Blacksheep Speaks

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Or at least the cats seem to think so. I’m talking about the law that states that every empty cardboard box must immediately be occupied by a cat. As you can imagine, with one daughter moving out o0f state and another moving off to college, there have been an abundance of moving boxes around here lately. We had to be careful, too… because if you don’t look before dumping things into one, there is a pretty good shot that you will hear an angry yowl from a buried cat. Since we have two cats, this was a frequent occurance. We did a cat count when it was all over, and fortunately, neither cat has been sealed in a box bound for Iowa, Missouri, or the attic. Whew!

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I am getting a little tired of people who think I am horrid for using disposable diapers. My mother thinks it’s a waste of money. SHE is eighty years old. They didn’t MAKE disposable diapers when she had babies. I actually did try cloth diapers with my oldest. For about a day and a half. I quickly figured out that cloth diapers mean a lot of diaper rash, even if you change them right away. Disposable ones don’t DO that unless the child is prone to it anyway, which only one of mine was. Diaper rash is not a problem we have had with our granddaughter. But… all these people who are “going green” out there… I believe in taking care of the planet, sure. But leave my disposable diapers alone!

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There was one thing about the day that my daughter moved in to her dorm last week that kind of got me. My daughter packed everything but the kitchen sink, it’s true. But we got her moved into the tiny room, everything fit, and we used the car to do it. Other kids… well, they showed up with moving trucks, some of them. I have NO idea how they were planning to fit all that into half a dorm room, or even a whole one, for that matter. At least they didn’t have to carry it all themselves… the school football team, every member, was on hand that day to help everyone unload. My daughter thought it was wonderful of them. Me? I just think they were on hand to check out all the pretty new freshman girls.

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I thought the problems they found with asbestos and what it can do to people had all been taken care of long ago. I don’t know WHY I thought that, but I did. After reading some notes from one of my daughter’s school notebooks, I find that I am wrong. Have you ever heard of mesothelioma? I hadn’t, but it seems that if you have ever been exposed to asbestos, there may be a problem. This disease can take up to seventy YEARS to show itself, if I am reading this right. And it often gets misdiagnosed as well. I have been around asbestos a lot in my life… I think I am going to be researching this a little more.

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Remember that tornado that erased half my county back in February that also picked up the van my husband was in and totaled it without hurting him? Well… the last cleanup is about to happen. Some guy from a local garage here came by, wanting to buy the totaled van that’s been sitting out back all this time. Says he can use it for car parts in his shop. It sure will be good to get that thing out of here. FEMA is done with it, and it sure makes the yard look trashy. We aren’t the only ones still cleaning up, either. We still have a big section of the county with nothing on it but bulldozed piles of rubble. I’ll be glad when things get back to normal.

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You know, between the things going on with my sister medically, my daughter leaving for college, and all the things that just naturally accompany caring for a newborn (especially when you are out of practice), PLUS my two youngest teens starting the school year… I haven’t had a chance to draw a breath lately. Then, just when I think I have a handle on things I figure out that I can’t drive anywhere. My car insurance lapsed while all this was going on. I guess that will teach me not to open my mail, won’t it? Well, anyway, things should (hopefully) be settling down soon. I sure could use the break!

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I included a picture with this, because there is no way I can describe it accurately. As you know, my husband and I are raising our granddaughter, and we have had one heck of a time finding baby furniture that fits the style of the rest of the house. Well, THIS chair is perfect. Called the Stokke Tripp Trapp, it makes all other forms of high chair look positively ridiculous. It gives the baby everything she needs to join the family at meals without subjecting us to an overdose of cutesy Pooh-ism. And this thing even grows with your child… it can support up to three hundred pounds! Not that adults need high chairs… but this is convertible to a regular chair. It’s awesome!

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It’s been an interesting couple days, and I don’t mean that in a good way. See, my sister (Jaz in the blogging world) has been having a couple medical problems. A couple weeks ago, she was admitted to the hospital for treatment of a brown recluse spider bite. That semi-healed, and she went home… but about a week later, she was back in the hospital, diagnosed with a heck of an infection, and a mammoth clot in her leg. They treated her at the hospital, then released her to go home, but she was to be under home health nursing care three days a week. It took one visit before they upped the number of visits in a week to every day. And then the health nurse noticed a horrid red splotching occurring, spreading all over her arms and legs. She took a picture of it to show the family doctor, who sent her to the White River Medical Center in Batesville, Arkansas, which is about forty five miles from here. She gets down there and the hematologist (sp?) tells her it’s a DERMATOLOGY problem (as if it were a bad case of blackheads or something). Anyway, the specialists in that town absolutly refuse to work at that hospital, which should tell you something about the place. So, White River sent her to another hospital… Baxter Regional in Mountain Home, Arkansas. This new set of medical professionals ALSO agreed that she had a life threatening problem and belonged in a hospital… just not THEIR hospital. THEY call a doctor at a hospital in Springfield, Missouri. This NEW doctoring genius, without even SEEING my sister, decides that hospitalization is unnecessary. So, at Baxter, the same doctors who wanted her at a better hospital… took her off all the medicine being used to treat her, substituted a shot in the stomach a few times a week… and sent her home. She still has the splotches, still has the blood clot, and now has an extreme case of aggravation as well. She’s not the only one.

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In my second daughter’s mind, yesterday was a long time coming. In mine, it came all too soon. Yesterday, my daughter closed a chapter in her life and began another by moving into her dorm room, and it would have been even sadder if she hadn’t been trying to figure out how to cram all her stuff into the tiny half of a dorm room she is now to inhabit. At least she left her golf clubs at home… though I am betting they make it there before it’s all over. She took her guitar. She doesn’t know how to PLAY the thing, but she is ever optimistic that she will learn. She doesn’t play golf either, but…. well, we’ll see. The school makes it policy to UNDER load the class schedules of entering freshmen, I suppose to keep them from being overwhelmed. But my daughter just spent two years doing college and post college work at her prep school… I am betting she is going to be bored with her four classes, two of which, Spanish and Calculus, constitute review work for her. Ah well, as I said, we’ll see….

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After looking over my list of domains, it is painfully obvious that I have WAY more than I am ever gonna use, and I decided to sell some off to get my list down to less than fifty. The ones I am
selling are:

regiftation.com
wildhunting.com
USAFreedoms.com
one-stop-auto-shop.com
one-stop-clothing-shop.com
one-stop-info-shop.com
inkedangels.com
squeakings.com
bingointer.net
chalkmarks.net
electronicinter.net
investmentinter.net
jewelryinter.net
redneckroundup.net
stockmarketinter.net

If you are interested in any of them, they are in my eBay store, located HERE. If a domain is listed here but not there, someone bought it already.

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