My life is filled with love, joy, health, and creativity.

April 1, 2007

My life is filled with love, joy, health, and creativity.

Thank you for all the comments on my projects. It was kind of fun to look back and see what I've made. I've decided that I'm going to find a way to teach knitting online in case anyone is really serious that they would like to learn because truly it's not hard to do, it just looks hard. And I know the value of having a creative outlet and I want to share that with anyone interested. So I'm going to work on it, let's see what I can come up with.


Can you guess what this is? Would love to see what you think this is.

Yesterday we went to Pechanga Casino. We being Mamacita, my bro and me. My Uncle hurt his back doing some gardening...ouch! and so he and my Aunt weren't able to make it and my cousin fell and hurt her wrist and maybe had to go to Urgent Care or emergency...ouch! again. But we had a nice drive down there, the weather was really beautiful. Not too hot, gentle breeze, I think it was in the 70's. The casino is really nice, we all enjoyed a nice day there.

I had to pinch my brother to get him to actually smile in this picture. He does this pose when taking a pic where he puts his chin out. Mom was doing her goofy pose and I can't believe I'm actually posting a pic of me, I hate pics anymore... We gambled, went to the gift shops, went and had lunch, gambled some more. Then we went back toward home but stopped at Tom's Farms which is a glorified produce stand. I love it there. They have a wine and cheese shop that has all kinds of goodies. We got something to drink and sat outside and listened to some music and relaxed. They also have a produce shop that includes brittles, jams, dried fruit, fresh produce, olives, you name it! I got some green pepper jelly which is just great with a cracker and some cream cheese and some jelly...yum! I also found Sweet Dark Cherry preserves and I got hickory smoked pistachios and Mamacita needed some pistachio meats. We got sourdough bread and some cheese and a bottle of wine. Did you know there is Elvis wine! Yes sir! Almost got some of that. Oh, I also found some yummy Coconut peanut brittle with more coconut than peanuts. Yummy! Then we headed home, hit some traffic, picked up a pizza and came home. It was a great day.

Did you notice the "What is your blog worth?" thing on the right hand sibebar? Holy moly, I was surprised that my little ol' blog is worth over $6,700. That is so cool!

Happy April Fool's Day!

I Heart You!!!

January 7, 2007

I Heart You!!!

It hasn't been a week yet without my sweet Simba. We all miss her a lot including the cat Tom. He was kind of whiny for about 3 days and needy. He'd be all over us when we got home from work and meowing but we couldn't figure out why. I think he was trying to say, "Where have you been all day and where is Simba cuz it's lonely around here. And who am I going to antagonize now, huh?..." He's getting better. I have found myself looking for her still, it seems quiet or I forget and go look for her in my room.

I want to say a huge thank you to Stacie, Tori, Tiffany, Bron, Michele (cool name ;) !), Ericah, Rebekah, Mammy, Susann, Paul and Ranger, Christine, Li, Jul, Mom, Sandy, Dock, Cecil and Zen Living people for all the caring thoughts and words. It was probably one of the worst weeks of my life and it was really sweet how you all were there for me and my family during the loss. We even got a sympathy card from the Veterinarian. I'm thankful to them too because they were so wonderful to me and Mamacita and Simba, they handled it so well and I'm a new and loyal client from now on.

This weekend I wanted to get out a bit so we got up earlier and saw a matinee Saturday of the movie 'The Queen'. Mom has wanted to see it for a while and there are only a couple theaters showing it around us so we went to an unfamiliar theatre. The movie was really pretty good, Helen Mirran did a great job although I heard she does not particularly like being able to resemble the Queen so well. The movie painted Charles in a much better light than I imagined. I enjoyed knowing more history of the Queen. Mamacita and Gary liked it a lot. Then we went to have some lunch and to Trader Joe's and then to visit Dad at the Cemetery. The Armed Services were suppose to have put his gravestone on, but they did not and we had a hard time finding his plot. We actually weren't sure where it was so we took the flowers home and now we have to ask the Mortuary where the gravestone is.

Today we were out early today too because my brother had to have his hearing checked at his care facility early. That didn't take long, so we went shopping at a mall and had some coffee and then came home for lunch. I'm pooped, I didn't get my nap in this weekend. I may just go do that now.

I got a VK today at the bookstore and there is a scarf in there I HAVE to make. Inspiration. It's in the holiday edition and I can't wait to show you a finished scarf.