Boo Hiss LOL

Well, the Saints let the Bucs win yesterday. Quite frankly, I AM disappointed. The Saints should have won that game. Garrett Hartley should have made that 37-yard field-goal. But no one can blame him for the lost game. You play as a team, win as a team and lose as a team.

This week I'll be:
1. knitting
2. listening to the new Adam Lambert CD (Am I the only one who is disappointed he will not be on ABC's New Year's Rockin' Eve?)
3. reading The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart by Julia Cameron
4. AND waiting for the apple to drop in Times Square!


I'm trying to make a few changes to my blog for the new year. Just a few sutble changes. You'll notice my signature line will be changed due to changing my name. Several of my friends call me Tesla, due to my obsession with Nikola Tesla. So I thought what better way to honor him, and all his contributions to society. (I'll elaborate on him in a later post. I recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time by Margaret Cheney.) I think Tesla will better suit the person I have become over the past year. I'll also change my divider to pink lips. I love these lips! LOL It's in honor of my love of make-up and beauty.

Through out the holiday season I've had music on this blog. Now, I LOVE music, as I've posted about in the past. The latest playlist was several versions of Auld Lang Syne I enjoyed. While making the changes on my blog, I would click back and forth testing and it finally just started getting my last nerve, so I just deleted the play list. I'm sure it will be less annoying to the few very nice people who read my blog. Each and every one of you is appreciated very much.

This is the time of year that most people get nostalgic. Thinking back over the past year, remembering the highlights, births, deaths, and other things in the news. I always intensely dislike when the news runs a list of everyone who has died. It's just so very sad. It also reminds me of people who we hold dear in out hearts but no longer have contact with. Co-workers we promised we would keep in touch with when we left the job. Teachers, fellow students etc......

This is also a time when we make resolutions for the new year. I think pretty much all of them are forgotten by March. I rarely make New Year resolutions. I do make goals thought. Some I meet, some I don't. I don't see myself as a failure if I don't meet them. They have nothing to do with my value as a person. I have my 101 Things that I work on a little at a time. Some are long term goals, some are short term goals. Some things are serious, and some are silly and fun. And some will definitely get carried over to my next 101 Things list in 2011. However, I've decided that I am going to make a few specific goals for 2010. They are:

00001. Sew a well fitting white shirt (I LOVE a white shirt with jeans or denim skirt.)
00002. Make a chainmail bracelet (I have several patterns to make a chainmail bracelet, now to decide which one to make.)
00003. Smock a dress for my "Big Girl" doll (I have a small collection of Sew Beautiful magazines I can choose a pattern/design from.)
00004. Make matching aprons for me, my "Big Girl" doll, and AG Molly (I already have the patterns for these, Simplicity 3746.
00005. Start and continue taking yoga classes (I am a member of two gyms. Surely I can get the schedule and attend the classes.)
00006. Find a hairstylist that can cut my hair the way I want it cut (I'll elaborate on this in a later post.)
00007. Make a wardrobe scrapbook (I've actually already started this.)

That should do it. Seven things to do in 12 months. Yeah, I might have enough time. LOL

Football and other Ramblings

My Saints lost to the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday night. It was inevitable that they would lose sooner or later. I’m not upset. They have a record that any NFL team can be proud of. Next game is against the Bucs. Whose record is 1-13. The Saints have already beat them once this season. Just sayin'.

I'm having a bit of trouble with my camera and haven't been able to post the pictures of the project I made for my aroma therapy class. I'll post them as soon as I can.

Back on the 5th of this month I posted about some changes I was going to make. Well, as I usually do, I have changed my mind about some of them. I did go on a diet, but, I didn't go back to Weight Watchers. WW is a great eating plan, but I didn't think I could do it just yet. I decided to go on a low carb diet for a while. As of Monday the 7th I have lost 16 pounds. I haven't had any grains, ie bread, flour etc...no potatoes, no starches. I have tried to eat healthy fats also. And....I have had minimal to no arthritic pain since then. I feel like I'm slowly getting back to my old self. I haven't been to either gym, but I am riding my stationary bicycle each day.

I still haven't been sewing, but, I have been knitting and crocheting. Slowly. I'm just now learning how to decrease on one of the scarves I'm making. I have some knitting shows on the DVR and watch them as the mood strikes. I have a list of projects on Ravelry. There are a few things on Knitty I want to knit too. I hope to complete at least one of my projects by the 31st. Some knitters can really crank out the projects. That wouldn't be me and I'll probably never be a fast knitter, but it's something I really enjoy.

This week I'll be:
1. knitting
2. listening to Christmas music
3. reading How To Read a French Fry and Other Stories of Intriguing Kitchen Science by Russ Parsons
4. AND waiting for Santa!

My Mother's favorite Christmas song was "Little Drummer Boy". She loved to sing along with it when it came on the radio. I'm gonna miss spending Christmas with her. It was her favorite time of the year, and mine too. I love shopping, especially at Christmas, even with all the crowds. I did the last of my shopping today. This is the latest I've ever done my shopping. How is your shopping? Almost finished? Or waiting until the last minute? Only four more days til Christmas!

Football

Who Dat? Not the Falcons. Next!? 13-0! Geaux Saints!

Lots of things happening, I'll download pics and post about them tomorrow!

Who dat? Drew dat

38-17     11-0
Way to go Saints!!!

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I missed posting last evening. I just didn't feel well and I forgot to. I even forgot to post a draft I had composed earlier. So, I'll just have to try again next month.

I started the Crochet Soft Wave Throw. I can't remember how to do half double crochets, double crochets, triple crochets, etc, so I have to look up how to do them in my Crochet for Dummies book. I had hoped to have it done by the end of the year, but as slow as I am, I doubt that I will be half way done. I'm also working on the Irish Hiking Scarf. I should probably focus on it and get it done first. I also have the Stitch Diva's Hairpin Lace Cardi Wrap in progress too. I started it much earlier this year.

I've seen the "Happy California Cow" commercial on TV several times. Apparently you can vote for the next "Happy Cow". I went to the website, and cast a vote for Soo because she's got SEOUL!!! Calipornia Calipornia Hey! How cute! LOL



The Saints are playing the Patriots tonight. I'm gonna go get some snacks and watch the rest of the game. GO SAINTS!!!

Saints

You just KNOW I have spent the past 3 hours watching (on TV) the Saints play the Bucs at Raymond James Stadium. I am so proud of the Saints. I have no doubts that they will go on to win the Super Bowl this season.

whooo baby!!!

Chalk up another win for the Saints!!

I spent most of the day, reading Duma Key by Stephen King. It's a long book, and I don't get a chance to read every day. It was a substitute for Saturday by Ian McEwan on my summer reading list, a couple of summers ago. I still don't have all the books read, but, I'll keep plugging away til I get them all read. I need to put reviews on Amazon for the books on the list.

I am so not ready for Monday and the start of a new week. It seems as though the weekend just started. Never enough time to get everything done I want to get done. I still have notes from class that I want to type. I need to go to a friend's house and do her make-up. I don't know how many more "looks" I need to do to get my certificate. I still have to do more work on my notebook that has to be handed in. I need to complete my resume and choose a business card. So much to do, so little time. LOL I'll manage to get it all done though. I always do. I wanted to do some knitting on the head-wrap scarf thingie, but didn't get around to that.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Today

I'm still really tired from the trip to Ft. Lauderdale, so I haven't taken pics of the things I bought. I'll post details about the trade show later.

A co-student and I left for Jupiter, on Friday night around 5:30ish. We got to her Father's house about a quarter to ten. The drive down was uneventful. Her Father and his companion, I don't like calling her his girlfriend, as she was most definitely a genteel southern lady, had ordered pizza. We watched Chefs vs City on the Food Network and munched on pizza. I was not familiar with the show. On this particular episode they were in New Orleans. Which happens to be my favorite city, and home to my beloved, (wait for it) UNDEFEATED New Orleans Saints! WOO HOO!! (doing the happy dance here! LOL) The chefs completed challenges including weighing crawfish, (which can be bought here, and gave me a craving for crawfish etouffee), shucking oysters, along with mixing drinks at Pat O'Brien's, home of the hurricane. It was an interesting show, and I'll probably watch it again.

After a restful night's sleep we arrived at the Ft. Lauderdale/Broward County Convention Center around 9:30ish. Things were already in full swing. Venders were handing out fliers and brochures before we even got our badges and wrist bands. I'll post more about the show tomorrow. I still have a lot of things to get done to start off my week tomorrow.

Even though I was away from home less than 24 hours, it's nice to be back.

Saints

I didn't watch football last night. I had other things I needed to do. But, I am soooo happy the Saints are still undefeated! I am looking forward to seeing them play in the Superbowl!

I recorded Dancing With the Stars and watched it tonight. I like almost every one of the stars this season, but my favorite is Kelly Osbourne and Louis van Amstel. I've followed Louis' career for quite a while. I was excited when I learned he was going to be on Dancing With the Stars back in the first season. Tonight I was happy that the judges chose to keep Aaron Carter on. I think he has really improved over the past couple of weeks and his jive was quite good. At this point I think that anyone could win.

Are you ready for some

football?? I lurve me some New Orleans Saints. You would think I would be a Buc's fan, but NO. I've been a Saint's fan for many, many, many years. I only got to see the last 30 seconds or so of the game yesterday. I know they came from behind to win the game. I am so happy that they are one of three undefeated teams, the first time in NFL history that going into the 7th week there are three defeated teams!

I found another little piece of knitting I had been working on and had put aside. It's the Dream Swatch Headwrap. It started out as a head wrap. I decided to not make it as wide as the pattern called for, but it was still too wide to wrap my head and still stay in place. So I decided to make it into a narrow scarf. I think it will be cute with a purple or blue tee-shirt. I'm making it out of Caron Simply Soft Paints in the Oceana color-way. I'm gonna focus on this small scarf instead of the Irish Hiking scarf. It shouldn't take me long to get it finished, if I work on it a few minutes every day.

I'll be removing the music after Halloween. Monster Mash is one of my favorite songs. I have it as my ringtone during the month of October and I thought it would be fun to have it on my blog.   :)  I also have the pic of Dracula and Frankenstein as the wallpaper on my phone. LOL

Sunday

I had been looking forward to today because the Emmys were on and the Saints and Bucs played each other today.

I’m a bit down because my Saints didn’t win. nuff said.

I enjoy watching awards shows, Emmys, Tonys, and Oscars. I love seeing all the performers and how they are dressed. Some are dressed to show off their attributes and others…well….not so much…..makes you wonder who dressed them or what they were thinking when they dressed themselves.

I didn’t really watch much of the show tonight because I was on the phone. Chris and I talk on the phone every night for 2-3 hours. We talk about anything and everything. His job (he recently moved away from Augusta and started a new job) and my job (when I was working), TV, movies, music, science, books, etc.....until I met him I had never found anyone who would or could just sit and talk for hours. I don't think we will ever run out of things to talk about. Chris is funny, intelligent, and hot! But......he does have a tiny flaw.......he is a BUCS fan!!! argh!!!! LOL

I did see enough to learn that one of my favorite actors, James Spader won an Emmy for best actor in a drama series for Boston Legal, (one of my favorite shows).

My “free day” diet today: usual breakfast, “Cinnamon bun” protein drink (this my favorite protein drink flavor so far), a protein bar, and I made a taco salad with fat free cheese and sour cream. I didn’t use a shell, and added extra lettuce. I’m still not eating 5-6 times a day. I’m trying, but I’m just not hungry enough to eat that often.

Today is my rest day: no aerobics, no weightlifting and no vacuums.

Persistent people begin their success where others end in failure.
Edward Eggleston(American writer, historian)

It's been a long time

since I've posted. I'm being kept busy by school. Trying to find time to study and of course I have to work. I'd love to be able to take off from work until I finish this course. I'd like to be able to spend more time reading various text books and studying for the CLA exam.

I still have the 4.0 firmly in my grasp. I'm concerned that I'm putting too much stock in having it that if I don't keep it I'll be devastated. Oh well! I'll just have to use every spare minute studying. In fact, I have had some time off since last Thursday. I used some of my time reading a book about civil law getting ready for my first class in it tomorrow night.

All my other 101 goals have been put on hold pretty much. This weekend I plan to carve a jack-o-lantern for Halloween. Then I'll start working on some of my Christmas themed goals. I do plan to attend mass this year.

I do watch Dancing with the Stars, while I walk on the treadmill or ride my stationary bile.

And I try to keep up with the Saints. They are doing great this year! Unlike a local team which shall remain nameless. LOL!