Grandparent's Breakfast with my great grandson Daniel

Had to be up and ready early, this morning. My granddaughter picked me up at 6.30am so that I could go to my great grandson's Grandparent's Breakfast at his school.

I love this little lad!

All it took was a nap!

I know some people roll their eyes when they see me post "I'm going to take a nap", and I can imagine them thinking what a lazy baggage I am, but I've learned that when my body says "nap time" then I'd better listen!

I never used to be this way, although a hot Summer could see me flake out quite easily. The past couple of years though have been a real humdinger, and my body started really acting up. I thought it, and I, had a pretty good relationship. 2 years ago, it decided that wasn't the case. 

After juggling the issues, and confounding some doctors along the way, we all seem to have come to a somewhat stable medium, but my body is definitely the one who makes the rules.

So, I was up this morning at 5.30am, doing my usual, letting the dogs out, packing hubby's lunchbox for work, and grabbing him something to eat for breakfast, and then, after he left for work, I checked emails, and went on Facebook to answer any messages, look at posts etc.

I started getting a little headache, and decided "ok, time for a nap".

A little headache may seem like a cop out to some, but my little headaches become big ones, which in turn causes me stress from the pain, which pushes my blood pressure up, gets the old ticker agitated, and then can actually make me have a pretty rough day.

So, nap time.

I dozed for maybe 30 minutes, time enough for the headache to go on its merry way and leave me to get on with my day.

I swept and mopped my bedroom and hallway floors, popped one load of laundry in the dryer and another load in to wash, and prepped dinner in the slow cooker.

Methinks that nap was very productive!

I still have a list of things I want to accomplish today and I feel pretty confident that I'll manage to get them all done.

Have a great day everyone!

A pretty good day!

Today has been a pretty good day, although it started a bit iffy. My computer has been acting up, making it difficult for me to do many things in a  timely manner - when a 10 minute procedure takes almost an hour because your computer decided to close your screen, magnify it to 300%, scroll by itself or not scroll when you need it to, it is very frustrating. added to which, I did a video the other day, then went to do a 2nd right after ... only to be told the camera doesn't work.  

So, I wasted an hour this morning doing something that should have taken 5 minutes, and hubby got fed up listening to me complaining, and said "let's go get you another computer". I hate wasting money, but I need one I can rely on, for all my business stuff.

Thus the decision was made, and Best Buy was added to our itinerary for today.

First we took our trash and recycles to the dump, and then headed to Best Buy at The Shops at Greenridge ... but got waylaid by the World Market for some goodies. 

Hubby got me a neat little HP with a keyboard laid out like my other one (it's about the same size too).

Our next destination was Best Buy Metals down on Poinsett Highway where we intended looking at, and pricing, materials to redo the roof but they were closed so we checked out their outdoor display but will need another trip to actually talk to them and look over what they have inside.

The one thing we have decided is that we want a metal roof, and we want a red one!

The second thing is that he needs to work more overtime, and I need to sell more AVON, LOL.

When we got home, hubby checked the mail, and my new AVON tee shirt was in the mailbox. It looks good, but I think I'm going to keep it new for the 2 events I have coming up in November and December.

Hoping for a restful evening, and hope yours is too.

Happy birthday to my dad!

Today, my dad is 86 years old. He's in England, and most years my sis, Traze, and her girls go to see him on his birthday. It's been 18 years since I last saw him, before I came back back to the US after my hubby did his last stint in Saudi Arabia.

My dad is a special person, not just because he became my dad when I was 2, but because he is CRAZY in the funniest, nicest way that made childhood, and growing up, pretty decent.

He taught us to jive to Peggy Sue, by Buddy Holly, and when we were about to wear him out, he'd say "oh, I've go to sit down, I've got a bone in my leg". I was probably 8 or 9 before it actually dawned on me that EVERYONE has a bone in their leg!

He also loved Shirley Bassey, and one song in particular epitomizes how I feel about my dad now. Hands Across The Sea.

We'd laugh at how wobbly has knees were when he jived. years later, Traze and I went to a rockabilly do ... and realised that ALL the guys legs did that jiggly knee thing. LOL.

Back in those days, when you "went up" from the Infants school to the Juniors, George Tomlinson School took you out to London Zoo for the day. I had to miss that school trip, I had a bigger event to go to. It was the day my dad formally adopted me.

That weekend he took me to the zoo by myself. I remember ice cream and seeing Guy the Gorilla, a sight that I've never forgotten and still saddens me. That huge gorilla in that tiny cage.

I have lots more memories of my dad. He worked at the Bank of England Printing Works in Debden, and sometimes we'd go by tube from Leytonstone to wait on the platform for him to come down the footpath that ran from the bank to the station, and then catch the tube home or sometimes go from there to visit his mum, nanny Bland, and sister, aunt Marie.

We used to laugh at him riding a bicycle, and I remember him having a Lambretta and some kid of motorbike, and then a maroon and grey Bedford van that he learned to drive in. He and my uncle David were working on that when my sister, Veronica, was born in the upstairs bedroom. Fathers were def not i attendance at births in those days.

I miss seeing my dad, he still has his sense of humour, and I wish I was there to celebrate his birthday with him.

Happy Labor Day!

I hope you are all enjoying your weekend. I'm enjoying mine with hubby, he took Friday off so ended up with a 4 day Holiday, and we've been having lie-ins and then just taking our time throughout the day doing whatever we've needed to.

Yesterday, we indulged ourselves with massages at Studio Rejuvenate in Greer. Tom took care of Mark, and my darling Roger worked on my back and did reflexology on my feet and hands. It's been part of the alternate therapies that we've both been using for a few years now, for our many ailments.

Today we took a drive down to Pelzer, to see my granddaughter, at work. We took her the State Fair tickets, that I had won on Monday, so that she and her fella could take my great grands, Daniel and Sami, and have a fun family day.

It was also a pet "catch up" day for us - Miss Princess (our Boo and Boo Bear) had a shower with mama (and daddy preventing any escape) and then Mr Max lay on the bed while mama dremelled his claws down. 

Have a wonderful day tomorrow :)