I went to my friend LC's house this afternoon for cookie-baking, and had fun in addition to making a batch of sand tarts.  LC invited her friend Carol as well, whom I had never met before, so I got to get acquainted with someone new.  We played Christmas CDs and just generally had a good time.  I have to admit that I don't do my best baking in ( Read more... )

 Woohoo!  I've finally decided what conversion to use for my zi8 videos to use them in Windows Movie Maker and make the videos I want to do about Andrew.

For much of the last week I've been busy with cleaning the apartment (always a big operation by the time I get to it) and yesterday the piano tuner came as well, which kept me distracted.  I really ( Read more... )

 It only took 2 calls to tech support and 4 hours, but I now have the latest maps on my GPS.  I had to do it before Sunday, so I finally buckled down yesterday.  Of course, now I've been reminded of all the other things I still need to learn about this little device.  Oh well,   LATER ( Read more... )

I have lots going on these days (for me, at least).  I can tell I'm doing better, but I am pushing the energy envelope, so I need to start being more cautious again as well ( Read more... )

I meant to write about turkey day yesterday, but somehow it never happened, so I guess I'll just have to do a late report.   It was a lovely day, starting with heavy snow flurries all morning.  There were some of those big, fun snowflakes going by the windows.  It looked more like a snow shower than flurries to me, actually, so we got the best of ( Read more... )

 I've never been able to indulge my love for new gadgets very often, so I always had time to get used to one before a new one came along that I needed to learn how to use.   However, lately my Luddite tendencies are beginning to appear.  I bought the new camcorder this summer so I could take video of the baby nephew, and I'm pretty comfortable with ( Read more... )

It seems like that's all I've done all week.  Actually, on Wednesday I had my friends Rob and Margaret over for dinner, and it was a wonderful evening, in spite of sub-par cooking (I guess if you haven't cooked in a year, maybe you should just order pizza).  One big reason for planning the dinner was to force myself to clean up the apartment.   ( Read more... )

I signed up to teach the preschool class at church on Sunday (and, unlike last week, I actually went.  Last week I was supposed to "assist" and get comfortable with the class, but that wasn't enough motivation to get out of bed on time.  It was still a little iffy this week, but I forced myself up just in time.)  I had only met one of the four ( Read more... )

 I managed to stretch out my birthday quite well this year, but I think it really is now over.   I got a really sweet present from my goddaughter.  She created an original cookie recipe for me, which required making cookies several times to figure it out.  Then she baked the perfected cookies, printed out the recipe, and decorated a cookie tin for ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what happened, but my TV addiction became much weaker as soon as I posted about it.   Of course, this coincided with the arrival of a bad cold, but yesterday I got new tires for the car, and today I'm filing some papers.  Just to give you an idea of how far behind I am, I hadn't set up my 2010 file yet.  I'm working really hard on not ( Read more... )