First off, this is a weekend visit with a granddaughter! C. & I have been going cheap this weekend by staying home & hanging out in our jammies! She has been having a movie marathon. Those $1 dvd's from Wal-mart that I was buying back in about 2004-2006 while I was helping provide childcare for the 3 children after their parents marriage broke up is about the best investment I have made for her. She loves watching them! Most of them are cartoons that were from my childhood or even earlier! Right now, she has a Ernest movie going of a 3 dvd set. I think I paid about $6 for it last year. She thinks it's cool that my maternal grandmother's maiden name was Worrell like Ernest's name in the movies.
We made pasta for dinner Friday with meatballs. Saturday morning she decided to have rice for breakfast after Grandpa had asked to have some rice put in the rice cooker for him. I swear that man goes through more rice than anyone I know! Anyway, I only put in ingredients to make 2 cups in the 3 cup cooker so that it wouldn't be so messy while cooking. But after 2 bowls of rice for C., there wasn't much left for Grandpa when he decided to come back from the library or somewhere. So I put on more. After a while, he came in telling me that I had blown the GFCI with using the rice cooker & the crockpot because the lights weren't on on either. But the crockpot doesn't have a light on it. So I reset it (for whatever reason, when we built the house, he put the reset in the nearby bedroom! Not the kitchen.), but that didn't fix it. I think the rice cooker went. Not a terrible thing, we only paid $10 for it several years ago at Walgreen's. But I had another I had picked up, so was able to locate that in the cabinet & get his 2nd batch of rice cooked. For lunch, we had burritos & then decided on Sloppy Joes for supper last night. This morning she wanted waffles for breakfast & I think we will have leftovers for a late lunch before time to take her home later today. Then I will had the oldest granddaughter in 2 weeks for the weekend. This was to have been her weekend, but she wanted to go to a friend's house for the night Friday & so traded with her sister.
Yesterday was my dh's 1 sister's 39th wedding anniversary. She & her dh do not live in the USA, so we don't see them often at all. I know the last time I saw them was in 2002 at their 1 son's wedding. I know my dh saw her at least a few years after that when all 3 siblings were organized, I think, into a visit for their mother's birthday by her much younger sister. My dh will be seeing his sister again in about 3 weeks. Their youngest daughter will be getting married in the Seattle, WA area on August 12th & so he is flying out for that. This will be the 1st time in 35 years that I haven't gone to something like this, but I am at that stage of unemployment that I have to submit a sheet showing who all I have applied to over the course of the week in order to receive my unemployment benefits for that week. And the benefits have been cut by 1/3. So it just isn't in the cards for me to go. So I have made an afghan for a wedding gift - undecided if I should mail it ahead so that I know it doesn't get forgotten or let him take it with him. Mailing ahead also might help with the current trend of charging for checked bags & even at times carry-on bags. He will get gone a week, so he could use that space for his own clothes. But if I send it with him, then he could use the space when he returns for t-shirts or some such for the grandkids. Decisions, decisions!
I am the oldest of 4 children - the other 3 are actually my half siblings since we don't have the same father. My natural father passed away when I was a baby & their dad raised me from when I was 2. My sister is about 4 ½ years younger than me & then we have 2 brothers. Today is the 47th birthday of my oldest brother. Due to circumstances, I have no real way to contact him today to tell him Happy Birthday, but when I spoke with him last on June 30th, I had told him that I would wish him a Happy Birthday then in case I couldn't contact him on his birthday. I knew he had quit his last trucking job & so might not have a phone available to him today. So I have written on his Facebook wall at the very least. If he ever figures out how to view it, he might see it. Even though I am the oldest, I am the only one who is really computer literate as well!
Today is the day we are casting on for BadCat Designs newest KAL (knit-a-long) - Sangria! The first charts & instructions are posted to the yahoogroups site for it & I just need to pull out my needles to get started. I am using a yarn from Sheepy Time Knits called Ruby Slippers Sparkle with ruby beads & the champagne 6/0 beads on the border for contrast. If you are a knitter & interested in doing a KAL, check out the details on her blog.
I am thrilled today to see that I have another follower! It is always a pleasure to see who is enjoying something you are doing. So welcome!
Have fun & Happy Crafting until the next time!
We made pasta for dinner Friday with meatballs. Saturday morning she decided to have rice for breakfast after Grandpa had asked to have some rice put in the rice cooker for him. I swear that man goes through more rice than anyone I know! Anyway, I only put in ingredients to make 2 cups in the 3 cup cooker so that it wouldn't be so messy while cooking. But after 2 bowls of rice for C., there wasn't much left for Grandpa when he decided to come back from the library or somewhere. So I put on more. After a while, he came in telling me that I had blown the GFCI with using the rice cooker & the crockpot because the lights weren't on on either. But the crockpot doesn't have a light on it. So I reset it (for whatever reason, when we built the house, he put the reset in the nearby bedroom! Not the kitchen.), but that didn't fix it. I think the rice cooker went. Not a terrible thing, we only paid $10 for it several years ago at Walgreen's. But I had another I had picked up, so was able to locate that in the cabinet & get his 2nd batch of rice cooked. For lunch, we had burritos & then decided on Sloppy Joes for supper last night. This morning she wanted waffles for breakfast & I think we will have leftovers for a late lunch before time to take her home later today. Then I will had the oldest granddaughter in 2 weeks for the weekend. This was to have been her weekend, but she wanted to go to a friend's house for the night Friday & so traded with her sister.
Yesterday was my dh's 1 sister's 39th wedding anniversary. She & her dh do not live in the USA, so we don't see them often at all. I know the last time I saw them was in 2002 at their 1 son's wedding. I know my dh saw her at least a few years after that when all 3 siblings were organized, I think, into a visit for their mother's birthday by her much younger sister. My dh will be seeing his sister again in about 3 weeks. Their youngest daughter will be getting married in the Seattle, WA area on August 12th & so he is flying out for that. This will be the 1st time in 35 years that I haven't gone to something like this, but I am at that stage of unemployment that I have to submit a sheet showing who all I have applied to over the course of the week in order to receive my unemployment benefits for that week. And the benefits have been cut by 1/3. So it just isn't in the cards for me to go. So I have made an afghan for a wedding gift - undecided if I should mail it ahead so that I know it doesn't get forgotten or let him take it with him. Mailing ahead also might help with the current trend of charging for checked bags & even at times carry-on bags. He will get gone a week, so he could use that space for his own clothes. But if I send it with him, then he could use the space when he returns for t-shirts or some such for the grandkids. Decisions, decisions!
I am the oldest of 4 children - the other 3 are actually my half siblings since we don't have the same father. My natural father passed away when I was a baby & their dad raised me from when I was 2. My sister is about 4 ½ years younger than me & then we have 2 brothers. Today is the 47th birthday of my oldest brother. Due to circumstances, I have no real way to contact him today to tell him Happy Birthday, but when I spoke with him last on June 30th, I had told him that I would wish him a Happy Birthday then in case I couldn't contact him on his birthday. I knew he had quit his last trucking job & so might not have a phone available to him today. So I have written on his Facebook wall at the very least. If he ever figures out how to view it, he might see it. Even though I am the oldest, I am the only one who is really computer literate as well!
Today is the day we are casting on for BadCat Designs newest KAL (knit-a-long) - Sangria! The first charts & instructions are posted to the yahoogroups site for it & I just need to pull out my needles to get started. I am using a yarn from Sheepy Time Knits called Ruby Slippers Sparkle with ruby beads & the champagne 6/0 beads on the border for contrast. If you are a knitter & interested in doing a KAL, check out the details on her blog.
I am thrilled today to see that I have another follower! It is always a pleasure to see who is enjoying something you are doing. So welcome!
Have fun & Happy Crafting until the next time!
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