2 be Bliss, as I dance along the road to Nirvana...

fingers crossed, head bowed in prayer (with one eye open so i can see what i'm doing)... okay y'all. i'm giving up for now. i've already posted my help request to one of the groups. so i'll just wait. in the meantime, it's blogging as usual. (sans photos.)

hey y'all. lemme see if i can post scarf photos tonight. not that it's a "decent" hour but hey, it's all i've got right now. grrrrr! i still can't do it. oh well. i guess i've gotta report it this time. ;-(

hey y'all. i'm posting a few pics of the scarf i sent to my friend overseas. she was nice enough to send me pics because silly ole me forgot to take some before i put it in the box. grr! blogger is acting up so i can't suck the photos in right now. i guess that's my cue that i need to shut it down for the night. i have a dental appt in the a.m. i'll come back at a decent hour and post the photos. '-)

hey y'all! how was the weekend at your house? ours was long. kinda busy too. i needed to do my friday errands (on friday) and baby bliss didn't feel well. so i bundled her over to grandma's and ran off screaming "Freeeeeeeeee-dommmmmmmmmmm!", scaring everyone within a 50-mile radius. as i was finishing up. baby bliss called to say she wanted to sleep over at grandma's, a real surprise. which meant i had to go home, to grandma's, then back home. baby bliss can't sleep without her Teddy Bear. mr. bliss and i watched movies for several hours friday night/saturday morning. (hmmm... why did i just have a deja vu moment? like i've written that line recently?) saturday we slept in. later i got mr. bliss to go to hobby lobby with me. i was looking for yarn for scarves. it's not that i don't have a ton of yarn stashed already. but i needed more . i made a scarf for a friend overseas and sent it to her for christmas. now she wants anot...

hey y'all. i've been meaning to post this pic but kept forgetting. it's a belt i crocheted for baby bliss. it's ribbon i got from the dollar store and the hoops are recycled plastic covered in the same ribbon. i like it but i think i need to add some plain, small beads to the tassels to give them a bit of weight. the belt is 27 -- maybe 30 -- inches long. baby bliss wanted it to drape on her hips. i couldn't find my camera the day i wanted to take the pic. so i just put it on the scanner. not a bad photo, i guess.

hey y'all. i can't believe another week has gone by. time... just yesterday (so it seems) there was sunshine and Susan was saying she'd seen a woman laying about in a bikini. or maybe it was a bikini top. either way, Susan doesn't live too far from me and i agree with her that it wasn't that warm. seems like a few days ago Aly was talking about doing the girls' hair. but that might have been last week! time is getting away from me in leaps and long strides. i feel like i haven't had time to write any of my stuff in too long. i have been crocheting tho. but not as much as i want to. too much other stuff to do: wipe down all kitchen surfaces, wonder what to do about the cracked bottom shelf in the fridge, wonder how much laundry i should do today or if it should wait until tomorrow... and where the heck is that smell coming from? (or is it smells ?) is it the fridge? the carpet? the kitchen floor? the garbage disposal? do i really care?...

hey y'all. i was gonna get back to all the juicy details of my weekend alone with mr. bliss but i got a Phone Call. baby bliss called to say they are right by the outlet mall, less than 15 minutes away. that means i've gotta scram. #1 Auntie must have been doing 75 or 80 all the way cuz it's several hours from there to here, stops aside. so y'all know what that means: more later.

to continue... the MIL went on and on about how tall baby bliss had gotten in the two years since they'd seen each other. (i think they're the same height now.) she gave mr. bliss some things from home she'd brought down for him, we all hugged good bye, and that was it for friday. (we had arrived just as she was about to leave with one of her neices, hence the brief visit.) we did hang out with the rest of the family tho. we all had dinner at a moderately exxxxxpensive and well known surf and turf restaurant downtown. there were so many of us that we had to be broken down into two groups. we were seated in the same area but not together. mr. bliss and i sat at the children's table. with the children, of course, and a few other adults. dinner was fun. mr. bliss has a few cousin who i totally dig. one lives here (the guy who hosted the Big Event) and one who now lives in our home town. they are father and son. both laid back guys with innocent faces that belie their dare...

hey y'all. i stepped out on the balcony to re-arrange some things and i was entranced by the beauty God blessed us with today. i observed the shining sun with much appreciation, noted the gusting wind blowing thru the naked branches of the willow trees with thanks and prayer (tornadoes in some parts...), and i was delighted and amused to hear frogs singing. i stood there for a few minutes, to soak it all in. upon closer observation, i saw that the willow trees are budding already. all this mid-february. thanks God, for showing us that despite the fact that we haven't been great stewards of this earth you've given us to call home, we are still your valentines. :-)

hey y'all. baby bliss took a trip this weekend . she went home (mine, not her's) with #1 Auntie and (my) Grandma. she'll be home later today. mr. bliss and i had grand plans for the weekend. we were gonna drive a few hours to the mountains, stroll leisurely through small town streets, window shop , grab a good meal, and a room for saturday night. but we didn't. we couldn't. we came home after we dropped baby bliss at the leaving place. we were supposed to decide where we were going then Google-map our route . we sat side by side on the couch. i powered up my laptop and mr. bliss turned on the telly. i thought he was watching. but when i looked at him a few minutes later, he was asleep ! i woke him but it was useless. not long after, we were both nodding . i poked him and said, "honey, i think we should just stay home. we're just too old to party when the baby's away." he laughed and agreed with me. we talked and laughed while we watched some ...

hey y'all. happy prezzy's day to ya! i'm sending a special shout out to our own president. it's said he's spending time in a certain african nation, one where he's being greeted with cheers and love, and where his face is plastered not only on billboards, but on women's dresses as well. i believe we all need to feel loved and wanted, no matter callous, unknowing and uncaring we may seem to others. if we can't get it at home, most of us will take it where we can get it. apparently he is no exception.

i guess i should tell y'all about my date with the MIL. It Wasn't So Bad. we saw her very briefly friday evening. (feb. 8) baby bliss and i rode downtown with mr. bliss to the hotel where his mom was hanging out for a few hours (with the family members she'd come to town with). he was like a little boy, wanting to see his mommy before he turned in for the night. it was kinda funny. the MIL looked at me, wary, not knowing how i would greet her i guess. i smiled and hugged her hello. it was an ice breaker. to be continued...

hey y'all. baby bliss and i hung out with grandma most of tuesday. we were at her house for several hours, while we waited for a repairman and then while they waited for me to finish a few assignments. grandma loves her grands and great-grands. she'll feed us, clothe us, buy us gas and let us sleep at her house if our heat goes out. but she is one who believes that chil'ren should not run amok and tear up the house, no matter how cute we may be. wellllllll, baby bliss has her own renewable supply of petroleum-free energy and she loves to expend lots and lots of it at grandma's house. one reason is that we have downstairs neighbors and grandma only has next door neighbors. baby bliss likes to run about in the backyard but grandma said no. even tho it was in the low 70s here today, the grass was damp and i'm sure the dirt was a bit muddy. so grandma said stay on the deck. in between completing paragraphs, i watched periodically from the window. baby bliss tried as har...

hey y'all. sunday at our house... mr. bliss went to church with baby bliss and i. and he only went cuz our downstairs neighbor (who shall ever after be known as DSN; more about him later) urged him to go with us. DSN went with us too. we all had a great time. DSN said the message was one he really really needed to hear. it was one i needed to hear too. the topic was Forgiveness . y'all know who came to mind as soon as i heard the word right? yes! the MIL! as i'm sure y'all know, sometimes God is subtle . then i'm left wanting clarity . thank you God for putting it smack upside my head this time. '-) mr. bliss and i talked about it and it was all good. God gave me a few practice lessons today. i didn't bat an eye when mr. bliss's ex-wife (mother of my inherited child) called and yelled at mr. bliss for 15 or 20 minutes. i didn't even flinch when his momma called and he told her, "i went to ________'s church today...

we got our invite to The Event that the MIL might be coming to town for. it's on feb. 10, a sunday, from 6-12. does that mean feb. 11 is a holiday? i haven't looked at a calendar yet but maybe it's President's Day? i'm gonna check online soon's i'm done with this post. looks like i'm at least getting closer to nailing down the dates of the MIL visit... update : i guess y'all already know President's Day is feb. 18? LOL is this part of the "mother-in-law" trick? .

hey y'all. i was checking out at the library without really paying attention to what i had. (cuz i reserve most of my stuff online and pick it up after i get the e-mail notice.) we got home and i put all muh stuff down. then i noticed one of the movies was "Monster-In-Law". i swear y'all, i reserved it a while back. i can't even remember when. cuz sometimes when you reserve stuff, you have to wait for stuff to be returned or come from another branch. and it can take a while. but ohhhhhh the irony... then i realized i hadn't taken back all the ones that were due today . they were sitting right where i left 'em, right on the half-wall by the front door. so i logged onto my library account and i was able to renew all of 'em. wellllllll, almost all. there's one that's in demand so they said i can't keep that one any longer. well they're wrong. cuz they can't get it back until i take it back. good girl that i am, i'm thinking about t...

hey y'all. we're at the library, baby bliss and i. i'm busy doing all things blog. and i'm listening. cuz i'm nosey. there are two guys talking near us. it's probably not what i think but it sounds like a personals ad hook-up is going on. one guy said "so how do you want to do this?" and the other goes, "well i just live around the corner..." of course they're saying some other stuff too. like about computers and other stuff. and they're sitting right out in the open. and they're not whispering. so it's probably a hook-up of some sort. but not the kind i'm imagining. right?

a recent conversation at our house... me: so is your momma definitely coming this weekend or not? mr. bliss: i didn't say she was coming this weekend. me ( staring in disbelief ): um, yes , you did. mr. bliss: no i didn't. this is super bowl weekend. me: so? i know what you said. you said she might be coming this weekend. mr. bliss: naw. i said she might be coming february 11. me (not knowing that feb. 11 is not even a weekend day): you never said "february 11". you laid in this bed right here and said "this weekend". mr. bliss: oh. well i meant february 11. *** i hope with every cell of my being that he meant she'll be leaving on feb 11 cuz no way can she stay with us from the 11th (a monday) until the following weekend. :-o i'll have to move to my grandma's for the duration. and apparently they are caravan-ing down. and i know those other people ain't staying with us. cuz that's just pushing the envelop...