So glad to hear everyone enjoyed the wedding,
LadyM! Sounds like it was sooo nice, but I'm with you -- no way do I want to be a part of planning or being an active participant in such a grand affair.
Again, I am giving thanks ds & ddil just quietly went to her uncle-the preacher's home and got married. Our bar-b-que & bluegrass reception (weeks later) was a much more relaxed event and thanks to then-dsisil & my daunts & dcousins, everything just went as smoothly as could be. The only hitch at all was forgetting to invite my ddad's great-aunt & her daughters PLUS inviting the BROTHERS but not the SISTERS of a set of dfil's first-cousins.
That still causes me to cringe anytime I see these two ladies -- for Pete's sake, I grew up in church with them every Sunday of the first 18 years of my life and was friends with their daughters. Sooo sooo embarrassing... even after 10 years.
I am a bit concerned currently about what sort of wedding dniece will have, and what my obligations will be on that front. Dxsisil was VERY generous financially in wanting to provide a large amount of decorations and supplies for ds/ddil's reception, and she was also very generous with her time. Dniece is now in what appears to be a very serious relationship with a young man whose family lives in Big City about 100 miles away from us, and who, like dniece, will have friends all over the country most likely -- he is a military academy graduate & has been stationed in several cities across the USA since doing his term overseas. Dniece, having attended two colleges now and being in a sorority, has all these sorority sisters to "keep up" with, who apparently have had huge weddings that dniece has been a bridesmaid in. It will just be very interesting to see how this all plays out. I am pretty sure nothing is in the plans for another year or more, as dniece still has a year of medical school.
Oh -- sending good wishes to
LordM, too! Hope he feels better soon!
So -- anyway -- I know no shortcuts... I have no wisdom...
I have just been spinning my wheels around here for the past seven years, it would appear.
I DID get a burst of enthusiasm last night, and decided that since I am soooo off track at the moment, I am going to try a new tactic this week. It is my hope that I can spend a minimum of 15 minutes in EACH zone area for the next two weeks, and then start Round Two fresh. I know * LIFE * will get in the way -- for example, tomorrow is the dreaded ironing day... dgd will likely spend the night Wed. night and I'll be busy with her Thursday till after speech therapy... and Friday we will be going to Nashville... but STILL. 15 minutes. SURELY I can find 15 minutes a day to get myself back in the swing of things.
In preparation for ironing, I have some of dh's clothes in the washer right now.
He is in the shower, having stayed home from church with what he suspects is hemorrhoid pain. (TMI?) He feels miserable.
He IS a tiny,
tiny bit happier however, since the unwanted tickets have sold! We still lost about $100
-- approx $50 fee to S tubhub for buying and then again for selling -- but * whew * it could have been a lot worse.
Rose, I wish sooo much that we would just stay on standard time all year. There are sooo many people wanting to stay on Daylight Savings Time -- my dmom prefers it, actually -- but do these people not realize that when we tried that twenty years or more ago, we had children arriving at school in December in the DARK??? Putting little kids on school buses in pitch black dark is NOT a smart idea, IMHO. The days are going to naturally be longer in the summer... who cares if the sun sets at 8:45 or 7:45? I'm just thankful I'm no longer teaching and it doesn't really affect me one way or the other, but I know it was sooo hard to re-adjust every spring when I was, and had to try to fall asleep an hour "earlier" than my body thought I should, and then get up while it was still dark.
Cathy -- mmmmm.... scalloped potatoes... I LOVE scalloped & au gratin potatoes. DH... not so much, so I never prepare them. I KNOW,
LadyM -- I should fix them just for myself, but it's hard to do something like that for one person without having a lot of waste, isn't it?
Cooking breakfast ahead is a good idea,
Nancy.
(((
Twins))) Hope you feel much better soon! Very smart to stay home and stay quiet and rest. Everyone is in such a panic about the flu right now that it is a perfect excuse to keep yourself hibernating at home!
BookSaver is right -- prevention is probably just practicing stuff we already knew we should be doing. Like the FB memes about what were people using instead of soap beforehand???
BTW -- we dispensed with shaking hands and greeting one another at church today. Preacher told us all to just wave at one another.
Good to see
Harriet popping in! We miss you when you don't get a chance to catch up!
Dh says he is going to Wmart with me but hmmm... he sure does seem like he feels terrible. I certainly hope it is nothing more than hemorrhoids. He had blood work done (required by cardiologist since he upped his bp med) and his creatinine (sp?) & urea nitrogen are both high. That is kinda scary to me -- the urea nitrogen was about twice what it should be, I think. And of course, HE will NOT call the doctor -- "if the doctor needs me, he will call ME." * SIGH * BIG SIGH *
Must go... dozens of things to do...
But I've already shared with ya'll that I believe my Sun afternoons are often in need of naps for social reasons as much as genuine physical nap-needing reasons.
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