Tupperware

On a good note. I am now a Tupperware Consultant. I will have a website soon so you can buy online from me but a couple of things have to be fixed. Someone miss wrote some of my info while getting it so that I could become registered and so when I went to do my website I couldn't and so it has taken about a week to get fixed and still isn't but should be in a few more days. When I have my site I will post it and let you all know so that you can check it out. I hope you all do. I sold Tupperware about 15 years ago give or take and needed some replacement parts and decided why not try again.
Also the way things have been lately I haven't gotten much stitching done. I am still working on a couple of things but on Valentine's Day don told me that I never stitch anything for him anymore, lol, of course most of what I stitch for him he has just laying there but that's OK I am going to stitch a little something for his birthday which is coming up so we will see what happens. I am not going to say what it is because i do think that he occasionally reads my blog and if I put it here he would definitely read it, LOL.

Been Awhile

Well it has been a bit since I posted last. Things have been a bit out of sorts since about the 17th of March.On March 17th Don finally had his hernia surgery and all went well. On the same day Gretchen had her appointment for setting up her surgery date for her Thoracic Outlet Syndrome all went well at the appointment however her father declined to go with her because"they will just tell us the same thing they told us last time". Ummm so!! It has been a year since the last time they were going to do it. Things happen and things change but I digress. Leaving from the appointment she got a bit lost and had to stop for directions. Doesn't usually happen with her she has a good sense of direction but the directions she got from her step mom didn't take into account some construction. OK happens however she got lost in downtown Baltimore, MD in a not so good part of town and she was the only white person. Can be a bit uncomfortable which it was but she stopped at a BP gas station, a busy place, to get her directions. Smart thinking except when she got into her car to get back on her way her car wouldn't start. Battery worked, lights and stuff on but wouldn't start and it didn't make any noise. UH OH. She was stuck. Called roadside assistance and they sent a tow truck only to have her towed to Pepboys. Cool except the pepboys they were sending her too was closed down and not even there anymore. The tow truck driver got her car to his garage but couldn't do anything until the next morning. OK she had to get a motel. He got her into a Quality Inn so that was good however she ended up being there 2 nights. They fixed something that wasn't wrong told her they put the parts in the trunk and didn't so she doesn't have them, wonderful. She got to my moms but when she left got about and hour and 15 minutes away and the car did the same thing it did in Baltimore. She was however where someone from my family could get to her and this time the insurance company had her towed to a dealership. Took 2 days again but the car got fixed and it was the alternator like we thought originally. She is back at her dorm and fine but this is a spring break to talk about. She is stronger for it. However there are several things that really pissed me off. First her father should have been with her in Baltimore. If I lived there I would have been. In a years time things change so especially with major surgery someone should have been there. I don't care if she is 22 years old it is a scary process for anyone. Plus had he been with her the situation would not have snowballed to what it did. The proper thing would have been fixed and the rest wouldn't have happened. Also I really really hate people that take advantage of people. It is disgusting and just shows what kind of lowlife you are. Come on a 22 year old young lady in college who needs every bit of money she has and then some. Bastard. OK sorry if the bad word offends anyone but that is nicer than what I really wanted to say. But now she is safe and home so that is what counts and I won't go into other feelings concerning how this got to where it ended up. I will have a stroke or something. I just figured I had better do a post so everyone knows I haven't forgotten about them.

In the Frame

Here it is in the frame. I think it looks pretty good. I have a couple more pictures I want to get hung up on the walls here but I have to get them framed. I can't find ready made frames for them because of the sizes so I will have to take them somewhere. Hopefully I will be able to get this office whipped into shape. I guess we will see what happens. talk to you all later!

Stuff for the office

Well I thought it would be nice to make something for my office. This only took me 2 days. It was simple. I thought it would be a nice way to say thanks to my customers when they leave my office. What do you think? I put it in a frame this morning and hung it on my door. I didn't get a picture of it yet. I will get one today and post it later. I like it. Will talk to you all soon. Love you guys!

UFO Projects

Well I got one of my unfinished projects done yesterday. I started this back in 1995. I don't know why I didn't finish it back then but it is done now. I always liked this and believe that it is true. This one says Lord, Help me to remember that nothing can happen today that you and I can't handle.
I have another one I found that I am not sure why I didn't finish either but am going to be working on too. I am sure there are allot more too but haven't come across them yet. I am not really a "serial starter" but I do have some I should finish. And I will.
I know some of you are going to hate me for this but it has been in the 70's the last couple of days. It has been so nice and making everyone not want to be at work. Now watch it will be yucky this weekend. I hope not but I hope the weather gets better for you all back east. You have been getting some really bad weather again and it is just about spring.
Timothy is back and doing good. It is so nice to have him back here. I hope that I will be able to see him soon but I know for awhile he will be really busy getting back to work and readjusting to being back here. I feel better that he is back and will feel even better when his wife gets back as well since she is still over there somewhere. Well I have a few more things to do before I can go home so I should probably do them and maybe I can sneak out early. Thanks for stopping by, I love you guys.

Day 12 Finish and IMPORTANT NEWS

First off, Welcome Home Timothy!!!! They landed this morning at Hunter and it will be about 2 hours from now that they will be at Ft. Stewert for their Welcome Home Ceremony. Thankfully they are home safe and sound. I am so excited and wish that I could be there. Unfortunately it hasnot worked out that way but the ladies at Ft. Stewert have been fantastic at letting me know what is up.
Ok, now secondly. I finished Day 12. The series is finished and looks great now all I have to do is decide for sure what to do with it and how to display it. This last day went so fast I could not believe it. It looks great too! Well for now I have to go I am too hyped up to put all I want to down but wanted to at the least get this uploeaded for all to see. Thanks for stopping by and I will post again soon. I love you guys!

Insane

For those of you who know me you know that I live in a large city of about 750,000 people and we will be getting aproximately 30,000 more over the next few years but that isn't the insane part. Nor is it that this is the second post in as many days. I have just gotten done with my lunch and I already vented in my blog on myspace but am still extremely irritated by the fact that right up the street from me is a high school, which is normal enough. What isn't atleast to me is that this high school needs to have crossing guards for the students to cross the street at lunch time and that they also have to have the traffic control devices stop traffic in all directions for atleast 1 cycle of the lights because they have not yet grasp the concept of the walk and don't walk lights. Now we as children learn how to cross the street or atleast we are supposed to. I do not understand how these kids can be so (for lack of a better word) stupid. Just today while going to get my lunch did I again as just about every day had to deal with these students who did not look in any direction except in front of them which had they opened their eyes would have seen that the don't walk hand which by the way was steady not blinking was there. What did they do you ask, well stepped right off the curb in front of me. Now since i deal with this on a daily basis I knew to stop even though I had a green light because they do this every single day. And just a half a block away you have crossing guards that have to blow a whistle and hold up a stop sign in the middle of the street so that these same students can cross the street because they apparently did not learn this skill while they were children. Now this is a daily happening and nothing is done about the fact that these kids jaywalk, step in front of cars while in and out of the crosswalk. It doesn't appear to matter to them when or how they do this and rarely do you see the police do anything about this. I also know that sometimes that the police feel that there is something more important than this however is it going to take someone getting hit by a car before they feel it is important? The can issue tickets to these kids and maybe if they or their parents had to pay one or two of these maybe they would stop and think, however I doubt it. Now I am also not so old that I do not remember being their age and feeling invincible and yes mom I do remember doing this once or twice in my life. It is just insane to me that they need crossing guards in high school to cross the street. Ok I think I feel a little better, lol. Thanks for reading you guys and I love ya.

Finished Day 11

I finished the Eleven Pipers Piping. For some reason this one seemed to go slow for me. Not sure why but it is done. I think it turned out rather nicely. I am on to day 12. i got it started actually yesterday but found I am missing one color, lol. I will go get that today on my way home from work. I checked when I started and was sure I either had or purchased all the colors for the 12 days. Don't know how I missed this one but oh well. Michaels has floss on sale this week for 4 for $1.00. I will go there and get it hopefully they will have the color or I will have to go to Hobby Lobby. this last Saturday they had the floss on sale for the same price, 4 for $1.00 but don't know if they still do. I have such a list of what I want to do whenI get done with these and don't know what I am going to do next. I am thinking that I may start the one my daughter in law gave me this idea for. She just did one that I thought was adorable and actually so did my son. It is by Pinn and it is 3 kittens, Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil. However being a cross stitcher that doesn't mean that is the one I will do and being a cross stitcher I have a list so much longer than I have time to do. My mother and I were even talking about that yesterday on the phone. Saying that someone will be going through my stuff for years afterward going yup she sure had a lot of stuff she was going to do and of course never got to. I guess I am a true cross stitcher and crafter, LOL. Well it is time for lunch and I have a couple of things I want to do before Irun out and get it so I will go for now. I will let you know when I get day 12 finsihed. love you guys.

Day 10 Finish and more

As you can see I got Day 10 finished. 10 Lords a Leaping. It seemed to go pretty quick. I am working on Day 11. I have already had to frog a bunch in it though. Needless to say I wasn't to happy. I think I must have been kind of tired when I was stitching and thats why. I will be done with the 12 Days soon though. I have been carrying a small project in my purse for when I have sit around a wait. It is an Irish Blessing. It is just a small 5 x 7 project that fits nicely in my purse. I also have in my to do pile one that my DIL did. She told me about it and I mentioned it to my son and he said it was quite cute too so I checked it out at www.123stitch.com it is See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil Kittens. It is adorable and I plan on putting that one in my purse for my waiting around stuff as soon as I finish the irish Blessing one. I am trying to get all my I really want to do stuff done. We will see how that goes. And now for the yucky stuff that has been going on. Last Monday evening I was at Walmart. I got in my car to leave and a lady backed into me and took off. I could not believe that she did that. Well it just so happened that the Walmart security guy, you know the one that drives around in the parking lot, was at the end of the row that I was in. I went down to where he was and told him that person ran into me and took off. Well off he goes after her. She comes driving back to where I was about 30mph through the parking lot. No wonder she hit someone. I don't know if she saw the security guy chasing her down or what but she gets out of her suburban and comes up to me and says "my son said I hit you! Did I hit you, I didn't see you" its like really??? Well thankfully it was today that my car went inot the shop and the insurance company was great about it but what surprised me was this was a Major's wife and he was in the car when she did this. I didn't sownload the photos from that. It wasn't too bad really but still. It really is a small dent about the size of a softball and of course all you could see on her vehicle because those things are tanks, was some red paint from my Amigo. The reason I know they are tanks is because I used to have one. It was a good vehicle but didn't need anything that big anymore. My oldest daughter found out last night she is allergic to cocoanut. She was drinking a virgin pina colada and had an allergic reaction and the only thing it could be is the cocanut becuase she has had the other stuff that was in it before. Poor thing. She can't seem to win. She had to go to the ER but she is ok. They gave her some medicine and she is okay now thank goodness. The poor thing has way to many food allergies. Well I have to go for now. Thanks for stopping by to read my stuff. I love you guys.

The Weekend

Well yesterday was Friday and I had a migraine. I didn't want to take my medicine because sometimes the migraine meds make me feel drunk. just what I need a customer to come in and think their Insurance Agent is drunk. That would be a good one, lol. Well I got home and when Don came we decided to go for a walk. We are trying to walk and get some exercise. I was hoping that when we got back that the fresh air would help well it didn't so I took some medicine ans sure enough it made me feel drunk. I layed down for awhile and slept for like an hour but wanted to get up so that I could watch Moonlight. Well it wasn't on dam it. It figures. I like vampire shows. I got up this morning and still had a little bit of the headache but we went and got some groceries and I found some cotton candy flavored milk. I haven't tried it yet but I will tomorrow. Price's makes it for breast cancer awareness. I will let you know how it tastes. i will take a picture and post it so you guys can check it out. It is even pink. Well not much else is going on tonight so I will close for now. Thanks for checking in and I love you guys.

Day 9 Finish

Well I got day 9 finished. I think it is looking good. Only 3 days to go and I am going to be starting day 10 probably tonight. It has been cold here so I have been in the mood to do these projects and I hope to do some Christmas stockings this year as well. None of my kids has one anymore their father and stepmother's family doesn't do the stocking thing which bums me out plus with my son being married he isn't there so he wouldn't have one either. He said he would like me to do one for him so I will and of course the girls will want them if their brother gets one. Anyone with children knows how that goes even when the kids get older, LOL.Hopefully I will be able to do everything I want to this year. Lately I have been in the stitching mood so hopefully it will keep up. I guess we will see. Since I am at work right now I will sign off from here before it starts to go crazy just because I am in the middle of something I really enjoy. Love you guys.

Day 8 Finish

As you can see last night I finished day 8. It turned out rather nicely I think. Now I can get started on day 9. I did have to change the blue. I couldn't get the one it was asking for so i got as close as I could. I don't think that anyone would have known but I thought I would mention it anyway, lol. I like it. At the rate I am going I should be done with all 12days by Christmas 2008. Just kidding it will be alot sooner but I seem to go in waves of getting things accomplished. I hope to get more stitching done this year than last year. My list of to do projects keeps growing and growing as I am sure everyone else's does too. Well that is all for now I will write more soon. I promise. Love you guys.

A Finish

Well I finally got got Day 7 finished. For some reason this was hard for me to get done but I finally did it. I have started day 8 and am looking forward to getting it done. Only 4 days left in the series. I am about 1/4 of the way done with day 8. I started it on Sunday. This one seems to be just going right along. However as I was just going right along I discovered that one of my colors just disappeared into thin air. needless to say I was not happy. Color 647. I was very frustrated because I had it and used it on some of the other days, it is just gone so this afternoon after work I am going to go get a few skeins so I can work on it somemore. I hate not having what I need especially if I know I had it. If that makes sense. Also what do you think of my tree I had for Christmas? We were in PA and Upstate NY celebrating with my family and we didn't have a tree so I got one. It was small but it worked, LOL. Oh well. I had a good Christmas and New Year and hope you did too.
Love you guys!

Happy New Year

Well here it is January 1, 2008. Where did this year go? I still haven't finished the 12 Days patterns. Someone asked me where I got them from. If you email me again I will let you know about how to get the patterns you are looking for. I accidentally deleted the email that you sent me before I could get the info to you. I am about finished with Day 7 though. I am not real thrilled with it but that's OK. When it is done I will post the picture. The colors are light for the material I am using. I should be done with it in the next day or so.
I know so many people make New Year's Resolutions but I am not going to do it this year. I never follow through and so there are a couple of things I want to do and I will try and do them but I am not going to say this is what I need to do because then it probably won't get done so why set myself up for disappointment?!
Christmas at home was great. I had a really great time. I wish I could have seen my daughter Melissa but because of her job which she is really liking and doing very well at she couldn't come. I will make sure to see her next time. Hopefully Tim will be home in Feb. I am very excited and hope to be able to see him in the next few months. He was able to call his dad on Christmas Eve and I am glad he was finally able to talk to them. I finally was able to chat with him on yahoo we haven't been able to while I was back East because the computers I had access too don't have yahoo chat and so we couldn't. He sounded pretty good but I think something is up that he isn't telling me. Maybe he will I guess I will see about that.
It snowed the night before we were supposed to leave and we got several inches. I just kept watching the snow come down. I love watching the snow. I wasn't worried about being stuck but Don was. I was kind of like oh well if we get stuck and I know I should have been more worried about maybe not getting back here but I wasn't at all. I know that must be terrible but I don't really care. I wouldn't have minded staying but on the other hand I know I needed to get back to my office which I will be in tomorrow. Oh joy, lol.
Well other than all that not much is happening so I will go for now. Hope you all had a good New Year's Eve. Love you guys!!!

Got here

We got here Tuesday and our part of the trip came off without a hitch however Gretchen's didn't quite. We were afraid we might get stuck in Philadelphia because of weather but thankfully we didn't. Poor Gretchen had a rough one. Her step-mom put her on the bus at Hagerstown, MD and it took her to Baltimore and she got stuck there from 10:30 until 5:00, her bus was supposed to leave at 3:25. When it didn't show another girl she met and was traveling with said that it wasn't coming and so Gretchen went to the window to ask and they were like well I guess it isn't running or something. Well Gretchen of course didn't accept that answer and said you have radios why don't you call them and find out what is going on and this was at about 3:40. The bus driver said we are leaving DC right now. The lady told Gretchen that it would take about 40 minutes to get to Baltimore, of course that didn't happen because they hit rush hour. At about 5 they left Baltimore and so by the time she got to Harrisburg it was an hour past her connecting bus to Williamsport. so here Don and I are driving to Harrisburg at 8 pm it took 2 hours to get there and 2 hours to get back so it was a very long day all around. Well we are all here and doing fine so that is the important thing. Unfortunately Timothy can't be here because he is in Iraq and Melissa can't because she just got a job and of course can't take the time off. Oh well. I have to go finish my Christmas shopping so I will update again in a day or so. Love you guys and Merry Christmas!

Another Finish

I had been working on this off and on for a quite a while. It was what I worked on while waiting at appointments. All that was done was the frog. Sitting while waiting for Don to have his scan done on Friday I got he briefcase, clock, exit sign and the wording done. We waited along time at the hospital as you can guess. I am going to have this framed and hang it in my office. I think it is cute. I am waiting for Don to ask me to do one for his office. His ladies are usually out the door at 5 on the nose, LOL. I am back working on the 12 days scissor pattern and am doing day 7 now. I am taking them with me on my trip back home for the Christmas holiday. I will let you know how they come along. I will also try and update this over the holidays if I can get access to a computer. If not, Hope you all have a great holdiday and yes I am saying this.......MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!! Love you guys!

Update

Well my boyfriend ended up not having the surgery. He called the Dr. to ask about a couple of things. He was concerned because of his sleep apnea and he felt he was getting a cold. Well, the Dr told him that he wasn't going to do the surgery because he saw something in the EKG that they did as a pre-op test and to not do anything at all not even go on a diet or walk as exercise before he went to his family Dr. Of course we got terribly concerned and we managed to get an appointment for the next day. Our family Dr sent us to a cardiologist. It seems he has an abnormal heart beat and a slightly enlarged heart on one side. He went for a stress test yesterday so we won't hear anything until after the holidays but we were told he could walk for exercise and our family Dr started him on a diet kind of like what I had been trying to get him to do. They say at this point not to worry that this may just be something he has had for years but still. Until after the holidays we will both be worried even if neither one of us says so. I will update as soon as we hear something, meanwhile we leave on Tuesday and they had to give him a special letter so that when we go through the airport security we won't have any problems because one of the medicines they used in the test has a radioactive quality that can set things off in security, this ought to be fun, LOL. I'll let you know if there is any excitement there.
If I don't get a chance to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS!! before then let me wish it now.

The Holidays

Well it is almost Christmas and this year I am going home to spend it with my family. I am excited. I don't get to do that and haven't spent the holidays with them in awhile. I will get to see snow at Christmas. YEAH!!!!!

This is a picture of my poor tree at my office. I am not having one at home this year since we are going to be gone. At my office though I figured I probably should.

My boyfriend is having surgery tomorrow so I won't be in my office at all probably. I know he is going to be fine, however he is freaking out. He has only once before had any kind of an operation and so he is uncomfortable. plus he has sleep apnea and is overweight so he is a little apprehensive about everything. I will let you know how that goes. Hope you have a great week.

Thanksgiving

Here it is Thanksgiving 2007. This is the first one in years that I have not had to do anything. Don took me to the Wyndham for their Thanksgiving Brunch. I ate so much if someone poked me just right I think I would have popped. This was a very strange one though. None of the kids were here to celebrate with. Timothy is in Iraq and so is his wife although she would more than likely have gone to her mom's if she had been in the states. Gretchen and Melissa are at my mom's in Upstate NY with the rest of my family. I haven't talked to them yet to know how it went but it was going to be a big thing. Don's kids are all gone so at least there was no drama there. Usually there is a family fight when everyone is here so I guess that was a good thing. It was nice to not have to clean up though. I will say that much but I think we are going to buy a turkey and cook it so that Don can have his leftovers. That is cool with me I like turkey and will cook it but it will need to be a small on since there is only the 2 of us in the house now. It is so quiet in here tonight it is strange but I guess that is OK. I am looking forward to going to my mother's for Christmas this year. We are all supposed to get together get drunk and sing karaoke. I am not singing Lady Marmalade this year. I can't sing it sober it is even worse drunk. We will so how it all goes and see if everyone cooperates. The whole family is supposed to be there so it will be good. Well Timothy won't because of where he is but the rest is. I hope it works out. Well I guess this is all for now. I will update again soon. I am trying to finish working on the scissors patterns and hopefully I will. I will let you all know. Bye for now.

Its been awhile

I realized that i hadn't updated in awhile. It has been a little strange and I do have a couple of things to share but I am not going to share them all at once, LOL. Well for one Melissa is coming for a visit for 2 weeks tomorrow. I am excited. I haven't seen her in a while. Gretchen had been here for the summer and that was nice but now I get to see D2. It is still so hot here during the day. Also someone sent the frog to me and I had Day 7 almost finished when I discovered I had to frog most of it. Talk about being a little pissed off. I will get that one finished soon. I also have a bunch of stuff to get in the mail and can't seem to get to the post office. Every time I try something happens. Tim is still over in Iraq and won't be home for awhile. We are going to spend Christmas at my mom's this year and I wish that Timothy could be there but he can't. It seems that we all want to get toasted and do karaoke and everyone knows that they are in for a treat where I am concerned. I can't carry a tune in a basket so it is a good thing we are going to have a few drinks, LOL. Well that is all for now I will share more pretty quick I will try and keep up more. Love you guys!!