2 Month Review

Sorry didn't come here for a while again. I'm trying to get better again. lol Any way Monday night was our first 2 month oral review. It was neat. I like it better then a 6 month review where I forget so much in that time period. It was kind of funny though. Cause the brother said ok we are doing a new format tonight. We will have a oral review instead of written. Ok get started. And then he walked off the stage. I just looked at him and thought, hmmmm am I wrong in what oral review could mean? lol Then he got back on stage and said, oops sorry, I can't believe I did that. lol Uh I guess I have to be up here to get started. lol Our examples on how to present the magazines was also hilarious. lol We have a brother who used to be a newscaster in our congregation. Well, newscasters are used to having every thing wrote out word for word for them. So he is that kind of guy. He and his wife get up there, and she gets to the donation part. And he just looks at her. (apparently forgot his lines.) So then she says, so are you going to give me a donation or what? lol It was a funny night. I am not making fun of these brothers. It just helps me not be so scared to make a mistake, when I see every one does. And it lightens the mood I think.

Any way, haven't done a whole lot more. Except go to Costco where the crowd was CRAZY!

New Jeans

Not doing a whole lot lately. I only worked a very little on my cross stitching. Although it's almost done. I got the cutest jeans though. They are capris (which means just the right length for me), that had red roses embroidered up one leg from the bottom. I've never been able to have jeans like that since I would have had to cut off the bottoms to hem them up. So that was pretty exciting. lol Hmmmm, I think it's been brought up that I have a boring life.

Summer Shopping

I got done with the back stitching of the face and the hands yesterday and the DRESS! So now I'm working on her hoop.

Went to Wal-mart today and got some new clothes for summer. Very cute. :)

Stitching

Yup yup got done with back stitching the hair. And started the face. I hope I'm done with the face, and hands today. :)

Blizzard

I've started the back stitching last night. I got all three hair bows done. Now, I'm working on the hair. I think the hair will be done before the days end. :) I'm taking it slowly. Cause when I rush I make too many mistakes and end up having to rip half the stitched out and do it over.

We're pretty snowed in. Having a blizzard here. Not supposed to go any where. But, Vince still went to work!

Cancelation

Still working on my cross stitching. But, thankfully only have the backstitching left to do. I didn't work on it for a few days.

We've canceled our cruise for 2004. There wasn't enough support for a group cruise. But, have decided instead to go to Silver Dollar City theme park. I think it will be fun. We will go with my mom and step father and my nieces and nephews, for a week. Can't wait. :)

Let's see other things we've done? Not a lot. lol Sorry.

Big Fat Greek Wedding

Almost done with my first cross stitching project. I have a lot more I need to get done. lol :) But, it's been fun.

I bought My Big Fat Greek Wedding last night. It was hilarious! lol I love it.

Trying to Flutter

Still working on my cross stitching project. I have gotten the head done, and part of the chair and dress.

I was not doing too much fly lady. Fell off the wagon. The living room gets depressing with all the papers. They are driving me crazy. Any way I am cleaning the kitchen though a little this morning. Thankfully the bathroom doesn't need much this time. Just basic maintenance.

Homey

Still doing my cross stitching and having a lot of fun. I also hung up a doll I've had since I was little, and a wedding picture in our bedroom, I think it sure looks a lot warmer in there. Working on getting rid of the stale office feel. I want a warm homey feel. lol I also got a really nice candle in ginger bread scent that I love at Wal-mart. I actually started burning a huge 3 wick candle I bought for our wedding. For some reason we didn't light it at the wedding! So I've been burning it and other candles and listening to some nice jazz cds and just relaxing and cross stitching. It's been really nice.

Routines

Yesterday I went to the ophthalmologist it went well. He said there was absolutely no signs of glaucoma or diabetic damage to my eyes. Which that is great. My mother already had glaucoma by my age. And Grandma too. And mom's sister is now blind from diabetes. So I'm glad I don't have those problems.

Any way, I need to start doing my routines better. I haven't been doing them as well this week. But, trying to at least do my 15 minutes a day.

Also I started cross stitching last evening, and it's really great to get back to having a hobby offline. lol I'm making my mother a Mother Sew Dear portrait, of a girl stitching mother on a hoop and at the bottom says Mother Sew Dear. I think she will like it. :) And I'm having fun making it. I may make Vince's mother one too. But, not sure if I will do that pattern or a different one.

I'm gonna go to bed finally. Just thought I better pop in here. Need to get more on top of my blog!

Laundry

Just thought I would report, that I got all the laundry folded. And most of it put up. lol So doing better. lol Now, I just got to do the bedding today. I'm going to try to wash a comforter that is only supposed to be dry cleaned, but well I hate the chemicals in dry cleaning. So we will see what happens. I will hang it to dry. Then tomorrow is more hand wash items. A bunch of dresses that need washing. Then that's it till Friday. But, I may have to wait if the comforter isn't dry yet. So it may be Tuesday before I can do the hand washing. At least I can say I'm really really close to being done. For the first time in two years, we are almost dirty clothes free. lol It was difficult in Brooklyn with no elevator and being on the third floor to take everything up and down and then into a basement to be washed, and it was so expensive around 200 dollars a trip. So we got so behind. I'm so glad to be up to date on things now, and be rid of all the old clothes I don't need any more.

15 Minutes at a Time

I didn't get my night time routines done either last night. I was just so tired. But, today I got up and did my morning routines. And my 15 minutes in the living room. Today is bedding day. I hope I get it done. I didn't even fold the clothes I washed yesterday. *sigh* But, at least I'm almost caught up on laundry! YEAH! There's a ton to do in the living room. I need Vince to help go through more papers though. ACK.

Dreams

Eek, I haven't checked in here in forever.

Any way on Weds night we went out to TGIF's with Vince mother, and her friend Gerry, and her son Rudy Jr. IT was nice, but they quit making my favorite-Meat Loaf Stack. lol So I had Jack Daniel's shrimp.

Thursday didn't do much...... just my regular cleaning, laundry etc. Friday much the same.

Here we are on Saturday. Today I didn't get my morning routines done. But, oh well, I've kept up with them almost a month. I will just do them in the morning and get right back on. I was just tired and not feeling well this morning. I still need to do laundry though today. And yup almost done! Can't wait to have that laundry done. The bedroom it came along nicely this week, almost done. Just have a few light touch things left to do. I will do them next month for the most part. Tomorrow starts the living room, and it really needs it, I have gotten Vince to start going through all the junk mail though so that is helping.

I am thinking in April of going through the apartment like a real estate agent and figuring out what I want done in each room, to make it more home, and like I would like it. Right now it's kind of barren to say the least, and lacks a lot of character. No real decorating has been done at all.

I have decided what I want my bedroom to look like. I have a color scheme I am working with, so I figure I will go little by little as I can. So one thing I would like to do is get a silver/gray laundry basket. The color scheme I've came up with is mainly white, red, black, metallic gold/silver, and shades of gray for things I want to fade into the background like the trash cans, and laundry basket. lol I have decided I want all our pics to be in black and white in the bedroom to be more dramatic and I just like the look and feel of b&w over color some days. Easier on the eyes, and more soothing and romantic to me. So I already printed one picture in b&w, for a teddy bear who is holding a red heart picture frame. It's been empty since I bought it for Vince as my wedding gift to him. lol So that's been almost 2 years! It's in the window sill (ours are deep), with bird cage candle holders from our wedding on each side of him. I'm looking for other silver picture frames or red etc that will go well with b&w pics. I think it will look nice as I can do this. Will see how things go.

I would like the bathroom to have a few light house things. Not light house crazy but a few cutesy things to give it a less clinical look. lol Again red/grays/with some shades of blue grays.

Then I have to figure out the hall ways, kitchen, and living room.

My brother on Tuesday gave up his rights to his 5 children. My husband and I are on the list to adopt my niece. They are going to try to adopt her with my mother first so she will be with her other siblings, but if they don't let her because she has so many now as it is, and such a small house. We are next on the list. So that may slow things down. At least we will pass inspection now. We've been working at that since she was born in May.