Sunday Scribblings #65 - I’ve got a secret

I’m really late this week for the Sunday Scribblings — it’s probably just about time that another topic is put up — but I was reading InlandEmpireGirl’s post on her blog,
Gathering Around the Table and liked her list of secrets. So, if you wouldn’t mind too terribly much InlandEmpireGirl, I am going to copy your idea this week and add ten or so of my own secrets.

1. One of my biggest pet peeves is people that can’t use correct grammar. For example, saying I seen instead of I saw or saying she and me instead of she and I. (I must have been a frustrated English teacher in another life.) It irks me no end.
2. My favorite type of book to read is about time traveling back to medieval Scotland. I’ve read Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series several times and love Lynn Kurland. For some reason, I always feel slightly sneaky when I read one — probably because they’re kind of fluffy and because I’ve never told anybody how much I like them.
3. My perfect vacation would be either sitting on a New England beach (it always conjures a sense of nostalgia in me for some reason) or camping in the mountains, preferably the Adirondacks.
4. I will always eat chicken or fish before steak — extremely well done steak!!
5. My favorite drink at a restaurant is a frozen Margarita with extra salt — at home, it’s Smirnoff Green Apple malt beverage.
6. I had a mole removed 22 years ago that was malignant melanoma — but as you can see I’m still here. I am a very lucky duck. Darn those blond haired, green eyed Scottish ancestors of mine!!
7. I don’t wear contact lenses due to extreme dryness — and also because my glasses cover up the circles under my eyes.
8. I wear dresses at home almost all the time in the summer but I wear slacks to work.
9. My very first car was a 1965 Dodge Monaco — with a 383 4 bbl carburetor — and it passed everything but a gas station. I also had a piece of 2 x 4 that I had to throw under the back tire because it would roll backwards. Park didn’t hold very well, but hey, what do you expect for $325, eh?
10. I have always been a bit more than slightly bossy (probably because I spent so many years as an office manager) but as I have gotten older, I am more than happy to let the younger people do their own thing without my input. I guess that’s personal growth, right?

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Lots to do

Sweet Baboo and I are taking a trip to my sister’s in Vermont over the Fourth of July. Besides catching up with the ‘rents and other family members, Sis is having the “Mother Blessing” ceremony that I mentioned in another post for her daughter who is due in August. So far, this is my list of things that I need to have done by the time that we go.

• Beads for M’s bracelet that we will make during the ceremony — check
• Martha’s Homekeeping book that Sis asked me to get for her on ebay — check (well, not totally — I’ve paid for it and it should be here in a few days — hopefully before I leave!)
• Baby blankets that my daughter wanted me to give to M — she got so many and most haven’t even been used — check
• Baby buzzy chair — I wish I had had one of those when J was a baby — check
• Baby boppy for Sis to have at her house when the young’un comes to visit — check
• Knitted hat that I wanted to make for the young’un — no check yet – have to make a trip to the yarn shop for baby type yarn. (sigh — such a hardship) If I don’t get it done before we go, the pattern is very easy and I could knit it in the car on the way.
• Bring video tapes that I borrowed back to Sis — check
• Someone to check on Sadie and make sure she is fed and watered — no check yet
• Check out TJ Maxx one more time before we go for Sis’s face cream — sort of checked — I have a few ready to take with me so if I don’t go up one more time, it’s not a big deal. She loves this particular lotion that we can only get at TJ Maxx.

And that’s my list so far — I’m pretty happy with what I’ve gotten done so far –  and of course I sit down every chance I get and do a little more knitting on Sweet Baboo’s socks. One thing that I’m pretty sure won’t be done is the quilt that I made for M. I had a hard time reaching the lady that will be long arming it for me and even tho it’s small, I think she’d be hard pressed to get it done in time. I’ll just send it along when it’s done.