After I got home I asked for a full shot in front of the decorated window. I have a kitty attached to my skirt. Do you like my socks?

My mom and her only granddaughter Tori.

I just got in from a wild goose chase. Let me explain-I had my mammogram at 11:00 and the tech was so fast she got me out of there by 11:25. (I gave her a pink crystal breast cancer awareness pin as a ‘kind gesture’ and she was really thrilled with it). So I got in the van and decided to go down the pike (rt 1) to about 4 exits to where the driver’s license photo center is. It was a nice ride as I got to see the leaves changing and all the animals like cows, horses and sheep out to pasture. My friend Zoey thought I lived in a more urban area, no way! I talk about Philly a lot but I do not want to live there. So I got to the center, it’s closed on Mondays! Terrific! But I did get a buy one get one free whooper for Sean and me for lunch with the remainder of the Entertainment.com coupons. Looks like we are having a light din din tonight.

Bri finally checked out the Powerball lottery ticket from last night-get this-we had 3 matching numbers-so we won $7!!! Wow-lucky seven. (We didn’t have the powerball). If we had matched 4-$100 and 5-$200,000! Can you believe that? So close, the closest we’ve been since we’ve been playing weekly (about a year now). It’s fun, it benefits senior citizens and it’s definitely not like Atlantic City’s slots.

I didn’t do too much today. I had to rearrange my sidebar and republish the blog like 10 times. I hope you like my countdown ticket. That was hard to find. I had to shrink it down along with a few other badges. I also made some postcards as a group of pals on tribe and me are exchanging them. I can’t wait to see what they come up with and I hope they picked Halloween too. : )

Bri finally got out the Sirius radio his dad got him in a promo from Atlantic City. He’s had it since February. We had $150 worth of gift cards and it only cost us $7 out of pocket for a year. I want Bri to put it in his car, but he wants to use it in the house to get use to it. I wouldn’t mind hearing some of the talk shows, etc. I hear are on there.

On the spur of the moment last night, genius me decided to see how the new oven self-cleaned without opening the manual. I pushed a few buttons and got it to do a light clean. It got somewhat smokey and smelly in here. I finally did get out the manual and it said to take out the racks-ahh-I didn’t. So I cancelled the clean. I have to wipe the racks off a bit, but it really didn’t clean anything-15 minutes wasn’t long enough to do so. And the ovens ‘lock’, so I had to wait for an hour to see what was going on. I forgot to mention I was only trying to clean the little top oven. I think I’ll wait a while until it is really dirty. I don’t tend to make too much of a mess in the oven unless I forget to put a pan under something and it boils over.

I believe my ‘new’ blogger look (to me and Lynn at least) is from the IE7. I will move or delete the bigger items in the sidebar. Thanks for those of you who replied. Do you know what you are using? Lynn said Foxfire. I heard that it was a good.

Brian decided to download Internet Explorer 7 tonight as we were have problems with viewing videos. It changed the entire look of the web, especially font. I heard Blogger was down most of the evening. I got on and noticed my sidebar is messed up. So I don’t know if it’s from Blogger or IE7. I went into my template and moved it over and it was fine in the preview,but not so after publishing it.
Can you tell me if you are seeing my sidebar overlapping my posts? Thanks!
Have a great Sunday.

Sean wanted to get the oil changed in his car, so I found a coupon in the Entertainment.com book (you have to get one) for a place about 20 minutes away in Tallyville, DE (the book is for DE since we live so close, and there are some PA coupons in it too). So we went to the Firestone place looking to send $15 and spent close to $600! We opened a credit account with them. The guy said we needed a battery and new tires. I knew about the battery, but he said the tires were really wearing down like an old rubberband (have you heard that one?)And then then the tires had to be aligned, so we got that too-lifetime alignment. I have to know Sean is safe driving back and forth and when he takes the car to school with him next year. He has a used car, so I want things to be in top condition. So, he has the money for the above, which is nice too. Glad he worked this year. Now we have two freebie oil changes and we’ll be taking the van back in a week or so.

We were going to go to the movies at 4:00 and missed that show, so we went to the 7:30 viewing of ‘Man of the Year’ starring Robin Williams, Laura Linney, Christopher Walken and who we just saw in person- Lewis Black. It was an okay movie. Lewis had a decent role in it. But Robin, was just too much like the real Robin (he was playing a comedian afterall). I heard that Jon Stewart would have been good, but it was like a play of his role on ‘The Daily Show’. I don’t see people going bonkers to vote for Jon Stewart (I like him though).

Before the movie we had gone to the mall for a few hours and ate at Ruby Tuesday (the triple prime burger is really delicious) and Sean picked out a few birthday presents-a Perry Ellis wallet and Penn State pj bottoms.

We got home to learn that Brian’s car had broken down on him in Amish country-the starter died! He had been having some problems with it lately, had someone else check it out and he found nothing). He hurt his knee walking across 6 lines of highway to get to a dealership. He got ‘soaked’ a bit for the towing (like 75 feet) and the repair. When it rains it pours.

I haven’t posted any stitching photos lately because I’ve only been working on one thing, the neighborhood round robin for the last month. I thought we were going to try and get them in the mail in November, but now it’s January. I love how it’s turning out, so I bet Annemarie will enjoy it too.

I just ordered myself some charts for my The Prairie Schooler collection and some fabrics for Sugar Maple Fabrics. I wanted a pretty green for The PS Christmas trees (stitched in the shape of Christmas trees!) and I picked a pretty pastel piece too. I can’t expect my family to know what I like and need, so it’s better for me to chose the above as early bd gifts for myself. I did well with eBay this month (the best sales month in a year!), so I treated myself a little.

Still waiting to hear about the ultrasound from last Wednesday. It was all digital, so I am thinking my doctor had to see the results by now. Crossing fingers.

Anyone out in cyberspace ‘getting into’ any of the new shows? I just watched ‘Six Degrees’ with Campbell Scott. It’s basically about a group of people who are interconnected like the rest of us are suppose to be. Like we aren’t really strangers. I know personally I see people and I look at them and know them from somewhere else. Good show.
And the Tim Daly show ‘The Nine’ is getting good reviews too. It airs right after ‘Lost’, so it has a fairly large audience that hopefully won’t switch the channel. Lots of drama, the ‘nine’ people the show is about were all involved in a bank stand-off. This is worth catching.
I have been watching ‘Heroes’ too. I was drawn into the hype, believe me you! It’s a bit puzzling and there are so gross scenes (of the teen girl who can defy death), but it’s interesting.
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My younger brother Don is coming up for a visit in less than a month from Florida! We haven’t seen him for 4.5 yrs. Our little niece and nephew were only 2 and 5 when they last saw him. This should be interesting as Don says what he’s thinking without thinking that he is hurting feelings. I hope he is at least kind to our mom. He hasn’t seen her at her worst (healthwise). Sometimes when people live alone, they don’t understand why other people can’t be just like them and only see their point of view. With him approaching 46, I had hoped he would come live with mom to help her get her place in shape. Maybe someday.

I finally hung up my leaves and it took a matter of a few minutes. I had seen the idea in a magazine. That’s three of them with one cut in half and used to make it look longer. I may add more to the ends as I think I have more garland down the basement. It’s huge up with cord clips that you are suppose to use to hold you computer cords neatly. Needless to say, Brian never used them and our computer cords are still a jumble. I got the nice size pumpkins for $2.50 each. I see I need to spray paint my metal boot scraper/door mat thingie. There’s always something that needs sprucing up.

Here are my two favorite guys under 20! Well Sean will turn 20 on the 24th and I asked him to pose for me with the kitty.

Anyone else having sinus problems? I have post nasal combined with reflux from dumping too big a breakfast in my very empty tummy. The ultrasounds went well. My whole tummy was done, I mean that entire area. They had a new machine, so it was faster. And I was able to hold 32 oz of water fine. I had problems when I had a coughing attack after I came home. Gee.

I refused to wear shorts anymore this year. That means Brian has to pull the steps down and rummage around the attic for about 5 Spacebags and a plastic box. I use to have all boxes until I got the SpaceBags a few years ago. The big ones won’t stay flat. And they really wrinkle my clothes. I have mostly long sleeve cotton tees in solid colors and dark trousers. I have too many, but I will only part with them when they get seedy looking. I do have a rule that I must fill up a kitchen trash bag for the Goodwill with clothing that never looked good on me. I don’t want to be like my mom in that respect-having entire bedrooms filled with clothing. So it took 4 CDS(I’m warming up for the James Taylor concert this coming Tuesday night) to get most of it switched. The bags are all in the living room right now as I have to suck out the air in them with the vacuum tomorrow and Sean wants to get his stuff down before mine are loaded up there. Brian has one small box or bag-I forget (that’s a guy for you, though Sean has tons of clothes). I can’t find my nightgowns, they may be tucked behind the headboard. I have to go all through this twice a year because we have teeny closets in here. We each have an armoire, but not having a big enough closet is a pain too. I have one bedroom closet, plus half of another-and a hope chest. Guess I just have too many clothes. I take good care of them, so I have them a while.
After church we went to a pizza place in nearby Hockessin so we could use a buy one get one free pizza coupon from the Entertainment book that will expire soon. We got a veggie one and a shrimp pesto one and they were good! Last night I had a tuna and white bean dish along with some mac and cheese. The guys liked the tuna this way! It was really easy and beans are an excellent source of fiber.