Movies in 2010 I can't wait to see.....

1. The Wolfman - If you haven't seen this trailer, you gotta google it!
2. Shutter Island (this was suppose to have been released in 2009 several times)
3. Alice in Wonderland
4. Green Zone - Only cause it has Matt Damon in it, and I love Matt Damon in action roles
5. Clash of the Titans
6. Robin Hood - Russell Crowe as Robin Hood, saweet!
7. Sex and the City 2 - We gotta do cosmos this time Jess
8. Eclipse
9. The Lasat Airbender
10. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1
11. The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader

Cupcakes and French Toast

Yesterday I decided to try a new cupcake recipe, and when I went to Lifesource to get the ingredients, I found some vegan sprinkles, how exciting is that?! They were super yummy. Jess stopped by last night so I was able to give someone else a taste. The kids have always been my taste testers because John is super picky, he wouldn't try them, although he did devour the rice krispe treats I made on Saturday. I also made a new french toast recipe. I have tried many ways to make french toast eggless, and let me tell you....YUCK! Last nights recipe was sooooo good, I felt like I was eating in some kind of fancy restaraunt.

Winter Solstice Greetings!

I Heard a Bird Sing

by Oliver Herford

I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December

A magical thing

And sweet to remember.

'We are nearer to Spring Than we were in September,'

I heard a bird sing

In the dark of December.

A question finally answered

I have caught a cold, and as I went to check the office mail....which I didn't want to go do, cause I have to go outside and its super freakin cold here right now, and when I got to the box, I realized I grabbed the wrong keys, so I had to come back to the office grab the right keys, this time putting on my gloves and scarf....anyways, when I was walking back I started thinking. Yes, I do think a lot, maybe too much sometimes, but I started thinking that it doesn't make sense that you would catch a cold from being outside in the winter, or being out in the rain. Like, when you go outside with wet hair and older people say "you will catch a cold like that", it made me think, thats just dumb. I thought it was dumb because being outside to me would be the place to NOT catch a cold, because I mean, youre outside and not all cooped up sharing germs and such. So, my thoughts got the better of me and I decided to google. I will share this with you from wikianswers, so you all don't lose sleep over it, when you wake up in the middle of the night asking yourself the same question I did.....

Question: Is it true that going outside with wet hair when its cold can make you sick?

Answer
NO - The common cold is a virus. It is caught and spread by the transfer of bacteria. Cold temperatures can actually help prevent colds by weakening airborne bacteria. What CAN make you more prone to illness, is tiring or weakening your body, which makes it harder to fight infection. Becoming cold to the point of shivering will lower body temperature, which can lower your immune system - this is another contributor to catching viruses. Humans lose heat rapidly through their head, which is a process that would accelerate with wet hair - if you let yourself get chilled to the point of shivering, or worse, to the point when shivering stops, you would lower your immune system and therefore be more likely to catch a cold. So, having wet hair and being in cold air alone wont make you sick, but letting your self get overly chilled and/or tired might.

Score at Whole Foods for the Vegan

Well, they didn't have my tea in, so I will just order it, but I scored on.....

• Marshmallows, the normal ones, not coconut, to put in my hot chocolate
• Oh man, oh man, oh man, vegan freakin donut holes, are you serious? Oh, I would never kid you about donut holes: regular and pumpkin. That was such a score I had to high five my niece Cassidy
• Shampoo and Conditioner, a new kind that I found. Also got the lotion and body wash, cause you gotta have the WHOLE line ya know.
• Vanilla Creme Spritzer by RW Knusden. They don't carry that flavor in Salem, so yum!
• Yummy noodles and vegan egg rolls (why they called egg rolls with no egg)

I also went to Walmart to finish off my shopping and ended up getting a food processor. So, I am making some pumpkin cheescake tonight and hoping ever so much it will turn out super scrumptious!

Spider Adventures in the bathroom

I was taking my shower the other night, and saw a daddy long leg on the ceiling near the shower. Well, I'm taking my shower, trying to keep and eye on it (remember that I can't see a thing without my glasses), so it makes it rather hard when I'm just looking at a blurry blob on the ceiling. So, I'm washing my hair while watching the spider (ok, you smarties, this isn't the time to debate wether or not a daddy long leg is a spider or not, I'm gonna call it one, so shush up), it starts moving towards the fan, I'm thinking, um, is it gonna get sucked in there, or freak out and run over here, get in the stream of water while I'm rinsing my hair and I will have this spider in my hair, all squooshed cause its wet and stuff? I turn off the fan quickly, cause I don't want squishy stuff and a bunch of legs in my hair, and notice now the long leg has decided to start coming down from the ceiling, I'm rinsing away, and gotta close my eyes for a few seconds, then I open them up, and what the heck, long legs is GONE. Great! I'm not having a relaxing shower!

I also know eventually I will have to get out and look for this spider. Will it be on my clothes? Will it make me jump because it surprises me somewhere? I am freaking out too, cause I know I gotta get my glasses on to even see where it went. I turn off the water grab my towel, shake it, just in case. I open the door grab my glasses so I can freakin see....and then....they steam up, now I can't even see a blob, I can't see anything at all. So I gotta open up the door to clear them up, and then just like that, it's all over, no more anxiety, cause I spot long legs over by the heater vent. I can't pass up the opportunity to take a few pictures. I didn't get very many good ones, cause even though I'm not super afraid of spiders anymore thanks to catch and release practice, I'm still a bit "shy" around them, and I shake a bit uncontrollably in their presence. I did talk reassuringly to him though, saying "oh man, oh man, I'm not gonna get too close" or "oh geez, you are really creepy". Now saying to a spider you are really creepy isn't a put down. It probably makes them feel better about themselves, cause I think they are suppose to be creepy right?

The clearest picture of long legs.....

Some I used to's

I was messing around on Facebook last night, a bit too long really, and found some people I used to know (but I just lurked, didn't contact them), and it made me think of how different I am now. I mean, I could go into a lot of stuff of course, I mean, as you get older you should be different, but it got me thinking that would be a fun post. How about you. How are you different? Here are some of my used to's.......

1. Seriously, I used to smoke? Weird
2. I used to go DAYS and DAYS without eating. I blacked out more than once because I didn't eat. What?
3. It used to take me an hour or more (more when I used to curl every strand of my hair, and then use some Aqua Net to hold it in place - hey, that was the 80's) to get ready. Wow, I must have had a lot of free time.
4. I would not leave the house without makeup. This one cracks me up. Really, I just stopped doing this the past couple years. Now I hardly wear makeup at all. It's not a lazy thing, it's a "why do I want to spend all that time doing that when it's going to smear, dry out my eyes, will take me twice as long to wash my face cause I gotta scrub it all off, and hey, I'm a beautiful goddess without it anyways....lol". Yes, I make up long statements and labels. I use a lot of words to explain myself, wow, I'm still going....
5. I used to color my hair every 4 weeks. See 4 above for beautiful goddess statement....hee, hee.
6. I used to obsess about certain celebrites like Matt Dillon or Curt Smith to the point that it was just seriously messed up. Wow, I used to be a Twilighter type obsessed girl before there was Twilight.
7. I used to sleep through the night without having to get up to pee a ton of times.
8. I used to have to shave my legs, and pluck a lot less. Oh, the joys of aging :)
9. I used to never be able to finish a bottle of shampoo or conditioner before I bought another kind. Sometimes I would have like 4 - 5 different types under my sink.
10. I used to eat meat, huh, say what? Again, weird

Thanksgiving Day Plans

Since we celebrated Thanksgiving early because Heather came home for 2 weeks, I have a really special day planned tomorrow, something I haven't done in a while. Two words will sum it all up..........

"Game On"

New Moon Night

Jessica picked me up last night at 9:30 and then we went to Aimees house to get her. We dropped off Aimees boyfriend Jon on the way and then of course had to stop at a convenience store to get a few goods for the show, and Aimee needed coffee.

The line was looooooong. Actually, when I had picked up the tickets at noon, the line was just forming. When we arrived, it felt like we would never get to go in, but I'm so thankful it wasn't raining. We were suppose to be in auditorium 9, but since they also were playing Twilight, they decided to keep those already viewing Twilight in #9, and filter us #9 people into other auditoriums. That made us a bit nervous. We got to go in with group 4 though, and we sat in the 4th row from the screen. One row back from where we watched Potter. There of course were tons of girls, a few guys too, which made me wonder if they were team Jacob, Edward or maybe Bella?

The movie was sooooo good. The screaming was not bad at all, and only happened when the guys were shirtless, or you would hear an ocasional "jealous" or "awww" when Edward kissed Bella or said something super romantic to her. For New Moon though, I am definetly team Jacob.

I didn't get into bed until 3:30 this morning, so I'm pretty tired at the moment. I did pass right out though, but woke up this morning at 8:30, and couldn't go back to sleep. It has hit me though the past hour, so now I could probably fall back to sleep, but I gotta work now, so next time, I will make sure to take the next day off.

A hubby hug

Yesterday I wasn't feeling very well (again, ugh) and John asked me if I needed a hug. So I said......

Me: sure
John: Let me give you some yin
Me: Don't you mean chi?
John: Nope I mean yin. Everybody knows about chi. I'm talking about yin. Nobody uses yin. You gotta feel the yin.

So, he gives me a big yin hug, even though I still felt terrible, at least I felt terrible with a smile on my face.

My Lifesource Rant over Tea

Ok, so I put in my first EVER special request Lifesource order a few months back. It was for this yummy tea, the best tea actually, by a company called Juniper Ridge. They make Douglas Fir tip tea (sounds weird, I know, but it is soooo good). Anyways, they call me and say they don't think they will be ordering from that company anymore so they can't order my tea. I had got the tea from Whole Foods, which is a 45 minute drive away. I'm bummed, because I use this company's soap too, and know now I will have to order it online or wait until I go to Whole Foods, which is hardly never, oh, and I also love their incense as well. So, I'm in Lifesource a few weeks back, see they only have ONE bar of the soap left, and no spots for anymore, grab it up, knowing I won't be able to buy it there anymore. Now, today I go to Lifesource for some rolls, stroll by the beauty aisle, cause that's where they keep their super cute bags, candles and such, and I love to look at that stuff. Well, I see the Juniper Ridge insence area is full, then I notice that they carry ALL of the soaps again. Ok, they could have ordered my dang tea! I'm sad :(

Pumpkin Fun

Korissa loves going for rides in wagons.....

She picked out her own "baby" pumpkin......

I was looking at the camera, but I think she found herself in pumpkin heaven, and didn't know how to take it all in....


Tractor riding. Well, she just sat there really, but it was a cute picture....

She loved petting the animals. This cute little guy even licked her.....

Ok, so when it was time to carve, she opened up my kitchen drawer that has all the towels in it, and decided she needed to wear a pot holder. I thought it was odd, but who am I to say she can't wear a pot holder to carve a pumpkin.....

Scooping out the pumpkin guts....
By the look on her face, she didn't like it much....

My pumpkins usually look the same every year, nope, I'm not very original, but at least I'm consistent....

My yummy cookies. I used my new vegan sugar cookie recipe, and they were delish.....

This Weeks Randoms

Well, this week I have been mostly sick, so I haven't done too much of anything. My kitchen is a mess, but don't worry, I won't post a picture of it. I've been just kicking back on the couch, and after John goes to bed after taking his Nyquil, just reading, and then going to bed early myself. I'm feeling much better today, but still not 100%.....

• Watching: CSI NY on DVD with John. I only have a few episodes left, and then it won't be until next year before I watch anymore :(
• Movie I really enjoyed this week: Ok, I am going to admit this to the whole world.....Hannah Montana the movie. It was really cute. Sometimes I like watching the Disney channel, and have seen several episodes this week, and was like "hey, I can rent that with my dish on demand", so, I did.
• I finished reading The Secret, no, not that Secret book. This one is by Beverly Lewis, she writes Amish fiction, and I love her writing. After reading one of her books though, I say things like "danki" - "ain't so" and such, but that's ok, my hubby has no idea what I'm talking about most of the time anyways.
• I started reading A Voice in the Wind by Francine Rivers. Oh my, I cannot say enough about this book. I can hardly put it down. It's the first in a trilogy. It's about a Jewish slave in Rome. I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but this just might be my favorite book I've ever read, and I've read A LOT of books.
• I discovered some yummy snacks at Lifesource today. They are delish!! They're called Sticks & Twigs, I bought the chipotle tomato kind.
• This Wknd I'm looking forward to cookie baking with Jess, and watching all the Scream movies, then on Sunday I'm going to take the Babe to EZ Orchards. I don't have my pumpkin yet, and it's almost Halloween!
  
  

Yep, this would be Hannah Montana......

Those yummy snacks I discovered today.....

The book I'm reading that I can't put down.....

Oh No!

Starting to feel a bit under the weather lately (ok, what exactly does that saying mean, and where did it come from? Because of weather changes or something....hmmmm). Sore throat, nose feeling a bit stuffed up, but not too bad yet. Looks like I must bring out the tea and the neti pot. John isn't feeling well either. I know I'm a big baby when I'm sick, but we all know how the hubbys can be, hence the Oh No! title of this post.

Pumpkins from the garden

I wasn't there for the picking of pumpkins from the garden, but I made sure that John took the camera. I must say, that he actually took some nice photos......

Brittany, cute pic of her!

This is my favorite picture of Korissa

Great Uncle David with Korissa and Treasure

Jen, Treasure, Sharon and Jack. Looks like Jack has a big smile on his face, probably from watching all of his grandkids pick out pumpkins :)

It looks like Ethan is getting ready to pet this tomato

Great Uncle David and Korissa

I love this picture of Ethan, my favorite

Lisa, Jeremy, Sharon, Brit, Dave, and Babe. Oh, and I see Treasure hiding in there too.

Catch and Release Part 2

When I came back to work after lunch yesterday. A BIG surprise was awaiting me on my chair. Remember my successful catch and release mission several weeks back? Well, this post is a bit different, in the fact that you NEVER want to attempt a catch and realease of this kind of spider. For one thing, what tools would you use? Two, you would probably drop dead upon seeing this spider, and nothing else would matter anyways. I'm warning you again, do not attempt a catch and release, run for your life while praying you will make it out alive.........

Ha, ha. Thats a BIG freakin spider huh? Jessica being the funny girl she is left that on my chair. She decorated the office yesterday for Halloween, and thought it would be amusing. She also left the note.

DVD watching wknd

Saturday Jessica invited us over for dinner and a movie. Well, John didn't go, but I did. I won't pass up movie watching with the fam.....

My Life in Ruins was a really cute movie. Oh, and she had great shoes and style!

Year One was sooooo funny. Yes, it had some pretty over the top humor, but I think we missed quite a few lines from laughing so hard. I think people either love this movie or hate it.

I had planned on watching the Orphanage saturday night by myself (Jess let me borrow it), but that was before the invite to her house. I decided to watch it last night before our Desperate Housewives viewing. This movie was really creepy. It wasn't gross or anything like that. Just a good haunting movie. It had English Subtitles, but the movie was so good, you hardly noticed you had to read it. Would definetly recommend this to you scarey movie lovers. This is on my to buy list.

Grumpy went to the park with the Babe

Sunday we decided to go to the park again. This time I made John go. He really hates going to the park, but I made Korissa go ask him, yes, I'm very tricky. So, we headed out. Korissa was wearing her new cute coat from daddy and mommy. It was so pretty, the leaves were all over the ground, and I got to walk longer because grumpy, wait, I mean John was with us, because it's too dangerous by ourselves. At one point, I had to tease the Grump by stopping, breathing in deeply then saying "smell that? That's what nature smells like." I was thinking that the trail we were following would eventually circle back around, but it didn't, it just kept going and going. We turned around when we reached a pumpkin patch (that was right after Grumpy stepped in dog doo). I think John did have fun, because how could you not enjoy watching Korissa be a total cutie!

This was at the beginning of our walk. Korissa was thirsty already.....

Ok, so I kept hiding behind really small trees, and I think from Korissas view, she must have thought I was kissing the trees. She is NOT a tree hugger, she is a tree kisser.....awwww......

She found another stick to rake with, it was a bit thin and crooked, but it did the job.....

Walking back.....

Lions and Tigers and Fairies, Oh My!

Yesterday I picked up my 70th Anniversary Edition of The Wizard of Oz on DVD. Inside the case was an offer I can't refuse......

Celebration

This week, Madonnas album Celebration was released. I of course being a huge Madonna fan, must have this CD. Just thinking about it, takes me back a bit.......

Like a Virgin.....this was my very first Madonna cassette I bought. I don't think I bought her first cassette until after buying Like a Virgin. Like a Virgin started my Madonna Wannabe phase (yes, back in the 80's there was a name for people like me). I had the earings, the many bracelets, the clothes, the gloves (which I still have in my cedar chest), oh and I also drew on the mole with eyeliner. I remember going to a High School football game, and little kids actually coming up to me calling me Madonna. I did wear some pretty revealing clothes back then, my favorite was a pink satiny shirt, that I wore as a freakin dress.

I was so excited to go see Desperatly Seeking Susan. Can you believe that my mom actually went with me.? I remember the scene where Madonna was in a bathroom drying her pits with the hand dryer, and some girls behind me saying how gross and disgusting she was. I remember turning around and glaring at them. That was so uncalled for, not to mention, why were they there? Uh, jealous much?

The True Blue phase. I actually cut my very loooooong hair, and colored it to match this picture. My best friend Marsha dyed it. I do believe the first time came out on the pinkish side, so we had to do it twice. It still never was platinum blonde though. She lived in Washington, and when I came back to Oregon, my mom picked me up at the train station. I didn't tell her what I did to my hair. She hated black finger nail polish, so I wasn't going to say anything about dying my hair. I was standing right in front of her at the station, and she was looking all around for me. I said "mom, I'm right in front of you". She said, "what did you do to your hair". Wasn't very pleasant I must say. It was a nightmare growing out that cut, but I never stopped coloring my hair every color possible. Except now of course.

This has always been my very favorite Madonna picture. I can't remember what magazine it was from, Life maybe, but I kept it in a frame forever. I'm thinking I might still have it in my cedar chest, I will have to check.

LOVED the movie Truth or Dare. I do believe my brother in law David actually went with me to see the movie.

I'm off to purchase this CD.......

A DH Night

Today I feel like I have a hangover, but I only drank apple juice last night. Jess and I were up past 1 AM watching Desperate Housewives. We're getting caught up before the new season, we watched 8 episodes last night, and it was good!

My randoms this week

What I'm watching

The coolest picture I've seen this week

What I'm dreaming of.....pumpkins, candy corn (making a homeade vegan version), Halloween


What I'm listening to

What I'm making for dinner, yum tacos

Who I'm missin

The picture that made me laugh

Who I'll be givin some kisses to

The tarot I'm using, Halloween Tarot

Who I'll be hanging out with tonight


Books I'm reading