Gosh I hate computers!

It's been crazy busy around here of late.

Lots going on.

Too much, in fact.

After my meltdown last week, I took it easy (sort of) on Friday.

The crew arrived that morning to pour the concrete for the footings for my new sanctuary/grandson room, so at least that much is done.  But all we can do now is sit and wait until supplies are delivered.  Of course, nothing could be ordered until we had that damned permit in hand and everything takes about four weeks, so ... it's gonna be early October before anything else happens.

Oh well, c'est la vie.

Yesterday morning, we went to pick up the flooring for my new room so at least we've got that much -- now we just need a room in which to install it.  It's presently piled up in the workshop.

And yesterday was slay the chickens day:  John and his son and my Angel's son raised a community batch of chicks (actually John raised them since he has the facilities).  Time to do the killing and gutting and de-feathering and bagging so they got together yesterday for that yucky job.  I had the pleasure of cooking one of them and we sat down to a fabulous chicken dinner with all the trimmings (my daughter-in-law and I prepared the meal and oh it was gooooooood!)

It was a very long day, but a very fun day, as declared by all concerned.

In the meantime, my house is in a state of flux because of the domino effect.

And I don't handle flux very well.

After more than 20 years of working in an environment of having to be ready to respond to daily crises from the moment I woke, I don't like uncertainty any more.  For some reason, I -- who used to manage a very busy MP's office and was damned good at it too -- could now not manage my way out of a brown paper bag!

Since my retirement, I find that I desperately need to have a calm, stable, day-to-day controlled environment. 

Not going to happen for the next several months though, and I've been psyching myself up to that but my body is not responding favourably to the news.  I seem to be in a fibro flare-up and I'm having great difficulty getting it under control.

My left hip has decided that the steroid injection has run out; I got 12 weeks relief for which I am eternally grateful.  But since Saturday, it has been burning unbelievably.  Feels like the nerves are on the outside of my hip and leg; the slightest touch or movement causes agonizing pain.

My right hip of course has always felt that way and I'm actually going for a steroid injection in that hip on Wednesday.  Hopefully, I'll get the same kind of relief on the right side as I did on the left.

But my doctor tells me that that's it -- no more, because of the effects that these shots have on the bones.  Too dangerous to continue this as the method of treatment.  He didn't offer an alternative.  I plan to discuss the issue with the specialist who will be giving me the shot on Wednesday (aka Jerry Kellerman).

And through all this mess, my darling husband has been struggling to put up a new website for his new business.  And struggle he does.

I keep telling him that "I don't know nothin' 'bout 'puters" but he won't believe me and he insists that I bail him out.

I hate computers.