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Abstract Reality 2007-12-11 21:46:25
I have been sitting here, sniffling and snorting, thinking I really need to get up and wash the dishes, but unsure if I have the energy to do so.
I think I might be getting really sick. Like, not just my usual sinus infection sick but FLU sick. What makes me think this is the fact that I took a deep, hot bath, and I didn't want to stay in there. Deep, hot baths usually make me feel all better, and I just wanted to bathe and get out. Not even soak.
That does not boad well for me.
Meanwhile my husband offered me some sage advice…"Drink lots of Orange Juice"
Yeah, I'll be sure to thank him for that. I'm drinking orange juice because he told me to. Orange juice gives me heartburn.
At least I'll get to sleep in tomorrow, not having to go to work until 3.
Then again that means I have to go to work at 3, which means I have to close, which means it might be 11:30 or later before I get to come home.
Dear people who shop at my store tomorrow, please don't make a big m Read more:Abstract
Blog 365 2007-12-10 23:08:46 Visit Blog 365
This is Blog 365 and we’re challenging YOU to blog for 365 days straight!
Get ready because now we’re really going to post until the internet explodes!
Rules:
- Blog everyday for 365 days.
- Feb.29th is a Free Day and will be the Blog365 day of rest!
(Thanks Leap Year)
- You do not HAVE to post to the same blog as long as you post everyday.
- No internet? Write your post locally and post it once you are back on the grid.
- Computer Broken? Grab some paper and do some old school blogging.
- A post is a post, not everything has to be in writing. Photos, YouTube videos, and the like are all considered content.
- Have fun, because that’s the whole point!
Note:
If you post offline work, consider changing the date on the post to reflect the day you actually created the content
All Whine and No Cheese 2007-12-09 17:37:51 So, this Saturday we went to the grocery store.
When we got home and I was putting away the food I found that a pack of chicken I had bought hadn't made it home. That was 5 days worth of meat, and we only get groceries once a week. We called the store and told them, spoke with a manager. But Robert wasn't planning on going back to get my food, so I don't know what he expects me to eat for the second week.
Today I went Christmas shopping. We had already done his mom and dad, so I just had him to buy for.
I went out and spent almost $70 on him today.
Well, he starts yelling at me from the moment I got home. Of course I started yelling back.
See, he had realized that they had left out a couple of packs of his fish as well as my chicken, and the shit had hit the fan. He was screaming at someone on the phone and started screaming at me too. We got in a huge argument about how someone should loose their job blah, blah, blah.
I have a tendency to defend cashiers so I was taking h Read more:Cheese
Cross stitching 2007-12-08 13:01:08
This is one of the 3 cross stitch projects I’m working on. Its a small owl (that much should be obvious.) I’m looking for suitably tiny oak leaves, or any leaves, that I can add to it. Maybe a leaf border?
The one I’m working on even as I speak is this one:
Its from a kit called “The Mouser” of a cat laying on top of a computer screen with a compute mouse hanging out of its mouth. Right after I took this picture I had to rip out all the light blue at the left side of the picture because I’d put it in the wrong place. (it was supposed to be one column of the light blue, then everything light blue was supposed to be grey.) Read more:Cross
Thursday Thirteen #10 2007-12-06 16:21:31
13 Things on my Christmas Wish List
1. "The Secretary of Dreams" by Stephen King - A graphic short story collection including “The Road Virus Heads North,” “Uncle Otto’s Truck,” “Rainy Season,” “The Reach,” “Jerusalem’s Lot,” and “Home Delivery.”
2. "The Darkest Evening of the Year" by Dean Koontz
3. "Brother Odd" by Dean Koontz
4. The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy for the PS2
5. New queen sized sheets for my bed. All mine are getting worn out.
6. "Eureka" Season 1 DVD box set
7. A subscription to Readers Digest. I've always enjoyed that magazine.
8. The Dark Tower Hardcover Graphic Novel - I have all the individual comics, but I'm afraid I'll "hurt" them if I read them. I never have that problem with "real" books.
9. the December issue of Playboy - Its got a Stephen King story in it called "Mute"
10. A good lap desk. Good meaning large, sturdy and Read more:Thursday
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Another hole in my body 2007-12-22 13:13:53 Tori from work gave me some money yesterday and told me to use it to get my ears pierced. Her gift to me for christmas.
I bought a small pair of (fake) diamond earrings to get pierced with.
I already HAD pierced ears, but my right one had closed up, and someone else from work had given me a cute pair of snowman earrings (which I can't wear for 6 weeks now) and thus my sudden NEED to get my right ear re-pierced.
My "Sugar Biscuits" were not a smash hit at work, but people did eat most of them so I guess they were not horrid.
The reason my cookies became biscuits was the flour. I just used what I had at home, which was "Self Rising" and I should have used All Purpose.
My MIL started baking today, so I got some real sugar cookies, so thats all good.
Now I'm on my way to work for 2 hours, doing a demo. I actually get to do something crafty at the michaels.
I Baked Cookies 2007-12-20 21:25:00
I made sugar cookies tonight. From scratch.
Boy, it was an adventure. First, my dough was too sticky to roll out, so instead of doing the SMART thing and adding a little more flour to it, I decided just to make drop cookies.
Then my cookies puffed up and looked like biscuits!
The good news is I'm pretty sure I could make good biscuits.
The bad news is….I wasn't making biscuits, I was making cookies!
I thought that southern women were supposed to be born with a "great cook" gene. Somehow I didn't get mine.
Actually, they taste okay, but someone has to be brave enough to eat them first.
I made them to take to work tomorrow. They decided to have an "Itallian Food Fest" on the 21st, which is tomorrow. I had told them I wouldn't be able to bring anything because we normally go grocery shopping on Fridays and I didn't have any extra food. Then we went shopping TODAY instead of tomorrow, and I forgot to pick up anything even remotely Itallian.
So, I made Read more:Baked
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Thursday Thirteen #12 2007-12-20 14:35:19
13 Things About Me (A thru M)
A - Animals - I like ALL animals better than MOST people. Even the evil nasty bad animals. Maybe even spiders. Because even they have more charm than 90% of the people I encounter in a day.
B - Bob - I like the name Bob. Once I introduced myself to a new guy at work as Bob. That is what he called me for a long time because he thought I was serious. I have a coffee cup that has BOB on it in huge brown letters, and I once had a mouse named Bob.
C - Cancer - I've lost too many loved ones to cancer now, and live in fear of the Big C. Who will be next? One of my aunts? My dad? Me? It's a horrible monster intent on eating everyone I love and know. Right now A co-worker/friend is in the hospital haveing been diagnoses with cancer in her pancreas.
D - Daddy - I'm a dadd's girl, but I'm a bad daughter. I don't call or visit him as often as I should . I need to fix that. Right now my heart is aching for Webkittyn who's dad is very sic Read more:Thursday
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Can I Watch You Bathe? 2007-12-18 22:57:28
When hubby got home from work tonight first he showed me a huge bruise on his tush, then he gathered his things to take a bath. He was standing in the bathroom in his skivvies when I stepped in.
"I'm going to watch you bathe, is that alright?" I said.
"No!" he said, and the degree of shock in his voice was laughable.
I tried to push in and he blocked me with his whole body and I laughed, "Relax, I'm get coming in to get my stuff"
I love baths. I take one every night. Sometimes its only an 30 minutes long, and thats a short one. Most times I stay in there for an hour or more. I have my coffee. I have my book. I have my dogs. The radio or tv is on loud enough for me to hear, and when my water gets cold I just turn it on with my foot to heat it back up.
I try not to bathe when hubby is home because he will always stand in the doorway and talk to me almost the whole time. He'll disappear for a while, and just as soon as I'm relaxed back into my literary world
I want a 'round to it' 2007-12-17 17:31:43 I dreamed last night but I don’t remember what about. I hate when I can remember I dreaming but not remember the dream.
At work today I had a lady ask if we had any poker chips or wood discs about that size.
I showed the wood to her and she asked what she could write on it with and I told her sharpies or paint pens.
Then she told me she was going to make a “round
to it.”
I asked her, “Whats a ’round to it’?”
She said, you know how people are always saying they’ll do something when the get around to it, or they keep meaning to do something but never get around to it? I’m going to make a ’round to it’ to give them. I’m going to spell it tuit.”
I LOVED it! I was telling everyone at work about it and I’m thinking of making some of my own.
We went to see “I Am Legend” last night. It was a pretty good movie. Depressing though, like the Mist was depressing.
At one point I was bawling li
Dreaming about my Mom 2007-12-25 22:00:56 Earlier this week I had a dream about my mother.
That is my mom. Spunky huh? Maybe I got a little of that.
I don't know her very well, I've only seen her a few times in my life and I don't think about her too often except around mothers day when everything mom is being forced into your face whether you like it or not. Its not particularly normal for me to dream about her.
In my dream I was at my Dad's with my husband. A couple of cousins were with me, but they really had nothing to do with the dream.
A large SUV pulled up in my dad's yard and a man I didn't know got out with a bag full of Christmas gifts. He said that they were from my Mom for everyone and he was sorry she couldn't deliver them herself but she had died a couple of weeks earlier.
I woke up thinking it was an odd dream and wondering vaguely how I could get in touch with her, and if anyone would know how to get in touch with me if she did happen to die.
Meanwhile, a few days after I dreamed that ( Read more:Dreaming
My Boys 2007-12-23 00:05:27
My husband, on one sofa watching a movie. “Christmas with the Kranks” He was laughing at something happening in it.
I was laying on the other sofa until I got up to go potty, then the boys moved in.
Rusty not only stole my spot, but he also took my pillow and my blanket. I guess I could have laid on the other end of the sofa but…
Boomer had that end occupied.
Sorry for the non-posting 2008-03-10 21:37:06 Things are not coming from a good place here in YummY! land. They don’t seem to be heading to a good place either.
I’m in some serious need of real life love right now.
It seems that I’m forgetting what it feels like to be loved. Just like I long ago forgot what it feels like to [...]
Beh… 2008-03-07 23:44:06 Rain makes the internet run slow.
Bell South sucks.
Robert says by the end of the month we’re going to have cable internet.
We shall see.
An (Overdue) Diet Update and Thursday Thirteen #20 2008-03-06 21:50:18 If you’re here for the TT, its at the bottom of the post, I promise. I was blogging on a soapbox when I was writing my “intro” for it.
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That’s what my bathroom scale said when I stepped on it a couple of mornings ago.
I know a large part of the world is disgusted at [...] Read more:Update
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Robot Chicken and Horseland 2008-03-04 23:14:35 Its after midnight and even though I’ve sat here for hours I can’t think of anything to write about.
RobotChicken
is on right now. Its the “Great Pumpkin” one where the great pumpkin goes around killing all the Charlie Brown kids.
Gotta love Robot Chicken
.
Logged onto horseland.com for the first time in a year today. Yeah, [...]
Heartbreaker 2008-03-03 22:47:50 Isn’t she beautiful?
I spent a little time with this little girl on Saturday. She’s the daughter of a cousin of mine. It only made me want a girl of my own even more. Even Robert had fun spending time with her.
When we left I asked him, “Doesn’t it make you want one.”
He said, “I want [...] Read more:Heartbreaker
“List”en to this. 2008-03-02 22:43:32 Nablopomo has gone monthly. With themes even! This months theme: Lists
I so obviously missed doing a list yesterday, but thats okay, cause Daddy pictures are much more important. Even more impotrant because my daddy picture got a comment from SOMONE I WAS VERY WORRIED ABOUT!
Meanwhile, I have nothing to blog about today since I spent [...]
Went Home Today 2008-03-01 20:59:52 Robert took this picture of me and Daddy. Boy, I look REALLY round from the side. But Daddy’s catching up to me. He’s put on a good deal of weight since I last saw him. Read more:Today
Thursday Thirteen #19 2008-02-27 21:24:01 Thirteen Vampire Novels in my Collection
1. Vampire$ (Yes, it ends in a dollar sign) by John Steakly
From the back cover: “Vampire Hunters. Supopse there really were vampires. Dark. Stalking. Destroying. They’d have to be killed, wouln’t they? Of course they would. But what kind of fools would [...] Read more:Thursday
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The Top 15 Euphemisms for “Getting Your Period” 2008-02-26 22:44:42 This might not be a male friendly post.
Or as my husband says “My plumbing is out.”
Though, after having found this list online I think that “Trolling for Vampires” might be my Euphemisim of choice.
What do you girls out there call it?
If you don’t have a special term, you might want to try some of these [...] Read more:Period
Speachless 2008-02-25 21:40:37 I’ve not felt like writing recently. I’ve been doing this instead:
Keeping On 2008-03-13 22:09:56 I’m still not “stable” but I’m doing a little better.
I felt like cold crap on Wednesday, so I called in sick to work. I stayed in bed until 1, then on the sofa until around 5. I started feeling some better so I got online and did a couple of loads of laundry, and cleaned [...]
Reading Update 2008-03-17 19:03:17 On my lunch break at work I walked a few doors down to the Books-a-Million. I meant to just relax and read a magazine, but I ended up browsing my whole break, and bought a book off the clearance book shelf. Its called “The Sight” by David Clement-Davies.
From amazon.com about the book: “The Sight features [...] Read more:Reading
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Natural Disaster 2008-03-16 19:25:37 *
This whole WEEKEND has been a disaster. Has done NOTHING to fix my down in the dumpness. I think I may have lost a little of the progress I’d made toward feeling some better, in fact.
Saturday night was the worst. Our power went out while we were watching a movie, then it was storming and [...] Read more:Natural
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Exhausted to the point of zombification 2008-03-20 21:17:48 At midnight last night I sat down and started writing a blog entry.
By 2am I had written something so dark, depressing, and so full of self destruction I decided not to share it with most of the world because those who didn’t think I was just begging for pity and attention would probably be trying [...] Read more:point
3-Pill Day 2008-03-18 21:59:38 Pain wise, today was a 3-pill day, which means I’ve been popping one ever 6 hours. Might have taken more if I wasn’t at work, because I know how they affect me when there is too much of it in my system. I’d get all dizzy and probably fall off a ladder or something.
(I seem [...]
The Places Stupidity Takes Me 2008-03-29 23:47:11 Tonight I’m sitting here trying to think of something smart to say.
Once upon a time I used to be smart. At least people told me I was smart. I was in a “gifted” program in school for many years. That either means I’m smart, or I bullshat my way through a heck of a test.
Maybe [...] Read more:Places
Stranger in the Night 2008-03-27 22:14:03 So, I’m in the tub and suddenly the doorbell rings.
After thinking a string of explitives, sliding…still wet….into a shirt and shorts, I put the dogs away and opened the door to the strange fellow above.
Then I fed him a can of Chef Boyardee ABC’s 123’s with meatballs. Then he sat and pondered my Triscuits box. [...] Read more:Stranger
, Night
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