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Tigger was supposed to put Em’s necklace in her room today. If he did, it was after she got dressed, she has been e-mailing me and had not mentioned it. She just asked if I wanted to go work out with her after work and I am like, oh yeah sure, (if you don’t kill me first!) I didn’t say. I sent Tigger a text message, even though I am not supposed to send him text messages when he is at school, ‘This is killing me! She keeps e-mailing me!’
So I am driving myself crazy today. I can’t concentrate on work and I really need to. On top of that, the payment for my parking came out of my checking account early, (I never know what day they are going to take it out, very annoying) and when I figured out how much was left, I was about a dollar over, I forgot about my second checking account and was asking her if she could loan me money at the same time thinking, she is really going to kill me now. Then I remembered, I could just transfer money from my other checking account. Problem solved. Except for her reaction when she finds the necklace. As Tigger said last night, “She’s going to kill both of us.”
All the way home Tigger was keeping me informed of what was going on, she came home, left for WW, didn’t see it, so he moved it. She came home from WW, went up to take a nap, still didn’t see it, got up from her nap and still didn’t see it. When I got home, we were both ready to jump out of our skins. So he comes up to me with this face and I said, ‘It’ll be all right.’ And Em says, what? So I told her, there’s something in your room he wants you to find. She was like, in MY room? So she runs upstairs to look for it. And we laughed as we told her all the things we went through. Then she and I went to work out.
>even though I didn’t go to work. First thing, I took Stitch up to school. Then I got the packages ready to mail, which included sending an e-mail to one of the recipients so she knows it is coming. Then I went to the post office to mail them, right before my Doctor’s appointment, and I would have made it on time, if I hadn’t forgotten my checkbook! Well, I had also forgotten the slip that said I got a flu shot so that gave me an excuse to go back and get it. The doctor gave me a scrip for an antibiotic and some Allegra-d for the congestion. We’ll see how I do with that. I dropped the scrip off at the pharmacy then came home, they said it would be about 1-½ hours so I wasn’t waiting around. Then I picked up Gwen and we went to lunch and the mall just to kill some time, Em asked us to get her something at Penney’s so we did that. Then home, then to get the prescription. Oh boy, I’m tired now and I still have to go to the meeting!
When I got home I saw a printout of the page from the Dutchess County Health Department about the “shave-off”. Tigger’s picture is on it! Click on his name to see it. He is so cute.
I got some new nail polish at the mall. Not at trade secret, at the cheap store, I don’t remember the name but I got OPI for less than $6. All I can see for a color is OPI Ink. It is dark purple with a shimmer to it. I really like it, Gwen picked it out.
Now I need to get ready for the meeting. I have to wash my face and brush my teeth. My armpit is, well not really hurting, kind of irritated feeling, I put witch hazel on it after I removed the hair last night, but it still feels sore.
>my I-pod arrived. Tigger wanted to come downstairs to ‘see’ it, it looks just like Em’s I said. Except it has my name engraved on it. So then he says, if you need any help call me, yeah right sure says I, well less than 10 minutes after I plugged it in I was on my phone asking him for help, and 2 more times after that! I got all my songs on it though I had to do them one at a time, add them to the I-Tunes library, then copy them to the I-Pod Nano. I brought it to work and the only reason I am not listening to it is because the ear buds don’t fit my ears and hurt them and fall out. I really wish I had normal ears.
I went to Bryant Park, back to where Em got the earrings and got the black pearl necklace to wear with it. Only Tigger knows and he promised not to tell, I only hope I don’t let the cat out of the bag. Anyway, it was $20 off and I got a free notebook. I think I am going to use the notebook as a book journal. It has a hard cover and I can stick it under my pillow and the pages won’t get ruined.
Right now all I do with my book journal is write the book title and when I finished it. Since I have started writing reviews, I want to put a little more in my journal. I think this book will work nice, since you can take pages out and put them back in. I mean, you can move them around. So if you read something ahead of something else you can keep your pages in the right order.
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>of the last month of 2008.
I think I am allergic to lamb. We had lamb chops last night, and I didn’t like them. OK that’s fine, but I got a really bad stomach ache from them, not a normal stomach ache a hurting needles in the stomach, stomach pain. Since I am allergic to wool, I guess it isn’t too much of a stretch to be allergic to the meat of the animal too.
Last night I was bored and so I went to Barnes & Noble, fatal mistake. Fatal to my budget that is! I bought three books. Two were on my list so that is ok, the other one, well, it was interesting looking. For the titles, check out my blog: Bella is reading.
Em sent me a text to tell me there was a bomb scare/threat at the H.S. and the MTA puppies were there. Nice puppies! Big teeth. I asked her if they bit anybody and she said no, they just sniffed the lockers while everyone waited outside. Dogs have the best jobs. I bought the oil for her friend and sent her a picture of the bottle. This is what my day consists of!
Cookie sent me an e-mail saying she likes drivel, keeps her mind off sad thoughts. I should have told her, if you want drivel, read my blog!
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and I have not missed any days posting, I think. Anyway I beat the number of posts from last month. As I type this Snowy Bear is watching me. You would have laughed if you had been here when he fell of the bed I was calling, Snowy Bear Snowy Bear don’t fall! He landed on his face right on the floor. I had to rescue him. He is more fuzzy then fluffy now. He still looks good. But since he sits next to my pillow all the time and has been sat on a couple of times, it has had an effect on him.
I got a box to send that pillow to my mom. The one I got the day Em and I went to Tavern on the Green and got soaked to the skin. I still need to tape it up and address it. I also should put a card or something in with it. I also need to wrap up everything in the box for that other person I am sending stuff to. I am planning to mail everything on Wednesday since I have a doctor’s appointment that day and either won’t be going to work or will be going in late.
Today I didn’t get up until 1:00 or so. I feel much better now. Got another e-mail from Cookie. She is doing as well as can be expected. I still haven’t sent out her card. I need to do that. I think I will have to do that and read more in Helter Skelter after I leave here.
>Yes, Em and I went to Manhattan again. This was another spur of the moment, unplanned trip. D had been saying no, then he decided to take the children flying. Some place where they can fly gliders or something like that. So he said Em could go to the city.
Gwen went with me to my book study this morning and P announced that it was our book study’s turn to help with cleaning our place of meeting. So as I was driving home I was telling Gwen this meant that her mom and I wouldn’t be going to the city, not that we had planned it anyway, then as we started to pull in the yard, Em was out there doing the Snoopy dance.
First thing we did when we got to GCT was go to Douglas Cosmetics. I mean the first thing after we stood in line at the ladies room. So many people there! I bought some perfume, and the sales person gave me five or six samples of perfume and a coupon for 10% off, don’t know why. Em knocked this big thing off the table and I was giving her a hard time about it, maybe he(I think it was a him) thought I was embarrassed.
Then we went to a couple jewelry stores, then we started walking down 42nd Street toward the library, Em wanted to go to the library and Bryant Park. As we were walking along past GCT there was this homeless man with a sign and he was saying, ‘If you could spare a dollar.’ I said, to myself mainly, but loud enough for Em to hear, ‘No I can’t spare a dollar, I just spent 90 dollars on perfume!’ She started laughing, ‘It is all about you isn’t it!’ Yes indeed, I am tired of doing everything the way other people think I should. I am a competent adult and can make my own decisions!
There were so many people (tourists) there. They were very annoying and I almost put a descriptive word before tourists. Well, its not really a descriptive word, I think it would be considered a verb! Another thing of note that happened was as we were walking down the sidewalk, in front of this hotel a man was just standing there, we had to walk around him and as we walked on I heard a voice, “DAD!” then a pause, then “GET OUT OF THE WAY!” Em says, well as least the son knows what is going on!
We had no plans, we just walked to Central Park, I got another headache, I have realized that the headaches I have been getting when we go to the city are directly related to the problem I am having with my sinuses. We walked back to GCT and then we went to Annie Moore’s. Em got a cheesecake from Junior’s to bring home. We got in about 7:15 p.m. and Fred was all excited about flying today.
I finished the necklace I was crocheting, I am not real happy with it, but I think it will do for the girl I am sending it to. I hope she likes it. After I send it and she gets it, I will post a picture on my craft blog, I am not doing now because I don’t want to ruin the surprise. Now I am sick, I don’t think from the city or Annie Moore’s, I think from the hot sausage I ate.
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This is my favorite Coldplay song. In fact, this song is the reason I keep listening to their music. I like a lot of their songs. I never realized that the lead singer is kind of cute and has the prettiest eyes!
>From work, that is what I did today. So I guess I should have said, played hooky as the title for this post. I got up and got on the train, but I went to White Plains instead of to work. I had lunch with Beth and Anne. Anne brought leftovers from her dinner yesterday. It was good, but the stuffing wasn’t as good as Em’s.
Tigger sent me a post asking if we could go driving. I replied, I’m not home, I guess he didn’t look out the window and see my car was not in the yard. I told him where I was and not to tell mom, he didn’t, but when we were talking, I don’t remember what she said, but he kind of rolled his eyes, and I looked at him then stared at Em and she said, You didn’t go to work today did you? So after all that worrying that he would blab, I blew it! HA HA.
Well anyway, now I will go upstairs and see if the food is ready. I really want to go to Target and get some things. I also want to look for a book I just read about.
I also got e-mails from Cookie and Melva. I am happy. Not about what is happening with them, that is definitely very sad, but I am glad I got to hear from them. I have a card for Cookie, I need to write it and send it out.
>and it has been kind of a nothing day. Slept late, went driving around a little bit. Got a breakfast sandwich at DD’s and a coffee at Starbucks. The little coffee place on Main Street was closed.
Tigger wanted cinnamon gum so I stopped at CVS, while I was there I picked up some medicine for my feet and a tooth whitening kit. In addition to gum for Tigger I got some Dark Chocolate covered Peppermints for Gwen and Spree for Fred.
When I got home I went to my room and Tigger started texting me that he wanted to go driving, so I was texting him back and trying to put him off and then he sends me a text, I C U. He and Fred were outside my bedroom window. So I went out to take him driving around the block. So now he has had experience driving when it is dark. Then I was going to take him and Fred to Wendy’s but Stitch told him Wendy’s was closed today. I don’t think that he was right, but I didn’t really want to take them out. So Stitch got out the frozen cheese ravioli, and we had dinner at home. I put spaghetti sauce with turkey sausage on mine and Tigger’s. It was good. But I am hungry again. I have to go eat.
Oh and I joined Twitter. If you have a twitter account, let me know and I can follow you, and you can follow me. We can be a happy family! OK I am getting a little silly here!
For everyone to whom today is a special day, I hope you enjoyed it. I certainly enjoyed not having to get up at 5:00 a.m. and go to work.
Belleza
just a (transplanted) city girl 