CoCo's Corner

I have told you I am a worrier.  It's what I do.  It's how I breathe.  I worry.  I worry about everything.  But, there are people I worry about more than others.  That would be my family.  If I have a reason to worry about them, which is usually, I worry about them. I worry about silly things that have to do with them.  At one point in my life, I laid in bed, wide awake, couldn't go back to sleep, because I started to worry a mountain lion would go into Crystal's backyard and do harm to Zachary, who was but a mere toddler.  I have been teased about my unreasonable worry since then. Due to that one worry, I have decided to call anything I worry about as a mountain lion.  Well, I was reminded that a grizzly bear really was a possible threat to my son about ten years ago, so in honor of Grizzly Jim (my son), I am now adding the title of grizzly bears if I am worrying about him.  When I am worrying for him, it will be a grizzly bear...

My son-in-law and I were having a conversation about how my daughter is a perfectionist.  This and another experience brought her to post This .  So, I post on her blog about how she will learn not to sweat the small stuff, blah blah blah blah blah....... Then, today, after I have given her these wonderful words of wisdom, I had a moment myself.  I am making lunch and I made Ted a turkey and avocado sandwich.  It was a rather lovely sandwich.  With the other half of the avocado, I am making myself an egg and avocado sandwich.  Ted had bought these avocados.  This was the last of four.  So, I go on to tell him how I really don't like the avocados he bought, because they don't ripen and cut right.  Even ripe, they were rather hard and difficult to slice.  Plus, the skin was really, really thin, and it didn't cut right.  An egg and avocado sandwich consists of squishing avocado and hard-boiled eggs together.  It may not sound ...

I've learned two things today. Nobody is allergic to Benedryl.   No one.  Not a soul.  You may have a reaction, but it won't be an allergic reaction.  So, if you are having an allergic reaction, you will get Benedryl. Don't buy bras online. I have told you about my Zulily addiction.  So, when I found these really sexy, really snazzy, really pretty bras on their site, I decided I had to buy a couple.  Especially since they were for a killer price.  Besides, they were being sold by a woman known for her fat lady clothes and making money on her own girth by styling for those women known as plus sizes - so she should know how sizes work, right? These bras are gorgeous and they arrived today.  So excited.  The first one is this black/pink combination and is gorgeous.  Very sexy and I really liked it.  But, it was a tad bit tight.  Maybe as my weight slowly falls off.   The second one, I could barely clasp. ...

I can't force anyone to like me.  Either they do or they don't. The only one who can allow someone to take me for granted is me.  If I allow it, it's because I truly love you and I feel there is a reason that you feel that need to do it.  If I don't allow it, it's because I've felt it's time to take a stand.  I can only take so much. Pain will always be part of life - either mental or physical.  It's how you deal with it that makes you grow or flounder. Moving forward is always the best way to deal with grief, sadness and depression.  Drowning in a quagmire of sadness will take you years to get over.  That doesn't mean that sadness and depression are not part of life - but, use your strength and move forward with whatever means are necessary. I am the one responsible for my choices and decisions.  They haven't always been good.  But, I'm the one that has to live with those decisions. Sometimes you have to make hard decisions.  Mak...

I have a problem.  I like challenge.  I like to work.  I like to be busy.  I like having something to do.  The one thing in life that will make me crazy is to tell me to sit down, shut up and not do a thing. Even while watching television, sitting on my behind, doing not a damn thing - I have to be doing something.  It makes Ted insane that I cannot sit and just watch television.  We have literally had knock down drag outs - because while watching  a movie or something, he wants cell phones off, he wants computers off, he wants to just sit and watch television.  Me, on the other hand, cannot just sit and watch television.  I have to have my computer in my lap, my tablet at my side, my phone close by.  I literally half watch television.  If there is something Ted wants me to see, he will back it up, rewind it, so we can watch it again.  That doesn't mean I'm not paying attention.  I am.  If there is something go...

I love photos.  I love pictures.  I love memories that come along with them. I have pictures everywhere in my home.  Of my family.  Of Ted and I.  Of memories that we have made together.  All of us, a couple of us, some of us.  I love having them around. My fireplace alcove - Can't wait to have a real fireplace so that I can paint this - - hint hint hint My first pictures were pictures that I put in the alcove above the fireplace.  Just a bunch of pictures of family, of us, of our parents, of our siblings, of our kids and grandkids. Ted looking at our photo collection Adventures and happiness My family collage In my bedroom, I have a wall in Ted and my bedroom that is filled with photo memories from our journeys and adventures.  We have a couple from our wedding.  And a couple of others that we just liked of us together.  The adventure ones started when Crystal made a collage of our trip to Hawaii.  It was fra...