Blog #205...2019

I had off today! I know!  I forgot that I had today off too until I clocked in yesterday and saw that I had  put in for today off. Then I was happy! It made working until late last night worth it!

I didn't get up until after 8AM this morning!  It was much needed and much deserved.  I accomplished everything I planned to do today except for reading which I plan to do this evening.  We gave Bella a much needed bath and I voted (early), got some bills taken care of, we went out to eat a nice lunch and I got to sing quite a bit on Singsnap.com.  All in all, a great day!  We did break down and turned the heat on.  It is only 50 degrees out right now and it just was too cold inside for us (mostly me) to stand it.  So it is nice and warm too!

Oh I did a load of my cold wash too and brought the racks in from the back balcony to the bedroom since it is rainy, cold and wet.  I want the clothes to dry. :)

I took these pictures at random times and never posted them so I thought I'd post them now.

Can you spot the bird in this picture? (close up further down in post)

Expecting daughter with her dog (think mink stole)

Cute little flowers popping up out back on Oct 16th

My new diamond stud earrings :)

My new ring made out of the stud earrings I didn't care for

Close up of the bird on the wire

Another photo from Oct 16th

Blog #204...2019

This is going to be really short.  I spent the weekend with the youngest, her hubby, their furkids and her growing baby bump. :)  She is so cute!

Anyway I had Friday off so I did a few things in the morning and then headed out around 2 PM to drive down to their place.  I took the toll road thinking it would save me time, but missed the exit, so I went a bit out of my way but I got there okay.  :)

Had a nice weekend eating out and shopping.  Who doesn't like that right? :)
I'm beat though now so I'm hitting the sack early.

Will write soon.

Blog #203...2019

Just writing a short post since it has been a while.  I've been working a lot but also had a nice lunch on Saturday with the ladies club I started and yesterday 5 of us went to see 'Judy'.  It is a movie about Judy Garland.  I really didn't know much about her other than she starred in The Wizard of Oz.  She really had a rough life as a child star often taking pills to sleep, pills to avoid getting fat, etc.  Then there was the alcohol.  It was a sad movie.  I don't really recommend it unless you are prepared to feel sad at the end.  I like movies with happy endings!  I plan on looking for a light hearted movie for the next one we watch.  I'm glad to know more about her though and how hard life was for child actors back then.  It was very demanding! The movie was based mostly on facts and it was very eye opening.

The weather is still up and down though it is suppose to be more seasonal the rest of the week.  Yesterday's high was in the low 90's, but today it was more like a high of 80 degrees.  There was a cold front and storms that came through the area around 2:30AM this morning.  I'm just glad we don't live in the Dallas area where an EF3 tornado hit there.  There were 2 others near there as well just not EF3s.

I am glad we got some rain though to help with the drought we are in.

That's it for now.  I survived another Monday.

Blog #202...2019

I had off work today which was nice.  I forgot to tell my walking buddies though so I went ahead and got up to walk at my normal time.  It is still dark at 7:00AM!  I can't wait until we change the clocks so that we can get a little more light for a while.  The only nice thing about walking this morning was that a few folks have Halloween decorations up outside so that was nice seeing some lit up witches and ghosts.

I relaxed today.  I got caught up on some reading and we binge watched some episodes of Mad Men.
That was nice.  I almost thought it was a Saturday.  Tonight was Thai night.  I haven't had that in a while and it was good.  I wasn't quite sure if my favorite restaurant was still open on not but it is.  Back in May it was closed for a while.   I just thought of it the other day and so we drove over there and yah!!  Got my Thai fix!

Oh I also picked up my stud earrings.  They are very pretty!  I haven't put them in my ears yet but I plan to tomorrow.   I also firmed up that design for my pinky ring so that will be a few weeks from now.  I will consider it my Christmas present.  Lol!  Oh for those of you who wonder why I'm getting another ring when I have plenty of paparazzi, none of them fit my pinky. So there! :)

Blog..#201...2019

Wow.  The weather is really strange these days!  It has been hot all summer and even fall until yesterday.  It got up to the 90's on Thursday and yesterday the highs were in the 50's. Yes the 50's!!
It got down to the 40's at one point during the wee hours yesterday.  I had off (though I worked Thursday) and I had already told my walking buddies that I wasn't going to get up at 6 AM.  Thank God! :)

Hubby was going to get me up at 7 AM and when he called me it had already been raining since about 3 AM and it was windy and very cold!  So for once, and in rare form, I skipped my walk and didn't do any exercise yesterday (or today - though Saturdays I never do).  But I have no regrets.  It was way too cold and rainy to walk.  I don't want to get sick from the huge temperature changes either (not that I would), but walking in that would have not been the smartest thing to do. I wonder if my friends walked.  I'll find out on Monday.

Today was still cold compared to Thursday but it did eek up to the low-mid 60's.  We managed to not turn the heat on at all though I dressed in layers. LOL.   Tomorrow it should be a little warmer yet and then back up to the 80's.  I am not ready for instant Winter yet so I hope that was just a fluke cold snap.   Brrrrr.....

Blog #200...2019

Okay today is officially the 282nd day of the year and I'm only at post 200 but I'm still happy with that given how busy things are at work. Today I had off. Yes!!   Started off early at 6AM  because I forgot to tell my walking buddies that I had off.  But that's okay. Gave me even more of a day off.

After washing up and breakfast, hubby and I headed out to do a few chores.  Well I guess I should call it shopping.  I got a new lap top at Office depot.  It was a middle of the road system and hopefully will last me a few years at least.  I also got some copies made.  We had to go back later to get the laptop because they were installing some tech support software and Office for me as they were upgrades but included in the package. We both thought that was weird but when I get laptops from Dell I pick out what software we want and it gets installed before they ship it.  We stopped at Michael's too and got some fall decorations for the balcony.  Here's how they look.  Also we got a few flowers to add to the trellis.  I like it and think it looks pretty real.

Anyway after the first trip out we came home and grabbed the earrings hubby had given me (at least 3 years ago) as I'm having them made into a ring instead as they were too big for me (I wanted tiny diamond studs that I could always leave in my ears, and have a 2nd hole also and it was hard to get the 2nd pair in with those in). I also wanted to get some tiny stud earrings so anyway we got some things in the works. I'm having the original studs put into a pinkie ring.  I don't know the exact setting yet but was thinking about something like this.

After that we came back home and I did some things on my to do list.  I filed our quarterly sales tax, ordered more vitamins and started the procedure to get the minimum IRA amount I need to take out from my inherited IRA.  Those were the things on my list and I'm glad I got them done.  Then I took some photos for hubby for singsnap.  They have a photo gallery section, but I've never added any.  I just go there to sing when I can.  I didn't do any singing today but maybe Friday. 

I also did 2 loads of laundry before we went back to get the laptop.  Overall a nice day and got a lot accomplished. And I easily got my 10,000 steps in today. Right now I'm at 12,187.

Post #199...2019

The weather man has been teasing about a cold front finally coming through and cooling down these 90+ degrees days but then it doesn't happen.  Tomorrow it is actually suppose to start out in the 50's and the high is 76 degrees.  That will be a shock to my body I'm sure.  So if that is the case I will be actually wearing leggings and a jacket tomorrow instead of shorts and tank top.  We'll see ;)

Had a great lunch yesterday with my Empty Nester's group.  There were 6 of us and it was a nice time. I actually was the first one to leave so that I could get back to work.  Yes I worked this weekend but today was only half a day.  And I have off a few days this week too as part of my using up vacation time so that I don't lose it.  I am looking forward to being off!  I want to look into getting a new laptop for in my office.  The one I have in there now is so small and was so cheap it doesn't even have enough disc space to upgrade to windows 10 and it constantly is jamming up like when I try to open Facebook, etc.

Hubby made a ramp and seating area for our dogs out of a ramp (which I bought online) adding a 2nd section of ramp and the top portion for them to sit on.  This is for the back balcony that we had screened in in the spring. So far only Bella has gone up and down it. She always wants to see outside and since we have that half wall there now she can't see anything so this gives her a way to see out back anyway.  I was a little worried that she would be afraid to go up it since it is pretty high up for a little dog, but she took to it the first time!  Here she had already been sitting up at the top and went exploring down the ramp and then right back up.  Ditzy may be trying it out next as she seemed curious enough.  I hope they can share that space.   Our older sheltie shows no interest which I expected that from her.

Post ..#198...2019

Hello October already?!   Why yes it is!  But it is still getting into the high 90's around here.  Maybe next week it will start cooling off.

I feel like I need to apologize for not blogging but in my defense I worked over 70 hours last week.  So that did not leave much extra time considering I kept up with the walks, sleeping at night and exercise too. :)

Sunday was hubby's birthday and we went to visit the youngest and her hubby and all go out for a mid day dinner.  It was very good and it was nice seeing them again.  My youngest is due to have their first baby the end of January and she is definitely showing at this point.  It looks like she has a small volley ball under her shirt. LOL.  She looks great otherwise and wouldn't really know she is pregnant if not for her belly area.  Some gals start puffing up everywhere but not her.

Hump day over already this week.  So that makes tomorrow Friday 'eve once again. This year is just flying by.