OMG.....It Is Hard Working At My Age

I didn't realize it would be so hard to do a few papers by myself. A few? 3000 is more than a few. I am pretty tough. I haven't found too many things I cant do. Even at 70 years old. I think I just found one though. Guy had been helping me every week. But we went our separate ways so I had it to do myself. 5 hours of rolling. 7 hours of throwing. I managed but my MVP was really acting up by the time I got through. After I got through today I just been resting. I have realized anything I do that I don't normally do makes me sore all over. My neck hurts. My back hurts. And my legs hurt.

At least it is only for Wednesday and Thursday. I am already dreading next week. Maybe that will make me get busy to try and find an easier job. I have to do something to supplement my income. I don't have a house payment thanks to my son. But by the time you figure my car payment, insurance, satellite, cell phone, water and electric, gas and food and a few credit card bills that comes to quite a bit. I don't know how people make it with big house payment. Guess the income is better than mine.

I really need to get busy every day and see if I can find some kind of freelance work. Maybe writing for a paper like I used too. Anything would be better than this job I have. And this is supposed to be retirement. Not going to happen for me. Not for awhile anyway.

The cleaning I used to do was easier then these papers. Maybe I should do windows inside and out or new construction clean. At least I could afford to hire someone to help me. On what I make doing these papers I don't make enough to pay anyone.

In the morning I am going to sit at my desk and figure out just what I need to do. But I don't see killing myself to do some papers. One has to make money doing something though. I will figure it out I bet. I sure do hope so anyway. Got to be a better way than what I am doing.

Four Kiddos Tonight.......

Tonight I am watching four of my grandkids. Giving the parents a break where they can go to a concert. I never got to do that when I had young kids. I know it's a real treat but I hope they don't get used too it. I don't mind every now and then though.

Some of my grandkids I wasn't around much because they lived in different towns. I just didn't get to know them as well. I don't think that was my fault. It was really nobody's fault. People get busy and don't realize until it's too late. Never too late though really. Not until your gone.

Jana's kids I know the best. They live a few blocks from me. I see them almost every day. I was there when they were born. I watch them when she has stuff she has to do. I don't mind.

School will soon be starting. Then I won't be able to see them as often. Several of my grandkids are off to college this year. Jana will be going to college too. Everyone will be busy. I am going to try and be busy too. I got a course in writing I am trying to finish. Just three more 3,000 word articles too do. Maybe I will be improved then. If I could just learn when to put their or there. I have always had a problem using those words.

Tonight I brought a bunch of books to read while the kids are watching TV, playing computer games and Kaylee is playing with her dolls. Everyone is doing his or her own thing. We are all comfortable doing what we are doing.

Good thing I had seven kids because it really doesn't bother me watching kids. Something I have always done. I know some ladies that can't handle watching kids. It has never bothered me. Sometimes though I need my own time to do what I want too. But usually I have that time too. Plenty of time for everything. I am content and happy with my life.

Girls Are Catty.....Some Women Are Too

My daughter, Jana has always told me girls are catty. I never agreed with her because I have had some really good friends back when I lived in Sweetwater. I really haven't had many (what you would really call a friend) here in Fort Worth even though I have been here for 26 years. Acquaintances but not good friends.

We moved here when Jana was 5 years old so she really don't know about the small town friends. She has had some friends off and on but not really close friends that you might be friends for life. She had more friends with guys than she has with girls. I have a couple of guy friends here and in Sweetwater I guess I didn't have friends that were guys. That is kind of weird now that I think of it.

My best friend that I had since I went to Roby High School in 9th was Jane Denton and she died a few years back. We had kept in contact all these years. That was kind of hard because back when I was a teenager we moved a lot. Then after my first marriage we moved a lot too. Somehow I ended up in San Angelo after my first marriage ended. Jane lived there and we lived together. I had four kids and she had two. I watched all the kids while she worked. Our arrangement was very good at the time. Later I moved to Sweetwater.

In Sweetwater I met a girl after I got remarried. Our husbands worked together. We were just as close as two friends could be. She was there for me when my kids were born. When my house burned down she was there . I thought she always would be. She moved away but we still kept in contact. I moved here and she came down a couple of times to my house here. We talked on facebook and texted on the phone.

One day I noticed after I had went back to Guy she wasn't liking everything I put on facebook like she used too. She wasn't saying anything at all. She would get on my exes timeline though and like everything he said plus comment on it. Congratulating him on everything he did. I would think my friend would be here for me , not my ex. I guess I figured wrong. I would have never done that to her. Doesn't she know there was a reason I broke up with my ex? I unfriended her. That is nice to have that button to push when we want too.

I am inclined to agree with my daughter....Some women are catty.

I Love the Hallmark Channel on the Weekend....

Today I have been watching Hart to Hart. On Hallmark it was on all day and still is. On the other Hallmark channel Cedar Cove was on. I love that show too. That is from Debbie Macomber's books which are great. Even though that show is not a mystery like all the others are I still love it. Love Andie MacDowell. I can't remember that guy's name that is her boyfriend but I have seen him in a lot of shows lately. And of course Bruce Boxleitner. He is grey headed and older now but I still like him.

Tomorrow The Garage Sale Mysteries will be on. A new one tomorrow night. Lori Loughlin is in those. I have loved her since Full House. Candace Cameron Bure is in some mysteries from the books of Charlaine Harris. They are so good too. Another lady from Full House. I can't wait until Fuller House comes on. I think all the same people except maybe the Olsen twins will be on. No mystery there but I still like them.

I guess my loving mysteries started with Nancy Drew and Hardy boys when I was a child. When I got older of course I loved Hart to Hart, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Barnaby Jones, Murder She Wrote and a lot of others. I absolutely could not live without the Hallmark and Lifetimes channels. So many mysteries!

Here in Fort Worth I have met a couple of authors and of course I read their books. Their stories are on the streets that I know so well and that is doubly exciting to me. I read these books soon as they come out. Right now I am waiting on one from Judy and Laurie. I know I wont be disappointed because so far all the books I have read from them has been fantastic. Wish they would make a mystery movie from some of their books! In Fort Worth! Wouldn't that be great? Let me be in it would be even better........

One of The Lucky Ones.....

I guess I am one of the lucky ones..... Are is it unlucky because they have all went to a better place and I am still here plodding along ?  No one really knows which place is better since we haven't experienced what happens after one passes.

Seems like lately I have heard of lots of people my age that have died. Today I got news that my friend, Rosie Tilley had passed. I had known her in Junior High. I moved later to Brownwood so I hadn't seen her since until I came down to Sweetwater a couple of years ago. I stayed a month at a friends house. She rents out rooms. When I walked in Rosie was there and she knew me not seeing me since 7th grade. She said, "Your Elaine aren't you?" 

I said, "Who are you?"  She told me Rosie. She had gained a little weight. Wrinkles maybe. But she was Rosie. That month I was there we went shopping in Abilene and out to eat a lot. Got to know her real well. When I left she gave me a picture of Elvis and Marilyn Monroe. I still have that picture on my bedroom wall. So sad to think about Rosie gone.

About ten years ago my best friend since 9th grade in Roby passed away. Her name was Jane. We had kept in touch all these years somehow. She was in a car accident and was paralyzed from the waist down.

A few years before that my brothers first wife had went to get a biopsy of her lungs. She never came home. One never knows what will happen the next day. I guess we need to be prepared for what ever comes our way.

And just feel lucky that we wake up every morning. We have so much to be grateful for......Every day that we are alive. My Dad outlived all of his friends. He lived to be 92. I think I have his genes. When we do pass we are going on to better things......But for now I am just grateful that I am pretty healthy.