2025 11 25 – A Day in the life #287 but who’s counting

Purewick delivery showed up today from a Sunday order. First order of business at the home was get it operational again while cleaning mother up. Father didn’t give her pain meds prior to the procedure. We had to deal with the “my back hurts,” “something is here or here on my back stabbing me,” and the general appreciation/bitching of getting the bed and body cleaned again.

Aimee and I are exhausted from the nursing job we have to perform every night with the two of them, bless their souls.

Ya’ll enjoy the time with your parents even if it’s this “stuff” too.

God bless

2025 11 16 – A Day in the Life #278 but who’s counting

Viva Anne Deaton Saunders (Jones) – Celebration of life November 16, 2025

Viva Anne Deaton Saunders (Jones). 82. of Murrells Inlet, S.C., passed away peacefully at her home on October 31. 2025. She was born or November 18, 1942, in Troy, N.C., to Ernest Lee Deaton Sr. and Maddie Viva Deaton of Troy.

Viva is survived by her daughter, Aimee Cochran. and her husband, Daniel; two grandchildren, Christopher Cochran and his wife. Elizabeth of Murrells Inlet. SC Ashley Aldridge and her husband, Jacob, of Denver Colorado.

Viva retired from North Carolina State University as the head of Admissions and was part owner of Cary Art and Frame in Cary, N.C.

She loved taking long walks on the beach, collecting seashells. shark teeth. and sea glass along the way.

A Service of Celebration will be held at 3:00 p.m. or Saturday, November 15, at First Wesleyan Church in Troy, N.C

God bless.

2025 11 01 – A Day in the Life #264 (but who’s counting?)

Aimee and I visited with Mc Millan-Small Funeral Home today at the early bloody hour of 9am after 72 hours of limited sleep so that the final arrangements of Viva Anne Deaton Saunders (Jones) could be completed. They were “short staffed” and thus Aimee couldn’t see her mother for the final times prior to the service.

The first cousin in Troy, North Carolina we just got to know in the last couple of years, surprisingly, is setting up a service without any input from Aimee the ONLY living family member. This “kind-hearted” help, unrequested and partly needed, is over fucking stepping their bounds by miles. This isn’t the first time this person that has appeared out of no where after knowing the Deaton, Saunders and Jones for well over 40 years wants to control what the heck is the the “end-of-life” for Aimee and Viva’s time on Earth? That my friend is a major, WTF – BTFO Please!

2025 10 24 – Day #256 But who’s counting, right Stacey?

Happy birthday to my surviving sibling. He’s old too *wink*

Dad’s HHR broke; not taking it back; taking it back; not taking it back; need gas; dashboard is not reliable. You name it, the Chevy HHR has reached “end-of-life” too, imho. But we are going on down the road via the great work at Auto Works (843) 957-2780 on Husted Rd. and Labonte St. in Conway, South Carolina. They have done a stellar job at finding a part and getting the vehicle operational again.

My vehicle choked and gagged today too. My battery installed in 2018 failed today. Nathan and crew were fast and furious at fixing the part on the 2012 Frontier. *cheers*

Got all clippings done this afternoon. The dogs loved the pork chop bone(s) after I had my leftover lunch from last night’s dinner.

Remember, God bless.

2025 10 22 # Day 254, but who’s counting right?

*faceplam* Today was a real event to thank God for his guidance if we just “go with the flow” (aka “The Woodstock Way”). It drives father nuts to operate in such a fashion for day to day living. Although, he operates in such fashion expecting the flow to go the same path day to day which just doesn’t happen. At 85 you would expect him to have learned this fact of life. But, “No this so-n-so will happen with these results that we don’t want ever…”

I am so glad God put me in the computer field in 1982. I’ve not been the nicest with humans since entering the “On/Off” world of logic when people I am working with cannot grasp wtf I am building in the air with words prior to coding and/or action items. Therefore, working with a fellow that had trouble putting together bicycles on Christmas gift time many decades ago. I on the other hand loved building the “toys” we were giving my younger brothers and myself *wink*.

The post have been light the last months due to the fact that I can’t write the way I used to write in my younger days. I forget. You’ll get there too if lucky to live long enough. Lord, we are all around it. Walk into a room and ask yourself, “What did I come in here for now?” Add alcholhol or smoke and it’s much worst, “Why am I getting off this train in Lost Springs, Wyoming?” With this said, it gets late when I can write and I may be ‘pain-free’ at that point of the day.

Viva has been accepted and beginning Hospice Care by Lower Cape Fear LifeCare ™ today, Praise God. The internal issues are many. ‘naugh said.

Mother, may/may not get an initial visit this Friday. *prayers*