Posted by: danelle62 | April 16, 2009

R&R

Sorry, I just don’t write here very much.  I post on FB all the time so I’m sorry if you don’t go there.

I’m in the hospital, having been here two days now.  Severe kidney infection, very high blood sugar are among the predominant factors.  I’m not having any fun, believe it or not.  The hospital is not a conducive place to rest, in case someone told you otherwise.  There is a “soiled utility” closet right across from my room and every 4 minutes someone hits the passcode on the door (beep beep boop boop beep) and then goes inside.  SLAM.  Then they come back out.  SLAM.  Last night I had an IV that you couldnt move your arm at all or it would go beep beep beep pause beep beep.  Tonight thankfully I have a different kind, but my next door neighbor does not, unfortunately.

We also have Mr. Hello who every hour or so starts hollering out (can you guess?) “Hello!   Hellloo?” HELLOOO?”.  I guess he just can’t seem to figure out that pesky “call nurse” button that  is so hidden and elusive.

Hospitals will poke you, prod you, inject you with all sorts of medicine and narcotics and not even tell you what they are or what they do.  They will shout out your door to the nurse’s desk  several rooms away that room 236 needs MORE diarhea medicine and a linen change.  They will wake you up for a myriad of reasons, at least every 2 hours.  Sometimes they are waking me up more often than that to check my blood sugar, something that could easily be done while I slept.  What will they NOT do?  Give me a tampon.  No you cannot have a tampon.  You can have this gigantic diaper thing for your feminine needs.  Enjoy.

Posted by: danelle62 | March 22, 2009

this is not my beautiful house…

A facebook status update does not a blog post make.

How long has it been since I’ve been here? 2003? Nah, nowhere near. Still, I update so much on facebook, I feel like I’ve blogged.

We had a meet and greet for the motorcycle club, but no new people came.  I’m really hoping that with the spring weather I can wrangle more new people to come as a guest on some rides.  I think everyone is beginning to look sideways at me like I’m not doing my job.  I was going to post a couple of meet and greet pictures but wordpress is not cooperating.  (they’re on facebook!)

I got a new job, as a mortuary assistant at probably the biggest mortuary in the area.  I’m super excited, even though it’s only part time for now.  I’ve been told it will likely turn into either full time, or more hours very soon.  I’m just so damn skippy happy to get my foot in the door!

Well, we’re probably going riding tomorrow so I guess it’s time for bed since it’s like 315am.  See ya on the flip flop.

Posted by: danelle62 | February 27, 2009

maybe it’s just me…

I’m a little stymied by a toy Emma got in a Mcdonald’s meal.  It’s an American Idol “doll” named Soulful Selma.  Anyone else find this strangely stereotypical and derogatory?

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I thought at first it was a microphone in the package, cause I saw the American Idol logo but sheesh, I wasn’t prepared for Soulful  Selma.

Posted by: danelle62 | February 23, 2009

shadow people and the boy who would not take a ride…

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Well apparently some of you missed it (mom!) but after this week I won’t have any kids to watch.  I’m looking for a job “outside the home” but so far haven’t gotten past the “thank you for your resume” stage.   I don’t want to do admin work again, I don’t have the clothes for it.  I’d like to do something in health care or home care for the elderly or something but right now I’m just kind of floundering around.

Mark and I have been sick since Friday and are deep in the creeping crud.  We both sound like Barry White and are coughing our heads off all hours of the day and night.  And yes, yes, yes!  we are taking care of ourselves and we have plenty of meds and drinking enough water and getting enough sleep.

We’ve been taking Aleve Cold and Sinus, which works great but today we only had one left.  I gave it to Mark before he went to work and went digging around for something else.  I found some Dayquil tablets and said to Mark “you know, for some reason I don’t like to take Dayquil but I can’t remember why”.  He said it probably made me antsy, which is what it does to him.  I said “yea, probably” and took it anyway.

After about 2 hours I went outside on the front porch and immediately remembered why I don’t take Dayquil.

Shadow People.

I called Katie, who also doesn’t like Dayquil and said “I took a Dayquil today and now I am seeing things”.  She said..

“Is it Shadow People?”

I just about dropped the damn phone.  That’s exactly what it was.  I had seen something out of the corner of my right eye, and thought it was an animal running under my car.  Then I got a glimpse of it out of my left eye on the total opposite side of the yard. It was like a grey whispy thing, in the shape of like a really loose “S”, about 4 feet tall.  Not quite human, but not quite inhuman.  And even more than seeing it, it really jolted me like something was really really there.

Katie said she had seen it before too when she took cold medicine, and that it happens a lot to people who haven’t slept, and who are tweaking on uppers.

So I looked it up.

From wikipedia:
Accounts of shadow people typically describe them as being black humanoid silhouettes with no discernible mouths, noses, or facial expressions, though accounts also exist of them being child-sized humanoids or shapeless masses that sometimes change to a more human like form.  In most instances, witnesses report seeing shadow people in the peripheral areas of their vision.

Oh my.

It goes on to describe the possible physical and psychological reasons for it everything from Native American religious beliefs, to drug abuse and electromagnetic field dysfunction.  In some cultures they are seen to be similar to that of a ghost,  “a flicker of a life unable to end for some reason.”

All I know is I’m sticking to Aleve.

I  meant to mention something that happened a few weeks ago too.

It was about midnight on a Sunday night, and I was up too late already.   I was out on the front porch having my last smoke before bed.  This kid came walking up the street and stopped in front of my house.  He was either Hispanic or half white half hispanic, about 18 years old.    He reminded me a lot of Daniel – about the same build, and typical of a kid that age, not wearing clothes warm enough for the really cold night.   Also, he was out walking around at midnight, another silly thing boys that age do.

He asked me how to get to 92nd and Federal.  Well, I know how to get to 92nd and Federal for sure, but it’s not a short clip,  not when you’re walking.   It’s probably about 5 miles from my house, but it’s not a straight shot either.  You gotta go up around the park and ride, and all that jazz (you have no idea what I’m talking about do you) and well, it was midnight!  And cold!

So I told him how to get there, but I kinda forgot about the park n ride so I made it sound like a lot easier than it actually is.  He was totally “not from around here” because he wasn’t familiar with any of the streets I was talking about like 88th, or even Sheridan.  When I felt like he understood, I went inside and got ready for bed.

But for some reaosn it was just eating away at me, this kid walking all that way so late.  Then I remembered about the park n ride and felt really worried that he wasn’t going to figure it out.  After just about 3 minutes, I put my coat on and got in the car to find him.

He wasn’t too far up the street and I pulled over and rolled my window down and said “Do you want a ride?  It’s really cold”.  He said “no thanks” and we went round and round for a while, me practically begging him to accept a ride.  “It’s going to take you like 2 and half hours!”  And he’d say “Nah, it’s ok..”

I told him he reminded me of my son and I hoped that someone would offer him a ride if he had a long way to go in the cold someday.

Finally he walked over to the car and I thought he was going to get in but he said “to tell you the truth I took a ride from someone when I was a kid and was abducted and sexually abused.”

Holy jeez.

I said ok, I understood, even though I was flustered.  He let me give him a pair of gloves I had in the car at least, and I was glad for that.  I thought about him for a long time that night as I tried to go to sleep.  I hope he got where he was going.

Well, this has turned into a really long post about only two subjects!  I’ll try to be back sooner.  I gots more stuff to tell you.

Posted by: danelle62 | February 10, 2009

going back in time…

Yea so it’s been a week or so.  Whoop tee do la la la.

I met with 2 friends from elementary school on Sunday.  We knew each other in Jr High and High School too, but met in elementary school.  We reconnected on Facebook and met for brunch.  We ended up hanging out for over 3 hours and it was really nice.  I thought it might be awkward but it really wasn’t.   I did have too much coffee tho, and ended up feeling gross the rest of the day. 

I’ve been dvr’ing CSI for the past 2 seasons and am just now getting caught up.  Once I had about 22 episodes saved, I thought it was maybe time to get up to speed.  The funny thing is that the episodes I’m watching now are from April 2008, and the commercials are messing with my mind.  Previews of movies that have been out of DVD for a long time now, commercials for gift ideas for Mother’s Day and worst of all is the news briefs.  Last night I stepped into the kitchen while a commercial was on, and heard the weatherman say “Nice spring weather for the rest of the week, highs in the 60’s to low 70’s.  I was like “WHAT?!  Whee!  YAY!” and then was suddenly ripped back into reality land where it’s only 45 degrees during the day if we’re lucky.  Humpf.

We had a big club promotional event last weekend and it went really well.  I was worried because I had reserved a room in the restaurant for 25 people, then had to call and change it to 30, which he said was gonna be tight.  The day of the event I recounted the votes and we were at 42 people.  We had the restaurant room packed to the gills and had to spill out into the dining room as well.  It went well tho and there was a lot of important promotions so it was really neat.  A few of us ended up going out that night too, to a place downtown called The Bank.  Fun times.  I just can’t wait till it’s warm enough to ride regularly again.  I haven’t been on an official club ride since November 15th.  Mark and I have been out on the bike a few times, but it’s just been too dang cold for a long ride with the group.

The daycare kids are quiet, I better go see what they’re up to.  Hope you are enjoying your week.

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