I hate wasting days...

I didn't accomplish one extra thing today... got up later than usual and so everything was later than usual. I felt like I was running behind all day long. I did manage to get to the pet store for dog food. Looked at the doggie toys. My dog is such a chewer... and he has a thing for plastic. It's almost like a drug to him. If a toy has a plastic squeaker inside he tears it up till he gets to the squeaker and then he chews the plastic. His best toy is a plastic water bottle.. he can demolish one of those in five minutes. He likes to chew paper too. I think he's bored though. I think he needs more activity and more toys. But what toys do you get for a dog who chews them all up? We saw a puppy today that was half chihuahua and half daschund.. is that how you spell it? Anyway it was so tiny and so full of life. He wanted to come home with me but couldn't. Wonder if my dog would like a friend to play with. I bet he would. I bet he wouldn't be so bored if he had a real dog friend.. hmmmm J

Busy ness

It started out by me looking for a little jewelry box to put in my bathroom.. just something simple where I could drop my bracelets and rings at night.. Ok here's one on my dresser, let's use that. But wait it had to be cleaned out first and all the little 'things' in it had to be sorted. And there were many 'things' in that little box... so I sorted them all out in piles.. one pile for the garbage, one pile of safety pins, one pile of bobbi pins, various buttons, three watches, none of which run. And there was an aids awareness stamp pin I've had for a long time. It was a gift from the post mistress in Esparto years ago. There were two long pocket knives.. didn't try to open them. I cleaned it and relined it with some green felt.. dropped my bracelets in and shut the top... ooops the top wouldn't shut. The bracelets were bumping the top little tray. Ok that won't work. We'll just use the jewelry box grandpa made for me.. it's bigger and has two drawers. I can use the top drawer for the bracelets.. it will be easy and convenient and look nice on the top of my glass shelving in the bathroom..... so I went through the same process, sorting, tossing, making piles, remembering stuff, and trying to remember stuff. Got all done, cleaned it inside really well and took it in to set it in it's place on the top shelf...... but it was too wide. Would not fit in the space I had for it. I have another plastic type box that I keep inside a drawer with other jewelry in it but it's not pretty and besides it's hard to open.. so I still have nothing to put my bracelets and rings in when I take them off at night. For now they are in the bedroom in the top drawer of the jewelry box grandpa made.. they fit good there but I need them to be in the bathroom.. that's where I dress and undress.. but have no box, no dish, no container... I better go shopping tomorrow. Maybe I can find the perfect thing. J

I didn't forget

I did blog last night but this morning I decided to delete it.

J

The day is ovah... and I'm going to bed

Sleepy. Time to go to bed. We didn't go to the cemetery afterall... my sciatic nerve was acting up... too far to drive and sit so long with a bum sciatic nerve. Weather was dumb too.. Very windy, slightly cloudy, chance of rain. In fact most of the days this week call for a chance of rain... well not Thursday but Mac has a drs appt that day so that's out.. I'm thinking now to wait till next week. It's supposed to be nice springlike weather starting Monday.. so that sounds good to me.

Finished painting my beads and got the gloss on them.. tomorrow I'll string them and then post pics on my craft blog.

Vacuumed the living room and dining room and cleaned dog hair off the furniture... then we also brushed the dog with the grooming glove.. Tons of hair came off of him and tons of hair was in the vacuum.. I can't believe he's not bald. Hairy little thing. Today he chewed my slipper but that's my own fault because I gave him an old one just like it to play with..

The bed is waiting... J

Ok twice is nice...

So this is my second blog post today, making up for missing last night... so what did I do today? Well for one I made iced tea. YES I can have ice tea. Love that stuff and if you use decaf tea it counts as water. I don't sweeten my tea, though sometimes I might squeeze a little lemon into it.

We plan on going to the cemetery tomorrow but my tummy hurts so I'm just going to have to wait till morning to decide. Might wait another day, probably will. Doesn't really matter I guess. Wed Mac wants to go shooting. He's been wanting to do that for ages. He has a friend that goes on Weds... our ex mailman. Hopefully he'll get to go cause he loves doing that.

Well what else did I do... oh I cleaned the porch

Was gonna vacuum it but then I decided sweeping would be more exercise so that's what I did. Moved everything out there and swept it all. Then I moved the plants around and watered all of them. Need to get a bit of yard work done... probably not tomorrow though. Maybe on Thursday. Not gonna do it by myself. I'll trim the stuff and Mac loads it. Oh and then I sat on the porch for about an hour. I love the porch.. it's fairly private for being so close to others.. Would like to live out in the country a bit, but doubt that happening... told mac today I'd sell the house and we could buy a bit bigger trailer and just go here and there, but don't think he was too keen on the idea.

Time to go to bed. the dishwasher is running and it really puts so much humidity in here.. Hate that. J

Eeeek I forgot to blog!!!!

Immediately after I shut the computer down for the night I remembered I hadn't blogged. I was too tired to turn it back on so here I am the morning after.... And it was an important day. I got all the flowers ready to take to the cemetery. Pictures on the craft blog. Oh and I DID exercise. I did my chair exercises and the cardioglide for 55 pulls. I've had to let up a bit on the exercises because of my knees. I overdid the exercise bike the other day. I've noticed when I do more than a mile on the exercise bike I suffer with my knees for several days.

So today is Sunday.. what are my plans? I'll probably go to walmart to get the string for my bracelets. Want to get those done now. Hate unfinished projects.. Speaking of unfinished projects, we moved into this house almost three years ago. We've never gotten the ice maker hooked up on the fridge. But yesterday we did it. Man do I love the ice maker. This fridge had the freezer on the bottom which is the smartest idea in refrigerators but not so easy to set an ice cube tray down in there... Now all I have to do is reach in and grab a handful of ice... yea ice tea comin' up. I haven't made ice tea for so long. I mean have you ever drank ice tea with no ice? Even if it's cold it's not the same..

That's the day. J

Friday already...

Time flies whether you are or aren't having fun.. it zips and zooms and swooshes by in less than a blink of an eye... it never drags or sags.. it never waits or is late. Time moves like lightning slashing through the sky... now you see it, now you don't.

I finished the arrangement today.. you can see it on my craft blog. It's almost good. It's the best I could do. I'm not a flower arranger... but the colors are pretty.

I didn't exercise today but I walked and walked... still that's not enough. So my promise to me is to catch up on the weekend. If I do yesterdays exercise tomorrow and todays exercise the next day I'll be caught up. Still having quite a knee pain. There is one exercise I do for the lower back that I think is causing my knees to hurt. I'll leave that one out for a while and see if it makes any difference.

Bought strawberries today from a little roadside stand.. We got a good deal on them. We got 6 baskets and she gave us the seventh free.. She also kept piling and piling them on top... Besides they are super delicious. I cleaned them all and put some in the freezer. Hopefully I can get some more soon.

I'm done for the day. J

One more thing ......done

We ordered the headstone for Kiko today... it's 10x20.. black granite with a sandblasted oval inlay. His nickname is on the top, then his name below that.. then his birth date, then the day he died. To the right, also inside the oval will be a drawing of Hello Kitty's head. There won't be any colors in it, but I'm sure it will be easily recognizable. I'm glad to have that ordered. We'll install it ourselves when it comes.

I worked a little on the floral arrangements.. hope to finish at least one tomorrow. I need to go to the store and buy veggies. Also want to look for a strawberry stand.. love those things and they are in right now.

No exercise today... my knees just weren't up to it. I felt like I did a little too much on the exercise bike the other day so just let them rest today.

I squashed the dog under me last night when I turned over in bed.. he cried so... he loves laying up against me. I am not at all comfortable like that. I so wish I had my own bed just for me. I think I'd sleep so much better. Going to bed now. J

I'm early...

I'm tired.. what else is new? But I didn't sleep well and had to get up too early. It's been a long day. I actually didn't do much.. took mac for his colonoscopy and went back and picked him up later. When we got home he went straight to bed. He was exhausted. So I tried to be quiet and keep the dog quiet so he could sleep.. could have painted my beads but the paints were in the bedroom and I didn't want to rummage around in there. So I did nothing. Took a few pictures of my flowers outside. The iris are blooming now. They don't last very long so I thought a picture of those would be nice...

See I told you they were pretty.. if you click on the pic it will enlarge and you can see just how pretty they are. Tomorrow we will go check on a headstone for Kiko. I hate that he only has a little wooden stake stuck in the ground with his name scrawled in chalk on it.. I'm also making some floral arrangements to take down and put on all the graves.. need something bright and cheery there.

Now I'm going to watch the results of American Idol. Not very many good contestants this year. Last year was much better. J

An almost nothing day...

This morning I decided I would paint the beads for the bracelets before I did anything else...and I did. Except that I didn't finish. I worked on them for about 5 hours and got tired. But that's the whole sum of everything I did today besides making the bed and running the dishwasher. I didnt even have to cook because Mac is on clear liquids and there were plenty of leftovers in the fridge for me... so I guess you might say I had a day off. OH wait!!!! I lied. I did do something else. I did my chair stretching exercises and rode the exercise bike 1.75 miles. It took me 21 minutes to ride that far.. watched the food channel while I did it. They were making wedding cakes. Fun to watch. Only time I ever watch the cooking channel is when I'm on the exercise bike. It's in the bedroom. I was supposed to walk outdoors today but had a cramp in my foot so subbed the bike instead. Having quite a problem with my feet lately.

My bedtime.....

J

Monday... always ready for a new start..

OK I DID MY EXERCISES!!!! and I am soooooooooo tired tonight. Got the flowers finally, they are not cheap. Also bought some floral supplies and things. Also went to the dollar store and bought wax paper, foil, baggies and foil pans with lids, plus some other stuff. I bathed the dog and he wasn't nice about it today.. seemed spooked about something. Maybe he didn't feel good. He got his heartworm pill today, that could have made him feel a little out of it or maybe it was the fact that while I was gone to the store he found a chapstick and chewed it up. Couldn't find the chapstick part anywhere so I'm assuming he ate it. the container was all chewed up. I know he has a thing for chapsticks cause the other day he was trying to dig mine out of my pocket...

Hot today.. 95 degrees. Supposed to be the same tomorrow.. I didn't have time to paint my bracelets... that's my tomorrows thing. Don't know what else yet. Maybe nothing.

J

Sunday Sunday...

I guess one is supposed to be lazy on Sunday. If that is the case then I did what I was supposed to do. This has been the laziest of days. I did manage to make breakfast... and went to Walmart for a few groceries. Came home and put them away and that is all I've done. Meals were pick up or leftovers and it was every man for himself. Tomorrow is another day and I have a plan for it... first I will go to walmart and take some shorts back I bought last week. They fit ok but they feel too short. Then I'll check on flowers. Then come home. The dog needs to be bathed and his crate needs a good cleaning. I'm going to also paint one of the bracelets I made while camping... well, actually I have two that need painting. Not sure what else I'll do but I know there was something else I wanted to get done tomorrow... Oh yes and tomorrow is Monday so I will start back with my exercise program.. not really looking forward to that but always feel better when it's done, sort of like I've accomplished something. Oh and I need to take some inventory of the freezer and the fridges freezer.. they are a slopped up mess and I can't even tell what's in there.

Ok that's it for Sundays report... wasn't that interesting? I can't believe I'm taking up perfectly good blog space with such drivel... such is my life.

J

No exercise on Saturday..

When I did my excercise calendar I gave myself the weekends off... of course I didn't know then I was going to be gone for a week and not do anything. Today I washed a bunch of clothes, towels and sheets. Did a lot of other odds and ends, straightened out the cupboards and put some dishes and containers that I don't use very often clear up on the top shelf. Also did my knee strengthening exercises.. wasn't going to but thought I'd better do something. I want to get my bike out but with my knee so bad I'm afraid I won't be able to stop. I know I can pump and it won't be too hard but the stopping means putting that one leg down that hurts so much... might try it anyway. Still thinking about getting a three wheel bike.. don't care what other people think. I'm way beyond worrying about what other people think... I think it would be a smart thing to do. Wish I could find a used one. They are pretty expensive. Best thing I could probably do is get a new knee.. actually I need two new knees. Can't do them right now though. Have to wait and see what Jerri's going to do. Haven't heard from her and it worries me. It worries me a lot. I'm rambling.. J

Home again Home again jiggedy jog....

It was a good camping trip... it was a very nice Easter dinner at Elenas. She cooked tons of food and it was all yummy. I ate way too much.. but that's ok. Easter is only once a year. I'll diet tomorrow.

I did a few crafty things while we were camping... a little reading, but most of all I did nothing. I slept good except for the first night when I was cold. After that we set the heater to come on if it got too cold. That bed in the trailer is really comfy. It used to be too firm but we put a memory foam topper on it last year and boy did that ever make it just right. I actually didn't want to come home... but we had to. Hopefully we'll go again in not too long.

I updated my 'to do' list..... added a few things to it.. crossed off some of the things I've already done. Tomorrow it's back to my exercise and dieting. It's time.

J

Head 'em off... Move 'em out.

I'm tired.. what else is new? But at least I'm tired from doing something. It's really bad when one is tired and has done nothing. The trailer is packed and we are ready to go. Leaving around 8 a.m I hope. Probably will be 9 before we hit the freeway though cause we have to load the last minute things and stop for gas. Still if it's 9 that's ok.. not that far down there.

Looking forward to dinner at Elena's house.. hope the dog behaves himself.. he won't. We'll take the cage but he'll still whine. Can't leave him in the pickup that long and can't leave him in the trailer that long. Having a dog is almost like having a child to take care of.. except I guess you can't crate your child.

Tomorrow is Easter.. I used to work so hard getting baskets filled and hidden.. Eggs hidden etc. But they were good days. I wonder if any of the kids remember Easters when they were little?

Time for me to go to bed... getting up at 4:45. Clock is set already and the timer is on the coffee pot so it should be ready when I get up. Takes two hours for coffee to work it's magic on my mind and on my body... Then I can get ready to go.

Happy Easter
J

Eeeeek I almost forgot to blog...

How could this happen? Well it did. I was just ready to turn off the computer when I realized I'd failed to blog. I'm tired tonight... did quite a bit of stuff today. Went to walmart, then to the grocery. Bought the stuff for cheesecake and candy. Came home and made those and then also made a peanut butter pie oh my. Tomorrow we'll load the trailer and make the bed.

I'm so sleepy.. gotta go nite nite.

J

What Ever...

For some reason it feels terribly warm to me tonight... think it must be the humidity...Just looked at the dopplar and there's a mighty big green blob heading our way.. in fact I expect it to hit within the half hour. ooops not even half an hour...there it goes.

Today was another lazy day for me.. what a waste. I hate wasting days and yet I keep doing it. I did almost nothing except make meals. I made a couple of lists and read a bit in the bernstein book. Oh and I got my craft stuff together that I want to take camping. Not taking too much to do.. but just enough. Need to go tomorrow and get flowers so when we go down I can redo the flowers in the cemetery...

I'm hoping for no rain tomorrow. I really need to walk outside. Twice I've had to postpone the outdoor walking because of the rain. I did do my other stuff today though and yesterday. I think I forgot to post about exercise yesterday... I'm really trying to keep to schedule. Only thing I've missed is the walking. Also had to really take it easy on knee exercises as my knee is not doing so great.

Ok nothing more so it's over and out.
J

Wednesday...

Hump day they say when working.. when retired it's all the same. Today was my day to do strength training with hand weights and yes I did do them. Also did the stretching exercises but did not do the knee strengthening because my knee has been hurting the whole day.. had a hard time with the stretches... at least the ones that involved that leg.

Gray day today.. I don't know about anybody else but gray is not my idea of an energetic day. I'm taking Vitamin D but maybe not enough.. Maybe I need to up the dose at least till the sun shines again.

Think we're going camping Sunday for a few days... if we do, I'm taking the fimo to make another bracelet. I gave one of mine to Julies baby and I miss that one... gonna make another similar. I like doing those kinds of things while camping. Sometimes I do puzzles. Not all the time

I'm going to watch American Idol results show now..

J

I Didn't Walk...

Walking was one of the exercises on my list today... walking outdoors. But it was windy and rainy and I didn't want to walk in that. I like walking in good weather but not bad weather. But I did do my stretching things and I did walk around and around inside the house. I didn't go shopping, should have, but just felt out of it today.. not a good day today.

Seems the neighbor across the street.. the dingbat one who put a sign on our mailbox last winter telling us our dog was not a good neighbor because he barked... went to the office and complained that the dog is barking too much. Well. The dog does bark. He barks everytime someone goes by and everytime someone is in their yard.... but he doesn't stand at the window and bark constantly because I don't let him. When he starts barking I make him stop. And I know his bark isn't shrill or piercing outside the house. Yes it's bad if you are inside with him. How do I know this? Well the fellow behind us has the same kind of dog as ours and he barks everytime someone goes by etc... I hear his dog bark but it doesn't bother because it's not piercing. I know if I were inside the house it would bother. But that distance away it just doesn't bother. This woman is nuts. She sits inside her house and yells at her television. And what's more she has a dog she claims she was only keeping for her sister.. that was six months ago and she still has it. The rules in the park say no dog over twenty pounds.. hers is a big black lab. Guess how much that weighs. I don't care if she has it. I've never complained. All I really want is for people to leave me alone. Can't believe how petty some people can be. Don't they know how short life is? Don't they know there are real big things in this world that should be addressed, fought for and reckoned with... why why bother with a little dog who barks when someone walks by. HE is never left alone and he does not bark continuously. That's the reason I don't try and make friends... people make me sick.
J

The Days Tally

I didn't do everything I wanted to do but I did some things I hadn't planned on doing.. so it was enough. I made my first ever coconut flour cake. It needs a bit of tweaking. I cleaned the bathroom from top to bottom. I swept the steps and swept down the spiderwebs from the outside of the house. Same ole lunch and dinner and dishes etc.. Watered the plants on the porch and along side the house. Took the dog out in the back yard and used the glove on him. Gobs of hair came out... wont do any good. Cleaned the hair off the couches and off my throw that he lays on. I finally put the throw away as I don't want him ruining it. Don't need it this time of year anyway.

Didn't get to go look for flowers.. but I will tomorrow. Also need to buy the dog a collar. His is too small.

Late again.. must start doing better.

Eeeek forgot to say I did my exercises as promised. I did the chair stretching stuff, knee and back strengthening exercises and fifty pulls on the cardioglide. Yea for me.

J

Sunday... finally

Yes finally a legitimate excuse for doing nothing.. Sunday is a day of rest isn't it? Well we had a good day. Went to Ramons to celebrate Marias birthday.. had a good barbeque meal.. that carne asada was fantastic. I'm not a beef eater but I ate that. Seconds even. Delicious. I took a cherry cobbler and that was pretty good too. I was good and didn't eat cake.

Only thing is when we go like that we don't have a chance to see everyone. Elena says they might come up here in a week or two.. sure would be nice. Hard when we go down there. Don't have enough time to stop for long anywhere. Better when we just go to one place at a time. I also want to get some new artificial flowers for the cemetery... all of them on Mom's and everyones are all faded and old. Need new ones. Hoping I can do that very very soon. In fact I think I'll go buy some flowers tomorrow. They don't have to be expensive.. but they do have to be new. Don't like faded flowers.

On the way home we stopped at Burger king in Williams for coffee.. love that burger king coffee. We always stop there... it's become a habit. I'm never dissappointed in their coffee...

I'm very tired... going to bed. Tomorrow it's back to my exercise routine... and I need to clean the bathroom..

J

Saturday.....

Well let me see... what was it that I did today or thought today or wished today... I made coconut flour pancakes. A first for me and very good. I did dishes and also ran the dishwasher. I put some clothes away that were hanging on the rack.. went to Super Walmart and bought a teensy few groceries. Went outside and took pictures of some of the flowers that are blooming so nicely right now.. put some of those pics on my craft blog.

Wrote two emails...talked on the phone three times. Sat at the computer much more than I usually do. Did a row on the dogs sweater.

Thought about how I'm going to frame those pictures... the frames I want are expensive. I'll figure out a way to do them.

Bedtime.
J

Day 3... betcha didn't think I'd do it.....

But I did... day three of exercising.. yea for me. Today it was chair stretches, back strengthening, knee strengthening and the exercise bike and I did them all. Tomorrow is Saturday and I left the weekends blank on my calendar.. I think that's good. And I did go to GNC and I did go to Walmart and got the two cards and two presents. I also bought a little square metal cake pan that will fit in my toaster oven.

Didn't do much of anything else.. cooked lunch for mac and dinner for us both...cleaned up the kitchen. No work on the dogs sweater.. thumbs said not today. Washed a load of clothes, took some stuff out of my closet and put it in drawers, like the long jeans I probably won't wear much now that it's getting warmer.

Nothing else...

J

Day 2 of exercise...

Day 2 ... that's my drs. name only he spells it Datu... ok now we've got that out of the way, I did my Thursday exercise from the calendar which is chair stretching exercises and walking outside. That's the first walk I've done in months. The way my knee, feet and ankles have been feeling I didn't know if I would be able to do it... but do it I did. And it was easier than I thought. Next walking day I'll add a bit more steps... go a little farther.

I was very lazy today.. worked on the dogs sweater that I am crocheting without a pattern. Tried it on him tonight and somehow it looks more like a vest than a sweater. Might be able to fix it but might not want to. It's a turtleneck.. don't think vests are supposed to be turtle necks. I should be done with it tomorrow unless I decide to make some sleeves in it.

I absolutely must go to GNC tomorrow.. should have done it today. Planned to do it but then just didn't want to. Have to go check for a BD present for Maria... need to buy a card for someone... which girl is it? Oh I think it's Faith. Might look for a present for her too.. Don't like to just send money. I think kids like presents better than money. Well that's my morning for tomorrow. Tune in later to see if I actually do it...

J

And awaaaaaaaaaay we go...

Anybody remember Jackie Gleason? He always said that.. and awaaaaaaaaaaay we go!

I did Wednesdays exercises today.. chair stretches,, upper body strengthening with light weights,, knee strengthening and back strengthening exercises that the physical therapist gave me to do a long time ago. Tomorrow will be my first walk in many many months. I will probably not go very far. I'll put the dog on the leash and take him with me.

Took the material back to walmart today that I bought for curtains.. that was an adventure in itself. Why do some people feel the need to be superior? I don't understand a need to insult or put down anyone.

Other than that I did very little today, but I'm very tired tonight.. tomorrow I MUST go to GNC and get a few things..

Going to watch American Idol results show. That's it for me... and awaaaaaaaaaay we go.

J