I am not sure what is going on, but I can't do a reply with quote any more. It brings up a tons of stuff.
Sherri, Alexis does not need any additional pain. She is sensitive to it in the first place. Then this on top of everything. The poor lassie.
So lovely that Austin's teacher gave you that note.
Hugs and prayers for your health.
Karen, Oh goodness, your description of reworking the front garden sounds like a lot of work. Those rabbits. You sound busy with marvelous, wonderful projects.
Syfie, I am so sad for you and the issues you are going through. It sounds as though you need a few more people around who appreciate you! Work definitely doesn't and I know there could be more appreciative people in your personal life.
On a funny note - I read "overweight brain" in the last sentence at first glance. I was thinking how smart you must be to have an overweight brain. Then I re-read it.
Carla, I am so sad about your daughter. Some choices in life are tough.
Me, I have not been around as much lately. I seem to get wrapped up with these big projects that demand my waking hours, then don't have time for important things. My sister-in-law was visiting from North Carolina this week and we had dinner with her last night. Husband Rand decided it would be a good thing to digitize all their childhood family movies and slides to give to her while she was here. That way he could downsize the originals.
The only real way to digitize the films was to play them and film them with a high quality camera, so we did that. They are from a unique camera with strange cartridges. We had to get the projector fixed to do them. They are old with no sound. The project involved filming them, then reviewing them in an editor to detach and delete the sound, then brighten and sharpen them. They also play in a loop, so for many of them, the loop did not start in the right place, so I had to clip sections and rearrange them. For fun, I added silent movie slides at the beginning to provide the date and content, and an end slide with just a little scroll on it to mark the end. When I was done editing the individual ones, I compiled them into a larger film of all the movies and added music.
The slides, I used an app called "Slide Scan." We put them up on the slide sorting board (which was my dad's from the 60s!) and just scanned them one at a time. There were almost 600 slides. I first had to sort them into dates and events, which was tough. The scans are not super quality, but many of the slides were poor to start out with. We looked at the scans and decided they were good enough. We ditched all but the main ones. My husband also ditched the projector and film cartridges. I can't believe it after all this time. Again, the quality is good enough. Not brilliant, but good enough.
Now I have to be brave enough to rescan the black and white film negatives I have, then let those go too. Our children will not want them, so digitizing them, scrapping them and putting them in books is the best thing we can do. They love looking at those.
Today I will be going to a meeting of our 50th class reunion committee. I have said I will NOT be on the committee. They were not kind to me last time and I don't see why I should suffer through that again. The mean girls are on this committee too. I do want to help, but only doing things for the members I adore. I am excited to help, but not to be part of the committee. Then, I have a Harry Potter day with my hair stylist and her son. They come over once a month and we do a film. It is fun.
Last night I did my nails... why is this news, you may ask. Well, I discovered nail wraps and they go on so quickly, they are dry and they sparkle. They do my heart good haha. My daughter's ex-boyfriend's cousin's wife sells the ones by Color Street and they are gorgeous. She is a darling and I wanted to support her, so I just bought some and now I am addicted. I put my second set on last night (they last about two weeks without chipping, maybe longer) and I have spent the morning hunting down bright sunlight and watching them sparkle. I need to get a life.
I still watch baby Bruce a lot, but not full-time at present. I might go on full-time when Nessa's cousin has her baby and the Aunt is watching her instead. I think Nessa will like that much more because when won't have to pack up Bruce every day. I am not sure how I will cope with my crazy life and my mother, but that is another story. We will see.
I lost a good friend in August to COVID. Her celebration of life was in September and I did a slide show of her life set to music that was almost an hour long. I elected not go because of COVID. There were over 100 people there. Even though proof of vaccination and negative COVID tests were required. I worry about bringing something home to my mum.
I think that might be all my news.
OH - except I am going on holiday to England later this year. My mother, my brother, my daughter, her boyfriend and me. My husband is going to stay home on this trip. He and I are going next spring when Karen can come and be with my mother. This trip is for family. We will be spending a week in Ingleton and a week in Southport. I have a friend from when I was four or five who will be coming down from Scotland to see me. We are also meeting up with my sisters for the first time. We spent fifty years trying to find my three half-sisters. We found them last year and are meeting with two of them while we are there. There will also be a cousins reunion. We have to sort out whether we can meet in numbers and how to do that safely.
I have a small procedure on Friday, so I wanted to get ahead.
I hope we get another cold snap soon.