Irish Times

Dear Flist,

I ask you for all the positive thoughts you have to spare. My Eagle is in ICU. For those who do not know he is a dear friend and more. We have been a part of each other lives for almost 20 years. He suffered a relapse (he is a recovering alcoholic) attempted to dry himself out and suffered 2 seizures yesterday... one while getting out of the shower.

I think Karma has it out for me because today is a demon day for me as well, 20 years ago I lost my fiance and now I am hanging out at a hospital.

Please keep us in your prayers and thoughts.

Hugs
Irish

I cannot tell you how wonderful it is that it is Friday.

My plans so far are simple.  I am taking my neighbor out for Chinese tonight.  It seems both her daughters are too busy to think of Mother's Day and she is kind of down so...

Then the weekend will be spent cleaning my house and being lazy.  Though I really must get the house clean so I can take pictures of it to take on my trip with me.  The weather plans to be uncooperative so, I cannot do area pictures this weekend. 

All of my girlfriends are busy this weekend. No surprise there, as they all are mothers and this is their weekend.  I do find myself a little envious as I too am a mother though no one sees this.  I will just keep in my heart thoughts of mine who never had the chance to celebrate this day with me. Enough of being maudlin!

I must make sure the coffee is ready to go, brush my teeth and get out the door.  Another day of cranky complaints and wacky calls awaits me.

Have a beautiful Friday Flist!

Well, I just had a very enlightening, if brief conversation. Those of you who know me well know that there is pretty much nothing to stop me from getting done what needs to be done or attending to what I see as my responsibilities. For example: I went back to work 2 days after major abdominal surgery, I have gone to work when I could not stand up straight and even tried to go to work after falling down a flight of stairs. My philosophy has been "well nobody else is going to do it and no one else is going to put money in the bank so suck it up."

What this is all leading up to is my friend Cat has not been feeling well lately and suffering from intermittent bouts of dizziness and being light headed. I just called her to see how she is doing and she tells me she is trying to get the lawn mowed before it rains. I asked her if she thought that was wise and her response was "well it needs to get done." I told her to remember this the next time she chastised me for pushing myself when she thought I shouldn't be and she said "WHO DO YOU THINK I LEARNED IT FROM?"

Now, honestly both of us were adults when we met, but she says before she met me she would have just ignored it and thought ",I don't feel well so why bother." I think I have corrupted another person. I am not sure this is a good thing or a bad thing, but I am honestly glad to see she is being more responsible in her life. That was always the one thing to bother me about her approach to life, but I think I have created a monster.

Well the sorting hat did consider Ravenclaw for Hermione

For those of you on my flist who are also on Beffeysue's ... I spoke with her today about 6 PM (her time).  She seemed to be doing well and is being well looked after by her daughter, whom I have dubbed little beffeysue.  Crazy, though it seems, she is looking forward to watching the video of her surgery (some people's kids?).  She was in good spirits and looking forward to reading pleanty of fan fiction, once she masters left handed mousing.

She wanted me to again say she is grateful for all of the care, concerns and prayers being sent her way. We will, most likely, do another Beffeysue post via phone, where I type what she says, over the weekend, so she can keep you all updated on her progress.

Hugs to all
Irish

Write your name down and copy and paste the meaning of the letters.



Name Meme:
A : is a nerd at times
B : has a smile to die for
C : can kick ur butt
D : great friend
E : has beautiful eyes
F : wild and crazy
G : HOTT!
H : likes someone
I : best boyfriend or girlfriend
J : is really sweet
K : gorgeous
L : a good kisser
M : can be funny and dumb at times
N : easy to fall in love with
O : has one of the best personalities ever
P : popular with all types of people
Q : nice butt
R : gives good hugs
S : very open minded
T : makes people laugh
U : is loved by everyone
V : not judgmental
W : very romantic
X : never let people tell you what to do
Y : very hot
Z : makes dating fun

I am:
S: very open minded
H: likes someone
A: is a nerd, at times
W: very romantic
N: easy to fall in love with
Y: very hot

Or

I:best boyfriend or girlfriend
R: gives good hugs
I: best girlfriend or boyfriend
S: very open minded
H: likes someone
R: gives good hugs
E: has beautiful eyes
D: great friend
L: a good kisser
A: a nerd at times
S: very open minded
S: very open minded

Hmm if there is repetition does this intensify the characteristic?

Well back to work and what to I find, but we have a potluck TOMORROW. Oh how I hate to be caught unaware so, this is what I did:

I baked off a couple Italian chicken breasts let them cool and diced them up.  Then I finely chopped some broccoli, cauliflower and carrots and shredded some sharp cheddar.  I mixed together some cream cheese, sour cream and seasonings. Finally, I sacrificed my sun-dried tomato wrappers. 

The process: spread wrap with cream cheese mixture sprinkle with layers of veggies, chicken and cheese.  Roll up tight and wrap in saran wrap. Tuck them in the refrigerator and slice in the morning. Ta da instant potluck fare and I did not have to go to the store.

In other news I had to take sweet little Lucky to the vet on an emergency run yesterday as he had three successive seizures.  They call this a cluster.  The vet is not medicating at this juncture as we are not sure how frequently he has the seizures and the medication could cause more harm than good.  So at this point we are just monitoring to see what happens. Scarred the bejeebers out of me though!

Just my luck I was in Arizona when the big reveal happened.

I am thrilled to now be able to lay claim to Second Hand Wand, written for machshefa  and thank my lovely indispensable beta lariope and my head cheerleader and alpha reader beffeysue .