Let the rennovations begin

Here I started ripping out the flooring the cabinents and gutting the kitchen to lay down the new flooring. Kid of looking forward to this task.

The turn around..

Well it has been about a month since I posted last. Last time I was sitting in the hospital thinking that I was loosing a family member. Well, after about 2 weeks in ICU and one week out of ICU and in a step down room they release my grandfather. He was a little lucid literally. He was telling so many stories that never happened and was in a state of delirium.

I spent a week up there never seeing him wake up. But, once he was released I went up to Nashville and saw him. I lead him around the house with my hand helping him get back on his feet and walk around. I was very glad to see him and not the man I saw lying there dead in the hospital.

On other fronts some people knew I worked two full time jobs for almost two years. Well Mohawk and Unisource are both gone. Mohawk laid me off, and those cheap bastards shorted me on my separation package. Go figure cheap as though bastards are. Basically I have been working my current position and sleeping. I did get my furniture from my mothers house and moved it into the room. Well, the room was painted then I cleaned the carpet so I am just waiting now for it to dry before I move that heavy 's ass furniture into its new home.

I have decided to cut back on all of my expenses did to my current situation of just working one full time job and not having the luxury to blow money like it is going out of style any more. I did manage to sock away some cash reserves during the time I was working those jobs. But at the same time I grew accustomed to the comfort level. I have been really lazy in seeking out a secondary income. I am trying to forgo it as much as possible. It will not last long, I am growing way to bored with myself.

Well I am going to go back to my normal everyday boring life.

Family and friends...

You know something in everyone's lives revisits them. Make them to step back and really realize what the people close to us mean. As I type this I am sitting in the same hospital I sat in 12-13 years ago. the same waiting room, the same intensive care, the same family waiting room. My grandparents roles where reversed though. This time the same chair that my grandfather sat in when we where her for my grandmother she sat in. My aunt and mother sat in the same place. We where dealt the bad news again and watched them roll him down the same hall we saw her roll down in. It was all to eerie. I drove from Atlanta to here the fastest I could all the while he declined in stability and health. Slowly and surely he was slipping away from us. This morning my grandfather woke up with and upset stomach and by the night was on the operating table. The Dr, removed 1/3 of my grandfather's lower intestine. It turned out he had an adhesion in his small intestine and they have no clue how long it had been there. As he declined further and further today my mother was by his side the whole time. When I arrived and walked into the room of my mother, aunt and grandmother they where all crying and upset. The thing about it is I had my four hours of me and the dogs to cry about and wonder. When I got here I was confident that things where going to be ok. That is until I saw him. It was just like when I first saw my grandmother. I was not him. It was not wanted I wanted to remember him by. My grandmother and I got one quick glance at him and we where rushed away. They where prepping him for emergency surgery. I did not get a chance to get close due to the fact that he was slipping and apparently slipping fast. It was not until about 15 mins before surgery did we get into the room and get to see him up close. This is when I lost it. I ouched his foot and I was chilled. I thought I was touching a dead person. He was stone cold. I could not contain myself any longer and I lost it.

This strong man who I always thought was invincible. Lifeless in front of me and stone cold. 80 years old... I grabbed his hand and kept rubbing it trying to warm it up. I could not believe what I was touching. I lost it............

Please... take just five minuets out of your day to always remember the people close to you and just remember to remind them of that. I will post a little more in a little bi my battery is going dead and We can now go up and see him in his ICU room...

 

My little snow covered house... With of course the guard dogs...

 

Guard dogs?

 

 

ATL at fall...

 

Nashvegas at night...

 

 

 

 

 

ATL Tornado

 

This was my walk through the ATL downtown tornado. I was downtown when it touched down and I was there when it ripped and roared over my head.

 

You know I look good.. Ga Aquarium...

 

Yes I have a full head of hair.. Is that not amazing?

 

The rider home to Nashville.

 

the best place in the whole hotel... Under the waterfall at Opryland. chrismas '08

 

Opryland in Nashville during Christmas. Long time no post I know..

Life

We all have milestones or turning points in our lives. Mine was loosing my job. Being laid off has really just taken it's toll on me mentally and physically.

Really?

Chocolate bliss......

Sitting in my office is 5 cases of chocolate bliss. Lindt chocolate and lots of it. It is for a promotion going on and the bunny car gets to drive it around. Look for it in atlanta sometime leading up to easter.

George bush is funny

Just goes to show the you problem with our country today..

Weird things in life.

Weird things happen...

You know what the weirdest thing about life.You never know what is going to happen and when it does it is usually the things that you expect to happen do. I think sometimes we know what the outcome of a situation is but you deny yourself the thoughts of it actually going to happen.
None the less I have tons of work to do and not enough time. Like usual I have 50 projects going on at once but only enough time to devote to none of them. Well back to life. Going to be posting pics on here today a little later. I have got a few things dones.