This and That

I want to write an entry, but I have no fodder!  Nothing exciting to write about.  I've had this Blog Funk going for so long!  I hate it.  My brain is 'dead'.  I could write about............

How I ran 3 stop signs when I was driving Deb and I to the casino in Oklahoma on Thursday night.  {brain dead?  yeah!}

How I need to teach Murphy to not walk across my keyboard and rub her whiskers on my mouse!

How I should be baking Christmas cookies and making fudge and peanut brittle {because my body really needs the calories!}

How I should be sewing and embroidering and knitting more.

How it's 39 degrees here and 31 below in North Pole and I would rather be there with my Terri and my kiddos.

OR, I know!!  I haven't told you the exciting news that the knuckle on my ring finger on my right hand has had MAJOR arthritis set in and my knuckle is now so HUGE that my 100 plus rings that I have in my 'original' ring size of 9 won't fit and they all need to be resized to size 11 to either fit that damn finger or to be worn on my middle finger!  Now THAT really hacks me off.  I happened so quickly, too.  Just weird.  I went to the Doc because I thought it might be {just possibly} something else.  A cyst or an alien baby or something growing in my knuckle.  No such luck.  And so, I am left with a jewelry box FULL of rings that I can no longer wear!  It makes me sick.  I love jewelry, especially rings and they are all gold and sterling and gemstone....not costume jewelry mind you.  Some of them can't be resized that much because of the settings of the stones.  We just decided to start with my favorites and do them one at a time.  Yesterday I took my favorite Sterling and Turquoise ring to a local jeweler and it will be about $100 to resize it.  But it's special Turquoise and a beautiful setting.  About a $300 ring that I paid about $150 for, so it's worth it to me. The Turquoise is what they call "spider web" and has gold flecks in it and dark lines.  Just gorgeous, with flowers on the shank.  Ah, well.  It's a start

I had thought once of having my wedding ring resized and wearing it on my right hand, leaving my left hand free to wear all of my other rings, but that idea didn't go over so well with the Hubs.  sigh.  It would save alot of $$, IMHO, but ........


Well, I'm off to see what trouble I can get into in the kitchen.  I think I'll start with fudge!!  Yum!!