Wednesday would have been Mike's 65th birthday - it was his third one since he died. It just amazes me how the years are flying by since he's been gone.
I'm taking care of my Butler tattoo - done with the hot shower/washes and on to the two weeks of Lubriderm lotion. The top layer of skin has come off in a couple of rounds and the tat itself doesn't look the best right now but it will. And the itching came on board last night - I had hoped I would luck out and not have that stage with this tattoo. Nope. At least I remembered to slap it - you can't scratch it during this stage. So I slapped the poo out of my leg last night - and again some today.
Chrissy, my niece, stopped by Friday night to learn everything she needs to know to watch Cruz for me next weekend. I'm off to my annual Central College girls weekend in Waterloo. I'll leave work around 1:00 p.m. on Friday and get home around 1:00ish on Sunday afternoon. Before Chrissy drove up I saw the black squirrel in the park running around like crazy and it made me smile - I'm always happy to see that little guy to know he's still alive and kicking. I hoped he wouldn't run up a tree and disappear before Chrissy got here and he didn't - so she got to see him too.
I warned Chrissy about looking for toys in the back stairway and if for some reason when she came in the house and Cruz wasn't in her crate - and the kitchen door was shut - Cruz had gotten herself stuck on the back stairway - what a goober. I told Chrissy to not even attempt walking Cruz because she can still get a little weird with me at times on our walks. So when I get home Sunday after being gone all weekend - I think the first thing I'll have to do after unloading the car is take someone for a nice, long walk to "blow off her stink" to use a phrase of my Dad's.
Yesterday I spent most of the day at Croptoberfest - a Creative Memories event to work on a digital scrapbook. I started the book that would be my first vacation without Mike - back to Branson the first time without him from 2011. That year my sis-in-law and niece went with me and we had a good time - there were some bittersweet moments for me on that trip - but on the whole it was a lot of fun. I have most of the book done - need to finish it and get it ordered so I can see what it looks like.
The last two weeks at work have been crazy - working long hours and not really getting a lunch most days. Some nights I fall asleep during the evening and then have to wake myself up to go to bed. Last night I was all excited to watch the NASCAR race that was on ABC and missed over half of it because I fell asleep. Today my body said "enough is enough" and I just could not get going. So I ended up not going to church but I did watched church tv. I'm pretty discouraged about the job situation and some other personal stuff - so my emotions are pretty close to the surface at times.
But seeing Red in bloom on my back porch today made me smile.
