Dear Fellow Bloggers and other assorted readers:

Greetings from underworld - otherwise known as the nursing home. Good to be back for another week; had a bad day yesterday. Not sure why; just very sleepy and in a lot of pain, but not today. Didn't eat yesterday either; ate pretty good so far today. They always gripe if I don't eat... "you have to eat something." It smelled good but it didn't taste good. Blech!!!
It seems like we have had ham for three days in a row. Must have been a sale! Today it was just ham, no weird sauce or anything on it, just ham. So I ate it.

As promised I had said last week I would tell you about the National Nursing Home Week that we just celebrated. Each day was celebrated by celebrating different countries for five days. The first day was China. We had coolie hats, fans and chopsticks and ordered Chinese food.
They also had a karate demonstration. The second day was Italy. We had pretend champagne and cheese and crackers. And we had Italian pasta. We were able to keep the little plastic champagne glasses. The third day was Africa. They had singers and dancers come and we also conducted a safari, and were given hats and sunglasses. The fourth day was Ireland. We had entertainment, which was Irish dancers. We also had plastic shamrocks hats that we wore while we were being serenaded. The last day was Mexico. We had a marachi trio, a pinata break, tortilla making, and beans. We also had some somberos. That was so much fun!!! I had a great time! I didn't make it for all the events, but I made sure I got up for Ireland and Mexico.

For Memorial Day we are going to have a ceremony presenting ribbons in honor of our past & present soldiers and families; and we will have a military movie and popcorn. Our facility is great about putting things together to celebrate national holidays, state holidays, and religious holidays. There is something for everyone! The Activities Department does a wonderful job!

That's all for this week. Hope you had a good time hearing about the happenings in my neighborhood. See you in seven!

Love always, Darci and Skippy

Welcome back everybody! It's good to finally be back after having so many weeks without posting. Had rough weeks but am getting better now. No more seizures, no more pneumonia, no more bronchitis, and no more high blood sugar. (Which may have been the cause for the seizures.) I am having problems with water weight in my upper body which the doctor gave some long medical term to that I have forgotten. The main thing is it just means I have swelling in my chest, my arms and my face. It makes it hard to move and breathe. I may have to undergo a test but not sure yet.

In other news, my boyfriend and I have fixed a date for our committment ceremony..... September 17th here in the lounge from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Our colors as of right now are turquoise and rose. I found a turquoise dress in a magazine that would look pretty for the ceremony, and asked Steve to be on the prowl for a turquoise polo shirt. Nothing fancy for us. Still waiting to hear from the minister.

To Mom, Paul and Peg in Hawaii: Lucky suckers!!! Hope you are having a great vacation! We will see you in another week when you get back. As always, bring souvenirs!!

That's all for now - I will keep it short this week. Maybe next week I will be more in depth, there is something I am thinking about for next week. I may tell you about International Week next week.

Love always, Darci and of course, the ever-lovable Skippy.

Happy Cinco de Mayo

Glad to be back. Hope you missed me!!! I am feeling better and getting ready to party for Cinco de Mayo, so Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone. Have a margarita for me!! See you back here next week. Take care!!

Love Always, Darci and Skippy (even though he isn't phyically here.... he is on vacation at the spa!!)