🙂 My leg didn’t hurt last night. First time in at least a month. Doesn’t hurt much now. Maybe whatever it is is mending.
(Spellcheck doesn’t want me to use “is” twice. But that’s what I want to say.)
🙂 A decently good report on my toe, which does seem to be slowly healing. (It got hurt in March, so healing is indeed slow, but I understand toe injuries are like that.)
🙂 A fun visit to the zoo with my husband, including an unexpected sighting of a baby wildebeest. (Three adults were lying down, and when the female ostrich came their direction they all stood up and walked away. And as they walked away, among them was a calf.)
🙂 Made mango chicken again last night, doubling the mangoes this time from last. (I used one last time, but there is so little fruit in a mango, and I used two this time. One and a half might be about right. But I’d price-matched mangoes from an Aldi ad for 39 cents each, and so I used two.)
😦 Working on a very unpleasant editing job for an unpublished writer. English isn’t her first language and the subject matter is unpleasant, too.
🙂 Older daughter is making supper tonight. 🙂 Younger daughter–who is more interested in cooking–made lunch earlier in the week, and while it was preparing she even sat down to play the piano for the first time she has done so with people home in months or years, and she’d even bought cookies from a cookie store for dessert. (Younger daughter has a full-time job, and has chosen to buy the ingredients for meals that she makes herself.) 😦 Older daughter would bankrupt us if she makes meals every day–the ingredients for tonight’s meal, with no meat (it has goat cheese) cost $15 for four people. She made it once before and it’s delicious, but wow.
🙂 All the bird photos from my backyard on the Daily Thread.
😦 We had to take down a large tree that provided filtered light and shade over half our backyard.
😦 The birds have been flying by looking for it.
😦 Hotter.
😦 Tree guys were all safe. I don’t like the danger of taking down trees.
🙂 Manuscript came back from freelance editor praising France, “your best writing yet,” finding Egypt “interesting,” and sent me back to the drawing board with England. That’s what a good editor is for.
🙂 😦 I’ve gotten the very basic rewriting needed for the proposal but have to clean up the synopsis today and then start the reorganizing and rewriting.
🙂 Surprisingly peaceful about it and excited about improving the book . . .. but watching the clock ticking away makes me nervous.
So, I’ll take off my watch and hide the calendar!
😦 This is the only day I have to do it.
😦 One of my daughter-in-law’s FB friends commented that her mother-in-law (me) needs to get over there and help out the family ASAP with toilet training and sleep deprivation issues.
😦 She doesn’t know me or my situation (daughter-in-law didn’t ask) but her harsh words threw me for a total loop last night and I’m still struggling with guilt today.
😦 I know this isn’t my fault and I’m not responsible, but it touches a nerve.
🙂 I told my husband he should go help. 🙂
🙂 For the last couple months, the passage of scripture that comes to mind is from Nehemiah (love that book), where Sanbalat and Tobiah send him letters while he’s rebuilding the Jerusalem wall, demanding he appear before them. I love his comment and repeat it often: “I am doing a good work and cannot come down.”
Sanbalat and Tobiah had ulterior motives behind their requests. Most of my well-meaning friends and family are just trying to be nice. That makes it harder to say I cannot come down.
😦 Sigh. Guilt and revenge are part of my genetic makeup–and I wrote the family history to prove it! 🙂
🙂 But! God is in his heaven, other than the above, all’s right and very blessed in my world!
🙂 We’re having dinner with oldest GD and her husband tonight.
Becky is the one with the blog.
They are at a convention in Nashville and will leave about 12:00 (CDST). We will meet in Asheville because to drive to H’ville will cost another hour driving time.
Either Olive Garden or Red Lobster because they are convenient to I-40.
Michelle! Do NOT feel bad. I think that was outrageous and uncalled for. If that happened to me, I would have to laugh – I would be of no help whatsoever. Potty training was the not a good time for me and the kids at all and I will never, ever give advice about how to go about it. 🙂
🙂 Rhubarb lemonade
🙂 Lovely past few days, garden is growing by leaps and bounds – weeds are mostly under control
😦 Lots of migraines lately and along with them whole body pain – not just joints but muscles too.
🙂 Friend from work visiting today
🙂 Husband had a great night at work last night and managed to help me cope with the migraine when he came home at 3:30.
🙂 I get to help in the toddler room again tomorrow with a good friend.
🙂 My husband played music last night with his Monday night jam group. It was to be an outside job, (with another performance this evening) but a downpour just after setting up all the equipment caused it to be moved inside. The group did a good job. A man who said he was a pastor for a local veteran’s club, commented that he really enjoyed them since it was evident they enjoyed playing. They have heard that before. He told my husband he was going to pray for them that they would continue enjoying playing together. My husband thanked him for his prayers. That was unusual. Especially since the place was a casino.
😦 Tommy Ramone died. My husband met him in Nashville. He bought one of the fiddles my husband makes as a hobby.
Michelle, I agree with kare. I cannot imagine why someone thinks their MIL is obligated, whatsoever, to do that. Sorry. Sounds like a spoiled brat to me.
🙂 Slept in today. I love sleeping in. As it says in a FB post going around this week: “Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance: The five stages of waking up.”
😦 Search continues for the body of a teenager who has been missing since Wednesday after diving with friends into a dangerous cove and cave off our coastline. I was out there yesterday just after the search ended for the day and was struck again by how absolutely beautiful the area is — it takes your breath away, the rugged cliffs with the sweep of the ocean as a backdrop — and yet how deadly it can be.
😦 Divers were to resume the search at sun break today, but the work is dangerous due to all the sharp rocks and currents which get stronger in the afternoons. A surge in the tide is expected to come in Sunday so I’m sure they’re hoping to find him today (they think he’s probably still somewhere inside the cave, but it’s dark and treacherous for the divers searching inside those areas).
🙂 My feature on our local cowboy culture finally ran after working on it, off and on, for 6 months (I’d been picking away at it all along, but it continually was pushed to the back burner as daily stories with more urgency needed more focus). I gathered up several videos I’d taken through the months to link with the story and they weren’t too bad (I hadn’t watched them in a while). One of them was taken at the cowboy poetry & song night in January and I was afraid it might turn out ‘shaky’ but it didn’t. And another couple videos the photographer and I took out at some of the stables had as a backdrop the sounds of local peacocks which I hadn’t noticed before. 🙂 One of the cowboys we featured was very happy (and surprised) to be featured in the main photo on our front page the day the story ran.
🙂 Looking forward to church tomorrow, we have a guest speaker from world vision. But we’ll be missing our pastor who is now officially on a combined sabbatical / study break and won’t be back in the pulpit until late September.
🙂 Tess’ thyroid medication is working, her numbers are now ‘perfect.’ I’ve decided I need to play with the dogs more than I do so I’m going to try out a few games with them this weekend in the backyard. Playtime! It’ll do us all some good, I suspect.
Ah, well, cheryl, since you asked 🙂 — it’s certainly not the best thing I’ve written, but it was a sense of accomplishment to finally get it into print after so long. And the people I’d interviewed were also glad to *finally* see it at long last. 🙄 I think they had their doubts I’d ever finish it.
🙂 Husband was watched by a young wolf while out on his run this morning. The wolf came within 150m (150yards). Thankful that our dog stayed close to Tim, hugging his leg – not the type of friend for him to make. They waited about 15 minutes for the wolf to move on.
We had a nice dinner with Becky and Brian. Becky has to be at church tomorrow. She’s children’s minister and needs to be there.
I took Elvera by the Asheville Mall. It is larger, but she likes the one in Spartanburg better.
It is also closer, but Spartanburg is more convenient because it’s just off I-26.
So, we are agreed.
🙂 “We’re all fixer-uppers” — Frozen, which was on one of the movie channels tonight. Sweet film.
🙂 Anyone else watching CNN’s “Sixties” series? Some of it is very good. I went from childhood to teen-hood during that decade, so much of it resonates personally with me, I suppose.
I sat in the mall outside the stores and watched the people go by.
After I walked around the mall once, that is. She calls me on the cell phone when she’s ready to go.
😦 Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of Chuck & Linda. We plumb forgot about it until Becky reminded us.
You’re turning into a regular mall rat. (“A person, especially a teenager or young adult, who frequently passes time wandering through shopping malls.”)
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🙂 My leg didn’t hurt last night. First time in at least a month. Doesn’t hurt much now. Maybe whatever it is is mending.
(Spellcheck doesn’t want me to use “is” twice. But that’s what I want to say.)
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🙂 A decently good report on my toe, which does seem to be slowly healing. (It got hurt in March, so healing is indeed slow, but I understand toe injuries are like that.)
🙂 A fun visit to the zoo with my husband, including an unexpected sighting of a baby wildebeest. (Three adults were lying down, and when the female ostrich came their direction they all stood up and walked away. And as they walked away, among them was a calf.)
🙂 Made mango chicken again last night, doubling the mangoes this time from last. (I used one last time, but there is so little fruit in a mango, and I used two this time. One and a half might be about right. But I’d price-matched mangoes from an Aldi ad for 39 cents each, and so I used two.)
😦 Working on a very unpleasant editing job for an unpublished writer. English isn’t her first language and the subject matter is unpleasant, too.
🙂 Older daughter is making supper tonight. 🙂 Younger daughter–who is more interested in cooking–made lunch earlier in the week, and while it was preparing she even sat down to play the piano for the first time she has done so with people home in months or years, and she’d even bought cookies from a cookie store for dessert. (Younger daughter has a full-time job, and has chosen to buy the ingredients for meals that she makes herself.) 😦 Older daughter would bankrupt us if she makes meals every day–the ingredients for tonight’s meal, with no meat (it has goat cheese) cost $15 for four people. She made it once before and it’s delicious, but wow.
🙂 All the bird photos from my backyard on the Daily Thread.
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😦 We had to take down a large tree that provided filtered light and shade over half our backyard.
😦 The birds have been flying by looking for it.
😦 Hotter.
😦 Tree guys were all safe. I don’t like the danger of taking down trees.
🙂 Manuscript came back from freelance editor praising France, “your best writing yet,” finding Egypt “interesting,” and sent me back to the drawing board with England. That’s what a good editor is for.
🙂 😦 I’ve gotten the very basic rewriting needed for the proposal but have to clean up the synopsis today and then start the reorganizing and rewriting.
🙂 Surprisingly peaceful about it and excited about improving the book . . .. but watching the clock ticking away makes me nervous.
So, I’ll take off my watch and hide the calendar!
😦 This is the only day I have to do it.
😦 One of my daughter-in-law’s FB friends commented that her mother-in-law (me) needs to get over there and help out the family ASAP with toilet training and sleep deprivation issues.
😦 She doesn’t know me or my situation (daughter-in-law didn’t ask) but her harsh words threw me for a total loop last night and I’m still struggling with guilt today.
😦 I know this isn’t my fault and I’m not responsible, but it touches a nerve.
🙂 I told my husband he should go help. 🙂
🙂 For the last couple months, the passage of scripture that comes to mind is from Nehemiah (love that book), where Sanbalat and Tobiah send him letters while he’s rebuilding the Jerusalem wall, demanding he appear before them. I love his comment and repeat it often: “I am doing a good work and cannot come down.”
Sanbalat and Tobiah had ulterior motives behind their requests. Most of my well-meaning friends and family are just trying to be nice. That makes it harder to say I cannot come down.
😦 Sigh. Guilt and revenge are part of my genetic makeup–and I wrote the family history to prove it! 🙂
🙂 But! God is in his heaven, other than the above, all’s right and very blessed in my world!
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🙂 We’re having dinner with oldest GD and her husband tonight.
Becky is the one with the blog.
They are at a convention in Nashville and will leave about 12:00 (CDST). We will meet in Asheville because to drive to H’ville will cost another hour driving time.
Either Olive Garden or Red Lobster because they are convenient to I-40.
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Michelle! Do NOT feel bad. I think that was outrageous and uncalled for. If that happened to me, I would have to laugh – I would be of no help whatsoever. Potty training was the not a good time for me and the kids at all and I will never, ever give advice about how to go about it. 🙂
🙂 Rhubarb lemonade
🙂 Lovely past few days, garden is growing by leaps and bounds – weeds are mostly under control
😦 Lots of migraines lately and along with them whole body pain – not just joints but muscles too.
🙂 Friend from work visiting today
🙂 Husband had a great night at work last night and managed to help me cope with the migraine when he came home at 3:30.
🙂 I get to help in the toddler room again tomorrow with a good friend.
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Sounds like fun, Chas. Enjoy! 🙂
🙂 My husband played music last night with his Monday night jam group. It was to be an outside job, (with another performance this evening) but a downpour just after setting up all the equipment caused it to be moved inside. The group did a good job. A man who said he was a pastor for a local veteran’s club, commented that he really enjoyed them since it was evident they enjoyed playing. They have heard that before. He told my husband he was going to pray for them that they would continue enjoying playing together. My husband thanked him for his prayers. That was unusual. Especially since the place was a casino.
😦 Tommy Ramone died. My husband met him in Nashville. He bought one of the fiddles my husband makes as a hobby.
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Michelle, I agree with kare. I cannot imagine why someone thinks their MIL is obligated, whatsoever, to do that. Sorry. Sounds like a spoiled brat to me.
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Sorry to offend. Don’t mean to call names, but it is my impression. If it is not true, someone should tells her that is what she sounds like.
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🙂 Slept in today. I love sleeping in. As it says in a FB post going around this week: “Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance: The five stages of waking up.”
😦 Search continues for the body of a teenager who has been missing since Wednesday after diving with friends into a dangerous cove and cave off our coastline. I was out there yesterday just after the search ended for the day and was struck again by how absolutely beautiful the area is — it takes your breath away, the rugged cliffs with the sweep of the ocean as a backdrop — and yet how deadly it can be.
😦 Divers were to resume the search at sun break today, but the work is dangerous due to all the sharp rocks and currents which get stronger in the afternoons. A surge in the tide is expected to come in Sunday so I’m sure they’re hoping to find him today (they think he’s probably still somewhere inside the cave, but it’s dark and treacherous for the divers searching inside those areas).
🙂 My feature on our local cowboy culture finally ran after working on it, off and on, for 6 months (I’d been picking away at it all along, but it continually was pushed to the back burner as daily stories with more urgency needed more focus). I gathered up several videos I’d taken through the months to link with the story and they weren’t too bad (I hadn’t watched them in a while). One of them was taken at the cowboy poetry & song night in January and I was afraid it might turn out ‘shaky’ but it didn’t. And another couple videos the photographer and I took out at some of the stables had as a backdrop the sounds of local peacocks which I hadn’t noticed before. 🙂 One of the cowboys we featured was very happy (and surprised) to be featured in the main photo on our front page the day the story ran.
🙂 Looking forward to church tomorrow, we have a guest speaker from world vision. But we’ll be missing our pastor who is now officially on a combined sabbatical / study break and won’t be back in the pulpit until late September.
🙂 Tess’ thyroid medication is working, her numbers are now ‘perfect.’ I’ve decided I need to play with the dogs more than I do so I’m going to try out a few games with them this weekend in the backyard. Playtime! It’ll do us all some good, I suspect.
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😦 Donna failed to post links.
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Ah, well, cheryl, since you asked 🙂 — it’s certainly not the best thing I’ve written, but it was a sense of accomplishment to finally get it into print after so long. And the people I’d interviewed were also glad to *finally* see it at long last. 🙄 I think they had their doubts I’d ever finish it.
http://www.dailybreeze.com/20140706/cowboy-culture-still-thriving-in-palos-verdes-peninsula
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Nice article, Donna. Was Cowboy disappointed he didn’t get any photos in it?
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He was.
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🙂 Husband was watched by a young wolf while out on his run this morning. The wolf came within 150m (150yards). Thankful that our dog stayed close to Tim, hugging his leg – not the type of friend for him to make. They waited about 15 minutes for the wolf to move on.
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We had a nice dinner with Becky and Brian. Becky has to be at church tomorrow. She’s children’s minister and needs to be there.
I took Elvera by the Asheville Mall. It is larger, but she likes the one in Spartanburg better.
It is also closer, but Spartanburg is more convenient because it’s just off I-26.
So, we are agreed.
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Did you sit outside the stores again Chas? Or did you just “drive by” the mall? 🙂
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🙂 “We’re all fixer-uppers” — Frozen, which was on one of the movie channels tonight. Sweet film.
🙂 Anyone else watching CNN’s “Sixties” series? Some of it is very good. I went from childhood to teen-hood during that decade, so much of it resonates personally with me, I suppose.
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I sat in the mall outside the stores and watched the people go by.
After I walked around the mall once, that is. She calls me on the cell phone when she’s ready to go.
😦 Yesterday was the 34th anniversary of Chuck & Linda. We plumb forgot about it until Becky reminded us.
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Chas 🙂
You’re turning into a regular mall rat. (“A person, especially a teenager or young adult, who frequently passes time wandering through shopping malls.”)
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