So, this is a pretty uncreative photo for today, but I got my hair cut. It's been since July and it needed it desperately. I asked for shoulder length, just for something different, but she cut it just a tad shorter than I was thinking. Ah well. It will grow out, right?
You will have to forgive me for not taking this one myself, but as you can see, my hands were a little busy. :-) My hubby and I spent Thanksgiving in Jersey, but went that evening to the Eagles/Cardinals game. It was a night game and temps were scheduled to be in the high 20s, so I had to bundle up. I wore 3 pairs of socks, 4 shirts, a head band, and hat, 2 scarves, and 2 sets of gloves. LOL! I was still a tad chilly, but it wasn't too bad. So, this is me getting ready to head out the door. This is my second scarf. :-) The positive thing is that the Eagles won handily and we had a good time!
Nov. 26
Filed Under (baking), (egg nog bread), (pecans), (roasted nuts), (Thanksgiving) on Thursday, November 27, 2008
It's the night before Thanksgiving and all through the house, not a creature was stirring...not even a mouse! Um...ok, wrong poem, but right holiday! We're heading to Jersey for Thanksgiving and volunteered to make egg nog bread. So, here's me making egg nog bread, from scratch! It's soooo good. I made two loaves because we're having 15 people and I was afraid one loaf wouldn't be enough. I also make cinnamon pecans and toffee pecans. Those were AWESOME!
Happy Thanksgiving!
This is how I spend almost every weekday morning, ironing my clothes for work. I could do it the night before, but I never think to. I always just do it in the morning. Ah well, one mustn't upset their routine. LOL!
Wondering what that is? It's a small bike. I just rode it for an hour while reading the most boring ass article on global education. Ugh. I am committing myself to getting healthy and loosing weight. I had a good day until I ate three sugar cookies. So, I grabbed my little bike and rode it for an hour. Hopefully ran off 1 cookie. But it's a positive step in my goal of loosing weight.
Look at me cleaning! LOL! I've been spending the weekend, while not running errands, trying to straighten up the living room. With Thanksgiving Thursday and a nice four day weekend coming up, I want to get the house decorated for the holidays next weekend. So, this weekend is cleaning. This is me wiping up the coffee table. I like how Elizabeth the kitten is in the background. She'd been on that ottoman for about 2 hours. LOL!
Nothing today either. We went to the PA Food and Beverage Show and ran a TON of errands and forgot the camera. Sorry!
Friday morning I woke up to snow. Now, snow in the Northeast isn't all that unusual, but snow in Nov. is...kinda. We don't often get much of a snow fall in Nov. A flurry or two, yes, but enough to actually make me wipe off the snow from my car? No. Ok, ok, before I get yelled at, Brian cleaned off the car. Though I will say, it continued to snow all day and I had to clear off my car after work.
I have been stressing over what to write my one paper on for school. I have ONE paper to write for this class, and for 2 months could NOT decide what to write. FINALLY, I decided. We read the book Dominion and the author is a vegetarian, conservative and Republican talking about how we should treat animals humanly. So, I decided to write my paper on vegetarianism. Still narrowing down the scope, but the paper topic has been decided! Woohoo!
This is me lately. I am always tired. I think it has to do with work, school, homework and oh, not going to bed until mid-night, 1:00 a.m. LOL! If I got to bed earlier, I think I would feel better, but alas, I do not. I am such a night owl. I can be up until 1:00 a.m., 2:00 a.m. and not blink an eye, but ask me to get up early. Blech! And how does this all work with a morning person as a husband???
Chilin' on the chair and ottoman. Saturday afternoon involved a lot of reading. Had to read Dominion for class on Wednesday. 400 pages all about animals and whether they have feelings and how can one eat animals when other animals are pets. It was interesting. Prof said we might not eat Thanksgiving dinner because of it, but it wasn't as bad as I was anticipating. Upton Sinclair's The Jungle was worse. LOL! But totally different subject matter...and era.
OK, I didn't take this photo, but it's WAY too funny not to use. I was reading for class last night because I procrastinate and waited until the last minute to read 4 articles for class tonight, after class last night. So, about 10:30 p.m., I'm sitting on the sofa reading the articles on the laptop when Elizabeth decided she wanted to sit on my lap. Well, as you can see, I had my notebook on my lap so I could take notes on the article. Well, that didn't keep Elizabeth from doing EXACTLY what she wanted. LOL! She walked right up and curled up on my lap...on top of the notebook! Hubby decided that this deserved to be photographed, so here ya go.
Again, Lizzie is much cuter than I am, hence why she makes a good photo topic.
Today's post is not the most cheery. Today is Veteran's Day and it is the 20th anniversary of my father passing away. I was 13 years old when he passed on. I was in 7th grade and honestly had no idea. Well, that's not entirely true. My father had been sick since I was 4 months old, that's when he had his first heart attack. He had 3 more before he passed on and quadruple by-pass surgery 2 years before he passed on. Just before he passed on, he had been really bad. He went into the hospital in mid-September and didn't come out again until Nov. 9th. He was in the ICU the entire time, which limited the time we got to see him. He was released on the 9th and came home. On Friday, Nov. 11, 1988, just before I went to school, my parents said they were taking my dad to the hospital as he wasn't feeling well. I left for school. I came home regular time, about 2:45 p.m. and saw my Grandparent's car in the drive way. I was really excited and started running down the street. Then about 2 houses away from my house, I stopped because it dawned on me that at close to 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon, my Grandparent's should NOT have been there. I walked slowly to the house. When I walked in, my Grandparent's, Uncle David, and mom were in the living room. I was sat down and said that my dad's heart stopped working while they were in the Emergency Room. He passed away about 8:30 a.m. She thought it was best not to take me out of school, that I would find out soon enough.
It's been a rough day. 20 years is a long time. It's amazing how fast time goes by. There are days when it seems like yesterday, like today. And other days that it's so not apart of my life. So, today's entry not so cheerful.
Well, that will teach me to wear a HUGE sweatshirt to go hiking! LOL! Today's picture may be kinda cheating as this isn't a physical part of me, but you can't go anywhere without a shadow, so... My friend Jenn and I went hiking along the Appalachian Trail today. She estimated we went about 3-4 miles. It was fun and I hadn't hiked on the Trail before, so it was a neat experience. We had a great day for it too! The weather was fantastic. I had a big ole sweatshirt on and needed to take it off, I got so hot! But it was a gorgeous day for a hike and I'm so glad we went.
What an exciting photo of my leg and foot. Actually, this is me hiking. LOL! Brian and I did a wine hike on Sat. and this is me hiking the trail. It was a lot of fun. We went to Moon Dancer Winery in a local town for the hike. We did a tour of their wine making facility, trying three types of wine there. Then we met outside and was given a talk about efforts locally to keep the land around the Susquehanna River in our county forrest rather than developed. From there, off to the hike! We went through the vineyards and learned about the wine process, what they do in the fall/winter, and just how much land they have to work with. At the end, we stopped by a campfire and had a nice lunch, accompanied by different wines. There was soup, breads, cheeses, fruit, and desserts, along with 4-5 different wines, including a mulled wine. Yum! It was a nice day and the weather was BEAUTIFUL! I think it ended up being 68 degrees. Much warmed than we anticipated, but oh so nice for early November!
Sorry it's a little blurry today, but I just couldn't get it to focus.
Today's photo is obviously me painting my nails. LOL! What I'm painting my nails with is new. It's the Sally Hansen Color Quick Fast Dry Nail Color Pen. AWESOME! LOVE IT! I got Crimson today at CVS (that place is like crack) because I'm all for the new gadgety stuff. I debated between three colors and got this one. It's a tad pricey $7.99, but worth it! I now want to go back and get the other two colors I liked. I'm such a dork. :lol: But it was just like using a real pen. Simple and each to use. So recommend it. Go buy it now (and you can grab me one too while your at it out of gratitude!)!
Today is bonus day! Two photos for the price of one! :-) Last night I thought it would be great to take a picture of me turning off my alarm clock. So, I set the camera by the bed and fell asleep. When I went to get up this morning, I grabbed the camera, turned off the flash and got photo 1, very dark, but you can see the time. Then I realized it wasn't a good photo. So, I turned on the flash and got photo number two. Which is really kinda boring and you can't see the time. So, today, two photos. Imagine if you will the ultimate photo - the photo is dark because it's morning. You can see the time on the alarm clock clearly and you can see my arm just as clearly turning off the alarm clock. Ah well. All the best laid plans, right?
Nov. 5
Filed Under (hat), (Philadelphia Phillies), (sweatshirt), (t-shirt), (World Champions) on Wednesday, November 5, 2008
And you all thought that there would be no more baseball posts once the World Series was over and the Phils won! Today I got my gear. I ordered this hat, t-shirt, and sweatshirt and they came today. Woohoo! I'm very excited. I got the hat on now. I now have all the championship gear for all the series the Phils won. I am just basking in the glow of being a World Champion!
I voted. Yup. As much as I hate politics, I voted. Not telling you for who, but I went to my lovely polling place and voted. The line was kinda long, but apparently the line for those whose last names start with M-Z had a separate line. And it was much shorter. LOL! It was in and out in about 15 minutes (10 minutes in the wrong line and 5 minutes to register and vote). Then we went to the local donut store and got our free donut and coffee for voting. Niiiice!
This should be an interesting night. I think it is a historic day. Hoping that the best candidate for the country wins. We need change. I didn't vote in 2000, I couldn't find my polling place (I had moved and my directions were bad) and I was at work until 8:00 p.m., so missed it altogether. In 2004, I voted and was happy that I had my opinion counted. Not saying if I was right or not by who was elected, but I was happy I was part of the process.
Tonight, a new feeling. I had read an article on-line today that stated that other countries were having election day parties, waiting to hear who was elected. That hit a nerve. I was impressed at how interested the world could be in an election that had nothing to do with their laws. As I stood in line, I realized how amazing this election process is. I thought about the line of people waiting to get inside the building to cast their vote. There weren't any mobs, there weren't any people trying to get us to change our minds, and we had the ability to vote about what we want our government to be. It was just a surreal feeling that it was so peaceful and easy. I was proud of the US for that. Proud that I have the ability to voice my opinion. I didn't wait in lines that were 1, 2, or 3 hours long, but I admire those who did. I've never really cared about politics, but today may have just changed my mind.
Good morning. Well, morning at least. I am not a morning person. My alarm is set to wake me up about 30-45 minutes before I have to actually get up. Thank God hubby got to bed so late that a mack truck coming through the front door wouldn't have woken him. LOL! But seriously. I have added coffee to my morning routine, which is a HUGE change for me. I didn't drink coffee until last year, but I do now (soy milk and 2 Sweet 'n Lows). Today's coffee choice was Kahlua and Cream flavored, but honestly, it tasted like coffee. The only flavors that I've had that tastes like anything are French Vanilla and blueberry. Strange, I know, but there you have it.
Ok, so weird shadow not withstanding, I need a pedicure! LOL! This lovely paint job is from Sept. 7th. Wonder how I know when this is from? I went to a wedding that day and needed to do a quick paint job before heading out. So, this was done literally right before leaving the house. One stroke too. Amazed it lasted this long!
But what is it about cold weather and lack of flip-flop/sandals that make pedicures so infrequent? I hardly ever paint my toe nails in the winter and yet, when I do, it makes me really happy. No idea why, just does. Maybe I should start a movement of pedicures year round...or at least painting your toes in the winter. They do the same job all year round, why do we only really reward them in the summer when they are visible? Seems a tad discriminatory to me. Or maybe I'm just randomly writing this blog in hopes that you'll not realize I missed the last two days... Your call.
Wow. I'm really horrible at this. Two days in a row. I was going to take a photo at a second Halloween party we went to, but didn't get around to it. And the hostess didn't get a shot of us, so no pictures of me and my costume by someone else...
There's no blog photo for the day. I had a bad day and planned on taking a photo of me in my Halloween costume. We didn't go out, so no photo...
Alrighty, I've now gotten all my kitties on my blog! This is Higgenbaffum. Originally, his name was Higgenbathum, but no one got it and changed the th to ff. *shrug* We call him Higgy mostly anyway, so I guess it doesn't matter too much, right?
Higgy is the devious one. He can break into almost anything (we're on our THIRD cat food container) and loves to chase his brother (Pooka) and sister (sorta - Elizabeth). He's a tad bit OCD (I swear, the vet told me so!) cause he tends to clean himself excessively. LOL! But, he's a good tabby and I wouldn't want him any other way!
