March 20, 2006

• Random Thoughts I turned 40 last week. This week my body is falling apart. My back is HURTING and there is no reasonable explanation for it. Other than I turned 40. My right shoulder that I tore the rotator cuff on in the Fall suddenly is hurting *and by the by, I have NO idea HOW I did that one either...d'oh!*. And I have an additional ache that is too embarrassing to talk about. Add to that the fact that I fell over the edge of a &%ed rug walking into Rite Aid last Monday and think I tore a tendon in my right knee when I went face down onto said knee. UNfreakBELIEVABLE. I guess I should be thankful my leg is only hurting at this point if I bend it suddenly and fully. Yes, lawsuit keeps running through my head but I am rebuking it. My house is trashed and it is making me NUTS. My living room is in the process of the walls being textured *over top of a NASTY sprayed on orange-peel texture...lazy man's way of dealing with old plaster walls...grouch* to be painted, and we have stalled on it for the last 2 weekends while we worked on things outside. The breakfast room next to it is a storage house for construction items and the living room itself is holding pieces for Brenna's bathroom. AND HERE I SIT in pain unable to do a damned thing in either the living room or bathroom. Gah. My seedlings are THRIVING that I have started inside. This is my first year starting seeds inside in this volume and it is going INCREDIBLY well so far. WOOT! And the seeds I started outside are starting to sprout! YES! See http://www.wintersown.org for more information on sowing seeds outside in hellishly cold weather. I planted more seeds yesterday...three flats inside with mostly flowers and a few veggies. I planted 5 milk jugs full of seeds outside: 4 full of poppies *Flemish Antique, 2 jugs of White, and one of ummmm...I think it was a peony poppy in purple. I have planted so many seeds I can't remember! The last milk jug is a packet of seeds from the seed company that is full of annuals of various type. I am not much into "surprise" seeds, so I will plant those into different 4 inch pots after they come up and see what they are so I can plan where to plant them. I wonder if the county sheriff or the DEA are going to visit me for growing so many poppies?? I think I have dropped 4000 or so poppy seeds into various containers to grow. Yesterday I also transplanted some of the humungous zucchini seedlings, fair sized bush cuke seedlings and my *drool* seed dahlia seedlings into their own individual pots. Yes I planted WAY too many green and yellow zucchini. Yes, I am an idiot. Anyone in the Harford County area want to trade some plants in about a month??? Anyone??? I have a serious seed addiction. I just ordered more seeds off eBay. And some from Gurneys. I still can't find the seed geranium seeds I want. They are SO FREAKIN expensive! WHO in their right MIND thinks I am going to pay $15 for 15 seed geranium seed!!! GADS! I will wait and get them for 89c each at Home Depot. Or I will use the excuse of needing good priced plants to go up to Lancaster and get some when the time is right. Things are SO much cheaper there. Oh wait...the idea is to start plants from SEED so I can avoid the flats of seedlings at the home center and nurseries. HA!  I just found out that I could start my peas on St. Patrick's Day in my area. Dang it, now I am behind. *sniff* Mike is in the kitchen making a cappuccino from coffee exported from Italy *breaths in deep* Dang it I want one...why did I tell him to make me a cup of tea? :0( He just brought me the cup of tea. I just drank a third of his cappuccino. He took it away and left the room so I couldn't steal, erm...drink more of it. How the heck can I love cappuccino so much and really dislike regular coffee so intently? I started reading my subscriptions again this week. YEA! I have really missed it. My apologies to anyone who feels blown off. I added two new subs to my list today. I am a glutton for being behind in my reading, methinks. Weatherbug is flashing a warning of snow likely. WHATDAHECK? Today IS the first day of Spring?! Right? Right?! My daughter turned 11 St. Patrick's Day. No I do not feel old. The kid at the counter at WaWa "Ma'am'd" me two times in a row. Yea he is courteous. THAT made me feel maybe I looked my age. Well, at least I don't look the 20 or 19 he was. DUH. WHAT THE HECK does 40 look like anywho? Why am I worrying about it? Everyone's talk about caring so much about turning 40 has addled my brain. AH!                                                                 Til next time...                                                                             Kathie

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