Grandma would be so pleased.

I had to laugh about a friend's journal post today where she said her husband was sick so she had to take care of his Farmville farm as well as her own! That is so funny, but hey, even when you're sick, farming goes on! Actually she had to farm three farms that day because she farms on her son's farm, too.

I can totally understand it, because you know I have two farms, mine and Kim's. When I started farming, it was so much fun that I couldn't wait for my crops to grow, so I started a second farm on Kim's account! Now that my farms have gotten bigger, it's kind of a pain to have to farm both of them, but I solved that by planting crops on Kim's farm that take longer to grow, so that I don't have to run from one farm to another to harvest everything at the same time.

One of my Facebook friends used to farm but doesn't any more, and she was telling a story on Fb about a woman who was taken to the hospital and needed to be admitted, but first the sick woman needed to talk to her best friend, and it turned out that she needed to ask her friend to take care of her farm while she was in the hospital! It's funny, but it's true that it would be on your mind if you suddenly had to go away from home for a few days!

One time I had a little time on my hands (when don't I?) and I was going through all my friends farms, fertilizing their crops, and I saw that my cousin Diana's crops were wilting. I sent her a text message to tease her about it, and she called me to say that she was in the car on a short driving trip with her husband and couldn't get home in time to save her crops! Her husband was laughing at us, but he suggested that she give me her password so I could farm them, and she did, so I saved the rest of them. A couple of weeks later, I had to ask her to take care of my farm for the same reason, so it's a good thing to have a trusted friend to help you.

Diana is so funny, now that her kids have left home (more or less) and it's too boring at her house, she is on the computer all the time playing these facebook games. She started with Yoville, and now she has an apartment in Yoville, a house and a mobile home, plus, she runs another Yoville game on her friend's account, just because she likes to play it. I started Yoville because Diana liked it so much, but I didn't care about it, so she used to sign in and play my character, too, when she needed extra money in the game!

Then she started playing Petville and got me playing that with her, but we have both stopped that one. You just feed your pet, clean its house, and collect furniture. I got tired of that fast. It's too much like housework, and I'm not interested in that, either.

The other game she plays now is Vampire Wars, and last night she told me she hoped I wouldn't mind, but that she started playing a character in Vampire Wars on my Facebook account because she needed more members in her group of Vampires! I told her I don't care, and asked if that meant I should accept Vampire gifts when people send them to me? And she said yes, if I get any, to accept them.

So apparently I am playing Vampire Wars now! She told me that she named my character Wilda, which is the name of our grandmother that we were both very close to, because she thought it was a good name for a vampire. I wonder if Grandma would be pleased? She always wanted one of us to name a child after her.

In which I feel horrible, and yet, so happy.

I hardly slept at all the last couple of days, but I think I am caught up now. Yesterday was weird, because I hadn't slept enough the night before, even though I was home all night. I went to sleep at 10 or so, and woke up at 1. I tried to go back to sleep, but it just didn't happen. I watched TV, farmed my farm, and knitted, and in between those activities, I would go back to bed and try to sleep, but after an hour of laying in bed awake, I'd just give up and go find something else to do.

So it was a long day, and by noon, I was tired, but I had a hair appointment at 1, so I couldn't go to bed! I would have called to cancel, but I had already missed one appointment by forgetting it, so I felt like I owed it to the salon to show up this time! Then I had the bright idea of calling Rachel to see if she wanted to take my appointment! Yay! Rachel went to the salon and I went to bed!

When I woke up, it was almost 7, and as I staggered to the shower, I thought sadly that it was too late in the day for me to see Maddy, and I wondered if Rachel would want to bring the baby over to visit, but I didn't think she would, because it's a lot of work to take a baby out with all of its supplies.

After my shower, I got dressed, and then from downstairs, I heard a noise! And it was Maddy! She and Rachel were in the living room! So I had a nice time playing with Maddy, and then she had to go home to bed. (Rachel's hair looked good.)

When Maddy and Rachel were here, I was coughing a bit, and after they left, I started to feel feverish and cough more, and I realized that what I thought was asthma for the last few days, was actually a cold coming on! Oh noes! I hope Maddy doesn't catch it!

Dr. Diana recommended that I get some Dayquill to take at work, so I went to the grocery store on my way to work, and bought Dayquill, and Nyqill to take in the morning to help me sleep. Diana was right! The Dayquill helped a lot, and I took the Nyquill capsules when I got home in the morning and slept all day! Oh the happiness!

And now here I am, sitting in the big chair with my laptop on a little table in front of me, drinking a Diet Pepsi, and watching the Olympics. I'm still sick, but life looks pretty good from my big chair.

Kim is home!

Kim came home this weekend, and I have been so busy with Rachel and Maddy that I hadn't even gone to the grocery store to stock up on sausage links and frozen pizza. Also, RA is still out of town, so I haven't been out much. I don't think there is even any Mountain Dew in the house! I wasn't even expecting Kim until late last night, but it turns out there was a fortuitous power outage all over campus and her afternoon class was cancelled, so she left early and was here at 5:30!

Rachel and Maddy were here, so as soon as Kim came in, she sat in a chair and held the baby. It would have made a cute picture if I had thought to take one!

Rich was getting ready to leave for TaeKwonDo, and we were going to juggle all the cars in the driveway to get his out, but then he had the bright idea of just driving Kim's car, so that was easy.

There was a dog show on TV, one of our favorite things to watch, so Rachel, Kim, Maddy and I watched the dog show, and then Kim and I collaborated on a Spanish Omelet for dinner. It was very pleasant evening.

I'm happy to be off this weekend to watch the start of the Olympics! I love the Winter Olympics, and I'm ready with a sweater to knit while I watch! I'm working on a sweater for Carolyn in grey Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks, and I plan to have it done before the end of the Olympics!

Take my love, take my land

I'm sorry that I haven't made a post since January, but I have my reasons. First, lack of material to write about, because RA is out of town again and the only place I've gone since she left is over to Rachel's to hold the baby so she can take a nap. Oh, except for that day when Rachel needed to go to the mall in Rockford to buy some bras because she couldn't stand the one she was wearing for another minute! It was eating her alive!

So we took the baby and went to the mall, and we just went straight to the Motherhood store, where Rachel bought four (!) bras and was feeling much better about her life, and I was holding the baby and walking around the store while she was in the fitting room and everyone admired the baby, and then when I said something about her mother, I got looks of surprise and someone said, "Oh, she's not your baby?" and I thanked them for thinking I am young enough to have a baby, and then we went straight back home without even going to look in the windows of the Gap, my favorite store in the world! I know, shocking.

We did stop in a yarn store on our way out of town, but it's not really a very good yarn store, so I just bought a couple of skeins of Encore sport-weight to make a sweater for Carl.

Also, I usually write my journal posts at work, where I have a routine of reading webcomics and journals and then writing my own journal during the first hour of the night, but last week my boss had another one of his cunning plans to entrap the bimbos from the answering service - and I don't understand his fuzzy thinking on this- but he plans to audit their internet useage, so he told Barb that we should not surf the net at work for about 45 days, and that is really cramping my style, because how am I supposed to write my journal and stalk Rachel's old boyfriends if I don't use the internet at work? What will I do when Bill from Housekeeping wants me to help him find a Ballad of Serenity ringtone for his cell phone? How will I know what ugly outfits celebrities are wearing without reading Go Fug Yourself?

So you see that I just don't have anything to write about, but I will make an effort to write about nothing more often.

PS, It's snowing.