a terrific, great, sun filled, eventful day….

today is Halloween, and although I’m not crazy about the holiday it will be a great evening for trick or treaters when they come out.

I went to do some shopping this am and then met my sister for lunch.
The time flew by and that amazes me how quickly the time goes.
And then I headed over to take my compass test at Kirkwood but I ran into a friend and stood in the parking lot and talked to her for a few hours.
So I never did make it in to do the test.
BUT I will on Monday.
It will be my only reason to go to Iowa City on Monday.

It is so beautiful out, incredibly so.
It is warm and sunny and a slight breeze and it feels more like June then the last day of October.

Our main project this weekend is working on the basement to have it ready for our home movie center.
If the weather is going to stick around though we may just work on it in the evenings and enjoy the days outside.
NOT that there is a whole heck of a lot to do outside, BUT I could go over to my son’s and do a few things.

At any rate….it is the first of my four day weekend and it was a very good day.

Thanks to family and friends.

Mirielle

my oldest grand daughter is sitting here next to me wanting me to play songs on the computer that she knows and likes.

Guess what she wants to hear over and over “Save a horse and ride a cowboy” AND “Honkeytonk Badonkadonk”

And I played “Only Daddy that will walk the line” by Waylon Jennings and she gives me this look like
“Grandma….you are losing it if you think I like this stuff”

So I am playing Taylor Swift’s “Our Song” which she loves too.

She knows the words to these three songs and wants to hear them over and over.
Sorry not going to happen sweetie.

now we are listening to “Teardrops on My Guitar” again by Taylor Swift.

Now we are listening to “I got a brand new girlfriend” by Steve Holy

so I am searching songs to find one that she knows and likes.
Funny how the 41 years between us and we can only come down to a hand full of songs that she knows that I know.

Like we never loved at all…….

how do you say goodbye to someone you love?
how do you learn to let it go?
how do you know when it is just time to let it go?
how do you live with the fact that they no longer love you or care about you enough to be with you?
the mysteries of life….the mystery of love…..

learning to let go….even when you know it is the best thing for your heart and your sanity.

how do you face someone you have loved and pretend that you never loved them at all?

how do you act like they meant nothing to you?
that they mean nothing to you?
how can you pretend that it just doesn’t matter?

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill sing a song called “Like we never loved at all” and the song is very true in many ways.

How do you pretend that you didn’t share all that you shared with this person?
how do you act like they mean nothing to you?
how do you pretend like we never loved at all?

everybody’s working for the weekend

There is a song with this title “Everybody’s working for the weekend” and although I don’t know who sings it the song is oh so true.

I have had people say to me “Oh I’m so glad today is Friday!!” and I want to laugh at them and say “Really? “
I have said “Every one is happy it is Friday”
HELLO?
Aren’t they?
Unless they work the weekends every one would be happy to just have it be Friday so they can have the weekend to enjoy.

I have never met a person who isn’t happy it is Friday

odd to me

earlier today at work I had a couple of ideas for a blog or two and for the life of me, I can’t remember what they were now as I sit here and try to think of something to say…..

Isn’t that odd?

a few other things have happened to my day….
First off my friend pissed me off to the point that I don’t want to talk to him.

Secondly my daughter hurt her back at work…so I went to the hospital with her so she could see the doctor.
She is on light duty, not lifting more then twenty pounds for two weeks.
She has to go to physical therapy for the next ten working days and is on three different kinds of medicines.

I sure hope she can nip this is the butt before it gets as bad as my back woes.

I haven’t seen my Keira yet and I’m not sure if I’m going to tonight.

Tomorrow is my Friday and then I have a four day weekend.
Still wish I was going somewhere but….that didn’t work out so….I’m footloose and fancy free for four days after three pm tomorrow.

I plan on going to Kirkwood sometime on Friday and take the compass test and look into school
AND I am having lunch with my sister.

I wanted to go to a movie too but the movie I wanted to see is no longer here in Iowa City so…..guess I may just rent a few and have a movie night Friday night at home.

The weekend is going to be spent getting the basement in order for the movie theater we are putting down there.
I may go to a second hand store and look for a few used recliners so we will have enough seats for people when we all go down there to watch movies.
Also I want to  get a few area rugs to cover the cement floor.

Right now I am watching “Hope Floats” and although it is a bit cheesy, it is a good movie too.
Saundra Bullock is a very good actress.
I highly recommend “Numbers” with her in it.
It is a very well done movie and she does an excellent job.

Emily said I should rent the movie “21 dresses” so I might rent that this weekend.
Also there is a few others that for some reason I can’t think of right now…..but they will come back  to me once I get to the video store.

still with all these days looming in front of me I will just bask in the enjoyment of not working.
I won’t  have another day off after Monday until the Sunday before Thanksgiving and then of course I will have Thanksgiving and the day after off.
Sometime in the next three weeks I will be having a new grandchild.

Will it be a boy or girl?
I am anxious to find out.
I am betting it is a little girl, BUT I hope for a little boy.

Time will tell I guess.
As long as he or she is healthy that is all that really matters.

one two three…..

My darling Keira counted to ten all by herself last night without making any mistakes.
As I told my older sister Cyndi it could have been a fluke because she hasn’t done it since.
she actually was counting like “two, three, four, five, seven, nine, four”

so as I said I’m not sure if the counting one through ten perfectly was a fluke or if she really can do it and just won’t because I want her to?
Either way she is talking more and more every day and I enjoy her so much and love listening to her.

My ray of sunshine.

meanwhile…….

as I sit here trying to write on my blog my little love bug wants me to hold her and pay attention to her

my daughter Emily was getting ready to leave a bit earlier tonight and Keira asked ‘Where is Emie going Nana?”

and I said she was going to see her boyfriend  Adam  and Keira said     “No he is my boyfriend”  and I laughed and said “What did you say?” and she grins and says “Adam is my boyfriend”

she has always had a bit of a crush or whatever one can call it when a two year old grins and acts goofy when Adam is around.

She is so wonderful……..
But meanwhile……Emily hurt her back at work last night so she may be off for a while.
She goes to the doctor tomorrow.
Brian and Mirielle didn’t come over because they are getting new windows in their apartment and he wants to stay there while they are being installed.
My other son and his wife (Keira’s parents) are at home enjoying a quiet evening while Keira is here.

And as for Paula, I honestly don’t know what she is doing but I can only imagine she is happy and healthy in whatever is going on in her life.

Rick and I are sitting here, he is watching TV and I am writing.
Keira is playing around us.

Life is good and we are all healthy and honestly what more can a person ask for?
Thank you Lord for this good day and for my family.

today is another day

My daughter called me on my cell phone but I wasn’t available to answer it  so when I called my daughter back at three…who would answer her phone but my precious grand daughter.
I said “Hi sweetie” and she said “Nana I want to come over to your house” and I said “Okay if it is alright with your mommy it is alright with me”
So here she is.

she and Mirielle love to listen to songs especially “Save a horse, ride a cowboy”

Silly but true.
So we are listening to it right now and she keeps saying “Dance Nana” so I have to keep bobbing my head so she thinks I’m dancing.

Love love love my baby girl.

Stairway to Heaven

This is one of my husband’s favorite songs.
It is a very mellow melody and very soothing to listen to.

I wonder how many of us believe there is a stairway to heaven?
Will we get there?
will we be allowed to climb those stairs?
will we be allowed into heaven?
does anyone ever wonder about these questions?

or am I just searching for unanswered questions???

Happy for Charlie

I’m a fan of Charlie Sheen and I heard yesterday that he and his new wife are having twins and that they are boys.
I am happy for him since he has three daughters from two other women.
I hope he finds happiness and a reason to keep this marriage intact although to be fair….I think Denise Richards only married him for the meal ticket she would have after giving him children.

and of course she has it now.
I am not a fan of hers.

So it was good to hear and we watch “Two and A Half Men” every week and I think he is a pretty neat guy.
Yes he has had his problems but who hasn’t?

Good luck Charlie.