D-Day Thursday....Yikes!

It's finally arrived.  The day I have been dreading now for two weeks.  My preparations for the colonoscopy.  *Sigh*  Tomorrow (Thursday) I have to consume 2 liters of the most foul concoction ever devised by man.  It's magnesium based and that tastes nasty as hell.  I got a flavor packet with it that I added even though it's lemon.  Just what I need.  I wish it had been something different.  This particular proctologist doesn't want me to have anything that is red or purple.  I suppose he doesn't want to take a chance that the food dye used for it might coat my colon and intestines and make any diagnosis tough.  Whatever his reason, I would have appreciated some other flavor...and more than one small packet to add to it.  I don't think it's sugared either.  Even with an artificial one.  

The Beast crashed his computer today.  Well, it wouldn't start for him.  I have no idea what program he must have downloaded onto his hard drive but it turned out the whole thing was just weird.  He moved his secondary hard drive to the primary position and, when he turned it on, it actually opened up with his (former) primary drive!  It's not supposed to be able to do that.  He was very confused by the whole thing.  What he did was to then download the whole thing on a new hard drive.  I told him that if he had a bug on it, that would also mean that he was downloading that.  He thinks though that it's a hard drive problem.  We shall see.  He ran his Norton on a full scan, however, to make sure he hadn't picked up a bug.

He also discovered that his primary camera (and the most expensive one!) needs to be repaired.  However, it would be an expensive repair he's sure.  When he bought it 10 years ago, it cost us $14K.  That was just for the camera body.  Thankfully, we have a shitload of lenses.  The only reason we could afford it was that we had sold the business and he bought it with the down payment we received from the sale.  Those days are gone now.  The business was paid off around 8 years ago.  We sold it to an employee (female) and she has made a huge success of it.  

We had an air conditioning business and had just had our best year with a million dollars in sales and service fees.  We had just paid off all our trucks (we had six service techs plus the Beast) and were getting ready to open up a second office in Boca Raton.  We had six buildings we were getting under contract and they needed all their air conditioning equipment replaced.  That's when the Beast had his first stroke and that was the end of what would have been a really fantastic bonanza for us.  We could have been wealthy.  But karma is karma and it was not to be.  Oh, don't be misled.  We are okay financially.  We own our house free and clear (we paid cash for it and it was brand new).  We even bought a rental home (paid in full) and sold it to our niece, Tara, under contract.  It's now paid off and, even with all the things that the Beast has bought (four cars in two years, a trailer and a shit load of appliances that you wouldn't believe!), we do have a bit of savings left.  There's more he's spent but I just don't want to think about it now.  

He does have a sense of how much he has spent and that includes the cottage (a storage house that looks like one) plus the small barn.  He SAYS he is not going to be spending any more but I don't believe him.  He spends money like we still have the business income (and that was a LOT of money, trust me).  I will say he has slowed down and most of what he spends is fairly minor but....that could change at any time.  He's planning on driving up to Chicago to see his brother and sister there and go to some religious meeting together with them.  

I don't want to go with him even though I usually go to spend time with MY family up there plus my girlfriends.  I've missed them now for two years and hate to miss another get-together but it looks like I will because I would only go if I can fly up and rent a car.  That way I can get around and not depend on someone else running me here and there.  I truly hate to miss getting together with my girlfriends.  We've been getting together since shortly after high school.  We've been friends for longer than I have been married.  That will be 51 years August first.  The girls usually plan on our get -together for the time *I* come up.  I know my girlfriend, Marilyn, will be calling me soon to ask about my plans so the other girls that live in other states can make THEIR plans.  

I hate to disappoint them again.  I had to miss the reunions due to the surgery on my legs.  Now I have the colon that I had surgery on.  It sounds like I am just falling apart.  But, in reality, I know the Beast will balk at spending the money for me to fly up there.  AND to rent the car although that part is fairly cheap since I use the service that charges $19. a day with unlimited mileage.  I normally spend about five days or a little over a week depending on some of the things my family might want to do.  I just hope that the proctologist doesn't find any other problems on Friday.  Pray for me, please.

Love you all.  I have my heaters going to keep this room warm since it's another cold night.  But tomorrow should be another great day...it got up to 77 today.  *Grin*  Friday they say rain but they've said that before and we didn't get any.  If it's miserable weather, it will just figure that it would be a dismal day on the day I have my totally unwanted colonoscopy.  LOL!  Be good.  Try to have a few laughs.  ***Hugs***