I'm starting to play around a bit with my photos.  After looking at possible sites to share them on, I've settled with using Flickr.  So, you can find me there.  It will still take me for ever to get anything decent on there but hey, I made a half-assed attempt, right?  My camera is very nice, it is a digital.  Don't expect anything to fancy from me just yet.  lol. 



Mother in law's home health aide finally started today, so that is good news.  You would think that I'd be taking advantage of the available four hours of freedom to sleep but of course, here I am.  Maybe in a few I'll take myself a wee nap, eh? 

I think that I am starting to accept the fact that I must be getting to be an old fart now.  Some OLD (like in his 80's)  guy at the store asked me jokingly if I would take money off of his tab if he did the Soulja Boy dance for me.  I just laughed, pretending that I knew what he was talking about because I heard of the name from somewhere and knew that it had something to do with a rap song.  I am getting old- I said rap song.   He started doing a little bit of it for me and I did another fake laugh and asked him where he learned that from.  He works part time at a local elementary school and the little kids on the playground taught him.  Yikes!! 


I think that I am going to take my old ass to bed for a nap.  Lord knows that I need it- especially since the little guy thought that it would be a brilliant idea to wake up at three in the morning and decide it was play time.  Of course by the time he fell asleep and I mean deep sleep, I was more than happy to wake him up to get ready for the school bus.  Oh, well...

 So today, I finally got around to using my card reader that the ever-so-brilliant rebelfilmssuggested to me a few weeks back.  I am quite glad that I bought it.  

I loaded the pics on the house PC because my notebook is pretty old and probably would've crashed if I were to load that many pics.  I "think" that I may be getting a new Dell notebook for Christmas- or should I say Capitalist-mas day?

I did take a few moments to organize the 2000 and some odd pics on my camera into a few specific folders for me to be able to easily pic out what I want to load onto different sites that I use.  I still had about another grand to go until that card in my camera would've gotten filled.

My hubby received a text from his cousin saying that the clan returned home safely on their flight, a thanks for having us, and of course: HAPPY DAYS!!.

Oh, how tired I am...

This past week my house was filled with in-laws visiting from Ireland to see my mother-in-law.  It was nice to be able to finally meet people that I've been speaking to on the phone for forever.  I think that my teeth are going to rot out from all of the gorgeous sweets that they've brought me.  

The hubby laughs at me whenever he hears me repeating some of the words that I've been hearing one of his cousins say all week.  It's kind of funny in a way.  Just lovely, brilliant... no- it was just gorgeous!   LOL.  I love it, though. 

After all of the harassment about me and our son coming over to visit them, I can't wait now to go get a passport.  It would be a gorgeous holiday.  Really...

Happy Days!!!

 Happy Halloween.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.  Went to the little one's school for the day's festivities.  It was cute/fun.  I had a pretty decent turn out  of kids that came to the door.  I was trying to force candy on some of them just to get it off of my hands but it did not  work out all that well.  I guess that is what I get fror buying to huge bags of mixed candy at BJ's.  Well, I guess it is better to be prepared with extra candy than to run out or have over pay for a bag in the regular grocery store.  

I will get around to loading some pics, trust me... trust me

I am tired.  Going to bed.


Peace.

I am so tired. T-a-r-d, as the father of fluffyluggage would say.  The little one seems to like getting up in the middle of the night and wants to play around and sing songs.  Of course, after he's finally falls asleep and it's time for him to get up to go to school, he does not want to be bothered.  Too bad for him, because by then, I am all too happy to see him get on that yellow school bus.  (and the award for bad mother of the year goes too...) 

Well, mother-in-law comes home from the hospital on Thursday.  My husband and I (and his mother) had a meeting yesterday with the oncologist to discuss what the next steps/options are for her care.  Mother in law wishes to stop all meds because she feels as though it would be a true burden to  pay for all of these expensive pill just to see what might happen with the newest tumor that is in her brain.  The projected recurrence from the surgery in July was not for six months and here we are in October with her dealing with it now. 

Crud.

Been very busy.  At the suggestion of my dear friend

rebelfilmsI did finally go out and purchase myself a card reader for my camera.  Look forward for me to share some true gems with everyone. Ha HA!  

In other news, hubby got a new Xbox and a router so now I can make more LJ posts at my leisure, when and where I want (ie laptop)  I shall return later on when I get home from work- If I feel like it, that is...

 

Went to the hospital today with hubby to visit mother in law.  She seems to be doing a bit better.  She has a bit more symmetry in her face. 

Hubby spoke to one of the neurologists in the ICU and he was pretty frank, which we both appreciate: 
                   "Mr. (Hubby), it's time for to to start looking into a home setting, hospice and/or a home nurse for your mother."

I can tell that he is really trying to hold it together.  I feel bad for him.

Tonight, when I go back to work, I am going to be on the babysitter hunt.  I am sure that out of all of the teenagers that work at the store, I should be able to track down a few babysitters and a few back ups for when hubby needs to see his mother in the evenings.  I tried calling the school social worker at hijo's school but she is not answering the phone at the moment.  I know that there  is a list of teachers, therapists, and other staff that do some babysitting every now and then (Hijo goes to a school for children with autism) so that would be a list of available and RELIABLE resources at my disposal.

Well, I am going to vege out for a good hour until the school bus comes.

Long day today.  There was no school because of Columbus day so I had to find extra ways to keep hijo entertained while staying as close to the house as possible because of mother in law going to the hospital this morning. 

She had an operation in July to remove as much cancer/tumor from her brain as the doctors could.  She wasn't exactly 100% over the last couple of weeks but she wasn't that bad off either.  The last week or so, she was having a harder time with doing things (loss of function in left side of body) than she was when she first came home from the hospital. 

This morning, enough was enough and I helped hubby get her in his SUV and off they went to the hospital.  What they (the doctors) are planing to do with her.  I feel bad for her because her cognitive functioning and short term memory are now at an all time low and now when I get the phone call updates as to what is going on hubby is more and more irate with the same questions and complaints from her over and over again(he doesn't really have much patience, I think).  I can tell he is trying to keep his cool, it is he mother after all and it has to be hard for him since he lost his father at 15 (to cancer also) and now here he is, an only child about to loose his mother now. 

Just got the phone call: after 13 hours of waiting, mother in law finally gets herself a room in the damn hospital.  There are several cold beers waiting for hubby in the fridge.

Went to the gym this morning (hubby joined last week and signed me up with him) and I am feeling a bit sore(I'm still functional).  But, that is good.  I used to dread the idea of going to any gym until now.  I actually look forward to it.  My head feels so clear when I am there that I could actually stay longer than planned for the day. 

Today was only my second visit, and I know that I'll be hanging out there more often- especially after I get my appointment with the trainer (that hubby scheduled & now I have to reschedule because he just assumed that the time he picked was good for me...grrrrr...) I think that I will lose the slight fear of venturing out to other areas of the gym to use other pieces of equipment. 

Maybe I will spend my afternoon looking for that USB cord.  It's like I'm on strike from taking pictures until I know that I'm able to load them somewhere.  I think that I will do some cleaning and hopefully it will pop up instead of just looking for the bloody thing just to subject myself to self-imposed disappointment and unnecessary frustration.

Yes, yes, yes... I ended up going to the Mets game yesterday and boy am I glad that I went.  It was my first sporting event since coming to New York.  There was so much action going on during the ball game.  I felt wrapped up in all the commotion with the NY fans but I eyes were peeled to the scoreboard to see what my Phillies where doing.  I think little hijo was nervous/embarrassed with all of my cheering- I just like to cheer at events- I can't help The hubby, thought it would be funny to call out my allegiance to nearby spectators, but I didn't care- I just let them know that that the Phils were my home team and that was that. 

Will the Phillies make it out of the next round?  It would be nice to see them do so, but I wouldn't bet on it.  See, I am a fan, but I consider myself to be more of a logical fan as opposed to being an emotional one.  Hubby says that I am a fair-weather fan to my "supposed team" but I don't care what he thinks... I grew up liking the Phils; he grew up liking the Mets.  He should know better from his time spent living the Philadelphia area that any Philly sports fan will take whatever they can get: a W is a W and a L is L.




In other sports news:  I hang my head low- very low in shame and embarrassment in reaction to Eagles game last night.  FUCK!!!

I am tired.  Got home from work a little over an hour ago.  I've got free tix to see the Mets tomorrow with the family but I really don't feel like going.  I wish I knew where my USB cord was so I could load new pics onto my pc.  I am going to bed.  Good Nite.

Naw- YOU can't tell me NOTHIN'!!


This lady came into the store last night with her man or whatever you want to call him.  She decides she wants to get bold and tell me that my coworkers and myself were a waste of payroll- working late into the night.  This customer, like many ask if many people come late to the store.  Like always, I say yes.  She wants to know why.  I tell her because some people enjoy coming to the store late at night; they enjoy being here with fewer people around.  In response, she tells me that they need to get friends and a life and that me working late at night was a waste of money.  I just continued to ring her up as she bossed her "man" around  because she wanted him to go  into the back to switch an item that she was purchasing. 

It's funny.  You know, the way people are.  What's even more funny is that the dumb bitch couldn't stop talking to see that the whole time she was making an ass out herself by blasting off her mouth I kept turning my whole entire body around to look at the clock to see what time it was.  Hmm... it was pushing close 11pm.

Hey lady: Excuse me, were YOU saying something?

Feelin' awful.  Still bogged down with this sinus infection, or so I think that's what it is.  Here I am, back at it again with the whole LJ thing.  Maybe I will stick to it this time.  Who knows.  There's more things going on now to put in here... Let's see what happens...