moore2me
Lions don't need to spank
I had the best of intentions in sending out some DIMS Christmas cards this year. But the "fickle finger of fate" this year turned into a really big fist and pounded this little enterprise some hard blows. My cards are going to be late. Maybe weeks late. Here's what happened:
1. I made my list out. I caught the flu and/or (or some wicked respiratory virus) two weeks before Christmas. Yes I had flu shot, but not swine flu shot yet. Went to doctor as stuff worsened, got antibiotics, and steroid inhaler. A few days on the inhaler gave me thrush. Now I was coughing like Doc Holiday on Tombstone, was too tired to walk past the kitchen, and this fungus that babies get made it painful to eat, drink, or talk. The doctor gave me antifungal pills to kill the thrush.
2. A few days before Christmas I am feeling good enough to finish cards and mail them to our Secret Santa - Misty. God bless her. While my cards are in transit one of the largest snowstorms in Oklahoma history hits Oklahoma. The National Weather Service is calling it a blizzard. I really doubt if many of these Okies are moving too much yet. Living next door to them - we Southerners are just not equipped for such frozen mendacity.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20091226_11_A1_Avansi217350
I am putting this little note out there not for sympathy (altho head pats are nice) but to let folks know why some of their cards are most definitely going to be late this year. It is the fault of those two bitches . . . Mother Nature and Communicable Disease.
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P.S. This part has nothing to do with my Christmas cards, but is part of my total experience this holiday season. The "harpies" were not through with me & mine - not yet. Arkansas was to have over 8.5 inches of rain in the area where I live. Our entire state had record rainfall ever for the year!
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/dec/24/heavy-rainfall-causes-flood-warnings-few-outages/
I was feeling good enough to go to mom's for Christmas (20 miles away), so hubby and I took to the road. Well, water was over the roads in at least 10 places. Water was over the freeways & the police had closed the freeways at four locations. This was a good time to have two fat people in your car. In fact, it would have been better to have four fat people - more weight, less likely for your car to float off.
When we finally got to mom's, the entire bottom level of her house was flooded with about an inch of water. She had already called a couple of guys with pumps, but as water was pulled out - it would come in. "Fortunately" that part of the house had flooded during the summer and the really valuable stuff was already gone. But, we were still faced with pulling out and throwing away wet carpeting, destroyed paneling, pumping services, commercial drying fans, listening to my mom moan and fret for the next month, and who knows what other associated gremlins.
I would like to end this long post saying I am lucky in
- I did not get sick enough to be hospitalized & I am 80% recovered now.
- I hope my friends in Oklahoma dig out of their blizzard okay - but when that frozen stuff melts send it to Texas, not here.
- We have been trying to get my mom to move to a smaller house for years. She's a no go. But, the house is getting to be too much for her to handle. Also, I know that some folks got it worse than mom did in the flooding - they lost everything.
1. I made my list out. I caught the flu and/or (or some wicked respiratory virus) two weeks before Christmas. Yes I had flu shot, but not swine flu shot yet. Went to doctor as stuff worsened, got antibiotics, and steroid inhaler. A few days on the inhaler gave me thrush. Now I was coughing like Doc Holiday on Tombstone, was too tired to walk past the kitchen, and this fungus that babies get made it painful to eat, drink, or talk. The doctor gave me antifungal pills to kill the thrush.
2. A few days before Christmas I am feeling good enough to finish cards and mail them to our Secret Santa - Misty. God bless her. While my cards are in transit one of the largest snowstorms in Oklahoma history hits Oklahoma. The National Weather Service is calling it a blizzard. I really doubt if many of these Okies are moving too much yet. Living next door to them - we Southerners are just not equipped for such frozen mendacity.
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=12&articleid=20091226_11_A1_Avansi217350
I am putting this little note out there not for sympathy (altho head pats are nice) but to let folks know why some of their cards are most definitely going to be late this year. It is the fault of those two bitches . . . Mother Nature and Communicable Disease.
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P.S. This part has nothing to do with my Christmas cards, but is part of my total experience this holiday season. The "harpies" were not through with me & mine - not yet. Arkansas was to have over 8.5 inches of rain in the area where I live. Our entire state had record rainfall ever for the year!
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/dec/24/heavy-rainfall-causes-flood-warnings-few-outages/
I was feeling good enough to go to mom's for Christmas (20 miles away), so hubby and I took to the road. Well, water was over the roads in at least 10 places. Water was over the freeways & the police had closed the freeways at four locations. This was a good time to have two fat people in your car. In fact, it would have been better to have four fat people - more weight, less likely for your car to float off.
When we finally got to mom's, the entire bottom level of her house was flooded with about an inch of water. She had already called a couple of guys with pumps, but as water was pulled out - it would come in. "Fortunately" that part of the house had flooded during the summer and the really valuable stuff was already gone. But, we were still faced with pulling out and throwing away wet carpeting, destroyed paneling, pumping services, commercial drying fans, listening to my mom moan and fret for the next month, and who knows what other associated gremlins.
I would like to end this long post saying I am lucky in
- I did not get sick enough to be hospitalized & I am 80% recovered now.
- I hope my friends in Oklahoma dig out of their blizzard okay - but when that frozen stuff melts send it to Texas, not here.
- We have been trying to get my mom to move to a smaller house for years. She's a no go. But, the house is getting to be too much for her to handle. Also, I know that some folks got it worse than mom did in the flooding - they lost everything.
