another saturday night and i ain't got no money... lol

yep i named my blog site perfectly... just as i was getting ready to put in a title for this post the above song popped into my head... lol
so ray is asleep in his recliner next to me... snoring softly for a change and the sci fi channel is on and there is a pathetically dumb movie on... lol it's like a bad copy of armageddon. what's worse is the fate of the world is in the hands of steven baldwin... omg...
you can tell it's a holiday weekend because the posts on the two yahoo groups i am active in are few so not much to read and reply to there so here i sit... trying to figure out what i am going to write about in my blog. since my life isn't all that exciting there isn't a lot to write about but i'm sure i'll find something... lol i always do...
i'm had an annoying headache for days now... so many days that i can't remember... it's one of those that sit just behind your eyeballs and won't go away... it's a good thing i can type and not have to really look at the keys and concentrate much... less strain on my head
like i said, today is saturday, maybe i didn't say that earlier... but it is so mom and i went to wal-mart to do our weekly grocery shop. boy groceries are expensive... $200. just to feed two people... omg... course there were probably some things in the cart that i didn't "have" to buy... and one of them i didn't pay for, mom did... i got my own postage scale/meter... since i do a lot of mailing with my groups that i belong to it will be more accurate than using my little kitchen scale... and this scale goes up to 3 pounds so that's a plus too... don't want to be messing with the government and the post office... lol
oh and i did spend $12.00 extra on something for myself... my combo mic earpiece for my laptop broke and i needed a new one and lucky me, found on in the clearance isle... love that isle... but you have to be careful because some of the stuff there still isn't that great a deal and you can find some of the items there cheaper at other stores... so buyer beware... lol
i can't believe i'm typing this junk... but i just don't have much else to say tonight so i guess something is better than nothing... welcome to my life...
well i'm going to end this pathetic blog and hope that the next one is just a bit more exciting... lol

sleepy

i'm getting sleepy and seeing as though it's 10 minutes till 1 in the morning i guess that's okay... right?
i once again came into my craft room, put on my laptop and started reading e-mails. i read one from a friend (sandy) about a card swap i'm in and she wrote "yeah, yeah" to my message about me getting them done tomorrow (which was actually yesterday (monday). well i stopped reading my e-mails and slid my laptop out of the way and got my cards finished.
i don't know why i can't just get some of this stuff done... i don't know why i find the need to buy all this paper crafting stuff and get all these great ideas for gifts and stuff and then don't do them... just keep collecting all this stuff and spending more and more money.
it's not like i'm lousy at making the scrapbook pages, cards and such... i'm really pretty good... it's just that i really have to be in the mood and lately... i'm not... i have tried everything from organizing my "stuff " to making lists of what i want to make... no help... i end up getting on this laptop and reading my e-mails and then off to veg in front of the tv or something. i'm falling into some serious laziness and don't like it... but this too shall pass... i hope...
my garden does look nice though... just need to mulch it and it's finally finished... then it's four more to go... yes i said four more... gardens... one long narrow one in the front... piece of cake to clean up and then two good sized ones on either side of the back patio and one off by the side fence... and i'm sure my poor little lemon tree could use some tlc seeing as it hasn't given me a piece of fruit yet and it's been in the ground for 8 years... lol... frost keeps getting it and then i just plain forget to feed it and down here in florida you have to feed just about everything since we are all sand and the nutrients just wash away... hmmm maybe tomorrow evening i'll go take a look at her and clean her up then feed her... who knows maybe this will be the year for some of those amazing myer lemons...
well that's all i got... lack of enthusiasm for crafting, lack of enthusiasm for gardening and well just the lack of... for anything... there is always tomorrow...

argh....

i came into my craft room to log on the puter just to check my mail and maybe write a small blog...

3 hours later i'm still sitting here... haven't finished going through my e-mails... yes i'm that popular... j/k it's not all personally for me... but i like to think it is... lol

i was fine till i got to a message from becky... with a link to a you tube video on tying a piece of ribbon... i mean really... how hard is it to tie a knot...??? lol

in the message was a note from becky on how to tie the perfect bow in ribbon... well i can and i do... i made myself a bow maker out of a piece of 2x4 and some dowels... works like a charm... so of course i had to stop reading my mail, find the darn thing... (bow maker) and take pictures of it so i could post them to the yahoo group becky is in for her to see...

well just showing her and the others this neat tool wasn't enough... i then had to go and get a piece or ribbon and actually make a bow and take a picture of it to prove it was in fact a perfect one... lol which it is...

so of course i had to take the pictures and upload them to my photo album in said group and then post a message that they were there and put the link for them to get to the photo album easier so that they could see just how smart i am... making this all by my onsies... lol

so yes here it is 3 hours later and i haven't gotten in the shower from working out in the front garden tonight... can you say filthy... ewwww... my back hurts and i'm tired... but i always have time for my girls...

love you all....

me

my bow maker... lol

gardening

i love to garden... i love digging in the dirt and getting my hands dirty... no i'm not a use gloves kind of woman... can't feel what i'm doing with gloves on... makes for messy manicures and more cuts and stuff on my hands but still my gardening method of choice... i have the hands of a worker and can't do anything about that not that i would want to anyway...
so i weeded that garden that i have been working on for months... i have to work in moderation, which is not easy to get used to but necessary for my pain management... though i have found a few things that help me not hurt myself as much and am adding to my methods daily... yeah me...
on thing i use is a scooter... it's this low padded seat on wheels for gardening... keeps me off my knees and actually does take some of the stress off my lower back and hips which is where most of my problems are anyway...
i also have problems with the sun... medications make it unsafe for me to be in direct sun for long periods of time so i created portable shade... my neighbors laugh at me and ask if i'm a peanut vendor... but hey... at least i don't burn... and i can work outside longer cause the blazing florida heat isn't baking me...
what i did was take one of those rubbermaid gardening carts... that i found at a yardsale for $20.00... great price btw... and put my base from my deck umbrella on the front platform of it for a counter balance and then took the pole that goes into it and mounted it to the front of the cart with duct tape... lol... 1002 uses... lol now when i go outside to work i just open up my really big deck umbrella and pop it into the pole attached to the cart and i have my portable shade on wheels as well as all the spots to carry my various gardening tools and stuff...
i may look silly out there under my umbrella but my gardens and myself definitely benefit... lol
so my front garden... most of the stuff is in small to medium pots... all my landscape cloth is down and now i'm waiting for rocks from my dad... (we don't have rocks in florida and if you want them you either have to buy them... not or you have to cart them down from other states... which is what dad did over the course of over 5 years and now he has too many and is going to share with his only daughter... lol).
also i have to buy a few bags of mulch... i'm not sure what kind i want... leaning towards the recycled tires... they last longer and don't float away with the rains... if we ever get any... lol
once that's down my pots will have some insulation from the hot sun, since my garden is south facing and my little oak tree i planted 2 years ago doesn't quite throw enough shade as of yet... lol
once i get this garden done, hopefully before i head north in a month, my next project when i return is to extend a narrow garden under my craft room window so that i can move my bird feeder poles out front and make that all pretty and nice...
so that's it for this blog... i'll catch you again tomorrow... hopefully...

guess i need to develope a new habit...

cause i forgot to post again... lol
so it's just after midnight and yesterday was mother's day... first... my daughter sandra called and wished me a happy mother's day and then told me that she was at the hospital with her best friend since 2 am... her friend brandy and husband craig just brought their second little girl into the world... what a great mother's day gift...
the next child to call me was my step (i hate that word) daughter jessica... she wanted to know how high a fever a child can have before it's time to worry... ummmm okay so now i'm worried and don't even know how high a temp we are talking about... it was 102 under the arm pit and when he tries to sleep he makes these wimpery noises and twitched... ray says now is the time to worry and to take him to the er... it's gabriel we are talking about and he's just a little older than 2... and oh btw... happy mother's day... lol she called later to let us know he's fine... i can stop worrying for now...
later tonight i got a call from marc... first thing he says when i say hello is... "oh good you got home safely..." lol i guess i forgot to call when i got home to say i was okay and the flight was okay... much better than the one to get up there... but then again it wouldn't have been hard to be better than that one right??? lol then i get my happy mother's day from him...
only one left would be my step (again with that word) son michael... nope... not this year again... oh well, he's busy i guess... at least that's what i tell myself... that way it hurts less...
so my mother's day consisted of me making yummy special scrambled eggs and toast for myself and hubby... then watching a bunch of tevoed shows that he saved from when i was up in mass taking care of marc... wow i had a lot to catch up on... so basically the afternoon was spent vegging in front to the tube with my honey...
made my american goulash for dinner... another yummo... and off to work he went... then it was out in the yard to water my dried up dying plants in my newly weeded garden that doesn't look newly weeded cause it got messy while i was up in mass taking care of marc... lol
i potted a few plants i stole from marc and lucia's yard and now it's hoping they make the transition cause though i have a few bleeding heart plants down here already they are the white ones and well i just love the red ones and that's what they had... so i stole some...
i also stole some hosta... i just recently found out you can grow that down here as long as it doesn't get full sun all day long... i'll keep that in mind when they got into the ground but for now they are in pots to get used to the heat down here...
then there were these other plants... kind of like a johnny jump up, viola, mini pansy type plants... white flowers with purple lines in them and really beautiful green foliage... they spread sort of like strawberry plants and grow in neat circular bunches... i like that... neat plants... so now we shall see if they make it too since their leaves all fell off during their trip down here... guess they didn't like the damp paper towel in the ziploc bag stuffed into the suitcase thing... lol
i even took the time to "weed" the few pots in the front... maybe i'll get to some more weeding tomorrow but then again maybe not...
i'm supposed to go to the last "ladies club" meeting of the year... this is the one we give away the two college scholarships... i suppose i should go but we shall see... lots of the ladies have been wondering why i haven't gone in a while and i don't think i can handle all the questions... it's been an emotional year this year and well i'm just now getting back to feeling like me again... so maybe i will skip this one too... though i do have a few lady friends that i miss and would love to see... hmmm maybe i can plan a little brunch some saturday and have them over... that would be nice...
so other than that i'm all settled back in at home and loving being here even if it's only for a few weeks... then it's on the road for at least a month on my annual trek up north to see my kids and grandboys... again i will miss home but when it comes to seeing my kids and grandboys it's all worth while... besides then it will be another long wait to see them again...
so to all of you ladies that are mommies... Happy Mother's Day 30ish minutes late...
love,
donna

oops i missed one

so i never did do a post yesterday and no the novelty isn't already worn off... i got home, took a much needed nap and then saw ray off to work... next thing i did was mooch a dinner off mom and dad... lol
really, i did call mom, asked what was for dinner, i wasn't picky, no food in the house when i got home and i was hungry. ray bought mc'ds and i was sol (shit out of luck)... lol mom came and picked me up and off to dinner i went.
dinner was leftovers but very yummy ones. i got spaghetti and chicken... dad had spaghetti and veal (yuck) and mom fettuccine alfredo... oh and we had small salads first and bread sticks with... yummo...
during dinner we had helicopters flying really low over the house and being of a curious nature, mom and i got up to go take a look... life flight, omg near by, something bad happened some place... he's circling looking for a place to land amongst the trees and power lines... and i'll tell you he was a heck of a pilot cause he did it.
next came the channel 9 copter circling and filming. they probably got a shot of mom and dad's roof and pool... they circled for a bit and then were gone.
next we heard the life flight take off again and sirens... lots of sirens... yep something really, really bad...
mom and i couldn't stand it anymore so off we went... walking towards where we knew the problem was. dad was worrying cause all he could think of was a shooting or something. nope not this time and yes we have shootings occasionally just like almost every other community on the planet...
we get to the end of mom's street and there is a huge crowd... i didn't know we had that many people living in the area... j/k i knew we were crowded it's really a great area and the houses are really inexpensive so just about anyone can afford to live here... oops back to the story...
it was a car crash... a really bad one... head on... both cars are trashed... there is a small sedan and one of those "racing" car types... no injured people... they are already gone so mom and i start chatting up some of the women there to find out what happened...
young, pregnant mom with two little ones in the car driving home... young man... driving off someplace in the opposite direction... he is driving really really fast, i know no surprise there, and crosses into her lane... smash, they collide...
life flight took out the young man and the pregnant mom needed to be cut out of her car... steering wheel jammed against her belly... both she and one of her little ones are put on stretchers and taken out in an ambulance... now i'm assuming they both went in one cause our ambulances are huge and can fit two stretchers... as for the other little one... not sure if they took that one with mommy or if someone knew them and took the child home...
crime tape all over the place wrapped around where the cars were sitting... what a horrible site... but it's a regular occurrence around here... usually you can hear the sirens in the morning at rush our, at lunch time and again at dinner time... you can practically set your clocks by them... it used to be a quiet area... well, my street is still really quiet. at least until all these small kids get their licences and start driving that is... lol but it is quiet... a street off another street which is rare in this area, down around a bend with woods all behind those of us lucky enough to build at the end of the loop...
as for the shootings i mentioned... nothing close to where mom and i live... well close to where i live... well one time...
guy goes to a pub... gets his check cashed at the bar... leaves and drives home but has company following... gets shot and robbed... can you say crime of opportunity??? who cashes their checks at a bar??? well, not this guy anymore and no he didn't die... the robber was a lousy shot and even a lousier robber... was a neighbor and was caught right away...
anyway, back to last night and why i didn't blog... mom gave me a ride home around 9 pm at which time i proceeded to clean and do laundry... remember, i just got home from being away for over 2 weeks... didn't finish what i had planned to clean until after midnight and by that time i was pooped... so i put emma's blanket over my clean sheets so she didn't get cat hair all over the bed and stretched out to spend some quality time with my kitty cat... she was thrilled as she missed me terribly and i was thrilled to be back in my own bed...
from then i don't remember much... ray came in and kissed me good morning when he got home from work at 5am... his alarm went off at 10:30 am so he could go play golf with dad and i am here... writing... something i'm finding i really like to do...
oh and no i didn't do any crafting... was busy... lol
maybe tonight i'll write again or maybe not... it depends on my mood... so keep checking in to see what all i've been up to... that is if you want to... lol
p.s. i love spell check... lol

My bags are packed, I'm ready to go...

So today I packed up most of my stuff so that when I get up in the wee hours of the morning all I have to do is ride to the airport and head home.
I can't wait to be back in my own house in my own bed with my sweetheart... I miss him something awful, course I knew I would, I always do.
I'm thrilled that Marc is able to get around some. Today he was down in his basement helping his neighbor work on the rooms down there. They are redoing the whole basement into different rooms. They have a game room, laundry room, sort of a small family/tv room and an office. The value of their house is going to go way up with all the work being done on it.
So my flight takes off at 9:30 am and I arrive in Florida around noon. Ray is picking me up. I can't wait to be near my craft room again. It's really hard not to be able to just go and make something if it gets in my head.
Like I took a gazillion pictures of Max, my granddog these past two weeks and I already have three double page spreads I want to do with some of them. I even have the titles all set for them... one dbl lo of a dog and his bone... one of him playing with my ddil and the other one of him eating his "ice cream"... I even kept the box that the ice cream came in for the layout... lol
It stinks when you have the pages in your head and you can't just go and work on them... Or like the swap I'm in and can't go work on it... I miss home... I can't wait to be home... I know what I'm doing tomorrow night... lol.... scrappin' wahoo...

My first dashboard blog

Okay so today I decided to start a blog on dashboard... Mostly because a couple of my friends in a Yahoo scrap booking group do it and well... it's fun to read theirs so I thought I would give it a go...
Today was a quiet lazy day... I'm still at my son's house in Massachusetts, helping take care of him since his accident playing softball... I found out that this was his first game ever in softball and it was his first time up at bat... Not too sure he should even try to make a career out of this sport... lol Though he is already talking about when he can play again, which upsets his wife to no end... She thinks he should try something less apt to hurt him... something safer... Well I was pretty sure softball wasn't up there in the list of dangerous sports until now... lol
So like I said... lazy day... I got up early... well early for me... 7:30something and made my coffee, turned on my laptop and sat down to read my e-mails from the day before. I'm obsessed with getting new e-mails... can't wait to read them, reply to them and find out what all my friends are up to... Not a lot of messages so that was a short task for me... oh well, maybe better tomorrow morning.
after coffee and e-mail i head into my room to get dressed and then into the kitchen to make breakfast for me and Marc... He doesn't want any so it's an easy morning... then it's put on my yahoo messenger and get in touch with my mom...
She and I im off and on during the day and call each other a couple times a day too... it's easier to do the iming because then dad doesn't interrupt us all the time with questions for me or comments for her to pass along to me... lol... though now he knows the sound of her fingers on the keyboard and does it just the same... lol he's so funny...
so with me away the computer and phone are the only ways we (mom and I) can keep in touch... and she really misses me... I miss her too...
This afternoon I took a little nap since I've not slept well since being here and when I got up I started the pork roast for dinner and waited for my daughter in law to get home from work to show me how she makes her little roasted potatoes cause they are so yummy...
I miss my sweetie and my home... it's strange how people get so used to their own place that leaving it for a visit trip or for a helpful trip like mine, you get lonely for home and when you are home you can't wait to go visit and see other people... Strange Huh???
But I do miss my own home... things where I want them, what I want and when without worrying about someone else... Knowing what I have to prepare a meal and where all the tools are to do so... How I like my food as apposed to trying to make something for someone else and praying that they will like it... then getting hurt feelings when it's an "okay"... and it's stuff you have made for that person the whole time he was growing up... being told that his wife is a great cook... implying that you aren't... boy I want to go home...
Soon... one more day... then it's on the plane and off to Florida... my own space, my home, my stuff, my sweetheart and my cat... I can't wait... though it will only be for a few weeks then it's off again for my annual trip north to visit with all my kids and grand boys... Do you think I can skip the week at my son's house since I'm here now??? Probably not... oh well... I'll make the best of it like I usually do... find the bright side of any situation... the good within the bad... that's me the eternal optimist.... lol
so I guess I've bored you all enough for tonight... I'll try to come up with something more exciting to write about tomorrow... lol
Later...
D