Our Anniversary

Yesterday was our Fourth Wedding Anniversary.

It truly does feel as if I have known this man all my life instead of 5 years. This is my 3rd marriage. Guess what?....3rd time really is the charm.

Ok, to get back to the subject. Our Anniversary. This last Christmas Jim got a very, Very, VERY expensive Mac laptop. At the time it was agreed the Laptop was "Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Birthday, Happy Anniversary, Happy Groundhog day and any other day that might require a gift or even a Happy anything. I got a nice diamond and sapphire neck less and so I really did not think we need to get each other personal gifts. We needed a bedspread so I thought it be a good idea to just get something for the house for our Anniversary. He thought it was a good idea and told me to get some towels and bath things to go with it.
Missy and I went shopping yesterday for it. Missy thought we should go to the "Big" mall as our mall while not tiny is not as big as Crabtree in Raleigh. We went to every store that had linen. I did not find anything I even remotely liked. We ended back at Cary Town Center Mall. At JCPenney where I wanted to go to in the first place. I found a really nice green...it is not a mint green and it is not an olive green. But somewhere in between those two colors. It is a whole cloth quilt with embroidery bed set. It includes the bedspread, pillow shams, a throw pillow, a sheet set and a bed skirt. All in a box for $299.99. It was on sale down from $550. Of course it does not match anything in the bedroom. Then we went to Bed Bath and Beyond. I go two sets of towels, a bath mat, a shower curtain and large rug for in front of the sink and a smaller rug for in front of the toilet. The towels and rugs cost $288.

We looked for curtains for the three windows. The curtains that are up there now belong to my husband and they are a nice manly blue and red plaid..Yuk. We found some O.K. lined green curtains for about $250 dollar. I just could not do it. I said I am going to make some. Missy thinks this is a mistake as I never really get around to making anything. But I am hoping the curtains are so glaringly wrong that I will be forced to make something else.

I bought the king size bed set but I have a queen size bed. I did that because I wanted the bedspread to be long enough to pull up over the pillows. I had pillow shams and they spend most of the time on the floor. I actually was hoping to just buy a bedspread and not a bed in the bag set. But I did not like any of them.

Our bed is massive and tall. I see needing some sort of stepping stool in my old lady future. The house is full of good quality massively male furniture. Dark wood and heavy. Nothing delicate or girly. Which is ok.

Anyway I have two pillow shams and at least a bed skirt to use for something else. I will have to figure out what to do with them. I could make some throw pillows or try to incorporate them somehow into the curtains. I am going to try and adjust the bottom sheet to fit but it doesn't work out there is another piece of cloth to throw into the mix. I am thinking about making roman shades lined with black out. Jim hates early morning sunlight. And then add some sort of window dressing on top of that.

We'll see.

New Year's Intentions

For me New Year's Resolutions never last. I think I will be better off with a list of New Year's Intentions.

Here is a list of things I intend to do this year. This list is not in any particular order.

PAINT
Kitchen
Front Door

Curtains
Kitchen
Back door
Breakfast room
Living room
Bedroom

Garden
Clean up flower beds
Make a vegetable garden
Haul away old lawn furniture/old furniture

Reorganize
Pantry
Kitchen cabinets
Sewing room
Linen closet
Book cases
Dressers

Learn New Crafts
Socks
Spinning
Jewelry
Learn to design my own knitting patterns
Cards

Writing
Finish my Nanowrimo novel
Write 500 words a day
Prepare for Nanowrimo 2007

Improve as a Person
Send out Birthday cards and gifts.
Act on the thoughtful things I think about doing.
Look for a Church....again.
Be a more consistent housekeeper.

Improve Physically
Get down to my ideal weight.
Learn to ride my bike.
Exercise
Walk everyday.
Get my blood sugar levels under control.

This is not an exhaustive list. But it is enough for now.

One last intention:

I will try to post the things I do complete.

Mrs. Beeton's

My daughter wanted a pair of wrist warmers. Brenda Dayne from the Cast-On Podcast has designed a very lovely pair. I have been wanting to try them.

My daughter picked out some truly awful acrylic yarn. So, of course, what came off my needles looked horrible and she does not like it.

Besides the yukkie acrylic it was also worsted weight which is way too heavy. The ruffle stood out like a clown's collar.

Some poor doll is destined to have a very funny skirt.

I am going to try it again. This time with yarn I pick out and who knows if I am feeling motherly at the time maybe in colors she would like.

Not Ready.

I am not ready for Christmas at all.

Well Christmas is like having a baby. It comes whether you are ready or not.

A Bird Fall Out

I was making breakfast this morning and I notice that all the usual birds were at the feeders.

Usually, I get a few here and a few there. It is not often that they all come to visit at once.

As Jim and I were sitting down to eat. I looked out of the window to see hundreds of black birds falling into our yard. All my birds had gone and the yard and feeders was literally covered with black birds. They were smaller than crows which we have a few living in the area. Jim said they were either Grackles or Starling. The flock was at least 500. They fell from the sky like leaves in a strong wind. Swirling and landing only to rise again by some unseen command.

On the ground by the feeders was a bird that looked like the rest except for yellow patches on the wings. It was similar to Red-winged Blackbird. But it was all yellow. No red or orange at all. I wondered if it was an immature Red-wing. Jim did not think it was. He was about to get his camera to take a picture when the birds as one flew off. They circled the neighboring trees landing and circling before they move on in a whirl of bedlam.

I thought not for the first time that we need a webcam on the feeders.

What I Learned From NOT Finishing Nanowrimo

It sucks that they pick November to do Nanowrimo.

My son Mark and my Granddaughter Monet came for 5 days at Thanksgiving. FIVE DAYS. I could not sit down at the computer for 2 minutes without being called away.

I know that definately next year I will have a plot outline and character studies for the 4 characcters. I will try to not write at home if my daughter is there. Monet is 9 and Missy is 27. It is a toss up who interrupted me more.

I do plan on finishing it during the month of January. I just have to see what happens to my characters.

GONE?

My daughter told me she was having trouble signing into my blog. I know on the set up page there is place that allows my blog to be publish over the web. I was looking for it.

Somehow I deleted my F&%#@?g blog. (I need to breath here.)

It is not to be found. I don't have time right now to try to find or fix it. I will write later. Just not now. After Nanowrimo is over.