the saga of granny continues

So, they put in a pick line to help get those antibiotics through her hoping the wound on her foot will heal soon. If not for the foot and the clogged artery ick she would be pretty good. Actually she isnt't doing too bad for her almost 94-dom...I warned against polka dancing for now. She nodded as she chow downed on her candy bar. I think she thinks I'm crazy.

Yesterday I hit the local cemetery to see if I could find Evy, grannie's "no good" ex-husband and his sister "I am a follower of Sister Aimee" Mabel, my great aunt. Sadly, I was to discover that they have no name markers but single digit numbers. Evy is number 1, while Mabel is number 4...I wandered all over the Acacia Gardens but could not find them. Sigh. I also checked to see if my brother was there but there was no listing. My father" could not even remember where he was buried. Good going, dad. I did wander all over the place and managed to take pics of xmas trees and holiday decorations that people put out. I find it all very interesting. It kind of makes sense to me, I mean I understand where they are coming from I guess but for me it doesn't make sense. Interesting indeed.

Other than all the ho-hummines of this week and all that weepiness I don't want to revisit, I did manage to finish a large batch of go-go gloves which should be up in the etsy shop soon...whatdoya think? Should I become a hand model?

granny lurve?

okay, i'm shamelessly using the scrumdillies to solicit granny lurve. it looks like she will be in the hopsital for xmas but i hope she will be out for her birthday which is New Years Day! she will be 94! if anyone out ther happens across this and would like to rak her with some birthday or holiday cheer and/or receive a nifty holiday card from the go-go's, please email me yer addy and i will do the same...many thanks!

jek in the box AT g m a i l

i'm freezing

i know i live in the land of sunshine but when yer wee casa was built almost one hundred years ago it lacks insulation and my fingers are frosty! i'm bedecked in pink & orange stripey socks, pink knitted booties, cropped blue yoga pants, a purple striped long sleeve t, black zipper sweater and lime green scarf...and i'm STILL cold! stylish maybe, cold...yes!!!

no new granny news but i will be visiting her later today. tonight is the husbandman's office partay and it has been requested we dress up and i'm thinking i'm too cold to dress up but perhaps i will pull on some green on green stipey socks and see what happens...i have a few hours before i need to think about it.

pictured up top there is a shot of my scented dashboard dollies. i'm quite smitten with the pears even though no one else seems to be except for jessee at art school dropout, she picked one up from me at FCXL. other than that, the pears just don't seem to swing it, then again, neither do any of the other fruits. sigh. guess what you'll be getting for the holidays next year...;)

happy wednesday folks!

oh joy

so, i'm at the girlie doc this morning when she decides to remove a polyp from within my person! right there! yikes! how fun for me...so yeah, i'm here at home trying to spiff up casa de la lobster-girl. it is not an easy job this year. granny is still in the hospital and now she's acting quite a bi loopy. accusing me of leaving her at the hospital and of them keeping her prisoner. sigh. i am so tired and cannot even muster up the energy to make rice crispie treats.

shop update

new goodies in the shop including new dashboard dollies, quilty scarves, fakey cake ornaments and spunky onesies! hurry and shop so i can send it all out this monday!!!

granny update

well...she WAS doing better but now she isn't. granny was admitted to the emergency room this morning and after too many hours and an almost release she was admitted for observation. when they say there is nothing wrong except for a respiratory infection i think whatdya mean? nothing wrong? her arteries are totally clogged in her legs. she has an ulcerated wound that won't heal, she can't breathe or control her bowels/bladder and last week she was bleeding for no reason...nothing wrong? excuse me?

i have no idea what i am doing here and i feel like a big fat failure for doing right by my granny. my mamos passed away 7 years ago this last monday and i didn't do enough for her at all and well...i'm a lil bit sad, stressed, confused & worried. granny has told me twice this week that she wants to die. how does one deal with that? i talked to her about death and have asked her many questions about what she believes, wants & feels. she told me she hopes she can go in her sleep and that with any luck she can haunt the other grandkids who don't do a darn...that made me smile...when i explained that maybe she would have to move to a nursing home she said we should just move her to Forest Lawn...i told her that if that were the case she wouldn't be in the cemetery but in my "dia de los muertos" cabinet with my mamos....at least that made her chuckle and yes, it may seem dark, twisted and gloomy but my mother's ashes are in a wooden cabinet that my brother had built many years ago for Day of the Dead. it is in the living room.

sometimes, this whole grown-up world...simply sucks...