I got a call from my grandmother last night. She had received our wedding invitation her last day in the hospital (my aunt had brought it up there to her) and she was so excited to get it, LOL. I think I spoke to her for a good half an hour or so … she sounded a LOT better. She was asking about where the reception was being held and whether Jim and I needed a tablecloth, punch bowls, silverware, etc., LOL! I assured her that we were going to use “throw-away ware” and she needn’t worry about dragging out any of her good dishes or china for our wedding because I didn’t want to worry about any of it getting broken, lost, or ruined. She then started on about food and drink and invited me over to pour over some of her many cookbooks to look for appetizer and dessert recipes.
Of course she gave me a verbal RSVP. (John, you get the prize for being the first to send in an RSVP but you forgot to tell us who you were bringing … as if we didn’t know already *grins*)
Speaking of which, those of you in the metro area (hell, in the whole state!) should have received our invitations by now. Out of state may take a few days longer depending on local delivery (and may take longer with the upcoming holiday).
Please RSVP as soon as you can so that we can get a head count for the reception!
Please also let us know how many is in your party and who they are.
We’re looking forward to the weekend. I’ll hopefully be finishing up my side project. It’ll be nice to get paid. I’ll be able to pay off a few bills early for this month and maybe some of next month — which will be nice because I will have to pay off the dress fitting next month, and we’ll have car tags and property taxes next month too. I’ve got wedding-related events almost every single weekend for the entire month of September, which makes planning family time hard, plus we’ve still got to get anniversary gifts for a couple friends of ours whose anniversaries are coming up, plus we still have to schedule a time to speak to Jessie’s principal about taking her out of school for a week to go with us for the honeymoon (assuming she brings her grades up — they’re slipping!), my God we’ve been busy!
I swear wedding planning is hard enough, planning plus having a life plus family plus a job is harder. LOL! Then here’s the reality of it hitting you when it’s so close. A year — even six months ago it seemed so far away. Only a month and a couple of weeks to go now … I’m nervous …
I’ve been following a blog called “Tha Fuzz” for a couple of days that I ran across via my server logs — he’s using an early version of my “Jim’s Monkey” theme for WordPress and someone followed the link to my site and I in turn followed it back to his via the server logs. It’s run by a young man in central Florida with Leukemia named Sabastian.
So here’s some linky love to Sabastian, ‘cuz his blog (and his story) stole my heart.
This morning I ran across this story at Blogging Pro about a scumbag editor who attempted to extort funds from the site owner of Shoemoney.com for his already existing listing at DMOZ. Read this snippet:
A while back I got a email from a guy claiming to be a DMOZ editor saying that I had to pay him $5,000.00 or he would have my site: shoemoney.com removed from the dmoz.
I thought nothing of it … then today I got a email from him saying it was removed and I might want to rethink not paying him. I thought I would check just for grins.
It was removed … WOW
WTF?!?!
You know, I had have the hardest time getting my listings moved to the correct categories. I am tempted to just remove them altogether. That’s a despicable act, and I’ve heard rumors of that sort of thing going on for years, but this is the first time I’ve actually seen it in “print.”
For years I have done charity work for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, or as a friend of mine’s daughter, Natalie, used to call it, the “sixty-five roses” (she was only four when she was diagnosed but oh so damned cute and stole my heart instantly!).
I stayed up late last night working on one of my side projects but couldn’t help thinking of her because the website for one of the kids of the client I was working for is her age. Sadly I lost touch with her mother when she moved away from Birmingham years ago. I’ve had several “lost” friends run across my site over the years and I’m hoping to either run across her on the web or her run across here by chance. I’d love to hear how she’s doing. The last work I had helped her with was for an event I had done on the side … her daughter needed a portable oxygen concentrator (aka, a “tank”) so she could breathe more easily more easily … back in the day these were big bank, so I threw up a quick website on her employer’s host and we hit Southside after I got off work. I think we spent the better part of the weekend bar hopping and hitting up every shop owner asking everyone to give out our flyers advertising the site asking for donations. Within a few months they had the amount needed for Natalie’s tank and her momma cried happy tears for a week.
Just a quick note: Again, I’d like to everyone for their well wishes and prayers. I’m sitting at Jim’s mom’s house right now. My mother called me on my cell earlier to let me know that the doctor says that Grandmother should recover fully from her stroke. She’ll begin therapy Monday. I’m going to go see her after I leave here … I just wanted to post a quick update and say thanks again.
Edit:
(Sunday) I wanted to come on and post a bit more info (and clean up my horrible spelling, typing on a cell sucks!). Grandmother’s two doctors seem to be in a disagreement as to whether or not she’s had a stroke. When we left the hospital last night one was saying that he thought she has had a stroke and would make a full recovery, the other was saying that it wasn’t a stroke and could be something else affecting her. Mentally she’s been in and out of it. When we first got there she was incoherent and could not remember anyone’s names, but she started going on and on about various foods (my God, she went on about OATMEAL!). By the time we left, she was talking about her cat, Bebe (and at one point rambled on about each of our previous pets and various premium dog food and cat foods, and Big Man Gramps’ old goose, etc.) so we knew she was clearing up. One nurse wonders if some of her mental clarity problems are due to certain medications she’s been put on lately and I’m inclined to agree as that’s when all the recent trouble started, but we won’t know more until the doctors are able to run more tests and she’s able to start therapy next week.
Something that concerns everyone is that she’s refusing to eat or drink anything. If she keeps it up, they’ll have to tube her … and she definitely WON’T like that.
Saw Mother and Daddy there. Neither of them spoke to Jim, as usual …
WTF?!?!
