screw up

I really screwed up this time. 

I tried to change my picture for the header and at first it came out teeny, tiny.  Then I put an old picture of our house that I had when I downloaded picassa that I found.  It had a white border on it that I didn't like.  I tried to put the autumn one back up and it was HUGE.  Now every picture I try to put is  too large.  Ugh!!

Yesterday, I tried to use the old computer but I don't know if I didn't have the patience or what but I couldn't get anything to work on it.

For now, I guess my header will have no picture until I can figure it out...

Saturday Centus #30

This weeks we have a unique prompt supplied by Clearspace...a regular contributor to SC. Here are the instructions for this week:



This weeks prompt writing will be one with a twist. You know those horoscopes in newspapers? One of those will be your new prompt. Pick one randomly from a paper or a website and write a story <100 words about the kind of day that horoscope "predicts".  Go over to see what others did.  http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus

Libra  Sep. 23 - Oct. 23
 

With the sensitive Moon transiting your twelfth house of secrets and spirituality, you may not care for the company of others now. Make an effort to feed your soul this afternoon, whether you indulge in aroma therapy, yoga or a chocolate ice cream treat. Being alone for any length of time should be therapeutic. Tell your loved ones you need some alone time and then take it!   This is the horoscope I'm writing about and where I got it from.  http://www.newsnet5.com/subindex/lifestyle/horoscope

My 100 words:

I woke up early and went to the computer.  Oh no, another twist for Centus.

As I looked on a web site for a horoscope for the day mine said "you may not care for the company of others now".  So far, it seems correct.  This is usually my favorite thing to do but right now I feel like my head is going to explode. 

I do like the fact that it says I should feed my soul.  I will be putting Christmas decorations up and watching college football but not alone, hmmm.

This is terrible, I know.  The end.

Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

We went in the morning and visited with Mom.  I took her a piece of pumpkin roll that my neighbor made for us.  She loved it.  

We went to my brother's home and ate there. There were 9 of us.  I hadn't eaten anything before we went and I was starved.  After we ate though I was stuffed.  Everything was excellent.  We had a really nice time.

My sister-in-law made a turkey and then her father brought one that was deep fried.  We didn't get to try it there but we got some left over deep fried turkey that we will have today besides a whole lot of other leftovers.

We got home about 6 and I was so tired I napped for a couple of hours and then was up half the night LOL.  I finally had a piece of apple pie which was really good.

It rained the whole day although that was better then what they were first predicting last week which was snow. 

Hopefully, the next few days we'll get the house decorated.  I've almost got all the walls washed.  I also did my Christmas cards.  They just need to be sealed and stamped, yippee.

Saturday Centus #29

It's Saturday Centus again - in a nutshell, Jenny Matlock gives us a prompt from either herself or a guest submitter and then we have to write 100 or words less related to the prompt (the prompt doesn't count toward the 100 words)  Then link it up to her blog.  It's open until the following Saturday, so that means you have all week to participate by either reading or writing. http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus

The prompt is in bold.  

"Pardon me," said Tom T. Urkee as Sheila walked by the bench. "Can I help you?" she said.

"Do you know where I live?'

"Yes, sir" and she gathered up his things.   "I'll take you there."

Mr. Urkee was 90 years old. Gossip in town was that he was not well.

They walked silently until they came to his home about a block away.  "Here, you are". 

"How about some tea?

"That would be nice", she said. 

He was the richest man in town and she was excited to see his beautiful home.

He opened the door and she was amazed by what she saw. 

Scarce

I'm going to be scarce for awhile.  I didn't realize Thanksgiving is only a week and half a way, duh!  If I even hope to come close to reaching my goal of getting most of the walls washed before then, I'm going to have to stay off the computer and only come on sporadically.

Thanksgiving weekend we usually put our Christmas tree and other decorations up.  So I'm going to be pretty busy with that too.

You are probably overwhelmed with blog posts right now like me anyhow and with so much to do before the holidays will be happy to have a few less posts in your reader LOL.

Saturday Centus #28

It's Saturday Centus again - in a nutshell, Jenny Matlock gives us a prompt from either herself or a guest submitter and then we have to write 100 or words less related to the prompt (the prompt doesn't count toward the 100 words)  Then link it up to her blog.  It's open until the following Saturday, so that means you have all week to participate by either reading or writing.  http://jennymatlock.blogspot.com/search/label/Saturday%20Centus

I want to say sometimes when I do Saturday Centus, I'm trying to work on some feelings I have.   If your looking for a happy, uplifting Centus this is not it LOL.    

Prompt in bold ;-)

The early November sunshine cast golden rays on the trees all around her.  Sarah loved this time of year.  However, she had memories of a November when she had chemo and while she didn't dwell on it, it was forefront in her mind lately.

She remembered the loss of control.  How her life revolved around her treatments and how she felt.   How she saw everyone's life around her going as normal and thought how could that be.

She thought about the people she knew in her life now that were dealing with treatments or would soon be and felt anger and sadness.   Sometimes life is not fair.

Friday random thoughts

1.  I was shocked.  SHOCKED, I tell you, with what happened to Marlene on the Big C.  I never saw it coming.  I'm sorry there's only 1 more episode left.  I heard it's coming back but I'm not sure when.  I really love it. 

2.  I've been busy all week with the wall washing.  I'm getting there, slowly but surely, but there's still a lot to do. My goal is to get everything pretty much done by Thanksgiving.

3.  Wednesday I went and bought one of those microfiber blankets like I bought Mom for myself.  I'll be all warm and cozy when I lay on the couch.  

4.  I'm taking a mental health day today.  Hippie went fishing and it seemed like the perfect day to do it.  As you can see by posting this so late, I even slept in LOL.  I might try to get caught up with my blog reading.  400 behind, ha.

5.  I look so forward to Saturday Centus.  I love trying to figure something to write, even when the prompt is difficult, ha.