"Who finds a faithful friend, finds a treasure." -- Jewish saying

Last Night at the benefit for Dick Aube's family at PJ's in Augusta, ME.

Pardon the small images... these wee videos were taken on my cell phone.


NENE!! NENE!! NENE!! NENE!!

And Ms Joanne

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Snagglepuss on SNL Weekend Update - commenting on Prop8 - WAAY too funny!

Upon Moving Mom in with us....

We've had an extremely busy summer! As you know we have been busy painting rooms and rearranging the entire house. This operation has two desired end results:

1. Prepping this big ol' house in anticipation of the economy turning back around. Once the whole political thang is over and 'we' as a country come to our senses and boot out the current administration and "hopefully" get some real change happening in Washington! We SIMPLY can not endure another 4 years (with the very real potential of eight years) of the same ol' idiocy that has reigned with the republicans!! AKK!! Our personal plan?? Make this old house as shiny and inviting as is physically possible for two ol' Lesbians to do, so when we do sell, we will squeeze as many pennies out of the equity in this place as is possible. This house, after all, is what will be financing our pending move to the southwest! *dance, dance*
   
2. Mom was declining in both her physical health and mental state. It was time for her to move in with us. She has developed emphysema and gets VERY short of breath at the least little physical excursion. She is legally blind, has been her entire life. She does well with what she can see - however her right eye is basically useless and her left one is bad as well - she also has no depth perception, so walking on uneven surfaces is not really an option. Her knees are shot, too. Stairs are very difficult. She has never had to take any prescriptions until the whole emphysema thing happened and then she immediately got confused as to when what and how she was to deal with a couple pills and some inhalers! It was time... I was stressed out about her being alone in her apartment, I was stressed about her being a half hour car ride away should something immediate occur on her end, I was just stressed.
   

I have always known that at one point in my life my Mom would be living with me full time. In fact it was told to me over and over that it was and would continue to be my job to watch over my Mom.

Different folks have commented to me about her living us. 'A relationship killer!', 'A sure fire disaster just waiting to happen!' - these are just two things folks have blurted out to me upon my telling them that we were moving my mother in with us.

I know it won't be easy. Mom knows and goodness sake Nancy certainly knows! We are 3 grown women, two menopausal and one elderly. We all have opinions and needs and wants, in other words, we are 3 strong vocal women. The potential for disaster is there, but I have faith in us, as a couple and as a family.

It'll take compromise and gentleness as well as lots of love. I love my Mom and I love Nancy more than anyone knows. She is so special to me and I know this is the woman who will be with me for the rest of my life. Our golden years. Nancy has known since we started dating that me and Mom were a package deal. She took that on and has run with it! Completely changing our lives and our home we have worked hard this summer! She is a trouper and must really love me for doing all this work to the house and moving Mom in!

I am simply struck dumb sometimes at how lucky I am to have found her. *gulp*

Circus at "The Big 'E" (The Eastern States Exposition)

Nancy's Mom is a tour bus guide and she took Nancy on a recent trip down to Springfield, MA to the "The Big 'E'" (eastern states exposition).


These are a couple pics of the elephants in the circus.

Here's a link to the set on Flikr.

new hair

My hair had been driving me NUTZ! It was so long and scraggly - it looked as though I was just about to take flight the side "wings" had become so bad!!

I hadn't cut it since before my shoulder surgery!

I was planning on just making an appointment for later in the week and being done with it... until I looked at myself in the mirror when I got home.

OUT came the shears!! Off came the fluffage!

I LOVE it!! I won't have to cut it again for months!

I need some dangly earrings now!!!

HAHAHA!

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Laff! It's good for the soul!

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July 4th tripity, trip! Food, fun and folks!

This was our annual July 4th lobster pot! Sunday we gorged ourselves on Lobster, corn on the cob, and fresh strawberry pie ala mode! YUM!!! We had Mom down and our friend "D" came over and ate with us too.

"P" house and puppy sat for us while we went to Peaks Island Thursday afternoon, stayed over one night and then back home.

She REALLY helped with painting the double living rooms downstairs! More pictures of that coming soon!

Last fall we went to a benefit (for George Carman who suffers from cystic fibrosis) motorcycle ride and pork roast. I won a gift certificate for a nights stay and a dinner voucher at the Inn on Peaks Island.

It was simply wonderful!! Gorgeous weather, beautiful views, delicious food, yummy drinks, fantastic company (smooooooch -----> sweet meat) super comfy king size bed, pristine room with a luxurious jet tub - simple divine!!!


This is The Inn on Peaks Island, where we stayed on the third. GORGEOUS!!


Arriving on the island.


Nancy and I on our private deck.


The king size bed!


The view from the couch.


Heading back down to the dock Friday morning.


Us waiting on the ferry.


The ferry we rode over and back.

A video on the ferry back to Portland.

Some of Augusta's fireworks. Taken with my new phone, a Samsung Slider.

More fireworks, even more pics and videos HERE.


Hope you all had a WONDERFUL holiday!

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Back to work - regular hours!

This week I started back to work with my regular hours.

I had Monday off.

Tuesday was my first day doing opening procedures by myself. I did well. I fed, watered and spot check cleaned all the small animals, birds and reptiles. I dealt with the Isolation room and New Arrivals room. I dealt with all the back room fish stuff, switching out filters, medicating and such. I also did the crickets. The only things I didn't get done was pulling "sleeper" fish and feeding the fish.

All in all, a good start for my getting back. Feels good. My shoulder was sore and my arm was tired, but I didn't stress it. It's just going to take a while to toughen it up - SLOWLY! No overdoing it, or Nancy'll have my head!

After work I did very little... gave my shoulder a chance to recover. All I did was some beading and relaxing in the afternoon.

Wednesday after work I went up to Mom's to visit with her... I helped her sort through and throw away some things in preparation for her to move in with us. My shoulder was quite sore from 2 days at work, so I didn't over do it!! The missing part for the headboard came in the mail, so we finished putting it together! YAY!!

This morning I didn't work, but I did have physical therapy. When I got back home I cleaned up and organized the new media room a bit.






Looks much better, huh?

The bureau's will be moved into the dressing room and a table and chairs will come up here also. this room will be painted - last.

This afternoon I plan on starting to sand my textured walls in the bathroom this afternoon. I'll also work a bit in the studio, packing things up and sorting. I'm trying to have a pile ready and waiting at the foot of the stairs each time we go up, so it won't be so overwhelming all at once getting the entire studio moved upstairs.

I work Friday, Saturday and Sunday to finish out the week.

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