A Little Joy

Retta, our upcoming TFT chocolate puppy girl......is a bit of joy in life right now.  She's happy, bouncy, full of life and love for everyone.  That is, till one of the other dogs thinks she needs to be taught a manner or two. <lol>  This happens regularly throughout her day.  She's learning.  She tries hard to avoid trouble, but seems bent on finding it, anyway.  Typical puppy.  I did manage to get her web page up and running....you can find it at   http://www.skylocke.com/Retta.html   Had a hard time while looking for a background that pleased me, so just gave up and made one.  Works.

She cheers me up....and right now, I need it.  My sight is screwed up, I'm looking forward (not) to possibly having eye surgery.  I'm having horrendous stomach pains so bad that I can hardly sleep.  My arthritis is giving me total painful fits on a 24-7 basis and it just seems that I'm faling apart at the seams.  This is the payment, I suspect, for lack of care and bad treatment of this old body when I was young enough to do do something about it.  Sigh....

Pain is the mighty equalizer, trust me on that one.  You think you're strong and impenetrable and that you can stand anything.  Wrong.  I'm just about at my wit's end with this constant pain and inability to function when-where and how I'm used to.  NOT the way I want to finish my life.....sitting in a chair taking pills to control pain so I can even walk down the hall to the bathroom.  Do I sound like a major Pitty Party?  I suppose I do.  I get this way sometimes in the early mornings when the night has been a bad one.  Last night was.

I'll do better.....I'll look up instead of down.  I'll think positive instead of negative.  I'll think comfort instead of pain.  And I'll try....I really will.  I still have things to do.  Not necessarily places to go, since that costs money we just don't have.....but I DO have things I want to DO.  So I suppose I'd better get to being more positive.  I've whined enough this morning.....

Off and running....well, walking slowly will work better I guess....<grin>