Happy Time

We all saw the commercials this past holiday season.  "Peggy" the credit card service guy.  Tells this woman she has like no money from points and then he says "Happy Time".

I love Peggy.

And all my ick, angst, meh from last week seems to have disappeared into "Happy  Time".

The reasons, I think, are this....

My dryer broke last week.  Okay, not life-threatening or anything.  I mean, I already hang dry my husbands jeans and I could easily do that to his work shirts.  I could go to the laundromat and do the other two loads a week of laundry I have (It's just me and the little mister at home, we don't go through that many clothes).  It's a do-able situation.  Except money has been tight and I'm stressed about money anyway. I was envisioning hundreds of dollars to fix or that we'd need a new one.  No telling when that would happen.  But I wasn't figuring on my husband being like a dog with a bone.  Every night after work he tried something on it, he cleaned it out, he took the heating unit to the repair place, he borrowed an electrical sensor thingy and tested everything.  It was 5 days before it was all put back together and fixed...but...it...is...fixed!!!!!

Much more importantly than the whole dryer thing...we found out that my baby niece has congenital hip dysplasia and there was the potential for her to have surgery which would have ended up with her being in a body cast.  Her doctors appointment was this week and she doesn't have to have surgery.  She just has to go back in a year.  Sweet.

I found out last week that I'm getting a niece in Oklahoma and a nephew in Texas.  I collect nieces and nephews like most people collect sea shells and this will be niece # 4 and nephew number 6...oh and baby nephew already has a nickname.  Thanks to his father's weirdness he is henceforth and forever..."SpidaMan".  How could that not be a "Happy Time".

And finally, I spent Saturday watching my grandkids while my step-son and his girlfriend went to look for Hailey Dunn.  I'm so sad about this missing little girl and it reminded me how lucky I am, once again, that all my family are fairly healthy and happy.  We don't have any problems nearly that big today.  We may tomorrow, but today....everything is alright.

So yeah, last week I was full of the sad, stressed, freaked out.  This week...full of the happy.

Land of the Living

I'm back!!  If anybody missed me, I was at home with a stomach virus.  I don't recommend it.  Two days home, alone has it's benefits....but not if you feel like death warmed over.  But I'm back to "normal" today and craving  chicken strips...so lunch had better hurry up and get here. 

A couple of thoughts from the last couple of days....Ramen noodles are the best food in the world.  Saltine crackers are the second best food in the world.  I can be excused for getting sick.  It happens.  What is inexcusable is when I forget to take my medication and do it to myself.  The stomach virus was complicated by a lack of my diuretic for too long.  Memo to me...don't mention that to the cardiologist on Friday. 

And that's about it.  Not a lot of thinking when you're laying on the couch trying to keep down said noodles and crackers.