TGIF!! What's Happening With You?

Good morning, OH family! It’s almost 3 am here and I’m still wide awake.  I can hear the winds picking up and howling around the house and barns here.  The outside cats are all snuggled up in their blanket-filled boxes, cat houses and some even bunking in with Zeus, our 175 pound rottie.We are expecting a pretty heavy duty snow storm again. I am on “weather watch” so JB and Derek can get some sleep because they cannot do any plowing until the snow piles up. “SillyRose is sleeping by my feet. I attended my Business & Professional Women’s Club meeting tonight - this dinner meeting, hosted by a sister club, was at a  Chinese Buffet...fortunately they had a huge container of steamed shrimp and lots of steamed veggies!   Our Women’s Health & Wellness Fair is already completely sold out for vendors’ tables….I have 50 tables sold…no tables left!  and still trying to tweak the floor plan to fit everyone in without making it too crowded. I’ve got almost everything organized…at least six door prizes an hour, an informative presentation every hour, a Zumba demo class, Silent Auction, Penny Sale, 50-50 draw, Gently-Used books, huge “Getaway” basket for raffling off, even a wine basket for the vendor who attracted the most attendees to visit the Fair.  This event has taken over my life! Whenever I lay down, my head goes over every detail and I either get new ideas or re-organize the floor plan  to make everything fit.  Now I am working on getting a Wine-Tasting Table arranged. (the ladies are going to love me!)lol. Add to that, I am hosting a Teddy Bears Picnic to promote LITERACY…anyone, child or adult, is invited to attend this picnic, bringing their teddy bear (yes, adults do have teddy bears) and their favourite book.  There will be reading circles, face painting, games for prizes (books) and a nice picnic lunch for all.   PJs are optional (as opposed to day clothes…. come on ladies, get your minds out of the gutter! LOL).  Funds will be used to pay for a computer video programmer to create our literacy game video to teach proper reading and writing properly.  So much of those skills are being lost now with the new generations using social media- ie: facebook, IM, and texting. Friday afternoon, 1-4pm, I am attending a Workshop to learn how to use SOCIAL MEDIA online to promote our businesses.  My Laptop is already packed up and fully-charged for the class…I’m so NON-technical, this will be a challenge for me…but I will take lots of notes.  I hope that the weather will permit me to get there. 

Well, time for a hot chocolate protein drink and then off to bed soon.   Have a safe and wonderful day!

 

Nancy B

Good Morning Nancy, those to come. . .

As usual, reading your post finds me amazed at the things you are involved in and that keep your life full and busy. . .  a 175 lbs Rottie, oh my. . .  that sounds like one big guy, did not know they could be that big, though my girl is at 100 lbs. can't wait for the warmer weather and the walks her and I will be taking to trim us both down (lol).

Well here we are at the end of the work week (for some of us) and I am looking forward to the weekend. Tomorrow Diane is supposed to be coming to move the rest of her belongings and I truly hope that happens as I want to be able to assess my basement and get rid of all that is cluttering it. I've decided that 2011 is going to be the year of decluttering this little house of mine, which when I started out almost 8 years ago, it was pretty much that, but here we are with 8 years of stuff collected.  Goodwill will be getting quite a load of things because I just don't have the time, or desire to yard sale it.  I will be forced to make some hard choices, as I hate parting with things of a sentimental nature, but I have to get real here, if it's been in my basement or the eves of my house for the past 8 years, I guess it's not needed. . .

Anyway, I'm looking forward to doing some stuff around here and hanging with the Roxie girl. . .  raining here and looking like spring is trying to break it's way in, but winter still has the upper hand at the moment, so today's rain will wash away the snow, but I won't get too hopeful that there won't be more of that white stuff before the first spring flowers show up. . .

You all have a wonderful day and I wish peace and strength to any facing more serious life challenges.

Hugs, Laureen

I don't know if you saw my post a few weeks ago Laureen, but I have a new (shelter) dog named Roxy... that was the name she came with, I know a bit different from Roxie, but now we both have Roxy/Roxies....

Julia,

I missed that post, but went back to see what I had missed, congratulations on your Roxy, I know she is a lucky girl, just like my Roxie is. . .  I honestly think shelter dogs (and cats) are grateful to have loving homes.  You know the devastation of losing our four-legged children and for me I am so happy I did not wait because while I did not think I could love another dog the way I loved my Dillinger, I was sooo wrong with that thinking.  My Roxie came named, originally spelled with a y, I changed it so as to add a heart to her name, whenever I write her name I sign it with a heart over the i - because Dillinger's love lives on through my new love for her and I shall always believe he saw fit to bring her and I together in order to mend my broken one.

Love you and wish you and your Roxy many happy years together. . .

Hugs, Laureen

Lil Sis,

I've met your Roxie in person. She deserves a .

Annette

Wow, 175 lb rottie - I just adopted a little girl - only 65 lbs, but she is only 8 months old. Not sure how big she will get - I actually don't like rotties (you know how BAD they can be!) but some guy was giving her away and her big head had such a sweet look - you know how positively DOLEFUL they can look! LOL! So I took her home so she wouldn't sit in the kennel all weekend long and VOILA' that was 3 weeks ago.  I just can't let my homeowners company know! I'll say one thing - she is darn smart. I have 2 aussies and thought they were the smartest dogs in the world, but she is doing great. By the way - are rotties known to be VACUUM CLEANERS! LOL!

I am so looking forward to spring/summer this year - last year at this time I was 86 pounds heavier, depressed and living life on the sofa. I can't wait to be out in the garden and riding my horse. I'm going to Florida in April and for the first time in my life I can't wait to get a new bathing suit! I don't even care if it's not on sale yet.

You made me laugh and I think you were being humorous when you said how BAD they can be . . .  it's sad that breeds are considered bad, when it's 9 out of 10 times bad ownership.  If you ever watch The Dog Whisperer, you see that even the so called acceptable breeds, in the home of someone who does not know how to rightly lead, can be a problem.  I have to admit, I treat my dog like a human and so at times she thinks she rules, but I am sure to make her submit to me often enough for her to recognize me as her pack leader.  I think the saddest cases are dogs that have no real interaction with others of their kind and I continue to learn what and how to be a responsible dog mommie.  As for vacuum cleaners, are you meaning that yours eats everything in sight? 

Anyway, congrats on being 86 pounds lighter and being able to do the more enjoyable things in life. . .

Best wishes with your new family member. . .

Good Morning Nancy and OFF!  How are you all? 
I'm doing well.  Just waiting for my hair to dry, sipping a chai and getting ready for work.  Today will be a short day for me I HOPE as I am about 3 hours up this week.  I'm not that interested in OT at this point in my life but will take some and leave early to bypass the rest.  I'm not putting my life into jepardy by working too many hours if I don't need to. at this point I don't. 
My dogs, poor Angus. here all these years I have blamed him for most accidents I find in the house.  Not so I have found.....Daphne may well be the cause from many of them. 
Hmmmmm.
not much else new with me - we are expecting 6-10 inches today possible so later today will be a tad worse it sounds.  Hope you all have a wonderful day!

Good mornin' ya'll.
Holy Moly, 175 pounds of dog. That's more than many of US weigh!!
Yesterday in the middle of all my genealogy stuff my computer decided it couldn't find my wireless printer! I spent a long time uninstalling and reinstalling the dang thing! I finally gave up and went to crochet. It was that or throw something out the window! This morning I will have more patience, I hope! The printer, copier, scanner and fax still work, it's just that the computer doesn't know it's there. I guess I could plug it directly into the 'puter, but what's the point of having a wireless?
Soooo, PT this morning, a quick stop at the Commissary, then more computer wrangling. Good weather all weekend and not a darn thing scheduled.
Everyone have a fantabulous day!

Glad it's Friday too.  Got my new baking element for my oven I ordered from Sears and it was the wrong part.  Called them back and have to send the wrong one back., wait for them to credit my account, then reorder which will be another 3-4 wks before I have my oven again.  I have a small oven/toaster thing that works pretty well for smaller things.  Meanwhile while just sitting on the floor working on the oven, I must have twisted wrong or something and pulled a muscle in my lower back.  I'm still not able to stand up straight this morning.  Val got his MRI yesterday and the md's nurse called and read the report to me.  He has several mildly protruding disks in his lumbar section, two mild to medium, and one that is protruding so far to the right it is pinching the nerve and causing all of his leg pain.  Will wait and see what the doc says.  I have been really worried over the amount of pain he has been in.  I just can't believe that they waited so long for the MRI.  did some reading up on it last night.  Maybe we will get lucky and with exercises and resting the back it will get better.