Katelyn Cole » my life

Almost ran over a groundhog today

Katelyn — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:00:54 +0000

This morning I had to run errands in town, and on my way in a groundhog decided to run out into the road in front of my car. I had to go all the way over into the other lane (thank goodness no traffic was coming!) in order to avoid hitting him. I remember when I saw him my first thought was “why is he up, he saw his shadow two days ago and declared another six weeks of winter!)

I guess that particular groundhog didn’t get the memo to go back to bed!

Keith found a job

Katelyn — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:45:38 +0000

Mom was telling me that she finally heard from Keith, after six months of silence. Seems that he hitch-hiked out to California with a friend of his and after bumming around for a while finally got his act together and started working for a Los Angeles moving company as a helper. Mom was so happy to hear from him; you could just see her eyes lit up. Seems that he had made friends with some other men that worked for the same LA movers company and they helped him to get hired.

Keith has such a strong work ethic that whatever company of Los Angeles movers were lucky enough to get him will certainly get their money’s worth out of him! I can remember one time when Mom wanted our refrigerator moved out from the wall so she could clean behind it and Keith just picked it up and said “where do you want it Mom?” My jaw hit the floor when that happened!

What is up with the groundhog?

Katelyn — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:55:37 +0000

From what I heard, the groundhog saw several shadows and went back to bed. The sun had not even risen yet, and he went back to bed!? If all of the reporters would just leave the poor critter alone then that wouldn’t happen! Probably all of the television crew lights that caused him to see his shadow. Why do they wake that poor guy up before sunrise? If I were him I’d bite his handlers and then pee on them just to get even for waking me up!

I’d love some professional help with my kitchen

Katelyn — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:38:11 +0000

Even though I really like my house, one of the things that has always bothered me about this place is where is the best place to put some
kitchen spice racks. Almost every woman that I know keeps her spice rack really close to their kitchen range. My mother had a custom spice racks built into the cabinet above her range, and she loved it!

Yet, I’ve read that spices should not be kept near a source of heat, so that tells me that they should be stored away from the range. I like the idea of the racks that fold up under the cabinets, but they don’t seem to hold very much.Organizing a kitchen would be so much easier if all spice cans and bottles were the exact same size and shape; it is difficult to properly store so many different odd mix and match containers!

I’ll eat them but I don’t especially like them

Katelyn — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:33:00 +0000

Having decided to try to lose a few pounds, I bought some of those Special K cracker chips yesterday. They were on sale, and I thought to myself that I would like them. Well, I don’t like them very much at all. They are too spicy-hot for my liking. Because of that I want to cover them with sour cream to cool them down! And I don’t believe that adding sour cream to them would help to accomplish my “lose a few pounds” strategy.

Not wanting to waste food, or money, I’ll eat them up. But I won’t buy them again.

TV to distract me

Katelyn — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:52:35 +0000

Thanks for the post from Kirk Wood

I really cannot remember the last time I really watched a lot of TV. Do not get me wrong; we have a TV and with lots of channels on it too. The problem is that I just have not had the time recently to keep up with my shows. We have had DIRECTV for so long and we even got some great deals on it. It has been nice to have because I have a lot of options for when I do have the time to watch TV. Shows like Boardwalk Empire and Damages are not really widely available. Those types of shows are on the channels that play movies all the time. It is always interesting to watch shows like that. They do not always have some huge budget to make an elaborate show, but they still do a really good job presenting the story and distracting me from whatever stresses I had throughout the day. One of the biggest things I have needed distraction from recently is one of my sisters. For whatever reason, we have not been getting along recently. I am really looking forward to the period of time where we are not mad at each other just about every day.

Remembering the old days

Katelyn — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:42:33 +0000

One of the fun things about Facebook is when someone from your past creates a page about the times and the area where you grew up. Recently a former classmate did exactly that for the area in which I grew up, and there have been a lot of fond memories being shared.

Remembering favorite pizza joints and the tunnel that we had to walk through to get to school, the old school rivalries, and the children’s clothing store that had a special display of real monkeys in the shoe department have been bringing back a lot of memories, and even managed to rekindle some old friendships. Isn’t Facebook wonderful!

Hard to stay nice

Katelyn — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 03:34:31 +0000

One of the things that I struggle with on almost a daily basis is how to stay nice to people who keep asking you the same question repeatedly after you have answered the question. That probably means that I shouldn’t ever try to get a career caring for senior citizens, doesn’t it?

Today I ran into some people that I had met a couple of months ago at a business meeting, and they recognized me, and although I tried to avoid them it was impossible to do so. I ended up sitting next to them at a presentation. They kept asking me questions that I could not answer, and I was having a hard time staying nice to them. After all, how many times do I have to say “I don’t know” to the same question? I wonder if my intolerence is based in my own fear that some day I will be an old imbecile myself. I hate to think that will happen any time soon, and I hope that if and when it happens that other people will be more tolerent of me than I feel that I have been. I feel guilty about that.

I don’t mean to be rude, but I don’t work here!

Katelyn — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:05:47 +0000

Guest post by Lois Turner

Finding myself in an internet cafe at the hotel that I’m staying in, a couple of young ladies interrupted my work, asking me where my restrooms are located! It took me a moment to realize that they must have thought that since I was dressed in a business suit that I must work there! I apologized to the ladies and explained that I did not work there, and I don’t know where the restrooms are. As they walked away I had to suppress a chuckle. I hope they find what they are looking for!

Charming flowers

Katelyn — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:00:29 +0000

Guest post by Linda Bradshaw

Right before Christmas my mother decided that she wanted me to accompany her to a fantastic display up at the Shenandoah Caverns. The display was of historical parade floats, and antique
Christmas window displays from storefronts.

Having always been fascinated by things like that, I readily agreed, although I would have preferred doing it after Christmas. Nonetheless, we went up there and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed the window displays. One of the things that I really appreciated was the fact that the main room of the window displays was decorated with artificial flowering wisteria hanging from garden arbors.

The effect of the flowers climbing the arbors was very effective, and it made the entire room feel charming and romantic and old fashioned. The display has inspired me to put an arbor on my “wish list” for the landscaping plans for the side yard of the house.