Linda's Lunacy

Faith, Home, & Family

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New stuff: Crooked Creek Farm page, Crooked Creek Gardens, and My Project, all with pics!!

Today ended up being rather hectic. sigh Today was the first day we didn’t have piano for the summer. But can we stay home?? Nooooooooo! Got a call shortly after lunch. What are you doing? hate those phone calls! Can you come and take Kenn to Walmart? he needs new khaki pants and new black sneakers for his new job at Long John Silvers. Ok, we’ll come. We’ll there, we bought “The Pacifer” and after dropping Kenn off at work, we went to Snappy Tomato Pizza, and got $5. pizzas. So we ate pizza in the living room while watching the new movie. We don’t have the tv on while eating, usually don’t have it on very much at all. But it’s fun every once in a while to have a movie night and eat in the living room. Of course, it probably would have been better to do it last week BEFORE I cleaned the rugs!!!!! lol But the movie just came out today!

I had a slug on my leg tonight, while watering the garden. GROSS!!!!! at least D told me it was a slug. He pulled SOMETHING off my leg. lol GROSS!

Hope Kenn liked his new job! He stayed the while time he was supposed to, so thats a good sign. D’s gone to pick him up now. I’m going to go work on laundry while waiting for them to get home. CYA

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I finished cleaning the living room / dining room rugs. I did most of the living room on Thursday. Lets just say it’s been too long since I did it last! ugh! It’s been so hot, that I’ve been in the house most of the time. Except for a couple of hours in the morning, then a couple more in the evening. The prodigal returned. My mothers landlord told her he’s selling the house! She was going to move to senior housing anyway, but my brother talked her out of it. There’s another rental across the street and down aways, that the people just moved out of. So I called the landlord for Granny, and their going to fix the damage left by the last people, then she’s going to move in there! So we’ll have all the granparents as next door neighbors, still, but they’ll both be on the same side, instead of one on either side of us! Too hot our for a fire tonight, so I just cooked the hot dogs on the stove. lol no marshmallows, though. bummer.

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I went with D to the dr this morning. He still has trouble with his bp. It’s consistently 140’s over 90’s. The dr changed his meds last month, but it didn’t help at all. D changed drs again, the one he likes charges $90, just for the office visit! insane. So he went back to the one close to our house, where it went up to $42 for an office visit. sigh Anyway, Dr. H is supposed to be really good with blood pressure troubles. I took the bottles that D had been taking, he looked at them, and said it could be because the pill was in generic form. He said with this med, the generic doesn’t work like the name brand! So he wrote “no substitutions” on the prescription. D has to try 1 a day like before, for 3 days, if that doesn’t work, then take 2 a day. He wrote him another prescription for the other med he was on for bp, a diurectic. It was $117 for both of those. sigh Hope they work!!!

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Zachary had broke out with a blister on his knee the other day, but yesterday afternoon, he developed 2 more. wierd. I called yesterday and got him into the dr this afternoon. When Hannah woke up this morning, she had a spot on her foot that was already broken open, oozing, red and swollen. Doncha love it when kids can develop an infection overnight? nope, I sure don’t! So I called the drs and got her in at the same time. Turns out it’s ringworm. Which isn’t a worm, gross, but a fungus. gross too, but not as bad as a worm! lol so they both are on anti-fungal cream and antibiotics. And there is a med sheet hanging on the fridge, so I don’t forget who I gave what to, when!

G~ called, and said her mother had some stuff to give away. So I picked up my mother, and we headed out there. Got some good clothes and kid stuff. Thanks G~ and G~’s mom! The kids and I kept a bunch of stuff, my mother took a bunch, and my mil found some stuff to take too!

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Calen had a clinic visit this morning. We left the drive way at 7:05. We did stop to top of the gas tank, get Calen some strawberry milk and chips, I got a small package of Milanos. yummmmm Traffic was really light. shocking. We got to the parking garage at 9:05. Stopped at the bathrooms, and went to the clinic. The entire waiting room was empty! very unusual! I said to Heather, the receptionist, “What’d you do with everyone?” lol We signed in, sat down for like 10 seconds, and the nurse, Jill, called Calen’s name. She weighed (73 1/4#) and measured (53 1’4″) and took his bp, and put us in a room. I was still tying Calen’s shoes when Dr. G came in. She kinda freaked me out for a few seconds. She was checking his testicles, and could only find one. But she finally found the other one, said it was because her hands were cold. ROFLOL Guess guys don’t think it’s funny though. LOL Boys can have leukemia cells in the testicles, so they check at every exam to make sure there are not enlargements, to make sure he’s not relapsing there. Betcha didn’t know that! lol We then went back out to the waiting room to wait for Bennita, the absolutely best blood draw’er ever!, to call his name. We sat for a whole 60 seconds this time! lol We got out to our car in the parking garage at 9:40! 35 minutes for the WHOLE visit! When we left, I said to Heather that this must be a record for fastest visit ever! LOL We were in and out so fast, my head was spinning! Certainly MUCH, MUCH better than the 8 am to 6 pm visits, NOT counting the 2 hour drive each way! Sometimes, it would be dark when I left in the morning, and dark when I returned that night!

Anyway, when Jill was weighing and measuring C, she asked about the bag of afghans that I was holding. We haven’t seen Jill in a long time. So I told her about them. Then one of the other nurses, Ann, called down the long hallway, I see you brought us some more pretties!” When Jill put us in the exam room, she took the bag of afghans (7 this time) and took them back to the dr and nurses workstation, instead of putting them in the closet like the other nurses do. So when Dr. G came in, she told me how pretty they were, and how much the kids will like them. And when she left, after the exam, she got out in the hall, then came back and thanked me for making them on behalf of the kids. Said how much the kids would like them when it was chilly in the clinic. She was really sweet!

Anyway, Calen was upset when we left the clinic, because it was too early to stop anywhere for lunch! lol He wanted to wait around for an hour for Taco Bell to open. I nixed that idea. He changed his tactic, and suggested we go shopping, “to that place that you buy scrapbooking stuff” lol Said no to that too. 1, I didn’t have any extra money, and 2 Melissa was babysitting, and Duane was at jury duty. So he was unavailable in the event of an emergency. His Mother was at jury duty too. So we came straight home, got here at 11:30. Turns out they just reported to jury duty, and then were dismissed. D was only gone from home for an hour, including drive time! He stayed home for a little bit, then went into work. He’s through with jury duty for the year. He’s happy about that! lol

So, Calen passed his exam, and doesn’t have to go again until August!

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