I think i want to vent a bit.  I've been reading all the problems on the DS problem liseserv.  Wow - there's a lot of stinky people out there!  A lot of C-diff, too.  I'd like to avoid that if at ALL possible.

I've had a horrid cold, lots of coughing and sneezing and all that.  I carried on doing all the things Inormally do and ended up exhausted, falling in my grandson's room.  Took the lamp down with me and landed briefly but forcefully on one of those 1' cubes of wood with the steel wires on top with the little toys that hang on the wires and travel along them. 

I'm surprised I didn't collapse that - and thank God it didn't!  I'd have been on the floor for sure.  I'll bet I'd have had to call the rescue squad.  Oh the embarassment.

My grandson, who had obviously harbored the opinion that lurching around the room or having Nonna do it and crashing pieces of furniture down was going to be fun; decided that it was NOT.  Poor kid - he's had one fond dream after another shattered.  He really thought that pitching off of a bed head-first would be a barrel of laughs.  He was horribly frustrated with all of us who kept him from his dream of going "bonk" on the floor. 

He's done it a few times since he's been mobile, of course - even jumping out of his crib.  Old dreams die hard.

OH my goodness.  I've just finished reading a thread by the most incredibly courageous and resourceful and resiliant women in the world.  It's hard to imagine that such horrible things have been forced on good people like this.  Some of them children!  I know, I've know that bad stuff happens to good people all along, but wow.  So much!!

We're all coming to terms with the loss of our lovely dog Lulu.  She leaves quite a void in our lives, even though she'd spent quite a bit of her time just resting here recently.    At least my husband has come to see how difficult and wrong it is not to have a nice dog in the house.  I don't want to get a nother dog anytime soon, but I'm glad we're past the point of saying NO.

This is Sunday.  We've had a lot of Sunday dinners in the past where quite a few friends and family came and had dinner with us.  Which is lovely, but some of them quite outstayed my stamina.  Not because they're clueless,but because my daughter's friends were having to do laundry and even with our spiffy new front-loader washer and lovely dryer, that still takes a bit of time.

Today, nobody's coming but the boyfriends of my daughters.  The older one's boyfriend is having a birthday, so we're having a bit of a teeny party for him.    I like him, and you don't have to worry about him staying too long and even if he did *I* wouldn't have to entertain him!  It's a win:win situation, as far as I"m concerned!

Love
Dennie

I know she's old, and I know dogs don't live very long.  She's really been past her sell-by date.  She actually had Parvo when we got her.  We nursed her through that, and she's been a pretty low-maintenance dog ever since.

My daughter said "I hope she's okay."  and I told her I hope so, too.  But realistically, at 15 or however old she is - even if she is okay, she's only okay **theis week.**

We lost the big brown dog two months ago.  And Lulu's been slowly going downhill ever since.  I hope this is just an upset tummy from getting into the pork.  But I have to keep the other in my mind.

12-18-06

This is the first time I've evr blogged anywhere.  I've lived this long and I've never really felt like I had THAT much to say.  Well, I said a lot when I finally got going on my web page all those years ago, so maybe this will be like that.

I was on thyroid pills when I was a kid.  They were very bitter but they really work.  I had a lot of energy and a sort of zest for life that really doesn't come back when the thyroid pills are not onboard.  Somehow my thyroid level bec ame normal, and no more thryoid pills.  Well, one of my quack diet doctors gave me thyroid pills when I was working ath the Country Music Association, but my thyroid levels were okay at the time.