This is For you Angie

4 different jobs I've had
1. South Bend Regional Museum of Art
2. 1st Source Bank
3. C & B Optical One
4. Best Buy - where I met my hubby

4 Movies I watch over and over
1. Harry Potter
2. Under the Tuscan Sun
3. The Notebook ( thanks to Khara )
4. A lot of Disney movies

4 Places I have lived
1. Mishawaka, IN
2. Granger, IN
3. Hickory, NC
4.

4 People who email me regularly
1. My cousin Michelle
2. My Pops
3. a lot of cooking sites
4. ????

4 of my favorite Foods
1. CHEESY POTATOES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( These are the special Hektor' Cheesy Potaotes!!! I only get them on holidays
2. Chicken
3. Green Beans
4. Salads

4 places I would rather be right now
1. Mexico with Ryan
2. warm napping in my bed
3. Anywhere with my hubby
4. Disney World!!!


4 Things I am looking forward to this year
1. My Little Sister GETTING MARRIED!!!
2. Looking for and buying our 1st house
3. Trying to be and do better than I did last year
4. Spending time with my hubby :o)

And Now We Rest

I got it alllll done - well all but the knitting :O( And now I am soooo tired. Here is the break down:

On Sunday the 24th I made the rest of the cookies, went to the bank for Ryan, wrapped gifts, my friend Robin stopped by so I could give her her chocolates and we visited for a bit, I took a hour nap, wrapped more gifts, ironed Ryan's shirt ( even though I had asked him the NIGHT BEFORE for him to pick out his clothes in case I needed to iron it because I wasn't going to have time last minute ), took a shower, got dressed and was all ready to go by ten till 7pm. Not Bad :O)

We left the house at 6:50pm for mass at the log chapel with my moms side of the family, from there we went to Ryan's parents house to celebrate Christmas with them. It was a good time, but we didn't leave till almost 2AM!!!! We needed to be up by 7:30 am Christmas Day :O(

Christmas day we got up, got dressed, packed the car and went to Joe and Marys house for our family Christmas. We had breakfast there and opened our gifts. The Boys all got a remote control thing, Erik and Joe got helicopters and Ryan got a car. It was sooooooo funny at one point all the boys were outside playing with their toys without jackets on!!!! It was all sun shiny and warm ( for December ) I think it was at least 40 degrees. Reminded me more of Easter than Christmas. After that we stopped by my Grandpa and Grandma Hektor's graves and I gave them the ornament I made for them, then we went to Uncle Dan's for the Hektor's Christmas. This is the place we get the CHEESY POTATOES!!!!! We all wait all year for the Cheesy Potatoes!!! Plus we love the Hektors, they are the bestest people ever!!! Ryan and I stayed till 7 I think??? But the time we got home we were soooooooooo tired we couldn't even think straight. In fact it took everything I had not to fall asleep in the car on the way home, I wanted to stay awake and keep Ryan company.

So we get home, clean up a bit, give the Meowfaces their gifts, and we both crash on the couch watching CSI. We would both doze off for a bit, wake up eat a couple cookies and fall back asleep. We also decided its not the 12 DAYS of Christmas, its the 12 POUNDS of Christmas!!! We ended up crawling in to bed around midnight.

Ryan had to be up at 6:30 this morning, worked a 14hr day, came home and went right to bed. I on the other hand worked this morning, came home took a short nap, cleaned the kitchen, did 2 loads of dished, put away 3 loads of laundry, there is still a load in the dryer to put :O( but it is off to bed for me.

Oh and just in case you wanted to know I typed this whole thing with a rotten meowface ( tinky ) on my lap curled up inside my sweat shirt. She decided it was bug mommy time and DEMAND to be petted. I can't help it she is a sweetie :O) I love my moewfaces

SOOOOOOOO Sleepie!!!!

So its 1:45 am and I am just now done baking the sugar free cookies - I AM SOOOOOOOO TIRED!!! This is the update of my to do list: The Blue is the most currant update

To Do By Monday 24th at 4pm:

3 gifts to buy DONE!!!

wrapping paper PURCHASED!!! AND I GOT BOWS TOO :O)

wrap allllllllll gifts 3 DONE ABOUT 50?? MORE TO DO :O( I Wrapped 3 more tonight still have lots to do :O(

make the following letter ornaments ALL ARE DONE!!!!!!!
6 - H's
3 - W's
1 - O
1 - M
2 - D's
1 - J
2 - L's
5 - candy cane shaped
Total = 21 ( holy crap!!! ) DONE, DONE, DONE

make chocolates DONE AND BAGGED WITH THEIR ORNAMENTS!!!!
90 snowman peanut butter chocolate bars
90 mint patties
180 covered pretzels

finish knitting my moms b-day gift ( her b-day was the 1st and I'm still not done :O( ) NOT SURE IF I AM GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET THIS DONE - I FELL REALLY BAD ABOUT IT TOO!!!

knit the other "special" thing for a "special" person THIS PROBABLY WONT HAPPEN EITHER :O(

get glasses adjusted DONE

find out what I need to bring for x-mas breakfast DONE

make the cookies for my pops and Ryan's dad I GOT ALL THE STUFF TO MAKE THEM TODAY, DOES THAT COUNT??

( I think I am missing something??? ) I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM MISSING :O(

I did figure out what I am missing!!! I need to get Pantie Hoes :O(

PLUS-

Nismo is sick so I need to see if I can get her into the Vet tomorrow I think she has an upper respiratory infection and an eye infection her eye is soooooo red and teary I feel so bad for her :O(

PLUS-

I have to go to the bank for Ryan tomorrow

and I still have to wrap the rest of the gifts and bake regular cookies UGH!!! I am soooo sleepy!!! But I think I am going to call it a night for now. My apartment is a disaster, things are all over the place and my poor little sick Meowface wants me to hold her. Which I will cuz I'm a softy. So for me it is off to the couch to hold my baby Mitten till she falls asleep then its off to bed for me.

To Do Update:

So now that Friday is over ( ok it was over an hour ago but who's counting ) I thought I would update my list just to keep me on track.

To Do By Monday 24th at 4pm:

3 gifts to buy DONE!!!

wrapping paper PURCHASED!!! AND I GOT BOWS TOO :O)

wrap allllllllll gifts 3 DONE ABOUT 50?? MORE TO DO :O(

make the following letter ornaments
6 - H's
3 - W's
1 - O
1 - M
2 - D's
1 - J
2 - L's
5 - candy cane shaped
Total = 21 ( holy crap!!! )

make chocolates
90 snowman peanut butter chocolate bars
90 mint patties
180 covered pretzels

finish knitting my moms b-day gift ( her b-day was the 1st and I'm still not done :O( )

knit the other "special" thing for a "special" person

get glasses adjusted DONE

find out what I need to bring for x-mas breakfast DONE

make the cookies for my pops and Ryan's dad I GOT ALL THE STUFF TO MAKE THEM TODAY, DOES THAT COUNT??

( I think I am missing something??? ) I STILL DON'T KNOW WHAT I AM MISSING :O(



***OK, so not to bad....but I still have a long way to go.....I think I will start tomorrow with "craft time" and get the ornaments done and knitting, well at least my mom's knitting done and them move on to the chocolates in the evening......sounds like a plan and when I get board of what I am doing I will wrap a gift or two..... Or maybe I will have Ryan wrap :O) ( we will see ) Now all I have to do is execute this plan....**sigh***

To Do:

I needed to put my To Do List some place "safe", some place I won't loose it, like I have with the other 9 list I have created and lost. So what better place than my blog :O)

To Do By Monday 24th at 4pm:

3 gifts to buy

wrapping paper

wrap allllllllll gifts

make the following letter ornaments
6 - H's
3 - W's
1 - O
1 - M
2 - D's
1 - J
2 - L's
5 - candy cane shaped
Total = 21 ( holy crap!!! )

make chocolates
90 snowman peanut butter chocolate bars
90 mint patties
180 covered pretzels

finish knitting my moms b-day gift ( her b-day was the 1st and I'm still not done :O( )

knit the other "special" thing for a "special" person

get glasses adjusted

find out what I need to bring for x-mas breakfast

make the cookies for my pops and Ryan's dad

( I think I am missing something??? )


well for now that is the list - can you say CRAZY!!!! I think I may run out of time.....or I may be staying up all night tomorrow and Saturday. At least the next few days will go by fast and I do like being busy. Its a good thing I made and delivered the chocolates to my work today, so I have that done. YEAH!!!!!

I am confident that I will get it all done in time, I've never missed a deadline yet :O)

Am I Crazy??

I really think I am crazy!! For Christmas I have decided to make homemade gifts for all of my family, not just my mom, dad, brother, sister, and Ryan's parents... I mean my whole Family, both sides ( some cousins not included because they don't come to x-mas and I haven't seen them in years ) and in-laws included and Ryan's close friends. Is that nuts or what???

Everyone will be getting a homemade ornament that is the first letter of there last name, and home made chocolates, and I'm not talking just molded chocolates, I am making mint patties, chocolate covered pretzels and peanut butter chocolate bars with a snowman on them. So I have a total of 40 ornaments to make ( if I've not forgotten anyone ) and a total of 480 chocolates!!! So far some chocolates and ornaments have already been made and given out. I had my mom's side of the family Christmas last Sunday. So I am down to about half of each left to do, and its only Wednesday!!

But that's not all I still have to wrap all our gifts and I still have 3 people to buy for. I'm nuts!!!

Ryan helps out all he can but he has been working at the new City store about 14 hrs a day, so but the time he gets home he is sleepy and hungry. But he is being the bestest hubby ever!! We sat on the couch last night watching t.v ( like I have time to watch t.v ) and he fell asleep in my arm.......he was sooooooo sweet. I finally woke him up at 11:30pm cuz I had to go to bed. I really didn't want to he looked so peaceful. Sometimes when he is sleeping I will just watch him, I think I can see what out sons will look like in his sweet face. He looks just like a little boy when he sleeps.

Speaking of sweet faces and what our sons might look like, we have been talking about children lately. I really think next year is the year we will start to try for children. We still want a house first but after we get settled I think we may start trying. I'm really excited and Ryan is too. We only worry what it will do to the mittens, we treat them like babies now so what will happen when we have a real baby. Ryan thinks Nizzy won't understand ( she is special needs kitten ) and we think Tinky will be upset since she won't be the center of attention anymore. Oh well, they will adjust.



Heres some pics of the chocolates:

Chocolate Peanutbutter Bars with snowmans
Pretzles
Mint Patties

Ryan lighting up our Christams Tree....I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to make my homemade Ginger people yet :O(

Where have I been???

Wow has it been a long time.


The past few months have been very busy for me, and being busy is something I like. My parents are getting divorced and part of that is having to sell the house. So I have been at my dads A LOT!! I think I have been there just about every day since oh I don't know April maybe May?? And I am sooo proud of my daddy and me. The house is on the market!!!! Below is a list of things that he and I have done to the house. Now before you read the list and think ** that place must have been a dump** let me explain. We moved into this house 9yrs ago when the F-ing state took our house for the Capital Ave. bypass or whatever you call it. Then gave us like 3 months to find a house so this is what we ended up with. The house was a repo because the builders when bankrupt while building and they finished things half-ass. So there were some problems that needed to be addresses, nothing major, but it just was time consuming. Plus we moved in in a hurry so there were still boxes in the basement that we never un-packed.

The List is COMPLETED!!!

Painted: Foyer, Living room, Family room, Dinning room, Kitchen, Laundry room, 1/2 bath on 1st floor, stairwell, landing, 3 bedrooms, master bedroom, master bathroom which equals THE WHOLE HOUSE ( minus 1 bathroom upstairs, it was wall papered ) plus I patched about a million holes and such

2 rooms got new carpet

we cleaned out 3 bedrooms that used to be my brother, sisters, and mine. ( when we moved out we left a ton of crap everywhere )

cleaned the basement - I have sorted through so must junk it is not funny

cleaned the garage and plastered and taped it

redid landscaping

washed the outside of the house

painted the front pillars and front door

had a new kitchen floor laid

......ummmmm..... I can't think..... I know there is more???

anyways we did a lot, and by the way this was all done while my dad was working a full time job!!!

I think I am going to miss not being at my dad house every night and every weekend :( Him and I have really become good buddies!!

Growing up my dad and I didn't always get along. We could never have done anything like this when I was younger. But I think we have both grown up a bit and I think we are more alike than I thought. I have a really appreciation for my dad, he's that most awesome, caring, gentle,kind hearted man I know, and have ever know. WAIT A MINUTE!!!! HE's SANTA CLAUSE!!!!! and a cute puppy all rolled into one.

My dad has been there so many times when I need someone and had no one else to turn to. We've laughed together ( a lot ) and we've cried together. We talked about the good times and the bad time and as hard as it is to say I get my taste of music from him, and my love for Prairie Home Companion.

I think we are who we are for a reason and the people we know are placed in our lives for a reason. And I know that I'm my daddy's daughter for a reason. The things we have been through together, I don't know any other Father that would do so much for their grown daughter as my dad has done for me. He really is my best friend!!! And on more that one occasion he has been my angle. I'll never forget the thing my daddy has done for me and the things he has taught me.

But now that the house is done I have free time on my hands. YEAH RIGHT!!! I am so behind in other things its not even funny. OK well I guess I'm not that far behind. Lets see Halloween was Oct. 31st and I just now tonight took down my Halloween decorations. So that would put me about 6 weeks behind. Not that bad. I do have to give props to my hubby he has been a peach since I have been so busy. So thing have been getting down, but I think now its time for a woman to take over and really get the jobs done :O) No offense to men but sometimes women just do things better :O) Plus I still have x-mas to get ready for. AHHHHHHHHH!!!! Oh well I like it busy, it helps pass the time.