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Sometimes it takes a lot longer in your life do certain things than other things. For example, yesterday I decided that it was time to try to figure out how to work my husbands stereo system. Now it has been a slow process moving myself into my husbands computer room, he has been dead for seven years, so little by little I have taken over his computer room which is much bigger then mine. I am telling you my husbands stuff has stuff, no kidding if one was good two was better and you always needed a back up, but that is a different story. Back to the stereo system, first thing to do was to dust it all off and make sure everything worked, well all the lights light up but no sound. Two hours later still no sound but the dogs are having a fit and won’t stop barking, after yelling at them for twenty minutes or so I figure I should go see what the fuss is all about. Sometimes one of the birds will decide to take a stroll on the floor and the dogs will tell on them by barking like nuts but no birds on the floor so I look out the window and all looks well, so back I go to the stereo system. Another half hour of them barking and I figure something must be wrong outside so outside I go where I am greeted  by the sounds of Willie And Waylon full blast. Now the lesson learned is if your dogs won’t stop barking you better find out why or make sure you have no neighbors who can complain or worse yet call the police on you. Well I think to myself  if the speakers outside work then there must be a reason why the ones inside don’t and guess what, he had the speakers on a switcher, all I had to do was find the switch and turn it. There still are some things I can’t figure out how to work yet of his but I figure all I need is another seven years.

I have decided that I am a procrastinator, never use to be or maybe I was and just did not know it. There are so many things that I need to do ( or so my mind tells me I do) that every night when I go to bed I yell at myself and say (will I will give you the clean version) I have got to get it together and do all this stuff that is driving me crazy. Do I do it? No of course not, every morning I get up and there is always something more important waiting for me to do, like volunteer at the Library or at the Chamber Of Commerce or be Artist of the month at the Library or go to card class or to bingo or set in front of the Computer and trade cards with people all over the world or draw cards to send all over the world or just write my Blog. What do I give up? What is unimportant enough to give up? Nothing, it is all important to me so maybe I am not a procrastinator after all, maybe I am just to busy and maybe age might have something to do with it all or maybe it is that every time I feel good enough to do those unpleasant chores, something happens and I am no longer capable of doing them. Like the car accident I was in, now that is another story for another time. I am fine not to worry. Funny when I sat down to write this, I had nothing to say. Wow, go figure and how was your day?

So who knew that there is a surge protector for your whole house! Yea, Yea I know you are going to say this poor dumb bimbo just got taken for a ride. Thing is you have to hear me out. About three weeks ago it got very very cold in our sunny Arizona and about three in the morning the dogs decided they needed to go out ( they have no respect for an old ladies sleep). Now I am standing outside in the cold and it was COLD and I am looking around while they play blood hounds and smell every inch of ground and I see Smoke. Now I run over to see where the smoke is coming from and it is coming out of my heat pump (my new heat pump I might add), so now here is this crazy lady in her pajamas with two dogs looking at her like she had lost her mind having a heart attack. As I stand there staring at the smoke pouring out of my new heat pump, I realize it is not smoke but steam. Water is running out the bottom and steam is pouring out the top but the good news is the house is not on fire. So the next day which is New Years Eve by the way I call the company that installed the thing and tell the man who answers the phone about my experience and say to him that is not normal is it and he says I wouldn’t think so. So we set up an appointment on New Years Eve mind you. So now I am waiting for the guy to show up and some lady calls me and says you have a heat pump, I say yes I know I told the man I talked to that, she says it perfectly normal for heat pumps to do that in cold weather so then I say well why didn’t the man I talked to tell me that? She says and I quote” he is just the answering service” and I say and I quote ” well jeez lady you should get and answering service that know something about heating and cooling” then she says do you still want someone to come out and I say well not if it is normal and she says well most of the time it is!!! So I figure I better have it checked out but not at triple time or whatever they make on holidays. Anyway when the guy comes out to check it out he tells me there is no surge protector on the unit and if you live in Meadview you need surge protector on every thing. Ask me about my TV sometime!!! Then he says for x amount of dollars we can put one on but for a couple of hundred more we can put a box between your house and the electrical box out side. Warranty will pay up to $20,000. so I am surge protected! Just think it is only the second week of the new year and all this has happened, can’t wait till the end of the month.  I’ll keep you posted.

Ok, so it’s the new year and I know that we are all suppose to start the New Year off  with a new outlook on every thing and I did. Problem is that it is only the end of the first week and I have already broken all those promises I made last year. Like get my life in order, clean my closet (god I hate that one), spend less time on the computer, spend less money and save more money, finish Jewel Quest 3 ( never did finish Jewel Quest 2), beat my sisters Bookworm score ( like that’s ever going to happen) and of course the one we all say every year Lose Weight and get healthy. Now let me see I did finish Jewel Quest 3 last night, no bells or whistles, just done, I been playing this stupid game for over a year I expected fire works or something. So what am I going to do all night when I can’t sleep, cant fight with Jewel Quest anymore. Spend less time on the computer, it’s 2:20am and I am still on the computer. Spend less money, only cause I have less to spend, lose weight, well you know how that goes. That leaves the closet and you know I might need those smaller size cloth when I lose all that weight and I will get my life in order just as soon as I beat Connie’s Bookworm score. So hows your New Year Going?

Whatever part of the country you live in I would guess that it is now 2010! To say it has been a long year is an understatement!! Starting off a new year in the hospital is not fun and I am sure there are worse places but right now I don’t even care to think about them. So lets see 15 day in the hospital, knee surgery, 6 weeks in a wheel chair, 6 or 8 weeks on a walker (can’t remember which) months on a cane but I am happy to say I am without chair, walker or cane as I start this new year, so yea!!!!!! So you can all probably guess what my New Years resolution is ,Don’t Fall Down Again!!!!  I would love to know all of your resolutions but no matter what they are one thing I hope for all, is the best year yet. Enjoy your self and stay safe.

Will it is all over but the shouting for another year but I am a little put out with the Old Fart. Now I know I might be just a tad past the age for Santa and I don’t really expect to receive very much for him but to completely pass over my house, will I have one thing to say to the old guy. He better not be expecting any cookies from me next year, that’s all I have to say! Even if Santa didn’t stop, it still was a nice Christmas, a little sad but still nice. We even had snow on the cliffs and it was 29 this morning at 6am as my friend and I headed off to Las Vegas to scoop up all those great things that one must buy the day after Christmas so you can stick it in the closet for a whole year and then forget that you bought it and buy it over again before next Christmas.:)  Now I am ready for Spring and flowers and then Summer and Grandkids. Hope your Christmas was great.

So it has been a while, I know I am so interesting and you wait with baited breath for each post that now there is a big guilt cloud hanging over my head. Now I feel compelled to explain my actions, I have a new addiction. Believe me this is not an easy thing to admit to but I am addicted to ATC. For those of you who don’t know what they are, they are 2.50 by 3.50 cards that you spend all your time trying to make them special enough so that you can give them away! Then you set and wait for someone to send you one. Go figure! Good thing is that during all this madness I have made a new friend, she also is drowning in ATC’s so we have a lot to talk about. Now I don’t want you to think that this is all I do, for it is not I have managed to get all my xmas shopping done, wrapped and mailed out, be artist of the month at our local library which consumes three days a week, been to several Christmas parties, played Bunko one night and still managed to play Bingo two times a week leaving only one thing left to do. So if you don’t receive a Christmas card this year it isn’t because I broke my knees again, it is because I am still trying to fit addressing cards in to this thing called Life! So how your December going?  Just for fun one of my ATC.

I Told That Bird I Needed A Bigger Tree!

So I am excited, I got me an IPhone docker. Now all I have to do is set my IPhone in the cradle and wallah out comes music ( no ear plugs) just listening to my favorite songs! Now who could ask for more, well I can. You see I got this to go on my stand by my bed, it has a clock and every thing and it was on sale but my problem is now I think I need two! See the IPhone docker never made it out of my kitchen because I wanted to see it work, well now you know the rest of the story, it is still in my kitchen and I have decided that I need another IPhone Docker. So guess what I have to go Bullhead City ( so sad 🙁 oh well that life), to buy another one and then I will probably have to go across the river to get something to eat and then I will probably have to gamble. All this because I didn’t buy two in the first place. I hope it is warm where you are at because it is kind of chilly in AZ even had snow ( I could have shoveled it all up and had about a half a cup of snow and maybe even made a snow ball or two. Sorry just had to say that. We did have a Ice Storm, well I had an Ice Storm. Found out I had a very large leak in my drip system. Something for Bud to do when he comes back to AZ. Sorry Bud.

My Ice Storm.

So it is 12:17am and I have decided that we need to add a few more hours to the day and just maybe I might be able to do every thing that I think should be done. Now you might ask how an old lady like myself can not find enough hours in the day to do everything needed doing. Don’t ask me, I just know it to be a fact. Saturday was the big craft show that I worked tirelessly to get ready for and talk about 6 wasted hours. Slow is not the word to describe the day, needless to say it was not the best money making days I have had but it is over. Sunday I went shopping in Vegas, that was fun but I think I spent more on myself than Christmas gifts. Today was Monday and that is card making day with my friends, then when I got home I made  Artist Trading Cards, tomorrow starts my month at the Library as artist of the month, tomorrow night is Bingo, Wednesday doctor appointment in Kingman on and on it’s goes. So you see we all could use a few more hours in the day.  Speaking of Artist Trading Cards, I got my first card today, from Washington State. Should receive three from Finland and one from London and I think that is exciting and I have some coming from a couple of states. Maybe if I spent less time in front of the computer,no forget that I vote for the extra hours. Bookworm and Jewel Quest are more important than sleeping, somebody has to achieve those high scores and it might well be me.

So turkey day is over and I hope everyone had a very special day with your family and friends. My day was very nice but still touched with sadness. Being away from my family is always sad and lonely but I am blessed with many good friends so I was not alone, in fact I had two thanksgiving dinners. Now I may be a lot of things but a pig is not one of them but when two very good friends invite you to dinner what can you do but suck it up and go to both! Lucky for me one was at 2:00pm and the other at 5:00pm, needless to say I am very full but my friendships are still in tact. My friend Roger had about 20 guest so I felt right at home only thing missing was a fight for a seat at the table like at Mom and Dads. Now I have a news flash I traded a Artist Trading Card on the web I am so excited. Not much going on and I hear my Jewel Quest III game calling me I am at 8 5% and I can feel the end is just around the corner. Now if anyone is going to do Black Friday and get in line at some store tomorrow at 5 am please be careful there is nothing that they can sell cheap enough to make me fight all those people but if your going to, have fun.