toothupdate

WHEW! It's almost over with...I still have some numbness in my chin and lower cheek. Weird! I ended up having a root canal on the tooth Wednesday. I decided to do the RC, since I didn't need a crown on it, only a filling. So, that saved well over $600. So instead of the intial $1502 *with 15% discount*, it will be be $683.....????!!??? I agonized over the decision of pulling vs. root canal---that was almost as bad as the pain! I still have to go back Monday for the permanent filling to be put in.
Here's a few pictures of some cards I had made before Valentines Day, and when I worked last.
I'm still on the hunt for organizing solutions to my craft room for the scrapbooking section. I may run to Walmart and Home Depot tomorrow or Tuesday and get SOMETHING that will work.
I'm off to work on the doily from hell.....this is the hardest project I've come across in a long time.





count your blessings...
SherryBee

Crochet vs. Knit

ROFL --- I know I spend waaaaay too much time online..I found this and just had to post it! LOL Sometimes, we do take ourselves way too seriously, don't we?

Can you see it?

Can you feel it?









I think it's Spring.....trying to sneak up on me....
count your blessings....

SherryBee

TGIF...

Hope you have a great weekend!
count your blessings...
SherryBee

Hopefully, your day will be better than this.......

count your blessings...

::UNCONSCIOUS MUTTERINGS::

1. Be mine :: Kiss Me


2. Ecstatic :: Happy


3. Orderly :: Conduct


4. Sebastian :: Cabot


5. Sore :: Loser


6. Don’t need :: Any


7. Rockstar :: Hillbilly (?)


8. Tinfoil :: Box


9. Addiction :: My Computer


10. Where? :: What?

count your blessings...
SherryBee

Happy Valentine's Day

SherryBee

...still suffering

It's not that I'm a huge baby or anything, but, geez! I am ready for this tooth business to be done with!
I had the dentist office call me in a prescription for some pain meds *Tylenol 3*, I don't like that other stuff that makes me sick to my stomach*. It was cutting it, so, I was taking that and an 800mg Ibuprofen about every 2 1/2 - 4 hours. Pain and misery! The pain was up to 9.5 (with 10 being full body pain, so, it was bad). My face looked like a baseball was in my mouth by Thursday morning. I was dreading what he might do at the appointment. Right as the assistant was looking at me, she said these kind of infections are bad. Within the past 5 years, the dental industry is seeing lots of people dying from them because they get 'SupeBugs' that the antibiotics won't work on. I was left in the room alone freaking out! I hadn't been taking my blood pressure meds for 2 days and my heart seemed to be pounding. The dentist told me the tooth had DIED! AND, that he would have to get that infection draining.....by drilling into the tooth! ACK I was afraid that was what he would want to do, but, it wasn't that bad. (Have to go back later, and I've decided I'll have it pulled. It's loose and the bone is already deteriorating. It's a small molar, and, the weird thing is that I have no fillings or cavities on that side.)
Now, the pain comes and goes and the swelling, too. It started up again a few minutes ago, so, I'm typing with a big icepack on my face!
I did go work at the scrapbook store from 2-5 today. I knew it would be a slow, easy day. I had debated about it in the morning, but, by noon, I was feeling pretty good.
I work tomorrow from 10-4. I hope it's a good day and I can make it. The owner is having a big celebration/going away for her husband and a bunch of military people. Her husband is deploying in a week or two. (They haven't even given him an acccurate date!?)
So, that's my catch-up.
count your blessings...

Toothache....

WAHHHH....it hurts! I stopped at the dentist office after my PAP test (NOT fair! Two of the most YUCKY things in ONE day!!!) to see about an appointment. I have 'something' going on in my mouth and it's not going away. They called a prescription in for some antibiotics and told me of a 'concoction' for pain to get over-the-counter. I can't get in to the dentist until 9 a.m. Thursday. I think I'll be ok til then, but, not much longer than that. We don't have dental insurance, so, this will be interesting. We had planned on doing some dentist stuff in Mexico, but, I'm a bit leary of some of that stuff done there, just in case of a reaction or something... Yesterday was the day we could have added dental onto hubbys insurance, too.............CRAP!
It's a nice snowy, COLD day. I love it, it fits how I feel, too! LOL Hubby came home at noon. They shut the job down. He's in taking a nap now...awwww
I did take a few minutes to meet my friend, Ruthie, for a few minutes. I had another Valentine's giftbag for her. I love spoiling her! And, boy, did she spoil ME today! She filled my bag with some yummy chocolate cherries (primo!), some Valentine's stickers, the sweetest card, AND, a Hoops and Yoyo card---I LOVE those guys! But, the bestest part is she also got me a DVD of 'The Secret Life of Bees'!!!! What a sweetie-pie she is!!! I may curl up with my laptop and watch that later.
I'm out the door for my prescription now. I AM IN MAJOR PAIN...
count your blessings...
SherryBee

Love these colors!

Wednesday, #1 son and I had to go to Globe for 'business'. When I took him back to his place, the sun was just setting over this pond. See the geese? By the time I had driven around it, it was practically covered with duck and geese!
I love it!

Hubby is working again today. I put a big ole pork roast in the crockpot with garlic and carrots. I can smell it already...yummy. He'll be happy when he walks in the door tonight. I'm also making some brownie bites for a little dessert.

I finished up a red shawl for my friend, and forgot to get a picture before I gave it to her, when we met for breakfast on Tuesday. I mailed off the little blue star baby afghan for my cousins new grandson. I also participated in a dishcloth swap. I'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my puffy.

The weatherman is telling us to expect rain and/or up to 20" of snow, down to 2500'.
Well, we'll see!

Have a fun day and count your blessings!
SherryBee

What I've been working on...

I've been busy crocheting...and LOVE it!
Here's a few pictures.

...tiny flowers for some cards









...jar toppers









...a new doily project in #20 thread--ugh!









...a little bit of happiness!
Don'tcha love a perfect pie?
...it's apple. Wonderful with vanilla ice cream!









count your blessings...
SherryBee

I've been challenged...

Ela challenged me, so, here it is!

The RULES:
1. Go to your pictures
2. Take the 6th folder
3. Choose the 6th picture
4. Show the picture on your blog and write something about it.
5. Invite 6 new people to this challenge
6. Link to them and let them know they are challenged.

I invite:

Martha
Michelle
Dru
Wendy
Lynne
Storrmey

Let me know when you post your challenge.

Here is my 6th in the 6th...

This is one of my favorite AVON watches! I started 'collecting' watches 2 years ago.
My addiction with watches started when I went to an AVON Honor Society luncheon. I admired one of the girls pearl watches and she said "That? It's AVON...I have 45 watches!" LOL I guess I thought it was OK to start my collection of watches! hehehe
They ARE a great accessory, functional and I get them at a discount, so.....
I have about 20 at this point. I try to contol it, and sometimes I do real good.....
Those are the times I have to COLLECT flipflops instead! hehehehe
Check out my AVON site for your own collection. If you don't collect....I CAN HELP! ROFL!

Boring, I know...But, I was sweating it, wondering what I would find and if I would have to CHEAT! ROFL

Have fun!
count your blesisngs...
SherryBee

I just had to do this...

This is my most favoritest song...

count your blessings...
SherryBee

Unconsious Mutterings

1. Unwanted :: Throwaway


2. You’d better :: Not Pout


3. Woman :: John Lennon


4. Weighed :: Deli Meat


5. Upright :: Vacuum


6. I feel :: Happy!!


7. Ill :: Will


8. It’s like :: This...


9. Poor man :: Begger


10. Great :: Job

Count Your Blessings...
SherryBee

WOW is all I can say. I have so many emotions today. As I sit and devour the coverage of the inauguration of President Obama, my head swims with 'stuff'. I can only imagine how I would feel if I were black. To see something like this come to pass......amazing! What an awesome historical event in our lifetime. I pray he will get this great country back on track. God be with him...

I did not vote for him, but, he has my respect, as our leader. I just can't help but like him.

God Bless America

count your blessings...

SherryBee

How 'bout them birds???

Great job, Cards! How exciting!
And, I don't even watch football! hehehe
I guess I will February 1!

star baby afghan

Isn't this sweet? And, it's soooo soft!
This worked up so fast! I really enjoyed making it.

what do you see?

I see:
4 star baby afghans

4 shawls

4 small doilies

a granny square afghan

6 or more star dishcloths

All on sale! WooHoo

$51.03 total!

Guess I'll stay busy for awhile, huh?

Good thing I got an Etsy shop open. I'll play around with that and upload some of the things I've already got done.

Hope you are staying warm, wherever you are.

I am...

count your blessings.....
SherryBee

well..............it's ONLY been a month!

LOL! Who do I think I'm kidding? What a blogger am I! LOL Did ya miss me?
Well, I'll work on bringing everything up to day...

*We had a wonderful Christmas visit with #2 son and his GF! She's a keeper for sure! We all love her! My mom was here and she and my niece and nephew drove to Phoenix with me, on the 22nd, to pick the kids up from the airport. We got in a big snowstorm coming home and it took us 7 hours to get home..normally a 4 hour drive! ACK....skeery, but, AWESOME! We ended up having to take the kids back to Phoenix Christmas day since we weren't sure the weather would cooperate to get them there early the next morning...good thing we did, too. We ended up eating our Christmas dinner at a JB's restaurant...that was a first! I wish we would have had more time with the kids, but, they were off to Indiana to meet/visit with her family for a few days.

*Hubby and I had the house to ourselves for New Years Eve...I think I was in bed at 10:30! I guess that's a sign of old age, huh?

*Not a lot going on since the first. I've been trying to stay busy around the house. Hubby has been working 60 hours a week. I love it and I hate it. I'm very happy he has a job. They will start laying off in a few weeks, so, we know what the alternative is. I've been trying to stay home more and watch pennies as much as possible. Just trying to make 'changes'. We have SO much stuff! I'm trying to use up food *we always have so much when we combine stuff from the trailers*. I'm going through closets and 'trying' to sort and such. I have such a hard time throwing stuff away, but, I have been piling yard sale stuff together. I'm wondering if it will be worth having a yard sale with the way the money is so tight for everyone these days.

I have been crocheting alot....ha ha, what else is new. I made 36 snowflake ornaments, I wanted to see how many one ball of thread would actually make...now, I know! *wink* I finished up a beautiful white baby afghan, only to find out I was about 10 yards SHORT of a yarn I can't find anymore! I think I'll contact Red Heart yarn and see if they can help me out somehow. I just finished up a sweet blue and white 12-point ripple star baby afghan. I figured out a star dishcloth pattern and have made several of those. I found all my stash of patterns and have a folder full of things I want to make.....exciting! ROFLMAO!!!

I had a Dr. appointment today...a follow up to bloodwork drawn last week. We have insurance as of the first of the year--WOOHOO--so, I'm making use of it. (My prescriptons needed to have the yearly refill.) My blood pressure is whacko, like usual, but, the cholesterol and thyroid was all ok. She did an EKG and I had them draw blood to check my hormone levels. I will go back in 10 days for a stress test in about 10 days...oh fun! Then, when I go in for my Well Woman's checkup...BIG OF FUN!!!...in 3 weeks, we can go over all the results of everything, plus, get scheduled for a mammogram and a bone density. I don't know how long we'll have insurance *with hubby's job, altho, he's comtemplating staying with this company....I HOPE*, so, I want to do as much as I can afford. It sure is a relief to have insurance. We've been without, more than we've been with it. I went and had one prescription filled today. It cost me $1.32....compared to $30 without the insurance. I have 3 others for my rosecea that I wanted to confirm prices first before I filled them. That crap is soooo expensive! But, I'll save about $70 to $110 on EACH of them...I can handle less than $20 each! It boggles my mind the price of medicine! And, it pisses me off!

I guess I'll sign off and leave you with some pictures to look at.
Our Christmas Tree....or 'Memory' Tree. Each ornament has so many memories attached.













Me and #2 son









Dozer












Try These!

I gave these to hubby for one of his gifts. I stumbled onto them at Safeway one day, and asked to sample them *you know you can do that, right?* As the manager opened them, we got a crowd around.....we all ended up buying a bunch of the different ones. YUMMY. The pepper one is definitely something you HAVE to try! I didn't really notice the pepper until I was leaving the store parking lot! HA HA! Yeah, it did bite a bit! hehehe
count your blessings!

I love this video

This is from last year, but, I still love it!

I think I've about got everything done, that I'm gonna get done, anyway. Whew! I am T I R E D! Two days left! I'll be so glad to see my son and to meet his girlfriend!
Well, I'm off to bed.
count your blessings...
SherryB

a story about fruitcake...

I found this online. My mother-in-law used to always make fruitcake. I never appreciated her efforts, and, she is the only one I've ever known to actually make the stuff. I 'see' things so differently, as I age. I want 'Do-Overs'...ahhh, life...

What a Much-Maligned Baked Good Can Teach Us About Faith

A bad fruitcake is a paperweight. A doorstop. A brick. It looks homemade, but it tastes mass-mailed. Dry, heavy, dense, and vaguely ugly. And you can wrap the one you bake yourself any way you want, put it in a most lovely box and ship it off to all parts of the continent, but that does not make it good.

So why keep at it at the holidays? Are fruitcakers that obtuse? Hardly. For one thing, they're working an ancient craft: Fruitcake first appeared in ancient Rome and came back strong in 18th-century Europe, following especially large nut harvests. More important, great fruitcake, though a rarity, is sublime; moist but not sloppy wet, sweet but with a hint of salt, it features morsels of a good chef's best secrets. That's why I try a piece of every fruitcake in the holiday yard. Not because I'm fond of lousy maraschino cherries or wads of orange peels. I like tradition most when it ignores the standard obligations. I don't want a familiar fruitcake. I look for the best one, and every year that takes me to a different holiday place.

Last Christmas I stood in a friend's kitchen as wisps of snow drifted without urgency in the sky. Matt was wearing a sweatsuit. I had on a tie. I'd stopped by to drop off a bottle of Champagne. Matt's a chef, an Irishman who's always told me the crumbs of fruitcake belong on a table with the dregs of Guinness or the last sip of whiskey. "Try this," he said, sliding one slice of a particularly light-colored bread across the counter. We were two weeks from the actual day, five days from the next party, out of earshot of holiday music. "Your recipe?" I asked. "My mom taught me," he said. "I guess it's hers." I took one bite and knew I had found the best fruitcake of the year. It was a tumble-down-comfort-chew. I would have eaten it with a snifter of brandy or a glass of milk or a handful of snow. It was salty enough that you might have served it with cucumber, but sweet, absolutely a fine dessert, I could tell. "Lemon rinds cured in ouzo," he told me. "Mascarpone cheese, dried currants, a little bit of olive oil." I couldn't believe it. Good, I told him, it was good, so good. "Ah, you never know with fruitcake," he said, "how it'll turn out, who'll even eat it. But I do it every year still, just like my mother, just like my sister. I do it and hope for the best." I chewed. I told him that I knew fruitcake that way, too, that I knew it to be an act of faith.

the end of the day...

Whew! Busy day! I didn't get much sleep last night, so, now, I AM POOPED! It was so windy yesterday, well, for at least 24 hours until around 6 this morning, that our woodstove was blowing smoke back into the house. It was horrible. Stoopid me, not knowing what was going on, put a piece of wood on the fire before I went to bed about 12:30 a.m. Wrong thing to do....with the wind blowing so hard...at least 55mph gusts and it was high sustained winds, too...and the chimney needing to be cleaned, the house was filling up with smoke...so thick you could see it.
I turned the ceiling fans on in both the living room and the dining room and I cracked the kitchen window to help draw it out. My throat hurt and my eyes burned...hubby slept through it all. I was almost afraid to go to bed, but, I finally did about 3:30. I could tell what was going on and the fire was starting to die down, by then, so, I figured it was safe to go to bed. All I could think of was how was all that smoke going to mess the house up....and my clean carpet!!! crap! I closed the bedroom door (which I never do at night....that bugs me to sleep behind a closed door) and put my earplugs in. When I got up at 8:30, it still smelled like smoke. UGH


Hubby got up on the roof about 2, when the snow had melted off the metal roof (we had gotten just a skiff), and cleaned the chimney. Can you see the mound of soot that came out of the pipes? That's usually what we get out of it--hubby cleans it about 3 times a season, and really, the stove hadn't been acting like it wasn't drawing right before all that wind. And, that glass door-I had cleaned it yesterday afternoon, before I built the fire. I love my woodstove, but, I would have gladly gotten rid of it last night!
I made bacon and eggs for breakfast, and did laundry all morning. Then, we went outside and picked up the things the wind had blown around. The garland and bows on my fence were all messed up, too. Later, when we came in, I started dragging out my Christmas decorations and hubby brought the tree in for me. It might be the last year for that big ole thing, altho, the kids will be unhappy about that. Jeffrey wants me to do my big decorating for Jenneva this year. I don't really mind doing it...now, that I have the majority of my housecleaning done. I just wish I could have gotten an earlier start on it, to enjoy it more/longer. I usually start taking everthing down January 1.

I'm starting to get those overwhelming holiday emotions. I just keep telling myself how I can kick back after the holidays, for awhile. Like so many others, I do have to fight off a bit of depression and anxiety over all the things to do. I hate that! I want so much to just feel the peace and joy over the real reason we are doing all of this in the first place! As a woman, there are just so many things that only you can do for your family to 'make' the holiday. (As well as all the other holidays and birthdays!) I do feel a bit of satisfaction this year, tho, that Jeffrey wants to show Jenneva a Christmas at our house. It sort of tickled me when he asked if I was going to decorate 'big' like I usually do. Sometimes, it's easy to feel like they all just take it for granted or appease me doing it.
Weatherman is still calling for back to back winter storms, so, I'm hoping we do get snow!
I told hubby I'm feeling like a pansy...then, I showed him this picture I snapped. HA! I love the snow, and so does this pansy! What a little bit of happiness right there!
I guess I'll go finish up the little bit of yarn I have left on the baby afghan and get my butt to bed.
count your blessings...

SherryBee

a few things...

I forgot to post the picture of my shopping trip at the scrapbook store Tuesday, on the 30% off sale. I have wanted a Scor-Pal for quite some time, so, that was the day to get it! I also got the big magnetic workpad and ruler and 2 packs of embossed cards and envelopes---those were 40% off. I spent all of my earnings from Saturday and THEN some! hehehe

This is the Christmas cactus I splurged on for myself that day, too. I had one that was hanging in there and had bloomed a couple of times, but, I killed it by overwatering it *or letting it sit in water, I should say* when I was going back and forth to Morenci last summer. This new one was loaded with lots of tiny buds, and it started blooming Thursday. AWESOME! It needs to be cleaned, as you can see in the photo, but, I don't dare touch it til all the blooms are done. I don't want to knock them off. I hope this one will last for a LONG time!

The wind has been wicked all day! Nothing worse than WIND!!! It's been gusting to 55+mph all day long. UGH Hopefully, it will die down before bedtime. It's so nerve-wracking! We're supposed to have a storm (several of them according to the weatherman) coming in with snow. We'll see.

Well, I have one small patch left to shampoo, so, I think I'll do that now and then, I'm DONE with that mess! I've got laundry going, too, so, I guess I'll have earned some crocheting time! *smile*

count your blessings...

SherryBee

Peanut Can Alterations

Here's what I did at work yesterday.
I have some crocheted star ornaments that will fit perfectly inside. That was the reason for the stars on top. These are alot of fun and easy!
count your blessings...






SherryBee

Just droppin' in...

...for a few seconds. I just got out of the shower and while my hair dries I thought I would get a post in.
I worked at the scrapbook store today. It was pretty slow, so, I got to play a bit. I had been saving peanut canisters, so, I could 'alter' them. I have some gifts that will fit perfectly in them. I spent most of the afternoon decorating all 4 of them. I didn't get a picture yet, but, maybe I can in the morning in good light.
Hasn't the moom been AWESOME?! So bright and full! The elk have been out like herds of cattle! They've even been out in the front, I see, from the droppings. The dog had been barking at them alot.
Hubby is working tomorrow, so, I will try to finish up some of the projects I've been cleaning on. UGH I think I must have ADD Adult Attention Deficit...really! I NEVER get anything finished! I have so many things going at one time and it just drives me crazy. I REALLY need to work on that.
Poor hubby is soooo stinkin' tired. For several weeks they weren't doing much, since they didn't have pipe and supplies to do anything with. Now, he is paying for it. 60 hours again this week and next week. He gets home a few minutes before 6, and tonight, he was in bed before 8:00. What fun we are! LOL
Weatherman says we should be getting some snow out of these next few storms....down to 3000' elevation. WOWSER! We are 7000' so, it will interesting to see if he calls it right! I would LOVE to have a white Christmas, but, even if the mountains are covered, that would make me happy.
I can't believe our gas prices. They've been dropping pretty much every day. Today, it only dropped a penny, but, it's down to $1.47 for unleaded. Unbelieveable, I can't even remember the last time it was that low.
Well, I'm off to the loveseat to crochet a bit. I'm about 1/2 done with the border on the white baby afghan I had 1/2 done! LOL, I don't know what the deal was, but, I did all the hard part (129 rows of single crochet) and then, put it up. Oh, well, lucky me! hehehe Trying to think what to do next, but, I think I'll just work on some doilies for awhile after the baby afghan is done.
count your blessings...

This had me rollin'!

hehehe
Night!
SherryB

The mystery is solved...

I have a habit of looking out my bedroom window first thing in the morning and last thing at night. Well, Sunday night I looked out after dark and freaked out. I saw a light up on the hill....way up. I couldn't tell what it was....a star....a UFO, what (it's forest land, no houses). Couldn't find any binoculars...that figures....We decided it looked like a star....Then, yesterday, when hubby called me at lunch, he popped my bubble *I was having fun with the mystery* He was working with a guy that said it was his neighbor that did it...it is a star and he runs power to it. I'll have to see if I can get a picture of it. It's neat. It's so bright, too. I drove into town tonight to deliver some AVON and it was seen all over. I love it, and am thankful for someone to do something like that. It doesn't look like much in the day, but, it sure is something at night...and the picture I took at night didn't show much at all.

Here's another picture....my CLEAN china hutch! I think it took a total of 2 1/2 hours to clean the entire top portion. So many things in there. I keep wondering what in the heck I had it all for. Momentos of special pieces of life... I do have 2 sets of real nice plates--one for each of my boys. A bunch of nice leaded crystal glasses I got for Christmas one year after we got married. Lots of souvenirs of our trips, Jeffrey's graduation things, the glasses we toasted with on our wedding, our 25th anniversary vase, hubby's 50th birthday, my parents 50th wedding anniversay. I don't suppose it will mean much to anyone else, but, I guess I'll keep them all and let someone else deal with them someday when I'm gone. About 1/2 of those items in there were in storage for YEARS when we lived in the travel trailers. I remember being soooo happy when I FINALLY had a home and a china hutch for all of them. We do use the plates on holidays, and I use alot of the nice glasses pretty often, just 'cause. I'm glad the cleaning of that is over! When Jeffrey was home, I used to pay him $5 to clean it! HA! I think he was underpaid! LOL
count your blessings...
SherryBee

My snowy yard

I just LOVE it when it snows! It's still cold enough that it's not melting off. I wish it would stay all winter!! The weatherman says we are 'supposed' to get more this weekend. We'll see...
I guess I better get busy and get my Avon order finished up.
I still have a ton of things I wanted to get finished up in the cleaning department, too. UGH! I'm sick of cleaning! I want to decorate for Christmas! LOL
count your blessings...
SherryBee