Better Mood...and You know Why ?????

Later in the day... just think I don't blog for ages and you get two on the same day lol.... I am finally home after 6 bloody hours... can you imagine 4 test and it took that long... that is really good scheduling on their part don't you thing...

Some good came out of it because after the ecg and blood test we were off to pick up a very early birthday gift for me... my new computer chair... which I am sitting in at the moment and totally enjoying it... thanks for my Christmas gift from Yvette and Hubert... a counting piggy bank which I dropped all change in it except pennies and nickels ... they went into mom's .... and then my sweet came home and put it together for me...

We also got the other pictures that we had been waiting for... there was a lot of work to be done on them before they printed them but they turned out pretty good for very old slides that were really not kept properly...


This one was the one I wanted to see the most ... it is at least 44 years old... it is Carl's little sister Susan... when I seen the slide it was the first time I noticed how blue her eyes were and had to get it done...


I found this picture with the other photos and it was the old brownish colored photo and when I seen the slide of it I had to get it printed... this is Carl's mom in 1955 which makes the print 54 years old....

And of course there were some on my man when he was a little man and they didn't not get passed up at all... the bottom one is of him and his cousin Paula Marie...

I have to add a great big thank you to Rene at Golden Imagine for the work she did on these and the other photos we got done this week... for what she had to work with she did a great job... and we are very pleased with them.... with still time left before going back for an xray and the breast crushing we dropped in to see Carl's parents to show them the photos ... now I am under pressure to get the photos completed on the computer... so he can see them all... so I guess with a new chair and a little rest I will have to get my buns into gear and get them done for him ...well soon any way....

Have a great weekend all Joanne

February 27, Not My Good Day

Friday and of course it is good old garbage day and I do believe any Friday that I write I tell you this... I have been up for 3 hours now because I am stressed out over stupid test which I really don't want to go for but have to... so I start all this wrong by having my dinner last night (not at the dining room table where my meds are) and not taking my medication afterwards so my blood readings are off the chart this morning but that can be because I am stressed over the darn thing...

Why do I hate these test? Well lets see I hate needles for one thing... I hate exposing my breast to people I don't even know their name... and I will be doing that for three different people this morning... and they are crushing them this afternoon....lucky me....my test start at 7:30 this morning and I will be lucky to be out of there by 1 ....I know I don't have a lot to do in my life but my time is my time and spending it at this hospital is not my idea of having a good time.... my doctor is out of the office for God only knows because of the accident he had.... there is no talk about having a replacement for him at the moment so even if there is something wrong with me who the heck is going to tell me about it... the secretary... like she is qualified to do that one...

I know I have not written in a while and this is all a whine but that is the mood I am in this morning.... I hate going to the hospital at this time of the year because there is a bigger chance of me coming out with the flu then walking in the malls... ok I am done the whining part of my day ...

As for what is going on in the family... Matthew is going to be home this weekend... no comment on that one... Mom was out for her hearing test this week and ended up not getting it because there was a wax build up in one of her ears so she will be retuning after March 11, after she gets them cleaned... actually Carl's father had a hearing test also that day and came home without the test for the same reason... I guess it was the day for dirty ears...

Dad is down with a cold but we nipped that one in the butt really fast because this is the time of the year that he will get sick and land in the hospital because of his lungs but the doctor gave him extra medication the last time he was like this so we can get him started right away... I was up to see him yesterday and the lungs are still make a little noise but nothing compared to past years... think we got it... but he has to go see the doctor for some renewals so I am sure she will check that out as well...

Pat is back after several weeks of travelling to Montreal and Toronto on business.. have not seen much of her, have not been up to mom's when she is there...

Ohhh I almost forgot.. Craig's oldest Joshua's birthday today Happy Birthday Hon... turning a teenager today... wow they grow so fast LOL....

Well that is about it I think...have a good weekend all.... Joanne

Photos as Promised

New Fashion for Our Puppies...

Snowball Boots

It took a good 1/2 hour before they melted from their fur...
but they had a great time outside...

Just An Ordinary Sunday

Sunday afternoon.... we have been out shopping for a few needed things in the house already... went over to say welcome home to Flo... who came in unknown to anyone else but Roger last night... visited with mom and dad and came back to have a late lunch and Carl headed down to watch the movie Passchendaele which I really don't have to go down to see what it is like... I just had to open my bedroom door to hear most of the movie as it plays out...
He watched Miracle at St. Anna last night and I got to see a part of it... was not my kind of movie at all... there are war movies and then there are war movies.... since I have not taken the time to go down and actually listen to Passchendaele I can't compare the two of them... I just know that last night I got a little fed up with all the F this and F that... that went on in the movie... (added note to this since Carl just came in... we Canadians were as polite as we usually are without all the F this and F that in the movie he he)
Dad wants to see Passchendaele which I am going to take up to the house tomorrow and maybe he will see it with Roger.... it is a little funny when I mentioned that I also had Miracle at St. Anna and he came right back saying that is an American story ... Passchendaele is Canadian that is what I want to see...
While I was at the house we got a call from Patsy ....to say a late Happy Valentine's Day.... mom must be missing her a lot because she actually wanted to talk to her on the phone which is not some she does very often.... and of course dad got to talk to her for a while... Patsy will be returning home on the 23rd of this month ... this weekend is a long weekend in Ontario so she took the time to go out and visit her friend and family for the weekend... spending it at their camp... the weather has been perfect for them to do it...
As for me a little more work on the photos for Carl's parents... the count is now up to 6500 and there is more to go... several albums were taken apart so I have been spending some time getting new ones and getting them back into order....I know one thing I would not want to do this for a stranger because there is no way I could even think of the cost of doing it... it has been several weeks and many hours I have spent of this... I usually joke around when people ask me to do something saying that you couldn't afford me ... with this one I am very honest you couldn't.... too much time is put into it... so this is done out of love for Carl and his parents... I just home they are happy with the work that I have put into it....
This morning the weather was just to nice not to put the puppies out for a while to play... something they don't get to do to often with the cold weather we have been having .... well by the time they got back into the house... they were wearing a new fashion called snow ball boots.... I will post the posts tomorrow since I left the camera downstairs and just too lazy to get it at the moment...
The hip is coming back... slowly but surely... hoping that it will not be all that much longer.... love to start working out at the gym and see if I could drop a few more weight...
Have a good one.. Joanne

A Small but Important Occasion

Happy Valentine's Day to all....

A day to express the love we have for each other... and like Danie I also feel that it should be every day...and not all that important to celebrate on this one day of the year... but yesterday for the first time since Carl and I have been together he walked through the door with the cutest flower arrangement being held by a teddy bear... which he also knows I love... and a Hallmark card expressing his love for me which brought tears to my eyes.....and when I teased him about the Hallmark card he came back with you know you are worth more then a dollar store card...

Carl went out to do some running for us when he spotted the flowers and as he waiting to be waited on many that he knew doing the same thing... one guy told him that he knew he was going to get himself into trouble doing this because it was the first time in 27 years of marriage that he actually have bought flowers for his wife... like me I hope his wife was pleasantly surprised from his thoughtfulness...Carl told the guy if his wife questions him about the flowers tell her that he watched the movie Fireproof....

A few weeks ago Carl came home with a few movies for us and one of them was Fireproof.... like usual he doesn't read up on the movie and thought it had to do with firemen... but what it turned out to be about was a fireman that was losing his marriage and how with the help of his father and his faith turned it around... and a simple rule of his work.... you don't leave your partner behind...it is a movie without sex, violence, bad language or any of the other things that are in movies today....it is a movie that I will pick up to add to my library and watch once again...a few times...

This year was different one for me....though I did this several weeks ago.... with Craig getting married and having a ready made family meant that each occasion can't really be passed up any more... valentine day card kits were sent up so they can make them up for special friends. Of course chocolate and candy hearts for the children saying Happy Valentine's Day to each other them... I have to say having little ones in the family makes it a must once again to keep track of the little occasions other then Christmas, Easter and birthdays...

Once again to all of my family and friends I wish you all a very Happy Valentine's Day...
Joanne