Instead of getting sad about my birthday I decided to make it special for my neighbor whose birthday was today. I went all over my place and found lots of gifts for her and wrapped them up and then invited her over to open them. She is in her mid 20’s and that is a hard time to be so far from family.
🙂 Jo, sometimes when we are the saddest about our own situation it helps us more to find someone else to bless. I know it isn’t about patting yourself on the back. You probably got as much pleasure blessing her as you would have if you got a box full of birthday gifts for yourself.
😦 It is COLD…and that Yankee I am married to tells me to put on winter clothes to stay warm.
🙂 I needed to get a wink at the end of the above sentence.
🙂 The sun is shining which makes the cold at least tolerable if I am inside in sweats and under a blanket. I can at least look outside and see sun instead of dreary, cold rain.
😦 Grandson broke his nose. His dad has a sinus infection that won’t let go. His mom has a complicated pregnancy. This weekend was supposed to be a fun weekend at a festival near here. Won’t see them for awhile now.
🙂 Surgery went well. SIL went to work in a school district that was not his first choice. The district he is in has much better insurance than his preference. They had no idea how much they would need that.
🙂 Weekend spent with most of the grandchildren babysitting some. Watched a break dancing recital of one of them. Listened to a good sermon at their church. I am so grateful my daughters seek the Lord.
Need to finish writing chapter 5 this morning–2/3 done.
😦 Of that, however, I only wrote two pages today.
🙂 Wrote two blog posts instead.
🙂 Making progress, though and made some good editing changes.
🙂 Went to bed at 8:30 last night so I’m not totally exhausted.
🙂 Tried to convince brain to sleep a couple more hours for at least seven hours of sleep, but it insisted.
🙂 I’m glad I can drink caffeine again . . .
We have a funeral this afternoon for a good man whose life was transformed by God at a much later age that most, but who died going to heaven, thanks be to Jesus.
Kathleena, as a sufferer of sinus infections and splitting sinus headaches I have two remedies for you to share with your son in law.
1. Boil vodka in a saucepan, make a tent over it with a towel, inhale the vodka steam. Vodka has the highest alcohol content and is a clear liquor. You can feel it going through your sinuses and “hear” it crackling. It will break everything lose and you can blow your nose to get a lot of the infection out.
2. I once had a sinus headache so horrible that I finally relented and did what my (ex) mother in law had been badgering me to do. She made a salt water concoction, had me inhale it. through my nose and spit it out of my mouth. I don’t want to jinx anything but if I remember correctly that was the last time I had a sinus headache that bad.
I am so jazzed right now. Chapter five finished with a terrific ending–the last four pages wrote like a dream–and I’m done ten minutes early.
And then a FOURTH blog post idea came through.
I’m shutting down. There’s time now to take a walk and then to the service. Then, we’re going to see Hail, Caesar at which point I should probably collapse into bed
(With my husband laughing, and get up at 4 tomorrow to write before church!)
Only if God wills–he has been exceedingly gracious to me and the book today.
If any woman reads chapter five, this book is SOLD! 🙂
😦 : People who try to match make. A couple of bachelors have started coming to the church. They come from the new pastor’s old church, so traffic conditions mean that they do not always come. Also, several people from our church tend to stay after church and have an informal meal. My mother usually wants to get home, so we don’t usually stay. Well, last week, my mother wasn’t feeling well and my father was persuaded to stay, which meant that I, by default also stayed. So did the one bachelor who had come. Before I go on, I should say he is completely bald, except for a white fringe of goatee. Also, he sings, not badly, but with great volume. He’s taken, with the pastor’s permission, to singing a solo just before the service – nothing fancy, just one of the old hymns – and my ears were ringing with that feedback sound you get when someone gets to close to the microphone by the time he was finished (we have no sound system, but the church is small). A previous Sunday, when the entire congregation was singing, his voice rang out above the rest, and he wasn’t following my timing, but dragging out the notes for dramatic effect. The rest of the congregation started following his lead and I was getting nearly two notes ahead of the congregation in places. So, since I was playing the electric keyboard which doubles as an organ, I let the volume get louder. I may say that the problem of lagging has not occurred since.
So, to get back to last Sunday dinner, when we got our food and sat down, there were two tables to sit at. I picked one, and this person picked the other. Now there were two different bowls of salad at each table, as one of the attending families has a lot of food allergies. Well, what does the pastor’s wife do but come along, and point out to the bachelor and several other people that they were sitting at the gluten free table and they needed to come and sit at the other table. That resulted in the bachelor coming and sitting across from me. She didn’t stop there, but constantly tried to draw us into conversation with each other. Part of me found the efforts amusing and part of me was indignant. Let’s just say that the efforts were less successful than everybody hoped. Yes, I said everybody – youngest sibling said afterwards that the pastor and his wife, and a deacon and his wife had plotted to see what they could do and she had refused to take part. My verdict? Not interested.
🙂 Saturday! Puttering, cleaning up in the kitchen, but not knocking myself out. 🙂
😦 Long week with a night meeting that ran really late (a high-profile crime forum featuring the lapd chief — one of the TV reporters tried to interview me, thinking I was there as part of the audience)
🙂 Overtime. Yay. haven’t had that on a check in a while.
🙂 Summer temps for us this weekend, 80s. Sandal weather. Again.
😦 The perils of the single, Roscuro. You clearly do not find that man attractive. I will say that my husband was bald when we married. His hair never grew back when it was shaved for the military, so he was bald, pretty much, by age nineteen. He was older than me, but not as much as some people may have thought. He had so much more going for him than hair. 🙂
K, it isn’t so much the baldness which is not attractive. I know that bald men can be just as good husbands as those with hair. Eldest sibling-in-law doesn’t have much hair and never did, and he is a good man. I don’t judge a man by his appearance; I listen to what they talk about and watch how they act. It was the manner and speech content which I found off-putting. I understand the man is older than I, but what he said, not to me (as that could be just nerves), but to those whom he knew better, didn’t give me an impression of maturity.
😦 Had quite a slump earlier this week, trying to get motivated to finish a project whose author is so very bad with details it’s tedious.
🙂 I finished that project and jumped right into my next one.
😦 Unfortunately my late start on the next one put me about two days behind on it, even though I jumped into it with diligence. (It has a quicker deadline than I usually have for this publisher, and it’s a new contact person and he didn’t mention the shorter deadline. It’s still my fault, since I should have verified the date when he asked me if I could do it.)
🙂 I got my wedding album yesterday, and it’s lovely. I’m glad I didn’t order anything earlier, because this book was right for the album, and I have the skills to do it well now, after practicing on so many other photo books through the years. Plus, I used a photo of the card I made for my in-laws’ sixtieth anniversary for the cover, and it was perfect for that.
🙂 I’ve been able to make some progress in some places I have been “stuck.”
🙂 I’ve been matting some photos this week, and it is so fun to see them “pop” when I choose just the right mat for the colors in the photo.
🙂 We got into February with very little snow so far this winter. And now we’re into February, a month that always seems blessedly quick to me.
🙂 My husband and I are making plans to get away for a few days a couple of times this year. He especially has felt so much pressure in some areas, that it will be nice to get a break, even if we do have to wait a while for it.
🙂 Waiting gives us something to look forward to.
🙂 We got some really good prices on groceries and on gas in the last week or so. My husband got 35 gallons of gas yesterday for $19 (with a dollar off per gallon at Kroger). He fills up our car, three five-gallon gas cans, and then lets one of the girls fill up the car she’s driving (and pay us for the gas), and all of those together use most or all of the 35 gallons we’re allowed. . . .
🙂 Overall, this week has been far more peaceful than the last few months have been.
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Instead of getting sad about my birthday I decided to make it special for my neighbor whose birthday was today. I went all over my place and found lots of gifts for her and wrapped them up and then invited her over to open them. She is in her mid 20’s and that is a hard time to be so far from family.
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oh, that post wasn’t to rave about me, but about God helping me to not just look for a blessing, but to be a blessing.
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I love to do things like that. Hey, Jo, I think we’re writing on the same day for once!
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🙂 Jo, sometimes when we are the saddest about our own situation it helps us more to find someone else to bless. I know it isn’t about patting yourself on the back. You probably got as much pleasure blessing her as you would have if you got a box full of birthday gifts for yourself.
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😦 It is COLD…and that Yankee I am married to tells me to put on winter clothes to stay warm.
🙂 I needed to get a wink at the end of the above sentence.
🙂 The sun is shining which makes the cold at least tolerable if I am inside in sweats and under a blanket. I can at least look outside and see sun instead of dreary, cold rain.
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😦 Grandson broke his nose. His dad has a sinus infection that won’t let go. His mom has a complicated pregnancy. This weekend was supposed to be a fun weekend at a festival near here. Won’t see them for awhile now.
🙂 Surgery went well. SIL went to work in a school district that was not his first choice. The district he is in has much better insurance than his preference. They had no idea how much they would need that.
🙂 Weekend spent with most of the grandchildren babysitting some. Watched a break dancing recital of one of them. Listened to a good sermon at their church. I am so grateful my daughters seek the Lord.
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😦 Woke at 2:15, brain insisted I get up.
Need to finish writing chapter 5 this morning–2/3 done.
😦 Of that, however, I only wrote two pages today.
🙂 Wrote two blog posts instead.
🙂 Making progress, though and made some good editing changes.
🙂 Went to bed at 8:30 last night so I’m not totally exhausted.
🙂 Tried to convince brain to sleep a couple more hours for at least seven hours of sleep, but it insisted.
🙂 I’m glad I can drink caffeine again . . .
We have a funeral this afternoon for a good man whose life was transformed by God at a much later age that most, but who died going to heaven, thanks be to Jesus.
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Kathleena, as a sufferer of sinus infections and splitting sinus headaches I have two remedies for you to share with your son in law.
1. Boil vodka in a saucepan, make a tent over it with a towel, inhale the vodka steam. Vodka has the highest alcohol content and is a clear liquor. You can feel it going through your sinuses and “hear” it crackling. It will break everything lose and you can blow your nose to get a lot of the infection out.
2. I once had a sinus headache so horrible that I finally relented and did what my (ex) mother in law had been badgering me to do. She made a salt water concoction, had me inhale it. through my nose and spit it out of my mouth. I don’t want to jinx anything but if I remember correctly that was the last time I had a sinus headache that bad.
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Make that three blog posts . . . I’m on, like, this total blogging roll. This seldom happens.
Of course, chapter five languishes–but that should be the end of blog post writing. 🙂
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I am so jazzed right now. Chapter five finished with a terrific ending–the last four pages wrote like a dream–and I’m done ten minutes early.
And then a FOURTH blog post idea came through.
I’m shutting down. There’s time now to take a walk and then to the service. Then, we’re going to see Hail, Caesar at which point I should probably collapse into bed
(With my husband laughing, and get up at 4 tomorrow to write before church!)
Only if God wills–he has been exceedingly gracious to me and the book today.
If any woman reads chapter five, this book is SOLD! 🙂
Praise the Lord.
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You and Biddy are a winning combo!!!
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😦 : People who try to match make. A couple of bachelors have started coming to the church. They come from the new pastor’s old church, so traffic conditions mean that they do not always come. Also, several people from our church tend to stay after church and have an informal meal. My mother usually wants to get home, so we don’t usually stay. Well, last week, my mother wasn’t feeling well and my father was persuaded to stay, which meant that I, by default also stayed. So did the one bachelor who had come. Before I go on, I should say he is completely bald, except for a white fringe of goatee. Also, he sings, not badly, but with great volume. He’s taken, with the pastor’s permission, to singing a solo just before the service – nothing fancy, just one of the old hymns – and my ears were ringing with that feedback sound you get when someone gets to close to the microphone by the time he was finished (we have no sound system, but the church is small). A previous Sunday, when the entire congregation was singing, his voice rang out above the rest, and he wasn’t following my timing, but dragging out the notes for dramatic effect. The rest of the congregation started following his lead and I was getting nearly two notes ahead of the congregation in places. So, since I was playing the electric keyboard which doubles as an organ, I let the volume get louder. I may say that the problem of lagging has not occurred since.
So, to get back to last Sunday dinner, when we got our food and sat down, there were two tables to sit at. I picked one, and this person picked the other. Now there were two different bowls of salad at each table, as one of the attending families has a lot of food allergies. Well, what does the pastor’s wife do but come along, and point out to the bachelor and several other people that they were sitting at the gluten free table and they needed to come and sit at the other table. That resulted in the bachelor coming and sitting across from me. She didn’t stop there, but constantly tried to draw us into conversation with each other. Part of me found the efforts amusing and part of me was indignant. Let’s just say that the efforts were less successful than everybody hoped. Yes, I said everybody – youngest sibling said afterwards that the pastor and his wife, and a deacon and his wife had plotted to see what they could do and she had refused to take part. My verdict? Not interested.
Just something for your reading amusement 😉
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Funny, roscuro.
🙂 Saturday! Puttering, cleaning up in the kitchen, but not knocking myself out. 🙂
😦 Long week with a night meeting that ran really late (a high-profile crime forum featuring the lapd chief — one of the TV reporters tried to interview me, thinking I was there as part of the audience)
🙂 Overtime. Yay. haven’t had that on a check in a while.
🙂 Summer temps for us this weekend, 80s. Sandal weather. Again.
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😦 The perils of the single, Roscuro. You clearly do not find that man attractive. I will say that my husband was bald when we married. His hair never grew back when it was shaved for the military, so he was bald, pretty much, by age nineteen. He was older than me, but not as much as some people may have thought. He had so much more going for him than hair. 🙂
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K, it isn’t so much the baldness which is not attractive. I know that bald men can be just as good husbands as those with hair. Eldest sibling-in-law doesn’t have much hair and never did, and he is a good man. I don’t judge a man by his appearance; I listen to what they talk about and watch how they act. It was the manner and speech content which I found off-putting. I understand the man is older than I, but what he said, not to me (as that could be just nerves), but to those whom he knew better, didn’t give me an impression of maturity.
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😦 Had quite a slump earlier this week, trying to get motivated to finish a project whose author is so very bad with details it’s tedious.
🙂 I finished that project and jumped right into my next one.
😦 Unfortunately my late start on the next one put me about two days behind on it, even though I jumped into it with diligence. (It has a quicker deadline than I usually have for this publisher, and it’s a new contact person and he didn’t mention the shorter deadline. It’s still my fault, since I should have verified the date when he asked me if I could do it.)
🙂 I got my wedding album yesterday, and it’s lovely. I’m glad I didn’t order anything earlier, because this book was right for the album, and I have the skills to do it well now, after practicing on so many other photo books through the years. Plus, I used a photo of the card I made for my in-laws’ sixtieth anniversary for the cover, and it was perfect for that.
🙂 I’ve been able to make some progress in some places I have been “stuck.”
🙂 I’ve been matting some photos this week, and it is so fun to see them “pop” when I choose just the right mat for the colors in the photo.
🙂 We got into February with very little snow so far this winter. And now we’re into February, a month that always seems blessedly quick to me.
🙂 My husband and I are making plans to get away for a few days a couple of times this year. He especially has felt so much pressure in some areas, that it will be nice to get a break, even if we do have to wait a while for it.
🙂 Waiting gives us something to look forward to.
🙂 We got some really good prices on groceries and on gas in the last week or so. My husband got 35 gallons of gas yesterday for $19 (with a dollar off per gallon at Kroger). He fills up our car, three five-gallon gas cans, and then lets one of the girls fill up the car she’s driving (and pay us for the gas), and all of those together use most or all of the 35 gallons we’re allowed. . . .
🙂 Overall, this week has been far more peaceful than the last few months have been.
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🙂 I paid $50 for 20 gallons today. I was thrilled. 🙂
🙂 Gas is even more expensive in Catalina Island — $7 a gallon. Here, it’s down to about $2.60 a gallon, which (for us) is almost unbelievable.
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