It's Thursday

Ok, I'm back, so some of you, that are my faithful, loving, readers have noticed. Thank you all for the get well wishes. I'm finally able to do some things around here that I haven't been able to do in a long time, like cleaning. But let me tell you something first. I got a $100 Amazon.com gift card from my sweet, wonderful step daughter this Yule. I used the shit out of that card and got myself a bunch of awesome much wanted and needed things. One was the soundtrack for Season I and II of the Vikings TV show. AWESOME STUFF when you play it loud with earphones and sit with your eyes closed. Just FUCKING AWESOME MUSIC!!! I love the TV show and can't wait until Feb 19th. Season III starts on the History Channel. Love it!

I need to calm down now. WHEW! Just breath.

Anywho, I got some Figma Sakura pens and pencils for drawing and doing some of my Zentangles and Mandalas. I also got 2 moleskin traveler sketchbooks for when I'm waiting at the doctor's office and 2 spiraled sketchbooks.

Spunky in lower right, Lucy on the left, and Pebbles(aka Squirt)in the top part of the bed.
Notice all the blankets. They love to make nests. You would think they were birds, jeeze.

The puppies got rawhide bones and toys, of course, as if they needed more toys in this world. David got a nice large orthopedic bed for them, Spunky is getting old and needs it for his tired bones. He seems to sleep a lot better since we got it for them. They share it reasonably well for small dogs. No fights yet, (knock wood).

 This year started off with a bang. I got sick with the flu. Thought I was gonna die. I kid you not. It was bad. Then on top of that the cold, wet, misty weather took its toll on my body. Yes, it was getting to the point that I was knocking myself out with my pain drugs just to ease the pain. But now, this week is starting to clear up for a while, I hope longer. Only thing is, is that winter is still around and will be here for another month or so. It doesn't start warming up into the 60's around here until the end of March.

*heavy sigh* I love my heating pad and drugs. *heavy sigh*

It's Thursday

I gave in to my needs. I went back to my old loves, heating pad and pain meds. I just couldn't stay away. Well I'm back to square one now. I've been  sleeping when I can and doing minor house chores when I can.

Last night I fell asleep with the heating pad on and woke up scared. I'm always worried that I'll burn myself or start a fire even though it turns itself off after and hour.  It has a fail safe mode that if you turn it on by accident, and don't move the heat settings for 1 minute it will shut off. It's so cool.

Anywho David did some wild and wooly yard work this past weekend. He cut down the tomato bushes. Yes, yes he did. The heat was effecting the size of the tomatoes and they were splitting bad. So he decided to cut them down. I told him that when the cooler temperatures come in September it wouldn't be such a bad idea to buy new tomato bushes. It doesn't get really cold here until near the end of November. So he is going to see if the nursery has any to sell. We're hopeful on that subject that they will.

Something we need desperately to get done around the house, is fix the hot water heater. The heating element is going out. I love molten lava hot water when I do the dishes or take showers and it's like 3 minutes into washing with hot water when it turns into cryogenic stasis ice cold. The kind of heater we have is a Point of Use Tankless water heater. Meaning it only heats the water when you need it hot. The heating element goes out on that thing like clock work every year. It's the build up in the jets. I really wonder if this is a regular problem with everyone or just the model we use. Sigh*, I need to do some online analysis.