Thank God, It's NORMAL

Lots to do today,  FINALLY back to normal, right?  AND, it IS Tuesday, take out trash day.  Nearly did it yesterday.  LOLOLOL,, my older bro came by ,,and he said he did do it!  That's the one that lives 1/2 block away.  Besides a lot of stops, i have to get a new sticker on my car, and get more books from the Library.  I'm still on Lee Child, the Jack Reacher series.  Hard to put down.  I can't even watch tv without a book to read, during the commercials,lol. 

That reminds me,, a new change is ,, those commercials have to be the same volume as regular stuff.  HA,,,they did this a long time ago, and they never changed them.  They still kept blaring out, so i don't expect this new law?,,change? whatever, will work either.

Nothing bad happened around here over the weekend.  That's Great!  The jail might have had an overfill, but,,it was New Year's Eve,,,lolol.

I'm wondering,,( lol,DD), if i can put my blogs on a disc, or a flash memory.  I know i can get them made into a book, have that link thru blogger, but there's so many, i'd like them all on a disc.  Gonna check that out.

Well, i've sat here and let the time slip away, now it's noon, and will be lunch time for the places i need to go.  So, i'm here another hour.

I'm renewing my paper, even tho it's changed and i'm not sure i like it any more.  Tried doing without it for a couple of months, a few years ago, reading it online.  Well, that didn't last.  There wasn't any ads!!
I had never realized how much i used them.  It's changed owners, and now the first section has changed to something i  don't like.  I've gotten this as a daily since way back, in the 70s.  So you can see how much of a change it would be, not to get it.  I even got up  earlier back then, to read it with my coffee, before everybody else was up.  Besides, i like knowing what's happening in the world.  I can take my time now, and do. 

Reading rvsue, makes me wonder why she's camping in a family place, then complaining about the kids having fun.  Pack up and leave!  LOLOL,,,don't even have to pack up,,,start it up and leave.  We had motorcycles, 3 wheelers, mini bikes,, from the time our kids were little, theirs were kid size.  It was,,alll in the family,,,lolol.  We ALL had fun on them.  Looked out the window one time, and OMG,,saw my g/dotter, about 4 years old, going across the yard on my son's 3 wheeler!!! all by her self, him standing out there and watching her.  That 3 wheeler was big, but he had taught her well, she had no problem doing it.  He had her driving at 10, sitting on his lap.  When my second hubby and i hosted the biker meets out at his ranch, someone painted my name on the front of mine.  Years later, when i sold it,,lol,,that name was there.  All of these things are like guns, you teach them safety.  So, just don't stay there, if it's not your thing.  But don't complain, if you do.

 I still had my motorcycle license up until a few years ago.   I was the first female in the whole area that had one, and the first to need the license.  That man was so shocked,,his mouth dropped open,, then saying he didn't know what to do.  hahahaha,,I asked him why it was different than a male.  This was in the 60s, very few males had em, let along a female.  Besides, i was small, petite, weighed about a 100 lbs.  Like i say in my profile, i was one of a kind, not afraid to be different.  Somewhere back in these blogs, i know i talked about this.

Well, almost time to get outa here, so,,yall tc, and

HAGD

What Day is It???

So far behind, today.  Almost 1 pm.  I have read all the updated blogs, which weren't a whole lot. 

When i got up this morning, had a hard time remembering what day it was!,,,;lololol.  Too many holidays, ready for normal.  And yesterday sure wasn't Sunday!  O well,  i'm back on track now.  Took a while,,tho,,hahahaha.

No NYs resolutions, learned a long time ago, waste of time, and guilt,,  Almost 99% were to lose weight,  and like i said, waste of time.  Got an appointment at my lapband Doc's on the 17th.  Gonna decide if this is a waste of time after i talk to him.  Getting to the right place gave me pneumonia by making me burp up stuff during sleep, even with a lot of pillows, almost sitting upright.  My Doc here said i could have  choked to death too.  BUT, being there, i lost 3 lbs in a week.  Wasn't hungry either.  Sooo, major decision.  To keep on trying with this, or not.  It will depend on what it does to me when i sleep.  He said he would go very very slow, now, to get back to that point.

Just saw the tv lineup for tonite,,it's some NEW ONES.  Couldn't believe it.  And The Biggest Loser comes back tomorrow nite.  And i think So You Think You Can Dance starts again this month.  LOLOLOL,,just saw where American Idol starts again on the 18th.  So,,I've made it thru the nothing,,,time.

I know this is short, but absolutely nothing going on. so, yall tc, and

HAGD

Got My Blackeyed Peas Ready

And, here it is, the beginning of another year,,,Where did last year go? 

Had to lmao, reading Ol Jules today.  It's always good to start a day with a good laugh, and he gives it to ya today.

I remember how we fussed at DD, going away for days and not letting us know, and how worried i got, and now, here's rvsue doing the same.  She is back today.  Her telling about her tank cover, made me remember an incident, way back when my dotter was in high school.  I took her, and one of her friends, to Austin for school shopping.  On the way, she realized she had lost her leather bracelet that had her name on it.  They looked in the car, and when we stopped at the mall, they did a thorough search, no bracelet.  Now, how is this possible?  We hadn't stopped anywhere, but, the thing is GONE.  We go on, shopping the rest of the day,,,and they talked me into buying her a top, like, for $25.00, crocheted with fringe on the sleeves and the bottom.    A see-thru thing at that!,,Had to wear it over something else.  This was in the 70s, yall.  But, $25.00????  That was half the budget, hahahahaha. back then.  (She still has that thing lol)  Well, any way, after a long day, we head home.  All is quiet, even they are.  Til i SLAM on the brakes, and yell, OMG, YOU WILL NEVER BELIEVE THIS!!!  Half way back, out in the middle of nowhere, there is that bracelet!!, Laying on the yellow stripes.  Well, i think it is, and turn around and go back.  Sure enough, it is.  Been run over all day long, slung here and there, but,,,there it is!!.  She remembered cracking her window and throwing out a gum wrapper, right about there on the way TO Austin.  It went with the wrapper somehow.  But to be there a full day down the line, unreal.

Got my can of blackeyed peas out, some ham steak thawing, and potato salad, all ready for today.  Starting my new year right, by golly.  Not that i'm superstitious or anything,,lol. But, take it as is.

Gosh, got so much to pay this month, that even with this HUGE raise i got, gonna have to be penny pinching.  lololol.  Like i'm not,,,hahahaha,,,Besides house insurance, taxes, car inspection, then yesterday, i got the bill for my paper, which i pay for 6 months.    Maybe i should double up on those blackeyed peas or something.,,,lol.

Hey yall, i'll share,,just come on,, otherwise,

HAGD

New Year's Eve,,,,Dec. 31, 2011

Just about made it another year,,,lol.  I always remember my youngest son saying, about the time i get used to writing,,(new year date), it changes.  Don't know of anything i'm forgetting, but know there has to be something,,,hahahaha,,,,

RIGHT now, i'm gonna get my black eyed peas out. LMAOOO,,, got up and got distracted,,read this and got right back up to get those darn peas out.

HAVE to go to the grocery store today, i'm outa waffles.  Ate toast today, not gonna, any more.  Need milk too.,, For a long time i didn't drink anything when i ate, like i was told to do with this lap band, so i've really missed milk.  I also drink iced tea, not a lot, with other meals, or water.

Had to laugh, reading DD's blog today.  Gosh, had me convinced that was a new critter,,,hahahaha.  Then, he ate it!! lmao,,, 

Gonna be another spring day today.  Upper 70s.  Appreciate these days a lot more when they come in the winter.  There's a lot of snow birds at the park.  That changes all the time, but i counted not long ago, and there were 18. That's almost full.   Don't know how anybody can afford the prices,,there.  I looked it up one time, and it's like, 300 a week.  WOW  That new one is opening real soon, between town and the park, on the river too, but i don't know what prices that will be,,,a lot, i bet.

Not nothing to say, guess yall can tell,,,so, tc, and

HAGD

Friday, NOT the 13th

OMG!!! Noticed those little vent things for my dryer,,,outside, were stuck open.  Sooo,, i go over there to close them, and ,,,the reason they weren't closed,,,There was so much lint stuck in them they couldn't.  Hard too.   I dug and dug, getting it out as much as i could reach.  Don't know why stuff like that's been on my mind for weeks, lol,, a warning maybe?  Also, the washer leaking. (on my mind).  Had one do that, the seal broke under the tub, and all that water flooded out.  Gonna see if i can find someone to come by and take off the tube for the vent, so i can clean it all out.  HOW did all that get past the filter???  I clean that every time i use the dryer.  Was so little space left to vent, don't know how the dryer worked. 

Called in my refills for prescriptions today, gotta pick them up later.  That way i don't pay co-pay, and will after the 1st.  There's just a little space between paying, and not.  Not sure if they will fill one or not, but called it in anyway. 

Whew, finally, got to sit down.  Wheeeeeeeeeee,,, found some old pillow cases that are wider,  4 of em, so now i can cover that new pillow.  They were with 2 old sheet sets.  Gotta tell you this,,,one time my Mom gave me a set of striped sheets, and i found some material (of course) she had, to make some pillow cases.  She told me she found one of the sheets one time, at a garage sale, and!!! later, found the matching one at another!!!  Of course, i told her to keep looking, might find the pillow cases yet. lololol.  She didn't buy them for sheets,,,she bought the first one for the material, she made pillows.  But, finding the matching sheet,,,lol,,and the size i used.  When i was a teen, i helped the girls, friends, that lived across the street, do laundry for a motel.  That's where i learned how to fold sheets as you took them off the line.  Still do it, if i hang them out.  They folded them that way, hung them over the line and kept going,  then gathered them all up by flipping onto their arms. 

They were Jehovah Witnesses, and their dad was the minister.  Best people you ever knew.  Course, they never convinced me, this ol Southern Baptist here, of any of their beliefs, but i still admire them.  They live what they preach.  About the only ones i ever knew that did, or,,does.  I went to church with them if i was spending the nite.  Ok not gonna get into religion,,u know,,politics, religion, forbidden on blogs! and in bars,,,lolololol

Gosh, catch myself sitting here in a daze,,,hahahahaha,,,sometimes.  My mind's gone blank.  I've earned that right,,,right?,,,hahahahaha.

This security firm, Stratfor, in Austin, got hacked. lol,,,and,,last nite it got hacked again.  Just shows you how good these hackers are.  And they're showing them too.

Gosh, be so glad when next Tuesday gets here, all these holidays closings done til May.  When i was still working, that was a long time in between.  But even then, i was glad to be back to normal.  O Yeah,,,!!!, got my can of black eyed peas, remembered early this year.  Do yall?  Even have some cornbread in the freezer.  Couple of slices anyway.  Gonna keep my eye on those mixes,,hahahaha, cook em before they expire.  Cooked a mix of biscuits and put them in the freezer too.  I can stick either one in my toaster oven and toast to get em warmed up.

Done my do, for today, so yall tc, and

HAGD

The Day Has Disappeared!

Geezz,,,the day has just slipped away.  Well, almost.  Have a load of laundry in the dryer, not totally useless today.  So tired, couldn't sleep again, last nite.  Not sure about this new pillow either. lolol  It's not foam, but sure is thick, then when i put the case on, makes it too hard.  In the middle of the nite, i was jerking that case off, worked then.  If i slept on the edge, on my stomach, it was ok.  But NOT in the case.  No room to expand.  Gosh!  What a freaking problem,,,lololol.  Haven't had one i liked since the egg carton foam one, that is not made any more.  I've looked online, everywhere.  And that's been a long time.  Not sure what to do about a case.  Now, none,,,lol.

I gave up on leftovers today, rest going out to the park, stray cats.  Just can't take it any more,,,,hahahaha.  Hate turkey for sure, now.  Friend S had insisted on filling up,,not ONE,,but TWO, of those BIG foam plates to send home with me, one with mexican food.  Tamales, yuk, never liked em.  I really didn't like any of it, and that turkey and trimmings, (plate FULL),, time to go.  I ate 3 meals off of all that.  OHHHH yeah!!,,another plate of sweets!!  Believe it or NOT, i'm tossing almost all of that too.  She had so much in her fridge, i know why, but don't know what she's gonna do with all the rest.  OMG,,,Sooo much.  She's the one that's lost over 200 lbs after having the lapband put in.  AND,, she can't eat hardly at all, kinda nibble.  She told me once, to eat meat, she can chew it a long time, then spit the rest out,,,that way she gets the taste and all.  Beef is the worst.  I have to do that sometimes, too.  Steaks?  Have to be so tender you could cut with ur fork.  Otherwise, can't do em.

DD's got a strange tree too, like that honey locust at my sis's place.  Never heard of DDs either.  They are both so out of place, makes you "wonder" how they got there.  I've lived in this county almost always, and have never seen another honey locust tree.  Actually, don't want to.  Here it is.
http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek021108.html  How could you tell by looking at Ol Jules pics, it was a dead tree?  Did i miss something? 

Gotta get out of the house for a bit,,,yall tc, and

HAGD

Love New Blogs

I want to thank you, Daughter of TX, i love that new blog, Bunkerindex.  Their place isn't very far North of me, maybe 90 miles or so. 

I'm killing time now, waiting on prescription delivery, before i can take a shower.  It's kinda late, they start at 10am,,  They do 3 a day, and i take the morning one.  Started doing it way back, before they moved.  The old place had NOOOO parking spaces, well, a couple that were always taken.  Then, this new place has never figured out how to work the window traffic, so,,, just deliver!  I did get a new calendar,,lol, 2, as a matter of fact.  They finally brought one, AFTER i had stopped and picked one up.  They have Norman Rockwell pics.  Anybody want this extra?  lololol.

All the years i worked, i was always paid weekly.  And all those years, i used a pocket? one to keep up with paying my bills.  Each payday was marked what i paid out of it.  I carried it in my purse with my check book.  Never had a problem with bills that way.  Way back, i bought a portable radio from a business here.  This was in the early 60s, so it wasn't cheap.  I paid it off in 3 months, but,,,,they said NO i didn't.  I paid for it ,,,,AGAIN,   but i learned a valuable lesson... Always, always, keep receipts!  AND, in a place where you could find them.  I never had another problem.

Heck, i might run over to Marble Falls today, check out Walmart.  That's the one that has never figured out how to stay stocked, always out of common things  you need.  But, i go to that one because there's other things i usually need to do over there too.  The one in Fredericksburg isn't one of the super ones, so doesn't have all the grocery stuff, like a meat market, produce, etc.  They have a huge HEB, but i hate to go in that one, it's just TOO big. 

Seeing on weather, cedar is growing, lololol,,good thing i don't have cedar fever.

Ok, off to the races,,,or whatever,,,yall

HAGD