Just Pass Me By

Today I had to do a strong inventory test for school. I was surprised that landscaping was in there as an interest. I like planting and creating floral arrangements, I enjoy watching plants grow, or making simple designs. A floral arrangement can convey a lot to the person you give it to, it can tell them you care about them, you sympathize with them, you miss them. So many things a floral arrangement can do, it can even send them a gift of just thinking about you, or I love you.
I have bought many floral arrangements from different places. I guess maybe I should try my hand at the art of arranging floral things, and giving them as gifts maybe it would be something I end up doing very well. But as the saying goes you can’t take the helper out of a person, my career choice wouldn’t be in floral design but a hobby it could be. I like planting gardens and I miss being able to do that.

This post will deal more with Alzheimer of a love one. Dad was napping on the coach and woke up thinking one of his grandchildren were here. He thought we was still in Minnesota and my hubby had bought the kid a bike. He was wanting to know if the bike would be wrapped in plastic or how my husband would wrap it up. We had to tell dad a few times he was dreaming and go to bed. He thought we was with the kids.

He Not here, your home dad, go to bed. He has a cold or allergies not sure which one. Some days dad thinks we are in a different period of time. He been stubborn about drinking water, and caught him tonight drinking caffeinated pop while looking dry. Then he says I can’t drink water I am full. No your not to full to drink water, if your drinking caffeinated soda. Some days it like he needs some gold plated invitations to drink enough water, it like pulling teeth.

Last night in the middle of the night he asked me if he could go to the bathroom, well Yes you can go potty. Leave me sleep.. He went potty and then back to bed.At least he gets up to go potty and I do not have to clean that up yet. Would be be great if he could leave me be while doing homework. Seems like that when he wants to talk is when I have a bunch of reading homework to do.

In many ways my husband and I are starting over, we are moving across country. It will be a long ways. I am glad we have some stores which have a good Retail System that we are used too. We have to find a place like sam’s club to shop at now. But that okay I have a couple of ideas. I am excited about our new apartment, I have always liked fireplaces. I like fire. Yes I will say it fires are nice as long as they are controlled and contained. I love hearing the wood crackle and what have you. I also like watching the flame in the dark. I don’t know why. Maybe we can make Smores now anytime we want in the winter fall. I will need to find a good place to get firewood and find a place to store it.
We also get a washer and drier in our Unit. OH YES, no more sharing a bunch of laundry machines with people who want to take way your undergarments. Yeah, nice isn’t it. We will be giving away about 90% of our stuff but that okay, we have planned everything out and it will go better this way plus we will save more money then having a uhaul or something else.

No I am not packed all the way yet. I am working on getting my summer term completed I have 1 more week to go in school. 1 more week of work, this makes me want to cry. I love my job. I have enjoyed it. I hate my apartment building it’s horrible. The children here parents evidently haven’t decided to teach their children respect, no hanging on people car door handles, don’t scream in front of your neighbor balcony. Oh wait they scream down so yeah not gonna learn that lesson. Do not throw rocks at other people cares or apartment windows because their cat or dog might be hanging out on the window sell minding their own business. This does not even cover the maintenance issues how many times do I need to call in the same work order before it is actually fix. Maybe I should send a. photo holiday cards of the sink backing up to them for Thanksgiving, with the caption to bad you can not smell this too.
Today I was talking to a friend about other people children. We were talking about how parents of younger children do not seem to teach children things like no yelling in the apartment hallway, no throwing rocks and ect. Just the common sense stuff.

I am off work for a week but its finals week for my quarter in school. The sad thing is I do not get any time off between classes, and I still have organization to do in the apartment to get ready for moving. I might want to look on Wholesaleinsurance.net see if they got any traveling insurance for our stuff that won’t be covered by our insurance. I am not to worried about the move just being able to get everything done. I have a 2 week break between classes, so maybe that will be enough time to pack up and organize I doubt it though. We are hoping to be able to move in Mid-August to allow me a chance to get set up for my classes.

Oh my goodness I am about to shoot my father in law, if you know the saying you can lead a horse to water but nothing you can do if they not gonna drink. He needs to stop being so stubborn when it comes to drinking water, today he got sick again because of his insistence on not drinking water. Don’t worry I will not shoot him, just frustrated with him not drinking water. Maybe I should get him a few medical carts with bottled waters and he get that water is very important for him so he does not get sick. He gets mad because us kids insist on him drinking water and he thinks its to be mean to him and deprive him of what he thinks he aught to get. The honest truth is we do not want him to get sick and then die because he was dehydrated. So I guess I am leading a donkey to water and the donkey being stubborn.

Well looks like we have a big move, at least I found out today the stretch of road my sister was talking about between Minnesota and Oregon is no longer that stretch of road, there are supposed to be gas stations within 100miles of each other. This probably will be good for us because I will not need to have a gas can in the car unless I want one just for the in case.
I am lookign forward to this move but a little worried about dad benefits he doesn’t have Medicare part D plans because he employer who he worked for covers it so I am wondering if he cover in Oregon.

I am not sure if I should cry right now or be really pissed off. Maybe both options work good. Tonight my hubby and I went down to my car, and it was ransacked. My first comment was what the hell happened, my husband comment was it looks like your care exploded. I park my car in the garage and normally I haven’t had trouble but the time I make sure I lock my doors, someone robs me. Man I could cuss right now, I guess I am angry. At least they did not get the radio all the way out, that would have been sucky. They got my stupid Ipod adapter, I guess I do not get to play my music in the car when I want till I can replace it. The problem is I can’t simply replace it. My husband with out a job and all my earned money needs to support my family.
The damage to the car isn’t to bad, they spilled something in the front seat but that’s okay because I had already spilled something there.
I have to say I don’t feel as bad as I would, because while I was talking to the police another resident came up. He told us, I am glad your here with the police because I been broken into too, and asked to speak to the police man next. While we was talking the policemen evidently got another call about a car break in. Okay 2 cars in the same garage, are you kidding me, maybe even three cars. I feel bad for my neighbor because he lost stuff with more value, I only lost about 60 to 100 bucks worth of value, unless they use the check book that was in the car or the account number then potentially I could have serious issues. I am also worried about them stealing my insurance card that was in the car, hopefully they do not try to commit insurance fraud, which could be a real pain. I guess I have to worry about identity thief I am glad I did not leave my wallet down there like I tend to do.
A week ago, I went downstairs and my light was on in the car, I was surprised it was on for 18 hours because it should have drained my battery, maybe my car got marked a that day and I was to freaking stupid to know, my car was broke into. I am very trusting but the longer I live in Minnesota the more my trust gets broken, I know this is simply life stuff. I miss living in places where I could trust everyone and everyone knew eachother.
Tonight my husband said moving to Happy Valley Oregon, sounds like a good idea. I have to agree with him. I am so sick of winters and our apartment management. If we moved to Oregon this would
makemymothersring.com like never before. I know people can break into my car there too, but Minnesota have a lot of unpleasant things about it.
What really pissed me off is tonight one of our neighbors pulled into her slot and said nothing no concern, no nothing. She just hung her head and went. People in this building do not care about each other, and hey if it not me then who cares.
So a reminder to everyone keep your car locked up tight and if you can get a car alarm. Maybe I can rig my car with electric to send a nice shock but something tells me this could be illegal.

Well valentine day is coming up.We do not do a whole lot for it, never have and probably will not change it. I have to admit my hubby and my date nights are getting stale, we need to add something better to it then what its been lately. Maybe I should do something likePersonal Creations kids gifts for him, but make it appropriate for him. It is always fun to create gifts which are personalized to the person you love, and they get enjoyment out of it too.

My dad has been gone since I was 17 yrs old. There are some days I really do miss him, and hope he is proud of me. When I lost my dad to Mesothelioma, I had only known him for a short time, I had ran away as a ward of the courts. I am proud of my choice, and I did the right thing for me. Now I would not suggest running away to children, but I went to a better place, it could have potentially ended a lot worst than what it did. I am now in grad school, no kids but taking care of my husband dad. In a lot of ways I have grown very attached to my husband dad too. He been like a dad I haven’t really had, but no one could replace my dad.
I am not sure what I would say to my dad if he was a live now, I would want to share with him some of my life. I would want to share with him a lot of the good things. I wonder what he would think of my husband. I wonder if he would approve of my husband and of the way we been caring for his dad.