Today's playlist

This, that and the other

Apparently I missed quite a day at work on Friday. The wind made for some very challenging situations with the planes to say the least. A colleague and friend was telling me that it would have been interesting to have me take some pictures and I was thinking, yea right, I would probably get blown away trying to take pictures.....

I have finished another cap and am now working on a 3rd. These are all gifts and then I will be on the cap karma mission. I also want to make a panta for myself.

I need to start planning some stamping/card projects for valentines day. We're having a session to make cards for soldiers to mail overseas and I better start getting those projects planned. It was very popular when we did it last year and so I was asked to have it again this year. Course this year there is some help in coordinating it (very thankful for that!), so all I have to do is the creative work. Now if I can find someone to help prepare the supplies.....

Will this writers strike ever end? I really do miss having some television to watch. No 24 yet. I was looking forward to the Sara Connor Chronicles and it hasn't started yet. I've been catching up on movies lately, there are some good ones out on DVD - The Republic, Live Free Die Hard, Pirates, Bourne, Shrek 3 (hilarious!!!!).

My mind appears to be rather scattered today and my writing abilites are on the suckie side. So I should quit while I am ahead....

Do we really need this much rain????

The area has been pounded by 3 storms. The first one hit Thursday evening - which wasn't so bad. But the one that came through early Friday morning was one heck of a storm - the wind was so strong! I didn't sleep much because of all the noise and at one point I was wondering if the house would get blown a part. There were power outages all around and the power here went at around 7am.

For those who don't park their cars in their garage or don't have automatic door openers, you have not had the pleasure of trying to get the garage door open without power with a system designed to work with power. Not fun! And for the veritcally challenged, it is even more so of a problem. Also, wood garage doors suck! With the rain getting blown the way it was, the garage door got a good soaking and is weathering/swelling - which makes it want to stick in the tracks. So you can just imagine the challenge of getting that open.

The power came on about 1am, making it for a long and cold day indoors. The house phone line died for some reason (I have an old fashioned corded phone just for this reason). Few people realize that their phone is supposed to work without power but with all the technology added in, the souped up ones do not, but a basic one will. Course now that also depends on what type of phone service you have. Course as mr. murphy would have it, the cell phone was low as well and eventually died. The propane lantern purchased years back for just this scenario came in very handy and was very bright - no heat though. It got so cold, i could see my breathe. The fire was going for a while but eventually all the wood logs that could be burned were used up....

Why is it that we must have all this weather with the rain, can't it just rain - a peaceful, quite rain? The kind of rain where you can use your umbrella without having to worry about it flipping over or getting caught in the wind. The kind of rain that falls vertically. It exists, I have seen it.

But enough about the rain. The horizon is clear right now and the sun is poking through the clouds.

Started the exercise program again. 30 mins on the treadmill.

Happy New Year

It has been a really long time since I've posted or paid any attention to this blog. Hope to be better this year.

I've been spending much time online flickring and doing other things. Writing was never quite my thing but will try to keep this and Cap Karma up.

So it's the first of the year and I suppose some resolutions are in order.....

1. Get fit - must maintain and exercise program, I have for the last 2 years started but have not maintained a program but hope this is the year I will stick with it.

2. Work on my organizational and procastinating problems, ie cleaning up and keeping the place tidy!

So I think those 2 are pretty tall orders and will keep it at that but also hope to learn some new things this year, read a few more books and possibly start planning my second career/back to school...... (can't even get myself to think about it!!!!!).