🙂 Yes, Chas. How about them Tigers? (And the Clemson Tigers proved the Buckeyes are just an empty shell with an “easy” schedule.)
😦 Cold weather. Tomorrow and Monday are going to be below zero, even for Monday’s high!
🙂 But at least the extreme cold gets rid of some of the summer bugs, like mosquitos and gnats. Imagine what it would be like if we didn’t get the cold weather? The Upper MidWest would be uninhabitable.
😦 So much to do, I don’t know where to begin. And I want to play hooky from it all, go back to bed, read, jump in the car and drive somewhere, just run away from it all. 😉 I did get one large bag of Christmas things packed up and away last night. Now for the rest of it.
😦 Still can’t find my friend with Parkinson’s, hoping to make a couple more calls today to some local rehab facilities, maybe stop by his apartment again to see if anyone’s around who might know more about his whereabouts.
😦 🙂 Long week working, but it was productive & it went fairly fast, although I missed having new year’s day off. But I did manage to get the dogs in for a professional grooming — they look and feel and smell so soft and civilized.
🙂 As much as I love Christmas, it’s sort of good to have the holiday craziness over with. Although January can be very boring. No more days-off type holidays for us until Memorial Day and that’s a very long time from January.
😦 Found all kinds of useless warranty info on items we no longer have, multiple instruction booklets in different languages for different items, but still no warranty for the stove. Guess I’ll keep looking.
🙂 The Kid and I have been watching the extended version of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Christmas break.
😦 It is about 12 hours long and is on 6 discs. We watch a disc a night and I dream about Orcs. Just one disc left.
kbells, I’m halfway thru the second film which I watch while I walk on the treadmill and ride the exercise bike. Apparently I don’t work out enough as this has been on the computer for months now 🙂
😦 Looks like we’ll need to purchase a new stove. Any suggestions for good brands? Our neighbour (former appliance repair man and wonderful snow plough man) suggested Whirlpool as the ones they saw least in their shop.
Kare I’m so sorry about your stove….how frustrating. When we moved into this home, the previous owners had all Kenmore appliances in the kitchen..10 year old d/w, cooktop, oven…they were all dying..or dead. We replaced the oven and cooktop with Whirlpool, as that is what we had in our former home. We had Whirlpool appliances for 24 years and they were still fine, but, we wanted to sell the home with new appliances for a more enticing sell….Whirlpool hasn’t let us down yet.
🙂 Lots of dogs at our dog park today, too. Cowboy’s pooped and his fluffy, newly-groomed coat took a little bit of a beating. Our local dog sitter — who moved away to the mountains about 1-2 years ago — is back in town house/dog sitting for someone, so it was fun to see her again. Some of their recent mornings have been down to about 7 degrees, but no snow right now, it’s warming up too much everywhere around here.
Donna, my friend G uses a great dog sitting service in downtown LA. They text him photos every day of Baby taking a walk and doing her business. He is quite impressed with them.
Kim, please tell me that doesn’t mean they send him photos saying, “See, here she is doing #1, and here’s proof of #2.”??
🙂 We’re all safe and warm.
😦 We’re all bracing for this storm, which my husband says has the highest accumulation totals of any storm warnings he has heard since he has lived here (about 15 years).
🙂 It’s nice to have a husband to cuddle with, and it’s great to know we’re in God’s hands.
😦 Church is cancelled and, with it, my husband substitute teaching in Sunday school and our monthly church dinner.
🙂 God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.
Hmmm. I’m cuddling with … the dogs. Oh well. 🙂 As Cheryl said, God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.
🙂 Kim, that’s the latest in dog sitting — emailed photos, even live video cams that owners can click onto while their away to watch their “babies.” Dogs are big in LA.
😦 I think we’ll be staying home from church tomorrow as well. Doesn’t seem wise to be out on the road in a jeep that’s passed 300,000km at -52F windchill. The sermon should be up by Tuesday and maybe we can listen to an older one tomorrow morning.
My favourite scene is where they’re all gathered outside the gates of Mordor and Gimli says “Certainty of death, *small* chance of success. What are we waiting for?”
Being in SoCal, where it’ll be 60-70 degrees & sunny tomorrow, I’m off to church as usual in the morning, in my ’07 Jeep Liberty, picking up Norma, my ride.
Wonder how Jeeps will be when the Italians start making them. ? 🙂
Our sermon tomorrow is from Psalm 73:23-28 —
“(26) My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.”
Donna, having two dogs and a cat to snuggle with is something (though Annie may well say “Count me out!”), at least if your dogs cuddle more willingly than Misten does. And it isn’t like you have “frightful” weather anyway. (Nor do we, so far. We’re several hours into this big storm, as predicted, and so far little to show for it.)
🙂 Oh, but Cheryl, you should see the dense fog we’re getting here on the coast these days. It is frightful!
Actually, Annie’s turned out to be more a cuddler than my dogs. 😉
Tess never learned the art of lying quietly & politely next to me or at the foot of the bed. Instead, she insists of hurling all 50 pounds of herself on top of my head and face, smothering me as I struggle to get free.
I saw part of a game in a Whatchamaycallit Bowl (I’ve never heard of them. They played in chilly Birmingham.)
I thought of them when I saw this cartoon in the paper. It may show up Friday.
The Llady with the Mic at the bowl game was asking a player “How does it feel to be playing in the “Depends Super Absorbant Adult Diaper Bowl?”
He says, “The word Humiliated comes to mind”.
I think the naming of bowls and buildings after products has gone too far.
South Carolina moved it’s basketball from the Frank McGuire Collesium to the Colonial Life Collesium. Just so we know where the money came from.
It was the BBVA Compass Bowl. After watching their commercial, I still don’t understand what it’s about.
Tonight is the GoDaddy Bowl in which Arkansas State plays Ball State.
I may not watch that.
Chas, I think I’m done with football for the year, too. I’ve lost the poll and my team has played their last game. Of course, Hubby’s team has some little game some time tomorrow.
We have had a good bit of snow today, at least half a foot so far on top of the half a foot or so from a few days ago. Deep-freeze temperatures and wind the next couple days will make it brutal (highs below zero, winds up to 20-35). I have no plans to go anywhere the next few days. My husband has a Tuesday medical app’t he may switch to Wednesday.
Misten doesn’t like cuddling either. She doesn’t trust the woman who grooms her (me) not to find at least one mat and attempt to remove it. She knows my husband won’t groom her, so she feels safer with him petting her, though it’s probably a toss-up which one of us she likes more, otherwise. But sometimes I just make her submit to a few minutes of petting, telling her that this is why I got a long-haired dog and she has to put up with it. And she’s good about it when I make her stay and not walk away. And then sometimes I catch her relaxing into it and forgetting she isn’t supposed to like it–but that’s usually one of the rare times I can control myself and not groom her at all. 🙂
😦 More stupid “drama” from R one evening this week, but at least he didn’t have Forrest with him at the time.
😦 After the drama settled down, while my stress level was still up, I found out that my tenants will not be able to move out by the end of the month, which was supposed to be the deadline. So, we don’t know when they’ll find a place. This is very discouraging for me, to say the least.
😦 Some people here are going to yell at me for extending the deadline (which is really no deadline anymore). But I don’t know what else to do. They are actively looking, & have started packing, but are having trouble finding a place they can afford, & where they can keep their pets.
🙂 God is still in control, He still loves me, & I love Him.
🙂 We’ve had many very peaceful days so far this year, me and my family. I’m drinking in all these blessings God has given me, and it’s been so very wonderful so much of the time. Life has changed, and it is very good.
Wandering Views 
😦 Ihave an e-mail that says< Congratulations! Your ATT bill is now available to be viewed by video>
I’m supposed to jump up and down for joy?
🙂 Gamecocks beat them Badgters.
🙂 😦 Mary’s still waiting. She’s getting impatient, but little Graham has his own schedule.
😦 It’s 19 degrees in Hendersonville
🙂 It isn’t snowing and the wind isn’t blowing.
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PeterL should be happy. His Mizzou Tigers have shown that they can play football in eht SEC. A&M too, BTW. I think Gamecocks play A&M next year.
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🙂 Yes, Chas. How about them Tigers? (And the Clemson Tigers proved the Buckeyes are just an empty shell with an “easy” schedule.)
😦 Cold weather. Tomorrow and Monday are going to be below zero, even for Monday’s high!
🙂 But at least the extreme cold gets rid of some of the summer bugs, like mosquitos and gnats. Imagine what it would be like if we didn’t get the cold weather? The Upper MidWest would be uninhabitable.
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😦 So very cold today. Windchills of -45F today.
😦 Stove wrecked this week. So now, no dishwasher, no stove! I think I’ve caught Michelle’s appliance-iris 🙂
🙂 Lots of wood in the wood room – furnace still chugging away
🙂 I don’t have to go anywhere today
🙂 We’re not snowed in.
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That was supposed to be “appliance-itis”
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Get they warranty. That’s the only thing that works for me!
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🙂 It is beautiful and sunny outside.
😦 It is cold outside
🙂 Like Peter said. We need the cold weather to control the mosquitoes, fleas, and other bugs.
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I think we did get the warranty, however, there was no paperwork for it in our warranty file!!! Still hoping to find it.
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🙂 Saturday.
😦 So much to do, I don’t know where to begin. And I want to play hooky from it all, go back to bed, read, jump in the car and drive somewhere, just run away from it all. 😉 I did get one large bag of Christmas things packed up and away last night. Now for the rest of it.
😦 Still can’t find my friend with Parkinson’s, hoping to make a couple more calls today to some local rehab facilities, maybe stop by his apartment again to see if anyone’s around who might know more about his whereabouts.
😦 🙂 Long week working, but it was productive & it went fairly fast, although I missed having new year’s day off. But I did manage to get the dogs in for a professional grooming — they look and feel and smell so soft and civilized.
🙂 As much as I love Christmas, it’s sort of good to have the holiday craziness over with. Although January can be very boring. No more days-off type holidays for us until Memorial Day and that’s a very long time from January.
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😦 Found all kinds of useless warranty info on items we no longer have, multiple instruction booklets in different languages for different items, but still no warranty for the stove. Guess I’ll keep looking.
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Ha, Kare, I’ve had that happen to me, too. Lots of warranties for things I have only vague recollections of owning way back when. 🙂
Current warranties, however, are always more elusive and hard to lay your hands on when you need them.
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🙂 Headache appears to be gone.
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🙂 The Kid and I have been watching the extended version of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy on Christmas break.
😦 It is about 12 hours long and is on 6 discs. We watch a disc a night and I dream about Orcs. Just one disc left.
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🙂 Dishes done.
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kbells, I’m halfway thru the second film which I watch while I walk on the treadmill and ride the exercise bike. Apparently I don’t work out enough as this has been on the computer for months now 🙂
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Kare, but I bet you go faster if you imagine you are being chased by orcs.
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hehehe, yep, that just might work 🙂
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🙂 We had a really nice time with Mom/GrandMa visiting for a week. 🙂
😦 But Mom/GrandMa went home today. 😦
🙂 But she made it safely with no problems. 🙂
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😦 Baby, it’s cold outside.
🙂 I can stay in for the most part and have lots to do.
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It was warm enough and DRY enough to take Lulabelle to the dog park! There were lots of dogs and she is worn out.
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We just got in from playing outside for a couple of hours. It is warmer inside than outside.
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It’s not suppose to get cold here until tomorrow night. It’s only about 45 now.
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🙂 Still colder than all of you!
😦 Looks like we’ll need to purchase a new stove. Any suggestions for good brands? Our neighbour (former appliance repair man and wonderful snow plough man) suggested Whirlpool as the ones they saw least in their shop.
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Kare I’m so sorry about your stove….how frustrating. When we moved into this home, the previous owners had all Kenmore appliances in the kitchen..10 year old d/w, cooktop, oven…they were all dying..or dead. We replaced the oven and cooktop with Whirlpool, as that is what we had in our former home. We had Whirlpool appliances for 24 years and they were still fine, but, we wanted to sell the home with new appliances for a more enticing sell….Whirlpool hasn’t let us down yet.
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🙂 Lots of dogs at our dog park today, too. Cowboy’s pooped and his fluffy, newly-groomed coat took a little bit of a beating. Our local dog sitter — who moved away to the mountains about 1-2 years ago — is back in town house/dog sitting for someone, so it was fun to see her again. Some of their recent mornings have been down to about 7 degrees, but no snow right now, it’s warming up too much everywhere around here.
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Donna, my friend G uses a great dog sitting service in downtown LA. They text him photos every day of Baby taking a walk and doing her business. He is quite impressed with them.
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Kim, please tell me that doesn’t mean they send him photos saying, “See, here she is doing #1, and here’s proof of #2.”??
🙂 We’re all safe and warm.
😦 We’re all bracing for this storm, which my husband says has the highest accumulation totals of any storm warnings he has heard since he has lived here (about 15 years).
🙂 It’s nice to have a husband to cuddle with, and it’s great to know we’re in God’s hands.
😦 Church is cancelled and, with it, my husband substitute teaching in Sunday school and our monthly church dinner.
🙂 God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.
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Hmmm. I’m cuddling with … the dogs. Oh well. 🙂 As Cheryl said, God’s in His heaven, all’s right with the world.
🙂 Kim, that’s the latest in dog sitting — emailed photos, even live video cams that owners can click onto while their away to watch their “babies.” Dogs are big in LA.
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Oops. They’re. We all need editors.
http://www.nationalmemo.com/honoring-the-word-police/
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😦 I think we’ll be staying home from church tomorrow as well. Doesn’t seem wise to be out on the road in a jeep that’s passed 300,000km at -52F windchill. The sermon should be up by Tuesday and maybe we can listen to an older one tomorrow morning.
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🙂 Finished LOTR. All’s well in Middle Earth.
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My favourite scene is where they’re all gathered outside the gates of Mordor and Gimli says “Certainty of death, *small* chance of success. What are we waiting for?”
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Being in SoCal, where it’ll be 60-70 degrees & sunny tomorrow, I’m off to church as usual in the morning, in my ’07 Jeep Liberty, picking up Norma, my ride.
Wonder how Jeeps will be when the Italians start making them. ? 🙂
Our sermon tomorrow is from Psalm 73:23-28 —
“(26) My flesh and my heart may fail,
but God is the strength of my heart
and my portion forever.”
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An encouraging verse Donna. Thanks.
Looking forward to another Sunday in my home church. It is my real home.
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Donna, having two dogs and a cat to snuggle with is something (though Annie may well say “Count me out!”), at least if your dogs cuddle more willingly than Misten does. And it isn’t like you have “frightful” weather anyway. (Nor do we, so far. We’re several hours into this big storm, as predicted, and so far little to show for it.)
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Kare, I like that scene and I love Gimli, but my favorite is when everyone bows to the Hobbits.
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🙂 Oh, but Cheryl, you should see the dense fog we’re getting here on the coast these days. It is frightful!
Actually, Annie’s turned out to be more a cuddler than my dogs. 😉
Tess never learned the art of lying quietly & politely next to me or at the foot of the bed. Instead, she insists of hurling all 50 pounds of herself on top of my head and face, smothering me as I struggle to get free.
It’s all or nothing with her.
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Donna, what are you doing up at 5:30???
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🙂 Jo, I wasn’t up for long. 🙂
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I saw part of a game in a Whatchamaycallit Bowl (I’ve never heard of them. They played in chilly Birmingham.)
I thought of them when I saw this cartoon in the paper. It may show up Friday.
The Llady with the Mic at the bowl game was asking a player “How does it feel to be playing in the “Depends Super Absorbant Adult Diaper Bowl?”
He says, “The word Humiliated comes to mind”.
I think the naming of bowls and buildings after products has gone too far.
South Carolina moved it’s basketball from the Frank McGuire Collesium to the Colonial Life Collesium. Just so we know where the money came from.
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It was the BBVA Compass Bowl. After watching their commercial, I still don’t understand what it’s about.
Tonight is the GoDaddy Bowl in which Arkansas State plays Ball State.
I may not watch that.
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Chas, I think I’m done with football for the year, too. I’ve lost the poll and my team has played their last game. Of course, Hubby’s team has some little game some time tomorrow.
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🙂 Good sermon on Ps. 73 today.
🙂 Stocked up at the store on the way home, bought lots of fresh veggies & some honey crisp apples for work lunches.
🙂 Surreal, it’s 75 degrees and sunny out here today but I’m watching all these news clips covering the “deep freeze” everywhere else.
🙂 All the indoor Christmas stuff is bagged and put away. Just the outdoor lights left.
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My husband is watching the Packers. From inside.
We have had a good bit of snow today, at least half a foot so far on top of the half a foot or so from a few days ago. Deep-freeze temperatures and wind the next couple days will make it brutal (highs below zero, winds up to 20-35). I have no plans to go anywhere the next few days. My husband has a Tuesday medical app’t he may switch to Wednesday.
Misten doesn’t like cuddling either. She doesn’t trust the woman who grooms her (me) not to find at least one mat and attempt to remove it. She knows my husband won’t groom her, so she feels safer with him petting her, though it’s probably a toss-up which one of us she likes more, otherwise. But sometimes I just make her submit to a few minutes of petting, telling her that this is why I got a long-haired dog and she has to put up with it. And she’s good about it when I make her stay and not walk away. And then sometimes I catch her relaxing into it and forgetting she isn’t supposed to like it–but that’s usually one of the rare times I can control myself and not groom her at all. 🙂
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😦 More stupid “drama” from R one evening this week, but at least he didn’t have Forrest with him at the time.
😦 After the drama settled down, while my stress level was still up, I found out that my tenants will not be able to move out by the end of the month, which was supposed to be the deadline. So, we don’t know when they’ll find a place. This is very discouraging for me, to say the least.
😦 Some people here are going to yell at me for extending the deadline (which is really no deadline anymore). But I don’t know what else to do. They are actively looking, & have started packing, but are having trouble finding a place they can afford, & where they can keep their pets.
🙂 God is still in control, He still loves me, & I love Him.
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Mats make me crazy and I’ll try to pull them apart or just grab scissors and cut them out. I guess that would make a poor dog wary of ‘cuddling.’
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I am not going to yell at you, Karen, I am going to give you a big hug and tell you I am sorry things are so heavy right now.
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Oh, thank you so much, Mumsee. That means a lot to me. 🙂
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Oh, Karen, how discouraging for you. No advice, just compassion for a very hard time being extended.
And, in my compassion, I also got 49 again. 🙂
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🙂 We’ve had many very peaceful days so far this year, me and my family. I’m drinking in all these blessings God has given me, and it’s been so very wonderful so much of the time. Life has changed, and it is very good.
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