Category Archives: Me stuff

Nov14

Colors for a gloomy day

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I had to run down to the store. I really shouldn’t say ‘run’ as I’m still so achy, all in the area I strained while moving the books, my left side and in ‘that’ area. My purpose for the trip was to get Sean a Carvel ice cream cake (football shaped) for a belated birthday cake and the makings of stew. He is driving home on Friday with a friend in tow, so I figure stew can sit on the stove all day. He mentioned they may stop in Lancaster for lunch and shopping. Lucky guys! That trip down here isn’t terrible, except for maybe the first 40 or so miles through the mountains as there isn’t any place to pull over if you even have a flat! I told him to make sure he goes to the bathroom too-ha!

Here’s a Thanksgiving cactus that is blooming in my family room window:

Thanksgiving cactus

And my $1.98 flower purchase from the reduced bucket:

Spider mums

Spider mums 2

Spider mums 3
These are Spider mums and I love the colors. Quite a few of them weren’t any good and a few of these are falling, but they have already given me $2 worth of pleasure.
I’m dedicating these photos to my friend Barbara’s Aunt Hattie who just passed on.

My tip for the day-Most times Altoids will open up a stuffed head. They use real peppermint oil too. I would say most of the times I eat one, I will sneeze! 

Nov12

16 days from now

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I have to have a needle localization done at the hospital and they will put me under for the procedure. I’m hoping they don’t find anything. I’m going to try and take it one day at a time or I’ll going to make myself crazy. I have Thanksgiving and my 30th high school reunion to look forward to before then. Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers and click on those buttons in the left side bar there.

Hey… I’m going to do a page here (Me Stuff) about what’s going on. Hopefully it will be short and sweet,not the writing part, the diagnosis part. I want to keep my blog interesting and fun. So check out the tab above.

Nov11

Wuss Report-2

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Bri likes to flip the channels and PBS had a show on about Carol Burnett’s career. I think she’s wonderful! She had a rough beginning with parents who were alcoholics and she was mainly raised by her Nanny. I was raised by my mom and grandmom, so I understand what it is like to have a senior citizen around the house all the time. I believe Carol’s first play was ‘Once Upon A Mattress’ which really made her a star. Her tv show was on for 11 years after that and personally, I don’t think any of us missed an episode. If you remember the scene of Carol ‘dressed’ like Scarlett O’Hara in the curtain dress with the rod still through it, I’m sure you are laughing right now.

Here’s the skit from Youtube:

My brother Don was in our high school production of ‘Once Upon A Mattress’. My mom wrote to Carol and Don got back an autographed picture of her! That was pretty neat. In the show last night, they had a question and answer session and a girl said she had played Winifred in OUAM and if Carol could sign a few bars of ‘Shy’ with her. Carol asked the young lady to come on stage and they sang together.

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By the way, here’s my dinner from a few nights ago, my 3rd entree from the Everyday Foo, Nov. 07 issue-Penne in a pumpkin sauce. It was good, but I think it needed a pinch of nutmeg or even some roasted pine nuts.
Penne with pumpkin sauce

Think about me about 11:00 at my consultation tomorrow with Dr. R.

Nov9

Wuss report

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Donny and MarieI was watching Oprah today and the entire Osmond family was on-all 125 of them flew in to be on the show in Chicago. Marie is a month older than me. I watched the Donny and Marie show, mostly while babysitting. I was compared to her and my younger brother Don to Donny. We both could sing-dance, not so much. So here’s when I get all wet in the eyes-when they showed the brothers all singing, ‘He Ain’t Heavy, he’s my brother’ with old videos in the background (the 70s was not a good decade for costume design). The one brother Alan isn’t well and had a chair behind him, but he performed and smiled as always. Then it occurred to me, I’m in that age group and they were celebrating 50 yrs of performing!

I like the doll Marie had made for Oprah-her as a little girl. I’d love one of me! Too cute. I also felt bad as they had just lost their dad and when Donny cries, well I’m going to cry too. I did notice that one of Donny’s nephews looks just like him, more than his own sons. Funny how genetics works. Good luck on your tour guys! Marie, no more fainting.

The 6 degrees of separation game-actually 2 with Marie! Seems that when she was in the tour of ‘The Sound of Music’ back in the 90s, that the costume designer, the late Jonathan Bixby did this show and he graduated from high school with me! I am also a couple of degrees from John Travolta (I did ‘meet’ him at a car show in Philly as a teen and got his autograph) and Todd Robinson, from my class directed him in a movie lately; and Kate Jackson, an actress from my class, Denice Hicks was in a movie with her and Janine Turner. I talk to Denice on MySpace and she’s really sweet. Neat,huh?

BTW, I was a Bobby Sherman and Hudson Brother fan back in the day.

Nov8

Thanks

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Thanks for your comments and emails. I’m a bit drained today and not feeling well in the tummy, but I’m doing things like washing clothes and vacuuming. I need to go to the store, but can’t seem to walk a straight line, let alone drive. My ‘helper’ is going to have to go with me, and I know how he just loves that, not.

My flowers bit the dust overnight, well all of them except the salmon nemesia that was in with the more fragile wax begonia which are almost unrecognizable now from the freeze. My little sunny pinwheel zinnias were almost spinning yesterday and just starting to droop today. I do have some miniature roses on the front step and one has the most perfect ivory colored rose-I should get a photo of it.

I got a nice magazine yesterday (at what must be the biggest bookstore in the area)-Paper Crafts Holiday card making issue. In the back they have some holiday sayings and this struck my fancy as I am sure you will like it too:

What is Christmas? It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.
~Agnes. M. Pharo

 

Look at the pamphlet I got in the mail-please notice the blue suede shoes under the tree. If you have $120.00 kicking around, why not pick up one (my comic relief for the afternoon!) I do know one person who may like this as she’s a big fan of ‘The King’. 

A blue Xmas

Nov8

Feelings for Wednesday

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Butterfly

Pain and Promise

If only it
How can I
When will this
Can I ever
Is there any
Why am I
This is too

Better is later
This shall pass
Now to learn
We are loved
Never all alone
Be in being

Endure in light
by Alan Harris

Hanging in there. Learning things. Feeling a little better as each hour passes. If you don’t get this post, I guess you aren’t reading my blog lately. Blogging may be a little hard for me until after Monday.

Nov7

A study in pale

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Ever make a dinner that eludes color? I made chicken from the Everyday Food book (which is a prize for fast and good recipes) in a wine and dijon sauce. Bri even cracked open a bottle of Chardonnay for me to use. When I dished out his dinner first (I wait on people this way as I like to arrange their food nicely), it was pale chicken, pale blanched asparagus (which we never had before and it was good), a baked potato and a biscuit with the only color, nicely browned on top. Hence the name of this post. My chicken wasn’t as brown as the photo and their sauce was browner too.

Earlier today, I was surveying the yard and a big hanging pot of pink begonias and raspberry colored nemesia is still blooming. I had planted it in July and it’s in the sun and likes it there. I haven’t watered anything outside for weeks and there was this gorgeous pot of summery flowers. Tonight it’s in the 30s, so I don’t know how this will fare. It was a pleasant surprise. (Below is the same pot in July and it’s prettier now).

Begonias in July

I spent the better part of the evening working on my Stitching lottery piece. This one is a bit of a pain on the medium blue linen-rip, rip, rip! It’s a design from the latest JCS ornament issue-Little House Needleworks-Snow Bunnies. I picked it out a few weeks ago with the help of my mom. I usually pick out three designs and let someone else help me decide what other people may like. I think I’m on track again. The main part of the tree is snowflakes. It should be pretty.

Sean will be home in 10 days!

I’m hoping for a good night’s sleep. Keep me in your thoughts at 1:30 tomorrow.

Nov5

Presently a quote to live by

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Knowledge is power.
Sir Francis Bacon, Religious Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 – 1626)

 

I’ve been giving Oprah (or was it Dr. Oz) credit for this and here it was Sir Bacon. When I saw it was Sir Bacon, I thought of Kevin Bacon for some reason-oh, he’s from Philly.   ; )
I’m reading up on call-backs and have gotten some interesting opinions, etc. I know my pals in blogland are being quiet on the subject-but knowledge is power people! I read there are only 10% of call backs from standard mammograms, but out of 1,000 mamms, only 5 are bad ones.
If you haven’t had a mammogram lately and you are over 40, do yourself a favor and get one so you know stuff. Ok? : )

I’ve had a quiet weekend. Two of my art pals and I are making tags/squares for our Christmas calendars. We are trading 8 to each other and then will have to make 15 for our own. I had so much fun making them today (they are only 2″ squares on my calendar). I’m up to 21 and need to make 10 more. I haven’t made the actual calendar part yet. I thank Artsymama in my blogroll for the inspiration when she posted her Halloween calendar purchase.
I also started a piece for our blogland Cross stitch lottery. On January 1st, some lucky stitcher will win all the submitted finished pieces. I wouldn’t mind winning them. I haven’t checked lately, but I think there are at least 20 participants.

This daylight savings is messing me up a bit. I better hit the hay soon. Have a great Monday!

Hope you like my new blog format. I couldn’t stand all my sidebar stuff on one side and I think my photos look better too.

Oh-my ’57 Thunderbird made the top right corner of Elijah’s Love quilt-and it’s an awesome quilt! (clickable)

Elijah’s Quilt

Nov1

Wish me luck on the 7th

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They say 7 is lucky, so I hope that November 7th is lucky for me! That’s when I have to go get a few more x-rays of my left breast (see the footnote in the post under this one). I made the appointment this morning. That’s the side that bothered me for two hours Tuesday morning, like a nerve kept firing or was trying to unkink. The lady on the phone said in so many words that if they saw a lump, I’d be back there already. My maternal grandmom and her sister had a few breast issues in their lifetimes. I’m going to try to remain calm as my tummy will go haywire! I have to stay busy!!