I canNOT believe this... I had the most beautiful, touching, wonderful 1st post to this new thread and "POOF!" -- it's gone!

Maybe it's the cyber-world telling me it's time to get to bed... good night, my lovelies!!

:thumbup: Hi PAMELA!!!!!

Hey Judy, I forgot to tell you that I made your Turkey soup yesterday and it was a huge hit with the family. The house smelt so good.

Hi girls!

Welcome home Pamela, take some time to unwind and relax a bit--but hurry back, we missed ya!!

Judy, I ended up at the Dr.'s today. We met up with Manda and Kinsey for lunch....actually brunch, because my granddaughter wanted pancakes! And the whole time I am eating my salad, my throat felt itchy. I actually caught myself, not chewing things quite as well as I should wanting to use the roughage to scratch my throat! So I went in to see if they would give me a RX for a new Epi pen, without waiting to be seen since I was afraid the itchy was hives invading my throat. I could feel them in my cheeks, on the inside. Well he wanted to look at me, so he finally fit me in, and guess what? I have hives! DUH! So I have a new epi pen, and am working through my diet, and all, but I KNOW it is likely something I will never figure out. I had them before and we finally deduced they were stress related. I fought them for months. Luckily not to a point of hospitalization. But right now I have some between my toes, and I am a bitchy, whiny, mad woman!

Got Mom's shopping done. Did a couple of things of mine. But everything I wanted, they did not have. And I was impatient and not in the greatest of moods to shop!

Brunch was great though.....doing my best to get past being angry/upset with my DD. I felt quite blessed to be there with my Mom, DD, and granddaughter. When my DD was about Kinsey's age, my Mom, my Grandma and I all went to Disneyland together. I would love to do it with Kinsey, but my Mom is not up to keeping up like my Grandma was. She has fibromyalgia, and is in pain all too often.

I have Turkey/green chile casserole in the oven, cornbread in the oven, and Rick just called that he is going to be late.....grrrrrrr

Tracy--well both Tracy's, and anyone else who might be interested....Becky and I found and printed Letters from Santa on line last night. There are several places you can do it with several different wording options. It is a thing where you fill in the name, what they want, something they are doing---like starting school, or having a good grade, etc. On some you can have friends or pets mentioned. It mentions your town, and for them to go to bed early and to leave snacks for him and the reindeer! And they ask what your child ask for so it can be mentioned. Then when you fill in the answers, it formats the letter with their name in the header, and all the info. Then when you finish, one even has a place you can print your envelope with a "postmark" of the Northpole, and then just sneak it in the mailbox. But in cases like Kinsey, she is too young to even know about postmarks.

Anyway, we ended up using them off of 2 different sites--one has a special one for kids who have seen Santa at the mall. Just search for FREE letters from Santa--you will find them. They even have funny ones about being naughty for adults!

No snow here.....good thing I am not waiting for that snow to kiss Rick!! LOL But massive wind again. Ripped my door panel off my car door. I was in the van, and when I parked at Target, I opened the door and the wind gusted and I grabbed the door handle, and it popped those little plastic like screws out,and the panel come loose! The door is upholstered to match the interior, and has all the controls for the locks, all the windows, the mirrors----everything on it! Rick is gonna be so happy.....

Well I am off to take dinner out of the oven, even though no one is gonna eat yet!

Catch y'all after while!

Kat

Hey gals

i don't know if you all know how much you all mean to me

Thank you for all just being you!

Hey Judy, I forgot to tell you that I made your Turkey soup yesterday and it was a huge hit with the family. The house smelt so good.

Kewl... I just gave the rest of ours to DS Joe and family. We got overdosed on Turkey noodle soup.. lol But it sure was good!

Ahhhhhhhhh hot tub felt wonderful tonight, even with the snow falling. It sure relaxed all the muscles overworked by the shoveling today.

I'm headed to bed. Hospital shift tomorrow and then relaxing till rehearsal in the evening. Everyone have a great evening. Sleep well..

Morning

today is gall bladder dr day. Of course i'm so bloated on up to 208 so with clothes on i'm sure it will be 210 when i get there... i'm so disgusted with myself

Tracy, is that how you did it... oatmeal and soup? what kind of soup? although i don't know if i could even choke down oatmeal right now, just because of how i feel

Judy, i love hot tubs in the snow....

Have a good day

I am going to repaint my living room since it is off the kitchen...

What colors are your living rooms???? I am not 100% sure which way to go and would love to hear what you guys have

I also found a really great chocolate/green combo when i was looking and want that for my room

Thanks

Good Morning,

I woke up early on my own but the alarm was set to get me up anyway. Sis has a doc appointment and than I will take her to the grocery store. When I get home it's a quick nap and than work later this evening.

Other than that not much going on around here.

Jenn, My living room is painted white. I than can change my color scheme anytime I want to. Pillows, candles, throw blankets, knick-knacks etc. etc. Good luck at the docs today and keep us posted.

Everyone have a great daya nd don't forget it's CTCD.

Tracy, is that how you did it... oatmeal and soup? what kind of soup? although i don't know if i could even choke down oatmeal right now, just because of how i feel

How I what...lost weight so well? Hell no! As a matter of fact that is when I started gaining again because I could not get anything down except junk food...so that is what I ate all the time with my soup and oatmeal. I hope things go well for you today! Give us an update ASAP ok?!

Is Dec 14th too late to mail my secret santa gift? How well does the mail work during Christmas?

Good Morning, Violets..

It's still a winter wonderland outside. I slept in til 8:45 so don't know if schools are closed or not. We got another inch of snow last night, but I don't have to shovel today. My arms are sore this morning from the shoveling yesterday. But at least the hot tub was relaxing last night.

Jenn..Good luck to you at the docs today. My living room is eggshell white simply because it's so small. Any dark color would make it smaller. DD has a huge living room and their walls are chocolate and beige off of a robin's egg blue diningroom.

Tracy.. mail is usually not too bad and Dec. 14th should be fine for mailing. I say that knowing I already have my Secret Santa gifts.. :biggrin:

Off to get dressed for my hospital shift. Will check back later. Everyone have a great day!!!

Good morning! Woke up and it was a little chilly this morning... Ice on my car, yuck...

Got my tree up last night but Juan came home really late so we didn't get any of the lights up. Got my laundry sorted and ready to wash but didn't end up doing a single load. Both my sisters came over and we ended up just gabbing and watching shows on tv...

I feel like I'm so behind! I've gotten just one Christmas present. ONE. I still have like 37 to go, LOL! I don't want to wait till the last minute like always! I've got tons to do every week and never seem to find the time...

LUCKILY, i've got no weddings planned this month...

Jenn - I had my gallbladder taken out because of the pain I was going through. It's a pretty painless procedure and I only needed a weekend to heal.

Oh my living room is painted a warm apricot color. It's actually called Aztek brick. It's a huge living area with 12 foot ceilings and I needed a pretty warm color to make it cozy...

My living room is a deep eggplant purple color.

I am so tired, I have such a hard time getting up for work these days. Doesn't help that Russell won't let me turn the heat up past 68 and he keeps our ceiling fan on. I'm like a popsicle every morning.

Still trying to defrost with personal heater at work.. brr.

Morning all!

Fire is going, and Kinsey and I have had breakfast, but I just cannot get the gumption up to do anything at all. I know it is the sedative effect of the antihistimines, that I am taking for the hives....which are still popping up in wierd places, then itch and swell, and finally go away, only to appear in a dozen other areas. Right now my worst break out is under my left ear, down towards my jaw, itching like mad!

Wind is still blowing, trying to get a storm in to us, but it wimps out, we are still getting into the 60's during the day, setting all kinds of high temp records! Supposed to be 10 degrees colder tomorrow. The nights get well below freezing, so the fire is going....just a wierd winter so far! I mean I know it isn't even technically winter....but you know what I mean!!!

A couple of hours of work, and the stocking will be done as far as I can take it at this point. Not tons left to do, but delicate work. Santa's face has to be done, and it is all stitched, satin stitched cheeks, and eyes, small close work. I also have some embroider work to do to complete his belt. Then I just wait for a name, and stitch it on, and sew the back on and hang it with the rest.

Kinsey and I are going to get some more Christmas put up today. Then this afternoon we are going to bake some cookies, to take to the neighbors next door and to send home with her, I cannot have them in the house!

Tonight I am going to have Rick move my trunk and get the tree put into the sled/stand. Then I will put the beads and garland I use on, and wait for Kinsey tomorrow to come and put on ornaments.

Which takes me to Thursday, and Rick is off for 4-5 days then, so who knows what will be going on. We are discussing a possible trip to Denver. I am against it.....I have other uses for the finances involved in doing that! We always end up spending a fortune, eating out at high dollar places etc. His sister and brother there, do NOT do fast food, and they do not do anything inexpensive!

At any rate, the rest of the outside will get done, and by weekend I will be ready!

Tonight I am going with my friend to do her tree for the Festival of the Trees. She got Boot Barn to sponsor her tree, and went with the Western Theme. Also has gift cards to Big R, Western Warehouse, and a couple of local western wear stores. So we spent part of the day tying bandana bows onto fake barbed wire for garland, it actually turned out pretty cute! All the ornaments look like metal--well some are actually metal. We have a cowboy santa for under the tree that I think Judy needs! I laready have plans to go buy a set of the cowboy snowmen ornaments!! Will try to get some pictures, and have someone help me post them! Everytime I try the size is too big. And my brain too small!

Well nothing is getting done with me sitting here on my behind!!!

Will check in on my break, because I KNOW I will be taking breaks, I am exhausted and have done nothing!

Kat