Organizing and stuff

I discovered, after lengthy research, that blogging is no fun if there are no readers, and thus no comments. I am not a writer by nature. I am an organizer. So while a lot of my extended family were on vacation or in the hospital I organized my Sim's lives. They are so entertaining. I started a new neighborhood with four brothers. I got them to the top of their respective careers and now I'm working on getting five successful businesses for one of them. That will take me several more nights. I play the Sims2 at night because it is too hot in the day in my computer room. Also, I like nights better.

In the daytime I went over to Gramma and Kedge's house to look after their plants. With my magic touch I got their gardenia to bloom! Ha. Not really. It would have bloomed with anyone watering it. I almost killed their ivy growing in the dining room until I figured to give it a good soak in the sink. It was dry as a bone so the water just ran around the rootball and out the bottom onto my head. I figured out how to water the plants on the other side of the fence. Then I broke their garage door opener. Then I completely forgot to go back on the last day I was supposed to and clean up. Ooops. They will think seriously about having me do stuff there again, I think.

It is hot here, and will be hot for quite a while yet. So I rearranged some stuff to make room around my sewing machine. Then I cut out a sundress. Then I chickened out of sewing it. What if it doesn't fit? Then I remembered why I don't like sewing for myself anymore. Nothing looks good when one is 30+ pounds overweight.

I also updated the meeting room list. Look for it on the meeting room entrance counter. It is pink this time. That is, if I get the one error corrected. 992 not 922. After I discovered that error I then got update number one for next time. I do go around to everyone and ask if there is any new info to put in, new email addresses, new phone numbers, etc. first. It seems that when people see a new list that is when they think of making a change to their entry. No problem. My rule of thumb is to make a new list when there are five changes. We are 20% on the way!

A question for anyone: How do you grow Vanda orchids? I got one for Present Day last month as a challenge. A challenge it is. I did not really know what kind of orchid to expect but it was pretty in the picture. When it arrived in the mail I took it out of the box and the aerial roots were five feet long and it had no pot, just a small basket. The roots were just dangling. Great. Here you see it with the roots kind of looped around the basket to keep them out of the sink. The literature that I could find on the internet said that it does best outside in the summer. Do they know what summer does to plants here? No way am I putting it outside in this dry heat. It is now hanging from the chandalier in the dining room and it gets taken to the sink everyday for a drink. The roots still seem to be drying out and that is not good.

But it is blooming!