Knee Surgery

In just 10 short days I will bite the bullet and go under the knife and have my other knee replaced. YIKES!!! After all the ridiculing and wise cracks I've punished my hubby with during his surgery now is going to be payback time.

I know what I face and have no regrets I'm just ready to get it done and get on with life.

What REALLY scares me is that Christmas is just 41 little days away which means I will be laid up during the later of those 41 days so in the next 10 I am trying hard to accomplish the following:

1. Christmas gifts for everyone.



2. Christmas cards done and sent.



3. Cleaning the house from top to bottom.



4. Granddaughter's birthday gift (Dec. 11th)



5. Oldest boy child's birthday gift (Nov. 22nd)



6. Several people's birthday cards sent.



7. Grocery's for a month (including Christmas).



8. House decorated for Christmas. (I may pull kids in on this at Thanksgiving...)



9. Outside lights put up.



10. Clean and wash all vehicles



11. Sell Jeep.



12. Put out pansies.



13. Train temp. employee at work



14. Get all paperwork turned in to HR department



15. Get all preop work done (labs, x-rays, pre-admit)



16. Turn loose of everything involving Thanksgiving to the girls



17. Bath dogs



18. Make a to-do list for hubby.



19. Turn in all paperwork for Aflac from hubby's surgery.



20. Kiss up to hubby for good measure of love during my recovery.
    

Well, if I do two of these a day I'll have them all done by the day of surgery. It doesn't count that at least half of them will take more than a day or two to complete and I've thought of a dozen more things since completing this list.....time will tell and life will go on and I'll go with it whether the list gets done or not.

Wish me well!!

Manicures

If you need a laugh this should do it....I'm sure you may have seen it before, but I crack up everytime I see it....hummmm, maybe I do have too much time on my hands?!






We have a new nail place in town and I almost drove off the road when I saw it...


I'm sure they're raking in the money... I just wonder where you have to go to have the other eight fingers done???

Just Pitchin In

I'm so behind on blogging... bear with me as I backtrack...

Every now and then we take time out and drop in on DD and MFSIL and pitch in to help. If you don't know they purchased their first home a few (well, several) months ago. It was a bank repo and they have completely restored it into great condition. There is still a list of little odds and ends that need to be done and she is over anxious (and rightly so) to get everything "put together"...


Hummmm, what's wrong with this picture??

On a recent visit I convinced her to not replace this lamp and let me see if I can bring it back to life...so here's the before picture and this is after it's been taken a part and washed.

This will hang in the entry hall. MFSIL has installed almost all of the lighting and replaced all of the light switches and other outlets. See, he just doesn't sit around all the time...

We hung a clock on this visit and...



put together her half bath. Now check this curtain out...she picked it up at Ross for a dollar!

Here is the hall bath all clean and ready for decoration.

And this is where MFSIL says I have too much time on my hands.... an idea for the office! Not too much time just a bad case of A.D.D.

This is the actual room, but before new carpet, a new ceiling fan and a fresh coat of paint. The lower half of the wall is a dark shade of beige and the upper section a lighter shade of beige. DD has some creative ideas for the furniture in this room.

Sometimes she has trouble thinking out of the box and that's where I come in....we seem to balance each other she pulls the reins in on me and I try to steer her out of the box when I can.

Boy, I'm I looking forward to her taking care of me in my old age....we've been making plans for that too!

Maybe this will be my room?!?

The Pink Shelf

At least a year ago, and maybe even longer ago than that...a couple of girls that I work with and I were at the local resale store. One of them bought this pink shelf and ask me to paint it a lighter shade of pink. Well, she completely forgot about it and I completely took liberty with it, by covering it in broken glass, beads and other adornments.



I just wish I had taken a picture before I covered it, but I didn't...so imagine it without all this pink stuff glued to it.

I filled it in with a white grout and then sealed it.

I'm quite proud of how it came out. I think my co-worker liked it too, I just hope it didn't pull the sheetrock off the wall when she hung it.

Rodeo

Darling daughter and my favorite son-in-law help me drag Mr. Gimpy leg out to the Stampede Rodeo this weekend.

I really think it was more than he should have been doing being only two weeks out on a total knee replacement, but I promise you he would give anyone willing, a race with his walker. We lucked out and only had ONE step down to our seats! We did have some walking, but not too far. I would have forgone the starched jeans but he insisted and claimed he was fine....so far be it from me to interfere....wink, wink!

There was a grand intro with a salute to the troops and our fine country....

And then it was ON WITH THE SHOW!!!

This was pretty amazing this guy rode standing up and they went pretty fast too!

This little guy really cracked us up. It's a small monkey dressed up like a cowboy riding the dog as his horse and he actually herded (is that a word?) sheep.

Of course, the mutton bustin was a hoot too...

Of course it wouldn't be a rodeo without the clowns.

Some calf roping.

Barrel racing...

Slobber slinging bull riding.

Then the final farewell from all the winners!

But that's not the end my friend this great rodeo was followed by a wonderful concert with Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert.

It was a FUN Saturday night!

Coming Home

Thursday was the day hubby got the go ahead to head home. I arrived to find this....




and our star patient sitting on READY...
Seems he was growing tired of the four walls at Presbyterian Hospital.

Lots of instructions...

And even some great love notes from his kiddos....always competition with those three.
He had a great room with a wonderful view of north Dallas. You can see 75 and 635 interchange in the distance.

Can you tell he's ready to go?? Man he really is doing much better than the first time he had this done.
And his chauffeur, chef and chief bottle washer awaits....

Trick or Treat??

Did these folks Trick or Treat in your neighborhood last night? I know we've been seeing them around for quite awhile now.