HOME, JAMES

Phew. Jim's surgery on Monday went from a 2 hour quickie to a 10-12 hour ordeal with his whole leg wrapped up like a mummy :(  I can't even begin to count the prayers, tears, or even explain the fear of losing my best friend, companion, and love but both my navigators (Rushnell's term for God in his newest God Winks book "Devine Alignment" and well...my James...my road navigator here :}) came through for me and for once...I drove James home :} But lord, please knock some sense in me before I go out of town alone to fill his scripts at Walmart (7 hours and $400 later....alone the next day....ouch).

And I don't mind running up and down the stairs for him while he recuperates. I figure I'll be a size 2 and won't have to go to physical therapy lol. Of course I had to postpone finishing my hand therapy too but did drop in to see them yesterday. I also stopped at a bridal shop to look for gowns since the ones I found online wouldn't be made till mid January (and the first 2 I chose like the Jovani I thought could be done in 2 months advance notice). I just decided to find a custom seamstress/dressmaker and later order a Rina di Montella gown since we also had to postpone our vow renewal. I'll wear the necklace he bought me later too and since his favorite color is blue...it will give me plenty of time to find a gown in blue to wear.

As for the shop in the next town up...it looked dirty, tape sealed the cracks in the glass, it was closed at 2 pm on a Wed., and the area made me nervous but it was the only bridal shop there. I tried a shop in the town south of here but their selection was like the national chain, David's Bridal; full of synthetic fabrics forming a generic brides maids gown. I think I will try and call at a later date to see if they can order one for me since the designers at Rose Taft haven't responded (and heaven knows they are too busy too deal with one individual order although I don't see any of these bridal shops within 200 miles putting in many orders either :/). Long way from New Orleans sitting in Fleur de Paris or Lillie Rubin to be fitted for a custom dress or gown and drinking champagne :(((((

Ahhhh but the jokes inspired living here....like how aliens don't leave crop circles here....they leave crop "X's" lol. Jim's vascular surgeon even laughed at that one. We both do like Oxford which is an hour up and over. No real big stores like Best Buy, Sam's club, Outback, oh how we miss Texas de Brazil too! No dog shows, not much but quaint and intelligent with a university just the same.

Still...the bible belt here is strong with the power of prayer. Jim will be able to dance with me as planned and although my cousin's daughter who was involved in a serious accident will be in a wheel chair for her senior prom and won't dance....she is doing ok and her back isn't broken (praise God the navigator!!). I have been inspired by the Rose Taft gown that reminds me of Stevie Nicks garb to do a new mask for her so she will still be the 'Belle of the Ball' ;)

So despite all the adversities....I still like lemonade and have a grateful heart (and Jim's doc says it's ok for him to have his harley lol!). Nothing much matters to me but that he's home :}

I'm ready to dance regardless of what I'm wearing!

COLLISIONS

Our anniversary month and we are busy with fittings and ER visits. I just quit looking for my daughter's dog, Mana, with no reply back from anyone and depressed about it all. I figure whoever bathed her in green apple dish soap is housing her so Jim cheers me up and takes me last Saturday to Clarksdale while he has maintenance work on his company's van. I then asked him to take the rest of the day off so we enjoyed hitting the road in the Miata from Grenada to Southaven being fitted for formal wear. We plan to celebrate it all on the Christmas Cruise; birthdays, anniversary, Christmas. He did get me some jewelery to wear so I plan to wear it with a dress from  New York Dress (not sure which one though although the Bowls and Jovani match the fur...the 4th would be in Charcoal...Jim likes Jovani #3...so any votes would help ;)). Really great prices and for the second formal night...I will just wear a formal pant suit I bought from Dillards that oddly enough...cost more. Go figure :l

So we are looking forward to the trip but I had to make him come home again the other night to check out his leg that was bothering him. Ended up in the ER. Seems he has been traveling a bit too much and developed thrombosis with an infection so I have him off his feet a bit till we get it cleared up and visit a vascular surgeon. I'm hoping it won't hinder him getting his Harley in Feb. His bud is on standby and will build/do him a nice hard tail (shovel) unless we can splurge for an Evo. It will be his 10th harley but 40 something bikes including the triumps, 3 wheelers, nortons, etc. All this at one time I just giggle and say it is his turn to come out of surgery the next day and go on a cruise we already booked and paid for :}  He is just   glad this is going on now so he will be able to dance with me under the stars on the sky deck while in the caribbean! What a love and best friend :))))))

And even though we are so opposite...we are the same in many ways. It was odd ordering the Sonny Barger  and God Winks books from Barnes and Noble at the same time. The sales lady even commented on it lol and we will even exchange books and read each others. I am saving "Devine Alignment" for the cruise and he is saving his "6 Chambers and One Bullet" so for now I am reading "Inside the Other Side". (I still keep thinking 'boooooookkkkkks' with one of my hand therapy girls and found out she listed it in her bio as well. I will have to reschedule soon here).

Well...the new neighbors dog bite my beloved neighbor lady, pastor from Jim's favorite church came over, the tree was removed to the side of the property which was the wrong place, I've continued on with compatible software for windows like Stardock and dreamweaver (seems Autofx isn't on their list), cousins children/grandchildren were in an accident but out of the hospital, framework is still messed up in this computer from when I first got it and microsoft crashed it when trying to correct their corrupt files (HP got me back on but still all messed up in there and they are a bit out of it), not to mention we were told the water treatment plant is in the middle of a cotton field where they crop dust so I have to confirm this :/  Soooo not right. I'm butting heads with enough stuff around here still.

And talking about colliding with things...funny the stuff you watch while your spouse is down. We caught some episodes of  "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" :l  I was disgusted at first until I caught it fromt he producers perspective through scenes of them swatting bugs, dog licking it's cooter, train going by the house (and I mean RIGHT UP ON IT!), and well...the foods they eat. I think the woman is smart enough though to  enable her daughter to do these pagents, hope they make enough money to come out of poverty and learn some social skills or what Ms. Georgia says "Refinement". The child does have a load of personality so when she talks about Glitzy her pet pig and doing things 'Redneck Style'....we just say we need to talk to the new neighbors about their dogs before we walk our Glitzy dog 'Southern Style' (we may need to carry a gun or stick but will offer them some fencing :}). And I did get to play in PS over at Texttuts (although I don't know why adobe manager came up and threw me a trial of CS6. Soooo wasn't ready for that :/).

Some collisions are bad, but others are good. So whether it's harleys and/or jewelry, God and/or bikers....attractions seem to pull towards one another and opposites do too. They don't always repel so hopefully there we be collisions of an awesome kind in the upcoming future. There is a reason for all things I believe so may God give us the strength and wisdom to find them and comfort us in our time of need  ;)

*Note: We met the local doctor and he is now Jim's doc. Although everyone had bad reviews on him...he was intelligent, attentive, cordial, sober, and we like him! :)

And he soooo wants to go back to work after the specialist tomorrow. Already read his book and tired of viewing formal suits, dresses, and excursions :/

CHANGE IN FLIGHT PLANS

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I played hooky from class (hand therapy :/) last week to just take a break from it all and review the year. Seems I did get a lot accomplished by having the transformer replaced to keep us from having power surges, learn of Paros' potential problems via chicken jerky treats, and even though I now have fast internet...my hand isn't going to cooperate so no site up now. I can drop a couple of dot com names and maybe just keep a personal one until I have a new direction or see just what will this hand let me do :/ (some of me has a sick feeling but I try and nourish the optimistic side and view this as a new direction, door, or opportunity).

Ok. So I still have some other demons to chew up and spit out but I am keeping my eyes open for a move. The house may not be officially for sale right now but it's for sale lol. I will make sure I move next to good doctors and vets (nothing wrong with my silent bone doc at all but still haven't found a primary care physician nor had a complete physical :l). And the bathroom renno is slow but man what a difference!! Hit a lot of snags on the details like european cabinet hinges right now. All I know at this point is that I have to custom order them for a Face Frame Overly, 3/8 inset door :l  Whew. Who saw that one coming? They all know me and ask how I am now at the Home Depot or Lowe's store now lol. And well...I never knew they had 1 cent sales and was also greeted with a "Want to by this weber grill for $10?" Lol....I have a propane weber grill that was $500 I don't use because I prefer charcoal so use the turkey smoker when BBQing but a $250 electric grill for $10?!? Heck yeah! Clarence is my best friend! (oh...is that "Clearance"?!? We just call him 'Clarence' ;) (eyeing blowers and tillers now)

Nasa and Remembering Neil

Again...my hobby with photoshop has pulled me through. I've been playing around with space scene tutorials and found some new links (solarvoyager.com). Well...that was until I took a break and went to see what a real star field was like in NASA and it's Hubble Spacecraft and Space Telescope sites. Whoa! Soooo beautiful I spent a good while reading on the various forms of nebula and formation of new stars in different regions of space like the Carina Nebula (Mystic Mountain and Eagle's Nest...rendered in painter pictured here...are my favorites. Even over the butterfly nebula below :}). And watching the 'Universe' and 'Planets' shows explaining the energy field that start these cosmic events and formations ('creations') only makes me think of my NDE and how suspended in the energy of God...waiting to be evaluated, recycled, or sent back was like this. All that love, light, wisdom, energy, connections....how everything just changes form with time and space....how congruent.

But it was sad to here of Neil Armstrong passing. Watching him walk on the moon back in the 60's was when I felt the whole world still and unified for a moment in time....amazed at this event. Kind of like the twin towers but this was on a bigger and more positive scale. I was also glad to see a show on the Russians view of it all this week too. At the time we were both in space but our beating them to the moon...you could feel their disappointment. How I wish we could have all worked together. It was a giant leap for mankind...but being unified...well...that the ultimate goal but how many people know that the silent spell before he walked out that he was having communion? They weren't allowed to air that (thanks to the atheist movement parties back then :P). I guess I will always think of him reborn as a new star in the Eagle's Nest Nebula now.

All of my strange but congruent 'space oddities' converging this week also found us in Jim's favorite church (the baptist one). How I love the protestent churches because of the 'messages'  but no one will discuss or talk of them; including the pastors. I may as well go to mass where there is no message and more praying. At least the priests and nun will converse this matters and in discussing this with a muslim Sunday...he seems to agree that prayer and peace take presidence over singing and fiery sermons. Like the volatile birth of a new star...a new discovery lol?!?  I do like things shook up a bit every once in a while and although I can't sing....when there is a song in my heart...it means I am happy and like to roll with it ;). I guess I will always be in the wind when it comes to religion too.

So I have my itinerary for master bath renno duty as well as my Photoshop play (want to check out tuts plus, some in depth masking techniques at psdvault, and Psdeluxe. I think we will wait on planting the rye grass or removing the tree for now since we have new neighbors riding their dune buggies, 4 wheels, and go carts all over our front lawn. Jim says they must think it's a neighborhood park lol. I am more out to focus in on the surveillance camera to see which retriever is digging holes (they also have 2 goldens). I guess Wayne won't be the only one filling in holes around here lol :D (and ohhhh dear....I saw all 4 digging in Dianes gardens! She will probably going to give explosive births to a few new stars herself soon :l). They will get it. I think they will be rennovating their house along with us and I hope to help with some extra supplies. I first wanted their house but it did need more work and the property was larger here although I love the stone work, den, and basement aspects of that house. I am glad we have new neighbors and children's laughter here ;). (and as soon as I finished this....he comes in with photos of the front yard :l Mentions also about the cop cutting it too short :/ Oh dear).  We'll just let them know it's not a park and we actually pay to have it look nice ;)

As for missing out on summer with all this hand jive...we decided to change it to Christmas by going to the Caribbean again. It's warm there so we'll have our summer for a moment then. I will miss seeing the grandkids and son in law smiling...and I still laugh when people would ask me what happened to my hand. He'd reply for me "She was rebuilding a plane engine while in mid-flight". Lol. He knows me well. Play big while you can. We pass this way just once ;)



And we all change with time. Locations, vocations, ideas and views, relgions, interests, space etc. but Jim and I feel we are always in the wind, changes are inevitable, the bible is our moral compass, and home is where the heart is :}