Wake tonight

All I can say is WOW! I have seriously never seen so many people at a wake before. The line was doubled back and didn't stop the entire three hours I was there. Jay was well loved.

Edited to add: Well here's an interesting turn of events. We are not invited to the burial service. Seriously! "The girls are overwhelmed". Understandable. But your brother in law told several people, strangers to me and they didn't know Lisa at all so they're obvioiusly not family, that sure, they could go.

Again -- interesting. I'm so glad that Renee and Allen made me immune to shit like this or I'd be hurting as badly as my sister is.

Better today

Everyone has calmed down and the oven hasn't been turned on. It's cooler, or at least dryer, than last night so I'm not as bitchy either. I made tilapia and broccoli for supper -- all on top of the stove.

I think I've sold the last of my Simply Knitting magazines and now will have to post all the other books and magazines I need to destash. I have a gazillion projects I want to knit.

Tomorrow night is the wake. I haven't talked to Anna or Lisa since I have Rita talking for the both of us and don't want to overwhelm Anna. Rita and I both feel we should have ran to them the second we heard because that's how it used to be and should be. But we're all grown up now and have semi lost touch and neither Rita nor I know what to do. I believe Anna is staying at Lisa's, as she should, and I don't have a clue where Lisa lives. How sad is that? We were so close and now I'm clueless. :(

Jay is dead

I got a call today that Jay died. Anna's Jay. That really sucks. He'd been doing fine with the bladder cancer but got pneumonia and died. :(

And apparently my daughter is going to use the baby as a weapon now. She's pissed at me because I don't want the oven turned on when it's 80 degrees in the house already and we have no AC anywhere near the kitchen. The only AC is in THEIR room. There are other ways to cook chicken. Fuck it. So now she's going to have Linds babysit when they go to Mohegan. I don't play that game.

Dishes

While I don't mind washing dishes, I am really resenting housework at my house lately. I am not the most fastidious person in the world. Far from it. But I'll be damned if I am not tired of having to do dishes every time I walk into the house. No matter what time it is. No matter how early or how late, there are always tons of dishes. And it's not like there are little children or even teenagers here. Everyone in this house claims to be adult. Not counting myself (59) they are alnost 32, 28 and 22. How fucking hard is it to rinse out a cup or wash a plate???

While were on a roll -- why am I the only one who takes the dogs out, shuts off lights when no one is in the room, etc. Sometimes I'm the only one who feeds the dogs too.

I don't like playing this game anymore. :(

Tonight was also the end night of Wood and Steel. The name has gone with the owner. We will continue our swordfighting but under a different name and with a different teacher. :(

Back!

I was so mad at my laptop last night that I threw it in the trash. I couldn't get online. We may have overloaded the wireless network with laptops but I'm not sure that's possible. Anyway my 1.5 year old laptop decided after I toss it, that it didn't want to work anymore. Kaput. So #2 took it out of the trash and we reformatted it tonight. And now I'm back.

Faire couldn't have been any better. The numbers were great. The weather was great. AND Blackmores Night showed up. Richie was trying to pay and I told him to forget it, they were comped of course! Then he wanted to pay for two people in his group. I said no, the entire group was comped. They had the baby with them them and they walked around faire and then they sat and played and sang. Oh my God. Listening to Candace sing is like listening to angels.

And they were just so nice. Of course I got an autograph. The day just couldn't have been any better.

Faire tomorow!

And the second weekend is hear already. I'm praying it doesn't rain. We've had rain all week and it's time for dry skies. No matter what the faire will go on. I love it!

Knitting plus

Worked on an UFO (She-Knit's Autumn from last year) tonight while I watched Haunted Collector. That's a good show that doesn't scare me ... yet. Look at me -- a paranormal investigator with legitimate organization and I'm a big chicken. LOL!!!

Got caught up on things at work too, which is good. Even better is that it looks like the unions have just about voted no against the governor's concessions. I think one more union has to vote and then we find out. Then the war will begin. Jerk!

Great supper

Chicken tacos. Sounded weird to me at first but they're delicious. I'm not much of a beef eater and I even get sick of chicken. I think I'm a pork and fish atarian. LOL!!!!!!! It is on the hot side tonight and raining so no knitting.

Tired

Back on the ambien stuff and it's doing good. But the brain isn't. Went to the lodge meeting tonight. I need to start getting back there. I miss it. I am sooooooo tired. Bed.

Back on Ambien (generic)

I have to call and let the doctor know. I can't do the lunesta. It just doesn't work and it leaves a nasty taste in the back of my mouth. I HATE the ambien. It makes me stupid, stupid, stupid! But at least it will help me sleep a little.

We had practice tonight but it was short. We wanted to be done before dark.

Faire!

Best faire ever -- at least as far as working it and stuff. It was so nice seeing old faces, including vendors. I love faire time. I love our faire. I am happy to be back at Warsaw Park and I remembered my whole fight. What a wonderful day today has been!

Thunder and rain!

And lightening -- wow! I sure hope it's dry out tomorrow and Sunday for faire!

Went and got my tooth fixed and the doctor called about going for Reclast. I have to get bloodwork done first and then get the Reclast on the 27th. She also said I can take 3mg of Lunesta. We'll see how that works!

And faire is tomorrow. I know I said that already but I can't believe it's here. It seems like it was just being planned and it will be over very, very soon.

Lunesta and the IRS

I took the Lunesta last night and was awake every hour or so. I did fall back to sleep pretty fast and this morning woke up well. But I don't like waking up every hour so we'll see how it goes.

And then I get a thing from the IRS saying that I made a mistake on my 2009 return and I have to pay back over $2,000! Yeah, right. If -- and IF is the key word -- I can find my W2 and I must have had a 1099 or something, then I can prove I was right. Besides, Diane did it for me that year because I had extra money and it had taxes taken out. All the IRS has is the tax info from my W2. I guess that's incentive to go through my little file cabinet and pray that's where I put it. That's where I found the copy of the tax return. Geez!

And so

No knitting today but sold two of my Simply Knitting magazines. Have to mail them off tomorrow. I still have a big stack of them. I will NOT throw them out and I have to recoup some of the money I spent. I am behaving myself and not buying one every time I see one on the shelves. I have more than enough projects to do. WAY more than enough! LOL!!!!!!!!

Voting on the governor's assinine 'concessions' was today. I don't know the outcome but I'm praying that it's no and that any other unions voting vote no also.

Almost forgot -- picked up my Lunesta 2mg today. We'll see how that works. It HAS to be better than the zolpidam (generic ambien). I hope so anyway.

Doc was happy

She was actually happy with me! And she's ok with the fact that I'm weaning myself off aciphex -- taking it every other day instead of every day. And she switching me from the generic ambien to lunesta. She said that it shouldn't make me stupid the way this med does. Now if I could only sleep without meds, I'd be happy!

Chill pill

I think I need to make one of these:

http://knittingpony.blogspot.com/2011/05/chill-pill-free-knitting-pattern.html

Keep it is a reminder to stop making issues in my head over every little thing!!

Went to see Dr. Anita today and Dr. Grey fixed my tooth temporarily. Something permanent needs to be done but I can't do anything until after faire.

UFOs

So today was another beautiful day in the low 60s. I can live like that always. Sandals and jeans and tshirt weather. Perfect.

I made blueberry muffins and I went grocery shopping.

But I also worked some on Autumn, a bag from She-Knits that was a mystery KAL from last year or the year before. I never can keep up. So now that my exchange project is done I want to work on ufos when I get a chance to knit. I have a ton of projects that I'd like to start but I am going to be good and finish some, if I can be that strong-willed, and then start another. And hope the new one doesn't become an ufo! LOL!!

Finished project

And broken tooth! Thank God for root canals because if that tooth hadn't had one, I'd be screaming in pain. Front tooth of all places. I bit into a piece of Italian bread (YUM!) and heard SNAP and there it was. Damn it! Hopefully the dentist can get me in Monday because I have no intention of going to work until it's fixed. And I won't go to practice Monday night either and faire starts Saturday!!!

At least I finished the exchange gift. Today was awesomely beautiful and cool. I don't care that it's raining -- it's not hot and that's all that matters!

No knitting today

It's a bit on the hot side plus I have to do the finishing on my exchange gift. I plan on getting up early tomorrow and finishing that up. Maybe even mailing it! Wouldn't that be great? LOL!!

I went to Home Depot yesterday and bought 8 rolls of Bounty Basic paper towels for 26 cents a roll after coupons. Went back today and used the rest of my coupons to get 6 more rolls. Also went to Shop Rite near work and got 4 free pouches of Nestle Quick with coupons. I'll have to get the other 3 next week since our Shop Rite doesn't sell them and neither does Stop & Shop. And Shop Rite only accepts four of the same product coupons. That's ok!

Mother of all thunderstorms

And I was at Target. I went in and it was hot and icky out but light out -- a little overcast. A half hour later I am in the store and hear thunder then it downpours. And when I went to pay it was dark outside -- only 6 p.m. and lightening like crazy and thunder. I got soaked going to the car and had to open the door between lightenings because I didn't want to be touching the outside of the car if it got hit. Got in FAST and then sat and watched in awe. WOW!

Now it's comfortable in the house and I'm going to sleep good tonight!

Hot, hot, hot

I'm trying not to bitch about it. I can't breathe. I can't eat. I hate this but I WILL live through it just like I do every year. It's hotter today than it was yesterday and tomorrow is supposed to be worse. Crap!

Baby was sitting up without falling over today. First time. Not for long but she did it and was so proud of herself.

And summer is here

Ugh! I guess I shouldn't complain. We have had some awesome and cool weather and now it's time for the nasty heat. I could totally do without summers but that's not nature's plan. So I'll deal as best I can. And I do not use AC at home or in the car so that's that.

Lou is going to be a grandmother. The baby is due in January which is when both the parents' birthdays are. How cool is that?

Double rainbow

We had faire practice tonight and as we were fighting someone looked up and there it was -- the most beautiful double rainbow I ever saw. Both rainbows were bright and clear and full of color and stayed for quite a while. Then it rained a bit. It was great!

Practice went well. My bleeding out is more realistic -- the fall and the pain, etc. I think it's going to look pretty good.

That's it for tonight!

Two projects finished

Today was another beautiful dry and sunny day. I went out to lunch with Sandy, then we ran into pay our respects to the father of a friends and then came home. So I was able to work on projects.

I finished the exchange gift except for weaving in the threads and I ran to Joann's and bought the buttons. Hopefully I'll do all that early this week. But I also complete finished a crocheted penguin for the baby -- it was the one from Lion Brand. It came out beautiful and she loves it.

Another great day!

Beautiful weather

Oh my God -- if it could stay this way until autumn, I would be thrilled. I am cherishing every second of this beautiful, dry, sunny and cool weather because I know the heat and humidity will hit and I will hate it. I hope the faire days will be like this!

I went to the mall with Roseann and Anita -- they needed to buy a picture to hang on their wall -- and when we were outside at all, it was cold enough for a light sweater. Nice!!!!!!!

Finished for the most part.

I finished my project for the exchange. Now I have to get two buttons -- I have several of the right size but not a pair. Then I can mail it off. Yeah!

I'm also feeling so meloncholy and sad. How can I miss someone who threw me away? ... wow, I'm not going to do this. So many freaking years and every so often it still comes back to punch me in the stomach. It will pass in a few minutes. It always does. Geez!

Beautiful day

I am almost done binding off. I'll probably finish tomorrow night, then have to get buttons, and then I'm done. I am so excited. It came out just as pretty as the model I saw at WEBS.

The day was sooooooooo beautiful -- cool and dry and sunny and 'they' say it will last all week. Tonight will be in the 40s. YEAH!

I hope I remember to write about my email to the union today and the reply. I don't know what will happen but I started something and will see it through to the end. I will not, will NOT, accept an insurance plan -- through the state or through the feds -- that does not give me a choice in what I want to do. If I decide I don't want to go to get a checkup or a mammo or a colonoscopy or whatever, that is MY choice. Hopefully I remember to write the whole thing in here. But not tonight. It's been a very odd day and I'm heading to bed.

Late night

Just got in from the Cosmic meeting. It was a really good meeting tonight. Donna picked me up because Sandy didn't go. I enjoy Donna's company and she said she'd be glad to take me anytime. That was nice of her.
So I really wasn't home for long at and and it was seriously humid today so I couldn't knit. The chiller was down at work too so we had no AC. None tomorrow either. Ach!