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Patricia's Site http://patriciawood.multiply.com/ Hope you enjoy your stay. Thu, 4 Sep 2008 22:40:44 -0000 Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:01:04 -0000 Patricia's Site http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/logo http://patriciawood.multiply.com 100 100 Summers End <a href="http://patriciawood.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SL23aQoKCDMAAAbVcf81"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SL23aQoKCDMAAAbVcf81/yellow-rose.jpg?et=80d4k7IaqUtj70OdMYA3rw&nmid=0" border="0"></a> Now that Labor Day is over it is the official end of summer. We will still have warm days but not so many warm nights. It will get dark earlier and earlier. All too soon we will have to turn on the heat. Not something I want to rush. There is good in this. The new TV season is starting. The kids are back in school. Life for the next few weeks will unfold at a leisurely pace. Then the bustle of getting ready for the holidays will begin. Candy and costumes for Halloween The turkey and fixings for Thanksgiving. The presents and food for Christmas. The New Years Eve party hats and confetti. So settle back and enjoy these lazy days. Use them to recharge your energy. http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/21/Summers_End Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:01:04 -0000 A Few Thoughts <img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SKC-XAoKCDMAAHXpeRk1/aa-gardens-3.jpg?et=SiQl4IEaTPt8YLv4YVWEBg&nmid=0" border="0"> It was a hot August last year. Not cool like this year. How do I remember that? It was about this time that my husbands kidneys failed. At first we thought it was the heat that made him sick. Then when his leg became infected we thought it was that. It wasn’t until he went to the hospital that we knew that his kidneys had failed. So the first one year milestone is here. In three months it will be a year since his death. There is still a few firsts to get through. I am hoping the second year will be easier. But I will have to live it to be sure. I have not become one of those women who thrive on being a widow. You know the ones all they can talk about is how much they still love their husbands and how much they miss them. Also how much they are still grieving. For some it has been fifteen or twenty years. Not the type of person I want to be. Yes I love my husband and miss him but not to the point of obsession. I have many years to live and want to live them as happily as I can. This ... http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/20/A_Few_Thoughts Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:39:15 -0000 THREE BAD THINGS <a href="http://patriciawood.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/SGa6YgoKCDMAAGEG3rg1"><img class="alignmiddleb" src="http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/SGa6YgoKCDMAAGEG3rg1/bath_cat1111111121.jpg?et=PZZqZBq1M8fcdfX%2CRe74kg&nmid=0" border="0"></a> It’s not been my week. First DS#2 wrecked the car. One car accident no one hurt. The car was totaled. When Bob died I signed over the car to him because I don’t drive and I needed something I could ride in to go to the store and other places. Well that is gone so I am stuck unless some one is available to take me. Everyone lives so far away I hate to ask. I asked my brother to take me to Walmart for my monthly shopping. We had it set for Thursday. His wife forgot and went off in the van. I have a difficult time getting into their small car. So we changed it to Friday.  I made dinner Thursday and got my food. I left DS#2’s sausage patty in the skillet. Forgot to turn the burner off. Sausage went up in flames. Had a lid on the skillet so it didn’t spread beyond the pan. House filled with smoke, Mommy kitty took the babies to the basement. Smoke alarm battery was dead. I checked it in March and the alarm sounded. Might have been the last of the charge. Got my shopping done Friday. ... http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/19/THREE_BAD_THINGS Sat, 28 Jun 2008 22:27:22 -0000 Sticker Shock !!!!!!! <IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/omg.png">I went to the store Yesterday. Cost me $100 more then it did last month.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/omg.png">I can't believe how the prices have soared<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/omg.png"> http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/18/Sticker_Shock_ Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:31:01 -0000 Visit <A title="MySpace Comments - Flowers and Roses" href="http://www.satisfaction.com/codes/flowers-roses-comments-1.php"><IMG alt="MySpace Comments - Flowers and Roses" src="http://s179.photobucket.com/albums/w285/kimmychilds/fl/f0103.gif" border=0></A> <A title="MySpace Layouts - Flowers and Roses" href="http://www.satisfaction.com"><IMG alt="MySpace Layouts - Flowers and Roses" src="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w285/kimmychilds/comment/comment.gif" border=0></A> <A title="Free MySpace Comments & Graphics - Flowers and Roses" href="http://www.satisfaction.com">Free Comments & Graphics</A>   Last Friday I took flowers to Bob’s grave. It was the first time I had been there. I set the time of my first visit for the blooming of the Daffodils. Bob loved our Daffs. It was not as hard as I thought it might be. I guess I was ready. I didn’t stay long. It was rainy and chilly. I will go again. I am not a person that visits graves often and I don’t think I will change now. This was another milestone to get past. There will be more I know but I do think I am healing. This is what I want.   http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/16/Visit Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:18:19 -0000 Ultimate eep Show <A href="http://patriciawood.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/R97FXwoKCDMAADWPx7M1"><IMG class=alignmiddleb src="http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R97FXwoKCDMAADWPx7M1/ultimate_peep_show.jpg?et=sOjelDD08f3FnNgzU6kRGQ&nmid=" border=0></A><IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/omg.png"> http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/15/Ultimate_eep_Show Mon, 17 Mar 2008 19:25:22 -0000 Birthday <A href="http://patriciawood.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/R8RdtgoKCDMAAEmW-d41"><IMG class=alignmiddleb src="http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R8RdtgoKCDMAAEmW-d41/D2.jpg?et=lwap%2B8%2Bq1UFYMCJyfms15Q&nmid=" border=0></A> This week my brother will have his fourteenth birthday. He will be fifty-six years old. Yep he was born on Feb. twenty-ninth. Over the years we have had a special party on his real birthday. We have not done it lately as we grow older it is not as important as it was when we were younger. Every year we wish him a Happy Birthday. We always figured his birthday was that instance between eleven fifty-nine on Feb twenty-eighth and midnight March first. Some people who have been born on the twenty-ninth have taken March first as their birthday. I rather like the idea of having such a unique day as ones birthday and so does he. So ….. Happy Birthday John. From your big sister. http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/14/Birthday Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:43:53 -0000 Hurtful I had my heart ripped out and kicked around by pointy toed shoes today.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/cry.png"> I hope it was not intentional. I got a valentine card and that was the last thing I needed. I was doing fine I survived our anniversary. I just thought of the good things and didn’t cry. It was a little harder when the third month anniversary of Bob’s death came up two days latter but still not a hurtful as I thought it would be. The pain had started to fade to a bearable level. Then today I get this horribly hurtful cruel card. I hope I never have to say anything to this person in person because even though she is my pastors wife I will tell her how cruel it was. I throw the card away even though I wanted to send it back to her telling her how awful it was. I hope I will get over it faster by not taking the low road. So remember this in the future . Don’t cause pain by doing something stupid while trying to be nice. http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/13/Hurtful Fri, 15 Feb 2008 04:43:04 -0000 UGH <A href="http://patriciawood.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/R4V7iQoKCDMAAFm5lEg1"><IMG class=alignmiddleb src="http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R4V7iQoKCDMAAFm5lEg1/Book_Cover.jpg?et=T1vyaoDhuWr%2C7ZmbUjS6Mg&nmid=" border=0></A> Harlequin has changed its site again. It is suppose to make socializing easier .HUH It makes it harder. I did not like the last change scattering things all over the place but they did do some centralizing on that. Now you have a blog like home page and a friends list and other things that are not necessary They have also used a faded color for there default. Ugh. So hard to see. I get eyestrain every time I read there. Instead of a nice easy to use side bar listing all boards, you have to go to forums then click on the place you want to be. You are not there yet Oh no. you have sub boards to click on. Then if you are lucky you can find what you want. You also get a lot of useless info like who was the last person to post in that sub board. WHO CARES!!!! I don’t need to know who last posted. If I want to go read a thread I go. I want to read all comments not just the ones by certain people and I don’t care who posts on threads I don’t hang out in. I’m an adult not a teenager that gets... http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/12/UGH Thu, 10 Jan 2008 01:59:32 -0000 A new year <A href="http://patriciawood.multiply.com/photos/hi-res/upload/R3myfAoKCDMAADxGMvs1"><IMG class=alignmiddleb src="http://images.patriciawood.multiply.com/image/1/photos/upload/300x300/R3myfAoKCDMAADxGMvs1/388.jpg?et=l%2BTnw4buPt%2BVXuIm2AB%2C9Q&nmid=" border=0></A> The New Year is here and it will be an interesting one. This year, in the states, we will first be picking our choice to run for president then in November our new president. May the best woman win.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/shade.png"> I hope your year is a good one. http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/11/A_new_year Tue, 1 Jan 2008 03:28:03 -0000 Mery Christmas <a href="<A href="http://www.satisfaction.com/codes/merry-christmas-comments-1.php">http://www.satisfaction.com/codes/merry-christmas-comments-1.php</A>" target="_blank" title="MySpace Comments - Merry Christmas"><img src="<A href="http://s148.photobucket.com/albums/s4/karsmi123/ch/ch1106.gif">http://s148.photobucket.com/albums/s4/karsmi123/ch/ch1106.gif</A>" border="0" alt="MySpace Comments - Merry Christmas"></a> <a href="<A href="http://www.satisfaction.com">http://www.satisfaction.com</A>" target="_blank" title="MySpace Layouts - Merry Christmas"><img src="<A href="http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w285/kimmychilds/comment/comment.gif">http://i179.photobucket.com/albums/w285/kimmychilds/comment/comment.gif</A>" border="0" alt="MySpace Layouts - Merry Christmas" ></a> <a href="<A href="http://www.satisfaction.com">http://www.satisfaction.com</A>" target="_blank" title="MySpace Comments & Graphics Codes - Merry Christmas">Free Comments & http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/10/Mery_Christmas Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:11:30 -0000 Pats birthday http://patriciawood.multiply.com/calendar/item/10001/Pats_birthday Sun, 16 Dec 2007 14:17:01 -0000 TAGGED 2 Someone tagged me so I filled in the answers and I now tag you all. 1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? Gift Bags - so much easier than wrapping paper and neater too. 2. Real or artificial tree? Artificial - used to do real, but this is so much neater  3. When do you put up the tree? Usually around the first week in December, but this year any day now. 4. When do you take the tree down? January 2nd usually 5. Do you like eggnog? Yes 6. Favorite gift you received as a child? A doll house 7 Do you have a nativity scene? Yes 8. Hardest person to buy for? My DIL 9. Easiest person to buy for? Grandson 10. Worst Christmas gift ever received? Can't remember one 11. Christmas cards? Yep. 12. Favorite Christmas movie? It’s a Wonderful Life 13. When do you start shopping for Christmas? December 26 14. Have you ever 'recycled' a Christmas present? Nope 15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? Home made Candy 16. Clear lights or colored on the tree? Multi-colored. 17. Favorite Christmas song? Little D... http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/9/TAGGED_2 Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:57:11 -0000 Todays Blog Christmas is almost here. I will not be able to give like I always do. To me the giving was the best part. It will also be the first Christmas without my husband. Not looking forward to that but still I will be glad to get that past. I am trying to make the holidays different enough to make them bearable. Thanksgiving worked. I am hoping that Christmas will work also. I have gotten my first SS check. It has to last seven weeks. I will be getting it on the fourth Wed. of each month. It is large enough for me to make it fine. I have all the paper work done and the lawyer is taking care of the estate. My husband did not leave a will. I am going to make one as soon as everything is settled. He said it will be January before that happens. I am not crying as much. There is still a big hole in my day. My husband needed a lot of care. I no longer have that to fill time. I am trying not to become a sleeper and sleep away the days, I think that is unhealthy. I am making it and things will work o... http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/8/Todays_Blog Fri, 7 Dec 2007 20:29:24 -0000 Holidays The Thanksgiving weekend is over. I made it OK . I think it is because I did not make the food I only made because Bob liked it. Also drugged up on turkey I was sleepy. Next up is Christmas. Not really looking forward to that. Again I am doing things a bit different. I am hoping that will work . After that it will be easier I hope as more time will have passed. Someone told me that having him die so close to the holidays was better as I would get them out of the way and not have them looming in the future. I hope they were right. http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/7/Holidays Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:32:27 -0000 Sorrow Tonight, Nov.14 2007 was calling hours for my husband. I was dreading it as it would be the first time I had saw him sense he died. It was not as bad as I thought it would be. There were a lot of people there Family, our friends, the kid’s friends and in-laws. It was tiring. I am not looking forward to the funeral tomorrow. Though it will be good to have it past... At the end when it was just the kids and I the pastor said a prayer and I felt a warm arm around my shoulders. I felt this at the hospital also. So comforting. I do not know for sure what or who. It could be the collective hugs of my great friends the Gal Pals or God or something or some one else. I just know I did not feel alone. I will continue this after the funeral tomorrow.   November 15 2007 It was harder today. I guess it was knowing it would be the last time I would see him. We all got through it. The graveside service was short as I requested. It was cold and windy. The ladies of the church made a nice lunch. N... http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/6/Sorrow Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:24:39 -0000 EEEK Well my husband fell and broke his hip Wed. night.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/cry.png">He is still awaiting surgery. He is on a blood thiner so has to wait till they adjust him to another before they can do surgery.My brother and his boss are putting in a ramp. Just cost me the price of the lumber. So when he can come home he will be able to get in better.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/smile.png"> http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/5/EEEK Fri, 9 Nov 2007 19:24:07 -0000 Venting My husband is at dialysis so it is my time to relax a bit.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/cup.png"> A friend invited me to her granddaughters baby shower. I had to call and tell her no. She said you don’t have to buy anything just come and have some fun. I told her I don’t go anywhere for fun any more.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/sad.png"> I go to the store and that is it. When I go with my cousin we eat lunch. That is nice but I hurry through it. I worry my husband will do something he shouldn’t and fall. Not being able to drive is the pits. Depending on others to take me where I have to go is so frustrating. <IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/angry.png"> Now he is wanting to go out. To go out is OK but the getting back in is hard. He has a leg that is paralyzed from the knee down, before he spent so much time in the hospital this time it was no problem. Now he can’t lift that leg high enough to get up the steps to the porch. There is only two. Someone has to lift that leg for him and he makes it harder by putting all his weight on it. He went out the other day and I was the only one here to get him back in... http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/4/Venting Thu, 8 Nov 2007 00:07:19 -0000 No bugs fixed at 360 Q: Will the bugs be fixed on 360°? A: No, we will no longer be fixing bugs related to 360°. We are putting all of our resources on building the new profile system.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/omg.png"> http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/3/No_bugs_fixed_at_360 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:11:50 -0000 BURRR Winters almost here. Not looking forward to it at all. High home heating oil prices, snow and cold. I did get a new coat but I am not looking forward to having to wearing it. Well we can hope for a mild winter. http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/2/BURRR Wed, 24 Oct 2007 23:07:48 -0000 My pics http://patriciawood.multiply.com/photos/album/1/My_pics Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:56:47 -0000 1st blog I am trying this out because 360 is going to change or disappear. Who know which.<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/confused.png"> So this is my first blog here not much right now. Still getting use to this site<IMG src="http://images.multiply.com/common/smiles/smile.png"> http://patriciawood.multiply.com/journal/item/1/1st_blog Mon, 22 Oct 2007 04:38:43 -0000