chochiyo_sama

The extent of my productivity today was gathering and bagging the garbage and recycling from my bedroom area and washing and drying the pink bathroom rugs. I shelved the books Caleb returned, had meatballs, a Kaiser roll, and an oatmeal bar for lunch, and talked to Mom and Tammy on the phone. I also had a brief conversation with my cousin Rhonda who asked me to come up with a baby shower game for her daughter's shower at the end of the month.

I messed around on my computer for a while, looking up earwig control measures and baby shower games. I also spent about two hours watching the Joan Baez 75th Birthday Special on YouTube. I can't believe how lovely she still is and sounds at age 75. Jackson Browne was one of the special guests, and he looked like shit and sort of slurred his words as he sang. I still love his music, but he's looking old. (So am I.)

Mom called around 9:30 pm and said there was someone at her house who wanted to talk to me. It was Dale Bishman, my dad's friend from high school who was our insurance agent forever before he retired. He and his wife had stopped in to see Mom and he was wondering how I was doing in the new place. He said they had driven by my house but had seen no signs of life--which was true, I was sitting in my bedroom (which is where my computer is) in the dark in my pajamas. I was tired and decided to just crawl into bed with my laptop and my kitties and call it a day at about 8 pm. I am usually up and about longer, but today was just one of those low energy, low production days.

Current Mood: complacent
Current Location: my bedroom
Current Music: Rufus Wainwright "Hallelujah"

Well, Sunday has not been one of the best days of my week--but it could have been worse.

I did not wake up in time to take a picture of Mom's little car. In fact, I only got out of bed to pee a couple of times until after 4 pm. Mom went to her church pot luck at about 4:30--then I went upstairs and ate some of the hotdish she had left for me and took a bath. I feel so much better now that I am clean!

When I came back downstairs, I sorted my laundry, stripped my bed, and started my wash. My sheets and mattress pad are clean and dry. The comforter and pillow shams are in the dryer, and my dark clothes are in the washer. I will have red and white loads to do tomorrow, and I may wash my blanket and afghan as well, just to have a completely clean place to sleep.

I did some rearranging of fabric containers and picked up some doll accessories that have been laying around for a while. I emptied out a shoe-box sized tote that has a top with a handle on it for the Ideal family (Tammy & Co.). I tossed in some fabric I thought would make nice shirts for the male dolls. I haven't put the dolls in there yet. They are all nekkid except for Pepper at the moment.

When Mom got home, she came down for a while and told me about the pot luck. It sounds like they had fun and that the car we made was given many admiring glances, even though it did not win.

There was not much to watch on TV. We ended up watching CSI:Miami. I worked on the doll dress I had cut from the Halloween hankie I bought at Walmart in Rochester. It isn't the nicest fabric--it is pretty thin, but the skeleton and candy corn design is so danged cute I can't stand it. I think it will make a very very cute little dress. The other Halloween hankie is also cute and much more ornate. I am going to have to think carefully about how I want to cut it out.

I have the skirt half sewn onto the bodice. I will finish that tomorrow. Then all I will have to do is sew it up the back, put snaps on it, and try it on the doll.

That's all I accomplished today. I was feeling a little sick to my stomach and had a headache today, so I spent a lot of time just sleeping or messing around with my computer.

Tomorrow I will do better.

Current Mood: queasy
Current Location: Lair
Current Music: Tyger Lilly trying to get moths on the OUTSIDE of the window

ROC's first day of school today...my replacement apparently seemed nervous, according to my informants. She did NOT bring the homeroom rolls or "Welcome Back to School" packages like I always did. I felt so lonely for the kids and sad all day.

I felt completely scummy, so I took a nice soaking bath upstairs. The thing I miss the most about my house is my bathtub.

To take my mind off of things, I went to Owatonna. I was completely out of chocolate and in times like these, chocolate is essential to survival and sanity.

I was feeling the weird low-blood sugar thing, as I had not eaten breakfast before I left, and so I stopped first at Taco Johns and got myself a hard shell taco and a beef burrito along with a large ice tea with extra ice.

I swung by my sister Kim's house as I had my extra CD player in the trunk along with my pots and pans and some other stuff that I gave to Kim. By a miraculous stroke of good fortune, my brother-in-law was not there! This meant that she and Lucas could take all of the stuff into the house then and there instead of my having to drop it off by dribs and drabs because Mr. Arrogance, though he neither works at a job NOR around the house, thinks HE is the one who gets to say what comes into the house....and rather than openly fight him over it, Kim just sneaks stuff in when he is not at home.

Now, I would say to him, "Fuck you. When you start pulling your weight around here, you will be allowed to express your preferences. Until that time, stfu, and I will do as I please." Of course, I would have divorced him shortly before my last child was born.

My poor sister does not deserve the life she leads.

My nephew and his sweet little buddy Thomas were making smoothies when I got there, and so they made me one too. It was an odd concoction, but it tasted delicious. It had blue berries, strawberries, tropical V8, and orange sherbet all blended together. There might have been some other fruit in there too, but I don't recall.

After that, I went Walmart. It was a pretty quick trip. I got some paper towel so I can clean the bathroom. I do not like to use rags to clean a bathroom. It's too gross. I prefer to clean with paper towel and then just flip the soiled paper towel in the garbage. My bathroom is stinky. I suppose it is from that standing water in the furnace room. While I was gone, I cranked the air conditioner down to 70 so it would suck the moisture out of the basement, especially from the furnace room and my bedroom. It smelled like dirty socks in the whole basement. It smelled much better when I got home.

I also got a new cat pillow just like the one I had before. That one got soaked in the flood, and I am going to throw it away. I am sure it will never be the same and it will probably get mildewy and just be gross.

I was almost out of my 1-a-day aspirin, so I picked up another bottle. I got the hair spray for the gnats. I couldn't find any of the good old fashioned stuff that turned your hair into a helmet--something like Aquanet. The stuff I got is inferior for gnat killing. I think I heard one sneeze, but it doesn't seem to be paralyzing them. I have some other junk I can try--it is a gloss finish spray for ceramics. That oughta do 'em in.

I might have some spray starch too. That also should work.

I though about buying a couple of new rugs for the bathroom as Mom's are so dark and dreary. They had some very pretty white fluffy ones, but even at Walmart they were expensive. Maybe I will find something in the clearance aisle another day.

I bought some big black garbage bags as I am going to go through my towels first thing tomorrow and get ride of any that are not nice and fluffy and in good repair. I may take a quick tour through my closet as well and see if there is anything else in there that should go away.

I spent 97 cents on a new plastic pencil box for my top drawer in my little bedside dresser...I have quite a few of them, but they are all full of a variety of things, and I needed one in that drawer to hold things like my cold-sore cream, my Moisture Eyes, my Capzacine, my lip balms, and so on. It made the drawer MUCH neater and made things ever so much easier to locate.

I bought two bags of mini KitKats, three bags of Bliss milk chocolate squares, and a bag of red licorice. That ought to last me for a month or more... At this point in my life, it is either chocolate or Heroin, and chocolate is less expensive and legal.

I almost bought a package of Werthers Caramel drops, but I restrained myself.

I bought one of those pre-cut packages of spotted fabric in a variety of colors so I could make something suitable for Mickey and Minnie so they will not be nekkid any more.

Although I have dozens of totes, I bought a tall one with a cover with a handle on it to put the accessories and clothing for my Chrysalis doll. She is a beautiful little Asian girl with shiny black braids tied at the ends with red ribbons. She is not the one I wanted, but she is the one I could afford. I am growing very fond of her though. I have been struggling with a name for her...I have been considering Chrissie as she is a Chyrsalis doll. Maybe Christine. Chrissie for short. She came to me nekkid, and I had to scramble to find something that fit her. I need a couple of good patterns for her too, but the only ones I have found on line are really excissively fancy duds. My girls are simple country girls. They don't need reproductions of gowns worn in the French court.

I can't think of anything else I bought except a bottle of diet coke.

I stopped at Jimmy Johns on the way out of town and got a sandwich to eat for supper. I specifically requested no lettuce, but they put lettuce on it anyway. They have gotten my order wrong so many times there that I am getting irritated with them. I didn't call because this would have been the fourth time I've complained, and I am afraid they will think I am bullshitting them to get free food.

On the way home, I saw a semi and a car on the side of the interstate and a red car in the ditch, sideways, and crashed into one of those computerized highway signs that say things like, "Buckle up, it's the law" or "Slow traffic ahead." One of its legs was completely smashed in half and the sign was about half knocked over. There were big squeal marks on the road showing where the guy hit his brakes and took the ditch. He's lucky he didn't hit those big metal posts head on. It looked like he had spun half way around and slammed into it with his rear end.

It looked like the red car had slammed on its brakes to avoid being hit or hitting someone else.

Nobody looked hurt, and no one was freaking out of anything, so I just journeyed onward.

I got everything into the house except the cat pillow. I figure I can get that in tomorrow.

I worked in my room, getting things in order all the rest of the day. I came out around 7 pm to eat my Jimmy Johns sandwich, discovering the damn lettuce which always gets kinda wilty and nasty when it sits for a while. I ate it anyway. Haven't died of it.

I have washed two loads of laundry and dried one. I'd throw in the other one, but I'd have to fold all the white clothes now so I could use the basket, and I am just not up for it at this time.

I moved the little rocking chair out of here--it was occupying a space that I can use to put a tall storage drawer system in, something that will be very useful to me, unlike the little rocking chair, that, while cute, did nothing for me at all. I have an empty "tower" up in the porch too--so tomorrow morning, I will go up and bring it down. I am going to put a lot of my doll accessories in there--like shoes and purses and "toys" for the children dolls and food and dishes in scale to the dolls.

I have tons and tons and TONS of that kind of stuff. I have been getting rid of some of it, but it is all so dang cute that I don't WANT to get rid of most of it. I have some uber cool vintage food that came with a kitchen set that was sold in the late fifties, early sixties. It is so dang cute. I will get some pictures to post eventually.

I am feeling pretty tired now and ready to call it a night. I have to force myself to get up early so I can get a lot more done before Mom gets home. I'd sure like to have everything out of the family room and all the stuff in my bedroom put away and my bed made up with fresh sheets and the "new" bedspread that I have had for a few years but have never used. Also, I'd like to clean that stinky bathroom and was those nasty rugs. Mom is not a big believer in washing rugs. Me, I wash them any time I feel they are not as fresh as they should be.

I guess that's about it for me.

Good night!

Current Mood: a bit sad
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: washer chugging away

How annoying. I had a large entry about halfway done, hit a button by accident and apparently deleted the whole freaking thing. Dammit.

Now I have to reconstruct it from memory.

I slept in till about 11:30 today. I have to start getting myself on a better and more regular schedule for being asleep and being awake.

I didn't feel much like working in the porch today, but I did. I worked in there from about noon until after 3 pm. Two more totes got filled up and hauled out to the shed. Two additional totes were filled with stuff that I don't want in the shed. They are stacked up next to my wooden storage thing where all my dishes and stuff are. I filled up another whole box of stuff to give to Cynthia Butler.

I came across my tote of Camp Cho stuff...I had some of the stuff put in Cynthia's box, and then I took it out again. I can't part with it. I doubt I will every sponsor another Camp Cho--for one thing that doll group doesn't even exist on Yahoo any more--but it was so much fun! If I ever get a house with adequate space for displaying my Barbie stuff, I would like to set up "Camp cho" again. The styrofoam fire that one of the gals made got destroyed--it was pretty fragile. I hated throwing it away, but it was in pieces. :(

I worked in the porch from about noon until after 3 pm. I felt pretty good about how much I accomplished out there. When I burned out, I came back down to my lair and farted around on my computer for a while.

Jack and Kari invited us over to supper. I didn't really want to go because it is Wednesday--and every week I wait and wait for Wednesday so I can see Ghost Hunters. Alas, once again, I did not get to see it because Jack and Kari don't watch shows that upset Cora...and almost everything that is interesting is upsetting to her.

LOL.

Anyhow, Jack grilled steak and chicken breasts. They had a good flavor, but I don't care for white meat much. It is always so dry. You have to chew it for years before you can swallow it. The steak was pretty good, though. We also had corn on the cob and bing cherries for dessert. They were the best cherries I have had in some time! There was so much flesh on them! Yummy.

Kari and Mom watched Dancing with the Stars, which I am not into. I was impressed with a couple of the dancers though--they were so strong!

When we left there, we ran out to the gas station which is just outside of town. They have a big green receptical where donations of clothing and shoes can be left. I had a big black garbage bag full of clothes to be donated. So we drove out there, and I dumped it into the box.

One more thing off the list!

When we got home, I went down to the lair and sorted my laundry. I also sorted out the dolls and doll clothes that somehow got peed on by cats at my house. I decided I would wash each load twice to be sure the nasty smell was out of them. Then I took all the naked dolls into the bathroom and started scrubbing them down with lemon scented Joy dishwashing liquid. I did not get all of them done, but I got a few cleaned up. I do not smell cat pee on them any more. I am happy about that as most of them are dolls I really want to keep.

I washed my blanket first. Then I washed a load of whites that included several pieces of doll clothing. I washed it a second time as well. In the morning, I will sort out the doll clothes--I plan to air dry them as drying them in the dryer seems to damage them. I may iron them before they get thoroughly dry just because they also tend to crumple up when washed.

I have a load of darks and a load of reds, pinks, and purples that need to be done in the same manner. After that, I have another blanket, a bedspread, and a rug that need washing. When that is done and everything is put away, I am going to put everything that is laying in a chaotic mess on the desk into a laundry basket so that the surface of the desk is completely bare. Then I am going to organize all that stuff. I feel I need another file cabinet, but I have no idea where I would put such a thing.

I decided today that I am going to stay here when Mom, Kari and the kids go to Tammy's to help her organize her house. I have so much of my own work to do, that I think it would be for the best for me to stay here and get this stuff organized. And it will be beneficial for me to be alone too, so I can drag stuff downstairs without someone saying, "Where are you going to put THAT?"

Every day I want to get my bed made up with fresh linens and stuff, and every day it doesn't get done. I would really like to get that done tomorrow. If that and the laundry is all I accomplish tomorrow, I will be happy. Though I will be happier if I get more done. :P

I guess that's it for me for today. Nothing too thrilling I am afraid....

Oh, wait! I had a weird dream last night. I was in Winona, apparently going back to college, but in my dreams about going back to college I never have any money--and once I get out of my car, I can never find it again.

Well, last night I dreamt I was cruising down the sidewalks near campus in one of those electric carts like they have at Walmart; it was night, and I was wearing shorts but was naked from the waist up. I didn't realize I was until it was nearly dawn and I came across the little bakery I used to go to on the east side of Winona. I realized that my big floppy boobs were hanging free and was embarrassed. I decided I would go into the bakery anyway because I was hungry and they had tremendous baked goods back in the day.

Well, once inside, I realized I also had no money with me. :(

Dreams are so weird.

Current Mood: weary
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: ceiling fan

Ahhhh.....shit.

Literally.

I ate asparagus for lunch and it has acted as a laxative, keeping me up much later than I wanted to be.

Since I was up anyhow, I sorted and started my laundry. When the shitstorm subsided, I took a shower and washed my hair because I did not feel "fresh."

I feel better now.

Except I cannot find my glasses. And, being fundamentally blind as a bat, without my glasses, I cannot FIND my glasses.

I did finish the book I was reading. I think the next one shall either be a reread of The Swiss Family Robinson or House Made of Dawn.

In my unemployed state, I intend to catch up on my reading. I have scores of books that I want to read, books I even OWN and have toted with me from place to place, but being so busy teaching all the time, have not had the time to read. I am looking forward to reading lots and lots.

It has been so many years since I could just do that.

I need to pay some bills tomorrow, and I need to buy some laundry detergeant as I am almost out. I need to get more things organized in my underground lair and find more places to store things.

My little Peaches is doing so much better. She even crawled into my lap for a short time. She's been playing a little, and sne's been snuggling with her siblings too. I'm so thankful that she will never have to deal with being in heat again. If only Tiggy were likewise.

One of my projects has been typing up the vast collections of recipes that I have collected over the years. If I had time at school, I would sometimes type a recipe or two. I kept a folder in my desk of clipped recipes and stuff. Not only do I want to type them and collect them into cookbooks, I want to try some of them.

I typed up one today called Double Banana Nut Bread. I think I would bake it into muffins, which I find easier to eat. Here's the recipe. I may buy the bananas and cereal if I go to the store and try it. I love banana bread.

Double Banana Nut Bread

1 ½ cups flour

½ cup sugar

2 tsp. baking powder

½ tsp baking soda

½ tsp salt

2 eggs

1 ½ cups mashed ripe bananas (2-3 bananas)

¼ cup water

¼ cup oil

1 ½ cups Post Banana Nut Crunch cereal

Heat oven to 350˚. Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt in large bowl. Beat eggs in small bowl; stir in bananas, water, and oil. Add to flour mixture; stir just until moistened. (Batter will be lumpy).

Stir in cereal. Pour into greased 9x5x3-inch loaf pan. Bake 55 to 65 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

I think I will also begin sewing Halloween outfits and costumes for dolls once I get my room in order. The cure seasonal stuff seems popular on ebay. Also, I have bought up a bunch of darling small plastic pumpkin containers that are just the right size for trick or treat recepticles for dolls. I can also make doll scale popcorn balls and caramel apples to include in the package. It's all about the presentation and the story that can be made to go along with it.

I am beginning to feel like I can sleep at last. It's only 3 am....haha.

Current Mood: bleah
Current Location: bed
Current Music: washing machine

Friday was my snow day--first, I slept in till about 9:30, which gave me great joy and happiness.

When I went downstairs, I made a huge pot of chili--I have set half of it aside for Jim, DeAnn, and Swayze.

I did a couple of loads of laundry, including bedding.

But I spent the bulk of the day working on curriculum for the new class I am developing--"Research Skills"

I had a hard time trying to decide where I would start them off--I made the class so that kids would have some exposure to the research process before senior seminar. The CORRECT research process, that is...where one includes citations and bibliographies. Finally, I decided the best place to start them off was reviewing the essay process. I don't intend to make them write enormous papers--at least not during first quarter. I am going to start them off with five paragraph themes--first themes that require no research at all (drawing from their own personal experiences) and then moving on to some short research projects. I may even require them to design and conduct some surveys or bring in someone for them to interview so that they can learn about using primary sources.

It would be cool if I could get three tattoo artists in--then their theme would naturally fall into three sections--one for each artist. And that is a topic all my kids are fascinated by.

Anyhow--I typed many pages of examples and exercises yesterday. And to be sure they are not lost, I emailed them to myself. I've been having issues with my school computer just LOSING massive amounts of information that I have worked on for hours. That pisses me off.

I know I did some other stuff Friday also, but I cannot remember what it was.

Today I have gotten a lot done. I have all but one load of laundry washed (I had six this week because of all the bedding I washed). I will have to make three more trips up and down the horrible steep, narrow basement stairs, risking my life in the process. I hate that my laundry is in the basement.

Sigh.

I refilled my pill caddies and did the "mouse-milking" task of popping a lot of my loratadine tablets from their blister-pack confines. I have a little plastic bottle that I was able to buy loratadine in once, but now I can only find it in 30-day supplies in boxes of blister packs. I had several boxes on hand as I hate to run out of my allergy med. I punched out all but four cards and put the pills in the plastic bottle. My fingers are still sore.

I get caught up in the small tasks that are time eaters. I don't know why. It's like when I was working on my craft room. I bought one of those nuts-n-bolts organizers which are perfect for small craft items like beads and wiggly eyes and stuff like that. I was just obsessed with sorting all the beads into size and color and texture groups. It was insane and took at least three days of sporadic sorting to get it done. There were much more important tasks that would have made a greater difference in the appearance of my craft room, but I couldn't proceed until I had taken care of those stupid beads. Sigh.

I have folded and put away all my clean laundry except for the basket with two blankets in it. I am goingt to put at least one of them on the bed when I remake it. The sheets are already upstairs. The comforter is in the last basket.

I used my new vacuum cleaner for the very first time--and it sucked! REALLY REALLY GOOD!!!!

It is awesome sauce with awesome drizzle on top. It is a bagless vacuum, so I have to detach and dump the part that holds the gunk that gets vacuumed up. There was so much powdery dust in it that my asthma started to make me wheeze. The recepticle was over the full line just from the living room alone. It was mostly cat hair and green carpet dust. I will be doing the dining room too, before I go to bed, but I needed to take a break from vacuuming so I could work on the laundry some more. And before I did that, I had to pop on here and report that my new Bissel vacuum cleaner that I got super cheap at Walmart works GREAT!

Who knew I could get almost orgasmic over a damned vacuum cleaner! But it is so good to see my living room CLEAN for a change. Sigh.

I am signing off again now, but I may be back for a Saturday Part 3 if I achieve a few more accomplishments.

Current Location: kitchen
Current Music: Law and Order SVU in background.

I've been busy--primarily because last week was midquarter--midquarter of THIRD QUARTER. It is incredibly hard to believe that the school year has been whizzing by so quickly.

I am losing too many good and fun kids to adulthood this year. Time needs to slow down. I'm not finished enjoying their presence yet.

Not even close.

:(

Anyhow--

Last week is pretty much a blur in my mind right now. It was stressful as so many kids have just blown off three weeks worth of work in my Music as Lit class--Their assignment was simple and (I think) really fun.

Choose a song you like.
Get a copy of the lyrics.
"Analyze" the lyrics (ie Write a short paper explaining what they mean to you. Include a paragraph telling why this song appeals to you. Give a little background on the artist who performs the song.
Put together a digital slide show OR a poster board containing images that illustrate the meaning of this song. (Your own interpretation.)
Play the song for the class.
Present your slide show or poster to the class and share your analysis and what you learned about the artist.

They had three weeks to do this. Three freaking weeks. The kids who got to work on it right away had it done in three days. And they really enjoyed the activity.

sigh.

I get frustrated when people just don't make an effort.

Hopefully this week will be better.

Anyhow--enough bitching.

On Friday, i managed to get most of my correcting done before I went home. I rode with Susan, so I just chilled on the way home. It came to my attention that Gran Torino was playing in Kasson. I have wanted to see that movie since it came out.

Susan dropped me off in my driveway at 3:30 pm. The movie started at 4 pm. I didn't have enough cash on me, and going into the house to fetch some cash would have made me late for the movie.  I did have a $19 check from mom in my billfold, so I went through the drive through of the bank and cashed it. Then I headed to Kasson. I made it right at 4 pm, and was happy to find a parking spot right across the street. i dashed in, bought my ticket, some popcorn, and a bottle of water. The theater was packed,and I had to sit in a 4-seat row with two other people.  I felt uncomfortable. I prefer a wide berth.

Anyhow, the movie was excellent. It was surprisingly both tender and sad. (In addition to being a racial slur fest of epic proportions. However, the purpose of that was to show Walt's evolution from an ethnocentric grumpy pants to a more culturally aware not-so-grumpy pants.) A lot of people left the theater sniffling when it was over.

His relationship with his sons made me feel sad. It reminded me of how my own father just didn't really connect with us kids. I feel like I hardly knew the real him. around us, he was completely absorbed in his TV sports events. There were very few times when he actually just sat and visited with us about life. Maybe he just didn't know how.

God knows his own parents were pathetic and useless. It's no wonder he had such poor parenting skills himself.

Ah, well.

When I came out of the theater, I discovered that I had parked in a very poorly marked handicapped space. I about peed my pants. but there was no ticket on my windshield, so I guess I dodged the bullet. There was no sign in front of the spot, and the icon on the road was all covered with slush and ice. I could just barely see a little piece of it sticking out from under the snow when I pulled out.

So, that was a little scary.

When I got home, I heated up my left over beans and hot dogs then went upstairs and called my mom. I was going to have a short nap, then get up and clean the bathroom and pick up the big pile of crap that had formed next to my bed.

Well, I woke up from my "nap" at 3:30 am. So, I put on my pjs, turned off the lights, and went back to sleep. when I awoke in the morning, I cleaned the toilet and the sink, sacked up a lot of upstairs garbage, and cleaned out the mess next to my bed. Then I sorted out some fabric I wanted to bring home to mom's as she had volunteered to cut out some patterns for me.

When I had finished that, I went downstairs and packed my laundry in my big suitcase. Then I threw it into the car and headed for Ellendale. I made a stop at Starbucks for a green tea frappachino, which is one of my current obsessions. When I got to Ellendale, I made a stop at Lerbergs to pick up a couple of pounds of Hope butter. That is the very best butter ever made.

Mom and I just hung out on Saturday. We watched several episodes of Burn Notice. Later we watched Clean House. We had popcorn for lunch and she made a very tasty roast beef with potatoes, carrots, and cabbage in her crock pot. I sewed all day and she cut out doll clothes for me.

On Sunday, she made waffles for breakfast. This is solid evidence that mom is so thrilled to have me visiting. I have always been an enormous fan of waffles, and she has always said that they are too much work. she made me waffles for breakfast the last time I was home too. :)

We watched some Lifetime movie called "A Father for Brittany;" it was, of course, a real tear jerker which contained death, insensitive officials strangling the human heart with red tape, an adorable little Asian baby girl, and the evolution of Andrew McCarthy from a callow youth to a sure-enough, growed up man.

We met Jack and Kari and the kids at the Chinese restaurant in Owatonna (the one near Walmart). Cora ate a cup of chocolate pudding and Caleb ate some noodles. I don't think we should have had to pay for them.   Cora was a little shy and stand-offish at first, but i teased her about eating frog legs so she could jump really high. Then Caleb brought me a cream puff. I separated the top from the bottom and made it look like the cream puff was talking to her. Then I stuck a broken piece of fortune cookie into the top of it and made it say, "Look, I've got a hat. Do you like my hat? Hey! Hey, you! Do you like my hat?" She started giggling then. After that, I stuck a piece of fortune cookie in the center, so it stuck out like a tongue. That set her off again.

It was pretty amusing. She cannot resist me. Mwa ha ha.

Mom and I went home right after that (well, I took her to Target as she wanted some photo sticky tabs, but they were out of them). We watched a couple of Clean House episodes. I sewed, and she cut out some doll clothes patterns for me.

Poor mom's eyes are still not functioning like they should be, and that is very frustrating for her. She is hoping that her vision will improve more after she has her cataract surgury. I hope it does too. It breaks my heart to see her fretting about her vision.

Jack and Kari and the kids came over after a bit and we played a rousing game of Settlers of Katan. Though I was getting NOTHING in the beginning of the game, I somehow managed to win. whoo. My victory was only because I had good brick and wood numbers and could build a really long road. The "Longest Road" points were what allowed me the victory.

We just hung out and talked after that.  I didn't start for home until after 6 pm.

I stopped for a cheese burger at Burger King as I did not feel like cooking anything when I got home. Their medium drinks are enormous. I had to get up to pee like 5 times last night, and I only drank about half of it.

When I got home, I unpacked my suitcase and hauled the clean laundry upstairs. I didn't put it all away yet. I will do that when I get home tonight.    I filled my pill caddies and watched an episode of House. I turned on my computer, thinking I'd read some of my kids' creative writing journals, but I was so tired I couldn't keep my eyes open. I ended up sleeping from 8:30 til about 9:15, then I woke up, turned off the computer, and went to bed. i'd had enough for one day, I guess.

Current Mood: okay
Current Location: classroom
Current Music: kids doing their classmate interviews for senior sem.

Last night when I got home, I was so tired that I just ate and went to bed. I did mess around on the computer for a while after I got under the covers (ah, the joys of a laptop!).

Today I left school shortly after 3 pm. When I got home, I put away the clean dishes which were sitting in the dish drainer. Then I started to do the dishes. I had quite a few to do as I wasn't very responsible for cleaning things up last week.

I brought up the red clothes that have been in the dryer in the basement for a week and folded them. Haven't put them away yet. Maybe in the morning--too tired right now.

I also picked up all the crap that was laying on the floor in the living and dining rooms. I picked up the cat dishes. Tomorrow I will wash them up and put them away.

I have to keep reminding myself she is gone. I keep expecting her to bounce down the steps. I keep looking at her dishes to see if her food needs to be refilled. Sigh.

I miss my baby.

The downstairs looks much better now, at least. Perhaps tomorrow night I will be able to vacuum the living and dining rooms and sweep the kitchen. Maybe I can deal with the litter boxes tomorrow too.

I haven't done much else--but I guess that was enough for one night after school.

I'm going to go to bed now--I'm going to try to get up early in the morning so I can take a bath before I go to school. I'm just too tired to do it tonight--though I would probably be wise to do it--the steam would help my wheeziness to settle down. Damned asthma. Damned dust that triggers it....

I have spider webs to be knocked down too. They are by my door. Spiders and Asian Beetles must die.

I guess I don't know anything else worthy of mentioning tonight. No amusing stories. No words of great wisdom.

Current Mood: ready for bed
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: House

I am at my mom's house. I am going to bed very shortly because I am tired. I didn't get here till about one pm today--I slept in till nearly 10 am. Then I called to see what my mom was up to this weekend. She said "Nary a thing," so I asked her if she wanted to be visited by an old, crippled fat lady. LOL.

She said that would be wonderful. I haven't been here since Christmas, and next weekend I will be doing a workshop in Rochester, so I won't be available then. The weather was beautiful today--warm (if you consider temps in the 20s warm) and sunny. The roads were excellent. You can't count on that in the winter in Minnesota, so I was glad to be able to sneak to mom's today. Also, the house is so empty without my little Komet in it. It's sad to be there all alone. Every where I look, I see a place where she should be--chewing on a piece of elastic--snoozing in the sunshine--pouncing on a plastic sack--It's funny how much emptiness a nine pound cat leaves behind when she leaves this life.

I brought my laundry home with me. Since my knee has been giving me issues, it is very difficult to get up and down the basement stairs with my laundry. Mom's basement is finished, so I can sit in a comfy recliner and do my laundry while watching TV. Only one trip up and down is required.

I packed all my laundry up in my biggest suitcase which has wheels. I didn't have a tremendous amount--one fairly large load of dark clothes and small loads of both whites and reds.

The last load is dry and in the dryer. I may even fold it before I go upstairs to bed.

I stopped and got Kentucky Fried Chicken as per my mom's request. I am not a huge fan, but mom loves it. I was pissed because I specifically asked for all dark meat, and they gave me breasts. Dammit! I had that dry nasty white meat. I am going to stop and complain on my way home....maybe I will, anyhow...

Mom and I watched movies while my laundry was going. We watched Something to Talk About with Dennis Quaid and Julia Roberts in it. Mom's in love with Julia Roberts. I wouldn't toss Dennis Quaid out the door if he came to visit....lol. He's got the greatest smile. Before that we watched You've Got Mail. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. Those two have great chemistry. Ah, true love via the internet. What a concept.

I sat and sewed in my recliner and mom read a book and snoozed off and on. I finished the pink gingham dress I had started, and I also finished a little "teddy bear" pattern sleeveless dress/sleeper. It could be used as either. I will finish the long-sleeved St. Pat's dress tomorrow (or maybe tonight). I have the bodice lined, the skirt and sleeves hemmed, and I'm ready to sew the sleeves on. I love that Shamrock print.

Tomorrow I may work on the Valentine's Dress, which is pink with lots of sweet little hearts on it. Or, I might make the other little sunsuit which as little bears in sailor outfits on it. I don't have too many outfits left to sew for my friend Dave's little granddaughter's dolly. I may cut out one or two more--I am thinking she needs more little pants type outfits. And she also needs some underpants. I hate it when dolls are wearing dresses but don't have any underpants on! It's scandalous.

Before I knew I was going to mom's this morning, I was looking through some movie listings. I wanted to see a movie today--I was thinking either Gran Torino or Taken. Both of them are action/thrillers. And both promise to show good people kicking the asses of bad people. I need a dose of that every now and then. :D

My mind wandered to my friend Frank a few times today--once, when I was looking at the movie times, I remembered seeing Journey to the Center of the Earth with him this summer. That was such a fun day--I think it might have been the best day of his visit. :D Of course every day was good--the only exception was the one we wasted in Mankato listening to K piss and moan and whine all day long. Sigh. However, our discussion in the car on the way up might not have taken place had we not gone there, so it was worth it.

That was a very healing discussion. I think, for both of us. But for me, especially.

We shared a lot of tears during our friendship--but you know, whenever I think of him, I see him smiling in my mind's eye. He has a great smile. I love him very much. I am so proud of the progress he is making in his life and the great relationships he is building with his children. I love the way he shows such tenderness to his wife. He is a good man. He isn't afraid to go into the shadows to discover the truth--and he isn't afraid to tackle difficult issues.

The other time my mind wandered to my sweet buddy was when I was driving to mom's in the car. I often think of him while I am driving--probably because we had such great conversations when we were driving. I miss those conversations. I don't get many chances to talk about topics of such depth. Most of my conversations with people are pretty shallow--concerned with mundane every day things.

I liked kicking around thoughts about the meaning of life, the nature of immortality of the soul, authentic personalities, and all the other deep thoughts we shared. It was good. It was pure and wholesome and sooooo very beneficial to both of us. I am a better person for having known him.

I wonder when he is going to have his road trip with his sisters....I want to hear about that. I think they will have an excellent trip and a tremendous bonding experience.

I also thought a lot about my nephews and nieces today--they are all growing up so fast, like little weeds! Matthew and Kyle are already out of school--and Matt is out of college! Where does the time go? When I think of my little Matthew, I still see a chubby toddler with enormous brown eyes crawling toward me with a drool-covered cheerio sticking to his finger--holding it out to me with love in his eyes. He was the most beautiful child I had ever seen when he was little. He still is beautiful....my sweet boy.

When I think of Kyle, I always think of how much he and Erik loved each other when they were little sprouts. I will always see them running towards each other with their little arms outstretched, crying, "My fwend! My fwend!"

I want to cry when I think how short the time was that they were little!

*sniffle*

Well, it is bedtime for bonzo.

Good night all.

Current Mood: nostalgic
Current Location: mom's basement
Current Music: quiet.

I couldn't fall asleep last night. The last time I looked at the clock it was 1 am. As a result, I couldn't get out of bed soon enough to take my garbage to the curb. So I will have to have the stinky stuff sitting in my porch until next Tuesday.

However, once I DID get up, I got a lot of stuff done.

Before I did anything else I made scrambled eggs so I could get some protein in my system and take my meds.

I started my laundry right away too. I had four loads--three of clothing and one just a blanket. It is all done, folded, and upstairs now EXCEPT the blanket. It is in the dryer and I will get it before I go to my mom's tomorrow.

I baked chocolate chip cookies and cherry winks and also dipped pretzels in almond bark and sprinkled them with colored sprinkles. Everything turned out yummy.

I put away all the clean dishes--there were quite a bunch of them--and when I was done cooking, I cleaned up the kitchen surfaces and did up the dishes.

Jim Engvall stopped over and widened out my driveway for me a bit. I shouldn't have any trouble getting out. He carried my laundry basket of gifts out to my car for me. I am very thankful for that since it is hard for me to walk without my cane now, and my lawn is uneven and there is snow everywhere. I packed Jim and DeAnn and Josue's gifts into a big garbage bag so they'd be easier for him to carry. I only had chocolate chip cookies baked at that point, so That's all he got. If they stop tomorrow I will give them some dipped pretzels and some of those cherry winks. Those turned out really really good. I wanted to make Russian Tea cakes as well, but I burned out.

I called Jim Cronin and told him if he stopped on his way to work, I would give him some cookies. I gave him a baggie of chocolate chip cookies and a baggie of dipped pretzels.

I tidied up quite a bit, but didn't get the vacuuming done like I had hoped to...I also did not sweep and scrub the kitchen, but I will attempt to do both tomorrow before I got to mom's.

My suitcase is packed except for my sewing stuff. I need to sort out that stuff and perhaps cut out a few more outfits to sew while I am at mom's house.

Right now I am under the covers. My knee hurts and my back hurts. All those trips up and down the basement steps are probably responsible.

At least the laundry is done. And my suitcase is packed and my baking is done.

I am going to try to clean the bathroom before I go to sleep tonight. At least, I want to clean the toilet and the sink. The floor can wait.

I might try to vacuum my bedroom rug too, while I am at it.

That's it.

Current Mood: achey
Current Location: bedroom
Current Music: NCIS

I woke up feeling okay--no queasiness or anything -- but after I got to school, I started feeling queasy at about 10:30. I stuck it out until the kids were dismissed at noon, then I skipped out of the meeting and went home.

I was able to do al my correcting up (except for one packet of papers) and get my Wednesday reports written up for all the homeroom teachers before I left.

When I got home, I just sat around for a long time in my new chair and sewed on some Marley T-shirts. I dozed a little. Then when I woke up I felt a little renewed, so I crushed out that feeling by doing three loads of laundry and cooking up the chicken tenders that I had bought on Sunday with rice and cream of mushroom soup. I also fried up the beef chunks that I had planned to make stew of with onions and dumped a can of cream of mushroom soup in it to make a gravy. Then I peeled and boiled some potatoes, so I could have the beef chunk gravy over potatoes. Then I split one of the squashes I had on hand down the middle and baked it--the oven was already heated up from the chicken and rice, so what the hey!?

That was about all I had the strength to accomplish. If I have any life in me tomorrow, I am going to try to vaccuum the downstairs. The kitchen floor also needs to be swept and scrubbed again.

I should have done the dishes but I was just too drained. Tomorrow they will be all stuck on and nasty and I will have to soak them for a while--but I just didn't have the will do do them.

I did get two loads of laundry upstairs and folded, though. tomorrow, I will finish what's left.

I guess I had better go to bed.

It's getting late and I have school tomorrow.

bleah

I'm glad it will be thursday tomorrow--that means friday is almost here.

yay!

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: bed
Current Music: nothing but the hum of the computer

I went directly to Mankato after school on Friday--well, by way of the bank in West Concord. I needed to get some cash. Last week I had to put my check in the night deposit box because I didn't get home from school rapidly enough to deposit it and get some cash at the drive up window.

I picked up my friend Oliver at his apartment and we checked in to a Comfort Inn. We needed some serious one-on-one discussion time. After checking in, we went to Perkins for supper. I had always heard how good tilapia was, so I ordered that with broccoli and a side salad. The broccoli was delicious. The tilapia, not so much.

When we got back to the room, we just lay on his bed and talked and talked and talked till 1 am. We got a lot of stuff aired out, and it was good.

At about 1 am, I got into my own bed. It was remarkably comfortable for a hotel bed. I slept great, though I had nightmares about one of my students and Johnny Depp. Johnny was trying to date her and I was pissed because she was just a child and, compared to her, he is an old man.

It was very complicated, as most of my dreams are--but I don't remember most of it now.

I just remember I was furious at him and I was just ripping him apart in a very bitter, angry way.

you don't mess with my kids--even if you are the incredibly gorgeous Johnny Depp!!!!

(What a waste of a dream about Johnny Depp...sigh)

Oliver was ready to get up and go full tilt at 7:30 am. Not me, I guess. We were talking and I fell asleep again and didn't wake up until 9 am.

We talked some more, then we checked out, went to Perkins for breakfast, and I took him home and dropped him off again.

It was a good

When I got home, I was exhausted. I didn't get anything done at home. I got on the computer and chatted a little bit with a few friends, looked at some stuff on ebay (but didn't buy anything), and went to bed.

Actually, I fell asleep while messing around on line. I was really tired. Oliver and I had a good long chat and got a lot of things resolved. That makes me feel a lot better about where our friendship is.

Today, I was so exhausted, I could have easily stayed in bed all day. In fact, I didn't get out of bed till after 11 am. I should have been up earlier as I needed to do laundry and needed to correct a lot of papers and needed to make a list and get groceries.

The only thing I did was the laundry--and I did dishes. There were quite a few of them. Now I am sorting out my bills and getting them ready to pay. I will get paid this Friday again, thank goodness.

The only things that I got accomplished today was washing three loads of laundry, drying two, washing dishes, cleaning out the fridge, and getting my bills ready to pay. Hopefully tomorrow I can sit down and balance my checkbook and pay my bills.

I had intended to go grocery shopping, but I just didn't have the stamina to go out into the cold, gray, rainy day. Also, I just couldn't decide what I wanted to buy either. I need to think about it. I wish I could be organized enough to make a menu and stick to it. Sadly, I am not that organized at this time.

Well, it is now 9 pm and I am tired as hell.

I am going to go upstairs and go to bed.

Hopefully I will get more done tomorrow.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: dining room
Current Music: CSI

All right, who in my life has cursed me?

Somebody must have because "bad luck" doesn't just go on and on like this.

It isn't HORRIBLE luck, but it is annoying bad luck.

For example, that expensive pedicure that I got yesterday?

When I left the restaurant, I discovered that the cute little design on my big toe was smudged completely...it looked like someone had puked out nail polish on my toenail. My sister and mom nagged me to go back and have them redo it--I didn't really want to as I just wanted to go home and die at that point.

But, I went back there--they redid the big toes for free--the polish doesn't exactly match the other toes, but it isn't bad either. I like the second color better than the original. Wish they had redone all the toes, but oh, well.

So, today, I cleaned out my refrigerator--figuring that I might as well get the garbage taken care of so all I have to do on Tuesday is haul it to the curb. I discovered a roast in there that I had sort of forgotten about. It needed to be cooked today or it would be past its expiration date. So, I got out my roaster, put the roast in it, peeled carrots and sliced onions. Then I grabbed my bowl of potatoes. They had gotten really withery, but they are still good under the peel...

Well, I picked one up and a swarm of those tiny flies flew up out of the bowl. Under the first three potatoes, I found a rotten potato that was crawling with little tiny worms....ewwwwww

So I dumped the whole bowl into the garbage bag.

I can deal with withered skins. I can cope with that. I cannot eat things that have been in contact with squirming masses of anorexic maggots.

UGH.

So, I roasted the beef with just onions and carrots. And ordered a Canadian bacon and pineapple pizza. Light sauce, extra pineapple.

Wonder what kind of dreams THAT will bring me?

Got the laundry almost done. Can't face another trip to the basement, but at least everything is washed. Tomorrow I'll throw that last load in the dryer.

In about 5 minutes, I'm going upstairs to fill my pill caddy and go to bed.

Current Mood: drained
Current Location: dining room
Current Music: HOUSE (LOVE LOVE LOVE HOUSE)

Well, it is Sunday—I am having a quiet day, doing laundry and doing some tidying up.

Yesterday I went to see Batman: The Dark Knight. It was good. The joker as played by Heath Ledger was very creepy and dark. I was aghast at one of the bits of plot, thinking that they had gone waaaay off the mark, but it was okay.

Ingrid and I went to the Sky Dragon Chinese buffet after the movie. Their Mongolian beef is incredible. The beef is tender and the onions are mild. They have just the right amount of spice in it too—so it has a little zing but doesn’t burn your mouth off.

The also had….coconut macaroons….my favorite.

When I got home, I finished the wrap around jean skirt I was making for the Marley “Dairy Month” swap. It is terribly late, along with the other two June swaps I have yet to mail out, but since I have not received my gifts from my swap partners either, well, I don’t feel too bad about it.

I have my second load in the washer—one more to go after this.

I’m working on clearing off my dining room table while writing this and talking to one of my internet friends on instant messenger.

I put a bid on four dolls on Ebay today—three are Marley sized dolls, two of which have been converted into boys, and the other was a Tiny Kitty. I have one Tiny Kitty doll…she does need a friend, I guess. I won it. :)

Here's the group I won. I'm looking forward to seeing them in person.

I am actually trying to reduce the number of dolls I have. I sent several boxes full to other doll collectors over the last few months. I got rid of a lot of my big dolls—even some from my childhood. Those all went to a collector named Kathy who lives in Texas.

I really need to thin the numbers of my barbies down significantly. I’d like to get rid of 2/3 of them. My doll collecting focus has been on the Tonner dolls (and the compatible Kish dolls) for the last several months.

I am trying to be very selective in my acquisitions. I don’t want to get into the same situation with them as I did with the Barbies.

I only want to buy the ones that really really speak to me. Right now, the dolls I most want are Rhett Butler from the Tonner Gone with the Wind collection, Lord Asriel from the Tonner Golden Compass collection, and Alice from the Tonner Through the Looking Glass collection.

Above are Rhett Butler and Lord Asriel. Lyra is standing next to him; she is on sale, but she just doesn't appeal to me much.

And here is Through the Looking Glass Alice.

I have some pictures I want to show of things I have made, but I will save them for another post.

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: dining room
Current Music: Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

Despite my good intentions, I didn't accomplish a darn thing this morning. I laid around in bed for a long time, then got up and played two games of scrabble with Peter. I whaled the tar out of him on the first game, and he conquered me in the second.

When we signed off, I picked up a lot of clutter in my bedroom, sacked up the garbage, and vaccuumed up the corpses of the deceased lady bugs I tossed all of my laundry down the stairs, and I put away a lot of fabric I had laying around.

When I got downstairs, I sorted the laundry and washed the whites first. Whiile they were washing, I cleaned the cat boxes and cleaned out the refrigerator. I also sacked up the garbage, fed the cat, and put a chicken pot pie and a couple of very small potatoes into the oven to bake. While waiting for them, I made some tuna salad and had a tuna sandwich. Sadly, my bread has gone moldy already. I just bought that loaf of bread on Tuesday. Ridiculous.

I had hauled down the yarn I bought for Steven's afghan, so I worked on that for a while. I watched about half of the movie "Sometimes They Come Back," which was inspired by a Stephen King short story. It wasn't much like the story--though in this case I liked the movie better because the ending of the short story was horrible and sucked and was illogical to me.

After that I watched another movie--John Cussack was in it--he was a hit man who was disenchanted with his life who went back to his 10 year high school reunion. Personally, I find it hard to believe that anyone could gain that level of skill only ten years after high school--or that anyone could be that disenchanted after only ten years. Shit. Ten years, you are just starting to get the full hang of what you are doing!

Ah, well, I like John Cussack, so I watched the movie, even if I thought it was lame. My other choices would have been car racing (Shoot me.) or some other sport--might have been foot ball or basket ball. I didn't leave it on the channel long enough to find out.

I got nine or ten rows crocheted on Steven's afghan. It looks good.

That pattern goes fast.

I told Beccak I would crochet her a hat if she found me a pattern. It wouldn't take long to make a hat I'll have to look through my stuff and see if I have any sort of pattern. I don't think I have any hat patterns, but you never know.

I would like to make another afghan for Peter M to celebrate his graduation from high school. I have tons of yarn. It would just be the time involved in making it. I am very fond of him. Later, when she is older, I'll make Hannah one too. I've made them for all of my nieces and nephews in real life. I feel the maternal urge to make them for my internet children as well.

Heh heh heh

I'd like to make one for Dean too--he is my homeroom student that I brought with me from the evil Hell Hole of Triton. I believe he is my only senior who will graduate this year. Carl is a possibility, but if he doesn't pull his head out of his ass, he won't EVER graduate. Much less graduate this year.

Anyhow....

I carried two loads of laundry upstairs, but I haven't folded them and put them away yet. I'll probably do that in the morning before I go to school.

I have to go to bed soon. It is nearly 10 pm.

Well, that's about it for me tonight.

I had hoped to chat with Peter P. a bit before going to bed, but he is off to the movies with his children--a bit more important than playing scrabble with his scraggly old internet buddy.

Heh heh heh.

Current Mood: groggy and tired

Well, I got the dishes washed. I have washed two loads of clothes. I scrubbed the corner where the cat box is with bleach. I swept the kitchen floor which was a horrible filthy mess. I fixed the plastic container that I keep the cat food in to keep it fresh.

When I got done sweeping the kitchen floor I was dripping with sweat. I had to pee so I came upstairs and did so. Then I took a rest in the air conditioned bedroom and checked out my email and the forums I frequent on the internet--IBDoF and Kevin's Watch. JoAnne, Tim's mom called and wanted the name of Kyle F's grandparents. I don't know it--and even if I did, I don't think it is legal for me to give it out to her.

Sigh. I don't know what it is I do, but occasionally I hit some fucking button that erases my writing. I just accidentally erased at least two paragraphs. I hate the fucking automatic buttons.

I was saying that I missed Peter--he came on line about 45 minutes after I went off line. Sigh. I would have liked to play some scrabble.

I IMed him that I'd come back on line at about 5 pm my time (6 pm his time)--that is a couple of hours from now. If I want to be able to make that appointment, I have to get my arse in gear. I have two more loads of laundry to wash, and I want to vacuum the area by the cat's food. She always nudges so much of it out of the bowl, then it lays there looking disgusting.

I should water the downstairs plants as well.

Tomorrow morning when I leave for my chiropractor appointment, I will have a big bag of garbage to haul to the curb. The garbage man doesn't come until Tuesday, so I hope not animals tear it open--but it is stinky garbage and it has to go out.

When I get done with my tasks downstairs, I've got a bunch of clutter in my bedroom again that I want to clean up. I's a never ending battle against chaos for me.

I want a bowl of ice cream soon too. I'm getting hungry.

Current Mood: hot

No updates on Lee.

The only update I've had is that Lily and Jerry got the news and are headed home, driving their camper. Kari told me that Darla had called them because she couldn't get through to mom last night--it sounded like she tried to call mom about the time mom was talking to me on the phone. She said Jerry and Lily were both crying so hard on the phone that she could hardly understand them. Poor Patty. And the poor kids. Rhonda is there, but I don't know if Roger has made it up yet from Milwaukee.

The good people at IBDoF and Kevin's Watch and my Barbie Yahoo Group are all praying for Lee and his family. All that positive energy directed at him is bound to do some good.

I got up at 7 and was at the garage sale right around 8 am. There were very few garage sale shoppers. I sold seven dollars worth of stuff--including the Native American Barbie and her papoose. Kari's stuff--$9.00 worth sold. All her stuff is now in the car, and I will be bringing it back to Ellendale with me, probably Monday.

Though Ingrid wants me to take her with me to Lori's for a treatment on her back. Gah. I don't want to. It will be so much more driving for me if I have to take her ass all the way back to West Concord and THEN go to Ellendale.

Bah....

I hauled my other three-drawer organizer upstairs when I got back from Jim and DeAnn's. We had a very late lunch (about 3 pm), so I will probably not be needing any supper tonight. I think I'll just have a bowl of ice cream and call it "good enough."

There is NOTHING going on on the internet--all my friends must be off having REAL LIVES, as opposed to poor pathetic me. Heh heh heh.

I bought chocolate chips and some crisco to make cookies to send to the Cleveland group--and I think I'll send some to my nephew Matthew as well. Jim and DeAnn will get some as well.

When Kvetch gets back from his holiday, I will send him some cookies as well, since he has expressed an interest in having some.

DeAnn gave me a plastic bag full of nice fabric for Barbie clothing. Her upstairs is looking AWESOME. It's so snug and cozy--a nice long, open space. And she has lots of bins and shelves and things to put her stuff in. It looks great. I love her rocking chair setting next to a vintage floor lamp. The perfect place to sit and read or contemplate the world. I love the color she painted the floor. She's calling it "orange" but it looks like persimmon to me. She's got a really nice cupboard with doors that she got at target. I think I might have to get one like that for my studio/computer room. It would be nice to have a place to put stuff out of sight--yet handy.

I finished sewing the two maroon and ecru striped Tutti outfits. They turned out cute--but they would really have benefitted from sailor collars. Now, i think it is too late, since the facing is already sewed down. The fabric would be too bulky because the collar would have to be double fabric. Also, the closest thread I had to match was red, and it shows through a bit. I may have to keep both of those outfits for myself, since they have that little "flaw." I don't know how grumpy an ebay buyer would be to see that kind of thing. Maybe it wouldn't bother them a bit--but maybe they'd go ape shit. You just never know.

I can't believe it is already 5:30 It's late. I'm tired. I could really use a nap, but if I fall asleep NOW, I probably won't be able to sleep tonight. A horrible possibility.

I'm going to attempt to get some stuff organized in my bedroom now. I think I'll either watch some more of the OC on my computer--or else watch that new Appleseed anime I bought at Walmart last week.

I was going to do laundry tonight, but I am absolutely too exhausted to think about it. I will do it first thing in the morning. I have to, or I won't have anything cool to wear for next week. And I am sure it is supposed to be hot again. I hate a hot summer.

Bleah.

Well, gotta go do something productive!

Current Mood: burnt out

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