NaBloPoMo

I won't have a recap of the month since I wrote every day :)
I will just write the list of books read and also some movies I've seen this month.

BOOKS

Beth Harbison - When in Doubt, Add Butter

Hester Browne - Little Lady, Big Apple

Faye Kellerman - Grievous Sin

Stacey Ballis - Off the Menu

Mary & Carol Higgins Clark - Deck the Halls

 

 

MOVIES

Your Sister's Sister (2011)

In the Good Old Summertime (1949)

On Moonlight Bay (1951)

Just Friends (2005)

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1970)

To Rome with Love (2012)

 

Here's to a great December! :)

Rainy day

Today it felt like Autumn. It rained softly all day, the leaves were falling from the tress, and a hint of chill was in the air.

I went shopping to my favorite store, Trader's Joe, and got me some panettone. I love to dunk pieces of it in my hot chocolate!

I was sorry to hear about Osi, I hope she will feel better and maybe take some medication that may help control her seizures. She is a very sweet dog.

Lulu spent most of the day outside or in the kennel. She is a little naughty. She is very sweet with Marvin and loves to sit with him and begs for kisses and likes to cuddle with him. Sometimes she's sweet with me too, but mostly she thinks I always want to play and goes halfway crazy running around the house making weird noises and trying to bite my toes!

One more day and I will have written every day, yay. Good job Sandy and Lizzie too. I hope you keep on writing if not every day at least one or twice a week. And you too Mia!!!

I hope you feel better Lizzie :)

A KFC Tale

There was an advertisement from KFC that said:

NEW, crisp 'em, and dunk 'em. 3 crispy chicken tenders, one side of your choice, a freshly made biscuit, a medium size drink, and two dunking sauces, for $5.00

 

It sounded good so I went and ordered 2 of them, one with a side of mashed potatoes and gravy, and one with a side of mac'n'cheese.

 

I was second in line to order and there were 6 people behind me in line.  I fixed the drinks, a diet Pepsi for me and a Sierra Mist for Marv, and waited.

 

And waited.

 

After seeing everybody that was in line get their meals, I asked about my order. The server said they had to fry some more chicken tenders, but he would give me a chicken leg instead.

 

I said: "HUH?"

 

I said I wanted the chicken tenders. He said OK, they are cooking.

 

So I waited some more.

 

Finally the meal made an appearance. I doubled checked to make sure everything I ordered was in it. What? potato wedges??? where are the mashed potatoes and gravy?

 

Oops sorry!

 

Hey where are the dunkin sauces???

 

Ah what do you want? buttermilk? honey mustard? buffalo chicken? BBQ?

 

GIVE ME ONE OF EACH!!!

 

OK, finally all ready to go.

 

Server: Thanks for waiting. Have a Merry Christmas!

 

Me: HUH?

Tree shopping

After taking Marvin to dialysis, I stopped at Fresh'n'Easy to get me a pastry for breakfast. Right at the entrance they had some evergreens just the size and shape I wanted for Christmas. I am not a very decisive person but I just went for it then and there :)

 

 

Still in my tree shopping mood, I went to Home Depot and bought a dwarf meyer lemon tree to replace the one we had to take off. Last week I had the gardeners  dig a hole and I put it there, on Friday the gardeners will plant it properly.

 

 

 

And lastly, my roses are blooming beautifully, here's my favorite, deep red and with a wonderful aroma (at least that's what they tell me)

 

 

 

 





Plans gone awry

I woke up around full of energy and wanting to do things. Since it was cyber Monday, I thought I would somewhat consolidate things from the Christmas lists I've been sent, and start ordering some stuff, since shopping, even online shopping is not one of my favorite things to do.

So I turn on my PC, and check my mail and Facebook, etc. and somehow,someway, I picked up a pesky virus!!! My AVG caught it but said it couldn't quarantine it, I would have to manually  try to  get rid of it. The virus is called "My Start by Incredibar" and what it does, it takes over the browsers and causes a whole bunch of problems, and it's a bitch to get rid of it.

After following instructions from several sources, I think I've finally got rid of it -I hope- but it took most of the morning and part of the afternoon. I took a break midday and went grocery shopping.

All in all, I didn't get much done. I didn't organize the lists, or ordered anything. Goodbye cyber Monday!!!

One month till Christmas

I can't think of anything to write. I think I am still a little shell shocked after our trip to ER yesterday, and I felt rather lethargic all day. I was going to get in the Jacuzzi, and for some unknown reason, it had turned itself off and the water was cold.

I went to get Marvin some KFC for lunch, and that's about it. Dinner was rather poor because I didn't feel like going shopping or cooking, so it was just some chicken for M and leftover fajitas for me, which got a little burned. After I made us a salad, M decided it was too cold for a salad and didn't want it, I had my salad with  the last of the blue cheese dressing, and when I went to throw the bottle away, I saw there was some mold growing in it, so no salad for me either :(

I checked to see if there were any special happenings in history on any November 25, and really there wasn't much! So I will just write the happening that I found most to my liking, since I loved that movie:

November 25, 1976: The Band and what seems like several dozen of the music industry's biggest stars perform at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom for what is announced as the group's last performance. The show is filmed and will go on to be released as Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biopic The Last Waltz.

Black Saturday

Nothing to do with shopping. Just Marvin woke up this morning very disoriented and unfocused and weak, and would not get up to go to dialysis.

It was a good thing that Lizzie was here, because after giving him a few tsps of Lactulose, he started feeling a little better but we took him to Kaiser ER because I didn't want him to miss his dialysis.

I am not going to write about the wait, and the incompetence of some nurse in the ER, and yes they are overworked, and they have to take care of the more urgent patients, but still!

Anyway, he  had some tests and a(nother) Cat scan, and then they set him up for dialysis at the hospital. I took Lizzie home so she could drive back to San Diego, and at 8PM I will go back to Kaiser to hopefully bring Marvin home.

It's been a long day.