well, Christmas is over and i regret not seeing christmas lights, not getting everything done early so i could enjoy it more, not seeing enough christmas specials, etc, ah well, maybe next year. back to the real world of working and wishing christmas was ahead instead of behind. the new year is upon us, i wonder what it will bring? i wonder who will leave us, and who will join us? i wonder if new year resolutions will last, wishes will come true, people will be happier, more content. i hope for a world of peace, love, understanding, forgivness, togetherness, health, happiness. i hope i have tootie for another year!

well, it's almost december 22, i can't believe christmas is almost here. hasn't seemed like christmas, i guess because it's been so warm. and i guess that's why i let things go and now i have so much to do, not enough time to do them all, and then i complain about it, but then when it's all over, i am sad, and wish it were all ahead of me again. happens every year, and i always say next year will be different. next year will be the same. that's life. this is the first year i didn't put up any christmas decorations. i love christmas decorations. i haven't seen the lights yet, hope i will, i have been listening to christmas music tho, am looking forward to seeing the little ones open presents.

Tonight at work we had a conversation about butt paste! And bag balm, a paste farmers use on cow utters before milking, it is very good for human skin, softens, and helps prevent diaper rash too. Butt paste is sold at Target, very good for incontinent people, babies, etc. Isn't that a funny name? People always laugh at these two things, but hey, if it works, why not? Balm me up scottie!!!! Tootles

well here is another post, how's my font? i have a lot to learn about the computer world, blogs, etc. my daughter is helping me. Speaking of my daughter I was over there the other day babysitting the beans, when it was time to go, i went to my car and found gallons of oil poured all over it. Apparantly the catapillars across the street, spewed oil everywhere , since i can't smell, i asked my daughter what it was, since if it was gasoline, i might not otta start the engine! anyhow, the next day i went to give the gents a piece of my mind, but they were not there, so i headed off to the car wash and to my surprise after the wash, i realized i left the back window cracked, so all the soapy stuff got all over the back seat! I wanted to give the bill to those fellows, but then realized i threw it away at the car wash! PAWDY???? I do have good luck. Snow is on the ground here, it's freezing out, (I actually have my heat on 69!), and it's still cold in here. Guess this years heating bill will be outa sight. hi ho hi ho it's off to work i go. TWMA

Today is the first snow of the season, as I was leaving work tonight it was lightly snowing and it made me feel good, Christmas is good, good feelings of happy times gone by, memories and all. I love everything about it, the lights, the crisp air, the music, but especially the memories....I want all my grandbabies to love Christmas and have it be magical for them. To have wonderful memories to cherish and to return to, when they're older and need comfort, it will bring smiles ; Silent Night Holy Night, All is calm, All is bright.

well, what do you know i finally uploaded a picture to my blog, miracles never cease. this is my beloved cat TOOTIE who makes me feel all warm and fuzzy! She loves me and likes to be "right with her mammy", as i always tell her. Here she is laying on my bible, she loves to do that when i read. thank you tunky for helping me with my puter questions, maybe sometime i can bring it over and you can show me stuff

well, i made it thru the day, the long long long tiring draining day. it was a good day, but i am spent. lots of driving from the far east to the far west back far east again, i was glad to be back on my perch! our family celebrated thanksgiving at my sisters today. all my grandbabies were there, my sisters grandbabies, my sisters godchildren, lots of children! that made my sister happy! they all had fun , and the adults had fun watching them. the food was great, i missed my turn coming home in the dark, i can barely see in the dark, and i get all nervous driving at night, but we made it. now my body hurts, i think i must have pulled a muscle in my chest from lifting the babies or something, cause it hoot! i ate the plate of food i brought home to have tomorrow! i am looking forward to a good nights sleep, (if it happens, will be the first time in years!) and lounging all day tomorrow on my couch , watching tv or whatever. I'M OLD! well, it's late and i'm off to beaver land! toodles

Well today i am baking pies and things for our celebration at Etar's tomorrow, I have been havinag mishaps in the kitchen, namely, burning up pots! I put some soup on to heat, forgot about it, burned it all up, pan and all, house filled with smoke, it was awful, choking on the fumes and opening windows to air it out all day long. I was told that my clothes smelled like burnt pan! Then a couple of days later, I did the same thing with another pan, burned the whole thing up, that's 2 pans down the drain, no smoke everywhere tho, i thought i had turned the burner off, but i didn't! Needless to say my smoke detectors are not working, and being that i can't smell, it could be a very dangerous thing. Any way, i am using my timer every time i use the stove to remind me ! Pawdy? Beautiful day again, 60 degrees the next week or so.

Well today i am baking pies and things for our celebration at Etar's tomorrow, I have been havinag mishaps in the kitchen, namely, burning up pots! I put some soup on to heat, forgot about it, burned it all up, pan and all, house filled with smoke, it was awful, choking on the fumes and opening windows to air it out all day long. I was told that my clothes smelled like burnt pan! Then a couple of days later, I did the same thing with another pan, burned the whole thing up, that's 2 pans down the drain, no smoke everywhere tho, i thought i had turned the burner off, but i didn't! Needless to say my smoke detectors are not working, and being that i can't smell, it could be a very dangerous thing. Any way, i am using my timer every time i use the stove to remind me ! Pawdy? Beautiful day again, 60 degrees the next week or so.

i survived the work day. it was a quiet night, i was surprised to see my daughter bring me some of her thanksgiving food, along with my sister. we had a nice visit. i should be baking pies now for saturday, but here i sit at my computer. there was a christmas movie playing on the tv at work, an old one, with bing crosby and rosemary clooney , it made me feel good. well, TWMA

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE! I HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A BLESSED DAY AND ARE TRUELY THANKFUL FOR ALL YOUR BLESSINGS. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL DAY HERE IN INDY, 60 DEGREES AND FULL OF SUNSHINE. ALL MY GRANDBABIES ARE BEAUTIFUL AND HEALTHY, AND HAPPY. I WISH FOR EVERYONE TO THINK AS CHILDREN DO, TODAY, FOR THEN WE CAN BE CAREFREE ONCE MORE ! :)

it's been a long time since i've blogged, i can't get used to writing things down. but today i was inspired by my grandson Jonah who was eating lunch, and promptly placed a pea in his left nostril. No one saw this, but when I saw him whipmering and puting his finger up his nose, i wondered . So his mother took a look and sure enough, there is was! Papa got some tweezers and Mama gently removed the pea. Jonah was very cooperative through it all, Whew! so glad a trip to the ER didnt happen, Needless to say, Mama will be VERY careful with Jonah and peas from now on! But it will be a funny story to tell him when he's older!

i have sinus, sore throat, swollen glands, sweats, taking all kinds of supplements, which i have NOT taken in a while, which explains why i'm sick, why can't i just accept this and continue to take all these pills???? i have very vivid and exhausting dreams. i like them and don't like them, can never remember all of them, but they are pawdy. usually about my family, usually about someone trying to hurt me, or i'm trying to escape, which is why i'm exhausted when i wake up. still sleeping on my sofa, which in why my neck hurts, will try to sleep in my bed soon..... i guess, i don't really want to. have been sleeping or staying on my sofa until time to go to work. i guess i am trying to conserve energy for all the folks who zap it while i'm there ! toodles.

sunday night; hot, getting hotter; waiting for fall; will schedule roofer; will do laundry, clean house; one more day before a break; vegging on couch under fan watching nothing on tv with tootie; thinking about war, israel, the end of time, suffering, rapture, 2nd coming ,what Jesus is thinking now; wishing he would come and sit on the couch with me (and bring my mother and dad with him) and have a nice long talk

hi folks! remember that dude on tv, indy residents?? well, just finished another exhausting , disgusting day at work, and i'm glad i'm off tomorrow. Tomorrow will be the final day of hail damage estimates on the house, and hopefull i can make a well informed and intelligent decision. I hate making them. Not good at it, i always wonder if it is the right one, oh well, ..... 2 days ago, my sisters ex husband's brother died, age 45, of cancer, had a brain tumor and lived with it, a long time, but finally it got him and he has 2 small children, it's very sad, a lot of people have been dying around me lately, and it brings all the mystery and questions of life after........if only we knew what to expect, how much easier it would be on us all. thats a question i will ask God. well, nothing else to say, i wonder if tunky has made her curtains yet?? or if the beans demanded all her time today????????????????

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY ! CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHY I CAN'T VIEW ANYTHING I POST FOR 2 DAYS AFTER I POST IT ??????

It's Sunday again, nice calm quiet morning. I thought I would water my flowers, since it was scorching yesterday and I forgot. So I get ready to go outside, slide my foot in my shoe and felt a wet slimy present from my cat, yes she barfed in my shoe ! I have never experienced that in life, saw it it scenes on tv, movies, but now i can say I have had the experience! Thank you TOOTIE! Waiting for laundry to get done, and deciding when to shower, not looking forward to going into work this afternoon. Thinking about the 4th and wondering if anyone is going to celebrate, half of me wants to, the other wants to hang out on my couch/bed and while the hours away. It's going to be 90 today (hate that)that means hot at work, as the AC never quite works right. Thinking about my sister Linda who might be christened into the Catholic Church today, except she came over at midnight last night and said she has nothing to wear. Except this Eastern type of Catholic Church calls it something else, besides christened, can't think of the word. I wonder if she did it? Something inside me doesn't want her to. But Father Sid is putting the pressure on, little does he know that even if she does, she wants to go to other churches too, closer to her home ! She is quite unique. My dinger is dinging, the eggs are done for my tuna and or egg salad. Lori is having Spencer's 2nd b d party today, I have tons of housework to do, and I hear Tootie wretching, so off I go on a Puke mission. Such is the everyday life of ME Toodles !

It's Sunday eveing here in Indy. I had a very nice day. I actually did something outside. I'm not much of an outside person, because I'm so sensitive to hot temperatures, but today wasn't so bad. I went on a garden tour in historic Irvington with my daughter. It's a quaint area with such peaceful elegance of an era gone by. We had 10 homes to tour, (the gardens). They were wonderful. The first stop was a mistake, we went to a house we thought was #1, instead it was just someone's house, kinda dunky ! And we went tromping into the back yard, where there were old vehicles, mud puddles and a vegetable garden! It was then I realized, this was not a home on the tour, and we hi tailed it out of there! I wonder what the owner thought? Who are those crazy people trespassing on my turf????? !!!!!!! Anyway, we made it thru all 10 gardens, with pouring down rain, ( I enjoyed that) and the people were all nice and friendly. There was even a big huge grandfather like clock on the parkway, i really liked that. One young man with CP introduced us to the Bona house, where paintings are, he was a gentle soul. Then on to the fabric stores to try to find fabric for curtains. And then there was the free planting we got for taking the tour. It was a great time for me to spend with my daughter alone, (we don't get to do that much) Papa watched the 3 beans so Tunky cound get away,,,, thank you Wiggy ! Then a final surprise, Boo, Midget, Boney, Forest, and Pie came strolling down the street, with Tunky, Ja, and Charity(Charity, we'll have to get you a nick name!) GREAT DAY ! Thank you God for giving me this day!

Hello All, it's been a while since my last post for 2 reasons: I cant seem to get on to my site, and I don't have much to say ! But today I will complain, I do it well. I have home food delivery service, Schwan's. I seem to never be home when they deliver, and today was just that day. I tried hard to be here, but when I got home, that sticker was on my door, I had missed them again, and the bad part is they deliver only every 2 weeks, so I have to wait.... again...... I don't like waiting. I am already waiting on my car to be serviced at the dealer, they called and of course want to fix something extra; I always want to say no, because I think they take advantage of women, but I agreed today. Aflter all, it's only money right???????? I seem to be spending a lot of it lately, it comes and goes so fast. I am thinking of planting some plants on the front side of the house, foundation plantings, cause it is bare, and ugly, but I have to have that dug up and that is dollar signs, along with the plantings, and of course i can never make decisions, so choosing the right ones is hard. OHHHH!!!! I would like to have someone to tell me what to do, choices to make and then do all the work for me, Is there anyone out there ??????? I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today!!!!!!!! (Know what that is from???) Well ok, den, I guess th th th th that's all folks!!!!!!!

My Doe - Tah- She is a special one. She rearranges her living room/dining room about every 48 -72 hours! You never know what you will find when she opens her door. It is really quite refreshing. She changes the living room into the dining room, the dining room into a TV room, the computer has had several different sites to live; the TV has been in at least 6 different locations; she has many tables that walk around to find a new spot and function. She has many toys that sprinkle your path into the unknown, thanks to 3 beautiful, happy, charming, active, smart , joyful, tireless, energetic, handsome, boys-(did I mention they were beautiful?) And now she is painting the living room/dining room/play room/puter room. She has a house of many colors. It has purpleish walls, gold walls, blue walls, yellow walls, greenish, brownish walls, Had turquoise walls, now white. And now,a very attractive rust/burnt umber(?) old world south of France/Italy color. Except she has ran out of paint, and has the challenge of matching it to some new paint she must find, a rather daunting task,since this paint has no color number/I.D. on the can it was in(it was acquired with the purchase of this home.) But , I have faith, SHE WILL PREVAIL! So, if you ever visit the MESA TRIBE, you will discover her many talents and charms, to say the least. (Did I mention she is a wonderful mother?)