ButterflyLois

Amputee life before and after...

Sunday, November 19, 2006

~Sunday Photo~


Your sunday photo with my blessings..hope you like it. :-) its hard to
focus from over there. oh well..blink and dont look..just read lol :-)
Thanksgiving is this thursday..and you know Ive been thinking
I maybe better start counting my blessings now, by the time
thursday gets here I should have them all named I have had so
many.. to name my blessings these past months, with the steadily
increased blessings..daily..some kind or another.. Its been so
great..I think these ups are so good when we get there that THAT
is what really keeps us going.. it does me.. I mean as hard as
this life is? I could be sitting in a nursing home..sure I would have
to share a room with a Dearie, but I would be waited on hand
and foot all I had to do was put the light on and someone was
there to do for me. I just dont wanna give up maybe.. I kinda like
it out here.. I NEVER ever thought that I would ever end up in a
homeless shelter.. and I dont think I can ever describe the feelings.
not exactly..its the same as trying to explain the extreme loss I
feel about my legs.. Its so deep inside..that I dont think I can find
the words.. Its NOT a good feeling. And until I experienced it.. I
mean..do I appreciate this? This house? LOL..yessss I DO!!!
I bet every day, I thank the Lord for it, for all my steadfast friends.
and where I am now..safe, secure..happy, and I wont say no worries
because, I do have some..THATS my middle NAME!!! lol I am
a worrier..I started counting though :-)

I have a friend in Australia..I dont know if my friends would want me
to say names etc.. some I do because they leave me those sweet
nice comments I like to read..:-) Blue, in Australia..says "G'Day !"
A dear friend, we talk on the phone..and he says I talk funny lol.. He
has a wonderful accent but.. no offense..but y'all got the accent y'hear?
lol...sometimes Blue talks very fast..and I say "huh" he S L O W S
way down lol.. Raife has a accent too..hes UK British and what a love,
I pick on him all the time..he reads this and sees all the grammatical
errors I make with my writing style..well..keeps it interesting .. My spell
checker doesnt check grammar and punctuation'n stuff. :-) good thing
it would probly fault out..:-) Its one of the perks of being the writer lol...
I enjoy knowing who reads this, i do..I smile when I get a letter from
someone telling me they enjoy reading this saga of life with the weeble
family lol.. :-) well the boys dont weeble. :-) I get a kick out of some of
the comments too.. I get up in the morning and get coffee , and first
thing I do is look for the comments and read email.. after I feed the
boys of course.

Today, I tried - I Did- paint the kitchen ...sort of...well it was one of
those bull in a china shop syndromes again.. I hit the paint pan..one
of those big roller kind? with the back tippers..just the right height to
hook that bloody pan, they stick out you can see one in the photo
lol..well.. I turn the wheel the pan goes.. i turn the other way I cant
reach the pan.. I sat there... I was SO MAD.. WHY does this crap
happen to make it even harder when I am doing a good thing hmmm?
well Fooey.. I bet I must have kept turning back and forth a dozen times
trying to grab that pan.. I finally take the arm up..it doesnt come off just
tips back up..and get the roller, its on a long handle-I put it in the pan..
note ROLLER? ok..well I reallllly hold it down tight.. so that
it would STAY in the pan..you KNOW it did yes? well.. out it came..
I was holding it DOWN ..so it came out of that pan..off the end
and did the FLOOR!!!.. I just sat..so I finally leaned way back and
around till I got to the tipper nubbie..this was NOT easy. I had to
turn totally around in my chair to reach the tipper..and..yes I got
it off.. it FELL right into the PAINT.!. :-( i couldnt believe this crap.
lol.. I mean..so.. I roll.-.away from the pan..so I can pick it up..
you KNOW what I did then yes? I rolled thru the paint where I
painted the floor.am I good or what ? I had to laugh at me.. I sat..
did NOT move.. reached for a towel..and put it on the floor over
the paint..and made sure the tire was clean and came in here
back to the desk.. lol.. I'm afraid to go back in there.. lol..

Is THAT a domino effect ?? I am so bad.. Im not good in these
chairs... Donnie dreads when I am in my power chair ..in fact
when I said I will have to use it now his first words were "I'm
not coming over there your in that chair..your dangerous" I
ran over Dutch once in it..and Lord..that cat SCREAMED. I
ran over my friend Debbies cousins foot..while he was helping
to move my desk.long time ago..and poor guy I saw it go over
and I stupidly backed up and ran over it again!!! he Cringed..
just got the tips of his toes...didnt hurt he said..lol.. Im so bad..
Chairs are not that easy to maneuver..trust me..I get stuck so
many times a day in this thing that I just have to stop or just
SWEAR ugly words lol.. :-) How is it I can only go ONE way
when I get stuck!!! then if the wheel jams..well fooey I have
to reach down and try to get my weight off that front wheel to
be able to turn it so I can move! see? it aint easy..not all just
cruising smooth no no lol.. but Im grateful I have it.. I dont do
floors ..lol no way. Im not draggin nuthin on the floor lol..

I did get the floor wiped up in the kitchen..thank goodness
that dark blue paint is washable....the linoleum in there is
almost white..its very light and the blue shows up.. I looked
again ,, I see I missed some from the last time when I dropped
the paint brush.. I got the baseboard.:-) :-) . Im not good at
painting..I dont know how i get it on me so bad..and all over
everything..I should not be allowed around it.. Sometimes I
worry if I get that huge 5 gallon bucket of paint open..the lid off
that could be a disaster in the making you know? lol.. I was bad
enough with this quart can lol..hmmm I might better reconsider
opening and using that lol..

I have slept all night for the past 4..im so grateful..but I am
noticing..Im getting up earlier..4:30 this morning.. I lay there
and try to go back to sleep ..and get to thinking of all I want
to do and where I want to put stuff and I get anxious to do it..
then Im awake.. I went to bed early last nite..i watched a bit
of cops..not all of it I dont think..lol. I had some of the sauer
kraut..sure was good..the 24 hour slow cooking is just great.
Im off to get the last doughnut..I love them.. specially the
blueberry cake ones.. M M M..Nitey Nite.

Y'all have a good one Y'hear? luv ya..and thanks.. :-)
Always, Lois ****

God Bless you is my prayer today,
I'm so honored to call you "friend";
I pray the Lord will keep you safe
until I write again..

7 Comments:

  • At 8:30 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Thanks for the recipes Lois, you know I didn't have one can of sauerkraut in the house. Must of had the last can a few days ago..Next month I will get another flat.
    Your painting sound like a good story to tell and pictures would be great to go along with it...I know that just about to much of that...glad you had a good laugh too...that what keep us going...when we can laugh at ourself...You are a blessing my friend...Mary

     
  • At 8:38 PM, Blogger Lois said…

    Hi Mary!
    Your most welcome.Im sending the red cabbage one I had to dig out my recipe box! lol. I got it though, some good stuff in there..

    I am just so not good at painting..I wasnt when I had legs ! Its worse now. My kitchen isnt very big and one
    wrong move, well sometimes I think my tires have minds of their own ..I gotta laugh..Im the idiot does this crap !!!! :-) luv ya.!!!
    Always, Lois ****

     
  • At 12:20 AM, Blogger Gray said…

    Thanks for the lovely photo, Lois. a nice long newsy post- much appreciated.

    Good luck with the decorating!

     
  • At 12:51 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Laughing is good for us you know...spent a few hours with Pam tonight she not feeling well right now...sometimes the staff has to call me late at night if Pam acting up too much.
    Having wheel and painting make it even harder my friend. Now I love to paint when I am up too it, when I was young I use to paint everything I saw. Yes it got me into lot of trouble too. Lois you are a wonderful lady, that don't let thing get you to upset....you are doing a great job...Mary

     
  • At 4:28 AM, Blogger Lois said…

    Morning Gray..
    Thanks hon!! I dont mind telling on myself..lol. I laff at me too some of the crap I get into here..this place is alot smaller than my other apartment even though its a house. I get stuck alot lol..

    Hi Mary! thanks for all the encouragement.. I try its all I can do. I like to paint, it dont like me! I keep laughing Mary, I have no choice sometimes with this life of mine I feel someone is playing a joke at me and well not polite to not laugh :-D thanks my friend :-)

    Hope y'all have a great day, Penny comes today, shes so nice, I have a picture ill see if she lets me post it so you can see, Next time the boy is here with his puppy Ill take a photo ... LORD..I LOVE CAMERAS lolol..

    Always, Lois ****

     
  • At 5:01 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said…

    Hi, Hon,
    I wish that I'd been a fly on the wall when you were painting. I guess I'd have fallen off, right into that paint!! ;o)
    2Good on you" to have a go, though, instead of sitting there going "Boo-Hoo". You never were one to do that, Bless you.
    Take care, Hon. Lots of love and great big hugs from
    Raife

     
  • At 5:07 PM, Blogger Lois said…

    Hi Raife!!!
    No, ive never been one able to look at work and not at least try to do it.. I got to TRY!! lol, If I didnt I couldnt look at my self, watching everyone do my work for me. Sometimes I DO do a good job!! REALLY!! lolol. ummm let me think..I will think of one thing i did ok lol :-)
    good to hear from you hon..hope you had a good day and you got them doors hanged lol.. (like that one?) lol
    always, Lois ****

     

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