Helping

Yesterday and today we went over to Julias house to help her neice Jean and her husband Bill clean up a bit. She had a lot of "stuff" so basically we were bagging up clothes, shoes and purses to be sent to the goodwill. I think there were over 100 bags of just clothes. Anyway, it was back breaking and my foot was getting cramps but it was fun lol. I know it's strange to call that fun but it was. We went to the Olive Garden and I forgot my glasses on the table but thank goodness they found them so were going to get them tomorrow. I'm typing blindly right now hehe.

PSP

I've been really thinking about it for the last month and I really want a Sony Playstation Portable aka PSP. I've been looking at all these websites trying to find a good price and where is the best place to buy one, online or at the store. Well because Christmas is this month all the stores are out of them. Last night and this morning I saw the Walmart in Bakersfield (2 of them) had them still but then all of a sudden they sold out. But they still had some at their website and so I decided to just get one. I know I could've waited or you know, I don't really NEED one but I want one. I didn't want to buy a used one because I'm too afraid it might have a virus so I chose to buy a new one. It's the one with Daxter and Family Guy movie and also it has 1GB of memory stick. I wanted the Star Wars one but that didn't have a memory stick or a movie. Just the Star Wars game plus Darth Vader silk screened onto the back which I can almost guarantee will rub off. So I bought it and it should be here next week between Monday and Wednesday.

Safe Holidays

I just wanted to wish everyone very safe holidays. There isn't really much going on here. I'm knitting stockings for Christmas and I want to make some ornaments for the tree which by the way we haven't decorated yet hehe. I put it up but it hasn't been decorated. I want to buy a PSP for myself because I deserve a treat, however, I can't find one anywhere, not even on the internet. I don't want a used one because my neighbor told me his has a virus, yes a virus. They can go to websites and you can catch a virus from a website so if you go to a website with a PSP you can get a virus and I'm sure used ones are at risk. I have a 50/50 chance of buying a infected PSP so I just feel I might as well buy a new one. The Core ones which are $165 or something. The ones that come with a game are $199. I could buy a Nintendo DS but those don't go to websites nor do they play movies or let you view your photos or work as a mp3 player. I also saw a PSP with GPS capabilities, I assume you can buy the GPS for any PSP. I will have to wait until after the holidays to try and buy one. I'm sure they will be on sale after Christmas and/or New Years Day.

Christmas Tree (Continued)

Well I just put up the Christmas Tree in the living room. It looks so good. There were 4 sections and I had to place the bottom in the tree holder and remove the giant red twisty hehe. All the branches are on these metal wires that fall down when you remove the twisty tie, it's really cool. I haven't had a christmas tree for a very long time. It took awhile to fluff it up but I got all 4 sections together and fluffed and it looks awesome. Now all we need to do is put the decorations on it. We got these shiny balls from the dollar store (they were actually $2) green and red and silver that look like little disco balls hehe. They are plastic so they wont break which is really good. I like decorations that I don't have to worry about getting stuck in the arch of my foot. We also have a bunch of Megs decorations that she used on her tree. As I said in my last blog about Christmas tree, were going to put candy canes on it and I'm going to crochet some decorations. It will be so nice.

Christmas Tree

We are supposedly going to go to Sears and buy a pre-lit fake christmas tree. The last time I had a Christmas tree I was 19 years old and my neighbors in the apartment building who were all gang members asked me to give them my tree with all decorations and I said no and they threatened me and so what else could I do? I gave it to them. So this will be my first tree in 18 years. I had no idea when I was 19 years old that I'd have to wait 18 years to get another tree. I can't wait to get it. We have some old decorations from our friend Meg from when she passed away, nobody wanted her Christmas ornaments so we took them. Also Opal has some decorations and ornaments which we can dust off and use. I'm just afraid that they are too fragile. I'm also going to be crocheting some snowflakes for the tree so all is not lost. I want to also make those little mini christmas stockings to hang on the tree branches with little mini candy canes inside them. That should be cute. I will have to put those instructions in my crafts section here.

Julia Lanier

Our dear friend Julia Lanier passed away this morning at around 2am. She was a friend of Chips mom for years and when Opal passed away in 2004 Chip began a friendship with Julia to help fill the void left when Opal passed (void for both of them). Chip and Julia talked just about every day on the telephone. She would call when there was a news story that she thought he would enjoy watching on TV and vice versa.

Chip used to take the bus over to her house and drive her to her doctors appointments with her car. Or he would just go with her and she would drive her own car. About 4 months ago when we got our car he brought a little foldable step ladder because a ford explorer is a bit high for a woman in her late 80's and he was going to bring her to her doctors appointment but ended up taking her to the emergency room instead. She was admitted into the hospital and was there for probably 2 weeks.

He visited her on a daily basis, sometimes 2 or 3 times per day, early in the morning, noon time and dinner time. The doctor released her to go into a nursing facility called Californian Care on Mt. Vernon Ave. She stayed there until she passed away this morning.

Julia didn't want anybody to do anything special for her after she died. No obituary, no headstone, no funeral at all. She will be cremated and put in an urn in the same plot as her husband. Because there is no headstone the only way someone will be able to visit her gravesite is if they go to the office and say hey, where is she? Then of course they will have to escort you there. Anyway, she is in a much better place (as they always say, but it's true).