Ten Things

Ten general comments:

1. The loaf with Cheddar and Parmesan cheese that is in the machine right now is at the point where it is smelling delicious.
2. I have eaten three of Schwan’s fudge sticks already today.
3. I went for a walk in the rain–in the COLD rain.
4. Fred has just gone up to the grocery store after perusing the weekly flier.
5. The book club meeting is on Tuesday. I liked Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym better than I thought I would.
6. The fan in our bedroom is broken. This is a problem because we both like the feeling of air blowing on us even in winter.
7. Because of the time of year, I have a heavy coat AND a lighter coat hanging over the back of a chair.
8. I find myself thinking about my next pencil sketch and the class on Friday next.
9. Since we have made inroads on the white bread I made for Robin, I need to make another loaf tomorrow  to take to her on Monday when I go to tutor her again.
10. I wonder how many calories per slice this new cheese loaf will be…

Ten Things I am Wearing:

1. White socks–THICK white socks
2. Blue and white walking shoes in a size 11 wide
3. Pale blue jeans in size 14.
4. A grey and white cotton sweater
5. A white sports bra but only because I cleaned out my underwear drawer last night and found several sports bras I had forgotten I owned.
6. White cotton panties
7. Mascara
8. Lip balm because I just went out for a walk and it is chilly here.
9. “Flowers” by Kenzo lotion. I am experimenting with different perfumes and lotions these days. When I was younger I was very limited as to what I could wear because most perfumes ended up smelling very odd after a time, but my body chemistry seems to have become more “normal” as I get older.
10. Dark blue little dangling earrings.

Ten Good Things about my Life

1. Fred is in it.
2. I  do only what I want to do.
3. I am taking a basic art class
4. The local book club is introducing me to different authors and different genres from those I normally read.
5. My DVD player which was a gift from my younger son last Christmas
6. Netflix
7. I am still walking and still getting pleasure from walking.
8. I have  a few of the aches and pains associated with getting older but, on the whole, I am healthy enough to be able to do anything I want to do.
9. I have enough money to pay my bills and to be able to frivol away a small amount wuihout being worried about it.
10. A DSL connection

Ten Good Objects in my Life:

1. My iPod which sometimes is the only reason I  go for a walk.
2. My bread machine.
3. My new digital camera
4. My new ultra-thin, no frame, darkening-in-the-light glasses
5. My bright yellow, thinsulate-lined, Land’s End winter jacket
6. My old-but-good dark-green Kia Sephia car
7. My Sony Vaio laptop with its wireless connection to the Internet
8. My paper shredder to destroy all the unasked-for applications for credit cards.
9. My small  collection of DVD which include “Star Wars, I Claudius, the Lord of the Rings Trilogy,” and “Monty Python’s Search for the Holy Grail”
10. Fred’s apple slicer and corer which I use more than he does.

Until later…