My mom and I went to the store the other day, and she was going to pick up some Thanksgiving decorations. But instead we heard Christmas music playing, and nothing my Christmas merchandise! We couldn't find Thanksgiving/Autumn things! Well, I saw some napkins and paper plates, but that wasn't really what we wanted!
You can't play Christmas music until the day of or the day after Thanksgiving! It's just not right! I suppose I understand having a small selection of Christmas items. There's probably some people who are having a big Thanksgiving get-together and would like to buy their tree beforehand, but the amount of Christmas things out and the Christmas music is too much! ABC family always has their 25 days of Christmas. This year they have a countdown with special movies till the 25 days of Christmas. It's craziness!
Monday, November 7, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
"If you don't pray often, you won't gain a love for praying. Prayer is work, and therefore it is not very appealing to our natural sensibilities. But the simple rule for prayer is this: Begin praying and your taste for prayer will increase. The more you pray, the more you will acquire the desire for prayer, the energy for prayer, and the sense of purpose in prayer."
-Leslie Ludy "Wrestling Prayer"
-Leslie Ludy "Wrestling Prayer"
Monday, October 24, 2011
Rita
Rita was laying on the couch relaxing. I walked up to her and made a fish face. She looked uncomfortable and turned the other way. I realized that if someone twice my size walked up to me and made a fish face I'd feel uncomfortable and look away too.
Sorry Rita.
Sorry Rita.
I finally finished that order of 8 shirts (I finished and had them mailed last Tuesday). I have a few more projects, but I can actually see an end to all this sewing!
So, at Luke's Deli, all the employees seem to get along really well, and we like to do things together. We close at 8 on Sundays, and I was working last night until closing. Jeremy and Luke came to get something to eat and they ended up staying until closing. Matt and Chloe invited us over to their apartment to play card games, so we all three went and had lots of fun. But I advise all of you to never play Poker with Luke. He wins. I did beat him in Black Jack, though. Although in the end Jeremy won...
This Friday a bunch of us are planning on going to do the corn maze in the dark. I'm excited!
Matthew and I went to the "TractorFormers" corn maze a few weeks ago. There's another one: "The Impossible Maze". It's huge and it has trivia questions you have to answer. It gives you a few answers and you pick which one you think is right and then go the way it tells you. So if you're wrong you'll get yourself totally lost. I'm not sure which one we'll be doing, but I kind of want to see the impossible one!
So, at Luke's Deli, all the employees seem to get along really well, and we like to do things together. We close at 8 on Sundays, and I was working last night until closing. Jeremy and Luke came to get something to eat and they ended up staying until closing. Matt and Chloe invited us over to their apartment to play card games, so we all three went and had lots of fun. But I advise all of you to never play Poker with Luke. He wins. I did beat him in Black Jack, though. Although in the end Jeremy won...
This Friday a bunch of us are planning on going to do the corn maze in the dark. I'm excited!
Matthew and I went to the "TractorFormers" corn maze a few weeks ago. There's another one: "The Impossible Maze". It's huge and it has trivia questions you have to answer. It gives you a few answers and you pick which one you think is right and then go the way it tells you. So if you're wrong you'll get yourself totally lost. I'm not sure which one we'll be doing, but I kind of want to see the impossible one!
Friday, October 14, 2011
Sewing...Sewing...SO MUCH SEWING!
I'm finally getting close to being done with this order of 8 shirts I have. I'm sooo close. I meant to be done on Wednesday, but that didn't work out. I work 9-3 today, but the weather is supposed to cruddy so I might get sent home early (apparently people don't eat out for lunch if the weather isn't nice). I'm going to start sewing as soon as possible, and I intend to have the last of the shirts in the mail for tomorrow. Finally! Then I have several other projects to work on for other people, but I can actually see an end to all this sewing! Then I can sew something for myself!
Thursday, October 13, 2011
Autumn
I love autumn! The past few weeks the colors have been really nice! But they already seem to be coming to an end! When I walk to work there's one tree in particular that seems to have shed all of its leaves already (actually, there's a couple that are green...)! It's been rainy the past couple days so now some of the pretty colors are turning brown. Why does my favorite season come and go so quickly?
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
A Very Late and Very Small Update
Wow, this poor blog has been mostly ignored over the summer!
An update to my sewing: There's still lots of it to be done. Bristol is over. Now I have to finish the sewing for Bristol this year.... Plus, I want to finish some projects for myself. You can expect more things to be added to my Facebook album of things I've sewn (I only have one thing in that album even though I've sewn many things since then...).
So, I think the average age for getting your wisdom teeth is 18, right? I went to the dentist the day after my 18th birthday, and I complained about a specific tooth hurting. They did two bite wing x-rays on either side of my mouth, an x-ray of the specific tooth, a laser thing that's supposed to detect cavities that might not be visible, and an x-ray of my whole mouth. No cavities, but all four wisdom teeth, impacted! So, I had my appointment to get them out scheduled on a Monday morning. I was supposed to be knocked out, but the office failed to have that consultation and assumed that I wanted to be awake. So they gave me Novocaine, and that was it. For all for impacted and completely below the gum, they should knock you out! The left side of my mouth was plenty numb, but the right side was not and I could feel it. That side also bled more, causing lovely bruising on my face.
I think they should knock you out just because the noises of getting your wisdom teeth out are so awful! That's cracking and breaking and crushing....*shudders*
It was nasty! I'm mostly better now, but I still seem to have a hole on the right side of my mouth on the bottom. I noticed it when I get lemon in it. Ouch. So, my mom's calling the dentist today!
Well, I have more I could write, but I should probably do something productive before I head to work.
An update to my sewing: There's still lots of it to be done. Bristol is over. Now I have to finish the sewing for Bristol this year.... Plus, I want to finish some projects for myself. You can expect more things to be added to my Facebook album of things I've sewn (I only have one thing in that album even though I've sewn many things since then...).
So, I think the average age for getting your wisdom teeth is 18, right? I went to the dentist the day after my 18th birthday, and I complained about a specific tooth hurting. They did two bite wing x-rays on either side of my mouth, an x-ray of the specific tooth, a laser thing that's supposed to detect cavities that might not be visible, and an x-ray of my whole mouth. No cavities, but all four wisdom teeth, impacted! So, I had my appointment to get them out scheduled on a Monday morning. I was supposed to be knocked out, but the office failed to have that consultation and assumed that I wanted to be awake. So they gave me Novocaine, and that was it. For all for impacted and completely below the gum, they should knock you out! The left side of my mouth was plenty numb, but the right side was not and I could feel it. That side also bled more, causing lovely bruising on my face.
I think they should knock you out just because the noises of getting your wisdom teeth out are so awful! That's cracking and breaking and crushing....*shudders*
It was nasty! I'm mostly better now, but I still seem to have a hole on the right side of my mouth on the bottom. I noticed it when I get lemon in it. Ouch. So, my mom's calling the dentist today!
Well, I have more I could write, but I should probably do something productive before I head to work.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Holy cow, I've been busy! Bristol is taking up more time than usual due to all my sewing projects, and now that I have a job (which I'll have to write about later) I just don't have much time at home! I'm actually for once looking forward to autumn and winter when there's not much to do and I'm stuck at home (other than when I'm at work) and start to get bored. This house is still new to me, and I want to be stuck in it for awhile so I can actually have time to organize my room and sewing area!
Monday, June 20, 2011
Too Busy!
I have way too much to do! I have to finish these sewing projects by July 2nd (for Bristol dress rehearsal):
Two shirts
Two pairs of pants
One Doublet
And I have an entire set of female garb that I need to finish ASAP, it doesn't have to be done by July 2nd, but it would be nice! And It would be nice to finish Jeremy's garb too, but he may have to borrow some for the first weekend. It seems like I should have enough time for all that, but on Wednesday I'm going on a church trip to MN, and I'll be gone until Sunday, and then hopefully I'll be going down to Illinois the next day, the 28th, to see my grandma and to get our camping stuff out of storage!
Oy. I better get sewing...
Two shirts
Two pairs of pants
One Doublet
And I have an entire set of female garb that I need to finish ASAP, it doesn't have to be done by July 2nd, but it would be nice! And It would be nice to finish Jeremy's garb too, but he may have to borrow some for the first weekend. It seems like I should have enough time for all that, but on Wednesday I'm going on a church trip to MN, and I'll be gone until Sunday, and then hopefully I'll be going down to Illinois the next day, the 28th, to see my grandma and to get our camping stuff out of storage!
Oy. I better get sewing...
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Babysitting
Occasionally Lizzy Muetz and I have the honor of babysitting Timothy and Torie Schmitt. Timothy is 5, Torie is 17 months.
We babysat them on Tuesday. Now, Steven, their dad, was home, but he was working from home. He hoped to be done around noon so he could go mow the lawn and then head out early for a class he was teaching at church.
Lizzy and I took the kids to a local park. It wasn't a baby-friendly park, so I had to follow Torie around, and when she wanted to swing I had to sit her in my lap so we could swing together. So while I had her, Lizzy kept an eye on Timothy. At one point Torie and I were walking over to a tunnel thing that you crawl up to get to the slide. Timothy went running past, and he was running straight at the tunnel. He's taller than the tunnel, and he wasn't ducking down. It was kind of a George of the Jungle "Watch out for that tree!" moment, but I didn't have time to say anything, and Timothy hit his head on the tunnel and ricocheted back. Oops.
He was fine, so we played more and then went home. Now, this whole day Torie was very fussy. Her mom was out of town, so she was probably missing her, and she was tired, and I think she may have been teething, so she was fussy and mostly wanted to be held.
Steven came upstairs from his office to get something to drink, and he said he was having some difficult problem with work. So, he went back down to work on that. The phone rang, and the answering machine picked it up. A woman was saying something about being in the hospital, so Lizzy answered. Apparently Steven's mom had had tuna and went into anaphylactic shock and almost died, so she was in the hospital. This day wasn't going so great so far. We put Torie down for her nap, then Timothy. Torie woke up as Timothy was laying down, so we had about an hour of Torie-only time. It was very pleasant though. She was happy to sit on the couch with us and play with my hair and give us Torie kisses (she just learned to pucker her lips). We took her upstairs to change her diaper, and that's when Timothy got up. He was sitting in the rocking/spinning chair in Tories room while we changed her. He rubbed his eyes and complained that one hurt. We looked, and it was a little red, but we assumed it was from rubbing.
We went back downstairs and Timothy complained again. Now his eye was a little more red and it looked like he had a black eye. He said he hadn't hit his eye on anything. We asked about when he ran into the slide, but he said that was his forehead. I decided to go let Steven know.
I came back from Steven's office, and that quickly Timothy's eye had changed. Now the actual white of his eye was swollen, but not his iris, so it was like a dent in his eye. The outside edge of the white was turning yellow and looked very moist, white the inside edge was still red, and around his eye was like a black eye. So I ran downstairs and told Steven of the sudden change, and he immediately came up the stairs. He said it looked like something may have bit Timothy's eye, and that it was blistering, so they took a trip to Urgent Care. Lizzy and I waited, playing with Torie. When they finally got back, Timothy's eye looked much better. Apparently it was an allergic reaction to something (we don't know what). Timothy was proud to tell me his eye didn't glow (cornea scratch test). So, at this point, Steven obviously hadn't gotten his lawn mowed, and he wasn't leaving particularly early for his class.
Around bedtime, we discovered the that Timothy had hit his head harder than we thought: There was quite the lump on his head, hidden by his hair. So he went to bed with an ice pack, and he was going to be alternating between his forehead and his eye.
What a day!
We babysat them on Tuesday. Now, Steven, their dad, was home, but he was working from home. He hoped to be done around noon so he could go mow the lawn and then head out early for a class he was teaching at church.
Lizzy and I took the kids to a local park. It wasn't a baby-friendly park, so I had to follow Torie around, and when she wanted to swing I had to sit her in my lap so we could swing together. So while I had her, Lizzy kept an eye on Timothy. At one point Torie and I were walking over to a tunnel thing that you crawl up to get to the slide. Timothy went running past, and he was running straight at the tunnel. He's taller than the tunnel, and he wasn't ducking down. It was kind of a George of the Jungle "Watch out for that tree!" moment, but I didn't have time to say anything, and Timothy hit his head on the tunnel and ricocheted back. Oops.
He was fine, so we played more and then went home. Now, this whole day Torie was very fussy. Her mom was out of town, so she was probably missing her, and she was tired, and I think she may have been teething, so she was fussy and mostly wanted to be held.
Steven came upstairs from his office to get something to drink, and he said he was having some difficult problem with work. So, he went back down to work on that. The phone rang, and the answering machine picked it up. A woman was saying something about being in the hospital, so Lizzy answered. Apparently Steven's mom had had tuna and went into anaphylactic shock and almost died, so she was in the hospital. This day wasn't going so great so far. We put Torie down for her nap, then Timothy. Torie woke up as Timothy was laying down, so we had about an hour of Torie-only time. It was very pleasant though. She was happy to sit on the couch with us and play with my hair and give us Torie kisses (she just learned to pucker her lips). We took her upstairs to change her diaper, and that's when Timothy got up. He was sitting in the rocking/spinning chair in Tories room while we changed her. He rubbed his eyes and complained that one hurt. We looked, and it was a little red, but we assumed it was from rubbing.
We went back downstairs and Timothy complained again. Now his eye was a little more red and it looked like he had a black eye. He said he hadn't hit his eye on anything. We asked about when he ran into the slide, but he said that was his forehead. I decided to go let Steven know.
I came back from Steven's office, and that quickly Timothy's eye had changed. Now the actual white of his eye was swollen, but not his iris, so it was like a dent in his eye. The outside edge of the white was turning yellow and looked very moist, white the inside edge was still red, and around his eye was like a black eye. So I ran downstairs and told Steven of the sudden change, and he immediately came up the stairs. He said it looked like something may have bit Timothy's eye, and that it was blistering, so they took a trip to Urgent Care. Lizzy and I waited, playing with Torie. When they finally got back, Timothy's eye looked much better. Apparently it was an allergic reaction to something (we don't know what). Timothy was proud to tell me his eye didn't glow (cornea scratch test). So, at this point, Steven obviously hadn't gotten his lawn mowed, and he wasn't leaving particularly early for his class.
Around bedtime, we discovered the that Timothy had hit his head harder than we thought: There was quite the lump on his head, hidden by his hair. So he went to bed with an ice pack, and he was going to be alternating between his forehead and his eye.
What a day!
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