Another year ends

Another year over. Started out ok then went to shit, hopefully 2009 will be better. No plans for tonight, it's Wednesday so it's the weekend, Happy Hour. I don't go but I'm sure DH will.
It was also the New Year here, 1410. Yeah, it's 1410 alright, might as well be the way these morons think.

I finished another WIP yesterday. I finished An American Christmas , it was a freebie from Eterna Silk & Ladybug Lane designs. IT's stitched with Eterna Silk threads on 32 count opalescent evenweave from Silkweaver. Not sure of the color but of course the picture doesn't reflect the true colors.
So, how would YOU finish this one? Flat fold? no sew cube done in CHRISTMAS colors? No sew cube done in PATRIOTIC colors? tuck hanger of some sort? Frame? Pillow door hanger thingie?

IT's dark, grey, humid and overcast today, if I didn't know better I'd say it was going to rain.

Really bummed out

I was really bummed out, I knew I gained weight in the past month but I didn't think it was 6 lbs! I just want to cry. I walked & exercised I watched what I ate, NO cookies, NO sweets and yet I gained 6 lbs, I can feel it and see it. My blood sugar levels are so far out of whack and I am all puffed up too. I had my dr appt Saturday night, all things considered it went well except for the weight gain. So I guess I will sit down, make up menus and exercise plans and stick to it the best I can.
I also have an appt (at that same fancy 5 star hospital) for January 3 with an endocrinogolist.

I did stitch some more on my Patriotic ornament last night.

I fixed my turkey salad burritos for dinner, I just love those.

83F at 1:45PM, it's so nice now that it's cooler.

Ok, back to my depressing pity party

UGH, bad me. I ate something I should'nt have and now my blood sugar level is WAY high, and I'm all puffed up. I have a dr. appt. tonight but it's not a diabetes dr. I did do my walk this morning though and I'm drinking tons of water. It could have been this mornings oatmeal with 2 tsp peanut butter, raisins & eggnog. It was SOOOOOO good!

It's winter here! woo hoo! It was 76F when I walked at 9:30 this morning instead of 84! And at 1:30 it's only 82 instead of 88.

Geeze, I tried to do a spell check and every single word was highlighted as being wrong.

I haven't stitched in a few days so I guess I need to get back there.

Remembering today

This quote is from the Lion

Today is the anniversary of the Tsunami in Asia when so many lost their lives. We were there in Phuket, Thailand just 3 weeks before having a wonderful time. I just hate to think how many funny, entertaining, sweet people we met were lost. I know the resort we stayed at was devistated, it was a beautiful beachfront place.

We had a nice Christmas, only 2 friends were here for dinner. I cooked turkey & stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes that no one ate, carrots, green beans, vegetable mold, cranberry sauce pecan pie, pumpkin pie, whiskey cake(I didn't make this one, I opened the package I brought back from the states). I forgot the waldorf salad that was in the fridge. Now I have tons of leftovers.
DH got me a new flash drive since I lost the cap for my other one, a Sony MP3 player!!! a new soft yoga/exercise mat (YEAH! the old one is rough on the hip bones) 3 KG weights since the 2KG ones are getting light.
I also got to talk to both our kids, woke up my poor DS who had his one day to sleep in. DD was excited over her gifts which made me happy.

I didn't finish my American Christmas project but I'll still work on it.

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate.

Eggs & onions

LOLOL, reading your comments on eggs & onions. Well I forgot to get eggs when we went shopping the other night and the only "cheap" onions I could find were the potent red onions. The white onions they had were the American imported at $7.00 a kilo, I think not. So DH said he would go to the store to get the eggs. Now here, a dozen eggs in a container are hard to find sometimes. You can find flats of 2 1/2 dozen eggs on every street corner but what am I going to do with 2 1/2 dozen eggs? So a lot of times you have to drive around to the different grocery stores to find a simple dozen eggs without all the chicken shit all over them. Same with cottage cheese. I haven't seen cottage cheese in any store since May. It's just not there or anywhere. DH just happened to "see the white local onions" so he picked some up. The purple onions are really REALLY strong.

I did my walk this morning, I wore my "Santa Hat" but the blinking light row on the top front didn't work. While walking I guess i gave the foregin third country national workers(TCNs) a smile. Several of them stopped, grinned and said Merry Christmas Madam. Then the security truck drove by, they are "locals", as in the military security guys who are NOT foreigners. They slowed down and looked at me, nodded their heads (unusual for them to recogonize a woman) and smiled and drove on. I met them further on down the road and they smiled and nodded again. So at least I gave someone something to smile about today.

The cats don't seem to be bothered by the tree, they looked at it and didn't get a closer look.

So today I have a pecan pie, pumpkin pie, MAYBE apple pie, cranberry sauce to make, plus do the vacuuming & clean up. HAHAHAHAHA, sounds like an all nighter to me. Right now I have some smelly wax stuff burning in a couple of tart burners, smells like pine trees.

The satellite movie channels are having "Special Seasonal" movies for 2 days ONLY. Well pardon me, please don't go out of your way and heaven forbid should you run "Seasonal" tv shows for more than 2 days. Kiss my ass. I guess it's better than none.

Gotta go, start cooking or something.

Ok, he won

When DH got home from his afternoon run, the conversation started something about the christmas tree. I have a tiny, scrawny tree that my cross stitch ornaments are on, I kind of like it. I said it's right there & pointed to the tree. He said no, the other one, the tree. I said there's no room, he said he'd help me clean off the side table. I said the cats will knock it over. He said we'll find someplace. I said yeah, whatever. He had to go out to get some eggs & onions so I went and got the tree (with one hand mind you) grabbed some christmas fabric, put the fabric down on an end table, put the tree down, plugged it in and there it is. That's all, just the tree. The tree is only about 3 feet tall if that. The lights & ornaments are always on it, I pick it up and put it back in the closet upstairs. We used to have a huge 7 foot tree but when the kids left and don't come back, I gave the tree to some friends. I'll post a picture later.

So there you have it, he won. Oh, and he was gone about 2 hours for "eggs & onions" when there are 2 major grocery stores within 20 minute drive. At least he didn't wait until Christmas Eve to do his shopping, LOLOLOL.

Don't forget to track Santa: http://www.noradsanta.org/en/home.html

HAPPY HANUKKAH to my fellow readers! I would like to wish you and your families eight healthy, happy days and nights!

Crank up those loud speakers why don't you? Yep, it's that time of year, those paranoid moronic religious zealots have cranked up the speakers on the wailing towers just to remind us that there is NO CHRISTMAS here and they will drown out our music.

I didn't stitch yesterday
The sandstorm seems to be gone today butg it's still breezy out. 86F at 12:30PM.

I did my grocery shopping yesterday for the meal on Thursday. I'm having Turkey, stuffing made with whole grain bread, nasty mashed potatoes & gravy, sweet potatoes, carrots, green beans with roasted red bell peppers, vegetable mold, cranberry sauce (I bought 1 more box of frozen cranberries) pecan, pumpkin & maybe apple pie.

DH's presents are all wrapped but still no tree up (YEAH ME!) Let's see if he says anything or even notices.

ACKKKKKK Sandstorm

For the second day in a row we've had major sandstorms. All day, the sky is a eerie beige-y/orange. I'll trade your snowstorm for a sandstorm.

I actually made up 2 ornaments today. I finished off that beaded stocking and the Be Merry thing. I just put backing on the stocking and hung it but put a piece of fabric & a little bit of stuffing in it. Still stitching on my American Christmas ornament.

I did do my walk this morning and that tiny little kitty is still alive, they both are.

Things don't feel right again and I know I'm going to explode before too much longer. Technology has changed a lot since the last episode and I have no idea where to start looking.

It's windy, humid & overcast today but I'll still have to do my walk. I can't just sit here any longer, I have to be moving.

The connection is better but still sucks.

I did my 2 lap, 1 mile walk this morning. Felt good but it was soooo very sad. It is mating season for the 1,000 or so cats on the compound and there is a fresh batch of tiny baby kittens too. I saw 2 tiny kittens, must be only a few days old laying together. I know one of them is dead because it didn't move when I walked closer. They are in a fenced in "substation" on the main road beside houses. Mama is there but she isn't cuddled with them. I wish I could have gotten in there and picked them up and brought them home, but I wish I could do that with the pure black cat I saw too.

I fixed my Lasagna Primavera last night, vegetable lasagna, it was good!

I stitched on my American Ornament last night. Maybe I can get it done this year. This is a before picture and a picture of where I left off last night.

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

This internet is so fucked up again today. I don't know if it is that stupid firefox thing or what but nothing wants to load on the first try. This is the second time I am adding this!

WOO HOO! The Cranberry boat came in! The grocery store had the frozen cranberries from Australia today so I bought 3 boxes and a box of frozen blueberries. I know they won't be any left by tonight. Also got the turkey for next Thursday. Nothing else in the line of holiday items in the store this year. Kind of depressing.

Today I am working on my American Christmas ornament. I started that one a few years ago.

It's finished!

Finally that damned beaded stocking is DONE! I started the frappin' thing in 1999 I think and finished it up today. Thank you to my friend Kristin for telling me how to do the beading when it is so close together like that, it worked! All I need to do is put the backing on and tie a ribbon or something on it to hang it with.

Now on to something else, not sure what yet though.

DH installed this mozilla firefox thing so I'm testing it out. So far it doesn't like my SanMan board and won't let me log in on Firefox so I have to use IE for that.

I didn't get any stitching done yesterday.

Gotta sit down and make a meal list for next Thursday, I have no clue what to fix.

That's about it for this exciting day.

MQOTD

Beading sucks!

I have been beading away on this and somehow even after following the pattern carefully it is off. I think the white beads are a bit larger than the other beads so I can't fit all of them in. There is supposed to be a pattern there but I can't see one because they are so squished together.

No motivational quote yet, the site does an update on Tuesday night but it is Wednesday morning my time so it won't be working for another few hours yet.

I did walk yesterday, talked to DD & my birthday boy. He was excited.

Had some yummy oatmeal today, I put a little bit of peanut butter and a tiny bit of cinnamon and some raisins in it. It was so good. Last night I made a chicken "pot pie" recipe from one of my diabetic cookbooks. I used my whole grain biscuit mix in place of "bisquick" and it was nasty. I think it was the parsley I put in it though or the fact that there isn't real buttermilk here so I have to make my own and that could have made it nasty tasting. The chicken slop under the biscuits was good it was the biscuits that were horrible.

I love the picture on this one.

I got more stitching done on my Mill Hill stocking last night, still a long way from being done though even for a little thing.

Not much else happening today.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TY!

Today is my oldest grandson's birthday, he is 9 years old! I can't believe he is 9! I was there when he was born, it was a bit traumatic, we almost lost him and his mom too but today he is a fine, sweet 9 year old! I have only been with him for 1 frikkin birthday and that really sucks. I hope he has a GREAT birthday! It's so depressing because I was HOME to celebrate his birthday 1 year ago today.



I don't know what happened when I logged in but it told me that my account didn't exist. No matter how many times I retyped my user name & password, it said the account didn't exist. I don't know if someone hacked it or what but I changed the password.

As much as I cry, bawl and hurt at this time of year for not being able to be home, I am glad I am not home right now. I would probably be sitting in the dark with no heat. A major ice storm hit New England and many are without power right now. I called my son in New Hampshire yesterday and they are fine. They have power but ALL the surrounding towns don't! Our daughter in Maine is fine too so that is a relief.

I finally got up the ambition to walk again yesterday. While DH was home for the holiday, I did't do much like I should have so now I have to make up for it. I found those 2 lbs I lost too so now I have to make them go away.

I have been stitching again, I am trying to finish up a 9 year old UFO Mill Hill bead kit. Hopefully I can finish before too much longer. This is what I did, starting picture is on the right, what I have done so far on the left:

Remember all those planes I talked about last month? The ones going over one after the other non stop? Well they are all back, picking up all those hajji's they dropped off last month. I hope they get every last one of them and get them the hell outta here so I can go out shopping.

Well, I'm off to do something creative.

MQOTD

I like this one!