Hubby got himself an apple crisp last night and I got a one pound drop in my weight when I checked my weight this morning.

And that's despite my having had a nice-sized serving of apple crisp last night!

My indoor deep cleaning campaign which started out as a mere "wander'round" is slowly beginning to have results.

[For those of you who don't know ( Read more... )

Yesterday I'd been wondering how I was going to move the huge sofa in our front room so that I could vacuum behind and under it. Hubby doesn't like having to help me with that sofa and I hate having to nag to get him to help me.

And then late last night Jollyson calls me wanting to know if he can borrow some money. I told him, you can come over ( Read more... )

So many other women have told me that they own a serger but they never use it. Either they can't figure out how to thread it correctly or change out the needles by themselves and whenever some little something-or-other goes wrong the only thing they can do is to take their serger to a repair shop. Then, after getting hit by a big repair bill once ( Read more... )

First of all, let me say that we are finally DONE with the massive re-roofing, re-guttering, and outside door/storm door replacement project we started on several weeks ago. All that remains, is for me to take the final payment check to the remodeler and tell him "Thank you!" for all his hard work.

About the only thing that caused us a serious ( Read more... )

Wednesday evening, I worked on learning some more of the Singer Curvy machine's secrets and I managed to produce the nicest button hole using its button hole foot that I've ever seen anywhere. Now, all I have to do is practice using the machine a bit until I reach the point of "feeling comfortable" and then it's "Betty bar the door!" because here I ( Read more... )

But in a good way.

Since the first of September, I've gradually become more and more physically fit but I didn't realize just how much progress I'd made until I had to do a lot of walking Wednesday.

Mondays and Wednesdays are my water aerobics class days and since I have free use of the rec center (as a faculty spouse) I decided to stay and water- ( Read more... )

The roofing was completed Friday a week ago and this Friday the new gutters with the leaf guards were put on.

[I haven't yet gotten out the ladder and climbed up to inspect those gutters but hopefully I'll be able to do it sometime Monday afternoon.]

I wish I could praise our new carport door/storm door combination but I can't.

Hubby took one look ( Read more... )

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THIS is what we badly need to be telling pre-teen girls instead of all that stupid slop about how "LOVE CONQUERS ALL" when 100% of women I've known throughout my life have learned the hard way that loving someone simply isn't enough---not when that person doesn't love you enough to do all the things they know they should. 

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This afternoon at 3 pm I'm to have my 30 minute lesson on the library's serger machine. Please wish me luck everyone!

Later, after I get back home I'm going to continue cleaning and straightening up the front room. (I already spent three hours on it this morning.)

The worst part of the job will be organizing my patterns into their separate bins. ( Read more... )