I have started the packing. It hasn't been a whole lot. Yesterday I packed up my desk and a box of CD's and DVD's. Sadly, even taking a light box out to the living room to stack it made me short of breath. I don't know how I will get through it all and it doesn't help that I am not at all excited about it...it just depresses me more.
But, whatever...I'm not going to whine...I wouldn't want to bother someone by reminding them that I am not 100% and am still limited in what I can and can't do. I am getting really tired of people telling me how I should feel or act. I know it's not very healthy, but I'm getting to the point where I just don't want to talk to anyone and I would like to just pack up and move away from here. I can't take it anymore. I really need to just cut the negative, non-supportive, and bossy (that doesn't include my one friend who is bossy to everyone by nature) people out and not talk to them anymore. It's not good for me...I talk to them and then I am in a pissy mood for hours and get upset...which then leads to chest pains if I can't get control of it and calm down. I'm also getting to the point where I'm just so over everything that I don't care anymore and I just feel like getting rid of EVERYTHING. I am just so apathetic these days. I don't even care about shopping. I spent the entire day in Gainesville shopping on Sunday and all I bought was a CD that I didn't even know if I wanted to buy (I did want the CD...just didn't know if I wanted to buy it if that makes sense) with a gift card I got for my birthday.
Anyhow. I'm still not sure what to do with my room. I ordered a tan-ish carpet so it will go with whatever I choose. I think I want something cheerful (to help offset the oft-pissy mood). Something either slightly beachy/palm tree or with crisp, calming, and cheerful color. Those colors will also match my bathroom. My mother bought my sink/cabinet and vanity today. It's a light natural wood color and the doors are the slotted ones (think shutters)...it's very Tommy Bahama feel and I am getting a flooring for the bathroom that is slightly textured and looks like bamboo. I'm a little excited about the bathroom.
As I was looking at my apron fabric I got a good idea. I don't have the patience or a quilting machine to make myself a comforter, but what I can make in about an hour would be a duvet cover!! I could then have a couple of options that I could change out. I was actually thinking that my favorite apron fabric (the green paisley) would make a really pretty duvet and brighten up the room. I also found a pretty damask on Sunday that has a really pretty citrus green pattern on a white background. I don't know!!!!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Moving
It looks like it's going to happen after all. My mother is closing on her new place on Wednesday and they have already started cleaning up the place. I'm not looking forward to it...my new room is basically the size of my freakin' shoe closet now!!! Ugh!! I just finished the stupid shoe closet too!!! I'm not even going to go into it...it gave me chest pains for four days when I first saw the place. It's just so frustrating not being able to go back to work. I sure hope the cardiac rehab helps!!!
I'm really worried about my cat, though. He's never lived anywhere else and he is very finnicky! I guess as long as I am with him, he'll be ok though. Mom used to bring him to the high school my senior year (Mrs. Barnes begged for him) and Wal-Mart in her purse when he was a kitty, but that was a LONG time ago and he didn't stay that social and calm for long. He'll be 12 years old in August.
I'm really worried about my cat, though. He's never lived anywhere else and he is very finnicky! I guess as long as I am with him, he'll be ok though. Mom used to bring him to the high school my senior year (Mrs. Barnes begged for him) and Wal-Mart in her purse when he was a kitty, but that was a LONG time ago and he didn't stay that social and calm for long. He'll be 12 years old in August.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Cupcakes, Apples, Pears, and Sewing
My new sewing box and my cupcake pin cushion. I've had the pin cushion for a while, but the sewing box is new, but they are so cute that I had to post pictures.
Monday, March 16, 2009
The Spice Girls, Odd People, and junk...
Since we are moving and I have already discussed my "spring cleaning" and purging in great detail, we are all familiar with the fact that I had LOTS of stuff to get rid of. So being back on my Altace and not feeling like death warmed over, we set out for the flea market to rid ourselves of these lovely items that have been gathering dust for ages.
I have lots of lovely clothes from Gap, Old Navy, The Limited, Ann Taylor, Ralph Lauren, DKNY, and others as well. Sunglasses from Kenneth Cole, Ralph Lauren, Nine West, Calvin Klein, etc. I also have some other nice stuff as well. I figure this stuff will be what goes first and I will be stuck with all the junk. Imagine my shock when everyone starts buying the tacky crap that mom dragged home from some yard sale somewhere!!
"Oooh! Look!! A shadow box for my bathroom!!"
"Ooh! Beat up Adidas sneakers!" (I feel bad that someone probably needed them that badly)
This one pair of shoes that I thought for sure I would have to throw out...sold for ten cents! The Adidas sneakers went for fifty cents.
On Friday this British guy came through and bought a bunch of VHS tapes I had. He didn't have his glasses, so I had to read the back of the box of some of them to him. The awesome Spice Girls movie, Spice World, was in the mix of these fifty tapes or so (yes...please keep your "what the heck are you doing with the Spice Girls movie" to yourself), so we had a discussion of the Spice Girls and each of them separately as well. This guy was at least in his fifties. It was very strange.
Some Indian guy came and bought all of my perfume and Bath and Body Works stuff...I hope it was for a girl friend or wife...
At the end of the day, I started giving away the stuff I REALLY DID NOT WANT TO TAKE HOME! Then I gave a bunch of it to another vendor that I have known for years!
It was an interesting weekend and I made about $200, so not too shabby for getting rid of junk.
I now have aprons to make and lunch to go to.
I have lots of lovely clothes from Gap, Old Navy, The Limited, Ann Taylor, Ralph Lauren, DKNY, and others as well. Sunglasses from Kenneth Cole, Ralph Lauren, Nine West, Calvin Klein, etc. I also have some other nice stuff as well. I figure this stuff will be what goes first and I will be stuck with all the junk. Imagine my shock when everyone starts buying the tacky crap that mom dragged home from some yard sale somewhere!!
"Oooh! Look!! A shadow box for my bathroom!!"
"Ooh! Beat up Adidas sneakers!" (I feel bad that someone probably needed them that badly)
This one pair of shoes that I thought for sure I would have to throw out...sold for ten cents! The Adidas sneakers went for fifty cents.
On Friday this British guy came through and bought a bunch of VHS tapes I had. He didn't have his glasses, so I had to read the back of the box of some of them to him. The awesome Spice Girls movie, Spice World, was in the mix of these fifty tapes or so (yes...please keep your "what the heck are you doing with the Spice Girls movie" to yourself), so we had a discussion of the Spice Girls and each of them separately as well. This guy was at least in his fifties. It was very strange.
Some Indian guy came and bought all of my perfume and Bath and Body Works stuff...I hope it was for a girl friend or wife...
At the end of the day, I started giving away the stuff I REALLY DID NOT WANT TO TAKE HOME! Then I gave a bunch of it to another vendor that I have known for years!
It was an interesting weekend and I made about $200, so not too shabby for getting rid of junk.
I now have aprons to make and lunch to go to.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Is this really necessary?
Ok, so I won't go into the Dr. visit stuff, but I was on the website for one of my meds tonight and saw this warning that I couldn't believe. I'm really glad they told me this because I would have NEVER known this otherwise!!
"Do NOT take ALTACE if you are allergic to ALTACE."
Yes...it does say this as the warning on www.altace.com. Do people really need to be told this??!! Caution: Coffee is hot!
"Do NOT take ALTACE if you are allergic to ALTACE."
Yes...it does say this as the warning on www.altace.com. Do people really need to be told this??!! Caution: Coffee is hot!
Friday, March 6, 2009
See...I told you they were stupid...
http://www.gainesville.com/article/20090306/ARTICLES/903060916/1034?Title=NCAA-gives-Florida-State-4-years-probation
NCAA gives Florida State 4 years' probation
The Associated Press
Published: Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State may have to forfeit some of coach Bobby Bowden's 382 wins and will be on probation for the next four years as part of its punishment for a widespread academic cheating scandal.
The Seminoles will have to give up two scholarships this recruiting season and one the following year. Other sports will lose scholarships and have victories — including three NCAA national championships in track and field — threatened.
The NCAA said 61 Florida State athletes cheated on an online test from the fall of 2006 through summer 2007 or received improper help from staffers who provided them with answers to the exam and typed papers for them.
The NCAA said the school must vacate all wins in contests in which athletes involved in the cheating participated. That could involve up to 14 football victories.
Florida State President T.K. Wetherell said the university would consider appealing any efforts to strip it of wins or titles.
"We did not allow anyone who we knew was ineligible to compete," Wetherell said in a statement from the school. "Our position throughout the inquiry was that as soon as we knew of a problem, they didn't play."
The 79-year-old Bowden, who has often stated he wanted to reach 400 wins before calling it a career, was not available to comment on the NCAA report.
The men's basketball program will lose one scholarship for two years and the women's program will be down two for two years. Other programs were hit with fractional reductions.
The cheating took place in football, baseball, softball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's track and field and men's golf.
The committee called the Florida State case "extremely serious" because of the large number of athletes involved, and cited unethical conduct by three former staff members and a failure to monitor by the university.
The cheating occurred mainly through online testing for a single music history course in the fall of 2006 and the spring and summer semesters of 2007. It included staffers helping students on the test and, in one case, asking one athlete to take it for another.
Florida State played in the 2007 Music City Bowl without two dozen players, including several starters. The Seminoles were defeated by Kentucky. Many of the same athletes were held out of the first three games last fall as part of their punishment.
Dennis Thomas, commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, said the infractions committee didn't consider the venerable Florida State coach when contemplating penalties.
"The committee does not get into whether or not you have a famous athlete or a famous coach or if a record is involved," Thomas said. "The committee adjudicates the facts."
Thomas said the school would decide which athletes were ineligible in which games, in effect determining what games it might have to forfeit.
NCAA gives Florida State 4 years' probation
The Associated Press
Published: Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. Last Modified: Friday, March 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State may have to forfeit some of coach Bobby Bowden's 382 wins and will be on probation for the next four years as part of its punishment for a widespread academic cheating scandal.
The Seminoles will have to give up two scholarships this recruiting season and one the following year. Other sports will lose scholarships and have victories — including three NCAA national championships in track and field — threatened.
The NCAA said 61 Florida State athletes cheated on an online test from the fall of 2006 through summer 2007 or received improper help from staffers who provided them with answers to the exam and typed papers for them.
The NCAA said the school must vacate all wins in contests in which athletes involved in the cheating participated. That could involve up to 14 football victories.
Florida State President T.K. Wetherell said the university would consider appealing any efforts to strip it of wins or titles.
"We did not allow anyone who we knew was ineligible to compete," Wetherell said in a statement from the school. "Our position throughout the inquiry was that as soon as we knew of a problem, they didn't play."
The 79-year-old Bowden, who has often stated he wanted to reach 400 wins before calling it a career, was not available to comment on the NCAA report.
The men's basketball program will lose one scholarship for two years and the women's program will be down two for two years. Other programs were hit with fractional reductions.
The cheating took place in football, baseball, softball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's swimming, men's and women's track and field and men's golf.
The committee called the Florida State case "extremely serious" because of the large number of athletes involved, and cited unethical conduct by three former staff members and a failure to monitor by the university.
The cheating occurred mainly through online testing for a single music history course in the fall of 2006 and the spring and summer semesters of 2007. It included staffers helping students on the test and, in one case, asking one athlete to take it for another.
Florida State played in the 2007 Music City Bowl without two dozen players, including several starters. The Seminoles were defeated by Kentucky. Many of the same athletes were held out of the first three games last fall as part of their punishment.
Dennis Thomas, commissioner of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, said the infractions committee didn't consider the venerable Florida State coach when contemplating penalties.
"The committee does not get into whether or not you have a famous athlete or a famous coach or if a record is involved," Thomas said. "The committee adjudicates the facts."
Thomas said the school would decide which athletes were ineligible in which games, in effect determining what games it might have to forfeit.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Hippies have come to town...
OK, so if I had been alive in the sixties I would like to say I would have been a hippie, but that's probably not true...I like being clean among other things. Anyhow, my mother had to take something to the laudromat today and as I am waiting for her to come back out this yellow VW Van pulls up (I love them...and this one was in really good shape!!). Anyhow, out of the driver's seat gets this guy with the necessary hippy beard and pony tail wearing...I kid you not...a tie dye Allman Brothers Band t-shirt and tosses his flip flops onto the ground to put back on (I think shoes are necessary for going inside). His girl gets out of the other side and has a Beatles tote bag (I love the Beatles!!). They are clean!! And her bag is new!! They are imposter hippies!!! When I back up, I am able to see the back of the passenger side front seat...she has a Burt (from Sesame Street) seat cover!!! These aren't Ann Arbor hippies...they were too clean and normal. :) Haha If I had been in Gainesville they would not have even gotten a second look or if I hadn't been so bored they probably wouldn't have either. It's kind of like my purple hair. I have these awesome purple clip in hair pieces. When I wear them in Gainesville I don't get a second look, but in Chiefland you would think I had a full head of purple hair!! They really aren't that noticeable and they are very tasteful. It's just funny. Of course, I always have like to do stuff like that to screw with people. :-P So, that's the end of my hippy encounter for the day. Happy Tuesday.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Raspberry Almond Tart
My latest "creation"...a Raspberry Almond Tart...finally got some use out of that tart pan! :) It's very yummy!!
Here's the recipe (http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Raspberry-Almond-Tart/Detail.aspx):
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup sugar, divided
- 1 cup butter or margarine, divided
- 3 eggs, divided
- 1/2 cup raspberry jam, divided
- 1 cup ground almonds
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract
- 1/2 cup confectioners' sugar
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
DIRECTIONS:
1. In a mixing bowl, combine flour, baking powder and 1/3 cup sugar. Cut in 1/2 cup butter until fine crumbs form. Beat 1 egg; add to mixing bowl and stir until dry ingredients are moistened. Press dough evenly into bottom and up the sides of 9-in. x 1-1/2-in. tart pan with removable bottom. Spread 1/4 cup of jam over dough. Cover with plastic wrap and chill.
2. Meanwhile, cream together remaining sugar and butter; stir in almonds and extract. Add remaining eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition; spoon filling over jam. Bake at 350 degrees F for 50 minutes. Cool in pan, then carefully remove sides from pan. Spread remaining jam on top. Combine confectioners' sugar and lemon juice; drizzle over the top.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
WTF is with American Idol??!!
There is NOTHING on TV and I'm cleaning and don't feel like digging out a DVD. I've never watched this show before except for the bad and crazy tryout shows...and those people were better than these 12 thus far!! How did these people ever make the show??!! They are awful!! I've heard better playing Rock Band...frankly, my craptastic Rock Band singing might possibly be just as good and let me tell you...that is pretty bad!!! I probably don't even sound good in the shower!! I'm just disgusted. Why do people watch this show? Yes, we have Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood, but has there been anyone else good on this show? I didn't like Clay. I didn't like Reuben. I didn't like Fantasia. Is that all? I also think Paula must be acting or flipping nuts and should ask Britney for her therapist's number (I secretly love Britney by the way...there I said it...I'm rooting for her to get normal again and Circus is in my car...I never like Backstreet Boys or 'Nsync though...I do have an NKOTB sleeping bag though).
Here's hoping one of these people doesn't make my ears bleed...
Update...Ok...so the Allison girl with the pink hair singing the Heart song was good. The country-ish guy was OK and the girl with the long blonde hair with the two year old was good too.
Here's hoping one of these people doesn't make my ears bleed...
Update...Ok...so the Allison girl with the pink hair singing the Heart song was good. The country-ish guy was OK and the girl with the long blonde hair with the two year old was good too.
Ugh! It's inevitable I guess...
...and I am not happy about it at all! We are moving. To a place I think is a dump as is and my mother is so flipping wishy washy about what changes she's going to make. She is almost through with the process...loan secured and signed, contract signed, ...just waiting for closing which will be within the next two weeks. At least the Brownstone in Ann Arbor was nice and historic once Molly Maid got finished with it. I think that perhaps this place is still infested with hippies and is not what I would call historic...just old. It looks like a bunch of hippies vomited in the place!
The only two good things I can say about this place, well three...It's next door to my favorite Grandma, one of my crazy friends and it's somewhat closer to town. I'm just so completely annoyed. I like my nice clean room and huge closets!! The room I am supposed to live in has paneling and I HATE paneling! I haven't figured out what to do about that. I can't just paint it because then you'll still see the grooves and I HATE the grooves. I thought of damask wallpaper, but now I don't know if I'll be able to afford that right away. Grr. I thinking a neutral damask wallpaper or getting that paintable wallpaper and painting it a bright white and bright blue. I want something clean and comfy to make up for the craptastic rest of the place.
I just don't need the stress. I'm going to end up having a flipping heart attack and it will be all her fault for putting this stress on me right now!! She gets these stupid ideas in her head and then it has to be her way RIGHT THEN. Her thing now is apparently wanting to own her own place. She's old and doesn't take care of herself or her health conditions...she'll be dead before she pays it off! It just pisses me off and I can't even really stand to be around her anymore without being completely disgusted. And I apparently can't up my meds yet because I am having problems with my blood pressure getting too low and almost passing out. $@&* I go back to the cardiologist in a couple of weeks. There better be good news because I am freaking tired of living like this...it's not living at all actually.
The only two good things I can say about this place, well three...It's next door to my favorite Grandma, one of my crazy friends and it's somewhat closer to town. I'm just so completely annoyed. I like my nice clean room and huge closets!! The room I am supposed to live in has paneling and I HATE paneling! I haven't figured out what to do about that. I can't just paint it because then you'll still see the grooves and I HATE the grooves. I thought of damask wallpaper, but now I don't know if I'll be able to afford that right away. Grr. I thinking a neutral damask wallpaper or getting that paintable wallpaper and painting it a bright white and bright blue. I want something clean and comfy to make up for the craptastic rest of the place.
I just don't need the stress. I'm going to end up having a flipping heart attack and it will be all her fault for putting this stress on me right now!! She gets these stupid ideas in her head and then it has to be her way RIGHT THEN. Her thing now is apparently wanting to own her own place. She's old and doesn't take care of herself or her health conditions...she'll be dead before she pays it off! It just pisses me off and I can't even really stand to be around her anymore without being completely disgusted. And I apparently can't up my meds yet because I am having problems with my blood pressure getting too low and almost passing out. $@&* I go back to the cardiologist in a couple of weeks. There better be good news because I am freaking tired of living like this...it's not living at all actually.
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