Do you Beleive?

I do. Its getting to be Halloween. when we think of halloween, we think of ghosts, goblins, witches and scary stuff like that. We buy pumkins and carve them up, clean out the insides and light it with a candle. Then we display these carved up scary heads in our windows and yards. As it gets dark, our own little children dress up in disguises and beg from door to door for treats. I know it sounds like i dont like halloween, i do. i  just wanted to preface what i am going to tell you with that. it really has nothing to do with what im gonna talk about, but i felt like it.

anyway, back to what i was asking. do you beleive in ghosts? Some call them spirits. that is what i prefer to call them. its not like i see spirits all over, i dont. I only see or rather feel them sometimes. I cant really see them the way that you would see a person standing in the room with you. the only way i know to say this is to say I feel them with me.

when we moved here, there was a presence. My five year old son refused to go into the room we were going to set up his bed. he said he wasnt going to sleep in that room. He demanded we moved his bed. i didnt  usually give in to his demands at that time, but i did that time. i figured it was just a room.

then, as time went on, i started feeling like i wasnt alone, when i was. there were certain parts of the house this was stronger. Every time i would go into the garage, i just knew there was someone there with me. I couldnt wait to get back in the house. i was scared to turn my back out there, but what was i turning my back to, i was alone.

My older son confided in me one day. there was a small ghost child that would tease him as he got ready for school. he would dart in and out of the room, just out of eyesite before my son could get a good look at him. he knew he was there.

John has told me things, on his own, when i never told him what i saw or heard or felt. Alex and Andy told me things the same way. I couldnt go into the whole detail of this in this post, it would take too long. I no longer have these issues with these spirits. I had to ask them to leave.

Now, after reading this you may think i am just a little on the looney side, but im not. really. my life doesnt revolve around this stuff, but its been on my mind latley. probably because of halloween. there are a few other things that I have experienced, but i dont talk about them. I got tired of the strange looks when i did.

so now i ask again. do you beleive or have you ever experienced a bit of the paranormal? would it scare you if you did. im just wondering. you dont have to say, i am just curious.

Like draggin around the floor

Ok, she barley moved tonight and carry anns comment was right on. i think the total 15 score she got was too much. Last week we lost toni Braxton, and she is still here. she sucks. please go and vote, but not for her. it is now insulting to the other dancers i my opinion. they havent done hip hop yet, but i hate to see what she is going to not do. please, dont vote for cloris leachman.

Another Busy weekend

Hi Everyone! How ya doin? i finally get to sit down and relax a bit. Now i would like to fall asleep, but it s only 5:45 PM. too early still. That is about what time i woke up for the last time this morning. I woke up all night too. So I am struggleing to stay awake today. but I am going to maek it to 9 if i hav eto stick toothpicks in my eyeballs. ugh. can you even imagine that.

yesterday when i got home from work, instead of heading straight fo rthe shower, i headed for a saok in the tub. I lit a candle and put it in there, grabbed a nice glas of wine, poured in the last of my pretty smellin bubblebath and sank as deep as I could get into the hot water. when i got off work, it was one of those days that just made me hurt all over and the shower wasnt gonna do it for me. half way through my soak, the water got cool, so i drained part of it and ran more hot. I was in there for about an hour n a half. it was great.

this morning I got up and worked on my neices quilt. She is due to have a baby on the 27th of October. it is jsut a baby quilt so it doesnt take long to make. this is waht it looks like. that is the front folded over the back. it measures about 40" by a little less than a yard and half. Just right for a baby.

half way through it, i had to stop and clena the floors while John went to the store. when he got home, we went to Lowes and bought the rest of the stuff for the redo on the bathroom. we got new flooring, towel and tp fixtures and new lighting strip. it is gonna be so pretty. I think next weekend we are gonna look for new shower doors. I just cant wait to get it done. really, that bathroom is so ugly witha capitol U!

When we gotr back from lowes, i went stright in the sewing room to finsh that quilt. it is done and now i can send it off to my neice. I think it turned out really cute.

Well, dinner is ready. steak, shrimp, baked taters, bisuits, and wine. i made the biscuits and john did the rest.

ok, see ya later. and dont for get o not vote for cloris leachman on monday night.

WHAT THE HECK???????????????

Every week i have been watching DWTS and voting. this is the first year i have voted since the beginning. I never, never have voted for cloris leachman. she barley moves. she doesnt kick. she cant even move her shoulders, then she strolls around the floor after the dance like she is some kind of diva. it just drives me nuts. this is a dance competition for cryin out loud. Now, the second couple saved to dance, well fake it for her, next week is cloris leachman. who the hell is voting for her??/ is it the entire senior community in the us and canada??? this has to stop. we are getting to the end of this. not really quite yet actually. there are still eight couples left. 7 after tonight.  i dont know who got voted off yet, cus i wont go online or look at postings till after the show. i want to find out the same way the people on the east coast do, just like it was live. she has to stick her face in everything. cant we please come to a decision and start voting properly. cloris doesnt even compare. if i didnt like watching the other dancers so much, i would stop watching till she was gone.

can you believe this. i blog in the middle of the week cus cloris leachman is still on dwts. i am usually too tired, but now im frustrated so i am going on a campaign to get rid of cloris leachman. all you have to do is not vote for her. vote for anyone else on the show, you must vote. but not for her. if i knew how to put an x across her face and put it on here i would.

ok, thats it for now. nothing else is going on.

Weekend Ramblings

Hi again. just stopping in for my once a week chat. it seems it has come down to that point. I cant seem to stay awake during the week lately, so this weekend thing will have to do for me. I will try to remember this next time so I dont repeat myself again.

I know i mentioned earlier that we are going to redo the master bath in our house. I have price checked so many sink assemblies, and most of them are really nice. what i discovered is that the counter top of the sink is sold separately from the bottom cabinet. the signs may say 350.00, but that never included the top. that was an additional 200 to 250.00. So yesterday while we were at Costco, we bought the sink, along with the counter top and back splash for 400.00.  We also bought the faucet assembly. Next we will get the flooring, paint and other fixtures. I will take before and after shots, along with the work in progress. it should look nice when it is all done.  This is the sink we got, except it is a single.

Last night john and i went to a murder mystery dinner with my best friend at work. she was one of the first people to talk to me when i started there, and we have been friends ever since. she is one of those few people that dont want anything special from anyone. If you like her and are true and honest, she is the best friend you can have.  we have spent many many hours having breakfast, talking, and just enjoying each others company. last night was no different. as soon as we got to the dinner, everyone was suspect. who was gonna die, and who killed them. we took lots of notes, noticed everyone walking in and out of the room, and eavesdropped in every conversation we could. it was fun. Poor john, he just didnt understand how spazzy we got over this. In the end, i should have trusted my instincts. the last time we did this, i won a prize for picking the correct murderer. this time i went with rosas pick. i picked wrong.  the person i thought was the person who was the murderer. but dinner was good, the company was good, and we had fun. that was all that mattered.

we had a case sale at work this week. i went and picked up some chips for halloween since it is on a friday this year. i picked up a case of small bag puffs, and what i thought was regular ruffles turned out to be cheese ruffles. i only like regular ruffles, but so what. I intend to pass them out for trick or treat. I also bought a case of what i thought was bbq stax. it turns out the case was mixed. salt n vinegar and one other kind. we will probably end up giving these to someone also. i hate it when i make those mistakes. it was only 8.00 a case, so i cant really complain.

well, i better wrap this up. its getting kinda long. i need to go do some research and find out how to get the tile off the wall without tearing the wall apart. it would be better if we didnt have to replace drywall this time. so have a great week and  dont work too hard. see ya all later

Delema again

I havent been here for awhile again. its not that I am so busy, its that I am so tired. i dont know whats causing all this tiredness, but it is keeping me from doing much more than read emails and log off. I will at least try and post here once a week so my friends dont forget me.

anyway, i have a delema and i dont know what to do. we were invited by johns cousin who we havent seen in years, and years to here daughters wedding. it is a black tie event, which means we will have to go purchase new clothes, possible a new suit for john and definatly something for me. I wouldnt know these people if i passed them on the street. It is only the reception, but it is out of town and we would also have to rent a room, which they have arranged to have discounted room rates for the guests. we also have to buy the gift.

On the same day, my sister is having a party at her home just the next town over. all my family will be there, who i know, love, and havent seen for two years. we both would know any of them if we saw them on the street. I really dont want to go to johns family function for someone i dont know. I didnt mind though until i was told my sister was having a party on the same day. I just wonder how bad john really wants to go to that function. I suppose i should ask john and we could discuss it from there.

we are going to my sister n laws moms 80th birthday today. I do want to go to that, even though its two hours away. I adore that woman and would do anything for her. It should be fun. I am even putting on a skirt for her. I think it looks nice, but i will have to bring a different pair of shoes for later on. I think i will take a bunch of pics, have them developed and put them in an album for her. I bet she would like that. I did it for my sister before my mom passed, and she really liked it.

I have a feeling Im forgetting something, but I have to get going.

My Clean sewing room

I wish it would look like this all the time. when i start sewing though, it just gets out of control. see all the different sewing baskets on the shelves now, they all have stuff in them.

My filthy sewing room, before

this is the before video of my sewing room. the end is kinda messed up cus I thought I turned off the camera, but i didnt. that room was a mess.

Cleaned room and rain finally

I spent yesterday cleaning off and on in the sewing room. I threw away so much stuff that at one time I just couldnt part with. I had family circle magazines and a stack of martha stewart magazines that at one time i had to have. gone. I emptied three boxes of fabric into the drawers, kept one box of scraps in the box cus at one time they were being readied to make potholders. Im sure I will end up tossing them also unless carol wants them. I will have to call my sisters and see if they were working on this with mom. I dont know how to assemble them, so until then, there they sit. I also refilled one box with some items from my moms stuff that i cant yet part with, so until that day arrives, there it will stay. I also had a ton of those gift bags we get prezzies in. christmas, birhtday, friend, what ever. I checked to see if someone committed the crime of actually wriing on the bag or that little attached card. if it had writing on it, toss, if not, keep it but it went into the biggest bag. I now have a big bag og gift bags with no names on them. i wont be buying gift bags for a while.

 

 

 

 

 

 

There were some things I had no other place to put, so they have to stay in the sewing room. I can live with that. I tried to do a video to show you, but it took too long to download. Ok, so those are the before, and this is the after. I now know I have three unfinshed projects I have to do to get them out of the way, so I will try to do those first.

 

 

 

 

 

 

You cant tell so much from this  shot, but it really is much better. monday morning the ablounger will be back in the middle of the floor, but the floor will be clean at least.

This morning we woke up to rain. finally. it wont last long, but at least its a start. hopefully it was enough to get Haleys well running again. We used to be on a well, it sucks to have to watch the water in these very dry times. for those of you that did a happy rain dance for us, can you turn the record on again and keep it going for a while. 

I woke up this morning with the worst migrane. I havent had one of those, that intense, in i dont know how long. I think of lu when this happens cus we share the same pain in that respect. I took two migrane meds, sat in the shower until I ran out of hot water, then went back to bed. I am drained now. Lu knows what i speak of here. after one of those, you are drained. I think i will go work on that headless doll. it doesnt take much brain work and i can go as slow or as fast as I want. hope your having a great weeknd. see ya all later.

time for the sewing room.

I was gonna tear apart my sewing room last week, but i got tired. So today or this weekend i am gonna do the sewing room. a long time ago i posted this really cool blog, with pictures and everything about all the stuff i have in there. it was so organised and neat. I could get to anything by just reaching. I knew where all the books were, all my rulers, all my stuff. If you walk in there now, you are greeted by the vacuum, the ablounger, scraps all over the floor and a bag of batting pieces. it is a mess. under my cutting table I have boxes and boxes of fabric i brought home from my moms stash. I also have about six or seven sewing boxes. some of them are old, some are new, but all of them have stuff in them. I also have another sewing machine and a serger. there is a ton of stuff crammed into that room.

I think what i want to do is clear off the shelves that are currently holding a bunch of collected crap and arrange the sewing boxes on it. on of the boxes if a tin plaid box. i think it may have belonged to my granny or my aunti mable, both now passed on. since my mom is also passed, i cant ask her. maybe one of my sisters would know who originally owned it.

 I think i will put all the fabric from the boxes into the drawers of the dresser in there. I have gone through this fabric before, and even thrown some out believe it or not. this should nt be that difficult, but its still my moms fabric and well, you know how i was with my mom. most of you anyway.

anyway, that is my agenda for this weekend. I must get that room cleaned. maybe if I start with the fabric and work towards the shelves, i will have empty boxes to put some of the crap on my shelves into. I will be taking before n after photos just so I can be sure and guilt myself into getting it done. So Im off. here i go. im gonna post this, turn one Aretha franklin and get to work. see ya all later when the room is clean.