Happy November!!!!! Unpleasant weekend cooped up in the house, and then trouble sleeping because of my node being stubbed up.....Better now that I've been up for awhile. Nose is better, but I'm dragging considerably. Need a good, solid night's sleep. Hopefully, I'll get one tonight. Came to work - have to get a proposal in - then will leave.
Hallowe'en was unremarkable - no tricksters OR treaters, which was fine with me. Bah, humbug. My DD and SIL always take DGD - and now the twinnie DGD's to a friend's aunt's house; she does a big shindig every year on Hallowe'en so the kids won't have to be out trick-or-treating in the cold, and still get to dress up in their costumes and have lots of fun. Me? I'm too OLD for all that hullabaloo! It's in the "been there, done that, got the Tee-shirt" file. (Got about a dozen year's worth of Tee-shirts, actually - time now for the next generation of mommies and daddies to "do" Hallowe'en.
Thanksgiving is infinitely preferable to Christmas...a big dinner with all the various family members in attendance is hard enough to orchestrate and pull off; Christmas is now beyond my capabilities. I'll bake and roast and simmer and stir - make cookies and pies and crisps (all with Stevia and some ground-up Fiber One cereal thrown in for good measure, but I'm not telling!), muffins and cakes and hams and bisquits and my homemade apple-cranberry sauce, and turkey stuffed with sausage & apple stuffing, but all the Christmas shopping, and wrapping, and huge mess that accompanies Christmas is just not my cup of tea at this point. (But nobody should interpret that remark as any sort of connection with *the* tea PARTY). ANYhoo, yeah. Thanksgiving is okay, Christmas is over the top. Blah, bah and humbug!
Lynn, I saw those signs from the rally on Huffington Post. Soooooo kewl! I would absolutely LOVE to have been there, but I'm glad that you were there to represent us Golden Girls!
Oh,
Freda! You said the dreaded m--------m word! And THEN you said P-P S---R !!!!! Ack! Ptooey! I need to go wash out my mouth! I hate those things worse than um...er....um....CHRISTMAS! (Plus, I refuse to go to my elder daughter's for Christmas - not the twin's mommie; this is the older DD - because she invites her FATHER and his WIFE as well, and I have finally decided that I'm old enough to make up my mind who I want to be around for the holidays, and trust me....he is NOT one of the who's!!!!! I'd rather <gulp> have a P-P S---R !!!! (Whew!)
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Bobbi - I'm afraid that I shall never share your delight in clothes smelling of the clean and fresh outdoors. (Besides, I live in a highly populated area - they wouldn't end up all that clean and fresh, anyway). But, having said that, I DO feel just the teeny-tiniest bit less lazy in that regard just from rubbing shoulders with you here in fatchickland.
Ah, the wonders of the internet, huh? Sometimes when you mention hanging your clothes out, it brings back lovely memories of when I was a child and my mother would hang clothes outside...how good they smelled....awwwww, and how brown and dusty they got when I rode my bike through the sheets and occasionally (without meaning to, of course) knocked one or two down...
(SO sorry; my cold medicine makes me a little crazy.....)
Mary, I just got plumb worn out from READING about what you've gotten done!
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PT!!!! Yeahhhhhhh. Oh, I'm okay. Would love to be napping, but I'm not, so whattaya gonna do, huh?
Omigosh! We are about 1/3 through the LAST Claire & Jamie book! (And you KNOW how slowly that woman writes!) Woe is me, woe is me. I may have to start watching season 2 of Dexter.
Hallooooo to
Karens 3 & 31,
Rosey, Gayle.....
sgxbenurhegrtbb.....can't remember, sorry, it's the cold medicine. (I mean well, tho).
Not eating uncontrollably, incidentally - appetite has been pretty lousy since I started feeling sick.
Z