Nut-n-Honey

"What do you plan to do today?"  He asks

"Nut’n honey, I did everything yesterday, just relaxing today."

**few moments of silence**

"Um…what are you making with nuts and honey?  It sounds good."

"Stan!  Are you even listening????"

Never try answering a man’s questions when he’s distracted.  He either won’t hear you at all or he’ll only hear the parts that interest him!  Sheesh!

It’s beautiful outside right now and I’m not feeling up, physically, to get out there and enjoy it.  It’s a bummer.  Autumn is my favorite time of year and it’s slipping away faster than I’d like.  Last night wasn’t good.  My right leg, which usually doesn’t bother me as much as the left, was giving me all sorts of grief.  After dealing with it for six hours, I finally broke down and delved into my reserve stash of Vicodin.  

Today I’m just trying to keep moving, doing odds and ends to keep my joints from stiffening up and adding to the aches.  Not an easy task seeing as that I’d much rather lie down and sleep.  It’s just one of those sleepy, lazy days, I guess.

When I saw the dietitian last Thursday I went to my doctor’s office to put in a request for a prescription for more lancets and testing strips.  When the pharmacy still didn’t have the Rx on Saturday, I called the office and requested it again.  When they STILL didn’t have the Rx by Monday, I called the office AGAIN!  Tuesday the pharmacy calls to tell me I can pick up my lancets.  No mention was made of the testing strips.  When I asked at the counter, they said they never received an Rx for them.  Grrr!

Needless to say, I haven’t been able to record my glucose in about a week.  I’m not too worried about it, the medicine has been working well.  I figure the doctor was busy and was too distracted or just didn’t think to give me a prescription for them the day I saw him.  He does that once in a while, not often.  

Hubby has been fretting over the lack of income and how we always seem to need more of it around this time of year.  This will probably turn out to be the worst financial year we’ve ever faced, but, through the grace of God and some really hard penny pinching, I think we’ll get through it.  It can be really depressing at times, especially with Christmas coming up and still having children young enough to hope for gifts, but, we’re very blessed and fortunate to have what we have.  Many people in our situation would probably have lost their home by now.  I try not to let it get me down to much because I know there’s people so far worse off than we are.  Besides, I refuse to give up hope that some day we won’t have to worry about things like this again.  With God’s blessings, I plan to go back to school, learn a trade, get a career and get off of government aid.  Until then, though, we’ll just have to deal with it.

Wesley has been enjoying his time away from school.  I’ve busied him with a few chores around the house that make him squeak and grumble but that’s okay.  He needs to learn that this isn’t a vacation.  Bed time has been the biggest struggle because by the time 9PM rolls around, not only is he grumpy and tired, but so am I.  He also has it in his head that since he doesn’t have to get up early the next morning for school, he should be allowed to stay up until he drops dead from exhaustion.  Nope, sorry kiddo!  With the days getting so much shorter, I think I’m going to start putting him to bed an hour earlier.  Ha, wish me luck with that one!

Over all, in spite of the usual blah-blah-blah which some might construe as bitching – because it probably is (and I don’t really care), I’m doing good, hubby is doing good, kids are doing good, life is good and I’m thankful for it all.  

Until next time….be well, live well, love much and God Bless.