Category: family

TLK-isms

One of my arms (and corresponding hands) has felt oddly cold, off and on, since the spider tried to eat it off.

I went into TLK’s room on Saturday and put my hands on her arm.

Me: “Feel my hands. Does one feel colder than the other?”
Her: “Erm…. No. They feel the same. You might want to try someone else.”
Me: (laughing) “Who? The dogs?”

Even though Ginger gets quite verbose at times, I’m not quite sure she’d have anything to say that I’d understand. I’m not sure…she’s…coherent, really. 🙂

Love is Good

Good things are coming around the corner. I’m ready for change. I’m ready for trust and reliability and fun and just “getting it”, where life is concerned. Couple-ness. Working toward a goal where “WE” are the goal and being excited to grab for the brass ring.

There are times when he scoops me up in the safety of his arms, even from remote, and whatever is going on in the rest of the world falls away into incoherent drivel.

There are moments when I am silently struggling with the meaning of life, or something on a smaller scale, and a note arrives, unprompted, saying he feels lucky to have me in his life, and I know the sincerity drips from his words.

He believes in love, being there, sharing more than words can share, being concerned, insightful, attempting to keep me on the right path; the one which makes sense. Thank you for that. I love you.

Lisa’s tips to get through tomorrow:
1. Put your heart into what you’re doing, or find something you can put your heart into.
2. Think positively about tomorrow; put yesterday in a box and seal it up with duct tape.
3. Call your family
4. Hope for the best thing you can think of to happen. If it doesn’t. make it happen.
5. Love, love, love who is in your life and what you are accomplishing by knowing these people.

Flying In

Every now and then, my mind wanders back to that moment when I was sitting on the plane, looking out the window, realising that I’m about to land in England to meet my boyfriend at the airport.

The thoughts flying through my head:

  • Wow, I’m finally here.  7 hours wasn’t that long.
  • Look, the sun is coming up (it went down at lightning speed to me, and back up again)
  • Hmmm…  look at the traffic… it’s really backwards (to me)
  • Look at the old buildings..
  • (Big smile)  OMG…  Ian is waiting for me at the airport!  (stares at Heathrow airport… thinks “OMG… again”).
  • Hmmm… how long will it take to get through border control?
  • Ummmm…   *will* I get through border control?
  • Are the questions over yet?
  • Yay!  I’m in!     Now, where do I go?
  • There’s my luggage (grabs it)
  • Wonders what I would have to declare in customs already.   Goes the “no customs to declare” way.
  • I’ll just peek through doorway into the arrivals lounge.   Notices handsome man in spiderpig t-shirt looking around.
  • (jumping up and down inside… and ever since, really)

This is what happy is.   🙂   I recorded every second of my visit to England in my head.. meeting Ian, meeting Gem and Fletch, meeting family, adjusting to different ways of saying things, walks through the park and the market..  but mostly just relaxing and feeling at home.

I’ll be back.   🙂

It Is Halloween

Not a big deal in the UK, I’ve heard, but big enough here.   TLK is going to be dressed up as a cat, which is a good alternative to her first pick.    

My office (the brand new one) is having a pet parade tomorrow.   I am not taking my dogs, but I’ll be taking my camera to photograph the ones who do show up.    Last year, there was a cat, which I spent a lot of my time with.   

The weather might be decent for us.  There is nothing too glamourous about Halloween in the freezing cold.

Have fun!

I CAN be brave, and it’s my brother’s birthday…

I am “winging it” without Ambien now. I’m going to have to sleep without hypnotic medication. Can you believe it? So far, so good, though. I didn’t sleep through the night, but I did here and there, and got some rest during the remainder of the time.

Ambien is very addictive, even though they say it’s not. It may be more the feeling of a guaranteed nights’ sleep that’s addictive, rather than the drug itself.

In any event, I’m going without it now.   I’ll be fine.   🙂    Do you know that Ambien is used to help Air Force pilots sleep after missions?   Also, it’s supposed to be helpful in the treatment of restless leg syndrome.

In other news, my brother’s birthday is today!  I enjoy having a sibling only 15 months younger than me. Just as I am thinking, “I can’t believe I’m (this age)”, his birthday comes along, and then I realise I’m not the only one hitting those ages. hehe 

I love my brother.    He IS a nut.    The last time I was with him, he tried to scare the heck out of a large flock of birds (very large crows, I believe) in the Wal-Mart parking lot by aiming at them with his SUV and putting his foot down (heavily) on the gas pedal… braking just before he got to them.   

Off they went.    (no birds were damaged, although they might have been scared slightly during this scientific experiment)    I should hasten to mention that I love all animals, for the sake of any PETA employees who might be reading this.

The funny part was the man standing in the parking lot, he noticed afterwards, staring at him like “WTF are you doing?”

I hope he has a fun day (although I suspect he is working!)

I can’t resist

My parents are officially Abbott and Costello.

I checked my telephone for messages and saw that I had missed a call from my parents’ phone number at 4:44.   I called them back.   They both answer the phone.   It went something like this:

Me:   Hi… I saw someone called…

My Dad:   Was it from our phone number?

Me:  Ummm (laughing).. yes!   You called my cell phone at 4:44.

My mom:   Was it 4:44 in the morning or the afternoon?

Me:  (laughing some more)   WHICH ONE OF YOU CALLED ME?!

My mom:  I DID!

Me:  Was it in the morning or the afternoon?

My mom:   The afternoon!   What were you doing sleeping at 4:44 in the afternoon?

Me:   (pretty sure that I have at least one witness to attest to the fact that I was not sleeping at 4:44 in the afternoon)  WHAT?

My dad:  laughing

My Mom:   You said you were sleeping?

Me:   I did not

My Mom (to my dad):   Didn’t she say she was sleeping?

Me:   What do you people want??

My Mom:   We wanted to tell you we mailed you a package.

Me:   Is it your marijuana collection?

My Mom:   Why would we send you THAT?   (hahahahaha)

Me:   (shaking head and laughing)

My dad:   So watch your door.   Go now.

 And this is where my mother and father go on about the business of talking to each other through their own phones, where they are a floor apart at the most.

Me:  Well, I’m going to let you guys talk to each other, ok?    🙂

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