Category Archives: pals

Nov6

Preventive measure

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Worker Man Scared as a Nurse Prepares to Give Him a Flu Shot ClipartBri and I went to a local high school to get a flu shot. We thought they were going to be free, but there was a misprint in the paper he works for (they said the flu mist was $20, but didn’t mention the shot costing anything) ! They were $10 cheaper than a local drugstore, so we decided to get one. We (especially him) have been running our parents back and forth to the doctor/hospital and he looks so rundown. It takes 2 weeks for it to take effect. I really want Sean to get one too, since he is living alone. Incidentally, Regis and Kelly got theirs today too. I really hardly felt anything, which is fine with me. Go ahead and get one!

Tomorrow, I’ll see Dr. Bob*man (don’t ya love that name?). Will let you know what happens there. At least my shoulder blade is better after hurting off and on since July. I think since I stopped gardening and lugging the watering can, it got better, but unrelated to IBS or tummy issues. I have a feeling I need to try a low cholesterol diet again. I told Bri in the car today that we need to do a weekly walking jaunt or two at the park. He asked if I wanted to walk in the dark. At least I have him doing sit-ups with the Ab-lounger. Now, just to get my bones moving. Which I will probably be doing on Sunday…

I may be meeting (it’s a good chance), a blogger pal on Sunday. I won’t say who until we actually meet. It will be like meeting a niece. : )

Oct29

Tug at my heartstrings

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Brian happened to look on the shelf on the bookcase above where I was looking and found Tug:

How I wish my grandmom had taken a photo of us together back in May, 1982! Now I have restored faith about tonight! Tug’s son Mark hung his dad’s World Series ring above his dad’s favorite bar (I think in Philly somewhere) today.

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I received a Blog giveaway from Sherry over at If I Could Set My Soul Free. What a great bag! It’s pretty and roomy. I’ll get a lot of use out of it. Lucky me!

Sherry has an etsy shop (see her blog) and hand makes so many pretty pieces like this!

I just added books and a quilt square kit to my etsy shop-link on right under Artilicious Divas. Also added a few things in eBay at the top under Moonlitstitcher’s Page. I need some pocket moola!

You may be hearing from me in a few hours!

Oct21

Sammies aka Sandwiches

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My pal Zoey was talking about making a sandwich spread that her husband loves-ground bologna spread (pick a recipe that appeals to you!). I’ve never had it, nor has Brian or the lady at the grocery store who checked me out. So I did a Google search, and lo and behold it’s a Midwestern thing. I definitely want to try it as I purchased buy one get one free Oscar Meyer bologna yesterday. The recipe called for grounding up the solid piece of bologna in a meat grinder. Think I’ll use the food processor. Also it has sweet pickles-will use pickle relish like Zoey does, Spanish onion, mayo and yellow mustard. Zoey skips the mustard. Sounds good! I’ve had my share of Deviled Ham, so this sounds similar.

I asked Zoey if she had heard of Lebanon bologna. She had not. It’s a Lebanon County, PA lunchmeat. I had a LB food jag as a teen. Everyday I had it with a slice of American cheese, a dab of mustard on white or rye bread, but mostly on white bread and potato chips (when I was skinny). It’s smokey and tangy at the same time. I do still buy it on occasion.
Update:
I did mix up a fast batch of the ground bologna and it’s quite good. Like ham spread, not as salty and very similar to a hot dog taste because of the relish and onion. So we give it a ‘thumb’s up’! We thought black olives or red peppers would be good in it too. Thanks for the idea Zoey!

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I’m wearing the waist trimmer as I type this. Bri’s been wearing it while using the ab-lounger (doing sit ups) and then leaves it on for a few hours afterwards. I put it on him. I have to put it on me, so it probably could be tighter. I like it! Mom said she’d go get me another one. I guess it gives you support like a girdle. One reason we are fixated on our tummies is because of what Bri’s dad has been going through. He’s had a huge tummy as long as I’ve known him. When he finally ‘deflated’, he got the terrible sores from the skin hanging down-I know gross. Sure would do everything I can to avoid getting that problem.

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Thanks for all your sweet comments on my ‘Think Pink’ ATC card. I must join in some more challenges. : )

Oct13

I’ve been tagged!

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Sherry over at ‘If I could set myself free’ tagged me for this. I think I tell mostly about myself on my ‘Me’ page, so this may be hard.
# 1 These are the rules for this meme:
# 2  Link to the person who tagged you.
# 3 Post the rules on your blog.
# 4 Write six random things/unspectacular quirks about yourself.
# 5  Tag six people at the end of your post and link to them.
# 6 Let each person you have tagged know by leaving a comment on their blog.
# 7 Let the tagger know when your entry is posted.

#1 All three of us, my husband, son and I had blonde hair when we were little. Bri had platinum blonde, Sean light blonde and me wheat blonde.

#2 I have my high school crush as a friend on Face Book. I’m sure he knows this, but I appreciate him accepting my invite. ; )

#3 Although I got ‘D’s in high school typing on those lovely manual typewriters, I can type great now thanks to using the computer keyboard since 1994.

#4 When we went to Orlando 3.5 yrs ago, I saw a tv guy heading for the outgoing flights (we had just landed) and I had a little conversation with him. If you are from Philly and watch Action News, you probably have heard of Don Polec. That is extremely brave for someone who use to be really shy.

#5 I met Brian at the wedding of my brother to his first cousin-like a soap opera! Everyone saw us chatting at MaryAnne’s mom’s house and almost clapped when Bri asked-do you want to go out sometime? My grandmom told him I was a ‘good cook’, like that would help. ; )

#6 My mom, older brother and I are the only left-handed people in 3 generations.

I tag: Carole, Jennifer, Lee, Barbara, Sharon and Tootie. Good luck ladies!

Oct13

This is October?

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The outside is beckoning for me with these kinds of temps. Actually, it’s a bit warm to do stuff that is too strenuous, but I guess I can hose down the items in the last post!

Happy Thanksgiving to our Canadian neighbors! Also Happy Birthday to my pal Carole (at Pea’s Corner) who is celebrating both Thanksgiving and her birthday today.

I was invited to her tea party and graciously attended!

Rant-Last weekend I helped Sean with a summary. I didn’t rewrite the paper, just suggest wording and order-he still got a ‘C’! The prof is just too picky or narrow minded. Sean is to read a 6+ page paper that is mostly about research. The prof already gives his summary of the article and then asks the class to answer a question or two in 200 words or less. To think he will be happy to get a ‘C’ is sad. Too bad the prof is treating seniors like freshman. I feel bad because Sean really tried hard this last time around. And to think he has the same prof next semester!

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I think I’ll be finished a cross stitched piece tonight after over 2 months of working on it. I’m so ready to do something else!

Sep16

Wizard of Oz swap

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I was so happy to hear from my swap partner, especially since she is from Texas and had to deal in part with Hurricane Ike. She said she had people staying with her who didn’t have power and she would be a little late sending mine along. I said I understand completely.

Anyway, if you haven’t looked on my Flickr, here is what I sent Irma:
Wizard of Oz Clipboard with Oz swag for Swap

It’s clipboard! The above has a swag with a Dorothy bookmark and a Wicked Witch of the West ‘flight license’. I found the license in a little store in NJ. This is also funny as I live on the west end of a very long road that runs through Chadds Ford to the far end of my town. ; )
Wizard of Oz Clipboard without the swag

This is without the swag. I used part of a desktop I made for the middle which helped a lot! The paper on the bottom has a texture. So it is tactile too. Some of the art came from an old Oz book-Toto and the tree behind the Tinman. The poppies are from an old flower ID book. My friend sent me an assortment of papers and the green bubbly stuff represents ‘Oz’.  Hope you like it!

Trying to get my crafty mojo back, as my mom’s project took a lot out of me. Did a little last night. I finally took Cos out for a walk too, though the part of the yard he loves (he scratches on the chestnut trees) are bombarding the yard with chestnut burrs. I almost got hit a few times earlier in the day. It looks like we are being invaded by alien pods. ; ) I had to move my pretty coleus and other plants as I am giving some to a lady from Flickr who was interested in some that I had. I can’t seem to overwinter them, so she can have her pick.

Keep my Uncle Don’s wife Mildred in your thoughts. They thought she had pneumonia, but here she aspirated water in her lungs. She’s in the hospital in a fragile state. She’s in her 90s, so it’s scary.

Sep10

All about shopping…

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Sherry had some shopping questions on her blog yesterday. And may I say how cool it was to win a surprise from her! Thanks for letting me join the fun! I can’t wait to see what I get. : )
I’m a bargain shopper. The more percentage something is marked down, the more I want it! For example, I hit a 70% off sale at Peebles and got this big canvas of a rooster for my mom’s birthday for $3.00. I’m thinking I could buy the last couple of ones to recycle and do art on! They also have a limited edition Boyd’s bear named Peebles for about $8.00. (why are people putting *s in store’s names? Because of search engines? Like they would put in Pee*bles). Anyway, I think I’ll at least get a few more canvases.
1. Where is your favorite place to shop? Love stores like Tuesday Morning and T.J Maxx. Favorite dept. store is Kohls. Love all the craft stores, but Michaels takes the top place. Do not like grocery shopping unless I am buying ingredients for a special dish or am shopping at BJs Wholesale. And I love thrift stores and the Goodwill.

2. Would you rather shop on-line or in the stores? I like both. I utilize the internet more during the Christmas holidays. I do buy books throughout the year mainly through Amazon. And there is also eBay!

3. If you needed new undergarments, but you saw something that you didn’t really need, but just wanted, which would you buy?
I probably would! Underwear is so boring when you get to be my age.

4. What really annoys you about other shoppers?
People that don’t move out of a spot when they know you are trying to get by or want something in the area they are hogging. Those who talk on their blue rays and you think they are talking to you. Someone who picks up something you are about to pick up.

5. Have you ever got up to the checkout stand and had a ton of stuff in your cart and after they rang everything up you realized you didn’t have your money, check book, debit card, or credit cards? I usually have a few forms of payment. I have not had enough money, $5 or so, and have just taken a few things out of the cart so I wouldn’t have to use the debit card too.

6. If you buy something that isn’t necessary or something just for fun do you feel like you have to justify it to yourself or your partner? Not really unless it was pricey. I wish I could ‘just for fun’ buy a Ford Mariner. : )

7. Do you hide those unnecessary things for awhile and then later claim you’ve had them for a long time? No, that’s just silly. We discuss big purchases. And as I said, I usually hunt stuff down that’s on sale.

Have to do some food shopping later-oh joy!
I probably won’t be posting until late afternoon or so tomorrow as I will be getting mom from her surgery.
Has anyone else had allergy issues? They are saying it’s one of the worst seasons so far. I get the stuffy head, post nasal and then congestion in my chest.

Sep8

I have Scrambilitis!

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I had one of those nights where I was looking at the clock every hour and getting up. I couldn’t figure out if it was something I ate or drank-I did have that McD’s sweet tea earlier in the day and green tea for dinner. Then it dawned on me that I sat on the floor after dinner for about 45 minutes sorting out my paper goods. I can’t do this anymore, I did it anyway and I’m sure that’s why I felt funky-that and PMS. And it doesn’t get better as you get closer to 50, it gets really strange and you wonder what is inhabited in your body sometime. Anyway, all night, thanks to Facebook’s Scramble (I have a word IQ of between 99 and 101) I was doing words in my head-ten-tent-taint-faint far-fare….you get the picture. Ugha! That was awful. So I couldn’t turn my brain off. Maybe walking around the Mushroom Festival would have helped, but I decided not to go.

I’m thinking a lot about my mom and FIL too. Mom’s a little snippy. I was coming down tomorrow so Colleen can do my hair, but my brother’s friend lost his mom last week and they are going to the funeral. (the lady felt like she had heartburn for 3 days, but she also weighed over 250, but none the less, that is scary stuff). I said to mom that while she was having her eye surgery, I’d run to get my hair done first. She’s only 5 miles away at the hospital and she said she’ll be there 3-4 hours anyway from 9:30 (when the surgery is suppose to take place). I know they are never on time from my experience with the biopsy last November. So mom said I’d have to call the short procedure to see if she was ready to go home, in a snippy way. I think it will work out.

Not sure what I’m doing today-need to wake up!

Here’s what I did on Saturday, inside during all the rain:

I added some fall garland, leaf candles and some aluminum pieces I had. My mom gave me the little Holly Hobbie recently. I also had bought the candle in front of the mantel clock and was trying to figure out where it would look nice. I love those mosaic pieces I found on deep discount at Value City a few years ago. There’s a string of 5 flickering lanterns that don’t show up well here.

Thanks for everyone who offered help with chosing a tv. It sure isn’t an easy task!

And Jennifer and whoever may have signed up for the J. Holdsworthy meeting at the SS, I signed up too! Yeah!

Sep5

Show & Tell #8

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This is my Barbie case from 1968 or so (I may have gotten it between 1968-1970)

Here are the ‘girls’ and guy(!) that were inside: one Barbie, three Francies, 2 Stacies and one Skipper. I believe Skipper was one of that last Mattel dolls I got. GI Joe is missing his hands. Not sure why he is in there, maybe my younger brother put him in there.

And here are some of the clothes. I thought I had more than this, but maybe they weren’t put away and got tossed. Remember, all these things are probably at least 40 years old!

I plan to clean them up a bit before I put them away today. I’ll pretend I’m 9 again. I need to think this way sometimes, don’t you?

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So I am a bit bummed as one of my favorite places to go online looks like it dissolved today. Tribe.net no longer has a web address. One of my friends there joined Facebook to find me. I have meet some awesome people there, some I know are friends for life. My good friends also have Flickr and Facebook accounts.

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And to save the best for last….look what Lee for Lake Stitcher sent me in the mail yesterday, a day I needed a bit of sunshine:

It’s a covered Altoid’s tin filled with chamomile tea because she knows my tummy acts up once in a while. I so appreciate the thoughtfulness from a fellow Pennsylvanian. She told me to keep my chin up in this interesting time of our life when parents and hormonal changes can bring you down. Thanks again Lee!

Have a great weekend!

Aug5

Look that this mop top!

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And mop bottom too! LOL

milkweed tussock moth caterpillar on the wrong plant to have a snack, originally uploaded by DianthusMoon.

I always wondered what these caterpillars were. A little google search lead me to the correct page-they are Milkweed Tussock Moths. They are kinda pretty with their silvery wings when they turn into moths.

And of course they seem like they this area of PA. They have devoured the milkweed which I save for the Monarch! Hopefully the Monarchs got their fill of the tender milkweed they prefer.

Went to the dentist and they got kinda quiet. Without x-rays, he found 5 small cavities in my front teeth, but they can wait until the insurance turns over in January. He gave me a special paste I have to apply before bed to help my aging, barely holding in there teeth (so I exaggerate-seems many of my family members are good at that lately!) My dilemmas!!

Kudos to my friend Karin for landing a great job as a Culinary instructor at a Vo-tech school! She just graduated in December from culinary school and had a job with sporadic hours, so she is happy to get this one.
Jim needs another operation to fix his nose. I am so sick about wondering about how he hurt himself so badly.