Author: leilani

Glad I am that I’m scheduled for surgery this week.  Despite the Yoda-esque sentence structure. Youngest daughter and grandson were here this weekend: good.  Holding grandson, tripped over toy: bad.  Grandson fine: good.  Knee blown out in the worst way: bad.  Just bought crutches in anticipation of surgery: good.  (Thank God, in fact.)  Can’t take…

Went house shopping tonight. I was pleasantly surprised; not only was the community larger than I understood, but there’s a lot more business there than I’d been led to believe.  There’s no Wally World or Target, nor any other department stores I saw; but there were other businesses, including a vet, dentists and doctors, insurance,…

I HATE being unable to sleep. Seriously, it makes me crazy (not to mention bleary-eyed.) Last night I couldn’t fall asleep – think it was 11:30-ish or somewhere thereabouts. So at least I slept until my alarm went off at 4. NOT. No, my body decided to be little Mary Sunshine in a bopper mood…

For anybody who’s dealt with bipolar syndrome – in yourself or a family member – you will get why I referred to it as “bi-prowler”.  You notice things getting gradually a bit rougher then BOOM!  The full fury of the downturn hits and you’re caught like a deer in the headlights.  You know it’s cyclical…

It’s the weekend – thank goodness!  This week’s been a blur and it doesn’t break my heart that it’s over and done.  I’m about a week and a half out from surgery, then two weeks’ break.   The weekend after I go back to work, we’re supposed to attend the annual Christmas party.  Whether we actually…