Jan13

Me,me,me meme

Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 by Dianne

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.

I tag Barbara, Sharon, Vonna, Mindy and Carole.

Jan13

Wordless photo

Posted on Sunday, January 13, 2008 by Dianne

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Jan12

Photo Hunt-Skinny

Posted on Saturday, January 12, 2008 by Dianne

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Skinny? Gee, how many things fall into that category? Here, we aren’t skinny in body. I do have a snake photo somewhere (of the garden variety) but I thought this fit (again kudos to Longwood Gardens-I most thankfully renewed my yearly membership!):

Grab the Scavenger Hunt code.Photo Theme. Join the blogroll. Visit participants.

It’s one of several very tall and skinny lamp posts that flank the sidewalks. I bet they are very old too.

Jan11

3 weeks already!

Posted on Friday, January 11, 2008 by Dianne

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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

Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 by Dianne

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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

Posted on Thursday, January 10, 2008 by Dianne

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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

Posted on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 by Dianne

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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. : (

Jan9

All American girl

Posted on Wednesday, January 9, 2008 by Dianne

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How many of you remember Dorothy Hamill from the 1976 Winter Olympics? I surely do and loved watching every second of her performances on ice-that ‘Hamill camel’, well if you were around then, you know all about that. I even got a wedge haircut during my senior year of high school. I was sad to read that she is now (at age 51) being treated for breast cancer. She plans to undergo treatment and then return to the ice show later this month. I wish her well! By the way, I had no idea she was a heavy smoker in those early skating days (info from the internet).

She has a new book too!

With her daughter Alex (now age 19)

“I wasn’t particularly athletic or gifted, but I loved it. I’d be at the skating rink all day long, just skating around and around. I could be all alone and nobody could get near me and I didn’t have to talk to anybody. I was in my fantasy world.”

Please remember to click the link to give ladies free mammograms.

Jan8

Happy birthday Ken!

Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by Dianne

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My youngest brother Ken is blowing out 41 candles today! So I wanted him to be a girl so badly all those years ago. The first time I saw him, well I wanted to be his 3rd mommy (he had my mom and grandmom living under the same roof too) and forgot the sister wish. I think he’s come a long way over the years. He’s a great family man and can build just about anything! He’s a nice and funny guy who is in some ways like Elvis (who would have had a birthday today too). He can sing and play guitar and looks a wee bit like Elvis too. Hope he has a great evening.

Ken and family-this past Halloween! See the lovely crown moulding and pillars-he put them in himself!

Jan8

Getting things done

Posted on Tuesday, January 8, 2008 by Dianne

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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.