My Life – Page 86 – The Dackel Princess

Broken Tooth

I finally got in to see my dentist on Friday. This was good and bad. Good in that I do not need a root canal, the tooth involved has already been root canal-ed, but bad in that the crown broke and now I need a new crown! So that money I thought I had is now going to go into replacing a tooth. Shoot!

I must say that the ache was all in my head. I know, ha-ha, but seriously, there was no reason for me to have a toothache, and yet, I am crazy enough to think that the silly tooth hurt!

So, the first week in November I will be getting a new tooth…again! This tooth is, after all 14 years old, so I guess it has done it’s work.

Now all this got me wondering…is this what happens as we age? Things slide south, break off or turn gray!

I’m just not a fan of aging!

Friday Fill-Ins

And…here we go!

1. It’s easy “And in the end….the Love you take….is equal to the love you make...”

2. You will always be my darling.

3. Once upon a time, when I was a small girl, I thought everything was sunshine and roses. I would like to believe that now, but when I am realistic, I know it isn’t.

4. I have a toothache and I can hardly wait for my dental appointment at 1:15 pm … the end.

5. What is the answer to the age old question…what comes after this life. Some of us believe in heaven and hell, others believe there is nothing. I believe in God, heaven and a place where I can eat all the chocolate in the world and not gain weight!

6. Pick me up sooner than later.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to watching a movie and having Mexican night, Tacos, tomorrow my plans include roasting a chicken, and starting the long project of laundry and Sunday, I want to cook Sauer Braten, red cabbage and mashed potato!

Thursday Thirteen

Scav Sat

I’d been browsing through the computer looking for a nice pot roast recipe, and I found one that looked easy enough. I peeled and chopped the vegetables, and then started everything in the best item I ever bought on sale…a heavy duty dutch oven!

Julia Child always said that one must have a Le Creuset Dutch Oven. It’s for making pot roasts, BOEUF BOURGUIGNON, or a delectable slow cooked chicken, and many more recipes.

I broke a tooth on Tuesday, and so first thing on Wednesday morning I called to go in and see my dentist. He’s all booked up until Friday, unless it was an emergency, then I could go in. Something tells me that an exchange of cash would have had to occur in order for me to have gotten an earlier appointment. So, here I sit waiting for the rest of my back left molar to disintegrate!

So here is a quick 13 things on my mind.

I hate my teeth. If you have small kids or are a challenged floss-er, then get with it and pay attention to your dental hygiene. I had almost no care as a kid, and so this is the result.
Now that the fall weather is upon us, spice it up with a soup or stew. I have several recipes in my Cooking Section.
I finally got my laundry done today! Yay! All will be well until Saturday, when I change the sheets again and a whole new weeks worth of laundry will be done.
I ordered the book, “From Lark Rise to Candleford, The Trilogy”. It seems that the story is semi auto-biographical, so it should be a good read.
Anneliese is still in heat. It has not been fun around here right now.
Hubby and I went to see the movie “The Ides or March”. He liked it a bit more than me, but it was a solid story.
I picked 4 more eggplant today! Guess what is for lunch tomorrow.
This weeks Pan Am was actually a good one. I wonder, will this show take off? I know bad pun, but I couldn’t resist!
My mother is very ill. At her age I do not see her getting well again. I will be seeing her in November. But if the call comes, I will go down to my sister’s home and go over to see her. (4 hour drive)
Thursday will have to be grocery shopping day. I’m starting to run out of things.
I do have a report to write. It’s another 5 pager.
Mandy and Matt set the date. May 26th in St. Lucia!
Now I need to finish my diet and find a wonderful gown.

Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. Have you ever been ‘asked’ to report for jury duty? Were you chosen to serve? If not, were you happy or disappointed?

I’ve been called, but it was right after having eye surgery, and I had an actual medical excuse. I have not been called in many years now. I would go and if I was selected, I would try to do my duty. I fear I would be the one jurror who held out for either freedom or a very harsh sentence. I don’t tend to see much grey in life.

2. On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being very), how mechanically inclined are you? Give an example to back up your answer.

I am probably a solid 7. I can get into a house and connect all things, like phones, TV’s, surround sounds, and computers. I do not understand cars at all, and I want to learn more about computers.

3. Beets-cabbage-cauliflower-butternut squash….of the four, which is your favorite fall vegetable?

That’s easy…butternut squash! Which is a really good thing as we grew 40 of them this year! 40 big beautiful squash!!!

4. What do you recommend to overcome self-pity?

Seeing the face of a sick child or perhaps a visit to an inner city church. You see at an inner city church, you meet many people who have nothing, but their love of God, their faith. It is worth more than a rich man’s gold! Seeing that always humbles me, and makes me feel guilty for feeling sorry for myself.

5. Do you enjoy classical music?

Some. If it is live music, then absolutely, but I am not sure I could listen to a full symphony on disc. I think I would probably go to sleep.

6. October is National Book Month…what’s on your reading list this month?

Actually I am doing some Bible readings this month. I would like to get to know the psalms a bit better and have a list of the ones I want to study.

7. What is your idea of ‘cute’?

Way back, long ago I had a girlfriend in school, who I thought was so cute. She had curly brunette hair and would blush so easily. She was also very tall and felt uncomfortable about this. But I really liked her as a person, and nicknamed her “Cutes”, which she really hated, but she somehow allowed me to call her. She was just the nicest, sweetest person ever. Sadly, I never really had a chance to tell her that my calling her “Cutes” was my way of letting her know just how much she meant to me. She passed away the year we turned 50. Still, I think of all her smiles and her curls and her pretty face and I can feel cuteness all around me.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

I need to clean my kitchen. Now when we built our kitchen we put in32 solid cherry cabinets. Beautiful, yes, but a pain in the rear-end to clean as well. I need to use a product like “Murphy’s Oil Soap” to wash them, but you need to wash and dry each cabinet or they get sticky. With that many cabinets, and the tops of the upper cabinets.

I know it will take me over a week of doing this project. And…I Am…NOT…Looking…forward…to…it! Alas, I must do it. To encourage myself along, I thought perhaps for every hour I work, I put 10 dollars in my piggy bank. What do you think?

Goodbye ABC TV

Do you know that ABC TV has decided that unless you are between the ages of 18-49, your opinion, your likes and dislikes of their shows, no longer matter! Now I am going to be 53 in November. That is hardly old and far from the door of death, so I would like to think that my interest in their programming might just be important.

Alas, it is not.

So, what have I done? I’ve started to watch shows on other channels that don’t just appeal to audiences my age, but celebrate middle age.

I watch just Two shows on ABC. I watch “The Middle” with Patricia Heaton and I have been watching “Pan Am” to see what that show is like. Mostly I think “Pan Am” is fluff, but I do want to give it a fair shake, due to my connections with the real Pan Am.

The other TV I watch at mostly seen on CBS. I love “NCIS“, with Mark Harmon, and I love “The Mentalist“, with Simon Baker, and “The Good Wife“, with Julianna Margulies. Oh yes, and “Mike & Molly” with Melissa McCarthy and Billy Gardell, and “The Big Bang Theory” with Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons,

I simply refuse to watch ABC or give their sponsors my support. After all at my age, I am in the prime of my life, and one more reality game show is not what I want to watch. I want good stories and good acting.

Plus, I still resent their canceling “All My Children” for this new, feckless show “The Chew” So, CBS, Satellite TV and movie channels, here I’ve come!!!

Friday Fill Ins

And…here we go!

1. How can I weed and close my garden today, when all I want to do is play in the sun.

2. My coffee is tasting better than anything else at the moment.

3. That summer, when I was 13, my cousin and I rode our bicycles to Bourne Bride and road over it! What a huge bridge and we both were very scared! The worst part, was that afterward, we had to ride back over the bridge to go home.

4. We all must make our way in the world, whatever that may be and we respected that.

5. What was the moment in time, when all was well and bright?

6. To all I love both near and far, I hope they will stay in touch.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to cooking a new meal for Hubby, tomorrow my plans include going to Mandy’s house to celebrate Matt’s birthday and Sunday, I want to go see the movie, “The Ides of March”!

Thursday Thirteen

Many people don’t realize this, but I am really a FAT woman. I have chosen to go to Weight Watchers, but no matter what, I will always be a FAT woman. Here are 13 things I have come to know about my self over time.

It started when I was going through puberty. Suddenly I got sort of chunky looking. Which I think is normal.
But, my parents, who were both very obese kept telling me, I was going to be just like them.
This terrified me.
In order to please my boyfriend, I just plain stopped eating in my mid teens. Probably a light form of Anorexia.
While pregnant I ate so healthfully for the babies.
As soon as they were born, I went back to near starvation, to get my weight down.
Then the accident happened and my daughter died.
Do you realize that people bring food to the bereaved?
Cookies, cakes, casseroles, breads!
And I started to eat. And eat, and eat!
At first I could handle it because I was also running at this time.
But then I blew out my hip and blew up my body!
Thankfully, I discovered Weight Watchers.

I will always be a FAT woman, but at least I am in remission now and can handle food, with the help and support of my Weight Watchers class. It’s still difficult and I would like to believe that I can eat all that I want, and it doesn’t matter, but the last 3 and a half years in Weight Watchers have been a real help. Much like AA.

In fact recently, I saw my mother and she told me that I would end up being just like her and I did not handle it well. I went out to Dunkin Donuts grabbed a coffee and a Blueberry Muffin (12 points). Not good.

The first thing I did when I got home, was go to a Weight Watchers Class. It’s my salvation!

Some people use alcohol, some people use drugs. I use food to self medicate when my world feels like it is closing in on me.

But when I look in the mirror I see that FAT girl, the one I will always be. At least now, she knows it is okay to get help!

That makes me smile!

What I Did This Past Weekend

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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My weekend was a bit of a washout! Quite literally! We’ve had over 5 inches of rain, and there are puddles everywhere. Poor Hubby had the Jeep battery die…in the rain…and he had to call me to rescue him.

Because there is nothing we can do outside in all this rain, I have resorted to cooking new things, and preparing three solid meals a day. I guess I do that anyway, but I’ve been taking time, going slowly, and actually amazed myself with my awesomeness! (lol)

I’m still reeling from the fact that is is now October! How did that happen? I feel that as the years go by and I get older, time just flies by me.

I was working on a few things in my closet today, and I sat down and opened a box. It’s not a box I open often. In fact, I think the last time was about 5 years ago. But I sat, and opened it, and went through each item inside. All the pictures, drawings, lockets of hair and hand written notebooks, inside made me feel drawn back in time, and yet, at the same time as though it had all happened to someone else. I cried for a bit, and then I put it all away again.

~Memories~

I rebounded and refused to get lost in my grief, and before I knew it I was making a new recipe for our dinner and listening to some calming music.

What did you all do over the weekend?

Thursday Thirteen

Scav Sat

Yesterday I got my hair cut. It’s an entirely new style and I love it. I need to have Hubby or my cousin Janet take a picture or two after I have done it and put on my make-up so you all can see.
On Wednesday I went to Weight Watchers and I had lost Three and a half pounds! Yay! Even though I am at my goal, I am at the mid point on their charts, and I would like to lose another ten pounds.
I have a beautiful deep violet, satin gown that i would love to wear to Mandy’s wedding if I fit into it.
We are still working with a wedding planner to secure a date, but we’re thinking May/June.
Hubby and I worked in the green house cleaning and putting things away for the winter.
This means that all the pots, trays, and my garden equipment have been put away for another year.
Already I am planning next years garden!
We had only one Honey Crisp Apple off of our young tree. It was delicious!
But Hubby is harvesting apples and bringing them to market.
I really have missed my soap, “All My Children” and refuse to watch the networks new, hip show called “The Chew”. I hope it fails!
The leaves are getting pretty. Red, and yellow, and orange!
Today is grocery shopping day. I think maybe I’ll let Hubby take me out to lunch.
Our weather is due to get cooler this weekend. I sure am ready for that!

Wednesday Hodgepodge

1. It is officially fall here in North America…I realize not everyone who participates in the Hodgepodge lives in North America but if you do, what’s your favorite memory of Summer 2011? If you’re not in North America, what’s your favorite memory of the season just ending on your side of the world?

I have two. The first being the engagement of my daughter, Mandy to Matt, and the second being able to attend my 35th High School Reunion. What fun that was!

2. Your favorite nut? You know I mean the edible kind, right?

Almonds. I love Almonds. Plain, salted, spiced, sweet, any old way! I love Almonds!!!

3. What activity puts your sense of balance to the test?

Lately it seems like almost anything. My balance has really been challenged. Don’t ask me why, s I have no real idea.

4. How would you describe your sense of humor?

Dry and sharp! I love a good joke, a good gag, and a good comeback!

5. September 28th is National Ask a Stupid Question Day…what’s your stupid question?

There are a million. Have you ever seen Bill Engvall? He does this segment of jokes called “Here’s Your Sign”. Basically what this comes down to is that he gives signs that say “I’m Stupid” to people who ask questions that should never be asked. Here is an example:

“Two fishermen dock their boat and as they are unloading their haul of fish, a man walks up and says, “You all been fishing?”

“Nope, the fish gave up and jumped in the boat. Here’s your sign!”

In other words, the sign says “I’m Stupid” and he hands them out when some asks a stupid question. I love Bill Engvall and you can go to Youtube and see some of his videos. Or look on Comedy Central for The Blue Collar Comedy Tour, as he is a member of that touring comedy group.

6. Roller skates~hula hoop~jump rope…which activity would you most enjoy? Yes, you have to choose.

Oh my. I would worry that I would hurt myself doing all of them! I am not coordinated at all. In my youth I did all three.

7. What’s your most sentimental possession?

I have a few. The things that belonged to my late daughter, Katie. I also have things that Mandy made for me as a child. Also, my grandmother’s diamond ring. I wear that as my engagement ring.

8. Insert your own random thought here.

I really do need to bath the dackels. I guess tomorrow I will plan to get all three in the shower and wash them all down. They’re all pretty good in the walk in shower, and I’ll get Hubby on drying duty.