Well, it's Monday - I think
I never know what day it is when I'm off work. One week down and one to go. I had a fairly uneventful Christmas and have been knitting ever since. I never do anything halfway - one night I stayed up until 5 am knitting, and then I took apart the sweater that I was working on! I'll never learn.
I've been reading all the posts and it seems like everyone's Christmas went well. It can be a tough time of year.
My mother died 25 years ago today; I still miss her and "talk" to her when things are going wrong. I know that I will miss her being around all my life.
Well, I'd better get off to bed. I have given myself a list of projects that I want to finish this week. Lord knows that I won't have any real time to devote to my house until this semester is done in April. Have a good day and talk amongst yourselves!
Margaret 
Good morning Margaret and all you other OFFers.
What a great day Sunday was. I slept about 4 hours. Got up and went to the gym with Mary. We have not been in over a month. Then went to Sams and Walmart to get the makings for smoothies. Mary has started drinking them almost daily. At $5 a whack, I think we are better off making them. She also has started eating pigs in a blanket for breakfast. 89 cents each, times 2 a day. We found a box of 48 at Sams for under $10.
Then, I settled back to watch my Jets play. It is always good to see them on TV here, it happens so rarely. They lost, but that is ok, they were not getting in the playoffs anyway since Baltimore won. Things went downhill for the Jets after they beat the Titans.
The really good news in football was when I was switching back and forth to the cowgirl game, watching their whupping receipt.
Now I am at work, looking forward to tomorrow night (actually tonight). I am going to the Stars game (hockey) with my grandson. Just him and I. Part of his Christmas present.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!!
hey george...guess what happened here in ohio....the browns were so bad this year they fired the coach!!! LOL but then look at the detroit lions...they had a 0-16 wins...lmaooooooooooooo they made history for not winning any games this year!!!! now how sad is that??? here ohio thinks the browns are bad and then the lions don't even win a game...rofllllllll
i am not a football fan so not sure what its all about but just had to tell you what i just heard....;)
hugs
i am not a watcher -but i had to comment.....
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White
thats pretty cool margo!!! just knowing someone that is famous is pretty cool in my book...lol i used to know several famous people well not really famous but i think you know what i mean...lol but any how most are dead now or retired...but atleast i can say i knew them when....i am not a watcher either so i know where you are coming from...
hugs
It's 4 am and Im exhausted and was headed to bed. Ive spent all night, day, evening and night again with Mother. She was taken by ambulance at 2 am yesterday to the hospital with high fever, pain and heart palpitations. At first, they thought it was pneumonia but now, finally, they think it's a urinary infection. She is 89 and *****y as blazes but that infection really dragged her down fast.
I left her for a while, went to her apartment and got her glasses and some personal items and tidied up the room..the ambulance people just drop everything..of course their top priority is mother so I certainly am not complaining.
Then I went home, started homemade chicken soup simmering while JB watched over it and I had a nap...the soup was ready then and I filled a small thermos with it and took that up to her...I made it just the way she likes it..thick with carrots, chicken, onion, celery, barley and summer savoury (you can imagine what hospital food is like).
Im back home now to sleep but I can't..maybe over-tired and stressed...so here I am online, making mandalas and posting here. I will get back to the hospital in the morning. She has been admitted but stays in the emergency because all the regular beds are filled.
Derek's transmission is fixed!! His business is saved!He says he couldn't have a better birthday present. He and his brother worked together and fixed the transmission and Danny's brake lines as well so both of them are happy!
Today is Derek's thirty-first birthday. With all the stuff happening between Derek's equipment catastrophe and Mother, I neglected to order a birthday cake for today. But on the way home, I stopped at Sobey's and picked up a small pecan/caramel cheesecake for his supper tonight.
Our family Christmas will be New Year's Day as a family (hopefully by then, everyone will be settled down again) and so I will get a Dairy Queen Blizzard Ice Cream Cake for him then. What a crazy mixed-up Christmas holiday this has been!
My Mandala Colouring Books are selling and that's exciting for me. The first printing has sold out.
There's a second printing this week with some minor additions that I thought might be nice...like fixing that fact that I never put my name on the book at all....duh!... and Ive added a few pages at the back of each book for journaling as people colour or focus on each mandala.
LilyRose continues to harass poor Katie...for a kitten who had a broken back, she sure flies around the house as if it was built solely for her own entertainment! She loves to be spun in circles on the hard flooring and throws herself at your feet and starts purring the second that the spins begin...strange..very strange!
The snow is mostly gone here now but the ditches and farm fields are all flooded. It was in double digits this morning but got considerably colder thru the day and tonight, I thought I'd freeze with that viscious wind in the hospital parking lot. There's another snow storm coming, they say...oh joy! And winter is just beginning!
Well, it seems that Ive forgotten to eat again. I will drink a Matrix protein hot choclate and crawl up to bed and try to sleep.
Please be safe, everyone!
Nancy B
I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.
- E. B. White
Margaret, there is something so soothing about working with yarn. Watching the piece gradually grow feels good. Tearing it all apart is frustrating. I still talk to my Mom even though she's been gone 3 years. I believe that they are still listening to us.
I can't think of anything interesting this morning. It would be more correct to say I can't THINK. Sleep has been difficult and I wake up in pain each time I move. My right knee locks up and aches. Eventually both knees will have to be replaced, but I'm not yet ready for another surgery. All those years of extra weight kind of ruined them.
Can you believe this year is almost over? It went too fast.
Kisses
Annette
Annette 
Depression may be part of it. I know, I know.. ME??? Nothing is setting well on my stomach and I spent Christmas day on the couch with heart palpitations and the poops. Missed a lot of my kids who were running around. I was exhausted and asleep.... and we had our BIG family get-together on Saturday and I couldn't eat dinner with them, curled up in the recliner, freezing to death and slept from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. when it was time for everyone to leave. Christmas pictures of me this year are covered up with my mouth open and my eyes shut. Yesterday, got out for a bit and went to IKEA... wore out about halfway through the store.... came home and slept for three hours, got up and went to a Christmas party... had some very simple things to eat and the heart palpitations started again and the tummy got gripey... and the headaches!!! So came home... thought I'd have a bowl of cereal and RALPH and I talked until 3 a.m.... and the poops started again this morning with the headaches. What's going on??? Got to get back to work and look like I've energy. Sorry that was so long and drawn out...:)
Nothing much going on. Christmas loot was really a bust for me. I had asked my sister to get me a FoodSaver way back in August. She had coupon. Well, she got it. Didn't tell me, gave it to me for Christmas and it was what I was going to give my son for Christmas... so he got another gift and I didn't...:) Youngest son gave me a Watercolor Paint Kit and a package of 3 Carmex... and a $50 gift card with a $3.88 activation fee.
I know, I know, I'm complaining... rarely do I ever but I hate the holidays. I overspend because I force myself into trying to enjoy it. Hubby had his stroke Dec 26, 1994... and that was the last time I had cooked Christmas dinner. .... and I cooked this year... the dressing was too dry, Tate was mad because the turkey we cooked was an award he had won for archery (I guess he named it), no one liked the SF pecan pie (I love it)... so I think cooking once every 14 years is quite enough, thank you.
But in my heart I know that I'm more fortunate than most when poor Eileen is holed up in the condo with limitations on her movement and so many others didin't even have family or gifts. My griping is small by comparison.... and I'm almost tempted to delete it, but won't. You all can see how mercenary I really am.
I went through the holidays without talking to my Dear Louise and KarenC. Will try to make those contacts shortly.
In the mundane life I lead...it's time to get the rest of my clothes on and head for $4. That's my socialization hour...then on to work.
Everyone have a good day.
Janet
Happy Monday Margaret and Everyone,
I, too, talk to my mother every single day and she's been gone for 6 years. I'm back to work this week. Should be quiet I hope. It's only 4 days instead of 5 this week so that's something.
Nothing much going on yesterday to share. Stayed home and crocheted most of the day away. I did some ripping out myself yesterday. I was playing around with some new patterns and found I didn't like any of them. Let 'er rip!
Hope you all have a good Monday!
Kathi
