Day # 4 - Do You Really Want More?

I've been assured that you all won't forget me, but I've decided that I need to throw out some "bait" to make sure that you don't get away. I think that my best bet might be to use the pity angle, so I'll tell you all a little secret...I may be here in warm sunny Florida for quite a while. At this moment my medical records are sitting on my orthopedist's desk, waiting for review. If he feels that I'm stable enough, he will order my lab work and EKG. If I can breeze through those, without having to get cardiac approval...I'm going to go ahead and have my left knee operated on. This is long overdue, as I've put it off for almost 2 years now.

I will keep you posted, as I get word. Hey if you stick around, and I have the surgery, I'll take pictures and post them! Won't that be fun?

AND NOW....DRUM ROLL PLEASE...

A Week In My Life Continues!

Today is a bits and pieces day. Little things that I love...and things that make my days easier. I had started a draft before our sudden departure from home. I had some of the pictures uploaded, but hadn't added text. Soooooooo, I'll work with what I have.

See that lusious chocolate up there? Ummmmmm!. Terries Whack and Unwrap Chocolate Oranges. Like the dark chocolate best. You can find them everywhere, around Christmas time, but they aren't so easy to find the rest of the year. Soooooooo, when you find these babies STOCK UP!

The other end of the eating spectrum - Green Giant Frozen Vegetables.
I couldn't live without 'em.
I especially like the rice pilaf, and super sweet corn, and the broccoli florets, and the green beans with almonds, and the honey glazed carrots, and the.....list goes on and on.

This is the cast of Corner Gas. It is a Canadian Sitcom. If you haven't seen this bunch of kooky characters from Dog River, you're missing out. It takes about 3 episodes to get "into it", but once you do You're Hooked!!!
(P.S. - my husband has turned into Oscar and Big J is Hank!)

My Swiffer Sweeper Vac, makes my life soooooo much easier. I run this baby around the house everyday, and it keeps, dog hair and dust bunnies under control. Since I started using mine about 3 years ago, it has cut the need to mop by a good 2/3rds. No joke! Mine has just about given up the ghost, so I'm hoping that I get a new one for Valentines Day.

I got a Blackberry Curve as an early Christmas Gift this year. LOVE it! I can text to my hearts content. It has a GPS system, and I can blog surf while riding in the car, or waiting as the pharmacy or at the doctors office. I don't know how I lived without it.

Here are the medications that make my life liveable. I am so grateful for the technology that has made modern science what it is today. I am so thankful to my doctors for the care that they give. I truly would not be alive today, if it weren't for skilled EMT's, R.N.'s,dedicated doctors, and medication!

Maybe I'm just a nut, but I find this really funny. You all already now that I have sleep disorders, and take medicine for them. See all the bottles with the red labels? These are warnings, that the medication may make me drowsy! Well DUH! (In defense of my pharmacist friend - they have to put those warnings on there.)

Oh shoot, the dryer just buzzed - I need to take the clothes out and hang them up. So excuse me for a minute...talk amongst yourselves. I'll give you a topic...if you are riding in an elevator and the cable snaps...If you jump up in the air the moment before the elevator hits the bottom, will you come away unharmed?

Okay, I'm back. Thanks for waiting!

I love my camera. I have a new model than this one. Mine is an SX10IS (10 Mega Pixels). This is the camera that IvoryHut uses - she has her own blog and is a contributer to Pioneer Woman!
It's really just a glorified point and shoot, but it takes fantastic photo's, and is sooooooo easy to use.

Memory Manager 2.0 is the program that I use, to keep my photo's organized. I can't say enough good things about it!!! It's inexpensive, easy to use, and does a lot more than just "organize" my digital photo's - but the organization part is what I want to talk about today!

Here is a picture of my home screen.

Above is the time line, which is one of the features of this program. When pictures are uploaded into the program, they are automatically sorted for you, as to the year. As you can see, I've got a good head start for this year. I don't know what I was doing in 2002, cause I sure didn't take many pictures that year.

Here's where it gets really good. You can create your own "Sort Boxes and Folders", to place your pictures in. As you can see, I have a Box for Events and in that box, I have numerous Folders. One of those folders is for Birthdays. Now ~ I love this ~ you can also see that I have a Box for family and then in that box I have folders for each family member. I can take each photo that I've uploaded and put it into numerous folders in different boxes. Example: In the birthday folder in the even box, I have photo's of a birthday party for Alton. I've put those same pictures in the Folder for Alton in the Family Box. This feature makes it sooooooooo easy to go back and find your photo's. There is also an editing feature, that allows you to turn photo's, crop them, adjust lighting levels, etc. etc.
If any of you are interested in this program, please go HERE! This is my friend Tammy's site. She is a Creative Memories consultant. You can find out more information on the Memory Manager Program in the Digital Scrap Booking section!

This is my calendar station. As you can see, I have a little basket with colored pens, and a thingy to keep pictures and business cards, and invitations on. What the heck is that thing called? Go ask Martha Stewart, she can tell you what it's called. It's a fancy bulletin board. Any-hoo, I've got everything I need here, to keep me on track.

I use the FlyLady method of cleaning and keeping my home neat and orderly. If you haven't yet heard about FlyLady, you are in for a treat. Please go HERE, to enter the world of clean and clutter free.

Here is my Daily - Keep It Clean - schedule. It may look like a lot, but it really isn't. When I follow this plan, I easily keep my home neat and clean. It becomes a habit after a very short while, and frees up so much time.

Here is my Weekly - Keep It Clean ~ Schedule. This is the more time consuming (but still very reasonable!!!) heavier cleaning duties.
I'm serious about this folks. The system WORKS! Check it out. She has items that are available for purchase, if you want them, BUT - the program basics are free. All you have to do, is go to her site and start reading. I will tell you that I love her Calendar Stickers and buy them all the time.

And last, for today...My Princess House Miracle Dish. I have 4 or 5 of these. I bake entire meals in these baking dishes. They always come out perfectly AND they are easy clean up. In another post, I'll show you some of my other Princess House goodies. Until then, you can check out what they have to offer HERE. This is another great friend who is a Princess House Consultant/Manager.

Ta-Ta for now - You know that I love ya!