🏆 March 21, 2013 🏆

Good afternoon! Yes, I got up early but ended up doing the HTML coding / rearranging my entire schedule AGAIN. It's spring, what can I say. 1st 4 days of rearranging my office & now it's going to be 4 days of rearranging my schedule. It's a spring thing with me. Happens every year at this time. The good news is that I've got the FD & Meetup group all scheduled in properly which means I should be back in the swing of things like I used to be. It's been a rough year, things got WAY out of hand but it should all be corrected now.

The FD should be seeing more of me on Tuesdays again &this new Meetup group seems great so I'll be attending the meetups twice a week which also doubles as guaranteed crocheting, knitting, lunch out, & dinner out once a week. Everything fell into place nicely in the grid, let's see how it works out IRL. Yesterday I cleaned the house which consisted of cleaning the

toilet, dusting the bedroom wall decor, swapping out my jacket on the bar stool, organizing one of the shelves in the fridge, cataloging & putting away one of the books in my inbox, mopping the utility room, opening up a package from a Reddit yarn exchange I joined & finding 5 wonderful skeins of yarn (2nd pic) that I'm going to use for my next hand knit sweater (that I start very soon since I'm almost finished with the one I'm currently working on), packaging up 5 different skeins of yarn for the person that I was matched up with in the exchange (different from the person who sent to me), resorting a bunch of yarn due to the incoming & outgoing yarns, fed the pets, & swept the utility room. I went to work on eBay for the last day that was just a single eBay run. Starting today it's now THREE. 1) The sale of metals, a business that Pete & I have. 2) My own eBay business that I've had for many many years (selling a large variety of all kinds of stuff, but for now strictly crochet & knit patterns until I clear out the massive pile I have that need to be sold). & 3) Then my personal eBay ... the part where I go through my saved searches, what I'm bidding on, etc. Equal time to all 3, 5 days a week. I checked facebook & took my game turns which was the last time I'll be doing that on a daily basis. I just don't have the time anymore. I hope my friends & family understand. From now on I'll only be checking facebook 1 day a week (on Sunday mornings) which means that I'm only going to see about 14% of what my family & friends post. SORRY! I sat down to work on the doily I'm crocheting & the FD got toned out to an unauthorized burn which I responded to, came back & then worked on the doily some more (since I had only worked on it about 5 minutes before we got toned out). I took the dogs out, went through the mail, checked Pinterest & found a beautiful bathroom that if we ever remodel I'd like to copy, showered, loaded Sims & literally AS Sims was loading Pete pulled in the driveway. I'm so cursed when it comes to Sims. That's something else that even though I TRIED to play it every day (which hardly EVER happens anyway), I knocked down to only 1 day a week ... Monday evenings. Wish me luck! Before when I missed my chance to play I'd always say "maybe tomorrow." Now that changes to "maybe next WEEK." Ugh! Our nighttime routine got scrambled too. Between the FD & the Meetup group 2 evenings a week & the other things I like to do (such as Sims), watching TV with Pete got knocked down from nightly to only Friday - Sunday nights. Sorry Pete! Kyle is going to have to help me w/ the pets now too. Tuesday & Thursday nights HE needs to make sure he takes them out because I won't be here to do it. By the time I get back from the FD & the Meetup group those 2 evenings a week, I'm going to be flat out exhausted & head straight to bed. It's going to be very busy & difficult for me (being as I hate change in my routine), but I can't wait to see how it works out. Hopefully it WILL work, because if it doesn't I'm flat out of ideas. It's all rearranged to the best possible arrangement. There is no "improvement" from here with what there currently is in the schedule. It won't change again until the 1st day of winter when I remove the morning walks & the weekend gardening. That will free up 2 spaces, rearrange everything again, & open up TV with Pete in the evenings back to 5 days a week instead of only 3. Tuesdays & Thursdays are a permanent impossibility from now on because it just turns it into too long of a day & I'd be cutting my sleep by too much to pull that off. My Sim-self has a much easier life. She got everything done yesterday. She made autumn salad for lunch, read a handiness book to gain that needed skill for around the house, spent time with the pets, showered, began s clay sculpture, spent time with her husband (Sim-Pete), made macaroni & cheese for dinner, & went to bed. Back IRL, this morning I took the dogs out, rearranged & recoded my schedule, did my banking for the week & found a mistake. When I met the Meetup group in Farmersville for lunch & the yarn store shopping trip, they luncheonette made a mistake when they charged my card. The total was supposed to be $8.50, they keyed in .08c. I didn't put my glasses on, I just signed the slip. I noticed it today when I was syncing Quicken. I called the luncheonette, they gave me the owner's cell phone #, I called her & began to explain who I was, the group I was with, & the mistake on the bill. She started apologizing for overcharging me ... nope. Stop right there. Wrong person. Apparently she made TWO mistakes with our group. 1 was an overcharge & then mine, the undercharge. She was blown away by the fact that I was honest enough to call her for an UNDERcharge. Are people really that bad? Is it really such a shock that someone would call to say they were undercharged? Anyway, after we cleared that whole thing up & I promised that Pete & I would come in on Sunday afternoon for their wonderful & affordable all you can eat lunch buffet & to pay the remaining balance from Tuesday, she started talking about her huge Iris garden in her back yard & her "Shopping & Eating" parties that she hosts at her house. Wholesale dinnerware ... kinda like a Tupperware party type of thing. I told her I'd think about it. She does it when there's a group of 6 - 12 people attending. I've got 2 (Pete & I), so if I can find at least 4 other people who are interested I'll go check it out. I'm curious. My Sim-self woke up to Sim-Bella (our cat) with a squirrel that she caught in her inventory, so my Sim-self bought a rodent cage & placed the squirrel in it. We have a new pet! (3rd pic). I know this game is supposed to be a parallel of our real household, but the squirrel was cute so I kept it. No, I'm not getting a pet squirrel IRL. If I want to I can go out on the front porch & feed the squirrels in the large tree in the front yard. She cleaned the house & went to the consignment store & just like me, spent more than she sold. She bought a bunch of gems & skill books, & the only thing she had to sell was the photograph she had taken of the rock in the Chinese Garden. She ended up with TWO gnomes, both identical, so she sold one of those (they're $1k each). She couldn't sell it at the consignment shop, so she just sold it the traditional way (the sell an item box in her personal inventory). Back IRL, LCFD Training Tuesday @7:p.

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On this day in 1980, J.R. Ewing, the character millions love to hate on television’s popular prime-time drama Dallas, is shot by an unknown assailant. The shooting made the season-ending episode one of TV’s most famous cliffhangers, inspired widespread media coverage and left America wondering “Who shot J.R.?” for the next eight months. On November 21, 1980, the premiere episode of Dallas’s third season solved the mystery, identifying Kristin Shepard, J.R.’s mistress (and his wife’s sister), as the culprit.

The CBS television network debuted the first five-episode pilot season of Dallas in 1978; it went on to run for another 12 full-length seasons. The first show of its kind, Dallas was dubbed a “prime-time soap opera” for its serial plots and dramatic tales of moral excess. The show revolved around the relations of two Texas oil families: the wealthy, successful Ewings and the perpetually down-on-their-luck Barnes clan. The families’ patriarchs, Jock Ewing and Digger Barnes, were former partners locked in a years-long feud over oil fields Barnes claimed had been stolen by Ewing. To make matters more interesting, Ewing’s youngest son Bobby (Patrick Duffy) and Barnes’ daughter Pam (Victoria Principal) had married, linking the battling clans even more closely. The character of J.R. Ewing, Bobby’s oldest brother and a greedy, conniving, womanizing scoundrel, was played by Larry Hagman.

In the wake of the season-ending cliffhanger episode, “A House Divided,” audiences were hard-pressed to guess who was responsible for the shooting; J.R. had a host of enemies. That summer, the question “Who Shot J.R.?” entered the national lexicon, becoming a popular T-shirt slogan, and heightening anticipation of the soap’s third season, which was to come in the fall. Much to the dismay of Dallas fans, the premiere was delayed because of a Screen Actors Guild strike. When it finally aired, the episode revealing the shooter became one of television’s most-watched shows, with an audience of 83 million people, and helped put Dallas into greater worldwide circulation. It also popularized the use of the cliffhanger by TV writers.

The shooting of J.R. was not Dallas’s only notorious plot twist. In September 1986, fans learned that the entire previous season, in which main character Bobby Ewing had died, was merely a dream of Pam’s. The show’s writers had killed the Bobby character off because Duffy had decided to leave the show. When he agreed to return, they featured him stepping out of the shower on the season-ending cliffhanger, and then were forced the next season to explain his sudden reappearance.

The last new episode of Dallas aired on May 3, 1991. A spin-off, Knots Landing, aired from December 27, 1979, until May 13, 1993. Dallas remains in syndication around the world.

(Personal note: The new Dallas just had the same event. Who shot (and this time KILLED) J.R.?)

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