the annie blog

The temperature dropped drastically overnight. Brrr! Well, today is our last day of vacation. We start in-service tomorrow. That means we have to get up early – it’ll be hard. We need to go to bed early too, but that is going to be difficult too. We’re used to staying up till all hours of the night. Things will have to change. I’m sure the kitty won’t like that fact that we’re gone again all day. I think she got used to having us lounge around with her.

I’m trying to finish up some last minute house-cleaning so I won’t be bombarded during my first week back. I also went shopping today so we’ve got food and everything we need to keep us content for awhile. Next I have to clean the kitchen. Then the bathrooms. I’m gonna do that all rather slowly with lots of breaks. Especially because the Packer game is on.

Ok, I’m gonna head back to the couch and root for my team!!!

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I slept nice and late today. We don’t have much planned for today, basically just cleaning and we’ve got a movie we rented, but it’s not due for awhile. We’ve been on a movie kick here recently. We went to see “Cold Mountain” – I thought it was long. I usually don’t look at my watch during a movie, but I looked twice. I really like Renee Zellweger though. It was ok – I would wait till video. I’ve also been on a Woody Allen kick, so I’m grabbing a few of those each time we visit Blockbuster.

We went out for dinner last night with some gift certificates we got as a gift. That’s always a great gift for us – we love dining out. I do need to figure out dinner tonight – probably Boca burgers??? That’s my easy way out.

Ok, off to lounge around till I feel like cleaning.

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As soon as New Years hit I was besieged with massive cramps. I was up for the next two hours in PAIN. I am feeling a little better, but I didn’t get much sleep. We had plans for today, but we’re gonna try and do everything tonight. I still need to take it easy.

Our New Years was uneventful, but fun. We rented “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “The Pianist” – we liked both of them. I sat and worked on knitting my scarf – I’m getting the hang of it!!! I’m so happy! I even dreamed of knitting – it’s taking over…

Today I think I’m gonna relax and medicate myself so we can go out tonight. We want to see “Cold Mountain” – guess that means I should take a nap…

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We’ve been lazy this morning. It’s our last week off and I’m getting sad. I’ll be ready for school once it gets going, but right now I love basking in my days off.

We are celebrating new years with our normal tradition. We make a big ole pot of Chicken and Dumplings, we like this recipe a lot. Then we share a pot of coffee and ring in the new year with some sparkling fruit juice. Most people would think it’s boring, but we actually love it. We need to head to the grocery store today to pick up our ingredients.

We don’t know what we’re making for dinner, but we know we want to cook. Considering once school starts we find it’s more difficult to get a full meal on the table. Off to search our freezer to see what’s good.

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I have finished the laundry from my guests and all I have left to do is put away the Christmas stuff. That shouldn’t take too long. The house always looks bare when we put that stuff away.

I can’t imagine how much next week will kick our butts. We’re used to staying up super late and sleeping in. Next week is work! Yikes! We’ll be draggin’ our butt for the first few days.

I need to figure something out for dinner. I may be eating alone, Mark doesn’t feel well. No symptoms, just tired and run-down. He needs to rest, but he fights it all the time. Stubborn. I may explore some recipes and see if there’s something I can do to get rid of the left-over ham

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Company is gone. As soon as they left I crashed for a few hours. Emotionally and physically tired. It was good to nap. Things are kind of back to normal at our house now. I still have some cleaning to do, but not much. Our laptop is fixed!! I’m happy.

My craft update: I have read and re-read my books, I can’t decipher everything by just looking at the pictures. For my crocheting, I am randomly increasing and decreasing without knowing how I’m doing it. With knitting I am doing the same thing, plus coming up with big ole holes in the middle of stuff. I am practicing though. But I feel like I can’t go any further without someone actually “Showing” me what I’m doing wrong. Otherwise I just keep making the same mistakes over and over again. I have to stop bad habits before they start. I don’t think I know anyone that does either. Everyone I talk to says – “oh, my grandma used to do that” that doesn’t help me… I’m not getting frustrated yet because I still have hope that I can figure it out. I hope…

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Our “Christmas” yesterday was awesome. I think the family was wondering how it would work out having it at my house, but it went great. No problems and lots of fun. We got some awesome gifts and had good food.

Today I’m not sure what we’re doing for entertainment, movie, shopping, something – we may just play board games, I don’t know. Tonight we’re going out for a night on the town. I’m looking forward to that, then they are leaving Sunday morninig. I will have lots of laundry to do once they leave. I’ve already put gifts away, so I’ve been keeping on top of things.

Ok, I should go play hostess with the mostess

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We still can’t get our laptop to work, so I am pretty frustrated. I love having it around, I’ve really gotten used to logging on where I want to. Maybe we can figure something out today.

We are sitting here waiting for my family to arrive. They’re due in about an hour or so. We have some last minute stuff to finish up in the kitchen, then we’re good to go. I hope all goes well while they’re here. It should.

Adios!

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It was a very nice Christmas for the two of us this year. Probably the most stress-free since I don’t know when. It was just the two of us. We spent time in the afternoon cleaning the house. Then – horror of horrors, our laptop jacked up. Yes, jacked up is a technical term. We have wireless connection to our PC and suddenly it says we’re connected to the Morris house – the Morris’s are our neighbors. We were somehow connecting to them – well, now we can’t connect at all on the laptop. I’m pretty bummed. I used the laptop more than hubby. We must get it fixed. The thing is – we don’t know how… So, we’ll wait – when school starts back up we’ll have someone from our MIS department come help us.

While Mark was failing on the computer, I was failing on crocheting and knitting. My God – I can’t decipher those pictures in those darn books for nothin’. I would do what I THOUGHT they said to do, then it would turn out nothing like the picture. I kept tugging things around and reading the directions to Mark to see if he could figure out where the second loop from the top was?? So, I put it away for tonight and work on it tomorrow. Tonight I plan on reading.

Merry Christmas

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Ah, Christmas Eve. The day has been lovely. We stood in line at the grocery store. That’s ok, we kind of expected to do that. So it wasn’t too bad. Plus, the people working were super friendly, so that makes it nice.

We made excellent pizza for dinner. We rock when it comes to homemade pizza. It was very filling. We then watched the ever-popular “A Christmas Story”. Yeah! We played Yahtzee and I got my butt kicked. I whipped up a batch of peanut butter cookies with the Hershey’s kisses in them. Then I made my fleece scarf and hat. I ended up giving my other scarf away. You know, the spirit of giving…

I really don’t have much more to do tonight. Tomorrow is MAJOR housecleaning. Then I want to chill and work on crafts for the day. We’ll be eating left-over pizza all day long.

I hope everyone is having a relaxing and fulfilling holiday. I know this has been a very different holiday for us, but we like it anyway. The thoughts of children have been running through my head – must be the season. It sure would be fun…

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