Shopping

I stole some time to stop at Elder-Beerman on Thursday on my way home.
Of course, I passed through the little girls' dresses department on my way to women's feminine frilly things.
I saw hats and Easter dresses.
I did SO want to buy my granddaughters each a nice dress for Easter. But I've learned that girls don't want their OLD grannies to buy dresses for them. Or hats. Heavy Sigh.

Spring is in full swing here in the valley.
daffodills are growing from the OLD plants on the hillside. Squirrels are leaping from tree to tree. We also saw bluebirds, and little wrens, but the cardinals are not around today, nor the robins.




Not your average Easter Bunny, but much more current.
Thank you Charlie Sheen!



April Showers and snow and wind and chill-in-the-air

Hey family - We are watching the fabulous Ghost Busters on TV this afternoon. Wow, I knew I liked it, but the soundtrack is really fun. I guess it's one of my favorite mooovies.

...and everyone looks so YOUNG.

The sun is out, finally. And it is around 4 o'clock.

Laundry in progress; water filter changed; garbage out; dishes clean; ho-hos in plentiful supply.



Zoey Elizabeth Miller last year 2010 in April.



All's right with the world.

Why?

Why?

Spring is sprug; the grass is riz - I wonder where the daiseys is?

Yes, it IS update time again. We, in the country, have jumped foreward in time - one hour.
Delia has visited the dentist in a successful feat of bravery and you have to go-ness. I only heard about this on the interesting net yesterday or today. Joey if off to CaNaDa - Montreal to be exact. Barbara has tomorrow off to watch workers work in her condo. And next week she goes to a cOnFeReNcE in downtown D.C.

End of the 9wks is coming. I am so-o-o-o tired.

End of February - Beginning of Spring?

I'm going to have a tooth pulled tomorrow.
I'm not looking forward to that.
This being a Gr'up is not what I thought it would be.

I'd prefer tooth fairy flights of fancy/fantasy.

It's ALIVE!! !$#?@!!

Saturday morning... February...26th...2011.
I'm alive.
Yes, I'd hoped to survive the combination of amoxicillan, stress and Wendy's chipotle chicken wings. Evidently, I did.
It only took 72 hours... many of them sleepless, or dream filled, and achy.

I'm dropping the amoxicillan - the tooth appointment is Monday. I need to have control of all my body before I sit in that chair. The stress continues. But the chicken wings are gone with the first, second, third, fourth, fifth ... flush.
Who knows? Maybe these days away from the job will help with the stress - probably not.
Looking forward to news from the Internet... send some, please.

Friday night in the middle of a sudden spring thaw...

Here I am again.
Just blogging to kill time.




This time last year in 2010 - February toward the beginning of March



I have had a rice cooker several times in my past life. Some one either thinks I need to use one or that rice cookers make great (read that cheap) gifts. I threw them away - both times.

Dad is doing ok tonight. He didn't eat the salmon I brought home - too tough to chew and swallow. Since I have a broken tooth, I cannot chew on that side and everything goes to that side... so I know the food was not the best tonight. I fixed cheese manicotti from Hormel's selection of 90 second marvels. He ate a little, but soon got tired of waiting for me to stop watching the History channel's Modern Marvels: something to do with electricity, wiring Tessla, Cisco and the Internet.... I quit watching a while ago. And he got his meds and literally slumped into a sleeping/coma...

I got more 1099 forms this week - letter says: maybe more to come - until March 15; should I wait that long to ask the accountant to file the income tax?

The weather is windy and warm, not for long, I'm told - maybe snow next week.

I have to stay at school until 5:30 Monday next week. But I don't have to be there until 11. Maybe I can use that time to wash the car, or to lay in provisions for the coming storm --or shop.... the courthouse will be closed-it's Presidents' Day - so I can't do much business. I wonder if the lawyer got the faxed documents? I have never heard. No one ask for more money. The paperwork should have been filed Tuesday by the fudiciary, and no one has asked for more money... except the plumbers and the Culligan man has yet to send the bill although I know the cost already... I am so tired.

Tracy is coming to sit with Dad while I go necessity shopping on Sunday.

If I had a little unstructured time, I fear I would sleep it away.



A favorite photo from 2007?

Later...