The Last Day of 2010 ....

  I must be aging.  I would have never thought 2010 would have sped past at record pace.  Truly, where has the year gone.  Every year I dash out my new years resolutions, print 'em and post 'em on my office wall and every 12/31 the old comes down and go into my daily calendar and get filed away ... I even made the list of 25 things to do before I turned 50 .... only hit a couple of them.  Better start the 50 things before 60 list -- that will give me 9 years and 10 months to actually get 'em done.

So, here's this years version!!!

1.   I will not to complain about the weather.  God has his reasons and evidently it's not for me to know.
2.   I will walk daily.  Truly.  A couple of blocks is better than nothing.  move, move, move.
3.   I will to spend at least one night at the sewing machine.  even when life is very busy.  an
                   addendum -- not to purchase any more fabric ... or at least track how much I actually use.
4.   I will  finish reading the Harry Potter series.  If they can get the movies done I can get the books read.
5.   I will not to trade off the car until it's paid off.  Seriously, it's not prudent to trade off a vehicle
                  that you still owe on the loan.  Dumb.
6.   There will be some sort of vacation in my world.  Maybe one mini one a month.
                  the zoo, Duluth, the lake, a weekend in the City, a ballgame
7.   The clean desk and organized office ... just gotta happen.
8.   I will not lose my glasses any more. 
9.   I will ride the bike to work in the summer.
10. Gotta learn one new thing a day. 

  So there it is peeps, THE 2011 LIST -- hold me to them.  I might even start the Harry Potter #6 tonight .. and squeeze in a little time at the sewing machine.

this weeks deliveries!

  arriving in this weeks mail !  catalogs, lots of seed catalogs.  helps to think planting amid the snow and ice.  this batch of 4 brings the total to 10 so far.

 ebay was fun -- 2 of the three Kaffe Fassett books ... I'll have them all eventually and I've vowed to purchase all via ebay and not spend more than $10 each!  So far so good.

a couple of the bag projects of old...the floral (not the best pic) was my attempt at a lunch sack .. didn't like it but it holds my backup drives from the office so it has purpose ... the one on the right has a zipper and it holds just about everything else ... into the tote bag it goes... phone, drugs, kleenex, gift cards, spare cash, spare batteries...

and the flip side is a different color  ... left overs from my film strip project (which i need to finish up)

so i'm learning to like the blog now and post it later feature that blogger has....lots of flexibility ... I'm working on the big NYEve blog of resolutions!!!!

Happy Thursday

Diva

Karl the roof man --

karl the ice chipping guy arrived today .. it was icier and higher than he was comfortable with so ... parts of it got chipped, scrapped and knocked down. 

i have decided to do this project one must be young and dumb.  nuts is more like it...i stopped watching it was just too scary for this old, conservative diva to witness.  although i was running the shovel behind him -- the piles of ice got hard really fast. 

i got home and nick had done the farm house roof but left piles on my freshly shoveled decks.  the piles are hard so i'll be chipping away for days . . . it is character building!!!

the last day of ...

   end of year tax planning...at least my last day of live peeps.  and the ice chipping dude is coming to remove 3' of snow from my roof .. and the ice dams.  oh fun (remember it's a very tall two story shack) have camera .. he's going to shovel my garage roof too ... it should be a fun check to write out.

   weird day yesterday .. in anticipation of my new gig (job/elected post/what was i thinking) I cancelled my health insurance -- I've paid my own my entire life -- it's just mind boggling that I'm getting health insurance coverage from this gig.  even more mind boggling -- no more high deductible health insurance -- that $5,000 deductible meant I've paid it all (of my medical costs)  over the last 50 years and 2 months and still paid the premiums. 

  I also froze my tush off all day long.  I just couldn't get warm.  Well the sneezing has begun.  Shoulda known eh!  Bring on the tissues it's going to be a long rest of the week!

Diva

heaping up the snow -- moving it from one side of the parking lot to directly on top of my tulip bed ....red tractor -- red tulips -- it was evidently supposed to be

the finished heap == 12' tall -- yes that dark grey spotch is the bird bath

looking north -- the frost was cool yesterday morning

wade bringing me my Kaffe Fassett books -- ebay was fun on Xmas Day!

another heap in the street -- the lovely neighbors always dump their snow in the street .. and the rest of us end up paying for the pickup of their snow .. 

let the games begin

   so my camera batteries pooped out on the way to Oshawa and no extra batteries here or at the office.  because this hard working diva came to work on 12/26 ... shoveling, cleaning and bonding with that cat.  i even sat thru 3 hours of a self study continuing education seminar ... an hour to go then the exam and that project will be done. 

   today begins the onslaught of work.  it's go go go until April 15th ... and the wackies have already started calling this morning.  (insert smiling face here) ... it is good to be me!

   it was a great holiday weekend ... lots of food, fun and relaxation, with a little work on the side.  i even managed to hit up McDonalds for my iced coffee and THE car got gas in its tank.  when i zipped into McD's the gas station looked relatively calm ... when i got over there it was a disaster but i got the job done up to $3 yesterday ... i can remember the $ 0.75 days.

   tomorrow starts the NewYears Resolution Planning!  Lots to work on for 2011!!!

Diva

pssst, is it still Christmas

   it is at this shack.  off to Oshawa for a post holiday coffee. 

   have camera will travel

   i'm sure the snowpiles out there are huge too

   took a drive about town last night

   not many homes decorated for the season this year



   bring on the new year!


   diva

Merry Christmas ....

   for those of you who know me it's rare for me to take an afternoon off between Turkey Day and 4/15 .. but yesterday I did -- it was snowing and that was my reason for leaving the office early -- the trek home would have been a bit better if I had waited an hour ... but .. I had a nap, cleaned and walked around with camera for some fresh air .. it was actually quite nice out ...

oh, what the elder does every afternoon -- move more snow around -- the piles are getting rather large

grain bin w/soybeans in it ... piles are 10' tall ... note the icicles, me thinks the beans be cooking in there ... the fans are running to cool 'em down ... look closer and the turkeys walked all over the roof ... didn't notice until elder mentioned it and i enlarged the pix ..

path to the house from the shed .. never did bring in the clothes pins ...

just before he got stuck (again) -- it's a daily occurance ...

working on the perfect pic for next years xmas cards!

merry christmas

(peace, glad tiddings, good health and melting snow be in our future !!)