Just dinkin' around today

Rolled out of bed at 5:45.  Was still tired but between the achy bod, dry mouth, stuffed up head, and damn nightmares (beetles this time), I decided I might as well start my day.  My sister butt dialed me last night around 11 --just as I was dropping off to sleep.  She's done this once or twice before--ever since she got this new phone. I wasn't pleased when it happened again this afternoon WHEN I WAS NAPPING!  I kept yelling at her over the line but she never did hear me.  I listened to her cough for four minutes and then hung up. Not going to answer the next time my phone registers a call from her! She can go back to texting.

I wanted to try and continue my nap but a half hour had passed and I figured I might as well get up and start preparing the mix for the three pies I'm baking tomorrow. Apple, blackberry, and pumpkin. I've got three bowls all ready with the shortening cut up in each one so all I have to do is roll them out and get 'em in the oven.  I do plan on putting a lace tablecloth on the table come Thursday but that will probably be all the "decorating pretty" that I do.  Got some Thanksgiving paper plates and we'll probably just set everything out on the drainboard and let the folks grab a plate and dish up cafeteria style.  I told Jenni I did want to put the turkey on the table whole (just for a picture) but she thought that was corny since we pretty much tear the thing up onto platters of meat and let people stab what they want.  No Hallmark picture here.  Ha!

Sue texted me wanting to know if a friend of theirs could come and I said sure. I guess that will make 9 this year. I sure wish I felt a little better. I've been half nauseated all day.  A tad yesterday too. Not sick but definitely not in top form.  I wonder if it's just plain ole fatigue.  I seem to go through periods where I'm tired all day, all night.  Probably related to not sleeping that well.  I hear old people suffer from that.  sigh....

I channel hopped last night between The Voice and DWTS and this Alaska show I like to watch of the people who live in the wilderness.  I'd never want to live like that but I sure do enjoy watching other people suffer through it while I'm sitting with my legs up knitting away.  Way too many commercials, though, which is why I kept going back and forth.  The Voice sometimes irritates me when the four judges are too busy being full of themselves but I must say -- almost all the contestants this year are really really good!  DWTS turns me off when the judges there love having the camera on themselves. Especially Bruno Tonioli.  I can't abide that man!  But that's okay. He seems to like himself enough for everybody.

I finished a chapter on my book this morning so I always feel I've gotten something accomplished if I can say that. I looked up beetles in dreams and as most dream predictions are, it could mean anything.
One said: If you have been going too overboard or gluttonous in other areas of your life, a dream of a beetle might be an indication that it is time to chill out and calm down on your over-consumption.  The hell with that!
The other one said:  The scarab has also been a symbol of riches, fortune, and good luck for a very long time.

I don't actually know what kind of beetle it was. I do know there were hundreds of them. That can't be good.

My granddaughter, Catie, sent me a link yesterday of the condo her and her boyfriend are buying in Renton. I'm so happy for her. Here's the outside and the living room.

Jenni is probably on her way home from Seattle now.  She had a morning appt at Swedish but felt she was able to drive herself.  Hope traffic was okay for her.

A package I'd been waiting for finally arrived today so my grandson will get his magic trax. It looks kinda fun.  I saw an ad in the PA paper this morning for this neat keepsake Xmas ornament that is selling in PT. I'm gonna have to see if I can't find somebody to pick me up one at the many businesses in town.  It's got a picture of the old library (drawn by the son of a friend of mine) Arletta Johnson Gould's boy, Jason.

I  need to make another PT trip on December sometime. Hopefully, they'll still be available then. Here's a picture of the wreath Jenni made from material.

Also, if you know of anyone in the market for a "like new" elliptical, she's selling hers. Just too hard on her legs these days.

More: http://www.gotohoroscope.com/txt/dream-dictionary-beetle.html
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