2012-03-20: my poor little car

Today Lupita drove me to the lot where my car was towed after the accident. I had to remove my personal belongings and sign the car over to state farm.

I took lots of photos. One of them clearly shows my blown-out tire.

2012-03-19: my hand injuries

I got in to see Dr Crouch this afternoon. I have a fracture in a bone on top of my hand. I don't need surgery. I'm wearing a temporary cast until the swelling goes down. I go back next week for a new fitting. It will take about 6 weeks to heal.

My left hand is only bruised. I've got bruises up & down both arms.

The crash was so bad that I'm amazed I'm still alive.

I am staying home from work all week to recuperate.

2012-03-17: St Patrick's Day dinner

Here we are wearing green, sitting at a green table, drinking green crystal lite and eating corned beef and cabbage.

I made a green dessert, too -green sf jello in between layers of sf pistachio pudding

2012-03-17: Happy St Patrick's Day

To celebrate St Patrick's Day I tried out a recipe for Irish potato candy. Take lots of confectioner's sugar, mix with butter and cream cheese and add vanilla extract. It was too sweet (impossible, right?). I had no nuts so I added coconut to help tone down the sweetness. Shape the mixture into mini potato shapes and roll in cinnamon sugar. They look so cute. I'm going to make little potato sacks from burlap and fill them with these candies.

I'm planning on making an Irish feast tonight - corned beef with cabbage and potatoes, green "kool-aid" and sugarfree pistachio pudding. Jimmy and Lupita are coming for dinner. Everybody MUST wear something green. No green, no dinner. Jim hates the color green so he may not get to eat anything:)

Spring Break! 2012-02-29

It's spring break at Rice. There is only one professor and me in the department today. Finally, a day that I can play at the office!

I decided to try out newspaper flowers. I got the idea from darngoodyarn.com.(http://www.darngoodyarn.com/chit-chat/) She used the comics. I used an ad insert from the Houston Garden Center since it had lots of flower pictures.

Instead of felt balls, I cut out a smaller flower from pink paper for the center and wadded some of the ad paper for a center. I curled up the petals using my finger. I used a pencil to roll up tighter petals from the pink paper.

I think it looks very pretty so I stuck it on my door. Wouldn't a whole bouquet of these flowers look lovely on my door?

February 8, 2012

Today is my half day at the office. I'll be leaving here to visit Mom at Bedford. I went on 2/6/12. She was already in bed at 4:30 but she was eating. That's an improvement. She acted like she was on a hunger strike before.

She is still slipping down on the chairs. But, she hasn't fallen. There's always staff supervising. At home she slid down her recliner and ended up on the floor. Luckily Lupita was with us and she got Mom up. I don't know what the sliding is about.

Her legs are very improved. I hope the staff will get her up and using her walker again. I keep telling Mom that she has to use it or lose it.

I realized that I can attend a HAFA meeting tonight. Jim will be at the gym and Mom is at Bedford. I haven't been to a meeting in over a year. I always had Mom-sitting duty before but now all I have to do is remember to go!

January 12, 2012

Tonight is Mom's first night at the assisted living residence home. I just received an email from one of the managers letting me know that she was sleeping peacefully.

I hope she will be happy there. It was the nicest assisted living place that I found. There are 2 aides on duty, day and night, for 11 residents. I think she will be well cared for there.

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