[gma22]

Good morning gals! It should be a beautiful day today! Sure hope my weigh in goes well. I have some errands to run first. I want to get my haircut first thing as I have one of those cards where you get so many than the next one is free and I am free this time and I need to go to the nail salon after that. I took my new button down shirt to the cleaners last night to have them launder and starch it as it is pretty limp and I want some body to it and can't pick it up until after 5 this evening.

The jerks next door are making enough noise to wake the dead and it is 4 in the morning! I thought these were going to be better neighbors, but guess again. They are loud, the kids throw their candy and gum papers onto my deck (which I promptly throw back over the fence,) they park in front of our garage, even though they can park in front of theirs, and on and on. There are about 3 sets of family in there I think. {{{SIGH}}}

Maggie: I am so sorry you didn't lose this week. Looks like you may have to shake things up a bit to get things going again. I get panic strickened every week about Wed worried about losing. Dumb I know, but there you go!

I have started a pair of little overalls for LJ. They are the camel color of my dd's sweater since I had yarn leftover and I bought little brown bone buttons for the straps and a bigger dog face button to sew on the bib. I then went in search of little baby shoes with dogs on them and found these cute sort of slipper things called Pedoodles and they WERE dogs so I bought them. I just have to get a little tshirt to go under it. I got bored with both sweaters and this is a nice day or two diversion. I am going to use snaps insted of the buttonholes as the buttonholes on this pattern aren't reinforced and would stretch. I like snaps instead of buttons for new babies anyway. The dog bone buttons are just for looks.

We set up the aerobed last night to see the size and what it would feel like etc. I knew that Jack thought this was going to be like an air mattress. He was pleasantly surprised when we got it up and he laid on it. The bad thing is they have cats so we will have to take it down every morning and put it away, which will be a pain, but I don't want the cats putting their claws through it. It is actually quite comfortable and will make a great extra bed.

Well, I am going to knit on the overalls for a bit before Jack gets up at 5. I am taking him to work today so I need to get around early.

Have a wonderful Friday and a great weekend!

Faye

[Maggie]

GOOD MORNING MAGNOLIAS

It is still morning for 5 more minutes. I am sticking so close to my points today! It is a low point day and I have my plan. I made a huge FOCUS sign that hangs right to the right of my desktop and I can see it every time I go to look out the windw. It measures 3x8 and is multicolored letters. I am going to keep my FOCUS

We are having our church party tomorrow at noon. The chili feed. Today I will be cooking the burger meat to go into the pot. I don't want to get up at the crack of dawn tomorrow to be cooking all morning. Also I will make the mini corn muffins. So in the morning all I will have to do is combine the chili fixns in a big pot and simmer it till time to go. I am not cooking the beans either ~ using canned pintos.

FAYE I too hope our weigh in goes well. You will learn to not stress over it and take it in stride. I need a hair cut but am thinking of letting it grow out some and have a different "doo" for awhile. I don't want it long, long like I used to have it though. Just want to change the style a bit. You sure do have lousy neighbors. They have no regard for anyone but themselves it appears. Those little overalls sure sound cute. I love to see babies dressed in cute little outfits. One of the ladies at WW yesterday had her little grand nephew with her and he had on the cutest little overall outfit. It had those animal buttons on it. He had a little matching cap ~ the little tyke was only born in the middle of last December so was a babe in arms still.

Everyone have a lovely day and a safe weekend. The sun is supposed to shine.

[Jean]

Good Evening, Flowers! I am sitting here listening to the wind blow but so far no rain nor snow. The weatherman has cried "wolf" so many times that I'll believe it when I see it.

I spent yesterday sleeping most of the day; it was an effort to even go to the bathroom. I was still running a temperature last night so called in for a sub. I noticed that my leg hurt from under my knee up to the groin area whenever I would change position or stand up to walk. I couldn't think of a thing that I had done to cause it. This morning the area was red and I was still running a temp. so off to the doctor I went. I have been fighting dry skin (or so I thought) on my knee all winter long and it runs a cycle of being dry, cracking, seeping, etc. Well, it became infected and I end up in the ER having an IV, plus one tomorrow, and another on Sunday. Then I go back to the doctor on Monday. She took a marker and drew an outline around the red area to see if it gets bigger or smaller in the meantime. I'm supposed to stay off my feet and keep my leg up . . . I have cabin fever as it is after two days at home.

Maggie -- It's good to see you again! I think your rain may be headed our way except it will be freezing drizzle by the time we get it. There were several events scheduled for Sunday and all have been called off with the prediction of up to 10" of new snow. I'm sorry about your gain, but I know you have found your FOCUS and will do well this week.

"Gma" -- I would like the low cut jeans because I am short waisted and have a hard time finding jeans that fit. I ordered flowers for Bob's mom to be delivered on Valentine's Day because that is his birthday. I used the same florist I have always used in AZ and ordered online as usual. The # I ordered was for $40 and they called saying it was a $70 arrangement. When I explained that it wasn't a Valentine arrangement she said she understood. Well, MIL never called to say that she got them and Bob finally called her and she didn't get them. I guess the order never got made up in the first place. She was on the answering machine today saying she had gotten them -- better late than never. I'm sorry you are having neighbor trouble again. Are they another bunch of renters? When we bought our waterbed we had a cat with claws and the salesman told us to shoot the cat. With the mattress pad, sheets, and blankets we never had a problem with her poking her claws through. The overalls sound really cute!

I'm off to preheat the bed. My IV thing is wrapped with sticky stuff so I hope it is protected enough while I sleep. I'm supposed to wrap it in SaranWrap when I shower in the morning. Hope you all have a nice weekend!

Jean -- from Iowa!

[Maggie]

GOOD NIGHT MAGNOLIAS

We just finished watching a DVD and I am heading to bed shrotly. First gotta brush the teeth, etc so it will be a while. I am putting to bed an 18 point day with one extra flex point (making it 19) having been used and I feel great about it. I am going to do this thing. Got myself convinced.

JEAN Sounds like you have one big infection going on there to have to go in for IVs ~ antibotics I assume. Good thing you are in good hands and are getting it taken care of now. I sure do feel for you my friend, isn't it crazy how things like that happen and we don't have a clue when it did. Let us know how you progress.

Nighters everyone.