SHORT ‘N SWEET GODDESSES. — 2019. — January

Hi everyone! Sorry I have been absent lately. I have been doing a lot of t.v. Shopping for clothes- they have had many clearance sales and I really need clothes. I have gotten so lazy lately and find myself doing so much online shopping! It is so convenient.

My DGD13 is back in school and seems to be doing well. She is in a school with 1 teacher to 3 students. She has daily goals and a daily report is sent home to parents. So far, so good. She will finish the year here and then hopefully be back to her regular school next year.

DH has now lost 25 lbs and is still counting. I am so proud of him.

I never started the exercise program I was talking about. I really need to get into some exercise program. There are 2 programs I can do at home that I am considering. Hopefully I will start one soon. I feel I have vegetated during the winter.

I am already planning another remodeling project on my downstairs. We need new flooring, ceiling and lighting. I want some built in bookshelves and a desk built in for DH. We will probably do it in August or September.

I put pictures of the bedroom, closets, and bathroom on Facebook. I am really enjoying all of it!

Joan- hope your cold is better. Glad you had such a nice trip!

Holly - how great you are going to Israel!

Sue- I am so excited that the Walking dead is back on. I do miss Rick though!
I am also watching the third season of Victoria. It is so very good!

Got to get on the taxes for this year- although it should be so much easier this year.

Hello everyone—have been so busy—DS park ranger and family were here till Sunday about noon—then I was at the clay studio both Sunday afternoon and Monday morning since the gym was closed for holiday.  Visits with DS park ranger are always a mix of enjoyable and somewhat stressful.  DS is very self centered—only has interests in his things—so the whole weekend discussions only “work” if they are focused on fishing or his job and his stories.  The first day it’s sort of entertaining and then it’s harder after that.  Truly don’t know how DDIL copes full time.  I had a big dinner Sat night—DD and DGS14 came over too—ate out Friday night and they spent time on the Strip with DGD13 and his friend.  It snowed Sunday quite a lot for Vegas and was still on the ground at 9 am yesterday.  Funny to see cars with fluffy white tops.  No one wanted to dust off their cars—sort of like having a badge to show off—LOL.

We are making a marionette of clay and I have spent three days on the head=-=did three total eye replacement surgeries and still her eyelids are not down far enough and she looks as tho she has Graves’ disease really bad!  I will try to add a bit of eyelid one more time and then call it done.  Have not even started the body yet—made the legs and arms and hands and the start of the feet/shoes.  Crazy hard project!

Get haircut Thursday and cannot wait—it’s so much longer and thicker!

Wow, 25 # is a lot, JoAnne—I can imagine how thrilled you are—I remember your frustration when he was sneaking in burgers on the sly!  

I made my boiled orange almond cake into a meyer lemon cake and it was so, so good—the little chunks of peeling are delicious with the chewiness of the almond meal.  DDIL and DGS13 loved it—they are lemon fanatics like myself.

The pictures on FB from Holly’s trip look as tho she is totally immersed in having a great trip!  

Doing three classes at the gym today—have to get tax stuff ready for Thursday night at 4.  Then I have class at 6;30–ugh a packed day as I also get haircut that day and have gym classes.  Supposed to meet up for lunch with old yoga gang but not sure I can work it in.  I saw where Amazon made like 11 billion plus profit the past year and will pay zero in taxes.  It sickens my stomach.

We watched most of the episodes from the Lorena Bobbit documentary on Amazon—it should be required—our nation is so hateful to women who are abused and live in nightmare conditions—the woman is always the bad person and nothing seems to ever change.  Then I found out that a young teacher I had at my second school finally got away from her totally abusive husband (she used to come to school so beat up and make up stories of falling down stairs and falling in the tub) to explain purple bruises, broken wrists, black eyes—it was horrible—but I guess after she got away she fell under his pressure and went back and is still with him—what sad news that was to me!  My mom used to go and counsel two of her friends who were always beat up by their drinking husbands—I remember the quiet talks and the bruises and always wondered how the kids survived and turned out.

I never have shopped on tv—have a friend who does though.  I like being in the store to try on things.  Sue I imagine you are in last minute get ready mode for sure.  

DH and I need to clean out the office closet—it is a nightmare—and now the pole brace broke and our hands are forced—will be good—half of what is in there needs to be donated.  DH collects coats — sort of a fetish—and he needs to pare down big time.  I have material I’ll never use and need to donate it.

Joan - you are doing really complicated projects with the clay. You must get so much satisfaction out of seeing the completed things you make.

Enjoy your trip!

It’s snowing like crazy in Vegas—whole yard is white, big fluffy flakes—pretty.  Twice this week!  

You’ve got it right now JoAnne!  LOL. Lots of traveling!

Joan- wow ! A lot of snow for you!!

Sue- it looked like about 1/2 of the house burned but ALl of the windows are black with soot. He is a musician and has a studio downstairs- it is a split level. None of his equipment was damaged and the firefighters covered it all with tarps; so the owner was very relieved about that. Yes, scary it was!
Congratulations on the weight loss! I know that feeling

I have been looking at some exercise programs for home and have
Found that I have access to some good tapes thru my Amazon Prime. I will look at them tomorrow . Glad I don’t have to shell out money for them .

Cold and breezy today—still have a white yard but the snow is melted off the trees—still on some rooftops and on the mountains surrounding Vegas as well.

Did my dance and weights classes today—before going I pinched another cat plate—made two at home now—will roll another slab for two more tomorrow at the studio and then form them here.  Picked up my bisque fired horse and will paint underglaze spots and mane and nose and then clear glaze the rest since the clay fires very pretty tan with sort of speckles in it.  

Spent some time visiting with WW BF—she is full time caretaking her DH now—his dementia is worsening.  Tried to talk her into getting help—she is postponing it because it feels like giving up but truly she must have a break—can tell this is wearing her down just in her voice on the phone.

making a roasted veggie salad for dinner with a Vegas roll sushi roll for dinner—picked up the sushi.  I tasted it at the market and it was delicious.  This market has a sushi chef and he serves samples on certain days featuring one roll or another.  Everyone was buying one of these.

Staying home tonight and painting my horse but going to BF’s for dinner tomorrow and playing a little silly game with quarters—six of us—same game we played Christmas Eve here—Left, Right Center.    Hope everyone has a nice weekend.  We see Come From Away Sunday night—broadway play this month.