CoCo's Corner

My Little Old Lady Back in 1993, my kids were still younger.  Raja was 7, KayeLynn 9 and Crystal was 12.  That spring, KayeLynn had been diagnosed with a relapse with leukemia and it was centralized in her central nervous system fluid.  She went into a deep depression and she was incredibly sad.  She knew she was in for a long haul of chemotherapy and radiation treatments.  All she wanted was a kitty.  I had given up on cats as they made me a bit crazy and we hadn't had much luck.  But, this little bald girl just wanted a kitten.  We ended up with two - a black one named Midnight and a white one named Snowball.   KayeLynn, who was being home schooled during the worst part of her treatment, would dress these two kitties up, put them in her doll stroller and cart them around.  The kids loved their kitties. Just before Christmas that year, the kitties were outside.  When the kids let them in the front door, I just heard all this giggling and laughing.  Following these two kittie

Coming home to check the answering machine and hearing this: ATTRACTIVE - Holy crap!!! "Your doctor wants us to set up your colonoscopy." Translation:  You are an old woman.  You need to have us stick this camera up your rear.  It's time.  Live with it. HMMMMMM

What would make a person, ME, sing a song from Pirates of Penzance while using the pumice stone and buffing my feet while I am in the tub??  I have no idea why that song came into my head, but I just started singing it in my head when I was using the old pumice stone.  We old ladies, we tend to get ugly calluses on our feet.  Though I get regular pedicures, the fact that barefoot is my favorite fashion makes it difficult to not get calluses. I am guessing it came into my  head because I watched Two and a Half Men last week, one of the old reruns and Alan was trying to get Jake to have an outside interest and the teacher was starting a theatre club.  So he was up singing the same song from Pirates of Penzance. I have to say though, it was a great tune to scrub your feet to.  Kind of like you are supposed to do CPR to the tune "Stayin' Alive". HMMMMMM

Farmer Ted - checking out his handiwork When Ted told me he wanted to do a Topsy Turvy and plant tomatoes a couple of years ago - I thought he was nuts.  Last year, I found one on clearance and brought it home to him and told him that the next spring he could plant it.  This spring when he told me he wanted to attach a metal rod to my deck to plant his Topsy Turvy, I wasn't too thrilled.  I gave in when he told me he was going to attach it in a not permanent way. Pretty red one -will be delicious on my sammich He was a bit late getting it all set up and planted.  It was a bit after Mother's Day - because the temperatures were not the warmest and weren't too great to plant.  He has religiously and deliberately watered his beautiful tomato plants twice daily since he planted them.  I told him he was overwatering and I got into a little bit of trouble when he was out of town and I was supposed to take care of them - I only watered them once a day. While he was out

In reference to my previous entry  here  - I have to prove I can be momentarily dumb. We have an old cat.  She around 19 years old.  She still gets around pretty good; she's blind in one eye, can't see out of the other, pretty much deaf, noticeably getting a little less strong when she tries to jump up on the couch (misses some times).  She is just dang old. The last couple of weeks, we have noticed she tends to be a bit bloated.  I am thinking she may be somewhat constipated, because what is going in ain't coming out very well.  She doesn't act like she is in pain or anything - so I have not worried too much. I guess Ted and KayeLynn were discussing that she looked a little bit more bloated than normal.  Ted made the statement about she looked pregnant.  KayeLynn told me about the conversation - and this is what we said: KayeLynn:   "Ted said she looked more bloated, said she looked pregnant." Me:  this look of sudden shock coming across my face, &qu

Me:  My boobs hurt. Ted:  Why do they hurt? Me:  I guess because I am ovulating or something. Ted:  Ovulating? Me:  Yeah, for the first time in months and months. Ted:  Ovulating?  Like you can't get pregnant can you? Me:  No - I don't have a uterus. Ted: WHEW!!! Sorry - I thought that was hilarious.  #1 - because he knows that I had a hysterectomy and #2 - his exaggerated and very visible sign of relief. HMMMMMM.

I was watching the news this morning on Fox 13.  I like that they have morning news on Saturday and Sunday.  But, sometimes I wonder if there are proofreaders to the stories - or if they do this stuff intentionally.  In fact, Ted loves to watch the crawl on the news programs, because he loves to find spelling and grammatical errors: "50 tons of marijuana plants were burned in Peru by authorities there.  In a JOINT operation........" Are you kidding me??  I thought I was going to fall off my chair!!! HMMMMM

KayeLynn and I went and got our hair cut, colored and beautified today.  She right before heading back to school - me in an attempt to cover the skunk streak that was going straight down my head. I overheard a conversation - and I missed the first part of it.  There was this gentleman who was explaining the goings on of the Olympic Games being held in London, United Kingdom at this very moment to a woman who was also waiting.  Everything in the world is revolving around these games that occur every four years.  The biggest world-wide sporting event of this age - of every age - from ancient times to now.  He was explaining about the gymnastics and how the men had not done so well and the women had been amazing - he was explaining about Michael Phelps and his breaking a world record in medals won - he was explaining about the basketball team.  I was under the impression that she just had not been paying attention - how that was possible when I can't even watch the games right now