Today was a roller coaster kind of day! The furnace room is not as easy to empty as I thought it would be. The box of kids books was my first task. I found a few that are ready to be given away, but that still leaves all the Franklin books, Little Critters, and Clifford, The Big Red Dog. Not outstanding literature, but very sentimental never the less. My kids loved these books; these are the books I read to them over and over and over. They are not "garage sale" bin books (well they could be if they didn't have the sentimental factor). No these are the books that need to be passed on to a new generation. Look out Miss Caylee, your home library is going to get full, very fast!!!!!
Tomorrow I am moving on to the boxes. Empty boxes; empty boxes filled with empty boxes. It's a Bill thing, don't ask!
That takes us to supper time. This is the second time I have ruined a very good rack of ribs. I got the recipe from my sister in law Anne. I followed the recipe to the best of my ability. It said to leave them in the 375 oven for 1 1/2 hours to 2 hours. No where did it say to check on them to see if they were burning. I need precise instructions. When Anne made them, they were tender, mouth watering, fall off the bone delicious. When I make them they were burnt tasting dry ribs. Not the outcome I was going for....... Kudos to the son and Bill for eating them anyway.
The last part of my day was filled with my ultimate dream and one of the items on my 50 things to do list. Actually I covered two things from that list. The first was I drove by our old house in Westgate - 248 Westwood Drive. It's still blue, it appears to have the same steep backyard. I lived them from the age of 5 1/2 til the end of grade 5. As I drove there, I recalled friends homes, the route to school, and there was such a familararity from many dreams I've had about the neighborhood. It brought back many great memories.
The second item on my list was.......Line Dancing..... I signed up back in June, and our first class was tonight. I was in heaven. Learned two dances and had a great time. This is what I'll be doing every Tuesday for the next 12 weeks. Once I have the You-Tube website for the dances, I'll post them so you can see what I've learned (and I can have help with remembering) It was so much fun, I can't wait to practise in the morning and get my cowboy boots out!!!!!! Yeah haw!!!
BODY: Needless to say I am over my 10,000 steps. Partly from my furnace room cleaning; partly from taking Maya for her courgar walk; but mostly from my line dancing!!!!!
MIND: My face has the biggest smile as I write this and think about my line dancing. I think this quote from the hilarious Lucille Ball says it all "It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy." Line dancing makes me happy.
Night to all
Stacey
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