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Jan13
Me,me,me meme
I’ve been tagged!
This was presented to me by Lee, which I think is a challenge, (but fun!) and will have to think back on over 3 years of postings. So here it goes:
Go back through your archives and post the links to your five favorite blog posts that you’ve written. But there is a catch:
Link 1 must be about family.
Link 2 must be about friends.
Link 3 must be about yourself, who you are… what you’re all about.
Link 4 must be about something you love.
Link 5 can be about anything you choose.
Link 1- I thought I was pretty clever to think this up. Kudos to my brother Dave for scanning the photo slides he found in his basement. Speaking of Dave, he’s been really sick, like the thing Bri and I had, but worst and codeine made him so sick he had to go to the ER. I’m calling him soon to see how he is.
Link 2-I had the bestest birthday in 2006 because of my friends. What’s a birthday without friends?
Link 3-This made me feel wonderful that I could do a little bit to help. Go to my tab at the top for ‘those lists’ under ‘about moi’.
Link 4-Something I love…no brainer…here are people I love first. And doing paper crafts and gardening. And cross stitch too!
Link 5- My first ever blog entry!
Post your five links and then tag five other people. At least TWO of the people you tag must be newer acquaintances so that you get to know each other better.
Jan11
3 weeks already!
Tomorrow Sean heads back to PSU-up the mountains, over the river, 166 miles from here. Time just flew by this vacation. He’s been helping me with the Christmas boxes which is a job for me. The tree is down and the last of the ornaments are being packed away. I keep up snowbabyland in the front window as it’s a ‘wintery’ display. It will come down in February, but it brightens up the gloomy days of this time of year. The sun did come out though! We had fog, then pouring rain and finally sun! It’s still mild for January-in the 50s. It should be nice for Sean’s journey tomorrow.
I’m about to pop a roast in the oven and toss together (ok, they are fast things to make!) the 7 layer bars-these for Sean. I’m trying to cut back on bread and sugar myself (I hope Brian follows suit). We are only buying ginger ale for tummy problems. Eating the oatmeal bars is filling and I’m not starving for lunch. I got a good deal on Lean Cuisine meals yesterday(6 for $10) and had one for dinner last night and one for lunch today. The butternut squash ravioli is yummy. Speaking of butternut squash, Martha made the soup on her show today and that looks good too. It’s a good veggie.
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Have a great, relaxing weekend.
BTW, Jen, left a comment on my blog and she lives close by! We’ve been talking about places to eat and offered each other good suggestions. We’ll have to get together sometime soon!
Jan10
Mail art
Here’s what I mailed off today. I loved that I got the New Lunar Year postage stamps to go with the theme. There’s nothing in the envelope, you just mail it because of what’s on the outside! My friend who organized this said we had to add a monkey to the envelope somewhere. Do you understand why I added ‘that silver item’ to the back of the envelope?
And here’s my $6 mother of pearl earrings and $3 rust colored top from the Kohl’s sale (the necklace is older and one of my favorites):
And I have another paint program Adobe and was playing with that:
Gee, my eyebrows look different in these! I will say they need a little trim.
Jan10
Surprises
When I went out in the kitchen this morning I looked around to see what else needs to be put away. I received two amaryllis as gifts and I decided to peek at them and get them in dirt today. Look at what I found:
The poor thing had sprouted without a drop of water! I promptly and gingerly put the bulb in the pot with warm water as suggested. The other bulb only has a little green point coming out of it. I wish I could get these to bloom more than once, but i can’t.
Then I got this (as did the other attendees) from Carolyn for attending her birthday Oscar bash:
My friend Pea/Carole mentioned this is National de-lurking week from the 7th-13th. I personally love comments and me and a few of my blogging pals get a little peeved by those who stop by and don’t say a word. So please say ‘hi’. : )
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I purchased my ‘galaxy’ ring from Kohls.com and they sent me the $20 worth of coupons. Sean and I went in the late afternoon Wednesday to a store in Delaware and hit their 70% off sale! I bought a few more Christmas things (I really need to downsize 23 years worth of stuff and will this summer), some clothing (most summery, but for $2-$3 each, I couldn’t pass them up) and a few items of jewelry. We also got buy one, get one free bed pillows. I splurged on a $20 one and Sean got a $10 one, though he could have gotten the pricier one for free. It’s a marshmallow for my head and I thanked the Lord last night for it. ; )
I plan to go back to Kohl’s and check out a few other departments.
I mailed off things yesterday to Carole, Karin, Charlotte and Hazel. I need to mail a few more things, some are which are for Nancy. I am doing 4 mail art envelopes and they are almost ready to go and will share them. And of course there are the Make A Child Smile kids (link in sidebar). In August I will be in my 10th year of sending well wishes. I believe I’ve stitched at least 40 quilt squares for that many children since 1999. I am working on one that I just received the chart and material for. The charity group is making two quilts for sick twin boys. So sad. Each square has two baby animals in it-my is zebras.
Have an excellent Thursday-off to the food store-again!
Jan9
A giftie
Here’s a few of the pages from my friend’s collage book I made as a gift for her graduation from culinary school. I wanted to use all vintage prints and such. The middle is the baking section and I made a pocket to hold a Swann’s flour baking pamphlet from about 1917 and some bookmarks to save recipes (Brian gave me these and I gave some to her). It was fun to make to get my mind off my sinus cold. I hope she likes it (and doesn’t see this!). I’ll probably mail it today.
The tabs say ‘eat, drink and be merry’; ‘Food’, ‘fun’ ‘friends’, etc.
She just got married this past June so the one cake is a wedding cake. I’m from PA., so that’s why I chose the Hershey cookbook cover.
So I want to go to the post office and maybe Sean and I will head to Kohl’s as they sent me $20 in coupons (if I spend increments of $50) for buying my galaxy ring. This is a good time of the year to check out the winter clothing too. Not to say I’ll buy anything. I do need a change of scenery, though most of my tree ornaments are laying on the dining room table right now! I broke a pretty one today too. : (
Jan8
Getting things done
This is getting ridiculous. I don’t want my pals to think I’m slowing down in my advanced years! Ok, I’m not ‘that’ old, but this isn’t like me to send gifts so late. It’s all the stuff that happened between Oct.31-Dec. 7, and then the mad Christmas scramble-the sinus cold and something else now that has me moving slower. But, I did get two things wrapped up and ready to send to England and Ireland. I have something almost ready to go to Canada. Another item, a grad gift, was assembled over the weekend and that’s wrapped. There are still things on the little love seat that need to get in boxes and mailed too! Some aren’t expected, but my one friend needs something to make her smile as she just got diagnosed with pneumonia and may have an autoimmune disease.
My mom’s range top and oven went out. She had someone there to look at the situation and he said she needed new appliances! The oven is fairly new, but I bet it’s the wiring and he didn’t want to get into that. She is waiting on someone else to come now.
Sean took advantage of the warm weather and ran in the park today. I wanted to go, but wasn’t up to it. I did have the cat out on his harness yesterday and we had a nice walk, though he was in a hissy fit mood. Sean’s off for his 6th semester at PSU on Saturday.
Jan7
Balmy January
Right now it’s in the high 50s! I should get outside and get some fresh air and try to knock the rest of this congestion out of me. Brian is at the coughing stage. I did go out to BJs Wholesale with Sean yesterday and we both got goodies. I got a bunch of the Curves and other breakfast bars as this past month I’ve eaten to many ‘no nos’. Haven’t we all? : )
We also ate at Chili’s restaurant and I was nice and saved half my dinner for my ailing husband-6 oz of NY strip steak. I figured we won’t be eating out that much in the next few months as the bill came in for my procedure and all together we have to pay over 1K out of pocket. I’m going to see if the hospital will let me pay so much a month as they did when I had an ultrasound.
Sean will be packing up to leave on Saturday. He seems to have either gotten a light dose of the bug or avoided it all together. I guess he has a good immune system! He just got back from the dentist and his wisdom teeth seem to be coming in straight.
The new mayor of Philadephia just got swore in. For some reason the major stations think we all wanted to watch it from 10 am and on. In suburban Philly, we don’t elect their mayor. I hope he does something to get guns off the street.
And I did take more cough medicine but only dreamed about going to the doctor’s house (Sean is a friend of her son’s). I hope that wasn’t telling me anything!
Jan6
Venturing out
Sean and I went to the grocery store and church yesterday. I was a bit nervous to go, but my sinuses were good, even with incense wafting through the air on several occasions. We also went to Wendy’s for dinner. It wasn’t until after 11 pm that I had ‘the tickle torture’-rats, almost 24 hours went by without one. We hope to get to BJs/Sam’s Club today so Sean can get food stuff for his dorm room. Before bed I had to take a little cough syrup. I swear that stuff is a hallucinative! The night before I dreamed Suri Cruise was telling tales about her infamous parents-like she was being a parrot to what she heard them saying to each other, some unpleasant things. I found this rather humorous upon awakening, but couldn’t remember exactly what she was telling people. All kids do this anyway. I was good at saying ‘what a mess’ when Sean was little and didn’t he go to the neighbor’s with me and proclaim her kitchen was a mess! Not good. Suri has the cutest little face and haircut and I am always looking at the Celebrity Baby blog and there she is.
Last night’s dream (or early morning) had me in a house in my mom’s old neighborhood when a Coca cola truck pulled in the driveway with balloons and stuff. I decided to see what the fuss was all about, in my t-shirt nightie (no Pam Anderson here) and got embarassed and crawled in the back of another red van. It started up and the older lady was headed to Philly to buy theater tickets! (I told you it was weird). Then I got talking to people in the neighborhood- like an improv group (still in my t-shirt) and went down every week with her. I have no idea what triggered that, unless I was thinking about Publisher’s Clearinghouse and also the Ticketmaster email I get…and one of those blog thingies my friend has us do all the time (are you a people person? )
Anyway, it’s warmer today and will be for the next few days which means my bedroom is not like a barn. We definitely need to go to Home Depot one of these days for a new door or something for the basement area below the bedroom.
I hope to dream about chocolate tonight.
Jan4
She must feel better
She’s doing a crafty thing! Yeah!
I don’t know if my friend who will get the collage book I am finishing up reads my blog. (I don’t think so as she never refers to it) I decided enough is enough and decided some cutting and gluing was in order for day 5 of this hideous cold. I decided to browse through my Flickr collage group. They post lots of wonderful images that are past their copyright, etc. I love the vintage stuff. I found a few new things and asked in the comment section if anyone knew where I could find vintage menus. I was pointed in the direction of the New York public library digital image website and found a few. What a fun site to ‘thumb’ through! I want to put a few more do-dads in the book, but I’ll definitely share it soon.
Check out this cross stitch sampler I found from 1775!
Bri went to work even though he coughed quite a bit during the night. He took the last two Tynenol nighttime pills and they helped a little. One would knocked me out. I had to take the syrup stuff, which left me a little hyper (I think the coloring). When I am up a few hours I feel better. Still a bit stopped up though. It’s not your grandmom’s dainty cold, it’s your rambunctious Suma wrestler’s cold!
Yes, I’m getting cabin fever….do I want to go out? Maybe for a little ride even… Sean will take me somewhere I’m sure. He wants to get food for his dorm room, so in a few days.
Take care and have a great weekend!
Collages & Creative Goodness 