Saturday, July 12, 2014 @ 10:18 am
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Hi Dr. Marvin. It’s
taken a couple of days, but we’re going to try writing this morning. We’ve been up over 3 hours and just fumbling
around FB and emails. Maybe we’re into a
little bit of a depression again this morning.
Think it has to do with the gloominess around me with the weather. House seems dark because of the cloudiness
and rain. Hmm, turn on the lights
then? Maybe that is a good idea, thanks!
Hmm stopped to finish off the ice cream too … maybe that
isn’t the best idea. Let’s not talk
about that right now, k?
Ok, I know we’re not supposed to eat ice cream for
breakfast. And, that’s how people get
big. REALLY don’t want to talk about it…
So where else to go.
We’re looking over at a sad picture of Dakota. Katherine cut off all his extra hair … I
don’t like that so much, though I can really appreciate how cool and free he
must feel. This is the before and after
pictures.
Katherine says he was having trouble sitting still in the
cropped picture so she was holding him steady and he wasn’t a big fan of
that. Just that I know he’s cooler now
... I guess SD has been near the 100’s of late.
Everyone is supposed to get the polar vortex tomorrow – or there about …
ok, the bottom line is that we’re kinda missing our big bushy dog. He doesn’t look like a collie now. I know Katherine did the right thing, just
ok, we’re still mopey.
We did take all our medicine this morning. That was a good thing. We’ve been put on alert in that Maury said
he’d be here about 2 hours ago. We had
to get up and get showered, dressed and cleared dirty dishes right away. I’m thinking now that he must have gone out
last night because he’s not here yet which means he slept in. I suppose he could have done that on his own
by never leaving the house too. We
stayed up and watched a few movies last night.
Hi it’s us again … we just got back from taking a nap. It’s now just after 12 pm. A few minutes after we woke up Maury called
and said he’d be here just before 1:30 pm.
He was leaving as he called. He
was up late last night and slept in. He
should be just stopping by and then going right away. He hasn’t made his plans for the day, but
wouldn’t want to get stuck out here I guess.
Maybe we could say something more positive in that yesterday
we were able to talk to all three of my sons.
Maury was a short talk and more based on what his next plans were. And, then Thom called. That was like a long almost 2 hour
conversation, and then we called Joe to talk to him to about stuff on the top
of general life.
The call to Thom was based in mostly things going on with
him. He didn’t seem to know or remember
that we were getting a service dog. So
we filled him in there. He says after
being in his place for a year – if things are still going his way, he’s going
to try either buying the house from his landlord or getting permission
necessary to getting a dog. He said he
would have to make a promise to keep the dog out of the special room –
cushioned floors and rice paper walls. You
can take a look at the pictures in FB when we get together, but this is the
front of it J
Nice, hmm? It stands
alone and has a place to park up to three cars.
We went over room by room with the 16 pictures he showed us. He hasn’t done much decorating in the 7 or so
months he’s been there, but has the main things in the kitchen, dining room, LR
and Master BR. The rice paper room and
the two extra bedrooms are pretty bare.
One has a rack for hanging clothes.
We sent him a picture of the steamer and suggested it for him. We saw his wrinkled T-shirt on the rack. Sorry this is just a Mom thing I think it’s a
major answer to something we had such problems over. Still have to do the work, but it is
available to us.
We didn’t talk very much about his job other than how well
he’d done with his 6 month review. I do
like the part where the boys will talk to me about stuff, but when it gets to
their social life – it’s like ok, Mom I …
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We just took our afternoon medicine – it’s just over 1
pm. Maury in a half an hour … We’ll have
to get a handle on ourselves. I don’t
expect he’s going to be here long …. Just enough to drop the car.
I’m now thinking of you stating something toward not taking
care of other peoples programs.
The house is still a bit of a mess – I’m not done putting
away the laundry from a couple of days ago.
And, other than dishwasher haven’t done anything today – especially vacuuming
the floor. Thinking Maury was right as
he headed out last time. If I just left
the dogs fur on the ground I could almost pretend they were still here. I think Maury knows I’m having a hard time
with it, but like his brothers more able to cut it off and say – Mom’s
problem. They’d be right.
I’ve talked to almost all my boys about the gym
equipment. I don’t think I told Maury
about it. Thom was like you should
really get a small TV to watch to forget about the actual exercise time and Joe
was like – good idea, but that he and Cari usually agreed on the expenditure of
money and he of course would hate that it’s on credit. He was able to follow the logic as was
Thom. I’m thinking Rich will too, but
he’s going to say that we needed to be holding back and that would be too much
money into the equipment. I know he’s
still paying off people and he had to put money down on taxes this week. It didn’t seem to matter L
Hmm, back. It’s now
about 3:15 pm and we’ve just said goodbye to Maury. He was here for about an hour and talked
about general stuff.
I did talk to Maury about the exercise equipment, but not
much further past then his confirmation I haven’t told Rich (Maury was shaking
his head) and the part about putting some of it on credit. The good part to all that is that talking to
Katherine yesterday too – she said that she will start training Dakota on her
treadmill. Good boy …. It’s like if he
can do it so can I? Just we have to
start before he gets here. Maury says we
should be able to get over the depression part, because the girls, he and the
dogs will be coming back – actually this next weekend. He said he’ll bring them on Saturday and then
probably go home so he’s ready for work on Sunday morning. AND, he’s bringing the dogs!
So that’s it for that – we did ask about the quilting
weekend and he said he would talk to the girls.
I know that Isa won’t be a problem, but I need to assure that Ame isn’t
going to be stuck with something she’s against.
BUT, other than that – the plan seems pretty firm in place. The quilting girls know, we have yet to
arrange the room, but we’re excited about it.
I will still want to pull a sewing project for Isa. I think something to do with sorting and
maybe bringing my plastic 10 drawer container so she can be matching colors. I have to think it through yet. I think ironing and folding are past her age
level. Maybe push comes to shove that I
could work with her and we could go through scraps together. That way as she got bored, she could walk
away – I could develop another stack, and then she can check back into the
project …. I think that’s what worked before with the clipping of my patches of
sewn tails. She didn’t have a lot of
consistency built up in time, but she could come back to things and her
accuracy was perfect. The girls can
sleep in the car on the way up.
I suppose it would be an alternative to pick the girls up on
the way.
Hmm, faded off there a bit …. We went through a few things
in emails. One of our favorites is to
follow some of the real estate – especially mobile homes in the area. I know we had to put on a roof, but we really
do have one of the best houses and we’ve been looking for over a year. Some are newer and have real walls that are
dry-walled instead of panels, but other than that haven’t seen much that’s
better and I think CERTAINLY nothing is better in size or room placement.
Saying this, you would think that I could treat our house a
little better toward cleaning up. It
does put a little change in perspective to think the girls are actually coming
back with the dogs in ONE WEEK!
WooHOOO!!!! There are some things
I haven’t done yet in their rooms as to cleaning and washing sheets. I’m really being terrible. I suppose
if you were here, you might say something like what is one thing that I
could do right away. Grrrr… do we REALLY
want to play the Dr. Marvin game? Maybe
we could do SOMETHING! We won’t be
seeing anyone now before Rich gets home tomorrow – and because it’s only in
Madison, he might get home around 4-5 pm.
We’ll have to plan that.
“Our Linda” the one
we communicate daily with from the sewing group, then the Linda from Los Vegas
… she just wrote and asked for the phone number again, and then Rich’s friend –
Bob – HIS Linda. After we talked with
you on Tuesday we went out with Bob and Linda to a Bohemian restaurant. It was very relaxing.
Are we back there again?
How did that happen? We should
get it cleaned up before they come through again. What’s it going to be like when we have our
own shaggy dog problems? Hehehehe … I
sure hope he likes the sound of vacuums and doesn’t bark at them. I didn’t think I could handle Maury’s dogs
and the cat while they were here – and vacuum, but no excuses now, EXCEPT we’re
finally in the wind-down part of the day.
Maybe if we get through it we’ll change and watch some movies
again. That sounds a lot easier than
cleaning or sewing.
Hmm, is that a constant thread – go toward the easier? Probably we’ve talked about this before.
We recorded a few shows from the dish “blockbuster” free
movie section yesterday. We watched one
where there was a girl with three chances and she had a charm necklace where
she could do the moral dilemma 3 different ways and choose the version she
liked the best. They we watched before
that something? Don’t remember
which. I’d have to have something jar my
memory and not sure if it would be important enough.
AHA! We found
something interesting to look at for a little bit … perfect for this little bit
of space. We just remembered that the
treadmill was attached to some kind of “ifit” program and that we hadn’t
checked that out. Looks on surface like
an online club with app that pulls together weight, diet, and exercise. We’ll be back.
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