Rules of the Universe Part 1

My dear friend Joni (also my personal shopper but that's a different story) sent these to me and I'm going to share them with you in a series because they are funny, yet true! Here's the first 10.

1. Never, under any circumstances, take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
2. Don't worry about what people think; they don't do it very often.
3. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
4. A conscience is what hurts when all of your other parts feel so good.
5. A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.
6. Junk is something you've kept for years and throw away three weeks before you need it.
7. There is always one more imbecile than you counted on.
8. Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
9. It ain't the jeans that makes your butt look fat.
10. The decrease in one’s metabolism is in direct proportion to the increase in one’s appetite. (I added this one from experience)

Tuesday my friend Rebecca, who is a wonderful gift in my life, picked Rich up at day care and took him to supper so I could have a relaxing evening knitting with my friends. After I broke my leg Rebecca and Kerri-her daughter-came over and cleaned my house, changed my sheets, did my laundry, and brought meals several times. She drove us around and helped collect wheel chairs and such things and was just so much help. I can never tell her how much I appreciate her.

Have any of you tried the new cupcake bakeries? Oh my gosh, they are so good and expensive but worth it.

OTN I'm about to finish the Advent scarf. I'm really going to try and get some pictures posted this weekend, I'm way behind.

Well that's it for tonight. I finally was drug kicking and screaning to Facebook like I need another computer place to read. Thanks for dropping by....toodles......Anita

Scenic Site Saturation

Yep that’s what I said—I reached the Scenic Site Saturation Point and I knew if I looked at one more beautiful site in Colorado that my eyes would explode. But it’s kind of hard to not see the beauty in Colorado.

We took a vacation last week to Colorado Springs and visited all the places you are supposed to visit there: Royal Gorge, Garden of the Gods, Manitou Springs Cliff dwellings, Cripple Creek (yuck), the Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad, Pikes’ Peak-where-I-ate-a-donut-and-thought-I-was-going-to-faint-not-from-the-donut-but-from-the-thin-air. Hard to breathe up there. I was rushing to the restroom thinking I’d better go cause if I faint I might wet my pants and that would never do. I didn't--faint or wet my pants. We also had supper and a music show at the Flying W Ranch, and another supper at this restaurant that is partly made from an airplane. Pretty cool. There are gift shops everywhere and I am a grandmother…do I need to elaborate? I didn’t think so.

I only took one project, my Advent Scarf, to work on and that was a mistake. Some of those lace patterns are just to complicated to work on in a crowd. So I knitted and tinked knitted and tinked knitted and tinked then finally gave up. Got it going again after we got home. So 13 hours of knitting wasted, but it kept me out of trouble.

I’ve had something of an epiphany but I’m not ready to talk about it yet.