2009 Starts

We actually ended up spending a week at the boat - from Sunday to Sunday and came home last night.  Mark is back to his Special Ed work and I am back to whatever I do here.

I won something else!  There was a fairly large box on the doorstep when we arrived and it contained 2 bottles of fancy anti-dandruff shampoo - It was for hubby and even he remarked positively and said that "there was about $25 in shampoo there"! (from Pureology)...and some samples and oodles of magazines.  I have already started recycling the free magazines at my doctor's office and put some in the laundry room here -

(I do feel that the freebie stuff is part of my JOB now!)

Playing a bit with fire again, as the apartment is chilly - and have hooked up that aluminum pie plate leaning over the back of 2 pillar candles - it does heat up - and I would recommend it as a minor heating alternative - IF you are CAREFUL and IF you WATCH it and IF you have no kids or pets around! (I do have the electric heater on the other side.)

Always a bit hard getting back into the routine - We played hooky over the holidays - but hubby works so hard - he bring home work every night  - and so I thought that just getting away from it ALL would be good for him.

Now I have to address my activities - At home I buy very little - most of my shopping is on the fly - and I get into pennypinching and stretching resources - Find myself stretching out the life of my candles here with careful poking and prodding and draining of extra wax! (Wonder if I can recycle them into other candles? Have to research that.) Did get some nice ethnic non-holiday candle holders at the 99 Cent store - made in Thailand - that I want to use for my red tapers - I have enjoyed having candles around! And I got some more bargain tealights, too. Will take out my tealight candleholder, too.

Oh - on Saturday we played with our friend George LeMire (as George LeMire and Friends) at the rustic Deer Lodge restaurant and bar in Ojai, CA - We jammed and jammed and ended up playing for HOURS.  One the way I checked out a new thrift store and picked up a wood block and a sort of lazyman's castenets - both of which must have been the only bargains in the store! (That's what I get from window shopping a lot in music stores - you get acquainted with the going prices...and almost all of my music equipment is a bargain of one sort or another, as is everything else in this life!)

We did percussion (me using my new equipment) and I sang backup harmonies - and Mark played guitar. The wood block sounded good when tapped with the side of the little toy tambourine I have! (But we have been known to play glasses on tables with forks...)

We let George have all the tips - but the Deer Lodge fed us a nice dinner - so a good time was had by all.  I don't mind at all playing for my supper! We will be able to do Boomer oldies until we ourselves are in the Luther Home! A reassuring thought.  In the bigger world I think I call it diversification.

They seemed to like us - so I wouldn't be surprised if that happens again -

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