Time Flies!

Well time obviously flew around the world a number of times, since it's been a year since I posted.  How the heck did that happen?  Well, my mother had some serious health issues and a couple of operations and that took quite a bit of my time, and needless to say, my thoughts were on her and not my blog.  Then I've had 3 procedures on my fistula, one in May, one in August and one in December.  Went on vacation to Myrtle Beach  with my sister, which was lots of fun.  But we had a very very sad occurrence in my family.  My first cousin's wife passed away.  She and I met in the 8th grade when we started high school, and I set them up on their first date when we were 17 years old.  In July of this year they celebrated their 40th anniversary.  Her illness was sudden and her passing was so hard on everyone.  We miss her so.

I was going to make a resolution to actually keep up my blog, but my friend Carol had an interesting post on her blog about the difference between resolutions and goals, and when I read it, a lightbulb went off.  Of course!!!  Goals, not resolutions.  Here's a link to her post about goals.  I think you'll find it interesting.

http://cjmfcb.blogspot.com/2014/01/no-resolutions.html

I've been doing a bit of crafting with my Cameo. I've really gotten into the software and learned how to do quite a few things, and it is my GOAL to write up some little tutorials and post them here. :D  So look for one in the next week or so.

I've also really been into cooking lately.  My sister and I gave Mama a NuWave Oven for Christmas, and boy howdy, is that thing neat.  Christmas Day we cooked our entire Christmas dinner in it - in about 2 hours! This weekend we cooked a roast in it in an HOUR.  We also did sweet potatoes, roasted onions and roasted carrots.  Tonight, though, I'm making a salad with the leftover rare roast beef, and I'm making a vinaigrette to go over it.  My sister gave me a bunch of flavored oils and vinegars for Christmas and I've been having so much fun making stuff with them.  Pioneer Woman, watch out!

We had snow yesterday/last night.  We don't get a whole lot of snow here, so when it does snow, things pretty much come to a halt.  I normally go to dialysis on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, but I went Monday and yesterday so that I wouldn't have to brave the snow-covered roads today.  I looked out the door this morning and there were kitty tracks all over the yard.  Kinda spoiled that pristine snow look, ya know?  Some of the prints made me think that Sasquatch had been through the yard, but on closer inspection, it seems it was just Charlie Harper, our BIG tom cat, who had been waltzing around the yard. And yes, he is named Charlie Harper after Charlie Sheen's character on Two and a Half Men.  I'll let you figure out why :D

Speaking of kitties, we have 2 new ones - Wide Load and Ed T. Bat.  More interesting names, you say? Well, let me explain.  Wide Load was WIDE when she was born. I mean she had some serious junk in the trunk. Her back end was HUGE.  We named the other kitten Edmund Hillary as he was such an explorer after his eyes opened.  But one day I was looking at him and he looked just like a bat!  Little pointy face, BIG pointy ears, so we started calling him Ed The Bat, which got shorted to Ed T. Bat.  He's now known as T-Bat, or sometimes Bat Brain, depending on what he's doing at any given moment.  But they are so much fun to watch. Wide Load is very much a snuggler and lovebug. T-Bat is all boy - doesn't want to be petted and held. Just fed!  You will be glad to know that Wide Load has slimmed down and is now just a pretty little kitty.  But the name will forever stick.  I regret to report that T-Bat has a cold, and he's not feeling very well.  He may have to go see the kitty doctor.

So that kind of brings you up to date with me.  Hopefully I will meet my GOAL of keeping up with my blog from here on.  Hope to 'meet' a lot of you soon!

Til later,
Morado