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My newest addition, Pnut, is a white poodle and requires frequent bathing. He wouldn’t need so much if Annie Oakley didn’t slobber on him all the time. She has decided that Pnut is her toy. She plays gently for the most part. I have to remind her to take it easy when she gets excited and they are running back and forth at top speed. He weighs seven and a half pounds and she is forty pounds. But Pnut really loves it, too, most of the time he starts it. Annie was crying for him last night. He and Fay decided to sleep on the big dog bed next to me last night. Annie stared at him and whimped for the longest time. She likes to sleep curled up around him.

We saw snow on the distant peaks this morning when we took the dogs out for their walk. Pnut hasn’t quite got the hang of having such a hairy butt. He had a dangler that I had to remove with kleenex. So not only did he look grubby this morning, but he was a real stink-butt, too. engagement rings All the other dogs need it, too. except maybe Annie Oakley. She is in the fountain all the time.

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I cleared the last couple of projects off the work bench today. Getting ready to finish that quilt before school starts again. I’m looking forward to this term and also quaking a bit because it’s the biggest credit-hour load I have taken yet. At least I found a good place to buy my textbooks in the neighborhood. I get some online, too.
The girls and I made bent wire and bead key chains or zipper pulls, or even sun catchers. I made a hanging thing out of heart-shaped rocks for a special friend. Darn, didn’t get a picture of it. I’ll have to go over there and shoot it on the porch where it hangs. Better shot anyway, than my dusty old work space.

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It was a real joy to have such a large number of my small family gathered around me this holiday. We all had a real good time. And ate too much. Now we all need to get ahold of some Fentraphen and lose some of the weight. We had lots of huge and fun dinners.
One night we had a giant amount of pork roast that I found on sale at Food City. I got to use a big roasting pan that I haven’t used in years.
And for Christmas Day, we had a twelve-pound ham. I am surprised that it’s all gone now, except the juice and bone. We’re saving that for New Year’s black-eyed peas and cornbread. Dear Heart’s specialty.
The house is all quiet now, everybody went on their way. My niece and DH, J and D and family are on their way to Heart of The Old West.
I got a new camera. It’s a Canon Power Shot. WOW !

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Soon i will have time to make those Rachel Ray Everyday pinwheel cookies!! I bought a $4.00 magazine the other day … a real splurge for a student, you know. All because I saw the section on cookies. I can hardly wait. I found out lots of things this old baker didn’t even know about cookies in there. All the neighbors are getting frozen tubes of cookie dough this year. A couple of years ago, friends of ours sold their house to their newly divorced son and moved on out to Sun City. We miss them, but we love their kids, too. On Christmas Eve, I took a few rolls of frozen cookie dough across the street to him with a card and wished him Merry Merry and all.
Later that week he cam over to thank me and he almost teared up when he told me that he’d had the kids for Christmas and having fresh cookies in the oven made everything so great. He wasn’t prepared for his first Christmas on his own and without a woman in the house, you see, and the cookies were actually the only home-cooked food in the house that morning. There was plenty of cereal, hot chocolate, pizza, etc, but the smell of cookies while they opened presents was just what he needed.
Made me feel real good. And it was easy, so this year everyone gets cookie dough. I wrap it in decorated wrap, tie ribbons on the ends and write the baking instructions in the Christmas card.
I think Dave’s family is going to Vegas again this holiday, but I have family this year, so we won’t be kid-less. I’ll get the kids to help me make the cookie dough, and some for us all, too.
to get a vegas hotel this time of year you probably have to have pre-planned.

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My niece and hr family got into town yesterday and we had a nice dinner over here.  I was worried that I would experience boredom between school sessions like I did over the summer.  I don’t know what I was worrying about, having that wonderful brood in town for the Holidays is just what I needed.

The girls made zipper pulls/pendants all evening with the stuff I had laid out for my own zipper pulls.  They really did a good job, and got some nice pieces out of it.  So I will google crafts for kids and see what I can set them up with for the rest of the week.  My tall young nephew played with the computer, mostly, and with my son, who is a big kid himself.  They had a good time, and the ‘puter is right here in the livingroom, so Nephew got to visit with all the adults while he had a game going to stave off boredom.

We had a real good time and I’m looking forward to having kids around for the holidays.  WOO HOO !!

Today is final in Spanish and speech rehearsal for Humanities.  I need to finish the Photoshop project before tomorrow evening, too.  Maybe I’ll just do the front page in Photoshop and the rest in Dreamweaver. Maybe tomorrow or Wed. I will got out to the Westgate Mall, or one of the others.  I like Paradise Mall and it is close, but they’re all good when you’re a great shopper like me.

I saw gingerbread house kits at Food City for $10.00  I bet the kids would like to assemble that.

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Hey, I just thought of another project.  I can finish Joleen’s quilt.  That will give me a decompression from applying for grants and writing essays, and rest my eyes on all that fabulous green.  Now I am really looking forward.

I need to finish the Christmas projects I have going on the work table, and I’m a few days out on that.  I have been experimenting with zipper pulls.  I don’t know about you, but these days I need all the help I can get.  The days of nimble fingers and muscular tugs are over for my knobby fingers, and I like a good grip.  So of course I assume everybody else does, too.  Even top rated diet supplements won’t help.  Yoga helped my neck, though.  More even than the PT.

So of course everybody gets one in their stocking.  I have to find some of those keyring spirals.  Some that are somehow special.  I found a bead store, down on 6th Street and Roosevelt in Phoenix that has the greatest beads for $2.00 a string.  I got big flattened cylinders of malachite-colored stone.  The hole is big enough for wire.  Even for silver or gold wire, if you want to get fancy.  I found a bunch of other beads, too.

I like the glass leaf beads, only $2.00 each string.  wow.

So I am making zipper-pulls.

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school’s out for-ever !!!

Well for a month.  Right now I have only one presentation and one test and one project.  And I am pretty much ready for all of them.

And one more class of yoga.  I am going to miss that one.  I saw some yoga at LA Fitness, maybe I’ll re-up on that.  They were a pretty good deal at thirty bucks a month.  My friend mentioned that she was going to get rid of her husband’s membership.  I ought to buy that from her.  It only costs like 45 dollars transfer fee to join when you adopt someone else’s membership.  And they were real good about automatic withdrawal.  I really have grown to like the yoga.

I have a project for winter break:  I am hunting for money to fund a small business for a depressed area.  My target is impoverished women.  I have a friend who knows someone on the Nurses Without Borders, which I completely respect and love !!!  I have a friend who does counseling, and wants to work with families.  So I’m thinking of a medical checkup, a job, some counseling and assessment.

My part will be finding the money to fund it, setting up the manufacturing, and marketing the product.  I am willing to have anybody jump right in if they want to get involved.  I had been looking for an existing group or company to join, maybe intern, or even just get a job.  It would be so much easier than inventing the whole thing that I want to do from whole cloth.  And I still might find something out there already to join with.  That would be cool.

Anyway, yeah, this month I’m looking for money.  I have a few essays that can be tweaked, and have the grades, so I might actually hook up, you never know.

Still, finals was hard this term, I’m glad it’s done.  Well, almost.  I still have to show up at a couple of places, but there’s not much to do.  Yippee !!!

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So, for Christmas, my daughter-in-law wants her sewing machine fixed. I can’t think of a better guy to do it than the dude on the corner. He has a cool vacuum and sewing machine storefront and a crazy reputation.

Here’s another picture of last Christmas’s quilt for my kids.  It was made for the cats, really.  I left the raw edges fringy on each seam and double-stitched everything to make it indestructible.  Cats should do very well on it.

Very durable fabric in this huge quilt.

You wouldn’t want to make sexy lingerie out of this flannel, and with the pineapple design it is several layers thick.

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I had such a good time today shopping at Pier One. The store in my neighborhood has a lot of outlet bargains. It used to be just an outlet store, where old product go to get sold cheap, but they changed to a regular Pier One store and I was afraid the deals were gone forever. Not so.
Wow! I scored a host of scented candles for under a buck and even some large (8″ tall) leaf-shaped candles. I might even make a gift baskets for someone’s Christmas gift.
I got incense, some really cute napkins, OOOHH! yeah, I got a bunch of candles in tins with lids…. they had colored burlap around them and had smells like ‘ocean’ , ‘sage/cilantro’, ‘Celery/Basil’, ‘lemon/thyme’. Those are going right into the stockings of some lucky kids. I’m talking about kids in their twenties and thirties.
And I found these scented soap papers in little ‘to-go’ dispensers, just right for a traveler. I have a couple of travelers on my list.
I did pretty well, and held it down to under forty dollars. I’m a real good shopper.
Here is a picture of my beautiful Annie Oakley in the sewing room.

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