Category: Life

Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!

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This past weekend was more than just busy. You can read yesterdays post to find out about my shopping day with Mandy, but here is the part two of that day.

Once I got home I made our dinner. I had absolutely no idea what I was going to cook, as I drove back home, but somehow, threw together a scalloped potato and chicken meal with broccoli.

Then I sat down to write up the Minutes for the Library meeting we had. Four and a half hours later, I saved my work, turned off the computer and went to bed.

Hubby and I slept late on Sunday morning and then we had a lazy day. It’s really cold up here right now and we stay warm by cuddling a dackel, and wearing an additional sweater.

Monday will find me running errands and finishing up the Christmas mailing. Then I want to do the Christmas wrapping. Hubby is going skiing, so I’ll be footloose and fancy free!

Have a great Monday, Everyone!!!

Our host is Gattina. Come join us and tell us what YOU did this past weekend! After all, you never know when you will need an alibi!

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As you read yesterday, my weekend was a busy one. I’d hoped to get the Christmas tree up, but as I was putting on lights, I noticed that half the lights were out. I tried the next set, and those had the same weird problem. So on Monday, I will go get two new strings of lights.

I wrapped and packaged up my over seas packages. Very late, I know, but better a little later, than never.

So tomorrow in the morning I will go to the Post Office fist, and then the dollar store for some cheap lights.

Since I basically wrote everything yesterday,  I will leave you with this picture of Arnie on my chair, sitting in his dish, which he has brought to me!

Have a great Monday Everyone!

So, I was sitting here thinking that it was Saturday and it was, in fact Friday. This means I still have Saturday to live through tomorrow before getting myself ready to drive down and pick up my cousin, Janet and take a road trip to my sister’s house to celebrate her 40th wedding anniversary!

I so wish we had more time, but we will go down on Sunday, attend the dinner to celebrate, sleep and return Monday morning. Janet has work and I have a meeting to attend that I can not miss.

Life. It certainly keeps you on the go!

I made the most wonderful turkey stock for soup. I boned the turkey, placed all the bones in my crock pot with an onion, celery, carrot and a little sea salt, and enough fat free chicken stock to cover the bones, and I put the control on low. I then proceeded to simmer the bones for 24 hours. I’ll skim the fat off in the morning and then make the turkey soup.

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving, or a nice Thursday! And an equally good Friday. I somehow feel that all that turkey has made me very sleepy! LOL!

So, what did I do the day after my birthday, where the day seemed to be one wonderful day? Well On Friday, it was back to reality, laundry, dusting, bath room cleaning and vacuuming! I also took my slip covers off and washed them up, before starting our dinner.

Oh, it was a special meal, that is for sure! We’d gotten a beautiful roast beef and I made it basted with poupon mustard, and then pressing a mixture of herbs into it and then roasting it.

Hubby also wanted mashed potatoes and asparagus. Anyway, it was so good, and I felt good I could chalk up another “good meal” because I’ve got just as many “bad meals”.

Tomorrow I’m working again for my friend, and then Mandy and Matt are coming up. I can hardly wait to see them!

And…here we go!

1. As you can see I love life and I do not mind getting older.

2. Surprises soon!

3. I love to buy fresh produce.

4. I’ve been buying Christmas gift(s).

5. What’s up with the NBA. Seems like too many millionaires trying to get richer, to me!

6.I think the new cell phones require you to use more of your fingertips.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to quiet, tomorrow my plans include working and seeing my daughter and Sunday, I want to don’t know yet. May be a surprise!!

I was getting together some pictures for my annual Thursday Birthday Post. I put them together and then ran them through a slideshow and as I grew from tiny babe, to the middle aged woman before you, I realized a few things.

First, I’ve led a very challenging life. I have know crushing sadness, but I have also known the most wonderful happiness a person could hope for.

I decided a while back to concentrate on the happiness part of my life and as I went through the pictures, that is what I saw. A truly happy, at peace woman.

I would tell people who may be facing challenges of great pain and sadness, “Don’t Give Up”! You never know what life has in store for you, or what is just around the corner.

Believe in your right to find peace, and then go for it!

Hubby, Mandy, Matt and the doggies, have centered me, and helped me to find my way back, and as I sit here thinking about another year gone by, I am so very grateful that I have my life!

Life really is good, especially if you believe that it is.

We woke on Friday to wild winds, and colder temperatures. Also, while eating our breakfast we had a short power outage. You know, the kinds that require you to go around and reset all the clocks?

Hubby and I did various chores, during the day before headed out for dinner. I decided to get as much of my laundry done on Friday, and Hubby helped a neighbor with a tree that was about to fall down. He worked hard, but it will help us with having wood for heat.

Hubby was out with Anneliese when she decided to chase a leaf and off she went. I grabbed my jacket and off I went with the cookie bone box in hand!

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After several minutes Anneliese returned from our neighbors looking for her bone! What a minx she is!!!

So life was rather ordinary on Friday, and in many ways this was good. Cold, gray, rainy and well, normal for November.

Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

1. The time changed last weekend and I simply cannot get used to it. I am up at 6 AM and ready for bed by 9 PM. Ugh!
2. We have enough wind so that most of the leaves are now off of our trees. It’s really starting to look like we are getting close to winter.
3. However, we’ve had two really warm, sunny, days and that has been wonderful!
4. I’m making the butternut squash recipe I told you about last week. Turns out, Hubby really loved it!
5. I’m also making apple stuffed pork chops!
6. I never did finish the laundry last week, so I will have to work on it tomorrow.
7. Friday is Veterans Days and Hubby wants to go out for his free Veterans day lunch.
8. Saturday is the start of the holiday season. Many churches in our area have their festivals.
9. My Mom is not doing well. The last of her friends from Cape Cod passed away in October, and all of our family members from her generation are gone as well. I think she is feeling lonely being the last.
10. I swung by TJ Maxx today, as I have somehow managed to destroy 2 umbrellas this summer and I was able to find replacements, cheap.
11. I also needed a few groceries, and I thought the new Grocery Store would be open, alas it was not. So, I went to the old one and it was just about empty.
12. The new store will open on Saturday. They asked me to come back then. Ha! It’ll be a mob scene!
13. The sun has set. Sheesh. 4:30 and the day is done! Usually this falling back time wise doesn’t bother me, but this year…

It was a shopping day for us this crazy Wednesday. So here is my Thursday Thirteen, highlighting my Wednesday happenings!

1. I went to Weight Watchers and was down a pound. I have to say, it is a constant battle for me to keep my weight under control.
2. When I was coming home I stopped at the Post Office.
3. Now I was all ready to parallel park when this jerk behind me pulls next to me, making it impossible to move my car.
4. Eventually he moved his car and I was able to park.
5. I came home and picked up Hubby and we went out for Chinese food at lunch.
6. It was nice and Hubby and I had a good time.
7. We shopped at three stores and even filled up my car with gas.
8. Sadly we discovered that a salesperson we really like, and have known for about 10 years is leaving her job.
9. I admit it. I cried. We exchanged address and phone numbers and I hope we stay in touch.
10. I found a cheap movie at Walmart.
11. It was, “Nights in Rodanthe” with Richard Gere and Diane Lane.
12. Hubby says this is a total “chick flick”.
13. Which is probably true as I cried like a baby!

That is all! Happy Thursday!