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I have finished Grandma and Grandpa's christmas gifts! It's two days late, but better late then never right?

Our christmas here was rather interesting, the kids are adorable when opening gifts! There were a TON of boxes wrapped with shinny paper and ribbons that entertained Isabelle to no end! That and a laser pointer from the air-soft-gun that Jamie got. She was so tired afterwords!

Since mom (their grandma) couldn't be there for the first christmas I set up my lovely laptop so that it's built in webcam could record the whole thing. Too damn bad it takes up so much of my memory! We put it on Neil's external till mom can see it.

My best friend and non-blood-related sister gave me an awesome Domo manga book! I"m saving it for a day when I miss her. She also got me this neat snap on top thingy for my soda cans. It's really neat, it's great for when I"m driving in the car as well (tested that out on christmas day).

Neil works hard, I try to work hard, did some crafts, which there are pictures of. Love my latest jewelry frame.

Jobs

Oh Jobs, where have you gone? Why are you nowhere to be found? Are you angry, Jobs? We need you to make money, but you are unavailable to us. Without you life seems rather boring and stale; with you it's fulfilling and less lonely. Where have you gone? Will you at least send us a post card?

Aside from being jobless the drama in this house has yet to end! Children bring PLENTY of drama, but you expect some adult drama... or rather you sometimes wish for it just to get things more interesting. So far all the adult drama is something I'd like to trade in for more classy stuff.

There were three "plays" the children had, only was able to go to one of them. Megan's was cute but shorter then I thought it would be. They are First Graders after all. Then Jamie's I couldn't go to and he got the time wrong anyway. Lauren's was last night and I was unable to go to that one as well.

Good personal news: yesterday I had lost 2.7lbs in two weeks, now I've lost 2.2lbs since yesterday!

Still haven't seen New Moon. Neither Lisa nor myself. This is sad.

Some Christmas Photos

The top one is a few pictures put together (for fun) so that the whole area could be seen in detail. These aren't the only decorations but I didn't want to fill the whole blog up until I get the rest of them decorated.

Five Pie Thanksgiving

Five pies... from bottom up: pumpkin, pumpkin, pecan, apple, apple. They are all done by me... woots for me!

Strawberry-Vanilla Bank Suckers

Library for me! Woots! Got a book and two movies. I say it's a good day. Oh, plus when I went to the bank earlier, the lady-teller gave me a bunch of strawberry-vanilla bank suckers that I like. I mentioned it once to her and she remembered! Isn't that sweet?

The walk was good for me. Exercise and fresh moist air. It's a bit dizzily here, but I like it. It helped me to think of things and how to help my friends that need it. Still have nothing helpful, but I did get to talk to Emily for a few minutes. I miss her.

Momi was walking her malamutes (sp?)! Cooper and Xena are so adorable! Sissy kitty was fallowing them around as if on the walk with them, she is a beautiful full black cat.

Absolutely LOVED the latest episode of NCIS. Reminds me of how my dad would have been in that kind of situation.

Off to read her daily NPR news and suck on one of the strawberry-vanilla bank suckers. Yummy.

Old Chair

Hello all!

Aside from feeling like shit (migraine causing nausea and vomiting), I am watching more things on Hulu (which I am so loving!) Right now it's "The Listener" which is rather neat.

Now here is the major part of my blog: I was laying on our bed and I looked over at the chair, the one Dan gave me! It's something he saved from the dumpster and I love it. Aside from the stains and old fabric I love this chair. Granted the arm chairs could be a bit more comfy, but I love it none-the-less. Should I re-cover (what is it called again?) the chair? Should I knit the new cover? Should I find fabric and cover it? Do you take off the old fabric before you cover it? Do you fill in more foam/comfy-stuff? Man I wish someone would answer my questions with their opnions on how to do this.

Bye all!

Nursery Ryme

Cold and raw the north wind doth blow,
Bleak in the morning early;
All the hills are covered with snow,
And winter's now come fairly.

I didn't get the job afterall.

Helpless But Hopeful

How is it that just when things look up something twice as bad falls on you? I am very helpless to help those who I love.

On a happier note I made brownies from scratch today and they turned out rather well.

Sorry for my absence, I will resume posting soon. Hopefully by this weekend.

Who likes pie?

Pie is awesome. On a related note there are pictures of my apple pies I baked a few days ago... sketchy on the date, but that's what cameras with time stamps are for.

This is the "frankenstein-pie-crust" because the pie dough was being disobedient...
Who cares what it looks like once you get that yummy pie mix in! Don't forget the butter... (did on the second apple pie).
A pretty design to go with it.And it comes out beautiful! A bit odd but still pretty neat, no?This is the second one made a day or two later before it went into the oven. Isn't it pretty too? The pie dough did better since I used my recipe (posted at end of this entry).

Now for the mini pumpkin pies that I did yesterday. It was suppose to be our craft for the weekend but poor miss Megan (the youngest) was still sick (and is today as well, poor baby). That and Lauren called me a "fat butt" in a hurtful tone. I wanted to smack her mouth as soon as I heard her say that because you don't say that to someone, but she isn't my kid. Just for the record it wouldn't be a "you beat the kid!?" type of smack but a "surprise but not that painful" type of smack. I refuse to beat a kid, spanking as discipline (not a beating kind of hard spanking) is okay.

I could go on with what I believe is right when raising a kid but this is about pies and I don't have any kids so I really don't get a say do I?


Before on top, after on bottom. They did make 24 like the recipe said. Link to recipe.


And no post would be complete without the vase of beautiful flowers Lauren put together for me.