April 26-30 I Should Post Some More Pictures

May27

Geez, am I ever gonna be caught up catching up? Apparently, this week was mostly about me. Three of the five pictures are of myself. It’s kind of interesting that the better I feel emotionally, the more often I am willing to take pictures of myself. Not surprising, but lots of things that one understands on a knowledge level are interesting when applied on a personal level. Let’s hope that all these self portraits don’t leave me wishing I had purchased the extended service plan for my crackberry.

April 26 Silly Me I just love this picture. I snapped it to make That One smile, because he was having a rough day. Those of you who are friends on facebook will recognize it. And by the way, I decided last night that I am totally buying this hat, if it’s still at the store. And also another one, which I haven’t shown you yet. Time to live some dreams, people!

April 27 Crafty Me I finished another hat. I was sure this one would be too small for him, but knitting stretches. Apparently, it stretches a lot.

April 28 Amish Cockscomb I think I spelled this right. Correct me if I am wrong, please. My Grandmother used to grow this in her flowerbeds, always red. This year, for the very first time, I saw it in other colors: this light pink, and also in cream. I wonder if the other colors have always existed, or if they have engineered them through selective breeding. Err, selective cross-pollination. Err, screwing with nature.

April 29 Working Me Yes, this is what I look like out in the garden shop. It’s not quite fashionable, I know. But so far, my crow’s feet aren’t any deeper, my face is still white, and my hair in undamaged. I’ll take it.

April 30 Leeeeezard! Yet another lizard. Hey, I shoot what I see, k? K.

And, yay, a post without drama!

April 21-25 Guess what? More pictures!

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April 21 Dead This, my friends is the pile of dead plants that I pulled out of the garden shop when I returned from my two weeks out of their. Clearly, someone needed to check into life insurance rates for them while I was gone. They expired from a lack of water. I continued to pull plants for about a week. At one point, I set up an intensive care nursery for the ones I thought I could save, but my manager said we didn’t have time for that, and the plants I was nurturing were thrown away. Her call, store’s loss.

April 22 DaBaby visits On the 22nd, Mama was in town and brought DaBaby by to visit me. It was lots of fun getting some midday hugs and kisses. I miss my kids a lot when I am at work.

April 23 Lizard! If you look closely in the middle of this picture, you will see a wee reptile. I see them quite often at work, but they rarely remain still long enough to take a good shot. Today, I won.

April 24 Fire the Third Hmm, they still didn’t believe me. This was the day I cleaned the living room. It still looks pretty good. 😉

This was also the night of catharsis. I continued to cry up until this night, and most of the way through it. I cried for a lot of reasons this night. For loss and betrayal and the grown up me and the little girl me and for my children and it just went on and on and on. But when I woke up on Sunday I was a different woman. Actually, I was my old woman again. The depression that had plagued me for a very long time (years) had lifted somewhat, and that laughing, fun loving girl I used to be was clawing her way to the top. Somewhere in that night, I faced the ugly truth that a lot of really bad crap had happened to me in my life, and I grieved for it, and I tried to let it go. That’s not to say I’ve been completely perky since that point, but when I get down, it’s for a couple of hours, not….for the forseeable future. I can deal with that!

April 25 Hello Old Me You may not be able to see it in my face, but I sure can!

April 1-April 5 More Various Pictures

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So, I did some more things.

April 1 Looks like I went to Taco Bell for lunch on the 1st. Well, actually, my coworker went, and we ate in the breakroom, but whatever.

April 2 On the second, I went to the hospital right after work to see Granny, and realized I hadn’t eaten all day. A tasteless chicken sandwich and tasteless strawberry shortcake was dinner. I usually like the shortcake from here, but…….yeah, no. Sigh. Not this night.

April 3 I went to ACMoore on my lunch to look for yarn for That One’s mom and sister. They want hats. HA! I didn’t find what they wanted, but I scored several balls of each of these for myself at just $1.99 each. Yay me! And I still get to go to another yarn store looking for their stuff. Yay me again.

April 4 No picture. Early morning “you need to come to the hospital” call instead. So I did.

April 5 Picture I took in the bathroom of work to replace the one I had taken outside that That One declared “too frowny”. You can tell by the white shirt that I was in the pharmacy instead of using my box cutter to open garden shop freight.

Blogging to do!-March 23

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So, one of the things I am trying to do is go through my cubbies. I have a lot of stuff in them, and I need to sort it. Mostly I need to blog about the books and such and then decide whether to keep them or pass them on. This is the stack I moved to my bedside bench on the 23rd. It remains pretty much untouched because I was in the middle of a book and wanted to finish it before I started reading anything else, because it is in high demand. How is it that no book is interesting until I pick it up and then it becomes a must read for everyone else, hmmmm?

I had intended to do one cubby each week, but there are several novels in this stack, so …umm, it will be a while before I get to another one.

Like Coming Home-March 17

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Tuesday found me working in the garden shop again. I absolutely love working in the garden shop. It’s pretty autonomous back there, with not much politics and an opportunity to just get the job done. I put out freight and I water plants and when there are no customers I sing. It’s the one place in the store (aside from the pharmacy, which we control right there in it) where they keep the air conditioning on in the summer, so that’s a real nice perk, too.

I really enjoy learning about the different plants. There’s a great big Ortho book back there, over 1200 pages with information on different flowers, shrubs and trees as well as the pest and diseases that weaken or kill them. When I am not actually working, I get to study.

Last flowers planted

Jul18

Now that is a totally mundane title, but it does tell you exactly what this post is about. Yesterday, I planted the last flowers I intend to plant for the year. I moved Lantana from it’s middle of the yard outgrowth to a spot in the flowerbed, and I planted the two live Sweet William plants on the other side of the same bed. The mixed flowers I planted in the other bed are coming up now, and hopefully I’ll see a few blooms once it gets cool enough to enjoy the evenings sitting in outdoor furniture. Right now, it’s too blasted hot to do very much of that. Unless your air conditioner is broken like mine has been. Then outside is definitely better than in! Much better.

Organizing Myself

Sep26

I have been collecting post ideas for my various blogs for a while, and tey were all stacked in an unruly pile on my desk, where I could never find the specific page I needed when I was ready to blog. As a result, I have missed blogging about some things I thought were pretty important, because the event passed and I forgot about it until it was too late.

I’ve done a couple of things to help with that problem. One, I have started using Google calendar and I also bought this nifty thing:

It holds my idea articles, dividing by blog topic, and I can find just what I need when I need it. And it looks perky sitting on my desk. I like perky.

And there we have it: one more way I’m trying to keep my sanity.

Tidbits

Sep20

I finally caught up on my feed reading this morning, and Have a few things to share with you. There would have been more, but my system crashed and I lost a lot of the pieces I wanted to go back and read and share.

Need a good laugh? Check out these 10 amazingly simple home remedies. You will likely bust a gut. No remedy for that.

Think you have bad financial habits? Find out which one is the hardest habit to break.

That’s it. I spent the rest of the evening taming this:

and getting my work schedule into Google Calendar. Doesn’t a clean desk just feel so good?

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