rude nasty people

Had a pretty good night last night at work until I got the last call, had a hearing guy from the east coast that was hard to understand, coupled with a deaf person that had very little expression.  When you are reading signs you can tell if it is a statement or a question by the look on their face, but i couldnt tell always and the connection was somewhat pixeled.  Guy goes off on me and I tried to explain to him that they both cant be talking at the same time, I can't do both at the same time.  He asks for a different interpreter asking for my terp number so I transfered him.  I just got really upset with him and had a hard time remainin my compsure.  I just think some people are born rude. I just needed to write this and get it off my chest.

boy was I a grouch

Dave was so very nice to me, he decided with the heat to stay home and then work after the sun sets so as to not get sick.  I quess I just finally had let down from it all.  I am tired of being sidelined with injury and pain.  The pain is so much more bearable, but after two months with the wrist and now going on a month with this knee, I had just reached my limit.  I dont think it helped that a tree dropped on us either.  I was so frustrated with my limitations and getting all the stuff for insurance can be experating.  Dave was a sweetheart.  Also I think lack of good sleep due to the pain has also affected me.  Well anyway on to better days.

the act test

The act test is giving MDK fits!!!  She hates standerdized tests, it is not something we did alot, filling in multiple choice questions as homeschoolers, and she also didnt study ahead for it.  She cant seem to break through, however i do think she is ready to study and prep for it.  I tried to force MLK to do so and that fell on deaf errors, in fact I think it might have made it go in the opp direction, so I waited until Meg really wants my help and then I will offer, so she is going to try to study this time, before she has kinda blown it off.  Well we got a whole bunch of loose ends I am trying to tie up with the tree fallout so I will let you go for now.

a huge tree and a very close call

Well there have been a few times in my life where a brush of death happened, the first time when I got electrocuted by a vacuum cleaner in college, giving birth to Missy when my blood pressure was 212 over 132, my seven car pileup that totaled my car and I walked away from and yesterday. 

We had just warmed up leftovers and sat down to have a do nothing Saturday, one we had longed for , for about two weeks.  It had been raining off and on all morning, we saw out a window a flash of light, Dave said wow that was close and then POW, it sounded like a small canon had gone off, and then this tremoundous whoosh sound, a loud BANG and then a extremely high pitch squeal.  We thought oh crap a tornado had come down out of the clouds and touched down or something.  Then Meggan who saw the tree falling outside of the office because she was on the computer ran into the living room and said its the tree it hit the propane tank.  The electricity had gone out.  However upon hearing that we absolutely terrified as we knew one spark and that whole tank which had been filled two days okay could explode.  Both Dave and I screamed at the girls, run dont worry about shoes, get out of here now and far away.  We grabbed the dogs and ran also! None of us had shoes, I flagged down a car and borrowed a phone and called 911. Giving them my address name and phone first as I now have interpreted four serious 911 calls at work knew how important that was.  They  asked is this right next to Linda B. house and I said yes okay we are already on the way. While I was doing that Dave had ran to the neighbors afraid that they had been crushed by the tree but they all got out okay.  They had just put out their cigerattes, and the tree came down in their bedroom a branch came through broke off and went through their floor  missing Linda by about a foot, gas was venting in their broken window, they too ran like a bat out of you know where.  The fire dept showed up and got everyone so many feet away from the propane tank and didnt approach it till it stopped hissing.  A huge chunk of the tree had to be removed by a winch to get to the propan tank.  The propane tank had a ripped hole in it.  It looked like a pop can with the regulator and top being the pop top.  They filled it with water to stablized it or something.  The gas company we contract with came and the local guy helped also and removed the propane tank.  The neighbors insurance man came and it was determined that the tree needed to be removed off their roof and a tarp put on to secure it.  We purchased it and they got it on.  The electric company showed up and got us hooked up but there was no way to get the neighbors hooked up at all.  The meter had been torn off our house.  Their pole, box wires everything totally gone, buried under the massive tree branch.  After the propane tank was removed and the green house wires cut, we both were alowed back in our homes.  Their ac unit was completely demolished, however ours was unscathed. 

Sitting down after the long day and getting our neighbors camper hooked up to our water and electricity.  We thought through the day first we realized if this hadnt happened just as it did, and the electric had sparked that gas we would have never even know what had hit us, then if that tree had come down at any other degree someone would have died.  We were all on that side of the house and the neighbors had a close call anyway. Prayers of thanksgiving went up!! 

Now we await the insurance man and hope they do right by this, send up the prayers!

just getting it out of my head

I just needed to get this out of my head.  I am just a frustrated mother of an almost twenty year old.  Melissa has always had a hard time forming and keeping social relationships and change is hard for her.  When she was three we moved the furniture and she cried off and on for a few days, she has intately been this way forever.  However she is coming to the stage of life where she needs to fly.  She got into with one of her roomates about left out mac and cheese (which she should have taken care of) but this girl went a little overboard about it and Missy is taking it too much to heart.  She has always clung to the negative and dismissed the postive.  She has worked herself into a frenzy emotionally and want to run and hide.  This seems to be her last big hurdle and told her as much last night on the phone.  I told her that if she didnt get this  last hurtle that people would never truely percieve her as an adult.  She has made an appointment with her counselor, she will see her next Tuesday.  I have raised her and this is her life and her problem and she must work through it, but the mom in me just worries and frets and has great concerns for her well being.  However advice from Mom has a tendency to fall on deaf ears.  I am glad she has a good counselor even though most of the time Missy thinks that her counselor and I have conferred on things (which we never do).  I told her I could just give her advice and it would cost her less, but she just snarls when I say that.  I am in hopes that she can work through this.  She keeps trying I will give her that, she starts on a situation but there seems to be a point where she just shuts down, I dont know what she is going to have to do to get through it.  I am trying very hard to never enable her to not do what she needs to do next.  I guess I will just say my prayers.

finished Meg's quilt

I got Meg's quilt done and now I just need to get it off to the quilter sometime, also make a throw pillow out of the exta block I had.  I am back in the mood to sew again,  I go in spurts, also I have to stay off this foot so I am keeping myself occupied by keeping busy with projects.  At work I am using a bean bag to prop the foot up under the desk, however by nights end it is throbbing usually so will try to stay off it both mon and tues cause i then work wed, thurs, fri.  and then off again.  Enjoying my job most of the time.got to go getting on the phones.

just a bad sprain

So my knee ended up being just a severe sprain so that is good.  I am happy to hear that, I have finished the front of MDK quilt need to sew up the back and then I am ready to take it to the quilters.  I really enjoyed this pattern and am so in the mood to sew right now.  I love sewing and being crafty that way.  I am able to prop my foot up and go to town.  I have three days of work right in a row this weekend.  I start tonight and end sunday night.  Well better get off I think we are going grocery shopping this morning.

this burger hurts

My leg woke me up at 4 this morning when the pain meds wore off.  I was up on it alot yesterday and it def. not happy about it.  Have to leave in about a half hour for the MRI and some errands in town and then home to keep my leg up since i work fri sat sun.  I worked last night and did well.  I hope if I have surgery it wont take long for me.  I want to be able to not mess up my job at Sorenson as it has been one thing after another with me, broken wrist, then bronchitis and now a messed up knee.  Hopefully it will all be better soon.  Thinking I will try to get a nap in as I have a job (vol.) tonight interpreting.  I plan to work some more on the quilt going to look at fabric when i pick up a few groceries in town and going to stop by the library also.  Well better get around for the day.

trying to blog more regularly

Well yesterday I stayed off my legs, but managed to get alot done.  I sat with my foot propped up and sewed the top of MDK quilt it is the coolest and easiest design I have ever seen.  Truely amazing it is called a 10 minute block.  It only has three seams and then you have four blocks with a diamond in the middle.  It is so easy but looks difficult.  I plan to do some more they are just too cool.  So I ran out of the fabric I bought for her quilt but she said a throw quilt will be just fine, which is about the size I made for MLK too.  I have to find fabric for the backside of the quilt.  As soon as Dave gets up I plan to do some more sewing. 

Today I will have to go the iboprofun route at work as I cant take the meds I have been taking and drive or work.  Tommorow morning I have my MRI at 8 in the morning.  Bright and early!  Send a little prayer up for MDK with her Spanish that she will pass it has been a super tough class for her.  She plans to take nothing this fall and then take something in the Spring.  MLK was sick Monday, she thinks she ate some bad meat.  Sounded pretty good yesterday when I talked to her.  Trying to keep my house clean while resting my knee it gets interesting trying to do both.  Well better finish the dishes.

i must need to learn somethin

Well it looks like some recovery time will be on the horizon whether it is knee brace and crutches or surgery I wont know till after the MRI.  I just came off of my wrist injury not that long ago.  The pain is much more manageable than it was, after being off my leg for almost 3 days.  The doctor thinks i have torn my medial mencious, and that I first injured it at the same time I did my wrist and that i stepped down wrong and tore the rest of the way.  So today I sit and do a little bit of picking up and then sit for a long time.  I am starting on Meg's quilt.  I am doing the ten minute block which you can see a video of it on you tube.  It looks simple so we will see once I get started. 

I didnt sleep so well due to pain and discomfort so I am hoping I can get a good nap today.  I work wed, fri-sun this week.  Not going to try to get extra hours until I know about the surgery.  I am trying to fiqure out what lesson I am to learn in all this injury and healing.  Patience has never been something I learn well so hopefully that is not it :)  Well better get off here for now.

seeing the parents and aunt and uncle

It was nice to go out to eat with my folks and with my aunt and uncle it was alot of fun.  It seems so different nowdays as I seem to have got old enough and so have my folks :).  They just seem like other adults and not so   much my parents when we are together now.  We have both changed as I feel older and I guess since I have almost raised my kids they see me much more as an adult then before.

Have worked a whole big bunch and am looking forward to four days off in a row.  It will be nice!!!!  going to Jobie's bday party today and then going to church tommorow.  Well better get off here and get around.

garage sales and jamming out

Had a great day with the girls and their friend and Dave.  We went to the mammoth all around town garage sale in savvanah, it was fun to see the big girls buying stuff for their own places.  Shannon will be living out on her own this fall and bought a small table which we managed to fit in the van along with dishes and Missy was buying skillets.  Paige came with Meg and they all just had a blast.  so good I dont have to worry about my girls out partying with their friends.  Then we bought some music at the church garage sale and jammed on the way home.  Now I am getting ready to clock in here at Sorenson.  So far a very good day, hope tonight goes well at work.