oh, it's rainy, windy, gloomy, just a poopy day !!!

but, the sun is shining in my heart !!!!!

I made beef/cheese enchilada's for supper, and refried beans/cheese, it was yummy !!!!!!

One week from tomorrow, the knife !!!! my ankle, will be fixed !!! one way or another, and all i can do is pray/hope it is going to be okay, like new again, after some time of recovery. I'm starting to get afraid, no backing down now, it's forward for me !!!!

Do you watch The Bonnie Hunt Show? i tape it daily and then fast forward thru the commercials, i think she's just great, each day brings something new to learn, laugh at, and her mom, alice, is soo funy via the webcam with her advice and he Polish ways, which i totally relate to. today she talked about being a child in Chicago, in the polish neighborhood, and the dad's would send the kids to the neighborhood tavern with a galvanized bucket for beer, and the owner/bartender would give it to them, such free and easy times, no one even thought a thing about it, and i relate to that time, it was so much simpler back then...golly, in the little town of Leonore, the kids, Teen agers, would sit on the porch or steps of Smitty's tavern and watch the guys drag race or open their engines of their cars...there was only 1 cop for those little towns back then..or Mary's tavern, but i think it was an older crowd there. we had such fun back then, just hanging in those small towns, lostant, wenona, the sweet shop, eddies tap on 51, dumping the wagons of corn over, just riding around the country roads all night long, listening to WLS, dick biondi, John "records" landecker, and stopping to dance if a good song came on, parking out under the stars with the mosquitoes buzzing our heads, and oh, we had so much hairspray on our heads, how on earth could those boys lick our ears or make out with us....
it was "watch my hair", and "you can feel me, but don't touch my tits", cuz we thought we had small ones, we were so strange about that... and it was a sin to even think about birth control, but not a sin to screw, well we could confess that, and be forgiven, brother, we were sooo naive back then...but, oh if we screwed, they would "love" us till the next girl came along...lol
but, we're none worse for the ware, and that i know of, NOT EVEN ONE of us got any STD, did we???????????

so, what new shows are you watching on television??? not much for me, nothing really new that i like, the old things still, like law and order, grays anatomy, (though I swore i wouldn't watch it this year) it's same o, same o...but, i do like brothers and sisters, another soap though... i think my brain needs some stimulation, but, i sure don't get the crappy games on facebook, can't figure them out for the life/death of me, so screw it !!!!! i can't even get off two sites i joined accidently, can't figure that out either, how to get off barry manilows, ( I call him Barely Manly), cuz i don't want to be on any gay sights at all, just me, and i don't even like him, he's boring to me..

did you hear, arrowsmith has hung it up? the injury the hunky steven tyler recieved by being stupid did it for all of them, glad i did see them in concert at least once....will miss them, but time has run out....now, the stones, the eagles have it all going on. oh, i got timothy schmitts newest cd, "expando" it's awesome !! so, he's my new favorite now...and of course, joe walsh, in my next life, i'll be joe's main squeeze !!! i'm sure of it...

where to do? what to do?? questions, questions, but now it's just time for me to concentrate on healing and being the best i can be come spring...in all ways, work, life, health, friends, i figure i have about oh, 25 good years, left to drive, travel, have fun with friends, and i 'm going to make the very best of it, and to be with my family, daughter, son and grandboys...and of course, little, cute, sweet winston...and the cats, 2 of em, binky and furbie....well, maybe about 10 years left with them..

so, Saturday, weather permitting, Stan and I will travel to Normal to see the Illinois High School Marching band competition, he has 4 students in the lincoln way band, and last year they placed first..so this year, they are great tooo, and we will see a lot of good bands that day, it will be my last time, so i will look forward to that, the rain is "suppose" to stop at noon, lincoln way is scheduled for 3:52 p.m. exactly, then if they place again later in the finals...so, i' 'll dress warm, for the rain and just tough it out. i know it's going to be a fun day for us, and might be the last of those too, my ankle healing will take a lot of time then...

Stan and I are getting along okay for now, still planning on splitting though, his idea, not mine, so i don't think there is a thing i can do to salvage that, and if he doesn't like me the way i am, i think it's his loss, cuz, ya know what, i'm a good person, loving, fun, nice as a rule, with periodic moods, but who doesn't have those?? he sure has bad moods, but i guess it's okay for him to do that....

Oh, my friend, Darrelle, wrote today, she is back from Paris, had a great great time, saw everything, ate wonderful French food and i am looking forward to seeing her, maybe this week end, i asked her to go to the movies....so, i'm glad for her !!!!

well, enough for today, i wish you'd write a comment, but you have to go to that link i sent you last week in order to do that....
you have a nice, wonderful Friday and then the week end...hope you have fun, and do what ever you want to with your time, cuz after all, it is "your" time toooooo...aren't we great people???????

Sherry

I can't believe it's been a week !!!

But, it surely has, i was just looking back and this week went so fast, did it for you too???

Actually, not much to report here in Mokena, but it is nicer today, warmer the next 3 then rain again.

I got my stitches out of my left leg a week ago, and took the steri strips off today, so, by next week, the 30th, my leg will again be ready to be "butchered", oh, but for the very last time...
i'm surely afraid, but also eager at the same time to get this left foot/ankle fixed and hopefully, I will be able to dance in the spring again, i've sure missed dancing, let alone walking correctly and wearing regular shoes, oh, won't it be a great 62nd birthday present to "me!".

and i'm looking forward to Thanksgiving too, I hope Justine will come here to fix dinner, she is such a good cook, but if any of you reading this are coming this way, I would truly welcome a visit, some gossip, a chat or two, just watching t.v. with me.

and last week, we found out what is wrong with my head too, well, the latest thing wrong, not "everything" certainly, it's old age, lol, but i did sustain quite a bit of injury to the right temporal lobe, the doc gave me a book about it, and we've talked quite a bit about my actions, behavior and how i can improve upon the injury. it's too late for anything medical, cuz Loyola really screwed up, they were "concentrating" on the surface bleed, not the inner bleed, and it's my fault too, though i wasn't aware of it at the time, i do accept the blame, i wasn't aware that they even tried therapy, and insisted on leaving the hospital,i wasn't even in my right frame of mind, but i did it, so i have to live with the repercussions...but, today, i know it...not that i'll know it tomorrow, that's where you come in, to just stop me if i get out of hand, hurtful, nasty, just say, "Sherry, your doing it", i might argue or say no i'm not, but you can either hang up, walk away, be tough cuz i know i need it, and i will accept it eventually.

So, I'm making B-B-Q'd shortribs in the crockpot today, recipe from a new campbells cookbook, yummy.... and i made my friend, Linda's, scratch pumpkin muffins over the week end, and froze 4 ziploc bags for the winter, mmmmmm they are just great !!! ask me for one when your here with coffee...

i also made, Judy's chicken soup with dumplings and froze two bags, stew, 2 containers, and later today, will make homemade potato soup, getting ready for the surgery and want to have good stuff on hand for stan to take out of the freezer and heat up...i was a girl scout, "BE PREPARED" was our motto and i took it seriously....lol

My friend, Darrelle, is in Paris, and she even took the time to email me, God love her!!! and i pray she's having the time of her life !!! and, my friend, Susan, made me quite a list of movies to watch that she recommends, she's also an awesome woman/friend, and don't breath a word, but she met the "right" man, oh, i'm soo excited for her, and i told her about the book, Act like a Lady, think like a Man...i think every woman should read it, it should be "required" reading..a P.E. class or something.

I know at least 4 of you who will be glad to hear from me today, let me know if i said one thing offensive, maybe i'm not a good judge of that now....i only want to do this, cuz it's good for me, and i even asked Mike, my counselor, and he said, keep it up..so, i am..

I have even written notes for several of you, so, you must think i'm good at words, and i use to be, just trying not to be hurtful, cuz it's instant, no chance to put it away and read it before sending it...like in the old days... but the days aren't old anymore, and i'm not going with the Ipod with all those apps, and don't understand much on facebook, all those dumb, silly games, just don't get them and don't even want to...i have too many books to read, real books...and i still like paper forms of things, don't even want the e-book thing, i "like" carrying a book with me, waiting in line with a book , the M.D. office...i like looking smart ! don't you?????

i'm going to go through my book case in the next week, take the old books out, make a list and put them on amazon.com to sell, might as well get some money back for them...once you read a book, you don't go back, and how many of us have saved books, or thrown them away????
it will be more for my and judy's "fun fund" which i now have $9.00 in !!! for a vacation or a concert...with her... we started it a week ago, $1.00/day in our fun fund... care to join us????

i will have my laptop back tomorrow, all reformatted, and then this computer will go to the shop of John...for reformatting...they are both old, more than 1 year old, and needed to be upgraded desperately... it was time, they have been lagging very slow for a while...

well, time to sign off and go upstairs and pet Winston, who's at the top of the stairs, just waiting for me...he's just a love !!!

Till next time, good day and good luck....

Sherry