Business as Usual..

It's raining again. We lucked out, and it waited until late tonight to start anew. I can't say for sure that it'll help any. There's still a good seven feet of water over our highways, and half the roads that slope down at all, filled up with water. The people around here haven't seen flooding this bad for over a decade.

My skin has been crawling since last night some time. Maybe it's the high water, but even the bugs are running scared. Last night I found a flea on one of the dogs, and demanded that Mom fix it. We were laying out on the deck last night, watching the storm clouds roll in for another round of nasty weather.. and I didn't think anything of it. When I was headed for the shower.. I found a tick on my stomach. It pretty much flipped me out. I grew up around obnoxious little rural town bugs, but I've been in the city a LONG time, and I'm just not used to that anymore. I had to have Mom rescue me with the tweezers, lol.

We had a good day today though, sticking close to home. We had a nice lunch with Mom. Chicken Noodle soup and crackers. Dave's still sick. He's pretty sure he has some sort of sinus infection, and it's not going away as fast as he would like.

I drove around to a couple dentist offices today, trying to find one in our insurance plan. Coincidentally enough, the winning doctor was the dentist who cleaned my teeth growing up. I wonder if he'd even remember me. We'll see soon enough, because Dave has an appointment on Wednesday. I'm a little irritated that they didn't think they could do the cleaning, and the x-rays in the same appointment. More trips to town, more co-pays. They do it on purpose, I know they do.

Ironically, Dr. Lalonde called this afternoon to check in with me. He had forgotten that he told me to make my own appointments here. I don't know how that kind of lapse in memory occurs, but.. ok. He says I'll still need to somehow convince the screening clinic to register Dave. That may, or may not require us to drive to Indianapolis, (almost a two hour drive away), but I'm hoping I'll have better luck with them, than I had with the Hygiene clinic.

We rode with Mom to town to the vet clinic. At my request, we went to pick up the dogs flea medication for the month a couple weeks early. I wanted to see the new building though, so I rode along. The dogs are seen by Dr. Joe, and he was the vet I volunteered with every Monday night for four years in high school. (Once upon a time I wanted to be a veterinarian, and was working through my thousand hours of experience). I got in all my hours, but decided somewhere along the way that I wasn't cut out for the job. I still love the job.. but, no. Anyway.. they just moved to a new building, so I wanted to check out the new place. The long time vet tech, Sue, was there, and I've missed her so much. She taught me everything I knew. She was thrilled to see us, and she took me on the tour, which was awesome. Mom was jealous. She said she's there all the time, and never got the tour, lol. I took her with Dave and I on ours today though, so she was pacified. They new building is about four times the size of the old one, and a whole lot fancier. I could tell that Dr. Joe, and Sue, and Dr. Julie were pretty proud of it, and with good reason too.

When I got home, I called the doctor's office to find out why I needed a follow up appointment. Apparently, I need to see the cardiologist for an echo-cardiogram for the heart murmur. Dr. Abby wanted me in there as soon as possible, that's why she got me that appointment for two days ago that I had to cancel. I got the number for the specialist, and they gave me an appointment all right; for the end of August. I was shocked I would have to wait that long. Interestingly enough.. the doctor I'll be seeing is the doctor my stepsister Tina works for, (she's a nurse). Mom was irate and called her to complain about the three month wait. Tina called back about fifteen minutes later with my new appointment this Monday. I guess it's all who ya know. I owe her a swift kick in the pants though. She got me an eight am appointment. When I told her off for it, she said, "Hey, I have to be here that early, so I wanted you to have to be too." She's in big, big trouble.

I spent the afternoon downloading forms for Charlie. I had to download them, email them to my mom, print them, get Dave to sign them, scan them, have Mom email them back, download them again, save them, and then send them off to Charlie. Once was bad enough, but there were five or six different things I had to get to him today. It was a secretarial nightmare, to be sure. I know Charlie must think I have a ready-made office under my bed, and thinks nothing of it when he requests these things.. but it's definitely a time consuming maneuver for me. It's a very good thing my secretary, (Mom) gets paid in kisses, hugs, and back massages.

We were watching some pretty alarming pictures in the news tonight. Big holes have developed in a lot of the roads around here. Not pot holes, I mean.. it's road, and then several feet of the entire road just.. collapses, and you need a bridge to get to the other side of it. It's absolutely insane to see. It's hard to get around this area now. You never know what you're going to run into down the road. There are a few humorous ones though. the sons of my old high school algebra teacher sent in a picture of them jet skiing on their fields. There was literally enough water to jet ski across their corn field. Unbelievable! The weatherman gave us some bad news though. There's a 50% chance of rain every day for the next week, including this Friday when we were wanting to have our second chance yard sale. That doesn't sound very promising for us, needless to say.

Dave's in the kitchen doing speech excorcises for therapy tomorrow, and then it's shower time for us, and to bed at some point tonight. The folks just headed to bed now. It took us ten minutes to get Dinky out from underneath my bed. I had to bribe him with the "good" treats to get him in his own room for bed. Wayne just shook his head and told Mom that they're losing their dog, lol. He's definitely my little buddy with the folks being gone so much. (Especially during thunderstorms, and that's every day here lately). It's sweet though. We're definitely all going to miss each other when we go. If. When.

Thank You so much for joining us this evening, as always.. and until next time, Much Love, Many Hugs, and Good Night to You All.