First I was sad and then I was happy.

I've been reading like a mad woman because I've been sitting on my bum so much.  For the past 5 days I haven't been able to load books on my Kindle. ;-(  Last night I tried again and thought it was strange I could load a sample but not the book.

This morning a light went on over my head so I came in opened my Amazon account and sure enough my ATM card on file had expired.  I put in the new expiration date and within minutes I'd loaded the book I'd just finished reading a sample of.  Now I'm {;-).

Oh and Tony while I'm thinking of it.  When you're done with the series you're reading right now, check and see if you can get Testimony of Two men by Taylor Caldwell on Kindle.  It's one of my all time favorite novels.

I've got the Lopi wood burning insert on CL and a bunch of 914 parts.  I have a guy coming out in a couple hours to buy these seat backs and wants to look at the other stuff I have listed.  I need to get my butt out to the entry hall and dust these babies off.

A couple came out the other day to look at the Lopi.  Talk about ummm...hmm...how can I be nice about this...STUPID.    I told them it's about 600 pounds and to bring help and a pick-up truck.  We're asking $500.  They show up in a SUV (uh duh!) pick up one of the mirrored sidelights put it down wrong and it falls and the mirror breaks.  Guess what they did next....this is really good...are you sitting down....are you ready?  They offered us $150 because of the broken mirror.

D said he had to hold his temper and just about bodily threw them off the property.  The downside to CL over eBay is the jerks you have to deal with in person.  Oh well, if they have the money, I might be able to tolerate and idiot for a short time.  

I've been known to hang up on idiots who haven't seen what I'm selling (especially a car) and rip it apart on the phone.  My comment is usually something like, "Well if you think the price is too high and it's not worth it, then why'd you call?  I don't want to talk to you anymore." and then I hang up.

Years ago when I was selling my mom's 57 Ford some guy ragged on the phone about it and offered me $6,000.  I told him he was wasting my time and I wasn't going to talk to him anymore and hung up. He called me back and said, "I didn't mean to make you mad, let's talk.  I think I can offer a little more".  I told him, "You're so offensive, I wouldn't sell the car to you if you offered me full price.  Go ahead and find a 57 Ford for $6K." and then hung up on him again.  I sold the car for $15000 a few weeks later.

D was laughing at me this morning because he came in the office and saw how I keep my foot elevated.  I open the bottom drawer of the desk and the bottom drawer of the file cabinet, throw a small pillow down and stretch out.  I usually have a minimum of 1 wiener dog in my lap.  Right now it's only the Nut because Nissie is outside in the sun.

I went back to work last week.  I have to say I really needed this weekend to rest up.  I just love Photoshop.  I went armed with the above poster.  Mark is constantly doing mean things to me.  He liked to push the tray for the mail onto the front desk making the mail fly all around.  Before I left, I taped it down so he started picking up the bundles of envelopes and tossing them to the ground.  He's tried to lock me in my bosses office, in mail room and so on.  He's a little boy in a big boy's body.  Hahahahaha!

I put these posters up Monday when I got to work.  He pulled one down with a smirk, put it in his pocked and walked away.  I said, "Don't worry, there are more where that came from!!!"  He was a great sport and actually said that was one of my best jokes.  He even took a poster home for his wife to see.  LOL!

All week people were coming up to me and asking if Mark really did crush my foot.  Hahahahaha!  It was great!

Well, D is at work and I was going to make minestrone soup for dinner but I just don't feel like standing and cutting up all those veggies.  I'm thinking a scrambled egg and toast will fit the bill just fine.  So I'm going to end my saga of the past week and go out and rustle up some simple grub.

Bunions Surgery Part II

So while I was healing from the bunion surgery D took over the cooking.  He tried some new recipes which for the most part were very good and creative.  Yes, he actually pulled out a cookbook!

The other day I thought about D trying to make smaller portions because we throw so much food away after the 3rd day of eating the same thing.  I believe I finally came up with a solution.

Yesterday, I had him take me to the HomeGoods store and picked up two small individual pots that could go in the oven or the microwave.  Then I picked up two cute mid size plates to put them on.  I think these were a total of $8 for the four pieces.

Last night I made individual portions of scalloped potatoes.  They turned out great and we actually have only two days of the same meal.  We ate smaller portions and didn't feel bloated and full when we were done.  I'll toss these babies in the microwave tonight and eat what we each left over from last night.

The nice thing about surgery is who comes to visit.  As you can tell, it was low key and quiet.

Check out that Snoopy animal.  That is the father playing with his daughter with the toy he had when he was a baby.  He was teaching her snaps, buttons, ties and velcro, not to mention the different colors Snoopy's vest is made of.

I've had plenty of help from the canine portion of the family.  Only those with an animal will sympathize with trying to read, prop a book up and eat breakfast without help from the dog.  No she's not licking because he caught me off guard.  She's just anticipating a bite of my toast.

There's always the entertainment from the man of the household.  Yep, he brought his project in the bedroom so I could enjoy watching him work.

Now this is just unfair.  I wasn't supposed to be taking a bath with my foot just worked on but I couldn't understand the logic of that.  It's just my foot messed up.  The rest of me still needed to bathe.  D went in search of me and caught me red washclothed in the empty tub filling it while I was laying there.

This is the latest X-ray taken a week ago before I got my stitches out the day before yesterday.  I've finally caught up with Metal Man aka D and now sport two screws of my own.  Of course he has me beat by a long run but I don't mind being behind in this race.

If you're weak in the tummy don't go further.  They're pictures of my stitches getting taken out.

That's my hottie doll of a surgeon removing my stitches.  He's about 6'3" and really nice and gentle.  When I'd put the camera up, he'd move away from my foot because he's camera shy.  I caught this one when he obviously wasn't looking.

Look at those toes.  They're still twice as fat as they normally are but with time, they'll be back to normal.  Personally, I think the 4 little ones look like Lil' Smokies and the big toe reminds me of a Vienna sausage.

So....stitches gone, as of today I have approval to bathe as long as I don't soak the foot.  Now I just wait for the steri-strips to fall off on their own and watch my foot shrink like it's on weight watchers.  LOL!