Secrets!

A lot of blogs I read people have been spilling secrets and I thought this was a fun idea. Most have been doing top 25 secrets and I am pretty sure I can come up with 25 things that not many people know or might be surprised to learn. So here goes with my secrets!

I'm a blog addict!
I have over 200 subscriptions on Google reader.

I love changing my hair color and nail polish as often as I can.
If you have known me for more than 30 seconds you probably already know this.
I'm not really sure what my real hair color is anymore.

I am a germaphobe and love things to be clean.
I also really love the smell of bleach.

I love coffee.
The smell, the taste, the look, I all around love it.
I also gave it up for lent this year and am hating life because of that.

I am a crazy cat lady at heart.
I hate animal shelters and pet stores because I want to take everything home.

I am obsessed with Winco's Tropical Krab Salad.
I keep a fork in my car and every time I go grocery shopping I get a pound and eat it on the way home.

As much as I hate shopping I love to online window shop.
I would own a lot more clothes if I had the money.
I also have very expensive taste in clothes.

I find sleeping on the floor much more comfortable than sleeping in a bed.

I love crafting.
Anything I can do with my hands.

I love being outdoors and climbing around.
Camping is one of my favorite things ever.
Forest smells make my day.

I hate pop.
It hurts my throat to drink.
My teeth feel fuzzy and mentally they hurt from the sugar.

I could eat a pint of ice cream every day if I wouldn't get fat.
Freshman year of college I did eat a pint of Ben and Jerry's almost every day.

I hate the texture of vacuum cords.
I wear gloves every time I vacuum.
If on accident I touch one or something with the same texture it makes me want to throw up.

If I could be anything I would be an oceanographer.
I really want to go on a sub dive down to the Titanic.

I will eat anything chocolate.
Unless it's white chocolate which I hate.

I can't spell for the life of me.
I thank god every day for spell check.

PostSecret makes me hopeful.
It's good to know other people have secrets worse than mine.

I am severely dyslexic.
Every time I read a number such as the time I check 3 times to make sure I got the right number for fear I'll give someone the wrong time.

I love jewelry.
Especially necklaces.
But hate big jewelry.

I love looking at shoes but hate wearing them.
It really freaks me out that since I have been wearing shoes all winter my feet are losing their calluses and starting to feel like a baby.

I am addicted to gourmet food.
I read food blogs and recipe blogs in my free time because things like Goat Cheese Truffle Dip and Trigona stuffed with Beef Confit and Mole Sauce sound amazing and make my mouth water.

People watching is one of my favorite sports.
I love sitting in the mall or somewhere and watching people trying to figure out what they are thinking or making my own stories up for them.

I love to read a good trashy novel every now and again. something that only takes me a couple hours to read and its just easy.

I love dresses but hate wearing them.
Every time I look at online stores that's the first section I go for and I pick out all of them I would wear.
I don't wear them for 2 reasons: I don't feel lady like enough to wear them and am pretty sure I can't pull them off. I am also afraid I'll be my clumsy self and fall.

I am seriously OCD about certain things and if they are not in their place or aren't just right it will bug me to the point that have to fix it or my world will end.
I constantly fight the urge to fix certain things when I am in public. People might think I'm weird.

There you have it 25 secrets! For the record I am not weird I like to think of myself as quirky ;)

Accomplishing things!

I accomplished things!!!!
I love it when I actually get things accomplished but I have been putting things off for a long while and I decided to get them done this week. First of all I got my Art hung! This beautiful piece that I finally got hung up was done but Katie Koozer she is an amazing artist and I bought 2 of her pieces a while back and hung the smaller one but this one I was having a hard time finding a frame for but I finally found one big enough. I got it hung and I know in the picture it was slightly crooked that is fixed now but I love it hanging there now I can see it every day. This is the one I have hanging by my couch. This one is hanging in my dining room.

I also finally got my bookshelf put together! I got this from a guy selling it on craigslist for 5 dollars but things got busy so it's been sitting in the closet for months so tonight I finally put it together since I have books all over the house. I have books everywhere and I needed one to put books that I am getting rid of so they aren't just hanging around all over so here is my awesome bookshelf that despite the directions being super hard to understand I got put together.

I saw these on another blog and love them! I wish I could get them for somewhere in my house.

Finally I saw this on Facebook and then a few friends emailed me the article. Revenge of the Introvert! I really enjoyed this article and I am an introvert completely. I like people but I prefer to be alone because I think better alone but I figured others might enjoy the article too. I especially love this quote "we hate people telling us how we can be more extraverted, as if that's the desired state, Many introverts are happy with the way they are. And if you're not, that's your problem."

What I've been up to!

February was super busy for me with school and work and traveling so here is a bit of what I did :)
First we have my little Char in his freshly cleaned cage and thats just because I want to show off my boy :)

I went to the Genesse crab feed that I have been wanting to go to for years. This was super fun I went with a bunch of people I work with. The night was filled with friends, wine and of course crab. here is a pic of my dinner in all it's wonderfulness. I had crab which this is only half the crab the other half was still wrapped up, potato salad, baked beans, and coleslaw. It was great.

Then I headed home on presidents day while I was down I gave Jeremy his v-day present which happened to include CAMO COOKIES!! I am very proud of them if you couldn't tell.

The next night we went to dinner in Jackpot Nevada with mom, Kody, Allison and her two boys Kody and Kamron. It was a great meal and a lot of fun I laughed so hard I was crying. The Next Day Jeremy took me out to shoot his new gun. The AR!!! This thing scares me but I have to admit it is fun. This is him shooting it.

We also went to balanced rock which was fun. I had never been there before. I got to learn all about it from an expert :)

We went to dinner that night and after dinner even though we were full we ordered dessert and got this HUGE piece of chocolate cake and even the two of us sugar fiends couldn't finish it.

That Monday was my fabulous Aunt Suzy's birthday and she doesn't look a day over 18.

While babysitting I ended up getting gum stuck in my hair and I had to cut almost 4 inches off which made me sad since I had been trying to grow it out. Since every time I go get my hair cut they charge me extra to cut it and dye it because it's so thick so this time I cut it myself. I had trimmed it myself before but never taken this much off myself. Then I dyed it and it was suppose to be a chocolate brown and it came out a bit lighter but I still think it looks fine. What do you think?

When i came back to Moscow there was snow almost all the way up but none in Moscow till the next morning I woke up to this...

The Next day was worse and it continued to snow for 11 days straight. This was the second day. A foot and a half on my car.

My hand in comparison.

Here is a picture of Kassie she can't stand being away from me so here is her favorite place to be.

Then for one of my 25 before Twenty Five I was suppose to cook new things so I made Chocolate Hazelnut Biscotti!
My ingredients are assembled.

I toasted the Hazelnuts which by the way is one of my new favorite smells. They smell amazing while baking.

And we have the final product my biscotti! They tasted wonderful but I think next time I will use less hazelnuts than they said to use.

Also I have been on a Rug kick recently. I have been looking into using new materials to make things and I have a wonderful rug in my kitchen that we paid 25 bucks for but I realized it was made out of torn up tee shirts knitted together. This is something that would take me an hour or so since it is just a simple knit. so I have now been making random things out of stuff so here are my 2 rugs I made this month.
The first I had a ton of fabric just sitting there so I decided to make a front door mat since mine keeps getting stolen.

Here it is all torn up and ready to be knitted.

The finished product! It has been out there for a couple weeks now and nobody has taken it :D

Then I started making one for my bathroom since one of mine got ruined. I had brown basic rugs in there that I was buying for 35 buck a rug at Bed Bath and Beyond but since I am trying to save money I decided to make one myself. I had the yarn already in my stash so I found a simple pattern and started knitting!

The finished rug in its new home :D

And so you have the last month of my life!

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.