Should be

I should be mowing the lawn right now because its gone back to its wild jungle roots but I just can't seem to force myself to do it. Easier to ignore it, and hope the days of rain do not come to be that they are predicting for tomorrow until the weekend. I will need goats by then. Mowing the lawn means that I have to deal with the shed door which is currently boarded shut. Someone tried to break into it over the winter and cut the lock off of it but they could not open the door because water pools at the base of the door and my shed spends the best part of the winter with an ice barrier preventing it from opening. So I screwed a board over the door to keep it closed and thought I would deal with it later. Hello Later!!! In a perfect world I would hire a handyman to replace the plywood doors that have seen better days but I live in Linda land, not a perfect world, so I am ignoring the lawn, not dealing with the shed doors and blogging instead of working in my jungle yard.

I should be making puppets but I need to get some dark brown wool before I can move foreward. I find it astonishing that the amount of wool I have stashed in this house and yet it never seems to fail that I do not have the colour I need the most. Hmph. Friday is pay day so I will hop to the store and stock up.

I should be cleaning and purging in the sewing room. I look at it and think "meh", even if I just went through the magazines it would make a major difference. Those little suckers breed in this house when I am not looking, i swear it. I just get them purged and turn around and there a stacks of them again. I love them though. I don't buy a lot of them anymore but I do have friends how happily enable my magazine habit by recycling them my way.

I should be throwing the sheets that have been dumped on the dining room floor for a week now, into the laundry. I just can't care enough to do it. I should run the dishwasher, I should take the garbage out and I should vacuum the livingroom,,,,,,,,,,,,,, yeah none of that is happening.

Instead I think I will make a cup of tea, take it out side and sit on the veranda. That is all I want to do.

Toodles,
Linda

Another Weekend Finished

It was wet, overcast, damp and dreary, at least weather wise but it was a good weekend anyway. How can it not be a good weekend when it starts out with No Cook Friday?? Fun times as always. Then Saturday KitKat and I went yard saling. (KitKat is part of my No Cook group, I have always referred to her as S until now but she has three cats so KitKat popped into my head today as a blog name for her)

We has an awesome time. We missed having the Banker with us, as she usually comes on these trips with us but she was going to spend her day doing yard work for her Mom, then she and her Sweet Baboo were going for a motorcycle ride. They are going to ride out to BC soon so they are practicing endurance right now. Anyway KitKat and I hit the sales at 8:30 am and we did not part ways until 2:30 in the afternoon.

We managed a coffee break and a lunch in there but mostly we shopped. I love yard sales, I managed to find a laundry basket full of treasures for less than $20.00  I did not get around to taking pictures of it all but trust me, it was all good stuff. I got some pins to add to my brooch collection, two bread pans, a metal key to hang outside on the veranda, two cookie tins, a little planter box, a hook to hang on a door that will hand a number of things up, a ruby glass bowl, a pair of vintage plaques shaped like owls, a curtain rod, a Mexican blanket, a vintage linen table cloth with yellow roses on it, a crocheted runner, a black iron plate/picture stand, two old pictures made from the tiniest shells arranged to look like flower bouquets, two old pint milk bottles, a plaster piggy bank who looks like a little pig in overalls  that I am going to use as a door stop. Oh yes and a rubber singing, dancing birthday cake. I think that is it for what I managed to collect. It all cost me $19.50. Not bad for a days entertainment. I do not do this every week. I have little room in my house for stuff. KitKat got new curtains, new kitchen cabinet door pulls, a stone goose garden ornament, and a black iron piramid plant climbing thing that she can put in her yard and let a vine grow up. I don't know what they are called, a cage, an oblisk, an I don't know what but you have all seen them I am sure.

I saw ever so many things that I would have picked up for a cottage. I would so love to have a cottage, its among the top ten things that I would purchase when I win the lottery. When I get my cottage, I will be furnishing it almost entirely with yard sale finds. I would love to do that. I saw a perfect little cabinet that would have made a great tv stand, just needed to be painted and new door pulls. Ah well. I will have such fun when I get my cottage.

Today, I finally managed to get the kitchen sorted out, the laundry done and I recovered four dining chairs for Teddy Bear today. She called me earlier today and we went looking for material for her chairs and new curtains for her kitchen. She has decided on a paint colour and she has agreed to let us paint her kitchen cabinets so off to the fabric store we went to get some material.\

We found a lovely floral print that has blue, yellow and some hits of green. Her walls are going to a creamy yellow, the chairs are now the floral, the curtains will be a medium blue, and the cabinets a warm white. Its going to be lovely when its all finished. Then we will move on to the living room and then her bedroom. I did not get before and after pictures of the chairs but I will for sure show off the afters once we have the room finished.

I was so happy to be able to do the chairs for her. We got the material this afternoon and I had the chairs done by supper time. Simple, simple, simple chair pads to be covered. Easy easy easy. They look so nice and fresh now. I like to be able to help out my friends as I can.

Well I need to go deal with the laundry, then go remake the bed. Time for the flannelette sheets to be stored away for the summer and the percal ones to come out. I was going to do this last week but I chickened out. Tonight for sure.

Little Blessings

Back to work today, back to the same old routine, back to the walking track and back to eating healthy and taking my medication, (like I am supposed to). I have slacked off on some of this recently but I made myself a promise that today I would get back on track and be doing what I am supposed to be doing. In spite of the lazy, glutinous side of myself which wins a lot of my arguements on lifestyle, I do want to be healthy, I don't want to be fat for the rest of my life, I want to be able to move pain free!! I want to fit into the world. The only way to do that is work!! I get that!! No easy fixes, or miracles, just plain old work

So started today with the proper meals, the proper meds and back to the walking track.

This so looks worse that it actually is but this is my life now, I am old and decrepit 

It was soooooooooooo nice, a small blessing, no a large blessing, that walking today was relatively pain free!! Whoot!!! Thank goodness for the good pain meds the doctors can give you. My knee started to kick up on the last two rounds but that is nothing considering it used to hurt on the first round and be screaming by round 18. Pain reduction means I also have a reduction in my reluctance to actually go walking. I talked myself out of walking all last week, not good, I need to be in shape for Ireland. This will help me, actually, get to the walking track easier. I am working on my attitude about this, it needs to be positive and stay that way.

Speaking of the walking track, I actually lapped someone today. FIRST TIME EVER. How fast they were going in not important, what is important is that I was going faster than them!! I am usually the slowest person on the track. That is ok because there is more of me to haul around the track that everyone else there so I am ok with being slow. Better to be there and be slow that to sit at home, doing nothing but adding to the tonnage that is me. I can tell you I am feeling more than a little smug about lapping not just one but two women today. Nearly yelled "Booya" when I passed them but I refrained.

Meals are still tough but tonight I had left overs from the weekend and that was a blessing. I love not to have to think about cooking something. This is something I need to work on but its not an impossible task. Its means I need to be organized and less lazy about this cooking deal.

So blessings all over the place!! Its been a great day!! I feel like I am back on the right track. Just need to stay there and keep plugging away at it. Water on a stone baby, water on a stone!!

Toodles,
Linda

Show and Share

Since I did not have any plans to go anywhere this long weekend I decided I would putter around the house and do some fun things for myself. I was on the veranda a while ago and I was looking at this:

Its a old wooden crate that I use between these chairs as a sort of an end table. Just a place to put down a drink if you need to but its not pretty. and the top is not very big so I had this bright idea.

I made a tray top for it. Its removable. I even put some strips of wood on the bottom of it so it will not slip and slide around on the top of the crate.

I am pleased with the results. I am thinking now that I do need to paint the rest of the crate to clean it up and make it pretty.

Yep it definitely needs to be painted. I am thinking white will be nice.

Then I did something I have been wanting to do for some time. These are my house numbers and I like them. I like the font and the size but I wanted to jazz them up a tad

Off they came this weekend and I turned them into this:

I like this much better. Guess I need to wash off the dirt mark left on the wall when I moved the 2.

I was looking at the veranda after I hung up the house numbers again and realized I have quite the mosaic tile collection going on there.  I have another little birdhouse to make. Not sure where I will put it, it may go at the back of the house where I am planning to make a little patio to put the barbecue.

I was in a mosaic tiling frenzy this weekend. I did this as well:

I have a shed in the back yard and my ultimate plan is to hang this crescent moon on it along with four tiled stars. I have two stars made and two more to do. Here are the finished ones and the other two will be different sizes.

I just have to figure out how the heck I am going to hang them up but that is the plan.

Right now I am putting off making a trip to Walmart. I forgot to get cat food on Saturday and I am sure Minou will be convinced I have decided to let her starve if I don't go and get her something today. I just don't feel like going out of the house but I must. Maybe some coffee first then I will be up to facing the stores.

Toodles,
Linda


Update: Yes I got cat food, Madam is no longer in danger of imminent starvation but enough about her I have more DIY, well one more that I managed to get done this weekend. I got the mirror changed in the entry way. Its the first step in a two part process. Here is the before shot.

This is a night table left by the former owner of my house and her full length mirror as well. I painted them both black and stuck them in the entry way to have a place to put mitts and extension cords.  Then I found an old picture frame that I liked better so I wanted to put the mirror in it. The frame was originally gold but I painted it black thinking it had to match the night stand. Quickly, as is the thing in my house, I found I needed more storage space before I got the mirror cut and reframed. The night stand was too small so I found a chest of drawers to replace it. I decided against painting it black. I think it will be too dark  in my small entry. Today I finally got the mirror switched out.

I am thinking of painting the main body of the chest a creamy white, staining the top and leaving it unpainted, then I will paint the mirror to match the creamy white chest and antique it a little to show off the fancy bits on the frame that you cannot see as its so black. Then I need to get the entry way painted. I long to see the last of the shiny silver wallpaper.

Toodles again
Linda

Irish Supper

My dear friend The Hostess worked her usual magic in the kitchen and whipped up an Irish dinner for a select group that was so delicious. I was there, the Banker and her Sweet Baboo, Teddy Bear and the Hostess' Wonderful Man were gathered together for an evening of seriously good food, good wine, good beer, good conversation and lots of laughter. The Hostess cooked up this feast in connection with the Banker and I going to Ireland this year.

We received Irish Blessings, we recited limericks and we had just the best time. We dined royally on veggie mash (carrots and parsnips) lamb ribs cooked in wine, Irish stew made with lamb and Guinness beer, salad and two kinds of soda bread. One with raisins and caraway seeds, and one plain. The dinner was topped off with sticky toffee pudding with Irish whiskey cream. Yum Yum Yum. That woman can cook. I have never once gone to her home to eat that it was not straight up delicious.

I did not have my camera and I did not ask permission to use the photos she took of the food here, so you will just have to trust me that it was good. She should be doing a food blog to help those of us that are somewhat challenged in the cooking department. I can cook but I am not a GOOD cook and I would like to be. In my imagination I am but reality is something else.

It was a lovely evening with good people. I so enjoy smart conversation, good food, humour and spending time with people who are dear to me. Tis grand altogether!!

Toodles,

Linda

This Annoys Me

It annoys me and I cannot say anything about it because its a public street and you cannot tell people what to do when its a public street however much it makes me feel batshit crazy.  Here we go, with my petty little problem. This is what I see when I look straight out my front door...

That shiny black car is my neighbours car, they live right next door to me if you look left. They just drove up and parked. Okay this is what annoys me,

This is the front of their house, not a car in sight. So why park in front of my house??? Oh its nice to leave a spot for your potential company but really??????????? park in front of your own house. This spot will stay empty the majority of the time. If I happen to have someone stop by, they can't park in front of my house because the neighbours are already there!! They do this all the time.  Yes its a small thing and there is nothing I can do about it but it gets under my skin. I think I may have too much time on my hands.

Its also a neat trick they do in the winter when the streets are being cleaned. These neighbours or the ones two houses south will park in front of my house when the streets are being plowed , then sometime the next day dig the snow from the front of their car or at the back of the car, (depending on the neighbour,)  drive out and leave a god awful mess for me while  they happily park at their houses in the nicely cleaned space left by the snow plow. I could probably say something about that but I doubt it would do me much good. 

Maybe I have just been in the house too long today. Honestly inspite of the neighbours making me cranky, its been a lovely day. I will have some before and after photo's for you, hopefully tomorrow as I have been doing some fun projects about the house. I promised myself, since I was not going anywhere this long weekend, I would do some little fun project just for me. 

I hope you have been having a lovely weekend. I will also make a post about the wonderful Irish supper the Hostess made last night. Oh so yummy it deserves a post all on its own. Now I am off to clean up after the yummy supper I made myself tonight, cheddar cauliflower patties and ranch dijon chicken, with strawberries for dessert. Yes, yes I did actually cook!!

Toodles!!

Linda

Not Much To Say for Myself

Its true, I don't have much to say for myself. Not much has been happening around here that is even remotely blog worthy. The week is dragging, I am not feeling 100% but that will change soon. Been to the Doctor, got my self some new prescriptions and I have hope that I will start to feel more like the old me again, not this lump that wants to start into space and do nothing.

I have decided that I am going to do a few fun jobs on the long weekend. No big plans to go anywhere special so I am going to do some fun stuff ( to me) around the house. I will share pictures of what I have been up to once I get them done. If nothing else I have four quilt tops sewn and ready to be quilted. If nothing else I can always pass the time doing that.

So that is it, nothing special, nothing of interest just me, plugging along. Just wanted you to know that I am still here and still doing the bread and butter things of life. Ordinary, simple things that may be boring to someone else but its my life and I am ok with that.

Toodles,
Linda

Good News. Good Times, Ghosts and Gardening

Its been a wonderful weekend inspite of the fact that its a melancholy time for me. Reader's digest version of the reason my heart is a little heavy with sadness is this weekend was my Mama's birthday and its Mother's Day but she is not here for us to celebrate with. She would have been 90 this year and my oh my we would have had a big party for her. I am not going to dwell on that though, it will make me cry. So lets move onto other things.

Thursday night Mamabug came into town and a group of us went out for a get together after work because we never got to make a fuss when she left work. Ladybug stayed at home with Daddybug so Mamabug had the evening to her self. The good news is that she announced she is having a baby!!! I get another pretend grandchild!! I am so excited for them. She is feeling really good this time and everything seems to be going well. She looks so happy and healthy. What happy, happy news after the sickness and sadness of the last pregnancy with Doodlebug. I am happily starting to think of baby things and that I need to be making something for this little one. Oh such happy happy news. Baby is not due until November but I love the chance to think about making baby stuff.

Good times, on Friday night we had our No Cook group as always then instead of going to the coffee shop after we ate, we went up to S's place and gave her bedroom a good looking over, offered up decorating tips. She asked us for help as she wants to make changes and is lost as to what to do. The Banker and I LOVE this stuff so we were happy to have a look.  All of us gave suggestions and we have her bedroom figured out. We will be helping with the actual work to, not just giving advise. Its gonna look lovely, blue, green and orange all is sort of gentle dusty tones. I can't wait to see it finished.

Saturday I hopped in the car and headed to my Cousin's anniversary party. It has been so long since I was to a family get together. I was pleased to be invited and more than happy to go. They have been married 30 years so they renewed their vows and had a family barbecue afterward. Not many of our side were there, which was sad, but those that were, it was great to see them. It gave me a chance to see the new members of the family, see my only remaining Aunt and some cousins that I have not touched base with for some time. Busy and the Carpenter were there. Miss Mouse was home too, so she was able to come along. Lovely surprise. She had come home to spend Mother's day with Busy. They asked me to come home with them and as tempting as that was I decided to come back to my house that night so I would have today to get some stuff done.

Ghosts, oh my goodness the barbecue was peppered with ghosts. All my aunts and uncles, my Mom and Dad, who have gone, drifted around the edges of the gathering, there but not there, thought of , missed, much loved and always remembered. Before heading home I took a drive around the little town that was such a part of my childhood. It made me cry, my Uncle's store, my Grandmother's house, my Aunt's house, the Hall where we had so many happy family gatherings are all vacant lots now, except the hall which is a derelict, empty shell. The elevator still stands, that sentinel of the prairie that we watched for because it heralded the fact that we were close to Grandma's house. It too, is abandoned and left to fend for itself. The town is no more, two families of strangers live there now. I know things change but it still tugs at my heart that that part of my life is no more, its gone,family, friends, buildings and lives, all juts a  memory now.

Gardening, I did not go to visit with The Carpenter's family, I came home to have some time to actually have a day to work a little in the yard. I did get the front yard cleaned up today and that made me happy. It looks now like someone lives here and cares a little about the place. This made me sad though,

This is what happens when you do not put things away in the fall, Your cute, perfect, little cement mushrooms that you bought new last year, crack and break when you leave them outside all winter. Hmmph. I am mad at myself for not putting them away. Ah well, I can blame no one but me. I threw them out this morning and vowed to find something to replace them with and once I do I will take care of them

I raked up an entire bag of dead vegetation off the postage stamp lawn that is my front yard, cleaned off the flowerbeds and finally got rid of the headboard box that has been on the veranda forever. I even washed the tiles on the veranda table, got out the bird houses and flower pots. Its looking nice out there.

I had my coffee out on the veranda this morning as well. I love to sit out there and listen to the birds, soak in the warm breeze that drifts about and take in the quiet sounds of the neighbourhood on a sunny Sunday. Little green things are poking through the soil and green buds are showing on the lilac bushes. Spring may be here at last. I plan to spend the rest of the day finishing a quilt top and anything else my heart desires. The only "must do" left for today is laundry. I will do that and try my best to to think of Mother's day and all that used to be. I do not want to be sad on this day.

Toodles
Linda

Tis Spring and Mother Nature Has Lessons to Teach Us.

As I was headed out to work this morning I happened to glance down at the spot by my back porch where all the lush ferns grow in the summer. Right now its a mess of dead fern fronds, flattened and clumped together after spending the winter buried under the snow. I got no yard work done last year before the snow fell. I glanced down and there in the middle of the brown, dead remains of last years beauty is a solitary tulip, green and determined, straining, pushing and slowing making its way to the sun. It made me smile. Determined little tulip, reaching for the sun inspite of the mess piled on top of it. Inspite of how hard it is and all the obstacles in the way, its determined to reach its goal.  It truly is spring at last. Nature is amazing, she goes where she wants, pushes through even the most impossible places to grow, and be what she means to be.( I wish now, I had replaced the tulip and daffodil bulbs that got killed off two winters ago. I love tulips and daffodils. Must put that on my list for this fall.)

I need to get out in the yard and get it cleaned up. Leaving it last year was really a silly move on my part. Maybe tomorrow I will have the ummph to get out and at least rake a little. Tonight I am tired and my legs ache. I am proud that I did my 3 kms. I walked most of it totally alone, I imagine everyone else was out in the lovely spring weather but I prefer the indoor track. I am especially pleased that I did not talk myself out of doing the entire thing. No one was there to see if I did it or not, but I did. No cheating on myself. Part of me wanted to so badly, the part that hates to exercise, sweat and hurt. I ignored her and hauled my butt around that track. GO ME!!!

I feel like its helping. My body wobbles and jiggles and ripples more than it used to. So I feel it, I cannot see it. I wish I could but I look in the mirror and the image that looks back at me is the same. Part of me says why bother, no gain, what is the point but there is a point. I started walking and all I could do was three trips round the tack, and I hurt. Now I do 18 and yes I still hurt but I have gained the 15 extra rounds. It is making a difference, and I need to cling to that.

One of my many many faults is I want instant gratification, I want results, I want it all now dammit!! Minimal effort and maximum result, what is wrong with that?? Well my life is not like that as much as I would like it to be. So I will take a leaf from Mother Nature's book. I will be like the tulip in my back yard, I will keep pushing and pushing until I hit the sunshine!!

Toodles
Linda

The Magic of an Ordinary Day

I do not think that I can stress enough just how nice it is to wake on a Sunday morning without a dog barking you into the land of the living. It is complete bliss to gently wake to the sound of birds chirping, the cat purring, with only your internal clock nudging you into the day. Sunlight streaming through the windows and the entire day ahead of you to fill as you please.

So I got up, folded the laundry from last week, threw this weeks laundry down the stairs and then headed down there myself. First things first, I got Madam her breakfast because she is the most important being in the house. Miss Minou dined on tuna fish this morning, a treat for her. She REALLY likes the human stuff not the cat food tuna. I preferred bacon, eggs, toast and hashbrowns, with coffee and raspberry jam. A quick shower, then I was dressed and ready to get on with my day.

By getting on with my day I mean I took the carafe of coffee out on the veranda and sat out there for a spell. Its the first time this year, I drank my coffee and absorbed the warm weather, the quiet spring noises, just relaxed. I should have worked in the yard today, goodness knows there is lots that needs to be done, since nothing was done last year before the snow fell. It can wait, for today was to be filled with other things. Once the coffee carafe was empty, I pried myself off the porch and shuffled into the house to attend to the things I did not get done yesterday.

Once again I managed to talk myself out of going to Walmart. I will do that tomorrow after I have been walking. I think I should just not plan to go anywhere on Sundays. Sundays are meant for me to be home, puttering about the place. I think I will go running about on a Sunday but once I am up and about, I loose all urge to go anywhere. I just want to putter.  I got the laundry going, put turkey in the oven and scrubbed the heck out of the litter box. It has needed a serious cleaning for a long time but its a job best done outside. Once that was cleaned, replenished and returned to its place of residence, I was free to work on R's quilt for her granddaughter.

Today was a lovely day, filled with ordinary little things that mad me happy. I will share some of  what made me happy today:

Tea towels and kitchen towels hanging on the line, blowing gently in the warm spring breeze. I prefer to hang laundry out to dry. It smells so good when it comes back into the house. So fresh and clean. I my little yard the clothes line is really close to the fence so I have to be careful when hanging things out.

Hand knit dishcloths, clean and fresh, drying in the sun light. Takes me back to my childhood, when Mom hung all our clothes out side, winter and summer.

In between laundry loads, I have been working on this. An Endless Stars quilt for a precious little girl's new big girl bed. This quilt sews up remarkably quickly once you get at it. I should have the top nearly finished before I call it a day. It so girly with its pink and white scheme. I will add her name in pretty purple lettering once I get the top sewn together.

Right now it is supper time and I am going to and dine on some of this:

Didn't this turkey come out looking good enough to eat? Its been a while since I cooked a turkey but this one needed to get used up. Into the oven he went. I will freeze most of it but tonight will be a proper Sunday supper, turkey, potatoes and all! If only I had made pie it would be perfect but I certainly don't need a pie all to myself!! After supper I may keep sewing or I may knit for a bit. Its hard to say but I do know that whatever I decide to do I will enjoy and savor each moment. That is the magic of an ordinary day.

Toodles,
Linda

Thinking About Being Thankful

I woke up this lovely Saturday morning to nothing but the sound of Minou purring away at the end of my bed. It was bliss and instantly I was grateful that the sound of a lonely dog barking his heart out was not what jarred me into wakefulness. I was happy, I woke gently, and most importantly I was grateful.

As I got up and went about the business of getting ready to get on with my day, I got to thinking about all the things in my life, or even just during each day that make me grateful and how I need to start focusing more on that than the things that go wrong. I can dwell on the have not, rather than the have if I let myself which leads to the pity parties which are not fun for anyone.

First of all, yesterday, I had the chance to work during lunch so that meant I got to leave early on a Friday. Granted I had to miss lunch with my friends but I got out 45 minutes early.....on a Friday.....BONUS!!. I made a stop at the fabric store for quilt material. (grateful). I made my purchase, (on sale grateful) and went to put them in the car. While I was placing my purchase on the passenger side, I noticed half my stick pin brooch laying on the front seat. ACK, I love this little stick pin, a gift from a dear friend, a sparkly, crystal studded dainty little cat and mouse. The cat was in the car but not the mouse, nor was the mouse attached to my shirt. Instant heart break, but I held onto the slim hope I could find it. I had only been in the fabric store, I could back track and hopefully I could find it. As I walked around the car to the drivers side there was my mouse, twinkling at me by the drivers door ( big time grateful). I practically did a little dance right there in the parking lot. Well, truthfully I did but don't tell anyone!!

Thursday night I was out making greeting cards with some friends, (so grateful). These women are so creative, intelligent, funny and easy to be around, it is always wonderful fun to spend an evening with them. (grateful x5). I got some lovely cards made, had lots and lots of laughs. How could one not be grateful?? As always Friday night was No Cook Friday. (grateful for this group for going on four years now). What a wonderful night we had, we had an absolutely perfect, delicious beyond words meal at Komfort Kitchen. This restaurant is my new favourite place to go. Honestly, none of us had a complaint. Everything was perfect and when we had dessert I swear I thought I had gone to heaven. (pecan pie with really good coffee gratitude). Finishing off the evening at the local coffee shop, laughing until your sides hurt is the very best way to end a week (still able to be silly gratitude)

I have recently started something that requires me to grind down cinnamon sticks. I have been doing it by hand and its hard work. I decided I want a spice grinder but its not in the budget at this time. Going through the flyers this week and there is a spice grinder, regular $17.99 for $8.99. (grateful) Needless to say I have one now.

I went to Stupid Store this morning because they had bread and yogurt on a really good sale. I am not fond of shopping there much any more but I could suck it up for the bargain. Got there only to discover that while the yogurt WAS on a really good sale it was a limit of 1. GRRR, (not so grateful). Looking on the bright side, I did get 4 loaves of bread for the price of two at the other stores. I did find the bacon/onion marmalade I have been wanting to try for months but could never find in stupid Stupid Store. (grateful in the end) and I got in and out of the store before the Saturday hoards descended on the place.

There was no big line up at Tim's when I went to get my guilty pleasure breakfast biscuit and coffee this morning ( grateful). I got to the gas station before the tank went dry (grateful for avoiding a call to CAA for gas rescue). Now I am home, I have taken out the garbage and all the recycle, I have had breakfast and am ready to begin the Saturday house work. and its not even 11:00 am yet, PLUS I have done a blog post. (more gratitude)

I have good friends, good family, good job, a house I love, a car to drive, food in the fridge and money to keep me in comfort. (BIG gratitude) I have projects to work on, books to read and the ability to learn and do and create as I please. I am reaching my goals with my walking. I am working on getting healthy and pleased with my progress. I am slowly working on loosing my excess tonnage, and the scale is going in the right direction again and I have a trip to Ireland to look forward. (I am one thankful bunny) .  Not to mention the sun is shining, the weather is warm and it looks like at long last we have spring!! ( warm weather grateful)

I know I have rambled on a bit, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Each day is filled with so many things to be grateful for. I am working on seeing the bright side, finding the silver lining and to stop focusing on the negative!! You should try it, it makes you feel good.

Happy Weekending

Toodles,
Linda