I'll have to think awhile about the title of this. I'm really tired and not to clear at the moment, what a great time to write :-) Mom had her surgery today and she came out of it with flying colors. I was amazed at how good she looked and seemed to feel. It was done in the Surgical Center on Carrillo and Laguna streets, it was a real surgery, not like getting a tooth pulled. When I look at mom I can't believe her age, she defies all the rules, she just doesn't look as old as she is. She will be 80 in 2 years and I feel like I look her age, or rather she looks mine! And, Mom being mom, never wanting to put anyone out, made her own soup and toast for lunch when we got home, what a sweet trooper she is. I didn't stay long because she was tired and really needed some sleep, she was up at 4:30 and never went back to sleep. I don't see how she does it, I don't sleep and I look old and haggard, she doesn't sleep and she looks wonderful. God was smiling the day she was created.
So what is new, nothing. Oh, we have sold several things on Etsy at both shops. Actually I was just thinking that there had been no sales at the Azul Girl shop in so long that I might just move everything from it to the Sew Easy. And just like that, 2 sales, both for earrings. I think there is definitely a Christmas shopping boom going on and unfortunately we were not prepared because we have done well in the last month or so. It's to late to (I always get confused on the to or too) anyway, it's to late to start loading the shops up. Although I am going to attempt to get some more things up if I can ever make anything. I have the time I just never use it wisely and when I come up with a good idea I spend hours and hours planning it out and then by the time I'm ready to make it I see something else and spend the same amount of time planning it, it just goes on and on. What I need is a huge bulletin board so I can sketch what I'm thinking and move on without wasting time. I'm always afraid I will forget what I wanted to do so if I could just have a central place to pin up the ideas I might get more accomplished. I spend more time gathering the things I'm going to use than actually making it. Ah well, I used to be good at this so I guess I am thankful for those good years.
I was going to make some Christmas cards but the cards are a size I cannot locate anywhere for printing. I have looked in all my card programs, Works, on line, off line. It's a regular size but all they offer in programs is the half and quarter fold, oh and note cards that are the same size as quarter folds only the are half folds. I am going to check more websites that have card programs and hopefully I'll get luck, if not I'll have to buy more cards in the other sizes. I want to have two cards this year, I have one that is just Christmas and the other I still have to draw and color. I suppose I should do that soon since December is tomorrow. If not, there are plenty in the card programs I have have so I can tweak them to my liking.
Saturday I am going up to Lompoc for the Christmas Dinner show, no, that one is later on. This one the Madrigals and the regular choir will be singing. I don't think Tarah has any solo's this time. If she does she hasn't mentioned it. She is so active in school with choir, drama, Madrigals, it's amazing. I thought she was going to be the one who had few friends and hung back from the crowd. Quite the contrary. Joey is the more quiet and stays at home, he rarely does things with his friends, well he has reason though. His lung are so bad he's in pain and coughing every single day, it just wears him out and yet he is the entertainer at school. I think that also wears him out. Everyone expects him to be funny and keeps the group together. Big demand on a kid who is in such poor health. Well, and yet I don't know if he's in bad health, I just know that he feels bad and tired all of the time. I feel so badly for him, it hurts me deeply.
I will spend the night up there and come home on Sunday. I can't drive home at night unless I really have to or want to get home. Poor Rocky will have to sleep in this ice box all by himself.
Tomorrow Rob and Robyn leave for Africa...sigh. I just can't believe it's time already. It feels like yesterday that we booked the flight and yet that was 6 months ago. I am going to miss them so much. I like being alone but not at Christmas. I still have to do Christmas shopping because as of yet my bank (Rob) has not handed over any money. They will leave here tomorrow at 2:30 and they fly out of L.A. at 7:00p.m. and it will be nearly 40 hours before they set foot in Africa. That is not fun without stopping in one place long enough to go anywhere. They will have 8 hours in London but the air port is so far from town and that nagging "what if" is always there. What if we miss a bus or a bus breaks down and we miss our flight. Anyway, they are off tomorrow and I pray for a safe trip, all the way around.
Okay, my eyes hurt and I need to go to bed. I have a lot to do tomorrow since Rob still needs to pack! He is just awful when it comes to that. Later....
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