I can't believe I haven't posted since last Saturday! Believe me when I say I've had something going on everyday this week.

Early, early Monday morning, "dear" little Oonagh got her revenge for the auto trip to the vets. She woke me at 02:00 a.m. howling her little furry heart out. I stumbled out of bed to check on her, and when I opened the door to the bedroom (which was already opened enough to allow the cats to come and go) there she was, sitting there, pretty as you please, looking around as if to say "Oh, hey, I'm just sitting here. What are YOU doing up?"

She ran off when I bent to pick her up.

Little snot.
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Monday, after work, I went to my folk's house to celebrate Dad's 79th B'day. We went out to eat at a place called Garfield's. It's a chain restaurant. The food is really good usually, but Mom and I each ordered a pasta special which neither one of us was too impressed with. For $9.99, we got an appetizer, main dish, and desert. We both felt the quality of all three was lacking. But because we didn't want to linger too long (Mom's been having all kinds of breathing issues still) neither one of us thought about sending our plates back.

Still, we had a nice enough time. Then we went back to their house and Dad opened his gifts. I got Dad this awesome horse figurine. If any of you have heard of the "Trail of the Painted Pony" --a community art project of sorts used to raise money for various towns--you will know what I am speaking of. Hall-Mark stores and some others sell copies of the full-sized painted horses. I found one for Dad painted by a favorite artist of his and mom's. Amado Pena is a Southwest artist from New Mexico. The horse I got for Dad is blue and has a painting of three Navajo men wearing long-brimmed, tall-crowned hats. They are standing in a row and their brims connect the men to each other.

My dad was thrilled with his gift.

We have had a similar community project in town now but with life-size painted buffalo instead of horses. Tulsa has done the same but with penguins.
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Tuesday, I was really tired. I figured it was because I stayed up rather late the night before waiting for an e-mail that uploaded to my computer after I got home. The e-mial was a series of three, large pictures of a little boy that some very close family friends of ours have just adopted from Korea. He is actually the new nephew of my #2 sister.

Anyway, I was tired all day, and my allergies were causing me some issues. I was having horrible drainage and so was drinking a lot of water to help thin things out.

On top of that, there was a "Ladies Dinner" for the women at church at 06:00 p.m. I rushed home, touched up my make-up and took an anti-histamine and a decongestant, and then flew back across town to pick up Mom. The church building is actually between us. Anyway, soon after we got there, I suddenly needed to go use the bathroom.

It was weird, because I wasn't nauseated. In fact, I was starving, but three times, I had this sudden urge to run to the bathroom. Yet it seemed to be a lot of noise, but very little else.

And then without warning, I got so tired, I just about couldn't stand it. I just assumed it was my anti-histamine finally kicking in. So after the dinner ended, I took mom home and then went home and hit the bathroom again. This time, it was more than noise.... I took a shower and went to bed--it wasn't even 10:00.
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I slept harder and didn't wake until 06:00 a.m. when my alarm went off.

Again, all day Wednesday, although I wasn't having the issues I did the day before, I was just tired.

Well, my sunglasses had come in, and my new lenses, so I left about 30 minutes before lunch and ran to the eye doctor to pick them up. The sunglasses are great, but the lenses didn't fit my frames, so they had to be sent back. This time, I sent the frames back to be fitted, and then had to drive home to get my old frames that I haven't worn for about 2 years.

Anyway, by that evening, I was still tired. I kept thinking it was from that 24 hour allergy meds, and kept expecting it to wear off at any time. Well, by 6:00, it hadn't worn off, and I didn't have the energy to go to church. Instead, I soaked in the tub for an hour, then watched AI and checked e-mail. I had planned to blog here, but realized I was too tired to sit here for more than an hour typing.

I had barely gotten into bed when T called. Her son got his driver's license wed and T had let him drive himself to church. She was getting nervous and called me so I could hold her hand so to speak.

Then we talked about her meeting with the ordination committee coming up. She attends a different denomination than I do, so it was interesting hearing all the things she will have to do to become a minister.

Anyway, as we spoke, her son made it safely home.

I turned off my light and fell asleep.
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Thusday:

Work was a little crazy. Our WIC consultant came. She oversees our Nutritionist and our WIC CPA. New Girl has been training to be a WIC backup, and has needed someone to sign off on her work when she sees a client. Well, when our current nutritionist was hired, she was not expected to have the knowledge of certification that most other WIC Nutritionists have had. This means that N.G. hasn't had anyone available to check her work. I went back to the room they were meeting in at one point to ask a question, and the next thing I knew, I was being asked questions on a procedure none of us had been following, etc.

I felt like I spent that entire day running charts hither and yon.

Thursday evening, I had Sign Language class. Mom called me at work to invite me to supper before class, so instead of going home first, I went to their house.

Class goes anywhere from 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Luckily, we got out at 09:00 but I was really ready to get home when i did. But instead of getting to relax, I jumped right into washing the dishes that i had planned to wash like...since Monday and hadn't had the time or energy to wash. I also cleaned the cat boxes.

Anyway, suddenly, it was late again.
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Friday,

I was feeling a little bit better finally. Well, my new lenses came in, so right after lunch, I ran to get them so I could start wearing my new glasses. I don't know if it was just the weather change (we've had rain this week but yesterday, the sun came back out.) but suddenly, I started to feel tired again. I could tell that my brain was having trouble adapting to my new lenses. I knew I've needed bi-focals at least since last summer. I could actually feel the lenses of my eyes adjusting anytime I turned my head, or went from looking at my computer, to looking at the forms I work with.

But now, my eyes are not having to do this, and my brain is not use to the speed at which my eyes are now being forced to adjust to once again. It was kind of weird--kind of dizzying.

Well, after work, I had to make a grocery trip to Wally-World. I got it into my head that i wanted a frozen pizza for supper. I bought raw veggies for a salad, but then decided I needed chips. I was thinking that last night was the Olympic closing ceremonies so I wanted to snack while i watched them. I found these weird, but strangely appealing Doritos called "All Nighter--Cheeseburger". You don't want to know what the ingredients are, but they really DO taste like a cheeseburger with pickles!

Well, while going back towards the front to pay, I spotted these new Cheerios--chocolate. My inner child and I had a brief argument as I had already bought the pizza, chips, and diet coke. The inner child won.

Anyway, I had planned to come home, give attention to my cats, etc. Right after I got home, I discovered that some of the bulbs I planted last fall are putting up shoots. So, while messing around in my flower bed for a moment, my allergies intensified. I had to take another anti-histamine.

So, here I was, already feeling tired, and now on more allergy meds again. I lay down on the couch to read and watch T.V. but about 09'ish or so, I fell asleep. Somewhere, about 12 or 1, I woke up. I can't remember what I must have been doing between the couch and my bedroom, but for some reason, I decided to play My Zoo for a minute.

Suddenly, it was 02:00 a.m. and I went to bed.
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Saturday

I didn't get up until almost noon. The cats woke me at 08:00 to feed them. AT&T woke me at 09 to offer me internet (which I told them I already had and hung up on them) and then I went back to sleep.

So, I dragged myself up, ate chocolate Cheerios. (Good!) and watched Animal Planet channel while working on my Sign Language book (I finally bought plastic sleeves to put over the instruction pages our teacher gave us.)

I've done a little laundry, cleaned up after Mabb (who is suddenly having hair-ball issues.) pulled more weeds in the yard, etc.

Oh, and an awful thing! I bought this beautiful glass bird bath last spring. I didn't realize how delicate the glass on it was and forgot and left it out during the blizzard. Well, a chunk of glass broke out of it to my sorrow. I put the bowl into a box and stuck it into a box in my shed until warmer weather when I planned to repair it with epoxy glue.

So, I brought it into the house a few hours ago, set the box down (which had been sitting up in the shed all this time with no problems) The box chose that moment to fall over and I heard the sound of breaking glass.

The birdbath is now in several pieces.

I am still planning to see if I can fix it with epoxy glue, but I am just ill about it. I bought it from a store that was going out of business, and they didn't have the original box or anything that would have told me how to care for it (the glass is very thick, and I thought it would be like other glass items that are meant to be left outside.) The darn thing was quite expensive, and when I bought it, Mom had planned to pay for half of it for my Valentine's gift. Well, she forgot and I didn't mention it again, but that left me with the entire cost.

Actually, I had planned to just buy a cement or metal birdbath, but this one is/was really pretty--bottle-green glass, fluted edges.

Anyway, I am really sick about it. I hope I can fix it.

Now I have on the weather channel and am listening to them talk about a tsunami that might be hitting Hilo Hawaii.

So, that's me caught up for now.

Later.