Mama Always ~ L.A. Brown, Author

Just for fun and to distract me from the fibro pains that are bugging the living tar out of me at the moment, I thought I would post this excerpt of a piece (with her permission, of course) from a writer who is struggling with the writing part. Enjoy Changing and heading to my plant table and my garden gloves, I almost tripped on the same pine cone that caused all of the doctor visits in the first place. Really, one would think that I would keep up better with the pine cones after the last episode, so I detoured to the garage and my lawn rake. After an hour or so, the lawn was devoid of leaves, pine needles and those evil little pine cones so I decided that it was time for a glass of tea, perhaps a glance at the paper. Heading back into the house, I noticed that I had not picked the mail up off of the entry floor, so I picked that up and put it on the desk with the intent of looking through it. Reaching for my reading glasses, I found that they were not in their usual place; eithe...

So, I'm finding that I'm settling in to the fact that Angel is home where she belongs, but it is kind of quiet around here, with the exception of Gir taking off after one of her babies on occasion. Today, however, was one of those days when everything got to me. I woke up with a full blown migraine and  body aches. So, I had to decide whether I wanted to kill the body aches and deal with the migraine, or kill the migraine and deal with the body aches. I opted for the latter.The ibuprofen will mostly take away the migraine and slightly diminish the body aches. The Vicodin, however, will totally take away the body aches and not touch the migraine. Go figure. So, instead of concocting evil plots in my pounding head to dispose of everything and everyone who is making the noise that makes my head throb even more, I opted to get rid of the headache. The other I deal with on a daily basis to some degree or another and I'm capable of ignoring most of it until it starts to turn in...

As usual a snag, snare, snafu, issue or whatever you want to call it had to appear. Its just the way this has gone from day one! As you know, Angel is now home in Korea with her family, but while she was in Tokyo, a snag came up. Praise God that it wasn't something that would delay her travel, but snafu it was. Apparently one of the rules that I was not told was that the kennels that animals travel in from Tokyo have to have ventilation on all four sides of the kennel. The one I got Angel only had ventilation on three sides. Sheesh! Again, Praise God that it was taken care of as soon as it was made known. The agents in Tokyo supplied a kennel that was within regulations for her to continue on to Korea, but getting her out of her kennel that we had purchased apparently was another matter. Our Agent called to let us know that a few things were in the works, a couple of them I hope to show you in a couple of paragraphs (if I can get it to upload). The other was to tell me about the ...

I love my fur babies, I really do. They bring me joy, frustration and eat me out of house and home and I wouldn't have it any other way. But there is a downside to having them. In November, the 21st to be exact, I lost my beloved Australian Shepherd, Draco. He had arthritis all up and down his spine with the exception of about four inches of clear spine. The arthritis was so bad that it was literally twisting the spurs of the spine itself into the spinal cord, which caused paralysis. There was nothing that we could do to save him and on his 11th birthday, he crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. That had to be one of the toughest days that we have had as a family in a very long time. Since then there have been days that I have told him to come on so we could go "night-night", wanted to stick my head out of the back door to tell him to be quiet because it was too early/late to bark. In the grocery store more than once I have gone to the dog food isle specifically to pick up...

Sometimes I just have to shake my head. Let me start with the fact that I knew  when I went to bed that it was going to be a tough night. I had the shoulders starting to tweak and tighten up, then my neck decided that the shoulders shouldn't do this alone. **sigh** Anyway, my family and I have been watching the Star Trek TNG series and we got to the one with some sort of bug that invades the person and takes over that person's personality. So, somehow this manages to get into my dream state. Let's see...the dream incorporated someones pregnancy, a rescued pit bull puppy that was abused; some basketball player and his family; a singer who is famous, but I have no idea who she was; a stiff back; a movie marquis and a clogged pore that when you squeeze it a blue worm came out of it. Yay. At any rate, last night was a little restless for me. I didn't have a really good nights sleep. I didn't toss and turn because my back was so stiff, my hips hurt and my right arm a...

I got a phone call this morning from a good friend of mine. She had a call from a friend of hers who is pregnant. She just got the news that there's a 95% probability that the baby that she's carrying had Down Syndrome. My friend called to see if I would talk to this young woman. Absolutely! So, I called and spoke with this young mother who is dealing with the uncertainty of what she is about to experience. She spoke of the lifespan of her unborn daughter; does she have to have a c-section or can she give birth normally. What is she to expect? So, I started to tell her the story of my Mouse, Andrea. My pregnancy with Andrea was textbook. There wasn't a pregnancy symptom that I didn't have. I gained weight when I was supposed to; I had morning sickness when I was supposed to, everything was normal, there was zero reason to believe that there was even a little issue. All I gained was 21 pounds, nothing indicated problems. I had an ultrasound because the technology was...

OK, I have to admit it....I'm a bit of a Trekkie. I love The Next Generation, have actually attended a Trek Convention ( I know, right?), and am currently going through the first season via Netflix. If I had known that Netflix was this cool, I would have dropped my movie channels a long time ago! Lol! Anyway, Netflix is my new favorite channel because I can get my fill of Star Trek TNG, Voyager and Deep Space Nine any time I want. The original Star Trek is too hokey...the aliens look more like the monsters from Japanese movies than they do from something produced in a Hollywood studio. As for Enterprise, I have to get over Scott Bakula being the Captain of the Enterprise and not from Quantum Leap and  predating William Shatner (supposedly) as Kirk. Hard to wrap my brain around the hokey from the original coming after the cool of Enterprise. Seems more like a step through a worm hole or something. So, Chris, Andrea and I are watching through the series...we figure it will take us...