We just returned from Christabelle and Jason's place. They made turkeee soop. It was very very yummy.
I gave them the rest of our turkee on Thankies giving day.

In the fridge, I have one potato, a medium size pot of cranberry sauce, one roll, a bit of gravy and some vegetable casserole that Jason made.
a half of a stick of butter.
That is it.

Oh, maybe I do have a bit of turkee salad and I think a tiny piece of turkee in a rubbermade container.

I have half a pot of Edy's peppermint icecream too.
Oh, and one slice of pound cake

I think that is really it

Blizzie and I went shopping today.  We went to the mall and looked at dresses. We are going to a wedding on December 27th. Christina's best college friend is getting married and we are all going. Christina is going to be a bridesmaid. Man, she has a pretty dress.

So, Blizzie and I went to the mall and tried on a bunch of dresses. I am tiny. I wear a size 6 at least. Blizzie is teeeeensy and shorty-short. She is a pip-squeek.
She has to wear "extra-petite" for sure.

I tried on this pretty bloo dress. I am not sure about this dress. It must have been made for me becuase I cannot possibly figure out how anyone else could fit into this thing. Okay, it had a side zipper, so I unzipped it and Oh Blizzie and I did so much complete disrobing at every store to try on dresses.... anyhow, so I stepped into the dress and pulled it up... it would not go up any higher than my thighs. I do not have a big butt or thunder thighs by any stretch of the imagination. This dress was not going up. So I stepped out of it and pulled it over my head, squeeeezed through the tiny waist hole with the side zipper unzipped and pulled it over my non-boobs. Then I zipped it. It fit really nice but the chest part was a bit baggy. This was a size 6. Now if I were to try on a 4... I am not even sure I could get into the dress.... I did not buy a dress today. I have time.
Blizzie has to get a dress because she has to go back to the compound tomorrow  [she will not return to her mother until the 20th of december]... or I think she is going back very early Monday because hubby feels like driving her early and her class is not until 10:00. So we looked at dresses and then the sales lady at Lord and Taylor called the other store at the mall in Fairfax and they had a smaller dress, so we are going to check them out tomorrow. We are going to skip church and go to the mall....

Nordstrom's has ugly dresses, and skanky ones. There was nothing, not one item of clothing in that store that was even slightly pretty. It was all bad.
Macy's had some interesting stuff.

How was your Thanksgiving?

Ours was sooo fun. We had the gathering here. I did the turk and all that and my mom was in charge of cookies. Joyce (my sister) Chrystabelle and Jason (the boyfriend) were bringing everything else.
It was a nice day. It started out beautiful and sunny. The temp reached 76 degrees by 1:00!!!!! Then this funny black cloud came in... no rain, just wind a lot of heavy wind, then the temp dropped to 42 degrees and freeeeeezing heavy large tree branch breaking wind by 4:00. Amazing. The electricity went out at 3:00 but we were done eating. I could have made coffee but oh well, then we packed up everything and went to the apartment and had dessert there. It is only two miles away but they had electricity. Then my parents drove home.
I think they would have liked to spend the night, but my mommie is such a terrible sleeper now, she needs her own bed to sleep even if she sleeps badly. Also my mom still has a lot of anxiety with this irregular heartbeat. Poor thing. She is doing fine but tires easily. I think she might be a bit depressed.
I am going to see them on Thursday. I think I am going to see them more often.
They need me.

My sister. She is a loon. She compares everything. She is going to mess up Andrei one day.
She is soooo loud and she talks constantly about Andrei and how shy he is and how he is not always like that but then sometimes he is and it bothers her and how so and so does this and that and how Andrei does not do that blahblahblah. The only thing I could say was "Joyce do not worry too much. Just let him be a 9 year old kid"
Sheeeeesh. Andrei is such a sweet boy. I am so sorry he has a loon mom.
Jason really hit it off well with him. Christina kind of asked Joyce to consider bringing Andrei over for the week-end sometimes.
Sometimes I am sort of happy that Joyce works a full time job and has him in various day care situations.
She is a very critical mother.

This is all I have to say tonight.
I think I will take a shower now and put on something snuggly and jump in bed.
Tomorrow, more shopping.

I am looking forward to Monday for skating, but not seeing Blizzkin go back to the college....
OH!!! wow. She is taking private classical lessons. Gah!  Oh wowie.
She is playing Schumann's Papillons. All 12 parts. Oh gosh. Shocking... no I mean  Schocking.
I need to practice more.

Be well.
I am not around xanga much.
Please e-mail me or message me when crappy stuff is going on with you!!
I need to know. It makes me very sad when I come on here and find out all sorts of terrible things.
Be well, I mean it.

I am so busy. I have beaucoup de choses à faire and a few places to go today (safeway for the pepermint ice creme.
I have been up since 7:30 and I will be going allll day so I can get everything accomplished.
I drove out to get Blizkin yesterday long drive, beautiful I did get some nice pics I will put up sometime.
Oh, I brought the tree up from the dungeon! yep, I am going to at least put it together, maybe put the lights on.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee   eeeeeeee *breathes* eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

and fuzzy beings too

Love and smooches
Rosemary

For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Two additional thoughts while the laundry is twirling and the blueberry coffee cake is baking:
1. at the rink on Monday I learned that most of us are doing Thanksgiving at our homes with the family coming.
Some ladies wanted to set up the tree, some say it is the tradition of ThG to have that tree up. Okay. I have never done that, but hey, I am feeling frisky, so that is why the tree is upstairs however now I must put it together. eh-hem, so anyway..... My rink lady frinz said that they would be putting up the tree regardless of the reactions of any guests that might be offended. I suggested that perhaps it would be good to set up the tree and decorate the whole thing perfectly, then cover it with a large super big sheet. When the guests inquire about the tree, you can just say that it has been up since last year and you never take it down, it is just covered up until the yearly unveiling on some date.
Right?

2. Blizzie is slaving on her music theory homework and she has to write a hymn. She is a tiny bit mighty crabby about that.
I am just going to be quiet and continue on with my slave-ish duties.

Last week I was very very busy. This week I am crazy busy.
Last week I said I would skate three days. I only skated ONE day. Disgusting and sad. I have been nutty busy!

Today Hubby and I are leaving soon to do the church snacks (junk food, they make us buy junk) then I play bells in churchie second service.
Lots going on this afternoon, Chrystabelle and Jason are coming over. I am very excitapated! (they only live 2 miles away )

I will typie up an update on my life and times maybe later.
soooo busy
Thanksgiving is at our house this year, and my parents are spending the night.
Blizz will be home and Jason and Christina will be doing some cooking and baking and Joyce and Andrei will be here too.
YAY

here is a pic my daddy sent me.
Mom is getting better. This heartbeat thing really pulled her down. She feels much more confident again.
She drove to the food store all by herself last week.

I have been a horrible xanga person.
I will try... but really. Life is getting in the way here. Good times.

Here it is Saturday again.
What happened to this week?
I have been very busy.
We got the fence installed last Monday.
Those guys did a fabulous job. Best fence in the neighborhood. We are so happy with our fence. I think it improves the lot. See the silly 3 level houses (our real estate agent neighbor calls the Morphed townhouses) they put in? 

The white house behind us are The Cambos.

They are nice people but they are from - yep, Cambodia. The two owners are second generation so they are pretty good about living in this kind of a neighborhood (with loads of rules and "an association") but they have their "family" living with them and they do have some strange customs.... sheeesh.
I won't go into that today.

we are very happy to have our fence.

I just got my flu shot about two hours ago. I hope I do not get any side effects. My arm does hurt.

I skated twice last week. I hope to skate three times next week. I am only skating at Cabin John now.
I am stillllll working on my picture. It is almost done. When it is finished I will take a photo of it and let you see. I am pretty happy with it... just have not been in the right state of mind.
I have completed all of the squashies, and the tomato. I am just spending a lot of time carefully working on those zinnias. magenta, magenta and heavy magenta, and the leaves and stems in various shades of green.

I have not had français class in two weeks. The teacher went on a cruise. Class resumes this Tuesday. I have been doing some studying and our library has free "Rosetta Stone french Class" online for library card owners (me) so I have been doing that online stuff as much as I can.

I have been playing moderately bad paino.
The kitties are doing fine.

So that is the update on me.

Qu'est-ce qui se passe?
Comment ça va?

You know Pat Sajak, don't you?
The Wheel of Fortune guy?
He is from Annapolis Maryland. Yes, he is an Annapolitan.

My mom loves that show, Wheeeeeel of Forrrrtune. She watches it every day.
Yay Pat Sajak!
Another reason she loves Pat Sajak, because... he is from her neighborhood, Annapolis.
What a terrific guy.
You know, Pat comes home to Annapolis every single week-end to be with his peeps.
riiiight.....

Annapolis loves Pat Sajak so much they have a medical building named after him

My parents have been spending a lot of time at that building lately.
My mom's heart is doing okay. she has been taking only a very small dose of that coumadin... and I believe she has been instructed to take it only every other day!
Her heart beat is still sometimes irregular.
She is doing okay. Slowly getting back into her perky life style.
My dad just had three hours of heart tests yesterday.... at the Sajak Building

Our new fence?
The fence boss had called last evening to say that we would have the fence today
because "Monday it is going to rain" (hubby told me this) Well, I looked at the weather.com and did not see rain forecasted but... oh well, yay, we are getting the fence!!!!!
They showed up this morning... however....
According to the agreed and signed contract: hubby specifically asked for
several things that did not happen this morning.
This is some of what was in the agreement:
1. The fence would be built by regular full time Fence Company employees, with the supervisory English speaking guy Alejandro or something like that.
2. The company manager would be there in the morning: To start the job
3. They must have all of the supplies they needed to do the job properly.

(hey I married a contract specialist, what did you expect??)

Well, hubby and I got up at 7:30. The truck arrived at 8 with the wood.  Pretty wood, CEDAR!!!!
= The guy that came to the door was not Alejandro. He and his crew were part timers, week-end workers.
= they did not have the tool to find the pipe in the ground that showed the property line. Hubby did not want them digging up our lawn and the neighbor's lawn looking for that. They were supposed to have a metal detector for that.
=  the company manager did not show up.

Hubby found out from the guy that came to the door that he was Alejandro's brother, NOT Alejandro.

here is where things get ugly.
We were supposed to have HAD the fence built last Monday but the company manager called last Monday morning and said that Alejandro was "sick" so they had to cancel the job...
Hubby learned today, by asking this guy how his brother was, that his brother was NOT sick last Monday. He had been at another fence job.

Why lie? Why didn't the fence boss just be honest with us and say, we are having some problems fitting you in today or something like that....
We spent the last week worrying about pooooor Alejandro.   for nothing.

So.... The fence will be installed this Monday.

MAYBE Monday we will get the fence. When we do have the fence... I will take a picture of it

So, that is the latest on the "Fence Story"
Stay tuned.....
Chilly day here, but very sunny.

No this is not Magic Eye

So. What's new with you?

it's better to be
absolutely
ridiculous
than absolutely boring.
-marilyn monroe

So you think Hilllllllarrrious Clinton will be our next president?
Honestly. do you?
Who is going to be our next Pres?

Hubby worked very late last night... went to a huge meeting and then out to dinner with a bunch of people.
I did Halloween here all by my self. It was okay. we only had about 25 kids or maybe 30.

when hubby came home, he installed Leopard onto my MacBook Pro.
I am still getting used to the new features... but.
I have to go now.
I need to do some foooood shopping and then we have video-chat at 2:00
New time.

I will tippy-type later.
busy.

It is November 1st
Two months... a whole new year.

Wheeeeee
yeah, of course I am watching the skating on NBC.

We are getting a lot of rain.
It is okay. we need it so badly, I can stand the drabbiness.

I have been doing various slave duties today, and stopping to work on my picture.
Last evening it was pouring rain... but I packed up my art stuff and went out to the skul for my very last drawing class.
I went only because I wanted to see everyone elses drawings.

I showed up at 6:30 and no one was there and the class room door was locked, but then one of the ladies in the class showed up.... later the "drawing teacher" showed up.
The door was unlocked and then we just sat around for others to show up... man I wished I had not gone............... yeah.
Only one other lady showed up, we shared our drawings. One lady's, the "guidance counselor", hers was very unique.  She had a very interesting bunch of stuff to draw. Strawberries, a kiwi and small sunflowers and some other food item, don't remember. Her drawing was very bright and nice, but she separated the colors so much that everything looked "striped" with the different color grades. It looked very unique, that is all I can say. The other lady did her drawing on darker paper. Her's had two oranges, one cut in half, some strawberries, and a huge blackberry in the front. Her drawing was well done. Most of it looked very 3-D, a few of the fruits needed a bit more.
Both of these women were about where I was... not quite finished, still some untouched things.
both of their drawings were very vivid.
I was impressed. Very impressed with both of their drawings. I did not take any photos of their drawings becuase even though I tossed my camera in my purse, I just felt like I shouldn't... so I didn't. I believe the others did not show up becuase the weather was so crummy.
They liked my drawing but I sure was not feeling like mine was all that great really. It is okay.

So the class is over and I will finish the drawing. I will share it with you when I am done.
I did not work on it last night in the class, because it was hard to concentrate.
the "drawing teacher" shared... spilled, more "interesting" facts about her life, this time her love life.... it was dreadful. She is trés trés stupid. I left at 8:00.
It was pouring rain coming home.

We changed the time of video-chat.
Wednesday evenings are crazy. upload or download feed (don't remember which) is horrible, so our chats were always cut short with lots of interference and then finally lock up.
This was really not so horrible we were willing to try some different settings but now that my mom is tired and has such anxiety with her irregular heartbeat, well, it was not good. So we changed the chat to Thursday's at 2:00 in the afternoon... or we can change it everyweek. to be honest, those evening chats were exhausting. My mom is just perking up at 8pm and hubby and I are shutting down after a long day. Yesterday's chat was super wonderful. It started out with daddy telling us that mom has been pretty much depressed about this heart trouble and she does not like the changes and restrictions to her old schedule. she just began going to her exercise class everyother day (instead of everyday). She does her exercises sitting on a chair at the class (it is full of only creaky old people, very cute)
I have been hesitant to go over there and visit, but I think I will go next week Tuesday. Maybe bring the whole lunch with me....
ANyway, mom got really happy and perked up after the video-chat. Wow.

I must end here.
I am going to bake some brownies now.
Today is definitely a brownies kind of day.

I hope all of you have a terrifical week-end.
I am going to try to get a billion things done, and study my Français.

Okay, it is about time I told you what I have been up to.

first of all... it is raining. I am pretty happy about that.
The fence will be constructed next Monday. It will be a nice fence.

I skated last Monday...

Yesterday, oh wowie I did something I have never done before. I met a xanga person. and. it was a good experience.
I was a bit nervous and jittery about the whole thing at first. Val was near Warrenton with her hubby. He had some work related wingding conference thing going on. (top seekrit, only to be discussed by us governmentie spouses of course)  I have accompanied my hubby on these sort of expeditions, the only disappointment is that usually you are one of about .... one other government guy's wife to go along, so you do not really have your own gang of ready made friends... you have to do what you have to do, while your hubby is at the blab-fest)
So, I jumped into my hot car and drove out to Warrenton and met Val at the Jail House Museum.

Then she bought me lunch!!! we ate at a really wonderful restaurant, le serveur beau a inclus.
Warrenton is rather po-dunk so there were not many places that looked even halfway decent.
Then, we went shopping. Val reeeeeeealllllly likes to shop. Friends and family of Val. You have some superterrifical gifties coming to you. She spent a mint on manymany well considered gifts. Especially TNuts. Oh boy, you have a good one coming your way, and mom, you cleaned up!

We did a lot of blabbing and walking. Val is a very fun lady. She looks EXACTLY like her bloggie picture. Her blog is a little bit of dull (like mine) but she is REALLY much more interesting and way more perky than her blog. I came to the conclusion that your bloggie is not really YOU. All of you are much better than your bloggies, I believe

Okay I will shuddup now.
Here are some pictures of Val that I took.
she is going to have some pictures on her blogggg and I am werried. I think I probably look like a big dork. Sorry. I am not photogenic or what ever...
Val is very short. She is even shorter than the Queen of England

This is a super great picture of Val. This photo looks just like her.
Is she not the cutest? yes indeedie.

Then I had to leave. It took me forever to get back home because I decided to take the back roads 29, 15 and 50, instead of rt 66, because that road had way too much excitement in the morning. Unfortunately I spent half the trip driving home behind "the cheese", a skool bus. I could have exploded but I did not. I listened to Shawn Hannity on the radio and enjoyed the rolling horsie and cow country side of Fauquier county. They have some nice peeps in Warrenton, but no Val... that gorgeous house we found is G.U.: Geographically Undesirable
Thank you Val for inviting me to meet you, and buying me lunch too.
It was superb great fun!

Then I went to classe Français and had a great time and got a trés bon grade on my test! Then I was chosen to read a biggg huge long thing in front of the entire classe and got a big fat star for that. go me.

Tomorrow is my LAST drawing class (it is thankfully only 6 weeks), so I have to sort of finish this picture and bring it in.
It is not done but I do not care. I will work a bit on it tonight and then tomorrow voila I will show everyone. Maybe I will bring my camera and.... no I will not do that, never mind.

I skated for two hours this morning at the Cabin John syrup rink. It was okay. The ice is always excellent. It was a "public" session instead of an adult session... there were 4 people on the ice, so that was not too shabby.

Okay. I am done.
I have a zillion things to do now.

So sick it's funny quote: