Well, I'm a little tipsy...
I rarely drink. For some reason, just before putting the final touches on our dinner of chicken breasts and rice pilaf, I decided that I wanted a little shot of (generic brand) orange liqueur. I don't think I'd had more than a sip of that stuff, and had purchased it for a cheesecake flavouring. Um, after the FIRST little shot, it CALLED to me, again and again, and now I've had, I think, about FOUR little shots (maybe about 2 oz. each).
I KNOW this is nothing to "brag" about. For some reason, it takes the edge off of accumulated pain and assault and insult and criticism and anything else that troubles me from day to day. I DO count my blessings daily, and when I forget to, I feel guilty, considering the numbers of people... entire RACES, which have hardship beyond what most of us can understand.
I have planted another 600 fall bulbs. It's not as straightforward as I'd hoped. I've been digging in the perennial beds which are across one end of the main vegetable garden, and I'm determined to dig up perennials that I don't want and the damned QUACKGRASS that invades everything. I should be glad to get so much exercise, considering my weight problem, but by the end of the afternoon, I just wanted to lie down in the garden and bawl my eyes out. I ache all over. Perhaps that's one reason I kept swigging the liqueur. The work is too hard. The investment in time and money is too much. I'm exhausted, and ready for winter to set in...
I've received a couple of parcels from eBay this week! I can't tell all in my weblog, because Christmas is coming, but mostly what I've bought is for myself. I "won" a cubic zirconia "peridot" that is amazing, and I hope to ask my stepdaughter, who has a Fine Arts degree in jewellery, to make a setting for it. Then, enthused by THAT successful eBay win, I continued to search "size 8 rings" and found some MORE that I should own. I was mortified that my ring fingers somehow got to be "that big", but I DO find that there are beautiful rings to be had even in my size. I think that I need to give up on "dieting" into a size smaller in RINGS, because my grandmother's diamond and ruby ring is still in my safety deposit box, and should be resized so that I can wear and enjoy it. How I hate to be so many sizes bigger than my beloved ancestors, but that's the way it IS !
Had a pleasant conversation with my stepmother last night. Nothing is too eventful in her life or in mine, but we DID have a nice visit on the phone. My two daughters who live in Calgary were good to her at Thanksgiving, and my daughter who lives in Vancouver phoned her. Granny was very pleased!
I need to "sign off" for awhile and go for a rest (pass out for a little while...). Take care, my friends.
~Ann
