Week 8 Item #33 WordGirl

Okay, so this is a bit late (Wednesday), but I was not successful (yet) in doing this one. I haven't given up on it, but I am moving on.

#33 is "have a fix and repair session (glue broken stuff, repair damaged clothing, etc.) at least one day this week." I have a bin of stuff to be fixed, but that's more Louie's department. I'm not really careful . . . and though I can use superglue, I prefer to leave it to someone with patience and steady hands. I thought about repairing some clothing items, but my "One Thing" was more important to me!

I got my One Thing done!!! "Do Mystery Quilt February clue." I'm not going to add a picture here, because I don't feel like going up to my studio to snap it, but I spent about three hours (or more) on Saturday picking the fabrics, pressing, cutting, sewing, etc. They aren't great, but they're done!

I have a great extension on my work computer (in Chrome) called Momentum. Each day, it gives me a lovely picture, a greeting, a quotation, and asks me what my focus or goal is. This morning, I entered the goal. Kind of sad, but I made it! (It was a super busy day for me at work.) I think I need to clean the camera lens on my phone . . . but at least I didn't have a stroke!

Woo hoo - I think I'm in!

My first challenge last week was a "fail".  It was to drink one less not good for you drink this week.  I was traveling to Duluth for a few days to teach my granddaughter, Charlotte, how to sew and to make a quilt with her.  Whenever I travel that far (3 hours is far)...I NEED to stop in Hinckley and get a Dr. Pepper no matter what.  I guess it wasn't the worst thing ever since I only drank 1/2 of it on the way there and the other 1/2 on the way back.

Irishjill

Salad Girl: so much to share, so little time.

TOTALLY EXCITED about growing micro greens after my workshop yesterday...you can't believe what you can do with a gutter (with ends of course), sun, good soil, seeds and vermiculite.  I cleaned up my plant corner in the kitchen and hope to try some inside start seeds for the season.  Maybe some sprouts in a jar if I can figure that out...did you know that you can eat pea sprouts?  Yeah babe - even nasturtium seeds and brassica family seeds - oh yeah.

TIP:  Got dried up cranberry raisins, or plan raisins?  Open that jar of mandarin oranges, add the raisins and put them in the fridge to plump up.  Now add that to a salad with a touch of whatever else you need to make a sweet dressing.  Maybe you don't even need the oil for a dressing or just a tidge with the leftover juices.  Now add some more fruit if you like - apple or pear, goat or feta cheese, pecans or sunflower seeds- whatever.  NOW you have a super salad!  P.S.: this ROCKS with spinach.

Over and out Salad Girl on the cusp of Mardi Gras (that's fat Tuesday for you non-Cajun Catholics!)

Making this up as I go

A bit o' summer for our weird winter

Getting more stuff done with my sister Jeanne's help - this time around!

Word Girl showed me how to add peoples e-mail address so that they can actually contribute to the blog so a bunch of you may be getting an invite that is coming out of the blue - I'm way new to this Blog thingy so bear with me, I'm getting better at it as I go!

Have a great day!

Wz

From Irishjill

Hi Louise,

I printed out the numbers and the things to do - woo hoo!

For some reason, though I can't connect to the blog - I even created a new google account but that didn't work either.

I guess I'll have to tell you what I did and then you can post.

I'm not very "blog savvy" - Yikes!

Jill

My name (if it works out...) is Irishjill


Blog Buster here, otherwise known as the challenged one, technophobe, goddess of everything, the Middle Middle Marie, Weezer, Lois Lane, Squeeze, and personage of many other nick names...

I'm posting the note above as it came to me via e-mail - I've asked for help to get Irishjll direct to the blog... we'll see how it goes!

Have a lovely day everyone!

Week 7 Item #14 WordGirl

Wow! I drew #14 - "If you are able, donate blood this week - if not, do some other charitable act."
Since I donated blood on 2/9/17, I  could not donate again this week. I also brought dinner to a friend who had had surgery last week.

I decided to focus on "some other charitable act" for February 12 - 18. I tried to be positive at work, I brought a load of Louise's stuff from her Jordan house to Bloomington. I gave snacks (animal crackers, pretzels, etc.) to lots of middle schoolers. I didn't do anything truly charitable, so I guess I'll rest on the laurels of last week's activity.

For my "One Thing" challenge to myself, I put "get together all the paperwork to do taxes." Well, I did that and Louie and I did our 2016 income taxes last Sunday! It felt really good to get that task done. I'm looking forward to a long weekend and some serious RandR!

Louise's List

So I will help Louise add her list to a sidebar on the layout for this blog next time I'm in Bloomington. I don't have access to that as a contributing author. Here's a link to her list as a GoogleDoc. Have fun, everyone!

Louise's List

Thanks Word Girl!  I'm not sure I'm replying so that you'll see this but you are a wonderful creature to me!

Love and sunshine,

Techno Challenged Girl