June 06, 2006 - Takin' Care

So today I went with Buzz (my husband of many milleniums) to get some teeth cut out of his head! So he's OUT! COLD! And I'm sitting beside him and he's snoring. Then the nurse comes in and gives some instructions to me and tells me to get the car and meet them round back - tells me how to exchange his gauze, give him his antibiotics, PAINKILLERS!, feed him liquids, and give him oral sex. No! I made that up. Just kidding. I do all this, and Buzz gets in the car. He wants so much to be in charge, but he's an idiot right now. REALLY. An idiot with less teeth! I have to override everything he does EXCEPT the directions of how to get to the drive-in pharmacy window that I never go to. He was right about that.

So we get home and he goes to sleep.

I do laundry and more laundry. Scrub the kitchen floor and then cook dinner early (for my dad). I have taken off work for the greater good. I make my son, Evan, go feed the livestock with me and we discuss our screenplay (which has wonderful potential - me being all worldly with an almost degree in film and him being the coolest teenager ever and about to major in film and knowing what is cool) and then we get into the barn and call the pig. "Peg!" "Oiinnnnnnk" and then she appears - fit and fat and fast. FFF! That's her! We feed her and the horse and then walk out on the mud that used to be a swamp and my duck comes up looking good and eating his food like a good duck. We need rain.

Then I go to see my mother-in-law (while my husband passes out and drools). She is a sweetheart and I give her a bath and take her dinner which I have cooked. (Smoked pork chop, greens, green beans, and potatoes au gratin). This is how you give an elderly person a bath and everyone keeps their dignity. You have a shower chair and a hand-held shower head. You turn on the water and adjust the temperature. You help the elderly person into the shower where they sit down. You wash their hair and then hand them the shower head to wash themself with dignity while you change the sheets on the bed or whatever needs to be done. Then you help them out of the shower and hand them a towel and help them towel off and put lotion or medication on where needed. I love her.

Then I came home and decided to burn. Our back yard is HURRICANE ACRES! FIRE, CHAIN SAWS, AND TRACTORS are my gardening tools. Things are going well. I had four fires going and all is good! Fade out till morning. I KNOW how to do a fire and burn every last twig and make a bare spot. FIREWOMAN OF BLACK CREEK! This is a song that all of America will hear soon.

Now, I'm winding down and thinking the day over.

I need to get a message board where y'all can tell me how your day went too.