Daily Notes 0n Friday December 20th. A Dark and 27 degree Friday ( yesterday was sunny and warmish)

 It feels like this on some Maine Evenings  (usually). The streetlights....  This year the grass is still green.

Well, it's chilly in here and the furnace (boiler) is doing its best to warm the house to 64 degrees. I did have it higher last Winter with husband needing warmth and Son still in California mode. 

I watched a Christmas Movie.....and then I watched the PBS program on the bodies found under Notre Dame after the fire.  Ancient burials.  

Today there is a soccer game on some station...Liverpool.  I like their games best as the people in the stadium sing.  And I like hearing that while I stitch.

Groceries today and I am buying more bananas and navel oranges.  My Dental Cleaning went well. We numbed my teeth first with something I swished in my mouth...also numbing my lips.....I have very nervy teeth and cleaning is usually a terrible experience.  My tech was super happy about me bringing her a book......I had anticipated this and selected something very nice for her. In years past I brought her a book list.....of the books I had read and enjoyed....

I discovered a real trove of unused Christmas Cards...now I need to find them a place to live between holidays.  So I don't forget yet again.

I am getting used to the instant coffee.  

I have my bedsheets in the washer....a place near my feet shredded....the fabric falling apart.  I don't think it was me (but I did make it worse)....my husband had very sturdy toenails and I think he shredded the linen.  I now have to consider mending......or- since I sleep alone- putting the shredded area on his side of the bed.....under his pillows.   Easily done.

Well, it's Grocery Shopping Day and seems like Son is getting prepared.....I also have a heavy book bag to return to the Library.  Some of it read and some NOT.  Now that I am interested in stitching scraps of cloth together to make a square....I am not reading as much.... Liverpool is playing Soccer today...I can stitch thru that.  I hope they sing...I love that.

Sunshine and colder weather on the way....Thursday, December 19th. Dentist.

 Final chair  of the old series I dug out of the trash pile.  If I find a decorating magazine in the library hallway give away thing tomorrow ...I might draw a few more chairs or anything else the magazines have multiple images of......... I really like the drawn lines on this chair......I did a great job. Swoopy.  I am actually the ARTIST I wanted to be.....long ago.  Funny how that happens.

I looked for additional Christmas Cards... no luck as yet.  I am recalling using a lot of them last year or the year prior. Daughter and I might swing by the Book Store and get a second box of the ones I chose. After the Dentist.  (So not looking forward to the Dentist)

I now have an organized sewing room....will I machine sew?  I doubt it.  But when it all goes out of the house- it will be sorted and organized.  I spent some Brain Time...thinking "who would want quilting cloth?"  It's not that popular anymore.  Acrylic (plastic) printed cloth is the "quilt" of choice these days.

I did scavenge a nice box of scraps....cut off pieces-- just floor and wastebasket stuff...sewing them by hand into squares.  Avant-garde Pot Holders.  Why not....I'm old enough to be making Crazy Pants Things. It could be worse..... I could be drinking Gin all day out of a coffee cup.. I recall a few old ladies of my acquaintance that did just that.....Day Drinking while your family thought you REALLY liked coffee and tea..  I usually brought a book to read while they napped. 

So...dentist and then some Hallmark...I watched PBS on the Eiffel Tower construction.  Amazing.  

Well, that's about it...if anyone wants to play Five Questions...send them along and I'll try to answer them.... Can be serious or silly..or both.   Santa (a friend) dropped off a bag of chocolate candy...in the mailbox....treats!!!!!!!! Surprise Treats....the best kind..

Wednesday, December 18th. I missed a day here.......Sunshine and 40 degrees

 Well. I can't recall why I didn't post yesterday- but I DID write all my Christmas Cards.  And put stamps on them and sent daughter off to the post office as one European card needed the European Airmail stamp.  

I used up all the cards....and had people left over....so I will dig around in the card drawer to see if I have a few orphan cards... 

The mail brought ME two cards....one from a lovely friend who I knew from 5th grade thru high school graduation...we stopped seeing each other as often when I went away to college- as her father had the impression that girls who went off to college- and no longer lived at home- were whores.  I was allowed to come to her house (supervised) but that was it.  A few years ago she asked me to call her- iPhone- and we chatted for the first time in many many years.  She was preparing dinner for her husband. On her card she asked me to call her after the holidays. I will.  

Daughter went off to the postoffice and then drove to the next Town to see about a watch we found in husband's collection (her assistant duties).  Then she had new tires put on her car and still remembered to stop and buy me a small carton of coffee cream.  Son had thrown out the carton I had- said it had expired....I guess it had but was still quite okay by my "standards" which he says are questionable.

I switched to the wider screen version of Hallmark...better image...I get two versions of everything. I usually watch sports on the wider version- Soccer and Open Wheel Racing.... but yesterday the Hallmark Christmas Mystery looked very very nice. It was an old one that I liked years and years ago.  

I went down to the sewing room and dug thru the wastebasket and pulled out scraps...made myself a square....very nice....I have more scraps and will be making another square today.....Mindless handwork as I watch Hallmark..

It's Medicare whatever time and I got four phone calls that woke me up.....I hung up on all of them. So..that's the news....My cards are in the mail.....I only had the one package of ten- Daughter offered to go buy more but I said..."I ran out of people".....the address book is full but I haven't seen or heard from people listed there in decades....who knows where they live now.  Or if they are alive.

I do have extra cards in a packing box....and I do make a card (I draw, paint or color) for the neighbors and my lunch buddy. That's enough.  Getting old...it breaks your heart somedays.

Daily Notes- Monday, December 16th. Intermittent Sunshine and 36 degrees

 I just am so fond of the strange and Wonderfull-ness of budding flowers.

Football yesterday was not worth watching....the Pizza was wonderful as usual.  I did fall in to Hallmarks' Trap and watched two Christmas Movies....I did not record them to save...... dismal even with actors I usually enjoy.....This one guy- see him too much and you've seen all his emotional faces...

I also watched an older recorded movie about a woman returning from Iraq without her bomb sniffing dog..  They had worked together since he was a puppy....but she was sent home and the dog had a few more years of service..... I'd seen the movie before- the love interest was a junior version of Tom Cruse. and any long time readers might recall- I am not one of Tom's fans.

I tuned into a  recorded Hanukah movie (really craved jelly donuts it was like that movie where every day was a repeat of the same day) and then carried the book I had chosen to read.... off to bed.  The Wedding People.  7 day loan so needs to be returned on Friday.  Not what I expected.... Woman- College Instructor...arrives, no suitcase......intention is to kill herself.  Hotel is filled with wedding guests.

First 34 pages (endlessly tedious). Describes her marriage, useless tries to have a baby and/or get tenure at the college where she and husband teach  (she would have liked either).  In depth description of her neighborhood Wine Shop and the "tip" jar on the counter. ... and the clothing worn by all the Wedding Guests in line at reception, then contents of her husband's closet at home.  So, very very riveting 34 pages- also included were holiday vacations and the clothing she wore.. on those Ozark hiking vacations.

I actually, now that I wrote all that...can't imagine ANY other book that crammed that much useless info in 34 pages. I am leaving out descriptions of boring sex with her husband and her cat's bowel disorder..  THIRTY FOUR PAGES IN............  

Someone published THIS.....someone at the Library chose it (New York Times Bestseller List) for the New BOOK shelf.  I have made a promise to myself to read ALL the way to page 50.  Unless something fabulous happens- page 50 will be the last page I read.  I imagine any other people having read this far would be offering to run her over with their cars or push her off the balcony of her fifth story room.  Really.  Cover blurb says it's "wickedly funny"...........NO......just 1000% NO.