This is the day Nick and Ted embark on the journey west. They should leave here by 11 to make the drive to Sault Ste. Marie for tonight, then Thunder Bay, Winnipeg, Regina and Edmonton or Calgary. Ted will fly to Ottawa next Wednesday for a meeting, then home that night. Nick will make the last leg of the journey to Vancouver on his own. This day has been looming for weeks. Ugh.
It's business as usual for me today, driving here and there, baby sitting from 4 till 7 or so. What's up for you today?
I know that this is going to be a tough day for you, KaeEll, and for once, I'm rather glad that you're going to be busy with your Friday schedule.
I'm in a funk. AD is feeling low again, and is so far away, and NC-D is pitching a fit over various stuff, trying to control everyone from afar, and Lucy seems to be developing an allergy to her pain meds.
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
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Moore, do you think we ever gave our own parents this much grief? If someone had told me 20 years ago that grown up kids would be a hundred times more taxing than a bunch of little ones, I'd have called them crazy.
Poor Lucy. Puppy hugs to her.
Oh - here's a little sumpthin'. Yesterday afternoon, my friend that I made the chutney with insisted I go with her to a reception in Mississauga (dreaded suburb) and as it turns out, it was her plastic surgeon's little do replete with on screen befores and afters of EVERYTHING you could imagine. The reception room at the hotel was jammed with clients and would-be clients of all shapes, sizes and ages. As we walked around looking at the displays, the person behind the table would ever-so-kindly suggest how their particular procedure could benefit each of us. By the time I got home at 6:30 I could have bitten heads off chickens and spit them a block away. Not my cuppa tea.
So glad its Friday. What a week. I will be glad when the nausea part of this mess is over. Stinks when something sounds SO good but then it makes you sick. I mean whats that about. I had a cup of hot cocoa this morning and now I am feeling bleh...Just did my time card though. I am out of here at 3. So YAH...
Kae I hope you manage to keep your thoughts busy today. I feel bad for Ted having to drive back from dropping Nick off by himself. Though men handle things like this better then we do. I would have a hard time being alone with my thoughts that way.
Moore I hope that Lucy gets to feeling better. Its tough with pets because you can't always understand what they are saying.
We're going to have Lucy seen tomorrow morning, and I left a message for the vet to call me this afternoon. Poor thing. She seems to be miserable from the itching, and it came on so suddenly.
I'm sorry about the nausea, Shelly. I know that it's no fun right now, but it will all be worth it in the end. Look what you got the last time you went through this: Jolene! I'm sure that you wouldn't trade her for the world, even if it meant going through nine months of feeling wretched. Hopefully, your nausea won't last that long this time around. (crossing fingers)
KaeEll, I'm sure that the professionals at your little reception would have had a lot of fun making recommendations to me. There's a lot to fix! They could all buy new yachts...
No thank you.
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
(Dumbledore to Harry Potter)
Oh, KaeEll... I'm so sorry. No, it never gets any easier. Jim and I had our own moments yesterday. Adult children are still our children, and we never stop being their parents.
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"It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities"
(Dumbledore to Harry Potter)
Funny you mention plastic surgery Kae, I had my weight loss check up with my doc, and I'm almost deffinitely going to need to get some work for extra skin in my tummy, and some excess skin in the boob area too. I still have a good year or so before I'd need to worry about it, but he said I might wanna find out someone who might be covered with our insurance because if ther is extra skin he plans on classifying the surgery as a a medical necessity so luckily our insurance is great and will cover that as long s the doctor writes up the referral.
I'm really not looking forward to doctor shopping.
I'm actually off work today and there is no way on earth that I'm going in. I don't care if cable, phone, or internet dies a horrible death or if the entire state has no cable, I'm not dealing with those crazy folks again. Yesterday, a lot of the customers from the night before still had no cable so yeah I should've called off lol.
OH well. Hugs and kisses for the poor lil puppy Moore. I think I'm going to make brownies with the kids today. Uhoh my muffins are burning bbs luvs
I'm back from baby sitting and that helped! Little Quentin scoots around like a frog at lightening speed, so it was a challenge to cook their dinner and watch him at the same time, lol. The minute I walked in the door here the phone was ringing and it was the guys from The Soo asking me to type in hotwire.com to look for a hotel for them. So that made me feel so much better, in that they still need me one way or another.
Nothing going on tonight except that Mike gets back here from WV around 10. I'm going to make myself a bit of dinner in a while and watch my recordings of Midsommer Murders. Ted always falls asleep during those episodes so it won't feel much different tonight.
Tony called from the Orlando airport and he's going to be stuck in Charlotte for an hour bringing him back to Toronto after midnight. I'll see them all again tomorrow for the BD party for my little froggie boy.
Thanks for asking, Moore. :)
Jess, you should have been with me yesterday at that cosmetic surgery junket. Wow, what they can't do now! It's amazing to me how many ordinary looking people put themselves through such an ordeal and for what? I'd have thought an improvement in their SOULS would make more of a difference in their lives than a subtle difference in appearance. But there it is. As I said, not my cuppa tea. But good luck to you, Jess and let us know what happens.
