Day 412 - 'one' grumpy lady



Gramma's got smile dimples. I know,
I know, they're wrinkles but I like
dimples much better! LOL



no, no, no I'm not talking about me.  At least not today anyways.  It's been a day of winding down, doing some all important napping and sadly cleaning up the project piles around the house.  All the prep work is now a distant memory.  But I swear I've looked at the photos from our trip 3 times today and reading over and over all the wonderful comments that everyone has left...
 

But as old projects finish new ones make there way into my brain.  I actually put some finishing touches on the train in the yard today, I want to get it ready for little hands to paint before this silly weather changes to rain, rain and even more rain.

There is one grumpy lady during our trip that really does stick in my head though.  I've been giving it way too much thought I know that but you always wonder what you could of, or should have done differently.

Me and my cane. There was a lot
of walking at the lighthouse.

As we arrived onto the ferry for the ride home because we were ALL voted off the island, we managed to get a spot near the back end of the ferry right next to the elevator.  I was puzzled as to why they put us in the special spot and then realized that I had forgotten to remove the disabled sign from the rear view mirror.  We only use it when we have to, not just for convenience.  Anyways, I was hoping that there would be not many cars near the end of the ferry where we were so we could set up the kids camp chairs and we could play some games or get an amazing view of our journey back to the mainland.  Low and behold it all worked out. 

We preceded to all get out of the van and grab our fun stuff to do with camp chairs in hand.  Then one of the grandkids had the great idea to play with the long skipping rope.  I handed one end to Ray and I took the other end, the girls explained how the game of school worked and we started with teaching Grandpa how to hold and turn the skipping rope.  Don't all men know how to turn skipping ropes? sheesh

We were having a blast.  Counting, laughing, cheering each other on and high fiving everyone who managed to complete their grade.  And then, and then...'hey, hey' we heard in the distance.  Ray pointed to the perfectly hairdoed lady.  'Do you mind?' she said 'You know that people are trying to sleep down here' and then she walked off shaking her head and proud of her  accomplishment.  I was fuming to say the least.  How dare that BEEEEEEEEP take the moments I have with my grandkids away from me...I want to...thoughts starting going through my head. 

Next year we will take this picture again.
I'm thinking a few of them will be
as tall or taller than gramma.

But first of all I needed to do damage control with the kiddos and luckily enough we had talked a couple times over the trip about grumpy people.  We all seem to be running into them everywhere.  We talked about how easy it is to be mean and grumpy.  "Yep, there is one of those grumpy people we've been talking about, let's go upstairs and find us some new fun" and off we went.  Ray looked at me a few times when we were upstairs and said that he could see the steam coming out of my ears and the flames coming out of my eyes.  He suggested that I text the girls and let out some of my anger and so I did. 

I sat there contemplating the should I, could I's but realized that if I went down to their car and told them about my condition and how they had ruined what could be the my last chance...well I just couldn't go there.  It wouldn't help anyone especially me if I started to cry in front of the crazy lady.  So I let it go...it's still bugging me but less and less.  Tomorrow it will be even farther from my brain and I so hope there is such a thing as Karma [is that how you spell it?]

So enough about all that poopoo stuff.  I forgot to tell you some good news yesterday.  My Dr. decided that she would give me an extra week off for my chemo treatment so instead of having my treatment next week it will be the week after...woohoo.  Now I can gain some strength, have some fun in my yard and maybe a little more fun with my family and perhaps just a few, no a lot of happy dances are in my plan!

Well that's the news people...I hope you have a wonderful day tomorrow and don't run into any of those grumpy people, remember it's easy to be grumpy, it takes character and strength to dig deep and smile at someone who needs it.  You CAN do it!

signed 'one' happy dancing purple ladybug