Sleep Perchance to Dream

     I wish I knew why I can't sleep at night.  Last night I was up and down until about 5:30 am Then when I fell asleep JD woke me up when he left and Buddy started Barking from his bed and I couldn't fall back to sleep.  So reluctantly I got up feeling horrible on just maybe 2 hours sleep.  Of course I laid down this afternoon and slept until now and it's almost time for JD to be heading home.  I do this quite frequently and now I'll probably not be able to go to sleep tonight.  It really frustrates me as I am tired and want to sleep, but just can't.  I can't think of anything particular that I'm worried or stressed about.  I guess I just mess up my time clock and get turned around.  I don't know why I worry so much as I've always been a night owl, ever since I can remember.  Even working the graveyard shift for years because it was easier for me to be awake and alert.  It was a pain much of the time when the kids were little and growing up.  I would be lucky to get 3 or 4 hours sleep before they came home from school and I would take a nap in the evening before I had to leave for work.  Now that I am home I can't seem to get my body schedule turned around.  If I ever have to go to a home when I am a lot older  I will drive the help crazy,  lol...
      Another nice day.  The clouds keep the sun from shining most of the time, but it's around 75 degrees right now.  It's suppose to make it up to the low 80's but not sure it's going to make it.  Since I've slept most of the day away, not much to chat about.  A couple of my favorite shows are on tonight so I'll just settle down and watch them.  Also I started reading Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue"  Bought it out of curiosity some I'm anxious to see if it's any good.  It's a book book, got it before I got my Kindle.  I love my kindle.  It doesn't talk or anything, just down load books to read.  You can categorise them into different types of literature which makes it easier to keep up with what you have.  Only thing I wish it would do is mark a book somehow to let me know I've already read it.  I would like to get the Kindle Fire one day.  Would be fun to have one you can interact with and watch movies on.
     Well I did post a picture, it's my new profile picture of my perm.  I believe I really needed it to be a bit more curly as it's so much body that it will fall out pretty quickly.  What really hurts a perm for me is having to wear that cpap mask every night.  It does push the hair down and the curl disappears faster till I wash it again.  Not a problem I guess since I really don't go anywhere that often.  I can wash it quickly and air dry it or use my brush curling iron to make it a different look.  I hate the picture.  I look so old, so many wrinkles and I look so pale to me.  I feel I am one who is not aging gracefully, lol... 
     This is rather short.  Maybe my world will hold more excitement tomorrow.  Emily saw the doctor yesterday and everything is going well.  They want her to lose and I need to lose badly myself.  I get so little exercise that cutting my calories way back is about the only way I drop weight anymore.  I can't get my son or hubby to bring my treadmill back into the house, but with my knee being so bad I don't know as I'd be able to use it that much.  Every little bit helps though.  I will put some upbeat music on and move while in my chair.  I do believe that though it doesn't help much it does help some.  So till next time I'll leave you with this thought......

          .... True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day that goes by ...
                                                                                          -- E. S. Bouton

Love and Hugs,

Nancze

Woohoo a pretty week ahead

     It's predicted to be in the 80's today and the next two days and then the mid 70's the rest of the week.  After a dreary week-end and some much needed rain, it will be nice to see the sun and blue sky again for a few days. *smiles*  I kept the car today, and called the senior citizen center to see what they had going today.  Not much so I guess I won't be going any where.  I don't go shopping alone any more and if I do I usually see when Emily can go and we will head out late.  Our Wal Mart is open 24 hours and if I need anything specific I can usually find it there. 
     So I have my itunes up right now listening to my play lists.  I am trying to collect all my favorite songs over the years and I'm doing pretty good so far.  They had my all time favorite song by the orginal artist and I was so thrilled to get it.  You may laugh, but this song can really get you movin' lol  I love to dance and the songs from my teen years and younger were great.  So my favorite you ask?  Well it's "Dancing in the Streets" by Martha and the Vandella's.  Every time I hear it I feel like I could just get out and start dancing and get everyone else to join in.  lol.  A flash dance, wouldn't that be cool.  Now just to have a way to play it where it would blast out in a big lot or neighborhood. *smiles*  My dancing days are just about over, but I can sit and move to the music and feel like I'm getting a great work out anyway! If I start losing and toning up any, may think about a sit down work out video, hehehe
     I love having my new iphone Emily gave me for my birthday.  I am playing words with friends on the phone will typing my post.  I've even used it to harvest my FV crops and send and receive requests.  So cool.  I download one app that I can't wait till the nights become warm enough to sit out.  It's called Sky View and it is to name planets and will do all kinds of things when you point it up to the night sky.  I would love to get a really good telescope some day and star gaze.  I really want to learn to recognize all the groups of stars that make up say Gemini.  Right now all I can recognize is the big and little dippers. lol  They say you're never to old to learn and that would seem like a very interesting hobby.
     Well not sure what the rest of the day holds for me.  I leave the porch door to the house open on very nice days like this as the porch is enclosed and Buddy can go out there and bark away without driving me crazy. lol..  Going to try and get a bit of cleaning done.  So much needs doing, but I have to do it in very slow tiny increments in order not to hurt and breathe so hard.  Would be nice to be able to afford a house keeper for even 1 day a month.  But don't know of anyone who even cleans.  No one even advertises in the paper here.  Oh well I do what I can get done and the rest waits till I make it there.  lol.... 
     I really appreciate the quotes people share on their blogs.  Thought when I close I would share a few of my favorites with everyone.  So till next time....

    "Conditions are never just right.
     People who delay action until all factors are favorable do nothing."
                                                                                       --William Feather

Love and Hugs,

Nancze

Farm Life

     Before I get started I want to say I feel a bit better today, no more sneezing or cough.  Mostly a mild sinus headache that comes and goes.  I thought I would share a picture with you I took yesterday morning.  I want to say first that if you are eating or it makes you a bit you know, lol... That this is just part of life I have to deal with. 

     Ah the joys of farm life,  This I found just outside my porch door when letting Buddy out.  It's part of what I deal with, having a hubby who lets the cows go wherever the choose and a dog who doesn't see or care where he goes.  I'm not sure what you all have heard them called, but I call them cow paddies.  It will be removed, but it's better to let it completely dry before you do it. hehehe....  They make good manure fertilizer for your garden and flowers though.  I just don't keep them where you have to walk carefully or around them to get in the house.  Well at least the grass is getting green and will need mowing soon.

     Thanks to the well wishes from you all.  I know now it's not a cold and just allergies because I'm so much better   I truly am so glad to be blogging again and have such wonderful friends to keep in touch with.  A great quote I like is....

     There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship

                                                                            --St. Thomas Aquinas

     When I decided to quit blogging and I believe it's been a year, more or less, since I last entered a entry to my blog.  So when I decided to come back I just began this new one.  It feels like a truly fresh start.  So many wonderful ladies became friends, yet so many, like me, left.  But those of us still here... well I want you to know just how much your welcoming me back and visiting has meant everything.  I hope we'll never lose touch again.

     Not much else going on here for now.  Watching a good movie, Back Draft,  it's been a long time since I've watched it.  So will get back to it.  Till next time....

Love and Hugs,

Nancze



Ugh Allergies

     I am not feeling well,  I am sneezing and blowing till I think I'm going to scream! lol  Then I am chilled while feeling hot at the same time.  Sleeping it hard because the oxygen I receive through the cpap is irritating my nose making it hurt and burn.  I wake up having to remove the mask for about ten minutes before I can put it back on.  This happens a couple of times a night.  Then I get cold and cover up only to be woken up not and sweaty especially from the waist up.  My poor feet and legs never get hot.  So If I don't post for a day or two don't fret.  I'll be back. 
     Emily and many others I know have been sick with something more than allergies.  I suspect is is a form of flu.  She was home and off work for 3 days.  I hope I don't catch that.  My new perm looks like h e double heck right now.  To be truthful I don't care. lol... So till I get to feeling better, or at least have something truly worthy to post about I might be gone a day or two.  Probably won't clear up though till everything buds and spring is over. 
     Don't forget to turn you clocks up.  My friend Toni has a neat tip to do for turning up your clocks especially if it upsets you, the kids or family.  Also she always has cool trivia information almost every post.  Till next time.....

Love and air kisses

Nancze

Windy In Ok

     You just can't be in Oklahoma and not feel, what it is famous for, the wind.  When Rodgers and Hammerstein penned the song Oklahoma they nailed it right on the head!.  The first line of their song,  Oklahoma, where the wind come sweeping down the plains!!  lol.... Well we've been experiencing it for close to a week.  We live up on a hill out away from town by 3 miles.  When you step outside the wind will blast you to a point, that if you are out in it for any length of time, you'll feel so tired and beaten when you get out of it.  Yesterday I had a hair appointment and got a perm.  I was going to use my walker, because of the very hard wind.  When I tried to leave I really almost fell just trying to get out the porch door.  The walker was making it very difficult.  I managed and got to the car, but when I came home I just left it in the car.  I walked very slowly and made it although my knee was giving me fits.  If you are going to live in Oklahoma you just need to be prepared to deal with high winds especially during the spring.
     I kept my hair long when getting the perm and when it was done I was pleased.  I let it dry naturally and though it's not an extremely tight curl it will be nice in the body it will give my hair.  I have a roller brush heating item and I can curl it quickly for a nice body look if I get out.  Otherwise it will be a fizzy like bush at home.  Actually it is like that because of having to use the cpap mask to sleep.  It just weighs areas down where the straps go.  I can have a really bad case of bed head in the mornings, lol..  I enjoy going to get my hair done,  My hairdresser is so fun to chat with and always so bubbly and happy.  She can talk and talk lol.  I texted Emily, who has been home sick since Sunday, to come and chat with us a bit. She would be going to pick up Preston soon so she came by and chatted with us for awhile.
     Wednesday is Survivor night, yeah!!  Boy last night was something else.  The girls won the reward challenge and got them a tarp.  The immunity challenge the men won, but they decided they wanted to rid themselves of a member so badly that they voted to give the girls their immunity idol and go to council instead.  Jeff was really blown away as this was the first time in 20 seasons that this had been done.  Colton is pretty much the leader of the men and he wanted to get rid of Bill badly simply because he didn't like him as he felt he was a bum for being a stand up comic with another job.  I personally don't like Colton, who is a very spoiled Gay college student.  He admited is only relation with a black was their housekeeper who though the pay is just like one of the family.  Sound like a family that could of been one from the book, "The Help"!! Anyway is annoying in his attitude and I just want to slap him when he does this roll of his head and eyes all the time.  Anyway Bill got voted off, although I thought it might be Leif since most of the group blamed him for being a traitor when he told Bill they wanted to vote him off.  The show is such a soap opera and I am always amazed at how the people will do about anything to be the sole survivor.  lol...
     Here are a few pictures from Preston's classes last day of celebrating Dr. Seuss and having their Green Eggs and Ham snack. 

Patiently Waiting

The Goodies

umm, do I like it.

He did, lol....

    Well this is how my world has been turning.  I meant to post earlier but still having problems with my internet connection popping on and off and when I went to try earlier this morning it went by by.  So hopefully it won't happen while I'm getting this done now

Till next time...

Love and Hugs

Nancze

Missed again

     I missed blogging yesterday, but it wasn't intentional.  I've decided to start replaying this game on FB again and now I realize why I all but quit.  This game is called Farmville and is very popular with a lot of people and many of my friends.  I really enjoyed it for the longest time and even liked it when they added a new farm you could start.  Yet it's very annoying for me because it takes forever to load the game and then when you play it actions for the game such as the request list will open then freeze up the game and I have to reload the page to get back to it, causing another long delay in loading the opening page.  Then they added these things to add to the farms that you have to build.  You basically have to ask for items to finish it and often it will take forever to get what you need, then they have a load of upgrades and you start all over to make it bigger or better.  Of course they are nifty and you want to add them, but oh it takes forever to get it totally upgraded to what you want.  As you plant, plow and harvest you receive coins, but they also have what you call Farmville Cash and for that you have to pay real money.  Another problem in that it can become addictive because of much nicer items to buy in the market place, homes, fences and other cool accessories to make your farm more fun.  It starts out very innocent in that you buy say 55 fv cash for 10.00 dollars, but then you start getting more and more to buy the cooler items for your farm.  For someone like me on SS disability it's really not affordable, but as I say you almost become addicted to doing it.  A main reason I quit before.  You can send items they have special to give as gifts or the person will request them.  I get so many request and was feeling a bit bad because I wasn't sending any to my friends who continued to play.  So I thought I would try it again.  So if I miss you can almost but I was stuck in FB all day,  lol  and if it gets to expensive for me again  I will probably just totally quit.  Don't want to be labeled a Farmville addict, haha.
     Not much else happened yesterday, it was a lovely day outside, sunshine and in the 70's again.  Today it is cloudy with chance of rain.  Of course it would be on the day I have a perm scheduled.  Just hope I don't get really frizzy before the day is out.  I didn't nap all day so I laid down about 5:30 after JD got home and it was a little after 10pm when I woke up and he had come to bed.  I got up and watched a bit of tv and then played a game online and went back to bed.  But I know it was after 4am before I fell back to sleep.  I really hate when my nights get messed up like that, but it happens pretty often.  Mostly I'm just not sleepy when I go back to bed and I'll lie there trying hard to fall asleep with my mind going 90 miles an hour thinking of things.  I should just get back up but then I eventually will get very tired again and fall back to sleep around the time I did.  It just makes getting up in the mornings hard.  I feel lousy, still tired but know if I go back to bed I'll sleep the day away.   This dreary and very windy day doesn't not help.
     Guess that about covers it for this time.  I'll be around to make my visits this afternoon or evening.  Till next time.....

Love and Hugs

Nancze

Computers Arg!!!!!

     My pages are loading so slow!! At least my connection is better, not totally great but alot better than it has been in awhile.  If I could just figure out why my pages load so slow... Mostly though I will it admit it's Facebook that gives me the worst problem and it is especially worse when I am trying to play the only game I play on there and that is Farmville.  I've been playing on it most of the morning, but now it won't even load for me!!  I know some of you have the same problem at times.  It's just so frustrating.  I really stopped playing for quite awhile, but kept getting so many help requests I decided to go back.  I am not going to do many of the quests anymore for they really can bog it down, lol... Any suggestions of how to make Farmville do better would be nice if you have one. 
     I didn't post yesterday, but I meant to.  Oh well I doubt it will hurt to miss a day now and then.  I see many of my old blogging friends sometimes are going for long periods.  But I will continue to drop by, for I might catch someone whose posted *smiles*
      Today I asked to keep the car,  I just wanted to get out of the house for awhile and I had a couple of small errands I could do.  I wish there were say a group of people who like to play cards here, but alas there isn't anyone and I don't know enough people to start one.  The senior citizen center has things, but they are just as odd times and for a certain amount of time.  I may still make an effort to go when they are playing dominoes or cards.  I left the house door to the porch open, it's so lovely out and is suppose to reach up into the mid 70's today.  Buddy is loving it,  he'll come in and take a nap by my feet and then will hear something and run out on the porch and bark up a storm.  Funny thing is that nothing is out there.  Now even the cattle or horse,  lol..  Bet when they head up this way, which they usually do sometime during the day, Buddy will have a barking party for sure, lol. 
     I'd take pictures of Buddy, but when I have the camera out he will never look at me or it.  I get tired of always seeing his back end, lol.  I am going to get a cat.  JD's not to happy about it, but I believe I mentioned it earlier.  Well I talked to our cousin who has the Feed Store and he has a niece or family member who has some cats and the babies are 3 months old now.  He is suppose to see if they would give me one.  I could go to the animal shelter, but want to wait till it's a big warmer to tackle the trip.  I also discover on an animal site that there is an adoption shelter for chi chu chu's in Tuttle which is close.  Buddy being 8 now and having back problems I know at least a place where I can find a small dog to adopt. 
     Well am going to make my visits in a minute and call it time on blogging for today.  If any thing exciting happens later I'll mention it tomorrow.  My world is turning good, how is yours today?

Love and Hugs

Nancze