The day before Thanksgiving, 2008

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Hopefully those of you who are traveling today will stay safe, and have uneventful trips and arrive at your destinations not too frazzled.

Today is my day to cook the turkey and prepare a plan for transporting an entire Thanksgiving dinner to the nursing home. That should be quite the task, but I can do it. It'll just required a little ingenuity.

I'm sad and still in a panic that the house will be sold soon. I am so hoping the deal will somehow, magically, "fall through". I had not planned on it happening so soon. I kept hearing how sales are so slow, bla, bla, bla. I have NO PLAN as to where I'm going to live, etc, but guess I'd better figure it out quickly!

It's an awful feeling, and I so wished it could have happened in January, and not right before the holidays. As if the holidays are not stressful enough!!!

O.K. I'm off to the supermarket to buy the one thing I forgot......onions for the stuffing!

Soon to be HOMELESS

Do not panic! Do not panic! Well, don't everyone panic at once! As you all know, the house has been on the market for a couple of weeks. Homes in this neighborhood usually sell rather quickly, regardless as to what things are doing in the "outside world". Here, there are always older people who need to downsize, and there are not a lot of houses that fit their criteria. Anyway.....that's a tangent.

Saturday, a potential buyer came through the house for a second time. Sometime on Sunday, while I was having a wonderful time visiting my friends in Connecticut, that person made an offer on the house. It was quite a bit lower than the asking price, but that's the game. Doug went back with a counter offer, or is about to today. I"m frozen in panic. You know, the "deer in the headlight" thing!

I've known this time was coming, but I honestly thought it would not be for months! I guess today I start to seriously try to figure my way out of THIS CORNER I'm in! What a mess!

Yeah!!!! Obama wins!

What a great day for America! I really like Obama, and I'm extremely happy that he won. He'll not have an easy job of it, but he's got the country behind him. It'll take a long time to try and fix the mess Bush left us with!

This afternoon I finished piecing my friend Donna's quilt together. Donna was diagnosed with cancer about two months ago. She asked me if I would make a comfort quilt for her, so that's what I'm doing. It's not in my favorite colors (rust, orange, brown and black) but that's what she asked for.....so that's what I'm doing. I used to send the pieced quilt to the quilt shop in CT to be finished, but they have closed their doors since the last time I made a quilt (Maureen's). I'm going to attempt to quilt this one on my own, small, not-fancy, Singer machine. Wish me luck! I hope to get it to Donna in a couple of weeks.

Another ER trip

Hi Everyone. Grampa had to make another trip to the ER last night, but he's O.K. It seems he was cleaning inside his ears with a qtip, and drew blood. Since he's on blood thinners, the girls wanted to play it safe, so they sent him, in an Ambulance, to the local hospital. I was so wiped out from working the sales for nine hours (you know, standing on the cement floors?) that I barely made the drive home, let alone going back down to Providence to sit with Grampa for who knows how many hours! I worried about him, but since I knew it was not a life-threatening situation, I just fell asleep. This morning I called Hebert's, and Bonnie told me he was back at 10p.m. and in fact, he had perforated his ear drum. Feel free to call him today, and check up on him.

Back to work today.