Saturday 25 October 2008

Thoughts and Observations




I think I`m starting to really like Blogger after the initial hiccups. As well as keeping most of my old readers and friends, I have aquired several new ones too. It`s great to have a community seeing as how AOL had treated us so shabbily. I suppose what are a few worthless journals to a big organization like them, they just didn`t make any money for them. Never mind, we have all moved on and left them to their own devices, it might not be perfect but we can all make it as good as possible and we can forget all about them.


Kerry called yesterday to ask my advice about a recipe. After I told her what I would do I asked her about her accident of the other day. She told me that she`d not given it a though all day and knowing her as I do, I believed her. Kerry has always been able to move on to the next thing in life and not be dragged down by her past. I admire her for that as I`ve not be so lucky I`m afraid. I`m really thankful she is absolutely fine because I kept going over the incident in my mind and I know had I been in her situation I`d have been terrified. I also know I wouldn`t have been able to forget that easily. I kept asking her if all is well with the baby and she just laughed and said "of course!" It is a relief because it so easily could have been so much more serious.

The weather has been cold but sunny the last couple of days, enabling me to dry the washing outside. I`m on an economy drive and am trying to save electricity where I can, in this case I`m trying not to use the tumble dryer as it uses shed loads of electric and that means a very high bill. I have been trying to vacuum less ie. once a week but Jake has been moulting furiously and unless I want a black hairy carpet in the sitting room it`ll have to be done at least every other day. I did try to save by washing clothes on 30deg. instead of 40 but the rubber seal went black and started to smell so I soon gave that up.

Jim is decorating the kitchen at the moment and decided this morning that he would paint the ceiling before going to work. he`s done a good job but oh! the mess. He did tidy up generally but I`m going to have to give it a serious clean once I`ve done this entry, a job I`ve never been that fond of to say the least...sigh.

On Tuesday we are going shopping for paint for the walls and I have no real idea what colour I want. It has to be a very light colour so it will most likely be something similar to the present one. I might be lucky though and see just the thing but I have my doubts. Then I have to choose curtains for the diner which extends from the kitchen. Do I know what I want? Not on your life!



After the cleaning the rest of the day belongs to me and me alone. Jim`s at work, the kids are, well kerry is out shopping with her family and Danny....Danny could be anywhere, I don`t hear from him as much as I did before Sal came back on the scene. I`m not complaining though, I really enjoy a bit of `me` time. All I can hear at the moment is the whirr of the washing machine and the hum of the freezer and thats all....ah bliss!



Ok my friends, I`d better get on with the cleaning. Take care all of you nad have a great weekend. Oh and don`t forget that the clocks go back an hour tonight here in Britain. Yuck, shorter days and dark evenings for the rest of the Winter....sigh.







16 comments:

  1. Enjoy your cleaning my friend lol. The kitchen will look fine when it is finished. It is cold overcast and windy here. Glad Kerry is fine. Nice to have a day to yourself, wonder what you will do with it. The Amaryllis is all planted up and I shall watch it grow with anticipation. Hugs.

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  2. Hi Sandra we have nothing but rain since Wednesday evening and today we have a gale with it not a day to be out. So glad Kerry and the baby are OK. Enjoy you cleaning. Love Joan

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  3. i do hope you enjoy your ME day today. I have to read the entry i missed to see what happened to Kerry. SO glad all is well with her. I got off work at 7AM today and the sky was pitch black and i went to work last night and it was pitch black. Depressing! XOXOXO

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  4. Cleaning the kitchen, UGH. I am feeling for you.
    Jenny <><

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  5. Have a great weekend and I love the pictures from your visit with Jeanette.

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  6. I'm really starting to like blogger also. I've met so many new people. I'm still hunting down a few old friends. We have so many neat gadgets to add. Our weather is raining and chilly.

    Ugh, my kitchen needs painted so badly. I need to wait until my BF has fully recuperated from his surgery :( Anyway, have a lovely weekend! xx

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  7. Like you I think I could get to enjoy it here it has been a challenge hasnt it making our blogs as we had our journals Idont use my tumble drier either ,enjoy your me time ,and like you Im so pleased Kerry is fine ...love Jan xx

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  8. PS MY NEW LINK . http://serendipitylives-jan.blogspot.com/ ...love again Jan xx

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  9. Thanks for the email that was great. I'm so happy that your daughter has moved on. It took me months to stop playing a scene in my mind. My daughter was like 6 months pregnant in the front passenger seat and my other daughter behind her and a car lost control and was inches away from crashing into that side of the car. I had stopped way back from the stoplight in the turning lane (which I never have done before) and the car turned at the last second and shot in front of me. We never drove on that road for a good year. There were like four cars that could have been hurt and the person went spinning down the road. I thought the car was gonna flip, but it didn't. When it stopped that person through the car in drive and took off again. We all had nightmares about it. Gee, would your hubby like to come to Kentucky and paint my ceilings or the walls I'm not picky. I need to go pick out a color next week too. I want it all painted before Thanksgiving. My living room is a wreck and I want things done by then. Well good luck on the cleaning. You know you said you were trying to save on electricity. Here is a tip I heard on the tv. They said that appliances or anything plugged in that you don't use...unplug it because it is still drawing electricity whether in use or not and most people don't know that. I sure didn't. Anyway didn't know if you knew that.
    Take care, Chrissie

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  10. IT'S NEXT WEEK HERE FOR US..I WON'T LIKE THE DARK NIGHTS BUT I WILL BE GLAD TO SEE IT A BIT LIGHTER IN THE MORNINGS..

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  11. I too am getting the hang of this Blog haha! I also really enjoy me time. But unfortunatley it is few and far between.

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  12. I've had it with painting and home improvements. We still have the bathroom to do yet. I think I'm liking it bette here at Blogger as well. Granted we had our hands forced in the move, but it turned out well enough. (Hugs)Indigo

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  13. Lucky you to have a painter handy. Do you think you could send him across to do some painting for me. I have a quite a lot that needs doing though. He will probably rather not. LOL I need my bedroom painted badly and the ceiling in one bath & it needs wallpaper. I can't climb ladders as I have bad balance and fall easily. I should paint it up as high as I can reach, but then I'm afraid no one would finish it!!! LOL May just have to try that. LOL
    Glad to hear (again) that Kerry is OK. I thought of her a lot after I read that enty. When my oldest son was in Korea in the Army his wife was driving at night,pregnant with our first granddaughter, several hundred miles to come live with her new inlaws, and was involved in a pretty serious fender bender. We had to drive hours to get her. They'd taken her to hospital because she was pretty far along. It was so scary. The next couple of months every move she made I watched her. LOL I probably drove her nuts.
    Well hope you didn't have to much to clean up. Glad you got some time to yourself. I sure didn't have a bit of it today.
    Hugsxx Barb

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  14. Glad to hear Kerry came out of the accident unscathed. How scary! The pictures in your last entry of your visit with Jeannette are great, thanks for sharing. You both look so happy. Have a wonderful Sunday, and I hope you can pick out new curtains and paint without too much trouble. ~~Kath~~
    http://therustyspigot.wordpress.com/

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  15. Hello Sandra I am trying to post a comment and have been unsuccessfull so far. I will try this time.

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