Yesterday

I'll tell you what, apparently yesterday was just a bad day all around for me.

If you called me yesterday between 9am and 3pm, I wasn't home. You were supposed to get my answering machine message. You know my typical message---sorry not home, gone, back at....

I came home expecting all to be well and instead discovered that my phone system had taken a poo.

Not only was the ringer sounding like something straight from the depths of hell, the answering machine message was inaudible.

Truth be told, I've hated that phone system (RCA 2-line with built in answering machine and caller id) since the day I bought it. And I fully expected to replace it, but at my own time, not because it took a poo while I was gone.

So some time today I should be receiving a brand new phone system, an AT+T, my preferred brand. I had HSM order it for me yesterday and it went out overnight.

If you phoned me yesterday, I'm really sorry you got caught up in answering machine hell. Things should be all better later today.

And then on top of my phone woes yesterday, WebTV was having brain farts and I kept getting weird pop-ups whenever I tried to email or surf or anything. And the blog piece I wrote for yesterday is still somewhere out in the universe floating around.

Today will be better. Positively.


Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.


Hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com

Spring Has Sprung, Maybe

The past few days have been wonderful around here. Not only has there been brilliant sunshine, but also temperatures have been hovering in the just-shy-of 50-degree range. Okay, nights are still cold, usually below 30, and yes, you still need your winter coat in the morning, but after about 10 am---oh boy!

The birds are coming back, too! I have this enormous tree in my front yard that serves as a super high-rise bird condo in spring and summer. I can hear the birds setting up house keeping and it's great to have them back home. I love their chirping.

I'm also wild about not having to wear four layers of clothes just to keep warm. Not only is it more freeing, but also it cuts down on the laundry and that's a good thing.

I'm trying really hard not to get too excited about the lovely weather. Why? A few weeks ago it was just like this, and then BOOM! Snow, snow and more snow.

Hopefully, despite the fact that this is only March, the snow is finished and spring is truly on the way. I'm ready for it.

Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.


Hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com

The Winter Olympics

Not to get you all paranoid or anything, but I know you're watching the Olympics (smile). Okay, maybe not right this minute, but I know you've been keping tabs on them.

Personally, I'll be glad when they're over. Not because I want to take your joy away, but because I want regular programming to resume on Canadian tv.

Every Monday evening at 8:30pmest I tune in to watch Little Mosque On The Prairie. For the past two weeks it's been reruns. Because of the Olympics.

Thank goodness, according to the next weeks previews, it's a new episode. Happy days!

Be good and be careful, take care, stay strong. And if you get the snow storm we got today (8 inches), becareful shovelling. I don't want anything to happen to you.


hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com

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Finally!

Really, finally! Here I am again! It's been awhile since I last wrote anything. Maybe a couple of weeks? I'm not sure. But I've been busy, too busy to blog, and that's a good thing. That means the phones have been ringing and I've been making money. And that is a very good thing, as Martha would say (smile).

I don't know how it is at your end of the world, but here in the metro Detroit area the day before Lent starts is the day everybody and their brother thinks they're Polish and they gobble up paczkis (pronounced poonch keys). There's a city just on the edge of Detroit, Hamtramck, that has always been predominately Polish. Okay, until recent times it was, like, 99% Polish. Nowadays new immigrants are settling there and I don't think Polish is the dominant ethnic group any longer.

There are several Polish bakeries in Hamtramck and die hards stand in hours long lines in order to purchase their paczkis straight from the source. The original/true flavor/filling is prune but, because prune is not such a favorite among most people, there are also strawberry, lemon, apple, etc. fillings too.

What is a paczki? Well, traditionally it's a filled donut that is bigger and has more filling than a regular donut. It's got more sugar, more butter, more of the good stuff in it. It was a way for Catholics to use up extra sugar, etc. so they could more easily fast during Lent. Think sugar blow out before forty days of abstinence.

Around here grocery stores carry paczkis, too. Hell, even Walmart has them. They are very popular in the metro Detroit area.

I didn't go out to purchase any. But today when I hit the grocery store for yogurt, well, I bought a dozen day old paczkis. Marked down 50%! Such a deal.

I saw on tv last night that a bar in Hamtramck had a paczki eating contest yesterday. I believe the winner scarfed up 14 of them. At approximately 600-800 calories per paczki, well..............

I realize those eating contests are all the rage. Thing is, I'm horribly offended by them. Why? All the people in this country who are struggling to put food on their table because of the economy. All of the people in the world who are starving. And here we have people gorging food for a contest. Playing with food essentially. I think it's sinful.

Until next time, you be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.


hugs, Tawny
www.tawnyford.com
tawny_ford@webtv.net

Super Bowl Sunday

All of the Super Bowl Sunday tv hype started hyping about an hour ago. Folks should be plum wore out by the time the game finally starts in 5 1/2 hours.

I'm not a sports fan so I won't be watching any of it today. I'm going over to HSM's house this afternoon to celebrate her birthday. Actually the tenth is her birthday, but a Sunday celebration is convenient.

I finally finished the shawl I was making for her yesterday. It's really pretty. A nice deep purple, Vanna White yarn purple to be exact. The pattern is sort of lacy looking, but will still provide warmth. I hope she likes it.

I have a few other things for her, too. A thingie (I don't know what you call it but I bought it at Bed, Bath and Beyond) you rest your book on so you can comfortably read in bed, a long handled lotion applicator, a bottle of cologne from Bath + Body Works, a Sponge Bob computer mouse pad (because it's silly) and a $50 gift card for Barnes + Noble because she loves books.

We missed that enormous snowstorm that hit back east yesterday, thankfully. We're low on snow so far this year. I think we've had around 14 inches this season--an inch here, 2 inches there. Normally we'd have 42 inches by now. The tv weather people are saying 4 to 8 inches Tuesday into Wednesday, so we'll see. On the off chance they're right, I'm going grocery shopping tomorrow morning, checking the mail at the post office and returning my library books. Better safe than sorry.

Hope you enjoy the football this evening. You be good and be careful, take care, stay strong.


hugs, Tawny
tawny_ford@webtv.net
www.tawnyford.com

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