Downsizing Donna

  Read the text exchange below between my two children, nothing like making me feel like shit! You know how words cut like knives my son sure as hell can just cut me to shreds. He asked my husband and I to go to a college football game down in Orlando this Sat. which is said to be cold. Now can you imagine a 2-year-old who never sits down at a football game it will be a nightmare. I told him we didn't want to go, well he gets all cranky and nasty. I would never talk to my mother the way he talks to me. He wrote my daughter ranting and raving about me saying I never want to see the kids or do anything with them. I understand he is just trying to do a family thing but what the hell, going to a football stadium with a 2-year-old????? It will be a mess and that it was all the way down in Orlando is a no win. I will have to deal with his wrath for days now. Am I a terrible grandmother? I am sad that my son feels I have let him down, but you can't get mad when someone does...

 I know no one reads my blog, but I it's fun to think that a fairy godmother might read it and change my life forever. I feel so at the end of my rope, no one helps me accomplish anything.  A customer of mine offered me a free couch, it wasn't great, but it was a hell of a lot better than my ripped up falling apart one I own. She said I could come this morning and get it. I talked it over with my husband and he said we might be able to fit it in our jeep. He would think it over last night on how we will do it. Well first thing this morning he is making excuses on how we should just do the laundry and watch our grand kids at the dentist today and take off another day tomorrow and get my son with his truck to do it. Just one excuses after another, he never wants to fix anything or do anything that takes effort from him. I feel so defeated!  This is what I deal with: I have toilets that do not flush, water that you have to go out to the pump house to turn on, ...

 

  So far so good!! I changed things up a bit and stayed up till 12 and watched the New Year ring in. The past couple of years I went to sleep before midnight.  That made for getting up at 5:30am a bit hard but I did it and work turned out pretty darn good, a large amount of the other drivers did not show up, so we stayed busy all day. The prepper channels I watch all say dig deep now and work as much as you can you are going to need all the money you can get to be able to buy food and pay your bills in the upcoming months with prices skyrocketing. As far as my personal goals, I was tossing around the idea of drinking at least 2 bottles of water a day & walking at least 10 minutes. The whole idea of setting goals is all about preparedness you have to have everything on hand and schedule when you plan on doing the walking. Like today I pulled out a water bottle from the fridge and barely had two sips and put it back in and pulled out a coke zero. I took a show...