I am here.......

I am mobile, barely, but mobile. Thanks for the love.

I had the chance to surf around my favorites for a few minutes yesterday and I wanted to congratulate Sarcastic Mom and Mrs. Fussypants on the nominations for the bloggies. http://2008.bloggies.com/. Go over there and show them the love they deserve and vote for them! They are up for the same award, but I have heard, sssshhhhh, if you have 2 email accounts, as a lot of us do, you can vote for both of them. sssshhhhh!!! You didn't hear that from me.

I would like to send out some Thanks for the help I have gotten, they don't read this but others will know that they have helped me. My SIL took Little Miss to school yesterday and today, the other SIL brought her home yesterday, my MIL brought me a BBQ sandwich for lunch yesterday, my wonderful mother not only came and unloaded my dishwasher, she filled it with the dishes from the night before and made our supper last night. My mom is the best cook. And my darlin' husband, he made tea and tended to Little Miss most of the evening. Just getting her drinks every few minutes helped out tremendously! But mostly they all just let me lay and when I tried to get up for something, they asked what I wanted and got it for me. I know when you have back problems, you should move, but it just hurts too bad right now. I have a new thing, I get muscle spasms in both of my legs when I get up and walk. I can find relief laying on my side, that is until my hip goes into spasms, then I must move. Usually to my back, when that gets uncomfortable I hobble around the house for a few minutes. I am on the phone with MIL and she is pissing me off! I have been laying on a heat pad and it helps some, not much. Ice kills me! I have tried it time and time again and it always makes me hurt worse. I have laid on it until my skin goes numb, and I will hurt worse until my skin warms up. MIL keeps pushing ice, no matter what I say. Now, as always, she is claiming to have heard on TV that heat is bad for it, you must use ice. It is the only thing to help with inflammation. You must stay on it through the pain then it will go numb and the pain will leave. Bullshit! I have had back problems off and on for the last 20+ years and have learned what to do. Ice never helped me. She always has a "helpful" suggestion and when you don't try it or it doesn't help, suddenly some expert has been on TV or someone she knows "tells" it and so it must be true and helpful. I have learned to just let her rattle on and say, "Oh." "Really." and " You don't say." But my nerves are stretched to the limit right now and she is driving me crazy. Now I have that off my chest, thanks for listening. Hubby just called I am now BANNED to the couch. How sweet, he doesn't want me to get up unless I have to go to the bathroom. I guess I don't need to eat or drink. My the phone is busy this morning. All my well wishers. Its not the first time I have been down, they must love me.

I guess I will work on my niece's research paper. Her junior year and she is required to do a research paper that will be 2/3 of her 3rd 9 weeks grade and 3/4 of her 4th 9 weeks grade. It counts as 700 points with grades for each step of the paper. The teacher gave them the author they must use then gave them 4 short stories or poems to choose from to do their paper on. Miss Thing got O Henry and the story "Witches Loaves". She can't find much info on either, so it should be fun. Her Bib cards are due on the 1st, she has to have 6-8, she has 2 books, and 1 from the Internet. I don't care to help, but the teacher is crazy, 1500 word research paper on a story that is not much longer than that. And the word an, and, and the do not count. So I guess I have my work cut out for me. Years ago, my younger SIL won awards for essays I wrote for her. One was on breast cancer and one was on Robert E Lee. I used to be a good writer. I mean an award for the Daughters of the American Revolutions and the Breast Cancer Society of Alabama. Somewhere along the way I lost my ability for good writing. Well I must go, Lortab kicking in and I must lay down. As Always.....

HAVE A GREAT DAY AND THANK YOU FOR VISITING!!!!!! ( I am so excited I received comments!!! And from some of my favs!!!!)

(Can someone tell me why Blogspot doesn't give me the upload picture command when I try to add my picture? I can add it on Wordpress but not at Blogspot.)