Archive for October, 2009

Rambling Woman get Worse

Friday, October 30th, 2009

There are allot of things going on today.. I need to do laundry, get the last of the things ready and in the car to be transported to my sister-in-laws house for a yard sale tomorrow… Most important I need to start making phone calls to find a place to deliver a oxygen machine with breathing treatments for my Mom. Doctors office doesn’t seem to be able to find a place to take her insurance. Sense doctors office is in a different town a half hour away from us maybe I can have better luck… Cross your fingers and toes…

I have been having pain in my arms again.. the meds they gave me when I fell seem to take the edge off of it… I don’t think the doctor will fill this… So will have to find another way to take care of this….I hate taking pain meds and I am finding I have a terrible tolerance to pain.. And I thought I was so good at it… I think its my arthritis and being a heavy person does not help..I know this … I wish I was taller then my fat would have more places to hide… I need to get out and walk with my neighbors… The only excuse I have is they are so ahead of me I would keep them back.. I could get out and ride my bike and I have no excuse for not doing that… I will start today… after dinner… that is when I use to ride… I am making myself a promise… If anyone wants to ride or walk with me just let me know, we can even do it long distance by phone… LOL….

I am going to my daughters after the holidays I can’t decide if I want to fly or drive… no one but me wants me to drive…I would love it if my youngest daughter would drive one way with me and fly home… We might even be able to pick up my friend on the way. That would be fun. Then my cousin is coming to Florida for the winter and is going to rent a car. Maybe her family can drive her to my daughters house and she can drive home with me… So when I leave my friend off I will still have someone to drive with.  I would love it if she decided to find a place not so far from us..I would have someone to hang out with… This year I think I will make a couple of trips over to my sister-in-laws to visit with out my husband… That is my thoughts for now .. She and husband live and hour from us…We have always thought we could hang out together.. but when I got rid of my other car that was not possible now that I have another car it might be..It will give me a little more freedom not that I need to get away from anyone here.. Its just nice to be with another woman and just have fun….

I have been thinking of making me an old fashioned dress apron to wear at the flee market I have lots of Holiday material and it would be fun to have one for the holidays and one for after… I am getting in the making spirit again.. Have not been there for a long time… Making gifts for the girls and they are coming out pretty good.. My biggest problem is the tying off … I hope I am doing it right.. We will see when the girls start using there gifts… They are making up so fast I might even make me some for when I go to my daughters…

My book store on line has been real slow… I have not added anything to it in a while… have over 1300 items… I have been real busy with my items for the flee market  and trying to decide if I want to go bigger when I go back… I would have to get more customers… And the weather has allot to do with it… I do not want to go inside as the people don’t seem inclined to go there… I don’t know why other than the same people sell in there…all the time…There has to be a way to get people to come in there… I have been thinking and thinking on it..

Well time to get up and get moving.. I might be going to yard sales this morning… will see what my husbands thoughts are on the subject… I cut out all the paper for the list of places to go.. He will put them in order and I will tape them to a sheet of paper to get us on the way… I need to go to Joe Bullards today to pick up more of his “Waiting for Agnes” I have one left… I have sold over 200 copys of this book… I am so glad that I started selling for him and for me…

Well this rambling woman is done for now have a great weekend if I don’t get back on here… tell me what you think of my rambling… If you are looking for a great used or new book, might be signed or autographed might even wrap it for the holidays if needed.. see me at www.readerwave.ecrater.com   Shot glasses have collected them for years have boxes and boxes of them.. I have to sell some of what I have listed at www.shotglassheaven.com before I can get more out have no more room…

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Following Rambling Chickens

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Wow I got so I was following over 500 people on twitter but only 200 were following me.. And that does not mean we were the same people… With so many people that I follow it got hard for me to see the follows I really wanted to see so I started taking some off last night.. Does not mean you were bad just that I like another a little better.. I am not done as I only took of about 50. I got tired as it was after midnight and I had already said good night to the one I follow the most @weatherangel… Today while I wait for some phone calls from Doctors and stuff I Will work on it some more….

This weekend (Saturday) we are getting up before the chickens and going to Perry,Fl to join the family in a yard sale… Should be fun and hopefully profitable… I will have cheap books and allot of other things..

If you are following me you will notice I am rambling again.. Something I noticed after I used this word a lot of other people are using it also..Does not mean I took it from them or them from me.. We just started using it at the same time… Meaning its a great word… After glancing at the body of this blog I found my Title… Hope you like it…So now I will stop rambling and get to work… or should I take a shower first…and do all the wonderful things that go on in a bedroom place in the early morning… My husband just came in and asked me what I want to do today…. He does this everyday.. He does what ever I want to do with in reason.. Sometimes I get  a smart mouth and tell him to pack his bags(not not to leave me)take me on a trip… Then as you can guess he says around town..  darn…. I would like to say a three letter word that begins with d and ends with m but I don’t…. LOL… see this is rambling…I am done now….

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Crazy Woman Moves On

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

New computer and already its acting up… Hubby thought he fixed the problem last week… but its back again… I give up… I guess I am not suppose to be able to get around on this thing with out someones help all the time… Its makes me very sad to think I have to have help all the time to get around… I guess I know how an older person feels who needs to depend on someones help to get them to Plan A let a lone to B…

Yesterday afternoon talked to my sister in law and we are having a yard sale at her house this weekend… She was planning one and I was picking up the phone to call her about one when she called me… So I invited myself to her house. I have my car all loaded except for some things in my closet that I need to get out. Everything is cheap so I don’t have to carry it back home with me… I am selling books also… some of the older ones for a very small price..If you are looking for something on line try my online bookstore www.readerwave.ecrater.com

I have been caught up in the computer game craze… I love the Bejeweled Belize….I play it all the time… and I have two farms… help me if my crops fail.. I will go broke… LOL…

Well this is my week so far… I hope I can get this to save… with this computer you never know

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Today in the Life

Monday, October 26th, 2009

Lots to do today and don’t know or want to get started… Laundry needs to be done… I need to work in my office on books and in the garage… Have boxes to fill and organize. I want to start making something new as I finished the other items… I want to see if I can follow directions.. I am quite excited about that.. I was on twitter yesterday afternoon and had fun talking back and forth to people.. Sometimes I talk and no one answers…. I had two customers for my stores yesterday. That was great… I will mail one out today and the other when I get the payment… I have started reading a book and its about  Harlequin about a little girl who see things before they happen.. She saved a school bus from going down the river… That’s in the first 10 pages whats going to happen next…?  You can find other books  new and used at www.readerwave.ecrater.com

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Computer games

Sunday, October 25th, 2009

Computer games, wow can they be additive..On facebook with my family and there is Farm Town and Farmville. I just bought a house on one of them and now I have very little money.. Does that sound like real life or what.  I have crops to take care of and animals to milk,collect the wool etc… I just wrote a note to my daughter to take care of her garden. It needs tending.. Now most people would say I need a life…Oh and for the non farmer there are war games… I am always getting invited to those..And the one that can keep me for hours on end during the night the Jewels… Oh I so want to get a big score and beat out the boys… my score is nothing to sneeze at but theirs is better…

so you see why my book store has no new stock.. i have been so so busy with other things…I don’t know where I will put my holiday stock anyways.. Book store only can do media mail  and can’t sell only books there.. So you see there is always a delima around my area…

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New and I am Crazy about it….

Saturday, October 24th, 2009

I got a new car yesterday just for me.. But as of this afternoon my husband will have driven it more than me… I drove it home… He put the Kleenex in for him .. I put the glasses wipes for me and him… He is looking up address on map for a yard sale then we are off… This car is for me to go the flee market and to store my books in all the time never take them out.. when I get home.. Oh I am so glad I just have to load and unload at flee market…

Remember it opens up again November 7th after the fair is over… Then I will have new and used books … I may be going bigger to see how it does… check it out…

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Series Rambling is back….

Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

This week, well today and tomorrow I will be working on putting series together for my flee market store… It started out that I found two books that are a series and I needed to find the books that went with them… found one… So now I need to go though and see if I can find others.. Have several series on line… in my www.readerwave.ecrater.comstore… Nora Roberts, Debbie Macomber, Linda Lael Miller … I had some extras and I think I have some fantasy after I go though some bags out in my garage. Some of the newer stuff I just got last week… Needs a lot of work… trying to decided if I want one or two booths.. This time… Then the next week I have to be closed as company is coming.. From that week on I will be open hoping for some extra business for the holidays… I wish I could be two people as I want to do yard sales also… Can’t do both.. That’s go to them not have them. I already did that last month and we did pretty good… Well the rambling Woman is back…. she never leaves for long…

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Computer Mess Up……..grrr….

Wednesday, October 21st, 2009

Computers and people who can do anything on them baffle me.. I am in a sea of people who can do anything they want on computers.. My husband is wonderful at finding anything he wants.. Our computer died a couple of months ago and he went in and got it going enough to get everything we needed off it to put on a new one… All our pictures… that is what I was worried about.. our personal ones and the over 1000 pictures of books I have taken and labeled by author… It was a lot of work for me to learn how to make folders to take the pictures with the camera and how to take them from the camera to the computer and then to take them from the folder to the site where I wanted to show pictures on my store… This to me was a great great wonderful thing that I did.  I work really hard to learn what I do learn then to change computers and have to learn a new way to get to the same results baffles me more…

Computers can do wonderful things till they decide to not work right. Then I am on there worst list.. Right now my computer decided to have every step I take a challenge.. comes up with an error message you let it run thought click on the message to go away and then all of a sudden there is your page… why… why does my computer not like me… Is it my Dell or is it me… As I have not hear form anyone else that they are having problems like me… why me….. can’t it be someone else for a while…. I hate writing things and then for some reason it won’t go though.

All I want is to be able to get from A to B to C  with out spending hours with error messages then it goes though anyways but takes me 90 places before it lets me go… I am a simple person I work on my email, twitter, facebook, blog,and two stores I am the same person on everyone of them.. www.readerwave.com  God please help my computer see the error of its ways… Stop making my life a living —-. Oh I am a nice person I can’t say those words… I need bitchmoble here from Twitter to say them for me…. LOL

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Books……..

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

Books, there are so many things you can find in them.. You can learn to cook, maybe you want to be like Paula Dean, or Rachel Ray.  Then maybe you want to learn to decorate like Nate, or the design team from Extreme Makeover…Or maybe you want to learn all of it from Martha Stewart..

Books can take you far look at all the books Oprah has had us read over the years…There is so much to find in books… You can learn to read… You can learn your ABC’s and sounds.  Books can teach you games… How to play fair…

There are romance books by authors, Debbie Macomber, Robyn Carr, Joan Johnston, Carlly Philips, and so many more. Mystery and suspense is a good one that everyone loves to read, by authors John Grisham, Brenda Novak, John Finder,Ted Bell, Dan Brown. Then there is fantasy written by Stephen King, Christine Feehan just to name a couple…

Books can be found in lots of places, Big bookstores like Borders, or Barns and Noble, mom and pop stores like Gallery West in Gainsville, Second Edition in Hollywood, Florida these are just two that I know about that sell new and used books. On line stores there are so many you can find the best one that I can tell you about is mine of course www.readerwave.ecrater.com  Then there is www.acread.ecrater.com  there are so many more.. You can find anything you are looking for some where.. You just have to look.. Places you don’t expect to think about looking second hand store, Salvation Army store, grocery store, Walmart is a big seller of books they get allot of the newest paperback on the best seller list..I bought 9 myself this month..

Books can take you lots of places, I have visited Alaska, in romance novels, this is some place I would really like to go some day. I have read of the Racing at Saratoga, I have read of Leaves changing in Vermont, I have read about Presidents and such in books I read in grade school from my school library, Library’s are free you can do so many things there.. whether its your school or public library… Our library has books, on tape, books in large print and just books, there are new hard cover books, there are soft paperback books, Our library even has books for sale that people donate or are taken out of the library for some reason.They even have a place to learn English so there is no reason not to read.My hats off to the person learning a new language. Reading is so much fun… you can read for fun as I do, for the pleasure it brings you… you can read your local newspaper to find out about whats happening in your town and areas around you as my husband does… Just Read….

Second writing one place you can find books I did not mention. Some people sell at Flee Markets, it might be with the other things they are selling they set out a few books they have read. Or Like I do I have whole boxes of just books that is what I offer for sale at the Flee Market.. When I go back in November will be offering new and used… Have been taking apart my book room here at home as right now I am doing better at Flee Market than on line… Yard Sales are another great way to get rid of and buy books… Here locally we go on Friday and Saturdays… When Flee Market is open I go on Fridays so I miss some great sales on Saturdays… Have been to some great ones while its closed

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Help

Monday, October 19th, 2009

I started writing here and hubby came in and changed my whole train of thought… Some days I don’t get dressed as I don’t want to do anything but be around the house whether I am on the computer, reading a book or crocheting.. I have just taken that back up recently.. I am working on simple presents for holidays.. I may get them done and I may not.. I am going in two directions I have picked up simple gifts as well so that I can take them back if I need to… or want to.. I have been asking my Mom for help and have not cringed when she offers with out me asking… This has been our problem in the past to much of the wrong kind of what she calls  help, and I would call butting in…(or what they might(family)call corrective criticism

Help is a strange word it can be what it is help or it can be put in a tone of voice as Criticism… This is the kind of help I have always gotten from all my relatives mostly the older ones… and it was passed down to my parents so this is what I knew as a child and passed it down at my kids.. Luckily they did not pass it on down… The cycle was broken some how… My husband cringes when I talk back at my mother instead of to her… But this is how I was raised.. its hard to brake the cycle.. I did not live by my Mother for the first 10 yrs of my present marriage and when my Mother came to live with us after my step father died, all this old stuff came right back into my life… Its hard on him and he is great and lets us get it out… then he cringes…

So my asking for help from my Mother is strange for me..

I read alot.. we just had family here this weekend and it was great.. when they come they go into my store and pick out books that they want to take home.. So I have taken a few books off my store … Its fun to talk over series that we both like.. I have to mention to her about Virgin River by Rybon Carr its my favorite lately… and maybe because it good and maybe because she gives us so many to read in one year… That does not mean I love Cedar Cove by Debbie Macomber any less… You can buy both these authors  and many other at www.readerwave.ecrater.com

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