Officially tired

Ok, I am officially tired.  And can't rest yet!  Oy!  Okay, last Monday we had major scary storms with torrential rains, so I didn't go to dialysis.  I went on Tuesday.  And on Wednesday.  Thursday we had a new fridge delivered, so I had to unload the fridge and freezer, and then reload the new one.  Friday was dialysis.  My mother and sister picked me up after treatment and we headed out to South Carolina to visit my niece and her little boy.  She just bought her first house!  I'm so very happy for her and so proud of her!  The house is big - eat in kitchen, dining room, den, living room, 4 bedrooms, front porch, screened in back porch, finished basement and 2 1/2 baths. And a patio.  By the pool.  Yes, a pool!  We spent til 10 or 11 each night floating around in it.  With glow sticks.  We had a majorly good time.  On the way home, we stopped at a peach orchard and got fresh peaches, and of course we had to stop in Gaffney (Home of the Big Peach!) at Hamrick's, where I got 3 pairs of shoes, and a couple of Christmas presents.  Never too soon to shop for Christmas!  Here's a picture of the Big Peach :)

Oh yea, I was talking about being tired.  Ok, so Monday we drove/shopped all day.  Since I couldn't go to dialysis Monday, I went yesterday and today. Tomorrow I have to go to the hospital for a fistulagram, and Friday I have dialysis again.  Saturday I am going to SLEEP!  ALL day!  Janie Mae may or may not join me.  Her choice.  But my butt WILL be in the bed a large portion of the day.

I have not been able to do crafty stuff in nearly two weeks.  I'm suffering withdrawals!  I have a bracelet partially done but I haven't had a chance to get back to it.  So hopefully in the next week I'll get my mojo back and git-r-done.

But for now, I think I'll go talk to the Sandman.  And watch The Golden Girls til I fall asleep.  Without Janie Mae.

Til later,
Morado

Time Marches On

Man, oh man, where has the time gone?!?  My poor blog feels so abandoned, and I really have no excuse other than.....wait, I'm thinking..ummmmmm......errrrrr.......ok, I have NO excuse..   Moving on!

So what's been going on in my lilac world?  Well, I've really been into beading lately.  Bracelets. Earrings.  More bracelets. More earrings. There are beads everywhere.  But I've really been having fun with them.  Now the Cameo feels abandoned.  I have such a hard time keeping all the 'kids' happy.

At the beginning of May, Mama and my sister and I went to Florida to visit our friends Bonnie and Polly. We hopped in my sister's big black truck and took off.  We drove about 6 hours to Savannah, GA, and spent the night, then the next morning drove the remaining 6 hours to Homosassa, FL.  What a fun trip we had! Of course, the best part was hanging out with Bonnie and Polly and Bonnie's sister, Betty.  The best social worker in the world, Shirley, had made arrangements for me to have my dialysis down there and it went off without a hitch!  Other than the fact that I had to be there at 6 in the morning!!!!  Ack!  But we did some way fun stuff while there.  We ate the best fried green tomatoes I have EVER had, and I'm a Southern girl, so I know fried green tomatoes.  We rode around and looked at cool stuff.  We went on an airboat tour which was WAY fun.  We saw sponges.  We saw coral.  We saw jumping dolphins.  We rode over grass.  It was way fun.  Here is a picture of a sponge.

See those orange blobs?  Those are sponges!  At this part of the Gulf of Mexico, the land only drops an inch a mile.  So we were maybe 5 miles out from land.  We also saw osprey nests.  With ospreys in them!

Then we went to Dade City Wild Things, which is basically a zoo.  Lions and tigers.  No bears, oh my!  But they did have a zebra :)  And we fed a baby buffalo.  But the MOST fun part was when we got to play with a 3 week old Siberian tiger baby.  I wanted to bring her home!!!  She was the most adorable thing I've ever seen. :D

How do you like my butterfly ring???

Even at that little bitty size, her roar was fear inducing.  She 'meowed' a couple of times and it was SO loud!  Made me jump :)

I'll do some more catching up on the blog tomorrow.  Maybe.  If the beads or the Cameo or the embroidery machine or the sewing machine or the serger or Jerry Springer doesn't get in the way.

Til later,
Morado