EZly Entertained?

rite now, it’s snowing petty good out. its 10:45 in the morning, & a brite sunny day.  (u guessed it, montana! did i mention that i love montana?)  anyway - things can b kinda tuff 2 read sometimes, aye?  

like the other morning (yesterday?, maybe…), i woke up making these rather awful gurgley snuffly hitching noises, not too unusual, regarding my early morn dry crusty montana airways, etc, but again - hard to read.  my wsu comes running out 2 chek up on me (o, k - that wsu = wonderful spousal unit, now & 4evr!, k?).  she has me on a Baby Monitor! - how please-God-awful-embarrassing!  i actually cudn’t tolerate it Xcept its kindofa a cool 1 i built myself, u no, in a lit’l cardboard box completely rap’d up in camo duct tape? motion detector alarm?, & tada! - wireless streaming video cam with full color day & infrared nite lites too! (the Best part?!? - all from used ebay parts for < 50$, not the 500$ the ‘boys with noise’ want!!!  HAHA, (ok it doesn’t have tan & pilt or zoom, but it has Great sound!)).  which i built for the perfectly legitimate purpose of hunting coons, on my side deck, &, well, keep’n an eye on all our deck-dwelling feral cats, which r not only an Xcellent source of entertainment, but if they only Knew i was watch’n em wud b SOOO INCENSED!!!, makes it worth the $ just thinkn about it!  [wud somebody please count bak n c if i closed all my parenthetical loops? - i’m get’n a head ache, thanx]

so. ok - where were we?…   oya, she Monitors me!,   & i let her, cause, cause, she loves me?(!), i guess?  ok.  and - and - well, she worries, but she really needs quality sleep time too! - so its our compromise, get it?    and here she wakes up to all these strange noises com’n from me, who looks to b basically sleep’n (shudda been sleep’n, anyway), with maybe just a bit of jerking thrown in on video - can’t really blame her for runnin out 2 chek! - but me?, i’m hav’n hysterics!  (also not unusual, u will no, if ‘n u read round here much).  

laughin my proverbial butt off, to use the common proverb, which is very apt!

just waking up from a dream in which i had been out on an all-day outing with my brother (looking Much younger, btw) with some random kids &/or grandkids (bit fuzzy here), walking in some nice green park - but basically i guess i had been keep’n everybody entertained by the fact that i was so totally entertained by this little kid that had sorta adopted me, & we were having such a good time playing 2gether - like, ALL day! - & i sorta had no anxiety at all about his parents, sorta know they were rite around keep’n an eye on things as well, sorta knew they were as entertained as the rest, just somethin their their kid did with strangers in a park - but this was bak b4 that was such a nonono!, u no?

the Brother in Question! (diff kid - thanx Julia!)

anyway - at the end of the day, pack’n up & head’n 4 the gate, sure nuff - up comes dad, big grin on his face, thank’n us all 4 keep’n his boy occupied all day, & MY Brother goes over, & with his lit’l trademark quizzical (“is this actually quite worth this?”) grin on his face, digs out a $10 bill, & somewhat hesitantly, look’n rite at me - hands it ovr 2 the dad, in acknowledgement that He (They) had actually been the ones to come out on top for the afternoon, by having Me so totally occupied all day so as to keep Me outa His hair (of which, le’me tell U, he has Very Little!!).  U realize how much 10$ was worth in thoz daz?!?!?  stinker.

it was just so Stink’n funny,

woke up the wsu  ;-(

Good Medicine!

woke up laughing again!

actually - this time it was a full-blown case of the giggles.  totally out of control - giggles.  what Fun to have a good laugh, especially with good friends!  ‘Friends?, u mite ask?, i thot u said u were sleeping?’  yes indeed - i was, but i wasn’t alone!  i was dreaming about my awesome friends the Swick girls! that wud b gaby, & ana, & katherine, & maybe even sarah (not sure, this was a loooong time ago, in the dream, & she was really little then!, but certainly a good giggler even so!). details?, circumstances?, - nope, not this time.  no recollection at all of what else mite have been going on in the dream, or who else mite have been involved, but whatever it was - it sure was hilarious!  

He will yet fill your mouth with laughter; A joyful heart is good medicine; 

(Proverbs 17:22, Psalm 126:2, Job 8:21, etc!)

i am in need of all the ‘good medicine’ i can get!

& laughter sure tastes betr than most of the rest of it! hahahahaha!

dealing with this cancer (stage 4 sarcoma, hemangiopericytoma, cantaloupe-sized tumor in leg, mets & secondaries all over (lungs, bones, lymph nodes, etc) - it all looks pretty grim, in the natural.  & it doesn’t feel very good either.  BUT - i have the advantage of knowing ‘the End of the Story’!  God is the Lord who healeth me. (Jehovah-rapha, Exodus 15:26) 

so - indeed, stay tuned - more miracles to come!

& yes - i was sleeping in my ‘miracle chair’ when i was so ‘rudely’ (sic! hahaha) awakened!

but not 2 worry - i just went rite bak 2 sleep!  :-)

the miracle chair

with all my troubles sleeping, broken chair & unable to use bed, etc, i realized yesterday that i was in desperate need of a power recliner (1 that would not only recline by motor, but lift & tip u out by motor - like we had for mom b4 she died (but we sold)).  my old chair had a broken foot-lift, wudn’t go up, & with my broken rib, i couldn’t operate the lever anyway.  plus, it wouldn’t rock forward, so, even tho i could sleep in it, i couldn’t get out of it without help (& lots of it!). 

so - i thot 2 myself, hmm - if your going 2 believe in prayer, & a God who answers prayer, u shud b able 2 pray for one.  then of course, i thot - hmm, i Am praying for healing, so if i pray for a chair to help me cope with this disease, does that mean i’m not believing for healing? talked it ovr with sue, & we decided no, 1 does not necessarily negate the other (clearly, there r things going on here that we r not aware of, we do not c the whole picture (yet)).  

so - i asked God for a new chair.  (of course, i also put an add in the paper, but that wont even start for 2 more days; & i wrote to the VA 2 ask if they had any programs that mite help - but anything there takes months…), and i really needed this chair NOW if i was going to be able to get any real sleep (a couple of nites ago, i even ended up in my desk chair, face down on the dining room table, with my hands tied around a pillow to keep from sliding off while asleep! - sue found me there in the morning!).  

anyway - all this just to say that before the day was out, some friends of ours show’d up at our door with a donated power recliner that not only works, & fits, & is clean(!), but the color actually perfectly matches the couch (Not something i had prayed about, but something that is definitely important to Some people that also have to live with this furniture in their house!!)

[i should probably add that i had, of course, looked at the possibility of buying one, but these suckers start at around $600 (for a real cheapie, & even there way out of our current price range!) and go to upwards of $1.5K. & this is a Nice one! AND, it came with a good-as-new ‘roho’ cushion, which in & of it’s own runs for ~$300!]

you r probably wondering, about now, something like - ok, did you ask your friend for a chair, or what, how did they know?  well, i’m glad u asked.  & itsa good question.  this friend happens 2 b a teacher in the school where sue also teaches, & yes, sue did mention to her on fri that we could use a new chair (sue & i had talked about it i guess thurs nite - but I didn’t pray for one until sat morning).  this teacher friend in turn prayed with her class that i needed a new recliner.  she prayed again sat (she’s like that), and at that time she say’s “God show’d me a woman’s face, & a chair”. she then called this woman, who confirmed that yes, she had such a chair in storage, & yes, she would be willing to part with it.  they then went to look it over, see if it really was what i needed, & it was, so they picked it (& the cushion) up, & brought it here.  end of story.  now, aren’t you glad you asked?  

& yes - i got a good 10 hrs of sleep last nite, without pain, & without help getting in or out.

& yes - THAT is a Miracle!

Paint-ball attack with Tom

woke up laughing, again…

this time i had been dreaming about a paint-ball war with tom bellomo!  

he & i had cooked up this idea about getting some paint-ball guns, and storming my workplace shooting everybody - a great practical joke idea (tho we worked at a different place).

i decided to pre-empt the plan a bit, & snuck out later that day, and bought a couple of paint-ball pistols.  then i went to tom’s workplace & buzzed the floor manager (it was something like a wholesale company up on an upper floor, where i had to go up the stairs & wait at a locked gate for the employee to come to me - no admittance to non-employees).  tom had planned on being gone that day on some little trip, but i thot i wud give it a try just in case - & sure enuf, turned out his trip had been cancelled & he was there.  

as soon as he came to the door, i blasted him with the paint-ball gun!  we had a good laugh, & decided to go thru with our plan rite then & there.

so, the 2 of us went to my workplace (about 35 or 40 ppl at their desks in a big open room, with the owner in a glassed in office off to one side).  we had gotten the idea on the way to add knit ski masks to our outfits.   as soon as we burst in & started shooting, i got the inspiration to go after the owner - tho i wasn’t sure what his reaction would be.  i rushed into his office & peppered him with paintballs! he ended up rolling on the floor hollering!  

before he could object too much, it came to me how to forestall his possible angry reaction - i whipped off my mask & handed it to him with the gun, saying “quick! go out there & shoot everybody!”  tom had followed me into the office, so, he too stuck his gun into the owner’s other hand & said “here - use both hands!”

we were all laughing together when, i woke up.