Thursday, February 19, 2009

Not surprising...

Yea, here I am again.  Not surprisingly, no one's looked at my post yet.  That's o.k.  It's still a place for me to use some of my 'creative juices' as they say.  Today's been a pretty typical day - nothing spectacular, nothing too exciting.  I think my physical therapist and then the radiologist that took my back x-rays were out to maime me today.  I wasn't doing too badly before I went in, but, boy, does it hurt since then!  The radiologist kept asking me if I'd injured my back or my tailbone.  Musta found something on the x-ray?  We'll see if the Doctor gets back to me when she get the report.  

Now I'm on a muscle relaxant, too.  Love the 'possible side effects' in the literature that comes from the pharmacy.  Things such as nausea, drowsiness, blurred vision, depression, numbness, etc. etc.  Really makes you want to take it, doesn't it?  My favorite tho was the line that said to be sure to tell your physician if you expect to pilot an airplane.  That's an every day occurrence for most of us, isn't it?!

Pain is an interesting thing.  It's necessary, but definitely unwelcome.  Sometimes you have a higher tolerance for pain than at other times.  Sometimes the pain is because of something you did, sometimes it's  because of something someone did to you, sometimes it's just because your body is getting older and doesn't want to work the way it did 20 years ago.  I could get philisophical or spiritual about pain, but you probably already know all those axioms.  Plus, no one's reading this anyway - so why bother?

So, I'll just ramble along randomly.  That's what this is all about anyway, isn't it.

Have a good one!

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Let's Try This Out For Size



I'm not really sure what I'm doing here.  Not here-on-this-earth-here, but blogging here.  I just came to check out my daughter's life, and here I am writing my own blog!  Imagine that!  Some people would say I'm too 'old' for this stuff.  Not me.  I'm never too old to try new things, learn new things, keep up with what's new.  If we stop doing that then what is there?!  I never want to be one of 'those people' that are stuck in the past.  The past is past.  I'm thrilled with the fact that God has allowed me to live today - so I'm going to live it!

Well, if you decide to read this, or even 'follow' my blogs, I can't guarantee that I'll write very often.  And when I do write, I have no idea what it might be about.  You never know where my mind will go on any particular day at any particular time!  I usually have good intentions but, unfortuntately, good intentions doesn't get the work done for me.  I'm still waiting for those little elves to show up in the middle of the night and do my work for me!  For some reason, they always seem to skip my house :-(  

Since I didn't know I was going to write today, I'll just ramble for a few minutes, ok?  If it's not ok, then go ahead and leave my page.  It's ok - I won't be offended (unless there's some way I can find out that you did, then - who knows ;))  I woke up this morning to the glorious snow out my back window.  Now, you might think that snow in February, after all the snow we've had so far this winter, wouldn't seem 'glorious' to me - but if you saw the view out my back window you'd understand! And then, the squirrels went nuts trying to chase each other, and trying to eat my bird food.  What fun!  So, even though I haven't really accomplished anything I've set out to do yet today, and even though I really don't know what I'm doing here - I'm just glad to be here!

Happy Valentine's Day to all and be happy knowing that this is the day God has given you - do with it what He wants and it'll be a great one!

Julie