I want higher temperatures!!!

Goodmorning everybody!

As planned, how wonderful, I went for some shopping on Wednesday. I can tell you I had all sorts of weather during the little trip. At the time I walked to the bank, it started to rain, and turned into wet snow. It was not the weather I asked for!
Okay, it stopped after a while and when I was done at the super, the sky had cleared up, showed some blue and even the sun came out. And then it was even rather nice outside, as long as I stayed into the sun and out of the wind.
Home again I took me sandwich and didn;t do much else  LOL.
Some little things, yes, but in the afternoon I sat down to watch a nice serie I like to follow, and some more stuff on tv, soon it was time for dinner and that was the day.
Some good news about Jan. He had, because of his painkillers, some constipation trouble, so when he went to our doctor, he got some medcine for that too. It took some time to work, but hoorray, the last two or three days it is working and it's a big relief for him. I know how that feels, had it myself a couple of times, yak.
It's not all to usual yet, but i's a good start and only willwork "natural"again when he stopps taking the painkillers. He doesn't use them as much as at the beginning, but still needs them at times.
Slowly and careful are the words at the moment. I am already glad that the laxative is doing it's job, poor soul can do without any extra trouble.

Oh, despite of the weather Jan did plant seeds in a lot of pots and it's now an every day round to take a look at them( they are standing at several places in the room LOL), and oh my, you cannot stop nature's behaviour, a lot of them are peeping up already, some grow really with an unbelievable speed!. Okay, that's motivation to endure a bit nasty weather, and I have hopes temps will go up a few degrees next week. Already would be a good thing if the night temperatures stayed above zero.
Oh my, despite of his physical condition at the moment Jan had already some ideas for the garden to tackle this spring. We have a tiny little rockgarden, where I have also the mini-mini-pond for the frogs and toads. Now he came with the idea to move it to another spot in the garden, and rebuild it.
I couldn;t help myself starting to laugh a bit, telling him that all is nice, but that at the moment he was in no condition to do such work, but I also didn;t want to spoil the fun, so I said we probably could do that, but a bit later in the year, when it would be much nicer to be outside.
Still I admire his spirit, not complaining about his situation(although I know he HATES it), no, it's always me who has to ask how he is doing, and have to do it with some reluctancy, otherwise he gets really irritated LOL.

What a sad sight at our half of the street! They started to cut the trees and it really is a pity.
Okay, they will plant back new ones, but it surely is a naked view at the moment.
But Jan had great news too, the other day. He was for a moment looking into the garden and spotted several great tits!! It might not be something special to a lot of you, but it was so for us. Being in the middle of the city, having a cat roaming in it, I thought it was wonderful. Lots of gardens that are still in town, don;t have too much greenery in it, a lot of people remove the planting and trees, put in tiles, because they want to have an easy garden, which isn;t good for the birds and all other creatures.
So if we have visits of frogs, toads and now again from some great tits, I feel happy.
Perhaps I can find a little birdhouse for a few bucks and hang it in the ivy we have at parts of the garden fence. Who knows, may be we will have some tennants there? The cat cannot climb into it, so they would be safe.

Okay, enough rambling done, let's take a look at today's freebie. It is named'What means the Most"and is in soft colors. And oh my, what a wonderful present you will get from Arlene!
She not only made lovely clusters as usual but also gives you TWO quickpages. Yes, I have a lot of previes today. One of the kit, one of the papers, and two of Arlene's work.
I wish you all a spectacular weekend, with a lot of scrapping pleasure!

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In better condition again!

Goodmorning everybody!

Wow, after I got the low energy stuff off my chest on Monday I shaked myself well and did some serious housework. Ha, two laundries were done, the bedsheets were changed, and it was not really much but a good start. Yesterday I did a bit more of that boaring housework stuff, so all is coming back to a bit normal LOL!

The weather here isn;t too bright you know. We are back in wintery temperatures, still here at the coast above zero at daytime, but the wind comes from the North and that makes it feel a lot colder. In the south of Hollad and in the countries around, as also in France there wa a tremendous snowfall again.
Gosh, I really hope this is the last breath of Mr. Winter and that he will leave real soon!

The next few months our street ( and some of the streets around) will be a mess again! We just got a letter from the city council, that there has to be done some repair or renewal of the sewage. Then you know what happens, the sidewalk will be broken up, lots of sand and difficult passage etc. And it just was opened not too long ago for some other work, and I wonder why they couldn;t do this sewage thing at about the same time?
Most sad thing is that they will cut the trees in our street, because they are placed above a part of the sewage. They already started with that. What a pity. We already doon't have too much "green" around here and now we loose a part of the trees too. They promised to plant them back after the work has been done, but it will not be the same!

Today i want to do a bit more of the housework, LOL, but first I will have to go out for a few groceries and also to the bank for some bills to pay. They keep coming and even sometimes unexpected ones, which I like not at all. But somehow we will manage, I hope, to get through that "mountain"of bills that always show up around this time of  year.

I just came from Linda's blog, among others I alwys go to when I get to the computer in the morning, and she made a fantastic quickpage with the kit Fabuloso, and she even made her bloglayout with it on her other blog. Worth to take a look!
Kit of today is much darker of color than the last ones, but I hope you will still like it. It's named Portraits of the Past, Arlene did again some marvels with it.
I made two downloads for this one and also split the Fabuloso kit in two, because some of you have trouble downloading the "heavier kits".
 Now I must slowly get into action, it doesn;t look very nice outside, no sunshine, even some dark clouds appear. Hopefully I will stay dry.
Have a terrific day!

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Low energy weekend LOL

Goodmorning everybody!

It's going on and off with Jan at the moment. One day it's better, another day it's less, we both get a bit cranky about it. I still have good hopes Jan will be better, but it sure takes a long time.
He is holding on, not complaining about it, great guy. Although sometimes I want him to tell a little bit more about it. I think soon he will have to go to the sickness benefit agency that pays his "salary"at the moment, to see what progress he has made. Well, we see what ideas they will have.
I must say, they are very accommodating, till now.

We will just have to be patient and full of good hope that suddenly one day it will be a lot better, sometimes the body is taking it's time.

Because of this you can understand there is not all toom uch activity around here, apart from the general things that have to be done in the house, that I have to do, but you know, it's a bit hard to keep up my own energy to get things done. Strange but true. So today I just have to get a bit busy.

Not a very exciting post I must say. I don't want to sound so bleak, it is not in my nature, it's just that at the moment I cannot think of anything really nice to tell, or something funny that happened. Don;t you worry, I am not getting depressed, it's just a moment of non inspiration and it will pass soon enough LOL.

I think I better finish this post, before I spoil your day, hahaha, and post the freebie.
It's  named "Touch of Art", I hope it can be used for some great layouts, together with some clusters Arlene made.
So now I will gget me an extra boost of energy, my coffee, LOL and I am sure next post will be much better than this one, I will do my best for it okay?
Have a great day!!!

P.S. This kit is a bit "heavy"in MB, sorry for that, I know some of you have trouble downloading that, but I already had packed and zipped and uploaded it, when I got some request to split up these "heavier"kits in two downloads. I will try to think of it in future.  Sorry for the possible inconvenience.

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We could sniff at a bit of spring

Goodmorning everybody!

Last few days we had real nice weather, temperatures about 55 F! Oh, that was so nice.
Only I think I catched a little bug, which made me feel not really good at Tuesday evening and the Wednesday. You know, a bit cold all the time, a bit pain in the legs, in short,not comfortable in your own skin! Oh my, I thought, now Jan is slowly feeling a bit better and it starts on me again, I won;t have that!! So Wednesday I stayed in, took a couple of asperines, dressed real warm and went to bed rather early. And miracle, yesterday I woke up at about 9.30 and felt much better. Not all gone yet, but what a difference to the other day.
I think this happens because of the quick change of temperature we had lately. In a few days temperatures went up to those 55-58F, from the very low as around 40, so no wonder people cannot adapt that quickly. And it isn;t lasting all too long, this weekend it will drop again to the 40 at daytime. What a pity!

Nevertheless it inspired Jan to plant a lot of seeds in little pots, some I gathered from plants in the garden and two sachets I bought for him the other day. So everywhere in the room you can find pots with seeds now LOL! Hopefully some of them will do well and produce some nice flowers.

So with the bug playing tricks with me you can understand I didn;t do all too much. Well, no really important things had to wait a bit, hope to do them today and tomorrow and all will be fine again.
In a few minutes Jan will go for his appointment to the doctor across the street, glad he can tell him it is going a bit better, I warn him not to be too enthousiastic, and take it real easy, not overdo the walking and moving around. Porbably he will get the same advice from the doctor and take the pilss for some more days, perhaps in lesser quantity than now.

I will have enough to do at the computer this weekend, arlene just mailed me that she will send me new clusters from the kits I made lately, so I am curious what she will come up with again. Also have to finish two I was working on this week.
 And today I better take advantage of the still mild weather to go for the shopping(didn;t do that the other days) , then do some "frightning the dust bunnies game"(ROFL) and such and around dinner time install myself comfy on the couch! Seems a good idea to me.

I have a lovely kit for you with real beauties from Arlene to match, she made a fantastic page border for you!
Enjoy your weekend, have some fun, have some relaxing, do a bit of scrapping, make the most of the time you have!

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May be some good news

Goodmorning everybody!

Yesterday Jan went to the doctor. Doctor looked at the photos from hospital of his back, and had a good look over his back and came to the following conclusion:
Jan has a bit of worn out spinal, (which didn;t surprise me to hear), and the pain he is having at the moment is caused by very much irritated muscles at the side of it.
He gave him another painkiller, much stronger than the last pills, and Jan has to come back on Friday.
Well, I rushed to the drugstore to get his pills, he took right away one and another one around dinner time and I think another one just before going to sleep.
Oh, miracle, already yesterday evening he was feeling a lot better. Still it hurts of course, but already less than the day before. The muscles get a chance to "rest" a bit, and hopefully he ges a better sleep now which will be a good thing too. Let us just hope these pills will do the trick and that by Friday he can tell the doctor it is going the good way. I hope so, because when these pills don;t do the trick, he might need some fysiotherapie, but it is not a real option, cause we will have to pay for the sessions.
It is not in the health care assurance, and a session will not cost peanuts.
Jan even felt so much better yesterday already, that he even talked about getting on his bike again next week. I urged him, not to be too optimistic and take by the day and then we'll see next week.
I so hope it will go and stay better with him now, he has had trouble enough the last few months, don;t you  think?
So we all cross fingers and think "painless back", okay? LOL.

After I was back from the drugstore, I went out for some grocerie shopping and oh my, the weather was really so nice! Sunny, temps around 55 F or even a bit higher, almost no wind, it really felt like Spring. I hope today we will have about the same weather, then perhaps I can do something in the garden. Even a little bit will be good already, a start has to be made.

Yesterday afternoon I spent a little bit of time at the computer and the result you can see in my bloglayout. New month, new layout, I thought. I could do that, because I really did do some things of my to-do list I made Monday. Every day a bit will do the trick, hopefully.

Our cat Brodski is surely feeling the change in weather. The last two days he spent a lot of time outside, and then of course had to take a loooong nap again to recover grin!

As we hopefully are heading tospringtime, I post a springy kit today, named........Towards Spring".
All in fresh greens and some bright yellow and orange accents to it.
Sweet clusters from Arlene to complete it.
Have a wonderful day.

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May be a touch of spring!

By now it's already late afternoon! I just spotted that Blogger didn;t post this post, but lucky for me it was still in draft mode PFFFFF! So here you go with today's post and sorry for the delay!






Goodmorning everybody!

First thing I did this morning was calling the doctor. It took a few tries before I got through(it's the 1st day after his holiday), but I made an appointment for Jan for tomorrow morning.
The doctor's wife was very happy to hear that I wanted the appointment for tomorrow LOL.

Oh my, this weekend I was LAZY! Yes, I really was. I spent lots of time at the computer, and I made two kits and started another one. Now that I call productive!!

And what did I hear at the weather forcast for this week? The temperatures might get as high as around 55F in the next few days! Oh whee, that could be wonderful. With a bit of sunshine and almost no wind it might be even real nice. If that happens, who knows, one of these days I might be working for a while in the garden. Not a bad idea, a lot of pruning needs to be done, like the rose bushes and the hydrangea and the ivy!
So today I will have to do some serious work in the house, e.g. laundry, ironing, dusting, perhaps even change bedsheets, more than enough to keep me busy. Not my favourite things for passing the time, but heu, once started, it isn;t even taking a lot of time. Only the "starting"is sometimes a bit difficult ROFL>

Tomorrow some shopping has to be done again, always amazing how quickly you get through the "stock", well, some things.
Oh, I went to the market on Friday, just a quick visit, but I came home with 3 chunks of cheese, yummie. Also took home some onions, garlic, and apples.
Didn't buy veggies, because I still have enough in the freezer, better to finish them first, before I get new.

So with all the plans I have in mind, I better be quick this morning at the posting and not stay too long at the computer. But it helps that the weather looks a lot friendlier today, with sunshine and some blue sky. I am definately a spring and summer person, I always have much more energy in this old body, grin!!

Remember the sneak peek I gave you last week? Well, I think Iwill offer that kit today, named "Frozen in Time". I have two previews, one of the kit and one of the papers, and you will have a lovely add-on from Arlene, very sweet clusters.
I will do my best to accomplish my plans for today, it will give me a good feeling if they come true!
Have a terrific Monday!

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A new month just started

Goodmorning everybody!

I read it on lots of blogs: where has time gone to? It is really a bit freaky that we arrived in March already. Time is going so fast, it is like sand slipping through your fingers LOL!

Well, yesterday I was free of all nasty things of epilepsie again, and I could move around as always. Not that I did too much! But some shopping was necessary, and I even sweeped the vacuum cleaner around.
It's not too bad weather here, temperature just a few degrees above zero, sometimes even sunshine, only the wind is still blowing from the wrong direction, which makes it feel colder than it is.
Looks to be somewhat better today, so perhaps I make a quick visit to the market in the afternoon.
We are almost out of cheese and that cannot be!
Oh, I did make all the copies for the accountant and mailed the envelope yesterday. So that is done and in progress soon. Feels rather good.

I think I should look around where I left the seeds I collected last year in the garden and see what I have. It's time to plant them in their little pots and hopefully some of them will grow and flourish.
Good thing to do for Jan I think. Oh, and may be the guy with all the seed packets and such is at the market, may be I can find some nice seed packets there too, keeps Jan a bit busy, he had fun looking after the little plants last year.

I wonder where the brains are gone from our piliticians! Just read on teletekst that, of course, new measurements have to be taken, to fight the crisis, okay, we know by now, you cannot continue to spend money without sometimes cutting back, but now they ask of the health care employees that their wages stay on the "zero-line"! And government wants to cut into health care another billion!

This is the news article, I used some of Google translate(which isn;t aways so good but it helps)

Health care workers  do not cooperate  with the " zero line"of the cabinet.
 
The Union for health workers does not work with it to the plan of the Cabinet of a billion euro cut back by nomore  salary increase

'' This is a matter for employers and employees. We conclude a collective labour agreement for good times and bad. It's panic football to say it comes worse, now may you pay the Bill. ''

According to the saying of the bond  the personnel isn't counting on a pay rise of 4 percent, of course.. '' But the fight we have to do is at the the table by us and our employers.  The pressure on the employees is already been compounded by earlier cuts. We don't do any charity work. ''

In addition, even lower salaries in the care  does not manage to attract new people
The Government wants on the budget by 2014 approximately 4.5 billion euro cut back. By employees in the care and elsewhere in the public sector on the zero line governments expects 2 billion would be saved.

Everybody knows about the crisis at the moment, and it is not all bla bla, but I think there are governments who play that panic football, in order to push through their plans at all costs.
Why? You tell me, I don;t know, but one thing I do, and that is the fact that some have to pay a much larger cut of that bill than others. And I think we could be proud of our health care, but if they go on with the plans they have(this is just a little portion of it!) we soon will not have health care anymore, at least not for everyone.

Ghee it can make me so mad thinking of it! There are other ways of cutting back governmental expenses, but surely not in health care salary ( and I mean then the salary of the general health care worker, not the directions and staff!0.

Well, enough now, I got some steam vented LOL, time to think about nicer things, like a new freebie, hey?Nice colors, lots of different use I think, and lovely clusters. Arlene is spoiling you, because she didn;t make only clusters but also a fantastic quickpage!!!What do you want more for the weekend hahaha.
You all have a great weekend, see you back on Monday.

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