Quizno's is giving away one MILLION subs! Just go to their web site (click here) and sign up. They will e-mail you a coupon for a free small or every day value size sub.
Hurry over and get your coupon soon! I have a feeling 1,000,000 subs will go fast!
February has basically been FOOD MONTH!!! Oh how I wish I had known sooner...
Among other things it's been Berry Fresh Month, it's been Celebration of Chocolate Month, and Hot Breakfast Month, and Snack Food Month, and Sweet Potato Month!!!
And starting today, the entire next week is Pancake Week. IHOP is celebrating National Pancake Day on Wednesday.
From the IHOP press release: 1,400 IHOP restaurants throughout the United States will once again invite guests to enjoy a free short stack of IHOP's signature buttermilk pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. In return, IHOP guests are asked to donate what they would have paid for the free pancakes, or more, to their local children's hospital or another worthy cause. Additionally, Miracle Balloons will be sold for $1 each, personalized and displayed at participating IHOP restaurants from February 1 through February 24, 2009, offering guests another way to show their support of Children's Miracle Network and contribute to the National Pancake Day fundraising effort.
So don't miss out on what is left... Go C E L E B R A T E !!!
Feb 22 - Cherry Pie Day
Feb 23 - Banana Bread Day and (if you have a four legged friend) Dog Biscuit Appreciation Day
Feb 24 - National Pancake Day - GO IHOP!!!!
Feb 25 - Chocolate-Covered Nuts Day
Feb 26 - Pistachio Day
Feb 27 - Strawberry Day, Kahlua Day
and the best...
Feb 28 - Chocolate Souffle Day
Now where is that chocolate????????????
with an apron!
The Apron Goddess is giving away a great gift. It's a book entitled "Early 20th Century Vintage Apron Collection" by June Bartos. There are some REALLY great designs in it. So wander on over to The Apron Goddess blog and enter! Maybe you can make yourself a great vintage pattern apron!
And remember me next Christmas!!! ;)
I didn't. I had no clue what that even was. It just sounds so... ewwww....
But evidently Quamut means "how to" in Latin. So online it's appropriate that Quamut is a "How to" site published by Barnes & Nobel, the bookstore people. For the month of February they are offering all their knit and crochet patterns as FREE downloads. Check it out here for the crochet offerings and here for the knit offerings. And check out the rest of the site. It looks interesting! But be careful... you might learn something.
This is something I got from another Blog I read... Clay Hill Farm. waving furiously HI TERRI!!! You're supposed to highlight the things on the list you've done. She just used Yes and No and I think that works great so I'm doing the same thing. Some answers I didn't even need to change!
Started your own blog - yep, you're reading it.
Slept under the stars - yep.
Played in a band - yep - middle school. you aren't missing a thing.
Visited Hawaii - nope.
Watched a meteor shower - yep, more than once.
Given more than you can afford to charity - yep, what goes around comes around.
Been to Disneyland/world - lived in both California and Florida, so both.
Climbed a mountain - hiked. knees won't let me these days.
Held a praying mantis - nope.
Sang a solo - NO!
Bungee jumped - nope - never, never, never. Amen!!!
Visited Paris - sigh... someday.
Watched a lightning storm at sea - no, but watched plenty of them from the beach.
Taught yourself an art from scratch - yes.
Adopted a child - i'd love to but i don't think it could be now.
Had food poisoning - yes, once or twice!
Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty - nope. But I saw a small replica near lincoln center.
Seen the Mona Lisa in France - nope, but someday.
Slept on an overnight train - yes. i was only 11 but it was a blast!
Had a pillow fight - yes.
Hitchhiked - i don't remember but i don't think so.
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill - pleading the fifth here!
Built a snow fort - nope.
Held a lamb - no, but i've held baby chicks.
Gone skinny dipping - yes.
Been to a Broadway show in NY - nope.
Ran a Marathon - nope.
Been in three states at once - several two's but can't think of a three offhand.
Ridden in a gondola in Venice - nope.
Seen a total eclipse - yes.
Watched a sunrise or sunset - yes, lots.
Hit a home run - nope.
Been on a Cruise - nope, and don't want to any more.
Seen Niagara Falls in Person - nope, but would like to.
Visited the birthplace of your Ancestors - yes, but just the last two generations.
Seen an Amish community - yes, lovely people!
Taught yourself a new language - tried, but wasn't successful.
Had enough money to be truly satisfied - yes.
Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person - nope, not yet.
Gone rock climbing - nope.
Seen Michelangelo’s David - do books and tv count?
Sung karaoke - NO! and never will.
Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt - yes, amazing.
Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant - i've paid the bill for the person/people in the vehicle behind me at a fast food several times.
Visited Africa - nope.
Walked on a beach by moonlight - yes, and the beach is lovely any time of the day or night.
Been transported in an ambulance - yes, but as a passenger with my daughter as the patient.
Had your portrait painted - yes, in pastels for my first husband. Still have it.
Gone deep sea fishing - yes, never again.
Seen the Sistine Chapel in person - nope, not yet.
Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris - nope, not yet.
Gone scuba diving or snorkeling - nope.
Kissed in the rain - yes.
Played in the mud - yes.
Been to Grace Kelley’s grave in Monaco - nope.
Gone to a drive-in - yes.
Been in a movie - nope. but my husband and son have! hubby twice! a major one too! i've been on tv several times.
Visited the Great Wall of China - nope, not yet.
Started a business - yes.
Taken a martial arts class - nope.
Swam in the Mediterranean Sea - nope.
Visited Russia - nope.
Served at a soup kitchen - nope.
Sold Girl Scout cookies - yes.
Gone whale watching - nope.
Gotten flowers for no reason - yes.
Donated blood, platelets or plasma - yes.
Gone sky diving - NO!
Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp - no. but my late father in law was a german pow.
Bounced a check - yes, but not on purpose.
Saved a favorite childhood toy - yes. and i have bought a replacement for one on ebay.
Visited the Lincoln Memorial - yes.
Eaten Caviar - nope.
Pieced a quilt - yes.
Stood in Times Square - nope.
Toured the Everglades - nope. even thought i was born and raised nearby. been on the fringes.
Been fired from a job - yes. i didn't fit their agenda.
Seen the Changing of the Guards in London - nope, not yet.
Been on a speeding motorcycle - yes.
Seen the Grand Canyon in person - nope.
Published a book - no, but hubby and i have talked about writing one.
Visited the Vatican - nope, not yet.
Bought a brand new car - yes.
Walked in Jerusalem - nope, not yet.
Had your picture in the newspaper - yes.
Read the entire Bible - yes, when I was younger.
Visited the White House - nope.
Killed and prepared my own meat - nope. but i've fixed and eaten something i saw someone else kill. (trout and rattlesnake)
Had chickenpox - yes.
Saved someone’s life - nope.
Sat on a jury - nope.
Met someone famous - yes.
Joined a book club - yes.
Lost a loved one - yes.
Had a baby - yes. lost one too.
Seen the Alamo in person - nope.
Swam in the Great Salt Lake - nope.
Been involved in a law suit - yes.
Owned a cell phone - yes.
Been stung by a bee - yes.
I ran across this idea on another blog and saved the info for "future reference". I guess the future is NOW! :)
The idea is to find the sixth image in your sixth image folder, and then tag six people to do the same.
This is the sixth image in the sixth image folder on my laptop.
The picture was taken almost two years ago. That's Gamer Boy planting a Silver Maple tree in the back yard in memory of his father. (He is actually RE-planting a tree. The first one died.) I really think this picture is kind of funny because Annie was looking out the window and all of the sudden she started sniffing the window screen. It looks like she is sniffing HIM!
Now I'm not going to tag six people... I'm going to challenge anyone who reads this to do it! Who knows... you might find a picture that you haven't seen in a while that brings back good memories. It did for me.
Teresa, from Slowing Down A Bit, is paying it forward with a shoebox giveaway! No, there aren't shoes in it. But that is all I'm going to tell you... You need to go to her site yourself (click here) to see what she's put in it!
And yes, Terri, if I win, will share the wealth and I'll let you have the key finder. :)
What a cool Valentine's gift it could be. (I'm so easy to please!)
My friend, Terri, at Clay Hill Farm, is having a February giveaway. The prize? A $25 Starbucks gift certificate!!!
Now I'm not a big coffee drinker but I do like their chocolate mocha (extra chocolate) with a shot of peppermint. And it doesn't even have to be Christmas time!
So click here and take a trip over to Clay Hill Farm and enter her giveaway. Who knows... maybe I'll see you at Starbucks!
As expected, county schools called off for today. But Dak still had to go to school because they didn't call off college classes. They rarely do. I guess they figure college students are better drivers on icy roads. Go figure.
But they did delay the start of school by two hours so he got to go in a bit later. This is exactly what happened a couple weeks ago on the first day his class met this semester. Only today they were due to give speeches. That always throws a wrench into things because they have to make X number of speeches and it throws scheduling off.
GamerBoy is my baby. Yes, he's almost 20 but I don't care how old he is! And I know that this milestone was inevitable but still... like I said, he's my BABY.
He signed up for a driving course last April. He is starting to feel the squeeze as he only has a year to deal with the course work and tests before his class fee won't cover anymore and he has to pay it again. As long as he has finished the class work and study time and has his name on the list for the actual in car work he is covered. (And if he has to do it again he knows he has to pay it all! We already help pay the first time and a year is quite sufficiant to get that done.)
So he has been feverishly studying the AAA book, the states's driver's handbook, and making notes. Today I took him to the class and he tested on the first 5 chapters of the book. His scores were between 80 and 95 and he says 70 and above is passing. He has another week to study before the next class.
Yesterday Dak took him to a local church that has a large parking lot and put him BEHIND THE WHEEL!!! I didn't go with them and I have mixed feelings about that. I would have liked to have seen him drive for the first time but I probably would have made him nervous or cried or tried to grab the wheel and step on the brake. :) Probably a good thing I didn't go. But Dak said he did really good.
Did I mention that he is drooling ever time he sees a corvette??????
I'm always envious of someone who sews. I have a machine. I even have an embroidery machine. And I have sewn before. But I haven't been able to access either machine (the one has never been used!) in ages so I can't really say I sew.
But my friend Terri can. And she is on an apron kick. Very practical. And she is offering to use her skills (practice makes perfect) to make an apron for some lucky person. Go here and check out her giveaway.
We have HEAT! (I'm so glad you can't see me dancing!) The A/C guy was out and fixed the problem and he didn't even have to do it in the rain! When he got her I asked him what it would run to have a digital thermostat that we had bought several months ago installed. He said that if it was a "blah blah" type (I can't remember what he called it) he could just go ahead and do it while he was there and make it part of the service call. THANK YOU!!! It made the final bill a little less painful. :) But it was still way less than replacing the entire heat pump!
We had bought the thermostat thinking that it might help keep a better control of the temp and help out economically. Dak has it set now and has LOCKED it! Both Chatty and GamerBoy tended to play with the old one a bit, adjusting it to their perceived needs. :) That is now a thing of the past. Only Dak and I know how to unlock it to change a temp setting. evil grin Hehehehe... Eventually we will get it completely set up and programed.
What I like most about the new thermostat is that it has a vacation feature - you can set it and go on vacation. WOW! If I had known that all we needed to do was get a thermostat with a vacation mode and we could go on vacation I would have bought one AGES ago!
We aquired a yard guest yesterday. Chatty says that a puppy (that will grow up to be a BIG dog) followed her home. He (she?) has been on the front porch most of the time since then. It is a cute dog, chocolate brown and probably a retriever or a lab, but it's not our dog. We have told Chatty to ignore the dog but you know how that goes with a kid and a cute puppy.
Today was garbage day and during the night the dog decided to check to see if we had left any pizza behind in the box we threw away. It also taste tested the remaining plants in my water garden on the porch and there are now plant strands and dirt clumps all over the porch. Granted they were dead plants but they were in the container and it wasn't a mess. I'm glad that was all the dog got into.
Chatty thinks she has an idea where the dog might have come from and went there to go check with them. Hopefully that is the right place. Evidently there is a house in the neighborhood that has a fenced in yard and the gate is open. Chatty tried to put the dog in the yard and latch the fence but the latch is broken. She has a dentist appointment later this afternoon so she will walk the dog down to the end of the street (about a mile) and then her dad will pick her up in the car and they will go to the appointment. Hopefully the dog will find it's way to it's own home.
GamerBoy has been very helpful the last few days. He installed a new, locking doorknob on our bedroom door. He knew we had gotten the doorknob set but hadn't had time to install it. Then this morning he went outside and cleaned out the dryer vent of some nesting materials that had been placed there by birds or small animals. It should make drying clothes a lot faster! We have a vent cage/cover that we'll be putting over the vent outlet but that I want Dak to do that since it involves putting holes in the house itself! But we really do appreciate that GamerBoy pitches in and does stuff like this. He is really maturing. A good kid!
Something I didn't mention before... we have been having a temperature issue here at the palace. Our heat pump seems to be on vacation. Not a good thing for the realm when the temperature is in the 20's! Granted, it has warmed up a bit, at the moment it's 42, but that is still a bit on the cool side for all of us, not to mention way too cool for Princess Junior. It's like we traded in our upgraded insulation for classic medieval stone.
It's been this way since about Wednesday or Thursday. We noticed that the outside unit was making an odd noise. Dak did some internet research and we switched over to the emergency heat. We then set about trying to confirm if the home warranty was still in effect. We really didn't have any paperwork on it and weren't sure.
To make it even more fun we had another temperature issue. The refrigerator. Things weren't quite as cool (or frozen!) in there as they should have been. And it was possibly covered by the same home warranty. It took until this past Monday to get through to the right people only to find that neither was covered so we're on our own.
Dak called and arranged for someone to come out and take a look at both problem appliances. The Refrigerator is now fixed. $205 and change but that is much better than buying a new fridge! Especially since the one I'd like is $2,300!!! :)
Now we are waiting for the A/C people to get here. It's a rainy day, nearly 100% humidity called for all day, but when I spoke to them on the phone they said that they would still be here. Better them than me!
To warm up here I just finished a small blanket for Princess Junior. Here it is...
It's a nice, warm, soft and slightly fuzzy yarn. I still have a lot left over so I might make Princess Junior a "matching", but smaller, lap throw for when she is in her wheelchair. I didn't follow the pattern exactly. I just did a scalloped border instead of the one in the pattern as I didn't want it so lacy on the edges.
And then to warm ME up... Dak and I stopped by Wal-mart last evening and I happened to pass a clearance rack that really caught my eye. It was full of lightweight fleece night shirts. What sold me on them was that there was a bunch of purple ones and the print was CUPPYCAKES!!!!!!!!
I wore it last night and it was just fine. A lot of times I will change nightgowns in the middle of the night because I get too hot but this one really is just the right weight of fleece! And I LOVE cuppycakes!
And speaking of cuppycakes... I should have a picture of one I am crocheting soon. 0 calories!
This request isn't for me.And it's not for Princess Junior either. But it is partially on her behalf.
One of Princess Junior's day nurses has been gone for a week. She is back today and I just found out why she had to leave. Her 34 year old son was murdered last Tuesday morning. He left behind a wife and daughter and two children from a previous marriage.
Things like this are so sobering. Talking to friends yesterday I told them of four children on the support groups we are on for Princess Junior that have passed away in the past three weeks. This morning there was another child added to that number. They range in age from a wonderful 18 year old to a beautiful full term baby who didn't survive birth.
Those always hit me hard. Please send good thoughts and prayers their way to help all these families through these rough times.
Thank you!
Things have been hectic here... I've been trying to keep up reading blogs but I know I've let some slide by. And I haven't posted here.
Life here has a way of doing that. And it seems like everything happens at once. One day we had two different docs call and offer us cancellation appointments at the exact same time. We couldn't take advantage of either one because of an already scheduled appointment! We had to cancel an appointment on Tuesday because of the weather and it had already been rescheduled once! Now she doesn't go back there until late February. :(
Princess Junior's appointment for Botox was tomorrow at 2 pm. It was scheduled wrong and had to be moved to 10:45 am. Because of the change (we can't miss this one! This one is really important for her.) we had to cancel an appointment scheduled for 10 am for Dak and I, and Dak will not get to go, having to take Chatty to another appointment at 11 am instead.
We had a insurnace issue earlier this week and were panicing because it mean that Princess Junior, the one person in the house who really HAS to have a doc on call, didn't have a pediatrician. I think it's been sorted out now. We're just waiting for the "official" phone call.
And we are having a nursing shortage. Still trying to cover the 7p to 10p gap but a nurse that doesn't live far from us is picking up most of those. A regular day nurse had an out-of-state family emergency and won't be here for a few days. So far they have covered one day, a new nurse is orienting in Princess Junior's room as I type and will pick up tomorrow (Sure... start her off on a day with a road trip!) but they are still looking to cover Sarurday and Sunday day shifts.
Meanwhile we are still dealing with other family menbers and issues. How fun. :)
I ran across the cutest idea that could help me whittle down my key chain to a more manageable number of keys. Right now there are about 7 gazillion keys on my key chain. Heck, it's not even one single key chain! Sweet Irie is hosting a giveaway and the prize (actually NINE prizes!) is your choice of one of her handmade wristlet key chains! I LOVE the Cuppy Cake one! But if I win I might have to choose the Fishy one... A very HARD, HARD decision!
Check out her blog HERE and enter the contest! And thanks, Sweet Irie, for being so generous!
I posted some scarves and throws on the Princess' blog. All proceeds will go to her building fund.
And thanks to all who have submitted recipes! We still need more so keep them coming, please. :)
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