Another year

Wow, I can't believe it is another year, and the first month is half way over. Where is the time going? I got horrible at making entry's here, not a surprise.

Mark and I have done some stuff to the house. We put in a new front door and door to the alley. The new front door is sooooo cool. It has a square window on top. He wants to paint it red again. It is so much lighter than the old one. Which was the original 1941 door. We got that sucker out and just about crushed me. I couldn't believe how heavy it was. It shouldn't have surprised me after taking the original garage door off. That was horrible. The new door doesn't slam like the old one. Which is great when you have children who don't know how to close a door gently.

Mark made me some pedestals for my washer and dryer. So instead of spending $200 dollars we spent less than $50 for all the wood and screws. It is so much nicer not to have to kneel down to move my laundry.

Christmas was a disaster! The weather was horrible! The child, we won't even go there! Mark fell on Christmas day and landed on his back on the porch steps outside. The very next morning I did the same thing. I realized it was happening so I tucked myself in so I wouldn't hit my back. I just bounced down the stairs on my bum. Still have some of the bruise left. The bone is still pretty bruised. It is amazing how long it takes for a bruised bone to heal. Needless to say, I have had it with winter and don't want anymore snow, ice, freezing rain, or anything like that. I got real tired of not being able to get out of Salem. The I-5 highway was just a mess and they didn't do anything about it until Christmas day. Thanks a lot!!! We got around Salem fine for the most part, but it was rough driving and wasn't very fun.

I made a turkey dinner 2 weeks ago. I got a turkey at Thanksgiving time to save for later. So we invited Marks best friend and wife over. That will be the last time I ever let Mark pick out a turkey. I ended up with a 26 pound bird! No only does it barely fit in the oven, you can't move it after it is cooked. So I put it in the oven, and seared the skin. Mark has this thing about having to cook them upside down. So after the half hour searing, I took it out and we flipped it over. Than put it back in to cook. So when it was done, we tried turning it back over to cut, and it just fell apart. It also take forever to thaw out! The other disaster of that day was the "stuffing". On Saturday, the day before the dinner, I took out the recipes that I would be needing so I didn't have to scrounge them up Sunday morning. I looked at all the recipes to make sure that I had everything for them. I was good to go. So half way through the turkey, I start making stuff. I get the potatoes going, and get the stuffing made and cooking. All that good stuff. So when my timer goes off for the "stuffing", I open the lid of my electric oven and look at it. I was so perplexed! I asked Mark what I had done wrong, and why it didn't look like my mothers, not even the same color. So he's asking if my mother stirs it up or anything while it is cooking. Which heck if I knew. Oh so low and behold, I didn't make stuffing, I had made cornbread!!!!! How in the world after looking at that recipe all day, and the day before, and reading the ingredients, which why would you put cornmeal into stuffing, did I end up making cornbread instead? I can't even begin to know why. I don't have a clue. It was soooo embarrassing though. I couldn't believe I had done that. What a geek.