Category: Ex Trailer Trash

Today has been a day when I’m feeling mighty thankful for so very many things. Physically speaking, grace eludes me at the moment.  My walk is still understandably lopsided; however, considering I’m 48 hours out of knee surgery and pretty darned ambulatory, I am more than okay with an uneven gait for a while. I…

OH. MY. GOD. Surgery is done.  Other than a dose of pain meds immediately after the construction effort, I simply do not have pain; certainly nothing on the scale of what I had BEFORE they did the work. I don’t even know the full scope of what they did – definitely a lot more than…

Youngest grandson is now asleep a couple of feet away and youngest daughter announced she is moving back in.  G is borderline livid and I can’t say I blame him too much.  I pointed out to the 26-year-old child unit that our house is NOT a revolving door and she had to make up her…

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,…