Hi! All is well! Absolutely in the pink!

My rose garden alas has been afflicted with some sort of disease that has left it covered in purple spots, so something to keep me busy. And my broccoli is almost ready to eat! The grass I managed to rip out of my rose garden, injuring myself, has started to regrow. But I sort of expected that, I have lots of beautiful blooms that make it all worth it so I am happy about that! My veggies are all looking great, and I am both excited and apprehensive, because I ONCE AGAIN, overdid it and will have way too many veggies to eat.

All the critters are okay. I need to get The Earl to the vet to have his ears looked at. He wont let me clean them and he is shaking his head a lot. He will not let me near them so I figure an infection of some sort. It is very unlike him to resist that sort of thing. The other dogs are as happy as they can be. And The duke, George the Orange (the cat) rules over all of them. Also, it appears my very severe cat allergy has subsided the more I have been exposed to him. My SO started letting him come inside to sleep during the day quite a while ago. He is such a softie, despite not really being a cat person. I had already started a daily allergy cocktail to combat it. Its been a couple years I think since he showed up and I am a whole lot less reactive. I still get the occasional eye swell randomly, but I can see and breath still. So all in all him showing up to my house has been good for both the cat and me! My elderly neighbor really loves him. I found out he was wandering down there to hunt rodents in one of her storage sheds. She called to ask if he was mine and was it okay if she let him in her house to snuggle awhile. She is unable to take care of pets for herself. He likes to go down there and sit on her back porch with her and get scritches and cuddles. If he is missing for a little while, he is usually at her house, giving and receiving love. My animals have more to give this world than I do!

My SO continues to get reminded daily of how lucky he is to have me. How could he forget?!?!?! I make sure to write it so in sharpie in the waistband of all his underwear lest he forget. He just started a new job and seems to like it for the most part. He is still a truck driver, but wanted to drive a company truck for a while, instead of being an owner/operator. Just for a time. Being an owner/operator truck driver is pretty stressful and this new job is less hours, five days a week when he was work 6, and has good benefits, which he obviously did not have driving his own truck.So I think this will be better for his health and happiness long term. He just has to get used to he pay difference. He still had his truck and will likely go back to leasing it out eventually, but for now all is well.

I am still waiting, now IMPATIENTLY, for my car wreck case to be resolved. Its been almost 3 months. I have had to go back to driving my poor smashed up Corolla, because my back up car started misbehaving. I was driving home from some errand or other, and ALL the lights on the dash lit up ,save maybe the brake light. My first thought was "OOOOO how PRETTY! Its like ChrIstmas!!!" MY next thought was a series of expletives as colorful as my Christmas display and not nearly as jolly. My SO thinks its an alternator problem as is working to fix it. In the meantime, I have to drive my damaged car to get around. It is safe to drive it just looks stupid. I called my attorney two weeks ago to see WHAT the hold up was, as they told me that it is a clear, straightforward case that would not take more than a month to resolve. His legal secretary assured me that things were going great, they were waiting on my medical records from the urgent care I went to to treat my whiplash, that Geico had accepted their liability, all they needed were the records and they could start talking numbers. yada yada. Its been weeks since then and nothing, so now I am getting antsy, but trying to be patient, which has always been a bit of a hardship for me.

Tonight is my first night back after a long vacation from work. Well, it was supposed to be long. I got called in twice for the new, IMO worthless employee that they hired. I cannot be too mad about that though, as they did not FORCE me to come work the shifts. But they are aware that I am a greedy pig who loves a giant call out payday, and also that I would feel bad if someone else had to come in. So I had 10 days off instead of 12, I did NOTHING productive and it was FABULOUS! I did have a to-do list of things I was planning to tackle. But nope. I decided to rest and eat and then rest some more. And that was WAY more delightful than pressure washing the house like I had planned. Now its back to normal and I am ready for it.

Funny story, you may remember a few months ago that I entered the weight loss team competition at work. My partner and I did NOT win the weight loss portion of it. We did, however, win the name contest. "Weapons of Mass Reduction" was our name. I was thrilled with the win.Our prize was a 50 dollar gift card each. Well, they delivered me my prize, and I called the 800 number to check the balance, just in case. And they gave me an gift card with a $0 balance!!! Turns out, someone got the number off of it and used it to buy stuff from an online clothing store i have never heard of. The card looked like it had been tampered with when I got it. Its just $50, but I was SO disappointed. I filed a lost/stolen report and am waiting on a resolution. Its always something isn't it?

So all in all, life is great. Not too many complaints and the complaints I have are minor in the grand scheme of things. Thanks for asking! Its always a nice feeling to know that people think of you!

How have you been?