As always, thanks for asking and how are YOU?

My birthday is the 1st week of May and yes April showers bring flowers but also brings rains to my part of the world so DH and I will be jumping a plane to spend the week in Florida.

Tho excited, I am super stressed at work so burning the midnight oil to be sure that I will not have to do too much while on vaca and that causes lack of sleep, no apetite and a desire to bury just about anyone that looks at me.  LOL

Other than that, all is good

Planted, watered, lounged in the sun, and am calm and relaxed in spite of having to go back to work and we are beginning an audit.

I love this time of year when the weather is nice, no holiday drama and I can get caught up.  I'm looking forward to our 50th anniversary next week.  We've got 2 nights booked at the casino, will have our fave meals, Chinese dinner and Waffle House for breakfast, and I'm having a massage after the Jacuzzi.  We are each getting extra casino $.  Life is good!  

I'm good-ish. Thanks for asking.

Life, outside of work, is awesome.  My bride is stunning and brilliant with a heart of gold. As usual.  Which means I am good.  Truly blessed.

My family is doiing very well. Mom and dad are thriving. Mom is recovering extremely well from her health challenges from mid to late 2023.  It is incredible how detrimental a scar adhesion twisting a bowl is.  She went from looking to be on deaths door step, she looked scary bad, to her usual rosie cheeked and full speed self in short order. I forecast that she will get even better over the next month as she has caterack surgery and gets her three vision field new artificial lense implants.  Her joy is such detailed quilting and emproidery that new eyeballs will be a life game changer for  her. Hopefully dad can keep her out of the dirt so she does not wear herself out with countless 20 hours days of quilting, embroidery, and gardening.  

My grandniece is due in a few weeks.  This is the first GGK for my parents.  Big stuff.   My youngest nephew graduates from Uni with his BS in evironmental engineering at about the time the baby is due. So he will not be at the birth of his sister's baby.  Mom and dad won't be at the graduation due to mom's eye surgery.

We just got back from a trip to SpermLand to celebrate my MIL's 70th.  That was surprisingly drama free.  So, I am way good since I did not have to go all pull your heads out of your asses on them all for upsetting my wife.  Not that I really ever have to. She shuts them down in a hurry but there is always a backlash of emotion for her when she has to.

I know, I talked mostly about everyone else. But, if they are all good. I am good.  

I'm easy.  Everyone else, not so mucn.

Now for work, creating something from nothing in the vortex of a hurricane, is, infuriating when no one sticks to the agreed upon model.  So, this job, may not work out as my final rodeo as I had hoped.  But, I will stick with it until m badge stops working.

Peeks of warmer spring weather arrived!  Yard work is much easier this year after a lot of years getting native plants in, easy to care for beds, etc. I am going to set up my deck planters this weekend and look at getting some tomato starts for the summer.  YUM.

Other than ongoing uterine fibroid issues (more doc visits to come this week!), feeling good in my health, job, life in general.

Just got accepted into a graduate program that my employer/school-district will fully fund! Otherwise the graduate classes would cost $5,000+. I'm not looking for an immediate change, but having this extra schooling will definitely be beneficial in the long run :) 

Glad to be doing something for ME!  

Thanks for asking AgedOut ❤️ I am better now. Still a bit stressed. Planning a vacation for Europe coming up soon with my husband and kids. So excited!! I think we all need the nice break

Eta I don't know why but the dog pic threw me off and I didn't clue in at first it was you lol. 

Thanks for asking!  I'm doing alright.  It's spring, which means planting.  We've had a rough start on the tomato plants, bell peppers and cucumbers. My son got too eager and planted too early, so the plants outgrew the little planters and died.  We replanted though.  He discovered some watermelon plants that we didn't plant. He found SIX of them.  We think some watermelons from last year that got busted let out some seeds and now they're growing.  I'm loving it!  Hopefully we have a bumper crop and can either sell or share.  That is if one of the guinea pigs, Princess Popcorn, will allow it.  She is crazy about watermelon.  I think she can smell it a mile away and then goes crazy.  She's normally not loud but she gets loud about watermelon.  

The Princess has an ovarian cyst so she has me worried.  We may have to do something but I'm hoping not.  As long as the cyst isn't bothering her, then the vet doesn't see any need to intervene. 

I'm going in two weeks for another follow up mammogram and ultrasound.  Fun, fun.  They found a cyst that they want to watch.  I'm not really worried as it's a less than two percent chance that it's anything bad.  I just wish they could go on and remove it so I wouldn't have to keep coming back.  If they tell me the percentage has gone up, then I'll start worrying.  

I'm wanting to start putting up wind chimes all over the yard.  I love wind chimes.  I also want a bird bath.  Hobby Lobby has the most beautiful bird baths but they're made of glass.  I'm afraid they'd get broken here but I still want one.  

My daughter is graduating high school next month.  Then it's off to online classes.  She didn't want to go in person and with the way the traffic is where the college is located, I don't blame her.  She's gotten a couple of scholarships to help pay for it, which is a good thing because we can't afford it.  But who can afford college anymore?  She's working so she'll still interact with humans other than me, her dad, and her brother.  And my son will be starting high school.  Not sure how I feel about that.  My babies are growing up fast.  I know if I don't let them then I'm not doing them any favors, so I'm just going with the changes the best I can.  My mom made it look so easy to let go when my siblings and I were growing up.  

I'm somewhere between pretty good and meh. DH is recovering from a recent hospital stay and needs lots of help still. He just doesn't have much capacity to help out around the house, but he tries. Can't fault him, but dang I'm tired.

So instead of feeling mad and out of control and eating a path through oblivion, I started a diet. I know it sounds nuts, but the structure really helps my head and I physically feel better too. Down 5 pounds. 

Thanks for asking. It's fun reading all the responses!

I have my green peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, parsley, cilantro, cosmos, and other flowers--all seedlings--hardening in the screened in porch. Have my hummingbird feeders out and we have our first hummers of the year! 

We're heading to the mountains in a few weeks. Meanwhile, I'm working on work projects, personal projects (I'm a genealogist), and health. Got my running back up to 3 miles (I want to surpass that) and I'm swimming and rowing. Feeling good! 

Hey!  Doing well, how are you today?  Finally made an account here and am excited to post and get to know everyone.  I just got off work and am going to be prepping dinner here shortly for myself.  Also got some errands I need to run!  

Weeds, allergies, yard work.

There is a reason why I love the desert.