What a Week

well, I have survived the yuckiest (is that a word?) week of my life. This upper respiratory stuff has settled into my lungs and made my life a living heck. I have coughed so much my throat hurts. I sleep well on elevated pillows, then the minute I am up and about, I start coughing. It is so irritating. I worked from home the last two days, there was no way I was going to cough on my customers. I have to venture out tomorrow for sure to set up a customer and put some signs out for her. Of course, never fails, tomorrow will be the coldest day of this week. I have felt better today, I only hope I don't relapse after being out tomorrow and Saturday. At least I will be off Monday so will Eddie. Maybe I can get some things done around here. He has been a good nurse. Although I can't take alot of the over the counter medicine due to blood pressure, he made sure I had plenty of water to drink. Of course, he feels guilty coz he brought this stuff home to me.

Anyway, I haven't sewn on the machine all week and I had to take the table the machine sets on out to the car to use at this sale on Saturday. I did sew a little on some embroidery squares that I got at Houston Quilt show. The company is called Plum Creek Collectibles. here is the website http://www.plumcreekcollectibles.com/index2.html I met the owner, Tammy, at Houston and she was a joy to talk with. I am doing #161 Annie's Calendar Quilt, but I am going to do mine all in redwork. I have January block about halfway done. I got a tip from a lady at quilt group to trace the designs with a red pigma pen and if you stray with your stitches, it is not as obvious. I thought, well, I like it just as traced, I may quilt it like this, no stitches at all....haha I am not very good with hand stitching, so this a real stretch for me. But I really want a redwork quilt!!

Not much else is going on. I got caught up on Young and Restless the last two days. Also discovered that I can watch that days episode at 6 in the evening my time on Soap channel. The wonders of cable. I have watched that soap since 1973. It amazes me all the stuff that has gone on and is developing now.

I made some taco stew yesterday out of a cookbook I had. Eddie is not much of a soup eater, he wants his meat and potatoes. Well, with us both being sick and it was cold here yesterday, I wanted something hot to warm our bodies. So I got some homemade tamales out of the freezer and made this stew. Man, it was so good. It was almost like a chili. It really hit the spot. We had it for leftovers tonight.

I am hoping that Amber and my girlfriend Debi are going to be able to come down soon. They had talked about this weekend, like leave there on Sunday drive down and stay a couple of days. I would love that. I told them they have to sleep on the air matteress. They said they didn't care as long as they can see me and the beach! haha

Have still had trouble logging into this blog and finally emailed for help. I haven't had any response yet. Guess will wait and see.