Yellow Rose's Garden

We did an Austin run to see how the new car would handle it. Shopped and got neat things at Half Price Books, Tandy Leather, Ginger's Needlearts and Framing, and Dragon's Lair. I haven't been to Ginger's or Tandy Leather in several years, the latter closes at 4 on Saturday.

I haven't done leatherwork in ages, but I think it's time to dust off and improve those skills. Picked up a package of leather dyes, a bottle of protective sealer and some Celtic stamp tools. Should prove to be a good way to pass some time outside in warmer weather. At Ginger's, I found a few things; a lovely Celtic design, but mostly glass beads and small skein of lovely metallic thread.

In the last few days, I got to chapter three of Dragonfly in Amber, page 317 of 947. Current audio book is Mallets Aforethought. Can we say punny title?

Sunday, I plan to do the following:
Hook mouse, keyboard, and monitor to Kevin's Gateway and peel files off the Zip disks. I hope that goes well as I want to get back to writing again. All the files are stored there. To order a USB one would cost about 150 bucks... um... no, I think I'll try another way, but if anyone has a zip drive that will read 100MB disks and can use a few, drop me a line.

Write more cards out and get them ready for Monday mailing.

Do a quick run about the house, Monday will be busy. Meatloaf and potatoes or crock pot stew for Monday's dinner, but heck if I know for the rest of the week!

More later... off to annoy my Sims.

12:17 PM

I'm trying to enjoy a bit of peace and quiet before I hit the shower and get the day into gear. I'm enjoying the time between when my husband leaves for work and son returns from school. Some part of me greatly misses when they would take a Saturday and head off to Austin for the day to play Warhammer. With Kevin's work schedule, though, it hasn't been possible.

I feel like I should be writing some of the stories I have bottled in my head, but they aren't coming out just yet. My mind is having a difficult time getting kickstarted. I need to sew the pillow for the cat. Her sassy butt is going into the cage sometime today and I'm going to scrub down my office over the weekend. It needs it. I think I will get the litter and stuff ready for the crate and leave it to my son to capture the cat.

I came to the conclusion the other day when I was in Bath and Body Works that I only have one me and if I don't take care of me, no one will. There are things about me that can't be fixed, like my knee or my hip. Those are things I have come to terms with. However, there are plenty of things I can do to improve my life each day like cleaning up and cleaning out crap, making decent meals for my family, remembering to take my vitamins and herb supplements every day, make something, and just do something useful.

Sometimes, feel like I'm letting others around me down, but I only have one child still living at home. I'd rather not make his time here unhappy. Then again.. I think at 17, he'd be happy if I only stuck my nose out of the computer long enough to fix food and leave him to his own devices with the video game machines.

I started keeping this journal for many reasons, one of which is to record things I want to remember. My memory is another thing gone haywire over the years. Ginkgo Biloba helps with that. I often tell people Ginkoba, but that's actually a trade name that pops out first. Ginkgo Biloba can be bought in Wal-mart or other pharmacies over the counter. What it actually does is increase blood flow to the brain. That is helpful, believe me. Here's a bit more on it http://www.kcweb.com/herb/Ginko.htm

I often think Ben Franklin was right. He was right about many things, but air bathing for a bit each day is helpful.

I'm off to attended to a few things... might be back to RP later not sure.