Daily Archives: Sunday April 12th, 2009

Spring Fever

We headed up to Canada Wednesday to visit D in the hospital.  He is doing well as expected.  There was an issue with his meds that made his brain swell and made him lose feeling in his left side.  He is back home with his family.

We actually had a decent drive there and back.  The best that we ever had on hitting Seattle.  We worked hard to avoid the rush hours.  It was weird that we were stop by the US side on when we were leaving.  Used to only one stop, the country that you were entering, in this case Canada.  We only had to do 1 stop on the way in, US side.  The only thing that I can think of, which doesn’t apply to CA, is the US trying to stop the flow of cash & weapons from leaving because the 2 main questions was if we were carrying weapons and if we had more then 1k in cash.  I do think getting the passports made it so much more easier on getting into both countries.  They just scanned the electronic chip, asked a few questions and let us threw.

It has been raining all day, which with it being spring, drives me batty since I want to be outside.  I have spring fever.  Of course, I was already restless, because I want to pick up more flowers and plant them, but can’t do it all at once.  I have figured out what I want pot wise.  I want one big traditional rose bush in a big colorful pot, one smaller rose bush, and 1 more very colorful annuals potted and one perennial.  Then I want about 4 flower boxes to hang on the deck, just for annuals.  Overall, I prefer perennials, but for those, I can change out with something brightly different each spring.

Purple Annuals

Purple Annuals

We did get some more work done outside.  We decided to rock up the rest of the front patch.  It will help to bring out the color of the flowers.

I loved the colors of this one

I loved the colors of this one

Right after we got done with it.

Right after we got done with it.

I can’t wait for the flowers to really take hold and start getting bigger and fuller.  They will really pop.

The rain brings out the colors of the river rock.

The rain brings out the colors of the river rock.

We got some fuchsias.  We hung one in back on the deck and one on the bedroom balcony.  They attract hummingbirds and I love the colors.

Bright pink & white fuchsias on the balcony.

Bright pink & white fuchsias on the balcony.

Bright pink purple fuchsias on the deck.

Bright pink purple fuchsias on the deck.

We really need to get a new grill.  The other one is so worn that it is hard to control the flames.

I have discovered that I’m addicted to twitter and facebook, not so much in posting myself.  But in following news/political organizations/personalities, it fits my news surfing addiction.  =)  Which I don’t need any help in……..lol

I did get our fed taxes filed and paid, need to mail off our state once it is accepted electronically.  Then I need to send off our quarterly taxes….yuck.  And I did get our books taken care of.  But overall, felt totally lazy today.  I need to get to all my messages tomorrow and start on payroll prep (yes, it is that time again….feels like I just did it…..icks)

Happy Zombie day!

Toni KatVixen and I in Curacao 3

I hear today we celebrate some dead guy who came back to life and is looking for brains, or at least I would think he is looking for brains, but what the hell do I know, I don’t even believe in zombies.

It has been somewhat of a long week; Monday has already talked about so let’s go to Tuesday which was the day I got to drive to Vancouver, WA to the Jeep dealership that is 22 miles away compared to the 8 miles the other dealership I have been going to, it took just as long to get there and it was a better drive, so that surprised me, and over all it was a better experience than I have had with this company, but I would still rather not ever have to deal with them again.

They fixed the noise and the rattle in the speaker and did it in 90 minutes compared to the 3 hours I was told it would take so that is super cool, but they ignored the clicking sound we hear when we make sharp right turns even though that was one of the original complaints I had with it so I still get to deal with that issue when the next service appointment is made.

Wednesday we went to Vancouver, BC and over all had a really good drive up, hardly any traffic issues at all even in Seattle and the border crossing took just 20 minutes or so and if you didn’t know, you now get stopped by Americans before you get stopped by Canadians… yeah, makes no sense to me neither.

Diesel was still in the hospital, everyone is saying it’s not the cancer this time; it’s the meds for the cancer that caused his brain to swell, he had been in the hospital since Thursday and finally got home Thursday night, so yet another week of hospital crap and some more of his side effects have become more apparent, he has lost feeling in his left arm and other issues I will not go into, but he is alive and trying to get on with his life as best as he can.

We stayed at the hospital for 4 or so hours and he needed to get sleep so we went back to the hotel and got back just in time for room service which ends at 9:30pm? Food was ok, but at least we didn’t have to go out looking for it. Than we had some good friends come over around 1030 and they stayed to 230 and we had a really good time with them, just drank and laughed and watched the police department do a search of the park across the street.

Thursday we ate at the café we always eat at and had the same waitress who we have had before and who I remembered I didn’t care for, but didn’t remember why I didn’t like her which I was reminded of when after we finished eating I realized my ass was soaking wet and when I told her my chair was soaking wet she said “Yeah, someone spilled water” as if I was the dumbass cause I didn’t know someone spilled the water… If there wasn’t 5 cops in there eating I would have told her off, that really pissed me off, you think that is something she should have taken care of when it first happen or at the very least told us it was wet and I should switch to another chair?

Anyway we head home and had a 50 minute wait at the border and stopped in Everett, WA to have dinner with other friends and that was a great, but short time. They took us to a local Blues/Jazz bar that served Southern food and it was really good. The 4 of us ordered one of every appetizer as well as Fried Chicken and it was just a really good and fun meal and we left around 7pm and got home around 11pm.

Friday was my only day in the gym this week and we had to buy some office supplies since my mouse and mouse pad both died for good this week, and nothing else really comes to mind for Friday.

Saturday we finished off more of the front yard, we moved more rock yet again, moved more plants, planted more plants and laid more rock, went back to HD for more rock, and after spreading that rock we realized we are still 2-3 bags short which we will deal with this week. After that we just chilled and tried to work on stuff at the desk, but we were both pretty exhausted.

Today we slept to 10am which is very very late and watched “V for Vendetta” on TV (Ignore the fact that I have the DVD not 3’ away but I was too lazy and decided to deal with the commercials) and so far that is the extent of Sunday.

I have a “MUST DO” list staring at me in the face and yet, I am too tired to care, so I think today is the day I think of zombies and just chill out.

Pauline’s Daily Happenings

  • I’d rather be in bed cuddling with my hubby. I didn’t want to get out of bed, but I couldn’t breathe & I was getting sore. =( #
  • We got quite a bit of yard work done in front, decide to rock over the mud & plant a few more flowers. Need a shower now. #
  • I’m going to go for a short walk before the rain hits this weekend. Then I can work. =) #
  • It was a nice walk, took a few pics of flowers, made dinner, organized my desk, now trying to focus. =) #
  • Very interesting article about Ginsburg : http://tinyurl.com/d4pwyq #
  • It is very interesting how Costa Rica dealt with their power/environmental issues: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/opinion/12friedman.html #
  • Got the company work done, tomorrow I’ll work on our books, finally pay our taxes & take care of some messages. #

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