Category: My 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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It’s a pretty easy and very boring wrap up for this past weekend. I slept, drank ginger ale, and started to eat some soft foods. I still feel so darn run down, that I have no ambition at all to do very much. Hubby has been taking good care of me, and the doggies.

We finished watching “The Millennium Series” of movies, which are the three films made in Sweden from the books “The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo”, “The Girl Who Played With Fire” and “The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest”.

We watched the sub-titled ones, available on Amazon.com Prime, for free, and they were so well done, and the acting is great. They are tough to watch, and yet, man’s inhumanity to man is all around us.

Our beautiful sunny, warm weather, which brought out the buds on our fruit trees, is over. It is cold, and cloudy and Hubby made me a nice fire in the hearth. So I will melt into my chair and relax for the rest of the weekend.

I was putting a few groceries away, when I realized that I hadn’t written anything on Dackel Princess. My confession, I simply have been so unwell, that last night I actually forgot. I went to bed and slept eleven hours!

Hubby has me eating something every few hours, and sipping ginger ale and chamomile tea, but I am impatient. I want to feel well.

So in case you wonder if I have fallen off the face of the earth, the answer is no. I’m still here.

Just resting.

No lilacs QUITE yet. Here we go!

1. Spring seems like it is just around the corner.
2. And then a strong wind blew and the ice lake was no more.
3. I forgot that I need to finish the laundry!
4. Chocolate is delicious!
5. Heads, shoulders, knees and toes.
6. Hiking is my favorite form of exercise when it’s warm enough out not to wear a coat!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to watching the last movie in the Trilogy “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo”. This one is called “The Girl That Kicked The Hornet’s Nest”. These are also the original movies made in Sweden!, tomorrow my plans include I’m not really sure. I would love to go and see Mandy if I am feeling better. and Sunday, I want to just kick back and relax.!

I saw my doctor on Thursday. His secretary and nurse were quite sympathetic as I had been in just before we left, and I was so excited about my vacation.

Now, here I was, back from vacation and feeling sick.

I mean, really sick!

They were so nice, and so was my doctor. The exam went well and after writing me a prescription off I went.

Hopefully I will be feeling back to my normal self in a week or so!

Meanwhile,

clear liquids only for the next few days!

I’ll make my goal weight yet!

LOL!

This week I want to catch you all up on what’s happening in my little corner of the world!

1. I’ve been sick since I returned home from my cruise.
2. I think it may have to do with the one bottle of water that I drank in Mexico.
3. It said it was purified water, but…I know, I should have had a beer instead!
4. I’m so sick, that I am actually going to the doctor tomorrow.
5. I have decided that I will never again return to Mexico!
6. Needless to say, I’ve lost weight at Weight Watchers for the last two weeks. I am one bacterial infection away from my goal weight!
7. Now that we are home and not on vacation, the weather has been beautiful!
8. The temperatures have been in the upper 70’s and low 80’s (f) each day!
9. My flowers outside are blooming as is my Christmas Cactus! Go figure!
10. I finished reading “The Vow”. I was speaking to my sister about how great the book is, (It’s a true story) and she wasn’t impressed. It turns out that they so seriously rewrote the movie, that is no longer resembles what really happens!
11. We went and saw The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band last week! Great concert!
12. The air conditioner went in to our bed room today.
13. How can one handle high temperatures and hot flashes?

1. The first day of spring is here…do you enjoy working in the yard? Weeding, raking, mowing, planting-your favorite springtime garden chore? How about your least favorite?

I love planting the garden, and planning it. I am not a fan of weeding the garden, but it made such a difference last year! We still have butternut squash left!

2. What puts a spring in your step?

When I fully understand something, when I accomplish something and anticipating my granddaughter!

3. Describe a time when you had to spring into action?

It was Easter a couple years ago and my cousin had brought home made yeast rolls with her to make, in a cast iron skillet. A (I think it was) dish towel got too close to the stove (gas) and the towel started to burn! I grabbed it, tossed it in the sink and turned on the water.

4. We’re having carrots for dinner…would you prefer yours raw or cooked?

Either way. Raw I like the baby carrots, cooked I like sliced big carrots.

5. Do you take the shampoos and other sundries from your hotel room when its time to check out?

I used to. I brought them home to have here for my guests. Now I have quite a little stash, so I have stopped doing this.

6. What’s the most enjoyable team or club you’ve belonged to and what was it that made it so?

Back when Hubby and I were first married, Hubby had several commuter apartments, that he shared with other pilots. The one in Miami was my favorite, due to the warm weather and the great group of guys. They all treated me like their little sister and sort of looked out for me.

7. Is cloning a sign of progress?

No. Heaven help us if someone ever clones me! I think we are not necessarily a product of our genes, but more a product of our experiences.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Here I am. Yesterday I was going nuts because I could not make my “Smart TV” talk to Amazon. I tried all afternoon and it was choked up! Finally at 8 o’clock I told Hubby I was going to stop working on it and sleep on the problem. It seems lately, when I do that, I can see the problem and it all works out!

So I did that and this morning, I got up, turned on the TV and attempted to connect to Amazon to watch a free TV show (The pilot episode of NYPD Blue), and it worked! Hubby was shocked!

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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It was a full and fun weekend this, my first full weekend home! First we had incredible weather, making me feel like spring had sprung, and I am finally starting to feel well.

When we landed last week from our vacation, I seemed to have gotten some sort of stomach flu. I just felt really terrible and very tired.

I struggled all week and then on Saturday, I started feeling better, which was great because my cousin and his girlfriend came to fix my computer.

It was fun to see him and get to know Cindy better, and I cooked a family favorite, Sauer Braten! Cindy made the best Chocolate Mousse for dessert and I felt like a contented feline! Purrrrrrr!

I worked after they left to reload my computer. I worked until 11 PM. Then today spent most of the day on Sunday getting things all worked out. I know there are still things left to do, but I think I will just work it out as I need to.

One thing my cousin did do is lock my WiFi down. The only thing left for me to do is to lock down the TV into the WiFi system. I wish I had taken a film of me connecting the Kindle! I must have done it a dozen times before I got it right!

Yes, today it felt really good to be home and to be able to catch up with all the little things in life.

And how was your weekend?

1. St. Patrick’s Day will be celebrated this coming Saturday…what’s a favorite article of clothing you own that contains a touch o’ the green?

I really don’t wear the color green, because it makes me look sickly. But I do have a swim suit that I do wear occasionally.

2. What’s a favorite ‘green space’ in the town, state, or province where you live?

We are lucky enough that we have many state parks here in New Hampshire. I love to walk and hike them, and in the winter, ski them.

3. Do you wish you were taller, shorter, or think you’re just about right in the height department?

I’m fairly tall (5 feet 8 inches) and I think I am just about right. It was funny, though. On our cruise, I was so much taller than most of the women on the ship.

4. What’s the surest way for someone to pick a fight with you?

I am pretty even tempered. I guess it would be having someone tell me that they know just how I feel. Which is baloney!

5. Broccoli-Spinach-String Beans-Peas…of the four, your favorite green veg? (Or the one you dislike the least if that first option’s too hard. I just know there’s some veggie haters out there.)

I love green vegetables, it’s cauliflower I’m not fond of.

6. March is National Women’s History Month…besides friends, neighbors and the women you’re related to, who’s a woman in history you admire and why?

Mother Theresa. A woman who gave so so much of herself, so selflessly.

7. Keep Calm and rock on.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

Now that we are back home, it seems like springtime has arrived. We’ve had temperatures in the 60’s (f) and either sunny skies or slightly rainy. Either way, the snow is just about gone, and spring is in the air!

So here we are, back to real life. Our doggies are really thrilled to have us home, and it’s amazing how wonderful your own bed and pillows feel after a week away from them! In fact I woke up this morning to Anneliese’s pointy little nose straight into my face just waiting for me to open my eyes and wake up!

Both Hubby and I are feeling a little wiped out. Saturday started so early, in Ft. Lauderdale, when we got up at 6AM, and had breakfast, then hopped into a taxi for the airport. We couldn’t make the two flights we wanted to get on. So instead of going to Detroit we opted to take a flight to LaGaudia Airport in New York, and then fly up to Boston. All the way, it seemed we got the last two seats!

When we finally did reach Boston on Saturday, we needed to figure out a way to get to Manchester, New Hampshire, where we left our car! Fortunately, there is a shuttle service, and we were able take that to a Park and Ride, where the New Hampshire Airport Bus picked us up, and brought us to our car!

After buying some groceries we finished the drive home and got in about 8 PM, feeling drained and very tired.

Sunday found both Hubby and I wanting to nap and not do much else. I mean we got hit with the double whammy. Traveling on airplanes all day, and then the time change. Oh yeah, that sure will do a person in!

I am hoping to start the week with more energy. I have so many great stories to tell from my trip, but I just need a little more energy to write them all down!

On Saturday we went the extra mile (literally) to get home. But we got here, and after a day which started for me at 4:30 AM and didn’t end until 10 PM, I am just beat. So off to bed I go, and I will write all about things tomorrow!