Pass the oxygen, there is none here

I believe that the combination of 40C + temperatures, high humidity and huge increase in tourist population has created a situation of aoxygenation. This condition will not support menopausal life forms. I am one of these organisms and am fighting for every breath today and am unable to clean, cook, do hurry-up dog duty or answer the telephone or door. Please for the love of all that is holy bring oxygen with you if you are visiting this area and stop using up mine.

NNNNEXT!!!

Ok, so we moved into this downsized home, in a retirement golf community overlooking the lake. We sit right below Mission Winery, on the 5th Tee. Sounds Idyllic, right? Maybe not so much. Days after we arrived, our delicious granddaughter tested the EMS (Emergency Measures Services) in town when she stopped breathing. The next 12 hours were spent in Emergency, amongst all the blood and gore a resort community can offer. The good news is we left without seeing the doctor as she seemed better and I was hungry. A month later the EMS guys visited next door some time before dawn. Then again weeks later, paid another visit to different lady, I liked to call her, the well, golf lady 4 doors down. We attended her funeral a week later. Two months passed and the Ambulance again stopped off to take our next door neighbour to the hospital and we sadly attended her funeral later that month. Summer arrived with the neighbour on our other side riding off in the early hours in the Ambulance and took the ride again easily 20 times over the next 2 months. She thankfully seems to be treatable and is in hospital as we speak, hopefully getting well. This morning the fit and slim woman 5 doors down took the big white ride to the hospital. Now I am not fit, not slim and if reports are accurate, may be in the throws of an early dementia and have bones of glass. I have made dutiful preparations just as I did prior to giving birth. This time without the breast pads and nursing bra. In other words I am packed and ready for any future trip in the big white Ambulance, we are the only house left. Over reaction, I think not!

Closed for Siesta

More company, another grocery trip, vacuum and mop those F'n wood floors, clean enough vegetables Beijing would be impressed, bake another gourmet dessert (puffed wheat squares} very classy, I know; and then the entertainment. There was golf, the beach, Go Cart track and their favorite, shopping at Madonnart Studio Shopnsave. Just when I thought I was ahead in the inventory department, I quickly fell behind. Today, I am thinking about getting dressed sometime soon, it's (11:46a.m.} or rest up from writing this post.

Gimme, Gimme, Gimme, a man

What can I say about the last 2 days spent transporting a truck in 42 C. All day most of the night, sweating, no place to pee, nothing to eat, no good music...it was hell man. Wait,there was no man to help, just me. God, Gimme, Gimme, Gimme a man.....

B NOT Afraid

On the cusp of New years 2008, I made a promise to myself to live with more fear in my life. I had become too cautious and would sweat buckets with anything new or risky. The next day my beloved SIL called to invite me to Rome, leaving in 3 weeks. Out of the character I had become since the MVA in 2002, I immediately said "I'm in". I have not regretted that decision in the slightest. Today, in the words of Brittany Spears, "Oops, I did it again". With my heart in my mouth and perhaps under a pseudonym, I am going to submit my virgin exhibit to Bead Style Magazine to be juried for a Spring 2009 publication. The necklace, piece 1 of 5 is included in that submission. Yikes, Holy cow Batman!!!! Yes I am afraid...very afraid.

Happy Birthday Sweet Girl

Birthday wishes abound in Edmonton this week, in fact 2 Birthday girls and one my very own fruit of my loins, have created for themselves the week that keeps on giving. The creative team of Lostnfound Studio have indeed done that which many have dreamed but just never thought up....they have invited friends, family, lady standing behind them at Safeway as well as the nice old guy drinking out of a paper bag at the bus stop to join in a pottery/scrapbooking/pedicure/Mama Mia/ food fest week of fun. Man, I so wish I could have joined them....next year for sure, the year of the big 40 for Missy LP, will make Birthday Week a must.

Dula , CanineTopiary

A new and delicious art form has been discovered today within the walls of Madonnart Studio. Some may feel a need to call the Animal Rights people. I say, I have found a new style of Performance Art ....genius, pure genius.