tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58812032009-11-20T20:09:45.310-05:00My life, views, & doings. For comments, suggestions, etc please email me at sewicked@gmail.comSewickedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01687151840720911769noreply@blogger.comBlogger762125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5881203.post-52332349178372301462009-11-20T17:09:00.000-05:002009-11-20T17:09:47.124-05:00

It's been a long week. The symptoms of my cold changed; not unusual for me. My sinuses started draining. I took a day off to rest, again, hoping to kick the cold. Didn't work. Now I have the sniffles and a sore throat. Can I just say 'oh. yay.' Gaelic: I lost my flash cards earlier this week. I was up to about 50. I have now started over. On the bright side, with what I learned from the 1st

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Does that sound odd? My stepmom has an appointment this afternoon, here in town. She and Dad plan to stick around afterwords to have supper with me. Not dinner. Dinner is eaten at midday, at least by locals. We don't know where we'll be eating yet, Dad made some joke about me cooking. Friday, I'll be driving down to spend the weekend with my mom. It's going to be a family filled week. I'll take

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I'm been making blog entries for..awhile. And this weekend I got my 1st spam comment. Huh. It's a milestone, of sorts. Television: This weekend, Chris and I watched the History's channel special "Search for the real Wolfman." It was broadcast before Halloween but it took us awhile to watch. They had a retired police detective & a cryptozoologist examining the case of The Beast of Gévaudan(

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I'm only working a half-day tomorrow, so that we can drive to Mace. It's only about an hour away so we'll have time to get there before the 1st round of games. I'll be playing Witch Hunter all weekend; specifically my French scholar Solange-Marie, aka almost useless in a fight. Nice thing about Witch Hunter, despite her nigh-onto-total lack of combat effectiveness, she's a very useful character.

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Nightmares, ughI almost had one last night. I don't remember anything about it, thankfully, and I managed to wake up before it got really frightening. Unfortunately, as I have learned from past experience, I had to stay awake for a few minutes or when I went back to sleep, I would drop right back into the nightmare, as if I had never interrupted it. And it's a lot harder to wake up the 2nd time.

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More Photos of Fair & some of my own crafts & contest alerttatting & ~knitting & my HallooBoobies entry [cleavage alert]Not my contest, someone else'sFangs, Fur & Fey are having a belated 3rd anniversary contestGo to their site for instructions. Grand prize is a Kindle. Whoot!Now to Picture funRebecca/Tatmom03's cross - burgundy DMC perle 8. I start with a chain at the top. I leave a picot (using

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NC State Fair & Tatting goodies Warning: this post is picture heavyActually this is a jacket that I did years ago. It's a man's jacket with calico roses appliques.Stump of the tree that used to shade my bus stop. Rides at the fair, reflected in the mill pondState Fair tatted entries (or entries with tatting) I don't know who made any of these. But I like looking at them. It's hard to see, but

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I'm Baaaaaack, Did Ya Miss Me?Or yes, my home internet has gone wonky and unreliable. That means that I am only online while at or near work. Since my employers have expectations, that really cuts down on the amount of time that I can work on my blog or read the blogs of others. I feel dreadfully, dreadfully out of touch.I have finished tatting two more of Rebecca/Tatmom03's crosses; one burgundy

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Breast Cancer Awareness Monthaka Save The Tatas! Check out this blog; loved today's story. Really made me tear up. I've lost family to cancer, but not to breast cancer. Nonetheless, I check ever month & my mammogram earlier this year came back clear.Gaming: More jokes last night about my character's inability to use tech. She broke her communicator, hoping that would summon her teammates. In our

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Banned Book WeekWhat book that has been challenged, have you read?I've read several of them; some because they were required in some class or other and some for pleasure. Some I've liked & re-read, several times. Some I couldn't stand (I still hate Lord of the Flies, partially because of my own expectations before I read it).Family stuff:I went to see my mom this past weekend. We had a nice visit

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Book Meme & Old Movies'We encourage you to be creative with this! Please choose one or two questions to answer or try to answer all the questions in five words or less. Or choose a picture to answer a question! Brevity is the goal of today!'1. Do you snack while you read? Only if I'm hungry2. Do you tend to mark your books as you read, or does the idea of writing in books horrify you? Um,

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Trip to Mom's et al (with pictures)I should have taken a picture of the succulent, probably a cactus, that I gave Mom for her birthday, but I forgot. Of course, I needed before & after & after photos. I bought the plant at the Flea Market, and it was sort of a rosette, just about the size of my palm, perfect. I left it out overnight, in the rain, figuring what could be better than Mother Nature's

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Migraine fun - not so muchA cold front moved in last Sunday, at about 11:12 pm. Guess how I know? Yep, steep drop in barometric pressure = I'se has a migraine. It took two hours for my Excedrine migraine to kick enough that I could put my head down on the pillow. Yes, my head hurt so much that the weight of it on a pillow was too much pressure.Monday, I still had it, as well as less than 5 hours

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Great WeekendOn Saturday, I was driving down to see Felicia *wave hi* and I was about 15 minutes away when I got hit by rain. Not just any rain; this was a frog strangler.Ever been in a summer Southern (US) storm? People do pull off to the side of the road to wait for it to weaken or pass. Some just slow down and turn on their hazard lights.If you've never been in one, you may think, 'how silly,

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Weather, health & stuff...I was originally scheduled to go see my mom this weekend. Chris got some bad (but not dire) health news & wanted me to stick around. An old high school friend (at our age, it's getting to the 'old' friend stage) is in town (60 miles away counts, right) from California & I wanted to see her, too.Mom forgot that I was coming & was planning to go visit her sister. She went

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I hope this is not menopauseIt's a little early, but not too early for me to be starting menopause. But frankly, I feel like I am having PMS 28 days a month. I expect menopause may be *ahem* less than fun; but if this is a preview, then it will be hell. For me & for everyone around me.Tatting: I've been working on my edging, from Big Book of Tatting. I'm only on the 2nd side, with the 1st side

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Temperamental MeEver had a day, or a span of time (a second, a minute, an hour, a week, whatever), when what you really wanted to do was throw a full-blown, screaming hissy fit? Or is that just me? Maybe you're asking, 'Arlene, what has put you in such a foul mood?'To which the answer is, 'I have very little idea.' There have been the usual picayune annoyances (oh, the reports are ready today?

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Weekend with MomI'm off to see Mom this weekend. I'll drive down tonight & come back on Sunday. I need to make certain that I have the things for her; chopsticks, video tape, etc.I started this on Friday...you see how far I got.Anyway, the visit would have gone pretty well; the traffic wasn't too icky and although I got there later than I planned, I made it before full dark. Saturday morning,

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Tatting Pictures, Finally!Here's the brown edging that I did. It's from the Big Book of Tatting by Darlene Polachic. It's the white trefoil edging on p. 9. That's also the label from the thread, a ball that I picked up at a thrift shop.And here's the purple & white scrunchy. I forgot to pack it this weekend. I don't know what I'm going to tat when I'm brain dead.

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Long, Long TripWith bathroom & lunch breaks, we expected to reach our hotel around 4pm. We got here about 7 pm. Yeah, we hit traffic that bad. One was 45 minutes or so for an accident. It was a single car and the people were standing around (with a police officer), so no one was hurt it looked like. It just backed up traffic.I've finished my Shadowrun Missions character. Chris's spreadsheet

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Gaming This WeekendI'll be playing quite a bit of Living Forgotten Realms and one session of Shadowrun Missions. The Witch Hunter game was cancelled because everybody (but me & one other guy) had already played what was being offered (not a lot of selection right now).Problem: I haven't finished writing my Shadowrun character. I still need gear, cyberware & contacts. Making these decisions is

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I forgot the good deedWhile talking to one of the tea people, she noticed my bracelet & I told her where I'd gotten it. She'd never heard of hungersite.com, ecologyfund.com, care2.com or Kiva.org. I told her about them and she wrote them down. So I've spread the word, and she'll tell other people.

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Good Deeds & TeaChris & Rosemary took me to use the gift certificate for tea that she gave me for my birthday. First, we stopped by Natural Neighbors & I bought some lavender pump soap. She also gave me a sliver of soap in a small baggie, to try as an alternative to using commercial handsoaps. It does work, sort of. But I still want to try soap powder or flakes.On our way to Tea-rific Spices, I

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Holiday Tomorrow!From work, anyway. Saturday, of course, is the actual Independence Day. I am profoundly relieved. I feel a great need for a vacation.I have a couple errands to run and other than that, well, some household chores.Tonight, at one point I looked up and said, 'is the AC running rough, or is that rain?' It was rain, heavy rain. Finally. After rain threatening scattered showers for a

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Murder of CrowsI saw it again yesterday. I think that if I lived in one of the places that they've been around so regularly, I'd be worried. 6 crows is enough for a murder, right?I was running late so I drove to the nearest park & ride to catch my bus yesterday. I'm glad that I did. A couple of the other people already there, pointed out a rainbow overhead. I just don't see enough of those, so

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