Daylight Savings ends

Changing the time back is supposed to help, isn't it?? I was able to get up without much problem, but I'm soooo tired. It was another 12 hour day today & I still have 10 pages to do tomorrow.

Great article on stress today. I printed it out & brought it home. I hope I can file it before I lose it.

• I forgot to pay McKenzie Law Office, due Friday, Oct. 30.
  
• I forgot to pick up Nick's meds at the pharmacy
• Mother needs omeprazole
• I HAVE to send the Verizon rebate. I NEED that $50.
• I HAVE to pay the storage shed company. Maybe I'll take the payment to their office in Logan tomorrow. I forgot until Don-Mike wanted to know if he could give me cash or a check. Last month he ended up with his storage unit double locked because they didn't credit his account. Grrrr. Mother ended up with double locking.
• Pampered Chef - I lost the order & now people are wondering where the stuff they ordered is. I'm wondering where the orders AND THE CHECKS are, sigh.

Stress!!!!

Another Monday

Thursday, I had a garden party!! A first for me. I can't believe how far out of my comfort zone I ventured that time. It was a Pampered Chef party. I invited almost 100 people, 90 to be exact. I had ONE show up from my guest list. Of course, I had 4 there that, even though I invited them, I expected to be there. You know, a given? You expect your close friends & family to show up to support you. It was a luncheon & a lot of people work, I know that, but .... anyway, if I'd had a lot of people I would have panicked. The "boys," Don-Mike, Nick & Zach, showed up at one time or another, except Eddie, who was in school. But as far as paying guests go, it was a bust.

We had a yummy potato soup complete with potato skins which are high in potassium. And I'll definitely make it again. In fact, I have it scheduled for a meal in September. I'm proud of myself, I beat Don on planning September's menus. Usually he has his meals scheduled & I just kind of stumble through the month, sigh.

Saturday, Mother & I finished the errands we started on Wednesday. I ran out of energy & didn't get them all finished. I will try again next week.

A friend from Facebook gave me this advice:

a friend with heart problems once told me.... " Go from your personal point A to point B and stop..." " some days the points may be miles apart and sometimes they may be touching each other ..."" and NEVER LOOK BACK..." What ever you were doing will always wait for you... if not.... to bad....'

Very good advice. She went on to say, "I love that advice.... ...even tho I rarely heed it...." She & I are a lot alike, though I think I may heed it better than she does. Her son says that she schedules her illnesses, LOL.

Nick doesn't always like it when I tell him I can't do something. He woke me up at 8 o'clock this morning & said he needed new shoes. His shoe lace had broken. He wanted to go to Logan & buy his shoes. He said he hadn't worked out the logistics yet. I said I had to work today. He got huffy & said I didn't need to bite his head off.

I thought about ALCO, here in Preston, I know they have shoes. I told him to go check them out today & let me know. Meanwhile, I asked him to let me look at his shoe. It wasn't as bad as I was afraid it was. I took the shoe lace out, rethreaded it loosely & handed it back to him.

Today Vicki Atkinson, job share partner, & I plotted out when is the best time to have my gall bladder out, Monday, Sept. 21. I guess I'll call Dr. Broadbent's office tomorrow & schedule it.

Facebook

Facebook is a passion. It is such a time waster, but also a great way to connect with people. I was thrilled this afternoon to get a friend invitation from a friend in Indiana.

To sign up, go to www.facebook.com & fill out the simple form. Name, email, password, gender & correct birth date.

Facebook requires all users to provide their real date of birth to encourage authenticity and provide only age-appropriate access to content. You will be able to hide this information from your profile if you wish, and its use is governed by the Facebook Privacy Policy.

That's it. As with any of the internet communities, there is a learning curve. You can share as much or as little as you like. You don't have to share the year of your birth.

I just used Facebook to invite people to my Pampered Chef party this Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in my yard via Facebook's Events feature. I wrote my address & it shows Google's map & what my house looks like. Kewl, huh? Ya, I'm a little slow & I don't think the 40-some odd people I invited will come. In fact, I've already got 2 definite no's & 2 maybes.

I couldn't decide where to hold it & really want to renege on it, but ......... I'll tough it out. Don says the weather will be good. Carolyn, & any other readers, you are welcome to come, just let me know. Pampered Chef reimburses $15 to the hostess for food for the light luncheon.

I bought the best Italian bread at Wal-Mart for Sunday dinner. Yum, it was all gone before I came home from Mother's & I still had half a loaf of French bread. I think a loaf of crusty bread will be on the menu Thursday. Maybe Pepperidge Farm's French bread, which is also good.

Another reason I like Facebook is the photos. In fact, that's why I joined Facebook in the first place. I was enticed by someone saying to come to Facebook & view their photo album.

Party pooper

I am such a party pooper. I said I'd do the Pampered Chef party. I love Pampered Chef. I love to GO to parties, I just don't like to GIVE parties, grrr. I was hoping to reschedule this party, but I'm a week off. I don't have to work next Thursday, it's the week after, Thursday, Sept. 3. Labor Day is Sept. 7, sigh. It also means that I have to cook Sunday.

I hate always being tired & never feeling well. I spend a lot of time vegging in front of the computer. If I had my way, I'd never leave the house. But ... luckily, I don't. I have to get out.

Tonight the whole north end of the valley smells like one big bonfire. It has since last night. There was fire up Cub River yesterday afternoon across the road from Deer Cliff Inn.

I finished Life Among the Lava Beds by Leonard Stephenson. A fun memoir of "growing up in rural Idaho in the 1950s." He describes my Uncle Carl's family as "devoutly religious," but says my cousin Richard had no conscience. I think Richard has outgrown the no conscience.

I also picked up Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich last night. I was going to go to bed at a fairly decent hour, but knowing what I'm like when I pick up a book, I should've known better. I knew it was time to go to bed when I started looking forward into the book. I didn't look too far, just found a piece of paper to mark my place & put the book down. It was 2:30, by the time I put the book down.

I went to bed, & as I was getting comfy, I remembered I hadn't finished my evening chores. I got up & did those by the dim, dying light over the stove & finally got back to bed at 3 a.m.

Today, I added the books I've read in 2009 to a bookshelf on my Goodreads shelf. I have only read 10 books so far this year. But compared to the last few years, that is a bunch, LOL

I'm off to finish Plum Spooky. I have Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees out from the library & today I picked up #3 in the Elm Creek Quilters series by Jennifer Chiaverini, Cross-Country Quilters. Mother listened to The Secret Life of Bees from the Idaho Library for the Handicapped & liked it.

Summer's winding down

Teachers in the Preston School District started back to school yesterday. Classes will start Wednesday. Franklin County High School classes start Monday, as does the West Side school district classes. That Famous Preston Night Rodeo is over for another year, the Franklin County Fair was a week earlier than usual.

This year they had a car show on the last day of the fair. Don-Mike entered Nan's Am in it. There were 85 cars, with the majority being from within the county. I wish they'd had a cruise in like they do in Logan, it would have been fun to see a car parade.

The Eastern Idaho State Fair is coming up. It is usually held over Labor Day Weekend. Eek! I just remembered that I have to work Thursday, Aug. 27, & I scheduled a Pampered Chef party that day. I'll have to call & reschedule. I've been dragging my feet on even getting started on the party.

Just read in the paper about giving your dog plenty of shade & water because they can die of heat stroke. So glad Shari & Kim have Mufasa at their place in the shade. I was sure worried though when we had the big wind storm. I was afraid the limbs would come crashing down on him. I also worried about their outside dog Boots being blown away.

Don-Mike has been working hard on his derby car. The demolition derby is Saturday, Aug. 22. I'm reluctantly planning to attend. I see no rhyme nor reason to a demolition derby. I bought him a mouth guard when a neighbor said to do it. She said so many of the guys don't & they get their teeth knocked out when they hit the steering wheel with their mouth.