Christmas Carols you just Gotta hear

A friend sent me this link this morning - it's just too funny. Request Jingle Bell Rock or Twelve Days of Christmas. Don't have coffee in your mouth when you do cause you'll spew it all over your keyboard *LOL*

Christmas Carollers

I went and had my root canal yesterday cause they had a cancellation. It was snowing here for a couple of days and people here aren't used to driving in snow plus it's a very slippery snow and hard to drive in. Maybe someone cancelled because of that.

It's been 24 hours so it's probably safe now to say this guy is amazing! He's worth every penny he charges. I didn't feel the freezing going in, didn't feel him doing the root canal, and when the freezing came out I didn't feel any different than I normally do. No tenderness or anything. Boy it feels good to get it done with!

Got most of my Christmas shopping done but haven't done much baking or decorating. I started to decorate but I took the boxes out from under the stairs, went to do something, came back and they were all gone. Michael moved them. They don't belong there, they belong under the stairs. He also doesn't like it when I move things to decorate.. or decorations period. So I have my mantle cover on and we have a fake tree that has built in lights. That's going to be all the decorations we have. He doesn't want them on the tree, he doesn't want lights outside, ARGH!!! But you know it's not so bad. This way I don't have to put them away again in 3 weeks and I've found the mantle cover and the tree with lights is enough. Like my daugther said they're not little kids anymore. I guess I used to decorate for the kids more than anything else. If I want decorations and lights and music I can go to a mall.

As far as baking there's only two of us. Michael doesn't eat cookies and stuff. So I did make some tarts and may make some gingerbread cookies but maybe that will be it. I don't want to gain any weight and neither does husband.

Getting older is so weird. Everything has changed.

Hope you all had a great day.

Yummy Appetizer

First off I want to share my daughter's favorite appetizer recipe. She was over here on Thursday night and I helped her make it. I think I chopped things a bit large so if you're making it maybe dice things smaller than in the photo.


GARDEN GREEK APPETIZER

Ingredients:
I pkg (8oz/250g) Philadelphia cream cheese
1 pkg (8oz/250g) Feta cheese
1/4c plain yogurt
1 garlic clove (Lisa used 2)
1/4tsp black pepper
2 tomatoes
1 med English style cucumber
3 green onions
3 black olives
mini pitas, assorted crackers & breads

Method:
-soften cream cheese
-crumble Feta cheese
-seed & dice tomatoes
-dice cucumber
-finely chop onions
-beat cream cheese, Feta, yogurt, garlic and pepper in small mixing bowl at medium speed with electric mixer until well blended.
-spread cheese mixture into a 10" pie plate; chill until firm. (Lisa uses disposible brownie sized aluminum tins)
-top with tomatoes, cucumber, green onions and black olives
-serve with mini pitas, assorted crackers and breads.

Makes 10-12 servings.

Unfortunately I can't eat Feta Cheese - I love it but it doesn't like me at all.

I don't know where the time is going. I think I have most of my gifts thanks to on-line shops but I also know there's a few things I'm missing that I have to go and look at myself. My dh needs a new housecoat and I want to be able to feel it before I buy. He doesn't sleep well so is up 3 or 4 times a night, watches TV for 1/2hr and then is able to sleep again. So he needs something warmer than the old one he has now.

My tooth/gum is feeling better thanks to the antibiotics but I'm going to go back in and see if I can stay on them for awhile.. like until after I've eaten Christmas dinner. It's so nice to be able to chew, although I'm still slow at it. If I stop taking the antibiotics it will just build up and be painful again. I asked my next door neighbour who is a dental hygenist for a root canal specialist.

I haven't been online much the past while. A month ago I went to the dentist cause I had what felt like a fistula on my gum. If you don't know what that is it feels like a little pimple and it means that you have an abcess. It was just beginning but I thought if I have to lose another tooth I'd rather get it over before Christmas. My dentist took an X-ray, looked in my mouth and said that couldn't be what it was because I have no tooth there.. it's on the gum behind my back tooth. He said to rinse with salt water, which I won't do cause I'm on a salt restricted diet. I just waited for it to clear up like he said it would. Well, it didn't clear up and I've been feeling lousy along with having a sore gum/tooth, so I went back yesterday and he looked at it again and said maybe it was an infection and he'd refer me to a specialist. I asked if I should have antibiotics. He said that was an idea, not his idea though, my idea.

So I have 7 days of penicillin, got in to the specialist on a cancellation today. He did a cat scan of my teeth. It was neat. Never had one of those before. I beeped Fur Elise as it travelled around my head. Same as the ringtone on my cell phone. I have an infection in there alright. It's eaten away part of the bone in my jaw. It's because the dentist didn't get the whole root cleaned out when he did the root canal. Geesh! So I have to go back in on Jan 14th and he'll redo the root canal and clean things up. I'm very nervous about waiting so long if that infection is still there after the anitbiotics are done. I'm gonna see if I can get on a cancellation list.

You know what though? If we still have the same dental insurance we had when the dentist did the first root canal the insurance company won't cover the specialist redoing it for $1450.00!!

So I'm not feeling real well and haven't felt like doing anything much. So nothing to show today.

Here's my attempt at the folded star trivet. It needs to go directly into the garbage but it does look Christmasy and it certainly is thick enough to use as a trivet so it stays until Jan 1.

Once I started this I realized I have done this before but it was on the lid of a cookie tin. They make neat tins for keeping stuff in or giving gifts in. But my tins turned out way better than this. When I made the tins I had no conception of what they were costing me in fabric for one thing. Geesh! Some girl on Etsy has them for sale for $7.95 I couldn't even make it for $7.95. I think what it was costing was distracting me from doing a good job. We had extra expenses last month which is exactly what you don't need right before Christmas.

I Can't Believe I Walked the whole way!

We've had a beautiful day here for a change, sunny, no wind, 10C. So when I thought about going to the store to get stuff for dinner I asked myself what I'm doing driving everywhere when the store is just right there.... 1/2mile away. Oh, and if I'm going out anyway I should go across the street to the other mall and do this and that. Upshot is I walked for 2 hours straight at my fastish pace and now I'm exhausted.

I should have known better. I've been off my walking routine lately so I need to build up slowly again. I was so tired that I felt like I kept walking and walking and nothing was getting any closer, like I was just walking on the spot. Wonder what my legs are going to feel like tomorrow. My knees kept giving out and wanting to lock.

Okay, off to get dinner started now. At least I'm making stew so once I get the meat on it simmers for 1 1/2 hours so I can take a break.

Christmas Block

This is the block I'm using in the quilt block frame I bought from Angela. I wanted a Christmas block with a biblical name but couldn't find a Christmas one so I used this one called Cain and Abel. I got it at Quilter's Cache. It looks even better than I hoped it would.

Not much going on here today. It's Grey Cup Sunday so hubby is hunkered down waiting for the game to begin. I'm not a big sports fan aside from Curling and Skating. Although.. I just realized it might be a good day to go shopping. Wish I'd thought of it earlier.

Have a great Sunday.

Christmas Candlemat

I've been busy making gifts for everyone else but am finally at a point that I can get back to making a few things for myself. I've wanted to make this candlemat since last year.. actually I've had the pattern that long too! It's for 4 seasonal mats and I want to make the other three as well. The pattern is from Country Quilts. She has such cute patterns!

Next I want to make a quilt block for my quilt frame I bought from Angela's site. I found one I like that I think will look great done in Christmas fabrics. And then I want to do a small wallhanging for my kitchen. The block I may be able to do today. The embroidery wallhanging will take longer, of course.

Not much else going on. I've been spending way too much time on Ancestry.ca filling in my family tree. The number of connections in my dad's line are crazy. The family stayed in Cornwall, England. None of the Cornish ever left home until one of my ancestors dared to cross into Devon and then his son and family came to Canada. And I wonder why I get nervous travelling.. maybe it's a genetic fingerprint or something that makes me happy to just stay in my own area.