Gravity is Winning Today...

I always feel a little fatigue due to the Sjogren's Syndrome, but for the past couple of days it has jumped on my with both feet. It is an effort to even get up and move at all. My joints protest and scream inside of my head for me to stop moving and to go back to sleep, my eyes are so dry that they feel like they are full of sand, and my mouth feels like I have been gargling with kitty litter. Dry, dry, dry!!

So, today I won't be doing much except letting gravity win a bit. Maybe when hubby gets home we will take a walk outside......then again.......

Glamour Shots and a Tale from Addison's Acre....

While I was in the hospital my husband made his regular grocery run, and a woman was in there peddling photography sessions to be done in the store. My sweet husband, knowing that he and I had never had our picture taken together professionally, gladly paid the ten dollars for the minimum package, and signed us up. So today, we get all dressed up and go to Kroger to have our picture taken. I'm thinking we would have a choice of back drops, props, etc... Boy was I wrong. LOL There was one back drop that was a kind of sun burst and black. Thankfully, our outfits did not clash too badly with it. The photographer looked like a homeless man and smelled like one too. Needless to say, I was on the verge of maniacal laughter the entire time, and so was my husband. At least he and I looked pretty good, but I cannot wait until these pictures come back! According to Ned the Wino that will occur on July the 2nd. It was definitely the most interesting trip I have ever had to ANY grocery store EVER!

There is never a dull moment on Addison's Acre. My husband and I have been noticing some interesting behavior from a murder of crows that live on our land. They have been congregating around the goldfish pond, and at first we thought they were eating the fish, because they were dipping their heads in the water. However, we noticed that they had something in their beaks that they were dipping in the water, and it was big and white. After they would dip the big white thing they would then put it on the rocks and consume it. We decided to walk out and get a better look at what they were eating. Once we got out there of course they flew away, and what we saw on the rocks was BREAD! They were getting bread from someone else's yard, and they were bringing it back to dip in the fish pond to soften it up to make it easier to eat. Those are some intelligent birds! Nature never ceases to amaze me!!

What's going on at Addison's Acre......

I have not written in a while. I have been quite under the weather, and as of yesterday I got out of the hospital after having been in for six days. I was admitted for Syncope due to low potassium and hypothyroidism, but hopefully I am on the mend.

In other areas Hubby has started the garden. He hasn't gotten everything planted, because of the crazy weather here. We had a late frost, but we do have tomatoes and cucumbers going. The tomatoes already have little tomatoes on them and the plants are huge and healthy. I love seeing and eating food that we grow and harvest ourselves. It is so much more satisfying than buying it, and it just tastes better too. We hope to get some squash and other essentials planted, so we have some nice fresh veggies this Summer to supplement our diets. Our fig trees are big and beautiful, and I expect great things from them as well this year. They certainly did not disappoint last year.

So, Addison's Acre is being fruitful, and we are Blessed and thanking God for all of our Blessings.

I Have Walked a Mile.....

.....and I have no shoes left. God has won and has shown me who the true Master of the Universe is.

Kicking Small Mammals

I have not posted since back in January, and I have decided that groundhogs are very loathesome creatures. We have been teased by wonderful 70 degree weather that has given us "Spring Fever" and has made us want to spend time outside in the yard sprucing it up only to have the rug jerked out from under us.

Yes, it is after the middle of March, and the forecast tonight is snow. (Insert Confused Face Here) I know it is not the first time this has happened, but this Winter has been nothing but overcast days and rain. I love the rain, but the overcast days are killing my spirit. At least rain has it's purpose. Overcast is just bleh. It makes me want to do nothing at all, because it has no purpose. It is like the Dementor of weather, because it sucks all of the happiness away.

Speaking of Dementors.....I think I will put on my "Deathly Hallows" pendant and just sit here all day. I have a lot of crocheting I can do. I could carve a Harry Potter scar into my forehead. Nah, that's too extreme...or is it? It would definitely break up the monotony. I think it would be weird though, because right now, my hair is the color of a Weasly's. Maybe that's why I'm in a crochet kind of mood lately. I'm channeling Molly Weasly.....

Well, that little change in subject made me feel a bit better. Any Harry Potter reference usually does even if it did start with a Dementor. Sorry about blabbing on and on. It's just how my mind operates. Scary huh. I will refrain from carving scars in my forehead, and I will stick to crocheting. (Yes I know Molly is a knitter) but they both involve yarn.

Have a blessed day.....Even though it is overcast as hell.....EXPECTO PATRONUM!!!!!!

Misunderstood

I don't know why I feel compelled to write about this today. It could be because I am up for the 3rd or 4th morning this week WAY before dawn. Not because I want to, but because a symptom of my "disorder" has awakened me in a most unpleasant manner. I will spare you the details.

Most of you already know that I have an auto-immune disorder called Sjogren's syndrome. There are many auto-immune disorders Rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, Scleroderma, etc...to name a few. People with these disorders may look completely normal, but it does not mean that they are not having symptoms.

No, I may not "look sick," but to those that know me and that are around me for more than ten minutes know that something is no longer "right" with Geri. I have trouble finding my words or the right word. I have to write down things I'm supposed to remember, because my short term memory is shot. A walk through the house is an adventure. "Will she make it without falling? Let's make a bet folks!" The worst part is I know that I am not right. It would be different if I was swimming in a sea of blissful ignorance, but I am not. I can tell you it is very frustrating.

My point is not to make you feel sorry for me, because God only knows that is the LAST thing I want. My point is to increase understanding, and just because someone doesn't have something visibly wrong with them doesn't mean that they don't have something that YOU CAN'T SEE!

This is a hard lesson learned by me. Sometimes you do have to walk a mile in someone else's shoes. Unfortunately, I have been given the shoes to wear on a permanent basis.

Just One Christmas...

I woke up early this morning with my husband. Too early in fact, but I have been having trouble sleeping. My doctor says to just get up when that happens, so I did, fixed myself a cup of coffee, sat down, and turned on the old lap top to check facebook. I check my notifications first I think probably most "facebook people" do that, LOL, and then I see a post by my best friend in the world Tamara A. that says, "I wish I could spend ONE Christmas with my sister Geri Lynn Addison, just once!" I went there and immediately typed the word "AMEN," but the more I thought about it I went back and typed, "I would be happy for any day of the year at this moment." You see Tamara and I have never met face to face. 

This is how it all got started....Once upon a time, LOL, nah, I will not take you there that way. When I first moved to LaGrange, Ga. I really had no friends. I had work friends, but no other friends, and I got into ebay big time buying things for the house. It was then that I noticed that ebay had a blog. I had NO idea what a blog was back then, and I was, still am, pretty computer illiterate. I clicked on the blog early one morning when I did not have to work, and I found a wonderful group of people chatting about their sales, what they were selling, their families, etc... It was if they really knew each other. I made a profile and jumped in feet first introducing myself. At that time, I had never sold a thing I was just a buyer, and they were primarily sellers.

About a month into the blogging, I had met a couple of women that I connected with, and we chatted on yahoo messenger about things other than blogging. Family, men, work, and other things. It was then that I get a messenger request from a name I did not recognize, so I asked who it was and she told me. Now, at this point, we had only had limited encounters on the blogs, she was a graphics designer, but I knew right away that we had the same sense of humor (scary I know) and we just clicked on every level. 

People talk about their spouse or the love of their life being their soul mate, but I believe a friend can be that person as well. The amount of things that she and I have in common is scary. I will keep those between us as they are personal, but the biggest obstacle to our friendship is logistics. See, she is in California and I am in Georgia. Though we talk daily either on the computer or telephone we have never seen each other face to face. We've never "done lunch" although we joke about it. I'll call her and say, "I'll be there in 10 min be ready to go to lunch." It has never happened.

We have been friends since 2006, and I honestly hope 2013 will be our year. One tidbit of info I will give out is that we do share a birthday, so maybe this will be our year to celebrate together. We've been planning it for years, I think it is time that we quit planning and start doing. We do both need stamps on our Passports.....