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Monday, September 27, 2010

Just another Manic Monday...........

So here I go again- my title of this post is mentioning a manic Monday, but really, it isn't....yet. C is still sleeping as he said he is feeling sick, I was sick last night, and he hasn't been getting much sleep with this silly work schedule. Beyond all this, I had a Silpada Jewelry party this weekend (and UL) and I had all the friends of mine in this town, minus not very many, come over!! I had a great time!!!! My bro-in-law decided that he was going to sell my items for me, and literally made the party. That homemade Sangria by PW is rather dangerous, make at your own will, but consider this my warning. In fact, I am still so 'mad' at how it made me feel yesterday, the fruit is still sitting in the container yelling at me to throw it away and stop blogging. I am not going to.

Before my friend left yesterday, we traveled into the mountains and had a great visit all the way upppp and doooown. Here is a few pictures I snapped at the top of the mountain:











And before I leave, Happy Monday! Please leave a comment of any sort to let me know I still have followers....and take a look at my fun widdlytinks I added to my page!!!

Thursday, September 23, 2010

**Oh the signs of growing up**

Well, I have gone from miserable blogger and friends lecturing that I need to blog, to all the sudden Miss Blogger and no friends even reading. So ladies, here you are. I am 'researching' blogs and finding out lots of funny things to blog about. I am going to call the last few months, hell, but also writers block. PERFECT! I guess this is what good house wives do, blog. And listen scared to their dogs barking and wondering what kind of 'pest' or creep I have around the outside of my house.......perhaps I should check on that. But I will post this first.

I cheated- looked outside, nothing there and am creeped out. 9-1-1 ready on the phone.


Back to my blogging:
Remember the days of youth? The ones that were just yester-year and all we had on our minds was getting thru a test so we could go out and party all night?  ahhhhh the days of COLLEGE!!!!!

Well, I dream of those days. When I slept in. Ate. occasionally made a class, and then finally showered so I looked decent to go out, and not so decent in classes. Yup. I was 'THAT' girl, and I had a lot of fun!!! But, back on track. I found this list and I couldn't help but relate to it and laugh out loud. (lol) So I am re-blogging it and laughing still. Enjoy.

25 Signs You’re Getting Older





1. Your potted plants stay alive.

2. Having sex in a twin-sized bed is absurd.

3. You keep more food than beer in the fridge.

4. 6:00 a.m. is when you get up, not when you go to sleep.

5. You hear your favorite song on an elevator.

6. You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel.

7.Your friends marry and divorce instead of hook up and break up.

8. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7.

9. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as “dressed up.”

10, You’re the one calling the police because those damn kids next door don’t know how to turn down the stereo.

11. Older relatives feel comfortable telling sex jokes around you.

12. You don’t know what time Taco Bell closes anymore.

13. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up.

14. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonald’s.

15. Sleeping on the couch makes your back hurt.

16. You no longer take naps from noon to 6:00 p.m.

17. Dinner and a movie — the whole date instead of the beginning of one.

18. MTV News is no longer your primary source for information.

19. You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids — not condoms and pregnancy-test kits.

20. A $4 bottle of wine is no longer “pretty good stuff.”

21. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time.

22. Grocery lists are longer than macaroni & cheese, diet Pepsi & Ho-Ho’s.

23. “I just can’t drink the way I used to” replaces “I’m never going to drink that much again.”

24. Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work.

25. You don’t drink at home to save money before going to a bar.

***Special Banana Nut Bread***- is in the oven!!

So being home alone at night, has got me becoming so-phis-ti-cat-ed!! I thought that my hard working husband needs to have a few treats laying around, and well since the peanut butter cookies disappeared in his lunch box tonight, it became time for a new treat. Currently, this is baking-


And it is going to be soooooo good! I can just smell how yummy it will taste!! So, because if you are one of maybe 5 people reading this, I don't mind sharing my recipe!!


*Special Banana Nut Bread*
Prep:25 min  Bake: 1 hour +

3/4 cup butter, softened
1 pkg. (8 oz) cream cheese, softened     (I combine the first two ingredients and soften together in a bowl in the microwave)
2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1-1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas (I just use 4 or 5)
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract  (I personally add 1/2 teaspoon almond extract as well :) )
3 cups all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
add as many of what ever kind of nuts you would like!!!

1.) In a large mixing bowl, cream the butter, cream cheese and sugar until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each.  Beat in bananas and extracts. In seperate bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture slowly. Add in your nuts!
2.) Transfer to 2 greased 8 in x 4 in x 2 in loaf pans, and sprinkle the top with nuts :).  Bake at 350* for 1 - 1 1/4  hours or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
3.) MOST IMPORTANT STEP- enjoy and please please, I beg of you, make this and then tell me about it.

I really hope you enjoy as much as I do!!!

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

My 101 things to do in 1001 days...

Feb 2011- Time to go thru and see where I am standing on my list of things to accomplish!!! 84 more to go!


I heard about doing this back in January, and on the dreadful website Facebook, I actually started this as a note. As you can tell, I have not got very far. But now that people can only read this if I share the website, or if they follow one of my followers, I think I don't mind sharing. I am starting this list on Friday, April 16, 2010. It will be finished when it is posted, lets just hope it is today. So starting it today, means I have to accomplish these things by Friday, January 11, 2013. ( go to http://www.timeanddate.com/date/dateadded.html?m1=4&d1=16&y1=2010&type=add&ay=&am=&ad=1001&aw= to find your day 1001)  But this is hard and I challenge every one of you reading to do the same. Just make sure you share it with someone, somehow so that you get that reminder to DO them!!!!  So here it goes!!!!


UPDATE: It is now the first day of fall, and not spring anymore. Somehow I managed to skip summer months and in turn have not updated this list, or finished. Just so you are aware though, I have stopped up to this point at 49. I am now on a mission to try to complete this. However, as all the close friends and family know, my memory literally sucks, and I honestly am afraid I really need to start taking that old people stuff to help with memory, and I think it is called Ginko Baloba. (spelling??)  And....I am off.


1.)Learn my camera inside and out


2.) Enter and win a photo contest


3.) Have a photo printed in Cowboys and Indians


4.)Have kids


5.)Take our honeymoon we never really go to take to Hawaii


6.)Have our current home on the market to sell


7.)Have an Uppercase Living Open House that reaches $1000 in sales ( I believe this was accomplished....need to check, but I came dang close!)


8.) Own a new vehicle


9.) Never weigh over 130 lbs (unless I am preggers of course)


10.) Find my brother in law a woman he can live happily ever after with


11.) Master the art of baking cinnamon rolls ~I think after hundreds of these made, I can say this is DONE!


12.) Take a photography class taught by a professional


13.) Put my clothes away EVERY time I take them out of the dryer


14.) Plant, grow, and share the wealth of my garden ~done- this fall,- that is a complete diff. blog subject, I better get on that too!~


15.) Get a privacy fence around our yard


16.) Surprise my husband with an over night, spur of the moment, getaway


17.) Paint our house a new color ~Done!!! It is now Grey with Dark Green Trim!!~


18.) Have the prettiest flowers in town


19.) Have at least 5 fun summer barbeques in our backyard 1 down, 4 to go


20.) Get my husband to read all 101 things on this!!!! DONE!!! He just read it!! YIPPEEEEEEEE


21.) Skydive at night over $Vegas$ (not sure if that is possible, but I am looking into it!)


22.) Find a penmenship class and learn how to write beautifully!!!


23.) Get a bikini sugar (like waxing)--  this may be the toughest goal yet!!!


24.) Send a card to each relative for their birthday


25.) Finish my degree ~DONE!! YAY!!!~


26.) Grow my hair longer than it has ever been in my life


27.) Have at least 2 months of bills in savings by Jan 2012


28.) Get the entire collection of ISpy books for Caleb


29.) Get pedicures for an entire summer


30.) Learn how to snowboard


31.) Meet the Gosselin kids and Kate


32.) Go to the Olympics with Caleb


33.) Don't miss one Poke Football game at home


34.) Hem the curtains in our house ~Done- last weekend :)~


35.) Have an Open House each weekend for an entire month


36.) Get my parents bathroom in tip-top shape


37.) Make sure my sister and bro-in-law get their living room curtains to stay in the wall
(sorry sister, Caleb has worn off on me about thing being 'done' right! I will have him help you so they don't fall out!!!)


38.) Go Snowshoeing


39.) Hunt a Big Game animal


40.) Don't miss a birthday party we are invited to for one year, then after as well.


41.) Make every wedding we get an invitation to from now until this ends, then after as well.


42.) Swim with dolphins


43.) Go to a Denver Broncos Game


44.) Blog once a week


45.) Get a custom UW Bucking Horse Infant Car Seat Cover..............for our badA** Child(ren) to come


46.) Make every recipe except the Burgundy Mushrooms in the PW Cookbook!!!!!


47.) Go to Elitches with a group of friends


48.) Visit our cousins in Europe


49.) Grow potatoes


50.)Find a job I love


51.) Learn how to cook healthy as well as cooking delicious


52.) Enter a coyote hunt with Caleb


53.) Make at least one 'true' friend in this place I am calling home ~I think I may have done this, with more to come!


54.) Organize all my photos on my SD cards


55.) Hit the next level in U.L.


56.) Start Caleb's Christmas present and get it finished this year. ~DONE! I made him a UW rag quilt- pictures to come


57.) Go visit Caleb's grandma


58.) Don't drink Red bull for one month, then two, etc etc
 
59.) fly in a two seater plane


60.) Learn the basics of quilting


61.) Go to the Kentucky Derby


62.) Get trees planted in our yard.


63.) Don't speak negative for an entire week ~I would say this has been happening since I am no longer in such a negative work environment!!! GO ME!!!


64.) Go Parasailing


65.) Pay off credit card


66.) pay off quickcash


67.) Join some sort of group in Saratoga, maybe bunco!!! ~DONE!! Bible Study, and I love it!


68.) see the nutcracker in Denver


69.) Get new living room furniture ~On our way Friday Feb 4th to search, ours is sold, so I would say this is DONE too!


70.) Go to Wal Mart and ONLY buy necessaties DONE


71.) Do my hair for one week straight Oh this is really done.........


72.) Take one road trip with out our cell phones


73.) Go to Kennedy Peak ~DONE!!! Had a great lil jaunt with Caleb and Kristen Lindsey!!


74.) Learn how to shoot Calebs 243


75.) Kill a coyote


76.) Replace our switch covers


77.) Visit each grandparents grave on Memorial Day


78.) Attend at least one church service ~Oh my heck!! We have been going to church for a couple months straight now!! DONE!!!


79.) Have a surprise party thrown for me


80.) Clean out clothes I wish I still fit in


81.) Loose 5 lbs.


82.) Increase my garden size every year


83.) Get all family members birthday presents on time


84.) Attend Cheyenne Frontier Days every summer for a concert


85.) Go to Fremont County Fair


86.) Watch a demo derby every year


87.) Drive a derby car in the powder puff


88.) Get a bike


89.) Put in for a moose license


90.) Visit my sister at least every 6 months


91.) Start a yearly trip


92.) Get my substitute teaching license ~ I have my sub aide....so close!


93.) Print out my favorite photos of mine


94.) My a halloween costume, for me, or anyone


95.) Go to the NFR


96.) Take an Alaskan Cruise


97.) See whales in the wild


98.) Be able to have professional photos of our 'family' done (includes Caleb and I, and Togie and Buddy and now Tika)


99.) Ride a train


100.)Start reading a series of novels ~DONE!!! I have got to a few, currently finishing the last book in a series.....

101.) **Stealing this from my sister** Pay myself $5 for each completed task and SAVE it until all are completed!



HOORAY!! I did it!!!! So now I am going to bake something out of PW's cookbook, and get one step closer to done!!!  I highly encourage you to do this as well.........in fact, I am now changing # 75 with this "Have at least 5 friends make their 101 in 1001 list and let me know so I can get $5 in savings!" 

Thank you, please don't forget to 'remind' me about this list, and to let me know when you have your list published.