11-10 Thankful Thursday

I know, I know...it is actually Friday, but I missed yesterday because I was recouping from a big thankful event for me from the night before. Two of my best guys, DH NatureBoyCameraMan and DS BaseballBoy, along with DS's best girl, went to see one of my fav singing groups: Straight No Chaser!!

I had a wonderful time! I have been sending round, each holiday season, their video of "The 12 Days of Christmas" since it 1st was on youtube and finally I got to see it in person. How fab is that?!?

They took us across the gammit. Buddy Holly to Beiber. Beetles to Buble. Gaga to Jackson. Elvis to Otis and just about everywhere in between. Loved loved loved it. I could have sat there (dancing in my seat and clapping to the music) for days...lol.


And today I had the privilege of watching my lil Sweetie in the 2nd grade (with another lil sweetie in my lap) doing a tribute show for Veterans. Her biggest wish for the day was that her Uncle FlyBoy had been in the audience. But, well, he is busy serving his country and for that I am again grateful. He is a wonderful man and I am so proud of him.  : )
I also got to Skype with FlyBoy, his lovely wife and their Lil Guy, my 3rd lil sweetie, this week. Another thankful event.


I am thankful that I got to "prepare" Thanksgiving Dinner for my Penny, Queen of England, thanks to Abel and Cole, and I didn't even have to wash pots and dishes...very kewl.


All and all, a week just full of things to be thankful for. And for that I am thankful.....creekside

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Tuesday...

Tuesday is a rather uninspiring day, in my opinion. Thankfully it is not Monday but it really does not have anything that makes it stand out in the week. I wonder why?


Usually I am recovering from Monday on Tuesday so it remains a quiet day in my week. Rarely do I make plans to do anything on Tuesday. I simply haven't made up enough energy for anything yet. So I read, sit on the deck if it is a nice enough day to do so like it was today, check out facebook and blogs that I follow, maybe watch tv but not usually (oddly enough that takes a bit of energy that hasn't been built up enough). Like I said, rather uninspiring.


Oh well...at least it is not Monday. I do so dislike Monday.


And that is all I got to say about that.......creekside

Moody Monday...

And so it is Monday...again...I really do not care for Mondays. Even as a child, I disliked Mondays.


I am always a little blue because the weekend is over and everyone is back to the ole grind. I never do all I want on the weekends, there is never the time and there is, now, never the energy. Added to those feelings are the now typical tiredness and general feeling of "just not quite right" that my body has to go thru every single Monday of my life because I have gotten even the least bit off my normally very quiet, still life. I pay for whatever play I do. Thankfully the price varies, giving me the motivation to get out of bed and do things on Saturday and Sunday, even if all it is is moving to the LR or den and maybe fixing something yummy in the crockpot, even if I don't quite feel up to it. Sometimes, all the price is is just making sure I keep it lowkey on Monday. Other days I live in firey agony. Sometimes, like today, I hover somewhere in between the two.


But I do remember that I used to be a real girl with a real life and real activities. A girl who never even in her wildest dreams imagined having to pay for having said life. One who only had to take a quick power nap if she overdid. One who lived to make others lives happy, secure, fun, well fed, healthy.


I just wish I could know ahead of time which weekends I will have to pay the heavy tolls on and which weekends would let me slide easily into the new week ahead. Sometimes, I wish I had a crystal ball. Mostly though, I guess I am thankful I don't know what the future holds as it is so terribly easy to get overwhelmed thinking that for the rest of my life I will be a shadow of a girl living in the hazy gray areas of half-life, not really here but not in the beyond. It gets really lonely here in the shadows, it gets heavy here because the burden never really lightens and it just plain hurts--physically and emotionally--to live in this place.


I wish I was a real girl again.....creekside.

It is the weekend... : )

And I wait all week for them. I love having not to think about schedules and waiting till all the workers in the fam have finished their workday. I pay on Mondays, every week without fail, because my normal day's quiet schedule is even the least bit less quiet. But still and all, it is worth it.


Today is beautiful again. What a lovely Autumn we are having here. But in light of my way more then usual exciting Halloween activities, I am still paying a heavy toll so shan't be doing really anything at all. But that is ok...I have a fire going in the fireplace and my 2 bestest guys in the house and I am content here.  : )


Hope it is just as lovely where you are.....creekside or cityside.....   : )

Thankful Thursday...11-3-11

I am thankful today for the beautiful Autumn weather we are enjoying...


...creekside

Susan and the Boy...

 

 

 

 

So...day before yesterday I clicked on this link to listen to Susan's new album. To my amazement, my big shepard/collie Furguy who is always in "alert" mode made a ahh-umm sound in the back of his thoat, laid his head down on the bed, then promptly rolled onto his back (NOT a frequent thing for him at all to get that relaxed) & went into chill mode still making those happy sounds from time to time! He did the same thing yesterday. Today, well, I bought it for him. He is a happy furkid right now. I guess something on the way this particular album is done just clicks with his brain waves. I have her other ones but he hasn't done this with them. "Oh My Love" is one of his favs on the album.....awww. : )

 

 

Here is the link from AOL Music to listen to the album in it's entirety. Give it a listen, it is very nice. Love this woman.  : )

 

http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds#/1

 

 

 

Bay and Lisa.....chillin creekside soothin the Savage Beast

 

Afterween...

Tiger Boy

So after a funfilled night of treating the lil ghosties and goblins, visiting over at the neighbor's house till 10:30 and more sugar and chocolate consumned in the one night than in the whole last year...it took me till well into the wee's to finally get my mind and body to stop enough to fall into a troubled sleep.


Needless to say, today I am beyond bushed. But it is worth the price because I did have fun with the kidlings, got to visit at the neighbor's for only the 2nd time in the 12 years we have lived here, and was able to eat that candy with gusto...all in all a fair price to pay for all that.


I am learning an important lesson here lately though, one I don't care for but is something I need to know. Never did I question that negative emotions are bad for my health, I can quickly feel them in my tummy and usually in my muscles and energy levels...unfortunately good emotions are bad for it, as well.  : (  I am beginning to quickly feel the same drains when I get over-stimulated in a happy way as well. I so do not want to have to be flat-line in my emotions. So what do I do about this???

If I play, I pay...so always the question must be answered "Is it worth the price??"

Only each event will tell. But for today...it is sweet creekside.