Tina’s Treasured Thoughts

Hi everyone,

I am writing this in the car as we travel.  Laptops are GREAT!!!   My darling Jack does all the driving.  We are on our way to Elmore, AL to visit my brother, and then on later this afternoon to Stockbridge, GA [south of Atlanta] to visit my daughter, Susan and my grandchildren.  [4 of them].    Having a wonderful time.  The weather here is nice as we travel. 55 degrees.   We left all that snow behind in Indiana.   To Shelley with “Share A Square”, I got your afghan mailed before I left.   You will probably get it in a few days.    Send me another one if you would like.   Also if you just need someone to put the black around squares, I would be happy to do that for you.   Have a Merry Christmas everyone and I’ll post again soon.

I am still trying to get my Christmas tree decorated.  I got all my lights out that were on it last year and guess what?  they didn’t work this year.  Only 1 string was good.   I spent hours putting in new lights that I knew were good and even changed fuses, but NO… that didn’t work either.   I really don’t get why they were working when I took them down and now they don’t.   I threw them all away finally and went and got new ones today.   Hopefully I will get it done tonight.   I am leaving on the 20th, so if I don’t get them done soon, won’t be any need to do it.    One reason I haven’t gotten it done earlier is because of the surgery I had done on Oct. 30th and just couldn’t seem to get the “get up and go that I needed”.   Went to one Christmas party that was given by the Bariactic Hospital and staff and that was really nice.   We are going out to eat with our friends, Karen and Lynn Moser tonight [what little I can eat] and I’m sure that will be a good time.   They have been very busy and we haven’t seen much of them lately.   Any of you who know her from “The Pond” know she is a busy person.    I hope you all have a wonderful week and oh yes, Thank you Karen, for putting Ben Sparks link on my blog page.   Ben, she got it done.   Talk to you all later.   Thanks for all your comments and good wishes.

I wanted to add the photo a day from Ben Sparks site to my site but couldn’t figure out how to do it.  I am such a greenie.   Maybe Ben could do it for me.  Let me know.

http://www.thenykazafamily.blogspot.com

I just visited this site and it has such interesting reading on it.  I wanted to be able to find it again, so am putting it here.   She has another one and I hope to visit it tomorrow. 

 http://www.genkidesuyo.blogspot.com

Her husband is a chef which was interesting and he had a good recipe for Red Snapper that I am going to try.  Thanks!

I really like this one too http://www.benspark.com   Ben is an interesting person and has beautiful photos.  I go to his site, but don’t comment and so I guess he probably doesn’t know I visit there.

I haven’t written for quite a while.   I’ve had quite a few days that I have felt weak and just didn’t feel like doing anything, but am better now, that I am getting a little solid protein.   I am at 40 lbs lost now and it is soooo wonderful to get into a lot of my clothes that I couldn’t wear before.   Someday, I will get some new clothes, but not for a while.  I have another afghan put together now to send to Shelley Tucker at http://thiseclecticlife.com/  She is the one who has the “share a square” afghans for the children victims of Cancer who are going to camp again in the summer of next year.   I love reading her blogs.  She seems like such an interesting person.   I’ve got to vote for her for best blogging I think by the 15th if I can figure out how to do it from her instructions.   I have a brother in Prison in Elmore, AL and I am going to see him on the 22nd of December.  I haven’t seen him for 3 years.   I am really looking forward to it.   He is one of those few who is in prison for something he did not do.   Believe it or not, there are a lot of people like that.    If I don’t get back here soon, I wish all of you a wonderful, blessed Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in 2008.   I hope to get back here soon.   God bless all of you.