........go! There.

Okay the move was Saturday, yes, the hottest day of the year so far.   Thanks to Norman, Laff, Liz, Emily, Susan, Walt, Jeanna, Caleb, Zach and Kelsey.   I could not have done it without ALL of you.   98% of everything is put away (except pictures).  Monday morning leave for work --- not out of the driveway-- flat tire!   Norman comes and puts on the small spare and I head to Franklin to Moody's.   Leave for work early ---takes three hours to get to work!!!   Tuesday I am off --- Emily and I notice water in the shop.   Yep --- AC is frozen - bad!   No air in the house Tuesday night ----88 degrees, three fans in my room and finally I put some ice packs in the bed!!!.   I sure hope I can turn the AC back on when I get home or I will be going further in Chapel Hill to sleep at Emily's.  Still no home phone or TV, but all will come together.  
 I can do this. . .  I can do this. . . .  Financially I have to do this, it won't happen overnight but there is light in my future.  

Until next time . . . . When we're able to relinguish all our problems, all our worries and all our sins to the Lord, we are free to live the guilt-free lives He planned for us. 

Ready, set . . . .

Boxes, boxes everywhere.   The move is on........
Trying to keep things separated --- house vs stoarge unit --- can't pack this yet --- so many last minute things. 
Excited, nervous, let's get it over with .......

Had first steroid epidural injection last week,  went well, big improvement,  next injection Aug 4.  
Taking time off from JoAnn's until after the injections and then may just work one night per week --- longer distance =extra gas calls for extra money. 

Until next time  . . . . Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. 

Friday Fretting

Okay, the move is on -- lots of boxes packed.  Many more boxes to pack.  Why do I worry about everything little thing.   Wasted time spent worrying.   Much cheaper rent, but getting everything else set up is ridiculous -- the phone (cell phone won't work inside house), PO Box (done), Direct TV --- well, that brings another worry - again --- the delapidated entertainment center.   Just one more move!  Last worry --- groceries --- trying not to go to the store until I move, but then with so many expenses for the move ---just a vicious circle.  

The Spears family made it back home late last night after ten days WEST!!!  Seems everyone had a great time but the best of all was coming home.  Always is.  I can't wait to see the pictures,  I think about the half way point of their trip Emilly told me Susan had made over 500 pictures!!!  They posted on Facebook some mobile uploads along the way that were awesome.  

I am giving up the part time job at JoAnns ---- not helping the leg numbness standing for 5+ hours, too far to drive once I move late at night and cutting hours anyway.   And most of all,  I am missing a lot of time from Southern Hills family. 

Tuesday I start the steroid epidural injections. 90% of the people I have talked to that have received them has had great results anywhere from 1-10 years.  What a relief! 

Wednesday's Wisdom

Okay,   I have a little time on my hands waiting for patients to be seen so we can scrub and enter the charges for month end -- fiscal year end.   I do have a job, and certainly a job I like. 

I will be moving to Chapel Hill the end of July into a "mother's house".   Really, really downsizing!   One bedroom, big bathroom, kitchen and living room.  $300 less a month than what I am paying now, no utilities.  Yes that is right, no utilities -- except land line phone because a cell will not work in the house -- I can go outside to talk.   No deposit, no lease. 
I hope my furniture makes the move okay.  My entertainment center is way gone beyond another move.  But I still have the big old TV with the huge back and you just cannot find an entertainment center for those anymore --- well, one that I can afford anyway.  But they really are hard to find also. 
I have lived in Williamson County all my life until July 31 --- watch out Marshall County.   I will be much closer to Emily --- but she is always so busy  -- but we will both know each other is close by. 
I also looked at a little house in College Grove  --2br 1ba, completely remodeled.   The bathroom was extremely small and NO storage.  It was only $100 less plus utilities. 

I am looking forward to this new adventure and can't wait to save some money to travel!!!!
NYC, Chicago, Vegas, Charleston, Savannah --- oh the places I could go.  

Until next time----- do you think things happen for a reason?

Friday's random thoughts

I have been looking at different apts/houses to rent -- not fun.   Do I go to Chapel Hill and have a longer drive which is okay except when I am working the second job and do not leave until 10:00?  Do I go to Spring Hill ---$75 less per month rent, little longer drive.  Can I really live in an apartment with someone lving above me????  Yes, I would want a ground level ---1) bad back and kness aren't getting any younger and 17 steps in my townhouse is a bit much when you are tired and aching; but 2) what about security with ground level.  I am not running from my financial problems just trying to finacially think things through.   How do you get the money for deposit, moving electricity, etc?   Think Gayle think.   More importantly PRAY.  When I can finally turn it all over I know the answer will come. 

Until next time. . . . . . . Somewhere I read that for every single thing that goes wrong in our lives, we have fifty to one hundred blessings.  What we need to do is learn to identify those blessings and spend more time counting---and being thankful for them.  

Blog no more....(for awhile anyway)

In this time of financial distress (for me) I have elected to have internet disconnected at home, and also my home phone.   It will be hard, but for me it was time for drastic measures financially.   Back to pen and paper for journaling.   That is not to say I will not be checking in on everyone from time to time --lunch hours, library or sometime when I have computer access somewhere with WIFI --- that is the good thing about having a laptop.  
It was a hard day yesterday with a lot of prayer and phone calls, but this is one way to cut back.  

Monday Musings

Ants, ants, ants and more ants!!!!

I know they are small, very small, but I hate them!!!

Last year (perhaps around this time)  I noticed some ants in my kitchen.  I have seen houses with much worse problems than mine, but these were in MY house.  
I filled a small spray bottle with some bleach and I went after the little things --- all around the edge of the floor all over my kitchen.  Done.   It worked,  well -- I would see one every now and then for a couple of days and I would shoot them with my bleach bottle!!!! No problems until . . . . . . .  .
NOW.  
First sighting was Friday night by the door.  Poured a little bleach, gone.   Then Saturday I went to put it/take out something from the storage room.  My white door was black on the inside with ants.  Ants, mind you!!! on the concrete flooring --fields of ants.   I grab my bottle of bleach and cannot find my little spray bottle. 
I am determined  so I just start pouring, splashing bleach everywhere. 
The ants are still winning!!!   I am out of bleach now..... okay what can I use.  Not this.  Not this.  I find an old spray bottle with a little Fantastick in it.  But it doesn't last long.  the ants are still winning !!! Okay,  got it --- I have some really cheap Pine Sol stuff.  I mean it is so strong it will clear your sinuses with one whiff across the room.    I mix about a 10:1 with water (guess which is 10) and go after the creepy things.  Between the bleach (which got a bunch of them until I ran out), Fantastick , just did not have enough. 
The cheap cleaner is working but there are just sooooo many of them. 

Sunday morning finds me again on the attack --- even pouring some of the cleaner around the edge of the patio.  Sorry environmentalist --- but we are talking tons of ants.  Sunday afternoon I go in for another battle -- inside the kitchen (only about ten in three days),  the patio, the door to storage, the inside of the strorage door and the floor of the storage unit.   YIKES!!!!  
Now tonight I will not get home until after ten,  but little things look out tomorrow morning --- I am back on duty!!! 
I hate any kind of crawling thing no matter the size.  (except babies of course)
You know it is like I can feel them crawling on me as we speak.  I have slapped my arm silly the last three days thinking there was an ant on it.  

Until next time . . . . .Someone has equated laughter with changing a baby's diaper.  "It doesn't change things permanently, but it makes everything OK for awhile. 

(but I want the ants gone forever!!!)