It has been a long time. I know I should have been better about this, but I wasn't doing well for quite a while. I had been limping along on a generic previous generation of my SSRI, and then I was out of that and I fell hard. Greg pretty much forced me to go back to the Dr and get her to argue with the insurance co. that what they wanted me to have wasn't working. Once I got back, things have gotten better.
This is the update on "Northern Shield" As you can see, I am almost done, just three more rows to go. 
I have joined the working stiffs. I now work at the hospital, cleaning the medical office building three nights a week and doing a patient floor every other weekend. Not exactly what I would want to do for a career, but it will bring in some cash.
The kids are all doing well. Rebekah got all A's on her report card, Patrick got all S's but one-for not coloring neatly. Mariska, well Mariska got a haircut. One night, Greg went to bed and she got up, went down stairs and had herself a grand old time with my embroidery scissors. We did an emergency run to the hair dressers, and this is what she ended up with.
and the back
It looks cute on her, but I will be letting it grow out.
Not much else going on. I would have thought I would have more, but once I sit down to do this, I realize how mundane everything is. I mean I have been doing the same ole' same ole'. I have been reading more lately. I read the Maximum Ride series by James Patterson, "The Afghan" by Frederick Forsythe. I am working on "Echo Park" by Michael Connelly, "The Mephisto Club" by Tess Gerritsen and "Chosen by a Horse" by Susan Richards. Think I have a problem sticking with something????
Ohh, word has come down from on high at Yahoo that 360 will be done away with and a "more integrated" platform will be put in place sometime after the beginning of the year, or at least during the first quarter. I don't know if they will be able to do that, or how successful the migration to the new service will be. So, that said, I will be duplicating these entries on Mulitply. If I end up liking the new product, nothing is lost. If I don't, then everything is over at Multiply. The addy is http://n8iveio1.multiply.com/ . Feel free to check it out.
And that was just the preliminaries. We had to journey up to Derby to Lowe's to get the supplies. We had two broken windows. One in Patrick's room and one in the living room. Both broken by Patrick, oddly enough. And since they were the original, double hung windows that someone had cut the weights on, Greg decided since he had them apart, he might as well fix them completely. And then there was the debate on matching the stain color. I was right. 
Greg was nice and got the clothes line strung while I went and got clothes pins. I have done about 4 loads and hung them in the heat to dry. This should save a little $ on gas usage. Greg made a crack about working to get my dryer hooked up and now I am not using it. So I said that was less about the dryer hooked up and more about the fridge in the kitchen. 
I decided instead of taking on the second hole, I would go after the butt ugly bathroom paint. This is what it looked like when we moved in:
So I had a gallon of this really pale blue sitting around that was originally going to be Mariska's room. I decided to use it here. Even if I don't keep it that way for a long time, it certainly looks better than the sponging.
I wanted to go to KMart, its usually nearly empty. When I would go to WW in Cheyenne, I always went at like 11:30 pm. much less crowded. 
And I have my dishwasher back!!!!! We still have work left to do with the counters. We had to take out three upper cabinets and cut one lower in half. They were all built in probably back in the late '40's and well built, so there was no real saving the cabinets, but we are reusing everything we can. I am going to take the old shelves and put them in the mudroom so I have somewhere to store my laundry stuff. Here is where the washer and dryer ended up, where the fridge was. 
