Day 4875 Random meanderings.
Sep. 28th, 2005 05:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wren08What is it with the child proof medicine caps? The average two year old can get into them better than any adult and yet they keep making them. They aren't child proof, they are just annoying.
I have had a better incentive to loose weight than anything that's ever happened to me now. Emily was watching a commercial for some weight-loss pill and told me that we should get them. I told her that the last thing in the world she needed was weight-loss pills, that she was just perfect (she's a bit on the skinny side anyway). Then she hit me with "Not for me, Mom. For you." Oops! I have no intention of ordering some supposed weight-loss drug... but I've got to get down to a point where she doesn't think that way. I know, her idea of what people should look like comes from Barbie and movies... I'm not doing that. Nor am I going to get down to the same rail thin as her two favorite teachers. I'll get down to what is healthy for me and then explain to her why thinner is not a good idea.
I had an unexpected two days off (one of them was scheduled and the other was due to rain) and I got quite a lot of quilting done around everything else that needed to be taken care of. I'm at the point where I've got the rest of this row and the bottom borders and I'll be finished with this quilt. Wheee!
I keep thinking I need to sort through my fabric and put it in some kind of order... and then I remember that it's in almost as good an order as I can manage from the last time I did this. Fabric scraps are, by nature, chaotic. I still need to set aside the money to build one more set of shelves for the sewing room... and then I'll have the space to get the treadle machine down from the attic and clean and repair it. If I remember correctly, the only things it needs are some woodwork on the table and a belt.
October being almost upon us, I've been thinking about Halloween. Emily is not going to get to go Trick-or-Treating this year... we had too many problems with all that candy last year. So we're going to carve a jack-o-lantern and pop some popcorn and watch a scary movie. With an eye towards this, I dragged out my copy of Halloween (which is my yearly Halloween movie) to preview it and see if it was fit for Emilys to watch. I like it because it's seasonal and not too scary... to me. It is NOT fit for her... can someone suggest a good Halloween movie for a small girl who is quite impressionable?
The clock has decided to run and run properly. I promise, I'm never ever going to overwind it again! That was much too much work to get it reset.
Oh, thinking of popcorn... if you have a chance, buy it from the Boy Scouts. They've got Orville beat hands down for good popcorn that all actually pops!
I heard from my Dad. He called last night with his six month doctor's report (which I already had from Blake). He's not on any regular medication (something the doctor couldn't believe at his age), he's in excellent health and plans to live to be 100. Very excellent!
8 more days and I get to begin my new job. Still very excited about that. Emily brought home a paper from school telling about the date and time for the annual Fall Carnival and I was looking at the times.. and then I realized that I don't have to opt out this year... I'll be home in plenty of time to take her. It's the Friday after I start my new job and I'll be getting off at 3:30... so getting home by 6 pm will be easy and if we stay out a bit too late... well, I don't have to get her up in the morning because I won't have to work the next day. That feels so amazing!
I have had a better incentive to loose weight than anything that's ever happened to me now. Emily was watching a commercial for some weight-loss pill and told me that we should get them. I told her that the last thing in the world she needed was weight-loss pills, that she was just perfect (she's a bit on the skinny side anyway). Then she hit me with "Not for me, Mom. For you." Oops! I have no intention of ordering some supposed weight-loss drug... but I've got to get down to a point where she doesn't think that way. I know, her idea of what people should look like comes from Barbie and movies... I'm not doing that. Nor am I going to get down to the same rail thin as her two favorite teachers. I'll get down to what is healthy for me and then explain to her why thinner is not a good idea.
I had an unexpected two days off (one of them was scheduled and the other was due to rain) and I got quite a lot of quilting done around everything else that needed to be taken care of. I'm at the point where I've got the rest of this row and the bottom borders and I'll be finished with this quilt. Wheee!
I keep thinking I need to sort through my fabric and put it in some kind of order... and then I remember that it's in almost as good an order as I can manage from the last time I did this. Fabric scraps are, by nature, chaotic. I still need to set aside the money to build one more set of shelves for the sewing room... and then I'll have the space to get the treadle machine down from the attic and clean and repair it. If I remember correctly, the only things it needs are some woodwork on the table and a belt.
October being almost upon us, I've been thinking about Halloween. Emily is not going to get to go Trick-or-Treating this year... we had too many problems with all that candy last year. So we're going to carve a jack-o-lantern and pop some popcorn and watch a scary movie. With an eye towards this, I dragged out my copy of Halloween (which is my yearly Halloween movie) to preview it and see if it was fit for Emilys to watch. I like it because it's seasonal and not too scary... to me. It is NOT fit for her... can someone suggest a good Halloween movie for a small girl who is quite impressionable?
The clock has decided to run and run properly. I promise, I'm never ever going to overwind it again! That was much too much work to get it reset.
Oh, thinking of popcorn... if you have a chance, buy it from the Boy Scouts. They've got Orville beat hands down for good popcorn that all actually pops!
I heard from my Dad. He called last night with his six month doctor's report (which I already had from Blake). He's not on any regular medication (something the doctor couldn't believe at his age), he's in excellent health and plans to live to be 100. Very excellent!
8 more days and I get to begin my new job. Still very excited about that. Emily brought home a paper from school telling about the date and time for the annual Fall Carnival and I was looking at the times.. and then I realized that I don't have to opt out this year... I'll be home in plenty of time to take her. It's the Friday after I start my new job and I'll be getting off at 3:30... so getting home by 6 pm will be easy and if we stay out a bit too late... well, I don't have to get her up in the morning because I won't have to work the next day. That feels so amazing!
