I hate titles

I can't think of a title. I left work around 1:30 because I was feeling crappy. Came home and hit the bed and didn't wake up until 5:30. Since I felt better I went to the library to the wrap up meal. It was nice -- finger foods catered by the woman who does the cooking demos. I really enjoyed it and hope I can go again for the Summer Reading program.

Home now and watching tv.

And the winner is...

Aren't the Oscars on tonight. I don't watch them since I go to the movies maybe once a year so have no clue who's who. Actually I don't think I've been to the movies since Star Trek so that was several years ago. Wow! There's not a single movie that I've seen promoted in all that time that has made me want to pay $8-$10 to go see.

Anyway the winner is me! I finished the scarf. All I have left to do is weave in a few ends and block it and take a picture of it. YEAH!

I attemted to make Rachael Ray's linguini with portabello mushroom sauce and it came out more like a thin soup instead of a thick sauce. I let the stuff simmer forever and it never thickened. It does taste good though. I think she made that in one of her 30 minute meals shows but, not including the simmering, it took me well over an hour to prepare and another hour at least to simmer and it just never got thick. Oh well!

Finished reading the last library book for the Winter Reading Program. I can go to the wrap up party tomorrow night because I can't swordfight just yet. Tomorrow is my last physical therapy so starting next Monday I'll be back fighting again.

The UFO I have decided to work on is Sourwood Mountain. I'm doing them in a cranberry color and have one wrist band done -- I started there instead of with the body of the mitts, and one cast on. They are going to be sooooo pretty. Since there's nothing on tv tonight because of the Oscars, I figure I'll watch some dvr'd stuff while I knit tonight.

Almost done

I only have a few more sets of the pattern to finish the scarf. My skein of blue yarn and cables and some needle tips came in from Knitpicks today too. I'm going to do the Lenten Mystery Scarf KAL and had all the colors, in Knitpick's Pallette yarn, except for the blue. So I don't think buying one skein of yarn is bad. I'm trying to work through my stash and it's a HUGE stash! LOL!!! And I should be able to keep up with that scarf since it will be a square a week and I have no obligations until April I think. That should be when I run the One Skein From Stash exchange at K&C.

So I ran around today and managed to get some errands done. I went to Target and I bought coffee -- $7.99 for my Folgers on sale for $1 off. I hate paying $8.99, the normal price at Target, but elsewhere it's upwards of $10! Ridiculous! I also got something called Bender Ball -- it's an excercise program, I think, but the ball is what I need to continue, at home, the exercises I do at therapy. They said they'll cut me a piece of the band I use for my arm exercises and I can probably use that for the hip thing too. I also bought a cool pair of rubber boots and threw out my old boots that were probably 10 years old and don't keep out the wet from snow or rain.

I also mailed out #2's controller and a mess of other stuff for Carol.

Went to the grocery store and got some meats -- chicken breasts, pork chops, a pork roast and ribs. Hmmm ... I see a pork pattern here! LOL!! Ribs are in the oven and unfortunately won't be done until around 10:30 tonight. And I'm starving now!

And I knit several pattern sets on the scarf. Going to go back and catch up on my dvr'ed NCIS's and knit some more  now.

More weather

Instead of snow we had heavy rains on and off today. They predict dangerous winds but the winds haven't kicked up yet. It was actually flurrying when I took the dogs out earlier!

I am watching tv and working on the scarf. It's not due to the recipeint until the end of March but I don't think I have a whole lot more to go on it. Then I have to block it -- I very rarely block stuff but this is going to need it. I WILL remember to take a picture of it and post it here and at Ravelry.

My baby (only sibling actually) sister turned 50 today. How weird is that. I can so remember the surprise my parents brought home and oh how I loved her even though she wasn't the roller skates I wanted and they wouldn't name her Lisa. LOL!!!

Linds and I were going to take her out but she begged off because of the weather -- we're going to try for next week.

1984

I need to read the book. I don't remember if I ever did, but it's something I should read!

Went to the Elks for awhile tonight. Took Zooey to the vet. I scheduled her spaying for next Friday then get home to realize that I have jury duty that day. UGH! I will go for that day but I do NOT want to 'serve'. Never have and never will. Now I might have to reschedule the surgery unless the vet is open at 7:30. I was supposed to have her there for 8:15 but I have to be at court by 8:30. Grrrrrrrrrr!

Therapy

I gave notice at therapy today. Monday will be my last day. The doctor said I could stop whenever I want so I'm stopping. They did a world of good but I don't see me getting any better. I can do a lot of the exercises at home so there's no sense in continuing.

Tomorrow Zooey goes to the vet. Should be interesting!

Some from stash

Like I need another knitting project, right? LOL!! I have decided to do the Lenten Mystery KAL, which will reduce my stash by six skeins of Knit Picks Palette fingering weight yarn and also hopefully keep me in the Lenten spirit. I will have to buy only one color -- blue, which I will order as soon as I'm done with this post.

I went to a wake with the Elks tonight and got to witness their ritual for a deceased member. It is so moving and the man who died was a wonderful man and a WWII war hero.

And so...

I think I forgot to mention yesterday that we went to Borders at the mall and I bought an ereader. I won't be buying reading books for it, probably won't by any books myself for it. I asked Carol to get me Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day for the Koob. And it's pre-loaded with 100 classics, most of which I'll probably read on it since I haven't read them since I was a kid.

The main reason I wanted it, and it was at a good price, is for recipes and knitting patterns. I can put them in PDF files and load them on the Koob and then they're super portable. I can bring it with me instead of carrying, and losing, paper patterns or carrying a bulky book for one pattern. I think it's going to be fun. Actually since I LOVE techno stuff, I know it's going to be fun!

I went grocery shopping and bought a ton of stuff. I want to have food for the whole week so I don't have to think about what to make for supper or bring for lunch. Tonight we'll have meatloaf (I have two in the oven), broccoli, stuffed mushrooms and mashed potatoes. I had also bought a roasted chicken because it was actually cheaper than buying one and roasting it myself. So we'll have that later in the week with whatever. AND I bought the fixings to make Rachael Ray's whole wheat linguini with portabello mushroom sauce. But ours will be regular linguni.

Whoops -- timer rang. Meatloaves are done. Going to eat now!

Forgot to say that I went to physical therapy this afternoon -- Mondays and Wednesdays -- an they put me through a real workout so no Wii today.

Ate meatloaf, mashed potatoes, bread and a bunch of tiny stuffed mushrooms. Yum!

My weight

I realize I weigh less than a lot of people but the doctor said, for the first time in my entire life, that I need to loose weight. I finally decided to do the Wiii Fit for real. So I did the whole test thing and I need to lose around 20 pounds. So that means I really need to start watching what I eat and using the Fit regularly.

Maybe if I log it here??? So I did the short run, I did the yoga breathing and the first yoga one -- stretching?? Did the step thing three times -- I suck at coordination. But that's it for now. Hopefully I will do those same ones every day and then add one or two a week.

I put my goal as losing the 20 pounds in three months, which comes out to about 1.5 pounds a week. We'll see!

Saying goodbye

I think I'm finally done wih Allen's family, except for his sister. I do believe it. I believe that there's very few of them, only their kids, who give a shit. They've made it clear. Screw 'em. Who knew it would be like this all those years ago when saw that cute boy in the store window? I never thought I'd even meet him, nevermind be asked out by him, eventually marry him, have his kids, have him leave me for my 'best friend', divorce me many years later, marry her, and die two years later. And then be banned from his services and never have closure. Done. And who knew that two  years after his death, the pain would keep resurfacing? And the assholes be assholes still? Done! I'm done! I wish they'd stop pretending they miss me and be all over me when they see me. Thank God it's rarely once a year now.

I'm a loser...

LOL!! Didn't win a cent at the casinos and lost some money. But I had a really great time and I ate soooooooo much!

I didn't get a chance to knit at all because we didn't even get back into the hotel room until 10:30 or so and I crashed. Then we were out in the morning and now I'm home.

Packed and read

Off to the casinos soon. I have my tote bag packed -- all I need is a change of clothing and my knitting and pjs so that was easy. Sipping on my coffee -- made a pot of coffee without the coffee (DUH) and had to wait and do it again. LOL!!! Dogs will be going out again at the last minute. Laptop will be shut of and I'll be checking my email, etc. from the phone. I am sooooooo looking forward to this, and praying I come back with the same amount of money, preferably more, than I go with.

Vacation

Yeah! I'm off from work until Tuesday. Heading to the casinos tomorrow so I won't be writing anything until Friday. I don't like doing it from my Iphone. I have the scarf pattern with my knitting so I know what to do when I get to the end. Hopefully I'll finish it and mail it off on Saturday!

Vacation

Yeah! I'm off from work until Tuesday. Heading to the casinos tomorrow so I won't be writing anything until Friday. I don't like doing it from my Iphone. I have the scarf pattern with my knitting so I know what to do when I get to the end. Hopefully I'll finish it and mail it off on Saturday!

Titles

I hate having to think up a title for each day. Especially since my blog is so boring. Grrrr!!!

Anyway, one more day of work and it's off to the casinos overnight with the seniors. I joined the senior center just to get this extremely good casino deal. I am not a senior yet ... won't be for another 6 years, but how can you pass up a great deal? Can't do it! LOL!!

Tonight is nominations and elections at the lodge. I doubt anyone is running against me but if they do and win, I won't mind, unless Y wins the ER. I would like to serve under her. Either way I sure hope she wins. It will be a packed house tonight because we KNOW there's going to be someone running against her even though it wasn't made public and both sides have been calling people for votes. Sad thing is that she worked her way through the chairs and deserves the spot but guaranteed the other person is going to win. *sigh* He has only been in the chair I'm going for and never even did Tiler or Inner Guard. Sad that he and his friends won't let it work the way it's supposed to. He should wait his turn. Oh well! It's going to be an interesting night!

No knitting tonight. I'm planning on finishing the scarf at the hotel. If I do, I'll mail it off on Saturday.

100th post!

I guess that's 100 from the time I started this blog. I haven't missed any days yet except those two, for this year. Not bad. I think it's a first!

Went to a House Committee meeting tonight and it went well. We actually met for around two hours and discussed a lot of things. Tomorrow is nominations and election of officers and I'm thinking it probably won't go well. I will probably be elected to a chair but if my friend isn't elected ER -- and it doesn't look good -- then I'll have to step down afterward. I don't like the way things went down and I can't take the chair if it feels wrong. I just hope they understand that I will still volunteer and still work on the bulletin which I will be starting to take over next week.

Stopped upstairs to see the group at practice. There's new people there and the fights are looking good. I miss going. As soon as I'm done with therapy, I'm going back. I should be starting back the beginning of the month.

Mike was talking about putting me against someone that is not Sandy and I told him I wasn't sure that was a good idea. I'll have to email him and see if we can figure it out.

Bleh!

I didn't end up going out last night because I felt like crap. Woke up this morning still feeling yucky. I realized that I had forgotten to take my aciphex twice this week so I'm hoping that's all it was. I just stayed in and rested all day.

Knit some on the scarf and drank chammomile tea.

My day today

Went out with Sandy like we used to ... lunch at IHop then we went to Michaels and Joanns where I did NOT even look at the yarn stuff. Then over to Barnes and Noble.

I fell asleep for a few hours when I got home and later will be going to Brenda's so we can go to see that band she likes.

I did knit on the scarf for a few rows.

A good day all in all!

Finally Friday

So it's been a seriously loooooong week this week because it's the first full week of work since before Christmas. Maybe even before Thanksgiving. But the weekend is finally here. YEAH!

Tomorrow Sandy and I are going to try to get back into our regular Saturday routine -- lunch and browsing the stores. We haven't really done that in months. I think we're going to IHop. Yum!

Tomorrow night I'm supposed to go with Brenda and Teddy to see soe C&W band that they like up in Newtown. That should be fun. And then Sunday is the Historical Society's annual meeting. I went for the first time last year and really enjoyed it.

Also hope to get in some knitting time and maybe working on the craft room.

15 years ago

Oh my God! I cannot believe that Sammy is 15!! It seems like only yesterday that she was a baby and I was taking her to work with me so her mom and dad could go to school. Wow! So much has changed in those years.

Pasta

Met Yvonne down at the Elks for the pasta supper. Yummy as usual! There was an elderly guy there -- turning 71in June, I think he said. He was sitting alone so we sat and talked to him. Very nice man.

I was looking at some of my earlier posts from way back when and realized that some of them had no closure. I have to try to remember to write sequels. LOL!

February 8 already

It feels like Christmas just passed last week and here we are almost to Sammy's birthday. I can't believe she's going to be fifteen. My God! My world flipped upside down and right side up several times in those fifteen years. Unbelievable!

Worked two days in a row -- a miracle. We just might make a full week this week! LOL!! But they say we're getting seriously freezing weather tonight. Ugh! I'd rather have snow. It's not that cold when it snows.

Watching tv and knitting. Have a dog on either side of me. It doesn't get better than that!

Finally!

I spent hours trying to figure out the Itunes/Iphone/Ipod thing last night. I finally just deleted everything off the Iphone and then found that music files get saved on my computer. So I dropped them into Itunes and plopped them into my phone. YEAH! Now I can do all my Iphone stuff from the laptop.

Warm out today -- in the high 30's to mid 40's. All the snow is dirty  now. *sigh*

Had pizza delivered for supper. I plan on knitting and watching tv soon.

Sun!

When I woke up this morning, I thought it was noontime and I way overslet. Turns out the sun was out -- I mean really sunny and bright. It was in the 40's today and melting the ice. Guaranteed it will freeze up tonight.

Went out to lunch with Sandy for the first time in forever. It was nice to do something normal again!

Been sitting here for hours trying to figure out how to delete songs from my Iphone without having to get my netbook back from my son, because I want to do it on regular laptop. Geez!

Dreary day

While snow makes the world look pretty, rain in winter on top of snow is too dreary for me. It's been one of those yucky days. The plumbing is screwed up so I can't do laundry. I was able to make a pot of coffee which will last me until sometime tomorrow, and I can use the toilet. But no cleaning that needs water and no shower/bath. Something to do with draining at the basement level. She's got a plumber coming sometime tonight, I guess.

So I've been playing online and waching tv and cat-napping most of the day. I did run to Stop and Shop and picked up my mail at the post office and that was it. *sigh*

Missed a day!

Oh no! And I was doing so good! Oh well, I'll keep trying.

The bread: Oh my God! Freaking awesome. Between my son and I, it didn't make it fifteen minutes. LOL!! Now I can have fresh bread just about any time. We had a delay for work yesterday so I went and bought flour, coarse sea salt, and yeast so now I'm all set.

My #1 circulars came in today so I am also all set with everything I need to make the Chakras socks. BUT I'm not allowing myself to cast on until I'm at least halfway done with the exchange scarf. I've been lazy as far as knitting lately. :(

Another storm brewing for tomorrow. Interesting winter we've had this year!

My first real bread

No work today -- too much ice. So I decided to finally try baking no-knead bread. Haven't tasted it yet, but it sure as heck smells and tastes awesome!!!!!!!!

Home again

I called in this morning after I looked out the window. There was no delay but it was soooooo horrible and icy out there. I almost slid off the back stairs when I brought the dogs out. I was only going in for three hours and then going to Sandy's dad's funeral but that didn't happen either. I can't believe that they didn't close work until 2 p.m. Oh well, if I'm afraid to drive in, I'm staying home. Didn't even attempt to drive the flat road down to the post office.

I hope there's a delay tomorrow if the roads don't look good!