Life has been busy.  Too much work.  I got a nag post from my ad network that I hadn’t posted.  Glad to feel loved, lol.  I’m sure Starcom and Mindshare are very worried that there isn’t a fresh blog post on here.  Oh well, as they say.

It’s Saturday night and cold out there.  At least we didn’t get the snow the mid-Atlantic folks got.  My son and his lady love live in Baltimore and sent me these pictures:

OMG, right?  The kids don’t own a shovel – they live in a townhouse community and never thought they would need one.  Well, I guess this may have changed their minds.  They stocked up on food, Thursday, and unless the electricity goes out, they should be fine.

I’m glad that storm didn’t come here. 

My decrapifying is coming along.  Still a long way to go.  But my big boy cat just climbed into my lap and needs some lovin’ so I’m off to commune with him.

Be well folks.

Where have I been?  I’ve been thinking and decrapifying to some degree.  That is this year’s resolution.  It’s time to get order in my life ~ big time.

Some things I want to do this year are:

Make this home office work for me.  That will entail going through file cabinets and getting rid of old stuff.  Finding some cool shelves to put on the wall and making and USING an organizing system for important papers and stuff. 

Cleaning out the sewing room.  I think I’ve finally decided to get rid of the bunk beds and furniture in there.  It’s good furniture, but is never used so it’s probably time.

Then, I just might sew in there.  What a concept, eh?

And, then there’s the basement.  Enough said about that.

Some things I want to do better this year are:

Fix up the garden/vegetable beds and plant early enough to be able to enjoy them longer.  The weather will have to cooperate but I’m hoping.

I want to get a regular routine for cooking.  Right now, we are hit or miss and that’s not healthy.

Make exercise much more important – take the dog for longer walks, start weight-lifting again.  Get into shape – loose this weight.

Paint the bathroom, daughter’s room and finish the living room.  Just get it done.

I’ve already changed some things – I’ve started reading again – finished South of Broad by Pat Conroy – I think that’s the title – I’m too lazy to get up and look.  Good book, but I love Pat Conroy – didn’t know why I haven’t read all of him.  The Prince of Tides was a good book as one other that I’ve read.  I picked up The Lords of Discipline and am reading that now.  Good read.  I have several others stacked up waiting and look forward to reading them.

I lost the reading urge for several years.  I always have a book to read but just read them – didn’t really get into them as I used to.  That mojo is coming back.

So, I shall be busy – will blog when the urge strikes but it may not be about quilting.  That’s ok – there will be quilting content here because that’s something I enjoy and plan to do.

So, that’s the latest.  Until next time.

I took a blogging break.  I needed it.  I’m not a prolific blogger – lord some of those gals have diarrhea of the fingers, I think.  I stopped reading blogs since Thanksgiving for the most part.  At one point, I had over 3,000 posts to read in my RSS feed.  Gak. 

I have been whipping through them and have frankly found little of interest.  Oh, I’m sure it’s amazingly interesting to them and their buds, but not to me.  So, I cut several from my reading list.

I’ve done the pet peeves thing before, but here are some more:

• MUSIC – loose it, please!
• Ad museum close up pictures and a million pix of the same damn thing and on an angle yet… like that is going to make it better?  Lots of the home decor/reno blogs do this.  Whatever for? 
• A million pictures of your kids and families. OK, I understand each blog is ones own personal journal, but give your readers a break now and then.
• Calling your children and grandchildren by cutesy names.  I realize that I call my daughter Miss Princess Butt and that will now change.  I apologize to my readers that I have done this.  I will not do it again.
• Giveaways.  If you are going to do a giveaway, just do it.  Don’t demand your readers jump through hoops by posting to their blogs, standing on their heads, answering a million cutesy questions.  We all know why you are doing it – to drive readers to your blog – just do your giveaway – I think you engender more goodwill by being simple.
• Here’s a big one – crippling your feed by making people who read through RSS or whatever reader have to go to your blog.   I deleted 12 blogs that I usually read because of that.
• If you want comments, open it up to everyone.  Don’t make people have to use Gmail or just Blogger.  There are tons of us out there that would probably like to comment but I’ll be damned if I have to jump through hoops to do it.  There is one famous online quilt shop that does this – I even wrote her and asked her to open it up – she said she would look at it – well, nothing has been done so guess what…I can buy from many other places.  She lost my business.

OK, that’s enough bitching from me for now, lol.  I really am not such a cow, but I think some of this needed to be said.  Now, on to the regular stuff if you are still with me.  My theme has an upgrade – so I need to do that and some other housekeeping things around the blog – need to change the pictures in the rotator and other good things.  Cross your fingers that I don’t mess it up.

Be well everyone and Happy New Year!

No pix, sorry.  Just haven’t had time to take any, yet.  I’m pretty much on target with everything, I think, but I’m sure more things will come to mind, once I start wrapping everything.

I’ve been in a strange mindset recently – working lots at work and just coming home and doing what needs to be done.  It seems strange to me that Christmas is RIGHT HERE NOW.

I have to go to the grocery store and get some stuff and start baking – no, I haven’t started yet.  If I start early, everything gets eaten so there is nothing for Christmas Day – which is when I have the party.

Guess I had better flesh out my menu – it’s a brunch – I do a French Bread Casserole and sausage – fruit salad and Mimosa’s.

And, cookies.  OK, better get going.  I’m sure I will be more up to blogspeed after this is all over.

Merry Christmas everyone!

I’m glad to see one woman with guts.  Bravo! 

Does it matter?  Naw.  But that’s ok.  I’ve been doing the getting ready for Christmas thing.  Most of the presents are purchased – a few left to get.

I’ve been blasé about it this year and that is probably nuts.  My son and his girlfriend are driving in from Baltimore and I should be freaking out and getting the house all jazzed up – but what the hell, it will happen when it happens.

Kit and I put up the Christmas tree yesterday and all the decorations.  Nope, I don’t have pictures – we used the same stuff as last year.

I’m sitting here eating this:

Let me tell you, this stuff rawks.  I think I’m going on an Eady’s Peppermint Ice Cream diet.  Yep, that’s the ticket.  I think they only make this stuff at this time of year and when I see it, I snag as many as I can.

Part of my blahness is winter.  Winter and I do not get along.  Haven’t for a long time.   I really hate driving in it.  If I could stay in the house and have everything delivered, that would be cool, but that’s not happening. 

Also, I’m working lots.  As we all know, companies aren’t hiring so the ones who are left are working their asses off.  Wait til we all just explode and melt away.  Very cool.

I also said something to a friend that was a long time coming.  May never hear from that person again.  But, it needed to be said and in fact, a lot more.  I guess I’ve changed – there is only so much BS that I will tolerate any more.

I haven’t been quilting or doing anything creative – that’s ok, too.  I guess.  I need to be calmer in my mind before I can enjoy that again, I think.

I read Pat Conroy’s book – South of Broad I think the title is.  Very good, I really like Pat Conroy and need to read more of his stuff.  I’ve read the Prince of Tides and really liked it and I think one other.  I plan to get the rest of his books and read them.  He is a marvelous writer.

The book I read before Conroy’s was Republican Gomorrah by Max Blumenthal.  That is an amazing book – one you have to study, not just read, if you know what I mean – it really explains what has happened to the Republican party and what has gone on with our politics.  Scary, very scary. 

I have finally accepted that I will never win anything from The Pioneer Woman, *laughing*.  Fun to try but it probably will never happen.  I’ve had my eye on those red Kitchen Aid mixers she gives away every so often.  I wish she would give away a Nikon D90 and I would win it, that would make my year – hell, a few of the upcoming ones, too.  I did buy her cookbook and it’s good – support a blogger and go and get it.

One of the cats is in the Christmas tree – it is Sammy.  Now he’s trying to climb it.  Just tried to get a picture but my camera doesn’t take pictures fast enough. 

OK, I need to go to bed. 

"If Tiger Woods’s wife had been black, that golf club wouldn’t have been through his windshield. It would’ve been up his ass."
– Bill Maher, via Twitter

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