Killing Time

Sitting in the airport in Dallas, TX waiting for my connection to Greensboro.  Flight was scheduled to leave at 7:50 p.m. CST putting me in Greensboro at 11:25 p.m. EST putting me in my drive way by 1:00 a.m.  Flight rescheduled to 9:03 then to 9:18.  So I am just hanging out and killing time.  Ready to get back home.  I think the last time that I was gone anywhere near this length of time was in the early 90's.  3-4 days is about my limit then I get ready to get home.  Ah well will be there sometime before daylight (I hope!)  Got to work tomorrow.  Have a great evening!  More later.  Oh a thought to ponder.  Why is bra singular and panties plural?  Things that make you go huuummm?

Wrapping It Up

Wrapping up my week in OK tomorrow.  Still not a great deal to report.  We did go to the Western Heritage Museum in OK City yesterday and that was very interesting,  This used to be known as the Cowboy Hall of Fame.  But it was so much more than cowboys.  Afterwards we went by the memorial for the OK City bombing of the Murrah Building.  It was kinda' humbling to stand on those grounds.  Other than a couple of trips for chemo it has been pretty much sitting around.  I have cleaned horse stalls and helped with feeding, kept the dishes washed up but other than a couple of loads of clothes that is pretty much it.  It is official, I am not real good at doing nothing.  I am as tired from doing nothing as I would have been from working all week.  I was able to come up with a few things that will help me in my new quest.  Looking forward to starting that.  Will be winging my way back home tomorrow evening.  I know this is terribly shallow but I will be glad to see my truck.  She has been sitting in the long term parking at the airport all week.  I will be glad to see her because that is what is taking me home and I will be driving a familiar vehicle (not that I have driven much this week but still).  I did realize this morning that I have never flown at night so kinda looking forward to that since the moon is about half full.  More later from home.

Sorry

Hate to disappoint but no adventures from OK at this point.  It has been very calm and I have not managed to get into anything.  I must say that it has been a very looooong time since I have had this many days of inactivity.  I am not sure at all that I could get used to it.  Ah well, have gotten to spend more time with a brother than I have in a long time and have had a chance to formulate some plans.  Not wasted time at all.  All of ya'll have a great evening/day where ever you may be and I will be back.

Had Written Earlier

I had written earlier but was having trouble getting it to post so I will start over.  Arrived in Greensboro around 3:00 a.m. and rested a bit but was going to try to stay awake to hopefully sleep on the plane.  Did get a little cat nap but never sound asleep.  And did not go to sleep on plane.  It was actually not a bad flight at all.  I never really dreaded it but just didn't look forward to it.  Then into Dallas for a couple of hours before leaving again for OK City.  That leg of the flight was pretty much up then down.  Only in the air about 30 minutes. Overall not a bad flight at all.  Have taken about a 20 minute power nap since getting to my brothers.  I am feeling physic, I predict a really good night's sleep tonight.  I am sure as the week evolves I am going to have some interesting tales to tell, I am somewhere I have never been before so this should be good for a few stories.  More later!

Just Call Me Willie

Just call me Willie as in Willie Nelson cos I am "On the road again".  Actually I am not on the road right now.  I have stopped for the night.  Left after work and came to VA to spend the night with the baby brother before going to the horse sale tomorrow.  Will leave the horse sale and stop at the airport in Greensboro to await my flight out to OK to spend next week with the other brother.  The goal is to be tired enough to sleep all the way to my connecting flight in Dallas.  Now let me say that flying is not my favorite mode of transportation.  I would much rather drive but it is what it is.   Will get back home and start getting ready for the next road trip the following weekend which is the start of a new venture/adventure.  Told someone this week who had commented on my being gone a lot that I had heard most accidents happen within 5 miles from home so I was trying to lower my odds.  Also, said that I have figured out why it is so difficult for me to stop smoking.  I know all of ya'll are ready for this.  It is because it is socially unacceptable to start drinking at 8:00 a.m.  They are my lies and I am sticking to them.  To be continued from OK.  See ya'll soon!

What Men Say

What men say is not necessarily what women hear.  Now if any of you who read are male, I will attempt to scratch the surface and for you women I can hear you saying, 'you know she's right'.  A man's intention may be entirely good but what he says doesn't always come across as what he means.  For instance, (ya'll should have seen that coming) yesterday afternoon my phone rang at 6:00 p.m.  It was a male friend.  Actually, this was a gentleman that I dated some and while it didn't work out we have remained friends. (Even though at times I have to remind him that friends is all we are ever going to be.)  He asked how I was, was I having a good weekend, and what was I doing.  I explained that I was at the beach and we were just leaving the beach and going to get something to eat.  He replied, oh, so I guess you can't go out to eat.  My reply was nope I am not available.  Now while I am sure that his intentions were good, this is not the first time that this has happened.  Let me 'splain something Lucy, unless we have been hanging out and decide to go get a bite to eat before we quit hanging out, if you wait until 6:00 p.m. to ask me out to eat, guess what, I am gonna be busy.  While he asked did I want to go out to eat what I heard was, 'here it is at 6:00 on a Sat. night and I don't have anything to do, I will call Connie because she probably don't have anything to do either.'  Another example:  The last gentleman that I dated asked me on the Sun. morning after my 84 hour week that I wrote about when talking about my crash day what I was going to do after church.  I patiently explained that I was going to church, going  home and sleeping I hoped until Monday morning.  After church he asked me if I was still going to go home and go to sleep.  Well at this point you should have been able to look at me and know the answer to that question.  My reply was a not so patient "yes".  He asked me if I would call him later if I woke up in the afternoon.  At that point the reply was pretty much a grunt.  I did wake up around 6 and I did call because I am polite like that.  He then asked if I had slept and I answered with yes I had.  He then asked what I was going to do next.  My answer was to get up, put my pajamas on and go back to bed.  He then replied with, 'oh, I thought maybe you could come up here and I would take you to get something to eat because I miss you.'  With a very curt, "I really don't give a @^$& about eating right now I just want to sleep and I will talk to you in a day or two because I am going to be very busy tomorrow" I hung up.  Now while he may have been concerned with my need to eat, what I heard was that he really didn't give two cents how tired I was, he was more concerned with the fact that he felt neglected.  I could give you many more examples but just remember whichever sex you are that what men say is not necessarily what women hear.  To be continued I am sure.

Making Memories

It should come as no great surprise, but I am gone again.  Again,  just an overnight trip, but left this evening after work with Janelle and headed to the beach.  My son-in-law has an aunt who lives at the beach and he and the boys left this morning to get here by lunch time.  As previously mentioned Janelle and I left after work and came down.  I will be going back home tomorrow (or actually this evening).  We have had a great ride down and a great time since we got here.  As we are at the beach and  a lot of folks left today or getting ready to leave in the morning they are packing up and throwing stuff away.  Our entertainment for the night was 'dumpster diving'.  Not actual dumpsters but riding around looking for stuff that folks had thrown away rather than taking it home.  LMAO!!!! Thing 1 was super excited about going and has the eyes of an eagle!  Thing 2 was the Moral Majority of this group and was concerned with the fact that we might be stealing.  After explaining to him that if people were throwing it away we were not stealing from them.  And the funny part is we made quite a haul.  5 beach umbrellas of which we are going to be able to salvage 2 or 3.  About 20 chairs of which we are going to be able to salvage about 10 of them.  2 charcoal grills both of which are in good shape, 1 cooler which just needs a new plug, and one big ass rug which is not hurt at all!  Yep pretty good night to spend riding around with the kiddos and collecting garbage.  Remember, one man's trash is another man's treasure.  A new experience for me and one that I am sure will probably happen again.  To be continued I am sure.

Those Boys Have Done It Again

I am referring to Thing 1 and Thing 2.  As much as sometimes I just want to beat the tar out of them, oh wait, maybe I have.  Anyway, although sometimes I want to pinch their heads off they have their moments that they sure do make a Granny proud.  Last night was one of those proud moments.  We all went to a visitation at the funeral home for a mutual friend's mother.  It was those 2 boys, their mama and daddy, myself and another couple who are also friends.  Those two boys who are now 5 and 8 stood quietly in line, didn't fidget or dance around.  They stood there like very well behaved young men.  When we reached the family they each went through and shook hands with all the family.  I was just as proud as a peacock!  They didn't shy away even from the people they didn't know.  You know you can overlook the bickering and fussing with each other sometimes when you stop to remember that even at this age they know how to conduct themselves like gentlemen.  We then all went to eat together and they were still so well behaved.  Sat at the table without interrupting grown folks and waited their turn to talk.  They used their best manners with the waitress remembering to say please and thank you.  Yep, makes a Granny proud.

Psssst. I Have Been Gone Again

LMAO!  Sitting at job 3 on Friday thinking that I had nothing to do over the weekend and nobody to do it with!  It doesn't happen often but I was looking at 2 weekends back to back like this.  While I realize this is a rare thing and most people would enjoy the time at home without having to do anything, I just could not stand the thought of looking at these 4 walls all weekend.  Well there is an app for that!  It is called a road trip!  Have I mentioned I love my truck?  What I haven't mentioned is that I have figured out how long it takes a car seat to mold to the driver's rear end.  About 12,000 miles.  I have gotten mine just so.  Now where to go?  Needed to be back by Sun. morning and couldn't leave till Fri evening so a trip to Ma's was not an option although I am really needing to go up the mountain.  Maybe in August.  So where to go for a one night/one day trip?  Had one of those ah ha moments and decided to take off, spend the night and get up this morning and roam around where my dart landed.  It was great!  Checked out the area, gathered some information and just looked around.  Headed back up the road and took a side trip to see some friends.  I was within 20 miles of them and it was just too close not to go by.  I love these friends because their home is a 2nd home to me.  I love being able to send a text to ask if they were home and then send another that said I will be there in about 25 minutes if that is ok.  Had a really good visit then rode by to check out plan B which may very well turn into plan A.  It was a great trip, stopped by Wally World on my way home and got to see Janelle and the boys.  Then home to cut my grass.  Will get the floors swept and mopped tomorrow.  Have I mentioned it takes me longer to mop than it does to mow?  I just think that is funny!!!  Of course I do have a slightly twisted sense of humor and there are some things that strike me funny that, God bless 'em, others just don't see the humor in.  Oh well.  Gonna call it a night.  TTYL

Clean Your Own House First

Let me start with a disclaimer, I am not upset, I am not on a rant, I am merely making an observation about human nature.  I use the term 'clean your own house first' as a way of saying take care of your own business before you start taking care of others.  (remember my 2nd language is idiom).  Stop for just a moment and think how much better the world would be if people would stop to realize that none of us are perfect.  Not even your awesomeness here!  Excuse me for being blunt here, but each and every one of us have shit we are not proud of!  You may or may not have heard me say when you can walk on water you may judge me and likewise when I can walk on water I will judge you.  Dumbass has told me before that I am one of the least judgemental people he knows.  You know why?  Because I have screwed up plenty in my life and I know how it feels for people to point their bony fingers and gossip!  I choose not to be that way.  But because I know my faults and shortcomings, until I am perfect (which on this side of the dirt will never happen) then I can not! and will not pretend to tell other people what they should do with their lives.  But, sadly this is an attitude that few people seem to adopt.  Don't talk about what other people's kids are doing because you don't know what yours are going to do sometime.  Don't talk about other people's relationships because you don't know what goes on behind closed doors.  Unfortunately so many people spend so much time tending to other people's business and judging them for the decisions that they make that they neglect their own shortcomings.  So just some sage advice from an old woman who's been there, done that, clean your own house first before you try to clean someone else's.

Happy Birthday America!

Happy birthday to what is still one of the greatest countries in the world.  Ok, got that out of the way.  Damn a day off in the middle of the week!  It feels too much like Sat. but yet you know you have to go back to work tomorrow.  I did get my truck cleaned up good today so that was a plus.  I had just about let it get out of hand.  They just ride so much better when they are clean.  And, since I have no qualms about climbing in it and taking off I needed to get it cleaned up.  Oh and on that note started to post on Sun. "Pssst.  I am gone again."  But as I was gone again I never got around to it.  At any rate all of you in the U.S. enjoy your 4th of July festivities and be safe.  Leaving in a couple of hours to celebrate a grandson's birthday at a baseball game.  (how fitting, one of America's past times)  We will have lots of fun but I don't think I will put my name in the hat for some of the between innings games.  Did that last year and got chosen for the 'dizzy bat race' and almost cleared out the home team dugout.  But it was what I hope will be a memory for the grandkids, that one day when they are older they will be talking and say, 'remember when Granny?  Hope to provide them with lots of those moments.  Have a great day and as the Terminator says, "I'll be back".