Back To Work

I go back to work tonight. Bah, Humbug!! I was off 21 days and have finally gotten used to sleeping at night like a normal human being. I finally got the pool cleared up and have enjoyed it for the last 2 days. Now I have to go back to working at night and sleeping all day long. For the next week. Then I'll have another week off. But now that we've had a new electric heat pump installed so we won't freeze next winter (we had the gas taken out due to the price) I need to work some overtime. Doug put his boat in the shop and it's going to cost over $1,000 to get it fixed. And that's from sitting and not being used since he got it. When we do get it back, he will take it out and maybe even live on it, who knows?? Not really but it will not sit in the back yard and let everything freeze up on it again (we thought it was just a cable). So I guess I'll be working extra for awhile. That's one good thing about the nursing shortage, you can get in as many hours as you want. I still want an office job, but that doesn't pay as much so I guess I'll stay where I am until the house is paid for. And then it will be time to die because I'll be too old to enjoy retirement. My laptop has been in the shop getting the damage fixed that the guy from craigslist caused when he took the vista off it and put xp on it. First of all, it was an illegal version of xp. Secondly, he messed up alot of my settings. And the surf button still doesn't work. If you ever have computer problems, go to digitek computers on Clinton Hwy in Powell. They are a Christian run business and are very reasonable. I would have asked Bucky to fix it, but he probably has enough to do. But he's good too. Oh well...I guess I'll get a few things done around here and then go back to bed for my power nap before going back to work.

Vacation

Okay. I'm in my third week of vacation. Exactly what is wrong with this picture? I'm still home. Oh, we made reservations to go to Pigeon Forge and stay for 3 days and 2 nights. Even paid for it up front. First, we got there, checked into our tiny little room, I was unpacking our stuff and noticed I hadn't seen Doug's shirts that I told him to leave on hangers. I asked him where they were, and he casually said that they were still hanging on the closet door at home. So I finished unpacking, and asked him where his c-pap was (his machine that helps him breathe when he is sleeping and also miraculously stops his snoring). He left that at home as well. He jokingly told me that I would have to take a double dose of my sleeping medication that night. Well, like a fool, I had to tell him that I forgot to bring it. So that evening we went for a swim in the pool that only went 5 feet deep and had a few bugs floating on the top of the water. Couldn't stand it long, so we went back to the room. That night, Doug slept a little, but kept waking himself up snoring. Needless to say, I didn't sleep much either even though I had bought some Melatonin at Walgreens earlier in the day. We both got up the next morning and went for our free breakfast in the Pancake House next door, where the waitresses wore bibbed overalls and the place looked really rustic. A little too rustic for me. Every time I tried to eat a bite of pancake, I kept hearing that lady on the news that checks the ratings of restaurants and tells them to "Clean it up!" I couldn't help but wonder what the rating of that restaurant was, and kept imagining them checking the warm syrup before they brought it out and dipping the dead cockroach out of it. Or sifting through the flour to get the rat droppings out of it. The pancakes tasted wonderful, but I only at about a third of it, if that much. My hard candy that was in my purse was much better. Oh...back to the tiny little room. Doug took off his shoes and was walking around barefooted. The bottom of his feet ended up black! He had to wash them before he went to bed! Now I remember! We stayed at this same motel last time we went there. And we ended up with black feet then too. When we finished our running around (shopping), we went back to the motel, packed our stuff and checked out. I told the guy behind the counter how nasty the carpet was, but he didn't seem to mind. After all, they could rent it out again that night and get double the money because I had already paid and it was non-refundable. Next time we take a vacation, I think we'll have plenty of money saved up and go to 6 flags or something and stay in a decent motel.

The Three Stooges

The kids were here again this weekend. It was so hot!!! We went swimming 2 days in a row. Rebecca, Billy, and Nicholas are the three stooges:

Poor Hannah doesn't like the pool:



Hannah did like sleeping in the recliner with her PaPaw:

She climbed up in a chair in the dining room and posed for me:

Billy ate 2 bowls of lucky charms with a super big spoon:

And we have another stooge to add to the group. Shelly decided to join Nicholas in being silly with Oreos: