Life changes...yet again

I came to visit my family in hopes of a nice quiet peaceful vacation...Yeah...that didn't happen. Sunday I went to see my father in his alzheimers nursing home...not good. Needless to say I had quite the shock & reacted accordingly. The rest of the day I fought not to eat away my frustrations. My mom & I did go shopping & fortunately I found the 80% clearance rack so I could shop away my frustrations & still have enough money to get home. Monday...I decided I was going to have my peaceful "feel sorry for myself" day...UH Huh...you guessed it, not happenin. I get a call at 4:30pm from my mother that dad is in the ER...brother. I get showered & dressed & get there, hospitals being my favorite vacation spot, to see my dad all gowned & wired up in a trauma room..."E.R" flashbacks. He was there just for some testing due to a possible infection but being there makes everything exaggerated x 10. However...a bright spot...he was fairly cognitive & when asked who I was, he knew! Finally about 6:30pm the nurse said they were going to test for a UTI & that the results would not be in for awhile so we went to dinner. Got a call there that he was being taken back to the home, so we went home. Tuesday...need prayer postings all over FB. Visited dad in the home & he was sound asleep but looked ok. Wednesday...complete veg out day, successfully. More prayer postings on FB, one quite awful. Something in the air. Thursday, today, went to a WW meeting and I have altogether lost 5.2 pounds!! So all is not lost...God is in His Heaven...and the world will just have to deal with it.

Life Changes

I have been remiss in blogging as you can see. My "liberated years" were seemingly restrained of late. Is that even possible to restrain liberation??!! Who even knows anymore.

I have joined the fighting guerillas known as Weight Watchers & have gotten off to a slow but steady start. I have 2 friends who walk & water me at least 1x per week (otherwise I have accidents). I recently completed a show at our local community theater as the director. Ahhh...getting to boss people around & tell them how to be creative...isn't that restraining their liberation??!! Who cares..these are my liberated years not theirs... Let them get as old as me & then they can have it back... Also, I have just graduated from college (several years after the "norm").

I am currently taking a long awaited, much needed vacation from the everyday. I purused the internet & poured over travel brochures and finally came up with the ultimate destination... my parent's house in small town, no it's not the end of the world but you can see it from here, America.

more later...I think mom might be reaching for the last rice cake...