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Well, Po-boi moved out, he has taken eldest with him for 3 wks...Hubby & I are lost without them.  We stare blankly at one another, confused by the "empty nest"....by the time we get used to the idea Eldest would have returned.  So I guess we should start hoop/hollerin it up....lol
Thank goodness for the Olympics. I do enjoy the "odd" sports.  Table tennis, archery, skeet, badminton just to name a few...you just dont get to see this everyday so why not enjoy.  Hubby thinks I'm completely bonkers.  I also enjoy the fav's swimming, diving, gymnastics...
I've reported in at work, my medical leave will be over mid Aug.  These darn ankles.. grrr.. the Dr says you have  ARTHRITIS, as well as, gout, thus causing the tendons to flare, resulting in TENDONITIS....I respond, yes, and what can we do about the PAIN...he says, STAY OFF IT....lol  I'm working with the HR to "reposition" me...They mentioned an off-site job, that would require 6 - 8 wks training.  She is going to recommend me to our manager, I'm keeping my fingers crossed, and faith in God to be done what he wants me to do...I like the excitement of learning something new, so w'll see..I'm wearing an ankle brace on my left foot.  Seems it is further along in the "weakness" than the right...I'm probably going to buy one for the right foot before I go to work...Oh you should have seen my at the Medical supply store.  I was ooohing & aaahing at all the orthopedic stuff.(..sad really, so pathetic )...I gave a mean glare at the scooters tho...I told them to stay away from me...hopefully I scared them off, so's they'll stay away from me.....lol
OOOh boy's beach volleyball is on...got to run!  I know I know...I "wish" I could run...I heard ya!  lol

Remember these???? Sunday sayings....

 

 

 

The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own.  No apologies or excuses.  No one to lean on, rely on, or blame.  The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.  This is the day your life really begins.  ~Bob Moawad

Thought this was appropriate, since Po-Boi is moving out...  I will be heading to the grocery store soon, seems the inventory has been depleted once again..I'm going to make appleslaw and hotdogs for lunch.  Baked banana bread earlier. Dinner Po-boi is wanting chicken fried steak fingers, with mashed potatoes & gravy.  Hubby & I have to skip the mashed potatoes, I'll substitute mashed cauliflower for us. 

Physical therapy is going ok, I know eventually I will be reporting back to work, the men are going to miss all this home cooking, I'm not sure what my duties will be since I'm now limited in my walking.  I see the Dr on Monday, we will be scheduling making orthotics, I need to check out  some ankle wraps too...ugh! This will not look good with shoes....lol how the heck am I suppose to accessorize wraps???  lol

"Wishing" you the best †

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oh the beach, reading & relaxing.... #watercolor

 

 

 

 

What a difference a day makes, whew!  I'm totally through with packing.  Oi!  I've offered my best advice, but keep getting my head bitten off, so I'' zip my lip and start crocheting, guess someone is a tad stressed with the fact he'll be living on his own soon....lol

 

Physical therapy has been tough.  The therapist is the best I have ever experienced.  He really enjoys the pain he thrusts upon his clients,   It is not out of the pleasure of pain, but he can see his clients getting better.  He was born in Hong Kong.  He messages, cracks, twists, you name he has done it, but we keep coming back, because after a few hours of healing time, we feel so much better than we have in months, even years.  I see the podiatrist next week, he will be impressed with the reduction of swelling in my ankles.

 Last night I made Shepherd's pie, served it with a nice salad and a slice of zucchini bread.  I had made a couple of loaves earlier in the week.  With Po-boi leaving next week, I think I'll run to to store make some more goodies to bring for his freezer.  Won't hurt to fill our freezer too! lol

"Wishing" you the best!

Here we go again.....

 

Seems as tho we have been down this road once (twice, thrice) before... Po-boi landed himself an internship at his old University.  He will now be among us tax paying citizens, supporting himself in a real live apartment, working 7 days a week 2 part-time gigs as well as the Intern job, he will probably feel as tho he never has enough money to feed himself or do anything, but will enjoy every minute of it.  Ya'll remember the g'friend Lil-bit... she's ecstatic to say the least.  We (hubby & I) will be learning the next stage of life...the "cut-off"....Oh how I dread this phase.  We know he must fly on his own, and we do need to respect he's privacy.  When he was C-boi, we still had some control, but now we'll be "advising" if asked more so than guiding...Ugh makes me sad, but we'll muddle thru.  Let the excitement begin...

Today we are getting the Christmas stuff down, we have always set separate trees, Po-boi has some ornaments, so we'll have to repack these for his trip.  You can see the sadness in our eyes, he is realizing that we will not be together this year for Christmas , but one must move on when moving out....I'm extremely sad too.  Our lives are taking a turn....

This is one of those times I'm not "Wishing" for......

 

 

CJ's Blueberry Lemon cake

CJ's Blueberry Lemon cake

2 cups pancake mix
1 bx lemon instant pudding
1 egg
1 cup milk or so
*** batter should be as thick as muffin mix ***
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Fresh blueberries
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2 tbsp lemonade cool-aid  instant mix
 1 tsp sugar


Mix batter  together,  pour into a grease baking dish, drop a handful of fresh blueberries.  Bake at 375 for 20 mins.  Mix together lemonade/sugar in small bowl.
When cake is done baking, sprinkle sugar mixture on top while cooling....
Enjoy with vanilla ice cream or cool whip!



Eldest & I were mad scientist this afternoon making this cake.  We didn't have a cake mix, nor the right ingredients to make one from scratch, so I had pancake mix, and thought what the heck...It actually turned out pretty good.  "Wishing" we will be able to repeat.....ENJOY EVERYONE 

BOCA GRANDE 'sun'day.....

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Grabbed this pic from Pinterest.  Too cute, reminds me of my sisters...

 

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Beach Sunday... We enjoyed exploring today...this lil church is located right on the beach.  In Boca Grande, can you say cute!  †

 

 

 

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then we saw a seagull.. love these guys

 

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this is hubby!

 

 

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the grass

 

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Manatee's...OMGOODNESS, they were so close, they could nibble your toes!  I bet there had to be about 5 maybe 6.  1st time I have ever seen a Manatee..so exciting

 

 

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The waters were super clear, lots of boats nearby, great fishing, grouper, tarpon, saw a ladyfish, I thought it was sea grass... lots of shells, perfect weather. We will be going back!

 

we continued our adventure, we stopped by a hamburger joint..South Beach...typical beach scene. They had a guitar player, really good tunes Jimmy Buffet type...Hubby ate a chicken club wrap, I had a portobello sammie, layered with mozzarella, basil, roasted red pepper, on  toscano bread..Yum..  I opt for the sweet tea, but really really wanted a bloody mary, I crave bloody mary's at the beach...

not a bad 'Sun'day!  "Wishing" you were with me!

 

 

 

 

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BOOM BOOM BOOM...



A good time was had by all...no injuries I'm glad to report as well.  Poor-boi (Po-boi) (Cboi's new name, cuz well self explanatory) did a BANG up job!
  wonderful to sit at your own home enjoy, family, food, & fireworks! We had hamburgers, turkey burgers, hot dogs, tater salad, roasted cauliflower, grilled peaches, green salad.  Oooh, and for dessert I made blueberry/Angelfood cake......

Here's the recipe.  Borrowed from...PINTEREST...added a few strawberries!


Our neighbor did NOT disappoint.  The sky's literally light up.  Someone even lit the floating lanterns, like in Tangled (pic below) not as many as these, just 4 or 5 I think so fun to watch...
 Lantern scene from Tangled.

I "wish" we had a few of these to light, maybe next year...hum....today back to PT, and dentist appt for the "boi's" and clean up duty for the back yard.  I hope everyone had an enjoyable 4th!


"Wishing" you a great day!

Hotdogs & Hamburgers....

fireworks

 

YAY! 4th of July

Today is bitter sweet, Gma would have been 102 today, amazingly enough she was 101.  Love and miss her....

this year's inventory...oh boy Cboi-(Which I have been reminded is no longer Cboi) has brought home more than sparklers this year....We should have a fun time tonight. It's so pretty watching the fireworks over the lake, we have several in the neighbor that participate.

 

 

I was forgetful yesterday, I didnt post the Egg muffin recipe.  It's real simple.

1 pkg refrig biscuits (not the Grands)

eggs scrambled

bacon, anything else you want in your eggs I chopped jalapeno's & topped with cheddar cheese

Preheat oven 350, Spray muffin tins with non stick spray

Divide biscuits in halves.  Place in muffin tin pat down until flat.  I scrambled 10 eggs,  pour into muffin tin

add bacon & extra's.  Bake 8 - 12 minutes...BING! orders up!  I used suran wrap when they cooled down, wrapped them in 2's, placed them all in a baggie, store in the freezer...

(to thaw zap in the microwave about a 1min)

this batch made 18 muffins (I'm sure you could stretch it further if you wanted)

Hubby works very early in the morning, this is great for his morning commute.

 

Now for Cboi.....hum what should we call him????  Million dollar baby, cuz that's what college seemed to have cost us???? lol  Maybe you can think of some "Nick-names" for him....

 

As for me...I'm doing fine, hobbling around, I do believe a beach day is itching to come out of me, that will have a HUGE effect on my mental attitude.  I'm blessed to have the ability to walk, I just wish it wouldn't "sting" as much as it does. Have a safe, enjoyable 4th everyone! 

"Wishing" you the best!

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STOP THE PRESSES......

 

Are you stinking kiddin meh?  My poor lil blog so neglected.  Where do I even begin...Our C-boi has graduated college, ..Eldest, well he's the same, Our 29 wedding anniversary, Hubby's brother came for a visit, my left foot has a black bootie attached to it, and the right foot hates it!!!!!

 

Cboi's graduation, one word...AMAZING!  For all the troubles, tribulations, surgeries, car problems, etc... To watch him walk across the stage, receiving his diploma ..... Now, pray he gets a job.....lol

No, seriously pray....

 

Eldest is fine, same ol same old..Just a great joy to be around!

The hubster and I celebrated 29 yrs of togetherness.  It really only feels like yesterday...really.  I guess when it's right, it tain't hard.  Don't get me wrong, not every moment in those 29 years have we gotten along, (come on now we are humans), but I do remind him on those occasions, he was the one that proposed, which he reminds me, he would do it again(((awww)))), then we're back to happiness again...He's momma raised that boy right!

 

Hubby celebrated a birthday.  His bro came for a visit, they played golf, golf, thru in a deep sea fishin trip, then finished with more golf....yawn!

 

I have been......busy.  As the CEO of this facility, operating the day to day activities of the household have kept my attention to it's fullest.  It finally caught up with me at the beginning of June.  My ankles are my enemy.  They do not care for 9 hr shifts, walking on concrete floors tends to irritate them I guess. 

One day early June I had enough, only lasting 2 hours into my shift, I left, went to the Dr, he put a boot on my left foot, and said see ya in a couple of weeks...ok, I thought, went to work the next day with boot in tow, lasted less than an hour, we back to Dr.  He says what happen, I said left foot aggravated, right foot dang angry....Dr said, you're out of commission for a bit....I concurred...one has to have a sense of humor when dealing with RA, either that or crying and I would rather laugh....Anywhoo, I have physical therapy 2 - 3 times per week...now this is where I have lost all marbles....I pay, Yes, I pay my good honest hard earn money for some dude to torment and torture me.  This "dude" found (basically)one of my tendons to be binding up another, thus why the left foot did not like acting like a foot moving up/down when operating it, add in the lil arthritis in the ankle, just a happy ol time to be had at therapy. If there is one thing I have learned you don't want the Cuboid messed up in the foot.

  The Dr says it's pretty rare happening the stars have to be align when you twist your foot just so, then right it at the moment of God knows when...Apparently I did that to the left foot, leave it to me to find something rare.  So since the left foot had a boot apparatus, the right ankle decided to say, Hey what about me guys, let me join in on the fun.  I was lucky with the star alignment, no Cuboid mess up, just plain RA..So here I sit probably until mid- Aug...great Vaca, except for the torture part and the no pool, no shopping..just great!.... I have crocheted, and oh, crocheted some more, played on FB, PINTEREST which I love.  I made this egg muffins from a recipe I "pinned".  They're pretty good, hubby likes them for his morning commute.

I have neglected this poor old lil blog.  Will see if anyone is still reading the dare thing.  I guess i"ll get off of here and get caught up on y'all lives...