SPring is turning things a pale green here too... I witnessed some geese having a "turf war".... not sure which sex was defending but it was obvious who the intruder was NOT welcome.....
Yay for own bed Anagram!! You are on the COMEBACK trail!
WSW! Home repairs ARE stressful! But A/C is a must !
Ceara! You are on your way!
Wood Nymph! We don't have the TV programs you mention.... sounds very interesting!
Friday!
Here's some fun for Friday....
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Pet Diary Excerpts
The Dog
8:00 am - Dog food! My favorite thing!
9:30 am - A car ride! My favorite thing!
9:40 am - A walk in the park! My favorite thing!
10:30 am - Got rubbed and petted! My favorite thing!
12:00 pm - Milk bones! My favorite thing!
1:00 pm - Played in the yard! My favorite thing!
3:00 pm - Wagged my tail! My favorite thing!
5:00 pm - Dinner! My favorite thing!
7:00 pm - Got to play ball! My favorite thing!
8:00 pm - Wow! Watched TV with the people!
My favorite thing!
11:00 pm - Sleeping on the bed! My favorite thing!
The Cat
Day 983 of my captivity. My captors continue to
taunt me with bizarre little dangling objects. They
dine lavishly on fresh meat, while the other
inmates and I are fed hash or some sort of dry
nuggets. Although I make my contempt for the
rations perfectly clear, I nevertheless must eat
something in order to keep up my strength. The only
thing that keeps me going is my dream of escape. In an
attempt to disgust them,I once again vomit on the carpet.
Today I decapitated a mouse and dropped its
headless body at their feet. I had hoped this would
strike fear into their hearts, since it clearly
demonstrates my capabilities. However, they merely
made condescending comments about what a
"good little hunter" I am.
There was some sort of assembly of their
accomplices tonight. I was placed
in solitary confinement for the duration of the
event. However, I could hear the noises and
smell the food. I overheard that my confinement
was due to the power of "allergies." I must learn
what this means, and how to use it to my advantage.
I am convinced that the other prisoners here are
flunkies and snitches. The dog receives special
privileges. He is regularly released, and seems
to be more than willing to return. He is obviously
******ed. The bird must be an informant. I observe him
communicating with the guards regularly. I
am certain that he reports my every move. My captors
have arranged protective custody for him in an
elevated cell, so he is safe. For now...
Kayelets! That is funny...I can just hear that cat...
Yes Anagram, you are just hoppin' along. Amazing how quickly we can recuperate!
Good to see you wsw....that AC is important in the upcoming season. Especially for you in your more southern location!
You are still having snow Arabella? So are we occasionally, but it melts before it can stick I must go visit the flowers after I get dressed...and get those heathens out for a bit!
Well am off to parentals for breakfast...apparently we are having johnny cakes...I will eat something here before I go. And Annie tonight, complete with dnner out...I think I will be fighting hard to stay OP today!
Hi, Royals! Today I took two little outside walkies totalling about 1600 feet. Big progress! I also ventured to basement laundry room and did two loads of wash. One's still in the dryer and I tossed the other into a trash bag and carried it up to the family room where it sits folded in a basket until someone comes along to carry it upstairs.
It was a lovely day outside and I'm physically doing well but I've had a major attack of the "glums". Been fighting it since the middle of the night. Felt a strong need to be able to drive and did go start the one car that's here. Didn't drive, just started it up which needed to be done anyway. Just want to be able to go get a haircut, run an errand, drive to nowhere in particular. Just plain out of sorts and don't even feel too apologetic about it. Can't pin it on any one thing and hope it's gone by morning. How can one be glum with daffs and hyacinths in bloom and buds and blossoms all over the place?
Blah - but still my best wishes to the Royals Seeking Svelteness.
Yes, I hope your "blahness" lifts soon Anagram. Walking to the car and starting it is a great achievement! And laundry. You are surely on the mend.
Wonder if Flower has arrived in her southern home yet or not?
Well I need to work today...actually need more ...can't type! Annie was very good last night...the pit orchestra was good...sometimes they can be bad....and the musical itself was really well done. Some good little singers coming up there...We had dinner at the Keg...8 oz sirloin, with pecans and red wine sauce, caesar salad, sourdough bread ( I had a piece), beans and mushroom medley, baked potato with salsa....none of the other stuff for me. My GF and I split a bottle of very nice white wine...a good evening in all. Now I need to log that stuff...
Off I go...logging and walking then working! Heighdy-ho!
Well, not over the blahs yet - not totally. I'm using all my usual arguments. A piece of it attributable to not being able to do yard work, I think. That always gets me in better shape mentally. Going to church w/neighbors this weekend so that's a "get out". Have friends I could call to take me somewhere but not sure that's the answer either.
Some is the fact that all this is so much harder w/o DH. With previous surgeries he picked up the slack on what I couldn't do and we'd have been out going places w/him driving. So in that sense, another step on the grief journey, I guess. At any rate I'm taking it easy this morning until I feel like moving around. Only a couple of more weeks to go and doing better every day.
I have decided I need music - LOUD music - that usually works.
ceara, you were so good on the food but the wine sounds even better I had hoped to see some of the local high school productions this year - they all sound so good - but have to put that on schedule for next year.
I've been looking at the schedule for the playhouse where I won the two dinners/performance tickets last fall. Trying to decide who I'll ask to go with me and which play to see. Currently I'm between "Oklahoma" and "The Full Monty". Maybe it depends on who goes with me. Your votes, please. I've never seen TFM but have seen O several times.
Wondering about flower too and hoping all's going as smoothly as these things can.
Just a quickie before we head out to shop. Well, theory worked out again -- I laid off any higher glycemic load foods on Thursday and by Friday felt like myself again. The difference is, seriously, like night and day. Will not "test that theory" again any time soon. Once I've been good for a while I can have the occasional item but just can't seem to handle anything high glycemic on a daily basis -- makes me tired, depressed, cranky. SO not worth it!
Ceara, I'm reading "Ultraprevention" by the "Ultrametabolism" folk (library doesn't have the latter) and I'm finding it very exciting! They mention a Harvard study that placed men in an environment evoking their youth and saw physical results as if they'd actually grown younger. I have decided to be 26
Anagram, Of course you still miss your darling! And every new situation without him is bound to underline your loss... I'm sure he's still with you, though -- even if he can't drive. What loud music did you/are you going to listen to?
Kaylets, that was hilarious! We have a couple of cats that deign to live with us. Yes, we do actually have some TV shows in Canada that are especially fun and interesting. DH makes fun of me for being so interested in the supernatural but... I don't care.
WSW, always so nice to see you popping in! I'm glad the condo repair is complete, even if it was hard on the pocketbook. Hope you can get out more to enjoy the flowers!
K, My Lovelies -- shopping awaits. Have a wonderful Saturday!
Thanks, WN - that decision will also affect who I take with me. Leaning towards that person anyway at the moment. Played "Four Seasons" loudly - helped. Most of my faves that I was looking for are in my car and that's with DS at the moment. Anyway, it helped. May go put another on instead of the home improvement shows that are on TV. Am finally all dressed, made up, etc. So must make the big decisions - what to do next that will be some semblance of fun. Yesterday's FUN was my two little walkies so I'll try that again probably.
Yes, the cat thing - I liked the part about decapitating a mouse. I remember our Pierre proudly depositing one in front of DH. She looked very proud but I think it was because she found another way to gag him as much as it was that she caught the mouse. When our dog deposited a rabbit at his feet, she had the much more adoring look of someone respecting the leader of the pack (and again when she dug it up a few days later and again delivered it to him). Never any doubt of who's in charge when you have a cat. Have neither now.
I've always had an interest in the supernatural as well, WN. Some personal experiences when I was younger that still make hair stand on end but not outlandish enough to make a movie or anything.
Oh, DO tell, Anagram -- if you've the time and inclination, of course. Thanks for the LOL -- that second delivery of the dead bunny, complete with that steady, adoring gaze.
Geesh...my guys don't deliver 'em, they just scarff them down as fast as they can so I DON'T get 'em!
Beautiful day shaping up out there....rained like the dickens around 4 am and I rolled over and went back to sleep, but the sun has miraculously appeared, and it is a lttle warmer than the past two days...so that is good.
I think the Full Monty too, only because you've done O. I wonder how they stage that?!? Pretty immediate.
Gorgeous day here today. Tomorrow to be good too - then that's it for a while. Got lots done today for some reason - food decent too. What more can I ask? Oh, yeah - FUN. Well, a couple of good phone calls, pulled up a few things in the yard, read on the patio briefly. Hmm - doesn't seem to be enough.
Plan to turn in early tonight - not much going on. Plan to get ready for bed even earlier an do some little things upstairs before turning in. This is always my plan - but tonight I'm going to do it.
BIL in Baltimore awaiting his cancer surgery tomorrow. On my mind, of course.
Wood Nymph - just a few strange little things. One was that we had planned a trip to Niagara Falls, were to meet friends there. Planned for a good while but 2-3 days before I began to feel I couldn't go. I tried to let go of the feeling, finally told DH who had a cow, etc. but finally said if you can't, we can't. Couldn't imagine myself what had gotten into me - thought I was loosing it (more than usual) - I thought so too. Well, in the evening of the day we'd have gone, got a call from my mom (who was an hour away and didn't drive). Seems my grandma had taken a turn for the worse, hospital couldn't reach the early names on the call list, etc. Dad wasn't home to drive mom at the moment so she called me as I was closer anyway. So I got to go, take care of the early hours until others were located and arrived, etc. I knew then why I had not been able to go. It was a night that turned out to be a real gift to me somehow. Grandma was like a baby and died a "beautiful", peaceful death and I never feared death after that (note that other deaths I have since seen were not so). I had actually seen an "aura" of sorts and lots of roses and people (including her long dead husband and a recently deceased brother of hers who were greeting her) as her spirit seemed to leave her about an hour or so before she actually died. With it cama a sort of "message" that seeing all this was a sort of "thank you" from Grandma for having visited her so often and for being there with her during the time we waited for the others to arrive.
When I came home after Grandma had died in the wee hours, DH was amazed to see me (in his words) "glowing", and the next day said "whatever happened to you last night should happen every day". He also said that the next time I told him I couldn't do something whether it seemed rational or not - he'd instantly go along with it. He too seemed to sense something unusual had gone into the whole thing and he had always been a scoffer at anything leaning slightly to the "non-traditional". Ever after he'd semi-tease me about "having connections" and that he wouldn't go against anybody who had "connections".
Several other things as well but that was the most powerful.
Wow, Anagram -- what a beautiful vision! Thanks so much for sharing. I'll keep your BIL in mind today.
Ceara Funny picture, that, your heathens scarfing down the "treats" before you can get them.
I've got a bit of a family crisis going on -- my sister's gotten herself in desperate financial straits. Quit her job in the fall to devote herself to a candle-making business without ever really working out whether it could support her or not. Now she's got disconnect notices from the utilities, hasn't paid her rent and etc. I said she should do her taxes to get her refund and it turns out she hasn't filed her taxes in 10 years. Unreal. I said I'd help her get set up to sell her candles online. Not that I really have the time. Ugh.
Couldn't sleep last night for full moon and stress. Nevertheless, up and exercised and will work very hard to retain my equilibrium through this day. And focus on my quest!
Lovely day here today and I'm making no real progress on hiring someone to do yard work. To start getting cold and nasty again tomorrow and then for the next week so I do want to get in a little walkie.
But that must wait until I sit in the basement while I do a load of laundry. I'm staying down so I don't do too many steps though they are certainly much easier. While there, I'm shredding and going through files. Making some real progress but - so boring. And certainly won't get it all done even with all this - BECAUSE AS SOON AS I CAN DRIVE AGAIN I WON'T BE HOME FOR MONTHS - or at least that's what I think right now.
Oh, Arabella, what a situation. Helping is one thing but realize you can't straighten out a lifetime of lax decision making. I am much too trepiditous not to file my taxes - just too fearful. And can't figure out mindset of others who don't - unless there are reasons why she didn't have to. I think I did mention a tax problem that had reared its ugly head here a while back. I turned to a friend of DH who looked into it - I owe nothing on it and received a letter of apology. Phew!!! But I was a wreck over it and pictured losing my home and all sorts of bad stuff.
Anyway - do what you can and hold sis's hand but don't take it on as your own because you didn't make those decisions. Equilibrium is so hard won, isn't it?
I must go visit the flowers after I get dressed...and get those heathens out for a bit!
...can't type! Annie was very good last night...the pit orchestra was good...sometimes they can be bad....and the musical itself was really well done. Some good little singers coming up there...We had dinner at the Keg...8 oz sirloin, with pecans and red wine sauce, caesar salad, sourdough bread ( I had a piece), beans and mushroom medley, baked potato with salsa....none of the other stuff for me. My GF and I split a bottle of very nice white wine...a good evening in all. Now I need to log that stuff...
I had hoped to see some of the local high school productions this year - they all sound so good - but have to put that on schedule for next year.
Happy Saturday, Queenlies!
Of course you still miss your darling! And every new situation without him is bound to underline your loss... I'm sure he's still with you, though -- even if he can't drive. What loud music did you/are you going to listen to? 
Yes, we do actually have some TV shows in Canada that are especially fun and interesting. 
DH makes fun of me for being so interested in the supernatural but... I don't care. 
S