Eventual Homesteader
• Thursday, July 17, 2008 - Big, Dorky Bookworm...that's me
Apparently most adults have only read about 6 of the following titles....
Here are the rules:-
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE, or strikeout the books you read but didn't like.
4) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've read only 6 or less and make them read.
1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
Ok, so I've read 34 of these books listed. Not bad for a random list, eh? Oh, I swiped this from a British blog, so the list could have been much different if it had been made in America.
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• Sunday, July 13, 2008 - Good News
Finally some good news! My dear, sweet husband has joined me in Fairmont. He took a job at the Fairmont paper. Tonight is his first night. Yes, it is a night job, but I don't care. He's here, that's all that matters. He's so relieved, it is oozing from his pores! LOL I haven't seen him smile this much in, I don't know how long. The cats are just as happy to see him, as he was to see them. Truth be told, I think he missed them a tad more than he missed me. 
We still have quite a bit of things to be moved. We'll be going to Romney next weekend to try to get most of it. I can haul an amazing amount in my station wagon and we'll use his mom's truck for the big things. Hopefully we can make it in just one trip. Then he'll just need to go swap vehicles.
The only sad thing is that there is no Book N Bean anymore. We are still devastated over the loss of our beloved Bean. He made a wonderful post on his facebook page about it. I'm going to copy it here, to share with you all.
I wanted to share what I drew in the book for Mike and Lorie, but thought maybe words this time. Cross-posting for saturation.
I cried today for, I think, the first time since my father died.
Some of you know why, this is for you. In honor of one of the most important and loved of all my favorite places:
Top 5 songs my unconscious offered up to make me cry:
5. Cheers theme
4. Change is gonna come - Sam Cooke
3. That catchy Beta Band song, everything is not going to be alright.
2. Both sides now - Joni Mitchell
1. Landslide - Dixie Chicks
Top 5 things that meant the most to me about the bean:
5. Hot Java on tap.
4. It wasn’t going back to my empty apartment.
3. I met the nicest people, and count them among my friends.
2. Thursday Night Open Mic - the best ever.
1. Tiffi and I met there.
I will take it with me where ever I go, that sense of peace, of belonging. I feel a montage coming on, gotta go. |
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• Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - The End of an Era
| I'm so very sad today. Our beloved local coffee shop, the Book N Bean, has closed it's doors. It was such a huge part of our lives. My husband found it almost immediately upon moving to Fairmont. My friends and I have gone there ever since I started college. I met my husband there, at open mic night. He was the bass player in Michael's, the owner of the Bean, band. Numerous friends have had baby showers, Mary Kay parties, bridal showers there. I suppose to sum it all up, I'll really miss it. In fact, we all will. So, here's to the Bean. |
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• Monday, May 19, 2008 - New Do and a baby brother too!
Ok, as promised here are the pics of my new haircut.
First is one of me and Monkie Du when my hair was long.
Next is the ponytail after it was cut off.
I took one of the top of it so you could see how thick it is, it didn't really come out well, but I'll post it anyway.
Ok, so drum roll please...
Last, but not least is my baby brother Zack.
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• Tuesday, May 13, 2008 - I just couldn't do it
| I just got a hair cut. I tried, I really, really tried. If some of you don't know. I was trying to grow it long enough to donate to Locks of Love. I had 8 1/2 inches. I know, only and inch and a half left. But it would have taken another six months for my hair to grow that much. It is so very thick and heavy. To give you an idea just how thick it is...I saved the hair in a ponytail and measured across the top. It is 1 inch across! Can you imagine that? I have had a constant headache for at least a month. All I could do with it at work was put it in a ponytail. The dry cleaners is not the place for long flowing hair. Too hot, too sweaty. So...I have my preferred cut again. I'll post pics later when I get them off the camera. |
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• Friday, May 9, 2008 - Realizations and Plans
So, being here alone I have had many, many hours to think. Don't act so shocked, I do think occasionally. I have finally decided what to go back to school for. I'm going to go into massage therapy school. I've discussed it with my husband and he thinks it is a great idea. I've been interested in it for a while, but pushed the idea aside for others. We still need to discuss things fully, but we have settled on it as a career path for me.
I feel more calm and settled now, I suppose it helps to have a set plan. Now if we could just get dh's affairs in order and get him a job things would be better.
I've been sick for the last few days. I ended up taking a sick day today, I had severe intestinal distress. I spent much of the day in the bathroom. Not fun. I'm feeling better now, hope to be back to my old self in no time.
It's been raining for a couple days. We need the rain for the gardens, but it is also preventing any more garden work. I haven't been in the garden since Monday. I'm not sure how much more Grandma got put out since then. I just love gardening. There is the most tremendous satisfaction in growing your own food. I'd much rather live on the food I can grow myself than have to shop in a grocery store. I like the idea of being like the "Old Timers" and being self sufficient. I may not be able to raise cows or other livestock, but I'd gladly keep chickens and maybe even goats.
Enough of my rambling. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. Enjoy your families and relax! |
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• Tuesday, May 6, 2008 - Gardening
I finally got to get my hands in the dirt yesterday! I was so excited. We got the garden tilled at Grandma's on Saturday. So after work I went over and got started. So far we have planted onions, carrots, radishes, green beans, peas and lettuce...that's all I can think of right now. I'm sure she planted more today, but I didn't talk to her to find out. We also got some basil seeds planted in the greenhouse.
I just can't wait for that first tomato sandwich. It is my favorite thing! I like just plain old tomato, mayo and cheese. Mmm. Sometimes if I get adventurous I'll add sliced cucumber too. My mouth is watering already.
I'd like to can a bunch of green beans and peas. Plus I'd like to make and can pesto, hence the basil, and some salsa.
Need to make sure we have Roma tomatoes started for that.
How are your gardens coming along? I think it may still be a bit early in the season for some of our friends to the North.
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• Thursday, April 24, 2008 - Stuff and Nonsense
Let's see...on the knitting front I have two projects going simultaneously. I have been working on a sock pattern called Hedera, by Cookie A of Knitty.com. It is such a great pattern. I don't have the proper yarn to shoe off the pattern though. It is a lovely lace, but my yarn is variegated, so the pattern isn't really visible. Alas, my feet are too big to fit in the socks. ~Sigh~ I suppose I'll have to develop my own pattern one day, so my huge feet will fit into handmade socks. I have also begun a baby sweater for a friend. She just found out she is having a girl! So I thought I'd make the same sweater I made for Hannah and Abby. I'm using a white and yellow variegated cotton. It should be soft and comfortable for the baby. I hope she likes it.
Speaking of babies. I've been loving on Cohen, the baby of our friends who own the coffee shop. The same coffee shop so near and dear to our hearts, because we met there. He is just the cutest little guy. He's always smiling and happy. Today I played with him while his daddy was eating and mommy was napping. We went outside in the sunshine and attempted walking. Then we went and sat on the swing. He LOVES to swing. I'll bet he would have been content to sit there all evening. I had to stop because I was getting some serious motion sickness! LOL He's my little buddy.
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• Thursday, April 17, 2008 - Prayers for Dana
Friends, I'd like to ask for prayer for my dear friend Dana, lovnmyboys. She is having problems right now. I'm not sure what she called it, I forgot the term, but it is basically this...she had fluid built up inside her head, it pushed her brain down inside her skull. It was causing vision problems by pushing on her ocular nerve. Which is why she went to the dr in the first place. She thought she needed new glasses. Anyway, she had to have a CT scan, they discovered the fluid, and had it drained. She is at home, on bed rest right now. She has a lot of pain, the dr said it is normal. Her brain is trying to move back into it's normal position. She should be fine in a few days.
Her family is being great and helping her out. She says she's so proud of her oldest son Colby, he's been such a big help. So, if you think of it, would you mind sending up a prayer for quick healing for Dana?
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• Sunday, April 13, 2008 - Finally!
I am in Fairmont! I'm by myself right now, dh will join me soon. I feel very strange here without him and my cats. I left them with him until we get the furniture moved. I don't want to chance them escaping, as we live in town. I don't want to lose any of them. So for now, it's just me this computer and my knitting needles.
I am back working for the dry cleaners. They have been very gracious and glad to have me back. I am a "good worker and reliable too." So, it's been pretty smooth going so far. It is prom season here, so we're busy fitting and renting tuxedos. The other girl who works there keeps thanking me for knowing what I'm doing. She says she's so glad she doesn't have to hover over me or redo anything I've screwed up. It's been three years since I worked there, but it is honestly like I never left. Odd, isn't it?
I went to a knitting group with my friend Melissa on Thursday evening. It was my first knitting group. There were only four of us there, but still I had a good time. We chatted a little bit, but mostly worked on our knitting. We soon found that if we talked we made mistakes. So we didn't really talk much. I had a good time anyway.
I've been invited to three different churches since coming back. My grandma wants me to come to hers. Melissa plays piano and directs the choir at another and asked me to come join her choir. My friend Brandy is trying out a new church and asked me to come with her also. So, I may try them all and see which fits best. I know grandma's church is having revival this week. It should be interesting.
I still have a sore throat. I just can't seem to shake it since I had strep. It seems like every time I get a chill or the wind blows in my face my throat is sore again. I've been on antibiotics twice. I don't want to take them again. I'm hoping once it warms up for good it will get better.
I hope everyone is well and enjoying the spring, as it slowly makes it's presence known. I've got two glasses of daffodils from grandma's in my living room window. She has many varieties, so I picked several specimens of each. They are so pretty and smell so nice! |
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• Tuesday, April 1, 2008 - Pictures!
I haven't posted any pics in a while, so I thought I'd give you all some!
Here's me & Monkie Du. She likes to sleep under the covers.
This is Pete flirting with me. He's such a pretty boy.
Here's some of the knitting I've been doing. I made Mary Jane Booties! Aren't they adorable?
I just have to have one of Hannah. This was the special funny face she made for Uncle Mikey.
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• Sunday, March 30, 2008 - Cat Bathtub
Weird blog title, no? If no one understands what I mean by that, I'll explain. I make the perfect cat bathtub. Seriously. I can't go an hour without being used as one. At least one of my cats will get up in my lap, specifically to bathe themselves. Sometimes, if it is Monkie, I will get washed as well. Kitty B takes his bath at night, in bed, on my belly. Every night. I currently have a Monkie C. Munkadu on my lap alternately sleeping and bathing. So, there you have it.
Now, on to something completely different. I have been knitting like crazy. What's new right? I know. I have been working on a layette for a cousin's baby. My dh's cousin and his wife are expecting a baby girl in July. In fact , they just found out it's a girl. So far I've made a blanket, using the pattern Baby Blocks by Ann Norling. The link is to my Ravelry page. I've also completed a pair of booties to go with them. I've never made booties before, I'm really happy with them. I'll post a link later, when I get a picture of them. Now I'm trying to make a hat to match. I'm not sure how it will work out. I am trying to make a plain hat knit in the round with an I-cord at the top. It is turning out quite large. But, since she is due in July, maybe by winter the baby's head will be big enough for the hat.
Last but not least. Sunday traditions. I haven't practiced any in a long, long time. But today I decided to pull one out of my arsenal, so to speak. I made Deviled Eggs. Mmmmmm. I love, love, LOVE them. My grandma used to make them almost every Sunday, just because I like them so much. Ready, collective aww. "Aww!" Yep, she loves me. I love her too. I can personally eat a dozen eggs made into Deviled Eggs, no joke. She always used Miracle Whip, I can deal with that although I prefer mayo, and mustard. I use mayo and dijon mustard. No one in the family had ever heard of it that way. In fact here, in dh's family they always add pickles. If some people like it that way, great. I personally think it is gross. So, in the past year I have won over everyone in the family, including his grandmother. The biggest proponent of the pickles. Right now, as I type, they are in the fridge cooling down. I'm not sure how much longer I can wait before I scarf them down. My mouth is watering like crazy!
Have a wonderful week!
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• Friday, March 21, 2008 - Frost, Birkenstocks and stairs
So, as many of you know, I'm really clumsy. On Monday I took a spill down the stairs at a friend's house. They were the outside stairs and there was a heavy frost. I was wearing Birks, so had no tread on my shoes. I fell halfway down the stairs then bounced off the stairs and fell the rest of the way down a hillside. I landed at the bottom on a cinder block, on my bottom. I'm ok, nothing is broken, but I'm bruised up. I have a weird triangular shaped bruise from the corner of the cinder block. Not fun!
I must rave about a homeopathic remedy. I've been using Arnica gel for the bruising on my shin. I do believe that it is helping. It helped the swelling go away quickly and it is not nearly as bruised as the *other * area where I can't put the gel.
So, word to the wise kids...be careful when wearing slick shoes on wooden stairs covered in frost. |
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• Thursday, March 6, 2008 - Shoe sale
I feel a little guilty about an purchase I made this morning.  Let me give you the prologue. I bought a pair of Birkenstock sandals, the kind with a strap behind your foot, about 7 years ago, on sale for $25. They lasted me for 6, that's right 6 years before they gave up the ghost. I have been searching for a good sale on them since then. I recently found a website, shoebuy.com, where I have purchased 3 pairs of shoes. Today I got an email, take an extra 20% off for March Madness. Low and behold I found the exact sandals I was looking for already on sale! With the extra 20% off they will only be $78. I know, not as good as $25, but I can live with that, I think.  Especially if these last as long as the last pair. Bear in mind they are normally $130-$140.
What do you guys think? |
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• Wednesday, February 27, 2008 - Still Waiting
Well, I'm still waiting to hear from the bank. I called last Thursday, it had been a week since the interview. The lady said she's been busy with another project and hadn't had a chance to follow up with anyone. I still hadn't heard anything yesterday so I called again. There was no answer, so I left her a message. I really can't keep waiting around like this.
I went to Fairmont on Saturday. I took a car load of things to the apartment. Mostly just boxes of dishes, things I never unpacked. My step-dad met me at my grandma's house, then rode over with me to help me unload. He approves of the place. He says it is much nicer than the last apartment we had. Yeah, I know...that's why I wanted it. So then he took me out to dinner and bought me a new set of pots & pans. It was supposed to be a wedding gift. It's only 2 years late, that's ok.  |
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• Thursday, February 21, 2008 - Winter
Old man winter has struck again. Not that I mind, really. I'm warm, dry and well fed. I had to drive home through the storm yesterday. My mil was concerned and had us close the store early. I get a little tickled when she gets like that. I think she assumes that because she can't drive in the snow, that no one else can. I have all wheel drive, and I don't drive like an idiot, I'm pretty safe. I got home in one piece, although I was behind and accident. Some young guy in a Neon hit a tanker hauling chicken feed. He must have been going too fast. It didn't hurt the tanker, but the guys car was demolished. They were both out walking around, so that's good that they weren't hurt.
Last night we kept walking out to look at the lunar eclipse. It was quite spectacular. I had never seen one before. I had seen a solar eclipse a few years ago, but not a lunar eclipse. The last couple times a lunar eclipse was visible in my area, it was cloudy or storming and I missed it.
Today, when I found out we were closed, yay for snow days, I went back to bed. Terrible, I know. I went back to snuggle with my Sweetpea. He likes to wake up with me there. He says it makes him smile. So we snuggled in bed for a good long while this morning. I must say it was nice.
I called the bank today, since I hadn't heard from them. The lady said that she has been busy with another project and hasn't had a chance to follow up with anyone yet. I'm not sure if that was good or bad. She was nice, but I don't know if it was genuine niceness, or fake.
I had to rip out my latest knitting project. Argh! I am making a new sock, the pattern is called Monkey by Cookie A. on Knitty.com. It's really awesome. I have the coolest yarn to make the socks with. I digress. I had to rip it out because I held the tension too tight. I was all the way to making the foot, it is a top down pattern, but it was too tight. I couldn't get my foot in it once I started making the foot. It was fine while it was just the leg. I have long feet, really long feet. So, I'll have to start over. Oh well, it's not like I don't enjoy knitting. A friend from Fairmont asked if I'd like to do a knit along with her on a different sock pattern. Sure, why not? It will be fun.
Hopefully I'll hear from the bank with a job offer soon. I really would like to work there. I've spoken to a couple different people who work for that particular bank and they love it. I think it would be a good place to make a career. Well, this has turned into a novel.
Hope all is well with my friends out in cyberspace. |
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• Monday, February 18, 2008 - Latest News
Sorry it took so long to update after my interview. I think it went well. I was asked pretty much the same questions as the phone interview. There were a few more in depth questions, for instance, "What skills do you possess that would make you a great member of our team?" Why do they ask questions like that? They should know people are just going to blow smoke and say what they think you want to hear. I'm not good at answering those types of questions, I feel stupid, like I'm telling a lie.
They seemed very nice, like they would be quite pleasant to work with, although I wouldn't be working directly with the two women who interviewed me. This bank has the BEST benefits for it's employees. They have paid vacation, insurance, 401K, free checks, etc. They even have a home loan for employees with a 3% interest rate and no down payment! How awesome would that be? I would really like working there, I think. They said they would let me know within a week. Hopefully I'll hear from them in the next couple days. Today was a holiday, so I know they won't be back to work until tomorrow. I also know I wasn't the only one interviewed. I can still hope though.
My apartment is ready to move into, so I REALLY need a job! I've had to start paying rent already. But I do love the place. It looks great since they refinished the hardwood floors. I want to start moving things in soon. I can fit most of our things in my car, thank goodness for a hatch back. I'll need a truck for the bed, couch and dressers.
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• Saturday, February 9, 2008 - News
I have some exciting news. I have a job interview on Thursday with the bank I applied to. I had a phone interview with the place on Tuesday and was told if they wanted to do an in person interview that they would call in a week. Well, the lady called me yesterday! She sounded really nice and it seems like she already is interested in hiring me. I've been pretty persistent with this job. It is the best bank to work for in the Fairmont area. It has the best benefits package as well as retirement and sick days. There are also lots of opportunities for advancement, especially if you take classes in bank management or the like.
I forgot to mention in my last post what I find amusing about being sick right now. The night before I got sick I said a prayer of thanksgiving...for not being sick! Then the very next day I came down with this awful bug. I can deal with the runny nose and the cough, but...what I can't deal with is the pain in my eyes. I have coughed so much that it feels like my right eye is going to pop out of my head! I looked in the mirror this morning and had to chuckle. It looks like I've been punched in the eye. It is so swollen and puffed up. I have an eye pillow I made with flax seeds and lavender buds. I put it in the freezer and then placed it on my eyes for a few minutes last night. It really made them feel better. I should get that back in the freezer. |
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• Thursday, February 7, 2008 - Sickness
Well, I had hoped I could make it through the winter without getting sick. No such luck. My mil got this thing on Monday. I came down with it yesterday. All of a sudden I felt weak started shaking, then I started shivering and couldn't stop. I was at work with my dh, thank goodness he was there. He let me lie down and cover up with a blanket. By the time we got home I was coughing uncontrollably. I had a temperature of 102 this morning. Hopefully he will not catch it. He has a much stronger constitution than I do.
Hope everyone out there is warm, safe and healthy. |
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• Monday, February 4, 2008 - Rude People
I went to the grocery store today, no big deal, right? All through the store I saw things out of place. There was a piece of a banana peel on the shelf with the rice. There were candy bar wrappers on the floor. I thought to myself, "Man, they really need to clean this store!" Then I got in the checkout line. I found the culprits of the mess. The people had a small boy, maybe three years old, in the cart. He had the rest of the banana peel, an empty bottle of Pepsi, two half eaten candy bars, half of an apple and I don't know what else. Then his mom squeezed past me to the drink coolers to get more pop and drank it all before she even let the guy ring it up!
Honestly, have you ever seen such behavior? I would not dream of doing it. I would NEVER have been allowed to eat something before I paid for it as a kid. As a matter of fact I accidentally walked out of the store with a candy bar when I was five. I honestly thought my mom paid for it. She made me take it back and apologize.
I guess what I'm getting at is that I was really appalled by these people. Not only did they have no respect for the store, but they clearly didn't care. I'll bet they even ate more things than I saw, and didn't pay for any of it. Since they obviously didn't pay for the banana.
Is our society that messed up now? Can you just walk into a store and eat things, without buying them? I know the cashier saw what they were doing, but he didn't say a word. I'm sure he just didn't want a conflict. If it had been me, when I worked at Kroger in high school, I would have said something. In fact, once our manager made it a point to tell us about that kind of thing. If we saw that a kid had eaten an apple or banana we had to make the parents bring us another piece to be weighed so they could pay for it. Then we were to ask them to take their business elsewhere. Since it was tantamount to stealing. Which is really what these people did today.
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