A Memory of Grandma C, part one

One time when I was little I was with Mom at Grandma C's house, and she allowed me to help with the dishes. She always had beautiful china, etc. that she used every day. On my way across the room to replace the dish on the shelf---crash! It slipped out of my fingers and broke. I was sick inside and paralyzed with fear. My mom immediately started to apologize for my error, and Grandma said, "Oh Anne, it's just a dish!" She very sweetly helped me clean it up and thanked me for helping with the dishes. I hope I never forget the way I was treated--I think it's a great thing to "pay it forward," don't you? My motto: Just remember it all eventually ends up in the land fill anyway. (the stuff). The way we treat people and the way we are treated is what stays.

Back Over Here

Okay after a long long hiatus and blogging with a different server, I have returned to Blogspot. It's free and I can't seem to manage all my different websites, etc. so I am simplifying my life.  More later.

I am not sure what to do.

Well, I have a new blogsite, but the key to register is so hard that some of my readers can't seem to get in. One broke through, however, and then i (administrator) didn't okay it for a few days. i didn't really get how to do it, but i figured it out through blundering and trying this and that. I guess I can't get used to the idea that to be a web administrator, one must learn how to do things, one doesn't automatically know how. So, while I am on the learning curve (or more like that new snowboarding ramp in NYC) I will post both places and those of you who are interested in reading my blog, will you keep trying to sign in? If there is anyone left out there, that is still interested.
What I really wanted to post is this:
I am getting ready to take a trip and I have a challenge with that, because when I go, I leave Laura behind, which means work out the details for her life while I am gone. It has been a rather smooth process! I am thankful for a network of loving, caring, willing, people who are here for me and Wally so we can leave to go out of town for a vacation. I am grateful for Wally's wisdom and foresight of planning ahead for our financial welfare and security that creates a place of safety and bounty for us both. I am grateful for good friends that don't give up on us and find options for us to make a great plan workable.

Just Moved

Well, I have a new blog site--it's one that you get to register so I know who's reading my info. Here's the link: http://www.beth.breinholts.com Sometimes it scares me off when I have to register for something, but it's really nice and friendly. Just sign in and do your password, and the first time you do, it will shoot off an email to me, and I will say, "Sure, you can read it," unless I don't know you are. Then you get an invitation and you are in! See you soon.

It's all about ready

Okay, we are working on this huge music/dance/bells pageant for Christmas, and last night all the pieces were put together for the first time. Wow!! the energy was sky high. Our guest stars were there, and all the bell ringers and the dancers and orchestra and it was very gratifying to hear the music all put together. Our director makes killer arrangements of stuff, I don't know how he does it. I have such a small part in the whole thing, but it's incredible how it comes together. One thing that I do to contribute (besides sing) is appreciate, admire and enjoy the event. Wally is driving the stars back and forth from the hotel/venue/airport and where ever they need to be. I understand that the people who agree to do the show with us, do it with very little compensation. It's mostly a gift on their part, and what a gift it is.
I feel sad for my sister Joy. She broke her leg last week in Idaho, and Saturday she had surgery. Brenda brought her home from the hospital yesterday, and hopefully she will make it through the next few weeks without incident. She and Jim were planning a trip to Florida to see Nate for Christmas and now that's been canceled.
Speaking of trips, Wally and i are going to NYC again next week for a few days. I have never seen the place all decorated up for Christmas, and it will be fun. The reason we are going is for family, of course. Wally hasn't seen Piper for a long time and will he ever be surprised!
I have been out of commission with my computer for a while because of a nasty little surprise via facebook. All is back in order now, but I am so wary about any emails that come my way, even from people I know--that's how my awful little spybot "virus" was delivered. Anyway, my answer was to leave facebook. I found out that you never really leave it, you can't get your info off of it, you just disable your account. Nice. I went in and changed stuff first. It kind of creeps me that they have my info, ready to roll if I say so, or if someone chooses to hack. I will miss visiting with some of my friends that way, also my cute and adorable neices and nephews. Okay, i know they are grown up but they are still what i said--cute and adorable.
That brings me to my next subject. I am preparing to make this a private blog. Anyone who likes to check on it occasionally, let me know, and i will invite you to read it. As of January 2009, I will close it to the public. Call me paranoid, call me overcautious, call me whatever you want, it's probably true.

New Addiction

Okay, i just have to blog about this--Sushi. Last time I was in NYC, my kids ordered in sushi, and I thought, okay, I will try it, it's food, right? It was so good! Not to be confused with sushimi, which has raw fish. Anyway, there were several different kinds, and I just went down on it. We had avocado rolls, sweet potato rolls, cucumber rolls, etc. I was kind of worried about the taste of seaweed, but as I discovered, seaweed in sushi has no taste. One type we got was spinach sushi, and it was our least favorite--too "chewy", kind of what I thought the seaweed would taste like. Anyway, I am hooked. I came back home thinking about when i would have some next, and wondering where I would even find some. I was talking to my hairdresser and she told me this great place to get it, so i went there and she was right. it was good, but it was kind of expensive and it was downtown, which wasn't that practical for me. Anyway, i was at the grocery store a few days later and what do you know? They just added sushi to their deli! So i have been hogging it down, almost everytime I go there I pick up a little tray of it, 12 piece spicy Califormia rolls. I still don't like wasabi on it, but the piece that sits next to the wasabi on the tray tastes a little extra spicy and it's good. So let's hear it for Sushi! Especially the day before Thanksgiving, Ha ha.

Halfway or thereabouts

November is speeding by! Wally went to San Diego under the guise of watching a game, but it was really to check up on and visit Pete and Kristin. I spent the weekend finishing up a quilt top project I have been working on for several months, sporadically of course. It's a grandmother's flower garden, a very complex and labor intensive piece of little hexagons that must be hand-stitched together. The blocks were rescued from a grab bag, and then i put them together, creating a "path" between the flower blocks. Last night I put a border on the whole thing and now it's ready for a back and batting. If I wasn't feeling so lazy, I would take a picture and post it but i just thought I would post. Actually I am in the middle of retraining my speech recognition program on my computer and there are these long delays so I am doing other stuff in between the dictation. LIke just now I downloaded all the pics off my camera, because it was sitting here by me at the computer. I found one of Maya's visit. She was using a little iron I have, just her size, that really works. Last night i was talking to her mom on the phone and she said, "you are busted. Maya told us you let her iron." I know she's little but she's very smart, and can do stuff like that. So since the secret's out i will post her pic. I know this is a boring blog but the picture is really cute.