Pink Flamingo on Toast

Mom-in-law goes in for surgery tomorrow at 8am. Hopefully everything will be simple and there won't be any complications. Prayers would be appreciated. Jerry and I keep giggling about calling her Peggy or Eileen but it will probably be too soon for such antics. I also suggested buying her an eye patch and parrot...Jerry just glared. After the surgery will come more therapy and then some decisions on where to live and things like. Hopefully a new rehab place will actually teach her how to pivot and improve her upper body strength. Lots of family visits the next couple of days. As I type, I'm doing laundry to prepare for Jerry's sister and her friend to stay with us. Hope they don't mind me waking up a 5:50am every morning to get ready for work. Work is going good. I still love it and am finding more of my weaknesses. This is a good thing. Knowing you need work is better than thinking you know it all. Everyday I'm learning a new sign. I love learning!

It's been two weeks since I started my new job. (Interpreting at a middle school). I love it!!! The school is clean, the staff is friendly and the kids...well....what can I say, they are kids. It's funny to hear them talk about boys, Hanna Montana and Sponge Bob. I had forgotten what a peculiar age 13-ish is. One of the best things about my job is that I'm done by 2:30 which leaves me time to do things if I need to. I've been slacking on the housewife duties for a while now and that needs to change. I need to find my groove! Jerry's mom is still waiting for her leg amputation. We are hoping that after her cardiology appointment on Friday they will finally schedule the surgery. It really needed to be two weeks ago. If you are in Jax and you have a family member that needs to go into a nursing home/rehab, please, PLEASE do not put them in Jacksonville Nursing and Rehab off Dunn Ave. They will not get the attention, care and rehabilitation that they need...

So the surgeon's office called Jerry to let him know that the nursing home did not get his mom cleared for her surgery on Tuesday. WTF?! They had a week and they knew that she was going to surgery on Tuesday. They did an EKG and an x-ray but they couldn't find a cardiologist to come in and "clear" her. So now, we have to wait for them to get a cardiologist to clear her and hope that the schedule is open soon. The fear is that the leg in her infection gets worse and causes more complications. Hopefully the nursing home will step up and and take care of this quickly. I highly doubt it though...gah! Okay, now for some good news. I was offered and accepted a job with the Duval School System as a full-time interpreter. I was just beginning to doubt the life journey and *BAM* Strange how that works...(my angel must be pulling strings in that big corporate office called Heaven) I have been there two days and I have to say, I'm lovin' it! The sch...

Jerry calls me "staff" at times. At Christmas, he jokes to his employees that his "staff" will take care of any wrapping or things that need to be done. During the rest of the year my staff duties include picking up prescriptions, banking and any other errands the "boss" can think of. It's okay, I know he doesn't like doing the mundane things and I really don't mind. Today was definately a "staff" day. Picking up things for the house, getting some bins to store some paperwork of his parents and going to pick up death certificates at the funeral home. I don't think I mentioned the chatty funeral home director before. Every time we walked into that man's office it was at least 45 minutes of chatting. In his defense, he made last week very easy. He's a good man. Not much else on the docket around here. Next week consists of mom-in-law's leg amputation and more of working out things for mom-in-law's estate....