Looking Towards Spring in Sharing 519

[Nelle]

Already over today.

Athena ran across the road chasing a squirrel or cat - not sure since it was a dark blur to me. Almost got hit by a car. (We live near the local speedway according to the daily drivers going by.. LOL.)

Here at work. Storms show up this afternoon and they're saying it's going to be really bad. Seems like tornados really like us lately.

[Roscoe]

Today turned out fairly pretty and hot. Mowed the yard, cleaned up the shop a bit, did some minor things around the house before I went to dinner. Tomorrow- church..

[Lynx]

If properly run, an auction can be a fascinating place.

Did you know they make Dr pepper flavored peeps?

And one of the regular sellers has a friend who makes homemade tamales, so occasionally she sells homemade tamales at the auction house. And they are delicious.

Have you ever bought small bags of white cheddar cheetos, by the case of 36? I got four cases, if you happen to want any white cheddar Cheetos in the next half a year or so.

[Roscoe]

Rain. Again. So over it; the storms; the wind; just let me have the summer and be done with it! (But Lord wait until the new a.c is installed next week before You fire up the furnace please)
Going to the doctor tomorrow over my shoulder. Scared to death I will hear "surgery"

[Nelle]

If properly run, an auction can be a fascinating place.

Did you know they make Dr pepper flavored peeps?

And one of the regular sellers has a friend who makes homemade tamales, so occasionally she sells homemade tamales at the auction house. And they are delicious.

Have you ever bought small bags of white cheddar cheetos, by the case of 36? I got four cases, if you happen to want any white cheddar Cheetos in the next half a year or so.

My mom got a packet of Dr Pepper Peeps this year and LOVED them. I don't personally eat Peeps, but I always buy her some b/c she's a fan. lol..

Somehow survived the weekend. EF4 tornado went within a mile of my work Friday evening. Wiped out a former coworker's house. Thankfully they were on day one of their vacation and not home. Their horses survived thankfully. We've had too many tornados this year and they're getting TOO close for comfort. More storms tonight and tomorrow.

I'm exhausted. Friday storms, Saturday a wedding (near the same area) until late, Sunday we had two services and the night service was a long (but good) one. Kids were on one that morning in my class. I think someone injected them with sugar before class, haha.

[Backseat Radio]

I worked almost 50 hours last week trying to help get resets done in the Electronics department before inventory this week. Wore myself down enough I was unintentionally getting snippy with my manager the next day.

Had a sensory, stress overload meltdown Sunday before service and had to step away from doing ProPresenter. One of the other media team members took over for me. I'm scheduled for ProPresenter again on Wednesday so hopefully things go better.

The Walmart parking lot is being milled and repaved. The stuff stinks and burns my nose.

[Lynx]

Rain. Again. So over it; the storms; the wind; just let me have the summer and be done with it! (But Lord wait until the new a.c is installed next week before You fire up the furnace please)
Going to the doctor tomorrow over my shoulder. Scared to death I will hear "surgery"

Okay, after a notification like that... You ARE going to keep us posted, right? Cause that's a BLEEP of a cliffhanger.

And don't get me started about the rain. Dad has been trying to get his shop built beside the house. (Well, the manifest calls it a pole barn. Whatever. He's going to stash lots of rocks and rock grinding/polishing stuff and spend a lot of time in it working on rocks.) But rain has kept the workmen at bay all last week. It has really been quite annoying.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Rain. Again. So over it; the storms; the wind; just let me have the summer and be done with it! (But Lord wait until the new a.c is installed next week before You fire up the furnace please)
Going to the doctor tomorrow over my shoulder. Scared to death I will hear "surgery"

Okay, after a notification like that... You ARE going to keep us posted, right? Cause that's a BLEEP of a cliffhanger.

And don't get me started about the rain. Dad has been trying to get his shop built beside the house. (Well, the manifest calls it a pole barn. Whatever. He's going to stash lots of rocks and rock grinding/polishing stuff and spend a lot of time in it working on rocks.) But rain has kept the workmen at bay all last week. It has really been quite annoying.

Are you still at your grandmas house?

[Roscoe]

So.
Long story short, I know I've mentioned the shoulder pain here a few times, but I don't know if I ever explained it. Around 18 to 20 years ago, and lord that makes me feel ancient, I was a young, in shape police officer. I encounter a young man who was very much on the opposite side of the badge games from me, and my job was to take him in. his, apparently, was to prevent that. I won- and lost. In the fight, I managed to pop my right shoulder. It hurt like the dickens, but seemed to pop back in place, so my dumb young self assumed it was all good.
 Over the years, I have had a few instances where it flared up, hurt for a few days and then went away. For the last several months though, it hasn't gone away and my mobility has suffered. I don't have near the range of motion I had, and it hurts badly. The doctor has referred me to an orthopedic specialist and stated he expected them to try a cortisone shot and some PT before moving to an MRI and possibly surgery. At this point, anything to stop the pain.
And tomorrow, the A/C will be installed. Thankfully.

[Nelle]

Glad you're getting to looked at and taken care of.

Currently awake thanks to tornado sirens and warnings going off on my phone. I've mentioned I'm over this right? More storms coming the remainder of the morning and into the afternoon. Hopefully less eventful. We do have a shelter in our garage at work now thankfully!

Me and the dog are the only ones awake. She's in her kennel and she is terrified of storms. The cat came to sleep by me when the siren went off. I'm glad it doesn't make her hide at least so she's easy to find if I need to toss her in a crate to get in the basement lol. Silver linings!

[Lynx]

Are you still at your grandmas house?

It's complicated, and I've been trying to not think about it.

Grandma's house is the family's Ancestral Home, where all the kids grew up, so nobody wants to lose it. Dad actually bought it from Grandma so it would not be liquidated if she had to go to a nursing home. Dad seems insistent on the idea of me living here in perpetuity.

Meanwhile in east Tennessee Mom wants to leave me her house when she dies, in custody for my mentally disabled brother so there will always be a place for him to stay.

Meanwhile I want a small shack out in the woods, as long as it has electricity, plumbing and good cellular signal. But eh...

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Folks always making you choose. Sometimes between a rock and a hard place.

[MsJennJenn]

Currently awake thanks to tornado sirens and warnings going off on my phone. I've mentioned I'm over this right? More storms coming the remainder of the morning and into the afternoon. Hopefully less eventful. We do have a shelter in our garage at work now thankfully!

Me and the dog are the only ones awake. She's in her kennel and she is terrified of storms. The cat came to sleep by me when the siren went off. I'm glad it doesn't make her hide at least so she's easy to find if I need to toss her in a crate to get in the basement lol. Silver linings!

I am sooooo over Oklahoma's weather lol. I blame Mini.

My cat growls at the thunder Nelle LOL it's so funny. Then he "hides" But you can still see him.
The other cat she's from the streets and she sleeps right thru the storms. Kekos the third cat just follows me around army crawling as low as she can get to the floor. As if thats helpul. lol

[mini]

I didn't have anything to do with the weather.   

Sunday morning, storms.  The neighbor had a dead tree, which blew over and snapped the power lines.  Sunday afternoon, the power company finally comes by, and says, "Oh, we have to call a tree trimming crew."  The tree trimming crew shows up, makes a huge mess, and leaves.

The power company never shows back up.

Monday, about 3 pm, I got a text from another neighbor saying the power company was back.  They work, get the lines up, and about 5 tell me the power will be back on in about 15 minutes.

Nope.

They found another line down, and have to get it back up.

In the meantime, I get called back to work.  I get there about 6 pm, storms are moving in.  By 6:45, tornado sirens are going off in town, so I head back home.  Make it home about 7:15, no power.

Storm hits at 7:30, power comes back on right about then, and buddy, the bottom dropped out of the sky.  We had 3 inches of rain in 30 minutes, and another inch before the night was over.

[MsJennJenn]

I didn't have anything to do with the weather.   

I mean your story here says otherwise....    

[Roscoe]

Shew. Back at work. Second day of the week and it feels like the 100th day of the week.
Tarred, irritable, and soley because I am counting calories, thus I must feel like I am starving- I could eat a deep fried shetland pony smothered in ranch right now

[Lynx]

I know where you got that line about the deep fried Shetland pony, but I ain't telling.


Tonight is graduation in this town. Everybody has to go to McDonald's for some reason. For graduation?! If you're too poor to afford something better, stay at home. There's better food at home.

I hope some mothers and fathers get taken to McDonald's on mothers and Father's day. They deserve it.

[Roscoe]

Just a hair over 2 hours to go... ready to go home

[Roscoe]

It's been somewhat rainy today, stalling out all I planned. I did manage to get Bro Roger out and take him to a birthday party for a Brother in the church. It hurts to see someone you love go down so swiftly- his condition has really deteriorated in the past two months. He is keeping a good attitude .
I am now at home resting, praying and studying for tomorrow

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Adina's crew and Alex's crew came to see me this weekend.

[Nelle]

Our cousin's daughter is graduating tonight from  8th grade. Wasn't aware this was a thing until I moved up here. It feels expensive to have such fine goings-on for 8th grade. If you didn't know better, you'd think she was graduating from high school. BUT - we love her, so we're going.

We're having our graduation service next weekend, so I guess we are expected to get everyone presents? I know growing up, our graduation service we always gave everyone cards/money. We have two 8th grade graduates, one high school, one college bachelors and one college masters. I'm proud for them all, and maybe I'm just a grumbly guss, but it feels like at some point, we stop being expected to give presents? I dunno. The masters one has another graduation coming up in a couple of years because she's going back to school. It's just hard etiquette and budget-wise to know what to do in these kinds of moments, haha. High school and final college feels like plenty. What do you even get people for these besides money - and if money, how much? LOL.. I'm a bundle of confusion and awkwardness.


I enjoyed my longer weekend at home. Other than church Sunday AM - I was at home Sat-Mon. This week is turnover week for my sunday school classroom. Switching from "camp/ranch" to space. It's a lot of work and money to change every 3 months, but I know the kids enjoy it and it is expected to change with the curriculum.

I may have needed several more days off work and off-life, haha. I did some laundry this weekend, but I didn't do anything else I needed to get done around the house. I need better motivation - not in the form of visitors tho hahaha.

I also need to go get my real ID so that I can travel to CA in August to meet my new nephew. I can't get my mom to decide how long she's going to stay, so we can't even purchase the tickets yet. I feel stressed about the trip.. really wish my dad would go instead of me, hahaha. Mom makes me nervous in an airport when I'm responsible for her. I'm scared she's gonna pack something crazy hahaha. (I've been watching a show where custom & border protection inspect random passengers etc., and I know we're traveling in the US, so it won't be the same, but it's made me nervous. LOL)

I guess I should stop chattering like a squirrel and get back to my actual paid work, lol.

[The Purple Fuzzy]

Dina and I have been making blackberry jelly.

[Roscoe]

 
Checking in. And Nell i totally get the gift thing.
Try being the preacher. We are expected to be at EVERY celebration. And you would not believe  how many parties people throw. Grandkids birthday, church birthday, graduation,  kindergarten graduation, etc etc.
I'm gifted out.
And...then folks who might be struggling  a bit...OK a lot... I need to help them too so they don't fall out and feel we don't care.
Just ain't enough coming in for all people expect.
Lord love em.
I need a member to go play the lottery  without telling me, win a few 100 million,  feel guilty and pay tithe and a large offering. 

[Nelle]

Roscoe.. I'd be catatonic every single day. I get social'd out as it is and I can avoid most gatherings, hahaha. I wouldn't make it a week and I'd be done. It's not even always the actual event, it's the expectation of being at the events. I usually have fun once I get somewhere, but I dread it all day long (and prepare my day around it). The wedding  a week ago started at 4pm. I kept looking at the clock and calculating the hours I had until I had to get ready, and had to leave, etc. LOL. It's exhausting just that part!

And I absolutely agree. One of the high schoolers is in a large non-biological family where adoption has occurred. He will definitely be getting a gift and so will the bachelor degree girl. The 8th graders are the ones I feel the weirdest about because they're literally just going to blow the money. They have zero bills LOL.. so I dunno. I worry mostly because I worry about them realizing they didn't all get the same value or something, ya know? I love them all, and I'm proud of them all, but if we base it on need... it's not equal for gifting. We'll see. I had already purchased some items for the masters degree grad, before I found out we were having a graduation service, and I hadn't planned on giving her money. I'm just trying to find a fair, budget-conscious avenue.

[Roscoe]

  Oh, it KILLS me. LOL. I'm slightly more social than Seth, but very anti-social and awkward. I try to escape by letting the wife, who is a social butterfly, make appearances.., but sometimes they expect "Pastor". Funny how one on one I can talk to anyone; church I am cool with; but as soon as possible, I head for a cave to recharge.
I'm not sure Elijah was depressed as much as he was anti-social. Ran to the cave, got to thinking about things and bam, God had to send Him a still small voice.