News of the Bizarre..........................

I've learned to listen to very strangely delivered messages so when this odd happening occurred, I rolled with it to see what would happen.......

A little background.............I've been having terrible pain in my left leg.  It starts in my thigh; one side to the other and always in front and radiates down my leg.  Sometimes all the way down to the bottom of my foot, sometimes in my calf but always, constantly there.  The doctors don't seem to know what it is and I went to the Emergency Room one night as the pain was excruciating and they took X-rays. I do have a hip bone that's chipped.......prolly from all the wild sex........gasp, did I think that out loud?  LOL  Anyway, they don't think the pain is caused from the chip.

Now for the wierd..........I NEVER answer a call on my cell phone if I don't recognize the number as it irritates the hell out of me to pay for minutes because some idiot punched a number in incorrectly and got me. I do, however google it if it's a completely bizarre number such as the one yesterday.  I pulled up the number and had several different listings for it so for some odd reason I decided to call the number back to see who it was.  It's from a doctor's office in Loma Linda that specializes in pain!  I checked out his website as again I've learned that nothing is coincidental and when scrolling down landed right on the type of pain I have.  I'm looking into it, but yep, pretty bizarre!  The Gods have a sense of humor.  Nothing ordinary for me!

Speaking of which.......most of you know I was diagnosed with Cancer in 2000 and have had a clean bill of health since.......until a few weeks ago.  I'm having symptoms of a reoccurance and have a doctor's appointment today.  Wish me luck!

Namaste

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Well, at the moment, I'm incredibly boring......

I'm working two jobs again and have been for the last month.  I'm working at Ikea in Costa Mesa and I really enjoy it.  I just cut my hours there from full time to part time as working 70 hours a week was literally killing me.  I still have one week left of full time before I go part time.  I can't tell you how relieved I am!!

We've adopted 3 new children in the last month or so.  King is another Ball Python who also has scarring on his belly.  I saw him when I went to buy a rat for Jazzmin and couldn't walk out without him.  At the time he wasn't for sale as he wasn't eating and still isn't, but I'm not worried.  He's a big boy and sometimes Ball's go as long as 6 months before they eat.  We are going to take him to the vet though and have him checked out.

Ghost is a little white rat that was supposed to be King's dinner.  We bought Jazzmin and King rats at the same time.  Jazzmin gulped her's down like a good girl and King wandered up to his, gave him a big smile and said, "Howdy, Roomate!"  King just looked at his rat and so we removed the rat and put him in a cage intending for him to be dinner in another two weeks. If you know me, you know why he's now a pet and not future dinner.  I named him Ghost because he's been given a reprieve and is now the "living dead".

Serafina was found under an abandoned truck.  Doug was bringing Clinton home from school one night and they heard a terribly loud mewing sound coming from a truck that's been parked in the same place for months now.  Clinton managed to get her out and take her inside where he looked at his arms which were completely black.  They bathed the poor kitten 3 times and she still smelled like motor oil when I came home from work late that night.  It took her almost a week for our dog, Chopper to completely get her cleaned and smelling like a cat should.  I'm really glad we found her as she eventially would have become ill and died from trying to lick off all that motor oil!  She's a beautiful cat that looks like a Maine Coon.  She's all black with a silver mane, long hair and green eyes.

Ah the more the merrier.....................as Doug's eyes roll back in his head again! That makes 7 pets and 6 kids!!  hehehehe

Ah yes, the vacation from Hell. 

I don't even know quite exactly where to start and I wasn't sure I was ready to re-live the whole experience by writing about it, so I've taken my sweet time doing an update.  I think at this point I"m feeling brave enough to dip my toe into the frigid experience once again.  I was going to give you a play-by-play, but I'd be 90 before I was done so I'll just give you the highlights and some pics.

Dougs oldest son landed in the hospital the day we were supposed to leave due to drinking too much.
*My windshield gets broken during transport to the hospital
*I was left to deal with the whole fucking mess by myself and Clinton's mom was not the nicest person to deal with while at the hospital
*Clinton's BAC was .37
*We left almost 24 hours late for vacation due to Clinton's little "excursion" to put it nicely out of respect for Doug.

Clinton decided that what he'd done wasn't really that bad and started to boast about it in the van.
*I went balistic over the cavalier attitude, lack of respect for all of us and elevated sense of self.
*Not a good way to start out the vacation with that kind of tension but I was SO pissed that I didn't care.

Originally we were supposed to drive straight through to Kansas with Doug and I trading off.
*I drove for a good portion of the night and was taking NO DOZ to make doubly sure I was wide awake.
*Doug decided that we'd stop for 5 or 6 hours right after I'd taken another dose and I was wide awake.
*I had no sleep for me the entire first night and I sat in the hotel room and listened to people snore.

At this point my rotten mood was even worse.  I'd had to deal with Clinton and his lack of respect, my windshield was broken, Clinton's attitude sucked, I'd driven through a good portion of the night and then had no sleep at all and was majorly irritated with Doug for not communicating with me that we'd be stopping.  We had 7 people packed into a small hotel room so it was hot and sweaty in there and one of the 7 snored like a fucking freight train....he who shall not be named! I can tell ya, I was less than pleasant the following morning....in which I was starving and due to another miscommunication between Doug and I, I ended up eating much later than my blood sugar had reserves for.

The drive seemed to take FOREVER and about 3 hours before we got there, a semi made an unsafe turn around a corner and almost hit us head on.  An hour outside of Mayfield, after never having seen a deer on his travels before, Doug almost hit 3 of them.  I tell ya, I will NEVER vacation during a Mercury Retrograde again!!

More to come..........................

Quick update........not pregnant, don't know what's up but not pregnant is a good thing! lol

Getting ready for our 2 week vacation to Kansas.  Road trip with 5 kids, driving straight through, almost 24 hours.  Wish the kids luck! hehehe!  

Meeting Doug's parents for the first time and am looking forward to it!

My dad was out here for the week last week from AZ and stayed with us.  It was a great time and a short week.  Other visits haven't been so pleasant, but I really enjoyed my dad this time around.

Wishing you all a very belated happy Summer Solstice!!

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Pregnancy or Perimenopause?

1 - No period for 2 months

2 - Moody.....irritable, sad, teary and then back to ok again.........was never moody like this on a regular basis

3 - Tender Breasts for about 2 months

4 - Tired.......really tired.  Can't seem to climb back on top of it........ever

5 - Hungry all the time.......and gaining weight......ugh!

6 - Pimples.........ick..........don't usually ever have more than one at a time.  Now my chin looks like a damn volcano site

7 - Feeling hot all the time when I'm usually always cold, even in the summer.  I wake up grumpy and irritable when it's 71 degrees in the house.............and it doesn't go away........ ugh!!

8 - Well, we can now add nausea for the last 2 days to the list........double ugh!

I'm so tired of stupid fucks on the freeway that won't let you over when you get on the freeway or need to make a lane change to get off!!  This morning I just decided the hell with it and cut in anyway.  I wasn't about to miss my offramp because someone had their head up their ass! I think I got flipped off at least 4 times, but I don't care.  What's one more car in front of you when you're sitting in a blasted sea of them already? It's not like I'm maliciously cutting them off, I just need to make a lane change to get off the damn freeway!!  You fucks can go to hell in a handbasket!

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Monday nights are "our" date nights.  Our one day of the week when we can just be together.  We take turns in deciding what we're going to do each week.  Last night was Dougs night.  I'd had the absolute day from Hell and he took me to the Olive Garden for dinner......one of my absolute favs and then to the Drive-In theater to see Shrek 3.  Both were a complete and total surprise and I was thrilled!  I didn't even know we still had a Drive-In in Chino!!  If every day from Hell ended with a hot guy, great company and doing some of my favorite things, it'd be sooooo worth it! LOL

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This email arrived today from the friend (has terminal cancer) in Idaho I was just visiting.......

"got scans back today, and lung nodules are doubled. In the pelvic portion the radiologist refers to “chronic left pelvicaliectasis and ureterectasis”.. but I can’t find these terms anywhere. Checked six medical dictionaries and no luck.   Have an appointment with Onc tomorrow, and will probably elect no further tx..  Marty 

Please remember him in your thoughts and prayers.

Thanks!!

Yark, after 2 hours of sleep, I'm too tired to update, but here's a bit of what I wrote when I was gone. I'll get pics up and more details soon!!!

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Meet Sam my lap dog..............

May 24

Wow, what a long-ass day yesterday was!  My plane was delayed by 3 hours in Vegas.  I'd never been to Vegas before and as I roamed about the airport I pondered to myself as to whether I should buy a souvinier......or however you spell it..........then I looked around at my surroundings and thought, "no, you goof, you haven't been to Vegas, you've been to the AIRPORT!"  LOL

Poor Doug had the day from Hell.  First he got a ticket on the job and that always sucks and then he called me at a little after 10 pm and he'd gotten a flat on the freeway trying to get home.  The stupid-ass company he works for said they would send out a dispatch to see if someone would come and help him out.  Yeah right, at 10 at night?  He called Triple A instead. Then when he got home all the lights in our apartment were on.......fortunately his nephew had dropped by and left them on but for a minute there...........  Yikes!!

I just had a half hour long phone conversation with Sabrina, the gal I'm going to meet for lunch.  She seems like a very nice person and I'm even more sorry now than I was before that she got caught up in this whole mess. We're meeting tomorrow at 11 am.  I'm an still a little nervous and wary myself but when it comes right down to it, neither of us have anything to lose.  Still.........in the back of my mind, I wonder, "what if she shows up with John and I'm walking into a set up."  I'm sure it's just my overactive imagination and from what she said tonight, they're not together and he's busy banging another woman.........a married woman........his daughter's cheerleading coach. 
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I'll be back on the 30th with a full report of our luch and my trip.  Blessings to all of you!