Raptors in my yard

The past two days we have had Raptors in our yard! they are not really Raptors, they are sand hill cranes, but they make a sound like the Raptors in Jurassic Park. So all morning long I hear these cranes as if they are just outside my bedroom and.... they are! I got my camera and took a few pictures. They didn't seem too scared of me. On Tues. there were two babies with the Mom and Dad. Anyway, one of the pleasures of living in Fla on a beautiful April morning. I wrote this on Apr. 25 but I have had trouble with uploading pics from the camera so it is fixed and I am publishing now.

great tip

For all the homemakers out there. I saw this great idea on HGTV. when you need to clean lint or such off upholstered furniture, use a lint roller you usually use on clothes. I even used it to pick up some little bits of junk on the carpet! pretty cool!

today

I feel better today.

I guess I'm losing it

I know I feel this way because I am frustrated about my foot. I can't walk at all without pain and without intense pain if I am on my feet for 2 hours. Since I need to be in my brace for 6 hours each day (nonconsecutive but in a seated or reclining positiion)I have become bored with the things that have kept me occupied.
The other thing is that I don't really want everything be the same as it has been when I'm back to normal. I know it is just my nature, but it seeems I have been always in a hurry, always multi-tasking and always working in one form or another. I feel so internally driven, and no matter what I do it is never good enough. If you know me, you know these are chronic tendencies I have had most of my adult life. With the nursing job and then my feet hurting all the time I just had to stop for a while. I was working the 3 days then exercising 3 days on my days off ( I want to stay fit at least for the health benefits and to keep from gaining more of that middle aged tummy but it was killing me to keep up)i've been feeling like I was trying to make bricks with no straw (that was Mike's analysis of the situation). I really wanted to be a nurse but there is so much pressure and stress involved working on a hospital floor
I have enjoyed not being under so much pressure the past few weeks. However,when I am home a lot, I often revert to thinking about decorating the house and about how I look. I don't believe these are bad in themselves if in moderation but I believe theswe areas can become almost OCDish for me. I get fixated on some thing and I almost have to get it finished or figured out before I can stop either doing something about it( even if my foot is killing me) or thinking about it. And aboutmy looks, I start the day feeling OK about myself but then if I go to a store and look in a mirror I hate what I see.
It happened today. What am I supposed to be to be good enough? people tell me I'm cute and small but I feel so dumpy and stupid for not being able to look better. Where are Stacy and Clinton when you need them?
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You might think I haven't been seeing enough people but actually I've been seeing lots of people I haven't been able to when working. Actually, many parts of being laid low have been just what I needed. I just need to figure out how to do things differently when it all cranks up again. It has just been 2 frustrating days. I do better with structured time so working is good for me on that note.
These felings I've had make me think of the people who have been my patients with very serious injuries and how they must feel at times. also i have found out the percocet is better than vicodin for paon! Maybe I will be a better nurse when i do go back.

So there's my junk, I feel better now. Thank God we have a savior!!.

Jen, Tim and Henry VIII

This past weeked i went to visit Jen and Timfor his birthday party. it was a blast! we had kabob's grilled by the birthday boy himself, It was neat to meet tim's older brother, Bruce, the lawyer who had been in Iraq at the time of the wedding. He and his wife have 6 children with another on the way! the thing is they are home schooled and were so polite and beautiful (inside and out). All together there were 20 of us, only my mom me and one other couple were not Pages!(Well, cary's husband Howard isn't technically).

after the party everyone went to bed and I slept in the living room on the couch. The fun part was I happened to be flipping the channels and Showtime's, THE TUDOR'S was on.I think they are doing a free preview this week.It was a bit "bawdy" as Shakespeare would say but it was very well done. It is a miniseries that concerns Henry's as a young man. He was quite the athelete and scholar (but not always a gentleman!) I ended up staying up past midnight watching it. On Monday, I had some serious foot stretching time to catch up on, so i looked up Henry VIII and some of the other people in the show on Wickepedia. the show was pretty accurate. I found it so amazing how corrupt the priests were. This was happening while Luther was writing. Henry's lust for Ann Bolyen actually helped pave the way for the protestant revolution in England. God works in very mysterious ways sometimes!! Also the politics were treacherous back then. If you were a pretty woman and the king wanted you... there was no saying no, the fortune of your whole family could depend on your talent in the boudoir. I think it might have been better to be a peasant.