Hi Everybody! I have been sooooo absent and mentally, not fully back yet.....we've had some offers on the house but they always fall through, so I'm ready to jump off a cliff....
Every time I view a house in CO. that MIGHT be 'the one', it sells......<sigh> I feel cursed.
My girl came home for a 5-week winter break starting right before Christmas and I still haven't gotten back into a schedule....I cried when she flew in and I cried when she flew out. (She turned 21 a few days before she flew home, too, and I was pretty upset that I couldn't be with her.....to me, 21 is kind of the last special birthday for 'the kid years'. Her boyfriend's mom made her a nice cake and dinner, etc., so she was taken care of, and she was in the middle of finals, but we were pretty sad that we couldn't be with her)....
When she got back to Montana, she got strep throat.....got meds, got well and then got sick with a very bad cold again..(still getting over the cold)...not being with her during a major illness was hard on me....the first culture at the doctor was taken too soon and it didn't show strep so they just gave her numbing stuff to spray on her throat.......(GRRRR)...heck, when she was talking to me on the phone explaining her symptoms I KNEW she had strep! She was sicker than a dog, not eating, couldn't get to the little store on campus to get some juice for her little ice box.....being far away was hard...
Her boyfriend came for a week (spent New Year's with us), and hadn't been to California before, so it was all new to him......Hollywood, L.A., Laguna, Disneyland, and us.... (My girlfriend's mom died and so we took him into L.A. the 2nd day he was here for the funeral, which was all in Spanish.... Her mom loved my girl and we loved her.... He was a good sport about it though...he's easy going). He's very kind and adores my girl......they are stuck like glue......he's tall.
We had a ton of rain in December, all at once....had to pump my back yard out several times...the gutter out on the street was like raging rapids...(I was out there trying to unblock a drain and nearly got washed down the road)...had to get water out of the pool quite a few times, too.... Our neighbor's house flooded from massive rain and muddy stuff coming off the hillside, so we were over there before sunrise with our pumps, shop vacs, etc.....her house is 7,000 feet and there was major damage.....we were there for at least 2 hours before the flood guys could get there.....
We then had 'May' in January.....my ficus tree in my house has gone into shock because it got so hot.....(and now, it's pretty chilly). Many leaves have turned yellow and have fallen off. It does this every few years when we have crazy weather.....
My husband and I went to Disneyland on Super Bowl Sunday......we had a nice day for a change..... He hadn't seen the new part...California Adventure...he liked the fast rides and the soaring one.....I do, too. I keep my eyes open when I go upside down on the Mickey Mouse roller coaster and I like the Tower of Terror elevator but the ride is over before you know it..
Another boy in my girl's high school graduating class has died of heroin overdose.....these are good kids, popular kids, from good homes..... He sat one kid over from her during graduation..... This has made me heart sick..... The devastation that this causes..... Her class had 800 kids in it....
On Monday, my neighbor's family had other things going and she needed to get out to Palm Springs pronto to see her good friend who is very ill in the hospital. She called and asked if I would go with her so that she could use the carpool lane on one of the freeways.....people were going to be crowding the roads coming back from the long weekend, so she wanted to get there asap. (Palm Springs is a couple of hours or more from our area in good traffic, providing you also use 2 toll roads).... I took a quick shower and off we went..... We had a nice visit and the mountains had snow on them, so the drive was pretty...... I hope her friend improves..... She is in the Eisenhower Center and boy, that is a pretty swank hospital....we had to show our i.d's when we entered and our stickie-badges had our names and pics on them.....the Betty Ford Center is by it, but around the block.....my neighbor is a couple of years younger than me and going through all the midlife stuff......we felt like checking ourselves in....
Anyway, I'll try to get on here more often......I have missed everybody and will try to catch up on your past input when I can. I just haven't been in a good frame of mind....or else I've been too busy trying to keep this house going.
Love you all, my freebie buds!
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