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Oops...

2009-08-11T18:54:00.000-07:00

Sorry about the nonexistent blogging as of late... This China move has got me a little preoccupied. We've been getting things in order for our trip... I'll try my best to keep up with the blog. I'll most likely have some free time over there and some interesting experiences! :~) Jamey and I are leaving the 21st of this month and for the last week and a half we have been staying with my family in Ohio. Jamey, Ira, Philip, Lydia and I played what we like to call "barn ball" or poor man's squash! :~) That was fun! Haven't played that in a while! On Friday we'll be traveling down to visit with my sister for a day before heading back to TN. I know this is a short post, but I want to spend all the time I can with my family! :~)

Been tired...

2009-07-15T18:30:00.000-07:00

OK, it's been a while since I wrote but a lot has gone on. Jamey and I got back from the reunion late Sunday night. I had to work Monday morning and then on Tuesday too. I survived by drinking a LOT of caffeine. :~)

The reunion went well. It was really nice to see Grandma again. I got to meet the rest of Jamey's Aunts and Uncles that I hadn't met yet. There were so many cousins there! :~) Jamey's dad is one of seven... Two of his brothers are no longer with us, but that makes a lot of family and even more cousins! There was also a lot of good food there! Yummy!

Jamey and I left right after lunch on Sunday. We went to church with Grandma. Grandma's church is the church where Jamey preached his first sermon. Jamey preached there the summer before his senior year of high school. His Dad came into Jamey's room one day and said that the church there didn't have a preacher and to guess who would be preaching there for a while... Jamey guessed his Dad. He was wrong! :~) So for the whole summer Jamey was the preacher for that congregation. So, Jamey got to preach there this past Sunday! :~) That was neat!

One of the highlights of the trip was getting to see some of the houses that Jamey lived in over the years. One of them was really small... Kinda like the one I grew up in. Then another one that was built kinda funny. Before we left GA we went to Washington, GA. Which is where Jamey spent his high school years. We got to see the high school he went to, the library where he had his first job, some other places where he spent time, the church where his Dad preached and the house they lived in. It was nice to be able to go down memory lane with Jamey... Even though they weren't my memories I enjoyed hearing his! :~)

Today was my day off. I slept till noon... Hey, I had to work when I got back and didn't get to have any down time! ;~) My day off, guess what I did? Cleaned house! What else, right? Yeah, figured since Jamey's family would be back from KY Friday around noon this would be the only time to really clean. Jamey has to take his sister to a colonoscopy tomorrow so that will most likely take the whole day, and I have to work so no cleaning then! Since the house is clean, now I'll relax! :~)

Ummm...

2009-07-08T21:34:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I know that I haven't posted anything in a few days. It's because I have been spending the time on the computer working on my last assignment for the ESL certificate. I turned my last one in on Monday morning and got it back this morning... I PASSED!!!! :~D I got a 19.5 out of a possible 20 points!!! :~D My final score is 90.5 out of 100 possible points! :~) Yeah, I'm excited about it! Now all I have to do is wait for them to mail me my certificate. I'm going to feel a little weird not having anything to study for when I get off work. Oh well, I'll deal with it! ;~)

This Friday all of Jamey's family is going to a reunion in GA! I'm looking forward to it! It will be fun to go somewhere and meet new people... Not to mention that they will have all sorts of yummy food there. The only thing is that it's on the same day as my Grandpa's birthday and Kannel family reunion. I haven't seen some of my cousins for years now, but we knew and were planning for this GA trip way before we knew that they were going to do something for my Grandpa's birthday. Luckily, my sister will be able to go up and help celebrate. :~)

Tomorrow is one of my co-worker's birthday so I decided to make some peanut butter squares. :~) OK, so I had been thinking about them for a while now... But hey, a birthday is as good an excuse as any to make them! :~) Not that you really NEED an excuse to make something chocolate! :~)

Well, I'd better go see if they have to be cut up yet. That and I need to get going to bed cause I have to work tomorrow from 10-4. Then I have to pack. And get some sleep for Friday's long car trip to GA!! :~D

Last day of June already??

2009-06-30T19:30:00.000-07:00

Well, I wanted to get one more post in before July... Yeah, it had to be now! :~) I haven't been that busy the last couple of days. Just been doing my ESL stuff and working. I've decided doing this ESL training that I've learned more grammar than I ever wanted to know. I had to do an activity on passive and active sentence structure... I had to look it up, know the difference between the two and how to change them back and forth. I've been trying to avoid getting this stuff in my brain for so long! ;~) Anyway, I won't be like a grammar geek... I'll always use good grammar, but won't be like a grammar know-it-all.

Yesterday I had a day off, so I went and painted my nails this melon color... It's summery and I like it. I wish I had more bright colors, but I'll make it. This color almost makes my skin look like it has some color to it! :~) I've also been using this gradual tanning moisture lotion. I don't know if it's working or if I am imagining my skin looking like it has a little more color to it. I'll keep using it cause I think it is working... At any rate I have to get rid of the stuff some how! ;~)

Last night Jamey's sister Tabitha and her husband Casey were flying into the Memphis airport. We got to go with Jamey's parents to get them from the airport and bring them back home. The plane was scheduled to land at 11pm. It actually got there at 10:45pm... We got to stay in the airport for about half an hour and watch all the airplanes! I loved it! All the lights, the planes landing, and the noise of the jet engines. Ahhh, the sounds of home! I really miss having that noise and all the lights of an airport just blocks away! :~) Anyway, Tabitha and Casey got here safely and are still trying to adjust to the jet lag...

Today we went to the Pink Palace!! :~D I've never been to the Pink Palace before today and it was really neat! It's a museum with practically everything in it... We went with Jamey's sister Sarah and her group of kids that she works with that have been abused to see all the stuff at the museum. It had skeletons of a lot of things including a hummingbird... That was small! It had a section on cells and what is in them, it had all sorts of animals that had been stuffed and posed in scenes. It had all sorts of rare gems and stones in their raw forms... Of course, it had the required evolution section. They also had a section with moving dinosaurs... The dinosaurs were actual size and made noise! All the kids liked that! The section that really got my attention was the section on when Memphis was just starting in the early 1800s. They had all sorts of trinkets and clothes. They also had a section on early doctor equipment. There was a section on WW l and WW ll, a section on the mid 1900s with more clothes and trinkets and they had a mock up of an old grocery store! :~) I think that's about it for all the stuff that was in the museum... There was so much to see, I tried to see and remember it all but I'll probably remember things tomorrow that I forgot about now.

Unfortunately, we didn't stay in one place long enough to have pics and we didn't take our camera... With the kids, we had to move so they wouldn't get bored and so they could see as much as they could while they were there. After that, we went to the park to let the kids have a snack and play before going home. We had a good day! It was hot, but the museum was really neat!! :~) Maybe next time we go Jamey and I will take a lot of pics to show you! :~)

One week later...

2009-06-25T22:03:00.000-07:00

Ok, I just sent in my fourth assignment for the ESL training!!! :~) To say I'm pleased with myself would probably be a little premature seeings how the teacher probably hasn't even seen it yet. But I'm hoping she'll like it and see just how much effort I put into this one. I also am kinda proud of myself for getting this one done in a week!!! :~) Yes, I know that I've just raised the bar, but maybe that's a good thing. The other assignments took about two weeks to do. Mainly cause I was scared of getting a bad grade, but now I just want it done and over with.

I don't have to work tomorrow. Which is good cause the two Mountain Dew type drinks I had today probably won't let me go to sleep any time soon. I haven't been sleeping well lately cause of all the stuff going on. Once the ESL is done I'm hoping that will help a little. I'm glad that I don't have to work tomorrow cause it's Family and Friends day at Peebles. Customers will get an extra 20 percent off. Most of the customers that came in today put their stuff on hold for tomorrow to get the deal. Not that that's a bad thing but it'll probably be kinda hectic tomorrow... And I get to work Saturday and Sunday. Those will probably be the worst days... I'm just glad I don't have to work the whole Family and Friends weekend! :~)

Today as I was leaving for work Jamey stopped me cause I was dragging something while I was backing out... It was a dog! :~o I didn't know it was under there! Luckily, I saw Jamey and stopped so the poor dog wasn't dragged all the way to Peebles! When I got home tonight Jamey introduced me to the dog. It was a little worse for wear but it seemed to be fine. Considering I dragged it under my car it was quite friendly to me! :~) It looks like a stray and it was all Jamey could do to not feed it. :~(

I didn't do a whole lot this week. I was either at work or working on my ESL stuff... I know I lead a boring life! :~) Jamey is so good to me!! :~) He has been tidying up the room for me while I'm at work and sometimes making supper for me. He also did laundry for me when I was at work! :~) Yeah, I just had to brag on my Baby! :~) Oh, and sometimes when I get off work he rubs my feet for me! He does such a good job of that and makes my feet feel so much better! I don't know what I'd do without my sweetie! :~) Ok, now I guess I'm done for now... I can't think of anything else right now. And maybe, just maybe I should try to settle down to go to sleep! :~)

Yeah, oops...

2009-06-17T11:00:00.000-07:00

I do have a reason for not blogging last week. It's relatively simple too... I was working, and working a lot! :~) Although it's a good thing it left little time for much else. And when I did get on the computer I didn't have enough time or energy to blog and if I did have energy I tried to use it on my ESL. Anyway, enough about my excuses!! :~)

Today is my second day off this week. Monday was the first day off I had since last Monday. I used it to do laundry. I know, I lead a really exciting life!! I gave the girls at work some homemade cookies cause I had mentioned cookies to them and thought it would be nice if I made a batch for them... They appreciated it! :~) It was really bad weather that day so I didn't do a whole lot except watch the weather. It didn't get really bad, but there were some tornadoes up north of us. Scary!

Today I have done nothing except get a shower and paint my nails this bright pink. Yeah, I have to get some of my ESL stuff done today and other things like supper. Jamey's mom put out some chicken, so I think I'll fry it. It takes a long time to do that and it gets messy, but it's appreciated when I make it!! :~) Something else I need to do today is tidy up the room... I hate doing that! Picking up in any form is something on the bottom of my "likes to do" list.

Tomorrow I get to work 5 hours. I close. Again. Not that I mind cause Peebles doesn't close late, so I get off about 8:20pm. My boss told me the other day that she has scheduled me for about 3 days next week where I close. She said that she tried to have me close with either her or the other Lisa cause they like to close with me. She said that the others would probably enjoy closing with me too, but I said "you do the schedule"! :~) Yeah, I like my job and all the people I work with! :~) Anyway, I need to do some of the stuff that I mentioned above for my today's "to-do" list! :~)

New Hair...

2009-06-09T20:06:00.000-07:00

I have been lazy about posting lately. Well, I thought that I would get to post once a week to start with... Then my assignment for the ESL training came back with something more I had do. Not that I mind doing more with it, it's just that I thought that I had done what I needed to do to pass it. Unfortunately, I hadn't done enough. I was really mad that day, so I didn't feel like posting... I didn't feel like doing anything! :~} I have also been working a lot lately. This week I'll be working for 35 hours. I'll work for 22 hours next week! :~) That's a good thing, but I have to get used to working again!

Something that's new... Jamey cut my hair!! :~) I'd been wanting a trim... Ok, more than a trim. I wanted my hair to end around my shoulders. Jamey was kind enough to cut it for me! :~) He did a really good job at it too! I wanted to try some curl gel that Jamey's aunt had given me for Christmas, so I tried it with my new cut... I think it looks really cute! An added bonus with the cut is that I wear it down a whole lot more and I can't get it into a bun!! :~) Jamey and I are both happy about that! I think it makes me look a little younger too. Maybe that's because it's been about 4 years since I've had my hair this short.

I fixed a swimsuit top for my boss at Peebles, and she paid my for it... I don't handle the money in Jamey's and my relationship for a reason. I went and spent the money on a cute top that was marked down at work! :~) Oops! I should probably try to settle down so I can get to sleep... I have to work about 7 hours tomorrow. Not a lot, but it will get me tired if I don't sleep! :~)

Two years...

2009-05-21T11:22:00.000-07:00

Actually, it's a little longer than two years since I started this blog! :~) I was thinking about it the other day and thought it was about two years ago. The two year mark was May 11th. Just in case you want to go back in time...

Today I'm trying, albeit not to hard as I'm writing on my blog right now, to finish my third assignment for ESL. This is one that I thought would be easier, however, it has proven to be just as difficult as the other two. Ugh! :~} Hopefully, I will get a good grade on it. I REALLY don't want to have to do it again!

Yesterday I picked up 6 more hours at Peebles! :~) Since I worked for 6 hours I got a break. Jamey came and picked me up and we went out to eat at McD's. I got a whole hour for break, so we took our time! :~) That was fun!! :~) Since I was not scheduled for work yesterday I continually thought that I didn't have to work today. I also went about yesterday thinking it was Thursday for the exact same reason. Luckily, last night I remembered that today is Thursday and I do have to work this evening... I hate forgetting about work! :~o And since I have to work tonight I'll miss softball!! :~( Oh well, at least the money I'll make working tonight can wipe away those tears! ;~)

Last night Jamey's sister Sarah brought home a lot of jewelry!! :~) We split it up and we each have like 50 pairs of earrings now... No, I don't think I'm exaggerating that much! :~o So today I'll have to coordinate my outfit on what earrings I want to wear! :~)

OK, I don't think I can avoid it anymore... I think my ESL is calling to me. Or maybe it's laughing at me, I can't tell! I'll try to make this blog a once a week thing until things stop being crazy... Well, maybe until they start to have some schedule anyway! ;~)

Wow...

2009-05-13T09:34:00.001-07:00

This is sad... I haven't posted on here since April 23rd! :~o I really need to get into some sort of routine with this thing.

So far this week I've worked for three days. I worked Sunday, Monday and yesterday. I really like working at Peebles, it's a very clean store and busier than I ever thought it would be! I'm so cheep that even with my discount for working there I can't bring myself to purchase anything they have! :~o However, it never ceases to amaze me that some people will spend $30 or $40 for a top or purchase more than a hundred dollars worth of stuff! I needed flat shoes the other day cause I don't have any and the heels were killing me, so I went to Payless to get some. They are cute and very comfortable. They cost $20. It took me a while to convince myself to get them. I don't work again this week until Saturday. It should be even busier on a weekend! :~o

I'm also working on my English as a Second Language (ESL) training. So far, I'm almost done with the third assignment! :~) Only two more to go! This one is a little easier. It deals with planning a lesson instead of a lot of grammar which was getting me down with the earlier assignments. Hopefully the last two will be somewhat easier like this one! :~)

Last Thursday Jamey and I went and played softball with the church we used to go to when we lived in Memphis. We get to do it every Thursday evening. It's really fun! We play in this Baptist park with about four ball fields in it. We play different churches every week and at different times, but it's all in the same place. Jamey got to be in the outfield and caught a fly ball! :~) He also scored a base hit. It was my first real game of ball so I wasn't sure I could do a whole lot, but I managed to watch the ball and get on base with four balls. Then I ran like I was on fire to score a run! :~) Yay me! ;~) Tomorrow is our next game. We won that first game so hopefully we will be able to at least not get crushed! :~)

Hi!

2009-04-23T21:27:00.000-07:00

I know that my posting has been lack luster at best lately... I don't know, maybe it's the stress of trying to find a job accompanied by the need to get the English training done. Maybe I'm just having a bad day! :~) Could happen!

Today Jamey and I went to see about a job at Krystal's (fast food for those of you who don't know what it is). Jamey got asked to come back, but they didn't have any applications for me... Oh, well! Tomorrow I'm going to try to see about the McD's around here. That should be interesting working in that kind of environment again! :~}

After that Jamey and I stayed in Memphis for a little while longer. We went to some places that we went before we moved and some new ones... It was fun being back in Memphis. I didn't realize this before, but I kinda miss it. I guess I always will have fond memories of this place since this is where my first home was after getting married.

I hope we will have that kind of attachment in China! I'm looking forward to it... I know it will be something totally different than what I'm used to, but I think we all need that sometimes! :~)

I'll do my best to keep you up to date on the job search and how we're doing. Oh, a little brag here... I passed my first assignment with the English as a Second Language course!!!! :~D I needed a 16 to pass and I got a 17! I'll try to do better with this next one, but I'm happy with the results so far! :~) Besides, they had some pretty hard questions in that first one!

Well, I should probably get some sleep so I can face the new day with a smile! :~)

Yay more blog posts!

2009-04-16T12:50:00.000-07:00

Hi! I know it's been a while since I really blogged. I have been trying to find some sort of job and trying to do some classes on English. I've spent all my life trying to avoid grammar, but now it's coming back to bite me in the butt! :~) I don't mind too much, it's just some of those questions on the course. You'd think that speaking English would be enough. Oh, well! :~)

I've been trying to get into some sort of shape lately... And I don't mean round! :~) I've been trying to walk for an hour every night to try to get rid of those pesky pounds that have decided to take up residence on my thighs! It's been working. I've been doing it for about half a month now... I also just started to do some sit ups and push ups to tone a little. I hope to keep this up and then maybe lose those pounds that I've been putting on for the past year!! :~o

Today has been a slow day. It's something that I don't like to do a lot... Which is just stay home and do nothing. Usually I like to be doing something or going somewhere. But today, I don't know, I just want to relax.

I'll do more to post on here more regularly... I'm getting more used to the change of address, which means that I'll feel more like doing things that I enjoy. I wish it didn't take this long to get used to a change... But I'm weird like that! ;~)

Ummm... Hi! :~}

2009-04-09T16:49:00.000-07:00

OK, I haven't felt like writing anything for a while... At least not since Jamey and I moved back to TN. I'm suffering from some blahs right now, so I don't know when I'll write more. So much for the everyday stuff, huh?

My sister's blog got me motivated to write something... So thank her. :~) I think I've got a job. Yay! It's at Peeble's. I had to take a drug test so I'm assuming that means that they want to hire me! At last my years of watching What Not to Wear has paid off!!! :~D

Well, I'll try to post more later. Maybe I'll even post everyday! :~) I'm not sure yet though. :~)

Happy Anniversary to my Parents!

2009-03-11T20:01:00.000-07:00

My parents are celebrating their 31st anniversary today! :~) Happy anniversary Mommy and Daddy! :~) I love you guys! :~)

Today we had to take our pets to an adoption place for pets... I cried! I tried not to think about it before, but when we were there Munchkin looked so scared! She looked the same way she does when she goes to see the vet! :~( I tried to comfort her and pet her a little, but it did no good. When I gave her to the lady she meowed and looked confused... I don't ever want to have to do that again!

I went through my clothes today and hopefully I was very brutal in my throwing clothes in the "never have worn them" pile... I don't know about you, but I always have this thought in my head that I will wear clothes that I have that I have never worn before. I always like to give things second chances... Unfortunately, my dresser is full of clothes that I've given numerous chances to and still haven't worn! I guess I'm just a pack rat at heart! :~)

Here's the recipe... A day late, I know... But hey, I'm dealing with a move here! ;~) Now, I've tried numerous recipes for fried chicken and this is the best one that I've found! Jamey is a lover of fried chicken and he loves this recipe... And I do to! Which is good cause I'm not a fan of chicken!

Southern Fried Chicken Strips

3/4 Cup Borden or Meadow gold Buttermilk
1 Tablespoon Wyler's or Steero Chicken-Flavor Instant bouillon
1/2 Teaspoon Oregano Leaves
1 Pound skinned boneless chicken breasts, cut into strips
1 1/4 Cups unsifted flour (Jamey likes it better with all-purpose... Although I have tried self-rising and it turned out fine)
1 to 2 Teaspoons paprika

In a large bowl, combine buttermilk, bouillon and oregano; let stand 10 minutes. Stir in chicken. Let stand 30 minutes to blend flavors. In plastic bag, combine flour and paprika. Add chicken, a few pieces at a time; shake to coat. Dip in buttermilk mixture again; coat with flour again. In large skillet, fry chicken strips in hot oil until golden on both sides. Drain on paper towels. Refrigerate leftovers. Makes 4 Servings

Anyway, hope you get a lot of use out of this recipe! :~) We've enjoyed it! Like I said it's the only fried chicken recipe that I've found that we both REALLY like! :~p

Well, I have to go get clothes off our bed so we can sleep sometime tonight! :~) Hopefully I'll get time to post tomorrow!

More stuff...

2009-03-10T18:26:00.000-07:00

Sorry I didn't post yesterday, but I spent about 3 hours cleaning out the closet in my sewing room... Man, I have a lot of stuff that I don't need! :~)

Today I didn't do much. Someone came to look at the TV... They ended up paying for it, but couldn't take it with them just yet. We also got another laptop! :~) When we move over seas we won't be able to take the large computer and I don't know what I would do without a laptop! :~o Isn't that sad? :~)

We went to some friends of ours for dinner tonight. That was a nice change of pace! We had a fantastic meal and played catch phrase for a while... It was so nice to be around a group of really nice people! :~) Made me feel better!

I hope that feeling better will continue till tomorrow... I'll need all the happy I can get! We are going to take Munchkin and Shorty to an adoption place in town here. I'm going to be really upset when I have to leave Munchkin... I haven't found a place for her, so I have no choice. The people that were there when we went to check it out seem like nice people, so that helps a little... But not much! :~( I'll take some last pics and maybe use the camcorder.

Anyway, I need to go to bed! It's sad that I'm tired already, but maybe it's all the stress of everything. Hopefully, I'll be able to post some tomorrow! :~)

P.S. I'll post a Tasty Tuesday tomorrow... Totally forgot about that! :~}

How fast things can change!

2009-03-08T17:07:00.000-07:00

I've come to find out that life can change in a very short period of time... I knew that from how I got married and now this. Anyway, Jamey got fired on Friday. He stepped on the wrong toes and had to go, basically. It makes me mad, but I'm not going to go into details... It'll just upset me more to think about it! :~(

Saturday we had breakfast with some friends that live near to us which was nice and we spent all morning talking to them! :~) Then we spent all afternoon yesterday packing up Jamey's office, so that is why I didn't get a chance to post much... I was upset and tired. Not usually a good combo! :~)

Today we visited with a local congregation where some friends of ours go. It was good to see them again! Just to have a friendly face to talk to. We stayed for the pot luck they had over there and got to talk to some sweet people... That was nice! :~)

I'm having difficulty right now trying to figure out what I want to take with us and what we can sell... We'll be going to China hopefully in late summer, but we can't take a lot with us. I have so many things that have sentimental value, it's hard to choose. Just going through all the stuff this next week will be hard... Picking and choosing what feasibly can and can't go with us.

Anyway, that's what has been happening over here... I probably won't be able to post everyday cause of the moving... We're hoping to be out of SC in the next two weeks. It will be hectic, but I'll try to post regularly! :~)

A lot going on...

2009-03-07T19:34:00.000-08:00

OK, quite a lot has been going on in the last 2 days... Jamey and I were out all day and I'm kinda tired. I need to get dinner ready for tomorrow so I'll try tomorrow to post more about the busyness that has been our lives since yesterday. Stay tuned... :~)

It's always Sunny weather...

2009-03-06T14:06:00.000-08:00

I've been feeling quite blah today... I figured it's the weather. It's nice and warm outside, but it's cloudy. Where Jamey thrives on cloudy days I tend to mope around the house... Why? I'm not sure... It might have something to do with loving the warmth that the sun brings, or it might be that it goes back to my growing up in the third cloudiest state in the union... Where every full day of sunshine was something special. Maybe that should make me used to all the clouds, I don't know. What I do know is that when the sun is out and it's warm outside you can find one happy Priscilla! :~)

Something else that makes me feel just bad all over is having an untidy house... I know my Mommy just went into shock! ;~) When I was still living with my parents my bed was my clothes dresser and the top of my dresser was the "catch all" for just about everything I owned! I don't know what changed... But for some reason I like to have a tidy house. I get very into cleaning and when I clean the house I have to have it perfectly clean. I'm kinda like someone with OCD when I'm cleaning. However, I'm not OCD cause I can go days without cleaning and be fine... It's just when things pile up that I can't stand it! :~)

Since I had to do laundry anyway, I decided to get some stuff done this afternoon... Which helped! :~) Now I don't feel so bad and my house is somewhat tidy, not clean mind you, but tidy! :~) Now if tomorrow it's sunny and I clean... :~D

Happy Birthday to my little sis...

2009-03-05T13:24:00.000-08:00

That's right. My little sister isn't so little anymore... Not only is she almost as tall as I am (which isn't much!) she is no longer a kid, but now an adult. I can't think about that too hard cause I remember when I was her age and it doesn't seem like that long ago. In reality it wasn't, but it doesn't seem right that my siblings are getting older without me being there. I suppose time goes on... It was bad enough with me turning 24 last year... Anyway, Happy Birthday Lydia! :~)

Tonight while I was making bacon something interesting happened. My microwave just stopped! It was in the middle of a rotation and it just up and quit. I'm not sure what happened to it... It's not like we abused it, in fact I've been starting to NOT use it as much! This microwave was second hand from good friends of ours in Memphis but it wasn't that old... We've had it for a little over a year. So since our microwave decided to die on me I had to cook bacon on the stove top... I've never done this before, but it wasn't that bad. I remembered during the cooking of the bacon that I had kept the microwave that was here when we moved in! :~) I had put it in the closet in my sewing room where things that I don't know what to do with go to die! So after supper (which was yummy by the way) I went to unearth it... It's one of those old ones that don't rotate... It doesn't have a plate in it, I'm not sure if it didn't originally or if the previous owners took it. Either way, I'm going to have to adjust to this one for a while... Not to mention clean it! :~} Luckily I have Mr. Clean for that job!! :~) Well, I'm off to my task! :~}

Singing and Snowmen...

2009-03-04T19:06:00.000-08:00

I'm not sure what I'm going to talk about today... But as my family knows, I always think of something! :~}

Today was normal... A little less than normal. I didn't really do anything like I thought I would today. But you have to have some days like that or you'd overload! :~) I'm trying to figure out how to post video on my blog from my video camera... I tried using a USB cable, but nothing happened. I'm thinking that I might need to get a fire wire, but I'm not sure... Our camera has a USB port on it. Any tips on how to go about doing this would be appreciated! :~)

On other notes... Snowmen don't live in SC for a reason. What was once a vibrant snowman is now just a shadow of his former flaky self. They both are shrinking... They probably won't survive the weekend. Very grim diagnosis: Heat wave... Fatal to all snowmen. What was a winter wonderland last Sunday is promising to be a spring lovers dream... They are calling for 70 degree weather come Friday. Not that I'm not looking forward to the warmth, I just find it hard to believe that it goes to such extremes! I guess I'll get used to it one of these days! :~) Unfortunately, my snowmen won't have that chance... ;~)

Tonight was singing night at church. I love singing night! I love to sing! It reminds me a little of being back with my family and singing with them. Although I love to hear Jamey sing with his bass voice, I also like to think back when my brother, sister and I went and sang in front of people. I don't sing at the piano as much as I used to, but I do have some other responsibilities... I did like the song selection tonight. It included: At Calvary and Redeemed (a couple of my Daddy's favorite songs). Some other songs that I can't remember, but I enjoyed singing them as well. It always lifts my spirit to sing... Even when I'm in a bad mood, singing something will almost always get me in a better mood. Granted that sometimes I just want to be grumpy (ask Jamey he knows all to well). With Jamey being in a choir at college and my love for singing, I hope that one day we'll be able to pass along that love for singing to our children! :~)

Tasty Tuesday!

2009-03-03T18:04:00.000-08:00

OK, here's the deal... I'm going to try to post yummy recipes on my blog on Tuesdays. Hey, I needed something to post about today! :~)

Also this is my 100Th post! So, Happy 100Th to me! ;~) I've enjoyed posting on this and letting my family in on my life. It's hard to be so far away... But doing this blog helps me feel closer to them! :~)

Anyway, back to Tasty Tuesday! :~) I figured that since I've gotten better at cooking that I could share some of my recipes that I've enjoyed making! For the first posting of recipes I've chosen a tried and true one... Every time we have this recipe it's always a hit! It comes from the Taste of Home's Cooking for 2 magazine... I've told my sister about this one but never shared the recipe, so here it is!

Chicken Alfredo Stromboli

1 French bread baguette (5 ounces), halved lengthwise
6 ounces boneless skinless chicken breast, cubed
1 teaspoon olive oil
4 teaspoons butter, softened, divided
1/3 cup canned mushroom stems and pieces, drained
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup shredded part-skim mozzarella cheese

Place bread, cut side up, on an ungreased baking sheet. Broil 4-6 in. from the heat for 2-3 Minutes or until lightly toasted; set aside.
In a small skillet, saute chicken in oil and 1teaspoon butter until juices run clear; drain. Add the mushrooms, salt, garlic powder and pepper; cook for 1-2 minutes or until heated through.
In a small bowl, combine the sour cream, Parmesan cheese and remaining butter; spread over bread halves. Top each with 2/3 cup chicken mixture. Sprinkle with mozzarella cheese. Broil for 1-2 minutes or until cheese is melted. Yield: 2 servings

It'll take maybe a little more than half an hour to fix after you get used to the recipe... Or at least I had to get used to the recipe before I could do it in that time! :~} Maybe it's just me! ;~) Hope you like this recipe! :~)

Yay for Snow!!!

2009-03-02T09:48:00.000-08:00

Yep, it's still here! But it is starting to melt... Ahhh, the life of a snowflake in SC! :~) I got up earlier than I normally would because my Mommy said something about it might be gone in the afternoon! :~o So I got up and started making snowmen! It wasn't that cold outside and with rolling snowmen I definitely didn't need all the layers that I had put on originally! I put on a new coat I got from a friend at church, but that didn't last long! I rolled all the snowballs but needed some help from Jamey to lift them up on top of each other! He also found the pine cones used for their mouths and noses... Aluminum foil was used for their eyes! I was only going to have one, but the second ball I rolled ended up being larger than the first one! :~o It took about two hours to make both snowmen... After that I came inside cause I was wet! The snow started to pack better but only cause it was starting to melt... So I got wet from melting snow!! :~} Anyway, here are some pics!!! :~) I won't put all of them up here but you can see the rest at Photobucket! :~)

These are the neighbor's trees with all the snow weighing them down!

Look at all the pretty trees I can see from my front yard!

This is the tree that fell down the other day... It's larger than most of the other trees so I wonder why it went down!

This is me in my homemade hat, mittens and scarf... Trying to not look dorky with my jeans tucked into my boots. Yeah, like that's the only thing making me look dorky in this pic!!! :~D

The bottoms of the snowmen....

Yay! They have torsos!! Jamey had to help me put these on...

Look, they are the same size as me! Jamey helped with the heads too...

So you can see their faces, an up close and personal shot!

Our stylin' snowmen... Don't they look chic? :~D That's my black hat and one of Jamey's ball caps.

What is this white stuff??? :~D

2009-03-01T17:24:00.000-08:00

Yeah, it looks like the sky could use a dose of extra strength Head and Shoulders! :~) March is definitely coming in like a lion this year! The natives say it hasn't snowed like this in 5 years! :~O It started snowing about 4:30pm and just stopped! We have about 3 and a half inches... Which to me is really almost nothing but for SC it's nothing to sneeze at! :~) I really have missed it... I miss having it to play in and it lets me know anyway that winter has arrived. It's been about a year or more since I was able to really get out in a good snow. It's really hard to go through so many months of cold when there is nothing to show for it! Also, the plus is it's not so cold when it's snowing! I really don't want to hear the natives going berserk, but I'm enjoying it! I'll post some pics tomorrow! :~) Right now I'm trying not to think about the trees next to our bedroom that are dropping branches... Needless to say, we are sleeping in another room tonight! :~O

On another note... I'm going to try to post something everyday this month! Note the try in the last sentence! :~) You'll have to forgive me if I miss a day, right? ;~) I think that's about it for now... Really, I have to pace myself! ;~) Welcome March Madness!!!!! :~}

Two Years!!! :~D

2009-02-26T21:21:00.000-08:00

Yes, it's been two years of wedded bliss for me and Jamey! :~) Can you believe it? I know it's hard for me to comprehend it too...

It seems like just yesterday we were standing in front of Jamey's dad promising that we would love, honor and cherish each other till death. Two very nervous people... Yeah, you should have seen us before the ceremony! :~} The only thing we were sure of was that we didn't want to go through life without the other there by our side...

I'm still sure of that! I wouldn't want to be anywhere else than right next to Jamey helping him and being there for him. I love him and he's a wonderful husband that I don't deserve... I'm hard to love sometimes and crazy other times (however, I have stopped dancing and singing to the music in the grocery store!) but he loves me anyway... He loves me and I love him. We like it that way, it's worked well for us! ;~)

I thought I would wear the clothes I got married in today... Well, the shirt (my something new - back then it was new) anyway. The jeans (my something old) made my thighs look huge so I chose not to wear them out of the house! :~} I wore the earrings that I wore that day... Blue rose ones (um, yeah that would be my something blue!) that I had gotten from Avon. Jamey was wearing his high school ring today so I couldn't wear it (that was my something borrowed). Hey, getting married wearing normal clothes has its advantages! I could go out in my wedding clothes and not look like I was crazy! :~)

Today was an amazing day, we got to just enjoy each others company and just have fun! Jamey took me out on a picnic lunch and we played monopoly all afternoon! :~) We then decided to go to a Chinese Buffet (my favorite place to eat!). When we got home from that we discovered that someone had crashed into a telephone pole and we had to have our power off for a while! :~O I think the people in the crash are going to be OK, though. So with our power off we decided to go see a movie - Taken. Before the movie started Jamey took me to go get some ice cream at this Marble Slab Creamery next to the movie theater... I always seem to want ice cream on the colder days of the year! :~) Before long I was shivering and enjoying every bite! Then we got to see the movie... Which was really good! After that we went home to relax after the full day that we'd just had! :~)

We had a really great anniversary celebration today! This last year has been a great one and I'm looking forward to this next year together... Hoping and praying that it will be as good if not better than the last! :~)

Been a while...

2009-02-22T20:08:00.000-08:00

And it's all my fault, I know! :~) Well, I had to get back in the swing of things and to tell the truth I'm not completely there yet... But here goes!

This is a summary of all that happened at lectureship... I'm going to try to get the notes that I wrote, but that will be for another post! :~}

Let's see... Freed lectureship! :~) We got to Jamey's parents house around 5:30pm their time. We left at about 7:30am our time, so it took about 11 hours! We were able to relax on Saturday. The only thing going on then was a dinner with Jamey's family that went really well and we all enjoyed it. We also had a delayed Christmas gift exchange.

Sunday was church. We went to Jamey's parents church for morning service and also went with them to the nursing home service at 2:30pm. We didn't get a chance to have dust collect cause after that Jamey, Jason and I went to Memphis to visit our old church. It was a blast seeing everyone again and we also got to stay for a Super Bowl party at one of the members houses. We had a good time in the sense that we enjoyed it but also were bummed out cause we knew we weren't going to be back in a while. We didn't end up getting home till about midnight! :~) Which, in retrospect, was a bad thing cause we had to get up early the next morning!!!

Monday we - Jamey, Jason and I - started by getting up at 6:30am so we could get a good start on all the lectures. We didn't leave the house till 7:30 and didn't get to Freed till 9. We were able to catch a good lecture before chapel. Then after chapel we were free to go to the dining hall... That was an experience! I had fun listening to Jamey and Jason reminisce about how bad the food used to be and how spoiled the kids were now cause they got pizza everyday! :~) Our schedule was full from then on with lectures and workshops. We got to eat at Bell's for supper which is like the social highlight of Henderson. The food was good, and the service was friendly! :~) We didn't get home until late this night too because we stayed for the congregational singing and the late lecture. I had an absolute blast!!! :~) I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Tuesday was more of the same except for the fact that Jason wasn't with us. I got to sit in on a ladies lecture which was really good and recommended by a friend... That friend was the lady from Memphis that helped me get my driver's license and was someone that I connected with when we were living there. Anyway, she was there at the lecture so I got to catch up with her a little bit. That was the highlight of the day for me! :~) Back to the lecture though, the lady was really interactive with the crowd and spoke on the Psalms... About prayer, praise and getting to know who God is. It was a three part lecture that went on from Tuesday till Thursday. I enjoyed it and learned a lot! :~) We stayed for the congregational singing, late lecture and also got to stay for the chorale. At the end of the chorale singing they invited all the previous members to come up and sing the last song... Jamey used to sing with them so he enjoyed going up and singing!! :~)

Something that I also got to experience was an open forum... I did not know that there were so many people that could comment on the same topic and say exactly the same thing as the previous commenter. :~} It was interesting and they got into some very controversial stuff. Jamey went up to comment on one of the days and he used something that I had said to him... There was an argument about Christian contemporary music and if we could sing along because these were not Christians that made the music and we should not participate in their false worship. I made the comment to Jamey that if that were true we really couldn't sing almost all the songs in the hymnal cause they weren't written by Christians! Anyway, that made me smile! :~)

Wednesday was a little shorter for the simple fact that it was church night and Jamey's Mom was making some deliciousness that is Louisiana Lasagna! :~p We got to listen to a few good lectures and the open forum then had to leave in order to make it to Jamey's parents house in time for church!

Thursday was a little like Wednesday we got to go to chapel, eat in the cafeteria and hear a few great lectures... However we had to go before open forum because we were going to eat supper with Jamey's family at Shoney's. It was mostly cause Jamey's sister Rachel could only make it that day... We had a good time and I got to talk to his sisters a little more.

It was very difficult to leave Freed on Thursday cause I knew that we weren't going to be going back. I ended up taking quite a few notes while we were there and got the good side of college life. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay and got to imagine what it might have been like had I gone to college... Course if I had gone I wouldn't be where I am today so I'm glad I didn't go, but still I couldn't help thinking about it! :~}

Jamey and I also got to go to the book fair that went on all week... It was a good book fair and also a money pit! :~) Jamey couldn't come out of there without spending some money! Hey, when you're surrounded by a lot of great books written by the brotherhood how could you not spend a lot of money? ;~) Another one of the things that I got to do was meet quite a few of Jamey's old college friends and also got to see a few of the people I knew that were going there.

Friday was spent relaxing before having to be on the road for an extended period of time. We just chilled with Jamey's family. We watched some movies and had to pack... I tried not to have our stuff explode all over the floor, but to no avail! So I spent some of the day doing laundry and packing what I could. We definitely left with more than what we came with!!! :~) All in all we had a great time and I can't wait till the next time! :~D

We had a very uneventful trip back and got home in record time. I'm still trying to get back into the schedule that I had for myself before we left... I'm doing well with the meals, it's just the chores that I'm not liking right now! Hopefully this will get me out of the writers block that I've been having. I'll try to write more later... I have ladies Bible study to write about and then just life in general! It's getting late and I have a busy week ahead so I should start thinking about going to bed! :~)

Ok, this will be short...

2009-02-07T18:31:00.000-08:00

But sweet! :~) Jamey and I just got back from spending time with his family... We also had a blast going to the Freed-Hardeman lectureship. I enjoyed hearing all those great speakers and I got to take some notes... I'll try to let you in on what it was that I heard and let you read some of my notes! :~) I'm exhausted, we spent all day in the car and tomorrow is church... I already have things unpacked, but I need to go get ready for bed! ;~}

A full week ahead...

2009-01-29T18:40:00.000-08:00

Just a quick blurb to say that we'll be leaving for TN tomorrow for the lectureship Freed-Hardeman is having. We'll be staying with Jamey's family so we can get as much time with them as possible while we're in west TN. I'm looking forward to pretending I'm at college for a week. I'm also looking forward to seeing Jamey's family again... Haven't seen them since at least the middle of last year.

We'll be leaving about 7 am tomorrow morning... Yeah, I'm excited to get up that early. Can you read the sarcasm? Anyway, I've been busy today trying to do laundry and pack. The hardest part about packing is that I always have this feeling that I'm forgetting something... And I usually do forget it. What's worse is the fact that I don't remember about it until we're almost there! :~}

I have to put this in here... You know that! ;~) There are some precious pics of my nephew on my sister's blog! :~D Well, I should probably go and get the dishes put away... And then fold what little is left of the laundry when it gets done.

A little update!

2009-01-22T11:38:00.000-08:00

I just needed a title for this post... :~} Not that much has happened since the last post including the snow. What I mean by that is that there was no snow and everyone went around town like headless chickens for no reason! :~o Anyway, on the flip side of that coin we have today... I normally have a really hard time with cold and if it's not 80 degrees then I'm wearing something under a short sleeved shirt. Although I exaggerate a little it's not entirely false. So why, on this 22ND day of JANUARY am I comfortable going outside in short sleeves and no coat???? I have to say this weather is just a little crazy... (Either that or I'm getting better with cold weather. :~O) However, I do enjoy when it's unexpectedly warm like this. :~) Even though I enjoy it, I find myself hating the fact that I do enjoy it so much because it shouldn't be this warm outside at this time of year! Ahhh, the northern girl in me wants to rebel but she won't because she's having too much fun in the warmth! :~}

On Tuesday I led a Bible study at church. This is a big deal for me because I usually try to fade into the background when it comes to leading of any kind... There are only two ladies that do the class so they go back and forth all the time. I just thought since I am the preacher's wife that I should step out of my comfort zone and help out. I found it just a little odd that the first time I did teach, the part of the book that we are studying was all about how we need more people to get up and lead in the church! :~) I was so nervous! All the ladies thought I did a good job for my first time, but I had a lot of pauses and the things that I had said in my mind before going to class completely left me! We didn't finish the section we were on so I'm going to do it next month too. The only way to get better at something is to continue doing it! :~) I'm hoping that next month after I teach I can blog about the section covered!

My hair has gotten longer... It's down to the middle of my back now. That said, I've found a new love... In the form of Herbal Essence Long Term Relationship shampoo and conditioner!! :~) I saw it on commercials that it's supposed to be formulated for the longer hair. It smells so good! :~) And it makes my hair silkier than it has ever been. I actually want to wear it down more! :~) I also purchased the split ends serum that is in the same family with the shampoo and conditioner... In order to get the full effect of what the products can do. At any rate, you're looking at one happy consumer! :~)

Well, I think that's all for now... We'll be traveling next Friday to go spend time with Jamey's family and go to the Freed-Hardeman lectureship. That will be fun and I'm looking forward to being back in that area again... Hard to believe it's been a year! :~) So if I don't get to my blog for a while, console yourself with my sister's blog... She's been trying to post everyday! :~) A difficult challenge and one that I hopefully will be doing one of these days! :~)

Bring on the snow!

2009-01-19T13:47:00.000-08:00

Since I should be doing dishes... The obvious choice for me is to write on my blog!! ;~)

Anyway, Jamey and I were at the store grocery shopping today and noticed a LOT of people in the store. I mean, Wal-mart is the social mecca of any community but today it was crowded like it was the week before Christmas and the only thing on people's list was those little yellow roll-back smiley faces! We thought it was just the fact that it was a holiday of sorts and people were off work. Then we saw a lot of old retired couples... Hmmm.

I was in Cato when I heard it over the radio... (dramatic pause) It MIGHT SNOW!!!! Tomorrow! Oh horrors! I am not impressed with this little gem of news. I've lived in a place where it snowed 2 feet overnight easy... Before Thanksgiving! Where not to have snow for Thanksgiving was unusual and to not have a white Christmas was unheard of! I enjoy seeing snow and kinda wish we could have it here like I remember it when I was a child; however, I do not want the native SC people to experience that kind of snow. Think of the panic! One friend here in SC has only experienced 4 in. of snow in her life! :~O My goodness, how many feet have I experienced? Too many to count!

I don't know maybe I'm being too hard on people here... I mean the first time I tried to drive in snow I almost plowed into a stop sign! :~o At least there's Jamey, my family, a few from church that came from North Dakota, and a handful that have been up north in winter. At least I can talk to them about the snow! :~)

Something odd... ;~}

2009-01-15T19:30:00.000-08:00

Well, I thought it was a well known fact that cats don't like water... Munchkin doesn't like water, but she has this moth to bug zapper relationship with it. Or at least that's what I get whenever I observe her and water! :~) So anyway, the last couple of times that I've been showering she has kamikazes her way into the shower and then right back out... Getting wet in the process and yet continues to do it again a few minutes later!! :~o Yeah, I got a smart one! ;~)

I thought that it would be a nice change to take a bath this time. I also thought for sure if there was a large body of water she wouldn't dare come near! I was WRONG! :~D She came near, played with the water and then I guess she slipped or something because the next thing I know she is trying desperately to get out of the tub!!! :~D That gave me a good laugh and it gave Munchkin something to do! For the rest of my bath she was licking herself dry!! :~) Well, she is dry now and I guess (or hope) that she has learned her lesson about the water! :~)

Ohio trip... :~D

2009-01-14T10:17:00.000-08:00

Alright, it seems that everyone I know is posting new blog posts and making me feel bad... Just kidding! :~) Though I have been thinking about posting more, I just don't seem to have the oomph to do it. Oh, and I apologize about not having names next to the pics in the last post! :~}

Ok, here's a recap of our trip to Ohio... We got there on Tuesday night and got to visit a little with my family before we were completely exhausted. Wednesday was fun, my Mommy didn't have to work so we went grocery shopping... No, really, it was fun! :~) That night Lydia, Philip, Jamey and I went to a concert in Maumee (about an hour away) that Lydia and Philip wanted to go to. It wasn't my first concert, but it was the first time I had ever seen a mosh pit! That was just a little unnerving for me! We had a good time and they even put on the ball drop in the middle of the concert!!! :~D I was afraid we would have to miss it! After the concert, we got home at about 2am, we found that my sister Sarah, Danny and my nephew Xander were there!! :~) We talked until about 4... That's when we were all getting so sleepy that our eyelids were screaming!

Thursday and Friday were both kinda relax/shopping days. Sarah, Lydia and I went and took Xander shopping with us on Thursday. We tried to school Xander in the finer points of shopping, but he just ended up pooping! :~) Ahhh, guys and shopping! :~) Then on Friday just Sarah and I went shopping... That was fun to have some shop time with my sister. After supper Jamey, Danny, Sarah, Lydia and I went to see a movie at the local theater... We saw Yes Man.

Saturday was bowling day! We hadn't been bowling for a while and we hadn't been bowling with Danny and Sarah since all of us met two years ago! We tried to get in at the bowling lanes in Bryan, but they had a league coming in so we couldn't bowl there... We ended up going to Defiance and finding a bowling place there. We bowled for a couple hours, by the way, I officially stink at bowling! The last game we played we had to do teams and Jamey joked about having to have me on his team! :~) Yeah, we didn't win! After our defeat we went out to Dairy Queen for some frozen refreshment! They don't have Dairy Queen down in SC... So I had to live it up while I was in Ohio! ;~)

Sunday was the last day with my sweet little nephew... I have to say, he loved me! Every time I would say something he would smile at me! :~) Either that or I gave him gas!! :~} Either way, I thoroughly enjoyed it!! We had to have church at home (just like the old days back in VT) because of ice. Jamey got to bring the lesson... And here he thought he was on vacation! ;~) After church came beef stew and the realization that they were leaving. So to cope there was lots of holding Xander... Then it turned into not wanting them to take Xander away! However, I didn't have a bag big enough and they took him back with them. Not before we all had a family picture! :~D It was just a little impromptu, but it came out nicely! The rest of Sunday was relaxing...

Which brings us to Monday. Monday was a day for me to visit with some friends that I haven't seen in a while... There was a little hesitation when I went to see people at the nursing home where I used to work. Mostly because I was afraid that one of the sweetest people in there would be gone forever! Luckily, she was still there and sweet as ever! I used to really enjoy spending time with her when I worked there and it hasn't changed. I got some useful information from her before I got married about married life... She and her husband were married for 74 years before he passed away! :~o I had a really good time with her and then I was off to go visit with another of my friends...

Tamra is one of the people that I call my conscience. She was the friend that gave me that valuable advice when I needed it the most and kept me from going crazy when I was still working... I haven't been out with her for a long time, but thanks to the Internet we've kept in touch! :~) We went out to Pizza Hut (where else, really?) and then to Dairy Queen because I needed something else to compete for space on my thighs! I just had such a good time with her... I could seriously unwind and just relax.

Tuesday was the last day we were in Ohio and Jamey, Lydia and I went to Defiance to shop. Lydia wanted to go to the "mall" they have there... It really is a sad little mall, but hey, it's good enough. We spent all day out shopping and having fun. I really enjoyed going places with Lydia... I get the feeling that she misses not having sisters around anymore! :~} Then when we got home we had to pack to get ready for leaving.

We left about 7am on Wednesday morning. We finally saw some snow when we left... It snowed from where we were in Ohio all the way down to TN! :~O Oh, and I couldn't help myself with the water tower that says "y'all" on it! :~) We got back home about 9pm and were completely exhausted from travel! We were also shocked by the fact that there was a tree in our front yard. It fell over earlier in the day because the wind was just that bad! :~O

Anyway, that's our trip to Ohio... I still have to get back in the groove of doing things again! :~p Which includes but is not limited to cleaning and doing dishes! :~}

Happy New Year!!!

2009-01-09T17:38:00.000-08:00

I know that it's been a while since I wrote on here... I've been having a blast with family and getting all the packing and unpacking done! :~) I have pics, so hopefully you will forgive me for being so tardy about writing lately! ;~) The first one is when Lydia, Philip, Jamey and me went to a concert on New Years Eve. The rest are of my visit with family and getting to know my new nephew!! He loves his Aunt Priscilla... He smiled every time I would say something to him!! :~D Anyway, I'll post more about my visit over the next couple of days, but for now... Here are the pics!!! :~D

New Couch! :~D

2008-12-17T21:03:00.000-08:00

Yesterday, Jamey was looking at an office chair for church at this new thrift store close to our house when he thought to look at the couches that they have there. Jamey's been wanting to get a new couch for a while, but we couldn't find one that we liked. He saw one that looked pretty good and it came with all of its pillows. Jamey came back to the house to get me so I could look at it... I liked it, and the price was right, so we went ahead and got it! :~)

Today Jamey and one of the guys from church went and got it... It took a little coercing to get the new couch in but it finally got in the house. I wiped it down with upholstery cleaner then washed the pillows in the washing machine... After I saw that the washing machine worked to wash the pillows I washed the couch cushion cover! :~) It worked really well!

Here are some pics of the new couch!

Two weeks till Christmas... :~o

2008-12-11T13:20:00.000-08:00

The title says it all... Except for the screaming at the end of that sentence! :~) Yes, it's that time again when I wonder exactly where the year went and look forward to staring a new year in the face! I am really looking forward to seeing my family this New Years and to see what the new year brings. :~)

I've been proud of myself the last couple of nights... I spent on average 2 hours in the kitchen every evening fixing supper! Yes, I know I wasn't all that interested in cooking when I was home and to be honest haven't been very interested in it since I've been married! I don't know exactly what came over me, but I hope to keep it up! :~) I know that I've enjoyed having something different from the norm every night and I know that Jamey really has been liking the change in menu... The menu for this week was; Monday: Chicken Alfredo Stromboli, Tuesday: Lasagna, and yesterday I made Sweet and Sour Pork! Friday will be Chicken Cordon Bleu... I actually enjoy pretending I'm a chef and cooking up really yummy dinners... Who'd have guessed! :~)

Tonight we have a dinner with the church... They go out to eat every year around Christmas. It'll be nice to go out to eat. We haven't been out in a while... To eat anyway! :~) We're having dinner then going back to the church for a gift exchange and dessert! I'm making Chocolate delight... I think it's the same thing that Jamey's Mom makes every now and then with the four layers, but this one that I'm making just has a different name. It has a buttery crust with pecans in it, cream cheese and sugar on top of that, chocolate pudding, and whipped topping on top with pecans. Right now I'm waiting for the crust to cool! :~)

Jamey and I finally got Christmas pictures done! We're sending out Christmas cards this year and in them will be a picture and a letter... I've never done this before, but my Mommy has always done it and I think it's a great idea! :~)

Well, better go and finish that dessert... The crust should be done cooling! Before I go though, here are a few more pics of the house all decorated...

A rare glimpse into my brain... Be afraid!

2008-12-07T22:04:00.000-08:00

OK, I admit... I've changed my views somewhat as I've aged. Something that I have on my brain right now is the question of clothing in Church. Now, I went to a Baptist church for Sunday school for about 9 years... I'm not a Baptist by any standards we just had some friends there since my sister and I both went to private school there for a few years. Now in that particular church you didn't come to church on Sunday morning in anything less than a shirt and tie if you're a guy or less than a shirt and skirt if you're a girl. You were told the dress code and expected to follow it. They had a VERY strict dress code...

This is how I grew up thinking that if you went to church you had on your best clothes... Nothing wrong with that at all. However, there was something inherently wrong with my attitude about it over the years. After a while of that I would look at the people that weren't dressed as nice as me and think they should have dressed better. I didn't realize at the time that my attitude towards these people was wrong.

Fast forward a few years... I met Jamey. At that point I had started to get to know the people behind the casual clothing, but still had those thoughts about dress. When I went down to Memphis to visit with Jamey and his family - I can't remember how it all happened - one Sunday night I wore my jeans to Sunday night service! I felt uncomfortable to be dressed so casual in church... To make a long story short, I realized after a while that while man does look on the outside which is why we should dress modestly... God doesn't. He looks on the inside and if I'm thinking about the person that I think should dress better to church and not giving God my all during service then the person dressed casual isn't the problem... I am.

Now I still dress up for Sunday morning service but my attitude is totally different. I no longer think that those people should dress better, as long as it's modest I'm just glad to see them at church! :~)

Pictures... Of Thanksgiving!

2008-11-29T10:51:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving is over... Well, we certainly won't run out of food for a while! :~) We had a really good Thanksgiving dinner. Jamey and I cooked Wednesday night, then I got up early to cook on Thursday. Jamey made some really good sweet potatoes and some very flaky crust for the pies! :~) I also tried my hand at rolls and they turned out alright. We had Turkey, gravy, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, cream corn, rolls, green bean casserole, relish tray, cottage cheese salad, carrot and pineapple salad, cranberry salad, pumpkin pie and chocolate pie. After the food it was time for a little bit of a nap... Turkey will do that to you! :~) Later in the afternoon we went over to one of the church members house. They had invited us to come celebrate Thanksgiving with them! :~) We had fun and ate a little.

After the dinners we put up the Christmas tree. It was a lot of fun deciding where all the decorations were going to go... We have a 7 and a half foot fake tree in the living room! It's so pretty! :~) We put some icicle lights in the windows and a wreath on the door. Here are some pics of the decor... One of my favorite pics is the one with Munchkin! :~)

Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-11-25T12:24:00.000-08:00

Thanksgiving is in two days, but I don't think I'll have enough time to write anything with all the cooking that Jamey and I will be doing! :~) I can't wait! It'll be so fun to cook together and then devour it... :~P

Tomorrow we'll make the things that need to be cold... Then Thursday we will cook the rest of our feast! :~) It'll be different doing the holidays without any family around. I don't think I've ever done any major cooking for Thanksgiving... I did do some last year when we had it with Jamey's family.

Anyway, I need to go do some chores so the house will be clean for Thanksgiving! :~}

Pictures! :~)

2008-11-23T19:52:00.001-08:00

I finally got the pictures to upload!! :~) Now you'll be able to see all the beautiful scenery and the colorful leaves!! :~) Just check out Photobucket!

Yes, I'm still here...

2008-11-22T18:40:00.000-08:00

I know it's been awhile since I last wrote... We have been a little busy. Jamey did another wedding yesterday! It was a small affair and it was an outdoor wedding... It wouldn't have been so bad had it not been about 40 degrees outside at the time! :~o I was even wearing my warm dress and cape! Everyone was all bundled up and I was loosing feeling in my feet, but it was a lovely ceremony and it didn't last all that long. After the wedding we went to the reception which was inside... So we all warmed up! :~)

I have been trying to clean my house more regularly, but today I felt kinda lazy so I relaxed and did nothing... I was relaxing and watching a movie in our bedroom and when I came out there was Jamey cleaning the kitchen and doing the dishes! :~) He did that so I could relax today! I might be just a little biased ;~), but I think I have the best husband! :~D I also recently started to toilet train Munchkin... I can't wait until I don't have anymore litter to clean up! :~) Just in case you're curious I got the info I'm using from this website.

Jamey and I went on a trip up the mountains to enjoy the fall colors and I took my video camera with us... There are too many pictures to put up here so you can see them on Photobucket. The weather was just perfect and the trees were gorgeous! And the view from the mountains... The pictures just don't do it justice! :~) It was one of the last times that the leaves were actually on the trees! Anyway, we made a day out of it and it was one of the best times! :~) Right now the computer isn't doing what I want... Photobucket isn't letting me put the pics up right now. I'll try to put them in tomorrow! :~}

One last thing... If you want to see one of the cutest nephews in the world check out my sister's blog! :~D

Jamey's Birthday!!! :~)

2008-11-05T07:39:00.000-08:00

Well, with all this buzz about the election I totally forgot to post something about Jamey's birthday on here! :~o Since his birthday was Sunday and he had to work, we celebrated on Saturday! It worked out well, cause he was able to sleep in and relax. We got up about 10 am and started with the lemonade cake with candles! :~) Then it was present open time!! He helped me pick out a few of the presents, but I got one that he didn't know about... I went to Wal-mart and picked up the new Three Stooges DVD that's out now. I knew he wanted it, I wanted to have at least one present that he didn't know about! :~P There was one present that didn't come until about 3pm that day... It was the one that I had got from sniping a guy on e-Bay. I was hoping to wrap it, but it did come on Saturday so Jamey could play with it! :~D After that we just chilled. I made fried chicken, potatoes, peas, and biscuits for dinner. :~P We went to Wal-mart for a while then came home and watched a movie. :~)

There aren't as many pics as there might have been had I not had the video camera in my hand! I decided this was a good opportunity to use my birthday present... Yeah, I taped his birthday presents with my birthday present! :~} Oh, I posted some pics if you want to see pics from my birthday... There's not enough room on here for all these pics! :~)

Sunday was Jamey's actual birthday, but we had a lot going on and barely had any time to sit down... First there was service, then we went out to eat at Ryan's. After that we went home to relax a little before we had a wedding shower to go to and Jamey had a business meeting after that. And after all that was over there was evening service... So we were kinda busy that day and too busy to have done anything for Jamey's birthday! :~)

Ode to Frank Mills

2008-10-30T08:27:00.000-07:00

If there was one album that took me back through the years of my life it would be Frank Mills Sunday Morning Suite. I have very scattered memories... From doing chores to the music when I was little, to listening to it constantly when I was a young teenager on a Walkman. Most times the cassette tape would get lost and wouldn't be found for awhile... I'm sure it was just it's defense against being played to death! :~) But whenever we could find it, it generally got played at least once... Mostly by me, cause I loved it! I've been looking for that album for the last year and a half... Hoping to find it so I can listen and be taken back every now and then, also so I can share it with my kids. Yesterday Jamey went to a new thrift store and found it! :~D It's a record, so I can play it on Jamey's new record player (which I'm doing right now!). Someday soon hopefully Jamey will be able to put it on a CD so I won't wear out the record! :~}

Well, last time I wrote it was before my birthday! I had a really great birthday... Jamey got me balloons and he made me do a scavenger hunt for my presents! :~) That had to be the most fun. Other than the shopping of course! ;~) He made me a chocolate cake and gave me some candy... But the biggest present came in the form of a video camera! I love it! It's a small one and it's so cute, if such things can be called cute! I've used it a couple times, but the most it will get used is when we go and see family! After the presents were opened I got to go shopping and couldn't find a pair of trouser jeans anywhere until I went to Target. Those ones are nice... Then I went to Kohl's and found some. So now I have a couple pair... They're nice cause they look like straight leg jeans on me. After all my shopping we had a lovely dinner at Olive Garden. We had a gift card and decided to use it on my birthday.

I also got some fabric at Hancock's. It's a beautiful purple plaid and I made it into a jumper... However, when I wore it I stressed the seams! :~o So before I wear it again I'll have to take out the seams and add a strip of fabric to it so it won't rip on me! :~) I don't have a pic of it right now, but when I get done fixing it I'll be sure to take one.

Oh, if you want to see some of the cutest pics of the most adorable nephew... (I know, I'm bad) Just go to my sister's blog. There are too many now to be able to copy and paste onto my blog! :~) Not that I'm complaining about all the pics! :~)

Last Saturday we had a yard sale... Not a normal yard sale, it was in front of one of the local Wal-marts! Yep, Wal-mart and the Children's Health Network were selling spots in front of Wal-mart for whatever you wanted to put out there... We did a yard sale. There were a few spots that were just selling things they made and there was also a Pampered Chef table. They had food there too, the proceeds from that also went to the charity. It was pretty neat cause we had so many people stop and look around... I mean who doesn't go to Wal-mart? Sure it was kinda cloudy and drizzly, but we had quite a few people buy our stuff. Jamey sold all his stuff and I sold some of mine... Mine was all clothes anyway. What we didn't sell we took over to Goodwill. It was fun, we had to take Shorty with us and he got most of the attention!

This Sunday is Jamey's birthday. However, we will be doing stuff on Saturday so he can just chill. I tried hard to find the lemon cake mix for his cake... I don't know why stores don't have at least some sugar-free cake mixes! I was able to find it last year at a drug store, but this year I couldn't find it anywhere. I called every place I could think of that might have it, but no luck. Ordering it on-line would have cost a lot! Finally, I remembered one of the members at church makes the greatest cakes and sugar-free stuff you've ever had! So I called and asked if she had a sugar-free lemon cake recipe. She did and she gave it to me on Wednesday! YAY!!!! :~) I was so afraid that I wouldn't be able to make Jamey his Lemonade cake. Now I don't have to worry about finding a lemon cake mix ever again! Oh, and for those of you who have tried to make a cake sugar-free from a cake recipe that has sugar in it... Add 1/2 cup dry milk and 1/2 tsp baking soda for every cup of Splenda used and the cake will turn out fluffy. If you want anymore tips you can visit the Splenda site.

New Blog...

2008-10-22T15:25:00.001-07:00

This will kinda be short and sweet cause we have church in about 5 minutes. Jamey has a new blog that is dedicated to being a Bible based blog. It's called Biblical Ramblings. I think it's really good, course I'm not biased at all! :~) I plan on writing more once all the crazy calms down... We've been having a lot going on since my birthday and will continue to be busy until at least next Monday! :~o

The end of my sewing binge... For now! :~}

2008-10-08T13:19:00.000-07:00

Yeah, until I get more fabric... Which I plan on getting for my birthday. And then I have to get back into the mood. The shirt I made using some leftover fabric from another shirt I made last year... It was a really easy pattern to make and I was done in a couple hours. The dress on the other hand was a little more difficult. It is a little like nylon in the fact that it gets runs in it very easy. I had to replace the front midriff in the middle of sewing the dress cause of a run in it... I wasn't that pleased about it but I managed to do it so it looked good. :~)

I was thinking about my piano and what the name on it is about... It's a Hobart M. Cable piano which I learned are known to be really good in the way of tune, also they are known to be incredibly heavy! Course Jamey already knows that! :~) I looked at the serial number and apparently this piano was made sometime in 1953! :~) I like to know about the things I have... Like where they came from and how old they are.

I'm starting to look forward to Monday... I wasn't too keen on having my birthday, but now I want to see my presents that Jamey got me! :~) This weekend we are going to a lectureship on Friday and on Saturday we are going to go sing at camp. Then Sunday we are having a couple from church over for dinner. So that means that I'm going to have to clean this house tomorrow! :~)

Piano!!!! :~D

2008-10-03T20:21:00.000-07:00

The title really says it all... I just got a piano! :~) Some church members were kind enough to give us their piano that they didn't use. I'm very grateful! :~) I wrote a couple of posts ago that Jamey was looking to get me a piano... He mentioned that he was looking for one to this church member and they said that we could have theirs! :~) I've already played quite a few pieces on it... It's in tune! It weighs a LOT... So Jamey got some men from church to help him bring it here. Here are some pics of my new piano! :~) I got it all clean and bathed it in furniture polish so it shines!

Yesterday we thought that we would go get the piano, but didn't have the dolly to get it. Anyway, we had the guy that was going to help over for supper... I figured that was the least we could do. We had tacos! :~p I made the meat, rice and corn to go with it... I also made my own tortillas. My family came across a Mexican woman in Ohio that made her own and she showed us how to do it. It's not that hard... The only hard part is rolling them so they actually resemble a circle! Mine always end up looking like large amoebas! :~} Jamey really likes them! :~)

I sewed a little today, too. This fabric was easier to sew and it is thicker so I didn't have to line it. It looks like it's a velvet, but it's not... It's got a neat feel, but it's not like velvet. I still want to sew some more so I'll keep you posted on that. However, it'll be hard to concentrate on sewing for a few days cause I'll be playing my piano! :~)

Two shirts and a dress...

2008-10-01T17:49:00.001-07:00

Here are a few pics of the stuff I've been working on this past week...

These two shirts are from the same pattern, but with different sleeves. The green one was easier to make cause the fabric wasn't as stretchy. If you look close you'll see that the gray one has little dots the color of the ribbon on it. Both top fabrics were very see through so I lined them with a corresponding color underneath. If you think sewing two stretchy fabrics together for a seam is hard... Try four! Yeah, I live on the edge!! :~)

Now, don't look directly at it... ;~} This is the best pic I could get of it... It actually looks better in person than in this picture. It has a cowl neck and a bow in the back. I joke I look like a giant polka dot! :~) Jamey said I don't look like a giant polka dot... I look like a lot of little polka dots! :~) As soon as it gets cooler I'll test it at church. I wore the green shirt to church tonight... I finished it today, so I was wearing it anyway! :~)

I plan on doing a little more sewing this next week. Two more shirts and another dress. I found this pretty purple fabric at Wal-mart and couldn't leave it... I love the Wal-marts here cause they still have the fabric section! :~) It's a nice heavier fabric, so I won't have to put something under it.

The rest of this week I'll spend cleaning. Trust me, my house needs it! :~) Then I plan on being busy on Saturday and having roast on Sunday!! :~p

Misc. Post... :~}

2008-09-29T09:25:00.000-07:00

This is just a little check in... Nothing big has happened in the past week. The only thing that has been a constant is that during Monday through Friday of last week Jamey and I were both sick! Yeah, how exciting are we? :~) It was one of those nasty stomach bugs that hang on and on... It was good in a way cause it kept us indoors and away from anything that resembled spending money! :~)

This morning Jamey is off to Charlotte for a preachers meeting. It's a good way to meet more of the area preachers. Jamey is trying to get me something nice for my birthday. He didn't get one thing that he really wanted for me... A real piano! Isn't that just so sweet? I already have a keyboard but Jamey knows how much I'd love a real piano... :~)He saw on-line that there was a piano in good condition and here is the best part, it was free! :~O Unfortunately, someone else beat Jamey to it. I'll just have to wait on the piano for now. You know I would have liked the piano but it's really the thought that makes me smile! :~)

Yesterday was our pot luck at church... I made chili. I was counting on it being a little cooler than it actually was... It had been feeling like fall last week, but could it stay that way? NO! :~( I was talking to someone last night and they said that November might feel like fall! :~O Great, that will be the time I'll be thinking that there should be snow on the ground! :~p However, after visiting my family I'll probably be thankful for the warm weather.

This Saturday I'm planning a young adults get together... Planning is not something I'm incredibly good at, but I'll do my best! :~) We're going to eat at a really good seafood place then go bowling! I haven't been bowling since the first time Jamey came up to see me a year and a half ago! :~o There is this couple that is going to be going to Germany... The husband is in the military and they are going to be leaving around the 8th, so I wanted to do something before they left. Hopefully we'll all have a good time! :~)

I've started sewing and made a dress. I'll have a pic a little later. It's cute and it looks like some of the stuff that is out now... At least I think so! :~) Course my taste isn't the best! :~o I'm going to do some more sewing this week... So I can have more clothes, just what I need! :~} It's stretchy material so I was using a stretch stitch, but my needle was a little dull! I didn't realize it until I was half-way done and furious at the machine cause it was causing holes in the fabric every now and then. After I figured out that was the problem it was a piece of cake to finish. :~} I have one more dress and two tops that I want to finish... :~)

Yay! A video! :~)

2008-09-19T17:43:00.000-07:00

I must say that Jamey is a genius! He fixed this video and made it able to be uploaded onto Blogger! I took this a day or so after I wrote about Munchkin and the frog. She dragged the frog into the living room and I grabbed our camera! Our camera is cool in the fact that it can take video too! It can't do sound... At one point in the video Munchkin is meowing, but you can't hear it. It's a downside, but hay, at least it takes the video! This is a few minutes long... You don't have to watch it all, just the first minute or so and you get the idea.

I forgot to tell you about what Jamey did for me a few days ago. :~) I was feeling blah and didn't have a good idea for supper. Anyway, he offered to make supper... He got some steak along with salad and made biscuits and also made some corn. He even got me some beautiful flowers! :~) Aren't they pretty? He also got me some cheesecake! :~p I got a pretty amazing guy! :~) He is so sweet to me! :~) Anyway, my supper coordinating skills are still fairly bad, so if any of you know a good recipe I'd love to try it out! :~)

Tonight we went to the Mauldin Fest... Kinda like a small fair. Just a lot of vendors and people with booths. Then there was a few kid rides... And of course what fest would be complete without a guy that gets lifted into the air by balloons! WHAT? Yeah, we got to see that! This was his first appearance in SC... So that was neat but the balloons, now those were pretty impressive. Those balloons were HUGE! It took $5,000 worth of helium to fill those balloons! I've never seen anything like it! I have some pics, but they are on my cell phone and I can't get them on the computer... However, with the magic of the computer age... A way to see it! They also had a hot air balloon to follow him to make sure he got down OK. Last time I saw they were heading into the sunset! :~) That was definitely something you don't see everyday!

I'm Back... And I wrote a Lot!

2008-09-17T20:46:00.000-07:00

I got to drive all the way up to Greensboro NC yesterday... A three hour trip that is tedious in and of itself. This trip however, was made even more difficult with inclement weather. About an hour into the trip I had to slow down to 50 in order to see things ahead of me... It really didn't worry me as this was the kind of weather that I drove going from Memphis to Nashville when we were moving... That and I had the constant spray from the moving truck that Jamey was driving in front of me. Anyway, I focused on the car in front of me... We made it in the time we figured and the trip back was uneventful.

I love to drive but I don't like to drive in nasty weather when not everyone has their headlights on! Not only is it kind of silly not to put them on but it's dangerous. I could barely see the road let alone the cars that actually had their lights on. I'm glad I was able to do it though cause it gave me some experience... Now the only weather I have to conquer is snow! I'm a little wary of that though as the last time I tried to drive in new snow I almost hit a stop sign! :~O

Alright enough about me... I'm not going to write a lot about my nephew as my sister has put more pics of the little guy up on her blog and I don't want to take away from her blog. That being said I can now dispense with the gushing! :~) Of course I'm not biased in any way ;~) but I have to say that he is one of the cutest babies that I've seen! I can't wait to see him in December! He looks like he is getting bigger every day... And he might have a little bit of blond hair.

Munchkin is out and about today. I've been keeping her in the bathroom at night so that nothing will get broken at night! :~) She meows for me a lot. She is very personable for a cat, course we never had indoor cats in Ohio. She seems to have taken to a frog I got at Claire's recently. She plays with it and drags it places she goes. I'll try to get pics of that but it might be hard, the only evidence that I know she has been playing with it is it's conspicuous presence in other parts of the house! :~) Right now she is dragging it like it's her kitten.

Shorty is finally figuring out that he has to bark to go outside and that outside is the only place to go to the bathroom. It won't be long before he can be out all day! :~) He's growing a lot. He's now up to around 12 pounds... He won't get too much bigger.

Birthday season is upon us. What I mean is this... My brother Ira started it by having his birthday this past Sunday. I'm the next in line with a birthday in October, then comes Philip in November and to close out the year is Sarah in December. Lydia's is in March so by next spring we will all be another year older. I'm not looking forward to mine this year for some reason. I'll be turning 24 and for some reason that sounds old to me. I'm no longer in my early 20s I'm in my mid 20s. Oh well, time marches on! :~)

One last thing before I give your eyes a rest... I didn't mean to make this so long, but I'm glad I got back to actually writing something longer than a post-it note! :~) The gospel meeting here went very well. Jamey preached on the different things we do in worship. Sunday morning was Communion and Jesus' death on the cross. Sunday night was prayer. Monday night was singing and Tuesday night was giving. Quite a few people from the neighboring congregations came and Tuesday night we had 80 people. :~) Everyone thought that Jamey did an exceptional job!

I still have that sewing to do... I plan on working on it this month and having it done by the time my birthday rolls around. Kinda like a birthday present to myself! :~) I picked out 2 shirts and 2 dresses for the colder weather. Tomorrow I have to clean... Jamey doesn't care whether or not it's really clean but I always feel really good when the house is spotless! :~)

Ahhh... The weekend!

2008-09-06T12:19:00.000-07:00

I think I'm over my blahs, I think it had something to do with the hurricanes that are coming through... i.e. The headaches and nasty weather. Jamey loves a nice drizzly day, but when you are from a state that comes third as the cloudiest state you look for the sun shine... So the days that are overcast and rainy are considered normal and oh so nasty! :~)

One of the things that helped the blahs is the fact that I have beautiful purple morning glories on one of the bushes outside!! :~) This is the best I could do with a picture... They were all hiding behind the leaves. They have since gotten more flowers, but aren't they just so pretty? :~) Another thing that might have helped with the blahs is the fact that I got my house all clean and I got to go up to Charlotte NC to take one of the church members to her doctor. I always enjoy a long car ride with good company! :~) In the middle of the month I'll be going up to Greensboro NC to take her to a different doctor and it will be a longer trip... :~)

Jamey's cousin Seth got here about 8pm last Thursday night and stayed through the weekend. It was nice to have someone over. We had a good time just chillin' here and going out doing stuff. We went to the park right near our house and played mini-golf and went to a few stores that were geared for the gamer in you. :~)

Here's a random picture of Munchkin... She loves to be on the sink or counter or dresser or anything that is up high and she's not supposed to be! :~} She is allowed to be on the sink in the bathroom and on my dresser, but she likes to knock things over... Yesterday she knocked over the mirror in my sewing room. Luckily, it didn't break but it scared her silly! I've never seen her fur stand that high before! :~) Anyway, she likes to be up in the sink when I'm washing my hands or in this case putting my makeup on! :~) She loves to lick my nose, so I don't even know why I put makeup on my nose anymore! :~)

Today we've been putting out fliers for our upcoming gospel meeting. I thought it might be cooler! It is September, right? Oh well, we survived... Sometime later in the week maybe I'll start sewing again. I got some patterns for long sleeved shirts and dresses... Some for $2 and some for $1 and am looking forward to making them and actually having more than 2 winter dresses! :~) Don't worry, when I get them finished I will post pictures! ;~)

For whatever reason the computer won't put this sentence and the last paragraph the proper space from the previous paragraphs... Ugh, computers! :~}

More pics... :~)

2008-08-24T20:06:00.000-07:00

I'm feeling a little blah right now... Again! :~p The tropical storm is giving me a headache and I found out the other day that we aren't going to get any kind of rainfall from it! :~O We need rain too.

I got some itch stuff, cause I now know the joy of having a lot of fire ant bites. I got them while helping pull weeds over at the church building... I didn't have gloves, I don't really like them, you can't seem to get the weeds out as well. Now I'll wear them! :~}

Jamey's cousin Seth is coming over this Thursday and probably staying till the weekend... We are also going to have Monday football at our house tomorrow, so I have to tidy up the place a bit. :~} Well, since I have that I might not get on here for a few days...

So here are more pics of little Xander to show off! :~) I tried to talk to my Mommy tonight but they went down to Rising Sun, IN to see him! :~) I wish I could go... My time will come! ;~)

Pictures!!!! :~D

2008-08-18T18:40:00.000-07:00

Yep, they're home from the hospital and my sister sent these...

Isn't he cute? I know I'm just a little biased but come on, that face is adorable! :~) The first family picture! :~)

Don't you love how peaceful he looks... And how about that yellow hat? :~)

Introducing... My nephew Xander Scott!

2008-08-15T13:10:00.000-07:00

I got the call this morning that my sister was in the hospital enjoying the calming effect of an epidural! :~) She started early labor Tuesday night and made it till early this morning with little to no medication. However, they started her on pitocin which drastically increased her labor pains so the epidural was a necessity.

I'm not sure on the time he arrived, but it was sometime in the early afternoon. He weighed 7lb. 2oz., and is 21 in.! A long little guy! :~) My sister thought that he'd weigh more than that, but I'm glad that he didn't... It might have been harder to have him. Anyway, he has dark blue eyes, and from what I'm told he's got some big eyes! :~) He has some light brown hair... Although, Danny's family has some blondes that started off with darker hair and we have some toe heads in our family. I have to say, if he has straight hair that will look just a little odd with his parents both having very curly hair! :~) My sister said that he wasn't very interested in crying, just wanted to look around. :~) I'm soooooo excited!!! :~)

Waiting for the pictures of the little guy will be almost as hard as waiting for him to arrive! :~) As you can guess I'm going to be a very gushing Aunt. I'll be just a little sorry for Xander when I get to be around him, cause his Aunt Priscilla will spoil him! :~)

Error on the date...

2008-08-12T09:11:00.000-07:00

I don't know why it did this, but the date is wrong on the Pictures... blog post. It's supposed to be the same day as this one! :~}

Pictures...

2008-07-29T08:51:00.000-07:00

I know it's been a while since I posted... My reason for not posting is not a very good excuse no matter when it is used, I just had the blahs. I haven't felt like doing much lately and the fact that we had company this past weekend didn't help... Just gave me an excuse to postpone writing. Anyway, I still don't have all the blahs gone... So I'll leave you with some pictures that I've taken over the last month.

This is Munchkin being cute and sitting on the window sill in the living room. She fell off once and hurt herself, not bad, but she still likes going up there.

This is one of the baskets that I had one of my friends at church make up for my sister's baby shower. The teddies and the blocks I made. Then we have the Graduation bucket also put together by my friend. She did such a good job! :~)

I made my new nephew a sling and a nursing blanket! :~) I'm so looking forward to seeing the little guy and I hope that he'll get a lot of use out of these.

Then there's the pics of my curly hair... I sponge rolled it and those sponge rollers get really, REALLY small. I hadn't done it in about 3 or 4 years so I had forgotten how much length it takes off. Needless to say, most people thought that I got my hair cut! :~) I wasn't a big fan of the do until later in the day when it relaxed a little.

We had a really good time with Sarah, Tabitha and Casey over the weekend. We went over to Jamey's Grandma's house for Friday and Saturday morning. We came back to SC Saturday afternoon and took in a few sites. After which we played a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit! :~) They stayed till after church Sunday night... It was really neat to have them here. Tabitha and Casey are going over to China to work, so they won't be able to be around here for a while. After they left it was weird... You know that whole let down after a great visit with family.

This weekend there is going to be a wedding... Jamey will do it and it will be his first wedding, so we're excited about that! :~)

Since I have a minute...

2008-07-19T19:57:00.000-07:00

Yeah, I've been busy for the last week. I had to clean house... Something I hate to do anyway, but this time I had to really clean. It had been a while and it was getting scary. :~O I did, however, find out that Mr. Clean will clean almost anything! :~) I also found out that if I can't sleep cleaning is good to get me tired! :~}

Thursday I was invited to go to one of the ladies homes... She's my age. One other lady came too... She is just a few years older. Anyway, we had a blast! :~) We talked the entire night. Had pizza and pop... A volatile combination for me! ;~) I was out till midnight talking and having fun. This is how I found out cleaning helps when you can't sleep... I got home and kept thinking of things that I had to do yet so I got up and did them! :~) This is not normal behavior for me except that Jamey's friend and his girlfriend were coming over the next day!

I got up and started cleaning on Friday. Not my preferred way to start a morning, but I wasn't letting anyone see a dirty house! :~) I cleaned, showered and barely got done with that when they got here. We had a good time... We first went to get pizza at one of the buffets here in Greenville. Then we decided to walk around the mall! :~) I always love to that even if I don't get anything! There was a makeover going on, but we decided not to do that (we don't need no makeover, we're pretty enough... Right? ;~)) After that we went back to the house and talked for a while. We then went to show them Jamey's office and the Greenville park downtown. It was a nice day, except for the hot, so walking in the pretty downtown was nice. We ate dinner at a Subway close to the park... By the way, I recommend the Sweet onion chicken! :~P We then spent the rest of the night watching this one baseball player goof up! :~) The Greenville team lost, but it was a fun time, we also got to see some fireworks after! :~)

Right now I'm waiting for that barbecued chicken to get done for tomorrow. I'll just have to warm it up when we get back from church. Today has been busy too. I went with one of the ladies from church to pick out flowers and decorations for the bridal shower tomorrow at church. After that I had to arrange the flowers... I think I did a good job. I'll take pictures! :~) When I was done with that I had to make Ham puffs for the shower as well! :~) Now after these get done it's off to the shower and bed just to start the busy all over again! :~)

A Dedication...

2008-07-07T19:00:00.000-07:00

Now, I might go and make some of you sick with this post... It is completely unintentional! :~) I just wanted to say how much I love, appreciate and admire my husband.

I'm not the easiest person to live with, just ask my family... The ones that had to do it before Jamey came along! :~) Today he brought me a dozen roses just to see me smile. Yesterday I was hormonal and emotional. Not mad at anything or anyone just mad at myself. He was tender and loving all the way through my tirade, just informing me of how much he loved me. Today he took me shopping. He doesn't really like shopping... Especially clothes shopping (my favorite pastime), but he did it anyway. :~)

He has been there for me and I don't know how I would make it without him. I know that technically we are still newlyweds as we haven't even gotten to our year and a half mark yet, but I have every intention of keeping this feeling - and having it grow - for him for the rest of my life. It isn't a long post... But if I kept going it wouldn't end. Jamey I love you, you are my life.

Ahh... Summer!

2008-06-24T16:06:00.000-07:00

Summer is here. Not only is it outside, it's inside too. Yesterday our air quit! Now it hasn't been as hot as it could be so I'm thankful for that. However, it being 85 degrees inside is no picnic! :~O One of our members air cut out a few weeks ago and they were told that it would be fixed on one Friday. They got a call that day saying that they wouldn't be able to fix it for another week! :~O The guys are here now fixing the air... Ahh, cold air! :~) I don't know how some people can go without it! Maybe I'm spoiled... Yeah, but at least I'm cool! :~)

I got this from my Mommy. I don't know where she got it but I'm grateful she did get it... Frozen grapes. They are good for you unless you eat too many, then you might be in the bathroom for longer than you wanted to be! ;~) I froze some grapes last year and let Jamey try them. He had never heard of them... Maybe it's a northern thing. Anyway, he loved them and now he wants them around days like this. :~) There's nothing better on a hot summer day!

I guess it wasn't the best time to start up cooking regularly again... I hadn't been cooking lately, just kinda had the blahs. So I made up for it by making meat loaf tonight and pork chops last night. Both made the kitchen hot! :~}

Shorty is back on his crate schedule... He had an accident and he was on a trial run, so he is back for just a few days. I'll try having him out again after that. In kitty news... Munchkin went to the vet the other day and got some medicine that made her a little groggy... Much more sedate which Jamey really liked. I found him playing and petting her. It's a love, hate relationship... Cause once she gets completely back to her playful self I don't know if Jamey will want to play with her.

In other news... We were at Goodwill today to get out of our hot house and I noticed a sign on the register. It said that because of the rising costs of running a business the prices were going to go up June 30th. It kinda made me look twice and start thinking... By the way, that's never a good thing! :~) Something might explode! I know that the increase of the minimum wage and the current spike in gas prices are making the cost of everything go up... I just wonder how much longer we'll be able to do it. I stay home, I know that is a little unusual, but how much longer till I have to go to work just to help support Jamey and me... What about families with children? Anyway, that's my serious thought for the day! :~)

As easy as giving a cat a bath...

2008-06-21T15:23:00.001-07:00

I did give a cat a bath today, along with a dog. It's Saturday so it's their usual bath day. They both don't like it, but (at least with Shorty) they need it. I even bought this dog spray so he smells like a spring breeze when he gets done... Ok, a spring breeze that had to go through dog to get to your nose... But still, it's better than just dog. [=-er'[;p4e3 Munchkin says "hi"... I'm on a laptop so she occasionally will walk across... I try to keep her off it, but sometimes she sneaks through! :~) I got her a new toy at the dollar store that is a pole with a sting and fish that dangle from it. So far she likes it and Jamey likes to watch her play with it!

Thursday we went to camp to hear one of our members speak. He did a really good job. Shorty was a little more impatient this time, but he did fine. They had costume night and I wish I would have known... I have this Civil war era dress and hoop skirt I would have worn... Well, it's still in Ohio and I would have had to cut out a kidney to fit in it again but I would have so worn it! :~) It made me miss being at camp and envying my brother who just got back from camp. Maybe next year I'll be able to do it again.

Something else we did today was go visit with some of our church members. We ate with them and spent the afternoon talking. That was fun. Tomorrow is pot luck at church, so we bought a lasagna to take there... I'll cook it later tonight and just heat it up tomorrow.

Monday will be the first day for Shorty to be out all day... I'm trying the crate method to help him understand that outside is the only place to "go". He has been doing well, so I'll see about it on Monday. Hopefully if this works I can start on other things like sit, stay and no. Anyway, I think that's all that has happened here lately... If I think of something else I'll just have to post again! ;~)

New Blog Changes...

2008-06-18T09:23:00.000-07:00

I know you noticed that I have a new background to the blog... I just got tired of the old look and decided I needed a change! I like it and I hope you do too! :~)

Since last time I wrote, there isn't a lot of things to write about... I did find one of the things I sewed for an eight inch doll and put it on my kitten. She wasn't thrilled, but doesn't she look cute? Jamey is coming around to the cat. He pets her every now and then and likes to watch her attack things! :~) She loves to attack Shorty, it's a classic case of "can dish it out but can't take it". She attacks then whines when he gets her back!

We took Shorty to the Palmetto Bible camp yesterday and he did an excellent job. He didn't bark or anything, was really good with the kids and didn't mind his leash all that much. It was really fun to be at a camp again... I miss it. I was only a counselor for that one week, but I had sooo much fun there. It's a really nice camp... Better than the one I was at. It took us an hour to get there but we went from being in the city to being out in the middle of nowhere in the mountains! We stayed there for a few hours then came home... We plan on going back tomorrow to hear one of our members speak. He and his wife used to live there. Hopefully Shorty will be good like he was yesterday. :~)

Munchkin is getting fidgety, so I'd better go play with her! :~)

Yummy Chicken recipe!

2008-06-10T18:55:00.000-07:00

I decided to make a chicken dinner tonight... I'm not the biggest chicken fan in the world (unless it's fast food and in sandwich form), in fact if I can avoid making it and eating it I will. However, this recipe will change that.

Oven Barbecued Chicken Wings

4 Tbsp. Ketchup
2 Tbsp. Vinegar
2 Tbsp. Water
1 Tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1 Tsp. Sugar
1/2 Tsp. Salt
1/4 Tsp. Dry Mustard
1/4 Tsp. Chili powder
1/8 Tsp. Pepper or dash Tabasco sauce
8 Chicken wings (or 4 chicken thighs)

Measure all ingredients, except chicken wings, into medium size bowl; whisk until well blended. To do ahead, add chicken wings; toss well; cover and refrigerate up to 24 hours.

For last-minute preparation, dip chicken wings in sauce to coat; place skin-side down on pan. Bake at 425 degrees for 20 minutes. Brush with sauce; turn; brush other side; bake until brown and tender, about 30 minutes longer.

I used thighs for this and it's only supposed to feed 2, but it's definitely worth the long cook time and the turning. :~) I served it with mashed potatoes and green beans... It was a delicious dinner if I do say so myself! :~)

I don't know if I'll be able to post before next week... I have to clean the house cause Jamey's cousin Seth is probably going to be coming this weekend!

The Beach!!! Part ll

2008-06-08T12:55:00.000-07:00

I took too many pics to put on this blog, so I put them all on Photobucket.

Friday we woke up about 8 am so we would be able to get all we wanted to get done, done. We had breakfast at the hotel then went to the Savannah welcome center. We got a map and info about the buildings and the squares. Before we went and walked, we went to see the museum. It had more civil war stuff than I'm used to seeing in a museum... That was neat! After the museum we walked along Bull St. and saw all the lovely squares and the trees that framed the squares. We got to go into a shop that used to be an old house. That was fun! I like to go to these cities and see all the history... I don't know if it's just me, but it's like I can go back in time and can see people dressed in Victorian garb walking around and there are no longer cars, only horse drawn carriages. It was amazing! All the beautiful houses were breathtaking. The river front was something else! :~)

After our feet were about to fall off from walking in Savannah, we went to Ft. Jackson. :~) It's 200 years old! Built in 1808, it saw a lot of wars... However, it never saw any action. It was fun to go and see where soldiers of days gone by used to stay during a war. Walking around there took about an hour.

When we were done with that fort we went to Ft. Pulaski. This fort was built in 1820 and was thought to be invincible. The cannon balls that were used then couldn't penetrate the thick walls. However, during the civil war there was a new cannon ball invented that had a spin to it and could fly further. The lighthouse seen from up on top of the fort is where the Union soldiers were when they attacked the fort to get to Savannah. This fort saw some action... You can see the cannon damage on the outside of the fort. There was also a guy that did a musket demonstration. It was interesting to see how the muskets worked... And to hear some of the history of it. I don't remember it all well enough to retell it, but it was interesting! :~)

Once we were done with that... The beach!!! :~) We had our swimsuits on under our clothes, so we were all ready. We got our blankets on the beach and headed for the water. It was warm and choppy. Jamey and I waded out up to our necks and went up and down with the water. After a while we were just having fun when all of a sudden we saw dolphins cresting not that far from where we were!!! :~O It almost didn't feel real. We stayed in the ocean for about 2 hours. I did a little swimming, but not much... It was too hard to swim with the water moving. After we were done with that we went back to the hotel, took a shower and ate dinner at a restaurant on the river front. To top of the day we went out to see a movie. We didn't get back until midnight! :~)

Saturday we came home. Our trip home was uneventful. :~) We got home about 2:30pm. I was preoccupied and didn't see Munchkin trying to get through the door I was going through and I got her tail caught in the door. I was afraid that her tail was broken so Jamey took her to the vet. Her tail wasn't broken, but she got this cute collar that she has to wear until Thursday. Yes, she hates it! :~)

The Beach!!! Part l

2008-06-06T05:35:00.000-07:00

Ok, we're technically still at the hotel and after breakfast will be going to see a few of the many sites that Savannah has to offer... However, later today I will be swimming in the Atlantic ocean! Last night we went to the beach and I got to dip my feet in the ocean. Don't worry, I'll get the pics as soon as we get back to SC. We were debating whether to go to Savannah or Charleston but Jamey thought the beach here would be the better. After all he has been here before. Anyway, this is just a little blurb until I get back on Saturday... Don't be looking for any updates then cause I probably won't get on the computer till Monday to write. Later! ;~)

Happy Memorial Day... (a day late)

2008-05-26T19:07:00.000-07:00

It's at the times when I would be visiting and celebrating holidays with my family that I miss them the most (I did end up calling them, which helped)... Not that this holiday hasn't been a blast! :~) Jamey and I just kinda went out and did a little window shopping (my personal favorite!). It was nice to just mosey around Mauldin with nothing to do and nothing on our minds. Since we had a pot luck on Sunday I had leftover sloppy joes and macaroni salad which constituted the Memorial day dinner! :~) Since Jamey didn't go into work yesterday, I didn't do anything constructive either... And it came back to bite me today! :~)

I had my work cut out for me today... I did three loads of laundry. I also cleaned both bathrooms and the kitchen. The kitchen and the front bathroom needed to be mopped which wasn't hard with the Swiffer wet jet, just a little time consuming. On paper it doesn't look like I did that much today, but let me tell you I was beat when I got done! :~)

To let me relax a little Jamey took me out to a consignment shop to look for a denim skirt. I've been looking for one since the zipper on the denim skirt I got last year for my birthday up and broke on me a few weeks ago. I was looking for something stylish and modest... Almost impossible. Well, I finally found one that fit and was the style I was looking for. The best thing about it? It still had the tag on it! That's not all... It was originally $40! :~) I got it for $10.

Now the only thing I have to look for is a pair of white heels... I'm not sure where I'm going to find them cause it seems that they've just up and stopped making white shoes. Ahh, a frustration for another day! ;~)

Recipe!!

2008-05-21T08:10:00.000-07:00

Thursday night was a very fun evening. The morning wasn't so much... Jamey and I had to call all the church members to let them know that the funeral was on Friday. I also had to call to get people to make food for the dinner. The day was hectic and a little stressful, but the play at the end of the day let us escape for about an hour and a half. It started with a guy that wanted to share this vinyl record experience with us. When he started the record all the characters came to life... It was set in the twenties and was just a little on the corny side, but it was fun. The theater was so big! It even had the boxes up near the top, with thick burgundy curtains! :~)

I'm going to be like my sister in her blog... Give a recipe! ;~) Friday was the funeral so I had to make some of the food. I had the ham from Easter (which I got at Aldis) in my freezer that had yet to be eaten. So I got the brilliant idea that I would take ham. But not just the ham... I looked for a glaze online and found this one:

BROWN SUGAR GLAZE

1 Cup Brown Sugar
2 Tbsp. Flour
1/2 Tsp. Mustard
1/8 Tsp. Cinnamon
3 Tbsp. Water

Mix well. Spread on ham. :~p

I had the ham sliced already, so I laid the pieces on a cookie sheet and slathered each piece with the glaze and baked it for about 10 minutes or until the ham was hot and the glaze was starting to bubble. When the dinner started everyone couldn't get enough of the ham! They thought it was a Honey Baked ham! :~) That was the most compliments I've gotten on any food that I've brought for church gatherings. I also made a cake and used my Mommy's frosting recipe and that got rave reviews too.

Jamey did the funeral service. It was his first time doing anything like that so he was a little nervous! However, quite a few people came up and said it was the best funeral service they had been to. That made him feel better! :~) Hopefully he won't have a lot of practice with that particular service.

This week we've been keeping busy going to gospel meetings. This Saturday is the marriage seminar... I'm really looking forward to that! :~) I've been trying to keep busy cleaning this house! :~) I'm going to be sewing a little too... I got some fabric from Walmart that I'm looking forward to making into a shirt and a dress. :~)

I'm going to Broadway tonight!

2008-05-15T08:30:00.001-07:00

Well, not really... A friend from church got some tickets from a friend of his that didn't want to go. So the friend from church asked Jamey if he and I would like to go! :~) Of course he said yes... It's hard to say no to free tickets to a Broadway show that cost $63 each! I can't wait! It's an actual Broadway play that's touring! We will have to dress up a little, that should be fun. Don't worry I'll definitely tell you how it went! :~)

It'll get our minds off what has happened here lately... One of our church members has had Alzheimer's for a while and just recently caught double pneumonia. Anyway, he died last night. Jamey gets to do part of the funeral, something that he has never done before.

On a lighter note, there are gospel meetings coming up next week and a singing night at a nearby congregation on Friday. :~) Just to give you an idea of what our week will be like... A funeral, then Singing tomorrow, Sunday there's an open house for a handicapped member, Monday we're going to the gospel meeting in Slater, Tuesday I have a ladies study to go to, Wednesday is church, Thursday we're going to the gospel meeting in Clinton, Saturday there's a marriage seminar at Augusta Rd., Sunday is church and then there is another gospel meeting that week. Yeah, we keep busy! :~)

Strawberries!!! :- )

2008-05-12T15:48:00.000-07:00

Yes, this very moment there are about 7 squares of towels all filled with strawberries drying so I can freeze them. How did I get them you ask? We were invited to go picking today by an older couple from church... They go pick every so often and wondered if we would join them. Jamey was enthralled by the thought of getting fresh picked strawberries. Me on the other was just looking forward to picking them! :~) We spent about half an hour picking... Trying our hardest to get good juicy ones. When we were done we had two baskets full of them. Trust me this will last us for a while! :~)

We've been relatively busy, Jamey has gone with some guys from church to visit someone so I'm all alone with the red things in the kitchen! :~) Well, I tend to stay busy around the house... Monday I usually do the three loads of laundry that piles up over the week. Tuesday and Wednesday are spent tidying and cleaning the house, that and church on Wednesday. Thursday Jamey and I go visiting some of the people from church and Friday we go grocery shopping. That leaves us with Saturday with nothing to do... Unless there is somewhere that is having a get together. Sunday we are usually out eating with some of the congregation after service and maybe can get a nap in before night church.

So far it's been nice weather wise, not too hot today which was perfect for picking strawberries. Yesterday the wind about knocked us over, but other than that the weather has been just steadily getting warmer.

We have yet to go to Charleston because we've been so busy. I can't wait! :~) I want to see all the history that's there! :~) For now I'll just have to make due with the trip I had Saturday... One of the church members and her granddaughter and I went to the Roper Mountain Science center. We went there while Jamey and her husband went to an old car show. It was more than old cars, it had a train and some old furniture... Anyway, Jamey had a blast there! :~) I went and saw all the science and history! It had a lot of animals there, like the snake and parrot you could pet (I did). It also had an exhibit on World War l and World War ll uniforms and war tools. They had a lecture on archeologyfascinating, unless you're a 5 year old! :~) They also had a working farm from the old days. You could grind corn for the chickens and pet the horse and sheep. The Scottish Highland cow couldn't have cared less and wouldn't move for anything! :~) They had a wood working area where the kids could carve wood and a blacksmith shed with some one making something out of iron. All the people that were working there were dressed in period clothing. Even though they were dressed old fashioned, technology slipped through... I saw a lady with prairie clothing and talking on a cell phone! :~) My favorite was the working kitchen they had. It was late 17 hundreds and I could have stayed there for hours! :~) Unfortunately it had to close at 2:30pm and I had to leave, but I had a great time! :~)

Summer special... BLTs :- p

2008-05-02T17:59:00.000-07:00

I had a good day Thursday, Jamey took me out to the Greenville park which has a suspension bridge and cool waterfalls... I mean cool, the water was freezing! :~) After that we ate at Subway in town and went in search of the Historical Society. Ok, I have to say this... I'm a Civil war era freak! I love that time period, so much so that I made myself an outfit... Which, I hate to say, doesn't fit like it used to but I still love it! Anyway, when we finally found the place it was just a little one room deal with lots of pictures and some old newspapers. I was just a little disappointed. I guess I had been spoiled by the one that I was a member of before in Williams Co. OH. There they have clothes, furniture, lots of items that command your attention... I just thought that for such a historic place like SC they would have had a better one than that... Maybe they have one like I'm thinking of in Charleston. :~)

Yesterday we went visiting and went out to eat with an elderly couple from church, and let me say that Silver Bay is about as good as a fish place gets! :~) I left there fat and happy, until the food decided to get revenge! :~O No, not heartburn just the awful feeling of being too full... You women understand! :~) After that we went grocery shopping and went home. For supper on this night I planned BLTs! :~) I love my bacon! I cooked about a package and a half and we ate it all! I don't usually eat tomatoes but I had one on my BLT and it wasn't bad! :~) That sandwich is my all time favorite summer delights! :~) That and ice cream on a hot day...

Today we went to a yard sale. Nothing special about that I suppose except the fact that I had to get up at 6:30am to go to this one. I'm not usually that much of a morning person, but we got there when it opened! :~) I'm glad w to fine did... Jamey is a veteran yard saler and knows how to move at one. Apparently, I did it wrong. You're not supposed to stop at the first thing you see, but go straight for the electronics cause that is where you get the best deals... Not to mention that stuff is gone fast! :~) I'm glad Jamey was with me cause he found a Casio keyboard that looks about new (with stand and adapter) for $40! :~) Yes, I played it when I got home! :~)

Had a busy week...

2008-04-26T18:31:00.000-07:00

Yep, I had a busy week. Monday was laundry day, three loads of laundry in one day... I'm quite proud of myself! :~) Tuesday and Wednesday along with the seminar and night church was two days of cleaning. This house needed it in a bad way! :~) Now it's all clean... Until, next Tuesday and Wednesday when I will clean again. :~}

Thursday was just annoying. Not in the fly in your face way, but in the got up to puke at 7:30 am annoying! Yeah, had what I think was a touch of food poisoning (that will teach me to eat what I cook! :~). I think I got some bad creamed corn. Jamey didn't eat any the night before so he wasn't sick. Anyway, I ended up being sick the entire morning. Jamey, always the good husband, went out and got me some ginger ale and saltine crackers! :~) Needless to say, we didn't do anything that day!

Friday was a big day. Jamey and I go grocery shopping... But that wasn't what the big day was about. We had a young adults get together that night. Most of the guys were out drag racing (one of the men at church along with his son make drag racing cars), so it was mostly girls. We met up at Applebee's for a delightful dinner, then went to Frankie's Fun Park. Jamey went with the one guy that came and I went with the girls. We had a blast first with the mini golf then went and spent time with the go-carts. I'm wishing right now that either I wouldn't have gone to the batting cages or I was in better condition so my arms wouldn't be hurting so much right now... Pretty sure it's the latter! :~) We spent some time playing the arcade type games, and finally called it a night at about 10:30 pm.

Today we went with a group from church to the Greenville zoo. It was fun! Especially to see all the kids react to the animals... And here I thought I liked zoos! :~) Tomorrow is pot luck at church and I just realized that I didn't make anything for it! I'll just have to grab something from the grocery store tomorrow morning. Oops! :~}

This picture is totally without makeup. I know scary isn't it? I just wanted to show my family. See... I've been using Proactiv for a while now... I think it's doing wonders with my face! :~) My pimples are practically gone and my face isn't as red as it used to be. This is the best I could do taking my own picture! :~) I liked this one best... You can see all my face. I look a lot like my brother in this picture I think... That's bad for one of us! :~)

AHHH!! :- ) Tax day

2008-04-15T07:27:00.000-07:00

No, I'm not crunching for time on my taxes, I just needed a title! :~)

Friday Jamey took me to the Columbia zoo. It took about a hour and a half to get there, and he had to wake me up! :~) I have to say this it is nicer than the other zoos around here. It also had a botanical garden which you had to walk quite a long way to get there, but the exercise is good. The one feature that I thought was the neatest thing ever, was that you could feed the giraffes and some of the birds! It cost a little extra and only if the animals are hungry. We didn't feed the animals and the people that were trying to weren't getting any bites, but it's a neat idea! :~) I thought it was supposed to be cloudy, and it was in Mauldin! :~) However, Columbia was nice and sunny! So to my embarrassment I have a nice bright burn. Well, it's gone away some now... I've been putting Aloe gel on it everyday, and man does that stuff work! :~)

Jamey and I went to a yard sale the other day and I got some nice tops that I had to wear something on top of them. So Sunday I made myself a little jacket to go with all the tiny strap shirts. I got that pattern cause I thought it was cute and you can always use a cover-up. Jamey's Mom gave me the fabric, so it was basically free... I think I only paid a dollar for that pattern! :~) I'm also working on stuff for my new nephew, but I won't put pictures of those up till I give them to Sarah... Don't want her to get a sneak peek! :~)

We have a fairly busy week ahead... Lot of seminars and gospel meetings to go to. They don't call them revivals in the south cause... They don't need reviving! :~)

I've been doing pretty well with keeping the house up and running. I washed clothes yesterday and have to fold them today. I also have other tiding chores to do, so I'd better go get started so I can finish and do something I REALLY like to do! :~)

An adventure...

2008-04-05T18:11:00.000-07:00

Right now I have nothing pressing to do, my dishes are done and the house is tidied up enough that I have stopped obsessing about it! :~) I have a tendency to do that (although trying to do better): obsess about cleaning to the point of being unpleasant to be around... Ask Jamey! :~) However I have noticed that I keep on top of the cleaning a little better now that we're more settled.

Anyway, that isn't really the reason that I wanted to write. I wanted to blog about this place that Jamey took me on Wednesday right after I wrote my 50th blog. He took me to a place out in the middle of nowhere, but it was a fun afternoon. It's called Hollywild. It's a zoo that has a lot of different animals that have been in movies and commercials, also the requisite petting animals. Something that was unexpected was the peacocks that were roaming around. It would have been a forgettable zoo experience except for the safari ride! :~) We boarded this bus that looked like it was about to fall apart, were given an entire box of crackers each and rode into this giant enclosed area. At once there were little dear-like creatures that scrambled for our attention and our crackers. Then we all saw it, the giant cow. This cow (I'm sorry that I didn't take my camera with me) was head and shoulders higher than the buffalo that were right next to it. The cow also came and was delighted with our crackers. They had Scottish high land cows, buffalo and Texas long-horns. When we started to move away we were greeted with the sight of an entire herd of animals sprinting after us! :~) They had zebras and a horse there also... However, Jamey and I were on the wrong side of the bus to feed these animals! :~( While Jamey was trying to see the zebras, I was trying to feed an emu who was less than enthusiastic about my cracker. Apparently Jamey's cracker that he held in between his fingers looked better to him (Note: Jamey is still looking at the zebras) and he bit the cracker out of Jamey's hand! :~) He also managed to get a little of Jamey with that bite! :~) After Jamey's interesting encounter, we were taken back to where we got on and since Jamey and I had already seen the rest of the zoo, we went home. I would love to go back and take my camera! :~)

I made it to 50!

2008-04-02T08:28:00.000-07:00

I mean 50 posts. Yep, you're looking at the 50th post I've written since I started in May last year. I have to say I'm quite proud of myself for sticking with it. :~)

Now that March is over, I can breathe just a little sigh of relief. Not that it was a hard month it was just a little stressful. The whole Easter thing, then I planned a party for a couple at church who will be moving sometime this month. I didn't think that I would be able to plan a party, but it turned out really good! :~) I went to Party City with one of my new friends from church and we picked out the balloons, banner and the money tree. I got the balloons and everything else ready for Sunday cause we were having the party as part of the monthly pot luck. When I got to the church on Sunday morning the balloons almost all of them were halfway to the ground. Side note: don't go to Party City to get balloons for future parties. Even with that problem it turned out great! :~)

The Saturday before the pot luck was a young adults get together at one of the couples home. That was a blast! :~) We had finger food (I made ham puffs) and then played a couple of games. We had about 10 people there and we split into two groups so we all could play the games, Jamey's team won both times! :~) Anyway, that was fun. :~)

Yesterday I got to go to Charlotte NC. I drive a church member to see her doctor there. We spent all day in Charlotte and driving. That was fun! :~) Except the part with all the crazy drivers on the road. The drivers here are almost as bad as the drivers in Memphis! However, I enjoy it when I can drive for long periods of time. After we got back to SC we went to a seminar on Christ and Islam (great seminar by the way) where we met with Jamey. So I spent the entire day not at home.

Today it's a little cloudy but warm. It's been about a month since we moved and it seems that it took me that long to adjust to somewhere new. I have been getting better about doing house hold chores and keeping it tidy in the house. The other day I got my clothes changed around to my summer stuff and the temperature isn't quite cooperating! :~) It was a little cold yesterday and today it's only supposed to get up to 67. Well, I need to go and tidy the place up a bit... I was gone the whole day yesterday so there are a few things I need to address! :~)

Happy Easter! :- )

2008-03-24T08:48:00.000-07:00

This Easter things were a little more complicated than most of my previous Easters. This Easter I had to cook dinner for Jamey, me and his parents! :~) I enjoyed it though. This was the first holiday dinner I've done all by myself! :~) Yes, I'm thankful nothing exploded either! :~)

Friday I cleaned the house and Jamey got the house finished! :~) I made a double layer chocolate pie and carrot&pineapple salad on Friday night cause Saturday we were gone to GA to visit with Jamey's family.

Saturday I met a lot of people that I can't remember the names of. Jamey's Grandma's sister was there along with his Grandpa's sister. There were a lot of children there as well. One cousin that lives in Greenville was there, and of course what Dickey family get together would be complete without Uncle Jimmy and Uncle Neil! (I've met them before and once you meet them you don't forget them! :~) Jamey had the camera so I'll post pics on my photobucket. Oh, but here's a picture of Grandma, she's with Neil's wife Elizabeth. Finally we have one! :~) We've been down there three times and this is the first picture that I have! After all the people were gone Jamey's parents came home with us. They wanted to see the house and I kinda wanted company for Easter.

Sunday morning I got up at 7. I don't usually get up that early cause Church doesn't start until 10, but I had to get things ready. While I was up preparing things for the day ahead I couldn't help but think about how this is what my Mommy used to do for holidays. :~) I peeled the potatoes (Jamey's Mom cut them) and put together the bean casserole. Then I got breakfast for everyone which included: eggs, bacon, grits and biscuits. When we were about ready to go to church I put the ham in the oven. When we got home it smelled like ham! :~) I glazed the ham and put it back in the oven. Then I cooked and mashed the potatoes, while Jamey's Mom made gravy. We ate at about 1:30. It all turned out really good! :~p His Dad did the lesson Sunday night and after eating a quick ham sandwich supper, they left to go back to GA.

Easter is just another excuse to make a new dress! Here's the pattern for the dress I made, I got it at GoodWill. I decided to make it have a sweetheart neckline instead of the slightly dated high neck. The hemline of the dress comes to just below my knee... You can kinda see it in that picture. I also curled my hair. Everyone at Church thought I looked adorable! :~)

Here's a picture of my two pink pairs of shoes. The pair with the sling back I got at Goodwill for practically nothing and they're Nine West shoes practically new! The other pair was a gift from the ladies at Church. They were filled with encouraging notes. :~)

Today is my Daddy's birthday! I just wanted to let him and the rest of my family know that I love them! :~) Happy Birthday Daddy! :~)

My Parents' Anniversary...

2008-03-11T10:36:00.000-07:00

Today is my parents' 30th anniversary. I sent them a card with a little hippo in it, but I want to do one other thing... Kinda dedicate a song to them. I heard this song going back to TN after the try out in SC and I immediately thought of my parents. I couldn't get just the song, I had to get the video with it in order to put it on my blog. So Mommy and Daddy I hope you like it... :~)

I thought this little tid-bit of information about Easter was interesting, enjoy...

Easter this year is: Sunday March 23, 2008 As you may know, Easter is always the 1st Sunday after the 1st full moon after the Spring Equinox (which is March 20). This dating of Easter is based on the lunar calendar that Hebrew people used to identify Passover, which is why it moves around on our Roman calendar. Found out a couple of things you might be interested in! Based on the above, Easter can actually be one day earlier (March 22) but that is pretty rare. This year is the earliest Easter any of us will ever see the rest of our lives! And only the most elderly of our population have ever seen it this early (95 years old or above!). And none of us have ever, or will ever, see it a day earlier! Here's the facts: The next time Easter will be this early (March 23) will be the year 2228 (220 years from now). The last time it was this early was 1913 (so if you're 95 or older, you are the only ones that were around for that!). The next time it will be a day earlier, March 22, will be in the year 2285 (277 years from now). The last time it was on March 22 was 1818. So, no one alive today has or will ever see it any earlier than this year!

I'm starting to play the guitar... Yes it's pink! :~) And yeah, it hurts my fingers a lot but I've wanted to play guitar for a while now so I can't complain. I have two of the C scales down and the C, D, E, G, and A chords down. I'm still working on the F and B chords. I'll get there eventually, just cause I'm stubborn! :~) I really enjoy playing it and I can't wait till I can do it without having to pause! I also can't wait till my fingers don't hurt!

Me, Hair creme and a Diffuser!

2008-03-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

It all started innocently enough... I was watching What Not to Wear and saw how Nick did this lady's hair. I thought "I can do that" so after the show was over I took my shower. Afterwards I got some hair curl creme that I've had forever but haven't used and my diffuser part to my blow dryer and went to work. It didn't take as long as I thought that it would, which was nice. It ended up taking only about half an hour to dry my hair. I think it turned out pretty good! :~) I never thought that my hair would ever want to curl on me... But I'm glad it did, now I have options when it comes to whether I want curl or straight.

On another note, I'm going to start sewing again! :~) I've decided to make myself an Easter dress. I have this pretty, sheer purple flower material that I'll put on top of white fabric and make what I think will be a very pretty short sleeved Easter dress. Also I'll do a few alterations on my short sleeved shirt collection. All of them are like a big box on me so I'll take them in some time this week.

Saturday we hung out with Jamey's friend from high school and his wife. We spent a lot of the day out and about at the mall and at toys r us. They are both big kids what can I say! :~) His wife was nice and I think we had a good time... Anyway that's been what's up with me lately, now I need to go clean up this house from the weekend!

A Dryer, a cat and other random things...

2008-03-06T16:33:00.000-08:00

Monday was a real major day for me cause I finally got that dryer fixed. Apparently there was something wrong with the wiring somewhere. According to Jamey our house must have been wired by drunk monkeys... A mind picture that I find incredibly funny every time I think about it! One of the church members has magic hands when it comes to fixing wiring so he came over and did his thing. Tuesday I was a laundry washing mad-woman.

Sunday one of the neighborhood cats decided to pay me a visit. It wasn't as photogenic as I wanted, but it was one of the sweeter cats that I've come across. She was probably not even a year old. If she decides to come back I will give her all the attention that she can handle and of course some milk as well.

Something else I was meaning to put up here but never got around to it is my ring set. We got this wedding band in January but I haven't taken a picture of it till now. It's a little blurry but you get the idea. :~)

Yesterday I had the pleasure of driving a church member to her doctors appointment in Charlotte NC. It's about a 2 hour drive but I love to drive and it was a beautiful day out. I love to be out and about in the nice weather. Too bad it still isn't that warm out yet (at least what I call warm).

It was singing night at church yesterday and I tried out my alto skills... :~} I'm a natural soprano but I like to mix it up a little if I can. I can sometimes pick it up and other times I hope the people in front of me can't hear that well! :~) On some of the songs it's a little easier cause I can remember my Mom singing it. Other times I have to rely on my ability to read music! :~O

Saturday one of Jamey's friends from high school is coming over to visit so I'll be busy cleaning this house! I'll be worn out by the end of it but this place will look halfway decent! :~)

One Year ago... :- )

2008-02-27T08:04:00.000-08:00

One year ago yesterday Jamey and I went to the court house and got a marriage license. We waited until 5pm when all his family would be there and then were married by his father in front of their fireplace. We were both incredibly nervous but we got through it.

It was a simple beginning, but one that I wouldn't change for anything. It's uniquely ours. I've never regretted that decision and the life that we've made together is a very good one. I love him dearly and I try to be as good of a wife to him as he is a husband to me. However, I seem short of that marker sometimes because Jamey spoils me rotten! :~)

Anyway, yesterday was fun. I got up and made a breakfast that Jamey really likes... End my contribution to the days events! When Jamey got home from work he brought me roses, chocolate and gave me a necklace. (Told you I'm spoiled!) Then we had to go out to get a dryer cord, so we spent a little time out and about. When we got back home Jamey cooked dinner. It was a yummy chicken recipe. :~p He went all out and lit candles. It was very romantic. After that we watched a movie I had been wanting to see and played a board game that Jamey let me win. ;~)

This last year has been one that never really saw a dull moment, not with all my mood swings! :~) Now I can't wait to see what this next one will bring...

Never assume...

2008-02-25T09:05:00.000-08:00

Ok, I've been told this more times than I care to count and I still do it anyway. I assume that when I get directions that we are both going down the same road to get to the destination. This assumption happened on Saturday. The person we were to meet told me the directions from one road and I assumed she meant another. In short, I got us lost. Not lost enough to miss the entire evening, just lost enough to get on Jamey's and my own nerves.

On Sunday the land lady came over and inspected our oven. I assumed that since it was not heating that it was broken. However, after testing the oven and finding nothing wrong there, they were going to come back and check on the dials that run the oven. As they were putting the oven back she turned the oven on and like magic it heated right up. Incredible! Yeah, until I realized that in order to turn the oven on you not only had to turn the temperature knob, but you also had to turn this other knob that says "bake", "off" and "broil". I had never seen this knob before. It came out of no where. For some strange reason I had totally overlooked this very important dial. Yes, I felt slightly silly. Oh well, now I can use my oven and start cooking again! :~}

Now as much as I probably shouldn't do this assuming thing anymore, I know I will... Hopefully one day I will learn my lesson and get full directions from friends and check every square inch of ovens. :~)

The Aliens finally let me go... No, wait, we moved! :-)

2008-02-21T08:04:00.000-08:00

Yes, Jamey and I have moved. Jamey got a preaching position in Mauldin SC, and we just now got internet back. I'm trying to find places for all the stuff I didn't know I had and it's driving me crazy! Decorating was never a strong anything in my life, so I'm finding it fun and frustrating at the same time.

Other news... My older sister who got married in October is expecting in August! Yes, I get to be an Aunt and I'm just a little more than happy about it. It's probably a good thing that I don't live right where they are, as I'm afraid I'd spoil the little guy rotten! :~) As it is I'm going to make some baby stuff for him. Well, as soon as I can find my sewing room through the boxes. I exaggerate a little. We've both been pretty good about getting the boxes out of the house.

I've found out lately that mice do not like grapes. We have a mouse in the kitchen and I've been trying to kill it. So far I've put out peanut butter for it and it's stolen the peanut butter about three times now! I guess I'll have to get some cheese or something it likes and can't lightly lick off the trap. I wish it would be considerate and just die! :~) I thought it couldn't get any worse than those pill bugs in Memphis, but apparently it can!

I'd better get off this and start doing something that involves getting boxes put away.

One week later...

2007-11-05T13:26:00.000-08:00

I know, Friday was a little busy so I couldn't get to the computer long enough to write. I'm not sure about what I'm going to write about now... It hasn't been the most eventful week.

Let's see... This past week I've been out of sorts... Being a little home sick since being back from the wedding. By the way, I have no way right now to get the pics up on this blog, so you'll just have to bear with me. I hate to have to say it but I was a little bored with being indoors and had to get out for a few days last week. Oh, I wouldn't have allowed myself to go out just to go out, I had to have a reason... I needed some stuff for Jamey's birthday. I really enjoy being out on my own sometimes, I have that sense of independence but at the same time I know that I will never have to take on life by myself... That's a really good feeling! :~)

Anyway, I did have to get a few things for Friday. I looked at the cake mixes at the store and realized that I needed another box of the Sweet N' Low mix... Luckily, I had come across that very same cake mix in a drugstore a few days before, so I just stopped by there before I went home one day.

Friday was a bit hectic... I had to make powdered sugar substitute and lemonade concentrate substitute for the lemonade cake he wanted. It wasn't easy, but it turned out alright. The powdered sugar did better than I thought, it had a few clumps in it but thickened the glaze real well. Too bad I didn't have that recipe for the frosting for my reception cake! :~) The cake mix turned out really well too. Very moist and fluffier than any sugar-free cake I could ever make. After I made the cake I cleaned the house cause it needed it. That, however, didn't take that long. I was almost done when Jamey called to say he was on his way home. He wanted fried chicken for supper... Now, I'm from the north where you aren't required to fry chicken so I didn't know how to do it! I had watched his mother do it one time and did my best to imitate her, it worked quite well. It wasn't done when he came home, but it wasn't far from it.

After the food was eaten, it was cake time! :~) He knew I made a cake but didn't know what kind it was. I had also decorated it, not much just had happy birthday on it and a few candles. When I told what kind of cake it was his eyes lit up. Yep, that was the response I wanted. On a side note, southerners do things backwards... Jamey and his family sing the birthday song after the candles are blown out rather than before. This was just interesting to me... I guess I thought that everyone sang before the candles went out. There weren't that many candles so it didn't take long to get them out of the cake. Jamey took the first bite and claimed that it tasted as close as it possibly could without sugar in it! :~) Success!!!

Saturday we went to Memphis to spend some money Jamey got for his birthday. We spent a good bit of the morning out and then relaxed at home for the rest of the day.

Sunday we went back to Memphis for Friends and Family day at our old church. It was fun to see everyone again, not to mention they had barbecue after service... How can you say no to that? :~) Well, the dinner was good and the two hour nap that followed was even better! We got plenty of rest this weekend... That's what a weekend is supposed to be, right?

Today I haven't done anything other than laundry and finish a good book. I love to read when I can have a book that I truly can get lost in... This book is set in the time I love to dream about, the 1850s. I could honestly almost see it in my brain like I was watching a movie, not reading a book. Lucky for me there is another book in the series so I'm not done yet! :~)

Last post before November!! AHHHH!!!!

2007-10-29T14:25:00.000-07:00

Yes, in just three short days it will no longer be October. And this Friday is Jamey's birthday, so I don't know if I will be able to post that day or not... I have to make his birthday dinner and his cake. ;~)

Saturday was fun. Well, the last part of the day was fun. The first part was just a lot of packing and moving stuff. Jamey and I got some boxes and I started packing while Jamey and his dad moved mattresses and bed frames into the truck bed. I ended up packing a good deal of stuff. It took about 3 hours to get it all loaded into the truck. We got that done and after we unloaded Jamey and I went to Wal-mart for some items for the trunk or treat later in the evening. I got a black turtleneck and a witch hat and Jamey got a black robe to finish his look. I went as Glenda the good witch's cousin (cause I just don't look that scary), Jamey went as a black ghost or ghoul or something like that... Let's put it this way the kids were more scared of the people in plaid than of him! :~) It's a lot of fun to watch Jamey with the kids... He's so good with them. There was a pot luck before it all started and then there was a hay ride before the candy giving. It was a lot of fun, I don't think I've ever done anything like that. Of course there were left overs of the candy... Which I enjoyed later! :~) Ahhh, there are some good things about having a husband that can't have sweets. Of course my hips will hate me later for it.

Sunday we stayed at the house and did nothing! Yep, the best thing to do on Sunday. Jamey wasn't feeling well cause of allergies and I wasn't feeling well for other reasons so we decided to stay close to home. We were going to go move the rest of the stuff from the apartment, but we hadn't gotten that much sleep so we didn't move anything... We barely moved ourselves! :~)

It's a beautiful day today, I went to Wal-mart to get the last of Jamey's presents. I can't wait till Friday so he can open them!

Ok, where did the time go?

2007-10-26T12:54:00.000-07:00

Well, I'm just a little curious as to where all that time I had at the beginning of the year went. My sister just got married, my birthday is long gone and Jamey's is rapidly approaching. All of these events I thought would never get here and now they fly by... Not to mention the fact that everyone tells me it goes by faster as you age! :~O Great!

No, I really don't have all that much to say today... I'm just trying to avoid putting 9 buttonholes in my new shirt that I'm making. I don't mind the buttonholes it's just that there are 9 of them! So far it looks really good and if you could get away with using pins in clothes instead of buttons I know I'd do it! :~) But I got these cute pink buttons at Wal-mart and I might as well use them.

I started my Christmas shopping for my siblings today... No, I'm not telling what they're getting cause I know my little sister reads this. Since my family doesn't do Christmas on the actual day (we do it for New Years) I have a little time. Not to mention the after Christmas sales I can take advantage of! :~) However, I have to start thinking about what to get my new family... That will be just a little harder. As much as he won't like it I'll have to take Jamey shopping with me cause he knows them better than I do... Or at least he's lived with them longer! :~)

I don't know about where my family lives, but we had to turn our heat on for the last couple of days... You see the sun decided to take a vacation and go to Florida, leaving us without sun and the depressing cold. I know I lived in VT where it got cold like this every year... I'm starting to wonder how I made it living there. Maybe I'm just becoming more like my Mom and developing reptilian blood! :~)

I know this is all over the place... But this is the way my brain is, scary isn't it? I don't think I can get out of doing those buttonholes any longer. Tomorrow is a trunk or treat at a near by church. I had the idea that I'd dress up, but I'm not sure any more. If anything I might dress like a 12 year old then maybe I can get some candy!!! :~)

Yes, one day late... :~)

2007-10-23T11:18:00.000-07:00

I know, I need to get back in the groove of this blog. Well, here are the happenings of the weekend...

Friday was spent mostly in the car. Yeah, pretty boring especially when you consider my DS ran out of battery about halfway through. Jamey asked me if I needed the car charger and being the ever optimistic one I said no. Jamey said he knew then that it wouldn't be long before the battery died! :~) When we finally got to Rising Sun we went to meet with my family at a shopping center where they were trying to get someone to help them get the sleeves of the tuxedos the right length. After we got that figured out, we went to the church for some dinner and a rehearsal. Seriously, they need more than one rehearsal! :~) By the way, the slip looked great under the dress! Then it was time to decorate the church. That took till about 1am! Jamey had gone out with Danny cause he would have been bored to tears with the decorating. My family and I had a blast with the decorating though. We got to do some singing and some catching up. We had a little problem getting into our room that night, but we got it fixed.

Saturday we got to the church at 11am and finished with the decor. This day is really just a blur of fingernails that needed painting and a giant white dress! :~) Jamey was put in charge of the cameras and the video. Lydia, Mommy, Danny's mom and I all helped Sarah get ready for the big event. They didn't get married until 3:30pm, but time flies when you don't want it to! Everything went well and we got through it. Sarah looked positively gorgeous. After the ceremony came the pictures! Yay! Yet another 45 minutes of something to keep us from eating! :~) When we did finally get back to the reception area Lydia and I were being the cake cutters. The last three weddings that I have been to, I have been the cake cutter in all of them. I can't complain though I volunteered... That and I wasn't all that hungry! Jamey and I couldn't stay long we had to be in Louisville KY for a tryout. Oops, got to miss the clean up... I feel so bad! ;~)

Sunday went rather well, and we got to leave after the early service cause they were having a song service at night. That was good. We got to stop at a place in Nashville that Jamey wanted to go to. We ate supper in Jackson (about an hour and a half away from home) at a cute little restaurant. I think the place is called the Casey Jones village, but I could be wrong. They had a lot of old things and an old train outside. We spent awhile there and then went home.

Yesterday I didn't get to the computer for the simple fact that I was drained from the weekend!

Hopefully, I'll be able to get back to the Monday and Friday post time! :~)

No, I didn't fall off the earth...

2007-10-18T08:47:00.000-07:00

Hmmm... Ok, you are probably wondering why it's been forever and a day since you heard a peep from this blogger. Well, as of the 2nd of October we decided to move to a cheaper place... Which, by the way, I had no idea I had so much junk! So we've been busy with that. Also, the Internet connection here won't allow high speed so I'm stuck with good old dial up... Yeah. One more thing to add to my excuse is the fact I've been making my sister a wedding slip. She's getting married this Saturday (we'll be leaving Friday which is why I'm writing now) and I'm almost done. Just have the finishing touches to do.

Since I still have some stuff to do I'll just hit the high points... The 5th we went to Georgia and I got to meet Jamey's grandma for the first time! She is soooo sweet! We traveled all night to get there and I got to drive through Atlanta! I had this feeling that if I stopped they would kick me out of the south! :~) Jamey also showed me where he graduated, a town called Washington. And no, I didn't get a picture of grandma! I could have kicked myself... Classic.

The 6th and 7th we were in Mauldin, SC where Jamey had a tryout. It's so beautiful in that part of the country!

The 8th Jamey took me to Chattanooga to show me around. Wow! I loved the mountains. Jamey first took me to a place called McKay's where we traded stuff and got more stuff, that was neat! After that we ate lunch and went to the top of lookout mountain! Oh but the view from the top is magnificent! We could literally see for miles on top of there. When I have more time I'll try to upload some of those pics. After that we went down the mountain a little to Ruby falls... An underground waterfall! It was so neat to be doing this! I had a good time looking at all the stalagmites and stalactites after I got over the whole "there are miles and tons of rock on top of me" feeling. We left there and went to one of Jamey's favorite spots, a park in a city he used to live in. It was beautiful there... It had two waterfalls! :~) After that we went to Nashville and had dinner with John and then came home.

The 12th Jamey's mom had the day off so we went birthday shopping for me. I had quite a lot of money to spend and I'm surprised how fast it went! The first stop was at Hancock fabrics (you doubted?) where almost all of the money was blown! :~) Jamey got home and we went to dinner and did some more shopping. I had just enough to get a cute little denim skirt, I'd been wanting one for a while now.

The 13th found myself a slightly spoiled 23 year old. Jamey had made me a cake the night before and made me breakfast that day. We lounged around the house for a while before going into Memphis for all of my birthday fun. I found out that I had gotten some more money from my parents and grandparents! Yeah, more money than I've ever spent! WoooHoo!! We went to an art museum to start off with, which was extremely neat. I found out what I enjoy most are the portraits of people from the 17 and 18 hundreds. Also they had some furniture there from that time which just made my mind want to explode! When we got done with that we went to a record store to see if they had any piano music... I don't play well, but I like to play. They didn't have any, so we went to this piano place and I spent half of the other birthday money on music! That done it was time to do what Jamey kept secret... A river boat ride on the Mississippi at night! It was beautiful! Memphis was lit up and the wind was blowing and there wasn't a cloud in the sky! Of course since it is Memphis the meal was barbecue, which was delicious! I had a really good time on that cruise! Again, when I have time I'll try to post pics. When the day was almost done, Jamey took me to the place where Elvis played one of his first shows and sang me Happy Birthday! Did I marry a great guy or what! :~) Any other birthday from now on is going to be a let down!

This past Tuesday Jamey's mom had the day off and we went and packed up the kitchen stuff. After we ran out of boxes, we went shopping to spend the rest of the money... We went to the Burlington Coat Factory. I love that store!!! Their clearance is about as good as Wal-marts but you get a lot nicer clothes! So you can guess where I'm going when I get Christmas money! ;~)

Anyway, that's what's been up since last I sat and typed... It's been busy! Now to go and finish that slip... I'll try to get on Monday so I can post about the wedding!

It's October!! :~)

2007-10-01T11:33:00.000-07:00

I'm doing something right now that no southerner in their right mind would do... I have the windows open and letting the breeze in. In and of itself this isn't crazy, it's just that it's still in the 80s! :~O Well, it helps a little... The sound of cars on the road outside is very calming for me. Also I looked at the weather both in VT and in OH... It's 66 degrees in both places right now. So, in my head it's open window weather even though it feels more like summer. Ahhh... The joys of living in the state of TN! :~)

Thursday I already mentioned that we were planning on going to see a football game... The game was in Jonesboro, AR so it was a good hour drive to get there. Oh, and apparently the people that are at ASU can't tell time. The ticket said that it started at 7pm, however we got there a little before 7 and they were already in the middle of the second quarter! That wasn't so bad, cause Memphis was kicking AR butt. However, they decided that winning wasn't everything and gave the game away. They went from 31 - 13 to 31 - 34! It didn't help that there was a little referee favoritism, and that Memphis can't defend themselves real great! By the way, the outfits for the band don't flatter anyone!!! :~p Sorry the pictures are a little fuzzy, they wouldn't stand still for us! :~)

Friday was pretty good... I got my shopping done and then got to nap a little before I had to go over to clean house. I got there about 1pm... I had to go back and finish after I went to pick Jamey up at 4pm. It's not that it was dirty, it's just that there were a lot of nick knacks to dust. Not to mention that there were three bedrooms and two bathrooms. I survived and when I got done went home and ate pizza for supper... I got it at Aldi, it's quite good. I wanted to get some khaki pants after that, kinda as a reward. I like Goodwill for this... Usually there are some fancy, expensive clothes there that I would never be able to buy new. I got a pair of really nice pants that are MetroStyle. Yes, they are now my new favorite pants! :~)

Saturday we didn't have to leave until 4pm, so we got to sleep in and enjoy a quiet morning at home. Jamey woke up before I did... He saw how peaceful I looked sleeping and he didn't want to disturb me, so he made breakfast and brought it up to me! Yep, breakfast in bed! :~) I didn't eat in bed for fear of getting crumbs in the sheets... I'm the only crumb that gets to sleep in the sheets! :~) We watched some TV before we had to leave. It only took about 2 hours to get there, which is like having a weekend off! It's so pretty there... They have rolling hills in that part of TN, so we both like the landscape. The people we stayed with were very nice. They had a king size bed in the guest room... Jamey and I could lay out on that thing and not even come close to each other! :~) It was a little weird cause I felt like I was sleeping by myself.

Sunday was good. Jamey did a really good job as always. The elders and deacons ate lunch with us and after lunch the ladies went into the house and we talked while the men were talking. They are a really good bunch. After the talk we got to nap, but it wasn't nearly long enough. Thankfully, it wasn't a long ride back home... We got home at around 9pm so we stayed up a little before going to bed. It was nice to be able to stay up a little after we got home... It meant that we weren't getting to bed after 2am! :~)

Today I have to get some things done so I'll have things to pack next weekend... We are planning on leaving Thursday after Jamey gets off work. That way we can spend a day and a half with his grandma. I'm really looking forward to meeting her. I've heard a lot about her, but never met her before so I'm really excited! Something I'm also looking forward to is going to the Need To Breathe concert here in Memphis tomorrow!! :~)

No, you're right, it's Thursday...

2007-09-27T12:56:00.001-07:00

Just to let you know, I do know what day it is and I will explain myself... Tomorrow I will be cleaning an older lady's house. She can't get around very well and asked me to help her. She is the same person Jamey and I helped move on Labor day. I'm supposed to go at 1pm, but I also want to get my grocery shopping done tomorrow too, so I most likely won't have the free time to write.

Let's see... Monday night Jamey and I went out. Not for a long time, but we had coupons that needed to be used. We got one of those entertainment books with the coupons in it from someone at church. We went to this CD store and made out like bandits. :~) It was fun. We came home and watched a movie we got at that CD store... Yeah, they have movies too.

Tuesday was awful in terms of attitude. I saw some pictures of my family from the wedding reception and started to feel lonely. I also felt like I was of little use cause I didn't want to do chores and I had a lot of them to do. Thank the Lord for my wonderful husband though, cause he came home and took me out to eat and calmed me down... :~) On a side note here, I can't wait to see my family in about a month for my sister's wedding!! :~)

Yesterday I got a lot done. I got everything done that I was complaining about on Tuesday. I also had to hem a piece of cloth for a friend at church. When we were at church I was approached by one of the ladies and was asked if I knew how to hem pants... She said that she needed three pairs hemmed and wanted to know if I could do it. Finally it's getting around that I sew and can be called on to sew! :~) Not to mention that I will get paid for it!

Today Jamey and I are going to go to AR to see a football game. We got tickets from one of the preachers at church. I can't wait... This will be my first football game! :~) Oh, I almost forgot...

Size 5 double pointed needles: $4
Size 7 double pointed needles: $4
7 more ozs of yarn: $2.50
Wearing a sweater that you knitted: Priceless! :~)

You can't really see it in the photo, but there's cabling on the sweater. It took me about 2 weeks to finish it after I got the needles. I can't wait for some colder weather so I can wear it out! :~)

Second day of Fall?

2007-09-24T13:11:00.000-07:00

I've been really quite good about being a Vermonter in Tennessee... However, one thing I will never get over is the fact that it's 90 degrees on the second day of fall and the only reason the leaves are falling off the trees is that it's been dryer than my humor here. Alright, that's it for my peeve of the day. :~)

Friday I was feeling, well... Cramped being inside so Jamey took me out for some entertainment and dinner. It was really nice to go out and not just to Wal-mart.

Saturday we didn't leave until 12:30pm so we got to sleep in a little. It only took about 5 hours to get to Jerseyville IL. It's about an hour away from St. Louis. We went passed the arch, but the batteries in my camera were dead so I missed that opportunity. It was a beautiful day out, but it was hot. Jamey had the air on and to keep myself from freezing I wore my sweater that I finished earlier in the day. The one problem we have is the whole temperature thing... I like to have it so I'm cozy (which is about 80), but to have it that way Jamey roasts like a hot dog. So I figured I'd just wear a little more... Especially since he was driving. I think however the people we met thought I was a little crazy. :~) At least they didn't get a wrong first impression! :~) We got to stay in a hotel this time and it was nice. There was a football game on TV, so Jamey was watching... It was Georgia against Alabama, Jamey is a big Georgia fan. I would have taken a picture cause he was so cute, but like I said before the batteries were dead. :~(

Sunday was an equally nice day out and after church they had a pot luck. However, when service was over an adorable 5 year old came over and attached herself to me. She had been looking at me during church and she came up to me after church telling me that she was looking at me cause I was so pretty! :~) Awww... This child must need corrective lenses! :~) I got to play with her and we sat with the children for the pot luck... They had us surrounded! :~) After that pleasant experience Jamey and I went back to our hotel and took a long nap. Driving certainly takes it out of you! We left after night service. The arch was sorta lit for night and I tried to get a picture... This is the best I could do. You can kinda see it in the middle. It looked a lot better in person. It kinda blended with the sky, both at night and in the daytime.

Today I'm recovering from the weekend. Two more weekends that are booked and then we get a break for my birthday. I can't wait to see where Jamey is taking me for my birthday... :~)

Things that just don't add up...

2007-09-21T12:33:00.000-07:00

Alright, my big plans for today are get my blog written and knit till my fingers fall off. Yeah, big plans. :~)

Monday night I went to the store to see if I could get some more yarn for my sweater. I don't know about you, but when it says it needs 13 ozs of yarn I tend to believe that it needs 13 ozs of yarn... So when I ran out of 16 ozs of yarn, I started to think that 13 ozs was only if you wanted a sleeveless sweater! Well, I went out to see if I could find some yarn. Oh, on a side note I hate that Wal-mart has discontinued their fabric section I used to love to go there for that reason. Also they seem to have lessened their crafts section altogether. Anyway, I went to Wal-mart cause that is where I got my yarn to start with. I guess it is partly my fault for not working on it for 2 years... I couldn't find the color I needed. Well thank goodness for Hobby Lobby. They didn't have the exact same color but it is close enough. Silly me I thought that I wouldn't need to get any more yarn for it when I bought the 16 ozs, so I tossed the wrapper. Note to self don't do that anymore! :~)

Tuesday I wasn't feeling very well, so I kinda took the day off. I felt a little better when the shoes I had bought on-line for my sister's wedding came. I will be one of the bridesmaids, so I needed to coordinate with my other sister who lives half an hour from a mall and an hour away from a good mall! Since my family doesn't have the time to mall surf, my sister looked on-line and found what she wanted. I usually hate to buy things over the Internet for the simple fact that I can't try it on... Call my crazy but I like to only buy things that fit and look nice on me. I got lucky though, these shoes look quite nice and fit well. Not to mention that they are very comfortable.

Wednesday I was feeling about the same as Tuesday. The good news came in the form of the dress I had purchased on-line for my sister's wedding. Yes, I live in Memphis and the store here didn't have the dress I was looking for. Another pet peeve of mine... Anyway, the dress fits and looks alright on me. If I'm going to look good in those wedding pictures though I'd better lay of the chocolate for a while if you know what I mean! ;~) The last thing I want is incriminating photos of me with signs of chocolate consumption around my middle. :~)

Yesterday I had a relatively good day. I got up and took Jamey to work... It's been a couple of weeks since I've done that due to the sleepy factor. However, I was feeling more awake yesterday morning than I have in a long time. I did get a lot of things done. I had to grocery shop, mail some letters, pick up prescriptions, and get a slip for the above mentioned dress. I'm slightly proud of myself... I got temporarily lost on my way home from the post office (Jamey usually takes me there) but I know my way around well enough to get myself home. Jamey had somewhere he had to go after work so I got to go with him. It was one of those work parties that have appetizers and are intended so you can meet some of the people you work for or with but have never met in person. The food was good and the people were nice. After that we came home and finished watching the first season of 24. Ok, I have one thing against this show... If you have kept my attention for 24 hours at least have a happy ending. Is that too much to ask? I don't really get the programs that want to be like real life... For goodness sake, that's why we watch TV to get away from real life. Am I wrong in wanting happy endings on programs? I might watch the second season, but it will be a few days before that happens.

Well, the first half of my big plan for today is done. The second half will come in a little while as I plan on returning to my knitting when I'm done with this. I also have to get ready to go to IL tomorrow and I have to do those mundane house chores that make life so darn interesting! :~)

One tiring weekend...

2007-09-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

Two things strike me as I sit and write this... I am extremely tired from the weekend I just had and I am wearing a long-sleeved shirt when it's in the 80s here, although it's about 70 inside. Hmm... I have been really cold lately, also I have this urge to wear long-sleeved stuff just because it's the middle of September! Call me crazy but I don't think the high for this time of year should be around 90 degrees.

Friday evening was very sweet on Jamey's part. He usually makes dinner on Fridays, so he asked me what I wanted. In my usual indecisive manner, I said that I didn't know. I hated that I didn't have any idea what I wanted, however, it didn't stop Jamey. He called me on his way home and said to be ready to go to the park when he got home so we could have a picnic. Now, I have been pestering, uh... asking to go to the park and have a picnic since spring time. So I was absolutely ecstatic. It was a little warm yet for a picnic but we found a shaded spot next to a lake and sat and ate what Jamey had bought at the store. We stayed, sat on a bench overlooking the lake and talked for about half an hour after eating before we went home. At home we stayed up and watched my new favorite show... 24. For those of you that don't know about this, it follows a guy who works for something like the FBI. It's unique because the episodes happen in real time... So you have to watch 24 episodes to get through the whole day. Yeah, it's addictive! :~)

Saturday we didn't have to get up that early. It only took about 6 hours to get to TX, so we left about 11:30am. It's a little boring to drive for 200 miles and there is nothing but flat. It was a beautiful day to go driving though. We got there about 6pm and went out to eat with the people we were going to stay with. Being from the north I'm not quite familiar with the nice people of the south. The people we stayed with made us feel like old friends/family. That was nice. :~)

Sunday I have to say Jamey was incredible. There were a few obstacles with the job in TX, but he did a very good job. I was a little surprised Sunday because the temperature was about the same as Memphis. I had always thought that when I visited TX (if ever) it would be sweat city. Apparently this was a mild summer for them... Yeah, I got lucky! ;~) We stayed for evening service. Unfortunately, we thought that it would be about 5ish for service. Evening service was at 6pm. We didn't get out of there until about 7:30. We ended up getting home around 2:30am.

I feel bad for Jamey cause he had to get up this morning and go to work. I got to go back to sleep after I made him breakfast and packed him lunch. Usually Mondays are long nights anyway, but he'll be really beat this time.

Happy Birthday... No not to me!

2007-09-14T11:26:00.000-07:00

Ok, I was a little tired Monday so I decided to just skip it. But now I'm back!

Today is my younger brother Ira's 21st birthday. This isn't the first time I haven't been there to rightfully claim my piece of cake, however this is the longest I've gone without seeing my family. I'll call him tonight, but it won't be the same. Anyway, Happy Birthday Ira!! :~)

Saturday and Sunday Jamey and I were out of town, going up to Iowa. Knoxville to be exact. For those of you that don't know... Knoxville is the Sprint car capitol. Ok, that information is only really interesting to me but I thought I would put it in anyway! :~) It took about 10 hours to get to Knoxville which means that I had to pretend to be awake at an insane hour... 5am. Now I have to say I admire the people that this comes easy to... I am NOT one of those people! :~) Yes, we got up that early so we wouldn't get in to Knoxville too late. It's beautiful country up there... If you're not going through pouring rain. At least our car got washed! :~) We got there at 4pm. We didn't get to bed until about 11:30pm cause we kept talking!

Sunday they had a pot luck after service. They know how to cook! After the meal we left. The weather back was much better than the weather that we went through to get there. I was amazed at how pretty the landscape is there. It reminded me of Vermont only without the mountains in the background. We got back from Knoxville about 11pm.

Monday I was moody. I have to say though that Jamey is one of the most patient men I've ever met! :~) The one redeeming thing Monday was we got a dryer! Someone was getting rid of an old dryer so they practically gave it to us.

Tuesday was like Monday only more moody. Marco wouldn't stop barking and the dryer wasn't cooperating. Anyway, I think it was just a little of me being home sick and tired from the trip. After Jamey got home we went out to the mall and Target. Yeah, that helped! :~)

Wednesday was sooooo much better! I opened the windows and got some fresh air in the house and it was just such a beautiful day out. If we hadn't had to go to church I would have liked to go to the park. Anyway, I had a really good day. I found a book that my Grandma had given me for Christmas a couple years ago and I started reading that. One of the things I miss... My girly books.

Thursday I was tired so I decided to not go to class. Bad idea. I should have gone just because that is the only day when I really get to get out. Not that Jamey doesn't take me everywhere I need to go, but I have that sense of independence. However, it wasn't the nicest day out. It started raining about the time I would have started shopping. When Jamey got home, after supper, we went out to Aldi to go grocery shopping. Also the knitter in me had to go to Hobby Lobby to get those double ended needles! When I got home I started knitting and finished the neck of my sweater. I started that sweater about 2 years ago! :~)

So far today I'm just chillin' till I have to pack so we can leave tomorrow for TX. Also I want to tidy my house so I won't have to do it Monday. Hopefully I won't be too tired from traveling to write Monday. :~)

Another Friday! : - )

2007-09-07T10:14:00.000-07:00

Another fairly uneventful week...

Since I blogged a day late I don't have to relate Monday and Tuesday. Hmm... Now for the rest of the week.

Wednesday Jamey took off so we could get the tires done and the oil changed. We started our quest at 11am. We first stopped at Wal-mart to get the tires and oil done at one place. Well, they didn't have the tire people there... Apparently they all decided not to show up for work that day! :~p So we ended up only getting the oil changed. Then we went to a car place, but they couldn't get to us for a couple hours! Nice. Well, we went to another Wal-mart to see if their tire people were there. They were! Also this particular Wal-mart still had the fabric section! Yeah, I was happy. I didn't get any fabric, but I looked! I also couldn't help looking at the clothes... I don't need any, it's just that I'm female and that's what I do! :~) I found one shirt that was really cute and then I realized that I had the pattern to make it on my own! Well, after that discovery, the car people said that our car needed tires that it really didn't. So we ended up going to this place that did car work for Jamey before and his dad still goes to him. Anyway, he fixed all the problems. Now we have a practically brand new car... Well, it feels like it when you drive!

Thursday I was so tired I didn't even get up to get Jamey breakfast! Yep, I didn't go to class either. For some reason I really needed my sleep! It's been a while that I haven't gotten up and made Jamey's breakfast. Oh well, he didn't mind. I ended up going to Aldi after Jamey got home. I went while he was talking on the phone. I hadn't made anything for supper so I picked up a pizza at Aldi. It was only $2 and it tasted pretty good! :~p

Well, I have to go and get ready for our trip this weekend. I still have to finish that dress, not to mention packing! UGGG... I hate packing... I always feel like I left something important at home when we leave! We'll be leaving early tomorrow morning. I'll take pictures! :~)

Oops... One day late!

2007-09-04T10:44:00.000-07:00

Sorry about that, but Jamey was home yesterday and when he's home I like to spend time with him.

Saturday Jamey and his dad went to a football game. His parents get tickets from a co-worker of his mom's. So they went to do that, and his mom and I went to Linens n Things to get a new bed set for her. She had gotten a gift card for that store from Rachel for their anniversary. We found some good deals and then went to Hancock Fabrics. We stopped in at Old Navy just cause I had never been there. I had to go to Hobby Lobby to get some ribbon and needles for the dress I'm still making. We spent about an hour in Hobby Lobby looking at patterns and then went over to TCBY to get something to cool us down. We spent about 4 hours out shopping and when we got home Jamey and his dad still weren't back from the game. They finally got home at about 6pm and then had pizza with us and left.

Sunday was a little more relaxing. We went to church and went out to eat with Jason afterwards. After that we just stayed home and relaxed. :~)

Monday was Labor Day. That's exactly what Jamey and I did... We helped an older couple move into a new house. We spent half the day moving stuff in the house and getting stuff out of the old house. It was hot too! :~) After that we came home and watched a movie, and I took a nap! :~)

This morning was the visitation, so I took Jamey to work. We have to go get our car tires checked and the oil changed so we will be able to go all the way to Iowa Saturday morning! That should be fun, I've never been that far west! :~)

One Hectic Friday...

2007-08-31T15:19:00.000-07:00

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! ; - )

2007-08-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

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!

2007-08-24T11:54:00.000-07:00

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...

2007-08-20T11:07:00.000-07:00

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!