Jan16

Sitting here anxious

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I’ve heard nothing about my uncle’s operation. The poor man (he’ll be 84 in June) has been through so much this past year. He’s got a lot of spunk like his mom did.

~Update-My uncle had his operation about 2 this afternoon. Looks like he’ll have to go in the rehab home again which cost him so much. Mom said he sounded ok, but groggy.

I did take a photo of my acquired JoAnn goodies:
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I especially like the trees with the button and spools for bases. They aren’t straight up and down, but that adds to the cuteness of them. The other things are basically natural looking ornaments.

Sean went back to classes today. He only has to get up early 3 days out of 5-smart thinking. His first class is at 1. He’s a little nervous, but he’ll get back in the groove again.

Jan16

I am trying to smile

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Oy vey
Holy Toledo! I was in the dentist’s chair from 1-5 today! Dr Cutie Pie B. Oh yeah, he is cute!decided to ‘do it all’ in one visit. Every freaking corner of my mouth was worked on. The worst was left for the last-a crown was taken off (felt like like a lightbulb breaking in my mouth) to repair a cavity on a dead tooth under there. I have a temp crown until the 29th and I hope it stays on. I had 4 fillings and a chip fixed. I was shot up with Novacaine 3 times and also lasered (my poor gum under the crown had to be lasered away a bit along with two of the cavities). I just took Tylenol as my numbness is receding a bit.

Not to just talk about my own sorry self-My Uncle is in the hospital as he took a spill and hurt his hip. My Mom left a message here around 3 and that’s all anyone knows as we can’t get in touch with her. I’ll keep you posted.

~Update-My Uncle did fracture his hip and is having surgery tomorrow to repair it. He is so unsteady on his feet at times. I just hated leaving him last night. I’m wondering if he goes back to the rehab place? My mom told his stepdaughters (who live close to him) that she isn’t well and has her eye surgery coming up. I think even though UD hasn’t been nice to them lately, they will help for my mom’s sake.

Off to veg and watch the Golden Globes.

Jan14

Run around

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Sean and I decided to go down to my Mom’s and to also drop off my brother Ken’s birthday gift (his b/d was on the 8th). So we got there and Mom was just beat. She is getting herself in a terrible stew over her impending cataract surgery coming up on the 25th. She isn’t eating well and since her shopping excursion with us on Wednesday, she’s been mainly laying around. So we went over to Ken’s and he liked his amber guitar lamp I got him even though mom said little Kenny already had one. What’s the difference, I was giving it to big Ken! Ken got the family a new Mac computer with a 22″ monitor-wow-it’s big! I like what we have, though I saw on the screen capture of my old blog that my header was too short which I didn’t even know. Ken put on James Taylor music on the stereo for me which I thought was cute.
Mom didn’t want to go to a nearby shopping center, so we bid her adieu and I went to JoAnn’s and Sean went to Circuit City. Here JoAnn’s was having a big sale (looked like you needed a coupon), but I got adorable Northern Woods ornaments (natural looking) for 75% off. Their pink ticket items were further reduced 50% off. I got an embellishment style cross stitch kit of a koi fish pond for only $5. I think I spent $50 on 30 things-so you know I got some decent buys. I believe the sale is on until tomorrow. I hope to photograph some of the goodies I bought.
We had to drop food and medical stuff off at my Uncle’s before dinner, so we drove in a 50 mile circle going through many towns we haven’t been in for a while. There are a lot of new shopping centers and developments going up. We passed the  restaurant where we had our engagement dinner, a seafood place called Bobby’s 24 yrs ago. Now it’s a Japanese restaurant!
My Uncle is doing okay. Sean thought he didn’t look as good as he looked at the end of December. I had saved and froze for him some portions of chili and spaghetti and Colleen sent him a goodie basket of snacks and cookies plus homemade soup.
Tomorrow is my big dental appointment. I hope to get on here later in the afternoon to update ya’ll.

Jan13

More football

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The Eagles are in the play-offs down in New Orleans. The guys are in their Eagle shirts and have their eyeballs glued to the tv. The only good thing-I can stay on the computer as long as I want. Think I’ll go make a collage or something. I’ll let you know how it goes. Just don’t show too many Campbell Soup commercials of Donovan McNabb eating clam chowder-not cool.

Jan13

Photo Hunt-Technology

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Snowflake tech
So what am I saying here? Well you can go to that neat snowflake website and make them electronically or you can get a Origami book and paper (or a day to day calendar-that’s where the purple designs came from) and get the tactile pleasure of cutting out your own snowflakes! Each has their advantages and disadvantages and I like them both but I have more memories of non-tech snowflakes especially making some lately with my 7.5 yr old niece.

Jan12

Having fun with WordPress

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I’ve been playing with the side bar getting things in order. It’s really a fun place to blog. I moved Cosmo’s blog here too (see the sidebar). I just saw that is you move your mouse over the links, the owner’s blogger homepage comes up! I can’t figure out how to fix the time though. I hope if I ever close my blogger account that all my photos ‘won’t vanish’ because many of them were uploaded to blogger.Not much new-Target store security called me tonight and indeed Sean was overcharged (they review their video). Sean has to go back up there and get his moola-within 90 days. It does pay to complain.

Sorry if I ruined it for any of you European people with telling you what’s going on between Meredith and Derrick. I forgot!

Jan11

Snoring is an issue

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So I could relate to Dr. ‘McDreamy’ not being able to sleep with Meredith because of her snoring on Grey’s Anatomy tonight. Bri says I snore too, but not like he does when the roof sounds like it will cave in. I always wonder if I will trip over a pile of wood in the morning from all the ‘sawing’ that is going on during the night. Unfortunately, we have had trouble sleeping together for a while. I’m hoping we can get over that. I could relate to Meredith when she said that Derrick sleeping somewhere else causes her to have abandonment issues. (She also has a father that left her). I guess these things make the show seem more real to me.

It was a cleaning day here after my mom left around 2. I thought I had packed up the last of the Christmas stuff (I am sorting older things and consolidating them) when I found yet another two bags of stuff. I found adorable Martha Stewart mini jingle bell candy canes and Christmas trees still wired to their packaging. I also found all of Sean’s Disney characters that I use to collect for him when he was little. You should see the trash for tomorrow! I asked Brian to bring up a crate that was haphazardly resting on two stacked chairs (yep it’s that bad in the cave). The crate contains Halloween stuff! So now I’m going in reverse. I don’t plan to save too much of it, but Bri had a laugh when he said a skeleton hand was sticking out from under the lid of the crate. ; )

Jan11

Good shopping day

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j66419.jpgThe ring!My mom drove out by early afternoon (she is staying overnight), so we took a drive up to the outlets in Lancaster which are about 33 miles away. Sean saw that Borders books had a new store in Rockvale (checking closing time on web) and we knew that would be a dangerous place to go. At first we couldn’t find it. We went to one book store, but it was way too expensive. Sean and I left mom in that bookstore and got some Pepperidge Farms goodies next door. Then we went around the corner to the QVC outlet store and my mom bought me two lovely rings! They are sterling silver and the one has all tiny teardrop shaped abalone shells in a pattern on a dome and the other is a ‘bounty of 10 marquise-shaped, colorful gemstones beam atop this stunning sterling silver ring’s tapered band. The stones, which include blue jade, pink jade (mine doesn’t have the pink ), green jade, rhodolite, peridot, and blue topaz, are prong set in two diagonal rows.’ (from QVC website)
  I love them!We did find Borders and both mom and I did some damage in there. I got a few cross stitch hardback books (like I really need them) and craft books and she got calendars, art books and paperbacks.

We ate at Fuddruckers (a hamburger place) after we had walked around Target. We found out that the woman charged Sean for 3 NFL champion t-shirts instead of the two he actually bought. Don’t worry, I called them up right away when we got home (when he discovered the overcharge) and he has 90 days to get his money back. I told them coming back up there was a lot of trouble for their salesperson making a mistake.

Our last stop-Gap and we had the entire store to ourselves (no one was shopping in this actual bitter winter weather. I got a bunch of long sleeved t-shirts that I love plus a few other things.

So it was a good day and we have lot of books to entertain us if it actually snows this winter!