Week 33

Q33 - What are you crossing your fingers for?

Week 32

Q32 - Why did I do that?

Week 31

Q31 - What 3 words would someone use to describ me?

The Living Room

Well we removed the wall between the sunroom and the living room and everything is starting to take shape.

The above picture is of my pregnant sister Sarah pulling out staples in the hardwood floors. We removed the carpet and low and behold there were beautiful hardwood floors underneath. We are planning on having them refinished sometime after my sister's baby is born. We found some interesting wall paper underneath the paneling on the wall. We have decided that because the wall paper is so horrid we are going to just leave the paneling on the wall and paint it with a lovely butter color. All the trim will be a coffee brown.

We have recently had the support beams covered and new outlets and light fixture rewired. We are waiting on the drywaller’s to finish the ceiling so we can prime and paint the walls. We will then sand the trim and then wait for my sister’s friend to do the floors. After the floors are done we will paint the trim. Then we will start on a new room. Be with us next time for standing room only or rock n’ roll.

Week 30

Who do you need to thank?

This list goes on and on, first if would be God for all the good things in my life. Next would be my husband for the unconditional love he gives me (Even though I am really weird sometimes). I am thankful for, my sister, for her interesting outlook on life and my friends for the fun that we always have together.

The Garden

Well I tried to have a vegetable garden at the house but due to extenuating circumstances, the weather has confounded me at every opportunity. I have joined a Community garden with a friend and my sister who lives with me. We have put in a lot of vegetables. I was hoping to put in more cucumbers but mother nature has stopped that with all of the rain. So I will have to be happy with the one's I have.

Week 29

Q29 – Do you have a recurring dream?

When I was younger I use to have this dream about going away to a summer camp that had all these cool toys. They had go-carts, speed boats and helicopters that were sized for little kids. It was always a blast there and I was always there with my sister Heather.

Week 28

Q28 – What are your favorite days of summer filled with?

My favorite days of summer would be filled with a never ending stream of Saturday’s and Sunday’s. I would paint and write, laugh and cry. I would garden and go to the beach down in Florida with my sister and collect shells.

Week 27

Q27 – What have you found lately?

Peace. I have found peace after my father-in-law’s funeral. The pain and suffering that he went thru in his last days made the whole family suffer with him. I have found Peace knowing that he is in God’s arms.

Week 26

Q26 –On my walls I would write…

Do it today, tomorrow it will be illegal.

Week 25

Q25 –Have you had a hug today?

Of course I got a hug today. I always get and give many hugs everyday.

Week 24

Q24 – Name something you don’t understand, but you want to?

Why God chooses certain people to have children and others who are in stable relationships to not have children. Why are children thrown away?

Week 23

Q23 – How can I be kinder to myself…?

Be more positive of what I can do and not to focus on what I can not do. Maybe even go out and do something nice for myself instead of something for others. Like having a pedicure or buying a new outfit or maybe something as simple as making time for my love of nature.

Week 22

Q22 –Which direction am I going?

I feel as if I am going I a positive direction I have recently started working out and am feeling much better for it. Hopefully I will be able to keep up the good work and lose weight so it will be easier to get pregnant.

Week 21

Q21 – If I had a free day with NO restrictions…what would you choose to do?

If I had a day with No restrictions I would take my husband and I would drive and drive. We have our best conversations in the car. I would pack a picnic and we would find a secluded place to sit and laugh and talk the day away.

Week 20

Q20 – What is my latest obsession?

Getting pregnant has been my latest obsession. I have recently changed doctors and been diagnosed with insulin resistance which causes infertility and weird periods. Now that I am taking Mediformin I am feeling much better. I know feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. I am now waiting patiently for my little friend so we can get started with the baby making.

Week 19

Q19 – What gives me hope?

My Cousin Toni gives me hope. She is now pregnant with Twins and has had as much trouble getting pregnant as I have. Now that she is going to have twins as well as her beautiful little girl it gives me hope that I can have a child as well.

Week 18

Q18 – What’s on your to-do list this week?

My to do list is a jumble of previous lists. When ever I do not finish something on one list I add it to another. I do the easy and the things that I like to do and leave the more difficult and my least favorite for latter. Ending up with some items never being done, I need to finish the difficult and least favorite and leave the things I like to do for last as a reward to myself.

Week 17

Q17 – What is my super power?

I think that my super power would have to be my ability to hold my temper. Some people would just snap. It takes a long time for me to lose my temper but when I do you better watch out because a tornado is coming.

Week 16

Q16 – What is the truth?

The truth is that little kernel of knowledge that you have tried to share with others, but is best suited to the backstreets and alleys of life. No one wants the truth, they want a happy everything is going to be ok. Life is not fair and never will be, until Jesus comes again.

Week 15

Q15 – What makes me me?

What makes me me, I would have to say would be my smile, my positive outlook and my thinking so outside of the box that you are back inside the box. If you think to yourself what is she going to do A. or B.? I will turn around a do a triple Z on you.

Week 14

Q14 - What is the last good book you read?

Revenge of the Paste Eaters. Memoirs of a Misfit.
She shows us that people are constructed from inconsistencies and paste, and that if you’re going to be fair to others, you really need to start by being fair to yourself. I found the book a delight.

March

You know the old saying March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb? Well here in Wisconsin it has come in like a lion and is going out that way as well. We did have a couple of nice days in the middle so I soupose that could be the lamb part, but I think it was eaten by on of the lions. So here we are with two lion's in the month of March. I hope they don't get into a fight or maybe they already did and that is why the month did not go out like a lamb.

Happy Cesar Chavez Day.

Week 13

Q13 - what was my worst (or best?!) hairstyle experience to date?

I think my worst hairstyle would be when I turned 18 and decided to cut all 18 inches of my hair off and get a perm, which proceeded to frizz out after I spent a week long bike trip in Kansas with my head in a bike helmet.

Week 11 & Week 12

Q11 – What keeps me awake at night?

Everything from the drip in the faucet to my sister, keeps me awake at night. I need to try and leave my problems outside when I get home. I have a tendency to sit up at night and just keep thinking and thinking about everything that I have to do.

Q12- What are you grateful for right now?

I am grateful for my husband I do not know what I would do without him. I am grateful for the sun that shines and everything God has give us.

Rain

Rain, Rain go away come again another day. Well at least it's not snowing, even though we are suppose to get some of the white stuff this weekend. I am praying that it does not happen, because there are some daffodil's that are just starting to come up in the flower beds. Yellow is my favorite color, so I just seem to love any flower that is yellow. The seeds that we planted in the house have just stared to come up. I am getting really excited. Pretty soon we can start planting more.

Seeds

I have finally gotten around to planting my seeds for my garden this year. We have planted 4 heirloom types of Tomato's (pink ox heart, Amish paste, Belgium giants and fuzzy peach), 1 Hot Pepper type, 1 Bell Pepper type (yellow), lavender, and Rosemary. At the end of the month we will plant some of the flowers we plan on planting along with the rest of the vegetables, except the seeds to be planted directly into the ground. I am so excited for spring to be here.

Week 10

I hope I can do this question justice. The only movies that come to mind off the top of my head are movies that I have been to just for the pleasure of being out with my husband.

Q10 - name 5 movies that inspire you creatively...

1. The Labyrinth
2. Pan’s Labyrinth
3. Pride & Prejudice
4. 1776
5. Moulin Rouge

It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

Well it's March here in Wisconsin and we have a nice fluffy layer of snow on the ground again. Yesterday I was sitting at home rotating between ogling seed catalogs and unpacking the piles of boxes in my new home, when we were hit with a snow storm. Well it did not start out that way, it started by raining for a couple of hours then the water froze on the trees, making them look like glass sculptures and with the wind whipping around the branches it sounded like some one was dropping beads on the roof. Then it started to snow, and here I was already to start my garden (not outside of course but inside). Well the snow put a damper on my mood, so all the egg cartons are sitting in the living room window already to be planted and I am not in the mood to put even one seed in. I think I have a Love/Hate relationship with snow. I love the snow at the beginning of the season, but I hate it when I get the spring itch to start planting. Oh well I guess I will never learn.

Voodoo Chicken Queen

My sister Heather has been sending me chicken after chicken on my farm. So I have knighted her Voodoo Chicken Queen. So let’s send her lots and lots of chicken. All hail Heather the Voodoo Chicken Queen. Now all she needs is her royal cloak, which will be some chicken wire with paper flowers on it. (You know like from a float from a parade), her royal scepter will be a bedazzled chicken leg and her crown will be a KFC bucket turned upside down. She will also need her royal jewels, which I believe will be some chicken bones. All hail Heather, The Voodoo Chicken Queen. (Everyone should back away slowly genuflecting)

Week 9

Well they posted the next question and I have been so busy that I have not had the time to write it out let alone be creative. Well here it is:

9. What was the last brave thing I did?

The bravest thing that I have done is bought a house in this economy.

The New House

Well I am finally back from my vacation, if you call moving in one day a vacation. We signed on our new house last week Tuesday and I have been cleaning and packing like crazy. My new house now looks like I have not cleaned it in weeks with boxes on all the counters. We have a lot of work that we are going to do to the house but it will take us some time. Here is what it looks like now.

We are planning on doing some painting because the choices of colors are not what we would pick.

We really want to put new window's in the house because some of them have been broken and then sealed with cauk. Almost all of the windows in the house have been caulked shut. We also want to update the Kitchen the layout is very odd.

We also want to remove a wall from that seperates the sunroom and the livingroom so that we can have one great room.

I will try and keep everyone updated on our progress. Have a blessed week.

Happy Fat Tuesday

Well I hope everyone is enjoying Fat Tuesday, my little sister just stopped by my work with a raspberry Paczki. I could eat more than just one, but it would not do my diet any good, so it's only one for me. Well normally we would have Paczki on Fat Thursday but in the US you can only get them on Fat Tuesday, but if we were in Poland we would have had them on Fat Thursday. I remember my Grandmother making these treats, even though she was German. My fondest memories were learning to bake at my Grandmother's knee. We would bake cookies and bread. I also remember my mother and grandmother canning, and freezing like mad women trying to put enough in the pantry to last the whole winter and also get all the veggies done before the spoiled. I also remember my grandmothers fudge. I never did get this recipe from her while she was alive, but I was going thru some of the old church recipe books and I found a recipe with her name under it. What do think this recipe was? Well it the the fudge recipe. Let me tell you I was screaming and crying at the same time. If you still have your grandmother with you, let me give you some free advice, love and learn what ever you can from her because you will never know when you will lose her.

Week 8

Well I have finally finished answering all the questions for the Q52 project, but I have not put them on my cards and did my little craft project on the otherside. Oh' well at least I have half the project done and I can start on the rest when I unpack my craft stuff. Well here is question number 8:

8. What was the last thing that made you laugh out loud?

I have so many things that make me laugh out loud so I put my favorite one down that happened last night.

The last thing that made me laugh, was my husband trying to kiss me after he told me that we would be going over to a friends house “whom I really do not like” to watch the next episode of House. I just kept looking at him and he kept trying to kiss me so that he could get his way. I just kept pulling my head back. Then when he told me he was just kidding, we tried to kiss and we both just ended up laughing.

In the beginning...

I recently was reading a blog regarding writing a journal once a week called 52Q. It has inspired me to start writing again and have started this blog. The 52Q is a craft project were there is an question of the week and you write it on a small card and you can decorate the other side. I am a little behind since this is the end of February and everyone else stared at the beginning of January. Well that is the story of my life. I always seem to be behind in a lot of the projects that I am working on. I can only see it getting worse before it gets better, because we have just purchased a house and will be signing the papers on next week Tuesday and moving on Saturday. The following is a list of the questions that I need to answer before they give us a new question on Monday or Tuesday next week. I think I will take this with me to the Laundromat this week.

1. What do I wish for this year to bring?

I wish for the New Year to bring me a chance at a child of my own for my husband and myself. A successful garden and completion of many items on our to-do list for our new home.

2. Am I afraid of change?

I think that everyone is a little afraid of change so to say that I am not afraid would be a lie. I try to embrace change but I think that is the most that anyone of us can do.

3. Do you believe in Fairies?

Yes, I believe in fairies, I believe you see them every day you just don’t know it. I believe they exist in glare you get when you look thru the windows and have to look away because they shine so bright. I also believe that my niece is a fairy child. I love that she calls me her fairy god mother. So yes I do believe in fairies.

4. When I look into my eyes, I see....

When I look into my eyes, I see hope, love and the need to feed my creative side. I see a loving wife who would do what ever she could to keep her husband and family safe and loved.

5. How do I feel today?

I am very excited we will be closing on our new home today. I am excited that I will finally be able to paint the walls any color that I want.

6. If I could do it all again, would I change anything?

The only thing that I might change would be that I would have gone to the community college in town instead of commuting to school in Chicago. It may have kept me a little more naive a little longer, but I think I would have been able to feed my creative side a little bit more than I was able to.

7. What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

I would get my sisters to understand that they do not need to have a man or baby to be loved. The whole family loves them for who they are. They need to know that when the right man comes along it will not take a pregnancy to keep them with you. They will want to be with you just for you being yourself. My sisters need to find a way to identify the emotional leaches that they are attracted to and stop the blood suckers.

Well that will be my project for this weekend along with all of the packing that I need to do.