Delicious Chaos

Christmas is "oficially" past and the New Year is a few days away. My domicile remains inundated with the left overs of a very Merry Christmas. While we couldn't have the "whole" family as we did two years ago, we had a healthy showing and two of the grandkids have stayed behind for a few days of grandma and grandpa time. The Wii I bought early this year has had nearly non-stop useage!

It doesn't seem possible that I haven't blogged for two months or so. I wonder where on earth the time goes. I work, come home, eat, occasionally walk Fargo or exercize for a few minutes and fall into an exhausted stupor until bedtime, only to rise and do it all over again. I guess that is what's called "living", eh?

The grandkids are all getting so big now. Two are married, two in college, three in high school, etc. One of these days I'll be putting a "great" in front of grandma. It seems like only yesterday that we started welcoming them into this world and hardly more than a short time before then that we were welcoming out own babies into the world. Did you believe it when you were young and the "old folk" would talk about how fast time flies? Remember counting the endless days before Christmas, your Birthday or the last day of school? Now, I've barely learned to write '09 and I have to remember to put "10".

Ernie and I continue to muddle along with some good days and some not quite so good ones. My back surgery completely fused on one side and not at all on the other. The doc wants to redo the "failed" side. So far the pain is somewhat less that what drove me to the procedure in the first place and I'm reluctant to "do it again". But, I can't walk for more than ten minutes without having to sit a few to relieve the back pain, I can't stand to cook dinner, but have to runa and take "sit" breaks every few minutes, sciatic pain wakes me at night, sometimes several times a night. I see the doc again in Feb. I'm still not convinced that I want to do it again, so we'll see. Ernie continues to glide along in the same circumstances as have been there for several years now. His lung cancer does not shrink or grow, there is no evidence that his kidney cancer will return and his bladder has been cancer free for almost two years now. On the other hand his type 2 diabetes nearly got out of control and he is using insulin once a day to try to keep his sugar down. He doesn't move around much and worries me that he will become weaker and weaker from lack of using his muscles. Ernie likes to make jokes about the fact that I "poke" him every night. He'll tell the grandkids "if you hearing me screaming, it's just grandma giving me my shot", or he'll ask loudly "will you poke me now". Ah well, at least I can.

During the past year someone at work has lost about 15 pounds because I found them; every one! I am hoping to spend 2010 working towards retirement in 2011. I'm getting tired and finding that I want to spend more time on my own porch, watching the bustle go by. Peace.