Darn, darn, darn

Well, now we have the new stove, but no hot water. I am beginning to think that we were not supposed to redo this kitchen. What with my car going the same day we ordered the counter tops and now the new stove came today and the hot water tank quit. We just heated a few pots of hot water to wash up in, but its going to be a real pain come morning trying to get ready for work. Not to sure if we should be calling a plumber to come look at it or Lowe's to bring us a new one. this water heater is only about 2 years old, we bought it shortly after buying the house. What a pain.

RELAY BRACELETS

Sharan and I both ordered these bracelets. They should hopefuly be here in a few days. Sharan is wearing hers in memory of her deceased husband. I am wearing mine in honor of my ex husband and the reason for this relay.

We are doing a fudge fundraiser right now. The sign up sheet will be going up at work tomorrow and Betty is making 4 different kinds of fudge for $6.00 a pound. The fudge will be ready to be picked up on March 19.

This coming Monday, Pam is cooking hot sausage sandwiches for our Lunch for the relay. Everyone is doing great.

Therapy this morning and my arm again went numb. Next week is my last one. It is feeling somewhat better and I just am tired of this, there is really nothing else that they can do. I can do the stretches at home and lets just see if that helps.

John is baking a cake in the new stove. 52 years old and I have never had a new stove. This is the first time. What a sheltered life I have lived. LOL

Therapy

Therapy is scheduled for early this morning. I am going to be done with this shortly. The script runs out next week and I am not going to see the doctor or get another one. I really think that we have done everything that can be done and this is as good as its going to get. It's good to know that they cannot find anything seriously wrong and I do believe its just going to take time. The therapist can show me the different exercises that may help and I will do them at home. the new stove should be here today and I am anxious to see how it looks, the big test will be in a few weeks when the counter tops are in though. the guys from there come in Friday to do the template. I am getting so excited about having this all done.

LOOK WHAT CAME FOR BREAKFAST

What a nice surprise to look out the window and see these deer this morning. John says there were 6 here last night but only 4 of them this morning. We know that at least one of them was a buck. We caught him being a "bit randy" but missed the picture. This one single one was quite a bit braver, he came closer and stayed longer than the others. Then had to run to catch up with them. It is a beautiful sunny day here as you can tell from the pictures and the snow even looks gorgeous, but wish it would go away, get green and be spring.

Money Bucket

I forgot to mention that we dropped off a money bucket at Brenda's today. She is going to be collecting donations there for us. How awesome these people are. It just seems to be getting better and better. Everyone just seems to be so helpful and everyone wants to do whatever they can to help. I have noticed that at the store everyone seems to be working together and its great.

Lunch and competition

We earned $30.00 for the relay today at the store. Laura cooked meatball sandwiches and we have $30 profit we are turning in. On the way home from work tonight, I stopped at the little pharmacy. I needed a gift for a co worker who has a birthday tomorrow. I had forgotten about the pharmacy selling the die cut relay cards. There they were on the counter. They had quite a few hanging on their coolers and the girl working there told me they were having a competition to see which area would sell the most, either the front registers or the back pharmacy counter. I bought one card in Mike's honor from the front and will stop tomorrow and buy one from the back just to keep it fair. I am wondering how many people work there, I would like to do some little thing for them. I am figuring for the pharmacy itself possibly advertisement hanging on our campsite at the relay. I really need to talk to Scott and Cheri, they are the both creative with signs and such.

Next relay meeting is march 8, and the money will be turned in then. so far, so good. this takes us to $429 not counting the money from the pharmacy.

Ice storm

We were supposed to get a bad storm today. It did storm for a while but I think its been done and not as bad as expected. I was kind of hoping it would be so bad that I'd have to call off work tomorrow, I could really use an extra day off. these days off go by so fast. It's already time to get ready for bed and get thinking about tomorrow and I'm just not ready to have this day be over with yet. It seems the older you get the faster they go to. My neck is a bit sore tonight and I think driving to and from Dubois today did that. I should have left John drive one way or the other, but he is still not feeling real well from the cold. I have therapy again on Wed and this will be almost the last one. I am not going back to the pain doctor either, figure there is nothing else they can do and most of the time it feels okay. Not good, not normal but okay. I can live with it, and have gone through enough testing to know that there is nothing they can do about it. They cannot find anything except for inflammation. So it just my hope that with time it will get better. I keep trying to stretch it out a bit and do the exercises from therapy but it doesn't seem to help much. Hopefully with time it will. Tomorrow is our first lunch for the relay, Laura is doing the meatball sandwiches. Hope this goes over well and hope that we make enough to make it worth while. i guess we will figure it out as we go. I want to get down to the pharmacy one day this week too and see how they are doing with the cards. Hopefully they are doing something with them.

Turkey come to visit

These turkeys came to visit early this morning. They came all the way down to the bird feeders by the house. About 10 of them. Nice to see them and then enjoyed brunch of bird seed fora while before something scared them and they took off. this is only the second time we've seen them here, and more of them this time. Hope they stick around.

Last night the elk was here. Just one and a big bull. We are hoping he sticks around also, would like to get one of those antlers and its about time they should be losing them.

We are supposed to get an ice storm today and it was sleeting, and hailing a while ago, but now looks like it has stopped. Maybe the worst of it is over with already. we went this morning and ordered our new stove, which will be delivered Wed and the guys come on Friday to do the template on the new counter tops. We even stopped and looked at our granite today while we were out doing some running around. it is absolutely gorgeous and I cannot wait to get it all done.

A much needed day off.

Ok, I reinstalled this program to give it one more try. Can't help it, I loved these backgrounds on the blog and can't find them anywhere else. this looks like my backyard today..

Getting it together

I am so proud of our team. We are getting it all together now to do lunches to benefit the Relay. Laura is cooking lunch this Monday, Pam next week and Janice the following. We will sell lunch for $3.00 a plate, proceeds to go to the relay.

One of the girls that I talk to on Sparkpeople.com donated to the team on line today. That took us to $399 for donations. thank you Cheryl! Took me a while to figure out who it was from.

The sales staff have all been wearing their buttons and I'm tracking that daily for Jess. Also, I took the money buckets in and someone actually had put some change in one of them today.

ONE MORE MEMBER

We have added one more member to the team yesterday. Janice from the store joined us also, which puts us back to 15 members. I do not want anymore and hope no one else asks to join us. If we have 15 or below we are eligible for recognition prizes through the relay. Most of it just consists of being recognised verbally at the Relay, signage for our campground, and lapel pins for each team member. If we have over 15 we are not eligible. Of course, it all depends on us hitting special goals also. but I have no doubts that we can do that. I want this team to receive the recognition and don't want to disqualify us with too many members. I just received a new handbook yesterday and everything is spelled out in this one.

New Program

I have spent hours tonight trying to find and install hotbar again. I am not having any luck, so am trying new programs for backgrounds. Not having much luck as you can see but I do like some of the pictures on this one free site. It may do for a bit.

We havea new fund raiser started at work. On Mondays we are going to take turns cooking lunch and selling it for either 2 or 3 dollars a plate. Proceeds to benefit the Relay, and the dollars are going to count towards the goal for the person who cooked that day. Laura is going to be the first and cook on Monday

COPY OF LETTER

February 21, 2007

Dear Friend,
We all know of someone who has been touched by cancer. Each year the American Cancer Society holds a Relay for Life. This is a 24 hour event which takes place locally. All monies collected and donated go towards fighting cancer. Together our dollars can eradicate this terrible disease.
I am asking local businesses for their help. We have available die cut cards, two different styles. One honoring survivors and one in memory of those deceased. We are asking businesses to offer these cards for donations of $1.00 to their customers. These cards are then signed, and hung in the windows of the local businesses to show their support for the Relay for Life and the victims and survivors of cancer.
I would like to ask you to participate in the sale of these cards to benefit the Relay for Life.
However, if you do not feel that this is possible for your business, I would also like to ask for any cash donations to the Relay or any donation of a product that could be chanced off in a gift basket. I am thanking you in advance for any help you can give us.
Relay for Life is scheduled from 8 am July 14 to 8 am July 15 in DuBois. If you’d like to attend or have any questions you can contact me at the above phone number, or email.
Sincerely,

Peggi Yeager

This is a copy of the letter I took around with me this morning. My dentist decided not to sell the die cut cards but gave me a $100.00 donation. the little pharmacy down the street from me is going to sell the die cut cards, and the jewelry store where I used to work is deciding what they want to do, but will definately do something. Aprofitable day off today.

RELAY SHIRTS

Jess is buying us Relay shirts. He will have them all imprinted with the team name. I just need to get sizes to him so that he has time to get them ordered. I thought that was great of him. also, I had asked if we could do a dress down day weekly and pay a dollar each to go to the Relay. He came back with a different idea, he will pay $1.00 per salesperson at the two stores per week if we wear our Reward Card buttons, or a similar pin or button campaining for the store or product. Also, he will pay an additional dollar per week per salesperson if we wear our name tags. Most of us do not have name tags and he approved that we can print our name on our reward card buttons and that will count for $2.00 There are 8 sales people at my store and 4 at the other store. I doubt that the other store will do this, however their manager is working on it. I'll be happy if I can get most of them at my store to do this. Today, 4 of us did. I'm hoping to be able to motivate and lead these people to do this willingly and earn these $$$ for our relay team.

Also, tonight in the mail I received an invitation to the regional relay university in State College. Unfortunately, I cannot attend this due to work, but I did already email the girl here in Dubois about it, and asked her to get me any information I need.

I really miss the hotbar and the different backgrounds that I had on here and may try again to install it and hope not to have any problems. I am off tomorrow and may take time and try it.

Slept in

I work today from noon to 8, so decided to take advantage of that and sleep in a bit. Woke up in kind of a pissy mood. Would have been better to just get up at my regular time I think. I haven't taken any of the anti inflammatory pills now since Sunday. My neck is a bit sore but is finally doing better I think. I am tired of going to therapy and doctors on days off and think I'm just going to quit with all of it at this point. There is nothing that can be done apparently, they have run every test imaginable and I am just going to have to deal with it.

Tomorrow is my dentist appointment for a check up and I am really wishing I would have started with the dentist right down the street instead of over to Burg. I may end up changing that sometime but i guess for right now with only going once every 6 months its not that bad. Well, hopefully its only again in 6 months, unless they find a problem.

I may take some of the die cut cards along for the Relay to see if they would sell them over there for on their windows. Will have to think that one thru. I only have about 200 and think we may want them for our store. We are doing that next month.

Paths and Tracks

I looked out the living room window this morning to find these sets of tracks. This picture was taken from inside the living room and no zoom turned on. You can see the size of these. Wish I'd have seen the animal out there. the pathway is one I shoveled last weekend to get to the bird feeders, this morning i found squirrels running up and down them to get back and forth to the feeders.

My horoscope

Taurus (April 21 - May 21)
Your plans tend to drift today. It seems easier to go with the flow than to take an active hand in your fate. Avoid circumstances that put you in situations you would regret or can't get out of.

That is copied from my horoscope for today, scroll down and see what yours says. It seems to fit the way I feel today. I have been sitting here just playing on this computer for what seems like hours. Note the new glitter graphics on the left and below. I love new fun things. Found a clock page too, but haven't added that yet.

It is time to move, time to get up out of this chair and do something! You can only drift for so long and then you need to do something.

Not included

This is for you Mike, and this is NOT INCLUDED in my self improvement!

Self improvement

I'm trying to improve my mood, my habits, and my health. I've decided that I really need to learn more about my job, in able to be better at it. I need to find some kind of passion for furniture, the passion that I have for jewelry, flowers, my home etc. I am going to try reading about it and may learn that way to appreciate it a bit more. If I'm better at it, its going to improve my mood hopefully and I let all my coworkers know today that I want to be nicer and not as cranky and whiny..so they are supposed to shake a finger at me or something if I get mouthy,.we'll see how tht goes. I also need a bit more time to just relax. It seems tht ever since my two heart attacks in 2005 that I have filled every minute of every day and just never take time to sit and read a book or relax anymore. So from 9 pm at night is my time from 9 to 11. Time to watch tv, read a book, soak in the tub whatever..but something. Which means I better get off here now and go run the sweeper or something. LOL

Happy Valentines Day!

It hasn't quit snowing here yet. We must have a good 10 inches of that fluffy white stuff out there. I went out and shoveled paths to the bird feeders so I could get to them. It looks beautiful but is cold today and the wind seems to have picked up some too. It shows no signs of quitting and I am sure glad to have today off.

Still missing the snow Michelle?

This is a picture of the little ponds. Frozen over, but hopefully the heater that we keep moving from side to side is working to keep an air hole open in the ice for the fish. I'll have to remember to check that tomorrow when I'm home. I haven't looked at it lately and I should move it to the other side.

We are getting one heck of a blizzard, I just came in from shoveling part of the driveway and I know that there is at least 6" of snow out there and I know John ran the snowblower at least once today. More still to come tonight.

Out of work early, car in garage

We are getting so much snow that we closed the store at 5. I had been there since noon and had not had one customer yet, although there were a few people in around 1. My Aztec is at the garage and going to be for a few days. I have had very little heat, and finally made the appointment to take it in. It has something wrong with the cylinder head gaskets and needs to be replaced or repaired or something. Anyways, I am now driving a loaner Grand Am and will be for a few days. They are hoping to have the car done by Monday.. Not going to be cheap and really did not want to have to do this right now, but don't really have much of a choice. We are really getting a blizzard right now and I am thinking I may go out and shovel a bit of snow. John ran the snowblower earlier but it was hard to even get the car into the driveway. Going to get worse before it gets better and I already called and cancelled my therapy appointment for tomorrow. Not going anywhere in this and tomorrow is my day off. Lucky Sharan and Val, they left today at 5 and were told not to come in tomorrow, and Thursday is there day off...they got an extra day...at least I got out early tonight though, I was scheduled in till 8, glad that they left me leave early. Really didn't want to be driving home after dark. think I may take the camera and see if I can get some good pictures of the snow though.

Design on Door

This picture is showing our kitchen door, that we never use. We recently took down the old brown shade that the old owners had on it, and we installed this new look. It looks like frosted, textured glass. I love it, it gives us privacy and yet lets the light in. I love the look.

Core rythms

My Core rythms dvd's came today. What a hoot those things are! I spent 52 minutes wiggling my hiney and shaking my booty..am afraid i won't be able to get out of bed tomorrow! These dvd's are actually latin dance moves, and they concentrate on the belly. What fun!

Pileated woodpecker

This big woodpecker was at our tree out back for over an hour this morning. Peggy, our neighbor, came over and got some terrific pictures of him up close. He really worked this one tree in our back yard over pretty good. He's been back twice today. Our backyard has the elk tracks all over too, and the one bird feeder is knocked off. We must have had some night visitors too.

40 DOZEN COOKIES

Betty spent today baking 40 dozen Valentine Cookies. Tomorrow she is trying to get them all iced and bringing them into the store on Monday for the people who ordered them. it's hard to believe we had orders for 40 dozen from the 3 stores. Actually only 2 dozen went to one store, the rest was divided up here in town. That's $120 for the relay, actually its $109. Betty found and bought styrofoam containers 100 for $11.00 and she bought them figuring we could use them for something else also if need be. We are giving her back the $11 from the proceeds and the rest goes to our team and specifically Betty towards her goal of $100.

I want to talk to some of the local small businesses about selling the die cut cards for in their windows, we are doing this in March at our store also. Jen never did get the buckets over to me today. I also have an idea to talk to the area businesses and see if they would be interested in donating for a specific amount and getting advertising on our backs during the actual relay. We could do signs with the name of the business and then wear the signs around our walks on the track. Something maybe to the tune of $50.00 an hour. or so. Possibly even $300 for a sign on our tent the entire weekend advertising that company. Could work it so that any company selling the die cuts could get a half hour free or something to that effect.

I like the looks of this red, but the relay color is actually purple..I think from here on out any posts having to do with the relay will be written in purple and will make it easier for people to find.

We have one more person considering joining us. She had asked me yesterday if it was to late to still sign up. She is checking to make sure the date is okay and I will take her in a sign up sheet on Monday.

If any of you have any ideas for fund raisers please either email me or leave a comment here.

Brief meeting

We had a really brief Relay meeting tonight. I met a few of the different team captains and the two ladies in charge. Only about 7 of us there all together. A very short, about 45 minute meeting, and the next one to be March 8, again on a Thursday night after work, so that works out well for me. Jen, one of the ladies, is bringing me over buckets either tomorrow or Saturday..these are just money buckets that can be set out on counters in area stores for donations of change etc. I also brought home another 200 of the die cut cards to sell in the stores for $1.00 a piece. These are the ones "In Memory of" or "in Honor of ", fill in the persons name and then hang in the windows. I want to see if some of the small local stores and resteraunts here in the area will do this for us. I also brought home cash receipts booklets so if anyone needs receipts for cash donated we can now give a real receipt. didn't really learn much tonight though. Think we will have lots more to discuss as we go. So far, there are only 9 times registered. Miller Brothers Pavement Pounding Posse being one of them. And hey! I never thought about it but some of us can be saloon girls, some cowboys, indians, whatever..I want to be a Saloon Girl. should be fun, we are allowed toy guns, cowboy hats..etc. Theme remember is the Wild, Wild West.

cowboy

cowgirl

One more member

We added one more member to the relay team yesterday. We now have 14, which I think is perfect. Tomorrow night after work is the first meeting to kick off the relay and I am going to it after work. the meeting is at 6 and I am working to 5 so it should work out for me to attend. I am excited to see what all I learn.

Our cookie fund raiser is going well, we have orders for 39 dozen Valentine Day sugar cookies. Some of us have told Betty that if she needs to do ours later thats fine. I cannot believe that anyone in their right mind would willingly volunteer to do this. If it goes over well, she wants to bake one thing a month for the team.

Yesterday was a long day at work, and the heaters were blowing cold air. My neck is so sore now and yesterday I ended up taking the muscle relaxers again. this morning is therapy. Am anxious to see what I learn there and then am going for a haircut.

Really do believe that alot of this hair is coming off..something shorter and choppier seems to suit me right now.

A note from a friend.

This note was left in my guestbook for all to read. I've copied it here for all to see. "Hi Peg, My family has been praying for Mike. I am glad he is doing better (HI Mike!) Hi Cher, I have a lot of respect for you girl!!!!You have been through a lot. Happy Birthday Grace--I love you! I remember when I was little and you and your husband (Hi ED) treated me like one of yours. I'll never forget it. I love your family Peg. It's one of a kind.!!!! Just wanted to express that. Peggi my friend---I am so jealous of you---go girl!!!! I love you the most. CAT " Hi Cathy, its good to hear from you. Thank you so much for your prayers and kind words. I'm sure that everyone will enjoy reading this note from you. Hey! Just had a thought from the past! Does everyone know Cathy is afraid of worms? Cath, are you still?

Cookies for Relay

Well, our Valentines Day Cookie fund raiser went well so far. At last count we had orders for 37 dozen cookies. Poor Betty. She seems to be looking forward to baking all of these this weekend. she's been a God send with this relay, taking care of things at our BTR store and going back and forth between the two. And now the offer to bake these things for fund raisers. We have a few more ideas yet, and our kickoff meeting is on thursday at 6. I'm going after work before coming home.

Brunette

Sisters, geesh..LOL, I went to my mom and dads today to visit. Hadn't been down since Christmas...first thing my sister says is how gray my hair is. It's not gray, its blonde from the frost is what I try to explain, when my mother cuts in with she's been telling me its gray even when I get it frosted. Family, you got to love them..I've been going to dye it back closer to natural anyway because of letting it grow back out instead of so short. It's actually almost chin length and I guess it's gray..stopped at walmart for dye and going to do it today..If I like it I'll thank them both...if not, lookout mom and Cher!

Dr. Hook, Cher and Joan Jett

I think I need to find some new music. These three are on the ipod right now. I had the same thing on it since Christmas and needed a change. I copied a few cd's and put some of them on the ipod. I have itunes available on the computer and think I need to find some new stuff to listen to. Anyone have any suggestions? I need something fast to work out with and to walk to. I like country, rock and most music.

We have been getting one heck of a storm all day today, it took me about an hour to get home from work tonight. Mom and Dad got home from New York okay, thankfully and Chet and Cindy are married and in Pittsburgh. They leave tomorrow for their honeymoon in the Domenican Republic.

Hope the weather is better come tomorrow. It's awful tonight.

Horoscopes

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Birthdays and Weddings

Happy Birthday Mom!

Wow, alot going on today for mom. Her birthday and her and dad are going up to New York to be with Chet and Cindy, who are getting married today. Groundhog's day too. Hopefully, a very good day for all of them.

Relay is going well and we have 29 doz Valentine Day cookies ordered between the three stores so far. Betty will be busy baking up a storm. We are selling the cookies for $3.00 a dozen and the proceeds will go the relay. After Betty takes her due for supplies out. I received notice yesterday from the Relay and our first meeting is next Thursday at 6 pm in Dubois. I am planning on attending right after work.

Have a great day everyone