It's beginning to look a lot like...

Cookies: accomplished! These are my favorites, passionfruit jelly drops!

Skill level, (5 hardest, 1 easiest) is a 2, maybe 3 if you're really kitchen challenged.

Surprise, surprise! I have one crocheted gift finished, and one that will be done before the next 48 hours have passed, and a knit one to be done in a few days, (okay, *maybe* a week) . But of course, pics will have to wait until after delivery. Noooo peeking!

It's amazing how much I got done once I finished those books!

Next week, it will be time to light candles to encourage the cold weak winter sun, to come and stay a bit longer each day, and bring warmth back into our lives. Thank goodness for those battery operated flickery candle lights huh?

My brain is scrambled, and my fingers ache, I've been asleep by 1am almost every day for 2 weeks, (which is pretty surprising for me!) and today doesn't look to be much different. The Holidays kill me every year!

How are you celebrating this year? And as usual folks...

Thanks for Noticing me!

Technical difficulties

Dear reader,

Due to insanely awesome scifi goodness, todays blog post will be short and disorganized. Commercial breaks aren't long enough.

Christmas episodes of Eureka, and WH13!! Woohoo!

Okay, a few quickies (:

I meet the most bizarre people! A hitch hiker stopped in for a drink over the summer, he had a *very* interesting music case strapped to his back, as he paid, he struck up a conversation.
It appears he's a musician, and he was out of traveling money, so he was hitch hiking across the tri state area, to meet up with the rest of his (I kid you not!) didgeridoo group for a gig. Really?

Another is this truly awful desire for men to call women "babygirl" I have a regular couple that come in all the time, and he calls her that. She's 60 if she's a day, and so drugged out that she looks 80, is toothless, and not exactly fragile, innocent, or soft enough to use that name!

Okay, not even the internet can distract me anymore! As usual friends,

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Not nearly right.

Enough personal crap~ Let's hear some funny/ disturbing stories!

This is a customer I've had both as the gas station attendant, and at the store;
She's a regular, and terribly short of sight...
As I've mentioned, in order for me to help a customer not scanning their own groceries, I need to take control of one of the 4 u-scan registers. If they're all being used, I need to wait for one to be free before I can take care of said customer. This doesn't always go over well.
She came over one day with bottle return slips to be turned in for cash, and it was really busy. All the registers were being used, and I had lines, *and* there were two other people wanting my attention. When she walked over, I had to tell her that it would be a few minutes before I could help her. She *screamed* at me, "This is *FUC*ING* ridiculous!!!!!" and stormed off to wait in the *longer* line at the customer service desk.
That is not the funny, or scary part.
The next day, I was scheduled for the gas station, and guess who came wandering in. (This is not the scary part) I smiled, asked her how she was this gray and ugly day, and she smiled back, "Just fine thanks. I need $10 on pump three please." and proceeded to count out 10 singles, very slowly, holding her roll of bills *right up to her glasses*!! It appeared she had no memory of being an A #1 bitch to me the day before. (Here comes the scary part)
I lost sight of what was going on for a few minutes, helping other customers, and when I glanced back up to the monitor, she was GETTING INTO THE DRIVERS SEAT!!!

I frequently fear for my life on the road, simply because I have met, up close and personal, the people the DMV gives licenses to.

The man who twitches and blinks so that his eyes are closed more than they're open... The woman that can't see the numbers on her cash unless it's 5 centimeters from her eyes... I fear.

I fear mightily! As usual folks...

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Here we go again

So Turkey day is right around the corner! Mmmm.
We're pretty traditional when it comes to Holidays here. This years menu is Turkey, asparagus, mashed potatoes, stuffing, peas (I think), my sisters very special biscuits, of course cranberry sauce and gravy, and for desert, pumpkin, peach, and coconut custard pies. Screw tradition, I want my coconut custard pie! (:

We don't decorate anything for Christmas until dessert, and dishes are done, and we take most of the month to finish. It's like tiny surprises each day.

What I'm looking forward to is baking!
I love getting messy and flour powdered with the fam damily and making dozens of different kinds of cookies! Press cookies, drop cookies, sugar cookies, roll out dough using cookie cutters... onandonandonandon!


What are your favorite cookies to make?

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! And as usual

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Whimper

Okay, so, it seems it's time to pull out the credit cards, dust 'em off and hit the internet.

For some freakin' reason, my body is rebelling against me. Ever since I got off the antihistamines, I've had a crazy random pain of the day. Read: No knitting, no crocheting, no crafting of any kind. ): I'm lucky I don't pass out after putting the boys to sleep... errr, bed.

Right now, I'm being desperately amused by the show "Fact or Faked". These people take themselves waaaaay too seriously!

Back to gifts. I'm very lucky to not have to distribute very many, but I like to make things, so that it's more personal. My kids are my most difficult, especially now that they're getting older. I was never a teenaged boy, nor did I grow up with any brothers. I haven't got a clue what to do with them!
Nintendo, here I come. ):

Well, my crazy random pain today is in the area between my collarbone and neck, so I *need* to stop typing now. Good luck with your Holiday shopping!

And as usual...
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Ugh!

Yeah, so. Apparently the one doctor had told them he didn't want me to go home, and when I went back to the ER the next day, (Oh yes I did) He was expecting me, and admitted me.
Some kinda ugly huh? I had these huge ugly yellow welts with red outlines all over my body! Ye that's one at the corner of my eye, and the entire other eye was like a target!

Today was the first day I haven't taken some kind of antihistamine, and it was probably a bad idea. Then, because I haven't been miserable enough, boy #1 has given me his cold.

I swear, I have slept more in the past 2 weeks, than I have in the past 2 years! I have managed to get absolutely NOTHING done in these past 2 weeks. And tonight isn't going to be any different. Time for a pretty pink pill, and sleepytime! Hopefully, this next week will see me feeling better and back on track!
As usual folks...

Thanks for Noticing me!

Allergies.

All my life, I've been the lucky one, no allergies to anything except mosquito bites, and let's face it, it's pretty rare to *not* have an allergic reaction to a mosquito bite! About a decade ago, I found out the hard way, that I'm allergic to Morphine. Fine, I try to avoid situations that would cause me to need Morphine anyway.

Today I found out, that it's possible to get an allergic reaction to an infection. Who knew?

It all started with a painful itchy bump on my inner wrist. By the time I got home from work, I had what looked like mosquito or flea bites on my hips, and my scalp was itchy. By bedtime, one of my eyelids was swollen, and my chin was twice the size it used to be. When I woke up this morning, I could barely use my hands it hurt so much, and I had marks all over my thighs, upper arms, and my other eye was also swollen. Sooo, off to the ER we went.

Here is something you'd really like to avoid... getting Benadryl injected directly into a vein. OWOWOWOWOWOW!
I walked in the ER at @8:45 am, and didn't get to leave until nearly 2pm! Why is it some people can go in to the ER and get out in 2 hours or less, but any time I go, there are only 2 doctors, and 5 emergency emergencies?

And who's bright idea was it to make those beds so damn uncomfortable?! Like people in the ER aren't already uncomfortable enough? At least we have cable. Of course the doses of meds they gave me knocked me out, so I didn't get to enjoy most of that either.

I was trying to find a way to post this as funny, but seeing as how I'm still kinda itchy, and really sleepy, I gots nothin'!

So be careful out there, if I had gone in last night instead of trying to sleep it off, I might not have been so incredibly uncomfortable when I woke up this morning!

As usual folks,
Thanks for Noticing me!