Hibernating

I will admit the primary reason I'm updating is that my blog list along the right side of the page isn't refreshing. I mean that other folks' blogs aren't refreshing for me, showing the list from yesterday. This happens sometimes. I can't seem to get it to update. I'm hoping that if I make a post it will jog it. Not a log going on as I'm in the middle of switching shifts again, back to nights. I only work and sleep when I'm doing that. I did start knitting a sweater again with the yarn I was looking for awhile ago. I was starting socks as a learning project, but with the sweater weight yarn and making up the pattern as I went to adjust they were going to be way too large. So I ripped them out and started the sweater. Now I've decided to make some cotton knitted dishcloths for my neighbors for Christmas, so the sweater may go to the back burner. I really like the yarn, though, so I'll probably sneak a row in occasionally. Now to post and see if this worked. *UPDATE* It worked. I have a refreshed blog list. I actually use my sidebar list to read the blogs, and use the blog lists of those I read to wander further. I don't 'follow', I go the the blogs and read. Just how I roll. I hope folks don't think I'm any less loyal for doing it that way.

Forgot what day it is

On the way into work tonight I started to swing by WalMart to get some snacks and a sandwich to take into work as I do a lot of nights on the way in. As I was stopped at the light getting ready to turn in I sort of wondered at the amount of traffic at 9:30pm on a Holiday and suddenly it hit me what I was about to do! I was going to WalMart on the cusp of BLACK FRIDAY!! NOOOOOOO!!! I made a circle of the parking lot, which had more cars than are usually there during the day (what few daytimes I've been there lately). I tend to be crowd adverse, so I decided I had what I needed in my locker at work, which was bread and peanut butter, and some yogurt in the fridge as well. When I walked into work I remembered that my employer had Boston Market deliver Thanksgiving dinner for whoever was working earlier in the day, and the remenants were in the fridge. So much for peanut butter!

Happy Thanksgiving

It is currently 2:30am local time and I'm at work. I will get off work around 8am and just go home and sleep. I am making double time and a half, so I'm glad to have the hours this year. I am thankful for a lot of things. The past 3 Thanksgiving holidays I was in Honduras, so being back in the US is one thing I'm grateful for. I hope everyone has a safe Holiday season.

Testing, testing, 123

I'm trying the Google speech to text to see if I can just speak into my tablet computer and have it type it as I speak. Other than not knowing how to add punctuation, which it just did, I seem to be doing okay. I think I will make more use of my tablet now that I know how to do this. So far it hasn't made a single mistake. Such more accurate than my own typing in fact. Who news technology come this far.

SOLD!

The house in Nashville officially belongs to someone else! I got the confirmation email that told me to do my happy dance! I verified that the utilities were switched out of my name and canceled the homeowner's insurance. Then I took a nap. Only a couple of minor account and mailing address closures and I will have everything in my life, business wise, centered here in Phoenix. WOO HOO!!

On being quiet

I realized a few days ago that I think in two different cases I left virtually the same comment on folk's blogs that I had left before. I start to write a post and just never get to it. I don't feel much original coming out of my keyboard.

I am getting things done in real life. I hit the point a few days after finding my yarn that I am totally tired of stepping over and around all this stuff just sitting around as I've unpacked boxes and totes to find things. I now have found what I need to live for the near future, so I'm working on putting away and clearing and in a few cases even getting rid of stuff.

My vertigo is still here, although it only bothers me when I lay down or when I get up in the morning. It is more a backward and forwards (laying down and sitting up) vertigo than the spinning type. I did put together the shelves and fit them to be the base of my bed so I'm not on the floor on my air mattress. I just did that today, so I'll know maybe by in the morning if it helps or makes the vertigo worse. Mom's vertigo seems to be under control now, so I'm glad of that at least.

The closing on the house in Nashville is set for Friday, so starting tomorrow I have phone calls and paperwork to sign and get notarized and sent back and hope that nothing keeps this from happening. Selling the house makes my life a lot easier (massive understatement there...). So, that's what's happening.

I found my yarn!

It wasn't being held ransom by renegade sheep or auctioned off by Customs to fund their morning coffee after all. I decided to start working on the boxes in the attached shed/workshop and the second one I opened had the yarn. It also has the two really nice duffle bags I had the yarn packed in that I was sorry to have lost. So, life is getting settled in. Kinda scary after all these years.