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Ms. Jinx

I have never met a more kinder spirit in a person than our sweet Ms. Jinx, she and my mother have been the best of friends since before I was born.  All of their kids played with one another, husbands socialized nicely with each other, it was a like a wonderful 1950 & 60’s black and white perfect television series.

Ms. Jinx is now in her late 70’s and just recently sold her house that she had lived in for almost 60 of her years, and is moving to Florida.  I will miss being able to stop in for a visit when in the neighborhood almost anytime day or night, Ms. Jinx was almost always at home.  Her eyesight isn’t the best, so she doesn’t like to drive much unless it is really needed, and then she will only drive during the day.

She is too old and her health isn’t the best to drive the long drive all the way to Florida so she is busy packing up a moving van, she will take a taxi to the airport, and is looking into having her car transported for her by a company that offers safe and efficient reliable car transporting services.  It has to be affordable also, otherwise Ms. Jinx wouldn’t dream of spending her money loosely, she is the Queen of Frugalness, one of her many qualities that I received from spending large amounts of time with her.

One of her many sons sent her a link to a company www.nationalautoshipping.com that seems to fit the bill.  She of course sent the link to my mother, who is turn sent to me and it goes on from there to other brothers and sisters to see if anyone has an opinion of any use.

I like that the deliver the vehicle right to your door and that there is no need to deal with a long stressful drive when you can have someone who is licensed and bonded to do it for you.

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My first surgery (part two)

Well I’ll try to finish my story now:

Thursday morning came along and I was starting to feel the Throbbing pains again, thankfully, the IVs saved me again. About when 9:00 comes along, the Doctor with no personality came in and told me that his two surgery appointment’s had been canceled, and I was next in line. So he drew on my tummy and put the whole hair net on me, and I had asked the Doctor a few questions, paranoid at that, being my first surgery and all,  and had told me “Don’t worry about it, of course it’ll hurt, but it’ll be OK, just let me do my job and get it over with!” I was like “WHAT?!” What kinda Doctor doesn’t answer questions before Surgery? This Doctor had upset me to the point of no return. He had put me under, and I had woken up about three hours later with my Daughter there by my side.  The Doctor came in again and explained the procedure I went through, telling me that he put a stint in my kidney so it could drain out the infected fluids, and so it could help the Kidney Stone pass on its own, which he said there was a 50/50 chance that would happen. So he had told me to go home later, take my medicine as prescribed, and return next Monday to get the stint removed and hopefully laser the Stone to break it up into little pieces so it’ll pass if it already didn’t. So I went home, happy as can be because I had finally found out what was wrong with me.

Guess I’ll try and finish this later, kids are hollering for me to fix dinner, ugh!

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My First Surgery

I started feeling major pain in my lower left abdomen, side, and back on Tuesday, I just thought it was stress or something related, but on Wednesday morning I had woken up screaming and crying because of the unbearable pain hitting me all at once. My husband and my Son were out of town, so my Daughter had ran upstairs to see what was wrong, and I had told her that I was in major pain and needed 911 to be called. When we arrived they had put me in the hall way on a bed taking my vitals and taking blood. They took me to an ER room and put I.V’s in me, thank goodness, because about five minutes later I was on cloud nine, hardly feeling the excruciating pain I had been in. I had met the doctor, and he seemed like he had no personality what so ever, which we all know that personality towards the patient from the Doctor makes a big difference in everything. right? Well, he had me sleep for a bit while waiting to get me through a cat-scan to see what was wrong.  They had found a one inch Kidney Stone wondering around in my kidney area the shape of a hot dog, My kidney was swollen and infected, and I hadn’t had a BM in five days! So I got a triple whammy worth of pain. They admitted me to a room for the night, so I could go through a scheduled surgery the next morning. My Daughter, bless her heart, had stayed behind to be with me all night. Oh no, some one is at the door, I’ll write more about this subject later on.

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Kerr Lake

Some of the guys in our Harley Club want to go on a weekend ride to Kerr Lake next month. Although it is only a couple of hours south from here, I don’t think I’ve ever been there. We always seem to go east to the Atlantic beaches or we used to go north to my parent’s house on the river.

We are thinking about taking over the campgrounds at Cripple Creek. They have cabins and facilities for cookouts. They are also close to boat ramps and can make arrangement for boat rentals. It’s a little rustic but it’s only for one weekend.

We would like to stay at the state park, but they don’t allow any alcohol, so we have to find a different campground. I guess that’s my research project for the afternoon.

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The Start of Busy Season

With our daughter in the hospital, hubby didn’t want to go to work today, but we need the money and we need to keep our spot at the market, so this morning he loaded up and headed downtown.

I called the hospital this morning to check on her and the nurse says she is sound asleep, so I guess that is good. I will do some work around the house for a couple hours and then go over to the hospital to sit with her for a couple hours after lunch.

I’m going to try to stay off the phone in case she tries to call me before I leave.

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I’m a new Postie!

A sibling of mine knew that I was struggling to make money because of  Hubby’s health issues that are keeping him from working.  I work a part-time job but the rest of the time I am needed at home to take care of him.

I love the computer so it made sense to us to be able to earn some money while staying at home where I was needed.

I had heard of the term”blog” but never really read one, much less written one, and I thought at first that I was getting in  a bit over my head.  After a week or so of daily posting it started coming a lot easier and I found that it was somehow stimulating my brain in a positive way.  Not being around other people where you can converse can make you feel very secluded from life, I mean you can only watch so much T.V. which can at times stimulate your brain, some good and some bad, ha ha!

I have also found that blogging can be therapeutic, it gives you a chance to vent without having to bend someones ear that really doesn’t give a hoot anyhow.

Lastly, I believe that it is giving me a challenge.  I need a healthy challenge right now, I mean don’t get me wrong – I have plenty of challenges on a daily basis, who doesn’t?

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Please not another snow day….but we got oil!

We are having more snow and it is supossed to get really bad tonight, looks like tomorrow will be another snow day, but the oil delivery guy finally arrived this a.m. and we got plenty of heat now so we will be toasty warm all together, again.  At least Hubby will be out of the house by being kept busy at work with all the freezing pipes and all.  I’ll have to cook something nice up for him, he’ll be pretty well beat, I’m sure of that.  The kids and I will curl up by the fire, sipping our hot coco, and he’ll be sitting there with us, sipping on his beer! 

 

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We ran out of heating oil and it’s snowing outside

I hate it when that happens.  Didn’t notice that we were out until it was too late to call the oil company, so we are going to light up the fireplace, snuggle up some and watch movies while drinking some nice hot coco.

If it keeps snowing, they will close the schools in the morning, once again, and that will start cutting into the Spring Break vacation days, that would be a bummer.

Hubby says that there is a total eclipse of the moon tonight. We plan on looking outside around 8:45 through 10:00pm to see it.  The next one won’t be for two more years!

  

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Homeowners confused by mortgages

I can totally understand why people would be confused now a days by all of the different kinds of mortgages that are being offered.  According to research that was done in the U.K., states that 2/3 of people claim that they would be confused and would find it extremely difficult to choose which mortgage would be best if they had to make their decision on it tomorrow.  This figure is somewhat alarming to me, but at the same time, it makes me feel as if I am not as stupid as I felt when I went through that same process 8 years ago.  Boy did I feel inadequate when we purchased our house and then once again when we refinanced a few years ago.  We muddled through but it was not what I would call a pleasant experience, but certainly worth it all in the end.

It seems the shaky economy is making homeowners from all around the world feel very uneasy about making the choice of which mortgage would be in their best interest.  Mortgage companies can be a bit intimidating but if the chance comes around in the near future that we would benefit from refinancing once again, I know this time that I will need to talk to a lot of people that I gratefully have access to – you know, a couple of friends and a few family members in the business. And I certainly would educate myself before even attempting to start talking with a lender.  And really now with the Internet we have all of that important information right at our fingertips and I would certainly make good use of it for such a huge investment such as home ownership.

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The 5 cheapest places to rent in America

Saw this on the t.v. this a.m. and so I the found the article on it, I thought that this was an interesting finding and wanted to share the info with you.  According to NBC news:

The 5 cheapest places to rent in America are

  1. Wichita, Kan.  $470 a month
  2. Oklahoma City $490 a month
  3. Tulsa, Okla. $520 a month
  4. Knoxville, Tenn. $560 a month
  5. Dayton, Ohio $570 a month

I can only imagine what the most expensive areas are, I can honestly tell you that my neighborhood isn’t in any of them.