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You remember the piece I wrote about motorcycles? Well, I have to tell you that when that happened, I was standing right next to the motorcycle. When the car hit it, I jumped backwards to get myself out of the way. A few days later, my back started hurting, not a constant pain, but if I move in certain ways, like bending over, or when going from a sitting position to a standing position, or from standing to sitting, it feels like a knife stabbing me in the back.
So, last week, Fabgrandpa and I went to Kanab to take me to the doctor. He said I had strained a something something maximus, NOT glutious maximus but some other maximus, that goes over your shoulder blade and makes your arm work. Anyway, he prescribed me some flexeril and told me to take it 3 times a day, along with some Alleve. The meds help a lot. He really wanted me to go to physical therapy, but I love 85 miles from town and that is just too far to go for it. So, instead, he gave me some exercises to do at home. These exercises involve putting a couple of tennis balls in a tube sock, and rolling around on them on the floor. Fine, except I don’t have any tennis balls. So, I posted a status on Facebook, asking for someone to send me some tennis balls. One of my friends responded and is mailing them to me. I hope they get here soon.
It is really hard to believe that Fabgrandpa and I recently celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary. It seems like only a few days ago he presented me with a marriage proposal. We got married with el cheapo gold wedding bands from Wal-Mart because we were so poor at the time. About two years after we married, he gave me a wedding ring set that I love! They are beautiful, but I have been searching online looking at diamond engagement rings, trying to decide if I want another solitaire or an anniversary band for our 20th anniversary.
When Becky and Rafe got engaged, he gave her a gorgeous ring:
Then Becca and Ken got engaged, and he gave her a gorgeous sapphire ring:
I had always thought I wanted a diamond anniversary band, but since I saw how pretty that sapphire is on Becca’s finger, I have been thinking about maybe an emerald one, because my birthstone is emerald, and I love them!
So, I have been spending a lot of time surfing around the internet, looking at all sorts of rings. Then I foundSince 1910.com, and now I wonder if I could have all my old gems made into a designer ring made just for me? Hmmmmm. Decisions decisions! It’s a dang good thing I have almost a year to decide.
I have been working on this same problem off and on for weeks now! Somehow I think this stuff shouldn’t be so dang hard to do. Other people get their downloads to work just fine, but I just can’t seem to get it going in my store. I am trying to offer a quilt pattern for sale as a downloadable PDF file. It is supposed to work seamlessly, where the person who wants to buy the pattern clicks on the pattern to add it to their shopping cart, then clicks on another button to pay for it through Paypal. After the payment is made, they are supposed to be taken to the website to download the file. But it is not working that way.
I have had three people helping me do the website testing by completing an order all the way through for Amelia’s Quilt Pattern. But each time they do it, I get the money transfered to my Paypal account but they are not taken to the page to download the file. I have tried doing a website analysis to figure out what is wrong, but I really don’t know what to look for. I have joined the support forum for the shopping cart software I am using, but they have been no help to me so far.
It could just make it where the person (customer) pays me through paypal, then I send them an email with the file attached for them to download, but I would really really like for them to get it automatically. I may not always be in a place where there is internet for me to check my emails right away, so the customer would have to wait a couple of days to get their file. And THAT is not acceptable to ME. This is proving to be a big challenge for me, and I am not someone to walk away from a challenge. Sigh…..
After thinking about all planning the trip to Georgia, and all the other places we want to go, and all the things we want to do over the winter, I decided I also wanted to plan a trip to a spa for myself and maybe my daughters. We don’t get as many pamper days as we need, now do we? Going to a spa would be such a fun time to share, and spend some girl time together. I started looking for places in the area where we will be to see if I could find what I was looking for.
The last time we all got together, we just went for a manicure and pedicure. It was fun and relaxing, ut this time, I really want to be pampered: I want a massage and a facial as well as getting the nails done. I think this would be a great thing to share with Becky and Emily, and Becca if she were in Georgia instead in Calgary.
I have been looking around online for spa deals and massages in the west Georgia area. while I haven’t found it yet, I am sure I can find a place that offers the works. If you had a chance to spend time with your daughters, what would you plan for the day?
When I looked at the calendar this morning, it hit me square in the face that it was time to start planning our trip back to Georgia from the North Rim. It is less than 2 months now before we hitch up the trailer and pull out down the Kaibab Plateau.
Our plans for this trip are to stop for a day or two in Clarkesdale, Mississippi to visit Morgan Freeman’s restaurant there and listen to some blues. We have been wanting to go there for some time now. We’ll also stop overnight in Greensboro, Alabama to visit our friends at Valley Grocery and enjoy a plate of fried catfish.
Our first destination will be Jellystone Campground in Waco, Georgia, where we’ll spend about a month.They charge $300 a month plus electricity that you use, so I’ll have to be sure to take an electric meter reading as soon as we get there. I have forgotten to do this in past and wound up being overcharged for electricity when we were ready to leave.
After our time is up in Waco, we’ll be heading out to Unicoi State Park in Helen, Georgia where we will be volunteer camp hosts until about mid April. We are really looking forward to spending time in Georgia this winter, and seeing all our friends and family again.
While we’re at Unicoi, we’ll be less than 10 miles from Fabgrandpa’s parents, and less than a hundred miles from our friend Terry who is working at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. With two of our daughters living within eighty five miles, and numerous other friends and family in the area, it’s going to be a very busy winter for us! We’re going to be wearing out the route planning software for sure!
1. While I was cooking dinner tonight, I happened to start thinking about the lids to my pots and pans. They are made of glass and have a hole in them for steam to escape from the pans. And in those holes, there are little metal grommets. I wonder how they got those grommets in there?
Thinking about that set me to thinking about other things, like:
2. How on earth does Stephen King think up all those scary things he writes? The list of books he has written is long, but I have only managed to read one: The Mist. And now, ever since I read it, I get scared all over again every time it rains hard at night.
3. How did those guys who invented television know it would work? I mean, when I think about that, it really makes me crazy. I just wonder how someone can envision something that isn’t there and then find a way to make it work.
4. Why is that my telephone never rings until I have my hands in the food I am preparing for dinner? It never fails. I can be home all day long, and nothing. But let me get my hands on a raw chicken, and ring ring ring!
5. How does that one fly get in my house, and find its way to my bedroom, and buzz around my head over and over when I am trying to sleep late on my day off?
So, what do you wonder about?
I do have an online store, FabGrandma’s Crafty Stuff, but right now it is not working exactly like I would like for it to. I am still working on getting it set up the way I want it. So far, I only have a few items listed there for sale. There are a few aprons, a couple of sewing kits, a baby quilt, some fabric scrap bags, and one downloadable quilt pattern that is a PDF file. I don’t want to add any more items until I get the problem fixed. The problem I am having is that I can not get the file to download properly, so I can’t really sell it yet. I have spent so much time reading the help files for the shopping cart software, and have joined the support forum they have, but so far, it doesn’t work just right.
I have another e-pattern I am working on, but I am having to learn how to combine PDF files in order to get it looking like I want it to look. It is very frustrating sometimes to have the idea in my head of a certain project and not be able to get it to the completed project. Sewing things is definitely more fun than trying to use productivity software! Once I master it though, I am sure I will be able to figure out how to get that store working right, too.
My plans for this coming winter are to be able to write up several tutorials, turn them into PDF files, and get them up for sale in my store, These are tutorials for things I am asked about frequently, from how to sew in a zipper to how to bind a quilt. I also still have a plan to write a gluten free cookbook–I really need more time in a day!