Furlough

Furlough = A day off without pay.

This should be the last of them. I would rather have three a year and not what they are trying to do to us, but I also believe whatever happens I'll be fine. I believe in God believing in me and He's always seen me through!

Anyway on my day without work I slept in and then watched the Pumpkin so her daddy could run to the store. She's so damn cute! I finished my exchange project, but for the binding off and will work on that during the next few day. I hope to mail it off on Saturday. YEAH me!

It was a good day, really it was. :)

Awesome day

I have one and a half rows left to do on the edging of my exchange project. I actually got a bit done today after the parade but then the sun came out -- along with mega humidity.

We spent two hours in the pouring rain, most of us without umbrellas, waiting for the parade to start. Then the rain let up a bit and the sun came out AFTER the parade. But you know what? It was a lot easier walking in the rain, soaking wet, than in the sun.

Tonight we had practice and except for the mosquitos, it was great!

Missing reading lists?

I seriously didn't record what books I read in 2009 and 2010? Wow! That sucks but oh well!

Long day today -- walked the parade but pushed the back of the water/card cart while another girl pulled. It was NOT easy. Definitely got a work out!

I finished the exchange knitt except for the edging. It was way too hot after the parade. Hopefully I'll get the whole thing done tomorrow or Tuesday.

Ice cream overdose

I was going to go to watch karaoke at the lodge tonight but my stomach is upset from ice cream overdose. Geez!

Got my hair colored today and then stayed home. Did laundry, transplanted the moonflower, did some knitting (it's hot today!) and almost finished the third Dresden book. The next book I'll be reading is the first Sookie Stackhouse book. I'm actually re-reading up to where I left off so I can remember stuff and keep going. I'm about four books behind.

Ansonia parade tomorrow -- I hope it's a bit cooler than today.

Long Day

It's been a long day. Commencement was today and we brought the subs down to the guys. Hung around til they were done and then back to work. Normally we get out of work early the day of Commencement but we didn't today.

Came home and made potato salad -- killed it actually. It would have tasted perfect except that the potatoes cooked unevenly and some were hard.

I'm finally just sitting down for the night. It's 73 in my room according to my fan and I don't feel like knitting so I'm going to read and finish watching the season end of NCIS.

Plants and knitting

I only have around 20 rows to go on my exchange gift and then I have to pick up on the side (around 100 stitches) and knit three or four rows. Then I'll be done. I think it's going to come out really pretty as long as I don't mess up the side!

So today I went to Home Depot to buy a yarrow plant and a bee balm plant -- saw them both there yesterday, and a bag of organic soil. I had a hard time finding them, but I finally did. In the meantime I came across those long hot peppers that I've been trying to find for years. YEAH!! And I also picked up a lavender and a rosemary plant. We'll see what happens. I try every year and every year I kill the plants. I know this year it's going to work!!

Nothing to say

This is getting old. I really should stop since I never really have anything to say. I don't even document my day. Ugh!

Pissed at unions

The unions are trying to coerce us into voting for a health plan that will take away every right to our own bodies that we have. The governor is blackmailing the unions and they're threatening us. And I am pissed.

Another rainy day

We are so very lucky not to have the tornadoes that they are getting in the Midwest. It's horrible. I can only pray for those poor people.

Busy day

I am finally about to sit down and knit for a little while. We went to brunch at the lodge today and then went shopping. Carol wanted to go to Burlington then we went to eat a late lunch at TGIF, then to Savers, then to Best Buy. Then we came home -- late this afternoon. I then remembered I needed to run to Adams to get Hellmanns that's finally on sale and use my two $1 coupons which expire today. Got to the store and realized I left the coupons and list home. Came back home, went back to the store, back home, did a load of clothes which are currently drying. Now I'm going to relax for an hour or so before dumping all the old food from the week and helping #2 with the recycling and trash. Oh yea -- have to take the dogs out now and THEN I can have some coffee and knit before getting my clothes out of the dryer. Geez! LOL!

Made it through

Made it through the non existent Rapture. Made it through the Mass this  morning with at least two people sitting in the back who think they're better than everyone else. Made it through the after funeral brunch with those two and another two or three sitting at the bar the whole time ignoring us. I made it through without hitting anyone.

If there is one thing I despise above all other is someone who tears apart another person's faith. No one says you have to agree with it -- even if you were raised in it. But you have no fucking right to tear it down unless something so traumatic and horrible happened to you because of it. But this person tears down other people's faith because she thinks she's so much better than everyone else. I had half a mind to walk up to her during Mass and ask her why the hell she was there. Because if she feels so strongly against Catholicism then she has no right to walk into a Catholic church, not even for the funeral Mass of someone she called friend.

Oh I am so angry right now I could spit nails. It's a dumb ass cliche, I know, but it's true.

Tomorrow

Get gas in case there's no Rapture and I have to go to work on Monday. Mass for Paulette. Then coffee with Jack. Can't help out with Angel Food -- I thought it was next week but I wouldn't have been able to anyway because of the memorial Mass.

Didn't knit today. After work we took Sylvia to SBC and we had a great time. I didn't get home until around 7:30 and then of course I played with the baby for awhile. :)

Holy crap -- I finally forgot

I really forgot to post. I just realized that there's something I haven't been doing and this is quite obviously it. I think the generic ambien is getting to me. I am forgetting more than ever -- even forgetting words as I am about to speak them. This never happened before and I knew something bad would happen when I realized the sleeping pills are ambien. NOT good!

I will have the doctor get me off them and onto something not dangerous when I see her next month. I can't wait for the appointment!

At least I got some knitting done on my exchange gift. I did have to frog the whole thing and start over but it's moving right along.

Down a pound

I forgot to post yesterday that I actually lost a whole pound last week. So that's a good thing. The week before I had stayed the same.

Did I post that Artemis gave me my sheath? Don't remember, but he did. He made me a beautiful leather sheath for my sword. Now I have to decide how much to pay him for making it for me. When I asked him how much I owe him, he said think of a price but don't insult him by giving him TOO much. *sigh*

I'm finishing reading Fool Moon, by Jim Butcher tonight before watching Castle. The book was due back at the library today and it was an interlibrary loan. Well one day late won't be too bad!

No knitting today

I've been knitting on things pretty much every day but didn't get any done today. We brought Pino to get his stiches out and he's mended great. Still has a naked butt, but the fur will grow back eventually.

We went grocery shopping so we're all set for the week. Of course Saturday is Judgement Day according to the nut cases so we may not need any food after that. LOL!!! At least we'll be in church on Saturday because that is when they're having Paulette's memorial Mass. I still can't believe she's gone.

I'll be meeting Yvonne and Iona for the Mass. I suppose the others will be there. After all, they were her friends. And they were good friends to her. I just wish things had been different. I do not want to see one person at all but I don't have to talk to her if she's there. We'll see.

Yesterday plus

I couldn't post yesterday because blogger was down every time I came in. Yesterday was just another day like usual. I am blessed. I truely am. My life is so very good inspite of the crap that I lived through and the negativity that tries to creep in. As long as I keep counting my blessings and refusing the negativity, the joy is always here. :)


Now -- today is interesting. The bastard governor is trying to kill the state and doing a damn good job of it. The latest is that he won't lay off state workers for four years if we agree to his concessions. No raises. No longevity pay (that's a whole $75 for me so I don't care), no lump sum (I'm supposed to get $750 in April) death to retirement. The kids want me to take early retirement and stay home with the Pumpkin while they both work. I won't get much -- don't even know if I'd get enough to pay my own bills so I have to check into it. I'll have to talk to HR or someone to see how it works and what my income would be.

So tired

And I don't know why. Laid down for a few hours after work and I'm still tired. I'm going to have to take two sleeping pills tonight and hope that I can sleep.

A friend died last night

And the last words I spoke to her were not very nice. She and the others had spoke to me in a year or more because they were angry at another friend of mine. Childish. But still ... I always thought they'd come around or I would see one of them and things would be ok. I never saw any of them since they stormed off. How sad.

Practice tonight

I'm not fighting in the chess game. They changed their minds again. That's ok. I'm still fighting in the melee and that will be fun.

Strange today but I knit

I was woken up this morning by a phone call from a past friend. It was so strange hearing his voice because he and his friends and my cousin have had nothing to do with me in several years. They don't like one of my closest friends and they have held a grudge for many years.

Anyway he called to tell me another past friend, one of the ones who hasn't spoken to me in years, is in ICU and has had two heart attacks. We then talked a bit -- how have you been, etc. and he apologized for the things he did. I told him I was sorry if I did anything and he said I didn't. We said we might like to try to begin over. I have learned not to hold my breath in matters like this. It will be nice if it happens though.

I called my other good friend to let her know the news since the one in the hospital used to be her friend for over 40 years. She was going to call the family and I'm waiting to hear more.

I did finishing knitting most of the pieces for a chicken I'm knitting for the baby. All that is left is the feet and then assembly. Hopefully I'll have time to do it this week.

Off to bed now. A new work week starts tomorrow. :)

Almost forgot to post

Not that I have anything interesting to say but I want to keep at it.

Today Sandy and I went to Southbury and Woodbury and roamed around at the flea market and thrift shops and just had a nice day in general. Later I went to Orange with Roseann and Anita.

That's about it and it's time for bed. How much more boring can this be? LOL!

Sitting here

Waiting to fix supper. Diana and the girls are here and I just don't have enough for everyone. If I had known and been prepared, it would have been different. Going to see if WW is working from here. I got on at work but it's here that I need it.

No weight watchers

I probably blew today and tonight because there was no way to track my points. I did try and eat the best I could. I couldn't get on weight watchers tonight at all. It just wouldn't let me log in. Grrrr!

Tired again

Worked today and then Cosmic. Another long, but good evening. I'm thinking of actually trying to really blog. But I need time. What IS time?? LOL!!

Lodge meeting

Went to my first lodge meeting since I stopped being an officer. Boy was it long and the sub drama still continues. But I realized I missed going down there and need to get out and get going there again!

And so

While everyone is seriously excited and happy that Bin Laden is dead, the US is on alert. People are worried that there will be retaliation. I hear some people saying they'll stay out of the big cities, like NYC. Personally I prefer not to let terrorists dictate my life. We're going to be attacked or not. Should we hide out and wait? Nope!

Life should be a bit more interesting now. We'll see!

Bin Laden

Is dead. Wow! Just wow!

Back home

Back home and glad to be here. We had a nice time doing the usual -- shopping. Someday I am going to go see the historical places -- at least what I want to see like Emily Dickinson's home, etc. But in the meantime I love shopping at Webs, of course, and downtown Northampton. The other stores I can take or leave since we have them here and I rarely go to them here.

I over ate on my points so bad that I'm not even tracking for yesterday and Friday. We went to Cracker Barrel (that's the tradition) so Friday morning alone was all of my points for the day and I even went easy -- I hate multigrain pancakes and egg beaters. This morning we went there again (more tradition) and instead of not eating at all, which I did consider, I had an apple bran muffin and egg beaters. That was it. *sigh*

At home Carol and #2 went to storage while I watched the baby. Got my spring/summer clothes and they brought back the cold weather stuff. I washed everything and now I have to iron. I will only iron clothes for tomorrow because I'm sooooooo tired.

Also cleaned out the cutlery drawer and put the newer stuff in there. We're already missing three forks and it's only been a week since we took all of it out of the box. Hopefully Anthony has them in his room.