Yellow Rose's Garden

Much thanks to elf_fu, mistralwind, blackhilllife, and chelle_liz for the lovely cards! :)

I succeeded in transferring the files on the Zip drive to Kevin's old Gateway. Next step is transferring them to CD or DVD. Then I can get back to writing. That might wait until after the holidays, but it's all good. Seems the Gateway and XP don't mind that old Iomega or my LightScribe DVD.

Between now and 30 Dec, I need to square away any AOL Pictures files that I have hanging around before they shut that part of the service down.

Took a ride over to the nursing home to drop off a pile of books, etc. Got groceries including a small ham for Christmas dinner. They had a meal deal that included a pile of free extras. HEB does that for Christmas and Easter. I still have Christmas cards to write and mail. Most are ready to go. Tom needs to get thank you notes written and off to his grandparents. He needs to put together the necklace for his grandmother and get it rolling.

Was outside today wearing a t-shirt and jeans. It was about 40 out there and felt wonderful to me. Yes, I'm sure the neighbors thought I was nuts being dressed that way while running in and out to load up my car, toss trash, and sing Christmas carols, but that's ok. Where I grew up, (Scranton, PA) 40 this time of year is WARM. I did, however, wear a coat when we went to run our errands.

The cold made me grateful to be alive and very grateful that I have a warm house! It's 9:30 PM and about 32 out there, now. I'm in my lovely warm sweats!

So, Tuesday's agenda is as follows:
Finish cards
Tom needs to make the jewelry and bookmark.
Post office
Wal-mart
Local hobby store
Drop off cards for Gabe and Vincent

I'm going to make a pot of tea then see what mischief my Sims can get up to.

This is the most recent of my finished projects.

4:56 PM

So, I got back from the dentist a bit ago. Still numb from Novocaine. If I'm not about later, assume I have crash landed into my bed. The anesthetic sometimes makes me loopy, and oddly enough.. when it's wearing off.

I'm happy to say that my missing package turned up. Guess where, yup at the post office, same post office that said they delivered it! Seems they left a notice and failed to make the proper notations. Ah, C'est le Vie. Point is I now have what's probably one of the best looking Ken dolls ever made. Translation, he doesn't look girly. Harley Davidson Ken #1, if I were a Barbie, that'd be the Ken I'd want knocking at my door! It's a toss up, though, which I like more, Harley Ken or King Arthur. Guinevere has this lovely shade of reddish blonde hair.

7:10 PM

Son made dinner, pirogies and mozzarella sticks. Ok, it's odd, but so are we. The Novocaine has worn off and I'm a tad drowsy.

I'm wrapping gifts to get the mailing underway for this year. So far, it's slow going, but the sorting is done. I figure I can send Tom after his exams on Friday or something, I dunno.

The brakes on the Explorer are fixed, I think I mentioned that. And we went out to a nice dinner on part of what we saved by having Kevin's mechanic buddy from work do the job. Kevin bought the tools the guy needed to do the brakes and gave them to him afterward. Seemed only fair since he didn't want money.

Going to watch Bones at 9 ET. Should be about for RP sometime after that.