Everything seems to be pretty even keel these days. Ellen is back on antibiotics for bronchitus. I really wish she'd do a better job at taking her meds as directed. I remind her and nag her, but still she manages to only take 2 of the 3 a day antibiotics and I'm sure that's not good *grrr*
Work is ok. Muddling along. It is awfully quiet though. I have more visitors than usual, a couple of deacons check in once a week or so. And my lady who used to call and chat once a week, calls me almost every day - so I'm not all alone. The fellow filling in on Sundays is being received well, so that is good. Our numbers have seen a slight increase in attendance, and that is always good.
I did finish a Quilt of Valor over the weekend, first quilt off the frame for 2011! Next up is a 1930's sampler for a favorite customer. I'm pretty certain of my design ideas, I'm still figuring out thread colors though. Tonight I get to go to a class to make fabric bowls - it's my birthday present, yipee! The cool part is, I stopped at the shop yesterday to ask a question, and while there discovered that there are only 2 of us in the class - talk about plenty of teacher/student attention!! I should have this new technique down pat!
House is all good. Staying pretty tidy, though the laundry is piling up again. Need to address it though, because those baby chicks are coming soon and we need the downstairs bathroom to set up the brooders - the only place really big enough and suitable. So we need clear floor space. I've been doing a couple loads a day, but I'm seeing that the clean, folded clothes I send the kids off to their rooms with, are not making it into the dressers - that must be addressed, or I'll just be getting those piles of clothes back in the dirty laundry (still a little folded sometimes) when they clean their rooms the next time. They'll just gather up all the piles of clothes, call them dirty laundry and send them down to the bathroom/laundry room - silly kids! I can tell the difference.
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Thursday, February 3, 2011
back among the living finally
It was decided that I likely had Pnumonia just like Tim. Mine started the beginning of January and got me really down about the 10th. I finally got out of bed on Tuesday the 18th - WOW!
At this point, I still have a little cough that folks tell me will take a few weeks to completely go away. but that's it, so I'm happy. I also am off caffiene. I wasn't getting my Diet Coke while sick, so by the time I got better, any withdrawls were over. So I've decided to stich to caffiene free and see how it goes.
My boss retired at the end of January. So it's just me, all alone here at the church. Awfully quiet *insert cricket sound effect* But so far, it just feels like he's on vacation. It won't be until a few weeks go by that it really HITS me.
Home is good. Had a major ordeal with Marci last week that I won't get all into (since you never know who all is out there in space reading all this personal stuff) but we met with a student services guy who is WONDERFUL!! And after a long afternoon with him, she is doing better. It mostly stemmed from the "Mean Girl" stuff going on at school. She's been giving and getting it (not that she tells me the parts she is doing of course!) and it just got to be too much and overwhelmed her. I've been doing a lot of reading about "relational aggression in girls" which is the technical term for mean girl stuff. And it's amazing to learn about. I'm not far enough in the book to give her many good suggestions to handle it yet, but I'm sure hoping to get there soon because this stuff at school is certainly not going away any time soon. *sigh*
On the quilting front, I haven't loaded a single quilt yet this year - YIKES! Need to do that though because I could use the $ and I have a few scheduled to come in at the beginning of March, so I need to clear out the ones on hand. I hate to be behind, and my goal this year is to schedule better so that I'm not in that spot so much.
Looking at seed catalogs and planning our garden. We'd like to switch to heirloom seeds and will be taking that plunge this year. Hopefully the fruit trees will produce a little something this year. I've stocked up on canning jars in hopes of an even bigger harvest from the garden, berries and trees this summer!!
Somehow I got in charge of ordering the chicks for our 4H group, LOL! So there will be 60 chicks coming to my house in the middle of the night late in February. Only 10 are supposed to stay . . . . . .but I'm already thinking 14 - oh, that crazy chicken math!!!
All for now, peace out and purring!
At this point, I still have a little cough that folks tell me will take a few weeks to completely go away. but that's it, so I'm happy. I also am off caffiene. I wasn't getting my Diet Coke while sick, so by the time I got better, any withdrawls were over. So I've decided to stich to caffiene free and see how it goes.
My boss retired at the end of January. So it's just me, all alone here at the church. Awfully quiet *insert cricket sound effect* But so far, it just feels like he's on vacation. It won't be until a few weeks go by that it really HITS me.
Home is good. Had a major ordeal with Marci last week that I won't get all into (since you never know who all is out there in space reading all this personal stuff) but we met with a student services guy who is WONDERFUL!! And after a long afternoon with him, she is doing better. It mostly stemmed from the "Mean Girl" stuff going on at school. She's been giving and getting it (not that she tells me the parts she is doing of course!) and it just got to be too much and overwhelmed her. I've been doing a lot of reading about "relational aggression in girls" which is the technical term for mean girl stuff. And it's amazing to learn about. I'm not far enough in the book to give her many good suggestions to handle it yet, but I'm sure hoping to get there soon because this stuff at school is certainly not going away any time soon. *sigh*
On the quilting front, I haven't loaded a single quilt yet this year - YIKES! Need to do that though because I could use the $ and I have a few scheduled to come in at the beginning of March, so I need to clear out the ones on hand. I hate to be behind, and my goal this year is to schedule better so that I'm not in that spot so much.
Looking at seed catalogs and planning our garden. We'd like to switch to heirloom seeds and will be taking that plunge this year. Hopefully the fruit trees will produce a little something this year. I've stocked up on canning jars in hopes of an even bigger harvest from the garden, berries and trees this summer!!
Somehow I got in charge of ordering the chicks for our 4H group, LOL! So there will be 60 chicks coming to my house in the middle of the night late in February. Only 10 are supposed to stay . . . . . .but I'm already thinking 14 - oh, that crazy chicken math!!!
All for now, peace out and purring!
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