Okay I got this book at 9PM on Tues night. 3 read it some tues some wed afternoon and then mostly as I babysat and all the kids were asleep. Now it is 20 till 7am on Thursday I am still trying to get home......babysitting was an all nighter.. But the book is done! I liked it fine but like shayda I like twilight better. I love Stephenie Meyers writting though. She makes me envious...and inspires me to jott down every little writting notion I have
Things on my agenda tomorrow (Really today because it is 2:50 in the morning)
1) Do a Scrapbook Sunday post even if it is Wednesday
2) Post on my sweets blog about yummy Eclair Cake....a must have!
3) Read more of New Moon
4) Listen to another chapter of Darkly Dreaming Dexter (all the library had was audio of the book...weird...i know.)
5) Laundry
6) Organize pantry/ make grocery list.
7) Read more New Moon
8) Probably babysit
9) Call my Grandma
10) Start organizing my thoughts on family budgeting....any suggestions?
Okay so everyone has to remember the sad feelings I had when making cookies last month....and for those of you who are not familiar with it......here is the jest of my issues.....
I lost my favorite cookie recipe...I thought I had it memorized....I did the recipe from memory...it wasn't quite it.
Now...I got the recipe from my dear friend Elisabet who has a place online....it is like a myspace for msn...but fun thing is she has a cookbook on her site....check it out....
But the point is...I was ALMOST right in the recipe...I added salt when it didn't need to be there, and I baked them too long.....I was quite impressed with my memory when I got the recipe..
I have made these cookies already...yay and loved every bite I took....I put it on my recipe blog for people to check out....make them! Enjoy them! Be happy with them! YAY!
I am sad. The electric company I use is trying to squeeze us out of any extra cash we can come up with. It is frustrating to see a $300 electric bill for 3 people in a little apartment. When last year at this time we had a two story town home with 8 people on any given day…and our bill was $200. And that is with people who refuse to shut doors, like to turn off the air in the middle of the evening, only to get hot again and have to turn it up full blast. The upstairs of the town home NEVER got cool. The air was always running up there. We were excited when the three of us moved into a one story apartment…..because we thought our bill was going to be cheaper.
When we got this bill today, I was chatting with a friend online. She shared with me a place she likes to go online to check out different rates and different companies that compete for our business. Texas electricity is not cheap but it is nice to know that someone is being an advocate for us.
With gas prices, and now utility prices, it feels like we will never get ahead of the game…feeling financially stable isn’t going to happen with the way the deregulated Texas electricity companies keep milking us.
After looking through the website that explains the huge span of Texas electricity companies…I feel confident that we will be switching sometime soon to a company that will appreciate the fact that we choose them…rather them acting like we should be happy to be their customer. Boo on you First Choice Power!
Tonight I lay in bed; my thoughts are scattered.
My brain is foggy.
Emotions are built up in my chest.and I am unable to process them all.
Things are changing.....quicker than I thought they would.
Relationships are being tested, order of it all has been evaluated, rearranged, and put into place. Words have been spoken that have never before considered.
The changes are for the best
And they are not bad ones, just difficult.
But isn't it true what they say "good thing come to those who wait"
Jason and I have decided to work on our emotional relationship and find the Lord in it all. A shift has happened.
Jason got tickets for lawn seats at the amphitheater here in Dallas....and Martina McBride was the headlining act...I thought there were 6 tickets at my disposal...so I started calling around to find out who wanted to go. I asked Jason's ex, Tracy (Alyssa's Mom) and she and Alyssa were going....that meant I had two extra tickets. I sent a text to my friend Jennie, and she didn't respond right away...I messaged Jason back telling him who all was going, and sadly he said there was only two tickets for me, the rest had been sold on Craigslist. boo. Well I knew Alyssa was excited to go to her first concert, so I told Tracy to take Alyssa. She didn't want to do that because the tickets were on the grass, and no in a seat, and she didn't want Alyssa to get all itchy (she has bad skin problems). Jennie had called back, but at that point I thought Alyssa and Tracy were going......after deliberation and Jason demanding that I go....we decided that Tracy and I will have a girls night out...and Jason would be left babysitting...ha.
The drive there.....we swapped stories...laughed....and listened the Martina McBride mixed CD I made.
We got there...forgot the towels in the car (So we had something to sit on). The lines were not long, the parking lot not jammed packed...we were doing good.
Inside....we spent a million dollars on a bottle water....yay. Bypassed the souvenirs and all the radio stations there doing contests.....we were on our way to the grass, when the security guy said since it wasn't sold out that we had our choice in any seat we wanted in sections 204 and 205....FUN! Not only did we not have to sit in the grass, but we had our CHOICE. lol. We copped a squat in the middle of section 205 and braced ourselves for white trash concert-goers. lol.
The concert started out with some no named someone......I don't even know who it was.....then it was Jack Ingram.
Three Things I learned from watching Jack Ingram in concert
1) When he says that him and his neighbor smoked "brisket" he really didn't mean meat...he was implying reefer. (this took me a few minutes....it was only after he continued the story and then said "We then smoked some
2) Telling stories loudly (even with a mic) and holding a red dixie cup.....means he probably is drinking more than he is singing....
3) Since he is a song writer.....he named his special souvenir"Jack Packs" (and is very proud that the name rhymes)...and if you buy one...it has tee-shirts...cds...pictures...and a tote, you can go backstage and hang out with him....and if you can't afford that....you can meet him at a bar in Dallas and buy him a drink....not that he drank enough while on stage.
During Jack Ingram....I went out and grabbed a snack. (Another million dollars)
Then Martina McBride.
It was a great concert.....except when my foot was stepped on by a woman who wore heels....and was drunk....and carried an ugly purse....and also except for, we missed the encore, because Tracy didn't want to fight the traffic on the way out....but thats ok.
Here are a few things I admire and love about Martina McBride...
She has timeless beauty
She is very down to earth
She has powerful lungs
She is very inspirational
She loves the Lord
And with the following song, she made the whole entire place cry...really cry....and I had the whole tears stuck in the throat...that felt like a bag of rocks you can't swallow....yeah good stuff!
Growing up, I remember my Grandma had this clock. It was HUGE….it was a beautiful dark wood grandfather clock. But the problem with that…besides its heavy weight and loud noise when the hour struck….was it was too fancy. Like I said it was beautiful…but not something of my taste.
Jason has a love for projection clocks…he says it is because he is too lazy to sit up and look at the time on his alarm clock, ha ha. But I. I love fun clocks. Like the ones you see as the decoration in a movie…something odd ball that catches your eye and makes you smile.
With all this said, I have been thinking of what I wanted for my birthday. And as I have been combing the World Wide Web, I found these unique wall clocks. How fun would it be to have a cat clock??? Who said the bird chirping clock was the coolest? Not me. And with the holidays coming up, I know a few people who might just be receiving these wall clocks. Look out….Layla’s idea of fancy clocks may just become a new and permanent collection to your everyday life! OR mine if you get it for me for my birthday!!! And if you do get one of these fun clocks, make sure to tell me, that way you don’t end up with two….but wait….never mind you can’t have too many! YAY!
I may be silly....but I have a Dr Jekyll Mr Hyde complex about blogging. Well not everyday blogging...but the kinds that share my secret things....OK more specifically my cooking/baking secrets.
I started a new blog. And it is where I am/was/will share my recipes and pictures about my favorite things.....but the more I think about it...the less I really want to do it. If I share my secrets...then you will make it....and if you make it....you won't think when I make it is the best you ever had and you wish you could make it but can't so you ask me to make it...so basically my supply and demand is gone....that is if you actually use my recipe.
Ultimately...I still want to be bakeriffic.....cookaliscious...and special. So..with that said. The new rule about my recipes are...if you use them, still tell me that I am the best and that you have never tasted anything as good as you have when I make it!
Thank you for your cooperation!
Alyssa is on youtube again...this time for the sweet words she calls me on the 4th of July.....
This is the scrapbook page of my first car....I loved that car.....it was stinky....it overheated at odd times....but it gave me freedom! I drove myself to church and church activities, I drove myself to school.....i had good times. And that was back in the day where gas was $0.89 a gallon.....good times.
This is Brandon, his nickname is Brandon Bug. He is an old man now (at least 8 years old I am thinking)....but he is a sweet heart. I love my bug. But, I am thinking now that I look at it, I might have spelt his name wrong....I will have to figure that out.
We made furtune catchers today... Aaron turned his into a puppet. They thought it was cool that I knew how to make them, because the "older" kids did it, not "grown-ups". I had to remind them that I used to be a kid too! ha. We also may brownies....the same ones me made for church (go to my new sweets blog for the recipe...super easy and super yummy!)
I HATE FACEBOOK! I do. I know it is the cool thing to do...and I have one....but I hate it....all the applications and sending random crap to random people...poking...what the hell is that all about? it is stupid.
And Myspace is not far behind. It is now using facebook applications....and it drives me CRAZY.
I have both of these as a virtual "connection" to people who I would not normally know what happened to from my past...a lot of kids I went to school and church with are on it...I like to drop an email or comment their way every now and again....but COME ON...PUHLEASE.....barf. I am almost totally done with it.
Not to mention, blogging and reading people's blogs are so time consuming, I don't have the time or want...to sit and poke people. blah.
Oh and by the way, this is my 100th post....yay me!
If we were friends (and we probably are if you are reading this....for only my friends will suffer through my blogs!)
And I had the time and resources....
I would make you a cd of my favorite playlist....well by favorite, I mean...the fun songs I am listening to right now, and that I want the world to hear, because they are awesome songs!
My Awesome Playlist (For Right Now)
Wild World - Tesla
The Story - Brandi Carlisle
Falling Slowly - Glen Hansard
Lullabye - Billy Joel
Istanbul - They Might Be Giants
Mamma Mia - ABBA
Leave The Pieces - The Wreckers
Shiny Happy People - REM
How Soon is Now - Love Spit Love
Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy
American Baby - Dave Matthews Band
Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
Bathwater - No Doubt
And if you can tell me what song above had this line in it.....
"You see the smile on my mouth, It's hiding the words that don't come out"
I will actually send you a cd with these songs on them.....to share the joy of the music I am listening to.....
The first comment with the right song wins!!!
4) And if I register for them, will you buy them for me???
Ha.
Okay really....is it too late to have a little get together with my friends and family, so they will know where we live, and such?
By George I think I have found an answer to a question I didn't even know I had.....
How do I get noticed/advertise, and relate the prices of the goodies I sell at bake sales, and hopefully soon at party eventy kinds of things......I didn't even know this was my question...until I found the solution with banner stands...
If I have an indoor kind of bake sale/event the solution is easy peasy....the rollup banner stands. Get a banner made, put it on the stand, it sits NEXT to the table, that way I can have more room for all the sweet goodies I would have for sell. I can put prices, contact info, new products.....the possibilities are endless!!! I mean...seriously, everyone is always asking for prices and such, and I don't have the time to tell EVERYONE individually....and sometimes I forget what prices I have quoted, and tell different people different prices.....
THEN....for the bake sale that are sitting next to lemonade stands at all the garage sales...I can have on of the cool outdoor banner stands (and if you take a look at the link...my favorite I think would have to be the Monsoon)
Sheesh, I feel so inspired now..I mean really, it is very affordable. $75 for the retractable banner stands, that's it. Shoot, I made half that last week at church with an impromptu bake sale of just 60 oreo truffles, a dozen cupcakes and a few small loaf pans of strawberry cake. Looks like my dreams of opening a small bakery/gourmet treats place can actually happen...if things are this cheap! Sign me up!
I got a call today from Stephanie. She is a long time friend, who I met when she was the person who placed me in temp jobs with Adecco. As we caught up...she asked if I had an updated resume. She is with a new company, and she knew that I wasn't working and that I was perhaps in the market for a nice paying job with a reputable company.
I emailed her the resume I had on hand. It is the same resume I submitted to her years ago when I was trying to get on with BNSF. I have occasionally updated the address, new jobs, and maybe an extra job learned talent...but nothing dramatic. Andrea, my cousin, developed the resume for me back in '05. Stephanie, in her great wisdom, instantly shot an email back telling me before she could submit me for a position, I had to re-do my resume. It wasn't "professional" or "well organized" enough.
So I have been searching for the right tutorial, copy, or even resume writing company to help with my future job search....as I search for cheats....it doesn't work...nothing I find suits my fancy. but I do find a website that is dedicated to making a professional resume, however, and I guess I should says luckily.....you give the work to someone else, but you get the great resume to land the awesome job!
After talking with Stephanie....(and by the way, this isn't the same Stephanie I have been talking about in my past blogs, so I will start calling this Stephanie...... Temp Stephanie....) I looked over and over and over my pathetic resume and felt sad that it wasn't like the cool resumes I have seen.....So how do I get mine to become like the executive resumes I have seen online? Well girls and boys, looks like I am going to be hiring me a professional resume writer!
I may not be CEO material, but I surly am more than temp material! Watch out interviewers, I may just knock your socks off!
Jason's ex-sister in law lives right next door to us....that gives way to the ability to borrow a cup of sugar here and an egg there with ease..but...it also has the ability to backfire...like at 3am when I get a knock at the door with an emergency run to the ER for a persistant tummy ache.....luckily Delia (Jason's niece) is fine, and the doctor says it was probably a bout of the stomach bug.....but that is why I was reading old magazines at 3am at the ER.....
I did learn that there is a few women who like prepackaged meals to be their diets....and a few faithbased weight-watcher style programs......and of course Weight Wachers itself....thats how the women lose 105 pounds.
yeah...they did it like that.
This is Cass, I am sure her eyes are telling you to scratch her back...So today as I was thinking about what I am going to post for "scrapbook Sunday" I was making oreo truffles....and so as I was thinking about what talent it takes to bake and cook and stuff, I remembered that I had a talent scrapbook page...and I would share it. Giving way to todays impromptu theme of talents.....
My cousin Drew and his wife Liz and I were sitting at dinner during a family dinner and found we all had a similar talent......boy what can I say about this except.....wow. lol.
My sister Veida...what can I say...she has piercing eyes, the most beautiful olive skin, and the brown curly hair most women dream of....and she is my right hand woman.....she is the part of me that I don't have the guts to be sometimes. She says no, when I would say yes even though no is what I wanted to say. She gives me the courage to do what is in my heart, not what others want me to do....and she helps me to NOT buy random stuff, even though I influence her to buy more than she wanted to....
As a child I wasn't the nicest person to her. But as we have grown up, we have learned to appreciate and love each other more than words can say. She (along with Shayda of course) is the reason I am me today....she is loved. By me.
I met him tonight. Standing in line at the movie theater at the mall. Real true ro life Napoleon Dynamite. That or he came straight from the juno set.
And good news...he let me take a picture..... I didn't have to sneak it!
So I got a full plate most days....I babysit at night (till about 4 am) and then when I wake up in the morning (ok really around noon) I watch Aaron and his sister Alyssa. Well, little Miss Alyssa...she has attitude that could easily beat a 13 year old....and she rolls her eyes with the best of them....watch the video I took of her while at the water park today....
Isn't it funny how the slight turn of a cheek, lift of the chin or high angle of a camera can take OFF ten pounds in a picture. And make me look cute. Ha ha
Oh and this is such a myspace picture.....all it is missing is a mirror. Ha. (myspacers will think that is funny)
This pic was taken as I chill laying on a couch waiting for the kids I watch to wake up.
I will be attending a Pampered Chef Party in the later part of this month.....I am scared.....sounds silly I know..but here is what I know about me...
1) I love to cook
2) I love fun kitchen gadgets
3) I feel like I need every peice of kitchen gadgets
4) I tend to be sucked into every "sell at home" business ( PartyLite, MaryKay, Avon.....they have all had me in their grasps before)
5) I feel bad if I don't buy SOMETHING at thses parties, because I know how it feels to have a party and not have anyone buy from me....
6) I will be guilted into having my own party....although with a new apartment, that might not be a bad "housewarming" kind of thing.....AHHH see there I go...rationalizing....
But I get to go with my friend Stephanie and sister Veida. And Veida is good about making sure I say no....but I may have to say yes.....the party is in 20 something days, and I am already trying to say yes....lol.
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