tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-364985422011-11-27T18:57:12.872-06:00the ongoing life of someone looking for something but not knowing what it is exactly.Jacquihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016343780777256307noreply@blogger.comBlogger2731100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36498542.post-28425151192302945892008-04-16T08:33:00.003-05:002008-04-17T10:44:51.587-05:00

Decided to move to wordpress so my new blog will be atLost in Pflugerville

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After an exhausting week at work, Gordon and I went to see to Emily in Denton on Friday. Its a long drive - 420 miles round trip but it was great to see her, even if she did seem somewhat stressed out. In fact she was so stressed out by the end of the semester, she burst in to tears whilst we were eating dinner. Much as we tried to reassure her and to say, as long as she is passing the classes,

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and I am still working! and more to the point, enjoying it, despite being rarely in the Frame shop. It appears that this time of year is a slow part of the year for framing so even though they are swamp with work, they don't have the hours to have more than 1 framer at a time on duty. Most days there isn't a framer in the shop until 11 which is the time the head framer arrives. So if you need

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as it seems I have managed to inadvertently offend 2 people.I am not going to write about how but one person in particular, managed to jar me so much that I realise that maybe knowing something is maybe too much information. Why do I say that? I was given a little nugget of information when I was young and now I am 50. Maybe if the Internet hadn't been invented, it might have stayed being that

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Well, I have completed one week of my new job and I am pretty sure I will enjoy it. Yesterday was my first day doing an 8 hr shift and today I was exhausted! Fortunately, as I am going doing pt, so those sort of hours will be infrequent. Can't imagine how these young mums do 8 hrs on their feet all day and then deal with kids and the house. Makes me really appreciate the fact I have been a stay

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on Sunday and was actually in the framing shop all of my shift yesterday. I loved it! Its the perfect job for me, can't believe I actually go to job which I enjoy. I know its early days yet and maybe, it in month or so, I might not be saying the same thing but so far so good!

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I was in Joann's yesterday and noticed that they were advertising for a part-time framer, pay according to experience. I have always fancy doing framing so I thought, why not ask. So I went up to the framing dept and asked how much experience were they looking for? I explained that my experience was limited (to a logan mat cutter) but that I am a quick learner. I also explained I have not had a

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so someone loves me :) I was actually tagged on my creative site so I will do a duplicate post I think:Seven things people don't know about me:Well, that's go to be a difficult one because over the years I have confessed to all my sins I think.1 I was a terrible thief when I was younger. I would steal from my Mum's wallet and my poor sister, Julie would end up with the blame. Not only did I

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as I had an interview yesterday and although I wasn't actually rejected, I also didn't get the job.Apparently I was considered a call back - in the event of a suitable position becoming available they will call me back, so there is hope.Not really sure what to make of that to be honest. It was a level entry job as an psychiatric nursing assistant at the State Hospital in Austin. I admit it isn't

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before I dash out the door to get to the Blanton where I am volunteering this morning.I really don't know where this week has gone and it not as if I have been out and about doing things. Mostly I have been avoiding to be honest.I have this project I have been doing since before I went to London and I am still doing it. Just as I think this might be the end, I think, nope its not quite right and

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and I am tired from not doing a lot. Most of the weekend I have spend upstairs either in the Laundry room where I do my messy artwork or the spare room where I do all my beading. I managed to finish one project completely, almost complete 2 more and thinking about at least 2 more that I plan to start this week whilst still having a couple on the go. Yes, I really should concentrate on one thing

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and I am still puzzled by how the system works, particularly in regard to caucuses. Looking at the results of the democratic party, it is notable that Obama won the majority of the caucuses (8-1). As far as I can gather, caucuses are an open vote, where everyone knows who you are supporting and you huddle in a group declaring your allegiance to either Clinton or Obama. Now if I was going to a

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as it otherwise known and yeah, we had pancakes, with lots of cream, sugar, maple syrup lemon juice and lime juice. Funny enough it was just as good without the kids, wonder if they had any?

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but I will write anyway.Had a good weekend after having a lousy weekend, only blight has been my shoulder. I was reaching out for something and I felt this huge cramp like pain in my shoulder. Since then I have a soreness at a particular point and cannot raise my arm above my shoulder height without pain. I will see how it goes during the week and take some ibuprofen, hoping its just a pinched

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it started last night with sneezing, watery eyes and a increasing headache, its the dreaded cedar fever symdrome. When I first moved here, I thought whats all the fuss about but as the years have passed and the effect on me has gotten worse, now I know what all the fuss is about, believe me.Unfortunately I ran out of my usual allergy medication and hadn't gotten around to buying some more. Last

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apparently this is the way I would vote based on issues:84% John Edwards80% Hillary Clinton80% Barack Obama77% Chris Dodd73% Dennis Kucinich73% Mike Gravel72% Joe Biden70% Bill Richardson42% Rudy Giuliani34% John McCain32% Mitt Romney31% Tom Tancredo22% Ron Paul21% Mike Huckabee21% Fred Thompson2008 Presidential Candidate Matching QuizFunny because if I was able to vote, Edwards is my man. If

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so I have decided to go back to volunteering at the Blanton. I have been wanting to do it for ages but as I was job searching I thought I should be doing that. However, I thought to myself yesterday, I am going nutty here with no kids to talk to and Gordon sleeping a good part of the evening before he goes on the PC until about 9.30 when he wants to watch TV. So I contacted Martha yesterday and I

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I have just finished talking to my eldest daughter on the phone and the ugly issue of health insurance has reared its head. Because Elisabeth has now graduated she can no longer be claimed as a dependant on our health insurance. We were hoping she would get a job with health benefits but not so far.Elisabeth has barely used it in the past but wouldn't you Adam and Eve it, now she is no longer a

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as I concentrate on my creative blogSo Happy New Year and see you over the other side I hope

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Can't believe 2007 has ended so quickly.We had a fabulous Christmas with all the kids home for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. Spoilt the kids again, Alan will be 21 next Christmas so he will definitely not get so much. This Christmas, his last before he really turns into an adult, he was treated extra nice with a brand new mountain bike. I suspect the sweater he will receive next year might not

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realised that when I met someone in the Post office the other day and had to think really hard when I had returned to Pflugerville, already my trip to the UK is becoming a distant memory :(As promised I will give you a brief account of my 12 days in the UK.I arrived in the Gatwick on 30th Nov, very early in the morning, so the long delay in my connection to Glasgow wasn't necessary but having

Jacquihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06016343780777256307noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36498542.post-88675257974490170172007-12-16T10:41:00.000-06:002007-12-16T11:31:16.450-06:00

as I really am struggling to get back into the swing of things at the moment.The main reason for my visit back to the UK was to celebrate my Mum and Dad's Golden Wedding anniversary. It was all a huge surprise cooked up between my youngest sister and I, so that is part of the reason I haven't been posting so frequently of late because I knew eventually given my excitement I would write about my

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and paid my bill. Tomorrow morning at 9.30am I will winging my way back to Austin. Tonight I am sleeping (or attempting to sleep) on my sister's couch as I need to be at Gatwick by 6am. The last week has just flown by and the highlight of the week was the look of surprise and joy on my Mum and Dad's faces as they realised I was standing there. Especially as I had just called them to say I was

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At the moment I am sitting at a bar using the free internet that is provided. I have been here since Tuesday and I must admit much to my amazement, I missing Gordon like a lost limb.Why am I here? Its my Mum and Dad's goldern wedding anniversary celebration tomorrow and they do not know I am here:) Its all a grand surprised organised by my youngest sister and I,So what have I been doing in the

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and as usual life goes on its merry beat.For the past 24 hours the house has been a hive activity with the arrival of Elisabeth to complete the family visiting for Thanksgiving. Not that we actually celebrate Thanksgiving but with everyone away at college or working, its a good time for a family get together.The biggest drama (because there has to be drama in holiday weekend) was the upstairs

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although Gordon and I had a disagreement this afternoon where he has ended up making me feel guilty again. I can't go into details but basically if I was earning some money I would not be feeling guilty about the plans I have been making in the last couple of weeks. Because he is the only person earning money, he most definitely has an upper hand in the guilt corner and he knows it.Anyway as I

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to my son but not my husband? I ask this as I write this at 2.12am in the morning because as I decided to take a sleeping pill after drinking heavily, my son told me to STOP! I did as I was told and I knew I was stupid even considering taking a sleeping pill (something I don't do normally) but I know if it had been Gordon, I would have stood there and swallowed it, despite the instruction. Why? I

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as I want to concentrate on my wordpress blog for a bit. See you there Puddle of Dreams

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for a phone call, to see if I have finally secured a job. I must admit I felt quite hopeful yesterday after the interview. It was a group interview and I was the least experience of the group - ie no real work experience but I knew enough about PCs for the job I was interviewing for. I know that because I passed the test they provided to be even considered for the position with flying colours.

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Came across this brilliant woman via another blog, go see her other videos at http://www.youtube.com/suziblutube andshe has a blog as well Living Juicy Suzi blu

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which is a nice change. On Saturday I created my first piece of wet felt where you wet wool roving which meshes it together to create a piece of felt material. I can see I have a long way to go but I was pleased I had tried the method out and can't wait to do more. To see more of my felt pieces I create last week, visit my other blog My first wet felt Piece. Early Saturday evening we went to the

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Gordon came in at his usual time last night and as usual we did our little summary of the day which is normally is not much, to be honest.However last night Gordon says 'J was back today and J(his wife) was wondering where you get your social social number from as she has got a job.' He then looked at me, put up his hands, shrugged his shoulders, pulled a face and said 'Why? Why haven't you got a

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emilyOriginally uploaded by jacqui126 I started this yesterday, its part of my beaded dolls recalling the kids when they were younger. This will be Emily. Watch for its progress on my other blog where I have posted some more of my recent work

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which is the reason I am here at 3.38 am and now I am suffering the consequences but I enjoyed whilst it lasted. Currently I am at that stage where you feel very thirsty but nothing quenches your thirst and a slight headache is there. At least there there will be a reason for the headache today. Yesterday before I started drinking I was miserable. I had a headache again! I suspect that I am

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too much. I had my doctor's visit yesterday and came away confused plus annoyed.Why was I annoyed because I told her that I had obtained my records from my previous doctor as I was so bad at remembering dates and such things. To be honest I have never had problems with my period until the last few years, came like clockwork, so had no need to remember. As I handed her the papers re my ablation,

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as I had a good night sleep last night. I am probably stressing myself out too much with the upcoming gynae visit on Wednesday. Its seems my cycle has returned so menopause has not occurred which is a bummer as I was hoping my reproductive cycle had completed but alas that is not the case. On Wednesday, exactly 4 wks to the day it arrived again. Not that it has made much difference because I

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and hopefully that will become established before the Christmas period comes along. I know once the kids are here for 4 wks, I will be struggling not to slump into my not doing anything routine.So I managed to walk for an hour this morning which given I didn't want to walk the dog this morning when I got up was surprising. I find the later I get up the more I hate walking as the days here soon

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I walked for 1 hour and 45 mins with the dog before 9am. I watered the garden as requested. Ah I feel so virtuous and smug now.Since then I have been reading a few blog updates via bloglines (saves so much time) and looked at the new scholarship blogs at the UNT College of Art and Design. Wish I could get $1000 just to write a blog. I have listed the 4 winners from last year and so far this

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and I have done nothing and I mean nothing. I don't think I am adapting well to this empty house but I am sure it will come. I am sure as heck not use to cooking for only 2 and TX supermarkets are most definitely not geared towards shopping for 2!This weekend went surprisingly fast, probably because we went to a small back to school party on Friday and then on Saturday, my eldest daughter came

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in that I didn't expect to it happened. What? you may ask. I went for my gynaecological visit yesterday and I knew from the Internet forums (hystersisters which I found when I had my ablation) what to expect. The Doc would recommend a uterine biopsy and a sonogram however I naively thought I would have the biopsy at another time. It seems that a lot of sisters have been told to take several Advil

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and boy, its weird. Not that its normally that noisy but usually, I am thinking at this time in the day, need to get things done, Emily will be home from school soon but today the first only person back, will be Gordon at 5.35pm approx ( I look forward to him as well lol).We took Emily up to Denton (210 miles each way) on Sunday and it was a mad house when we arrived. We quickly went up to her

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and I think there are several reasons.The first is my body is acting up. It started last week with my nipples becoming really sore, then very hard and my breasts swelling, if I did know better I would have said I was breast feeding! Then on Monday I began to have those cramps we women are so prone to which was somewhat of a surprise as I have been told that I am pass menopause. Even more

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and I still haven't written about our 3rd and final day in SF.We fully intended to go to Alcatraz Island, so we got up early as we had read that you need to book the ferry in advance. So our intention was to go in the afternoon. However, on arrival we discovered that even if we had tried to book on the day we arrived we would have been out of luck as the day time ferries were booked 7 days ahead

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no big parties, no gifts on the day, no cards (we were away of course) but I did get to go the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. It was brilliant and made me realise how much I miss going to the big art shows which I would regularly see in the UK.On the day they had a major Matisse exhibition and a show on about photographer, Martin Munkacsi,I had never heard of him before but his work was

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We spent most of our time on the first day, investigating the Fisherman's Wharf area and ended our tour at the Fort Mason area. View from the Hill looking down on to Fort Mason On our self navigated walking tour, we came across a really great little musuem which displayed old time penny arcade machines. Believe it or not this was one of them. Penny Arcade Game It also included a couple of

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We arrived in the early hours of Thursday morning and were up, bright and breezy, by 9am. Our first port of call was the Diner opposite the hotel where we had a huge breakfast which lasted us for the rest of the day.After we had eaten ourselves silly we did a quick sortie of the place which was in the heart of San Francisco, just five minutes from Market St. We found the information centre and

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We are booked! To go San Francisco for 3 days next week.So now I am busy looking at info on the place and what we can do in 3 days - way too much really! I want to go the San Francisco Museum of Art, of course and Gordon wants to do the Alcatraz Island, so would be one day at least. Both of us would like to do a wine tour but given we are only there for 3 days, maybe next time. Need to see the

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You are The MoonHope, expectation, Bright promises.The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card

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desperately trying not to fall asleep. Last night was the worst night's sleep I have had since not having any sleeping pills. I spend a good part of the night pretending I was asleep in the hope I would actually sleep. However its not that bad yet, as to date I have only had 2 really restless sleepless nights (the night before was the other), so I am hoping that as long as I keep myself busy

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until we realised we needed to get some important jags (shots) before going. Maybe next year. We are going away (Gordon and I) for a few days at the beginning of August to celebrate our birthdays , mine on the 3rd, Gordon's on the 6th ( he will be 49, a youngen) and our 22nd Wedding Anniversary.It had been a toss up between Mexico City and San Francisco as both have direct flights from Austin. I

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the last couple of days. Yesterday and today I have napped for a good 35-45 mins which is unheard of. I have even managed to sleep relatively ok at night, despite not having sleeping pills.So this morning I was wide awake by 5 am, probably because I was nervous about the visit to the gynaecologist. However, I need not have worried because she was relucant to do surgery for the hernia because she

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as I don't have any sleeping pills at the moment which is good despite the disturbing dreams. Not having the pills has forced me into the situation of trying to sleep naturally again. I still don't sleep well but if I am dreaming I am sleeping which is good. Anyway, I had lots of disturbing dreams last night but as usual could only vaguely recollect the last one, so I wrote it down to see what

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apart from the weather, anyway. Unusually for this part of Texas, it has been very wet this summer and slightly below normal temps which I am not going to complain about, 90f compare to the usual 99f is believe or not, so much better.So this afternoon I have been playing with some polymer clay. I got a whole stash of it about 18 months ago when I was convinced I would be busy making little

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I have few gripes today really and nothing terribly serious to be honest but I thought I would spew forth with them anyway.Yesterday, I was looking at the Direct Tv program packages and it really is amazing what a load of tripe there really is on TV. However, my biggest bugbear is the number of religious channels there are available which I am indirectly paying for. I have nothing against

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and can honestly say that its only the 2nd time in my life that I have had one. I had a UTI last year and I thought it was just my back playing up as I had no other symtoms other than being double over in pain, exactly where I know Ihave a disc problem. So imagine my surprise this morning to I almost double over in pain when I barely peed and then notice it was very bloody. So a quick look up

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I have mention Mimi's work before and yet again she has blown me away with her latest piece of work called Momma's Dream. It is simply amazing and brought out such a strong response in my heart. I can clearly remember lying with my kids when they were younger and the peace I felt as we all lay there in harmony together. It also brought back vivid memories of the times my sisters and my Mum would

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its Friday already and at last the rain has gone away. I would never have believed that I didn't want to see rain but it just wrong here in Texas, in July! Normally we are complaining it too hot at this time of year but the temperature has been great apart from the humidity.I read quite a few blogs that are based in the UK and it seems strange to me (now after 7 yrs here) that the kids are

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with the kids in town. Yesterday, we had a case of brakes that need replacing immediately. The child was amazed when its car failed to even get into the shop before they failed it for inspection. The child offered to take me around the block to see how the brakes performed. 1st brake as we approached the corner, CLUNK, not a squeak as the child described it, 2nd, 3rd 4th and reverse, CLUNK. I

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We went to see Sicko yesterday and it left a very sick feeling in my gut, plus a desperate desire to move back to the UK , pronto! Of course it had some dubious points like the idea in some countries, health care is free which it isn't, we just pay for it in a fairer way. I can't comment on Canada, France or Cuba but I have lived in the UK for most of my life, so can comment on the UK system,

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in 35 short days. I really don't know, my feelings are mixed. I know I am proud of my kids, they are all going in their own directions now and hopefully they will be successful with their lives.I think back to when I was their age.At 17.5 (Emily's age) I was in my first job thinking there must be more to life than this. I was a filing clerk at Thomas Tillings Ltd in Mayfair London. I had left

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is so under rated because of the mass commercialism of things, that is very hard to look at some thing and say well, that is worth at least $100 when you know you can get a poor copy or something similar for $5 at the local dollar store. The reason I bring this up is because of this post on her blog which I read on regular basis.I come across a lot of blogs were things are sold. Some like this

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I must admit I have never liked Tony Blair. I remember when he was elected leader of the Labour Party after the death of John Smith ( a great man) and saying immediately I didn't like him or trust him. I never did vote for him, well he wasn't my MP for a start.So now we have Brown in charge, the guy who should have been there in the first place. Blair would never have been so successful if he

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last night was hilarious. I am so glad that they decided to put his show on BBC America. Anyway the reason I am writing this post is because of an item he had on it. He was featuring a complete Knitted life size house designed by Textile Artist Alison Murray and knitted by over 300 knitters in the UK. Apparently it is a fun raiser for the Great Ormond Street, Children's hospital. It looked

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I have been updating my blogroll on my other wordpress website, Puddles of Dreams and came across this blog, Artistic Kreations and Passions. She makes the most wonder beaded jewellery and I envy anyone who can do this. My limit is beaded embroidery and even that is pretty amatuerish compared to other artist but I enjoy it, so I do it. Anyway the reason I have added a link here under other

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Wendz bravely posted a picture of herself in school uniform.The only time you see school uniform over here is if its a private catholic school and it always seems to some variation of a plaid pattern.My eldest daughter thought she had arrived in wonderland when we moved the States in 2000 but she quickly realised the benefits of a school uniform when she had to decide what to wear each day.

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by Gina so here goes. 8 interesting or not so interesting facts about me.1. I worked at the Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane London when I was still at school as a dishwasher. Because I was studying for my 'O'level exams they would put me on the Penthouse floor as there wasn't really that much to do, so I could study. I never met anyone famous unfortunately but I did get to tour around the suite were

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going on this week so far it going to be a long long week. Not allowed to talk about Alan other than no change in that area but I did lose my rag with him last night. Stupid thing to do, as that now gives him the upper hand.Did my longer walk again today, out the door by 6.49am, so that was a good start. Haven't been doing my TAST or beaded Journal for the past few days as the situation at home

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as Alan is still sulking over the puppy incident. He has barely spoken a dozen words since Saturday afternoon. Apparently we are stealing from him as the shelter wouldn't give his money back. Most of yesterday he was actually at work but today he is at home, ensconced in the Bunk room with his laptop. I must admit I am near to bursting with his behaviour. Its even crossed my mind that if are we

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this is just an amazing video. Thought about it all the day even thouugh the trauma of the puppy incident

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as a lovely day has been ruined the moment we stepped back into the house.We have been down to see our eldest daughter in San Marcos so she could sign the forms for the loan we are co signing with her. She is just ending her degree in Biology and will be starting her Masters later this year but in the meantime she doesn't have a job. She just doesn't have the time at the moment with her

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Jeeze, that is a long drive, especially when the sun is beating down.Well, Emily is all signed for the beginning of the next 4 yrs of hard slog. She nearly didn't get to sign up for classes as the computer wasn't allowing her to do drawing and design classes. It turns out she had been accepted for the college of Art and Sciences to do Mathematics, even though she had applied for Photography and

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Well,I am slightly pissed and using a strange keyboard, one of thoseones that help with wrist problems, which to me me being slightly pissed iscompletely strange!Anyway, I am here,at 11.35pm attending my youngest daughter's orientation and I must admit the last is the best! They are very boring to be honest but to the new parent of a student,full of useful information,but to the third timer,

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as I actually achieved all the things I set out to do (apart from the filing, just can't seem to find time for that!).Anyway, I have been timing myself doing the simple chores and then the bigger ones. Like unloading, loading the dishwasher and wiping down the kitchen surfaces. It takes an average of 20 mins believe it or not. Then the simple task of sweeping the kitchen floor, takes 15 mins (we

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I am not sure if this lady was happy, sad or just had a tipple or two celebrate. Anyway her approach got her the job!

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is not completely lost as stated by Sew Much More. In fact it transpires they didn't even look at the machine as the transformer and UK cable connection I put it in with it, wasn't even disturbed from the plastic baggies I had given them. It still had the same knot! They must have connected it to a 110v plug (the foot control socket on the machine to be fair is 3 prong) and of course it

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Anyway after WW, I had to go and pick up my sewing machine, my now defunct sewing machine. Apparently the motor was kaput.I went in there, honestly, just to pick it up. I had agreed with Gordon, not to buy a new one. However, what was the harm in looking, I'm just looking I said to the lady. Nice lady, Colleen who had helped me out the last time and shown me the embellishing machine... a nice buy

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which ruined my day and I still don't know how I feel about it.It was the end of a unscheduled 24 hours.Few things happened, none of them that big or out of the ordinary but combined made me edgy,angry and excited , not a good thing, in light of early afternoon.Basically, my eldest daughter made me feel like a bad parent as we are finally terminating her car insurance payments paid by us, so she

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and giving me the hard truth. Now I need to get in front of that mirror and practise, practise.I must admit I have always be hopeless at interviews apart from college interviews, somehow I seem to be able to do them. Maybe that's the clue, I really wanted to do those things but somehow, working in a shop or an office, doesn't have same appeal. Anyway onto a much more interesting topic, to me

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Well, Alan managed to set up this webcam for me this afternoon. I could have done it myself but I needed to get on with some chores. As I say in the clip I am using this to see myself as other people might see me. I blink a lot and a sway a lot. I mumble and I struggle to say what is on my mind. Watch for more....it might interesting or not.

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at home, at the moment.Yesterday had been a great day. In the afternoon, we went to BBQ being held for Emily's friend who graduated on Friday and will be attending UNT with her. They have been friends since 6th grade and her family see Emily almost like another daughter. I must admit I am very pleased that Brooke has decided to attend the same university as Emily as she has grown up a lot in

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My eldest 22nd Birthday,I think she like the gift, a vacuum cleaner, unconventional gift but she needed itand yesterday My youngest daughter Graduated from High School.This will be a brief post as we about to go to a celebratory BBQ at one of Emily's best friends. However, yesterday was great with all the kids home to go to Emily's graduation and then a vegetarian curry to follow.Below is the

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event at the local radiological center in Round Rock. In addition to being pushed and squeezed the way no boob should be, I had my first bone scan, signs that old age is knocking at the door if I don't watch it. I suppose I should be grateful as if I was in the UK, with no family history of breast cancer, I wouldn't have even had a mammogram yet. However, it seems the more tests the better over

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We did a quick pit stop of a visit to my daughter, Elisabeth, in San Marcos today, so Gordon could do a quick repair on her car. I was in two minds about going as I really didn't have anything to do there but today is my check in day with weight watchers. I have noticed if I don't attend WW my weight begins to slip back up and as I am nowhere near the my target weight, that's not such a good

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Its been a odd sort of week, going faster than normal, so much so I thought yesterday was Friday and kept having to remind myself it was only Thursday. Yesterday was the last full school day for Emily and this time next week exactly, we will be in the Frank Irwin Center watching her class walk in to graduate. She has almost certainly decided she wont be going to Scotland this summer after all,

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was had by all, last night. I decided to do the monthly flea treatments of the dog and cats. My daughter had brought her dog along and I asked when she had last been treated. As I suspected it was a while back, so I offered to do Ayla as well. I got out the normal stuff for the cats- exactly 2 tubes, sorted out the dogs. I had 3 tubes of the Advantage and 1 tube of the K9 Advantix, so I decided

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just a couple of pics of the weekend.Alan arrived home with all his stuff yesterday and Elisabeth is home for the night at least, so we are five some again. I love having all the family around for a few days at a time.Today is Mother's day in the US (Mothers day in the UK is the 4th Sunday of Lent.) Emily bought me a huge bouquet of Flowers and the most delicious chocolate covered strawberries.

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I watched Emily drive the SUV out of the drive to get to work for the first time. She has had her full driving licence for a while now but refused to drive the SUV as she was quite rightly scared. She says its was just the SUV but really its driving itself she is scared of and I really don't blame her. I am glad I didn't have to drive at her age, 17, (didn't learn until I was 31) and if we were

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I am so bored at the moment:Me- I was born in 1957 so that makes me 50 later on this year, in August to be exact. When I was 20, I thought 50 was very old. Now I am here, I am still struggling to see where exactly life is going and thinking its not so old now. So when my eldest daughter, 22 this month, worries she still doesn't know where life is taking her (apart from being in debt) I tell her

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my sewing machine conked out on me yesterday. I had been merrily zig-zag away edging a whole lot of counted and even weave cotton for future dates when the machine went zeee zeee zeee splat! I think something happened when I wound a bobbin and then when back to sewing. The machine has a clutch action to do this and as I press on the foot control I heard a noise like a missed cog (clunk).

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This morning we went for a walk around the new reservoir in Pflugerville. It coming on really nicely, you could almost imagine you were in the country.

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For people who are good at sewing it may seem weird to think that for years I have had a sewing machine and not used it. I not only have 1 sewing machine, I have 2!I have actually had a sewing machine since I was 18, a good basic singer machine with all the intentions of making my own clothes whilst I was at college. Never really thought why I would be able to do that considering I hated

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I have changed the web host for my website and it not as straight forward as I thought it would be and on top of that I have lost all the old entries from my previous yahoo/wordpress blog. I really wasn't thinking when I decided to change back to Ipower as my host and now I wish I had done it. I might just cancel my domain completely as it not as if anyone is really looking at it. Well,

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but this one I was in 2 minds about putting up as it very freaky and disturbing to be honest. Have no idea what it means and it seems to have several threads. I went through a series of such unsettling dreams when I was studying art therapy and they definitively seems to be tied up with me being more creative. Most of the details are hazy but the discomfiting bits seem to remain with me so

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This weekend has been a good one so far.Yesterday we went down to Festival Beach on Town lake in Austin, to see the annual Dragon Race held by the Asian American Cultural Center. We didn't actually see that many of the races as we arrived after the first round and just missed seeing the Freescale team, but we did meet up with some of Gordon colleagues, who were doing a BBQ. Part of the program

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Photobucket AlbumIf you press on the image you will be able to see the photos I took of Emily, her friend Kelsey, Kelsey's date "Mexican" and Emily's Date CJ.

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can't believe the week has gone so quickly.The news is still dominated by the Virginia Tech shootings. Turns out the guy was seriously deranged and a judge is maybe feeling some guilt in not following a recommendation to have him put into hospital a few years ago. However, if he had put him away, there is no way of knowing whether something similar might have happened. I am not a great

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which is fitting for such a sombre day. Not much I can say about the subject other than it will happen again, maybe not this year or the next but in future as no-one seems to have the willpower to stand up to the gun lobby. The cable news predictably have had wall to wall coverage and, of course, they are trying to find someone to blame as they always do. Apparently, the police and the

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My daughter called last night and said she had an interview with one of her Professors to get a personal recommendation for a masters course after the summer. Not only did she get a personal recommendation but he has said he wants her to do his masters course plus work for him on a research project during the summer.I am so pleased for her as she has been worrying her head off about what is

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