Cab's Creations & Chatter

11:11:32 AM EDT
Feeling Embarrassed
Hearing tv droning in background

Yikes, first of all I'm really embarassed that I've been away from JLand for almost two months.  I've been trying to keep up with alerts and reading journals but got totally away from PSP and my own journal.  Mother's Day was wet, dreary but a nice day except for an aching on the top of my head.  It felt like a good old-fashioned "goose egg."  I didn't give it a thought because I'm clumsy.  The next day, I developed one of the most severe earaches I've ever had.  Even the outside of the ear hurt.  I pushed myself through work.  I developed a pimple on my eyebrow Wed.  Weird but WTH.  I took of Thurs and Friday because my ear was killing me.  I got an antibiotic which started getting rid of the ear pain.  But there was this "ice pick" pain on my head behind my ear which was excrutiating and getting worse.  It would come in waves.  Long story short...lol...as if....my son insisted I go to the ER Friday night.  My uncle died when he was 53 from an aneursym that burst with much the same symptoms.  The CT scan showed nothing.  As I was getting ready to leave, I started breaking out all over my forehead and eyelid with blisters.  I mentioned it to Joey.  The doctor overheard and flew over.  Shinglesand that was what was causing all the odd symptoms.  He was shocked because they weren't there when he had looked in my eyes.  I was extremely lucky to have had that headache because they caught my break out within 72 hrs.  I took Valtrex.  I was miserable for a couple of weeks.  Now really there is no pain.  Just an odd sensation of my scalp crawling and the same with the eyelids.  That's from the nerves but I can live with it.

Megan's internship was retracted late Friday before she was to start the next Monday because of the background check.  We all learn our lessons.  She is back waittressing and living at home.  It's been a struggle as we always seem to be at each other's throat with my son caught in the middle.   Luckily for both of us, she is working mostly nights so we don't need to cross pathes much.  She still is not sure where to live in the fall for one more semester. 

Right after I got my new cell phone, I somehow convinced my BF to get a cell phone on my family plan.  Megan couldn't get ahold of him one day when she needed picked up.  So, he got one with a camera.  ROLF...he is a text message addict.  He texts me all the time, texts his son, grandson, daughter, etc.  It's unlimited so that's ok.  He adds all kinds of graphic and noises plus sends me pictures.  He was just being stubborn.

Weather..ugh...it sucks totally here in western Pa.  The first week in June was 90 all week.  I struggled to get the darned pool clean.  I hate that job.  It took the whole week of messing with chemicals.  As soon as the pool was ready, the weather took a nose dive.  70's, total cloud cover and rain non-stop.  Of course, no flooding so I feel bad about complaining.  I've been in the pool twice.  I took off Wed. and Thurs before the 4th because I knew Wed would be sunny and it was and it was the only sun we've seen.  It has rained non-stop since.  The sun is out today so I hope I'm not jinxing it.  There's some stationary front south of us causing this that won't move.  Blah.   or as LJ says...lol....I made this just for Lisa Jo.......think I just might make a couple more since I feel so "PHOOEY" right now.  Feel free to snag.

                     

Thanks to all of you who have checked on me, left me messages, etc.  You are all the best which is why I felt so bad about not making any entries.  Actually, I feel bad about doing entries if I have requests to fill.  I know I've missed some e-mails,etc. so please remind me because it's been so long.  I have everything on my back up drive.  I also feel bad about doing entries if I'm not caught up on alerts.  I had a snafu with my security crap again yesterday...no virus protection and McAfee would not download.  After two phone calls to half English speaking folks and two live tech support tries, I found a gem.  She had me send her my sysinfo in an e-mail.  I had remnants of a microsoft virus program left that needed removed.  She also had me download through Explorer..voila!  I was getting more furious by the minute with all the lame excuses I was getting plus the fact that I had no virus protection, just a "stinger" to run from McAfee.  So it was ugly outside, and my journals plans were ruined....a big PHOOEY!  Love that word, LJ.

I made a couple of blinkies for my PSP group, which was the first I had dabbled in PSP for ages.  I made the top tag in the midst of my pc woes yesterday.  I'm not sure who created all the stuff I used but the word art is from Shelly/Roxymama.  She rocks!  Hopefully, my creative juices are flowing again.

Well, this is long enough.  I hope I haven't bored you all to death.  Hope you all had a great 4th!  Love & Hugs to all!

                                     CHRIS

 

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9:03:20 AM EDT

Happy Mother's Day!  Today is the USA's mom's day. 

I want to apologize for not being around.  I've been in a dark spot (not as black as it was years ago) but nonetheless a place I'm not used to being in anymore.  I'm slowly working my way, or crawling my way out of it.  I will be ok.  Bless all of you who have e-mailed me and left me comments.  I have some who have asked me various questions and requested a couple of tags.  I promise you will get the tags and the answers to your questions today.

Wow, I could write a book.  Megan has a new internship with another large company here but there's that darned background check again.  3 more weeks and counting for expungement.  Joey is going to go through Pa voc rehab for heating and AC.  He is having some problems with a course he withdrew from and retook years ago.  Pa. is weird with financial aid.  They say he needs to make these two credits up out of pocket before aid and loans kick in.  He's working this summer and really can't focus on a school course.  We will work this out.  There is a one time appeal process so either mama will roar or his counselor can help.

Me...well, I'm still persevering.  I think I was much happier when I had nicotine pumping through my veins, at least mood wise.  It will be one year on May 29th although I still take a few puffs once a week or so when I'm out with BF having a few drinks.

We (me and my three) are taking my mom to all places today....Denny's.  That was her choice.  My gift for her...lol...my brother gave her an old 19 inch tv a while ago.  It's lost it's color.  I'm not sure if you all remember that we had 6 tv's floating around here.  Two are gone.  We are giving my mom the 25" Magnavox and the 27" Magnavox is now in my/Megan's room.  I know she will love it.  It's bigger and actually has color that works plus the 27" was just sitting here calling my name for the bedroom.

And....my BF bought me a new cell phone.  Mine got crunched in between the recliner and the LED screen was cracked and leaking.  I was due for an upgrade.  Of course, thisis torture for me because I'm indecisive.  I ordered a pink Razor.  Joey said that was a bad choice because he has a silver one and the battery barely makes it through the day.  He rarely uses his so I would have hated the battery time.  I wanted a Blackberry but didn't have the huge web access fee Verizon charges plus it just darned confused the crap out of me when I messed around with it.  My son picked this one out....LOVE IT!!!!!  It's an LG ENV and is comparable to the Sidekick.  Megan wants me to text her all the time instead of calling.  Yowza, this is too easy with the keyboard.  I have free web access for a month but I really haven't used it that much.  It has Tetris and Pacman on it.  Love Tetris.  Funny thing was I didn't know it opened up into a keyboard.  Joey came up the next day and showed me.  I fell in love with it plus the camera is 2 megapixels and takes a pretty decent picture.

 

 

I haven't make any tags for quite a while.  I messed around in PSP yesterday.  Boy, am I rusty.  I'm hoping to get back into my addicition again.

Oh and Megan has been staying here for the most part to save money.  She still pays her rent but it is cheaper to live here.  I paid her Pa. wage tax so in turn she cleaned the house.  Boy, what a blessing that was to walk in the door and see a neat, tidy house.  Her brakes and rotors on her car are bad.  It's in Pittsburgh.  Her dad actually bought the parts and is supposed to fix it tomorrow.

Ok, this is long enough.  I am working my way around and catching up.  Sorry, I've missed so many of you.  Love you all!!!!!!  (BTW:  I was very saddened to see Guido may be gone from JLand.  What a rock he is to us all.  And, Lisa, Lisa's Place of Thoughts and Ramblings, which is private, father passed this week.  Please keep them both in your thoughts and prayers.)

HUGS AND LOVE.......CHRIS

                 

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11:06:50 AM EDT

   

I'm crawling out of my cave once again and rejoining the real world.  I know many are having peaks and valleys this year in JLand.  I can't say I have terrible things happening; just some stressful things.  Most or all concern my children.  Honestly, as a mother, I feel huge elation when they are happy and the deepest pain when they stumble or fall.

Last week was a week of both elation and pain.  It started on Tues, tax day.  No problem.  Taxes are done; my federal is in the bank already (hunh? lol), and the FAFSA is done.  My young one called and had some bad news about her tests and would probably need a LEEP procedure which consists of hooking an electrode to her leg and then zapping out the bad cells.  She had a more thorough biopsy done.

No sooner did I get off the phone with her then Joe called and got his "thanks but no thanks" letter from the Steamfitters.  His asthma came up during the interview.  I really think his not being chosen had nothing to do with his interview but the fact that welding and asthma do not mix.  Asthma is an occupational hazard of welding.  But, I can't, for the life of me help him see that.  He sees failure and stupidity, once again, which he most definitely is neither.  He feels that I think he is a burden.  Not so.  When I had my three, they didn't come with an expiration date.

I crawled in my hole and persevered.  It's hard to be gone for 11 hours every day; super hard as I get older.  We actually thought we might get compressed work schedules in my division and were picking our schedules.  Didn't happen because we only have one supervisor, our division chief.  A supervisor has to be in the division for all schedules.  I can't say I blame ours for not wanting to be there 10 hrs every day; five days a week. It was a nice thought, though, for a day or two.

Friday came....a peak.  Megan was at work and texted me.  Her further testing came back the same as it has been.  She is fine for six months again.  Elation!  She went to Quiznos and picked up two salads.  We ate at my work because nobody was around to watch the office at lunch.  As soon as she got back to work, she texted me that she got the "boot."  She has two more weeks left on her internship and then she will be unemployed :(  UGH!  But this is how the world of big finance works.  Nothing is guaranteed from day to day.  I was shocked.  And now, I have to wonder how in the world those college loans will get paid back in such a chaotic career.

I'm sure that God has something in store for both my young ones.  Joey has lost faith.  That worries me.  I haven't, though, so I continue to pray for all three.

I took a day of vacation today.  I build up 2 a month and don't use a whole week of vacation ever anymore.  I had some viral thingie over the weekend with a headache and throwing up.  I'm recharging my batteries today.

So, I'm asking for prayers, good thoughts, etc. to be sent for Meg and Joe. 

Here are a couple more snags.  I'd tag them but don't see where I could fit a name, and I'm lazy.  I have a few more that are sitting on my hard drive that I'll add later.   Hugs N Love   CHRIS

 

  

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8:30:52 PM EDT

                      

Wow, I can't believe I haven't made an entry since the end of March.  I've just been super tired.  It took me so long to get over that strep I had and the exhaustion but my throat is getting sore again....ugh.

Anyway, I tried to keep up with the alerts but just didn't have the energy or motivation to make a tag or write a word.  I'd open this journal and just stare at it.  I haven't made a tag in a while.  The one above was from a tube of the day challenge in one of my groups from a few weeks ago.  I guess I sort of feel that way.  I know when I made it I had my strep throat.

We had some gorgeous weather but back to icey sleet today which is typical for western Pennsylvania right now.  The forsythia is just starting to bloom which is really slow this year.  A couple of hyacinths finally popped through; darned groundhog was right about this area.

I got our federal taxes sent in.  The state is done but not mailed.  Our local boroughs, towns, etc. in Pa. charge a wage tax also (right Missie...lol?).  Mine isn't taken out of my pay, nor are the kids so that will get mailed on the 15th because that is a pretty good sum.  Only thing is I haven't even started that form yet.  Wini, I will be doing that meme that you tagged me with very soon.  My biggest bad habit is procrastination.  Right now is taxes and the darned FAFSA for Megan for student aid.  She still has a few more credits to finish next fall.  I absolutely hate that form.   I do her student version plus my parent version because of all the tax info which she wouldn't have a clue about.  It has to be renewed online. I'm so nervous about it this year because of all things AOL 9.1's browser isn't supported so I don't know if it will work.  Why I wait until the last minute is beyond me.  It has to be done before May 1st in Pennsylvania.  I may have to reinstall 9.0 VR that someone graciously sent me.  So, right now I feel a bit cruddy again plus I'm worried about the darned FAFSAcrap.  I can't do anything without Megan's pin number.  She needs to send it to me but is on campus tonight.

LOL...If I would only organize myself and quit letting things go until the last minute, life would be so much easier. 

Well, I'm off to pull the winter things out again since it will be cold here all week.

Here are a couple more snags or tags below.  Again, they were done a few weeks ago.  Hugs to all....muah!!!

CHRIS

      

      

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8:08:19 PM EDT

    

                      

 

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7:53:49 PM EDT

Today was our family Easter celebration plus Becky's birthday party.  March 31st, 27 years ago, I was giving birth.  I wish I had a scanner here.  Becky was the most gorgeous newborn.  She was the easiest labor....45 min.  Her dad was parking the car.  I had toxemia and was bedridden.  The Lord knew that child needed to be born quickly.

We went to my mom's today.  She made her infamous roast beef and refused all offers of help witht the cooking.  She is looking super and feeling very well.  I can't believe she will be 89 this year. Megan was thrilled because grandma made her gluten free chocolate chip cookies. I'm finally back to normal also.  Last week was awful.  I struggled through work and came home to crash. 

Today was a pretty nice day....52 and sunny.  I'll take that.  My BF didn't have to work so he went also.  It was a super nice afternoon.  My brother behaved.  I knew he would because my BF for some reason intimidates him.

I took a few pictures.  LOL...I tried to sneak one of Joey in but he's too good at hiding.  I'm not sure if I mentioned that he passed the steamfitter's test and has an interview on April 9th.  We'd appreciate all the prayers, good thoughts, etc. that you can offer.  Megan doesn't have her appt. until April 15th so that's on my mind.

I have a few more tags to post.  I've been sort of getting into the Paint Shop again.  Hugs n Love to all!

                         

                                                               

        

      

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10:27:10 AM EDT
Hearing I Can Only Imagine~Mercy Me

                

Happy Easter one and all!  I just wanted to stop in and wish you all a wonderful day.  I recycled the top tag from last year.

I've been battling strep this week, and my mother is still not up to par.  We found out she wasn't doing her breathing treatments because she read that a side effect could be heart problems so our Easter celebration has been postponed until we are feeling better.

My three are at their other grandma's going to church and then eating.

I'm using some tags that I didn't make below.  I usually don't do that but Lisa Jo sent me this last year.  It's so darned cute:

          

Hope all of you have a wonderful day.  The sun is shining here but the temperature is in the teens.  Still nice to see some sun and hearing the birds singing. 

HUGS N LOVE to ALL!!!!!!

           

                    Chocolate Cherried Creations

Diama/Cherry made me the above tag.  Isn't it just adorable? 

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12:00:58 PM EDT

LOL....I'm bombarding but this is it.  I didn't get much done for Easter this year.

 

             

 

         

                  

 

 

                    

 

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11:52:09 AM EDT

            

LOL...It may be Palm Sunday and Easter may be next week, and I may be thinking spring but western Pa. isn't on the same line of thought.  Not that it's awful but just dreary.  40's and cloudy.  20 at night...brrr.  No sign of green grass or anything sprouting yet.

It was a busy week.  Meg is in South Beach.  She called from Ft. Lauderdale on Thurs.  They were waiting for the town car to pick them up and transport them to South Beach.  I'm supposing you need to arrive in proper fasion in South Beach.    Hmm....mom has to wonder what's wrong with this picture...lol.  Like where is my "vacay"?  She called yesterday and had gotten really burnt which is unusual.  She was using 15 and has never burnt in her life.  She's been tropical before.  Oh well....she did have to send me photos of the beach and sun on her cell phone...grrrr.

Joey passed his union test and has an interview on April 9th.  Good thoughts and prayers would be appreciated as I know he gets interview jitters very badly and would love to get this job.  He's been working on it for over a year now.

My mom is doing much better.  She still looks pretty exhausted but has improved drastically.  She is asking her doctor Tues if she can do an Easter dinner.  I'm trying my best to have her postpone it for a week or two.  Megan will be back and wants her and I to go and cook dinner at my mother's.  I still think that's far too much commotion right now. 

Grizzly's hepatic profile came back better than last year's so keeping my fingers crossed.  He seems to be hopping around like a pup today but tomorrow he could be hobbling again.

If you get a chance, please stop by Bea's Wanderer A very sad day.  Her Max got sick  just yesterday and was gone by afternoon.  As expected, she is in shock and devastated.

That's about it for now.  Enjoy your Sunday!

HUGS  Chris

            

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