Wednesday

Well today could have started out much much better. I am having those jerky leg things last night after I go to bed when the hot flashes started in and they played tag with me all night long. I didn't get to sleep until somewhere around four and I am crushed I have been on a roll for almost two weeks and now I have a problem because I overslept until 9:30 this morning. This means I probably won't want to go to bed at midnight tonight. Plus the day has been cloudy and dreary so far and so I am all ready in a funk today. Hugs, Pamela

TUESDAY RAINDROPS

Everyone is back to work today including me. I am going to be writing as I need to keep busy and on the move this week. I have been up since 7:30 today but I have the laundry started, made a pot of decaf coffee, fed cats, gotten dressed, got Frank off to work with granola and an apple. LOLOL. Hey it's my first routine day and I did send along a sugarless breakfast drink with him as well as the rest.
Now I am going to have some toast and honey then do some dishes. Hang up clothes and remop the floor. Fabreeze everything and if it's not raining and storming by the time all of this is done then I will write.
Tonight we are having tacos burgers for supper. I need to take my walk really quickly here first so that I can get that in today just in case it doesn't stop raining today or tonight. if you don't see me on here you'll know it's the storms. Otherwise I should be checking in and out today. I stitched last night and have the hat done on my Santa. One of my favorite movies is on Turner in a little bit BRINGING UP BABY with Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. So that will help too if I need a break I can watch the movie and stitch. Okay daylight is burning. I hope you all have a very good back to work day and I will be working too........Hugs, Pamela

MEMORIAL DAY

Well today has been tougher but I am not doing too badly. My dryer is fixed thanks to my wonderful husband. I went out and bought some suckers and jolly ranchers....still can't find the cinnamon suckers that I want or hot tamale candy. Or even red hots....
Right now I am sucking on a sour grape sucker which is a little too sour for me but hey at least I am sticking with the no smoking. I did some laundry and tonight I am not sure if we will have tacos or pizza.
I had a BLT for lunch.
I think I will start writing down my book plot a little later. Melissa wanted me to take this month off of writing until I got the no smoking thing under control but I am very afraid that would leave me too much time on my hands and I have had enough time off writing for now. I think I'll try the writing for this week and if I can handle it then I will continue if it's a no way sorta thing I will go back to stitching ONLY this month. Today I have been in the yardswing reading VISIONS OF MURDER by Victoria Laurie and I have to say this is a really really good book. So that has helped relax me immensely today. I also have been watching the Criminal Intent Marathon but sure wish it could have been MURDER SHE WROTE or POIROT. I am back home where I don't get the BIO Channel that has all of these and the other channels like Melissa and Travis did not that I got to see them all that much up there but at least they had them.
I cleaned off my sewing machine today and I think I have to get a new sewing machine as I was going to try to make a quilted wall hanging and this is a very very old machine in a cabinet long story short we can't seem to get the needles for it anymore etc...so the sewing machine shop said it wouldn't worth it to fix the other things wrong. I put the material and such away for the lighthouse wall hanging and I think we'll buy me a new machine or have Frank try to find me a passable more modern one at a rummage sale around here. I thought that might've helped with the smoking and with all the changes going on in my life right now it seemed like a good time to try to work on this, but I think I will wait a little longer.
So who is stitching and reading what this week? You know what I am reading....stitching it will be the small Lizzie Kate, then my Alma Lynne, plus plotting my book. Maybe writing a scene or two etc....I have the book plotted in my head but we can't anything up there for long.LOLOLOL..........
Hugs, Pamela

I'M HOME

I'm home and it sure feels good to be home. Now let's see first I want to say that I am trying to quit smoking and so I will be a little like a humming bird this week kinda flighty in and out of the office as I don't want to just sit too long without cross stitch in my hands. I know I can quit smoking as I have done it before last time didn't stick so I will keep trying but this time for a change it feels a lot more right than ever before. I think a lot of it is this is a time of year where I can get outside and do things and so I am not locked into a season like winter where that might not be posssible.
I am still plotting the new book and until I get passed the crunch of the smoking cravings I don't intend to start chapter one for a while. Instead I will be stitching, reading and walking.....
Right now I have some household projects that ought to keep me busy. I might add I have only had one cigarette in 12 hours and that was last night after going eight hours without one. However I have a funny feeling that I will be craving suckers and pixie sticks..LOLOL...I also like lemon drops....I think the thing that will drive me most batty is the lack of energy because it really makes me lazy when I don't smoke so that is why I am starting right off the bat with walks and being 0n the move.
My visit with Melissa was not exactly up to par and I am sure everyone knows what it's like to visit someone and have be surprised that the visit just was more tense and stressful than you ever thought it could be....I am not sure where things went south but it seems to me she and I are just on a different level right now so this may not be anything we can put behind us. I know that I am tired of being bossed around!!! Very tired of it and I know that I needed a break from my daughter.
Hugs, Pamela

Thursday afternoon

Hello, well today hasn't been the best as I woke up sick and pmsy and then Melissa came home from work all grouchy and is now taking a nap with Chase. So we are not leaving right away afterall. So I guess I will stitch for a little while. Chase is excited to have Bailey and Karley spend the night. I feel sooo tired today already but I am sure I will get with the program. Hugs, Pamela

Wednesday Rain

It's Wednesday and when I first got up it was sunny now it's turned cloudy and I see where we have a chance for rain. I got the kitchen cleaned up this morning and I am waiting for MURDER SHE WROTE to come on....I need to take an advil as my neck and shoulders are killing me this morning. So okay I might be more than a little depressed this visit with Melissa as we are not conencting like we usually do and I know I am in menepause but still......it's as though she has a full life without her parents and it's truly a sad thing. I really looked forward to spending some time with her but it's not working as well as I had hoped for and I can't put mu finger on it except to say that it probably wasn't the right time fotr me to visit. Now keep in mind it's NEVER been like that before....however Chase and I are getting along better than ever. Travis and I are so-so one night we are great and another night he acts like I'm the devil reenvented and just wants to talke to Melissa. Of course it didn't help she did a Tarot reading on me and the Devil Card came up....here was another bad card too that could mean I am going to die suddenly as in SUDDEN DEATH so I admit to not being to thrilled about my future right now. But this reading didn't have my present so hot mu past was great then my future depended on the choices of the present but there was that pesky Devil Card and another one or two....none were all that great! I just hope we have a better day today.

Just testing

I'm just testing this all out and making sure everything is okay.

Tuesday-Trails

It's Tuesday or at least almost so by the time I get the email written. Monday night was a bit different, Monday was a get settled day, then we had chicken, pasta, garlic bread for supper. It was good, and Travis and Melissa set off on their quest after supper to find a t.v. stand or entertainment center to fit the big screen t.v. they bought over the weekend. Menawhile Chase and I stayed home and we rode bikes on the bike trail, took two walks, I taught him how to lasso a rope, so that was an adventure we lassoed everything in sight, then we collected some rocks, he made friends with catapillar, we had peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, also ate oranges outside and we played star wars with sticks and his light sabres....then inside we also played two games of Candyland and a matching game and watched Star Wars. I did dishes and some laundry while he flipped channels for cartoons...his parent came home empty handed but will get it thing this week, then a friend of Travis's came over while I checked email, Melissa play junior monopoly with Chase then she gave him a bath and it was bedtime stories. Then Travis and his friend played Video Games it was a Tom Clancy one. My back is killing me and they don't have proper lighting for me to stitch by but Melissa says that she is going to buy me a lamp I can take home with me. She says it's my Mother's Day Present from her since she didn't get me one yet. I know we'll go eat supper with Jay on Wednesday Night and then Thursday night I guess we pick Amanda;s girls and go to Amanda's and then we keep the girl's overnight and keep them all day on Friday and Friday night upon which time Amanda and Mike will come get them and Frank will be here to drop Melissa's furniture off and who knows after that....I am very tired just thinking about all of that.....Bailey is four,Karley is two, and of course the newborn they'll keep home until Saturday.Can you tell Melissa is all about kids right now and babies!!!!! Then after all of this I will go home and get started on plotting murder. BUT tonight I get to watch the mystery channel now that everyone has gone to bed but the best part of it is I can rest my back. LOLOOLOL....How is everyone doing? What are you all doing? Hus, Pamela

Monday Morning

Hello everyone, well I am in Kansas City and Melissa will get off work at 1:00 today, we'll go find a stand for her new t.v. it's huge big screen high def t.v. The barbeque went very well and everyone left happy.
We arrived at 10:00 last night and they wanted me to watch the Sopranos on the new t.v.with them. We also watched another series show but can't remember the name.HOWEVER they do have the mystery channels so I might be doing a lot more reading and watching movies up here this time.
I'll write more later but no one went to bed before two in the morning and they were up at 5:30 and so I am still up from that but getting ready to take a nap.

Sunday Afternoon

Hello everyone, Well today is the big barbeque. So far so good. Chase has kept us amused this weekend. I have my hair dyed it's very dark brown this time. I am going to get it shaped and trimed in Kansas City. We are also going to a Children's Museum up there this Thursday, and I think we are going to get to eat Chinese this time. Also for entertainment Melissa is treating me to the movies. I will get to go to a bookstore just not sure which one yet. It may be a Mystery Bookstore.
Hugs, Pamela

Friday Freedom

It's Friday and I usually love them but today was another hit the ground running day for me. Calls from everyone, trying to clean, a fast run to town but forgot the post office run so will have to do that when I return from Kansas City.
I am still not prepared for this weekend. My house is still not completely the way it needs to be and I still have a whole to-do list before Sunday. The things is I keep crossing through things only to have to add more. The next time one of my kids gets married I am moving to Alaska none of them are cold weather people.LOLOLOL............
On the brightside I found some summer clothes I forgot I had (well I thought I lost) and anyway now I have plenty of black and red to wear!! If only I could find that brown top that I lost and the pink top that went with the slacks I would be set but I guess it should be good enough to find anything around here.
Oh another bright spot was the black top I orginally lost earlier this week turned up. What is everyone's weekend plans?
I am thinking of getting a bottle of focus factor and seeing how that works for concentration because I am having a terrible time with concentrating on anything, books, stitching, writing (although I haven't written anything much this week but started the plotting a little on the book) still I need something.
I am trying to focus on the good things this weekend. Seeing children, grandchildren it will be fun to see Amy, I am trying not to think that my mother is coming, LOLOL, well one of my mothers is coming. There are days when Iwish I was hatched. My parents really don't have much use for me. So it's always stressful and in a way I guess it's made me a little hard about things. I didn't live up to their standards even though I'm an author and have wonderful kids and so on.....one set really wanted me to become a nurse the other set thought I should get a PHD or move away and never come home.LOLOLOLOL...
My sisters all feared better all both became nurses although one doesn't use hers and is a truck driver now. But the important thing is she HAS the degree....they didn't encourage me to do things that interested me. But all that is okay now that I am almost 50 well I'm 48 soon to be 49 but you see what I mean I think nothing is worse than still blaming your parent for things at this age so I usually don't say much because it's not going to change them or me. Normally my parents go their own way. But this weekend has me kinda emotional....not because of Melissa but because of moms. So okay it's just plain hell freezes over week.LOLOL.
I am sure it will all be fine but for some reason I have the jitters. I can tell one thing for sure....I want the focus OFF OF ME THIS WEEKEND.....I do not need to stress of being singled out it's about Melissa and Travis, I want to blend into the background. Anyway life is too short to feel inadquete now.

Thursday Night

Hello, well today I hit the ground running. First Melissa had phoned while I was still sleeping this morning so I called her back and she was definitely in a mood about everything work, college, test, husbands you name it.
Then Mishell phoned and she needed a big favor so I took care of that and finished taking care of some last minute things for the barbeque and then I got a call from a friend and she talked two hours but was upset etc...so finally got her to calm down. After that it was housework and still more packing along with laundry, tonight Frank was called out and Idecided we should have tuna fish sandwiches which we did.
I stitched through the season endings of Without a Trace and the CSI....now I am going to give myself a facial, do my nails, and read.
I am glad tomorrow is Friday!!!! Melissa says she won't be in until Saturday Morning. More plans changed whatever will I do!!
Hugs, Pamela

Wednesday Whatevers

Well it's Wednesday for sure now....first nobody told me 'Hell Froze Over' as my daughter Amanda sent me a Mother's Day Card for the first time ever! Wow was that a surprise or what!
Then today I tried to find two tops I recently bought so I could pack them for Sunday's trip to Kansas City but I can't find the dang things anywhere! So frustrated is not the word for it as they are two of my favorite tops.
The weather is great and good for my spirits as I get ready to fly the coop this weekend. I am going to need a vacation from my week's vacation in Kansas City.
Needless to say I am packing and because I live in Kansas and the weather is unpredictable I am packing everything I can think of and then some things I will probably never ever use while there.
Books were packed first and then the cross stitch....LOLOL
Hugs,Pamela

Almost Wednesday

I really think this week is going much faster than last week went and it's probably because I have a little breathing room. Mishell and I played telephone tag this afternoon until we finally caught up with one another and she had picked up some mints and nuts for the barbeque. She is making a macaroni salad and made Melissa a centerpiece for her main table.
I hear it's supposed to rain on Sunday but I'm covering my ears as I do not have a plan B. Today I did some housework but I took my sweet time about it. Tonight I helped Frank with the hope chest it had to be stained.
my neighbor girl is moving so I took her some boxes. Frank was called out on a wrecker call and so I watched THE UNIT it was good very good.
I located my suitcases so now I can start packing tomorrow but tonight I will probably clean my office.
I am going to start with packing some books.
I did some brainstorming on the next book this afternoon and the title of course is still STITCHES & STONES....but the book's main plot will be about Depot Days in Hitchcock, Kansas......they will have a Ho-Bo-Contest of who can tell the best story, along with crafts booths etc...there will be train rides and then the subplot is a cold case. I have some of the details worked out and I am excited to begin the new project now although won't offically begin until May 30th. So that is what I've been up to so far today.
I did do some stitching tonight on my cherries and I had ice cream....but I made spagahetti for supper.
Hugs, Pamela

It's DONE!!!

It's done...the book is now ready for Melissa and then passed to Kim for publication but my part is DONE DONE DONE...HAPPY DANCING.....whew....now I can concentrate on the to-do list, stitching, reading and cleaning. The barbeque and I can't believe I got this book done this early tonight as I honestly thought it would take me until tomorrow night.
I know I need to start the plotting for the new book in the series but for now I just want to revel in the fact the book is done and I am free of loose ends, etc...I think I will relax and take a bubble bath and read. Hugs, Pamela

Mother's Day

Well Mother's Day was pretty relaxing. On Saturday went book shopping and THOUGHT that was my Mother's Day which I was content with but I woke up on Sunday and Frank had put a card in the living room with a huge box. The box turned out to be a red blender, a red toaster and a red coffee maker. Since my kitchen is red this was a great surprise and he had bought me a lovely Mother's Day Card. The rest of the day was filled with email first, then Monak Marathon Laundry, cleaning in the kitchen so the new stuff could go in there, plus Melissa phoned, she was very very tired, final next week and so lots of studying, Travis wanted to take her to the movies out for dinner and she was NOT in the mood, and that about sums her up for the weekend. Next came Amy who called and she was having Mexican Food for Sunday and she had car problems, then came Mishell who called to say that they had been fishing and camping all day so she would stop in on Monday to bring me a little something and sorry it would be late but she had been helping clean fish. I told her that was okay....LOLOL
I then went back to laundry and the Monk Marathon and Frank made a lot more progress on Melissa's Hope Chest, then he came in and fixed me a steak supper, baked potatoes, rolls and green beans, plus salsa and chips. Then peach pie for dessert with chocolate chip ice cream. Then he an I watched 'Mystery' on pbs and then he fell asleep and I watched more Monk. He woke up flipped channels and I fell asleep, I woke up he went to bed and here I am....I had planned on more stitching and rewriting today but conversations took longer than expected. Iwill now go back to rewriting and then I want to try and finish DEAD DAYS OF SUMMER tonight.

Sunny Friday

Hi everyone, well it's Friday and I am thrilled that it is a Friday. First I knocked off a total of three chapters in the last 24 hours. Second it's sunny and 73 today.
Except for sinus problems galore ....life is good today.
Sunday- Mother's Day- I will watch the Monk Marathon and Frank will make me a steak dinner complete with peach pie and ice cream. He makes teh best steaks and I get one every Mother's Day from him so it's my special treat. None of the kids are coming in this weekend so nothing special is planned for this time around which is fine because they are all busy and this way I don't have to clean house.....see they gave me a prezzie anyway. Hee...
I want to catch up on some stitching and maybe finish the rewrites of the book, Frank will be making Melissa's hope chest and that's fine with me.
This next week will be a little more hectic as I need to start packing for Kansas City, have Melissa's barbeque and she and Chase etc...will be in on Friday night staying the whole weekend, so lots to be done next week including doing the last of the rewrites....then I'll go to Kansas City from the 21st to either the 27th or 28th, upon which Frank will pick me up and drop a whole host of furniture off for Melissa, a couch, bed, computer desk, hope chest, and so he'll be tired and maybe I can convince him to spend the night.
I just hope the weather will be good when he comes up there with all of this furniture.
It's about time to dye my hair again.....wonder which color I'll use this time?????????
Always an adventure my hair is...............
Okay well back at the rewrites and dishes........
Hugs, Pamela

There are moments....

Okay there are moments when I wish I was single again. Shussshhh....LOL
BUT HONESTLY there are only so many ways you can get excited about a box of spagahetti. See Frank comes home tonight and I told him we need to spend more time together granted this was two weeks ago but Frank has to think about these things...ANYWAY....he is so proud of himself and says..."Honey let's go spend some time together at Wal-Mart. (This was NOT what I had in mind) but I am a good sport so I smiled said okay....and off we went. We have a brand new Super Center Wal-Mart so I this thing is HUGE, WE WALKED around picking up dog food, cat food, crackers, then we go to the meat department(he gets excited over meat) I dunno but he does but he was really excited when we got to the spagahetti now listen folks they had spagahetti 2 for 1.00 or another package was .58 cent or a large package for 1.00 the MAN compared ounces weight and shopped for 20 minutes for the best spagahetti bargin. Did I mention he hates spagahetti BUT LOVES A BARGIN.....I swear we walked aroun Wal-Mart Foods until I was ready to scream because he stopped and also found apple sauce they now have all of these flavors of apple sauce the poor man.....he asked me what my favorite flavors were on applesauce I said "APPLE SAUCE" he was not amused so I said how about pineapple applesauce. (I knew he loves pineapple) he got a sad look on his face and said well I was thinking peach flavored....I said okay Frank you know what...I am going to the rest room you pick something out and I'll meet you in the ice cream department. I went to the rest room and washed my hands....I came back out he wasn't in the ice cream section, I hunted and hunted for the man I FINALLY found him in the Kleenex department comparing how many kleenexs were in a box and we start over with the bargining price. Eventually TWO HOUR AND FIFTEEN MINUTES later from the time we entered the store we were in check out I look in the cart no applesauce, no ice cream but we now have five packages of spagahetti and six boxes of Kleenex.......it's safe to say NEXT WEEK he will do the shopping by himself. He loves to shop....but only for certain things....UGH!!!!!!!
Now I love my husband but he can HAVE THE GROCERY SHOPPING!! Just bring it home and I'll butter the bread and eat it.....now I am off to do something less frustrating REWRITING CHAPTERS OF MY BOOK....
Hugs, Pamela

Wednesday Morning

Hello, well this might be short since another round of rain and possibly storms are headed our way.
Tonight I had a sinus headache and laid down it never did go away so now I am done rewriting tonight. I only rewrote one chapter but that is okay this one took a lot longer to rewrite and it was worth it.
So hopefully I will get more writing done today and I don't have any errands to run so it will be nice to snuggle down and write. Weather will be in the 60's.........I picked up the latest Carolyn Hart Mystery at the library and I will slip in the tub and read it as I only checked it out for a week.
Hugs, Pamela

Tujesday afternoon

Okay I have done errands first the bank, then the post office, then the city offices for paperwork for the barbeque at the park, then the eye doctor and they said that I am -31/2 in the right eye and that I am -2 in the left eye and that I will eventually go blind and need to realize that now.....LOVELY.....
In other words the eye doctor was quite concerned I can wear trifocals for now but eventually nothing will help because my eyes are degenerating. So I will write my books, my stitching will be done I don't care how many lights I have to use and I will go along as best I can for now.
I am okay with this as I have been wearing glasses since I was five and since I was twenty five I've had doctors tell me that my eyes are not good. We shall see what happens I asked him how long etc....before I HAD to worry over the other things he talked about right now I don't have the name of the degenerative eye desease I have as I forgot my paperwork at his office when I stopped in there. I'll go back for it this week but right now we are going to get me in trifocals and see if that will help....
No wonder I have the kind of headaches I do....Geez....I am to rest my eyes every two hours when I am at the computer.
Stitching he says the same things about......let's hope I remember this as I am not a clock watcher if I'm on a roll.
Anyway I am not shook up about this at all I will figure out a way to keep doing everything I love............
Hugs, Pamela

Monday Evening

It's Monday evening and I just finished going over chapter Six so I am on a roll and so far nothing has held me up as a matter of fact I have to say the chapters are much better written than I thought especially 4,5 and six.
If we get storms I have all ready finished a good day's work.
I also washed my hair and have tried to call my daughter Amanda at the hospital at 2:30, 2:45, 3:15: 3:45 and so far no one answers the room phone. Geesh............
I also did my nails and watered the plants.
Now it's time to do some dishes and then Frank is fixing taco salads and tacos for supper.
Then I'll settle into stitching mode when CSI comes on. If it's not storming later then I'll tackle some more chapters.
Hugs, Pamela who says everyone make it a great evening!!

Yoppee....

Yippeee.....okay sent two more reviews to Mary Emmons on Sunday Night, then I rewrote the first three chapters. The first one was the hardest but once I got into the groove was no problem. The second one had details conflicts and the third chapter needed some aditional information and definitely it had an ending rewrite. I am feeling so good about this and now for tonight I will be working on the setting up of file cards and after that I will probably let the writing alone for the rest of the night. I think the rewrites will be good for me and I might now be so afraid to tackle them next time. Plus Amanda had her baby today...
Micheal Alan Wedgewood was born at 12:37 p.m he weighed 6lbs and 9 ounces, he was 19 inches long and has a head full of black hair. Amanda had a C-Section but is doing well....he joins sisters Bailey Anne and Karley Alise.
Frank and I had chicken fried steak for supper. I need to get busy on the files but I am very proud of how much I did tonight.
Hugs, Pamela

Panic Attack

It's still seems early to me but then again I didn't get to bed until 4:30 this morning. I woke at 6:30 with a panic attack and could not figure out why it lasted for a long time and it kinda scared me. The first thing is that I hardly ever have them. I mean I can work myself up over something such has deadlines and such but not actually have a panic attack. I felt like something was VERY wrong in the family. I couldn't explain it and it was all so strange.
I knew I was NOT in any danger but I did at one point feel as though I was having a heart attack.....I just couldn't breathe and I had been sound asleep. So anyway Frank finally got me calmed down and I went back to sleep (after a while) but never pin pointed why this happened out of the blue.
I'll be doggone if I didn't have a message from Melissa this morning that Amanda had went into to labor (she's been in the hospital since Tuesday, which I knew she has been there and that they couldn't seem to get the baby to come out) anyway Melissa leaves the message that it's early morning she's on her way to the hospital and that Amanda is having an emergency C-Section due to complications. She would call when she could and that she was in a hurry because Amanda was scared and she brought the cell phone with her for updates but wouldn't call until she had news one way or the other on what was going on. Needless to say as I am writing this there is still NO NEWS...I tried to call but all I get is voice mail and such so I am waiting to hear what has happened.
I don't know if what happened to me this morning is somehow cosmically related to this.....because Amanda and I are NOT that close. I will say this day started kinda twilight zoneish....
And I have only had two other panic attacks one was when my grandmother died and I felt really sad for two days before and then had a panic attack that evening and my mom called and said grandma passed away earlier in the evening. That attack I thought was DUE TO DEPRESSION so I dismissed it.
The other was the day son tried to commit suicide and well any mother would panic over that......So I truly don't know and so this got me to thinking today. Do when know when deep down inside when out loved ones are in crisis or dying?
Do only SOME people know? Or is this all just a crazy side effct of life and stress?
I think I have a high intutive nature I have for years dreamed things that have happened before they happened. But I am an author and I think we author can be highly intuned to people's nature and we pay attention to the details of people's personality and pick up on things that others don't often see. I suspect Actors, and other people do this too.....I am not trying to box in people into boxes to me a farmer can do this just as well but I do think that some people are more highly developed in certain senses and I am today realizing I might be one of them. How strange...........I just wish I could pinpoint the good stuff coming I hate that it's always a crisis that seems to pivitol insight.....
Anyway I'm still not quite relaxed from it today. But I am exceptionally tired and waiting to hear about mother and baby.
Hugs, Pamela

What A Day

Today certainly didn't turn out as I expected. I woke to rain and then I thought Frank was out of town but that wasn't the case he came home about noon he's been supply shopping.
Seems he got rained out to work on the vehicle he was going to work on so then he & I went to town and we shopped until we found Melissa a quilt for her Weding gift and we shopped for more wood for her window seat chest he is making her, I bought a new checkbook wallet. Then I did a small amount of shopping for a friend of mine to send her a package.
All the while it rained softly.....made a nice Saturday Treasure Hunt Day!
Then I came home and visited with different friends through IM until supper was ready (cheeseburgers & steak fries) then my head started to hurt.....so I laid down and was then cold got a blanket and covered up lightly napped off and on all evening. Woke and realized my throat was sore but yet again......and finally I took something for my headache again. I'm really tired tonight so I think I'll read and then go to bed. I will send Mary Emmons another review before I go off to read.
Tomorrow it's time to take a look at the book and start my plotting.
Hugs, Pamela

It's Friday

Hello everyone, it's Friday and I for one am very glad it is because maybe I can get some rest and also a few things done this weekend. I just now put away all of my Malice Mysteries so now I can find theme when I want to read them. I have read a couple of them all ready but it's good to have autographed copies.
I hope everyone has a nice relaxing weekend. I have things well underway to have a relaxing weekend.
I have my stitching, my books, my turkey for sandwiches, good t.v. tonight then tomorrow movies and more of the same.
life can't get any better than this for me.
I have everything ready for 'plotting' and also rewriting come Monday.
I even had some bubbles for the weekend.
It's colder again here and so I'm in a sweater this one is black and dark pink striped with a pair of jeans and loafers.
Nothing like dressing for fall in May however I found a peach Iris blooming in the backyard the lavander and purple ones are bloomed now come peach and yellow.
I am planning to pop in here on my breaks tomorrow so be sure to leave me a message if you read these.
hugs, Pamela

Thursday

Well today has been hectic to say the least. I had to send our group author her interview questons. Mary Emmons has some assignments for me plus reviews and I seem to be spending my life online today but did run to the kitchen and stuff a chicken in the oven to roast for supper.
My husband had to fix the toliet while home for lunch I mean this day is gonna be gone before I even have a chance to finish my first cup of coffee today and yes I've been up since 10:00 and still on my first cup I just keep reheating it. LOLOL...........
Hugs, Pamela

It's Hump Day

Okay well it's hump day and I feel it. Yesterday was so wonderful and today we are in for storms and I have a headache plus email is acting screwy or maybe it's just yahoo and cats are fighting.....I also picked out the next cross stitch project it's from Leeisure Arts School Of Needle Art called crate labels and seed packets and it's a crate of cherries and can you believe I don't own the right color of floss for the cherries....I spent two hours last night looking for floss.....
Melissa called last night extremely mad at Amanda and told me that Amanda was being a real -----now Melissa doesn't get upset with Amanda much but I guess this time she has decided she wants nothing to do with Amanda accept where her nieces and nephew are concerned. The worst of it for me is the fact they got into an argument over me and of course Melissa wouldn't tell me what it was about so I don't know how to fix it yet. Maybe I shouldn't fix it anyway but I sure hate the fact that these are at it over me. Keep in mind I haven't talked to Amanda lately and that she was making unreasonable noises about being unhappy with me before this but I never did get a direct answer from her as to why and still don't have a clue. But that aside Amanda will eb 26 June 1st and Melissa is 22 so maybe it's time I just let things ride.
I do know one clue it's Amanda's husband Mike who has also gotten involved and he's a Bible Thumper and has never approved of me because I smoke. Now I've tried to quit several times but he doesn't even give me credit for that plus he's unhappy Frank and I are not attending church regularly and he would be even more unhappy to know that lately we have been studying to become JW's which will and would set him off if he knew it and I told Melissa I would tell Amanda when the time was right. So I know it's not that or maybe I could understand what was going on....
Geez I hate family drama because it's always stupid shit that starts it and this one is shaping up for stupid. I guess it's went as far as Amanda telling Melissa that when I come to Kansas City that Melissa and I can come see the new baby and the girls but we are not allowed to take the girls for a few days.......and she won't tell me this to my face(Amanda) and the only other thing Melissa said is that Frank and I have done so much for Amanda & Mike purely out of love and if this family doesn't mean enough to Amanda to stand up to her husband then she is on her own Melissa is cutting her loose. She said she is longer helping them out by paying water bills, and she doesn't want me and Frank sending them any more clothes or care packages and Amanda doesn't get any taken out to eat or prezzies or anything because Amanda needs to see what life would be like without our help. Like I said folks I'm in the dark on this one....Amanda and I have never gotten a long but we've not done too badly the passed two years. Although lately like I said talking to her has been an uphill battle but I finally chalked it up to her being pregnant and hormones as I couldn't muster the strength to get too upset when she starts in on me. And a couple of weeks ago she did make me mad but for once I sucked it up and she never knew I just kept telling myself she won't be pregnant forever..........LOLOLOL
Hugs, Pamela

Tuesday evening/night

Hello everyone, well today was a perfect sunny day. It got up to 80 degrees and so I just had to go outside and spend time in the yardswing reading. NOW THAT WAS STRESS FREE....
However the storms move back in tonight...for several days.
I also ran errands earlier today and got a lot accomplished.
I picked my next project as I finished one last night and have to keep a roatation going. I didn't have another small project yet so I picked a medium one as I have two large projects going for this year. The medium one is a leaflet and you can do them all together or one at a time. Since I wanted to keep it managable I chose one at a time. This a garden leaflet which has onions and then another page has Tomatoes and canning jars, another has lemons and a lemon crate, another has carrots with the stalks same with celery and green beans there is a cutting board with different types of bread in one picture. This appealed to me so I will do the ones that appeal to me probably not all this year just start with one and then will move to something else after that picture is completed as with giving my career my all for the next two years and all ready having two big projects upon which one will be done before December as it's a gift for Mishell (family sampler) I wanted Halloween to stitch and discovered I have no Halloween Patterns or even Fall Patterns. Now that is depressing because it's my favorite holiday.....Anyway I am way low on patterns so maybe there will be a sale going on someplace the next time I go to Kansas City.
I am taking this week off and I really wanted to stitch something badly that wasn't big so this veggie fruit stuff fits the bill right now.
You know now that I think about it I bet I have a patterns with all the fruit in fruit crates in that other drawer okay I must go back in there because I am think if I do I can do those and they are a little less country and more classier like Tuscany French looking. I should have lemon, cherries, grapes and not sure what else. But off I go to have a look.
I bet I have some friends and family who would love it if these were done....
They would not fit my gingerbread theme but I bet there are a few friends and family that it would fit.
KEWL..............
Hugs, Pamela

Monday night

It's Monday Night and I am sorta feeling a little better. I stayed in bed a lot of today I hope I do better tomorrow.
I did finish a cross stitch project today. A small Bentcreek Floral Design.
I talked to my daughter Mishell tonight, and Frank watched wrestling we had open faced roast beef and cheddar cheese sandwiches for supper.
This week we are in for rain and thunderstorms all week starting with Tuesday night.But I do have the most beautiful purple and lavendar Iris growing in the backyard. I hope the white and yellow ones bloom soon too....
I did wash clothes and dry them today....fed the cats, changed bedding and then down I went for a long long afternoon nap and after that I crossed stitched.
Hugs, Pamela