My sweetie girl Tori is 8 yrs old today. She is a gem to me. We share a comment bond-only girls in a brood of boys. We also share a similar middle name-I’m Carol and she’s Caroline. I hope she has a fun day. Auntie Di (also your godmother) loves ya lots!
Here I am at 6. You won’t be seeing the 8 yr old Dianne with the bad perm. Can you tell Tor and I are related?
Saw this on Pea’s blog and thought I’d give it a try. I know a lot of weird stuff happened on my birthday.
1) Go to Wikipedia
2) In the search box, type your birth month and day but not the year
3) List three events that happened on your birthday
4) List two important birthdays and one death
5) One holiday or observance (if any)
1863 – American Civil War: Union President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1997 – In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all seven babies were born alive. (this could be under birthdays too-these kiddos will be 10 this year!!!!)
2006 – Launch of the Nintendo Wii.
Birthdays
1917 – Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1959 – Allison Janney, American actress-the exact year too!
Death
1988 – Christina Onassis, daughter of billionaire Aristotle Onassis (b. 1950)
And holy ‘crap’
Holiday or Observance:
World Toilet Day, see World Toilet Organization.
Hey-that’s the entire cake! LOL There were only the three of us and I believe I could get about 6 slices out of it. It’s an Baskin Robbins ice cream cake. : )
It’s on the desktop for the birthday boy! Anyone else turning 5o and have a copy! Bri had a auto auction show on and almost the same T-bird (bottom right-click to make bigger) was auctioned off for 6 figures!
The birthday boy is getting ready to go out to an early dinner in a few hours. He got a new Nokia flip phone-camera, speaker phone, MP3 player-so he has the best phone in the house! He also got a book on Rock memorabilia, 2 Gap t-shirts, and a gourmet food basket with coffee, beef jerky, Oriental snack mix, dipping oil with spices, and his want, a big can of Virginia peanuts. Sean helped me with choosing all the above.
50!!!
HAPPY 50th to Brian!
I have known him half his life now. Seems like our first meeting at the wedding of my brother to his first cousin was so long ago. I wish Brian wellness and happiness throughout his fifties and on. I hope he does things he likes- maybe doing a little exercise routine and going to see Mustangs or trains. I’ll be there for him as I hope he’ll be there for me.
The furnace was installed today from 8:30-2:45. The guys disappeared though from 10:15-11:00 (I think they took an early lunch break or something) and left the door that leads outside (in the basement) wide open and it was only in the 40s today. I promptly closed it. The house stayed around 65, not bad. I thank Mister Sunshine for that. I did wear a heavy sweater all day. The heat was turned on around 2:40 and by 3:00 it had warmed up to 70 in here! One thing we didn’t like that they didn’t do was to give up a new oil filter and hooked a dirty one up to a new furnace. I told Bri to complain about it as we paid a lot for the furnace, plus they charged us for the first guy walking in the door who said we needed a new one in the first place. He could have given us a new filter.
As I don’t like having strangers in my house, especially in my messy basement, I didn’t do much around here except to clean the granite countertops and make some art trading cards. I also had to keep the cat calmed down. I woke up before 7 with my sinuses still bothering me. I’m hoping I’ll feel better now, that all of us will. : )
I’m almost done a very detail cross stitch quilt square and will share it when it’s completed in a few days. I have a pal in Ireland who does the charity quilt squares and she just had her second back surgery. Imagine lying on your back and stitching! She sent me a note last week and said she believes there is improvement because of the operation. I sent her back a note with a few ATCs I made for her. I didn’t photograph them, but I have a bunch to share with you-soon.
Sean and I need to get the new cellphone for Bri as a birthday gift and I need to wrap what I have for him. He said I’m hard to buy for! No way!
Sean drove me down to my brother Ken’s to get my van which he had inspected. It still had a bunch of sleet/snow on it, so Ken and his pal knocked it off-Sean did a little. He’s not much on pitching in. I swear I didn’t teach him that if you get my drift. We gave my nephew Kenny his presents for his upcoming 11th birthday on the 23rd. He liked the rock and roll t-shirt we found for him at the Gap store (he only wears short sleeved shirts) and a little cash. I also made him an Art Trading card and he liked that too. I forgot to photograph it. I have one for Tori all made up for her 8th birthday on April 11th. Then Sean played Playstation2 with Kenny and I talked with Tori while she watched The Disney Channel-her eyeballs were glued to it. : ) Tori and Colleen went to a rollerskating event and Sean and I stayed to visit with the two Kens a little longer. Ken got out the video of when he was cleaning an engine that he had taken out of my Ford Montego back in 1983. He was only about 15-16 yrs old. Then there were footage of him in his prized 1964 Ford Falcon (I know a lot about Fords) and he was peeling out making the tires spin and the exhaust filled the air. The guys got a good laugh.
Ken said he was worried about my mom too and the quality of her home life, said she was pale with black circles around her eyes when he saw her on Friday. He and his pal walked around her yard (after they plowed her driveway) and also saw some damage on her house and her shed roof caved in from all the sleet/snow’s weight. He said he’d fix up the outside but not the inside. I knew I’d have to persuade her to get rid of things. Ken said mom is so stubborn. Makes you sit back and look at your own acquired stuff-speaking of which…
…our basement is a bit discombobulated as Brian spent the day making a path for the furnace guys. Some of my neatly stacked Christmas things got moved here and there. I was going to postpone them coming as I thought we had more to move. I see a few more things that may be in the way. We acquired a lot of junk
stuff in the last 20 years. Oy.
Since Dawn received her gifts, I thought you’d like to see what I made for her:
She loves snowmen, so I stitched up a snowlady! The snow is clear beads.
She likes kitties too. I used my trusty old desk calendar yet again! Nothing goes to waste. See Cos on there too?
And last but no where near least is this beautiful stained box with the top that was stitched and finished by Becky—->
I won it!
She filled it with lovely floss and I always need it as I stitch a bunch for charity. The funny thing is I call Sean my ‘good egg’ and made a ATC for him with that expression. He is my only child. ; )
I absolutely am thrilled to pieces and love it! Thanks for picking me Becky!!
Sean and I decided to go down to my Mom’s and to also drop off my brother Ken’s birthday gift (his b/d was on the 8th). So we got there and Mom was just beat. She is getting herself in a terrible stew over her impending cataract surgery coming up on the 25th. She isn’t eating well and since her shopping excursion with us on Wednesday, she’s been mainly laying around. So we went over to Ken’s and he liked his amber guitar lamp I got him even though mom said little Kenny already had one. What’s the difference, I was giving it to big Ken! Ken got the family a new Mac computer with a 22″ monitor-wow-it’s big! I like what we have, though I saw on the screen capture of my old blog that my header was too short which I didn’t even know. Ken put on James Taylor music on the stereo for me which I thought was cute.
Mom didn’t want to go to a nearby shopping center, so we bid her adieu and I went to JoAnn’s and Sean went to Circuit City. Here JoAnn’s was having a big sale (looked like you needed a coupon), but I got adorable Northern Woods ornaments (natural looking) for 75% off. Their pink ticket items were further reduced 50% off. I got an embellishment style cross stitch kit of a koi fish pond for only $5. I think I spent $50 on 30 things-so you know I got some decent buys. I believe the sale is on until tomorrow. I hope to photograph some of the goodies I bought.
We had to drop food and medical stuff off at my Uncle’s before dinner, so we drove in a 50 mile circle going through many towns we haven’t been in for a while. There are a lot of new shopping centers and developments going up. We passed the restaurant where we had our engagement dinner, a seafood place called Bobby’s 24 yrs ago. Now it’s a Japanese restaurant!
My Uncle is doing okay. Sean thought he didn’t look as good as he looked at the end of December. I had saved and froze for him some portions of chili and spaghetti and Colleen sent him a goodie basket of snacks and cookies plus homemade soup.
Tomorrow is my big dental appointment. I hope to get on here later in the afternoon to update ya’ll.
This is one of my favorite photos of my brother Ken taken about 4 yrs ago. He doesn’t change at all. I was looking for a photo of him when he was little to show you. I wish him a Happy Birthday with many more to come! Mom and I both get warm fuzzies when we think about him (guess we love him so much. : )
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