So what do I do when I have nothing to write about…..that’s right! I write something!
I’m learning French. It’s these French lessons on tape…well, CD’s actually. Does anyone actually have a tape player anymore? My hubby and I took piano lessons from the same person, just several years apart….oh yeah, I meant to say “on a totally unrelated note, but not really, it will just appear to be totally unrelated for the first sentence or so”….and she made all her students bring in a tape each week to record the lesson and then we were supposed to take the tapes home and listen to them while sitting at the piano and play along, blah blah blah.
Confession: I used the same tape for 3 years. tee hee
When I had to pull everything out of my office closet when we were putting down the new floor, I found HIS tapes! All of them. LOL He saved them. How cute is that?! Anyway…when I’m getting at is, if I ever do happen to come upon a tape player, I’m gonna listen to them. *evil laugh* muah ha ha!
I think I recorded over my tape (singular) with songs off the radio an hour after I quit taking lessons. The teacher was actually my second piano teacher. The first one I took from for about 4 years, I think….possibly a little longer. She had these huge thick glasses that made her eyes look GIGANTIC! She took them off one day and she had these beady little eyes. Freaked me out. Of course, I think I was 8 at the time. I freaked out easily.
Where was I going with this?
Oh yeah.
French CDs. I’ve listened to the first one and I decided to listen to it again just to make sure I had a grasp on it before I started the second one. It’s just real basic stuff, but it’s being taught a different way.
Okay…how boring. Sorry.
I’m so glad it’s Fall….and that it finally feels like Fall. Well, most of me, at least. I got this “crush injury” (fancy doctor term) to my right hand to my second and third knuckles in March of this year. In the shape of a large dog’s mouth. A large gray dog. A very large, gray dog with blue eyes and a big fuzzy tail. Yes. My dog. MY dog. MY DOG! Yes, he’s still alive. It wasn’t really his fault. I’m not absolving him completely, but I was trying to get a nasty dead, slimy, gross, several-days-dead, squirrel out of his mouth without touching it, at the time. On the plus side, I did keep him from eating it. On the…um….negative side…I have his dental impressions on my hand.
To his credit, he looked absolutely shocked and horrified when he realized that what he had in his mouth was actually NOT a dead, nasty, slimey squirrel. He’s normally bouncy and hyper and full of energy, but he walked the whole mile back home right next to my leg with his tail between his legs with an “oh shit” look on his face.
ANYway.
Now my hand hurts when it’s cold. It was all nasty and swollen and purple and gross for about a month after, and then it started to turn slightly less purple and slightly more green, and then finally went back to it’s normal color in about June. I’ll post the pics if I can find them. I had to take them with my cell phone camera since I didn’t have the digital yet and my uh…normal…camera was too heavy to use with my other hand.
So….any suggestions on what to do with my crampy hand? Is there anything out there on the market like the cold stuff that’s hot that will keep my hand warm? Please don’t say a glove. har har. My hand doesn’t really hurt when it’s warm, so I figure if I can just keep it warm when it’s cold outside, then I’ll be good to go.
Wow….for not having much to write about, this ended up being pretty long.
Now I have to go kill my cats….or at least cover them in velcro and stick them to the celing.
On another completely unrelated note…..it is SO way past time for ER to stop making new shows. Actually, I think that time came 2 years ago.
Filed under: general wonderment
Here’s the pictures of the pumpkin I carved last Thursday….it’s a little shriveled up now…but not too bad. We were supposed to go get another pumpking this weekend and pick it out together, but well….we were too busy doing nothing. ANYway….here’s the pumpkin!
This one was during the day. The little bright orange thingy inside it is my pumpkin light that flashes and flickers to make it look like there’s a candle in there without actually having to put a lit candle on my front porch. Very handy, I highly recommend.
And this is what it looks like at night all lit up and purtty!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!
Filed under: general wonderment, it was all his fault, vacuum cleaner kitties
I just love carving pumpkins. I think that’s one of my favorite things about Halloween. I would carve 10 pumpkins if The Husband would let me actually purchase 10 pumpkins! I read in one of those weekly grocery store ad thingys from Harris Teeter that their “Large” pumpkins were on sale for $3.99. Well WooHoo!!! I’m totally there!
Every year, The Husband and I take a little trip (okay, actually, I nearly have to drag him by his hair) out to one of those pumpkin places on the side of the road and get a pumpkin or two (and I always make him get me one of those teeny tiny little baby pumpkins). It’s kind of become one of our little traditions. Like picking out a Christmas ornament together every year.
Only problem is, The Husband is one of those “let’s put up the Christmas tree two days before Christmas and take it down one day after” kind of guys and I’m all “it’s December 1st! Time to go get a tree and leave it up until halfway through January!”. He’s like that with Halloween stuff too. I was ready to get a pumpkin the first time we drove by one of those pumpkin patches on the side of the road.
So AAANYway….I got me a cute pumpkin at the grocery store and decided that I would carve it today. Ergo, Pun’kin Carvin’ Thursday!
The kitties were thoroughly enjoying having the front door open, being able to see out of the glass door. Every once in awhile I would turn around and hold up the half-carved pumpkin and await their approval, which of course I got, by way of blinking sleepy eyes and twitching tails.
The pictures never really come out well when I take them during the day, but since I got my spiffy new digital camera, I’ll give it a try later on today and will post a few if they come out good.
So what’s everybody being for Halloween???
Filed under: Weekly-ish Things
This weeks SPF is all about the changing of the seasons. I love the Fall (now that I’m no longer in school)! So let’s just jump right in!
1.) Show me your season changing.
This is my little pumpkin tree that I made out of stuff on the clearance rack at the craft store the first year my hubby and I were married. It was our very first holiday as a married couple and this and a pumpkin were all that we could afford to do. I liked it so much that I put it out every year. It reminds me of how far we’ve come in the 6 years we’ve been married. Halloween is also my very favorite holiday, so when the weather starts to change along with the leaves, I know that it’s Fall and that it’s time to decorate the front porch to try and scare the bejeezus out of all the neighborhood kids!
2.) Show me the beauty of where you call home.
This is the house I grew up in (as seen from the creek in the back yard). My parents still live there. No matter where I live, this will always be home. I love this picture and how the house and trees are captured in the reflection on the water. We almost hung it upside down!
3.) Your favorite part of the weather changing.
This is my hoodie sweatshirt. I love this thing. I would sleep in it if I didn’t think I’d sweat to death! I won it for winning an online scavenger hunt 2 years ago (beginning on Halloween, no less!) for a car-type group online for a specific kind of car that I own. I love my car. It looks mean (at least that’s what my brother said when he saw it). The sweatshirt has their emblem on it and says “United Society of 3000GT and Stealth Owners – www.us3s.com – ‘Faster Than You’”. (just for clarification, I own the Mitsubishi 3000GT vr-4…not the stealth…HA!)(hmm, I think I’m a little bit of a car snob)(and also, I’m addicted to parenthases)(and also baking cookies….at 1:40am). Anyway, every year at the first sign of cold weather, I yank this off it’s coat hanger and wear it until it’s just too hot to breath!
Well that’s about it for me! Did you play?! Huh? Did ya?!
Filed under: I totally have real life friends too
This is not the usual upbeat (hopefully quirky) posting that you normally read here. I’m writing this to ask all of you wonderful bloggers and bloggettes out there to send some good thoughts, prayers, warm fuzzies, whatever you’d like, my way. My Granny’s in the hospital and I’m really worried about her. She’s always been a fiesty lady, but lately, with more and more health problems popping up, she’s been getting depressed. A few days ago my mom had to take her to the ER for several reasons all put together and the doctor there said that they thought she might have had a stroke. Now, they don’t think that’s the case, but needless to say, it scared the crap out of all of us. I talked to my mom again today and she said that Granny’s doing much better today, but is still not her normal self. They’re not sure if she can go back to her condo or if she’s going to have to go live some place with 24 hour care (which she does NOT want to do). I try and send her a card every week or so and my mom says that it just means the world to her (and I honestly believe that it does). I was thinking that if I could get together some comments from people wishing her well and sending warm fuzzies her way that could help to boost her spirits and in turn her health.
Granny is the BEST grandma anyone could ever hope to have. I know you’re not supposed to have favorites, but she was always my favorite grandparent. She’s always been the first one to crack a dirty joke and she loves to play cards and gamble! She taught me to play gin rummy when I was about 5 or 6. She was the greatest cook in the world, ever. Yes. E.V.E.R. A few years ago she started loosing her sight and it’s all but gone now. She’s in her 80’s and still trying to be as independent as she can, but it’s one of those battles that can never be won.
Anyway, I’m asking for good thoughts, etc for the wonderful grandma who spoiled me rotten and let me get away with everything and did anything and everything her only granddaughter ever asked to do. She would have used her last quarter just to let me ride the little plastic horseys in front of Roses. And I can’t count the times we had elaborate tea parties in her shower (don’t ask me…I was insane as a child…LOL…there was this bench in there that fascinated me). And the card houses…oh the card houses! She was a “bridge-0-holic” and had games several times a week, so she had countless decks of cards, so we would build card house villages! No, card house cities! NO! Card house metropolises! (is that a word?)
AAAANYway, I’ll stop with the depressing post. I just wanted to ask for some happy thoughts for my Granny. I thought if I could get enough comments together, I could print them out and then read them to her when I go down there to help out for a few days, this Saturday. It truely would mean the world to her.
I couldn’t find a picture of Granny on my computer, but when this picture was taken, I was talking to her on the phone. Yes, that’s me. Yes, I was actually THAT cute. hee 
