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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here. We need to get a tree, but I think we’ll have a trimming party on Saturday. I am cooking a turkey with the traditional fixin’s.

This is the pumpkin/squash bread that I forgot to put the pumpkin in. I found the pureed squash sitting on the counter after the bread had been cooking for several minutes.
For Christmas, I want to look at a menthol electronic cigarette sale and maybe find something for Mom. Something she can really use. I’ve heard that these gadgets taste and feel like a real cigarette. When I quit they didn’t have these. Oh well, I still am glad every day that I quit smoking cigarettes.

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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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Yeah, a couple of my classes have already slammed me.  The Humanities in particular.  We have teamed up the class into five teams for our term project.  My team chose healthcare, and I think what we will do is get donated medical supplies to somewhere needed.

I have a great friend, Gwen, who knows a ‘NURSE WITHOUT BORDERS’ who has done a donation management before and has agreed to help me with contacts and advice.  I can’t tell you how important this is…… The other night, when I realized how much there is to do in this class, I was just in tears.  I was so afraid I wouldn’t be able to do well in  this class and it would drag my GPA down.  It’s stupid, because the reason I have to take this class anyway is for the Honors Student achievement.  So losing GPA would knock me out of honors,….. well, I went uselessly around that for awhile.

Yesterday I talked to my honors advisor and also one of the professors and I feel much better.  I’d better feel better, today is the last day I can change, and I haven’t gotten a response from any of the other teachers that might take an honors studet transfer (or not).  I sent everyone emails, there’s an ART and a CIS, either of which I am more suited for than this doo-gooder stuff.  I’m not much of a joiner, you know, and this is all group volunteerism.  One of the examples was a few years ago a class fixed up a home of poor illegal immigrants and did a film about it.  great project, only I have a lot of problems with the subject of it.

The ‘before’ picture showed a filthy house in total disarray.  (there is no excuse for that kind of behavior, poverty does not cause dirt.  The second issue is the illegal alien part when there are a lot of American families in need.

My third point of displeasure comes from personnal experience:

My son and I have been so close to homelessness ourselves in the past and could not get help because we are WHITE, EMPLOYED and SOBER.  You really have to be pretty far down and somewhat brown to get people to help you.  Then later, I felt I could give back and volunteered to Habitat to Humanity and discovered that the (brown) people who were getting these homes were better off than I.  I also joined a church group to fix up a house that was falling apart and met the people we were helping…. they were ungrateful drunks living off their old granny (who was the real homeowner)  They hadn’t even done the yard work,  There was so much trash and squalor I couldn’t believe it!!!  So this is the thing, I believe you need to be responsible for your own cleanliness and have to bootstrap up sometimes.

The humanities class is going to be a challenge, with all those young, idealistic  do-gooders in there.  At least I found a group doing something I can believe in.  Maybe I can put a breath of sanity in there

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Wow, I’m a curmudgeon, huh?

Picture of my latest paper, I have a batch drying now, too.

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