I was going to read the Gospels every day of December. But, I didn't. So, then I decided I'd do a scriptural 12 days of Christmas. I found one on Sugardoodle. It wasn't quite what I wanted. But already, the "1st" day of Christmas has gone & it is now 11 days til Christmas.
I'm still not ready for Christmas, but got through Daughters of Utah Pioneers today. Mother went. It was a luncheon at Thedora Petterborg's. She served stuffed lasagna, salad with spinach, pomegranates & bleu cheese, (mmm, it was so good), hot, fresh rolls with real butter & strawberry jam. Dessert was peppermint ice cream with Pepperidge Farm cookies. We exchanged Christmas gifts. Mother took a blanket & a box of eggnog tea in a re-usable Christmas bag. I took a bar of Serenity bath soap from doTerra. The bar of soap itself cost more than the $7 limit, but like I told Mother, no one is going to believe I spent $8 on a bar of bath soap. I bought a bath sponge to go with it.
We also brought a can or some non-perishable food item to donate to the SouthEast Idaho Community Action Agency (SEICAA). I was in charge of taking them to the SEICAA office. We filled a plastic grocery bag full of cans, boxes & bags. I put it in a gift bag & took it over to the SEICAA office.. Kandi wasn't there, but the SEICAA office is right across the hall from ISU Outreach, so I went into ISU & talked to Sonya. I left the bag of food with her to give to Kandi.
I used to work for ISU Outreach before I had breast cancer (almost 5 years ago) & had never returned my keys. In fact, I had forgotten I even had them. I found the keys a few weeks ago in the console of my car & put them on the outside of my purse so I'd remember to return them. Sonya said she'd forgotten I had them also. I had 5 keys & 4 of them were still good. She has a new desk, so the desk key was the only one that wasn't.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Procrastination is a way of life
Mother is watching "Little House on the Prairie & Caroline calls, "Charles! Supper'll be on in about an hour." And Charles responds, "Perfect!"
I'm definitely not perfect. Our supper will not be on in an hour.My cell phone just did it's reminder that Writer's Group will be in an hour. I don't want to go. I haven't fixed supper. In fact, I don't even have a clue as to what to fix. I have a headache that I've suffered with all day. I have procrastinated the day away. Now it's time to go somewhere, it's time to do something
Then, I discover I procrastinated the month away too. Sigh. I only made it to Day 13 on my list of things I am grateful for.
I dread Sunday because of church. I dread Monday because of work. I dread Tuesday & Thursday because I have to cook. I'm supposed to cook on Saturday, too, but somehow that hasn't become a dreaded day.
So. What's for supper?
I'm definitely not perfect. Our supper will not be on in an hour.My cell phone just did it's reminder that Writer's Group will be in an hour. I don't want to go. I haven't fixed supper. In fact, I don't even have a clue as to what to fix. I have a headache that I've suffered with all day. I have procrastinated the day away. Now it's time to go somewhere, it's time to do something
Then, I discover I procrastinated the month away too. Sigh. I only made it to Day 13 on my list of things I am grateful for.
I dread Sunday because of church. I dread Monday because of work. I dread Tuesday & Thursday because I have to cook. I'm supposed to cook on Saturday, too, but somehow that hasn't become a dreaded day.
So. What's for supper?
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Gratitude: Days 12 & 13
Nick gave me a free photo book for Mother's Day & he reminded me I have to use it by Dec. 1, so I've got to get hustling. I thought I'd use it for the construction of the addition of the house, but ... I've decided I'm going to use it for the first couple of years of my blog.
Saturday, Nov. 12: Cell phones. I've already listed the internet last Saturday when I was without it. Nick is obsessing over a new phone & new carrier. He is so obsessed, I took my frustrations to the Lord today. I actually knelt down at my bed & told Him all about my concerns. When Nick & Don came over to talk about it, I was able to come up with something I feel was truly inspired. Anyway, I LOVE cell phones. Yesterday, Saturday, when we went to Logan I forgot my cell phone. When I remembered it in Franklin, 6 miles from home, I was very tempted to ask Nick to turn around & go home to get it. I figured I could do without it, but I felt like I was half dressed all day. I kept patting my pocket.
Sunday, Nov. 13: Food. Today it was my turn to cook Sunday dinner. I always agonize over what to fix. But today I did a fairly simple meal, pulled pork sandwiches on hard rolls, Pineapple Apple Coleslaw w/a recipe I got from allrecipes.com & made my own. I seldom follow a recipe exactly, olives & Jean Carter's mandarin orange cake. OMG, it all turned out so good.
Last night when Don & I were shopping, I saw some barbecue sauce from KC Masterpiece called Smoky Bourbon. I don't usually buy KC Masterpiece because it's more expensive, but earlier in the day we, actually Don & Nick, had been having a play on words on Suburban, 'Burban & Bourbon. I thought it would be fun to use it. Actually, it was really good.
Mother & I listened to Fannie Flagg's book, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, earlier in the week. Aunt Elner had a near death experience where she met Neighbor Dorothy, a friend who had a cooking radio show. Dorothy gave Elner some cake & tea. Elner said how Dorothy's cake was always so moist. Dorothy said the secret was to preheat your oven to 375° & then turn it down to 350° to bake it. So, when I went to bake my cake, I remembered this & thought I'd try it. Don't know if that was the secret, because when Jean served the cake at DUP on Tuesday, hers was moist.
Saturday, Nov. 12: Cell phones. I've already listed the internet last Saturday when I was without it. Nick is obsessing over a new phone & new carrier. He is so obsessed, I took my frustrations to the Lord today. I actually knelt down at my bed & told Him all about my concerns. When Nick & Don came over to talk about it, I was able to come up with something I feel was truly inspired. Anyway, I LOVE cell phones. Yesterday, Saturday, when we went to Logan I forgot my cell phone. When I remembered it in Franklin, 6 miles from home, I was very tempted to ask Nick to turn around & go home to get it. I figured I could do without it, but I felt like I was half dressed all day. I kept patting my pocket.
Sunday, Nov. 13: Food. Today it was my turn to cook Sunday dinner. I always agonize over what to fix. But today I did a fairly simple meal, pulled pork sandwiches on hard rolls, Pineapple Apple Coleslaw w/a recipe I got from allrecipes.com & made my own. I seldom follow a recipe exactly, olives & Jean Carter's mandarin orange cake. OMG, it all turned out so good.
Last night when Don & I were shopping, I saw some barbecue sauce from KC Masterpiece called Smoky Bourbon. I don't usually buy KC Masterpiece because it's more expensive, but earlier in the day we, actually Don & Nick, had been having a play on words on Suburban, 'Burban & Bourbon. I thought it would be fun to use it. Actually, it was really good.
Mother & I listened to Fannie Flagg's book, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, earlier in the week. Aunt Elner had a near death experience where she met Neighbor Dorothy, a friend who had a cooking radio show. Dorothy gave Elner some cake & tea. Elner said how Dorothy's cake was always so moist. Dorothy said the secret was to preheat your oven to 375° & then turn it down to 350° to bake it. So, when I went to bake my cake, I remembered this & thought I'd try it. Don't know if that was the secret, because when Jean served the cake at DUP on Tuesday, hers was moist.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Gratitude days 8-11
I've been very lax this year in listing the things I am grateful for.
Tuesday, Nov. 8, my son Don-Mikel. Don-Mike has taken care of my mother for the past 4 years, ever since they moved over here to Aunt Vi's house. He has built the addition to the house. I don't know what this family would do without Don-Mike. I wish he had gone on a mission for the LDS Church, but I think he wondered what we'd do without him too. Tuesday, he called CenturyLink (formerly known as Qwest) to get the link for the internet. Nick got the internet going for me, with the help of Don-Mike.
Wednesday, Nov. 9, modern medicine. Mother had a pacemaker appointment today with her cardiologist. Without the pacemaker, Mother wouldn't be here. When she had her open heart surgery to replace a valve, her heart did not start up. They had to put a temporary pacemaker on. Her heart never did start up & so they implanted a pacemaker that paces 100% of the time. Without modern medicine I wouldn't be here either, nor would my sons. I'd be one of those skeletons with a baby skeleton inside me. I'm a breast cancer survivor & also have had a craniectomy to remove a tumor from my ear canal that had grown so large it popped into the brain cavity & was pressing against my brain.
Thursday, Nov. 10, Talking Books. Mother receives audio books from the Idaho Library's Talking Book Service. She gets some good ones, then she gets some not so good ones & some she doesn't like at all. She also gets Guideposts magazine & the LDS Church magazines, the Ensign, New Era & Friend.
Friday, Nov. 11, veterans.
Thank you, especially my grandfather, Frederick Earl Porter, WWI; my father-in-law, Frank Jay Bartlome, WWII; my mother's brothers, Dorin Frederick Porter & Woodrow Gilbert Porter, WWII; my nephews, Matthew Alexander & Paul Bartlome, my niece Kimberly Bartlome Marriott; cousins, Everett Hudson, Dave Layne; friends, Glen Dutcher, Dave Hicks, Steven Hicks, Aaron Westre, Zachary Joseph Kent in both Desert Storm & Iraqi Freedom. And all the others.
Tuesday, Nov. 8, my son Don-Mikel. Don-Mike has taken care of my mother for the past 4 years, ever since they moved over here to Aunt Vi's house. He has built the addition to the house. I don't know what this family would do without Don-Mike. I wish he had gone on a mission for the LDS Church, but I think he wondered what we'd do without him too. Tuesday, he called CenturyLink (formerly known as Qwest) to get the link for the internet. Nick got the internet going for me, with the help of Don-Mike.
Wednesday, Nov. 9, modern medicine. Mother had a pacemaker appointment today with her cardiologist. Without the pacemaker, Mother wouldn't be here. When she had her open heart surgery to replace a valve, her heart did not start up. They had to put a temporary pacemaker on. Her heart never did start up & so they implanted a pacemaker that paces 100% of the time. Without modern medicine I wouldn't be here either, nor would my sons. I'd be one of those skeletons with a baby skeleton inside me. I'm a breast cancer survivor & also have had a craniectomy to remove a tumor from my ear canal that had grown so large it popped into the brain cavity & was pressing against my brain.
Thursday, Nov. 10, Talking Books. Mother receives audio books from the Idaho Library's Talking Book Service. She gets some good ones, then she gets some not so good ones & some she doesn't like at all. She also gets Guideposts magazine & the LDS Church magazines, the Ensign, New Era & Friend.
Friday, Nov. 11, veterans.
Thank you, especially my grandfather, Frederick Earl Porter, WWI; my father-in-law, Frank Jay Bartlome, WWII; my mother's brothers, Dorin Frederick Porter & Woodrow Gilbert Porter, WWII; my nephews, Matthew Alexander & Paul Bartlome, my niece Kimberly Bartlome Marriott; cousins, Everett Hudson, Dave Layne; friends, Glen Dutcher, Dave Hicks, Steven Hicks, Aaron Westre, Zachary Joseph Kent in both Desert Storm & Iraqi Freedom. And all the others.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
More things
More things I am grateful for
Saturday, Nov. 5, the internet. Once you lose something you discover just how much you rely on it. I spent the weekend without the internet. I got some reading done, got the dishes caught up, but I sure missed my internet friends.
Sunday, Nov. 6, I am grateful Lynette picked up Mufasa. We have had the care & keeping of this poor dog for the past 3 years. I wish I could be sure he is going to a better situation than what he has been in the past 3 years. Though he has had a dry place to live, it has been in a small, cramped kennel. Small & cramped for a full-grown Newfoundland. He has had food & water, but but not what he needed & craved: love, attention (grooming) & exercise. He's beautiful, but would be striking if he were properly cared for. He is about 6 years old now. We have spent a mortgage payment every year paying for his food & incidentals. Kents have fed him daily & had a cinderblock dog house built for him.
Monday, Nov. 7, I am grateful for Nick. As I stood up to go to lunch, my cell phone rang. It was Nick. He was ready to go to lunch. We went to Big J's & took soup & a sandwich home to Mother. He had obtained the needed equipment to connect the internet from Bill. Bill had bought it for $3 from the Deseret Industries & given it to him. Nick could probably have completed connecting the internet, but I wanted to get back to work so I wouldn't have to work late. The afternoon did not go well. Shortly before 8 p.m., I turned off the computer & stood up stiffly, ready to put on my coat. My cell phone beeped, telling me I had a new text message. I pulled my phone out of my pocket & there was a text message from Nick, "How goes work?" I love & appreciate him. He is always concerned about others.
Saturday, Nov. 5, the internet. Once you lose something you discover just how much you rely on it. I spent the weekend without the internet. I got some reading done, got the dishes caught up, but I sure missed my internet friends.
Sunday, Nov. 6, I am grateful Lynette picked up Mufasa. We have had the care & keeping of this poor dog for the past 3 years. I wish I could be sure he is going to a better situation than what he has been in the past 3 years. Though he has had a dry place to live, it has been in a small, cramped kennel. Small & cramped for a full-grown Newfoundland. He has had food & water, but but not what he needed & craved: love, attention (grooming) & exercise. He's beautiful, but would be striking if he were properly cared for. He is about 6 years old now. We have spent a mortgage payment every year paying for his food & incidentals. Kents have fed him daily & had a cinderblock dog house built for him.
Monday, Nov. 7, I am grateful for Nick. As I stood up to go to lunch, my cell phone rang. It was Nick. He was ready to go to lunch. We went to Big J's & took soup & a sandwich home to Mother. He had obtained the needed equipment to connect the internet from Bill. Bill had bought it for $3 from the Deseret Industries & given it to him. Nick could probably have completed connecting the internet, but I wanted to get back to work so I wouldn't have to work late. The afternoon did not go well. Shortly before 8 p.m., I turned off the computer & stood up stiffly, ready to put on my coat. My cell phone beeped, telling me I had a new text message. I pulled my phone out of my pocket & there was a text message from Nick, "How goes work?" I love & appreciate him. He is always concerned about others.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Gratitude 2011
It was fun to look back at 2010 to see what I was thankful for last year. I started a separate page this year, Attitude of Gratitude, 2011, so I can just keep a running list. My first entry last year was Don. Interestingly enough my first entry this year was also Don. I am indeed thankful for my husband.
Wednesday, Nov. 2, I put Kindra (Palmer), the home health aide. Mother doesn't qualify for home health paid for by Medicare. It's private pay & Mother thinks she can only afford a shower once a week, so Kindra comes in once a week to give Mother a shower. I tried giving her a shower & it just doesn't work. I do not know the drill. So, I am truly grateful for Kindra.
Thursday, Nov. 3: It is hard to decide what specifically to be thankful for. I am thankful for everything.
Today, Friday, Nov. 4, I put hair. It might sound funny, but I am thankful for my hair. I am thankful I HAVE hair. My hair came out when I had chemo in 2007 & it is just starting to come back in good. I had my hair cut & a shampoo/set yesterday. It looks cute. I paid for it though with a bad headache. There is no bone where the craniectomy was done to remove the tumor in 2001. And even though Marcella was very careful in washing my hair, I got a headache. Mother's sister Onda, her husband Keith, & Mother's brother Larry came to visit Mother today from Blackfoot & Pocatello (Idaho). Mother's hair is still dark & thick. She has her hair done every week on Thursday & it stays in almost all week. Of course, people can't believe Mother doesn't dye her hair, so her hair is always a topic of conversation. Mother is the oldest sister & the other four have thin, white hair. My hair is thin & fine, but not white yet.
Wednesday, Nov. 2, I put Kindra (Palmer), the home health aide. Mother doesn't qualify for home health paid for by Medicare. It's private pay & Mother thinks she can only afford a shower once a week, so Kindra comes in once a week to give Mother a shower. I tried giving her a shower & it just doesn't work. I do not know the drill. So, I am truly grateful for Kindra.
Thursday, Nov. 3: It is hard to decide what specifically to be thankful for. I am thankful for everything.
Today, Friday, Nov. 4, I put hair. It might sound funny, but I am thankful for my hair. I am thankful I HAVE hair. My hair came out when I had chemo in 2007 & it is just starting to come back in good. I had my hair cut & a shampoo/set yesterday. It looks cute. I paid for it though with a bad headache. There is no bone where the craniectomy was done to remove the tumor in 2001. And even though Marcella was very careful in washing my hair, I got a headache. Mother's sister Onda, her husband Keith, & Mother's brother Larry came to visit Mother today from Blackfoot & Pocatello (Idaho). Mother's hair is still dark & thick. She has her hair done every week on Thursday & it stays in almost all week. Of course, people can't believe Mother doesn't dye her hair, so her hair is always a topic of conversation. Mother is the oldest sister & the other four have thin, white hair. My hair is thin & fine, but not white yet.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
More changes
The bishopric in the Whitney 2nd Ward was released & a new bishopric sustained. Released was Bishop Brandon Stephenson; 1st counselor, Tim Golightly; 2nd counselor, Daren Cole; executive secretary, Donnie Sanderson; ward clerk, Bill Ponciano; financial clerks, Brett Bloom & Matt Gleed; & membership clerk, Burke Burns.
New bishopric: Bishop, Jim Summers; 1st, Jon Reese; 2nd, Darren Kelley; Executive secretary, Bill Ponciano; Clerks, Stanley Butler, Brett Bloom & Burke Burns. Everyone is commenting on how different Bishop Summers will look clean shaven. It will be a change. Since he was released as a counselor in a bishopric several years ago, he has worn a neatly trimmed beard.
The carpet was installed today. It looks better than I expected it to look. They expected it to take 2 days, but one man installed it today. They picked up the baseboards today.
I'm still not sure we'll keep the house, but we're working on the assumption we will. I certainly look forward to moving home. If I would just remember to get Mother's money so we can start working on the house itself.
New bishopric: Bishop, Jim Summers; 1st, Jon Reese; 2nd, Darren Kelley; Executive secretary, Bill Ponciano; Clerks, Stanley Butler, Brett Bloom & Burke Burns. Everyone is commenting on how different Bishop Summers will look clean shaven. It will be a change. Since he was released as a counselor in a bishopric several years ago, he has worn a neatly trimmed beard.
The carpet was installed today. It looks better than I expected it to look. They expected it to take 2 days, but one man installed it today. They picked up the baseboards today.
I'm still not sure we'll keep the house, but we're working on the assumption we will. I certainly look forward to moving home. If I would just remember to get Mother's money so we can start working on the house itself.
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