June 16, 2013
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It Really IS A Bitch To Get Old….
TALES FROM THE BRAT FARM
I can hardly believe it when my KIDS start complaining about getting old to me. THEY are complaining about getting old and they are saying all these things to the woman who gave birth to them! I’m astonished, to say the least. Marcus told me today that he wanted to age like Charlie Sheen but he looks in the mirror and he sees Martin, instead.
I see not only wrinkles, no…deep crevasses on my face…and I am scarred from my (missing) big toe to mid-tummy (slightly below the belly button area). I was looking at the scar from the arterial bypass in my right leg and it actually resembles the shrapnel wound my dad had in his leg from World War 2. I kid you not. He would feel some real sympathy for me if he saw it. It’s the upper part of my right leg….the inside of the thigh….that is so picturesque. The rest of the surgical wound has actually healed in a nice, thin line that is almost invisible.
I’m not counting the scar on my neck from having the left carotid artery roto-rooted out. That looked really ugly but it sure healed well. I’m going to have to have the other side done in the future but that no longer worries me. I know it will heal nicely. I had to have that done because it was affecting my left eye. Yeah, I’m just falling apart like an old doll that’s had some hard use.
This is the woman that Chewlee thinks just needs a little bit of *her* makeup and looks beautiful. Gotta love her for that. How can you NOT love a child that feels like that about you? I love her to pieces. She worries about me but she also keeps me moving and prevents me from acting as old as I sometimes feel. Even when she’s chewing me out (yes, she does) for yelling at her for some reason or other, she can still make me laugh over the way she does it. She’s not like other six-year-olds. Her vocabulary is what is so incredible. She can surprise us with her viewpoint on a lot of things. And she DOES have her own view of things….lots of things. She will tell you all about how she feels about EVERYTHING that comes to mind. She really would have you rolling on the floor, laughing, in just a few minutes in her company. And she’s not trying to be funny at all.
Chewlee will tell you that she loves two women…her mother and me…best of all. After that, it depends on the situation she’s in how much she loves anyone else…..LOL.
I also have neuropathy in my feet that can make me crazy some days and on other days, it’s just a kind of background numbness. Falling apart? Yep. That’s how I feel. But I’m in better shape than the Beast who often can’t remember things for as little as 15 minutes. I kid you not on that part. He had to call me the other day because he forgot the second item he went up to the store to get. Even worse…I hadn’t requested either thing he went to buy. They were two things HE wanted, not me.
Time to go and take my late-in-the-day nap while I can. Love you all. Hope you had a great weekend and an even better week ahead of us. Say a little prayer for Woofie, Bratfink and Sheldon’s dog. The poor little thing is terribly ill. The vet has no idea how old the dog is but it might actually be dying of old age for all anyone knows. Be good and take care of yourselves. Be careful driving.
