~My weekend~

Oops! Wrong cookie!



Wow, what a weekend! CJ left Friday at 4:00 to go to Raleigh NC for the annual CCYC with the Middle School Youth group. (Carolina Christian Youth Conference) It was Friday, Saturday and he will be coming home today. So my mom and I had this great weekend planned. Friday night we just sat around and watched TV with her on one end of the couch and me on the other both with laptops in our laps!  Then Saturday, I came back over with my coupons and went through them against the Harris Teeter website... I was ready to go get free stuff or nearly free. (super doubles) Then we were off to Greenville!! Just the two of us. Don't get me wrong, I love my son. But as a single mom with no dad or any of his family or a grandpa in the picture, I don't get girl time.  So this was our big chance. We went to Ollie's then Best Buy. I got wonderful news this year that I was eligible to sell back some of my sick leave. I will be getting a check the end of this month. It is not a whole bunch but I am planning on getting a laptop for CJ for Christmas. He needs one.  The one I have is not the best but it does work when it wants to. So... Into Best Buy we go and while they load the stuff on the computer or not, we are going to get Chinese!! Oh boy!  So, as we are at Best Buy the laptop I wanted was not in stock so I would have to order it. Ok. The guy tells me I can either order it at customer service or at home online.  Well I wanted this one like my mom got and it was on sale for $349.  I was afraid that I would change my mind so I went to customer service and told the guy I wanted 2. Yes 2. I was going to get one for myself too.  I deserve it! He says, why didn't they order it back there? I don't know??? Ok, I can do it here... So then I tell him I want the anti-virus and the Office home/student disc. Well the sweet little thing just lost his mind.... Uh... I need to get someone from back there to come up here. I don't know anything about that...

waiting...

Call from CJ..(my phone announces then plays How Great is Our God)

Mom... Just listen, I am sick and I want you to come get me~

What?? But, girls day???

Son, you are 3 hours away. I can't just "Come get you."  Now crying I am hurting, my stomach...

Just hurry. Don't say anything just hurry.

I am still waiting on someone from computers...

I pick up the papers I had the guy in the back print off and then I wrote down what I wanted and I walked out. My mom was getting a wireless printer...

(so we can sit as described above and print from the couch)

I walked outside talked with the youth minister and told him I would be there around 4:00.

But Chinese!!! I really wanted to get Chinese. If I get to have this surgery THIS week I deserve

 this weekend, right?

Fine!

We haven't eaten, but we now need to drive 3 hours to get him then turn around and go home.

No Chinese. No Harris Teeter trip. No computer, No girls day!

So the next best thing? Krispy Kreme.

(We have a buy one dozen get a dozen free card)

I'll eat doughnuts the whole way there!

(and did!)

Well, I have never went from Greenville so we hit 264 and we are driving and

I see a sign that says "to Rocky Mount" is this where I go? 

Mom: Yeah, you can go this way...

Well guess what? Now not only depressed disappointed, but also lost!

Well believe it or not, we ended up on very back roads ( remember, we live

in the middle of no where)

 I don't know how but we ended up where we were supposed to..

I go into the hotel and some of the kids were in the lobby.  CJ runs up to me.

(yeah, runs) Mom, I feel better, can I stay? Please? Please?

What the heck? Girls day!!!

Then we find out that the Church bus (that breaks down sometimes)

has broken down at the mall.

So we stay around there for about an hour. I tell him he can stay but

if he gets sick later... (he finished the sentence with...just deal with it)

That's right!

So my mom and I head back home. We stopped in Rocky Mount at Cracker Barrell.

(yeah, we finally ended up in Rocky Mount!)

Then we went to Target and ended up back home a little after nine.

Now, it is 11:07 and I got to go get ready to pick CJ up. Again!

But this time I don't have to go to Raleigh!

~A quick update~

Wow, I just talked to a friend that I met the same day I went for my first appointment. She is still waiting on her 2nd insurance before she is able to set up her surgery date. But she said that when she went to her appointment with her surgeon (the same surgeon I have) he said he could do it that Friday! It was a Tuesday when she went. That might mean that next Friday could be my date!!

 

I'm crabby! (remember, this blog is all about ME!)

My throat has been sore yesterday.

I am tired.
I'm always tired, but I didn't get much sleep last night.
I wish I could say some handsome man kept me up all night.
But it was CJ.
 He got up and came into my room then hogged the bed
and the covers!

I have worked all day in the world of food stamps.

I am ready to go home.

I feel like I am pregnant and waiting on that first doctor visit so they can tell

 me my "due date" aka... surgery date!

Gosh... say a little prayer for CJ. That picture above may be him

if he hasn't gotten his homework done.

Please Lord, let him be in a good mood!

Still waiting........

Well, it is getting closer than it has been but I am still waiting!

I can't wait to share good news!

Not much going on this week

Well as you know I am playing the waiting game now. So not much is going on this week. My mom is going to Tennessee this week with the seniors from Macedonia Christian Church. I actually went to Church Wednesday night and again today. I really enjoyed it. I am going to make myself go on a regular basis again. I have just been being lazy on Sundays. That has to stop. I love our Church. Since there is not much to write about I am going to tell you how I ended up at Macedonia.
In April of 2004 my at the time husband called me at work and asked if I could get a ride home from work. We worked in the same building. I found one and called him back to tell him I did. That was right at 5:00. I told him I loved him and would see him later. I have not to this day seen him or talked to him.
He went to a female coworkers house and told her he was having car trouble. She was giving him a ride home. When he told her to go down a dirt road. He held a pocket knife to her. (this is all her story)
While on that road they got in a ditch, started walking (together) and then he turned around and started walking the other way.
There has been charges of Kidnapping, attempted rape, assault with a deadly weapon and who knows what else.
So that was April in December an old friend that I worked with from Martin County came to my house. Her Sunday school class took up a donation and gave me a $50 gift card to Wal-Mart. Ok let me back up a minute. My mom had been going to another Church. My son and I went there for about 2 months. While in their Sunday school class tears would roll down my face. NEVER did anyone ask if I was ok or put their hand on me to comfort me. Nothing! Nota! Then out of no where people I didn't know were reaching out to me.
I decided then I wanted to go to that church and check it out. Everyone was so kind to us. In July of 2005 I was granted a divorce. On July 24, 2005 I was Baptized and became a member of Macedonia.
So... That's my story of how I ended up there. I for some reason haven't been for the past year. But that has ended.
Off that subject I think I am going to have to call my foot doctor and see if he can do surgery on my foot while I am out for the other surgery. It has been hurting so bad. I have already gotten 3 shots this year of cortisone. So there is nothing else. I have met my deductible now so I would think this is the time!
Well, got to go home to finish washing clothes!
Have a great week!

~I am alive~

Wow, I guess I had some people worried about me!
I am alive!

I had my last appointment. Actually, they called me on the 5th and wanted to move it to this week but I told

them they were delaying my surgery! So they saw me that day.

Long story short, everything was fine with them.
So I called the surgeon's office to schedule my appointment with them...

Don't you know, he is out the last 2 weeks of October. So the soonest I could get an appointment is
November 8th.

So I am at a stand still for now. Sorry to keep you all up in the air like that!

Trust me, I will let you know about the surgery when I hear something!

This week

Not much is going on this week. Just the last appointment on Thursday the 7th.

I will let you know how that goes. I am assuming that it will go fine and then I can make the

appointment with the surgeon. I will post later on in the week!