Uh... it's Friday. *nodnodnodnod* Soooo, where did the rest of the week go? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I had to take the grandkids to school three days this week and after dropping them off, Daughter and I have stopped and gotten Starbucks. She has something noncaffeine, strawberries and cream, and I have a small vanilla latte. Definitely caffeine. A couple of those days I had one a step up from the small and no wonder I was up all night. *glances at her Starbucks* looks like it might be another one of those nights tonight too.
This evening I get to go pick up Daughter and two granddaughters(Pookie and Shel) from their Mother-Daughter tea at school at 1900hrs. I could have gone too, but I thought this would be something special for Daughter and her two girls.
Troll is taking the Topper and Pookie fishing Sunday, his mother's day present to me and Daughter, a bit of peace and quiet. LOL. Love that man. Troll always buys me a Mother's Day card and he always manages to make me teary-eyed. Yes, I'm sentimental like that. Daughter bought me a dozen lavender rose buds for Mother's Day. She didn't want to wait until Sunday. They're beautiful. I always did like the out-of-the-ordinary.
I had to get in Daughter's face yesterday with some hard facts and I hate being the one to do that, but, as a mother, sometimes, you got to do it. Unfortunately, with the all the drama of this past week, *sigh*, my blood pressure is up again. It wasn't all that bad, but it isn't good either, about 140/80. If it keeps up through the week, I'll no choice but to call my physican and tell her about it. Damn. I hate having to do that because I simply hate pumping my system with synthetic drugs. So, I'm going to do my best to figure a way around this. The Starbucks isn't helping either, I'm sure, but I did learn that caffeine isn't as bad as some people have been spouting in regards to high blood pressure.
Tomorrow morning I am picking up a couple of my Ladies and we're off to our District meeting of the Auxiliary. We're all delegates this year. It's election time. This meeting should be a little longer than the usual quarterly meeting because of elections and the memorial service.
The rest of the month holds a sprinkling of services to attend because of Memorial Day gatherings. As an Auxiliary memeber, it is part of my committment to be at these functions. The first being May 19th when nation wide, at the Veterans' cemetaries, there will be a bugle playing Taps at exactly 1100hrs.
The rodeo is also in town next week. Yee-haw. The Ladies are all enthused over the cowboys. *grin* They tickle me. Hey, I'm there. I adore cowboys and got lucky enough to marry one to boot. Mr M use to be on the circuit, but then his back started doing its thing and that was the end of that. Got to love them
"bowling ball" butts. HEY, I'm married, not dead.
Freakin' emotional roller coaster has been kicking in again, can someone please tell me how to get off this menopausal carousel? It's not fun. Geez. I guess I should count myself lucky that I don't have the other things, like, night sweats or hot flashes and the host of other discomforts. No, yours truly, gets pegged with the emotional crap. You know, there must be some sort of Cosmic Justice in that, but I AM NOT amused. *narrowing eyes*
Another frustration is my writing. I have tons of stuff floating around in my head and I just can't get it out and on paper. So, currently, my
"bench" meter is able to go from 0 to .01 seconds. Does that tell you anything? Linda Blair has nothing on me these days. If I don't find some way to get stuff creatively out of my head and on electronic paper, I may end up doing some serious damage to others. Tiptoe-ing around me will not be good enough. *growl*
Oh, and for those in the know... those friggin' troops made TWO, count them, TWO run bys yesterday and in the space of a freakin' hour. HOW DOES THAT HAPPEN??!! The worst of it? It only worked for maybe, hm, a half hour. I am doomed, I tell ya, doomed.