Another beautiful sunny, windy day. Just try to go out with a hair do today and you will end up with a tousled hair don’t ! I don’t mind it myself, because my short hair may stand on end, but a quick swipe of my hand lays it right back down again. I only went out for swim anyway and am home for the rest of the day, so weather will not bother me one way or the other.

We had a good rain, about 2 inches, day before yesterday and the grass is growing as is every other green thing out there. Lots of the flowers are in bloom, the cukes plants are starting to reach tendrils up toward the wire trellis and besides blooms on the tomato plants, I found a real tomato there this morning! It’s pea sized, but promising me a tomato sandwich in a few weeks anyway. I am looking forward to the squash too, though there are only buds on them so far. I need to get the okra seeds in the ground and might do that tomorrow. I am much to lazy today.

I love the swim exercise class, but an hour of constant movement, albeit in the water where my mass is not weighing on me, is so tiring. I always want to come home, eat my lunch and nap. And I did that today. Now I have some meat thawing for our supper and I decided to dash this off and try to get it posted. I’ll make chicken fried steak, some potatoes and mixed veggies for our meal. I know I am supposed to stay away from fried foods, but I figure if I do it at home in canola oil and drain and blot it well, it might not be so bad for me.

Truth be told, if not for cooking for Gordon, who needs to eat to gain weight and keep up his strength, I would probably forego meat altogether several times a week. I do love a good steak, or even chicken or fish, but when I have fresh veggies, I can make a meal off them easily enough. I made a dab of chili this morning and fixed us hot dogs for lunch, mine fat free and Gordon’s regular. I know. Processed meat is not good for me either. In fact, most things I can think of at the moment are not on my eating plan. How long can a person exist on what they allow me? ~sigh~

I finally got the vacuuming done yesterday.   Now the house is in a semi clean state and I feel better about it.  

We saw the ENT doctor yesterday, or rather he saw Gordon. He removed quite a lot more of wax from Gordon’s ear and gave him a hearing test and now Gordon can hear again and doesn’t have that stuffed up feeling and pain he had before. What a relief for him.

We have an appointment on the 15^th with different pain management doctor who may or may not have some new ideas for treatment of Gordon’s ongoing painful condition. At least he is local and hopefully we won’t have to wait as long as with the last pain doc we saw. The ENT office was run efficiently and we only had a short wait for the doctor to see us.

I don’t know how many times I start writing entries for here and then delete them without finishing them. Some days it’s just not in me to write anything. I know I should update daily, but when it’s the same ol’ thing day after day, I just don’t do it. I never said this was going to be a daily anyway. Maybe I could put up this on the days I can’t think of something to write.

“Notice. This day passed the same as most others. No special happenings, nothing but get out of bed, do my chores, try to enjoy the outdoors for a short while, cook supper, clean up after and go to bed after watching mindless TV and/or diddling on the computer. I thank God for this ordinary day. I hope yours was as good as mine.”

No, I don’t think I’ll do that after all. LOL

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

When I take the trouble to pull up a journal site and then see I must be a “friend” in order to read it, I automatically take this journal off my list to read. It’s a silly add on that Xanga obviously thinks is cute and fun. It’s not.

That being said, here is the report from our house.

Beautiful weather, spring like, sort of cool in the mornings, in the high 40s but warming into the mid 70s for the rest of the day. Pretty windy most of the time, but not unpleasantly so. We could use a good rain, but I am not begging the weather gods to do anything especially for me. Let the chips fall where they may. I am so glad I am not living where the weather is really freaky. I’ll take what comes with a minimum of griping.

Gordon is taking the new meds that the pain management doc prescribed. Neurontin for nerve pain, meloxicam, an anti inflammatory and the Vicodin if he needs it for the pain. He couldn’t tolerate the Robaxin, the muscle relaxer. He said it made the pain worse. At this point, I am not sure if he really knows what causes what. He is not taking as much Vicodin simply because he thinks it doesn’t do much to ease the pain.

Physical therapy has been ordered too, but I can’t get him to go because he says he doesn’t feel up to it. I don’t know what I we are going to do about that. Obviously is PT is supposed to make him feel better, he has to work at even if he is feeling bad.

I have been out in the yard as much as I can. I do have a lot to do in the house though so I feel as if I am wasting all the sunshine. At the moment I am deep cleaning the master bath. It is pretty much of a mess but I will get it done today if it’s the last thing I do.

My hardest task today will be what to make for Gordon’s supper. I am easy when it comes to eating. I can make a meal of cheese and crackers and maybe an apple or some sort of veggie, but his appetite and likes and dislikes have changed drastically since his illness. I’m not sure if it’s the meds or what. Anyway, he doesn’t like many of the foods he used to enjoy. I am constantly searching for the just the right meal to peak his interest.

Now, back to the bathroom. Ugh. The sky is so inviting.

A plain old tallow tree over our back fence.   I didn't realize I caught a dove perched in the lower right hand corner.    Isn't that blue sky gorgeous?