Thanksgiving Day

We had a very nice Thanksgiving this year. I love this holiday!! It is alot of work but it makes me so happy at this one time of year to cook my little heart out. As always this year I had the entire menu in my head, no notes, just by memory. So, as always the night before I prepared everything I could and set everything out on the counter that would not spoil. So, as always, all night long I would sleep a little and then wake up and think about the Turkey and what time I should get up and get it in the oven, I thought about the chocolate pie I had to make and the fudge I had already made. Details just kept running thru my head all night long. So I finally got up at 6:30 after laying there for a couple hours thinking about how my day would be. And, I was off! Don't get in my way when I am cooking a Thanksgiving Dinner!! Don't offer to help either because it just messes up my "flow" as I tell people. If you truly want to help me, then help me clean the mess up after it is all over is usually what I tell them. I know it sounds mean, but just give me this one day where I truly love to serve people!! This year we had it at the church and it went great!! We had about 25 people and we had a lot of fun. Anyways, I am very thankful  to all the help I got and I had a great day!!!

Quick poetry

Another day
Around the town
Joy climbs high
Then falls down
To the ER she went
CT scan she got
No damage to  her head
Just a Tetnus shot
She goes home dizzy
With great pain meds
It just goes to show
She still has a hard head!


I know...this is a cornball poem!!!

Old Bands and singers from 80's I liked

1. Kenny Loggins
2. Van Halen
3 Cyndi Lauper
4. Dire Straits
5. Bruce Springsteen
6. Corey Hart
7. Duran Duran
8. Wham
9. Madonna
10. Lionel Richie
Aww.......Memories!

Things that I like.....

I like many things.....

1. Pepsi in the morning, no ice
2. Candy corn and tootsie rolls
3  The smell of basic chapstick
4. Challenges
5. Cleaning other peoples dirt
6. Setting a goal and reaching it
7. Coming home to a clean kitchen
8. Flannel sheets on a chilly night
9. When I know all the words to an old song
10.A good laugh with an old friend
11.The feeling after a good workout
12.Rick's stories about his past.

Things that bother me

Here are a few things that bother me.
I am not griping I am just writing.

1. When I go into the bathroom and the new toilet paper roll that one of my kids screamed for is sitting on the counter, floor or in a pool of water on the side of the tub when the toilet paper holder is right there.
2. Buying support, control top panty hose and pulling them all the way up and right when you are almost to your waist, they get a runner all the way to your toes!
3.Crumbs in the butter
4.Peanutbutter in the jelly jar.
5.That fly that gets in your car when you are driving and it will only go out the window if you roll both sides down.
6.Someone that changes my radio station without asking first.
7.A bowl of half-eaten cereal sitting nicely in the sink. What a waste!!
8.When someone uses my "just taken out of the drawer in the last 5 minutes dishtowel "and wipes their mouth off or uses it to sop up a spill. A towel dries, a dishrag wipes people!!
9. The lid off of the toothpaste
10.The recliner left in the reclining position and empty.

Well, here are 10, I know there are more, I just can't think of them.

My hard head

On November 9th,2009 I got a present. I got a nice big....lump on my head!!!Yeah, me!

Here is what happened...

I went to clean an apartment. Stood up on a stepladder and had my other one, a more sturdy one next to it. I went to step off of it and lost my footing.

So here I am, in mid air trying desperately to not hit my head and then .............WHACK!!!!
My head hit the cabinet as I landed very hard on the other stepstool. It was not just a bump, it was a VERY HARD WHACK!!! I heard something crack. Was it my neck? Or my skull? The Cabinet? I started blacking out then suddenly jumped to my feet and realized that I had to find my phone to call Rick because I knew this was not just a little bump. So as I found myself calling Rick I realized I was beginning to get very sleeepy.
I got him and I said"Rick!!! Help me!, I fell!!" He was across the complex working in another apartment thank God. He got there really quick. I was slumped against the wall feeling like I was going to pass out. He got me up and took me to Pat's (manager) apartment. she said get her to the hospital now. The lump was about the size of a golf ball and bleeding a little. My neck hurt so bad too.

So we get to the hospital and I am thinking, "don't move your neck Joy". So I was very careful not to. They got me back there and put one of those neck things on me and got CT Scans and basically confirmed what I already knew.. I have a hard head.  With this being said, I thank God for the way he made me. He always watches out for me. I can't tell you the number of times that I have bumped my head, put my head thru a wall, ran into things with my head and etc...

With the exception of being quite sore and stiff, I am ok once again and my head is still as hard as it was when I was born!

Wow, alot about nothing

One week until the big 42. I know I kinda joke about it and write poetry about it, but in reality it scares me.
It seems the older I get, the more my life changes. Yeah, Duh, right? I know this is life, but it is still scary.
Inside I still feel very young and alive. Outside, (my body) just can't keep up sometimes with everything I still really want to do.

Here are some things I still really want to do:

See a lighthouse and go to the top.
Go on a vacation across the states with Rick
Take a short cooking class
Write a book
Go on a missions trip out of the country
Be a grandma

There are others but I can't think of them right now.
I know to some these are very attainable. But to me , right now they are not.
We will see and only time will tell.