Daily Ooos: Tuesday, May 17

[faerywings]

*deep sighs of relief*
Everything went well with the surgery! My mom called me last night when she got into her room (I got called first, even before my dad, does that make me the favorite? hahaha!) and she sounded good. She said that she felt good too. They had to make an adjustment already with her heart rate, she said it felt like it was pounding, they checked the reading and were able to adjust it. I think that impressed her a lot. She was also impressed by her EKG. She has had enough of them to recognize how erratic hers normally looks, she said the one after the surgery looked very even, Dr said it is almost a normal EKG. As of last night, they expect her to be discharged today, so all of this is fab news.

I had to scrap the idea that we were going to use to make centerpieces. I was going to paint beer/seltzer bottles with black chalk paint, and then glue a silver/black glittery ribbon around the center. The black chalk paint is too gunky and the other colors I had (white and grey) looked awful with the ribbon. I ended up having to scrub the paint off of the bottles and we will try something else. I am hitting the dollar store today after my haircut and will look for silver glitter. Cait suggested ModPodge the bottom half of the bottles and roll them in silver glitter.
Happy If A Bit Shocked News: Foxeysquirrel asked me to be on her CT! @Kythe too! But wow, talk about having a bad case of Imposter Syndrome. I am so intimidated by her designs and her CT. LOL

Plans for today: finish up the food order and get my hair cut/colored/blown straight for Thursday. I have a LO to finish for the Color Challenge and then I am going to dip my toes into a LO for Teddi (Foxeysquirrel)
I am hoping that scrapping for FS is going to be a good, creative outlet and stress reliever. I need something that will let my brain "roam" and relax. In case you hand;t noticed, I get stressed out really easily.
In case you hadn't noticed. #dk#crazy#clap

Anyway, I am so much better today, and thank you all for listening and supporting and sending good thoughts to my mom.
Hugs!!!

 

[faerywings]

@tanteva As an outsider, I am glad that Sweden is joining NATO but I can see why you would feel conflicted. It is a big change in mentality and happened so fast, not much time to adjust. I am seriously worried about you and that you are still sick. Sending you some healing veggie broth since I can't send you chicken broth.

@BrightEyes I bet you were busy all day getting everything set with the contractors coming and going. Good luck with the booster today, I hope that you don't get a reaction. I got the notification that I am eligible too and figured I was going to wait until late-Aug/Sept so I would have good coverage for the winter. But the way cases are going up so fast, I am rethinking it. Not that I can do anything about it in the next couple of weeks- but if you don't have a reaction, that is a decent sign that I might not. We tend to react similarly each time, although you are a little worse. At any rate, I hope there is no reaction and that you feel awesome

@Cherylndesigns I saw your LO and Ava and the puppies-- they are so cute!! I can't imagine what your house would be like with Ava and Carey running around together. Tasmanian devils, for sure. Is Carey staying with Adrienne for a while?
Did you rest a bit yesterday to balance out the overdoing? (My bet is No)

@taxed4ever The table and chairs are gorgeous!! I don't blame you for being excited about them, they really look so pretty and comfy. Heck, I am excited to see a toad hahaha!
Thanks for the reminders about cards- I have several to make for this week. Personally, I would call Jonah SIL-- they have been together for a long time, long enough to be considered Common Law Married right? But you are correct, it doesn't matter as long as they love each other. <3

@bcgal00 I am so happy for you. You seem very at home and at peace where you are. Taz must have been very happy to have the house and D to himself for a while while you were at the park with Remi.
How was the hot tub????

@LSlycord Drat, sorry that the offer wasn't accepted but maybe if your house gets an offer this week, it will still be available. It will all work out. It will!
Good luck with all of the upcoming open houses.

 

[BrightEyes]

Morning, gals. Wow, can't believe it... I slept from 9 PM until 8 AM!!! My body must have needed it as I slept right through the whole night. Yes, it could also be that I signed the contract on the roof repair and he said he was putting my job on priority due to the hole in the membrane covering. The main delay will be getting the membrane in. He hopes to get it done in the next 2 weeks. George, the yard guy, will be over this afternoon. I will be hiring him as the yard needs to be done ASAP.

Chris, I will let you know how I do after the Covid booster. I was also going to wait to get it until fall but now they are predicting a surge in cases this summer. The numbers here are also rising fast so decided I would get the booster now. My last booster was in September 2021.

Congrats on being invited to join Foxy Squirrels CT!!! So happy for both you and Kythe. I know you will do fine. Sorry your first go at the bottle decorating didn't work out but am sure you will come up with something from Dollar Tree that will work. And so happy about your mom and now she sees how the pacemaker is already helping her heart.

I am off in just a few minutes to drop of books at the library then over to get my booster. Back later to do personals.

 

[Kythe]

@faerywings You will do just fine at FS. Remember a while ago we were asked for some traditional scraps using FS products to show the versatility. And you are good at the AJ style which can be used as well. Have fun going through the shop.

@BrightEyes Wishing you a quick roof repair.
I got my booster 2 days ago and no problem at all.

 

[bcgal00]

Good morning ladies. I'm a bit brain dead from lack of sleep. I was coughing a bit off and one throughout the night (allergy season, sinuses) and Remi was up all night, needing to go out often. She has been reacting to something and her stomach has been upset for a few days and she has bad diarrhea...poor girl. She is finally sleeping and I'm drinking coffee, trying to function. A hot shower will help. I'm going to stop the food additive I have been using to see if that is the issue. I'll just give her the kibble and the 2 treats that I know she is ok with. She is still active and drinking water so am not overly alarmed yet.

The hot tub guys didn't come yesterday. Apparently 3 people had called in sick. So we are back to waiting. Same with the pool setup, we have to wait for awhile. The microwave is coming this afternoon but we'll see if the installer comes on Thurs. Ugh.

Hopefully my furniture comes tomorrow...fingers crossed.

I don't know how productive I'll be today. I'm tired and may need a nap later.

@faerywings So glad that everything went well for your mom.

 

[bcgal00]

@BrightEyes Glad you had a good sleep. Glad you are getting the booster. Hope we can get ours soon too.
@Kythe Looks like we cross posted this morning. Glad to hear you had no reaction to the booster.

I'm going to go lay on the couch for a bit. Then I'll have a shower to wake up. At least my poor girl is sleeping now.

 

[taxed4ever]

Good morning everyone!! Doing a happy dance that it is actually sunny this morning! Not sure how long it will last, but I will embrace the fact that for now it is a lovely spring day! Ok enough about the weather LOL. I managed to get out in the backyard for a bit and pulled some weeds and cut down my daffodils. Sad to see them all done, but nice to see all the azaleas in full bloom and my yellow Rhododendron in the back is blooming too. Funny that all the plants seem to be doing so well after the terrible cold spring we have had. No hike for me tomorrow it is very far away and it supposed to be a nasty day tomorrow, lots of wind warnings and a ton of rain. I am wondering if they will cancel the hike because of the wind?? Not very safe to be in the forest when its blowing like crazy. There will be lots of trees coming down I bet. I have to get out and pick up a couple of things at the grocery store today. Also need to find a couple of T-Shirts as two ladies from my hiking group want me to do personalized shirts for them. Other than that I will try to get a layout done for one of the challenges, nothing else happening here today.

@faerywings - so happy to hear that your Mom did so great with her surgery! Hooray!! What a relief to have it all done! Congrats on being asked to be on FS's CT!! What an honour!! You will do wonderfully I am sure! Hope you find something that will work for the bottle decorating!

@BrightEyes - Wow that was an awesome sleep in you had! Nice to know that the roof will get done soon! Yay for the garden guy coming this afternoon, it will be good to have that taken care of too!

@bcgal00 - Sorry you are not feeling too great today! Darn allergies!! Sounds like you are having the same issues with deliveries and getting workers to come as we are here! Covid sure has changed everything! Not for the better!! Hope that your poor Remi is doing better, how awful to have the runs and having to be let out so much during the night. Hope you grab a nice nap today! I will keep my fingers crossed that your furniture all arrives today!

@Kythe - congrats to you also for being on FS's CT!! I don't know how you all find the time to get so many CT duties done, I suck at it LOL.

Ok this has taken a long time to get posted, Hunter called on face time. He is home with a bad cough today, but seems to be feeling ok. Hope he will be back at school tomorrow! We had a nice chat though and I read him a couple of stories, so nice to have some private time with just him! Ok gotta get ready to go shopping, have a great everyone!

 

[Cherylndesigns]

Good afternoon my lovlies.

Chris @faerywings awesome news about your mom!!! YAY and it sounds she did SO well!! Yes, I guess that does make you the favorite. LOL I have a LO of "the girls" in our gallery too - not sure if you saw it:



They're getting bigger - Ava brought them down yesterday to play with Daisy. The first thing they do (after greeting me and Chuck) is run straight for Daisy's water bowl and proceed to put their front paws in it and then they track all over my kitchen. Hahaha Good thing I don't care - it mops up. They ARE a handful, that's for sure.

Carey's staying up at Adrienne's but she came down yesterday and stayed for quite awhile. We sat out on the front porch (well, she sat a bit but kept jumping up if she saw a weed she missed.) She's a hoot! Right after she left, Ava and the pups walked in then Braden stopped in to cool off and drink a Diet Coke. He's been mowing around the property. It's normally pretty busy around here.

Just an FYI - it might not work on soda bottles but I colored Ball Jars by pouring the paint on the INSIDE and turn turning the bottle to get all of the inside saturated. Just a thought. They were so pretty - I did pastels for Easter. Takes a while for them to dry though. Rolling them in glitter sounds pretty, too.

Congrats on getting on the FS CT - you too, Kythe! @Kythe That's really cool to be recognized!!

Trudy @taxed4ever hope Hunter feels better soon! That's going around again - seems like half the people I'm around have cold/like symptoms.

Gonna go - Chris @faerywings my herbs need to be taken for a walk. BWAHAHA

 

[LSlycord]

Good evening ladies. We had four showings on the house today. I was working so I stayed in my office and they would just pop in there. Shaun had class and worked but Syd was home so she and Brian took the dogs out. Then she came home and cooked steaks, baby potatoes and asparagus for supper. Made my life easier for sure.

Oh @faerywings such good news about your mom. One less worry for the next few weeks. And congrats to you and @Kythe for picking up FS CT work. Very cool!

@BrightEyes so glad that the roof guy has prioritized you on his list! Hope the booster goes well.

@bcgal00 sorry that the hot tub didn’t get installed. So many things to get done when you move.

@taxed4ever the backyard sounds beautiful. I love azalea!

@Cherylndesigns it sounds like a fun time with company!