Trip to Wal-Mart. Dad's Surgery. TV News About The Crash of Airline Plane.

Yesterday morning, I talked to Mom and Joe I wanted to go to Wal-Mart.  Mom said I should have to wait until today but I must go there right away cuz I needed to buy more food there.  Both Joe and Mom gave me the green light.  I had to leave home after eating my lunch.  Joe dropped me off at Wal-Mart that early afternoon.  At Wal-Mart, I bought small storage boxes for my makeup items and other things cuz those things were so mixed up in 2 drawers in the bathroom of my big suite.  And DVD movie, "The Princess Bride" that starred in by Robin Wright and Cary Elwes.  The movie was made 20 years ago, remember that?  That's one of my favorite movies all the time cuz I love romance and adventure.  This movie is also funny.  LOL!  Otherwise, I can't find a set of 3 DVD movies, "Lord of the Rings" in the other dept.  Next time I will find it when they are an available on a display.  And then I went continuing to do shopping.  Joe picked me up when he returned after I finished shopping.

My Dad had a surgery yesterday.  He's getting better now.  The right side and under of the right ear of his head was operated successfully.  Dad is resting now but he did do errands for Mom and me this morning.

While I am doing this blog, Joe informed me that he heard an airplane crashed into the freezing water in NYC on TV news when he came into my big suite and then I immediately turned on the TV news special report to find out.  He also said the bird struck that airplane.  OMG, I can't believe what I saw on TV news.  I heard the water in Hudson River is very cold, 35 degrees.  Thank God, all of passenagers and crew are alive and safe.

Post-Christmas News

A night before Christmas I found out Mom and Joe are traveling again.  They were planning to take an airbus back to Chicago last Saturday morning.  I was somewhat upset when I found out as she asked me to check her airline schedule on an internet in my computer.  Mom and Joe purchased it on someone's computer while they were in California few weeks ago.  I didn't know that until now.  Mom didn't give Dad the news until last Friday afternoon when Joe made a confession to inform Dad about their plan.  I found out from David through IM that Friday evening Dad's reaction is he's mad.  I can't believe Mom and Joe are traveling again.  I miss Mom and Joe now.  I take over Mom's place to do chores at home again.  Mom and Joe will be returned home in time for my birthday.  I heard there's a winter storm in Chicago that Saturday but I guess they made it there on time.  The reason Mom and Joe went back to Chicago is that they are going to attend a special church convention.

Dad had a rough night after Christmas.  He has been a flu but he's about getting better now.  Dad needs resting.  He doesn't want me to touch him until Dad gets better when the flu leaves his body.  This time his throat hurts.  I think he's losing his voice.  I hardly listen to him when Dad talks shortly cuz his voice sounds terrible and low but I almost can understand Dad is saying something to me.

Florida still have a nice and warm weather until tomorrow when the cold front moves back in again.  Today is a partly sunny and 80 degrees.

Will see ya later! 

Our Christmas 2008

I had a wonderful Christmas on Christmas Day.  I stay home all day to celebrate it.  I had a cheese and herb turkey meat in the hamburger buns and a drink, an eggnog (yummy!) for my lunch.  After that, I had Christmas Hershey's Kisses candy.  A Chistmas dinner I had that night:  A tofu turkey go with vegetables.  It's very good.  I had a dessert afterwards.  That evening we opened our Christmas presents.  Joe and David were not there with us that night.  Dad got 4 pairs of Dockers socks from me and Jesus coffee mug from Mom.  Mom and Dad got a Wal-Mart gift card from Mom's aunt and uncle who live in Pennyslvania.  Another gift to Mom from me is undergarments.

 

 

See this picture on the right is that Mom got a framed picture of her 2 other friends with 2 other copies of them from me.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dad got a Jesus coffee mug from Mom.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mom got ASL book from me (See on the right).  Also this is for Joe.  I wanted Mom to share it with Joe.  I wrote their name in one tag.  Anyways, Mom likes ASL book.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Look what I got those Xmas gifts from my family.

 

 

 

 

See on the left of Christmas tree is Angels Kissing blanket from my grandaunt and granduncle, Honey and Frank who live in Pennsylvania.

 

New outfits from my parents.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left to Right:  A Makeup item and Angelstar Worry Stone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

David was supposed to wait until Mom comes home last Friday but he left early cuz he have to open his Christmas presents from us.  He stayed with Dad, Joe, and me that Friday afternoon.  Mom was disappointed when she found out.  She went out for shopping.  One of us should call Mom on her cell phone right away when David arrives to visit us.

 

That's it.

December 23, 2008: Christmas Shopping With My Interpreter, Kelsey

I went out all afternoon with a young, nice female interpreter named Kelsey yesterday.  She's hired by Mom and Joe.  Kelsey is a college student who knew my deaf friend, Chuck, who is happened to be her ASL instructor at Daytona Beach Community College (DBCC currently turns into Daytona State College since last year).  I didn't know Kelsey knows Chuck until I found out that few months ago.  I already know Chuck works at a college for teaching students ASL class.  That early Tuesday afternoon, Kelsey came to pick me up 30 minutes later after my chosen original schedule to get her on time, a noon, but she did call to inform my father she would be there in 15 minutes.  After we left the Manison, we went to a big bookstore, Barnes & Noble, in Daytona Beach.  That big bookstore comes first for me to do a Christmas shopping.  First, I ordered my lunch in the cafe there.  I planned to eat there cuz I needed taking a break from making a lunch at home.  My lunch was an apple-cransberry spread, cheese and turkey sandwich.  Yummy!  My beverage was hot Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha.  That drink was so delicious!  I tried this out.  After I finished eating my lunch, Kelsey helped me to look for a signing language book.  Kelsey asked a female bookstore employee where we would find a signing language book.  We found it with other books in the other area of the section after we followed that employee.  I've decided to buy a signing language book there.  It's a Christmas present for Mom and Joe cuz they need to learn how to use a signing language.  They don't using it much in a long time.  That's why Mom and Joe have a very busy life and don't understand me well by my speech (sigh).  I chose the best book, a big and thick but not too much.  That the same one I saw at a library few years ago.  I borrowed it for scanning few pictures from that book to put into my blog.  I like that book very much so I purchased it at the front.  Kelsey bought her own presents for some people she knows.  After I purchased the new book, I decided to buy a sweet chocolate cupcake (YUMMY!)  at the cafe.  I wanted a glass plastic container of it to go, not staying in the cafe cuz we had to leave immediately for going to the mall.  At the mall, I kept searching for my family member's Christmas gift.  I had to make a hard decision to choose what he or she want but I couldn't find anything but I did find out what Mom and Dad want for Christmas already before I left home.  I've decided to pick a package of 4 pairs of Docker's socks for my Dad at JCPenney's but can't find his after shaving lotion.  After that, I wanted to stop by music CDs and DVDs shop to look for David's Christmas gift but I can't find anything that would be interesting to him and I decided not to buy DVD cuz of the price there.  Kelsey suggested I could buy a gift card instead but I told her in a sign I am thinking about it.  And to the Sears.  No, I can't find anything for Mom there.  I decided I am done searching at the mall and then we left the mall for going to Wal-Mart in Ormond Beach.  Wal-Mart was my last shop to do.  I purchased few Christmas presents for Mom and David, a package of more bows, and needed to buy a package of more Thomas English Muffins for my breakfast.  And then I went home.  Kelsey dropped me off at my family's Manison.  I came home at about after 6:30 pm.  I had a wonderful and fun time.

That evening after eating my snack, a sandwich and a soda, I had to wrap Christmas presents for my family immediately.  That's alot of work through the night.  I finished wrapping them at about 10:30 pm and then cleaned up Christmas items on my bed.  What a mess!   I put them into my bedroom closet.  Mom put my Christmas presents under the Christmas tree in our family's living room for me.

Note:  The reason I decided to buy a signing language book for Mom and Joe is that they need an upgraded book.  Mom's other English signing language books are very old.  New ASL changes them.

That's it for now.  Good night.   

Mom and Joe. Christmas Shopping With Joe Little Bit. I Cancelled 2 Events By a Deaf Club.

Mom and Joe

Both Mom and Joe slept late that last Thursday morning, December 18th, a day after they flew back home in Florida.  It was a long journey for them.  Mom and Joe were very tired.  I finally hugged Mom for the first time since she went away when Mom came down to my big suite for seeing me.  Also, she gave me a very pretty ivory winter coat but it's a light wool, just like my mom's but her own coat is a little bit different from mine.  I like it very much cuz it keeps me a warm when the cold weather comes back again in Florida.  It's a early Christmas gift from my mom.  I think it's an used that she got from a garage sale in California.  Before that, I borrowed Mom's own wool coat from her once.  I am glad they have had a safe flight.


Christmas Shopping With Joe Little Bit
That Thursday afternoon December 18th, Joe and I went out to do Christmas shopping little bit.  I had a lunch at Larry's Giant Sub, next to T.G.I.Friday's Restauart on the beachside.  It's located at the shopping plaza, across the road from the beach, houses and hotels.  And the park, too.  Larry's Giant Sub have a framed photograph of Tom Cruise and me on the wall.  It's still there for a long time.  I used to go that restaurant for breakfast and lunch ony but not too many times.  It's a very good eaten place.  I love it.  Anyways, I ordered an Italian Connection submarine sandwich and a beverage, lemonade, and a small bag of potato chips.  My lunch was very delicious.  After I finished eating there, Joe had to do errands himself and then we stopped by the big building called Cash America, a pawn shop, next to the police station in Daytona Beach.  Joe wanted me to go in there when he came back several minutes later.  I did.  I checked it out.  When I got inside there, I noticed there are computers, TV sets, and music equipments everywhere.  And used DVDs, too.  I chose 2 DVD movies, "Chocolat" and "The Devil Wears Prada" but Joe purchased them as Christmas presents for me.  I know those are early gifts.  LOL!  Afterwards, Joe wanted to stop by at a health food store, Love.  He needed to buy more food there.  When we arrived there, Joe spotted Mom's car in the parking lot.  What is she doing there?  I believed Mom is doing her food shopping.  I waved Mom when Joe got in and talked to her.  I waited in the car.  Mom left Love shop early for going to Wal-Mart to do more grocery when she's done shopping at Love.  Several minutes later after Mom left, I went home with Joe when he finished shopping.  We came home at almost same time as Mom.  We returned there about 10- 15 minutes before Mom arrived back.


I Cancelled 2 Events By a Deaf Club
On Sat the 20th, I didn't go to the other deaf club in other town cuz nobody rides with me to get there.  I was having a hard time finding someone who would take me there.  The other deaf club was having a big Christmas party in Belleview, Florida, between the Village and Ocala.  That's too far away from my hometown.  And last Monday night, December 22nd in Deland for Volusia Signing Silent Dinner, planned by my hearing/interpreter friend from my deaf club, Nova, I didn't go there.  My deaf friend, Amy, said no to me cuz she already got 2 other people to ride with her and her hubby, Chuck.  I was upset and disappointed.  Nobody takes me there.  I felt trapped at my mansion.  I think Amy was too late to ask me to ride with her as if she's not thinking about me beforehand.

Wal-Mart. Denny's. Blockbuster. Mom and Joe.

Last Friday afternoon December 12th, I went to Wal-Mart to do a grocery.  When I arrived there, I went straight to the photo department to have my pictures printed in the computer from my digital camera.  I ordered 31 photos but I stopped marking the check on more others inside cuz each picture costs me.  More others are still inside in my digital camera.  I am not done with them until then.  Afterwards, I contiuned doing a food shopping until I decided I have enough.  I finished early.  I ate raisins as a snack while I was waiting for Dad to pick me up.  Guess who I ran into again?  When I was about getting into Dad's car, I saw Selena pushing the cartwheel with her 2 girls.  I said, "Hi, Selena." when Selena turned her head around and saw me as she was about entering into the store.  Selena said "Hi" to me.  And then I went in the car and to home.

I had a breakfast at Denny's the next morning, Sat. December 13, 2008.  Dad took me there.  I wanted to eat there cuz I needed taking a break from cooking breakfast at home.  I cooked breakfast almost everyday but I panted and panted.  Anyways, I ordered a beverage, flavored cappuccino, and an Ultimate Omelette and a side dish, harsh brown.  I had already decided not to eat pancakes anymore for awhile cuz I made them at home for few days before Saturday.  I have enough.  Those pancakes were really good.  My breakfast at Denny's was so delicious.  Yummy!

After breakfast at Denny's, Dad dropped me off at Blockbuster for renting 3 DVD movies.  I've decided to rent "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull", "Jane Austen Book Club", and "Recount".  At Blockbuster, I can't find "Recount" anywhere.  I was hardly scanning to look that name on the shelf  so fast as I kept moving my wheelchair along so I asked an employee if Blockbuster have one.  Yes, it have one so she went to get it for me.  Oh, I didn't see it on the shelf when she returned to the counter.  I can't see the word, "Recount", cuz the scanning marker is on it.  Then I paid renting those 3 DVD movies.  I went outside and waited for Dad to pick me up.  I know he had gone to a post office and a store.  While I was waiting ouside of Blockbuster, I felt a warm that is coming from the sun.  I wore my blue winter jogging outfit.  I enjoyed the weather.  It's a nice.  About 10-15 minutes later, I felt I am thirsty so I've decided to buy a cold bottled water and I went back inside to go get it.  Then I saw Dad's car is there.  I assumed he's waiting for me.  I went outside and came around Dad's car and waited for Dad but unexpectedly, the car turned out belonging to someone else.  LOL, I was very confused when Dad's car arrived as the car of the male driver was about leaving at the same time.  Both men were laughing.  I did recognizing Dad's color car before Dad came to get me but I was very confusing.  LOL!  I laughed so hard.  I picked the wrong car!  I made a mistake!  Dad's color car looks exactly alike a man's silver car.  Both silver cars are too much bright color for me to see.  I can't remember what the name of Dad's brand-new silver car but it's an used.  I forgot.  Joe bought that silver car for Dad 2 months ago.  It's a nice one.  And then I went home.

Have news about Mom and Joe.  Finally, both Mom and Joe will be coming home late tonight.    I am glad they decided it's time to go back home.  Mom and Joe bought their airline ticket last Monday morning.  Their airline schedule faxed to Dad that Monday morning.  I read it.  I can't wait to see them again after all!  Mom and Joe had been gone for 3 weeks.  Wow!

News About Mom and Joe

I can't believe what I found out from Dad that Mom and Joe will not be returned until Monday December 8th this early morning.  I really wanted Mom and Joe to be home immediately cuz I need Mom seriously and Joe to discuss my rent but I am planning to call him on his cell phone or on my mother's thru a VP later to talk about it.  I have to pay a rent to the doctor who owned our mansion before us now before I could buying anything.  Anyways, I am hoping they MUST be coming home.  I can't wait to see them again.

November 19 and 20, 2008: Aunts Betty and Teresa's Visit Part 2 of 2

Left to Right:  Joe, Teresa, Betty, and Mom at Betty's A1A Cafe.

The next evening, Thursday November 20th, Mom, Joe, and I went to pick up Aunts Betty and Teresa at their hotel, Coral Sands Inn & Seaside Cottage on the beachside.  We were going to have a dinner with them at a seafood restaurant on the beachside, Betty's A1A Cafe.  The weather that evening was cold.  I wore a dark blue overcoat.  Then we were headed for the restaurant, north of their hotel on the same road.  I had been to Betty's A1A Cafe long before.  The food was so delicious.  When we arrived inside there, we sat down at the table together.  I felt inside the restaurant is so warm.  I can tell that the heater condition is on.  I ordered a cheeseburger with bacon and a potato salad.  And a glass of spirite.  Yummy!  Wow!  That food is so delicious!  We were chatting but I did not talking much cuz I had to eat a hot cheeseburger.  After dinner, we were received a sing song so unexpectedly from witnesses.  They surprised Aunt Betty a recent birthday cake (actually on September 10th).  It was a chocolate!  Yummy!  But that cake is a small piece.  Aunt Betty sliced each of it for sharing with us.  We took aunts back to their hotel afterwards.  I went inside their cottage.  Their cottage looks clean and beautiful.  I figured the hotel manager at Coral Sands Inn bought a property of cottage few years ago.  Long before that, cottages were very old and where RV tourists (I guess) stayed.  I saw them on the beachside as one of my parents drove a car passing by.  Staying there for awhile, Mom, Aunts Betty, Teresa, and I were laughed so hard when Aunt Betty tried to get her mouth come out to talk.  I hardly listened to what she said cuz her voice is low.  Oh, I get it when she said.  She said she and Teresa wanted me to write an e-mail to Uncle Bill, Mom's brother, for them.  I said okay.  I always do.  I've had done them before.  I hugged and said goodbye to those aunts.  I am going to miss them very much.  And then we left their hotel for going home.  That's the last time I saw them.  On Friday November 21st, Aunts were going to fly back to their homestate.  Joe drove them to an airport in Orlando and dropped them off there.  I had a wonderful time with those aunts.  I was so glad to see them again.

Here is slideshow of Aunts Betty and Teresa's visit below:

November 19 and 20, 2008: Aunts Betty and Teresa's Visit Part 1 of 2

Left to Right:  Aunt Teresa and Aunt Betty

A week before Thanksgiving, I was so excited to see 2 aunts of mine.  They are from Williamsport, Pennsylvania and 2 of my mother's 7 siblings.  Betty and Teresa are not married.  Betty is retired from being a nun and a nurse in her career but she's still a part of being nun.  Betty became a nun in the early 1960s.  Teresa is still a nurse to take care of an elderly person.  Both Betty and Teresa are living together at the blue house that was once belonged to my deceased grandparents.  The blue house was built by my grandfather as a birthday gift to his wife in, I think, 1983.  I had seen inside their blue house everywhere while I was growing up.  It was beautiful.  Long before Betty and Teresa moved into a blue house, they lived in a big apartment in downtown.  That's where my mother used to live there before she married my father.  Until the fire was first started in the roof of their big apartment, they moved to another apt on the 2nd floor in South Williamsport.  I visited them there often as a teenager.  I was having a hard time to go upstairs with a pair of canes but I got a help from my mother or someone carried me up in there.  Now, they were on a vacation at Disney World Resort in Orlando for few days until on Wednesday November 19th when they travelled to Ormond Beach for staying at Coral Sands Inn & Seaside Cottage.  They stayed at one of cottages.  Betty and Teresa came over to our mansion that evening for a visit.  When they came over, I was so glad to see them again and hugged them.

During a visit to our mansion that Wed evening, David was already there before them and we were chatting each other and had a good time with us.  They drank a soda and had a snack.  Later, Mom, Dad, Joe, David, and I were watching the ballet show that my cousin, Vanessa, teaches little, young, and teenage girls, and few boys on DVD video.  Betty and Teresa brought Vanessa's DVD video and gave it to us.  They were performed on the stage last summer, June 2008.  Wow, Vanessa's video show looks wonderful and she had a great job to do her work to help girls and boys.  And her sister, Tiffany, was involved in it.  Awww, so cute!  I can hear the music in the background with a pair of my hearing aids on.  It's beautiful.  I will watch it again the other time.  Aunt Teresa said I could be a ballerina.  Yes, I agreed with her.  I liked that way when I was a little.  After finished watching the DVD show, we were chatting again at the dining table.  I just learned Jennifer who was born with CP is in care of the other relative, not the other grandmother.  I was wrong.  It turned out the other daugther that Grandaunt Ann has.  I also learned her hubby, Cleo, is not doing well.  Aunt Teresa told me that Grandaunt Kitty is in a nursing home right now.  That's what she heard about.  Grandaunt Kitty is my Godmother, my mother's aunt, and my deceased grandfather's sister. Later that evening, both Betty and Teresa were returned to their hotel on the beachside.  Mom dropped them off there.  I was so glad to see them again.  It's been a long time.  I hugged both of them for the first time since the last time I saw them years ago when they came over.  They have had no idea Florida was having a cold weather since last Sunday.  It was still on until this weekend.  Betty and Teresa like our mansion very much.  They took a house tour by Mom before they left.

Updates on Mom and Joe

Well, Mom and Joe are not coming home yet.  They were supposed to come home from a church trip to California yesterday.  I was disappointed and upset.  They wanted to stay in California for one more day or few.  I guess Joe changed the plans again.  He's the one who is responsible.  I woke up after 4 am today if Mom is there but no, she was not.  I really wanted to hug Mom again.  Dad said he got a call from them and they changed the plans.  Dad also said they will be coming home tomorrow.  Hopefully.  And then I went back to my huge suite and felt I am mad at Joe little bit.  I called Mom on her cell phone after 4 am thru a relay service in my VP and checked on her.  Mom said she and Joe will be home in 2 days (Thursday).  I am confused which day they are going to fly back here in Florida.  Tomorrow or 2 days?  Who is right?  All I need is a straight answer from one of them.  I know Todd is right when he said Joe keeps changing alot while working for him in a law office many years ago.  I think Joe needs Dr. Phil's help.  After I talked with Mom thru VP, I went back to bed.

Thanksgiving Week 2008

Whew!  I am taking a break from doing chores for Mother.  I have been busy at home since Mother's absent last Tuesday.  Oh, boy.  Doing chores drove me crazy.  Took a nap few times, but not much.  I can't sleep.

Last, very early Tuesday Morning, Mom and my oldest brother, Joe, went to an airport in Orlando for flying back to California on that Thanksgiving week.  I had to get up to catch Mom and Joe on time before they leave.  They planned to leave at 4 am.  I wanted to hug Mom and Joe for saying goodbye.  Mom was late.  I noticed she was in a hurry and couldn't have time to chat with me.  She was very busy and went crazy.  Mom had to put her stuff into my green suitcase that was sitting on the floor next to the kitchen.  She borrowed it from mine.  And then I laughed at Mom as she was sitting on top of it as if she was in hurry.  LOL!  Mom was trying to close the suitcase when she was done packing.  She laughed, too.  Mom and Joe hugged me and then they left.  After they left, I went back to bed.  Mom and Joe were going to Mount Shasta, California.  Have u heard about this place?  It nears the boarder of Oregon.  That's where they went on a Thanksgiving church trip.  Everyday, I called Mom on her cell phone thru a relay service in my videophone when she have had a free time before Mom leaves the hotel.  Mom and Joe are coming home tonight, very late.  I can't wait to see Mom and Joe again soon.

The next day, Wednesday afternoon, I went to Wal-Mart for doing a grocery.  As I was about leaving the mansion, I noticed there's a large luggage is trashed outside.  I laughed at it as I was figuring out what it is.  I understood why Mom wanted to borrow my green suitcase.  Otherwise, I had to buy more personal supplies there and more food.  At that time, I felt shivering and warm little bit since that morning and my back was in terrible pain.  Ouch!  I realized I may be getting a fever again.  Oh, no.  I spoke with female Wal-Mart employee about body temperature.  I was looking for a cheap one that I can afford.  I wished my mother is here to help me but she had no idea what's wrong with me.  Anyways, an employee suggested about the product named Reli-On Digital Thermometer.  I chose it and hopefully, it would work.  I don't like old fashioned thermometer cuz I had a difficult reading the number inside and it confuses me.  And then I went home.

When I got back home from a trip to Wal-Mart that Wednesday afternoon, I took a digital thermometer right away after I put food and other stuff away.  And waited for 60 seconds.  I checked to see how much degrees in it when it's done.  Yes, I was right.  I have had a fever again.  100.6 degrees.  And then I took aspirins immediately.  A fever went ups and downs repeatly little bit.  I kept taking those aspirins for every 4 hours to keep a fever down until last late Thursday night when I gave up.  I was so tired of taking those aspirins!  I don't like them!  Mom said I don't need to see a doctor again.  I was told that exactly by Dad last Friday.  Last Friday morning, I took a green liquid for spasm again and I felt better.  I took Bio-K bottle, taste like a yogurt before eating a breakfast.

I went to a Thanksgiving Feast at Greg's Liberty in Ormond Beach with Dad and David on Thanksgiving Day.  David arrived at our mansion on time.  He said I look pretty.  I thanked him.  And then we left.  A funny thing about David is that he's a clean freak cuz David doesn't want me to touch inside his newest blue Honda car when I get in it.  I don't care about the touch.  I wanted him to stop being a clean freak!  David needs loosing up himself.  The food was wonderful and so delicious but I had to take an easy carefully cuz I was still having little bit of a fever.  I ate it slow.  And then I decided stop eating at the halfway of my food.  I wanted to take it with me to home.  I ate a pie at home.  Yummy!  I went to take a nap afterwards.  I needed a rest.  That's what my Dad said at dinner.  I know I needed it cuz I was still having a little fever.

Here is a slideshow of Thanksgiving 2008 below:

I had a guy who works for Sorenson VP company coming over to my place last Saturday afternoon for repairing my VP.  I had a problem with the flashing lights in my VP.  I had to turn off the VP for watching TV program on a cable.  That's why I don't see the flashing lights and I received a long list of missed calls.  I didn't know people including Todd trying to call me so unexpectedly.  I can't believe it.  Anyways, Sorenson guy did it successfully.  He took the VCR box out from the TV set and the wire of Sorenson VP hooked up into it.  Another equipment of Belkin is not anymore.  I thanked Sorenson guy when he finished repairing it and then he left.  Right now, the VP is on in case the flashing light signaled me out when the person is calling me.  I am happy the flashing light is working.

That's it for now. 

November 21, 2008

Finally, I have time to do blogging this since I blogged a review about the DVD movie, "Scent of a Woman" last Tuesday.  Here are the list that is the reason why I hadn't time to do blogging: 
1.  I had to do chores in the kitchen for Mother few times. 
2.  Attended a belated birthday party last Friday, Nov. 14, 2008.  I sent digital photos that was taken there to my friends from a deaf club this morning. 
3.  Read ur blogs few times. 
4.  Went back to a beauty parlor last Wed., Nov. 19, 2008 to have coloring my hair by a hairdresser. 
5.  That Wed night, 2 aunts from Pennsylvania were visiting us at our manison but they stayed at a hotel on the beachside. 
6.  Went out to eat at a seafood restuarant with my family including 2 aunts on the beachside last night, Thurs Nov. 20, 2008.  Wow!  Thursday was aunts' last night of their vacation.
7.  I had to do a slideshow for all of u to see this morning.  U will be surprised to see it but u have to wait until next week.  And I will work on the other slideshow tomorrow.  Alot of digital photos.
I will do blog those list to talk about next week.

The Medication. The Death of My Grandaunt Ann.

The weather in Florida looks nice and warm.  It's sunny with partly cloudy this afternoon.

About my medication, I've decided stopping take it anymore last Sunday cuz my throat would go dry.  I guess maybe that's why I got sick 2 weeks ago.  But 2 days later, I felt my lower abdomen acting up little bit again.  This could be led to a spasm.  So I went back to take a medication again.  One time is enough for a day.  I received a new tall, white bottle that my mother bought from a health food store.  It's a vitamin juice.  It tastes like a carrot.  It works.  I feel great.  Pretty soon, I will have an appt with a black doctor, not the white one I saw 2 months ago, who prescribed a green liquid for a spasm.

I lost another relative 2 months later after the death of Uncle Richard in this year.  I just found out Grandaunt Ann who lives in Pennsylvania passed away on Sept 8th.  I didn't find out about her until a week later.  I can't believe it.  I miss her.  Grandaunt Ann is my mother's aunt, my deceased grandfather's sister, and a grandmother of woman named Jennifer with Cerebral Palsy but she's hearing.  Grandaunt Ann took care of Jennifer since her parents were killed in a small plane crash in 1978.  Jennifer also have a disabled brother named Jim but the other brother, a little one, was a normal.  The little one was killed along with his parents at the same time, too.  Grandaunt Ann raised Jennifer very well.  She was very busy caregiver until I learned Ann had health problems that I was told by my mother after Ann died.  Ann had a high blood pressure and swollen legs.  I figured her swollen legs are the result of taking care of Jennifer for many years.  It's possible.  I do recall one late winter several years ago (at that time, I was a single and living with my parents), Aunt Ann, her hubby Cleo, and Jennifer came down to visit us on their vacation.  Cleo drove a huge trailer that I've ever saw outside my parents' house.  Inside the huge trailer looked clean and pretty.  Wow!  I will never forget their visit.  Another recall I do have is that I visited Ann's huge house with my then fiance in the summer of 1997.  Wow, it's very pretty big.  Jennifer has an elevated chair at the stairs inside the house.  I think Cleo built it for his family.  Anyways, I was concerned about Jennifer if she would be sent to a nursing home but I was told the other grandmother is taking over Ann's place.  I hope Jennifer is alright.  I have a picture of Jennifer in my photo album but not this time.  I am not ready.  Next time I will post it.

Sick Kitty. Belated Birthday Lunch Party. Weather in Florida.

I was supposed to do blogging last Friday but I became sick again.  I ended up getting a sore throat that came first.  That early Friday morning, my throat acted funny.  I didn't know what it is until later I realized I have a sore throat.  Oh, no, not again.  Who gave it to me?  Maybe Joe.  Maybe Dad.  I don't know which one who gave me a sick.  The next day, I had a running nose.  Ugh.  That was next after my throat got better.  I wasn't feeling well.  I had a sinus.  Both of my eyes were hurt and tired.  I rested in bed all day.  And yesterday, I was about recovering from being sick but my eyes still hurt. The left side of my nose hurts, too.  I rested and slept that Sunday afternoon.  I am about getting better today but my nose hurts little bit when I stand up.  No more running nose.

That Friday Mom was having a belated birthday party for Dad.  She invited her 2 friends, Joan and Joanne, for lunch.  Mom made a delicious soup.  I ate it.  Yummy!  I can't remember what's the name of it.  I forgot to ask her what it is.  Mom bought some plastic containers of slice cake.  I took few pictures of them at the dining table during lunch hour.  I think Dad didn't want to join those ladies but I don't know.  At that time, he was tired and napping.  They had a wonderful lunch.

The weather in Florida is changing again.  Tonight will be about 45 degrees.  Brrrr!  Tomorrow will be 64 degrees and that Tues night 48.  But good news for Halloween kids on Friday, the temperature will back up again.  It will be 78 degrees and that Halloween night 58 degrees. Not bad.

My Health. Mom and Joe's Church Trip.

I finally have time to do blogging this.  Sorry, I haven't written it for 4 weeks cuz I wasn't feeling well due to a digestive system that is about shut down.  I've tried to do blogging few times but my digestive system interrupted me.  I felt very uncomfortable inside.  I can't stand it anymore. 

About 2 weeks ago on Thursday October 9th, I became terrible sick when I came home from a trip to Wal-Mart.  It was awful.  My stomach stirred up again.  I felt fine that morning but not that afternoon.   I have problems with my digestive systems for months since last February.  It had been going on forever.  I didn't eat much.  I feel skinny.  My mother and brother Joe said I should be moving around and walking but they are wrong.  I kept telling them that.  We had a disagreement about it.  I knew there's something wrong with me.  On Monday October 13th, I had a fever.  102 degrees.  My God!  I felt cold.  I rested in bed all afternoon and night.  The next day, I went to see a doctor.  At the doctor's office, I just found out my blood pressure is lower and my lower addomen has a spasm.  I can't believe those when I found out.  Mother said I might have a mild case of shingles.  I can't tell u where they are.  I do know where shingles are in on.  I am on a medication now.  Since I received 2 different medications last week, I am getting improved.  I am surprised to notice that.  The green liquid, my medication, works in my digestive system successfully.  That is using for a spasm.  The green liquid tastes like a rosemary or mint.  I did eat plenty of food but not too much.  Anyways, I am still waiting to hear from the lab about the result of my blood test.

Mom and Joe are back home now from a trip to Phoenix, AZ.  They came home last night.  Mom and Joe flew to Phoenix for a church trip last Thursday morning.  I am glad to see them again.  While Mom and Joe, I did washing and drying dishes myself.  I kept the kitchen a clean.  On the night of Mom and Joe's returning, we had eaten a pizza together.  David, my other brother, ordered 2 boxes of pizza.  However, I already ate supper one hour or so before but I have had no idea David ordered 2 boxes of pizza.  I ate one thin slice of pizza.  That's all I had cuz I don't want to eat too much.  Pizza is sooooo good!  YUMMY!  Thanks to David!

Wal-Mart. The Chart House Restaurant. Emmy Awards.

Last Saturday, I felt boring as if I have had no plans but yesterday I had a fun.

Yesterday afternoon, I went to do a grocery at Wal-Mart.  I asked Wal-Mart employee if she has a new battery to be exchanged for my watch cuz I discovered my watch was not working that afternoon before I left home.  But she said Wal-Mart doesn't have one.  I was disappointed but I think I forgot about it.  I had to buy a different size of battery for my small wireless clock.that I could put in my bathroom.  And then I went on to buy more food until I've decided I am finished.

When Mom and I arrived home in her car that late Sunday afternoon, I got unexpected plans.  Joe made me staying in the car and wanted to take me out to eat.  I was surprised.  That was so unexpected.  I didn't know what he has in his mind.  We went to The Chart House, an expensive seafood restaurant in Daytona Beach.  The Chart House is located on the Halifax River surrounding by many boats everywhere and between 2 condos.  I had been there few times but not much.  That was a long time ago.  The last time I went there was in the Winter of 2005 or 2006.  I recall Joe brought his guests and our parents to celebrate my birthday there but it was belated.  Anyways, the outside that night looks shining and beautiful and quiet.  Joe and I were talked on other things personally.  Our food was so delicious.  I ordered coconut shrimps with rices but this food look so big.  Wow!  I had a salad from the bar before the dinner arrives.  I took this meal to home so Dad can have it cuz I know he would like it very much.

Did u watch Emmy Awards show last night?  I missed watching the first of 3 hours Emmy Awards show that night cuz we were about coming home from a trip to the restaurant in Daytona Beach.  I was looking at Joe's watch by checking out what time while I was at the restaurant.  I realized I am going to miss watching it.  I can't wait to get home but I've got to be patient.  After I got home from a trip to Wal-Mart where Joe had to buy a cologne for Dad, I am so glad that "Recount" won an award.  I haven't seen it but I will rent that DVD movie one day when I have time.  I really wanted to see it badly.  I can't believe Tina Fey won 3 awards.  Tina looks so pretty and sexy but much alike Sarah Palin, Vice President hopeful.  LOL!  Tina is so funny when she played Sarah Palin on SNL. on "TODAY" show.  She dressed up so nicely in it next to Hillary Clinton.  Wow, so many awards went to "John Adams".  I want to see that DVD movie, too.

Surprise! A 1945 Newspaper Photograph of My Late Uncle, Richard, As A Young Boy Scout.

Now I finally have time to show you a 1945 newpaper photograph of my late uncle, Richard, as a young Boy Scout.  Yes, Uncle Richard was a celebrity back then.  My S.F. cousin, Jeanne, sent that picture to us in an e-mail after she and other relatives found it while going through Richard's memorabilia.  I told you about Richard in another blog 2 months ago, remember?  This picture was taken at the funeral of FDR in Washington, D.C.  Jeanne was told by Richard, her father, that he was worried that this black woman was in such grief that she was going to faint or fall and he moved up close, ready to hold her up.  See it below.

.Here is a picture of Uncle Richard as a young Boy Scout and a black woman:

LOOK magazine printed it in 1960.

If you are planning go on a vacation in Washington, D.C. in the future and on a tour at FDR Memorial site, that picture is on the display there.  Surprise, huh?

See a link, "In The Memory of Uncle Richard 1st of Part 3" if you wants or miss reading this July blog.  Uncle Richard passed away on July 15th, 2008.

In The Memory of Uncle Richard 3rd of Part 3

On an early Wednesday morning after his death, Uncle Richard made me crying while in bed few hours before I received news about Richard’s death in an e-mail from one of my Dad’s relatives.  I can’t sleep thru the night.  An itch bothered me all night.  I figured something tells me.  I knew he’s going to die.  I was depressed little bit.  I asked Uncle Richard to tell Uncle Joe and Uncle Bob I said “Hello” for me.  I was trying to control and stop crying all day until I ate an ice cream cone that afternoon.  It works for me.  It did stop me from crying.  Thank God.  I felt better afterwards.  I am about getting over the death of my uncle.

I can feel the presence of Uncle Richard few times since he died.  On Friday morning, July 18^th, I was still in bed, not really awake.  I felt 3 long puffs of cool air on my right cheek.  I was thinking about Uncle Richard again.  He made me smiling.  And on Saturday afternoon, while napping, I felt someone sitting on the bed beside my feet.  It could be the spirit of Uncle Richard.

I can image Uncle Richard walks on the beach in his Boy Scout uniform as a young boy and dips one of his toes into the shore of Daytona Beach as the sun is about rising in the warm morning.  I guess he can be enjoying the view of the beach and sunrise.  Did he?  Possible.  He’s probably having daydreaming as he stares at the sunrise.

Goodbye, Uncle Richard.  I miss you very much.  I love you very much.

R. I. P.

See a slideshow below:

 

In The Memory of Uncle Richard 2nd of Part 3

On Thanksgiving week 1996, Mom, Joe, Dee, Joe’s old girlfriend, and Todd, my then boyfriend, and I went on a trip to Stinson Beach.  Richard and Joan (see the photo on the right) invited us there for a holiday dinner at the home of famous musician named Jerry Garica.  Uncle Richard rented there.  It has a tennis court, Jacuzzi, and a swimming pool and a guest house.  Wow!  We had a delicious dinner.  We had a wonderful time all afternoon.

I just learned Richard was a celebrity for a short time as a young Boy Scout in 1945.  I didn’t know that.  My Dad didn’t mentioning it to me until Uncle Richard told me about it.  There was a picture of Richard in the newspaper.  In that newspaper, it shows a picture of Richard helping an old lady who was about fainting during the funeral of FDR.  Richard was living in Washington, D.C. with his family at that time while his mother was living in Florida with my Dad as a young boy.  Wow, that’s interesting.  Few times, I can’t find a picture of Richard at the funeral of FDR online.  It was difficult.  I can’t pay it.  I believe it was in late April 1945.  Recently, I found out where the picture of Richard is located when I asked for.  I was told in an email that the location of his picture is at the site of FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C.  Cool.  One day when I go back to Washington, D.C. on my vacation, I will visit the building of FDR Memorial and find the picture so I can take a digital photo of it.  Someone will send that picture to me when he or she did take a great picture there later so I will put that picture in my blog in the future.

Richard was born and grew up in Washington, D.C.  He was a baseball player as a young boy.  And a Boy Scout.  Richard was graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, D.C.  He was an editor at The Washington Daily News, The Evening Star, and Aviation Week and Space Technology Magazine during his journalism career of four decades.  In 1965, Richard moved his family to San Francisco when he was promoted to become a bureau chief for the magazine until his retirement in the early 2000s.  Richard has children and stepchildren.

Richard enjoyed his hobbies.  His hobbies are tennis, snorkeling, ping pong, and travel.

Richard spent on so many vacations over the years since his retirement.  He went to Hawaii, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Florida, Death Valley, Arizona, New Mexico, Africa, and Nevada.  He had been to China during his editing career before.

About 3 months ago, I sent an e-mail of slideshow to Richard and Jack about a 100^th anniversary of my high school, Seabreeze.  I am so glad that Uncle Richard had a chance to look up a slideshow of high school class reunion on time.  Thank God!

I have received nice gifts in the mail from Uncle Richard and his wife, Joan, few times.  A beautiful Hawaiian sundress (see the photo on the right.  Taken at a Mexican restaurant on July 1, 2003) and a real shell necklace that he bought in Hawaii for me on his vacation with Joan in 2003.  He sent a mail package of them to me when he returned home.  I love that sundress very much.  I wore that sundress again on Friday July 18^th in honor of Richard. A coffee mug and a book (see the photo below) as a Christmas gift 2003 from Muir Woods where he currently worked a part-time job.

 

In The Memory of Uncle Richard 1st of Part 3

This is Uncle Richard waving and smiling during his trip to New Mexico April 2008.

I lost my wonderful uncle.  I can’t believe my S.F. uncle, Richard, passed away on Tuesday night, July 15^th, at 6:30 pm California time.  He was my Dad’s brother.  Richard died of pneumonia.  He was in a hospital and had been sick for a month.  I just found out about him a week before his death when I received an unexpected e-mail from one of Dad’s relatives.  Oh, I am going to miss him very much.  I will never forget Richard.  The last e-mail I received from Richard was 2 months ago.  He was discussing the sunburn on his trips 3 months ago and the work at Muir Wood on the weekend of Memorial Day.  Also, the last time I saw him in a person was on Thanksgiving week 1996 outside San Francisco.

I’ve decided to blog the story of Uncle Richard recently since he died because I am here to reminisce and tribute his life.  Here it is:

When I was 13 yrs old while living in California with my family, Dad introduced me to meet relatives on his side in San Francisco on one weekend in March 1982.  I first met Uncle Jack, his then wife, Christina, and their daughter, Kelly, at their home.  Kelly was about my age at that time.  And then later on that afternoon, I met Uncle Richard when he came over to visit us.  Uncle Richard made me laughing.  He looked healthy back then.  The color of his hair was about started to develop a silver.  About 2 months later, May 1982, I attended to a wedding of Richard’s daughter, Jeanne, with my parents. Jeanne was about to marry Jamie, a computer whiz.  An outdoor wedding took a place at Mt. Tamalpais State Park, north of San Francisco, but the weather turned out cold and foggy.  I dressed up pretty that I wore for Easter.  I recall witnessing Uncle Richard walked down the aisle with Jeanne in her mother’s wedding gown on a ground of the hill.  Richard looked so good in his black tux.  LOL!  After the wedding ceremony, we went to a reception in Sausalito at the bay.  So many wedding guests were flocked there and had a good time.  They danced for hours. Wow!  The band was loud.  I was sitting in the lightweight wheelchair.  Richard danced a lot but I hadn’t noticed in him much.  He chatted with wedding guests a lot.

I saw Uncle Richard again in Washington, D.C. in the late summer of 1989.  We were there for our family reunion on the Labor Day weekend.  I was a new student at a college at that time and was just graduated from Seabreeze High School 2 months earlier.  I just found out Uncle Richard is remarried to Joan, his 2^nd wife, on Father’s Day in that same year.  Uncle Richard and his 2 other brothers, Jack and Joe, were staying at the same

major hotel with their family.  My Dad, brothers Joe and David, and I were staying there, too.  Bob, Richard’s other brother, lived at his home in Bethesda, Maryland.  Bob was not visiting at our hotel to chat us because he had an Alzheimer’s disease.  We were having a social in the lobby of our hotel one night (see the photo on the right, L to R:  Richard, Jack, Dad, and Joe).  We ate snacks and drank and chatted.  We had a family reunion dinner at another place the next night.  On Sunday, the family reunion was having a huge picnic at the park outside Washington, D.C.  I can’t remember seeing Uncle Richard doing something at the park.  I guess he chatted and played all day.

Both Bob and Joe are deceased now.  Bob passed away in about either 1991 or 1992.  Joe died of heart attack in December 1994.