Happy 32nd Birthday! & "the gift that keeps on giving"

Beverly picked me up Saturday about 1:30pm.  We went to the La Quinta Inn not far from my house, to spend the night for my birthday (which was yesterday). Beverly was sick all night, we thought it was food poisoning.  

I walked next door and got my dinner at Denny's (I like Denny's).  Beverly felt bad that I had to go get my own dinner, but it REALLY WAS OK!!!  I got a "fried" chicken salad with honey mustard dressing and had half of a Nacho appetizer (which was rather spicy!).  I brought Beverly some toast and had Doug bring some saltine crackers and grape juice (her choice)...I don't like grape juice..  The grape juice helped her and she stopped throwing up.  We watched the movies "Sydney White" and "Good Luck Chuck".  Both were great movies.  I did some sudoku puzzles and went to bed.  

The hotel had a continental breakfast that was better than any I've ever had.  They had 3 kinds of cereal, rye bread and cinnamon raisin bread (no toaster though?), peeled hard boiled eggs, bagels, blueberry muffins, apple juice, orange juice, coffee, milk, yogurt and do-it-yourself waffles.  The waffle thing was pretty neat. You fill a little plastic cup with the mix, pour it in the bottom of the wafflemaker, shut the lid, flip it over and it starts the timer.  After 2 and a half minutes, you have a yummy waffle.  :)  Beverly didn't see anything neat about me having to make my own waffle..but I did!  

She dropped me off at the house around noon and went home. Then 2:30am yesterday, I wake up and realize, SURPRISE!  Beverly didn't have food poisoning...and now I am sick.  Now all my muscles ache.  It's hard to sit up, but it hurts to lay down too.

I haven't been writing in my gratitude journal, so I'll write today.  I am grateful:

1.  That I am feeling better
2.  That I can keep food and liquids down
3.  That Beverly cared enough to "share" the very best...(grin-I love you!)
4.  That I have friends and family I can count on when needed
5.  That I have a great husband!

I have joined several different yahoogroups and on one, someone posted the following link.  It has some neat information on eating cheap and healthy.  Neice M.  I thought you and Jaime would be especially interested in this imformation.

http://casaubonsbook.blogspot.com/2007/11/how-to-eat-cheap.html

Gratitude Journal

Well, I'm having a bad day.  I keep thinking about Mama, and it
makes me cry.  

I promised my friend Barbara (from freebeescafe) that I would start a gratitude journal.  She's starting one so she'll have 
a better outlook on her life, and I think that's a good idea.  So I 
will join her in that.  So for today, here are my 5 things I am 
grateful for.

1.  Mama isn't suffering anymore.
2.  Mama keeps helping me remember her in subtle ways. 
3.  Mama backed into a light post in the Plaza Skating Rink
parking lot 24 years ago. I smile every time I drive by.
4.  That I have a job that pays the bills.
5.  That I have a great husband that understands.

P.S. Neice M.:  Thank you for your kind words both on here and
email.  I love you too!  Love- Aunt B.

First blog

This is my first blog, so I'm learning here.  The simple reason I started this blog is to put down my feelings about my mothers death last month.  I feel that if I "get it all out there" that I can grieve properly.  So...here goes.