Tuesday, November 29, 2016

4 Years Ago

4 years ago John got Hera and Isis! Love those weird girls.

Funny what you find when you are looking for cute cat photos. 

Monday, November 28, 2016

Happy Thanksgiving

We had a good Thanksgiving, delicious food, nice visit from John, carrot cake. Great leftovers. Just like usual.

Bed hog, and he came in wet to top it off! Good old Finnegan. It's really hard to make beds around here. You have to seize the moment.  
Started this post a few days back . . .

Isn't it funny how the one chocolate chip cookie you bake with a magnet in it (from your magnetic measuring spoons lol) ends up in one of the cookies you give away! Sorry John LOL Glad you didn't swallow it. I took those cookies to John when he had us over to lunch for Mom's 79th birthday. An excellent time had by all, and an excellent meal from a Streator restaurant, McGrath's Seafood, with fried chicken for Joe (what else?!), cod for John and Kay, and fried shrimp for the birthday mom. Joe gave me a bite of his fried chicken and I had a little lunch envy, it was delish. The cod was excellent too, but that chicken. I am a Mallaney after all. Well, I do choose fish over chicken usually. There are aberrations in life. Hera's weight reduction plan (lower carb) is definitely working, she is one hot cat.

And the election. What can I say? Words fail me. I picked up some hours processing mail-in ballots, that's about all I can think to say. What a shocker. I hope being prez doesn't cut into Trump's Miss America duties. God help us all.

Back to the present day . . .

I did some more temp work last week  for the same lawyer as before, and also did some more election work processing ballots that came in after the election. One of the local races that was separated by just 4 votes on election day ended in a tie. Just goes to show one vote does count . . .

Seems the weather has turned. Dark at 5:00. Yucko. It was kind of fun making the Thanksgiving carrot cake with carrots from the garden. I miss puttering around out there and I miss my fresh herbs too.

I'm off to donate platelets this afternoon.

That's all I got.

Have a good Cyber Monday.

Kay :)






Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Early November


Bernie would not like this Cubs in the World Series business. He would be getting a lot of grief from his buddies at the bar. So much, in fact, that he would NOT even go to the bar. Chicago baseball in November wow. I admit I have been checking in on the game, game sevens are hard to resist no matter who is playing. But I'm not rooting for them. I am my father's daughter after all!

What has been going on around here. Hmmm. Still looking for a job here in town.  I really do not want to drive out of town, but I suppose it might come to that . . . eventually.  I've been picking up some hours at the courthouse processing mail-in ballots. I like working at the election. And I will be glad when it is over. I do not like talking politics with my friends. Some of their thoughts surprise the hell out of me.  Even shock me. And not in a good way. And how about the friend who told me "You are welcome!" for the health insurance? What does one make of that? Two words come to mind. Yes, those two. Sometimes thoughts are best kept in your head. Or shoved way far up your ass.

In other happenings Mom's 79th birthday is coming up. We found out at her last doctor's appointment that her arm is not healing. Doc said it could still turn out OK, the bones could form some sort of connection, and if it does not there are things that can be done. We go back in January to see how things are going. She finished up all her therapy and I have to wonder if all that therapy on a broken elbow was warranted.

Dad used to have a heated mattress pad and he loved it. I got mom one for her birthday and she loves it too. She likes to be toasty warm, and it feels good on her arm. We'll probably take a ride to John's for a birthday lunch for her (I guess I better tell him that!), but not this weekend. He has a big fundraiser for work, and I might just take a ride over. It's a fun one, Food for Thought, and the chili cook-off is hard to resist.

This balmy weather in November is crazy. Still ripping up the garden and pulling down morning glories and washing windows, all the fall stuff. Hard to believe Thanksgiving is nearly here.

I did  a new thing this week. I donated platelets. I have donated blood before, but not platelets. I didn't know much about it, but last time I was donating I asked about this man hooked up to this machine. The nurse told me it takes like two hours or more so a lot of people don't have (or take) the time. Well time I got and I had quite a high platelet count and they were able "to do a triple". I guess that is good.  I had a friend that I ran around with in grade school, then again in middle school, then again in high school. There wasn't a time when we weren't friends, but we didn't always run around together, and after she got married we didn't really talk much or see each other much, but were always friendly, you know how it goes. You don't forget childhood friends like that. I used to hang out at her house all the time, we had a lot of fun and good times and laughs, lots of them. Leukemia got her, only 54 years old. It was weird to go to the wake, because her siblings were so much older than she was, they didn't know me, and I don't know her husband that well, and the only ones who really knew how much fun we had was just us and her mom, and she is gone too. So now it is just me.  Last time we talked she was in remission but it must have come back in a very bad way. So I donated platelets and I have an appointment to do it again next month too.

I will end this cheery post with a couple of photos, and dang, the Cubs are up 3-1   . . .

Mom enjoying the nice fall weather. See that glove on her hand? She got that at therapy. Cost $238. Not covered by insurance. Crazy.


Midge supervising the fall cleaning. She is a real stickler.