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Do you use Twitter?

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I joined twitter well over a year ago, but it’s only in the last month or so that I’ve really started to use this fantastic social networking tool.

Actually I have been using twitterfeed to post new blog post announcements to Twitter, but since that was all that I was doing for most of the first year that I was a Twitter member, you can’t really say I was using it well. Now that I’m finding new friends and gaining followers I’ve started interacting with others on Twitter and it’s a lot of fun.

Do you use Twitter? If you do, please feel free to check out my Twitter page and follow me if you like what you see.

If you don’t use Twitter, what are you waiting for? As I said above it’s a great way to not only promote your blog posts, but to also connect with people who have similar interests or sites in similar niches.

Update: Kelly just came up with a great idea. If you use Twitter post your Twitter link in the comments and follow the commenters that leave a twitter link. Sounds like a great way to make some new blogger/ Twitter friends.





Earl Grey Tea, Beebalm and finally … a belated Christmas dinner

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I’m finally getting around to having my true Christmas dinner. Yeah, I know, I said we went to my in-laws for Christmas dinner on Xmas day, but she cooked pressed chicken breasts and I guess Christmas isn’t Christmas to me without having some turkey.

So we are just about ready to sit down and have some turkey. I bought a large double turkey breast and it’s almost done. I also made roast potatoes, peas, stuffing, and a broccoli carrot mix to go with dinner. Oh and we can’t forget the cranberry jelly and a slice of apple pie for desert (couldn’t find any pumpkin pie < sob > ).  I honestly don’t know if I’ll have room for desert, but I’ll try!

As I’m waiting for dinner to finish cooking (yes I know it’s a bit late) I’m sitting here having a cup of Earl Grey Tea. I haven’t had Earl Grey in ages! I love Bergamot.

Did you know that a plant that many commonly grow in their gardens, BeeBalm, is also known as Bergamot or Oswego Tea?

I grow Beebalm in my garden. It’s a hybrid variety called Aquarius. It’s a lovely plant with hot pink flowers.

Bee Balm Monardo aquarius

When I’m in the garden in the summer I love brushing by it’s leaves so that I can smell that lovely Bergamot scent. I really must remember to dry some of it’s leaves next year and try to make a tea with it. Hey it’s worth a try.

I’m glad we’re indoors this evening. We were supposed to have freezing rain all evening and through the night. We did have some rain in the afternoon and I think it left a slick on the roads and sidewalks, but it looks like the worst might have already passed us by. Still … it’s better to stay inside and have our belated Christmas/ New years dinner I think!

How are things in your part of the world?

It’s been one of those days

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Have you ever had one of those days when every thing seems to go wrong? Sure ya have.

Well … I guess I’m having one of those days. First, my husbands alarm clock decided to go on the fritz. The alarm was turned off but for some reason it still went off at midnight last night and it kept going off every once in a while until we took the batteries out of it. Then, as I was setting up my alarm clock so he could use it a button got stuck down and I can’t change the alarm time!

So that’s two clocks in one day, but that’s not all!

One of the lights we have in our living room is a tri-light so we can set it on low, medium or high lighting. Wouldn’t you know that as soon as we got home from grocery shopping (we never grocery shop on Saturday but we did this evening) the light started fizzling out. So I guess tomorrow we’ll need to go out and not only buy at least one new alarm clock, but also some tri-light bulbs!

I guess that’s not a terrible terrible day, but it makes me wonder what will happen next! Hopefully none of our more major electrical appliances decide to go on the fritz.

I hope that your day was better than mine!

Why am I so tired this week?

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I don’t know why, but all week I’ve just been exhausted. I swear I could sleep day and night. Maybe I’m still recovering from having a houseful of guests last weekend or maybe I’m tired because my Crohn’s has been flaring continuously without any sign of getting better.

I also started taking high doses of Vitamin D this week after being diagnosed with very low Vitamin D levels. I wonder if that can make you more tired than usual? I don’t think it should, but stranger things have happened. LOL

In other news … our neighbors house has finally been rented and the new people moved in today. Actually they’ve been moving in slowly all week, but today they had a moving van and they are here for their first overnight stay.

I’m not sure that I’m going to like these new people. So far they seem like real duds. Maybe they should have looked into Wilmington NC real estate instead of moving in beside me!

They just don’t seem there when you talk to them. Oh and get this. We have a shared driveway, but it’s so tiny that you can only park one car in the drive at a time … so the guy comes up to us and says that he’s just going to park at the end of the driveway (on the street) from now on. Uhm … isn’t it illegal to block a driveway?

Anyway I guess time will tell if the new people will turn out to be Ok neighbors or big pains in the butt. My guess is that I won’t be out in my garden much this summer.

The Food Fairy

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I swear that my Labrador Retriever, Midnight, believes in the Food Fairy.

Oh sure she knows where food comes from … you know, the top of the fridge (dog cookies), the fridge, the dog food bin under the table, the kitchen counter (mmm carrots!), occasionally our plates (tender pieces of chicken breast), and of course the kitchen cupboards.

Still, she’s convinced that there’s some other magical place that food comes from … I’m sure of it.

Why?

Well, you see, whenever Chris or I take her outside for a walk the first thing she does when she comes back in the house is to run into the kitchen to check her food bowl. Sometimes she actually finds food in her bowl and I’m sure she must wonder where the heck it came from … hence the reason I think my dog believes in the Food Fairy.

When food magically appears in her bowl what actually happened is that Chris or I stayed in the house and perhaps ate a granola bar while the dog was out and then placed the crumbs in her bowl. Or maybe I was preparing dinner when Chris took her out and I placed some veggie scraps (piece of tomato, carrot, cucumber etc) in her bowl as a surprise.

Ever since she started receiving these magical food offerings, which happen very rarely I might add, she’s always made a habit of checking her food bowl every single time she comes back in from outside.

Does your dog believe in the food fairy too?

BTW I’m still waiting for the money fairy to make a surprise visit to our house!

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