The Simple Life

wierd...

i've been wanting to say something about this before but i keep forgetting...not that it's that important. it's too wierd to even be funny to me... so apparently this valley has something against ranch (ranch dressing) or maybe they don't even know it exists!? every now and then levi picks up the "chicken deal" at the local grocery store: fried chicken, potato wedges, potato salad and tartar sauce. yep...tartar sauce. am i the only one that thinks that is really strange? they don't have ranch, just tartar sauce! tartar sauce doesn't even go with chicken...it goes with fish...hello people?! last month we went to have a cheeseburger and fries at the malt shop and gulianna asked for a side of ranch. guess what they brought out, tartar sauce! what's even wierder is that she handed it to gulianna and said "here's your side of ranch!" i'm telling you it's just very strange!

can you believe it...

whitney houston is dead. 

i can't, but then again i can. look what she's done to herself...it's very sad to see someone with such singing talent waste their life away.

i sure loved her music...i have these two albums of hers.

her songs are classic. they remind me of my childhood and growing up.

i want to dance with somebody...birthday party at chuck e cheese.

greatest love of all, saving all my love for you, you give good love, all at once, didn't we almost have it all, where do broken hearts go, run to you, i have nothing, i will always love you, i'm every woman, how will i know...i can still hear my mom singing all of these in her firebird. and me lip-syncing them in the backseat to my cousin making her laugh!

when you believe...love that song from the prince of egypt movie. sung with mariah carey, my favorite.

heartbreak hotel, exhale, it's not right but it's okay, my love is your love, fine, i wanna dance with somebody remix...i played these in my firebird along with her older songs.

she has sooo many good songs...love them all!

 

 

tv shows/movies...

we usually only have tv in the winter...to make the time pass by! although we haven't for several years. some times you miss it, and other times you don't because there is nothing on.

i've been getting by with watching biggest loser online. i finished season 12 in a week! it was kind of nice not having to wait each week. now i'm caught up to season 13. last year we signed up for netflix, so i would watch whatever on my computer while i scrapbooked. it would have been better if we had an updated flat screen, or a wii or playstation 3, we are a bit behind on technology. so we only got to watch shows in the living room or in bed when levi got home with his laptop :)

we did finally get our first flat screen 3 months ago...can you believe it!? so now we can hook up the laptop to it and watch netflix on a bigger screen! levi has been wanting one for a long time...but i told him to wait until ours finally gave out. last fall when we moved...kevin thought it would be "easier" to just leave the tv in the armoire while they moved it. uh huh. levi said no, but still did it anyway, and as soon as they lifted the armoire, they forgot the tv was in there and it went flying out and broke. ha ha!

we watched these movies last weekend while we were sick,

and we started watching Jericho,

it's pretty good! one episode left...and then no more, why did the show get cancelled? i'm pretty sure this is the show that caught my eye years ago as they were promoting it on commercials...that's where i got the name Jericho, because it was old and different, you don't hear it anymore. that was the only boy name i had saved...in case we ever had a boy, and when we finally had anthony...it just didn't fit, he was definitely supposed to be an Anthony it only took us ten days to make sure!

i do miss watching american idol...i've missed the last 2 years. but at the same time, i know it's not that great anymore...i do still like to watch it.

the girls have been watching dora and a few girly movies, also blues clues...which i can't stand to hear! they've been getting lazy and not wanting to clean their room now that they know they can watch netflix. gulianna clicks on the mouse to change to the next episode, and makes the screen bigger. they've gone a whole two days of leaving their room filthy. of course i didn't let them watch anything until they finally cleaned it. then i had to take away their lalaloopsy stuff and a few other things. it's hard to get by these months after Christmas, with more toys to pick up. can't wait til the summer where a few of them can mysteriously end up at di. i can't help it. i have too! too much stuff, is just TOO MUCH STUFF! they really don't need it.

any way, what are your favorite shows to watch?

 

Hello...

wait...did I say I would post on here regularly?

guess I FORGOT!

or NOT.

Life happens! And then I get overwhelmed because I take too many pictures and then wonder where to begin. But I enjoy looking back, so I *think* I am going to start backdating my posts again, and get some pictures on here...

RIGHT...believe it when you see it?

Me too :)

 

***check it out, slowly updating! scroll down for new posts!

 

Social media...

I keep my thoughts in my head, and then have conversations with myself...others just post them on facebook!

I admit, I've posted a few here in and there...

Sometimes I wonder why I even made an account with facebook. I only used twitter before. Then I started with facebook, and linked my accounts so that when I post on twitter, it feeds through facebook. I do log in...but I try to stay off. Any more, it's really obnoxious. Okay, actually I've always thought it was obnoxious. It has gotten way out of hand. Instead of it being a family and friends kind of thing...it has turned into bragging, showing off how much you can accomplish, gossip, and the list goes on and on...{yes I admit I've posted a few too...} It seems you just catch on and do what others are doing. Why? It's like someone is always thinking of the next clever thing to post about, and thinking what should I say to spark some comments...

I actually just like it to see what scrapbook designer's are posting, and retail stores...for deals and such...and then I catch a couple posts of whatever is at the top when I log in. Which brings another point. Don't scroll! Are you a facebook scroller?! Then stop! You could spend countless hours, and accomplish nothing all day! I admit, I would be a scroller, when I was feeding Anthony after he was born. But that was only for a little while, not all day!

Awwww....snap, did I just say all that, on my blog!? I'm not here to judge what others do, and hound them, I'm just trying to get people to stop being so fake. Got it? Stop rolling your eyes :)

I know it's not just me, and others feel the same way too, right! So from now on...no more facebook...who's joining me?

a few favorites...

i am in heaven looking at all of these fun bowls...

i wish i could have all the polka.dot ones!

 

this is a lovely sign!

 
  
too bad they were ridiculously priced!

oh i ♥ polka.dots!

just wanted to share...

that if you go to groupon.com you can get a $50 gift card to The Gap for only $25.00! You have to hurry though because the deal ends tonight!

You have until Nov. 19th to use the gift card at any Gap store, not valid online though...

...Plus if you use this link, I may get a credit towards my account ... yup, I know I'm selfish :)

Thanks!

the same...

so the other day...i can't remember exactly what we were talking about, but i told Levi to just go get a massage, and he said 'no, because i don't like people touching me'...lol.

me too. i am not one to go out and get pedicures & facials & massages...i never have. i told like other people touching me! the only pedicure i have ever had was one we had to practice giving pedicures in Beauty College and i nearly kicked the girl off the bench for touching my foot! and the only reason why she even touched my foot was because our instructor was coming close! i told her to fake it, and don't touch me!

anyway...both levi and i are the same in so many ways. we are both picky neat freaks. and we get completely grossed out by too many things!

dirty bathrooms & floors gross us out. dirty kitchens and the thought of people not washing their hands constantly while preparing food sicks us out. public bathrooms. he refuses to take gulianna into the 'guys bathroom' anywhere.

you should have seen us last week when we went swimming... uh, i won't get started on swimming pools...

but levi forgot his flip flops, so it was almost unbearable for him to stand on the floor while he showered, it was really funny to watch! and you can't just shower with no flip flops and then dry off and put your socks and shoes back on, that's just nasty... :)

so he put his towel on the bench, {which also was grossing him out} and then jumped up on it to wash and dry off his feet, and put his clothes on. and then i told him that isabella just peed on the bench before he laid his towel down. lol! i can't stop laughing! then we got grossed out some more by thinking of how many other kids peed on the bench, and how many butts have sat there...and on and on...

and then we threw his towel away. just kidding. but we thought about it!

anyway...

 
and having isa slober all over her lollipop was driving me crazy!

but you gotta live life a little right?!

I love...

I have been going through more stuff all day, mostly just putting everything together where it belongs!

I was excited to find these in a box...a Hello Kitty purse {I'm saving it for Gulianna} okay, I think I bought it for me years ago :) Some leftover Hello Kitty coloring books from my birthday from years ago...maybe in 2005? And some cute little gift bags that I bought at Target, the receipt said 06.07.2007.

I also finished organizing my wrapping paper, for real, last time I was just gazing at it, and trying to justify that I don't need so much of it! lol! I was mad, because Levi threw a bunch of rolls away, I told him, 'at least drop it off to the DI'...'nah too much work, and besides no body will buy it' as he said. Now that it is all organized in containers again, I want to go out and buy more :) shhhhh...

We are getting ready to move on Monday, so that we can be out by Saturday! One more move for at least another year! Luckily this isn't a short sale home...we did sign a one year contract, ugh, but at least we have a house to live in! It is just a plain jane home, nothing exciting, but it does have a small 3 car garage that our early Bronco's won't even fit in. Okay Levi's definitely won't...but mine may barely make it in, we shall see.

We really wanted to stay here in Saratoga Springs, but there was nothing available! We've searched and searched for homes. In the beginning we were trying to find a home that would accomodate Levi's mom, but she needed a walkout basement...and we did find one that came available, it was actually 2 houses up the street from ours. But at the last minute, the guy decided to go with a different family. So Cherrie found her own home, and we had to rush to find one for us. All the nice ones were taken months ago. We've seen some really disgusting houses. Hello, how do these people live?

Anyway, we got lucky with this one in Lehi, it is fairly clean, and plain jane, no upgrades, white walls, and okay carpet...but we are going to make it work! At least it has a fenced backyard! We are going to buy a 'park' for the girls, and a 'jumpoline'. I can't wait till we can have our own home again!

So wish us luck on moving...and being sandwiched in with a bunch of houses, or as Levi calls it, 'watching your neighbors butt crack from your porch' and 'spitting on your neighbors lawn'. lol! get it? because everyone lives so close!

Can you tell we having our on space out in the middle of nowhere :) I guess it could be worse!

Randomness...

Me: Levi, I am going to cut my hair off.

Levi: No, make it frizzy & curly like that one girl. {on american idol}

Me: Even if I tried, it won't do that. {i wish it would look like that}

Levi: Your hair won't do that?

Me: um...no

Anyone watching American Idol out there...it's my favorite show! And this year is even better, because now Ellen is a judge! I love Ellen! And we don't have to hear Paula and her 'dropped cell phone' comments...if you know what I mean :)

My favorite guy is...

Andrew Garcia

and he's from Moreno Valley, CA...I grew up there! I wonder if he went to our school...maybe Rene remembers him, lol.

And the girls just aren't that great this year...why couldn't they have let Angela Martin go through??? hello...after 3 times, and this was her last year to audition! She is better than most of the girls on there. So glad that Ellen & Kara are giving her another shot!

 Same with Shelby...in my opinion. She was good!

MIA...

I've been having technical difficulties with my computer again...it is up and running again...I may have to take it in again, ugh...

posts are coming tonight :)

I'm trying...

my hardest...I am going to start posting some more pictures on here...I keep promising that I will share pictures, but life gets in the way! So behind!

So check back soon!

The Simple Life...

It is already January 13th! And I still don't have a calendar! I think I do this every year! I buy the same calendar every year too...

The Simple Life, by Karen H. Good.

I love the colors in it...mainly because it matched our first home in Driggs. I am pretty sure I based the colors of my walls off this calendar.

And I love her artwork. Fun. Colorful. And Simple.

I kick myself every time, because they usually have it at Robert's, but everytime I go in, I am usually using my coupon for something else. So I put it off...and every year I get mad, mostly because I hate paying full price for anything. One year I bought the calendar at the Mini Bazaar, and then I think 2 years in a row, I bought it on ebay.

I keep thinking I will be lucky and find it somewhere for half off, but then I keep forgetting to check when I go out! So wish me luck and hopefully I will have one before January is up?

It's official...

we dropped off my dying computer last night, to Levi's uncle who is a computer genius...to update it, and clear off my space, and most importantly, get all my pictures backed up! I hope to get it back Monday...

I need to make Isabella's birthday invitations...she will be ONE on Saturday!!!

{and yes I have procrastinated once again...I blame it on my computer, it hasn't cooperated with me at all}

My parents are coming down again! They were here just last weekend for a quick visit! So nice to have them here! We shopped and shopped! Annareigh got an awesome chandelier for her room!

And I bought a GIANT pear! No really it is big! I don't know how I missed it...I've only been to TaiPan like four times in the past couple weeks! It was calling my name! And when we ran into Levi again...I turned my back from  my cart for one second, he grabbed my giant pear and ran... he says it's hideous, but secretly I know he loves it as much as I do! ha ha! He said 'you DO NOT need another pear!' Oh yes, I DO!

Oh, and Annareigh I made you a cool fabric banner for your room too...you'll have to wait till you get here to see it!

I can't post any pictures until I get my computer back...I'm on Levi's and I am 'prohibited from downloading ANYTHING'...lol!

We ate at IN-N-OUT *again* last night! And then went to Gloria's new shop in Provo for some cupcakes! Oh how we've missed them! So excited that you are down here too, and just in time for Isabella's birthday!

I keep saying that I am going to unpack my scrapbooking stuff, but then I get overwhelmed by all the boxes, plus the garage is freezing and the boxes are heavy...excuses excuses! okay I'm off!

Frustrated...

I can't seem to get the external hard drive that I just got last week, to work! ahhhhhh! And actually the day that Levi brought it home, my computer wouldn't even turn on, it was the blank blue screen of death!! I was so mad, we finally get one, and my computer finally decides to crash...

Well it did eventually come back to life, but it is really going to die soon. All I want is to get my pictures taken care of. But it won't let me do anything...there isn't enough memory space do allow anything else. I have deleted old pictures that were already burned to a cd, I have removed and uninstalled unused programs...and still can't get it to work. I think we have to get our computer fixed first, and hopefully soon!

So in the meantime, I am going to get my scrapbooking stuff unpacked so that I can scrapbook!

So excited!

I am determined...

to get my pictures organized on my computer and burned to discs...and caught up on blogging, {drumroll please}

by the end of this year!

This is no joke! I really am determined. My computer is extra extra slow, and it keeps saying that I am out of space...a little bubble popped up saying I have less than 20mbs left? Which I am assuming is like nothing left!!!

And I am scared to death of losing my precious pictures. If I get all organized, then maybe...I could actually scrapbook them! Which is what I want to do!

This computer is on the verge of jumping off a cliff...and crashing, it really needs to be taken in soon...

so stay with me here!

Please come...

My sister in law Lana is hosting a Pampered Chef party at her home in Rexburg! You are welcome to come and have fun with us!

If you can't make it, but need to place an order, just go HERE, and type in Lana Mackey as the host :)

Please email me, or call Lana for directions! Seriously! Come! I am getting their fabulous can.opener, it is amazing, as well as some other things. {Not for me, for Levi--remember? I don't cook} :) But I forgot to order it when I hosted a party last year! 

If you have never been to one, they are fun, especially when they cook and there is good food! 
 

Congrats to...

you were the closest guess! I will drop off your {scrapbook} goodies to you! We will be moving to 'Clementsville' ...got that? More details later...

Now I have to get back to loading up the trailer. Apparently Levi didn't tell me we were actually moving out by this Monday...this is fun. I thought we had till the 14th...

c.ya :)

Today...

went to church. Tried to go to class, but Gulianna likes me to stay with her in nursery. While she is independent, she likes to know where we are at...

I scrapbooked one quick page today, only to be frustrated because I can't find my stuff. It is still packed. I didn't finish it because I can't find my ruler paper that I want to use on it. And I can't seem to scrapbook for myself unless everything around me is clean and put in it's place.

I came to the store to clean up after Gulianna's mess that she made...yet again. Ignored it all and started to clean out my email inbox, I deleted a bunch of emails, and then 'stuffed' a bunch into folders to go through later. Wow. that was fun.

Then I moved on to Bloglines and deleted a bunch of blogs...because it was getting out of control. Do I even have time to view 200+ blogs? Then somehow I screwed up and now I only have 46 feeds...uh oh. So now...I have to find out which ones, lol mostly all of the ones that I am missing...maybe it was for the better :)

One week ago today {Sunday} we found out that the home we are renting has sold. So we will be moving...yet again. But I am actually excited this time...

Any guesses where? Because I am feeling like I want to give something away...the first person to guess right will win some scrapbook goodies from my store Scrapalicious!

And just a reminder for those that are wanting to register for Heidi Swapp's classes, to be entered into her drawing, you have till Sept 1st! Coming up!

Register here!

{For me}...

So that I can look back and maybe remember how crazy I was...

A day in my life:

A typical day for me, usually starts with waking up anywhere from around 7:30-9, usually depending on what we did the night before, and how late we stayed up.

For instance, last night we went to the street dance festival in Rexburg, then to dinner at Gringos, {and we kick ourselves in the butt everytime, because the food is bland-hence the name 'Gringos' lol} then over to see a movie 'Up' definitely a good movie. Got home at 11:30pm...bed around 12:30am...

This morning woke up, check emails, drank a glass of water...that is usually always my breakfast, fed Isabella, picked up some stuff around the house, started to sort laundry, unpacked a couple of boxes. Then Gulianna wakes up...time for a shower, hurry and get ready to go to Scrapalicious at 11. Feed Isabella again, in case I have customers right when I open and can't feed her...

In between all of this my cell phone rings about 50 times or so, in which I almost always ignore because I don't have time to talk...I will get sidetracked and then I'm late, if I answer, then you'll know I'll be running late at the store :)

Get to the store, hurry and turn everything on, hurd Gulianna into the store, and promise her that she will play at the park 'later' in which later almost never comes. Because then it just gets too hot. Help customers, and explain why I have a mess everywhere, and I swear my vacuum is always out because I am trying to clean...{I should be vacuuming instead of typing this} Ring up a couple customers...get after Gulianna for getting into things. Start High School Musical. Go back and ring up some one else. Realize that the stupid movie hasn't started because I didn't press 'play' again...it has been singing 'Together, Together everyone..." Visited with Gina :) Gulianna is coloring on her legs with a pen. Gulianna asks for water. Drinks water, spills it on the carpet on purpose. Asks for more water. Isabella is hungry, and customers need rung up. I have Gulianna entertain Isabella, while I help a customer. Now people are calling my store number...and unless it is another customer I won't answer, because I am busy...if that makes sense :) And they wonder why I don't answer the phone. Now the store is empty and I have time to feed Isabella, and Gulianna is hungry...luckily today I brought our leftovers, usually we make a fast food run. Mainly because I don't take the time to pack a lunch in the morning. Isabella is tired so I lay her in the playpin, finish feeding Gulianna. Check my email...tell Gulianna to go back and watch her movie. Isabella is not falling asleep, I pick her up and she pooped everywhere. Change her, feed her again...and then she falls asleep. Stick her in the playpin, in the back room, only to find Gulianna into my makeup. Take the makeup away...rush back to the front to pick up her dirty diaper and clothes because I have another customer-Ahhhhh! Still haven't had time to vacuum. Yell at Gulianna because she is shaking the playpin and is trying to wake Isabella up. {usually she does, but she is tired today :) }

Now it is 2pm. wow, what did I do? This is why my to do list never gets done all the way! And normally the girls don't take naps...neverending I say. But all worth it. {and now Gulianna is getting into the paint, I am finally being smart today, and putting it up high, it has only taken me 2 years to do this :) }

 And if anyone ever asks what I did all day, as if I didn't do anything at all, you are in the danger zone and better run for your life. Levi once made the mistake of asking this, while I was at home on a Monday, and I turned into a monster and gave him a reason to find out that he will never again ask that question.

Now I am off to finish re-arranging what I started, and to maybe vacuum, lol...but please come visit me, I always have a sale, and cute things for you to buy :)

Oh the perks of owning a store...

I have decided to take the time away from everything that needs to be done, to complain for a minute or two. I just got done cleaning the bathroom here at the store. A bathroom that I have not been able to use since...the end of May? Maybe beginning of June. I don't know. Call me lazy but this was the last thing on my huge long list of things to do, every single day.

For those of you that don't know. I own a scrapbooking store here in Rigby. It is right across the street from the city park. Can you see where this is going? lol...

Lets begin.

In the summer, I am the official 'community toilet'. I am sorry but I am tired of being nice. I am sick of having to clean up disgusting bodily fluids of others that I don't even know. It seems as every time I clean the bathroom, someone has a damn disgusting accident. No I won't go into details, I think that was plenty.

If you know me, don't worry I will always be nice to you, but for the rest of the run around boys and girls with no parents, the bathroom is off limits. There is a port-a-potty for you at the park.

And while I am at it, for the lady that came in with her girls and asked 'oh so politely' to use the bathroom, and then acted like she didn't know her daughter was throwing her guts up all over the place, and never went in the bathroom to check up on her, and then left a huge mess for me EVERYWHERE. Have some damn decency to take care of your kids and there mess.

Now as I type this there is yet another driver's ed car trying to parallel park in front of my store. That is a completely different post. Luckily my car and Bronco has survived the whole 2 years that I have been here :)

Thank you for hearing me out. I just couldn't take it anymore.

Please donate...

to your local food bank! Whatever you can...anything is better than nothing :)

We always need to be of service and help others, this is a reminder that we need to do something everyday, not just during the Holidays or when we feel the need.

The wonderful Cosmo Cricket is donating $1.00, up to $1,000.00 to match our donations, so if you are participating please leave a comment HERE!

Please help spread the word by posting on your blog :)

Have a fabulous day!

my thoughts...

{from this morning}

• I am back to driving my Bronco. Still no shifter cable. Apparently Levi forgot to order it...hello? So that means that it is manually in drive the whole time. Meaning I can only drive forward...

I start the Bronco and drive, and when I park, I shut it off. So no body better park in front of me where ever I go.

If you happen to see me somewhere...perhaps in the mall or Target parking lot, and I am underneath the Bronco it's not because I ran myself over, it will be because someone decided to park in front of me, and so I am manually shifting the transmission.

{yes very annoying, but at least I can do it. and it's a pain in my butt}

greasy hands, hot pavement. hurts my back.

• On the way to work this morning...we {us girls} were getting ready to rock out with Ms. Jackson, only someone had to take her out of the CD player. And when I am driving the Bronco...I can't really just drive with my knee. Broncos tend to roll over if you do crazy stuff...{hence the roll cage for safety}

But I did it anyway...and almost took out some Wild Asparagus pickers along side the road. Just Kidding. But that totally could happen if I did that.

Anyway Gulianna loves the Bronco, and she loves music. It is so funny to see her dance while she's strapped in her carseat :)

so does Isabella. she jams out in her carseat too. It's just some thing about the whole Bronco experience I guess.

and we ♥ it.

Randomness...

• Gulianna is driving me nuts at the moment, getting into my makeup bag for the millionth time, smashing her goldfish crackers in the carpet, pulling Isabella's thumb out of her mouth...
• saw some crazy asparagus pickers on the side of the road for the first time...so glad they had to park half way in the road, idiots!
• we have not had sunshine forever...so much for sunny days.but at least the grass is green.
• Isabella is always happy and smiling. except when I hosted a watch/bracelet party the other night, she was sick, and not feeling so great. I only made 2 watches, because I had to tend to her...and then by the time she fell asleep, I wasn't focusing right, and kept dropping my strand. {would love to take a picture of what I made but...}
• my sister dropped my camera on May 30th...luckily only the lens was busted, still waiting for my new one to be shipped.
• getting ready for the Express the Moment Expo in 2 weeks, wow...always creeps up too fast!
• I finally have internet at home, so I am back in the real world forever. Whenever I drive home, I feel like I am leaving the world, I live slightly out in the middle of now where, but as soon as I pull into my road...my cell says "Emergency Calls only" so frustrating sometimes...ok everyday really. but then I get service, like 15 minutes later.
• Gulianna talks and talks and talks, with occasional swear words here and there. it's hard :) but really funny!
• my shifter cable went out on the bronco, I think this is the 4th time now? and it was a brand new B&M shifter what the...so I have been driving a different vehicle every day, depending on where Levi is working.
• This week I have been driving Kevin's red Jeep Grand Cherokee...and the alarm is super annoying, because there isn't really a panic button on the key chain?
• Gulianna and I ate a whole bag of Chip's Ahoy Cookies in 1 day, Levi was mad, until I pulled out another bag :)
• we have listed our home again for the second time since we moved here, so far we have been showing it like crazy, hopefully this time it will sell?
• speaking of which...yesterday some realtor was showing our house when I was just stepping out of the shower. luckily Gulianna happened to shut our bedroom door. And they were knocking, on our bedroom door!! I ignored them, and frantically put some clothes on.
• my scrapbooking room has been clean for almost a month now? wow, that in itself is amazing. {just don't open the closet}
• so much for a weight loss journal, haven't really done much, speaking of haven't even seen it to motivate me. must be in the closet.
• didn't go to the circus on Monday like I planned. I heard one guy fell...hope he's okay, I bet everyone was freaked out watching it happen.
• Behind on birthday cards, presents...as usual.
• I want to scrapbook...instead of typing this. and doing everything else that needs to be done.

Out and about...

there is just too many things to blog about, but it all takes time...and internet, which I don't have at home, because I am rarely there, but maybe if I did? hmmm...I really can't believe we have gone this long without internet. Levi says it's about time. On that note, we haven't had our dish since April 1st, no joke...so eeeekk, bare with me as I say, I haven't been watching American Idol, and now that it's over, while I know tv isn't my life, I do enjoy watching. Which it comes down to this...

maybe if we had internet at home, I could be more productive at work. my blog might be updated more often than every two weeks, if that. I just might be home more? Who knows? But then that just means I would be home to watch tv too...now that SYTYCD has already started, and I'm missing the auditions!!! So if I...

{wow...that is one clean desk area, and shelves too...sure doesn't look like that anymore, this picture is way old...}

and get me some internet...and move my computer/printer up here, and I just may never leave this room! But then I would have to close down my store...so that I can be home! 

Too bad we have to rely so much on material things...{I am human...and my weakness is really cute things!} but that is not really what makes me truly happy, the gospel, and my family is first and I love them all! 

Which leads me to say that we had quite a scare with Isabella on Tuesday night. I met up with Claudia at Ross that night, and right as I was trying to pay for my stuff, I heard choking sounds...I turned around and Isabella had thrown up all over herself...it was coming out of her nose, and she was trying to gasp for air...she started convulsing a little, her eyes were shaky and went bloodshot instantly. It all happened so fast...but she seemed to be struggling to breathe, I didn't quite know if she was having like a mini seizure or what, I dropped everything tried to pat her back, freaking out...we rushed over to the ER, only to run in and find no one at the desk, I had to run into the next room to bring some attention to 2 ladiesthat were just standing there...I felt so helpless. Was it that important to get her name and birth date just then...there is no time for that when someone is ready to pass out. Then we had to wait for a nurse to come and take us back to the ER, only to find that her and someone else were debating which empty bed to put us in...because there was "no room." I was furiously pissed off, as my poor Isabella needed some oxygen and her vomit sucked out of her. I should have done it all myself...

They took xrays as she was moaning...It all was very fast, but in slow motion...she had her eyes only cracked open for 2 hours. Gulianna had been sick with throwing up...and so Isabella had got it as well...only when she threw up she aspirated it into her lungs. I can't tell you how scared I was, looking at her struggling for some air to breathe. We stayed there till one in the morning...she was doing better...and back to being happy, but you could tell she was still scared of what had happened to her, I can't imagine being that small and going through all that. After that I thought to myself, what if she actually slept in a crib, in another room, and that happened in the middle of the night. So many things could happen, really, but I think too much, and it freaks me out. I am just thankful that she is alright, I love her so much!

Facebook...

So I was finally going through all my requests for some lame quizzes, farm animals? mafia crap, clovers, easter eggs and what not...

and IGNORING all of them, yes you read that right...really do I have time? Sorry no offense, to all of you facebook friends, but it feels much better to get all 114 of those gone!! All except for one, I did take the time to take...because it was just waiting to be answered:

 What does your birthday say about you? quiz and the result is May

Stubborn and hard-hearted. Strong-willed and highly motivated. Sharp thoughts. Easily angered. Attracts others and loves attention. Deep feelings. Beautiful physically and mentally. Firm Standpoint. Needs no motivation. Easily consoled. Systematic (left brain). Loves to dream. Strong clairvoyance. Understanding. Sickness usually in the ear and neck. Good imagination. Good physical. Weak breathing. Loves literature and the arts. Loves traveling. Dislike being at home. Restless. Not having many children.Hardworking. High spirited. Spendthrift.

 

wow...completely true, except the motivation? And no wonder I always have earaches, I've been cursed by a horoscope from the beginning! Weak breathing?? You see that "DISLIKE BEING AT HOME!" Spendthrift...yup cha.ching.

 

So wierd how these work. This was so funny.Yet scary. Well there, if you don't really know me, read that and now you do :)

A few things to share...

I am horrible about sharing things...mostly because it takes time, and then I think of things when I don't have the internet around, blah blah blah...

for those of you that are into coupon.ing, I can't say that I am totally into it, because it takes a freaking lot of time, and it gets too complicated for me. But I like to save here and there. Mostly diapers.wipes.cereal.

you know, the essentials. {for me}

I have found two helpful{overwhelming} but helpful coupon blogs:

1. Fabulessly Frugal

2. Discount Queens

And Kayla has been so great to start her own awesome blog of her great deals that she finds! You can visit her new blog here!

 

Next...I was checking emails, and I almost never check my junk mail, but I happened to today, and found an email from Making Memories and they were notifying me that my layout was added to their May Idea Gallery to let people vote on their favorite layout. Well had I known, I would have let everyone know sooner, so vote for ME! I wish I would have taken a better picture, because it turned out dark. oh well. That was forever ago that I had even submitted it! One of my favorites...

Cute Sleepyhead

 

So if you want to take the time to Vote for mine, I'd appreciate it! You can vote HERE! Note: You have to click, and then scroll down to the VOTE button!

Clothing Exchange & Swap...

Wow...3 posts in one day? Amazing...before I head out, yeah, I need to be home packing, I had to hurry and let everyone know about this...so gather up your cute clothes and meet us here♥

 

 

clothing exchange & swap

 

May 15 2009 9am-Noon

 

3928 E. 100 N. Rigby, ID 83442

Call 206.725.7453 For more info

 

We are having a children’s clothing swap! Bring your nice, gently used, children’s items, free of tears, stains, holes to swap for clothing that you need! Anyone can come you just need to bring clothes to swap with. You will get to take home as much as you bring! You can also bring any items you would like to sell. We will have a consignment section!

Tell everyone you know!

Directions from Hwy. 20: Take the County Line Rd. Exit #318, turn RIGHT onto County Line Rd. if you are coming from the South and LEFT if you are coming from the North. Head 1 mile East on County line Road and take a left at 3900 E. Go 1 mile then turn right onto 100 N. end at 3928 E.

Also check out our blog for more info:

www.thestockedpantry.blogspot.com 

Time...

It is now 7:18pm still at the store, Gulianna finally fell asleep. And now Isabella. No wonder it has taken me 3 months to clean up this back room here...all I do is nurse Isabella and change diapers, chase Gulianna, and change more diapers, nurse...you get the idea. Maybe if I set up my air mattress in the back, and just sleep here...I can get it done? lol...I just might do that. I have spanked Gulianna too many times this week...she has not been listening to me, to anyone for that matter. And now she has learned how to climb out of the playpin. She probably would have learned it sooner, but Isabella has been sleeping in there...all 15 minutes at a time. I am definately voting for more hours in a day, more days in a week, if that ever happens! It has been a rainy day today, but I for once am not complaining, I want green grass...and SUMMER!

ETA: 7:45pm naptime is over, no wonder I don't get anything done.

Hmmmm...

maybe I should just shut this blog down, I can't seem to keep it updated! Just have been busy, and sick, and sick and sick...you know, never ending crap. Plus I can't seem to keep Gulianna out of my product here at the store, oh what to do. I need two playpins, but then again they rarely sleep at the same time. I just happened to notice that this is my 199th post, wow, it has taken me 2 years...

I love Idaho weather, especially now, oh what a tease, the snow melts, you think it's Spring...and then you wake up to Winter AGAIN. You go from wearing your winter coat to wearing capris and sandals, plus it's really ugly, but at least the winter snow has melted, (okay not for Teton Valley♥) and when it does snow it melts fast. I want SUMMER now! Lol, looks like a freakin' blizzard now, as I am typing this!

Random Happenings...

I am so glad to be back at the store, working-lol, mostly sitting, feeding Isabella. It's funny how Gulianna takes advantage of wrecking the store, and getting into stuff she shouldn't be, while I am stuck on my chair feeding Isabella. Actually it makes me mad. She has been helping me rearrange things, but it's not helpful. Just making a bigger mess.

I have been watching American Idol, just got caught up again last night. I am about sick of Paula. She can never say her own thing, she just takes what the other judges have said, and changes it around. Plus she talks like a cell phone is being cut out, and I can't take it anymore! Shut up already. I can't wait to watch The Bachelor next week, I'm sure it will be Melissa. And I like watching The Biggest Loser, although this weeks show got cut off from the presidential address...or something like that I can't remember. Annoying anyway, I only saw the last part of the show. I haven't watched a single show of Ellen this week, thank goodness for DVR, I'll watch them later. 

Last week I took Gulianna and Isabella to get their pictures taken for the "Cutest Baby Contest" and Gulianna was posing for the camera, it was so funny, I wish I could have taken some pictures with mine. Then it was Isabella's turn, she was awake, while Gulianna was getting hers, but then she was acting like she was drugged up, she turned all floppy and dead asleep, we couldn't get her to wake up! I think they got 2 good pictures with her eyes open. Then we get home, and Isabella was wide awake of course, so I started to take some pictures of her, and she was just looking at me and smiling away, figures! I never found out who won the contest. I stopped there on Saturday just to enter my name in for the drawing, {I was hoping to win the stroller!} Levi was waiting for us at Johnny Carino's..mmmm. I ended up winning a room painted by 5 Star Painting, yeah! I always know when I am going to win something!  

We have had mostly warm weather here, warm as in 30 degree weather {no jacket weather for me} and so the snow has been melting, {but still not fast enough}in town anyway, and I guess a little at home, the driveway is clear, and I can see the bark by the windows now...along with a pink & purple pacifier. Gulianna likes to look out the window to see it. The snow had melted so much that I got stuck in the driveway on Tuesday morning, and of course it had to be the only day that Levi forgot his cell phone, and then of course Gulianna had to crap her pants as we were walking out the door, so I decided to just wait to change her when we got to the store, but I just had to get stuck in all the slush. So I got out and started shoveling, but all I really needed was to be pushed out. Of course I live in the middle of no where, and no neighbors around, and I couldn't call Levi. But luckily my dad has been working on a job here in Rigby, so I called him, and he came over to the rescue!

Hmmm...what else to talk about. I wish it was summer already, although this winter kind of went pretty fast. {and I said kinda} I joined Facebook a couple weeks ago...almost wishing I hadn't. Just another thing to keep up with. And another way of having unwanted people find what you are up to, and being nosy...lol. I don't know what it means to be "poked" and I get tired of the freaky ads on the sides, like the ones with the baby with multiple eyes. And the "crush center" don't know what that means and I don't care. And not to be rude, but I get annoyed with the invitation requests, with all the surveys and crap, although I still do them, while I am nursing, because that is about all I can do when I'm here. And the friend requests, some people I don't even know. Will they know if I "ignore" them? Hope not. Actually I don't care. Because they don't know me. Or do they? Stalkers. But I guess it is fun to have a quick chat or comment with some people that I know. Still unsure about it, I prefer blogging.

I am so happy that I am not sick anymore. For a while there I thought there was no way out. I got sick on Superbowl Sunday...the first of February, it started out as a cold, but then I had the flu, and it was bad. I was sick in bed for a whole week, the second week I wasn't as weak, I actually had enough energy to walk and go downstairs. Poor Gulianna was neglected the whole time. I could barely feed Isabella, and she was only 2 weeks old. It is really hard to be sick when you have others dependant on you. But I made it through, just started feeling better after Valentine's Day, and then Levi got sick. Luckily Gulianna hasn'caught it, but Isabella now has a cold, she's been sick all week. I hate winter, and being sick!

I am alive...

but I feel like I am dying, I have been sick with the flu. This is just a quick update-I had Isabella on Friday Jan. 16th, and barely made it to the hospital too, luckily she wasn't born at the movies. She is the cutest, such a good baby, we love having her around! I just got back from taking Isabella to another checkup, and she weighs 7.8, so that is good, she was 6.8 when she was born. Thanks for all the concerned emails...I figured I would do this as an update instead of emailing every one back, it would take to long! I will try to post pictures soon...when I have my camera, and when I'm feeling better! and I will never be able to catch up on everyones blogs now...I just peeked at my Bloglines...and there were 925 updated blogs-eeeeekk!

Still here...

and waiting impatiently for this baby to arrive! I am starting to get uncomfortable, she is getting stronger, and kicking harder. I am still working and doing whatever I please, I refuse to stay home. Going to Idaho Falls after work, with Gulianna, hanging out at the mall, so she can play at the "park" inside. Reading magazines at Barnes and Noble until I get annoyed with chasing Gulianna around the store. Waiting for Target to re-stock the carseat that I want to get for Gulianna. So I keep going back to check for it, yes I could call, but what fun is that! 

I like to go in empty church parking lots and spin cookies, so that we can brush up on our winter driving. Some people just need to stay off the road. I don't mind driving in bad conditions at all, in fact I love it. Especially when it's all drifted over, and blowing so hard you can't see the road. That is the best. We actually had a fun outing a couple weeks ago. It was the Monday before Christmas, and Levi promised that we would go out to see HSM3 again, at the cheap theater, before they stop playing it..{which by the way is STILL there} so Gulianna and I stayed home all day, instead of running errands, and waited for Levi to come home so that we could go out. Plus it was snowing ALL day, and blowing like crazy. So we waited and waited, he was supposed to be home at 4:30 so that we could eat dinner before we left. The movie started at 6:50, I figured we could actually leave at 6 and be in Rexburg early...but no, he had to go to Walmart, which is fine, but he said he kept "running into people" and talking to them, so he lost track of time, showed up at 7, and said it was really bad outside, the roads are terrible and we should just stay home, and go another night. But being as stubborn as I am, and plus he promised, there was no way we were staying home, we got in the van and left. Got there late of course, barely even made it down main street, there was about a foot and a half of unplowed snow, and stupid drivers trying to make their way through...oh what a fun evening it was! Just to see Gulianna's face when we were watching HSM3 is the best, she gets so excited and dances and everything, it's hilarious! We had a great time driving home, barely made it, there was about 5 cars off the road. It's more fun when you're the only one on the road and not knowing whats ahead of you! That night reminded me of last year on Christmas Eve, the weather was just about the same, and Levi "promised" that we would take Gulianna to see Santa. I would have taken her the week before or earlier even, but he said we should do it on Christmas Eve. So you bet we went that evening!

We have been so sick too, but I think, well I am just about over it, Gulianna was sick all day yesterday, and we actually stayed home. Our water {in the kitchen} finally unfroze, since Sunday morning...uggh, so annoying. I worked on Quicken, and reconciling bank statements, wish I wasn't so far behind, it would help if I didn't lose my checkbook and if I had internet at home! I am beginning to think that is why I haven't had Isabella yet...I still have so many things to do before she comes...

so in the meantime, you can still play:

Go Back HERE to enter your guess!   Good Luck!

2009...

 

I can't even believe another year has already passed.These are my goals for this year, yes I could go on and on and have more, but these are realistic and do-able for me! What are yours for this year?

New Year's Eve...

I am tired of being sick! I had a cold over Thanksgiving, and then I was sick a couple weeks before Christmas, and then I got sick again Christmas evening...and now I have a horrible earache, when will it ever end!?

So far we don't have any spectacular party planned for this evening. Just getting better sounds fun to me right now! I am working today until 2, have plans to return the annoying car seat that I just bought for Gulianna last week, and then what...Jamba Juice, since I haven't had one for a while, I think since Nancy brought me one. {thank you by the way!} Maybe that will get me better!

Thanks to everyone that is taking a guess on when Isabella will be coming, I really wish I knew myself! Jalyn just had her baby this morning?! Crazy, maybe I will be too! We both had dr appointments on Monday too! Gulianna loves to say "hi Isa" to my stomach, she can't quite say Isabella, but it sounds so cute! She will randomly come over to me and say hi to her, so funny that they just know there is another baby there! I have a couple of "matching" clothes for the both of them, can't wait!

By the way, the fabulous Amy is doing a giveaway on her new blog Kati Cupcake, so be sure and enter, and mention that I sent you over, hee hee! I love all her work that she does, she really is amazing! If you haven't been to her

  store yet, then you are really missing out, and if you don't sew, you will want to when you leave! I just finished my second sewing project in my life. {not even going to count the pathetic "pot holder" and "mouse" that we made in Teen Living, if anyone remembers, Ashley maybe? I will post about them later, no camera today, imagine that! I finally finished my curtains for Scrapalicious a while back, and then Sunday evening Claudia helped me follow an apron pattern, so I made an apron for Gulianna!

Hope you all have a Happy New Year!

today...

Levi took Gulianna for the day...whooohooo, so I started to finish my Halloween mini book kits, and then I get sucked into the computer, going through pictures, blogging, and then deleting them. {don't worry, I burn them on a disc, and they are all on my computer at home}

I am finding that I have so much to share...man I just take way too many pictures, but it's all of things I want to remember, so I am...

 

I find it hard to blog daily, though I am getting better, and now that Typepad is cooperating a little more, I swear everytime I sit down to type up a post, Typepad freezes when I am uploading pictures, it's so frustrating, and plus it would never save what you were working on...until now? At least that's what I noticed on the last couple of posts, on the bottom it now says last saved, and the time, wow they have finally listened to me. {and probably a million others...}

Come and see me...

I know this is very last minute, but I will have a booth at the Craft Fair this weekend in Victor! We will have scrapbooking page kits, completely finished designer scrapbook pages, mini book kits, scrapbooking product and more! I will post what will be on sale on my Scrapalicious Blog, so check it out! Hope to see you there!  

New blog banner...

I know that fall is pretty much over here...but I wanted a new Fall look for a couple of weeks!

Vote wisely...

I thought this would be appropriate for today, I purposely saved it for today. A couple weeks ago we were at Barnes and Noble, looking through books and magazines, and Gulianna had wandered off into another aisle. I got up to go and get her...and this is what book she was looking at:

if you can't quite see the title here is a closer look...

Now go out and VOTE!     

 

 

Unfinished projects...

oh just a list of albums I have started on...that need FINISHED!

• Cherry's circle journal

• Lorinda's circle journal {both of these can't be that hard, a 2 page 8x8 layout, what is my problem...}

• my circle journal

• 2004 Family Album {12x12}

• Bear Lake Album {8x8}

• Virginia City Album {9x9}

• Peru Album

• Birthday Album

• Rolodex project

• Halloween Album {from my childhood}

• SHE Album

• Lessons Learned Mini Book

• Yellowstone Trip-Mini Book

• Boating & Camping {mine}

This list doesn't include the many UNFINISHED pages that I have stacked in my room. Some of these albums are almost finished, some I just started for the idea...I don't even know if that is the whole list, that is just what I can remember starting!

Last night, I was motivated to make a couple of pages. I usually can't scrapbook, unless everything is completely spotless in my house, it drives me crazy. So when I do have a day off, I spend all day cleaning, and then by then its at least 5pm, and I want to go somewhere. Either Rexburg or IF, where ever, I usually have to go to the bank or something. I just can't stay home. Window shopping, anything...I'm not really a home body, I like to be out doing things. Now if I didn't work, I wouldn't mind staying home a couple 2-3 days out of the week and do nothing but scrapbook, but even then I don't know, I've never done that. Work work work, blah blah blah...

And...speaking of projects, I did paint that window frame thingy-black, I did sew my curtains, and they are hanging, but I can't do the ric rac, I paid too much for it, and I don't want to screw it up. So I am going to have my mom sew that on. I started on a couple of layouts, but I need to find more pictures. I am indecisive and very picky when it comes to putting things on my wall...I know GIT R DUN!

I'll post pictures of the layouts I did last night, later.

Bad haircut...

So I just got a haircut, and I wish I didn't. I knew I should have waited to find out where the last person went, that cut my hair, but I just wanted it done. It sucks, it's not perfectly straight and that bugs me. Plus she overcharged. And I'm pissed off with a haircut that I don't like. Blah blah blah...

Spooky Recipes...

I have been trying to put together a Halloween party...been planning for weeks, but nothing ever seems to happen until the last minute. So anyway, I was wondering if anyone had any good but simple spooky recipes for anything...really, I know I have looked online, but I want tried and true ones. Any help or links are appreciated!

Busy...

What I have been doing:

• started making curtains for the windows at Scrapalicious

• de-cluttered stuff at home, and at the store

• finished burning this years pictures on CDs, and organized them in binders

• painted the bathroom at Scrapalicious, unfortunately I need more paint

I just want to SCRAPBOOK! I have an idea that I came up with the other day to help me NOT to be overwhelmed with scrapbooking. I am not really overwhelmed with scrapbooking, more overwhelmed with all the thousands of dollars of product I have been guilty of hoarding for 8 years now, waiting for that "perfect" page, and the time to scrapbook, and all the ideas that are ready to burst out of my brain! No more excuses now, I need to just use it up and get r dun! Because I scrapbook to be creative, and I don't care about being "caught up" anymore, wait, I don't think I really did, I always think about it...

Anyways, my pictures are organized in Picasa, but since I was having issues with it this past summer, I think I just had way to many pictures on the program and it just started deleting folders. I scrapbook in no particular order, just whatever I am inspired to work on. But now I have a plan to Git R Dun! I am starting with August and September, I typed up the names of the folders of my pictures: "Blackfoot Fair"..."Gulianna's Birthday" etc...just in Microsoft Word using the square bullets at the beginning so that I can check off what I have scrapbooked. This way it looks like I am accomplishing something, to me.

Hello there...

My computer is back up and running, it crashed completey over the weekend...so much for trying to download a "free" digital scrapbooking kit off a website...$67.50 later, my computer is working just fine now. I'll be back to blogging later...maybe!

For now check out my Scrapalicious Blog for info on BOO-tiqueWeek! It starts tomorrow!

I am a twitter bug...

Decided to join the twitter bandwagon...yeah, another blog thing, I figured I could probably keep up with this better than blogging! So anyone that wants to join in on the fun, or who is already twittering let me know! Thanks blurkers and regular visitors for all your comments...it is always nice to see who visits!

In the meantime...I will be trying to catch up on blogging, pretty much all of August, and now really September is already half over?

And by the way...I do backdate posts, most posts, it's really annoying to those that aren't using Bloglines, but it's just how I do it.

Whooo's on...

   

Blog lurkers otherwise known as blurkers: someone who reads a lot of blogs but never posts any comments.

So there are a lot of blurkers out there...and I know, so here's a shout out to all y'all, I just want to know who's reading, or looking for ideas, inspiration, what's going on in my life, or just being nosy. Why are you here, I ask!

I'll admit...I look at a lot of blogs too, but 98.9% of the time, I do leave comments, I just think it's a polite thing to do, if you are peaking into someone else's life! Sometimes I'll admit, I don't have time, and I'm sure most everyone is the same...BUT nows the time to let me know you're looking!

And some of you probably don't even know how to comment, just simply click on comments, and comment away... it's that easy. No you don't even have to have a blog to comment.

But remember...If you can't say anything nice then shut up. lol.

Developing {and sharing} Hidden Talents...

This topic of discussion came into my head the other day, when I was painting some frames. I always seem to have discussions with myself in my head. And I said in my head, not out loud, so people don't think I'm psycho or something!

I always hear:

"I'm not that creative..."

"You're so talented..."

"I wish I could do that..."

 Do you learn to be creative from your parents, by watching them share their talents? Are you born into talent? Sometimes I see kids that have found their talent, and their parents think they have some sort of genius, because they aren't talented and wonder where it came from. Or the other way around. Talented or just lazy that they didn't take the time to discover themselves and all the possibilities that they can do?

Do some people have it, and others just don't? {okay maybe I'll take that one back... ;) just kidding!} {no I'm not, why do I always argue with myself. No I do not have a split personality! lol}

The thing is that I believe everyone has some sort of talent that they can share with others, some know what they are good at, and others may not have a clue, or just haven't developed there talent. You can always learn and be better at what you do, if you take the time to invest in what it is that you are good at. Mind you most of the important talents are not tangible ones, like kindness and generosity. It is what we do with what we have been given, our gratitute, service, and sharing.

So don't be lazy, get out there and go find out what you are good at,  don't be selfish, and share with others. Or you could just sit there and say that you can't do anything, it's your choice.

Randomness...

So I was reminded yesterday by a blog lurker, that my blog hasn't been updated...WHaT? It's only been a week...lol. If I feel like it and have time then I will if not, then too bad!

So on with the randomness...

• I want to make  a goal of letting my creativeness that is overloading my brain onto scrapbook layouts and projects everyday, just like Laura! If I could scrapbook as much as she does...
• why am I a sucker for Halloween paper and embellishments, I have so much that I don't even have enough pictures for, and even cute stuff from years back, that I have been waiting to use on the "perfect" page or mini book...YET I BUY MORE!
• with cute Halloween paper in mind, I am going to start decorating for Halloween! Yes you heard right, this year I will be on top of it. Halloween is my favorite holiday of the year!
• I've decided to make my scrapbooking room curtains...MYSELF, for once I'm not going to have my mom sew something for me. And keep in mind that I don't really know how to sew on things, other than cardstock. So if I screw them up, I will have my mom fix them.
• I have been going through my scrapbooking room, and going through all of the stuff that I have hoarded, that I will not be using, still cute stuff, but if I haven't used it in the last 7 years, why do I still have it!? I will be getting ready for my scrapbooking yard sale...so stay tuned on the Scrapalicious Blog!
• Gulianna takes a couple of steps everyday...I know she can walk, she chooses not to!
• looking forward to the new season of Ellen, starting Sept. 8.
• Not looking forward to winter, why can't Idaho winters go from December to February, and then BE GONE!

Your Produce Man...

I have found a new website that I find very useful...not that I'm turning into a cooking and baking housewife, I just want to be somewhat knowledgeable in when I have to go to the freakin' grocery store.

If you know me...I do NOT cook or bake, and nor do I really care too. But I love to eat. I know it's retarted. Okay so I can make spaghetti, ramen noodles, and I can brown hamburger. Thank goodness for Levi, and his love for cooking! 

So last week I found myself wanting to eat some plums so I bought some. I picked out the clean ones, not bruised or mushy. I thought I was doing good...until I took it to Claudia's and bit into one, and it was so sour and yucky tasting. or maybe I was home, I think there were two different occassions...anyhow, mine sucked and Claudia said I should eat one of hers and it was a good one. She informed me that I didn't pick a ripe one.

Then when I was at home, a couple of days later, I thought they would be good by then, I bit into another one....and Levi was annoyed because I can't pick out a good plum. Or any type of fruit or vegetable for that matter. I hate going to the store to get avocados, because I hate wasting my money on a rotten one or one that isn't perfect. I swear I follow all the rules and yet when I cut it open there's usually some sort of suprise inside. Pathetic I know, whatever...I found this that might help me.

America screwed up...

I don't know about anyone else, but I think the wrong person went home last night, Michael Johns is one of the best on there, I don't mind Kristy Cook but I think she should have been voted off a long time ago. I lOvE Carly, but she should have gone home, not Michael. I was completely shocked when Ryan said "Carly and Syesha you are safe..." Then I thought when he was saying last year at this time no one went home, I was thinking he was going to say "Michael you are staying, April Fools" or something like that. I feel bad for him because he was very shocked himself. Oh well I guess its getting down to the finale so someone has to go home, even though I still think America screwed up on their votes! Come on people! And while I am complaining, I am sooo sick of Paula talking like she's being cut off on a cell phone, is anyone else with me here??? Just spit it out already...