This dog...

Just might be leaving with Carol. I was going to fight to keep her but I can't do this anymore. I really can understand the separation anxiety thing or that she's mad because I leave the house. I know that she pees/poops on purpose when no one is home. There's no way it isn't on purpose and I've been dealing with it. But tonight, instead of letting me know she had to go, she went into my craft room and pooped on the rug. And she knew damn well she was bad because the second I saw it, she ran to my room and dove under the bed. I refuse to do this anymore. I can't do this. Not if she's going to do it when me or my son is home too. Let Carol deal with it since she doesn't think it's bad. Clean dog poop/pee AND take care of a baby. And I love her so much and treat her so good. I've never met a dog like her.

5506 steps today

Not bad. I was trying to unlock the suspension bridge but still... This Walk It Out thing keeps you going because you want to unlock events and stuff. LOL!! Whatever works!

Finished watching Serenity. *sigh* I wish they hadn't killed off Wash and The Preacher. :(

Seven points

I made herb roasted pork and we had mashed potatoes and mushrooms and I had an ice cream cone and I still have seven points left to use tonight. Not bad! Plus I did ten minutes on Walk It Out -- not as easy as it sounds. Hopefully I can keep this up. Saturday is going to blow because we're going to the buffet and there's no way I'm not going to use all my points at once. Bet on it. I don't have any idea how to calculate those but I know it's going to be bad. *sigh*

That's about it! Got lunch all set for tomorrow. Leftovers. Yummy ones. :)

And so

My melee partner practiced all night with her other partner. My chess match partner showed up but then had to leave. Matt H's partner didn't show up so he and I just practiced 5-blocks all night.

I don't know why I haven't been motivated to knit at all. I have the Lenten scar knit along that's four weeks into it and all I did was two or three rows. There's only a few weeks left!

Going to watch Castle and then going to bed.

Workshop today

Unlike the days of old at that other faire, I thoroughly enjoyed our improve workshop today. Three hours of playing games with old and new faces and I loved it.

Carol and family are in Virginia at Michelle's. They will be home by the weekend. I have a bunch of stuff to do still to get ready but I'll get it done. I'm definitely a procrastinator!

Weight Watchers -- I am one point under my daily allotment. I think I tracked my supper right. We ate at Archie Moore's so I'm not 100% sure. I walked about 10 minutes on the Wii Walk it Out and need to get up more time. I also did one run on the basic run.

A full day

This morning I volunteered to help out at Angel Food Ministries -- Mary had posted on FB that they needed help. The first person I saw there knew me by name and when I said she looked familiar and asked her name, it turned out it was the woman who was the director of Spooner House when I was first on the board. She was the one who actually invited me to join. What a small world. I haven't seen her in 10 years!

After that I went to Barb's crop and actually completed around seven pages.

Altogether it was a great day. And Carol will be on the road to Virginia tonight and they'll be up here by next weekend. That means I have a ton to do here but oh well! My family will be together again. Can't wait!

IPhone success

For a long time now every song that plays on my IPhone was repeating itself. Well DUH! How was I supposed to know there's a repeat button????? I finally sat down and googled until I found an answer and now it's all fixed. YEAH!

I stayed home from work today intending to recuperate from yesterday and to get some cleaning done around the house. What a waste! Landlady had the plumbers and Water Authority here with the water shut off all day, digging up all the pipes and replacing them. *sigh* I did get together some stuff for the crop tomorrow.

First thing in the morning I have to go help out with Angel Food Ministries. Mary, who is in charge of it at her church, had posted on Facebook that they didn't have enough volunteers and might have to end it. So I volunteered. It's only a few hours and it helps tons of people.

Still trying to work out the Weight Watchers thing. I guess I'll figure it out eventually.

Home today

I went to work and then left after 45 minutes. My stomach was killing me. Came home and went to bed. I woke up once, ate and went back to sleep. Didn't get up until 3:30. I hope I can sleep tonight but I'm staying home tomorrow anyway to make sure I'm ok. It obviously wasn't IBS and I didn't end up throwing up like I was afraid of. The toilet stuff stopped before I got home from work but still ... if I slept that much, I was definitely sick.

Danny called and wants to do the workshop(s) at the lodge so I called Tony to let him know. We did agree that we can do swordfighting stuff on Sundays. This is just not swordfighting.

Yeah!

I did it! I made it tonight with two points left over. And that's after I have my pineapple with cream cheese fruit dip that I'm saving for when I get hungry later. I also did a tiny bit on the Wii but apparently not enough to get any activity points. I really have to work on that! LOL!!

And it's snowing a bit. "They" are saying we can get up to six inches but I really think it won't be that much. Our snow is pretty much over for the season.

And that's about it. I've been working on getting my stuff back into my old room a little bit at a time. The craft stuff is going to stay in the craft room. Carol can figure something else out if she can't fit their things in there without them being in my way. Sadly I haven't done any knitting but I do have to think about what I want to make for the One Skein exchange, especially since I'm running it. LOL!

Day two

And it's worse than quitting smoking. Oh my God! Yesterday I kept under the points with no problem. Today I'm over by 17 points, still have some of the weekly ones left, but still. I feel like I used to when I tried to quit smoking. I need to be eating something even though I'm not the slightest bit hungry. I'm not sure this is going to work. It never worked with smoking. I just decided one day that enough was enough and did it by being on welbutrin and the patch for two weeks. Then it was over and never another craving.

My God -- how do people do this when they have to lose a lot of weight? I only have to lose around 20-25 pounds and I'm doing horribly. And carrots or grapes just aren't going to cut it. I'm going to have a cup of coffee and see if tthat works. At least I drink it black.

Great practice!

So far I am loving every second of practice and the idea of my part in faire. Somehow my confidence level is way, way up there and I just know I'm going to do great and faire is going to rock! I'm thinking of getting a new set of garb, maybe something a little less constricting. Plus I've worn the same thing each year. Maybe it's time to check around online. Hopefully I can find something affordable.

Ghosts!

Today was Installation of Officers at the lodge. I made an appetizer for the cocktail hour and went down to meet Yvonne and Spencer. At the installation itself, I decided to take pictures. Second time I ever took pictures in the Ritual room. First time was at the children's Christmas party and those pictures were fine. These pictures that I took today were full of orbs. The ghost(s) decided to make a showing at the installation. Since he's hanging around the Elks it must mean that the lodge meant a lot to him so this day is important to him as well as us. Wow!!

Christmas in March

Went to Roseann's tonight for her annual between Christmas and New Year's get-together. We had a great time. It was postponed until now because of her father's illness and death.

Earlier Sandy and I went to the Post Road and shopped. Again, it was a nice time.

Great night

I went to a fundraiser fashion show tonight with Arlene and Tina and Arlene's old childhood friend, Bianca. I really had a great time -- more with the company than anything else. We've decided to try for more girl's night outs and hopefully Carol will come next time.

Casino tomorrow

So they had cake for me at work today. Chocolate with chocolate frosting -- yum. I have a bunch of people signed up already for the One Skein from Stash exchange, so I'm looking forward to that. It was an Immodium day so I didn't eat at all until now. I'm eating pizza but they must have changed the recipe because it's got LOTS of parmesean in it, which I hate. Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

Casino tomorrow. Hopefully I'll come back not broke. LOL!

Last time as officer

Just got back from my last Elk's meeting as an officer. That's ok, I'll still be down there and hopefully volunteering and hanging out. I do love the lodge and the people there are great. I had a nice time before and after the meeting. Yvonne tripped over something in the lodge room and went flying. Land so hard on her knee that the room shook. Hopefully she'll be fine.

I'm fighting with the report in work but I'm determined to finish it tomorrow since I'll be off for my birthday on Thursday. Besides, I usually like to have it done by the tenth or eleventh and tomorrow is the 16th. Geez!

Going to fight

Zooey got her stitches out and all is well there. I worked on some quilling bits for the cards for the exchange. I have to get those done tomorrow night before the lodge meeting.

AND ... I was given a part in the chess game. This time with a sword. Against Matt M. and I will be the winner! I was shocked that they put me against Matt and shocked that I'll be using steel. Normally they put me and Sandy together and we use whatever because we're the comedy faction. I was also asked if I could handle a second fight, a different one, for the melee. I said yes!! Wow! Who would have believed even three years ago that I'd be doing this? I hope I do well. I KNOW I'll do well. I will!

Almost forgot

To post today and since I'm on a roll, I don't want to do that. While my life may be boring as hell -- is hell boring with all that writhing and screaming? -- I still want to do this. Personal challenge!

I worked on the cards a bit for the exchange and I took a ride to JoAnn's and oh yes, sold my Kia. Karla drove it home and loves it. Now as long as the registration process goes ok, we're all set. The check engine light is always on. When it goes off, then it means there's something wrong. John tried to fix it and he couldn't so I hope that doesn't hurt if she has to go for Emissions. It works fine, just the opposite of what it should be.

I did clean the fridge out and neatened it and I got myself all set with lunch for tomorrow. Other than that, nada!

Great day

First I took down the blinds in the bathroom and living room and soaked them in the tub in bleach and Dawn. I accomplished a little today -- washed those windows and put the blinds back up after they were dry.

Karla is buying my Kia tomorrow for cash, which will put me back into a safe place money-wise. I'll have enough to cover the rent for a month should anything unforseen come up. YEAH for that!

Sandy and I got back into a normal Saturday routine. We went to Uncle Willie's for lunch and then hit the Seymour stores. After that I went to Bob's to buy sneakers with backs on them because I found out last Monday that swordfighting and backless sneakers do not mix if you're doing footwork also. Got a good deal there -- $49.00 for the sneakers minus two $10 discounts so I paid a decent price. Then I went to Big Y and bought 10 packages of meat, small packages but worth $5+ per package, for $40.

Came home after being out from 11 a.m. to almost 5 p.m. and Zooey had not peed on the floor.

Sandy gave me my birthday presents -- a knitting book and a few other things and I got a message on my Facebook from Tommy saying , Happy birthday BEST friend. I was shocked to see him call me his best friend, oldest, yes, but BEST was awesome. I also received a birthday card from Lou and will have to remember to call her tomorrow. AND I received a letter from Nationwide's lawyer with a summary of the deposition of the accident reconstructionist they hired. He said that the accident was definitely the other lady's fault. I knew that and Nationwide knows that and HER insurance company knows that since they paid me a whole $2000 for the car and my trip to the hospital. We'll see if she's still going to court with this.

Oh and the weather was perfect -- sunshine and in the high 40's. Couldn't ask for a better day!

A beautiful day full of sadness

It rained all day but by the time I got out of work it was over, the sun was out and it was in the 40s. Perfect weather! The horrible news of a massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan overshadowed that thought. Those poor people. I cannot watch the news about it. I don't think I could bear it. All I can do is pray for them and everyone affected by this.

Today's stuff

My beautiful scarf from the knitting exchange came today. It's made of ribbon yarn and she also sent me a bag of dark chocolate candies. YUM! I did mail mine off so that's done. I totally forgot to take a picture of it though.

It's a rainy evening so I decided to order Chinese food. Of course I ordered enough so I'll be eating mine for lunch and supper tomorrow and tossing the rest. Why do I do that??

Carol and the Pumpkin will be here the first weekend in April. I can't wait!

Carol's coming home!

Skyped with Carol and my hands are shaking so's I can hardly type. They're coming home. For good, for real. For good she said. I hope she means it. The end of the month she and my Pumpkin will be here. Anthony will stay there until he's done with his GED and done selling the cars. In the meantime she's put in applications and when they have income they'll get their own place. I'm so frigging excited. I can't believe it!

Watching more Firefly and downloaded a bunch more music, including the Ballad of Serenity, to my IPhone. Gotta love technology.

Ham steaks and macaroni salad for supper. YUM!

Burnt pancakes

Well actually they came out delicious but the whole apartment filled with smoke and it's still smokey more than an hour later. Ugh!

That's about it. Nothing really to write in here.

Fantastic evening

I didn't go to physical therapy because I simply was NOT going to go to the fourth floor in an elevator.  I tried the stairwell but it only let you get out on certain floors. A building like that is not safe. So I'm done with therapy and decided to go to practice.

I had so much fun and realize how much I miss swinging a sword! I paired up with Kevin and he treated me like the airhead that I am so our 10 move fight only had six moves and when it was our turn I remembered the whole thing. He wrote a good fight that I could actually feel confidence in doing.

So now I'm pleasantly tired and probably hitting the bed soon. :)

Great day

Home from a long, but very fun day. We were a bit too early for Orientation -- got there at 11 but didn't realize it didn't start until 2. So we went roaming around a few stores then had lunch and then went back. Orientation went really well and I signed up to not only do whatever fighting they put me into but also take turns at the Pub and told Brenda I'd help out making decorations. I'll also go on build days if there's something they have that I can do. It's going to be a great faire year!

I'd like to do the St. Patrick's Day parade in New Haven next Sunday but I have a feeling Sandy won't go so I'll have to see who I can ride with if I decide to do it. I think the first workshop day is also Installation and of course I said I'd work that. Maybe there's a way I can do both. I have to check on the times of both.

I'm very excited about faire this year!

Awesome day

The wedding was freaking awesome. I'll post about it tomorrow if I remember. I just got home a few minutes ago and have to get ready for bed. Sandy's picking me up at 9 and we're going to McD's for breakfast then orientation from 11-2.

Friday

I picked Zooey up and she was so happy to see me. I'm supposed to carry her up and down the stairs and not let her jump around for at least a few days. Yeah right. I couldn't stop her from running up the stairs, and later down to go out, and back up again. She's jumped up and down on the couch so many times I've lost count. At least right now she's laying still and resting. Geez! Even after major surgery that dog has more energy than I do!

So I've been having myself a Firefly marathon. I'm on episode five with nine to go but I'm hitting the bed at 10. I have Dorian's wedding tomorrow. I remember saying to Lou shortly after the boys were born that soon we'd be dancing at their wedding. It does seem like the time went by that fast. But Allen should have been going to the wedding too. If he were alive now he wouldn't go because his wife wouldn't allow it even if he wanted to go. How fast the time went by and how much has changed.

Today

Brought Zooey to the vet and she tried to follow me out. I felt so bad leaving her there. She must be so petrified. But they did the surgery and I pick her up after work tomorrow. Yes, I said work. No jury duty -- YEAH! She came through it fine and I can't wait to get her home.

That's about it for today.

My Wii

Spent most of the afternoon trying to configure my Wii to the internet so I can play Netflix shows. It took hours and a needless trip to Radio Shack and Gamestop, but I did it it without help from anyone. YEAH!

Made chicken and broccoli for supper and I AM going to Dorian's wedding. Zooey to the vet tomorrow and I have to remember to see if I have Jury Duty on Friday.

And I forgot to hit post. DUH! So this is on the wrong day. Should be 3/2

Lodge meeting tonight

Tonite will be my second to last meeting as an officer. I don't know who will be the new Inner Guard but I doubt they'll ask me since they put someone up against me for the first chair. That's ok -- no more obligations for awhile. I can go to meetings or not as I please. I'm sure I'll still go to as many as possible. I love the Elks!

Zooey's going under the knife the day after tomorrow. They called to remind me. I asked, yet again, how much it would be. The first time they said around $450. Then last week they told me $292. Tonight at first she said $585!!!!!!!!! Holy crap! I can't afford that! Then she said no, it was $452. Better but still high. But at least it's around what I expected. Geez!

I am so tired I almost don't want to go to the meeting but I'm forcing myself to stay away. I did lay down for around 45 minutes. It helped a little but not much. I didn't cook and I don't feel like eating. Something tells me spring is coming sooner than later. I always feel crappy when winter is ending and spring begins. :(

41 years ago tonight, my life changed forever. I said yes to dating Allen and never looked back. And even though we split, I never wanted to be with anyone else.