I got this in an email, don't think I've posted it already, although it's getting harder to remember things Have fun with it! 1. What is your name? Kathy 2. What time is it? 11:07 a.m. 3. Any nickname? Finnegan 4. Mother's name? Doris 5 Number of candles on your last birthday cake? 58 6. Date that you regularly blow them out? April 6 8. What is your favorite drink? Creamy Caramel Cocoa 9. Body piercing & tattoo's? Ears 10. How much do you lo...

What a Friday it's been so far,   the heat of course is unrelenting and continues to burn up the grass,  drying out the flower beds, vegetable garden,  and making it difficult to do much outdoors without breathing difficulties. I headed off to Wally-World this morning to get some milk and bread,  and though I'd planned on treating myself to a big bouquet of flowers,  headed off instead to the clothing area... Oh boy,  I came away from there...

I still don't want to believe the diagnosis I was given yesterday!  I went to Fairview Hosp.,  one of them that has a sleep disorder clinic,  to undergo a sleep study.  I was slightly anxious as I didn't know what to expect.   My ex-husband had one done back in about 81,  and he had severe sleep apnea,  and I was positive that couldn't happen to me!   I was absolutely sure that no way was I going to end up like him,  and need a trac...

Christmas cactus,  oh what a lovely plant.  My dear neighbor, Mary,  gave me her cactus as she doesn't have a green thumb.  Her daughter Rene,  who gave me rides to the Stillwater Courage Center,  told her mom that I love to rescue plants so now I'm inheriting plants... I feel rather like a fraud about the whole situation,  when I moved here I got into a bout of depression,  and my palm plant died off,  as did my violet ( that was an accident du...

So what's up with Qwest?   Is it soooooooooooo fricking hard to get an order right?   I called them last Thursday to get my phone number changed when I discovered that they'd made a BIG mistake ( way back in February ) by not giving me an unlisted and unpublished number!  You can bet your sweet anchovy I've been PAYING for that service though!  So no problem right?  Wrong.   The dude puts in the order for a new number,  at ...

Things are a bit wacky all over it seems.  Foreverserenity's blog points were showing up when I went to her blog to comment on the hotdog story,   Hey isn't that something?  eating all those hotdogs?   If someone wanted to have a contest like that,  why not make the food something that people would LOVE to eat?  like icecream? or steak?  Bet I could win a hamburger or steak eating contest!  Hands down! I was in a meeting this morning and th...

It's been a normal,  run-of-the-mill Saturday,  you know the routine,  where ya sweep, mop, wash dishes, take out the trash...ya,  cept in the back of my mind is how seriously bad some people have it.  The bus driver that comes here twice a week just spent her vacation down south with her sister and family.  Her sister is dying of cancer and the family was called to be at her side.  The bus driver is hanging in there,  yet is on edge,  short-te...

A perfect day,  clear skies,  sunshine,  a soft breeze,   and....I have to go to the dentist. Who'd have thunk it?   a dental clinic open on Sunday?! Ya,  the Smile Center is open on Sunday,   so I get to go in and have a small piece of bone shaved off the roof of my mouth,  it hurts my mouth when I wear my upper denture,  and as a result haven't been using my denture.  Let me tell ya,  that ain't a pretty sight!  ...

My cousin's daughter is close to death,  from cancer.  She has three children.  It started out as a simple case of a "little cancer"  in her finger and now she's lost her arm and it's infiltrated her body. This is what I hate about life.  It isn't right that a sweet, beautiful,  and otherwise healthy young person have this happen to them. The family is going to stay with the grandparents,  my cousin and his wife,  and then the kids will go with t...

I"d just finished up an email to a dear friend,   shut the computer down cause it was thundering,  and lightening was streaking around..... and then turned on the tv and of course was shocked and sickened to see the 35W bridge bent in half,  like a deck of cards,  with cars crossways from each other,  cars in the Missisippi River,  half in and half out of the water,  like a scene out of a bad movie. I used to use that bridge when I'd drive to th...

I'd heard of the movie,  however hadn't seen it until tonight.  It was on the Hallmark Channel and I promptly fell in love with it!  It reminded me of tv shows and movies I"ve seen,  part "Little House on the Prairie",  "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers",  and "Bonanza". Nothing like a feel good movie after a rought 24 hours.... Yesterday I went shopping for bread and milk and came home with strawberries,  two new blouses,  and a new skirt!...

Figuring out that new Kodak camera isn't as hard as I thought it would be for me.  Usually I have to read and re-read directions a cajillion time before I get it.  Tonight,  after figuring out how to use the video cam part,  the first two videos were of the cat,  then I spied a herd of crows perched on the garage roof,  LOL.  My Lord,  they were struting around and playing in the stagnant water like a bunch of teenage boys! There is Elvis ...

Fair warning here,  if ya don't like "boring trite blog enteries"  then do piddle along to the next blog... Thank you. Now,  it's been a strange day here,  I don't quite know what to make of it.  People are so damn strange,  so wonderful,  and so,  so.....well just plain confusing. One lady that lives here has been so nice to me!  She gave a caftan that is satin in fabric,  and the colors are rich and vibrant.  Colors I'd never choo...

Perusing the local paper's "Sheriff's Report" is always an entertaining event. From the 4th of August came the story of a concerned citizen that called the Sheriff to report a suspicious person walking down the street,  carrying what looked like a gun. It turned out to be unfounded,  it was young blong girl,  dressed in jeans and tee-shirt,  carrying a birthday cake..... Ya that's the kind of stories we get up here.   Sadly there's always the "bad news"...

Things are going along swimmingly well here,  no new outbreaks of serious diseases,  no landlord just walking into my apt. when he feels like it,   no shortage of food,  and man oh man there's lots of heat in MN.! Just when it finally cooled down to a comfy 74 degrees,  the weather did an about face,  again.  That's the mid-west for ya. Well there's a cool front on the way,  should get here next Monday or so.. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~...