Merry Christmas

I don't think anyone reads this anymore. Could be because I never write anything. Anyway just in case someone happens upon my ranblings Merry Christmas. Along this same note, if anyone is reading this, could you please post a comment so I know. A simple "yah I'm here" would be fine. If I get any responses I'll try to write more consistantly. If not, I may stop altogether.

happy wrapping
jan

God Bless the child....

WHO AGREES TO WEAR THE SAME HALLOWEEN COSTUME AS LAST YEAR! Both my boys decided to be the same thing that they were last year. Jason is a Clone Trooper, and Jeff will be a Pirate Skelleton. I got a cool skul mask with funny hair at the 99c store and it goes so will with the pirate costume from last year he agreed to wear it. I got a bridal gown at the thrift store and will stomp around in that. I paid next to nothing for it and it fits so it will be fun. I too will wear a scarry mask.

I got roped into being room parent AGAIN so more work for me

jan

Been Way too long

It has been WAY too long since I have posted an update. Not much has happened anyway so there ya go. It's thursday night and I'm bored. There is nothing to watch on TV on Thursday. I'm torn between QVC, Mall Cops and an I Love Lucy marathon. One would THINK with 80 million channels on cable + all the offerings On Demand I could find something more interesting to watch than Mall Cops, a reality show where they follow actual Mall Cops around the Mall of America. Have we actually come to this? Apparently we have. Anyone else out theres body toying with menopause? I have been bleeding, or should I say spotting since the beginning of Sept! I swear to mother mary when I get to heaven I am getting in line to Smack Eve. Menopause, or should I say Perimenopause SUCKS. And can't they rename it! Pause. I would prefer menoSTOP. Once this is finished I don't ever want to Meno again.

happy hot flashes

jan

Mom is now a miniature

IN mom's southwest roombox she had a vase with a lid. I took about a teaspoon of her ashes (seriously it looks pretty much like oatmeal or gravel not the least bit ash like) and put them in said vase, and put them in the window of the room. She is now officially a miniature. Next week we go to LA and toss half in the ocean there, and I plan on dumping the rest in the ocean in Monterey. Then we are DONE. I'm sick of the whole thing honestly.

jan

Kitty Litter anyone?

I got my mom back today. The lady opened up the very attractive plastic black box. (can ya say 99c store)I looked in to see what looked to ME like a bag of kitty litter. I swear it looks like either kitty litter or something found on the floor of Home Depot. I thought I would be all emotional and teary eyed, but it's hard to get weepy over a bag of kitty litter. There is absolutly NOTHING that remindes me of my mom in that box.(although I think I may have spotted a filling)Don't get all ewww on me, if you have saved your kids baby teeth it isn't any different. I honestly believe I will have zero trouble dumping said bag o' rocks into the ocean. I even get to hit Disneyland while I'm at it.

when I have time I'll relate how Jason lost 2 teeth at once which is a lot more gross

Carol has left the building

Mom died Friday August 21st at 5:30. The nurse called me to say she was almost ready. By the time I arrived she was gone. That's ok, I had been earlier and spent time with her while the whole group of nurses were doing the hula in the patio. The CNA's kept coming in saying "DOESN'T SHE WANT TO GET UP?" Umm no I don't think my mom wants to hula into the afterlife. I wonder if anyone has ever done that? Anyhow, the neptune society has her and I will get her back in about a week. I am going to take about a T of ashes and put them in a small vase in her miniature roombox. Now she can live in the box she was so proud of. I have no idea what's going to happen after that. I have zero unfinished business. I had some nice times with her at the end and I am very grateful. Jeffrey took it a little hard, Jason is still pretty young and doesnt' quite understand except "grandma won't be mad anymore" Dave is very supportive. I'm glad it's finally over. Exactly 1 month ago she started down this road. I thought it would be longer than this but I'm glad she is finally with my dad in heaven a new creature happy and HEALTHY again.

thanks agian for the love and support.

jan

Mom

Ran into the kaisar doctor in the parking lot at the convelesent home and she said "a couple of days" This is very hard to watch hope it's over soon.

jan

Mom update

She is "fading fast" as my mom used to say about my grandfather. I used to always say "what like the cheshaire cat in Alice in Wonderland" I"m fading I'm fading. No seriously, she is not eating or able to drink much at all. I have to force (and I use that term loosly) to "OPEN YOUR MOUTH" and I can hardly get the straw in and then getting her to drink is very hard. It won't be long. Pray it's not the FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL!!!! All I want is a phone call first thing in the morning saying she passed away sometime in the middle of the night. Then I call Neptune Society and it's over. I have decided to take a few of her ashes and put then in a very small miniature jar she has in her southwest room and she can "live" in her southwest room which I think would be totally incredible. Chris can scatter or whatever after that.

oh Chris.....that's a whole other post.

jan

All moved in

Mom is all moved into the her new home. I guess she's fine time will tell which direction she goes, better of course, or death. How's that for a choice? Hopefully by Monday at the latest I can finally get over to Lisa's father in laws house and haul away some book cases for her. I owe her so much and I'm pleased to help. I have to haul a book case from moms room to savers so might as well do them all at once.

Next step: PAPERWORK!

BLAH
JAN

Thank you for being a friend.....

OMG you guys THANK YOU!! And an EXTRA SUPER SPECIAL NO WORDS CAN EXPRESS HOW INCREDIBLE YOU ARE THANK YOU to LISA NORMAN!!!!! Who went ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALL OF FRIENDSHIP BY SITTING IN THE ER FOR 6 HOURS WITH ME!!
What you say??? But how can this be?? (oh it be Seinfeld quote) We were all 3 camped out at your house while you were at the ER??? Yes on SUNDAY, but not on MONDAY! Long story short she went into seazures and I had to call 911 again and back into the ER we went. This time they admittd her and as of Wednesday she is still there. She will not come home but go into a nursing home. If you want more of the details call I'm tired.

Funny joke from Lisa: There was this stupid LOUD buzzer thing hooked up to my mom. She put her hands to her ears and said "that's so loud is that gonna make that horrible noise all night??" "No" says Lisa, "the one that buzzes all night is LOUDER"

Thanks Lisa that's quite funny.


I am so greatful to all 3 of you. Lisa Kuder for asking me 2 seconds after I told her what was going on "Do you want me to do anything?" Can you come stay with the boys? "YES" Next, Lisa Norman for RACING over and of course camping out in the ER, and PUTTING UP WITH ME FOR DAYS LATER. I so owe you help if Tim moves, or if you just need me to run over to "see what's going on" and Deanne for just being nice. I didn't get much of a chance to see you but thanks too. I appreciate all of you and I'm glad we are all still friends all these years later.

Love to all

jan

I'm a homeowner

Mom and I went to the lawyers today, and she signed over the house to me. I am an official CA homeowner. I just hope the fireplace doesn't fall over or something. I don't even have the luxury of moving into a nice new clean house. I just came home to my old weedy mess

ehh can't complain about a free house

yippi I guess

jan

Disneyland Photos with Lisa 2009

Cute Cat and Disneyland with Lisa June 09

Photo Update

Picasa is giving me fits. I will post the Disneyland photos as soon as it decides to let me. I don't understand what the hangup is, I think it's conflecting with another program.

Jan and Lisa's Most Excellent Trip to Disneyland part 2

The alarm went off at the butt crack of dawn and I was up by 5:45. I went into Lisa's room area and thank goodness she had already started the coffee. (I set it the night before.) She mocked me about bringing my own coffee junk but by the end of the trip was quite happy with my obsession with my own coffee as opposed to the junk the hotel provides. Lisa had the morning shows on, and we were shocked and horrified to learn that Ed McMan had died. WE pondered weather we should even go at that point, seeing as how we were sure the park would be closed, but decided we would cover ourselves in black and suffer thorugh the day as best we could. We had decided we wanted to be out the door by 7:15 and believe it or not we actually walked out the door at 7:15, tissues in hand. We tried to contain ourselves in our greef. The first photo you see of us here with our glasses on were actually covering up swelled poofy eyes from all the crying we did walking across the street. Had we KNOWN later that week that we would also lose Farah and Michael Jackson I'm sure Lisa would agree we would have cancled the trip right then and there and driven home. The shocking death of Ed aside, we were second in line at the gate. Once the park opened we went straight to Peter Pan and were the first ones on the ride for that day. We then hit Mr Toads wild ride and Pinocchio, and we walked through the newly redone Sleeping Beauty Castle. It was 8:15 by then and Lisa's shoes already gave her blisters. I made her stay at the Dumbo ride while I went to first aid to get her some bandages. The nurse was like "it's only 8:20 and you already have blisters??" "Yes, my friend decided to wear new shoes" Note to anyone: Never break in new shoes at Disneyland. Bandages in hand I headed back to Lisa, and they did the trick. For the next few hours we hit ride after ride while collecting Fast Passes. I had ADR's for Blue Bayou at 11:30. We had lunch then headed back to the hotel to rest and sit in the hot tub. While watching TV later that afternoon we learned that not only did Ed Mcman die but that Jon and Kate were getting a divorce. OMG will the horror of the day never end!! I dragged Lisa back out about 7 to start using our previously collected Fast Passes on the over crowded E ticket rides. We went on Space Mountain, which made Lisa sick, then Finding Nemo subs. After the subs Lisa went back to her room, I stayed late saw Fantasmic again, and rode a few more rides alone. I really like the park after Fantasmic. It's much quieter after all the people leave and it's quite pleasant. I wondered back to the room by about 11 and crashed. WE did not get up early the next morning. The next day we went to CA Adventure, had lunch, hit the hot tub and finished off the night at Disneyland where I made Lisa watch Fantasmic. Again I closed down the park and wondered back to the room by about 12:30. We drove home Wednesday morning. All in all a great trip. Photos to follow.
I alreay want to go back at Chrismas with Jason for our Birthdays. We'll see if Dave lets me.

Jan and Lisa's most excellent trip to Disneyland

Well Lisa and I had a wonderful time in Los Angeles save for one very irritating moment with my sister. More on that later. Once I actually got to leave my house everything went off without a hitch, however actually leaving my house was quite the ordeal. See, Dave went camping, at Sanborne, so I had to get him and the boys out the door, then I had to get my mom ready for Lorraine then I had to get myself out the door. I hate being the one in charge becasue by the time it came for me to concentrate on me I was so frazzled I couldn't concentrate and forgot some stuff. I finally managed to get to Lisa's house and we were off....to Milpitas. We stopped at Walmart then Jack in the box. It was well past 8:30 before we actually got out of San Jose. We arrived at beautiful happening Buttonwillow and were hit in the face with the God Awful flies and SMELL of cows. To quote Han Solo " what a wonderful smell you have discovered" I have stayed there 2 other times but it has never smelled before. We went to our room and were met with more flies and a huge moth. I was able to catch him (or her) and toss it outside, however we were left with the flies. It wasn't bad at night because they don't like the dark, but they woke us up early landing on our arms and face which tickeled. We left early but I guess one wanted to tag along because we had one in our car. We named him Jasper. Jasper pretty much went with us to Disneyland and I think I even saw him once we got back home. We swung by my sister's house for a quick visit and some lunch then we headed to Disneyland. She had a small melt down because she was telling me how to drive and I told her to knock it off. In an effort to not let the nonsense esculate I ate crow for lunch and apologized up the wazoo (for god know's what??) and she let it go.. as far as I know. I'm sure sometime down the line I will again catch Hell for my error but I'll deal with that later. Lisa is my witness, I did not "bitch her out" as I was told I did. Dealing with my mom is so much easier belive it or not. Once we left Ashbyland it was off to Disneyland. We arrived about 6:30 hauled our junk upstairs. I went to meet Leanna and Lisa just hung around the hotel to rest. Long story short, I was out with Leana until midnight closing downt he park and didnt' get to sleep until well after 2am. The alarm clock went off at 5:30. Ugg.

part 2 later

The layoff announcement

Dave called, his company has announced 10% layoffs sometime soon. He's hoping it's just the higher paid people but who knows. So far we have dodged the bullets but ya never know. I guess we would be ok with some creative cost cutting. I mean I am willing and able to get some kind of "get by" job assuming THERE IS ONE. I hear even the crapola jobs are hard to come by. I may end up selling onions in the streets.....

whatever

Seinfeld moment #266

in regards to that Dr who got shot over the weekend, the one who did late term abortions, in my best Seinfeld voice......

that's a shame...

jan

More on the cancer

She informed me yesterday, that she has had pain for over a year. She thougth it was galbladder. She went to 1 doctor who patted her on the head and said " you have bad posture" eventhough her Liver enzymes were UP which should have at least been cause for further investigation. So since this has been brewing for over a year undected, I'm not sure how long from here. I would not be surprised if this time next year I'm at a funeral. I am going to visit next Friday. She seems upbeat, but I think it's probaby more shock than anything. Unless she is having an attack of pain she really does not have any symptoms.

Lisa and I are still going in June. hehe. I am so gonna drive her crazy....

Prognosis MEGA Negative

She called today. It is in both lobes of the liver and nothing can be done. Pain management and Hospice. Kinda nuts. I am going to visit in 2 weeks on David's next 9/80 day off. Hopefully my stupid ear infection will be gone by then. I will go alone and visit. Unless more Hell breaks loose, Lisa and I can still go to Disneyland in June. I still need a vacation from Mom. I am not telling my mother. She is not mentally capable to processing the information. I still have to tell her HER parents are gone and that makes her very angry because she thinks I'm lying to her. I can't tell her, I just can't.
more if I know more

side note: ALLLL the Christmas decorations are officially down as of last weekend. The huge wreath is off the garage and all the christmas trees I assume are back in the garage. kinda funny

jan

Prognosis Negative

Almost positive Chris has Bile duct cancer, (who knew you could get cancer in your bile duct??) If confirmed 100% it isn't pretty:

The disease is most prevalent in females older than age 60. It's rapidly progressive and usually fatal; patients seldom live a year after diagnosis. The poor prognosis is due to late diagnosis; gallbladder cancer isn't usually diagnosed until after cholecystectomy, when in many cases it's in an advanced, metastatic stage.

That part shocked me honestly. I figured she would drone on for awhile. She is officially sicker than my mom, and therefore off the hook with me being irriated that she has ignored mom for over 6 years. Although, I still don't understand that.

I;m not sure how I feel. Of course I'm upset, but I'm not freaking out. Maybe it hasn't sunk in yet, or maybe I'm just tooo busy with mom and kids and a crazy cat that won't GET OUT OF MY CHAIR. She's making jokes. "Should I renew my zoo membership??" and tons of Seinfeld jokes.

Pray it goes fast and painless

jan

It's BAAAACCCCKKKK!!

My ear infection that is. It went away for a lovely 5 days and now it's back. Obviously the antibiotic the first Dr gave me wasn't strong enough to totally kill it. Now I'm on something else. Not sure exactly what I've lost track. It hurts and I'm pissed. Least I can breathe this time, (for the time being) I think the other meds at least cleared up the sinus infection. Guess I would rather be deaf than not able to breathe. You don't have to have good hearing to sleep, actually could make sleeping easier, but if you can't breathe you can't sleep. That really really sucks.

I hate both my neighbors God awful trees. My sister may not have liver cancer for sure. One Dr says probably yes, the other says her cancer markers in the blood don't show anyting so probably no. She will have to have a more advanced test to be sure.

gonna go read lips on Seinfeld since I can't HEAR ANYTHING

HUH WHAT??

JAN

Photo projecta nd Relaity TV

I have not forgotten about the photo project. It's sitting there mocking me everytime I walk by the second empty album and I log onto the computer and I see Picasa. I went like gang busters for about 6 weeks then crashed. My sister asked to see some Easter photos of the boys, which I don't have btw, so I logged onto Flickr and got a sudden burst of renewed enthusiasm. I pulled back out the remaminder of Jeffrey's photos and the book, and am going to finish putting the photos in the second book. I will then cross check to make sure all those photos I scanned from Costco are in the book and start posting them to Flickr and my blog again. This is the sort of thing that if I don't finish it now I never will. I'm home now with Jason and my mom, so I have free time. Keep checking back for new sets.

I Love going to open houses, and I HATE going to open houses! There are 2 houses on my walking route and I stopped in to lookie loo. They were beautiful. The first one does not look like much on the outside but they added on a HUGE master suite and it was BEAUTIFUL. The other one was nicer on the outside and had a neato loft area above the living room. Makes me realize how dumpy my own house is, which is why I hate going to open houses.

Why do I watch this stuff?? Reality TV that is. Some of these shows are SOOOO STUPID but for whatever reason, lazy, nothing else on, something comes on after something else and you get sucked in. I am hooked on, gulp... Celebrity Apprentice, and Food Network Challenge. I LOVE food network challenge! They are always making these crazy cakes in 8 hours. Sometimes they break apart while they are trying to move them to the front table. Tonight is round 3 of 4 of "last cake standing" They are supposed to make SuperHero cakes. Could be interesting. I love Food Network. Dinner Impossible, Good Eats, Iron Chef. It's clean TV and I don't have to worry about the kids watching it. I have no excuse for watching Celebrity Apprentice other than I'm just another one of the brainless wonders who turn it on. I think it's funny. It draws you in and I just have to see Trump yell at these people. DO I REALLY care if Joan Rivers gets fired? No. But it is fun to see her pitted agnist her daughter... I guess.

must do laundry

jan

Me just wanting to Bitch

my cold has moved into my left ear and it hurts like hell. Of course I have to take mom to Kaisar for her eyes so I can't go to the doctor myself. I have had it with this cold. If it's not one thing it's another.

sorry to vent but it's my blog and I'll bitch if I want to....



The blind guy got voted off American Idol...yay. BORING! I am rooting for Danny, Adam and Allison. I think it's going to be Adam and Allison at the very end. Can't say who is better as they are both so different.

jan

update for anyone who cares: My mom had an eye appt at Kaisar at 3:15. I was able to go to see my Dr. at 4:15 (same building) and I have a rip roaring ear infection. Bleh.

It's almost Easter....

and the Christmas decorations are ALMOST completly down. Looks like they finally pulled all the junk off the roof, and stacked the 4 HUGE tree cutouts across the garage door. Still looks like they are up but you can tell he's finally pulling them down. His wife probably didn't want Christmas trees in their Easter Egg hunt photos.

My cold took hold in my ears and sinuses. You never truly appreciate BREATHING until you are up all night because you can't.



jan

I have a cold

and my head hurts, my sinues hurt my ears hurt. Everytime I get a cold it lasts forever and makes me crazy.

The medication my mom is on are doing something. If she stays like this I'm ok. She is loopy but cheerful. I can handle that. I can't handle combative. I'm terrified that she will do something to herself and I'll get blamed for it. My worst fear. I hate social workers and the idea of one snooping around my business terrifies me. That is one reason I don't want to do a conservertership. I know the trouble Mike Sylvester had/has and it's not pretty. She doesn't go anywhere or do anything not sure why it's necessary.

Dave found me a nice bike in the trash pickup. Its a girls huffy and it's dark pink. I like it.

hang in everyone
jan

April Fools day

I should come up with something clever to say like "I'm pregnant" or Guess what I finally won the lottery and I'm paying off everyones houses, then end with a rousing APRIL FOOL....!


but I'm not in the mood

here's hoping your kids don't put toothpaste in your oreos

wee
jan

My moms on Aricept.....

it's making her worse I think. Basically what this drug does, is keep it from getting worse but won't cure it. Problem is it makes them pretty dang loopy. You ever go to Costco and buy a huge package of hamburger and forget about it for a few days and it starts to smell funny, but it's not "bad" yet, so you stick it in the freezer? The freezer won't make it "good" again it just keeps it from getting worse. That's what this drug does. Freezes her brain in the not qutie bad yet. Problem is you can only keep the meat in the freezer for so long before it gets freezer burn. Once you take them off the meds apparently they go down hill quite fast. If she's on 1/2 pill she gets very combative and OMG BITCHY! but she sleeps all the time on the full dose pill. I guess I would rather have loopy and nice than combative and bitchy. I caught her.... umm, well lets just say she was not the master of her domane... the other day. I could have lived my whole stupid life without THAT image in my head. But she was happy. Good Lord what a trade off.

And everyone wonders why I go to Disneyland so much.

It's trash pick up this week and I don't even care. I must be depressed

The woman has lost her mind....

No I'm not talking about my mother. I'm talking about the Octomom. Dr Phil hired a full time nanny service for her. The deal was supposed to last for a minimum of 18 months. It lasted less than a week. With Dr Phil and the nanny service on board I was willing to give this nut case the benefit of the doubt hoping she would be a good mother in the long run. Now I hope CPS steps in and takes the children as a single person raising 14 children alone is impossible.

hmm note to self: Don't piss off Dr Phil

can you say ADOPTION??

DL Savings time

I could go on a rant about changing the stupid clocks but I'm too sleepy to bother. I actually like the time this way, and I wish we would not fall back in Nov. Pick one already.
The Christmas decorations are still UP and show no indication of coming down anytime soon. I think they enter the city Christmas decoration contest every year and it appears they just leave them up and turn them on. Kinda seems like cheating if you just keep them up all year and flip the switch Thanksgiving night. I think I will stop with the updates and only mention it if they actually come DOWN.

I haven't done any photos lately. I have been too busy cleaning out the china and getting ready to drag stuff to my sister. I'm not terribly thrilled about having to rent a van but it will get the stuff out of my house which is good I guess.

My mom isn't doing well mentally. She is basically completly out of touch with reality. She was packing a box this morning because she wanted to go home. I told her this IS your home and she said "oh come on!" As you all know, this is not the first time I have had to deal with loopy family members both past and present. (read into that what you will, roll eyes :) but I was not expecting this of my mom at this age. Even the specialist at Kaisar said she was one of her younger patients. She is not the person I knew. I'm not all freaked out about it, except is that going to be ME in 30 years???
God spoke to me in that still small nagging voice about 2 years ago. He told me " you need to go to a lawyer and get the Trust looked at. You need to do it N O W!!" I didn't fully realize at the time just how urgent it was. Had I waited we would not have been able to make the changes we did. I kept saying to Leana "I have this feeling I need to do this NOW for some reason" so I did. Now 18months later I see why. The old trust could have easily been challenged in court by my sister and she could have forced a sale of the house and I don't know where I would be then. Probably living in some trailor in Kansas. Sheesh.

I should go. I am waiting for the Cable guy to come over to hook up the phone.

Janette Monteil........Good Day!

I got ripped off

It's been awhile, but sometime in the middle of the night sat/sun someone broke into my car and stole my leaf blower. They attempted to take the mower too but probably didn't want to mess with it because Dave has it jerry-rigged and it looks funny, or they bashed their hand attempting to get it out. Lisa N will remember when I had 2 things stolen out of my truck in her neighborhood a lifetime ago. I had to spend $160 to replace it yesterday. Yah THAT'S in the budget!

grrrr


The Christmas decorations LOOK like they may be coming down. I noticed the nativity scene is gone, but all the Christmas trees are still up. Maybe by St Patty's day.

I am still working on the photos. I need to take Jason to the park and take them with me and sit and finish them.

My newest interest is going through all the family China and Silver. TONS of it. I think I have inherited it from both sides of the family. Lucky me. Service for 12 of the old Jewel Tea pattern, my moms wedding china, my grandmothers rose bud pattern. Not to mention all the silver. 6 sets! 2 sterling silver sets, and 4 silver plate sets. My sister will get the one I don't want. The other sets were given to me by two different aunts, my Ham anut and Anna whose stuff I got just before I got married, and my grandmother's set. So 5 sets for me! That's nuts. I have enough to host the entire Dugger family. If you don't know who the Duggers are watch TLC.


jan

Quick Update (not that anyone really cares)

I filled up one whole photo album. (500 photos) on to album #2. Actually I doubt I will fill this one up. I'm almost done with the actual photos of Jeff. After he hits about 5 we get the digital camera for Jason and I don't have as many actual film shots of him.

The Christmas decorated house is still decorated. I have GOT to take a picture of it. It looks like less than it did, but it's still covered. I guess they leave it up all year??

off to take jeff to school


22 years and counting.....(our wedding anniversary was last Sat)

Well that didn't last long

My official New Years Resolution, "to avoid Disney all year" has been broken.Lisa Kuder and I have decided to go to Disneyland in June after Jeff gets out of school. The boys may or may not come along. It will be FUN!! Lisa and I went to Disneyland once soon after I got married when Dave went to Kansas and I didn't want to go. That trip was in August and it was HOT. I also didn't know how to navigate crowds back then. I went last year the exact same week in June and had a ball, so I think it will be fun fun fun. Dave wants to go camping so I think the boys will want to go camping instead of Disneyland. Actually if Jeff wanted to tag along with us it would be fine but he wants to know where Dave is going to camp first. As for mom, I asked my sister to please watch mom while we are gone. I think I will be able to drive her to Chris's house and drop her off. *I'll keep you posted on how THAT goes. I may have to ask Larraine to stay over again we'll see.

last of the Canon 100+ Photos

101+CANON

Last of the "old" camera. We had a Canon camera and it broke. That camera took us from Jason's referral to about Easter 2005. Boring stuff but here are the photos

Pink Eye sucks

The title of my post says it all. I woke up with double pink eye. It iches and it's driving me bats.

Mom's dr emailed me and said "she has too much fluid in her brain for her age" whatever that means. I take her to a neuraligist in Feb.

Random thoughts:
I hate laundry.
I'm getting sick of looking at my childrens photos as the photo project marches on. I am having fun taking Jeff's baby negatives to costco and having them all scanned onto CD;s. I had 93 negs scanned for $6. Can't beat that. That's not 93 strips, but 93 photos. (you know there are about 5 photos per strip) I'm off to take in another batch.

We are finally getting some much needed rain here in the bay area although probably not enough

The cat has worms going to take him in tomorrow for a shot. Could be worse. The cat could have Pink Eye and I could have worms.

Slowly the Christmas Decorations are coming down at the Christmas house. Finally, although it's still lit up every night

cheers
jan

Canon 120+

102+CANON

Last of the photos with the old camera.

More power to him

I did not vote for Obama. I don't hate the guy but there are some issues I do not agree with. That being said, I do hope and pray he can rise to the occasion. More power to him and God Speed.

to quote Han Solo in Return of the Jedi: Good Luck, You're gonna need it.....

December 08 Photopass Photos

Disneyland Photopass December 2008

Here, for anyone who is interested, are our Disneyland photopass photos. Basically the same few shots with different borders around them. I'm not as happy with this years set because we didn't take as many. I wanted to get the boys with Darth Vader or at the Haunted Mansion but the photopass photographers weren't out that much this year.

10 missing photos from Jason's birthday

Jason's 1st birthday missing photos

for some unknown reason, these were not picked up by Picasa. I'm posting them mainly to make the set complete.

Another photoset

102CANON

Another set has been uploaded. These were taken 2004, our first Christmas together as a complete family, plus Jason's first birthday and baby dedication day at our church. (which was the same day)

Another set has been uploaded

102CANON

Not much to say here it is for anyone interested. These were taken in 2004, our first Christmas as a complete family and Jason's first birthday and baby dedication at our church, (which was the same day)

The Jani of Oz

I have been told by someone who has not seen me in over 5 years, that a) I should let my hair go grey so I will "look my age" and b) if I MUST color it, God Forbid don't do it yourself at home because you will look like the straw man from the Wizard of Oz. As anyone who knows me knows, I am not into hair and makeup and all that froo froo stuff. I have nothing aganist it, but, lets face it, I'm lazy. I know I could and probably should do more but I frankly don't feel like it nor do I care. I take that back, I care a little but obviously not enough to actually do it, unless I'm going somewhere important. However, there is no way in HELL I am going to let my hair go totally gray so I can "look my age" I will end up looking my mother's age thank you very much, and even she was complaining, just today, that she hated being gray and should maybe color it. As for at home hair color, I have been using "Natural Match" for about 2 years now and my hair has never once resembled the straw man from the Wizard of Oz.

As Gary the guy I used to work with from the Pennysaver used to say "How Rude"

sign......

OH Update on the Christmas house: As of January 18th, it's still up and blazing away

I finished another photo set

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Slowly but surely I am working on my pictures. As I edit and print out each set, I will post to both Picasa web albums and Flickr. It may take me the rest of the year but I am determined to finish it.

The photo project continues

My brain hurts from all the photo sorting I did this weekend. I made my own baby photo book. After all the sorting and re-sorting and catagorizing, I was able to fine tune all MY personal photos, starting with my pregnant mother and working my way UP. (up to about Kindergarten) after K I guess I wasn't ineresting enough to photograph and it pretty much stopped. Believe me, there weren't that many of me when they were taking photos. God bless my ham aunt, (the one who married Dave and I) because a) most of the photos she took were in color and b) she wrote everything on the back so I knew exactly how old I was, and when and where it was taken. unlike my parents who were like "ehh guess it's you" Oh well, it's pretty much done and I'm happy with it. I have to say I was a very pretty little girl up until about 1st grade, when I guess someone hit me with an ugly stick because after that it's BAD. No I'm not being too hard on myself, ya have to see the pictures.

The Christmas House down the street is still all decorated like Christmas is tomorrow with every light still a blazing. TAKE DOWN THE CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS!!

The saga of the photos continues

I won't go into the drama of the STUPID Costco Photo Organizer, because it's complicated and I don't feel like dealing with it. Lets just say it worked, then it didn't and NOBODY at either Costco or the website have any idea how to fix it. Anyway, I went to BestBuy and got a wonderful program and which allows me to print multiple photos on a single page in a varity of combinations. This will allow me to, (hopefully)make hard copy of all my digital photos, and post it to the website thus making a 3rd backup of the photos. (Hard copy, Flickr, and a backup of each set burned onto this photosave deal thing)
Maybe not interesting to the 2 readers of my blog but I"m excited.

I did invite a bunch of family to my blog, including Lisa K, but so far only Lisa N and Deanne have joined.

Maybe they all secretly hate me.....

jan

New set of photos

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Clowns to the left of Me Jokers to the right....

here I am
stuck in the middle with you.

you can pick your friends, but you can't pick your family....

sigh...

jan

Happy New Year.....

Now take down your Christmas Decorations! Christmas is over it's time to let go. It's funny how charming they all are at the beginning of December, and how old and beaten up they look on new years day.


happy packing

jan