November 16, 2011

  • Tired But Happy

    TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM

    I don't know why but finding out I most likely have stress fractures in my feet has had an amazing effect on me.  I can actually put up with the pain a lot easier.  My bad days are probably when I re-injure half healed fractures because I didn't know how to take care of my feet properly so that they could heal entirely.  I'll find out tomorrow when the doctor takes the x-rays of my feet.  It's going to be interesting because he wants pictures of me standing on my feet and then others when I am not.  There are a lot of bones in your feet that you never consider.  Most are small.  I will let you know what he finds and what he wants me to do about protecting my feet.  I just hope I don't have to have surgery, which is a possibility I gather.  Two others are special protective shoes or casts.  Oh that would be cute...to have casts on both my feet.  Can you imagine?

    The fact that having stress fractures makes so much sense to me AND the symptoms all match my problems with my feet really makes me happy.  It means that I can actually expect my feet to return to something near normal although I believe I have lost the nail on my little toe on my right foot.  It was weird how it came off, too.  I'll spare you that part.  I'm not sure I could really describe it correctly anyway.  It does say that I need to use ice packs when the pain is intense.  That part doesn't make me happy because my feet throb when they are cold.  Ice packs=pain.

    I had a bad night as far as sleeping goes.  I tried but it escaped me.  I did rest and am only now beginning to fade.  I suppose I will go to bed early tonight.  That will make the Beast happy.  I was surprised to find out that he misses me.  I know when he does.  It's when he turns toward my side of the bed and goes to throw his arm over me.  He's now started to put one of my pillows in the appropriate place so it almost fills the bill.  When I go to bed, I have to move it for sleepi since it's my favorite pillow.  It's the one that's the most comfortable.  It's a down pillow and I have a fiberfill one that's kind of like my teddy bear.  **Blush**  I sleep with it clutched to my tummy and chest area. 

    The Princess has a few days off school and Chewlee is gone so she is going to take a trip up to Tennessee for the weekend.  Chewlee will come home on Monday I believe she said.  She will return on Sunday afternoon before it gets dark.  She's been talking to Chewlee every day.  She said she is having a good time and seems happy.  At least she hasn't wanted to come home yet.  I'm glad she's doing well and having fun with her paternal grandfather.  He sure loves her and you can tell when you see her with him.  He's very good to her.  I think he's compensating for the fact that his son truly is/was just a sperm donor.  He could care less and has never sent/spent a dime on her.  If left up to the Princess, he will never have access to her.  She wants to remove his parental rights legally but needs to save up some money for the attorney.

    The Beast and I are going to re-do our Family Trust and file it here in Alabama since this is now where all our assets are located.  We are going to remove daughter #1 from being included.  We may have to leave her $1.00 in order to ensure she can never try to overturn it and gain a share.  We may also have found a new executor who is wholly uninterested in trying to obtain OR be unfair in the distribution of our assets as we wish it to be done.  There is no jealousy or hatred on her part and we know her to be very good about such things as seeing that what should be done, IS done correctly.  The Princess said to me that she just wants us to stick around....or at least ONE of us.  I sure hope that one she is thinking about is ME.  I admit it.  I'm a bit selfish about wanting to be the survivor of this marriage.  I think I'm owed that much after all I've put up with for 47 (almost 48) years.  Wow!  Can you believe that shit?  We got married in 1964.   

    Oh, I finally went ahead and watched both of the Harry Potter *Deathly Hallows* DVD's.  Although not following the book in many ways, it was still a box of tissues night.  Yes, I cried more than once and used up a lot of tissues.  Although the stories are *dark* in nature, they are so worth the time spent watching them back-to-back.  It was almost six hours of movies.  If you haven't seen them, do so.  I'm just sorry that the whole adventure is over now.  No more Harry Potter movies.

    Love you all.  Hope you are enjoying whatever weather you have where you live.  Ours has been wonderful here.  We did have some rain today which we needed.  It may be the last hurrah and our next change of weather may be solid rain (snow).