Just Blogging

It has been so long since I have been on here. Lots has happened in my life. My back for one. I hurt it, will be a year in June, at work and it is getting worse as time goes by. It is so very painful. I have taken so many different pain drugs it is not even funny. None really help, so now I have to see a surgeon. I actually went to see him last week but the one doctor did not send over all my other test results. Wasn't that just great. So now I go back Wednesday. I do not know how much more I can take. I am limited to only 4 hours of work a day at my job. I am used to a 40 hour work week. Really hurts the pay check and they just gave me another 25 cent raise taking me up to $13.56 an hour. I am topped out so they only time I get a raise is when our union fights over our contract, which they have been doing and just settled after a year of fighting so we also got a retroactive pay check this week for the last year. Mine was for $300.00, not a lot but every little bit helps. As for my husband he is still working 7 days a week on an average of 8 hours a day. He was averaging 6 hours but was put on a new route and new pushes so it all changed and I can see the change in him. It is wearing on him. Jordan was deployed and is now back in the states for some combat training and then off for some more schooling in California. He needs to do all this so that he can go into Iraq and protect the chaplin's while over there. He will be trained in so many areas by the time he is done he will have one hell of a resume when he gets out of the military if he chooses too. WOW! Bobby just found a job after being unemployed since August of 2008. So that is a good thing. He is still with Meghan and they are doing good. I met her when I was home In December and she is a very nice young lady. He is so happy with her. Steven is still job hunting, he says. He has a very beautiful daughter that I wish I lived closer too so that I could spend so much more time with her. My niece Lindsey broke her collar bone sledding the poor girl. Here she brings her grades up and earns the Hollister sweat shirt I promised her and she can not even try it on yet. My other 3 nieces all made the honor roll I am so very proud of them. I made it through my daughter birthday very well this year. I remembered so many fun times she and I had together and all the laughs we shared. It was very peaceful and a loving day for me. I am also enjoying connecting with more and more family members on facebook. It is a great way to keep tabs with each other even if only once and a while and to say hello. It is any easy way to stay in touch and find out how my grandma is doing to. I miss her so and miss seeing her. I miss the visits we had. She could always make you laugh with her stories form her childhood and mine. And could remind you how tough things were back then. I wonder if things will ever get that tough again. Our economy is not the greatest and many people I know are out of jobs and losing their homes. Just living here in Vegas I have already seen so many homeless people and hungry people, will it get worse? It is so sad. A great deal of them are veterans that is was really saddens me.

Family time 2008

My Uncle Bobby, I always ask for him.

Sleeping with my daddy.

Me and Auntie Chiss

Nevaeh and Great Grandma Wagner

Nevaeh and Uncle Ted

NeNe and Auntie Erin

Nevaeh with Auntie Jessie

Nevaeh with her Grandma oh how happy!!

Eat the carrot unca Jordan.

Nevada, Jacob and Nevaeh.

Nevaeh Time

Grandma's princess.

Always in pink.

Sleigh riding time.

I am two now.

Where is Santa anyway?

I am just a little lady. She has daddy's hair.

Still waiting to tell him what I want for Christmas and that is for Grandma to come home and spoil me rotten.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Relgious Specialist Jordan

Date: Thursday, November 20, 2008, 1:47 PM I just want to send out an e-mail to my friends to tell you how proud I am of Jordan. Some months back, like 3-4 he took a test to become a religious specialist. He has to go through a very long interview with many Chaplin's of all different religion. and they only interviewed 4 people 4 it. They said he was the only one out of the 4 they were interested in because he did not have to think about his answers and he was very good at eye contact. Lots of questions. They came the hard part studying many religion. and then taking the test which took all these months to get the results back. It was not just the religion. part he had to pass either. He was worried about that too because most of the religion. part was Muslim. Which he did not think it would be. Only 50 percent of the people that took this test passed it, he was one of them. I guess not all were from his ship, was a navy wide thing I do believe do not mark my words. Now when he goes to Iraq in January he will be working with the Chaplin's there, ya which scares me very much, to tears if I think about it to much. Takes him closer to the front. It is what he has wanted since he enlisted so for that I must be proud he is reaching his goals one by one and takes him closer to his biggest goal of going on to college. He is very proud of what he does. And if you are for the war or against it does not matter to me because my son is a very good person doing a good things with his life, and also trying to make things better and bring god to the lives of others no matter who you are. May all of us live in peace here at home while our men and women fight for those whom live in fear all of their lives. Faith

This is my grand daughter on October 30th, the day she turned 2. She loves Care Beares and Elmo. I can not wait to go home and spend some time with her. I might just have to pack her up and bring her back here with me. She just might have a better time with grammy. A long story. Just wanted to post a picture for you all to see.

News About going Back to work

Well I had my doctors appointment at 9 am this morning. She told me I could go back to work If I sit 80% of the time and stand only 20% of the time for now. For some you would find this great not me. My job requires me to stand 100% of the time. I have yet to see if she, my boss, can find anything for me to do, if not they have to continue to pay me Workman's comp. I am so going nuts at home. Doug said he wishes we could afford for me to stay home all the time as the house is clean and I cook and bake all the time. Time to go really check out Tanya's recipes. Only thing is he said he is gaining to much weight. I have to be at this restriction for 3 weeks. I am still in physical therapy which for some dumb reason I like. I am learning new things about ones body and find it interesting and helpful. May be I am just getting to board!! Who knows. My physical therapies is a hoot. So anyway she, the doctor said I may end up having, in the long run,to find a desk job. She said I will never be able to do any heavy lifting anymore. She did move me up to lift in 20 pounds. Guess that Means no carrying myself around. LOL just kidding. So now I just wait for a call from my boss to see if she can find something for me or if I wait for the doctor to release me for more to do.

My dearest friend, Carolyn!!

I learned yesterday that my dearest friend, Carolyn, is back in Henderson, after a year. She left and moved to TN to be with family when she found out she had cancer. I was devastated. All to much I have see what cancer has done to my own family and yes both my grandmothers made It through it but they did not have the worst of forms, but others in my family were not so lucky. The worst of this as close as Carolyn and I are she would not tell any of us what kind it was. Not until 3 months ago did she reveal to me what kind she had. No not breast. It was a kind that most people have very little chance of recovering from. Well she did and I could not be happier for her. She may be coming back to work here to and for me. We made an awesome team when she was here and then I worked for her. She was my maid of honor when Doug and I got married. Friends like her are hard to find. We kept in touch by letters while she was gone. She even sent me a t-shirt from a restaurant her daughter-in-law owned and operated, and where Carolyn was working part time. I might squeeze the crap out of her when I finally see her in person. I am going to try and make it up to the store today when I know she is there to talk to my boss. She is far to precious to me. When I can find my wedding DC I will post a picture of this fine lady.
I talked to my dear Carolyn for a little over an hour tonight. It was so good to hear her voice and not just read letters and to here her tell me about her clean bill of heath and wanting to come work with me. I called my boss right away and left her a message to let her now she was back and would be in for her job back. I also reminded her of her promise of giving her her job and as many hours as she wanted.