If it sounds like cookie making gnomes it's probably not.

For the last week or so I have been waking up to this scratching sound in my bathroom at about 5 am every morning. I am not a morning person so this was extremely annoying.

The first morning I heard it my initial reaction was "STUPID HAMSTER SHHHHHH" but then after a few moments of semi waking up I remembered I no longer have a hamster so that's not what it was. My second thought was "KASSIE KNOCK IT OFF" but then I rolled over to realize she was sleeping on the pillow near my head. This was some what baffling to me considering Char was not awake yet and the only other things that could make noise were dead or laying next to me.

As I lay there I pondered a whole mess of things from little gnome men who were living under my bathroom sink and making me cookies while I was asleep (imagine my disappointment in looking for my cookies that didn't exist) to giant rodents that were going to eat my toes in my sleep.

I went several mornings hiding my toes and looking for cookies before I was able to finally find out what this annoying sound was. Then one dreary morning I had the horrifying thought that if it sounded like my hamster it was most likely something small and furry like my hamster; then I freaked out, I knew deep down in my soul there was a mouse in my apartment plotting to be gross where ever it went and help it's self to anything it wanted!!!

Every morning as I was woken by this dreadful sound I would slowly slip out of bed one body part at a time and try to crawl like a stealthy army man into my bathroom to catch this awful little thing in the act. I slide across the floor trying to stalk my prey only to be foiled by the incessant "meow meow meow" of my extremely co-dependent cat trying to figure out why my interest wasn't in her but in this strange sound coming from my bathroom.

Every time I got close to the bathroom Kassie would start freaking out and cause the scratching to stop. I thought I was never going to catch the culprit. Having a blind cat wasn't going to help this situation either.

Finally after weeks of being woken out of my peaceful sleep by this noise that made chills run down my spine and sleeping with one eye open at all times to make sure its furry little self didn't try to climb into bed with me I was able to slip out of bed this morning without waking the cat up. I jumped in my excitement of this heroic feat only to wake her up. I held very still barely breathing hoping she would fall back asleep and after a few moments of me trying to act like a very sleep deprived statue it paid off she dozed back off.

I snuck into the bathroom like a ninja on crack only to learn the scratching noise was not coming from under my sink like I had thought it was coming from the vent in the bathroom. Alarms in my head went off "OH NOES THEY'RE IN THE CEILING!!!!" but a few moments later I was rewarded and relived to hear the soft chirping of baby birds. There weren't man eating mice invading my house, it was just a mommy bird climbing back in every morning to feed the babies. I can now sleep peacefully knowing my toes are safe from being bitten by anything other than my cat who so fondly likes to bite them the moment my alarm goes off in the morning to wake me up. :)

Project 52: February

This month I finished off a book I started and only got a few chapters into before I got busy and forgot about it.
The Doctors Wife by Elizabeth Brundage
This was a really good book if you can get through the start of it. It starts out kind of slow but ends really well. There is a lot of intrigue in this book. Not quite a must read but over all I enjoyed it. It's about 4 people whose lives are entangled. The Doctor who works too hard, his lonely wife, her lover the torchered artist and his mentally ill wife.

Next I read P.s. I love you by Cecelia Ahern
This book was very good but very sad. I almost couldn't read it without crying so if you read it make sure you have tissues! It's about a woman who is trying to live her life after her husband dies she gets a letter every month that her husband wrote her to help her get on with her life after him.


These next three books I have owned for quite a while and they are geared to a younger audience and I have read one of the set I own but I decided to read a few more since they are quick reads. They are from the Dear America series. They are diaries of young girls and their lives growing up in America I enjoyed them.






These next two books I had already read so they don't count but I re-read them this month and I thought I would mention them.

This one is the one that I had read from the Dear America ones and this is by far my favorite I read it when I was in grade school or middle school and I have read it several times since.


This is one of my favorite books. I read it in High school for my fantasy literature class and I enjoyed it.
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
It's a collection of short stories about when we land on mars and try to colonize it and our encounters with the inhabitants of the planet. I love the story about the Martians putting the humans in their version of and asylum because they think they are just crazy Martians.



I have been up to quite a bit and have a bunch of pictures to show but I haven't gotten them off my phone yet but I will show you all the fun things I have been up to recently.

Old Email

So I found this old email and it made me laugh so I thought I would share it.

1.If you are choking on an ice cube, don't panic. Simply pour a cup of boiling water down your throat and presto! The blockage will be almost instantly removed.

2.Clumsy? Avoid cutting yourself while slicing vegetables by getting someone else to hold them while you chop away. (p.s. anyone want to volunteer for this one I am always afraid of cutting myself lol)

3.High blood pressure sufferers: simply cut yourself and bleed for a while, thus reducing the pressure in your veins.

4.A mouse trap placed on top of your alarm clock will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep when you hit the snooze button.

5.If you have a bad cough, take a large dose of laxatives, then you will be afraid to cough.

6.Have a bad tooth ache? Hit your thumb with a hammer, then you will forget about the tooth ache.

7.You need only two tools: WD-40 and Duct Tape. If it doesn't move and it should, use WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, use the duct tape.

8.Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

These gave me a giggle. I hope you enjoy :)

I do what I want!

SO I get a lot of crap about the way I dress pretty much constantly because apparently I dress like an old lady (You all shush grandma sweaters are warm and comfy!)

I am actually not as bad a dresser as everyone likes to think I just dress in what I can afford and what I feel comfortable in so that being said here are a few of the things that I would love to own and might someday when I have monies to pay for the :)

Pretty

Love the green!

Very Elegant

An every day outfit!


As you may have gathered I apparently like lace and things I can layer. Pair any of these up with jeans and I would be good to go! Also in the Vintage Loves section the Prima Ballerina collection I <3!

And finally I love this Vintage hat I use to have one like it and someone took it away because it made me look like an old lady but I don't care I like my style!

Number 4!

So for my 25 things while I'm 25 number four was to sew something so here is my project!

I lost my apron somewhere and I hate cleaning without it because I have accidentally bleached clothes etc. so I got some cloth and am making my own. I am making one for cleaning and one for cooking. This is my first one! This is my cleaning one all I have to do is find some material I like to add some pockets but here is the product so far :) My first sewing project.

This is how it looks. I am going to get some fabric that matches the blue lining for the pockets.


This is me modeling it :D

So far I really like it and am excited to finish it and make my cooking one which will be a different pattern and color.

1.Get my wrist tattoo that I have wanted for 2 years.
2.Travel to somewhere new.
3.Graduate!
4.Sew something.
5.Go back to blonde.
6.Let my hair grow long.
7.Go swimming.
8.Get a real job.
9.Lose 15 pounds.
10.Take an art class.
11.Cook at least 25 new dishes.
12. Eat something I said I never would.
13.Star Gaze
14.Fly a kite
15.Read 52 books.
16.Buy a Rubik's cube and learn how to solve it.
17.Scrap book something.
18.Make an Amigurumi
19.Watch singing in the rain and it's a wonderful life.
20.Stop biting my nails.
21.Get a massage.
22.Eat: Baba Ganoush, Papusus, Pho, Beignet and Marzipan.
23.Go rafting.
24.Get a pedicure, manicure, and facial all in 1 day.
25.Shoot a gun and hit what I was aiming at.
Thats one down out of all of them I have started on a few of the others but I need to get on the ball.

Project 52 January

This year I am doing Project 52 which is 52 books in a year. So far I'm right on track! I am going to up date at the end of each month what I read so not to be quite so redundant. To finish off January I read:

The Expected One by Kathleen McGowan.

This book was semi Da Vinci Code like in that it is a religious based book about things that were suppose to have happened and the church has been hiding them. It's all about Mary Magdalene and her life and a woman that experiences a spiritual journey to find the lost gospels of Mary herself. It was pretty good if you like those thing and had some very visual and emotional parts if you are religious. Not as quick paced as I personally like but not bad either.

The Well and The Mine by Gin Phillips

This book I got from bookmooch.com last month and was super excited to read it. Someone had recommended it to me a while back so when I finally got it after months of waiting I was thrilled. This book is set back in the late 1920's to early 1930's and shows the every day life of a family and the town they live in during these hard times. It's a pretty good coming of age book that gets you intrigued about a mysterious woman that throws her baby down the families well on the first page. I enjoyed it and it was a relatively quick read.
Other than that not a whole lot has been going on just busting my butt at school and working.

I have been keeping up with my New Years resolutions pretty well with the exception of working out since I have been sick and injured. I have also slipped a few times on the no biting my nails but I am working on it. :)

Hope you all have a fabulous month!

Fall Cooking

So one of my favorite things about fall is the Yummy cooking! So this Fall my mom gave me this GIANT squash and zucchinis.

So with this squash and zucchini I made squash ravioli with a gorgonzola cream sauce. So here are a few pictures! They came out really well. This first picture is when I was making them I baked the squash then mashed it and put it in the wrappers. Then boiled them and made the sauce and they were super yummy.

Here is some soup I made that was squash, carrot and chickpea soup and I kind of made the recipe up myself it was pretty good but there are a few things I'd try different next time.

I also made Zucchini bread! Pumpkin cookies as well but I forgot to take a picture of them.

This is some chicken noodle soup I made that was very tasty :)

Then in the last 2 weeks I made home made wheat bread and challa. So here they are the challa isn't baked yet but they were both really good.

Fishing!

This summer I went fishing quite a bit and here are a few pictures from my adventures.

This down in Hagerman below the fish hatcheries. This one is the nice little stream we fished in most of one of the days.

This is my little fishing spot for one of the days also down at Hagerman.

This is a huge sturgeon that was in the little creek we were fishing in. He was about 5.5 feet long!

And here is me poking it with my fishing pole because thats what you have to do when you see a giant fish.

Project 52

Ok I know I have been slacking quite a bit on posting and I know I really have no good reason for doing this but I promise I will be posting things soon I just finally got some of my pictures off my laptop and onto my desk top so hopefully that will motivate me.

So a friend of mine was doing this as part of her New Years Resolution dum dum dummmm and i read a million books anyways so I thought why not I can probably do that.

The goal: read 52 books in one year. (One for each week or so)

Rules:

1. You may read at your own pace, but I recommend one book per week.
2. No re-reads. If you began a book but didn't finish that is ok.
3. No magazines, ebooks, audio books, textbooks, etc.
4. Acceptable forms: All fiction, non-fiction, and collections of essays, short stories or poetry. Graphic novels count as long as there are lots of other types of books being read too!

P.S. You should all join in :) and if you have any good recommendations you should let me know what they are.

So I'm doing it the first book I read was Mossy Creek by a bunch of different authors. It was pretty good a quick light read that was composed of short stories. This book was recommended by the ladies at Diva Cafe in the book club section and while it's not my favorite it was an ok read. Now I am about half way through my second book :) Other New Years Resolutions for me included:

1. Don't bite my nails (I make this one every year and fail miserably every year but it's good to try)

2. Be able to do 100 push ups (I actually was doing pretty well with this one till I fell down the stairs and hurt my shoulder then got sick :( )

3. Not to cut or dye my hair for 6 months (For anyone that knows me this is hard since I like to change my hair by the second but I make this one every year to try and give my hair a chance to grow and to not be damaged by the coloring it every 2 seconds.)

4. Stay on budget (so far my budget keeps changing so this has been a hard one especially since I just started working again and don't get a pay check till February)

Hopefully you all are sticking to your resolutions as well :)

Twenty Five at Twenty Five

It's my birthday and for my birthday I have made a list of 25 things I want to do while I'm 25. so here goes!

1.Get my wrist tattoo that I have wanted for 2 years.
2.Travel to somewhere new.
3.Graduate!
4.Sew something.
5.Go back to blonde.
6.Let my hair grow long.
7.Go swimming.
8.Get a real job.
9.Lose 15 pounds.
10.Take an art class.
11.Cook at least 25 new dishes.
12. Eat something I said I never would.
13.Star Gaze
14.Fly a kite
15.Read 52 books.
16.Buy a Rubik's cube and learn how to solve it.
17.Scrap book something.
18.Make an Amigurumi
19.Watch singing in the rain and it's a wonderful life.
20.Stop biting my nails.
21.Get a massage.
22.Eat: Baba Ganoush, Papusus, Pho, Beignet and Marzipan.
23.Go rafting.
24.Get a pedicure, manicure, and facial all in 1 day.
25.Shoot a gun and hit what I was aiming at.