November 24, 2006

• 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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