UGH

I cannot believe it has been over a week since I posted!!  I was explaining to Boosghost that internet service here in the country is sporadic at best  and though I can get it - it usually involves playing with the modem - restarting the computer - a virgin sacrifice - and a whole lot of chanting (which usually sounds like f**k.. f**k... f**k.)

Besides that - there really hasn't been a whole lot going on around here...

Well except for last Friday which was RibFest -- well a modified ribfest.  We pre-ordered and it was a drive by pick up....... eldest daughter and I prepared salad and roasted potatoes to have with the ribs and we had a delightful dinner on our deck.

Saturday the lil one hosted a dinner party (grinning) she's young I know !! but Santa brought her a camping cookbook and she wanted to try out the cheese fondu.  Soooo she invited eldest daughter and SIL and we feasted on cheese fondue in a bread bowl

It's been hot and steamy and we have been spending most of our days at the pool.... not so much on weekends - when the transient folks (weekenders) are camping and the pool is crowded - but from Sunday noon till Friday noon the pools are almost empty.

AND because we have been having too much fun here in the country - the gods frowned on us.  On Sunday I noticed the hot water wasn't as hot as it had been....... by Monday we had NO hot water!  Our RV repair guy dropped by yesterday and the whole hot water tank was corroded and broken... (don't you love my technical terms?!)  The price tag to replace it $1500 !!!!!  When we bought the RV a year and half ago - we did 2 things 1) paid $900 to have a thorough inspection and to have any and ALL problems fixed and 2) we took out an extended warranty -- that took a lot of thought and humming and hawing as it was $1000 (I believe) and when you are taking the equivalent of a mortgage out you tend to watch the pennies.  BUT thank god we did take it!!  Sir Steve called them yesterday and the entire thing is covered - well except for the $100 deductible.  BUT we are more than a little pissed with RV Canada who willingly took our money for the extras - like the inspection - and didn't do anything about this problem which had to have been there a year ago ............ le sigh.  BUT on the bright side the repair guy was able to get our hot water running temporarily and the new tank should be in by the end of the week!!

The weekend is fast approaching and it's a long one........ definitely Monday off and Sir Steve said there's a rumour the boss may close down on Friday too !!  Looking forward to an adult weekend and all the fun it brings.

Life is good even with a few speed bumps!

Monday Madness

Monday was possibly my worst nightmare........... It started at 7:30am when my neighbour came over to have our morning coffee chat.  When she is up here we share a coffee and chat before anyone else gets up... usually for about an hour.  Monday she stayed till 10ish - cause she now has a teenager who doesn't wake up early and I don't have the lil one.

When she finally left I made the bed.... did the breakfast dishes... and tidied up.  I went outside around 11:30 to enjoy the peace and quiet and the sunshine when another neighbour stopped by.  She has been making masks for the lil one (5 of them so IF school starts back full time in September the lil one has enough masks) and she had made me three masks..... she wants to make Sir Steve some and wanted my advice on colours.... (le sigh - like Sir Steve is gonna colour co-ordinate his masks to his work clothes!)  Anyway she stayed for over an hour............

Now it's past lunch time so I go fix some lunch - leave it cooking in the microwave and came back out to read while it cooks .................

AND.......

the neighbour from across the road came over to chat.......... and chat and chat.

by the time he left it was 2:15 and my lunch was still in the microwave.  I gave the congealed meal a stir and popped it back in the microwave for another few minutes...... while it was cooking the mask lady dropped by again..........

Now it's 4 pm and my lunch is congealed again.... and really do I want to eat it this close to dinner time?? and my head hurts.... too much talking.... GAH!!

At 4:45 I go back inside to go to the bathroom.... I hear the chairs on the deck being moved and assume the dog has wrapped her rope about them........... while I am thinking that, I hear a knocking on the door.............. the early morning coffee neighbour has popped back over to visit for 30 mins before Sir Steve comes home (she knows our schedule THAT well!!)

By the time Sir Steve got home I was ravaged!!  ok ok I know ravaged is probably a bit of an overstatement...... BUT I don't like most people... I don't like chatting for chatting's sake....... and it exhausts me!  I know it is generally socially acceptable to visit with one's neighbours and friends........ BUT........ it tires me out and gives me a headache!!  I look forward to the weeks I don't have the lil one cause I can go ALL day and not talk to anyone!!  that's sheer joy for me!!

Monday night sitting around the fire with eldest daughter and SIL - I got teased about being such a social butterfly....... GAH!!  Eldest daughter volunteered to be a 'bouncer' on Tuesday - standing at the foot of our stairs and limiting the number of visitors (grinning).  She didn't and I didn't really need it.... though I did chase my coffee chat neighbour away before 9 and went into town to run some messages ....... which kept the neighbours away BUT I still had to talk to people in town.  (grinning) I think I am doomed!!

Life is good when people enjoy your company (gonna be my mantra from now on!)

A Girl's best Friend

that's right.......... cock rings!  especially when your man is having some - mmmm - shall we say medical problems?!

Sooooooooooo

On the weekend I fished out Sir Steve's cock ring...... and waited for a good time... which didn't seem to come......

Until Saturday afternoon when he had to run into town for a bit.  When he left I went into the trailer - into the bedroom and got ready.  Just the getting ready part had me panting!!!

I laid on the bed - already for him....... and waited............

and waited.............

and waited..........

He should have only been gone 30 minutes - ok ok 40 at most.  After an hour I got up - pulled my clothes back on and went outside to sit on the deck.  Eldest daughter came over and asked if I had a good nap......... le sigh...... I said I hadn't gone for a nap - that I had been on my computer (liar liar pants on fire!)

While we were chatting Sir Steve came home. Turns out he decided to stop in at the hardware store and got chatting to some folks he knew.  le sigh

Eldest daughter and Sir Steve were having a great ole chat.  FINALLY....... I announced that she could go home now....... that I had plans for my man in the trailer.  She scooted home right quick !!!

After some giggles with Sir Steve about what he missed by going to the hardware store... *I* got down to business........

turns out the medical problem is not a sexual problem...... nope not at all... it would seem that I had the cure all along...... who knew??!!! 

Two things came out of this weekend's play time......

1) Sir Steve won't be dawdling when he goes to town me thinks......

2) We need a new sign for the door of the trailer.......

something like this I think..............

Life is good when cock rings and blow jobs cure what ails ya!

Sunday Sentiments

And then this happened........

Sooooooooo let me tell you about my week......

On Tuesday morning the lil one was going to go for a bike ride.  She had met a set of twin girls on Monday and had played well with them.  I had thought she might like to have the twins over to do some crafts.....

Sooooooooooooo  I asked 'are you going to go find the twins?'  She looked me straight in the eye and said "NO!"  I knew she was lying.  And that began a long session of 'why are you lying'..... I - we - have been very tolerant with her lies...... but this time something kinda snapped inside me ya know??? She has NO bloody reason to lie to me or her father........... and yet she does......... over and over and over.  Each time she gets caught she cries and says she'll never do it again........ until she does.

She is going to be 8!   It was time to set down some consequences.

Soooooooooooooo she lost her IPad .. and the privilege of riding her bike all over the campsite (she can still go for bike rides BUT only in our section of the park). 

BUT ya know - it's pretty difficult to stop her lying when her mother's family does it all the time - blatantly.  Hell the lil one asked me over the winter why mommy lied all the time........ and in the spring - during the height of the lock down - the family went to visit an aunt and told the lil one she couldn't tell us...........

We'll have to see if the use of consequences rather than pussy footing around her and coddling her works.

THEN

on Friday we're in the city cause the mother picks up from the house...... supposedly at 10:30 am (it hasn't ever been 10:30 - mostly 10:40 - 10:50)  At 10:15 there was this angry blaring of a car horn outside the house..... so much so it made me jump up to see what was going on....... didn't see anything (mind you I didn't look very hard)  About 5 minutes later there was this angry pounding on our front door.  I looked to see the grandmother stomping down the steps returning to her car.  

I was seething.  Talk about the straw that broke the camel's back.  I am so fed up with how rude they are..... and how they treat me like 'sh*t' ........... WTF............ considering what  I do for THEIR child!!! 

I seethed until this morning.  Then I sent the mother a message.  This rude behaviour will STOP immediately OR a new routine for pick ups will happen. I will cut all my contact with them!!  I will not allow them to treat me like this any longer!

Life is good when you finally stand up for yourself!

It's Monday - AGAIN

It's Monday - again !  BUT somehow this Monday seems to hold more promise than the least 16 Mondays.

We had a good family weekend....... ate lots of pizza on Friday night with eldest daughter and SIL - from our absolutely favourite snack shop (as it is called).  There wasn't anything we have ordered that wasn't done to perfection - from chicken wings (my absolute favourite!!) to fish and chips to pizza.  Did you notice I used the past tense? Cause on Saturday morning Sir Steve and the lil one drove into town and our Snack Shop had burned to the ground - colour me VERY sad.

The weather was kind of crappy this weekend - loads of rain on Saturday - mind you we really needed it....... Sunday was showery but the sun did peak out around dinner time and we managed to have a family fire at eldest daughter's site.... with roasted marshmallows.

The lil one made some friends.  I have said it before and will say it again....... these kids really do have social distancing down to a science.  They went bike riding - creating wonderful adventures like finding dragons... to playing hide 'n seek ... to playing marco polo in the pool.  Unfortunately the 2 lil friends are only here for a week -- but hey one week is better than nothing.

Sir Steve hinted at some pleasures he's been missing.  MY GOD!!  we have to be the worst at communicating our needs - sexual needs that is.  Next weekend I am hoping for a whole lot of 'reconnecting' and experimenting and laughter coming from our trailer.  Am hoping that the old adage 'if the trailer is rockin, don't come a knockin' will be applied to our trailer. (grinning)

Life is good when you are a magnificent sunflower !!

Sunday Sentiments

I AM a survivor!

Just cutting to the chase.......

I AM CANCER FREE!!

It has taken over 8 years to get here... but I'm here... 5 years cancer free!!  (Well if I'm gonna be absolutely accurate - it will be 5 years on Nov 9th - but as I do not have another screening for a FULL year - I am declaring it 5 years NOW!!)

I have the most wonderful doctor  honestly!  from the first visit where I had a total meltdown.. to this last visit where he told me if he could "he'd hug and kiss me - but ya know social distancing and all that!"

He told me I surprised him a little bit -- the type of cancer I have usually continues to reappear - doesn't spread BUT it keeps coming back.  BUT I seem to have beaten it.  I smiled and bit my tongue. You see 8 years ago along with bladder cancer I also had precancerous growths in my uterus.  and no they refused to remove my uterus - just the growths.  Finally I had a new gynecologist  tell me quite firmly and not very diplomatically (cause I was whining about the growths reappearing) that if I lost the belly fat the tumours wouldn't grow back.  She explained that belly fat especially in post menopausal women creates hormones .. and hormones in post menopausal woman can create precancerous growths.  "Lose the belly fat" she told me.  So I did - 75 pounds of it!!!

AND guess what happened........ the uterine growths stopped coming back.. .and I had my first bladder cancer free appointment.  After 3 such visits I suggested to my bladder doctor that maybe the theory of belly fat and hormones might apply to this cancer.  He smiled and said "no! absolutely no correlation".  EXCEPT ....... I am now 5 years cancer free with no real explanation.  Just in case he might be wrong - I'm gonna keep that belly fat off ya know?!

OH and the one other thing that happened yesterday - I asked my doctor if he could recommend a really good doctor - preferably a clone of himself - in my home town.  He grinned and said 'there's no one quite like me - BUT I know two great doctors..." So he has transferred me.  No more 2 hour drive there and back.  YAY!

Today I am having a quiet day.  Sir Steve has gone to town to pick up the lil one from her mother and they are gonna spend the day in town - give me a chance to heal up a bit.  (this cancer screening is a bit invasive and always leaves me with bladder spasms and feeling like I have UTI for a day or so)

Tonite there is gonna be a BIG celebration here and you're all invited (grinning) pizza and wine and maybe a fire (if we can bear adding to the heat register) eldest daughter and SIL are coming.........

Life is good when your cancer goes into remission.

Good thoughts/Good Vibes

Today is not a good day....... my anxiety levels are over the top........

I am off to Kingston for my cancer test today.......... it has been 9 months (thanks Covid) and I am a basket case............

If any of you can spare some good thoughts for me today I think I might need them......

Stupid - just plain stupid

I have been in awe of how stupid people can be ....... it boggles my mind...

There are the Covid parties going on in Alabama I think it was... where college aged kids throw a party with a combination of healthy kids and kids sick with covid.. they all put money in a pot and the first person to come down with Covid after the party wins the money..........   WTF

Yesterday I read some mother in Florida I think it was - took her teenage daughter to a Covid party (who the hell throws a Covid party??!!) the daughter got sick (duh!) and died.......... WTF

Here in our neck of the world they have lifted a lot of the restrictions - though still advocating social distancing and face masks........ people are gathering in the 100's !!  It has gotten so bad that beaches near us have closed - moved large cement barricades into place to prevent people from going............. turns out the stupid people are simply climbing over the barricades and crowding onto the beaches....... AND from what I have heard/read - because there are no bathrooms they are relieving themselves right there on the beaches!!!  ........ WTF

It has gotten to the point I don't watch the news at all ......... and am barely on FB.... I'm trying to find the wisdom to know I can't fix this level of stupid.

First Week of Summer Schedule.....

I am on my second day of FREEDOM!!!  Yesterday I have to confess I didn't do much more than sit in the sun... nap in the air conditioned bedroom... read under the umbrella.. and nap some more.  I almost felt a little guilty...... almost!

Last week I transformed from 'teacher' to 'camp counsellor'.  Usually the campground ran programs to keep the kids amused....... but due to the logistics of social distancing there are no activities this summer.. not for the kids and not for the adults.  Thought I would share a few pictures of OUR summer camp..........

I bought the lil one a pompom maker and she managed to use up all the spare wool making pompoms - can I say it was a hit?! 

On July 1st cause there were no firework displays - so she made some!!  using toilet paper rolls and paint.............

On one of the hot days (actually they have all been hot days!!) she made a folding lady bug fan............

AND every day I took her swimming...... can you tell how cold the water is?? They only opened the pools last week - with all sorts of restrictions but it was worth it.. according to the lil one.

We have a family tradition called the 'blue plate' special.  It started last summer on Friday evenings........ eldest daughter and SIL would come over and share our fire and I would bring out some treat or other to share....... on Saturday night the blue plate was at their fire.............

This weekend I decided to use my air fryer and try making yeast donuts....... talk about loving a challenge....... small kitchen with virtually no counter space..... BUT they turned out really nicely....... and were declared a HUGE hit!!  though they didn't keep that well - the next day they were stale (colour me sad) BUT then that just means they have to be eaten in one sitting right??

Today I have already started preparing dinner..... the potatoes are cooked for potatoe salad and the chicken drumsticks are defrosting for later grilling........

Life is good when you are on summer schedule..........

Sunday Sentiments

Lazy Days

Life has more or less returned to a normalcy around here (note I did NOT say 'normal')

School finished last week and this week has been filled with lazy sunny days...that is not to say I'm sitting on my ass eating bonbons and reading with my feet up.......... no no.. the 'teacher' has simply metamorphosed into day camp counsellor (le sigh) BUT at least there's no strict schedule to follow.

On Friday we start the summer shared custody thingy.. which means she will be with mom for one week and with us for one week... back and forth till we all lose track of the days.  I will be by myself!!  next week.......... which would be worthy of a celebration after 4 months of constant child rearing..... but I have to get through the cancer sh*t first.....

Like the last few summers I don't seem to show up in blogland regularly..... there just isn't much to talk about ya know??? But I promise to show up occasionally and let you all know I haven't disappeared into joyful oblivion :)

Life is good when summer schedules kick in......