BasketMoon's Journal

I think that is gonna become my newest"theme" song.

Why is it when you are feeling your very worst, nothing else goes right???  And people just seem intent on pissing you off???  Everything has tired my patience the last few days.  Saturday was our 40th class reunion so first, Darrel's sister and niece decide to show up to begin going through his belongings.  I called my son....bless his heart, always to Mom's rescue....and he came down to help them do that.  I went to get my make-up and hair down....which didn't look as good as I had wished....wound up wishing I had just done it myself.  AND THEN went to get the corsage and boutonierre and they weren't at all what I ordered.  Wound up having to find another florist to quickly make up something that was acceptable.  I came home to dress and, stupid me...didn't check the pants I was planning on wearing.....so when I went to get dressed, I discovered the elastic in my pants was gone!  So not knowing what else to do, I just put my pants on under my tummy brace to keep them up.  We had a fairly nice evening.  It was good to see old friends...most I didn't recognize until I looked at their name tags.  Fortunately the committee had taken our senior pictures and put them on our name tags so it was much easier to put the name and face together.

We got home, expecting to have an empty house, BUT NO!!!  I walk in and here is Joyce and Rachel asleep in admist a scattered mess in my front room.  (sigh)  So I just went to bed.  Then all of Sunday....and I mean ALL of Sunday....was spent sorting through all the stuff they had scattered and trying to organize it.  Finally, after dark, they were done and ready to go home.  Thank god!!!!

Then yesterday, I had arranged with my son to take him up to get his tattoo....his birthday gift from me this year.  Trying to get out of the house and on the road, required 3 trips back to the house because of something or other I had forgotten.  Finally on the road....pick up Ira, and he tells me as we are going through Riverside, that I need to stop and pick up my nephew.  No problem, but it was a side trip I hadn't planned on.  We get up there and mapquest sends us on this convoluted way to the shop.  But we finally found it.  They had just opened a new shop and we had to look for them this time.  Saw the kid that did my tat for me and told him I have a dragon I want him to do for me in a few months.  Ira got his tat....it was his own drawing of the orin from the Neverending Story.  Opie Ortiz did his tat for him.  For those of you familiar with the band Sublime, Opie did that tat that is on one of their album covers.  He did a beautiful job for Ira and pretty quickly too....I was surprised.  It took almost 3 hours for me to get mine.  We had a pretty good day and lots of laughs.  Stopped by a smoke shop and got myself another pipe and then lost it before I got home.

By the time I got home, I felt like I had literally been beat up all day long.  I had taken Bear's truck....which rides like a truck, you feel every little bump, lump and ridge in the road.  So after 6 hours of driving and then about 2 hours in the tattoo shop, I was so sore when I got home.  Wishing for a hot bath or shower but those are "no-nos" with this stupid friggin' rash I have.  Can't even use heating pads.  So I medicated the crap outta myself, sat and smoked a couple of bowls and finally went to sleep.

All in all though, yesterday was a good day.  I always have a ball with Ira and Eric too....we laughed and joked most of the day.  It was good to be away from the house and all the stress that is here.

It's been an interesting time....this going through the loss of Darrel.  I have just about cried all the tears I can and now I see things that remind me of him or things I wish he were here so I could show him.  He was always so interested in learning EVERYTHING.  And everything he saw, he could find a piece of art in it.

Well, hoping to get out sometime in the next few days and look for a new car.  Insurance has already sent me a check for my car so I have a sizeable down payment for a car.  Gotta get something soon....that truck of Bear's is gonna kill me.  LOL  Worse than the dragon ever thought about.  LOL  

Today promises to be a lazy day...at least I'm hoping so.  Bear and Ira are working a side job today so I have my house to myself for the day....or as long as they work.  I'm screening my phone calls because I really don't feel like talking to anyone unless its something urgent.

The next week and a half I need to spend working on Halloween decorations and packing for our cruise.  Getting really excited about the cruise.

Well, abviously the dragon continues to work me over pretty good.