10 on Tuesday

Lucky us, my first meme.....more to come soon!!! :-)

Anyhow, without further ado...

10 Best Games (video, board, card, etc)

1. Miles Bourne - hands down. I LOVE that card game. I went crazy with happiness that Pogo.com came up with a game almost but not quite like it (Thousand Island Solitaire), so much so that I commented on it in a post to one of my groups. They must have thought I was loony---but then some knew the game I was talking about, some googled it just because they were curious!

2. Buzz Word - Oh, this one is fun. Too bad for my family that I just LOVE word games, puns, cliches, idioms, etc. I'll win every time we play this....they can only hope I'm the one giving the clues. Oh well, let's them all learn, right? Now I feel bad...but I'm still getting this for the family for Christmas!

3. Football - Okay, I don't play it, it's a sport and not technically a GAME, but COME ON PEOPLE! It's FOOTBALL. I may be a (die hard, life long, never say die) Bills fan, but I LOVE the game! And it's not the big burly guys running around in tight pants either (though there was a day when they turned my head). I just love it. I'll even cheer for the Broncos, thanks to T, once in a while too. And any AFC team as long as it's not one I can't stand, like the Dolphins...okay, if the Bills aren't in the Super Bowl, I'm cheering for the AFC team no matter who they are. Maybe not the Raiders.

4. Sim City 3000 - Yeah, the graphics are lame, it's an old game, but the sound effects were cute. We'd never be able to get the money right (yeah, I just suck at finances. But I'm better than T at them.), but it was still fun to see the towns grow.

5. Tetris - I'm sure my husband would wonder how it is that this isn't #1. Well, I just didn't think of it first. But it is one of the best. I like the problem solving part. I like all of it. I like the TetrisMania that I downloaded onto my last cell phone. Fun times...

6. Klax - Here's one to definitely blame on my hubby. He bought this one multi game pack that had Klax when we had the Playstation. We still have it, it's just not hooked up. Anyhow, I fell for this game. It's no different than Tetris in some ways (and it looks like, according to the Wikipedia reference I found, that it was supposed to be a follow up to Tetris).

7. Tickle fights - Okay, not a game per se either. But they are fun. I'd always lose to most of my friends, as I'm rather ticklish (to the hubby too), but it's so much fun to tickle a kid. My favorite is when they are old enough to have learned what you are going to do when you just start coming at them with a wiggling finger and they collapse into giggles as soon as they see your finger. Too cute.

8. Scrabble - This was one of the games which, when we played it when I was a kid, you didn't want to be on the team AGAINST me and my dad---and since there were only 4 of us in the family, my poor sister and mom had to work TWICE as hard to win. Which they didn't often.

9. Weffriddles - Talk about mindblowing. I'm still at level 54.1, but I don't know if it's a real level or not. I haven't played that game in nearly a year, but I'll pick it back up someday. I still have my notes, and I still have my place bookmarked. :-| Thanks a lot FIBN ladies! :-S

10. Catan - Awesome strategy game T's best friend C showed to us our first time in Colorado. We saw it at Borders, I'd love to get it one day, but not with the way games get used around here. That's not something I'm happy about. But it's an AWESOME game.

You know, I didn't think this was going to be so hard. I mean, we used to play games a lot when I was a kid. It was fun having game night. But that was 13+ years ago too. We don't play many in our house. I just don't know what's up with that....:-S

Looking around...

Wow, today is just a day of ups and downs. Pretty much it was....a downer, I think. Not letting myself eat much before Weight Watchers was no fun. I ate, but by the time it was time for WW, I was not happy. I should stop doing that....I don't think it's just today, though, because I know I've not been drinking my water lately either. That doesn't help much. And I need to get out and move more. I felt really good for a while after going for the walk I took to put P to sleep---he was to the point he really wasn't going to get to sleep any other way. So out we went for about half a hour. Sure he only slept for about a half an hour more, but that's fine. He got some sleep. Of course, bedtime wasn't the most fun, he wanted to keep doing the things he's been doing all day, but he had to finally realize it was time to go to bed. He did, with some help from me. He got to sleep not long after daddy left for work. Of course, I didn't start until after 8 either. Ugh, I should really start before 8. I'm going to bed REAL soon (no PSP, no staying up talking to people all night, etc etc, little more blog reading time after this), so we'll start there on our daily list. I've got to throw myself back in to Flylady. I'm not totally sure what has thrown me off. Before I started reading TPDL, I was off. I sorta came back, but now I'm off again :-( And I'm really tired. :-| Those of you that pray, pray for me, okay?

I can't wait for No Cry Sleep Solution to get here. I don't know what I'm going to do now. We had been doing so well for most of P's life, but within the last 2 or 3 months, things have just been off. :-(

Speaking of things getting here, the Bella Balm did show up today. That was a definite up. My hands don't seem so dry, and it wasn't oily at all. It has a hint of lemon (at least it seems lemony to me), but it's not an overpowering scent, whatever it is. I think I've figured out what it is that I want to get with the money from the phonebooks. I'm looking at the Mia Melts, to use as scent samples. A few of those and one Bella Bun. Which means that next week will be a fun week for me---2 shipments instead of 1. :-D The COTM, then the one the money from the phonebooks gets me. So nice. :-D

Well, I want to do one more thing on here, then the computer goes off and I go to bed. But you'll know about that thing first, won't you?


And maybe today was an upper. I mean, I got the kid to bed before 10, I got the Bella Balm (Lizzie got her shipment today :-D), even though I was worried about this week because it was after all a holiday week I still lost 1 pound (keeping me at a weight loss total above 50 pounds), I may not have FINISHED the dishes, yet, but I did at least get the new bottle of dishsoap I needed, there are 3 of the flowers I'm making for mom that are sewn together, P went down for some kind of nap, I'm alright over all....I guess it's a good day. Silly me. Oh yeah, and I've got one person who has put up their plugbutton on my plugboard! I was SO surprised to see it there!!! I feel special now!!! :-D

Title Search: New

Before I go to bed and while I'm thinking about it, I'm not satisfied with the title of my blog anymore. This was just a way to title it to pair it with my crochet blog, but I don't like it anymore. I don't feel as if I'm on a roller coaster anymore, so I'd like to come up with a new title.

Any suggestions? For once I'm opening up my comments to anyone who (oh, is reading, interested) would like to comment. And yes, to see who reads my blog.

Here's what you need to know, if you haven't figured me out yet:

I'm a SAHM, and I LOVE that position.
Crocheting based titles are not allowed---while that's in my url, I've already got a blog for that (and yes I will update soon)
It needs to encompass all of who I am, but be short and concise (to the point).
Incorporating Angelgal still would be a nice touch.

Anything else? I don't know. I'll leave that up to you!

(Non)Manic Monday (although that could come into debate at any time)

Church yesterday was good. Pastor Brent's sermon talked about "What if what God asked you to do is embarrassing?". It was interesting and informative. He used Mary as an example---I mean, in her time getting preggers without being married, etc. He said he's going to have a whole series of "What if?" questions using the characters in the Christmas story as the jumping off point for each. I look forward to it. The most notable points had to do with things that had occurred that weekend and I had been thinking about. How interesting that God always does that...I think and wonder about something while in church, and my question is often answered shortly after. The thing that I was pondering was Thanksgiving and the thing with mom's yams. And T's mom. I'm not going to go into it here. And about being a parent in general. So, the thing that Pastor Brent said that responded to my thoughts was that he realized a few times (and I have too, really, in the time since I started this quest) that our jobs as parents are to teach our kids to obey us so they are ready to obey God when the time comes. It's something I have to realize constantly about my parenting, not to mention how I act both as a parent and as a Christian. Heavy stuff, really. I remember this a day and a half later because, it's really cool, the bulletins at church have a whole space for notes on the sermons. Sometimes there's fill in the blank stuff pertaining to the sermon, sometimes like this week there's just a big open space on that page. For the program, there's a scant listing...the songs they play aren't listed, like at my home church where they list all the hymns; the exact prayers said aren't listed, sometimes I wonder if large parts of it aren't thought up right then and there in service; if there are additional things, those are added in, often with what service it's at. It's cool, I really like this place. To think, nearly a year ago, last Christmas eve, we were driving by this church and when I looked in the window I got such a nice warm feeling, now I'm going to the church and trying to find ways to become active in it. And I know when the Christmas eve/day services are too, LOL!

So, the rest of it. I actually took a pause there because T had come around the computer with me, I got side tracked onto playing with Paint Shop Pro more, and I had to make dinner.

Dinner was good, sorry no pictures today (yeah, I keep forgetting :-S). Penne pasta with chicken and tomato sauce. Ack, sometimes I swear I'm getting myself sick of TOMATO SAUCES! I was going to try a pork chops with pineapple salsa recipe off of the Weight Watchers website, but it turns out our pork chops had gone bad. Bad me. I want us to start eating dinner at the kitchen table again, and I'm going to start planning specific dinners instead of doing it on the fly like I am, again. :-| I've taken out my Control Journal, and I'm going to work on that some tonight before going to bed.

Speaking of going to bed. Little guy went to bed very quickly tonight. None of that waiting on him to fall asleep while he plays with the wall, etc. I've ordered a copy of No Cry Sleep Solution through the library's online system, hopefully I'll be able to read all the way through it this time. Last time I got it I didn't. Speaking of which, I should drop what books I do have out late when we're out tomorrow with Weight Watchers.

I'm not holding up much hope for WW this week. I know I didn't really follow it at all. And with Turkey Day---well, let's say, I think 50 pounds lost is blown out of the water. :-| After tomorrow I will just have to start over again. Yippee, Thursday is payday which means I get to figure out my dinner menu and grocery list. Aldi's had tomato sauce in cans, right?

I'm still waiting on my tube of Bella Balm. That should get here tomorrow. My hands aren't too bad, not like they were at the end of the week last week. And all my papercuts from the phonebooks the week before have now healed. Speaking of Mia Bella and the phonebooks (ha ha....nice transition?), I'll be getting paid for that this week too :-D Yippee, now I'm just trying to figure out what I'm going to get with that. Thanks to Nicole's help, I was able to get the Bella Balm and the catalogs, what will the phonebooks get me? I had the hardest time going back and figuring out my numbers for each of the streets...I was so tired last night when I was sitting down here and trying to figure it out that my math was ALL wrong! :-S So, after the boss man called this afternoon, since I was sitting here anyhow, I looked over my numbers and used the number pad to figure out what the numbers and totals were. I'm still a bit confused over them, but that's not so bad because I'm getting paid this week, and it's all handed in now.

Well, this evening certainly got away from me. I wanted to go to bed a lot earlier than this. But then I got talking to a couple people, and got looking at something, and here it is 1:30 at night.

Why me?

I'm still going to try to get up early in the morning---8:30.

Later days.

Been fun...

I didn't have a bad day today. I think today would have been the better day to go out and deliver the PS, because it looked halfway decent outside, but at least I got them stuffed and in the bags, right?

Little guy was a terror to get to bed, and he's restless tonight. I don't know if he's coming down with something, he does sound a little congested. I really want to go to church in the morning, I hope he doesn't get something full blown and decide to share it at church. It'll be my first day with my new shoes that I got just so I could wear them to church. I'll wear them elsewhere too, but I've been getting sick of wearing my gym shoes to nice places, and the heels I got at that one church scare my ankle way too much so that's why I got them.

Besides revamping this blog (do you like? It's what I was doing when I should have been stuffing the papers and delivering them and when I was stuffing them), I deleted my candle and writing one. They're really a part of this anyhow (in more ways than one because I transferred the interesting posts over here), I just have to keep up with the labels :-)

I came up with a really nice new plugboard button. I'll be filling my plugboard with it, so it won't look as if no one wants anything to do with it. Of course, not many people can have anything to do with it if they don't know it exists, right? Oh well

I've got to get to bed, it's after 1 and I want to go to church in the morning!!!!!

Giving Thanks, continuted...

So, I was looking at other people's blogs and their Thursday 13, when I realized I had only listed---GASP!---10. It's a common number, but that's no excuse.

This means I have to come up with 3 more. Is that possible? I've looked at other people's lists, and I just don't do mine in the same fashion. But I suppose there's always something more to add. Now what is it?

11. Yarn: What more needs to be said? Without it I wouldn't have the loves I do. Crochet, Knitting...both wonderful things.

12. Mia Bella: It's not growing very fast, but those candles and my business are growing bit by bit. We'll get there one day. :-)

13. America: I have problems being a citizen sometimes, but I wouldn't rather have been born anywhere else. We're not all the same as certain aspects of it (though sadly I know from personal experience that people outside of the country think that. But then people on the outside of things always make wild assumptions based not on the reality of the person, place or thing, but on their own belief system, their own experiences and what they have been told.), but we are all hopefully really out for the same things. Sometimes I wonder though. Still very thankful to be an American, there are a lot of things that I believe are contained within being an American and our symbols, and those are what I would die for if I need to.

Guess that about covers it. :-)

Thanksgiving.

It's that time of year again. For some people it means lots of cooking, spending time with family---both the ones they want to see and some they don't---traveling, eating lots of turkey, football, sleeping on the couch....lots of things. For us it meant going to see my mom, spending a bit of time with my sister, having dinner here with dad, and a late night tonight.

It also meant this year that my biz grew! I got another recruit today! And my sponsor was great enough to surprise me with some new leads! I'm going to call them tomorrow to follow up.

I wanted to start doing the Thursday Thirteen this week. But when I sat down to the computer to do so, I started talking on Yahoo messenger with my new recruit. That started all the whirlwind that comes with signing someone up as a bit of a surprise, so my *first* post will post on Friday. One day I will get a TT one done ON TIME.

This seems to be a theme with the other TT posts I've looked at so far. There's nothing better to write about today than what we are thankful for. So without further ado (you don't know how much ado there has been so far, you really don't)....

Thirteen Things I'm Thankful For

1. God: I think this probably goes without saying. I'd be a fool to ignore the fact that even before I admitted to Jesus being my person Savior, that God has done some wonderful things in my life, some of which will definitely show up later on my list. But afterwards, now, he's still at work. There's of course the surprises when I finally got recruits. I'd spend lots of time praying for help with myself and my personal image, asking for help to learn who I am and how to approach people in order to help them in whatever way the biz would help them. And just when I least expect it, pop. There's the times when He opens my eyes and makes me realize a different angle on a subject---for example, to realize that some things in my life have had to fall away in order to prune who I am, so that I can grow back stronger and more beautiful than before. These things are being removed in order that there is room for whatever He has in mind and in store for me to fill that place later.

2. T: There is no better match in this world for me than him. Maybe it's part of why God had us marry so close to Thanksgiving....I can see this wonderful guy in action every year, doing something he loves. He loves to cook, and he does it well. He might not want to turn that into a career (just yet?), but it's something he has a passion for. Maybe one day we can have a home so that we can both enjoy this little pastime together. Either way, it's still a nice thing to watch him doing. And that's not the only reason I love him so much and know he's my perfect match. If I really stop and listen closely....I don't hear a thing. But it's not an empty silence. Every time I think about being in his arms, 2 songs come to mind. One is our song, Keeper of the Stars by Tracy Byrd. The other is When You Say Nothing At All by Alison Krauss. Especially this last one in this instance. He's it. I know it when I'm alone in the dark and I think of him. I know it when I look in his eyes.

3. D and P: They are the best things we've ever done together. They are our legacy. No one is perfect, and it's a hard road being mommy and daddy, but I wouldn't rather be mommy to anyone else. If someone gives us another T, fine. But I'm happy with just them too. And I can't tell you how happy I feel just watching them (okay, the yelling and crying I can do without, but it's better than absolute silence too, right?).

4. Mom and Dad: Yeah, mom and I fought over the yams, but I'm sure ours wasn't the only disagreement. I'm sure others had it much worse. Besides, they gave me life. Without them I wouldn't be here. Without them, watching their love, their marriage, I wouldn't know how good it could be, and how to keep it that way. 33 years hun, that's all I've got to say about that.

5. Mom's back here: Again, yeah, yams and all. But she's not 100 miles away. She's home.

6. Josh, Cindy and David: Good friends. Good times. There's few things that can replace good friends. There are more friends I'm sure. I don't remember all my friends, how sad is that. Well, I am thankful for all the ones I have, I know I am. Some are the momentary friends, some are the forever ones. You know, if you honestly think about it, both Josh and Cindy have been there a lot longer than even the ones I thought were going to be there forever. The ones who weren't up to par. When I had S's phone number and talked to her when she moved to Westfield, or we moved to Cass, I had Cindy's address in my address book and the memory of her in my mind. She has proven herself in real ways, in the adult forum. Josh has been one of the few constants in my life, even today. Today I still get a nice warm thought in my heart when I think of him. And I've known him longer than any other friend. And I'm pretty sure I'm in the same place for him :-)

7. Mary and Claudette (not to be put atop all the ladies on W2W): What can I say? They are some of the best support a person can have. I asked for help tonight, and they were there. I wanted to make sure I got things right, they were there with more experience to fill in the gaps in my mind (from fatigue and lack of knowledge not to mention experience and simple learning), and kudos and congrats for the reason I needed them (my new recruit).

8. Nicole and Lizzie: My recruits! They are proof that I have to be doing SOMETHING right. That my passion for this biz might spread to them, that they may be able to take it to the heights they deserve---yes, it's great what I could do with them, but it's even greater what they are going to do for themselves. And I know they are great women far beyond just the biz....Lizzie's working towards a dream, and Nicole is standing her own ground.

9. FIBN, HMB and WNY_C: Great ladies. Great support too. It's great to be able to find a place, even one, where people share the same things you do....love of a craft, a desire to make yourself better.

10. Harvest Chapel: A home away from home. It's not where I grew up, but it's a good place to bring up my babies. They don't ask or demand anything from you. They are there in the Lord's name (interesting how, really, I started with God and I end with Him too). That's all they see of you, I believe. Some may not understand, but I know that's what they are there for.

Being a mommy can be hard....

Boy what a difference 12 hours makes. I was feeling really good for most of the day. Then bedtime hit. And it hit hard. Needless to say, it wasn't like any of the meltdowns my mom would have (which were probably a lot better than ones she had to experience...or even day to day life), but it wasn't fun either. Little guy didn't fall asleep until after 11. I don't know what the problem is. :-( I didn't wait until after 9. I actually tried about 8:30. Maybe I have to go even earlier. :-( And he's not sleeping in his crib anymore. Maybe I'll have to have daddy take care of all of this. I don't know. I'll talk to him when he gets home tomorrow. It's not fun. It's nearly my favorite time of the day, but it's not fun at all :-( I'm tired right now because I cried. I think I'll do some dishes and then head for bed.

Sad night in this household. You had better believe I'm praying HARD. :-(

Say it ain't so!

You're not going to believe it. I actually got up at 8 AM two days in a row ON PURPOSE. And I feel GOOD about the idea! And I'm AWAKE at noon. Amazing, huh?

Well, yesterday when I got up to get ready to go to MOPS, I liked how it felt so much, being alone (or pretty much so), with P still in bed, and one of those days (yesterday) T being asleep too. Even having him up when I got up today was good---we didn't talk about much, but we got to talk, person to person, and he showed me all his purchases for turkey day and his cheesecakes. He's all excited because he now has enough cream cheese for 5 cheesecakes!! I'm not going to be looking forward to that...I'm going to have to limit what I have or avoid them all together. No big, I guess.

The rest of the day doesn't look too bad. I've got to pay a couple bills...I'm happy that the money hit the account today. When I first checked the bank's online service, it wasn't posted, but the second time, it was. So I'm happy about that. I've written out the checks for the bills I'm going to pay, and I've noticed that I have a good deal of money left over. I hope I don't spend it ALL. I'm also planning on new shoes for P and I, as we both really need them. I'm going to have to buy him new boots, but even though a small bit of seam on one of mine is splitting, I'm not going to get a new pair. Other than that one spot they are in great condition I think. I'm hoping D can live on the ones she's got now. She was wearing them the other day, so I'm hoping so. I've got a load in the dryer, one in the basket of the same stuff, a load (mine) in the washer, and I'm sure I'll be putting T's clothes in shortly. My dishes are nearly done, really. I've put away what I did yesterday, I've got another sink-ful in the drainer, and there's another sinkful in now. I'm planning on having them all done by tonight. I'm going to have to get up off the computer soon, but that doesn't sound as impossible as it might have at other times. I'm also going to have to go to the store...I don't have much to get, just enough for the fruit salad at mom's tomorrow, and potatoes for tomorrow, plus maybe a bag of some veggie or other. Dad's got the stuffing and some candied yams for mom. We're going to have some friends over besides just dad...we should have enough room, even though I was at first thinking it would just be her. By her email earlier today, I'm starting to wonder if it's also going to be her husband too, which is GREAT. Haven't seen him in forever, and it was just his birthday (maybe I should pick up a card too....I'll add it to the list in a minute here), and I can't wait to see him! :-) He gives good hugs, hee hee :-) I've also got to get some rolls...we always have Grands because that's what T likes, and my dad likes another kind. We haven't discussed them lately, and I don't remember seeing them the last time I was at Quality but I could be wrong. Our friends are going to take care of the pie. I told her she (they) is (are) welcome, just bring a pumpkin pie :-D I'm excited to have more than just immediate family for dinner. It'll be cool.

The turkey's already being thawed. On one of my lists, we had discussed our turkey day and turkey preps, because on lady needed to know since I guess it would be one of her first. I mentioned that it's T's department, and that we hadn't exactly discussed it but I was sure he had been thinking about it. Last night he wanted to go to WM for a bucket, and started the brine (finished it too, ha ha). See, we're like connected at the brain level too. ha ha 12 years, what do you expect? :-D

Well, I gotta get up from here :-) Have a good day :-D

Are there such things as Simple Sundays anymore?

Not around here, I don't think.

It's not too bad, it's our anniversary so it's not supposed to be "normal", is it?

We actually got to church about on time...they weren't several minutes into the singing at the beginning of service at least (I'm not so sure if that's a good thing, I'm not crazy about singing you know. You don't want to be near me when I sing, I don't do it well. P's the only one to be *blessed* with that). During that, I pondered the fact that my relationship with T has lasted so long (well, in a lot of circles 12 years is an ETERNITY!), and how to keep that "new" feeling going with God. Well, during the sermon that got answered...Pastor Pam talked about Thanksgiving, and what does it really mean. Part of it is that Thanksgiving, in spiritual/God related form is worship. Something covered in The Purpose Driving Life, BTW. That doing everything and anything, even dealing with those family members you don't want to at the holidays, is a part of worship, as long as you are doing anything and everything you do in His Name. Simply something I have to keep remembering!!!!! Part of why it still feels fresh and "new" with me and T is because he's always there. And that's a given with God as well, so if I can just remember THAT, then I'm in good stead.

The whole nursery situation went well this time---most of the time we've gone he's had a good bit of separation anxiety. This time I put him down and pretty much from then until people started coming to pick other kids up, he did well. He was REAL happy to see mommy though! I'm happy he did so well. I'm hoping he IS getting used to church, and it's something he enjoys. Let's see how he does for MOPS.

When we came home, after going to see mom and getting D from her church play rehearsal, T was just waking up from a good day's sleep. He stayed with the little guy for my first round of delivering the Penny Savers, then she and I went out, then we all went. That was fun.......little guy LOVES being carried by daddy during a lot of things, AND he LOVES to help out (he helped in the clean up after church, in the nursery. I told them, "he LOVES to clean and help out." I'm training him well, he he he....what a lucky girl will get my boy, huh?). Not easy on mommy's nerves on a busy street, even with D and T just about as nervous!

He conked out on the way to drop D at Youth Group, which we did a bit late. Oh well. I didn't try to get him down until about 9, and up until a few minutes ago he was still up. I came in here and started cleaning and sat down about when he asked to go in the crib. Well this time I didn't stay in the room, I didn't go back and pick him up just as soon as he asked....I'm not sure if he's asleep yet or not, but I don't hear him right now. I'll go in soon and check on him. Just as long as he doesn't decide to try to get out (he only does that when he fusses with a lot of "out out out". Little bugger!). He hasn't yet though. He asked, but not really urgently. I'm thinking, he might even LIKE going to bed in his crib. We will see, we will see. I'll ask him tomorrow if he'd like to sleep in his crib again, assuming this works out.

And I'm not even going to TALK about his sister. Sometimes, I tell ya! :-S But God never gives you more than you can handle. Sometimes I wonder if he trusts me too much, or if I'm just falling short!!! :-(

I'm not thrilled about the Bills game. *sigh* Tom Brady sure is cute, but I wanted his team to GO DOWN tonight!!! :-( It doesn't look like THAT'S going to happen. As long as the guys can come back from this, that's all that matters. It just looks like the Patriots have shoes of gold on, that's all. Sorta sad that probably the best thing about this game would be Everret's message to the fans and team, huh? Oh well, what are ya gonna do? Can't say we're used to this by now, but....

You know, we're used to this. :-|

I've got some flowers to go work on, and a little boy to check on.

Celebrate the union, not the day.....

Tomorrow is our 12th anniversary (I know it's not the first time I mentioned this important milestone---each year is precious). 2 years ago we renewed our vows. Last year, we went out for dinner the evening of our anniversary (to Ellicottville Brewery here in town....YUM! The food, not the alcohol as I had none, but he had some dark beer :-)). This year we went up to Olive Garden with the kids, and spent some money as well, LOL! 2 years ago, our anniversary fell on a Friday, but as my sister was getting married just 3 weeks later, the pastor wouldn't do ours on a Friday too...Fridays were his day off. So we did that on the 17th as well. That's fine though. What's important is not to celebrate the day, but the union that was formed.

I think we do that most every day anyhow. Most days, I'm still just as crazy over him, if not more so, than when we first met. Frankly, I wouldn't want to spend my time with anyone else more, ever. I turn to him for most decisions, because it's how it should be....it effects both of our lives, and we're both halves of the same unit.

We went up and had Olive Garden with the kids. Then we went to Borders and checked to see about Buzz Word. Then we went to JoAnn Fabrics and got some yarn. All in all a good, money spending heavy evening. :-)

Now it's time for me to go to bed!!!

Finally at the Finish Line

You know, I sat down here not totally sure what I wanted to write. Someone had listed something she had been thinking of this week on her blog, while I was reading the blogs I like to look at. It occurred to me to maybe do something like that. I've been pondering joining the Thursday Thirteen, and I think I'm going to do that next week. Also, twice this week I thought about my position on abortion. My thoughts haven't changed, really. Only now my personal inner fight with it is stronger. But I stand by my thoughts.

Do you want to know what they are? I guess I'll still tell you. If you don't want to know, go on to the next paragraph, I'll mark it for ya....

I've always thought that, should I be pregnant, it wouldn't be an option for me. I'd be with a guy that I loved a lot and was going to be staying with, and so I wouldn't have to decide whether or not I'd get one. The point would be mote. And it was when I came to that place---I was with a guy I loved and was going to stay with (and who was, by the way, very excited by the idea he was becoming a daddy...he couldn't keep the smile off his face when I told him), and I was entering a life I was very excited about. The second time, of course, the relationship with the same guy was nearly 10 years old, and we had totally planned that one. As for whether the option should exist, period, well....I was once called and asked what my position was. I told them "For me I'm prolife, for others I'm prochoice." I don't like the idea of someone going out and having an abortion. I do believe it's murder, which is part of why I will never do it. But I don't think I've got the right to force my beliefs on someone else, for one. For another, and more importantly, I think education is more important. You can't necessarily replace good self esteem, which would keep you out of that position in the first place, with education, but you can make a pretty dang good attempt at it. Abstinence is nice, but you can't convince everyone to do that either. And birth control is essential. The thought came up that the Catholic church is against birth control. But that makes no real sense when you consider the fact that another big thing for them is also celbacy for certain people. I mean, that does the same as birth control---keeps the guy's stuff from the girl's stuff---so how can one be okay but not that other. But then I guess that's the great paradox of human kind, huh?

No more abortion talk...I've been a bit busy this evening. I sorted through the box that's been sitting full of stuff on my futon. I don't much like the fact that right now that's full from one end to the other with stuff, but it's not so bad---the stuff is on it's way out. One is the box that was full of stuff, which I also use for the Penny Savers each week. That will be moved to the bottom of the stairs for the week after I deliver them on Sunday. The other big thing on the futon is the pile of phone books waiting to be delivered as well. I folded the basket of towels and clothes that have been sitting in my living room most of this week. I've got to get the sweaters and my shawl out of the dryer sometime soon, and bring the sweaters to church this weekend.

Now I have to figure out where my grocery list went to. I'd been doing really good today, figuring out all the things I needed and had made a mental note of. ...bandaids, grocery bags, the turkey for next week, meat for this as well as some peppers and some salad. Hopefully I'll find it before I leave to bring D to GS. I'm hoping to spend no more than $50, as I'd like to have some money left over for our anniversary dinner in case we need it. Maybe we can make it an anniversary lunch, since I'd really like to go up to Olive Garden. We'll see :-) Wow, and in pondering our finances in I found that a charge we had made a couple weeks ago FINALLY hit. I was starting to wonder. Now I'm waiting to see how our gas bill goes....this is the balancing month, and we've been billed, over all, a bit over $151 since the last balancing period. There is a remaining balance, after the payment I just made, of about $112, and I'm not sure how they will handle that. I know that before when we had a balancing month paired up with a remaining balance of something that was about what we were over charged, the balance was cleared. I think it will end up that we will have a negative balance left over, which will be credited to us next month and I will (a) have money for the kids for Christmas (plus some money to use somehow to donate), and (b) will not have to pay so much in January. At least that's what I'm hoping! I'm not going to change my mind about what my dad, sister and mom are all getting, but I'll be able to have a bit of fun for the kids. It's a good thing my ideas for that are actually rather targeted. :-) And the bill over all will work out for me as well :-) Though, maybe it won't work out for me. I hope so, I'd like to do something decent for the kids. Maybe I'll just have to do what I did when I started having the bit over that we owed. I hope it will be a good thing....ugh. The suspense is killing me!!! :-S I shouldn't have to wait longer than the weekend.

Okay, during that short space, I was out doing a lot. I sat here and looked at some blogs (some a really funny, that I got from the Blog of Note feature here on Blogger), then we brought my daughter to GS, went grocery shopping, things like that. Now we're home, T's at work, and the little guy's in bed. He went down easier than he had been, back before I was able to commit to getting him to bed at a decent time, but not as easy as the last few days. Now I'm getting tired, and I wanted to get started today on the flowers I'm supposed to be making for mom. Doesn't look like I'm going to get any dishes done today. Oh well, if tomorrow isn't nice---as it's not supposed to be, it's supposed to snow---then there's something I can do besides some stuff on recent lists for cleaning around here. Before I know it, it's going to be time to figure out where the tree goes. Thanksgiving's in less than a week.

I want something to eat, though I'm not really all that sure what it is that I want. I don't want a sandwich, and the only thing we can have anyhow is a peanut butter one. But there's really nothing else to eat around here. I've already had a salad---we didn't really have any dinner, so that sorta takes the place of one. I didn't get anything to munch on other than the salad. I'd like something to eat, but not the sandwich. I told myself....and obviously can live up to it pretty well....that I'm not going to eat anymore bread. It's something I definitely like, a lot. Always have. :-| I could go for a couple cinnasticks from Pizza Hut again. :-|I'd like just one little piece of chocolate too. Nothing like that around. The microwave kicked the bucket, so even we had it I couldn't make any popcorn. *sigh* I'm not going to have any bread.

G'night

It's Thursday night, 5 more minutes until Friday!

Today was again pretty much a good day. I didn't get the last basket in the living room done, but I did fold 2 others, both T's. I didn't get out and do phonebooks again like I wanted to, but I've got one more set bagged and ready to go out on the next nice day. I didn't get the floor vacced again like it needs, but it's cleared of toys and pretty much everything else that's big enough to trip you. I didn't get the dishes finished, but I did do 3 sinkfuls despite having a thumb that hurts because of a couple small cuts from the tape measure I had to get out of P's hands this morning.

I got P to bed by 9 again. And he went to bed SO easily. I'm hoping somehow this trend will continue. 2 more days until our 12th anniversary. We're not planning anything big. And I'm not going to be doing the flea market at a local American Legion this weekend either. Oh well. I'm not upset, it was a nice idea but it's just not possible right now. I don't have anyone to watch the kids---T will be going into work at 4 Saturday, and I don't want my dad to have to deal with the kids for 6 hours!!! I won't be able to deal with the stress myself!!! I'd bring them with, but I just don't like the idea of having to keep P calm and sequestered while I'm trying to make a sale! :-( Oh well, I'll keep praying for opprotunities. Things will come around when they are supposed to! :-)

Other than that, I'm going to be getting up here shortly and have my tea :-) Tonight it's Chamomile. I'm going to go in the living room and sit in there :-)

Wednesday Night's Ponderings

So here I sit, a decent hour on the clock (for once), though not all I wanted to get done has. That's okay, I'll deal with it, some good things have come from it. I was able to deliever some phonebooks this afternoon (as a supplement to the Penny Savers, they offer you the ability to deliver phonebooks, starting with delivering them to your route). P got a small nap in, which is what I'm hoping for. The trip to T's teeth scaling appointment wasn't that exciting at first. It's just that I had figured it would be better if we stayed and he went by himself, but he insisted we all go.

Now I sit here in the quiet. I like this spot a lot. The computer is in a better place, and when you sit here you can see a lot more of the house. Where it was, your back was always to the rest of the house and I at least always felt as if I was totally cut off. I'd have to turn around to see what the kids were up to, and all anyone saw was the back of my head :-( i guess it will be easier for me to get up the resolve to take care of some of the stuff around here (like right now, as I notice things on the floor someone else was supposed to pick up and didn't!!!

Well, now I have taken care of such things, as well as done some more dishes, transferred over some wash, and put more in. Not bad for a tired evening. I'm hoping to be to bed in an hour, which would make it about 12:30. I need to work myself down to getting to bed between 10 and 11, for optimum performance during the day, and time in the morning between God and myself! That way it's not like He's only the last thing I ponder in at night, but also the first thing in the morning. It came from a devotion from about mid summer on Proverbs 31. I've got a tremendous backlog of them, and one day I'll do the same as I did with my Garfield comic strips last night, and go through them all. I'm doing a little here and a little there anyhow. :-) Very inspirational, and as with all things like that, I seem to be keeping and starring more of those then I trash. I guess in my path to finding who I am in my faith, that's a good thing, huh?

I hear the water for my tea trying to whistle, so I think I will go and pour that out. The take that shower I always look forward to! :-)

Night all!

Interesting day.

Today actually went rather smoothly. We helped my dad some with leaves, I made him chili for dinner, and then we came home.

It was while we were away that things got a little crazy, at the house. We walked in and the computer monitor looked cool, and a little wierd. Upon further inspection, we found that it and part of the floor was all wet. Before we left the man who unclogged the pipes upstairs stopped again. In the process of doing it again today, we must have had this surprise. But we weren't home to save that part of the computer. That's okay, though. The tower is just peachy! Not even wet! No part of it---it was down one level on the desk.

Of course, now T has decided that we'll have the computer sitting here at my desk. He'd move it across the room at the bottom of the stairs if there was an outlet against the only outer wall in the room, which is at the bottom of the stairs. How would we put the router there for the computer and phone? Oh well, good thing I don't need to know that! :-)

I'm back!!!

T was able to buy a computer tower on ebay, and worked most of his waking hours (he went with us to church this morning, which I always love. Just us time, ya know?) to get the thing up, working, and connected to the net! Hopefully it will work smoothly and allow me to stay connected for a while, so I can get the candle biz moving, and other things. It's sad how much of your life ends up being connected to or contained in the computer.....it's a good way to keep track of what I need to do, and what I eat (here and WW). I've got projects I need to add to the crochet blog, and I'm pondering putting up commentary/responses to The Purpose Driven Life. I'd go through and read it all again.

But now I have to go make some dinner. Barbeque chicken and couscous (barbeque sauce and couscous is surprisingly good! I found it out the other day. Not by mistake...I meant to put the BBQ sauce in there!!! :-D)

Life goes on....

And soon some things will start looking up. I will start sleeping here within the next half an hour. I could be asleep now, but I had to pick up the floor, then I cleaned all the dishes really quick, and now I'm finishing up my short bit of computer time. Then I will take a shower and go to bed.

I haven't been on the computer much in the last few days. I actually had 2 or 3 periods where I didn't even get on the computer at all for a day, and neither one of us turned it on!!! I had emails backed up from a couple days :-D Yesterday was one of them! :-) I don't know if that trend will continue after next week---we will be getting a new computer tower, and we will be able to use our hard drive with Windows XP. I'm so looking forward to it!!!!! :-D

A bit of happy news---the latest library book to go missing has been found!!! I had left it at the dentist office when T went in to get the last tooth he get root canaled, capped! They called and said "hey, you left your book here, can you come and get it?" Then we went downtown today to send off letters and books, and I went over to return the other 2 I got out, plus look around for a few others. They include some child development books and a couple knitting books. :-)

Bed time for me soon!

You know, I'm always pondering things.

Life is going it's own way. I'm in a good place right now though. I need to get to bed earlier than I have been, but it looks like I'm going to be going to bed really soon. I just have to take a shower. I read my last chapter of The Purpose Driven Life this evening, already. Now I have to work on my life statement :-) I try to base my life on Proverbs 31:10-31, so that will somehow be included. Because my position as wife and mommy is very important to me. I also plan on going through key chapters of the book again, and adding more to my thoughts on each, based on the text of the chapters not just the question at the end. Also, we are wondering if there's not something...developing for us. I've been wondering with how I've felt here and there....but that's enough said for now. I'm not going to try to jinx it either way.

Feeling a bit more comfortable

Things are starting to look up somewhat. In reference to my emotional dump last week....

The dishes are now halfway wrapped up. I have about half of the dishes that had been sitting on the counter unwashed done. It constitutes the majority of our dishes, really----if nothing else, at least half. I worked on those today. The cheesecake he made was good. I only ate 2 or 3 pieces---and it didn't keep me from losing weight this week, either. In fact, I lost a whopping 2.4 pounds! It helps a lot that I walked at least 2 times other than delivering the Penny Savers. As for the empty boxes, I'm down to the big one still being empty. I put some old baby clothes in the smallest one after sorting through them to find some onesies, etc, to give to my first recruit for her sister's new baby, and that box has to go upstairs. I swapped out my fabric into one of the boxes under the futon and put my writing resources into the next larger one. That goes under my desk (as opposed to the large box of computer stuff that's presently under the computer desk). I'm hoping to start opening it soon as I'd like to start writing again. I found 3 afghans in one of the boxes I brought down when B and J were here earlier this month. Those are now at the Home. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with the towels I've put toppers on that were in the other box, though I could give them as gifts, etc. There are also a few hats for kids, and I have some smaller baby hats that I had made and just never got a chance to send back when the crochet group did the Save the Children charity. I went through all of my books on the shelves in the living room. The library book is still missing, but I did find my cell phone and my jump drive. Within about an hour or two of finding each, I had a flash that I would....and I ended up just looking somewhere and boom there they were. I said each time I wish the same would happen with the book(s)!

Well, other than that I have to wrap up my computer time here, read where I am in TPDL, and then take a shower and go to bed. :-)

Take care!

It's been one of those days.....

That I definitely feel like my life is living up to my flippant blog title....I figured, when I revised the title for the blog, that since I was a bit "fancy" shall we say with the title for my crochet blog (AngelGal's Crochet Antics, if you didn't already know), so that it wasn't just "Allison's Crochet" in the webring I joined, I should make the title here just as....unique. Because, hey, I'm unique. So, here I sit, with my 2 year old running around, even though I'd like to get him to bed, I have been trying for the last....I'll be honest, half an hour, as soon as we were back home, and I had given him a bath. I think part of the problem is that he's at that stage where sometimes he works well going to bed at a decent hour (namely, 8pm) if he gets a nap, is horrendously horrible and cranky if he doesn't get a nap, and just is too happy to stay up and play a ton if he does get the nap. So tonight is another night that he will be falling asleep after 10, despite my biggest desires and best efforts, and I won't be to bed until well after midnight :-(

Things started going downhill.....heck, let's face it, things started going down hill when T started his experimenting with pumpkins in pumpkin bread to get it ready to be in cheesecake, and I started going through all my yarn. Because they happened about the same time. I needed to go through my yarn, I'm never going to use all I had, at least not in individual projects. A garbage bag worth will go to D's Girl Scouts, I have a BUNCH in the living room, with intended projects for all of what's in there, stray small balls of yarn are in pull skeins for yo-yos, and I've got it all down to roughly 6 boxes, and I have 3 empty ones, that had had all sorts of different yarn in them. I'm happy :-)

But, then today really spiraled. The dishes haven't been all done for days. I do at least one sink full, but that's about where it stops. Gone are the days when I'd get it all done in one night. It doesn't help Mr. Baker---he just doesn't clean up after himself. It's a good thing that actually goes really quick.

Anyhow.....the dishes aren't done, and he's adding more. Not now, but he did today. 1 or 2 loaves of pumpkin bread (he bought 11 pumpkins last night. I added in one of those, so it's not ALL him). And a cheesecake because the crochet group was supposed to get together tomorrow.

Good thing we aren't now. I've got to go down to where D's girl scout troops it camping. It's a 30 mile trip the other way from where the group was going to be meeting. Oh....and getting him to bed isn't helped at all by the fact that he wants to know where his sister is....he keeps going "DD home?" Too cute. I love that he knows the word home. :-) Anyhow---she left her clothes in the trunk! :-S They were right under the stuff she DID bring!!! :-(

I have to say, it's not so bad as it could be. I sorted the box that I put the Penny Savers in when I've folded them. That went smoothly---most of the stuff was garbage. I did one sink of dishes. And I vaccumed the floor---both the rug and the kitchen floor. It goes quicker that way. I just have to fold the towels and my clothes, and finish the dishes, and the list I have on the white board in the living room will be done. :-) I even called to get a copy of D's immunization records so I have them, namely for girl scouts.

And, oh yeah, another library book is missing. :-(

T is leaving for work, I'm going to once again drag this guy to bed so he can fall asleep now that daddy's going to be gone, and then I'm going to go in, work on a kid sweater for donation at church, take a shower, read day 32 or 33 in The Purpose Driven Life, and then go to bed myself!!!!! I'll do the Penny Savers tomorrow---fold them I mean, I'll deliver them Sunday. After we bring D her clothes.

Now a rude surprise for the little guy!

Added on: I'm ready for bed. I can't wait to get a faster computer, the speed of this thing and how often IT freezes just drive me batty. That's why this isn't getting posted until like 4 hours after I wrote most of it!!! :-( In the mean time I've....taken my shower, read more of The Purpose Driven Life, responded to some questions in the bulk of chapter 32, read and responded a bit to chapter 33, read some of the Bible (I'm reading from the very beginning. No better place to start, huh? That's where God started...), worked on the sweater for donation, cleaned up my kitchen a little, found my cell (that was a bit of a surprise, especially since I had a flash of an idea that I would find it by just looking at something this evening. I hope the same would happen and soon for the library book. Maybe for both...) and decided I'm going to fold D's clothes with the rest of the pile I now have on the futon. Oh yeah, and I took 2 pictures, of afghans I have made recently, too. Now I have to go collapse in bed. :-( I don't like being up so late!

Haven't left yet

We're still existing on the slow computer tower from my grandpa through my dad, which has Windows 98 on it. I only try to get on once or twice a day, down far far from my multiple times a day like before. I get on only to check my inbox, plus the folders for WNY_C and anything from Scent-Sations. I have no idea when we will get a new computer. I'm hoping for a fundraiser around here soon, but I have to deal with the money situation until then. I wish it were better, but all in God's time. I have to pray hard, often, but I know I will get through. Still bound and determined not to get myself a real J.O.B. At the very least not until P is old enough for daycare or school. Which won't be any time soon to my satisfaction.

Most of this week I have made an effort to get out and walk more often than just for the Penny Saver route. I didn't walk really really far, but I got out and that's what counts!

Otherwise----Thy Will Be Done.......

Have you ever noticed.....

The times when life, the universe or God decide to slap you back into reality? Do you make note of when it happens? And the severity of the incidents? How about WHERE it happens?

Well, I came to notice such in my life. The reason for it is because I get peeved over money about once a month or so. When it gets really bad, I get sullen and grumpy, and crabby. The first couple that I noticed were burns and cuts. This time it was choking on a piece of meat that (duh me) I hadn't cut very small. Or at all really. It's always in the kitchen.

Money has been an issue for me. It's tight, always always very tight at the beginning of each month. It's something I have to learn to let go of and let God.

I'm needing to learn that about life in general. I'm currently reading The Purpose Driven Life. It's very interesting. And we are starting to go to church a lot more. Well, okay, last week was the first week, this will be the second. I'm also hoping to get into a bible study class.

Sorry, I'm more tired than I thought I was when I sat down here to write. I'm playing around with my iGoogle as well.....

Sorta back

We're back in a limited capacity. I've got to use a much slower computer than what I'm used to, but that's okay as at least my blog posts will go through. The last couple I tried to post (both crochet, odd......one to my own crochet blog, and one to the ripple blog I'm now a part of) were denied when I posted them from the library. They were still there, but I had to open each post to check it and repost. I hope we get a new computer soon! :-(

Techinical Difficulties

Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, I will not be posting to this blog any time soon.

Our computer decided to bite the dust, so until we can get ahold of a computer with a processor speed fast enough to handle Windows XP or we can buy one, we are up the creek without a computer.

Finally!!!

We've had a rough couple of days with this computer. First, on Tuesday, T didn't get to bed until nearly 2pm because he was working on figuring out why he couldn't get his co-worker's computer to connect to the cable broadband instead of the dial up like it's used to and wanted to. His co-worker came to pick up the computer that day, while T was in bed and we were at Weight Watchers. Then, when I sat down to log onto my side, and look at my stuff, including check my email to see if I got my first distributor there (which we all know I did :-D), it froze on me. It kept freezing and/or acting up yesterday, and today it took me 5 attempts to get it to load today! :-( At least I'm on now, but T says that it only means one thing, that it's time for a new computer, and I have no idea how we'd go about getting a new one. Even though T's been eyeing the computers at WalMart because I guess they're pretty inexpensive. It wouldn't be the first time we got one from WalMart, but the processor on that one burned out FAST. T went to upgrade the memory on it, and it blew somehow. That was about 3 or 4 years ago, at least the semester before I got pregnant with P. And he'd actually think about getting 2, so we each have one. That way we don't have to fight about who's on when, and I can have myself my own little office like center over on my desk which I hardly ever use :-(

Anyhow, last night's dinner was actually pretty good! :-) Tuesday evening the kids and I went outside, and they played a bunch with the neighbor girl. While we were out there, we checked out the neighbors porch, and got some veggies they had out there. The wife had told us any time we wanted any of what they had on there, from their plot of land about 10 miles from here, that we could just take it, so we have been. I've got a bunch of cut up zucchini in my freezer in the wash room (which I have to go check again, because the door must have been left open or something---things weren't frozen any more in there). Now I have several more zucchini and a couple more squash as well waiting to be cut up. But what pertains to last night's dinner is the tomatoes we also got. We got a few roma size, and a few bigger ones. I cut up 2 roma, and put them in the pan with some onion and olive oil, then tossed whole wheat penne in with some parmesan. It ended up nice and CREAMY, in part I think because of the extra little bit of oil, and the juice from the tomatoes :-) Take a look....YUM!

Non Noodle Tuesday!

I don't know if I'm going to start with that....but today's the first in a long time that pasta wasn't for dinner!!! We had chicken in barbeque sauce, corn, beets (for me, the rest of the family doesn't really like them!!!!) and microwave baked potatoes! :-) It was good. I like to put salsa on my baked potatoes :-) It tastes better than it sounds, trust me!!! For once in about 4 days, I FORGOT to take a picture of dinner. I took the camera in there, just didn't do it after I had it plated! :-\ Oh well, it was good. I can't tell you what was the best---it was all good :-) I love beets....and canned spinach....and other things too. Nice treat :-)

And I've got more good news than just the new recruit under me for the candle biz---I've also hit the 50 pound mark! As of today I have lost 51.8 pounds. I'm going to do something to adjust my weight loss table...it's just too big and bulky. Until I figure something else out I'm going to leave it there, but I'm contemplating other ideas :-)

Have I been zapped?

Well, I know I've been sliced (cut my finger....own stupid mistake).

But the person I talked to about the biz signed up this morning. I haven't talked to her again yet, but she's on my Yahoo messenger, so I will check in with her often (I hope!).

It feels good that I have one. I hope for more, and I hope to be a good sponsor! Not just good, real good! :-)

(Originally posted on my Candle blog)

Well, I know I've been sliced (cut my finger....own stupid mistake).

But the person I talked to about the biz signed up this morning. I haven't talked to her again yet, but she's on my Yahoo messenger, so I will check in with her often (I hope!).

It feels good that I have one. I hope for more, and I hope to be a good sponsor! Not just good, real good! :-)

(Originally posted on my Candle blog)

It's electric!!!

I titled this like this because today has been quite an interesting day! I was able to talk to 3 people about the business---but more on that on my Candle Biz Blog :-) Hee hee. Maybe I should have titled THAT post this instead. Or just that post. But the rest of the day went well too. We also went out today and had a bit of fun. And my daughter asked that her new friend come over so they can do their homework together. I had to go across town to pick up her friend, but she's a nice girl and it went well.

Today's feature dish is Twenty Minute Minestrone Soup (though with my activity this evening it ended up taking a bit longer than twenty minutes!!!). It turned out AWESOME, and I think because I put in a bit more than the recipe calls for, it is going to go a lot further than 4 servings!!!


Now what I'm looking forward to is having a Klondike Slim A Bear 100 Calorie Fudge Bar. MMM so smooth, and DELISH! :-D But I'm going to wait just a bit. That was part of us being out and about this afternoon, I went and bought 3 boxes. They will last me a while! :-)

Another Sunday

Someone made a comment on their blog about how interesting their blog titles are...seems she's just using the date. Hmm...I'm not going to go that basic, but it gets really hard to title a blog when either it's been a long time since I blogged, or it's just been another day when, like now, I'm on a roll with how often I'm blogging.

Yes, today's been a fairly normal day. I delivered the Penny Savers, came home, watched a little football (:-( Bills lost BIG TIME!!!), took a shower, called mom, lazied about watching the kids with their antics, did some stuff here on the web (the big one is updating links on the sidebar of my crochet blog, joining a webring [I'm not accepted into it yet], opening a webring for WNY_C and changing the titles of my blogs so that I can sorta start to brand myself [at least, I realized that's how it may end up :-)]), made dinner (see below) and now I'm just winding down before bed. Don't need another shower because I've already taken one, so I guess I'll be here just a little bit, then I'll go read more TPDL, then go to bed.

Dinner today was actually one of my favorites, even though I'm SICK TO DEATH of pasta and tomato sauces/based meals. Can't have pizza often either. But, I got the idea to make this from going to a local pub/restaurant for our anniversary last year, and the need to not have bottled spaghetti sauce on whole wheat pasta often.


It's often just the whole wheat pasta, onions and parmasean cheese. This time I added some of the zucchini from a week or so ago---at the time before I had only used half of the bag for whatever reason, so I threw in the other half. Takes care of my veggie requirement for the day, right? Good thing. Also today I had regular oatmeal with 2 frozen peach slices and about 1 Tablespoon of honey. Yum. Takes that bitter taste right away! :-)

I'm also working on that bread I started last night. It's now sitting in my oven for it's second rising. Here it is at the end of it's first, when I took it out of the oven (just a warm oven, I'm not trying to bake it now you know!), before I punched it down and kneaded it:


Now how it looks as it's sitting in the oven---hopefully getting bigger! (It actually DID double in size last time, that's good!!! :-D):


Looks pretty doesn't it? I cut the slits in it deeper this time, as I'm thinking they were too shallow in previous loaves. This one is ALL wheat flour. I didn't even try half and half before jumping right into this loaf. We'll see soon enough how well this one turns out. I'm hoping for the best! No way to find out Points at the minute though, because my computer and the WW website aren't agreeing with each other. :-| Oh well.

Night night

Trying to keep myself honest.

So, I like all these blogs with food on it. And I'm trying to lose weight, by watching what I'm eating. So I'll try to share as much as I can of what I eat with you.

Here goes. Here's tonight's dinner. The features are shrimp:


Zucchini and onions (onions, yum!):



And of course couscous. I always wondered what couscous was, and once I found out, I fell in love!!


Wow, that picture turned out better than I thought it would! It also has some crushed red pepper to give it just a touch of kick, tomato (it calls for a whole tomato but as I didn't get one, and lots of canned diced tomatoes, that's what went in), and basil (though it calls for thyme). I love couscous, did I mention that? It's actually my second dish of couscous for the day---I had onion, couscous and medium salsa for lunch. Not bad, actually. I like chicken in it sometimes, but the shrimp couscous is actually better. It's from a Quick Meals Weight Watchers recipe book I bought the first time I went to WW, back in 2003. I haven't bought a recipe book yet this time around, and I don't plan to. That's fine :-) I can do quite well with the web (especially the WW site) and my own inventions. I didn't think I'd ever like the Core Plan, but I really prefer it! :-) I'm even working on Core (or at least low LOW Point) bread! I have a yeast prep in the food processor right now...no big, I'm going to let it sit tonight, and see how it works tomorrow afternoon. T hasn't made his first loaf yet :-\ I'm not at all feeling guilty about going ahead and making as much as I want...he's got other items to create (like cheesecake, always cheesecake), but what if he decides to do that tomorrow too? Well, I'm planning on us going to church (which means another chapter for TPDL for me, a shower then bed for me soon), so maybe he can do it then. But that would mean him taking out my yeast prep...oh gees. Oh well...

I would have liked to have talked about Presto Pasta Nights over on Once Upon a Feast, but I got this recipe from a published cookbook so I won't put up the recipe, which takes me out of the running. Oh well, one day I will create something, and we will be on there! Ha ha ha....:-|

I'm sick of pasta, actually, and tomato based spaghetti sauces. I'm going to have to go surfing other blogs, so we will see if I can't come up with something. That's Core as well. Hmm...someday I might have my own food blog....

Something fun for once......

My husband and I have ....

....been Simpsonized.....
....For me at least, I think it's an improvement :-) Go try it yourself!

Have fun, this is going to be something of a lazy day....just gonna go off soon and get some groceries :-)

What a difference a week makes.

Mom's a whole lot better. The hallucinations may still be having their effects, and OF COURSE she's still hurting, but at least when I call (and, yes, come and see) her, I get MOM and not MOM ON SOME REALLY SERIOUS PAIN KILLERS. Of course, you know, having your MOM there has it's own drawbacks...such as the suggestion that I SHOULD look into little guy getting evalled on his speech progress. I still don't think so...but I told her that if things don't get a whole lot "better" by the time he's 2 1/2, then I'll look into it. Of course, I might have put that stuff in the to be shredded box. I don't know. Good thing---it's been about a month since I sorted everything out, so it will probably still be there 3 months from now. Ha ha. I don't forsee shredding that stuff right away, I want to sort through the individual file folders first.

Let's see, what else? Well, I got caught up on laundry---T's uniforms are in the dryer right now, and his shirts and underwear/socks (sh, don't tell, he likes them totally separate) are in the washer waiting for the uniforms to be sorted. My dishes are nearly there. My bathroom needs wiped down, and my carpet needs vacced, but it's picked up at least. My daughter's room is even halfway to decent (yes, I mean it's not all the way there, but hey you can see the floor!). Our room looks good, actually. The computer room here isn't too bad, even though the futon could be cleared off and the bucket on there (that I'm going to need tomorrow night) is still full of stuff to sort.

I've got to get to bed at a more decent time...soon.

Which means I've got to start heading towards bed. I've got to read another chapter of The Purpose Driven Life, tonight's chapter is #3. So far I know it's all about God and nothing's about me, and I was put here in this world so God could love me, and he made everything because he loves me (before you think I'm a friggin' snob or something, read the book!). I'm just waiting for the lady on the FIB group to let me know she's started reading the book so that I can type out and send her what I've written down as far as my thoughts so far. And we all know I'm nothing if not longwinded, so....she's in for a real treat. I'll send it to her in bits.....one every hour or so depending on how far along she is in rereading it. Of course I should just go and look if there's a Yahoo group for reading it, and tell her sorry, I would have loved to read it with her but I'm not going to give you the heck you'd have to go through with what I wrote and thought over while I waited. I'll just send her an email asking if she's ready, because I've already started reading the book and I'm on to chapter 3 in a bit....:-\ I don't know....

Well, otherwise, I worked on my crochet blog today. You can thank my wonderful group co-owner for that....gotta love the ripple afghans :-)

Later. Need to prep for bed :-)

At least I'm living....

Oh, I'm sure you can say it could be worse, but it's not fun either.

Mom's in the hospital again. Another planned excursion into her knee :-| This time just the left one, because it has been acting up bad for most of this year. 6-8 months, and no one was really trying to find out what it was while she was done in Ohio. But they went into her knee and, while none of the tests done on the aspirations said it was infected, it in fact was.

So things are now good, not so good, and difficult.

The good thing is that her knee has been taken care of.

The not so good---that she was right and it WAS an infection.

The difficult is she is not a fun person when she is on morphine. Because of her life, she's got natural tendencies towards paranoia and depression. She takes meds for that, that help a whole lot, smooth things out for her. With the morphine (or derivatives/similar meds), she loses all her hibitions keeping her from buying into the paranoia and depression---and it's not fun being in her room with her. What's the worst, is you KNOW that it's just the meds talking, this is NOT her, she's knows better and is a lot more rational than that!!! But it still rips your stomach out. I just couldn't go today, yesterday was that difficult.

There are a few other things that are weighing on my mind that I just don't want to go indepth about....money, kids, hubby, money, what might be going on in my body (with hormones, etc).

I've been sitting here and in the living room wanting a peanut butter sandwich. I bought just white bread because I didn't want to be eating several peanut butter (plain and with jelly) sandwiches by the doubles like I have the last few weeks. The bread being wheat just doesn't help much. And I want to be able to say I've passed the 50 pound mark (yes, I know that I currently have to update my weight loss table. I'll do it, don't worry). I might go and have another bag of popcorn (I had one this evening). That and a glass of water actually does sound pretty good.

I can't wait for next week. I'll talk this much about money. Some of it will loosen up once next Thursday hits.

I guess that's the end of it.

Good night.

And another day goes by...

You know, it's kinda difficult coming up with blog entry titles all the time. :-S LOL

I was a bit tired there a couple minutes ago, but not anymore :-| Oh, well, I'm still going to bed soon!

I got good news in my email today---my best bro's on Myspace now. What a nice surprise!!! :-D

I'm working on a felted hook case. It's my first felted project. We'll see how it turns out. I don't have much faith at the moment, but oh well. We'll see.

I'm also working on afghans for 2 people at the place my mom's at :-) I collected up the yarn for them out of my "stock" today.

I'm going to turn the second attempt at the tablecloth I liked so much into a yoyo tablecloth. We'll see if it works out.

My goal for this week is to get the other 1.4 pounds to a 50 pound weight loss.

I've had fun on the listing site this week as well.

Tomorrow's T's root canal. That's going to be somewhat *fun*. :-|

Later tonight....

I will be asleep. But hopefully not as late as last night! My little guy, thank goodness, was his usual self. No need to worry about his little bump on his head. It still hurts, poor thing, but he's his normal self. Like I said yesterday, I've had to thank goodness for him being so because it could be worse. But it's not! So that's a good thing :-D Also, after talking to someone at dialysis yesterday, mom asked me to ask the doctor's office about his lead levels, which I know where checked with his last bit of blood work. That was a bit of good news as well...he was a 4, and the range is a 0-9. So he's right in the middle, no real worries. Well, my mom and I are both concerned because this IS an old house---but it's not over the range, and he's pretty much a normal little 2 year old boy. Sure, he might not be talking quite as well as some people might want him to, but I'm not worried, each kid grows at his own pace! :-)

Funny thing happened to my mom and dad today. Nothing bad---but they had to spend the day with the mother of the trailer park terror. Good thing---we haven't had to deal with him much since I started complaining about him on here, LOL! My dad said that once she said who her son was, it negated any and all thing she had said up until that point :-S Well, she is full of bull :-( She sees the wrong in other people's parenting, and doesn't see the wrong in hers. And she wonders why....My kids are good kids, but I'm not too proud to acknowledge that they might have their faults too! :-\

Well, I have a few more things to do, and then I'm going to bed. I've got to take my shower, read a bit, crochet a bit and then I'm turning in :-)

Long day...

I've spent most of my day cleaning today. It was broken at about 3, however, by a quick trip to the emergency room. My little guy fell and hit his head on the wall. I'm hoping that he did not hit the brick fireplace which was within the 2 foot area where I know he had to have hit his head. He's been his usual self (so much so there were a few times when I had to repeat to myself "be thankful, be thankful, be thankful" because I know that it's possible the visit to the er could have been different!!!).

This weekend was actually a pretty good one. The local Festival was this weekend. My family and I were only able to make it on Saturday (though I would have loved to have gone to the parade on Sunday---now that I think about it, it would have been a great networking opp!! But we went to the other reason why this weekend was so good!), but I gave my card to 7 people during the short time we were there, BEFORE it rained, LOL. I got to see people I like to stop and see...there are 2 ladies, a lady I met at the gym before I went in the Army and a lady who I have bought jewelry from since before that! I also gave a biz card to my sister's maid of honor's mother---and instead of simply talking about the biz, in the few breaths I had I talked about her granddaughter, who is her other daughter's daughter. I could have talked about her oldest as well (the baby's mother and the girl I graduated with, where as my sister graduated and is best friends with her younger daughter), but we didn't have the time as they were on their way across the street and we were just arriving!

The get-together was fun. We had ladies from all over the state, not just local! One traveled 3 hours to see us---that felt good. She's a NICE lady! :-D We got together and made and afghan for one of the members who got married this month---she was so busy that she didn't even notice the one or two times someone slipped---because she deleted so many emails!!! LOL!!! I assembled :-) I'm hoping to keep that going, and I already have an idea for who the next recipient will be!!!!

My head is getting to the point where it hurts, but I have a few more other things I'd like to do.

Another thing that I've been pondering, pretty much since I sat down here. I find myself drawn to recommitting myself to the Lord. Two or five years ago you might not have seen me say that....but the pull is strong now. I found a great site when I first started thinking/working on this. And it's based on my favorite Bible chapter (yes, a whole chapter!), Proverbs 31
It's helped me with at least one thing that's been weighing on my heart. One I won't mention because it's a bit personal. I'll write that in my journal. The other is money. Now, I have a struggle each week when I see how much money we have coming in, and how much more needs to go out. It's part of why I started the candle biz. We've looked at the income potential for the fundraiser we might be getting from the lady whose house we were at this weekend, for the get-together. It's great. Now, when I look at it, what I consider first is all the problems it would take care of for us....bills I'd love to get paid so creditors quite calling, keeping up with the bills we have every month (for once in long time there's a bill I'm not sure I'm going to be able to pay all of this month. It went sky high this last reeval :-( It did not make me happy. How is it that in the summer things are tighter than they should be?? I don't get it!), investing in things for our future. I don't often think of the "fun" things we could do....you can check out my list on a cool new list site I found too! This is what I think of first, not "fun" things all the time (there is one "fun" thing I can think of on it---but consider this, it's still not for fun fun, it's for my walk with God!). Taking care of my family!!! That's ALL I think about!!! NOTHING else!!! So, what I'm worried about though is, being that money is something seen as the Devil's playground (right along with idle hands, which I DON'T have!), will we get corrupted? I hope not...I hope I'll always be the kind of person who thinks of her family and others first. And I can't say it enough, I LOVE the company and the product!!!!! :-)

Thursday's update

Dishes - today's are caught up
Clothes - towels got folded
Have breakfast - did it...lunch and dinner too...all added to WW online Point Tracker
Sort magazines - all the crocheted/knitting ones are done, looked at one other
Read Html book
Make squares/go through bag
Wash bathroom
Go to SA - hoping for tomorrow
Wash T's clothes - done, last load of uniforms are in the dryer, I'll do the tees and socks & undies next week! Not a big enough load for me!
Pay electric and phone bills - done, and upgraded the phone service so I have long distance for the candle biz

I'm pretty caught up, though not all of my list is taken care of. Some are, if you would remember, from the week long list. 2 more days without DD :-|

Thursday's PODA

Never did add that note later in that last post. I just wanted to say---there had been nothing in the washer or dryer, but I ended up putting something in it, which needed rewashed because I let it sit. Not as long as usual, but I added to it, so it needed a bit more.

Dishes - last night's got washed
Clothes - next on list
Have breakfast
Sort magazines - working on it
Read Html book
Make squares/go through bag
Wash bathroom
Go to SA
Wash T's clothes
Pay electric and phone bills

Seems good for now :-)

Wednesday's/This week's PODA

Dishes - washed and last night's put away*(see later note)
Clothes - the washer and dryer were EMPTY. I put a load in...I've also got to add T's to the list!
Swipe toilet - done
Organize kitchen - done (the person who does it now doesn't know how to keep it organized :-S)
Sort magazines - working on it
Read Html book
Make squares/go through bag
Wash bathroom
Bring stuff upstairs - done (and brought stuff down---to sell/get rid of/sort - already sorted!)
Go to SA
Wash T's clothes

Wednesday's/This week's PODA

Taken from one of my flying lists (yes, I'm on 2, I've been more active on the one than the other but I'm getting more active on the other now!):

I didn't set out with a PODA (and right now I'm feeling a little scattered without it, so I think I'll be making it up here shortly!), but I have gotten SEVERAL things done so far:

Mopped the kitchen floor (BOY did it need it!!)
Vacced the carpet
Folded towels (just have to put them away!)
Swept the front porch (just in front of our door, I'm certainly NOT touching any of the stuff they have collected in front of my daughter's bedroom window, on "their" side of the porch!)
Sorted the box of stuff left on my desk (this was a BIG job even though it was a SMALL box. There were a lot of things, some I didn't know before I sat down what I was going to do with them. I had been adding since the last sort of stuff last week, but I managed to find SOME KIND of home for everything! :-D)

I think that's all of it. I'm taking a break now, and then I've got to go around and see what else there is to do around here! :-) Here's what I KNOW needs to be done:

Dishes (including putting last night's away because the person whose job it is, is in Canada right now, LOL!)
Clothes? (I'm trying to remember if there is anything in the washer or dryer)
Swipe toilet

Wow, I can't believe that, despite letting this place go a bit last month, I've caught up enough that I've got nothing more in the ideas department.

More now...I've got several days when I'm the only female around. I find it interesting---it's easy to do stuff when it's just me and the little guy up than when she's here because (a) he wants to be with her and (b) when he is and she's "watching" him I have to pay attention and spread my attention a lot further.

There was nothing in the washer!!!

Anyhow, this list is going to be for the next few days. I've got several things I want to do, including going through a bunch of magazines, some before tomorrow evening (the ones with knitting patterns in them).

Organize kitchen
Sort magazines
Read Html book
Make squares/go through bag
Wash bathroom
Bring stuff upstairs
Go to SA

I think that might be it for now but if not, I'll post again or edit this...:-)

What I've been doing over a week...

Let's see....

Today was about the same as last week, only we didn't go to the National Night Out because that's once a year. I also have left the candles in the truck all week long, so I didn't need to pick both the candles and T up when we went to Weight Watchers. And this week instead of Pizza Salad fixin's, we grabbed ink and barbeque fixin's at WalMart instead of Quality. Otherwise, this week I:

Kept most of my dishes washed
Kept the floor picked up
Washed and FOLDED clothes in the same 24 hour period
Cleared off my desk
Sorted through my pile/box of crochet and knit patterns in order to collect knit ones up for someone and decide once and for all which crochet ones I will be giving to others at a local crochet get together
Started reading Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Got hooked on The Offical Corey Haim Website message board
Lost 1.6 pounds (the 1 I gained last week plus another .6 more!)
Decided I'm switching back to Points

Not bad. I plan on keeping up with my site a lot better and continuing to fix it up and upgrade the html to something that looks cool!!! :-D

Now let's see if I can RSS feed the blog to my website!!! :-)

Just a quick, as I'm going to take a shower and go to bed after this.

Today I:

Picked up mom and dad's mail
Got gas
Visited my mom
Came home to pick up T and candles
Put a load of T's clothes in after sorting them out
Went to Weight Watchers (gained a pound :-\)
Went to the village's contribution to National Night Out (only had 1 1/2 pieced of pizza)
Passed out 4-5 biz cards there
Grabbed fixin's for Pizza Salad (yeah, and finished everything but the bag of salad. I'm not the only one who had servings out of it though)

Remind me not to watch The Two Coreys before going to bed. My favorite Corey is still the same, after all these years. Haim. He's a sad sad case. All those drugs have done quite a job on him. Hot guy, sad outcome. I was looking at stuff on the net about him a few times today---and I've come to see that he's such a sad case.

I ended up going to sleep at about 3:30 last night. Ugh. Oh well, that's why I'm going to bed in a minute here. *sigh* Let's hope I don't fall asleep so late!!! Ugh...

Nightie night!

Finish sorting bills - done
Sort tubs - done
Go for a walk
Go to bed at 11
Take a shower with T (so that I can go to bed at 11---trust me, it makes sense!)
Wash T's clothes - tomorrow
Fold his clothes
Vac - next, after watching a couple things on the tv :-)
Evaluate all yarn related areas
Transfer computer stuff into a bigger box :-| - done
Read more on web design

Phew. I'm happy at least that I got the bills and the tubs sorted. Those were my big goals for the day! :-) Especially since they are something of a cross over :-) I'll have to go through the box of my stuff left over from the tub sort. Next I'm going to watch the stuff on tv, grate up some candles to make samples, vac and make dinner :-) Then get ready for bed after putting P to bed before taking that shower with T :-) But I swear I had got to the point of thinking that I'd never see the bottom of those boxes of bills!! Now I have 4-5 bags of garbage, mainly the envelopes, etc from the bills :-)

Finish sorting bills - more to do tomorrow, but I made a good dent today!!!
Dishes - finished tonight's :-)
Pick up what hasn't yet been picked up on the floor - pretty much, yeah :-)
Take shower - next on my list
Consider what I can take care of in the tubs - just sorta looked at them
Have some tea - yup, DD too :-)

Well, I did pretty well with my list. I also cleaned up my desk area, including the crate that's on the drawer thing behind it that Padraic took over because I didn't want to have to deal with him getting into the stuff that was in it. It's way too late again though. I spent about 2-3 hours playing Sally's Salon---stuck for most of that on one level, the last one :-\ Oh well....tomorrow I want to...

Finish sorting bills
Sort tubs
Go for a walk
Go to bed at 11
Take a shower with T (so that I can go to bed at 11---trust me, it makes sense!)
Wash T's clothes
Fold his clothes
Vac
Evaluate all yarn related areas
Transfer computer stuff into a bigger box :-|
Read more on web design

Update on my lists:

Get PSs - done
Fold/Stuff PSs - done
Deliver PSs - done
Bring mom her wash - done
Put away 1 basket/box/tub of things on desk - done on Sunday
Fold and put away my clothes - done on Sunday
Fold and put away basket of stuff sitting here - done on Sunday
Wash basket in wash room - done
Dishes - finished Sunday
Make Italian Chicken - had Sunday

Sunday I can:

Wash Tom's clothes
Do more dishes - need to do more, and will :-)
Fold and put away Tom's clothes
Post about stuff I want to sell - done Saturday evening
Vac
Shred candle(s) and make up another bunch of samples, attaching them to cards and catalogs

I did not realize how much time doing the PSs would take. But they all got done in a day. And while I haven't done the tubs that were on my desk yet, I have been working on the boxes of old bills that have been. I got to thinking, what's the point in sorting them out and having them all over the floor when I could just sort them directly into the filing cabinet? I know, duh. But we all have to come the realization on our own! :-) I'm almost done with that---something that's almost amazing considering how long I've been putting it off. I also managed to do some work (though not much) on my new website this weekend. I'll be doing more---I just have the basic framework figured out so far :-)

It's 8:30, roughly, right now, and my little guy is already in bed. I'll accomplish the rest of my new list between now and 11:30. Here's that list!

Finish sorting bills
Dishes
Pick up what hasn't yet been picked up on the floor
Take shower
Consider what I can take care of in the tubs
Have some tea

This week I will do other things that I haven't done in a while, like mopping my kitchen and bathroom floors, and other things.

You know, sometimes I'm just all talk....

In the emails for the group for the candle biz, I got a really great article today. It basically says that positive affirmations are all well and good, the only way things get done is by DOING them. I guess that means have faith and follow through with the action. Hmm. Makes some sense, doesn't it? I'll see if I can find a link to the article or something, so I can post it here :-) I wish we had some ink in the printer so I could print it off and carry it with me.

So I got to thinking, well, I'll start tomorrow, since there's little I can do that I have to do that I can start doing today. But then I thought---wait, that's not true. I can start one thing tonight---I can go to bed at a decent hour. So, in that vein....I'm going to bed at 11. No ifs, ands, or buts about it. I'm going to have my little guy in bed by then (he took a small nap this evening when we got home from getting the car inspected, so he's still a bit energized), and I will force my big girl to go to bed and go myself. I'm also going to wash my clothes, which need doing. They'll be in the washer overnight, but oh well.

Then tomorrow I'll---

Get PSs
Fold/Stuff PSs
Deliver PSs
Bring mom her wash
Put away 1 basket/box/tub of things on desk
Fold and put away my clothes
Fold and put away basket of stuff sitting here
Wash basket in wash room
Dishes
Make Italian Chicken

Sunday I can:

Wash Tom's clothes
Do more dishes
Fold and put away Tom's clothes
Post about stuff I want to sell
Vac
Shred candle(s) and make up another bunch of samples, attaching them to cards and catalogs

I can also put aside $5 a week, putting it into my biz account so that it has money in it when I need it for biz stuff, and in hopes to get more money coming in. Also, I can bring prepared biz cards everywhere I go. I'm also going to get my website up and running, I've already started going over my text book from my website building class, so I know more code than just the stuff I know now---there's more to it.

As for the candle biz, I dropped off the basket for the chinese auction at a local art gallery, which I learned about from freecycle. I also told the guy who did our inspection about the biz, and he just about jumped out of his skin, LOL!!! I hope THAT one turns into a sale. I need a sale so bad, the rush from one is too intoxicating!!! :-D

Let's see, what else? I don't know, but I am getting tired anyhow, so I'll head off towards the bedroom, and getting my clothes washed :-) Let's hope it cools down soon!!! It's so hot out!!!