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Month: November 2006
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Two Days In a Row? HOT DANG!
OK …I am blogging
two days in a row. WOO HOO! lol
How the HECK did that
happen? I must be eating my Wheaties or something. ;op~~
So I did get some
things done today. I umm.. ok.. cleaned and vac’d the living room. Cleaned
out the pellet stove in there. Vac’d the kitchen, cleaned the counter tops
and stove *ya know…the scrubby kind of cleaning of all the things that
swipes don’t handle*. I still need to scrub the floor but I will do that
tomorrow night.
I firmly believe
that whomever thought white floors in a kitchen a good idea should spend
time in hell SCRUBBING THOSE SAME FLOORS for eternity. Ahem.
Ok I am better
now.
I have done 3
loads of laundry. I need to put it away though. I hate that part. lol
I vac’d the
breakfast room. That is all finished save cleaning the shelves off with the
teapots. They need to all be wiped down as its been about 6 months since
that was done. Its time to take it all down and wipe both the shelves and
chotskies off. I dust them off every week but this ole house is dusty and
after a while it just requires a good old fashioned wipe and wash.
The dishes are all caught up, the new dish drainer in place, and the bread
maker put away. Last night I made 5 loaves of bread. I shared a loaf with my
MIL and planed to share with my bro and sis in law but they weren’t around.
I will share with them from what I make later this week. I really like the
bread I made. Its a multigrain bread made from
Bob’s Red Mill 8 Grain Cereal.
Not
only is the cereal a killer-good hot cereal, but when you make bread and add
the softened cereal to it, you have a heart-healthy multi-grain bread that
toasts up killer good. It is also great for peanut butter sandwiches or
grilled cheese. Michael & band
had a gig in Waldorf last night, and Brenna was still feeling punk, so I
just made grilled cheese and tomato soup for supper. Yumma!
Someone was
reallllyy hoping he would get some of that fresh baked bread.
“Any bread for a poor starving fur-child, mom???”
Tonight’s supper
was home made split pea soup, home made bread and a fresh salad. IF it has
been summer time the salad would have been home-grown. ;0) Someday I will
have my cold frames in place to hopefully grown some sort of green year
round.
One of the
gazoodles of projects in line. I got a million of em I tell ya.
If you are a thrifter : i.e. someone who shops in thrift stores, the last
Friday of the month is half-price for clothing at local Goodwill stores.
Well, at least here in Maryland it works that way.
I am still dropping sizes *YEAH* and shrinking out of clothes *YEAH and oooo
nooo* so thrift stores have become necessary. I was down to ONE pair of
jeans that fit without sagging, bagging or falling down my still-ample-but-notibly-less-so-arse.
My goal in stopping in today was to get pants. So I grabbed anything that
looked like a possibility and took it into the changing room. Unfortunately
most of what I took IN came back OUT without plans for it to come home with
me.
Fortunately, someone else had been in the dressing room prior to my going in
and had left what they tried on and rejected. Double fortunately they were
ALL my size! There was a pile of 7 or 8 pair of pants of various colors all
in size 12 and 14. I wound up scoring probably a good number of pants: 2
black jeans, 2 blue jeans, 2 khaki, 1 army green, 1 dark grey, annndd I
think another pair. I picked up a pair of Mudd jeans and a pair of
Aeropostale and three shirts for Brenna. All of this for $42 baby! WOOT~!
I now have enough pants for church, play, dinner, and etc. for a good while.
Hopefully I can shrink out of them. My goal is to get solid into 10-12s in
pants.
Oh I forgot! I also picked up a dress that is *just a smidge* too small for
me. It fits great up top but across the hips and tummy it is a couple inches
too small. It is a tailored dress in a dark green and it is GORGEOUS. It
only cost me $3 so I bought it and decided to make it a “goal” dress. I mean
HECK its a size 10 and it almost fits me. Where it fits it is as if it is
tailored to me. Where it doesn’t is across my stomach where I desperately
need a tummy tuck. So if nothing else it can be a dress I wear when I reach
my goal size or after/when/if I can get a tummy tuck. I don’t even want to
worry about the tummy tuck until I lose some more weight. No more than 30
lbs, and that is all fat. I would rather firm up and I am not worried about
the weight as much as I am what size I wear/how I look and feel, if that
makes sense.
Let me tell you… putting on size 12s and HAVING THEM FIT. Multiple pairs?!
I haven’t worn a size 12 .. since.. since.. probably SINCE I WAS 12. And no
I am not kidding. What a kick!
Tomorrow I have to put plastic and curtains on a bunch of windows in the
house. Once that is done the house will stay quite a bit warmer *I pray!*.
The heating bills in this big old house are terrible. I am hoping to lessen
that a fair amount this year. In the future new windows and doors are in
order, but that won’t happen til I get my photography business pulling some
consistent monies in.
I will try to report in on my progress in curtain hanging and such tomorrow.
Not only will doing the curtains help winterize the house but it will ready
it for holiday decorating! We have to get the a/c units out of the windows
tomorrow too.
This is the third Sunday at the new church plant we are part of. The first
week we had 70 people. Last week it was 90. I suspect it will be even MORE
this week. We already have to look for a new location to meet because it
looks like we are quickly outgrowing our location. How exciting is that!
And this is just is just too funny because I was trying to take a “good”
picture of the two of the fur-kids sitting together. They NEVER sit together
like this, so while they were I thought I would get a pic.
Perry
just like any other 5 year old decided to stick his tongue out when Mom
gets out the camera.
Shia of course is, as always, the perfect
little princess.
Til
Next Time…
Kathie -
To Blog or Not To Blog…Oh Boy I Am Lazy
I don’t know
why I run so hot and cold on blogging.
The problem
is, I have ALWAYS been like this. I would start a journal, run with it for
oh, perhaps a month and then fffft. I wouldn’t even open the blinkin’
journal for probably a quarter of a year. Its an odd thing but there you
have it. Thirty or so years of the same tendencies are hard to get away
from.
For those who sub
to my page, and to those whom I am subbed to, I DO read your blogs. They are
delivered to my in-box every day and I actually read them. I haven’t been
posting any comments because I have been, well, no excuses. I have been too
lazy to do so! lol There you have it. I will do my best to be better and
more consistent. My apologies!
So yesterday was
Thanksgiving. Marking the first “day of the holiday season”. I appreciate it
for what it is and no more: a chance to get together with family and friends
for the day and indulge in some good food. How much do we all really take
extra time to be thankful for the things we have on this day? Usually I do,
but I will admit that yesterday was pretty much just anther day *save the
big spread of food at my SIL’s*. I have had a week of dealing with the
migraine dance *fighting migraines due to storms coming up this week* and
almost didn’t go to dinner. My daughter picked up something from her best
friend *yuck* and we left early to bring her home so she could be miserable
here at home. Not a big illness but sore throat and head…I guess a bit of
upper respiratory thing going on. Colloidal Silver *natural
antibiotic/antiviral*, Astragalus *immune system booster* and vitamin C with
an occasional dose of Motrin is the order of the day. Also, I just informed
her that she has used up her allowance of whine points for the morning.
Is there anyone
else who looks at the amount of tasks/chores/to-do-list items and gets
totally overwhelmed, almost paralyzed? Anymore I can’t seem to pick a task
or tasks but I see the WHOLE dealie that needs doing and can’t seem to get
ANYTHING done. Its as if one task leads my brain to another task to yet
another and it makes me almost feel panicky and its hard to get even one
thing done. I am trying to flip that switch and think instead “OK.. I am
going to do this and this, and not worry about anything else until I get
that and that done.”
Ugh. Help.
Ok so I will post
it here and see if that helps. See if I can post and follow through and NOT
WORRY about the other things.
This weekend I
want to:
~get the air conditioners
from the windows…3 total.
~hang up the sheers in
the dining room *new purple ones from Ikea…$5 per window YES!*
~before the sheers can be
hung the hardware for both sets of rods *sheers and drapes* has to be hung
~finish altering the
drapes for the dining room.
~rehang the hardware in
the living room for the drapes, and finish lining the last of four drapes
and HANG them. We have partially textured the walls but really need drapes
up in order to keep the heat IN the house. Old house, 23 windows. Ugh. Lot
of heat loss.
OK I think that is
enough for a solid goal. There are quite a few other things to do also. Hang
the mirror in the dining room. Hang the tea-candle holders in the dining
room. Clean off all the china shelves and china. Dust and clean the room
well. Water the plants. Clean up the plants and repot two that desperately
need it. Then THAT room will be just about complete. :0)
If I dared list
all the other stuff I have to do I would start twitchin’ and droolin’. Not
pretty I tell ya. :0p~~ heh
Well to end this
rather odd blog on a nicer note, I will post a couple of pics. Cuz you know
I am ALL about pics, and if you haven’t realized that by now, you are either
new here or haven’t been paying attention. Good thing there wasn’t a test,
eh?
My sister
and brother in law set a lovely table yesterday. They have been working like
mad to redo their living room and it looks great! Texture painting on one
wall is done, the trim is being redone, the pellet stove is installed on the
tile pad they laid, a new fan in place *one that Michael and I considered
for our family room in fact, so you know we like that guy!, lots of stripped
window trim that now looks the spiffiest, along with all the other goodies
they have done*. These flowers were on the food table and I love the way the
tablecloth complimented the color of the roses.
This is my brother
and sister in law’s Alaskan Malamute girl, Grimia *or is it Grimea? I keep
forgetting the correct spelling*.
She was WAY more
interested in scoping out the food on the table *sooo hopeful! heh* than
sitting about waiting for Auntie Kathie to stick a camera in her face.
This is our Keeshond
girl, Shia.
I was testing out my new
expensive and horribly complicated flash. The thing has more bells and
whistles on it than a circus train.
As you can see, she was
not enjoying the flash popping. I was bouncing it off the wall so it wasn’t
blinding her by firing face on. I think the camera flash is too reminiscent
of lightening for her comfort level. She is not a fan of lightening and
thunder storms, to put it mildly.
In mid October we
took a trip to Southern Virginia to visit family. I took these of Brenna and
Michael on the side of the mountain where Michael’s uncle and aunt live.
Buffalo Mountain in Floyd County Virginia. The leaves were lovely, the
nights cool, and the black bears were raiding the trash cans at night.
Which I remembered as I
was sitting outside looking at the stars.
Til next
time…
Kathie
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