I laid awake this morning in bed composing a post about people teaching kids to be incompetent. I was awake because Z was awake. She feels that she needs to be supervised at all times. Therefore, she can’t be awake and entertaining herself. We have to be awake if she is awake. We can’t convince [...]
Best. Day. Ever!
There is a thing called TMI Tuesday or Thursday, I can’t remember which. Since I can’t remember I’m splitting the difference and posting on Wednesday. You’ve been warned… As part of my last gynecologist visit I had a full STD panel. An astute observer might point out that it is a bit late since I’ve [...]
Picture Day
I started to put the sashing in my Carolina Christmas quilt. I’m using a 1.5 inch green sashing. I think it sets off the blocks just enough to make the overall look less chaotic to my eyes. One of my friends finished this sampler top for her great-niece. I took Freckles out for a walk [...]
The Last Straw
When I brought Freckles back from the clinic yesterday I decided to slowly reintroduce food so as not to upset her system. She had some leftover dry food in her bowl because she hadn’t been interested in eating. She still wasn’t interested in it. Then I picked up the bowl and put it on the [...]
Learning to scrapbook all over
Both of my invalids are sleeping on the couch. Freckles is feeling better. She did ok getting doctored without my supervision until I came back. Then she got so crazed that she disconnected her IV and had blood spraying everywhere as she jumped around in her cage. I hurried up and cut the IV out [...]
Medical Day
I’m hanging out in the endoscopy waiting room waiting for the SO to get done with his procedure. Freckles spent all day yesterday and all night with diarrhea. She was dehydrated and very sad looking. I dropped her off on the way to the human hospital at a clinic that opens crazy early so she [...]
Food journal
I have a coworker who is doing a YMCA fitness challenge and needs to keep a food journal. After reviewing her journal for the first week her trainer told her that she needs to eat more veggies. She wasn’t sure how to go about doing this since she doesn’t like them so she showed me [...]
Finishing and Restarting
I finally finished up all the blocks for the Carolina Christmas Mystery Quilt. I was disappointed at first when I saw the finished layout because I didn’t like it. I like both of the blocks but together it seemed too cluttered. I think my problem is that there isn’t a secondary design that forms when [...]
Pretty Drive
Pretty Drive Originally uploaded by spirit97 I drove through the mountains in West Virginia and Virginia this weekend. It is a really pretty drive even in the winter. All the small waterfalls on the cliffs were frozen. I kept trying to get a picture but wasn’t coordinated enough. They should probably add taking pictures of [...]
Mission Accomplished
The mission of mercy went well although my friend was much more mobile than she was probably supposed to be. I got there Friday night and we hung out in the living room and talked. Our other friends got a late start and didn’t get there until 3 AM Saturday morning. This is her puppy [...]
Mercy
I am headed on a mission of mercy today. I am going to Virginia to sit with a bedridden pregnant friend. I plan on pointing, laughing, and otherwise provoking her knowing that she can’t get up and chase me! The mission of mercy is actually to her husband. Since her description of being on bed [...]
I Am Resolute
I came up with a resolution! I never do resolutions at New Year’s time. It is too much work to think up things that I’m just going to forget about anyway. This plan only came into my head coincidentally around this time of year. I wasn’t sitting around thinking up resolutions. I am going to [...]
New Friend
I took Freckles to the dog park on Saturday hoping that their would be other dogs for her to play with. Most of the time when we go there is no one for her to play with. She runs laps around the park and has a grand time anyway. The weather must have kept saner [...]
Bad Influences
I was raised one step away from the country. We didn’t live on farms but it was fairly rural. I didn’t realize what a different experience that is from city folk until my dad and I tried to take Z for a walk over Christmas. We headed out their driveway and turned left onto the [...]
Your Shape Review
I’ve been playing with the Your Shape featuring Jenny McCarthy game on my Wii for about a week now. I’ve been doing it on days when I’m not doing the cardio boot camp from hell on the treadmill. I’ve got mixed feelings about the game. You start by picking a workout. You highlight the area [...]
Big Game Hunting
Freckles learned to stay home by herself on my long work days this week. This is mainly because she throws an absolute hissy fit whenever she has to go in a kennel. Hissy fits must burn off a lot of energy though because with the combination of staying home and not going jogging because of [...]
Boot Camp #1
I decided to try a boot camp-type workout I saw in Prevention Magazine. You walk for 3.5 minutes and then do 30 seconds of some toning exercise (there is a list) and then walk again. In the middle of the workout you do a series of strength exercises and then finish with a 10 minute [...]
My day off
I got to start off this morning with a massage. That’s always a happy thing. The only problem is that the table leaves a curved line across my forehead. I was running to the grocery store afterwards so I either looked like a crazy person or someone exotic with strange markings on my face. I [...]
New toys
Because my mother bought me a Wii after being told that it would not connect to my antediluvian TV, we went out and bought a new TV. The SO had been thinking about it ever since I met him but we are cheap and our current TV played DVDs just fine. We aren’t connected to [...]