December 15-21 2013

 Sunday 15- fairly nice day.

I did my stretches, lifted weights, yoga, core trainer and punched the heavybag for two minutes.

Jimmy and Clarice stopped by on their way back home to wish me well and give me a bag of goodies that contained cookies and chocolate covered peanut butter balls they make at home every year; kinda a Stonebraker family tradition.

I got all caught up with my TV shows that I watch on the internet, “Castle” and “Elementary”.

Monday 16- warm.

I did my stretches.

FedEx dropped off Kelly’s prescription for her pills that I will pick up. She is sick in bed with the flu, hasn’t had hot water for over a week, had her water turned off for two days as Andrew works on replacing the very old rotten pipes that finally burst. I picked up the USDA groceries for Kelly and Roger over at Chris’s house; his carburetor was messing up and he had to drive right home and couldn’t drop them off at my house.

I drove to the 29 Palms post office to pick up my two inverters I ordered. Then I went to Rite Aid to get Kelly’s pills and waited there for an hour or so for them to get filled. I picked up some food supplies for Kelly and her critters at Staters. Stopped by at the Chinese takeout to get some dinner.

Andrew was still working on the pipes when I got back around 4pm. I dropped off her pills, food and the Chinese and then went to Roger’s to give him his USDA. I finally go back to Kelly’s to eat some Chinese food when I had to help Andrew finish up on a few loose ends; no water to the toilet and bathroom sink. With everything almost all done Andrew left a little bit after 8pm and Kelly and I watched a few episodes of Merlin and ate our Chinese food.

Tuesday 17- actually quite nice, but I stayed in bed with sore throat.

I woke up with a slight sore throat just like I did last Tuesday. I think I’ll start calling this sore throat Tuesdays.

I hooked up the new 1100 watt inverter and it was DOA and will have to send it back to Amazon. Hooked up the new 300 watt inverter I bought at the same time as a backup and works just fine, but won’t run the fridge, which I knew, but I didn’t know it wouldn’t run my laser printer when I went to print out the return notice for Amazon that’s supposed to go back with the box; I had to use the generator for that.

Wednesday 18- cold and windy here.

I did my stretches and yoga.

UPS to my surprise arrived and picked up the bad inverter and took it back to Amazon where I received a refund for it the next night!

Thursday 19- rain all day.

I did my stretches.

I took Kelly shopping to Vons and Walmart and that took eight hours. I was really exhausted afterwards. I bought a tree to setup at her house and she says she is going to cook a real Christmas dinner; I hope I don’t have to wait until 11pm to eat it. We had to load everything in the pouring rain.

Friday 20- Saturday 21-  cold and windy.

I did my stretches...

FedEx arrived with a Christmas care package from my friend Bonnie Tilley-Khan.

I went over to Kelly’s to put the tree up. I had to use a big bucket because WalMart didn’t have any tree stands; it worked!

I became very sick in my stomach. The next two days or three are blurry so I copied a message I wrote to a FaceBook friend: 

It came sometime Friday morning? (this part I am not sure about) I had to rush over to help a friend and I got really bad abdominal pains and came back home; maybe a gallbladder attack. I laid there for several hours in complete agony thinking I would be no more and never finish my books I am writing; that's when I remembered the alka seltzer you packed away for me in the box. I opened the package and looking at all the fine cookies and candies and stuff I couldn't eat right now. I was a man on a mission! I found the seltzer at the bottom and took two; which provided a little relief and took a couple more a few hours later. The pain still is with me but not as server as last night. I had hardly any sleep. Tell Doc Kitty thanks! I can't wait till I feel better to dig into the goodies... Thank you Bonnie Tilley-Khan and Doc Kitty!

And another version I wrote someone else:

I got really sick Friday night and I thought I wasn't going to make it... my stomach hurt really bad, maybe a gallbladder attack or a bacteria, something anyways and it completely shut me down. I couldn't hardly get out of bed I was so dizzy. Maybe it was food poisoning... I was awake all last night thinking I'd never finish my books I am writing. I finally got to sleep at around 9 or so in the morning and when I woke up the pain was mostly gone and so was the day. So there are two things in my life I need to do and one is to complete writing my books.

 

So like I said I was completely out of it.

***** Stuff I Wrote this Week******

I have many Muslim friends. I have many Christian friends. I have many Jewish friends as well. I love each and every one of them. I am non religious because I feel there is a better way of life instead of falling into the Hate Traps men have conceived and constructed throughout the millenniums for their gain of riches and power by controlling the minds of their followers. People with hate in their hearts try to divide us. Please reject that hate, reject anyone with hate in their hearts; just walk away from the haters. Be you Muslim, Christian or Jew reject hate and those who teach and preach it! May we all live in Peace, because that's what God wants.

Seasons Greetings!

My dear friend where have you been? You are not sailing the oceans with their waves rolling high, you were not in the forest where the elves dance and hide. You are not in the glen where the stream fills the lake. You are not writing poems of cookies and cakes. Where shall we find you we do not know, maybe when spring flowers replace the white winter snow?

*****