Category Archives: Me stuff

Mar4

Mugglies need to take a hike

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Over the last few weeks, the three of us have been suffering from a wicked virus going around. First you just feel blah and maybe your appetite isn’t that great (me). Then your sinuses open up like a faucet (Sean and me). Then if you are really into it, you get secondary issues-Sean-annoying cough and me-tummy issues and another tongue ulcer (had one on October-checked my blog). Brian’s had a lesser cold/virus but he is stuffed up,  coughing a little and feels crummy.

On Tuesday I took my first drive to my mom’s in about a month! I got my hair done first before I spent some time with mom. The snow is still around, but the grass is peeking out in a few select spots where the sun is hitting. The ice dams in the gutters are slowly melting off and draining.  Some of my ‘forgotten’ (meaning I forgot to store them for the winter) garden decorations are ruined-they were crushed by the weight of the snow. I’m wondering if my forsythia will need a drastic trimming back as they are almost bent in half by the snow. The hedges along the front of the house are trying to spring back to life.  I see a big yard clean up in my future.

So mom is doing pretty good. Wish she was a little heavier. We went to the Goodwill so I could drop off some things and we went in and hit ‘$2 Tuesday’.  I have to be really selective, which isn’t hard when there is a lot of junk to loo through. I did find a Dorothy of Oz paperdoll set, a framed hardinger heart piece with beads (only $1), a cute recipe book with Christmas goodies (lots that I make) a little tweety bird type Easter ceramic popping out of it’s shell, and a candle holder that goes with a collection that I have. I think I spent about $11.

Mom took me out to Charlie Brown’s restaurant. I was having tummy issues at her house, but did eat okay at the restaurant. They have an excellent salad bar with everything you can imagine! Mom got sirloin and I got shrimp and lobster tempura. With my mouth, I needed soft food though the salad was rough to eat. The shrimp was cooked fine, but the lobster’s tempura was a bit undercooked. Since it’s a steakhouse, I want to try that sometime.

Today Sean and I went to  a produce place, Trader Joe’s and Target for much needed food items-not much meat though. We basically needed a TJ fix. It was nice he used his day off to take me places. My van is getting it’s brakes checked out as they are grinding a bit. If it’s going to be a big job, my brother will do it. He knows the guy where we dropped it off.

So that’s what I’ve been up to. I need to be crafty again! So many things to think about lately-put me in a creative slump. Hope to get to the Philly Flower show either Saturday or Sunday, but I am going to lunch with some friends first, so they are more important to me. Mom and my brother went Wednesday, though she didn’t rave about it. For me, there is always the orchid show at Longwood Gardens in a few weeks. Much cheaper and closer-and free (well almost).

Mar1

This thing called blogging

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I have noticed that many of the people in my blogroll aren’t keeping up with their blogs anymore. I think I know the issue-many are also my Facebook friends and I think Facebook is their main way of communicating now. I would say it’s probably easier for a few pals that are new moms/moms to pop on Facebook and show photos of their adorable children. Nothing is wrong with that. I just miss their blog posts. I do visit about 3 friends faithfully every day and only one doesn’t have a FB acct. I guess it’s what floats your boat. I’m finding it hard to know what to post about myself-one reason it’s the dead of winter, I’m not doing a lot of crafting and I’m not taking a heck of a lot of photos. If by a slim chance I get to go to the Philly Flower show this week, I will indeed post more snapshots. Thank goodness the Longwood orchid show is at the end of the month.
I’m getting my hair fixed in a couple of days-it so needs it-that spruced up feeling helps the winter blahs. And hopefully, if all is well, I’ll see a few of my FB/PHS gal pals for lunch on Saturday. Ah girl talk-I so need that too!

Feb18

Thursday-still snow and icicles!

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Similarities Skinny Card, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I do play with my paper crafts now and then. Here is one with my maternal great grandmom Caroline and the ladies that resembled her a bit. The paper was a Christmas gift and is so pretty.
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To Julia-I mailed off your package today parcel post as it’s a bit on the heavy side. I hope you get in within a week or so. We have fairly good mail service around here.
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Brian really suffered from bringing the large trash bin around front tonight. Two weeks ago, before we had 40″ of snow on the ground, he had an easier opportunity to get in around front(he had several reminders-I should have done it). He had to pull it on it’s side and trudge through the snow. He had a coughing wheezy attack for a few hours off and on. He’s good now. (I think Rolaids helped too)
I made us a steak dinner tonight. That’s what we ordered at the restaurant on Valentine’s Day that was so tough. Mine was very good-and easy to cut! I made mushroom gravy, broccoli perogies and asparagus too.
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Fighting a cold that Sean brought home from somewhere. I can feel it in my throat tonight. We have Zi*cam, so if I feel any worse, I will take some. I got caught in the wind when I went out to get some groceries earlier-my hair was all over the place!

My title above-I swore I saw Brian taking photos of icicles, but when I uploaded photos, I didn’t see any! I’ll have to take some photos.

Feb17

Dental info

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Carole-I am only ‘smiling’ to show the space where the crown is suppose to go! : )
Barbara-the water pik (I was spelling it incorrectly) was found here on Amazon. Worth every penny. Gets in between your teeth super clean. The only thing-it would make an awesome squirt toy for the kids-I’ve gotten myself wet a few times.
I didn’t realize how bad my hair looked. If I use the curling iron on it one day, the next it looks like frizz.
I am so fed up with what dentists and doctors charge.My measly deductible is eaten up in a few visits. They use to complain when you said you could only give them ‘so much’ a month. Now they are glad to get it! A few years ago they talked me into getting a credit line with a company(avoid Care*Credit!!)-now we have a large balance and the finance charge is high. The office doesn’t suggest the company anymore. We just got through with Sean’s big bill and now it’s me again. I am suppose to have a crown replaced, but need to postpone that-maybe a year now. He can x-ray it every few months to check it out.
My crown finely feels like it use to. So nice to use the water pik and not smell anything bad today. Yeah.
I had another issue, but I hope it’s ‘behind’ me now. It seems like everyday it’s something!

Feb17

Interesting Tuesday

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I went to the dentist Monday afternoon and had my teeth fixed, plus a part of a filling that may have been trouble down the road. Guess who pointed out the later issue? Yes-me! Didn’t the dentist see ‘the almost problem’ when he examined my teeth a few weeks ago? I asked him to check my crown as I felt it was a bit loose. He tapped on it, but he went crazy with the dental floss telling me to toughen up my gums around it. To make a long story, short…I went to floss my teeth on Tuesday, stuck the floss in there and ‘pop goes the crown’ in the sink! Just wonderful. Why didn’t he listen? So I called the office and Brian went with me to the 6 pm appt. I had to scramble around here to get dinner made-soft food-meatloaf and mashed potatoes. So I waited and waited…

(even had time to play with my phone camera)
I was numb here and waiting on the dentist to put a pin with a nail head in my gum. It was a nasty smell (on of the reasons I went was that when I used the water pic it smelled when I got to that tooth! Get a water pic!) My tooth under the crown had broken (I remember biting something hard in early December that must have done the dirty deed-I didn’t tell the dentist-but I think the pin should have been put in over a year ago).
So I have my smile back!
I’ve won 3 prizes from the One World, One Heart blog event. Look what Tammy is treating me with:

So beautiful!
I need to find my other wins and post. One is a gorgeous assortment of paper and one is a lampwork necklace.
Hoping for a better, more productive Wednesday.

Feb1

Grammys 2010

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I was watching this year’s music awards and enjoyed many of the performances like the duo between Sir Elton John and Lady Gaga; Greenday and other singers doing ’21 Gun’ and Pink doing her ‘swinger and singer’ act on a twirling silk scarf that went toward the ceiling and then sprayed water on her. I had to fish around for my 3D glasses (saved from a game Sean had) but didn’t get to see much of the Michael Jackson tribute. His eldest two children Prince and Paris very eloquently accepted the award in his name.
I was very sad to learn that Kenny Rankin, one of my favorite singers had passed away last June at the age of 69 from lung cancer. His voice fit into so many genres-pop, jazz, folk. I had many of his records.

This is how I remember him-with his big mustache.
Also Dan Seals passed last year. Remember England Dan and John Ford Coley? He’s also Jim Seals younger brother. Their big hit was ‘I Really want to See You Tonight’.
Three singers in the last 12 yrs I have admired have passed: John Denver, Dan Fogelberg and now Kenny. I got to see John and Dan in concert. Kenny and Dan had cancer, John died in a solo plane accident.
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Sean is getting use to Wally World. It’s hard being on his feet a lot, but he seems to work two days and is off two. They have him working 30 odd hours, is that part time? If he is called by the Census bureau to work, he’d have to work something out with Wally World as it’s just for a few months.
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I am so dry today and it lead to a coughing attack. My sinuses started draining and it was hairy for a few minutes. I swear I have food allergies too. We had some of that rice (Dirty Rice) that you just heat up in it’s own package. I’m wondering what was in that too. Sometimes it’s a pain to cook everything from scratch, but if something is loaded with MSG, it’s going to bother me.
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I’m amazed by all the comments for my One World, One Heart entry! Wow!! Thanks everyone for visiting. I still need to visit lots of the other blogs myself, but I get eye strain so easily. I’ll do my best.
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Congrats to my friend Rachel and her hubby Mike on the arrival of their son Connor last night, just before 11 pm. He came on his due date and is home already. Rachel’s blog is Willing Hands on my blog roll. She has photos of his nursery. I have some goodies to mail off to her (she only lives in Abington, PA and I have met her once). Better get busy!

Jan29

Stuff

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Hey gang! It’s been fun looking at the blogs in the One World, One Heart event in my sticky post. I haven’t gotten to 100 on the list and I believe there are over 700 now! It’s neat to see so many creative bloggers out there. Don’t forget, if you have a blog and like to visit new bloggers and enter contests for awesome things, then drop by OWOH until Feb. 15th.
On a personal note, and it’s hard to talk about, my one family member is really unhappy and we’re not sure why. I do my best to help my mom when I can. Thursday was an ugly, ugly day. I’m not sure what tomorrow will bring, but wish mom luck as it seems to be her clothes and personal things that are always an issue with him. I don’t think I can handle him anymore. I have forgiven him so many times and he was really awful to me yesterday. Bad dream. He’ll probably be moving out sooner or later.
Sean is finally on the register at Wally World! He said it went well until the store’s manager or someone came up to him and asked him if a customer had bought milk and he stalled trying to recall and she said ‘well yes or no’? Seems the customer may have been trying to lift milk maybe in a closed container she later bought, but Sean checked the container and there wasn’t anything in it. I told him it seemed like a ‘test’ to see if he was doing the right thing. Geez.
Taking it one day at a time.

Jan21

Yep, robbers

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So a little update-the dentist found that a crown that is only 4 yrs old had ‘spaces’ on each side of it. If it’s not replaced, I could end of getting a root canal. He said I have about 6 months to replace it. I also have to get a couple of chips in my lower teeth filled in. I feel whoever made the crown, made it too small. Of course the dentist didn’t say this. I go to the desk at the end of the visit and the receptionist schedules me for February! Think I’ll go just to get the chips fixed next month. I may look into a place called Universal*Dentistry where it’s suppose to be cheaper. I can surely get a second opinion. It’s near my mom’s house and a drive from here, but if I can save $700(!), why not.
Made some Valentines to make myself smile. : )
Just did a google search-the above office did not get good reviews and they don’t take insurance-scratch that one I guess.

Jan21

Passed it by-finally ate here!

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This is right on Route one across the highway from the Brandywine River Museum-it’s called ‘Hank’s Place’. Sean and I were on our way to drop off his childhood bed at the Good*will and we decided to stop here for lunch on Wednesday. (Mom was having a plumber at her house, so I’m going on Monday now). I can’t tell you how many times we have passed it and never ate there. The prices are good. The clientele ranged from legendary artist ‘Andy’ Wyeth and movie stars when they were filming ‘The Village’ a few miles away. I believe William Hurt and maybe Joaquin Phoenix were two of the patrons back then.
When we walked in around 1:45 everyone looked up at us! That was strange. What was stranger that after we ate, I pulled out my debit card and the waitress said ‘cash only’! Ahhh. Thank goodness Sean had a $20 on him. We both ordered ‘triple’ clubs-me chicken salad and he ordered a turkey one. One of the best I’ve had for a while and I still have a quarter of it in the fridge. : ) I wish you could see the flowers someone plants there every year. I guess they must do their own composting from the restaurant leftovers as the banks are just loaded with marigolds, etc.
Here is the website where I found the photo.
After we dropped off the bed, we went to the mall as I had a gift card from Sean to use at Bos*covs. I picked out a honey colored leather purse and a quilted wallet (Zoey-quilted bags are so in!). I went to the register and the blasted card was denied. It was different from the ‘in house’ gift cards. Thank goodness another lady came along and she knew how to use my card! Whew!
We went to Trader*Joes too and got a few of their treats-some Orange Mandarin chicken and fried veggie rice for dinner. That’s our indulgent stop. The maple cookies are quite good too.
I’m getting the hang of Cha*Cha. I wish it paid more, as some questions really are hard to find and you may run out of time (3 minutes max.).
Off to the dentist today. It’s been almost a year. Crossing fingers I don’t use all my deductible up in one or two visits. Robbers. ; )

Jan20

Opps it’s Wednesday already!

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I took leave of this blog for a few days. It’s so boring in the dead of winter, especially if it’s raining or too cold to go out. My mom gave us a bed and frame for the guest room to replace Sean’s little twin with the bunky board and no box spring. It seems someone always needs to use the guest room for some reason-can we just say snoring or restlessness? It was a big 3-4 hours undertaking for Brian on Sunday. It was dusty under the bed-an entire forest of big gray bunnies was lurking under there! I need to work on the bedrooms as they seem to be neglected the most. That’s bad because of allergy issues.
I’m a human search engine, or mainly a guidance counselor for what seems like mostly tweens and teens on Cha*Cha. I’m getting paid, so I answer carefully. Boys seem really curious about ‘one thing’! I could go on. I can chose from previously answered questions which helps too, especially if I am in a pickle. Some just want opinions about dating, etc. I do get serious questions, but I can tell some are doing their homework and taking the easy way out. I couldn’t tell someone how to covert kilograms to ounces in 130 characters though!
Sean was going to drop me off for my ultrasound follow-up on Monday and go to the Y that is almost across the street from the hospital. We were about 5 miles from home when Sean heard that telltale noise you hear when you are getting a flat tire! Ugh! Missed the appt. Cost $80 for a new tire as the old one had a big cut deep in tread. It’s always something! Going back to the doc on the 4th of Feb.
Today, probably visiting mom and helping her sort through more stuff-it never ends!