One Hectic Friday...

It's been kinda hectic so I am a little late in posting... Sorry! :~)

Monday was normal and uneventful.

Tuesday I sewed a shirt. Yep that was the highlight of the day! :~) Boring huh? You can't really see it on this one, but it has a overlay on the front. It is just like the yellow one. It's really comfy, and I think it is my favorite shirt to date.

Wednesday we got our dog. We were told by the animal shelter it was a girl. Imagine our surprise when Jamey went to pick up the dog, he was informed that we had a boy dog! :~O Not that we were going to take it back or anything, it just surprised us. So we had to come up with a new name for it... Since the dogs name had been Maria we decided to name him Marco. He was slightly sedate, which we discovered later was caused by the medication he got for his surgery. I also made another shirt like the one on Tuesday, but made it a little fancier. This material doesn't stretch as well as the other material, but it works.

Thursday I decided to sew a little more. After I got home from shopping and class I was getting a little tired of taking Marco out to the bathroom and keeping him out of things, so I sewed to let out my frustration. I got this fabric at a yard sale for a dollar a yard. It still has to have ribbon on it and it needs to be hemmed, but this is basically how it will look. The top I'm wearing is my Nana's, which is actually my great-grandma.

Today Marco went to the Puppy Boutique and got a hair cut and a bath. Yay! He smells good and looks like a totally different dog. While he was gone, I took the opportunity to clean my house to get the dog smell out. So I was doing that all day! :~p Also Jamey's parents are coming tomorrow and I had to have a clean house for them. Jamey and his dad are going to go to a football game and his mom and I are going to the mall! :~) After Jamey got home John took Jamey and me out to eat! :~p

Oh, I have one more pic of a dress I made a while back but didn't have a picture of it then. It fits pretty well, and it comes to just below my knee. It's got a slight 40s feel to it.

Anyway, I have a husband and hyper, clean dog that kinda need my attention right now so I'd better go see to them! :~)

Zippers are evil! ; - )

Well, I don't have a dog yet... She will be ready on Wednesday! I'm looking forward to having her here. At first we thought we would get her today, but she isn't scheduled to go to the vet till Wednesday.

Ok, here's how my weekend went...

Saturday I had a range of emotions running through me, mostly anger at the dress I was working on. The dress is finished, I just haven't got a picture of it yet. Anyway, for some reason the zipper wasn't going to go in without a fight! I tried it on, pinned how much I should probably take in for the zipper, and sewed it on. One problem with it was it was too short. That was my fault! They didn't have color that I needed in the size zipper that I needed, so I thought I could get away with a shorter zipper. Whatever, I was insane! So not only did it not fit I couldn't get it up past my hips.

So Saturday I ended up having to go to Hobby Lobby twice! Not that that was a really bad thing, Hobby Lobby is now my favorite store in the galaxy. It is the only store that actually has double pointed needles in the sizes I need to finish my sweater! Not to mention a quite impressive sewing section. Think Wal-mart before they discontinued their sewing section. The prices at Hobby Lobby are even comparable to Wal-mart. It has other things in it too, it's just that I'll only be using the sewing section.

Well, finally after getting the right length zipper, I put it in. I will now take a moment to remember the three machine needles that gave their all for this project... Ok, that's enough! Yeah, I broke three needles... I don't even know how I did it! Breaking needles puts me in a monster mood anyway, but it still wouldn't fit! I had pinned it where it would fit nice, but when I went and sewed it up I couldn't get it on! I ended up taking a two hour break to cool off. When I went back to it I made smaller seams and it finally fit. When I did get it to fit, it fit well. Now Jamey knows exactly why I didn't sew all that often.

Sunday we went over to Jamey's parents house cause his sister Tabitha was there. She lives in California with her husband. They will be here till tomorrow. I got to show off my dress, that was fun! :~) We stayed overnight and left today about 11:30am. One thing I need to do is learn how to pack. Last time we visited my family I forgot deodorant, this time I wasn't thinking and forgot to pack jammies! The conversation went a little like this: Jamey changed for Sunday night and said "So what do we wear to bed?", "Oh shoot!" We made it work, but next time I'll remember. Sunday afternoon, Jamey and Casey (Tabitha's husband) crashed in the living room and started napping. I tried to figure out my mother-in-laws new sewing machine for her. I got some of it done.

The really nice thing about Jamey's mom is that she sews and what material she's done with or hasn't used, she gives to me! Most of the stuff I'll end up making won't cost anything except what the pattern cost... Which was a dollar! I got some stretchy material this time and I have a pattern that I just got that has to have that kind of fabric. (I didn't realize it at the time.) So I'll have a couple more sewing projects to work on and keep me busy! :~)

I'd better go and get the stuff that I didn't do on Saturday so I can get to those patterns! :~)

Yay! Another weekend!

Yep, another week has bit the dust... Makes me wonder how fast the rest of the year will go. Hmmm...

This might be a short post because most of this week was spent at home. Monday John spent the night at our apartment, and Jamey and I did the Internet radio show. Wow, that was a boring day! ;~)

Tuesday was a little more adventurous. We went to Wal-mart. Yep, the social mecca of Bartlett on any given evening. Hey, when you can't afford to go to the mall and buy expensive stuff, it's pretty good to have around. At any rate it gives you a destination when you feel stuck at home. I also felt better after we went because I got chocolate! :~p

Wednesday other than church, another relatively boring day. We went to the store to get some bread and I got more chocolate! :~p One thing we did was look at dogs online and found a couple that looked good. John stayed the night again.

Thursday I didn't feel like getting up, so Jamey took the car. Yes, Thursdays are usually the day I get out, but this time I just wanted to stay in bed. I didn't get to get too much more sleep cause Jamey called and asked if I still wanted that dog we saw Wednesday night. Her adoption fee was cheap, so we went ahead and got her. So now I've got a dog! I've never had a dog before, but it shouldn't be that difficult. She has to be a indoor dog, so that means baths and lots of them! :~) It will be nice to have something in the house so I don't look crazy talking to myself! :~) There was also football on this particular night. It's so much fun watching Jamey watch sports! This was the last night John stayed until next week.

Today, I'm going to try to get a dress I'm working on finished. Tomorrow Jamey and I are going to go see Maria our dog at the shelter. She won't be able to come to our apartment till, at the earliest, Monday. We'll also be spending Sunday night with Jamey's parents cause Jamey's sister will be there. She and her husband have been living in California, so we probably won't be able to see them a whole lot. Oh well, time to go tidy and sew! :~)

Company for the Weekend...

Well, I survived the weekend...

Friday night after Jamey got home from work we went out to eat at the Red Sun Buffet, my favorite Chinese restaurant, and then went out and took Seth on a tour of Memphis. We stopped at the place Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and then drove past Beale Street. Since it was about 90 degrees outside and Friday nights are always crowded on Beale, we decided to just do a drive by. We got home about 9pm and Jamey and Seth stayed up till about 1am talking.

Saturday we all got up a little before 7am cause we had to be at Sarah's apartment to help her move out at 8:30. When we got there most of the stuff was already moved downstairs. Only the real heavy stuff was left. It only took about an hour to get things moved, then it took another hour to situate everything. We left at about 11:30. Since we were in Henderson we had to have a drive by tour of Freed-Hardeman college. It's not incredibly big, but it looks nice. On our way back home we stopped in Jackson to look at some stores... Yes, I was with two guys and they stopped at a comic book store. We all checked out the GoodWill and a bargain basement place in Jackson. I had to stop at the Hancock Fabrics to take advantage of some sales. We didn't get home till about 3pm. It was a lot of fun though. We didn't have time to take a nap before we had to get showered and dressed for a singing thing his parents were doing that night with their church. His mom had some finger food made for the event and it started at 7pm. Everyone ate before they sang, so it took a while to get to the singing. I enjoyed it, it reminded me of my family getting together and singing. Jamey led quite a few of the songs. We ended up doing that for about half an hour before everyone had to be somewhere. We didn't have anything going on, but we couldn't stay too late cause it takes an hour to get back home. After we got home Jamey, Seth and I stayed up talking till about 1am again.

Sunday morning it was tough getting out of bed! I made waffles for breakfast. Seth decided to stay until after church, luckily the preacher that was preaching was one that keeps you awake. After the service the three of us and about 12 other people decided to go out to eat. We went to a place called O'Charley's. It's a nice place and the food was great. One of the things I noticed about it was it played oldies over the radio. The thing that wasn't that great was the service. Our waitress was mad about something and she took it out on us. We think it was the crowd that upset her cause she rolled her eyes when we mentioned how many would be coming. I understand about having a large crowd come into McD's and being mad, cause there it's the speed that counts, but at a sit down restaurant? Not only that but her tip was guaranteed! Yep, they had a service charge on the check. What a rip off! I can understand giving a tip, but being forced to pay one? Come on! Well, she didn't get any tips from our group other than the service charge. We got home and Seth left for Texas. He might come back in a few weeks, on his way back to Kentucky. I didn't get to do my shopping Thursday cause of the doctors appointment, so I had to do it Sunday afternoon. I went by myself, cause Jamey wanted a nap. I got home and we had to go to church. They were having a going away party for the family going to Hungary, so we stayed for that. When we got home from church there was a football game on TV, so Jamey watched that while I took a nap on the couch. I was so tired that that nap didn't interfere with me getting a good nights sleep later! After that was done, we went to bed. With Seth here we didn't get a lot of sleep, so we went to bed slightly early last night. :~)

I must have been exhausted from the weekend, cause I didn't even notice when Jamey turned off the alarm this morning. He got all ready for work without waking me. I usually am kind of a light sleeper too. Well, I have to tidy up my house after that weekend, so I better get going!

Three's Company...

Another Friday and another post... Is it just me or does the week evaporate away like all the water in Memphis' 100 degree weather? I don't know if I'm going to post a whole lot this time cause it was just a normal week. Well, normal for me anyway. :~)

Monday I was in a hormonal mood so nothing of value got done this day. All of you women know what I mean... For some reason putting food on the table for supper was about all I could seem to accomplish that day. Jamey even brought home chocolate and that didn't help my mood. It seems that Mondays are the worst cause I feel alone most of the day, cause I have spent the entire weekend with Jamey. I don't know if I've said that before, but it's always true on Mondays.

Tuesday was a little better. Jamey's cousin, Seth, was supposed to come, but was having car trouble so it was delayed until Wednesday. That was extremely good for me, cause I hadn't done a blessed thing to clean up the house Monday and it was too much to do in one day. Yes, I have this problem sometimes, it's called being lazy... I know it's gotta have a medical name, but I can't think of what it should be called right now. We had to go out to get some supplies for the house for when Seth came and as we were about to pay for our stuff I saw Jane Eyre on the shelf... Call me old-fashioned, but the old black and white version with Orson Welles and Joan Fontaine is the only one I really like. So I had to have it in the movie collection in with all the action movies.

Wednesday Seth was delayed another day. Which I didn't mind, cause I still had things that needed to be done. Like watch Jane Eyre that I got the previous night. What? ;~) We were also supposed to have John come over and spend the night, but his wife wasn't feeling well so he decided to go be with her instead. So one more night of just me and Jamey. :~)

Thursday Jamey and I had doctors appointments in the morning. It was nice cause Jamey took half a day off. Course that half a day was spent in the doctor's office... For some reason they needed my blood so they could give it tests to make sure it is ok for me to have. I have never had my blood drawn before and I thought it would hurt... The finger prick they give you hurts worse than poking a needle in your arm. Anyway, our appointments were for 9am and 9:45am and we didn't get out of there until 11:30am. Since Jamey didn't have to go into work until 1pm, we got to eat lunch together. :~) After Jamey got home we ordered pizza for when Seth got in and waited. For the pizza and Seth. For some reason the pizza boy forgot that Jamey had ordered a Pepsi. So he had to go back for it! Seth didn't arrive until about 7:30pm. It's fun for me to watch Jamey interact with people that he knows well. I mean, he interacts with me but it's not the same. This way I could just observe him. They talked about guy stuff and I decided to go do some of my stuff. They ended up talking until about 1am!

I felt sorry for Jamey this morning cause he didn't get that much sleep. My sister Sarah woke me up this morning talking about wedding things... I think what she is planning to do sounds really pretty. Right now Seth has gone to see if he can find that game store Jamey told him about last night, and I'm just chillin' waiting for Jamey to call me on his lunch break. Tomorrow morning we are going to go to Henderson and help Jamey's sister move into a better apartment. That should be fun!

Yard Sales and Ham Puffs!

Here's my new white shirt that I started on Friday. It wasn't that hard to make, just had a little trouble with the collar. I wasn't feeling all that well on Friday, or else I would have gotten it all done in one day. I was lucky to find white material that isn't completely see-through!

Anyway, Friday after dinner we went to see a movie at the $2 theater. It was Fantastic 4, Rise of the Silver Surfer. I had been wanting to see that movie since it came out. It didn't disappoint... Jamey said he liked it better than the original! I liked all the action and of course the humor in it too. I'm not sure, but they just might make a third one one of these days.

Unlike the Saturdays in the past, this Saturday Jamey and I got up at 7am to go check out yard sales. Ok, I'm not a morning person but this was fun! I can count on one hand the yard/garage sales I've been to in my life, not a whole lot of yard sales in my growing up years. I found some fabric, which I plan on making into a dress, it was only a dollar a yard so I couldn't resist! :~) If we didn't already have enough bedroom pieces, or if we had money to spend on more bedroom furniture... Not to mention we don't have the room for more, I would have been all over this one bedroom set. It had a dresser, vanity, bedside table and one other piece I can't remember what it was. It was in a creamy white with pink flower accents. Soooo pretty! If we would have had the room and the money to buy it I would have gotten it for Sarah. We went to quite a few yard sales, and got good stuff. I found a Sheerly Elegant pitcher and cups set for $10! My mom sells Tupperware so I knew this was a bargain! I was kinda hoping to find a keyboard that was affordable. Unfortunately, the only one we found was over-priced. Oh well, just have to play air-piano for a while longer! :~) We also stopped at a friends yard sale. They are moving out of the country, so they had to sell everything. We spent the most money there. Got some Cd's and I got a coat rack, an egg slicer and some nail polish. They had bean bag chairs, so Jamey got those.

After we got done with the yard sales we started to take a nap when Jamey's mom called and wanted to take me shopping. I'm female, so when I get offered the chance to go shopping I take it! :~) We went to this place that was having a 25% off sale... Not only a sale on normal priced stuff but the sale also included the 70% off stuff! I got three things originally priced about $16, but I only paid about $3 each for them! I love it when I can get good sales!

When we were done with that, Jamey and I went to a ballgame. He won some tickets at work. They had some fireworks after the game! It was Elvis week, so everything at the game was Elvis themed. Elvis mania is one thing you really can't avoid when you live in Memphis. I'm not a hard core fan of Elvis, but I like some of his songs. It was a very intense game toward the end cause the Redbirds pulled a win out of their tail feathers. They were down 1 to 5 when they scored 4 runs in the 7th inning! They ended up winning 7 to 5. That was the last game we'll be going to this year, but at least they won for us! The fireworks were nice, they didn't do a lot of big fireworks but it was a good show.

Sunday after church we took a nap for a while. We had to take some finger food to a get together after night church, so we went to the store to get the ingredients to make Ham Puffs. It's basically a ham and cheese quiche. My mom makes these mainly for New Year's Eve, it's an old Pampered Chef recipe and it's always a hit. I made about 48 of them, hoping I might have a few left to take home. I ended up taking about 6 home. Everyone loved them and told me so. Since we didn't get a lot of sleep over the weekend, we crashed when we got home.

Today I'm just chillin'. Jamey's cousin Seth will be coming tomorrow and staying for a few days, so I should try to get some cleaning done... Note the word "try" in the last sentence! :~)

Pork Chop Stuff! : - p

Monday, as always, was slightly boring during the day and at night Jamey had his radio thing so it was kinda busy then. John, Jamey's friend, stayed with us that night, too.

Tuesday was John and Jason's first day of school... It was visitation day, too. Ok, when you get lost once, you didn't get the directions right and made a wrong turn, no big... But twice? I have to say it's very disappointing. It wasn't all my fault! The road sign was turned so you couldn't see it from the side of the road I was on. Anyway, I was coming back from going to far when I saw the road I was supposed to turn on, so I made it in just enough time! :~) I made cookies, so I wanted to give them away... There is no way I would have eaten all those cookies by myself... Correction, I could have eaten them all, but I would have felt terrible! :~p Tuesday night Jamey's parents and sister Sarah asked if we wanted to go see a movie with them... That was fun!

Wednesday there was church, that was about it. I made some hamburger and noodles for supper. Yummy! After church, we went over to see about a microwave! The family that is moving to Hungary is selling everything... So we're going to have a big microwave and a toaster! :~) I know I could have gone and gotten a toaster at Wal-mart, but I kept forgetting. This is better though, cause we are helping them. Next Sunday we will have a microwave!!!

Yesterday I had my class and went shopping. I couldn't find milk on sale at Kroger, so I had to pay out the ears for it! UGGG! The good news is gas is back down to 2.57. I wanted to make something that I haven't made in a while... Pork Chop Stuff! It's actually called Gourmet Pork Chops, but you know how it is when you're little and things get nicknames that never go away? Like Sugar Bears a.k.a Golden Crisp. I think I will always call that stuff Sugar Bears... Probably pass it on to my kids. But you get the idea. I went to pick up Jamey and he said that John and Jason were coming over for dinner! Uh Oh! I knew I'd have enough for John, but wasn't sure about Jason. Well, pork chop stuff goes a long way. It fed all of us and the guys were able to back for seconds! It's gone, but at least it served it's purpose... To stretch pork chops as far as they can go! Just to make sure I fed them well, I made brownies for dessert... Ok, those were for me too, cause guess what I'm having after lunch! :~p


Anyway, today Jamey cooks and is taking me out to a movie. He is so sweet to me! I'm going to start on that white shirt today and hopefully have it to wear Sunday! Also, I have dishes and laundry to do... If I don't do the dishes soon they might form a riot and refuse to be washed!

Monday, Monday...

Let's see... Hmm... This weekend was a little more profitable than last weekend! :~)

Saturday I finished my shirt that I started on Friday! :~) It turned out quite nice! I basically just followed the pattern, I didn't have to do anything to it to make it fit better. That was nice. The only bad thing about this is that I'm no longer as small as when I sewed for myself before. I'm working on a skirt now... It will take a little work, but hopefully it won't be too terribly difficult to make it fit. Jamey slept for most of Saturday which is good, he hadn't been getting enough sleep for the past week. By the end of the weekend he finally felt well rested. He got to sleep and I got to sew, it was a good Saturday. Jamey felt like a slug in the evening, so we went out for a little while.

Sunday I had my first experience with a crock pot! We had a pot luck at church, so I decided to make something in one of my crock pots I got for a wedding gift. I didn't have a lot of time Saturday to cook something so I looked at my options... The crock pot was the only thing that wouldn't take a lot of time to prepare and it would be able to be cooked at church. I made a pork n bean recipe that was in the crock pot book, and it turned out really good! :~p I was impressed! After church we just kinda hung out at home. Watched the first half of Pearl Harbor and took a nap. After the nap we went and got dinner and went to the $2 theater.

Yeah, not a lot happened to blog about this weekend. I do want to thank my mother for being such a good example of what a wife should be. Most of the stuff I do and think about certain things came from my mom. Jamey has told me what a good wife I've been to him and I have to thank my mom for that.

Today I'm just lounging around. I'm just trying to stay awake and not give in to the temptation of a nap. I took naps late in the afternoon the past couple of days and haven't been able to get to sleep until about 2am for the last couple days! UGG!!! Have I expressed my dislike of Mondays? I have to say they are not the fun part of the week. Maybe I'm being bitter toward Mondays because of the lack of sleep... Nope, it's just Monday! :~)

The Sewing days of Summer...

Yes, I realize the proper saying is The Dog days of Summer... But for me there is no other time that I just want to stay indoors and create something that, for the summer at least, I will be able to wear and boast a little about. Also there is the feeling of something that fits you and only you to a T, something you just can't get from store bought clothes.

Since my In-laws were coming on Thursday I cleaned my house on Tuesday. Well, not all my house just about half. I didn't feel all that great Tuesday night, so I didn't get all the cleaning done.

Wednesday I had a doctors appointment for the feeling of illness Tuesday. As much as I like to make fun of how long you have to wait to be seen at a doctors office, this day they actually didn't make us wait all that long. Anyway, after that was church and after church we went to Wal-mart. I needed a little more stuffing for the kitties I was sewing for my living room. Jamey's house is slowly getting cat integrated. Yep, it's an invasion!

Thursday I got the car and went to Bible class and grocery shopped. When I got home from that I finished my cleaning. I know I've expressed my growing annoyance for the pill bugs that go to my kitchen floor to die, but goodness, where do they all come from? Anyway, after Jamey and I got home from his work his parents and his sister Sarah were waiting for us. His mom and I went to Hancock Fabrics, Sarah wasn't feeling well, to take advantage of the sale they were having. Boy, it's fun to walk through a fabric store and get something to make in the near future! :~) I got 5 patterns and some white fabric to make a shirt with. When we were done with shopping we came back to the house and had supper waiting. Ahh, the joys of having a husband that is a great cook! :~) We ate supper and then sat around talking and watching TV. When they were about to leave Jason and John came to spend time. It's a good thing that Jamey made a lot of food! :~)

Today I couldn't sleep in too much cause the fabric from the next room was crying to be made into something. This is the pattern I'm going to make first. It reminds me a lot about the tops from back in the 1840s and 1850s with the dropped sleeves. I have to admit loving that period of time, so much so that I made myself a ballgown from that era a few years back. I have to say I'm rather impressed by this pattern. It's the only pattern I've ever seen with cup size options! That would have come in handy when I was trying to fit my sister for a pattern... She is a petite person that isn't big all over, just on top. Well, I think I'll start on that shirt so I might be able to wear it this coming Sunday! :~)