowship and fun. Doesn’t that
  sound great?  Of course we would have it at my grandmother’s farm,
  coz that is where Mom and Dad are, and I want them to be able to enjoy
  it also.  I might have to further this plan along. 

  When I came home from work last night, my husband said with a great
  deal of awe in his voice, “That black dog sure is one TOUGH son of a
  (gun)!”
  I asked what brought on this new found respect for the four legged
  destruction crew.  he looked at me, with a tired, resigned look,
  and said, “Well, I ran over him today and you can’t even tell it.”
    ?    
  He went on to say, while I was recovering from that simple statement,
  “I looked for any dogs laying under the car before I got in.  I
  didn’t see any. I backed up and got a sick feeling as I felt first one
  bump and then a second.  Then the lughead was walking away toward
  the pine tree and he was only limping slightly.”
  I remembered Boomer coming out from under the pine tree when I went out
  of the house an hour later and he was just as goofy as ever and I
  noticed he wasn’t limping.  I noticed this because he has been
  limping on and off for the past three weeks. 
  But I had to go to the door and call Boomer in just to make sure he was
  okay.  I checked him all over and he was fine! 

  Maybe it’ll slow him down some.  On our morning walks he sometimes
  likes to drag me, if i’m not paying attention.  Too bad it won’t
  keep him from chewing up everything that isn’t nailed down.  I
  bought five pots of mums last week.  I did not put them out in my
  flower garden because anything I put in the ground my “groundskeeper
  “  takes right back out.  And then lays there with the plant
  between his paws and that silly pink tongue hanging out the side of his
  mouth.    So I put them up on the table outside the
  front door.  There were five until Friday.  Then one
  disappeared.  ……
  Mike found remnants of it scattered in the back yard and the pot torn
  up all over the place!  But at least that was the only thing this
  week.  Hey!  things are looking up!

  I was going to write in my blog every day, but Thursday I worked 21 and
  1/2 hours!  I worked from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the group home,
  supposedly just a med pass.  That’s a whole rant in itself. 
  Then I was at the nursing home from  2:30  P.m. until  7
  a.m. on Friday.  Reason being , the midnight nurse called off and
  there was no one to replace her. So i stayed over.  I called
  Mike  at work and told him not to expect me home that night and he
  said  I  needed to be careful and not get sick.  At
  about 4 a.m.  I started getting a sore throat and by the time
  7  rolled around I was well on my way to  having the 
  virus everyone at the nursing home has!   So  I slept
  all  day  and most of Saturday.  Then I went back to
  work at 3 p.m.  on Saturday.  Yesterday, I tried to catch up
  with some (very little) house work, then off to work.  I had today
  off and went to visit the parents.  It was fun, and the food was
  great!  I work tomorrow afternoon then again at 11 p.m. on
  Thursday.  Hopefully no more doubles for a while. 

  I  have also started the President’s Fitness Challenge
  again.  I started once back in January, but was forced to quit
  after five weeks due to health problems.  This time I am making
  sure I am taking all my supplements so I don’t faint again. 

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