December 8, 2007

• It’s COLD!!

  18* and only 8* with the windchill.  It is definitely too cold for me…   I prefer temps somewhere in the 70’s to lower 80’s range…   I keep looking for the place that has these temps year around, no hurricanes, no tornadoes, no bugs big enough to carry me off, but I haven’t found it yet…   Hubby says there is no place like that, but I am just sure somewhere is my dream spot, I just have to find it  

   

  Back to reality…  It has been awhile since I have had time to blog.  We had our Thanksgiving dinner.  It went very well.  Everyone ate til they were stuffed and we still had tons of food left over.  I sent doggy bags home with all of the kids and the next morning we headed to Ohio to visit hubby’s mom.   It was a nice visit, but then it always is.  Baby got to play in the new hotel swimming pool, I thought it was a little chilly but her and Sara thought the water was just fine.  We went to dinner at the Der Dutchman, a very nice family style Amish type restaurant.  They have a bakery and a small craft store that we always enjoy looking around in.  Sunday came wayyyy too soon and it was time to head back.  As we come into Indiana there is a shop called Warm Glow Candles that I love to stop at.  I bought some candles and some neat hand dipped silicone bulbs that flicker.  They look so nice in my little electric hurricane lamps..   Then it was back home, and back to work..

   

  The last few weeks we have been really working hard on getting the living room/dining room finished so we can get our Christmas tree up.  I refuse to put our decorations up with the place looking like a shambles.  Hubby has been very busy at work but he has gotten the mudding finished, he got the walls primed, then the texture put on, and then re primed the texture.  Last Wednesday night he got the walls and ceiling painted, Thursday he got the contrasting color on the walls and Friday morning we went to Menards and picked up the plywood for the new floor.  Before he went in to work Friday he put all the recessed lighting in and this morning he got half of the floor put in…   He doesn’t get a day off work til next Friday so he can only work on the room when he has a few hours after he gets home or before he goes in to work.  Today he has to close the store so he had a few hours this morning, but he wont get home til late so I don’t expect anymore to get done with the floors til tomorrow night.   The kids are all gone right now, but as soon as they get home we are going to get the dust wiped off everything and try and get some more stuff put away so there will be less work later…

   

  I need to get about 3 more bird feeders to hang off the hooks on the back deck.  I only have one up now on the front deck and the poor birds are fighting over who gets to eat first.  Hubby bought another 50# bag of bird seed last night but didn’t get the extra feeders so as soon as I have a way over to the store I will pick some up.  We are down to 2 cars, hubby needs one and Alex has been using the other one.  He had to go in for his monthly Marine class.  Today they are going to the Arsenal to shoot M-16’s.  He was sure excited about that…

   

  Well, not much else going on….   Ohhhh one thing I forgot.  Remember when I broke my ankle back in June?  When I was finally able to get up I couldn’t put any weight on my left leg and so used crutches and only my right leg to get around.  My right knee started really bothering me and as the months went on it has gotten more and more painful.  Painful to the point that when I sit down and try to get back up I almost can’t walk.  Any kind of using my knee hurts it.  I went to see the Orthopedic Dr.  He gave me a cortisone shot in the knee joint and sent me to 4 weeks of therapy.  The shot helped with the pain but the therapy didn’t help at all.  Next was an MRI…  So he gave me another shot of cortisone, this time in the nerve that runs along side my knee and sent me off for the MRI.  I went back last Thursday for the results of the MRI and he said I have degenerative arthritis in my knees, no cartilage, (if I wasn’t so young he said they would want to do a knee replacement on me) but he did see one tear in what little cartilage I have in my knee.  So I am going to hobble thru the holidays and go back and see him in January.  If I am feeling better then great, if not I may have arthroscopic surgery done to repair that cartilage.  He said it is all up to me..   So we’ll see how I feel next month…   Ok,  now that is all the news    Have a great weekend everyone

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