Good morning, good morning...

We've danced the whole night through, Good morning good morning to you!

Hello Neverland!

Ok so I am done quoting things, I guess I am in a pretty good mood this morning. Not sure why, but anyways, I am not going to be upset with my happiness. Hehe.

Tuesday I made bread! and boy was it good. I think I am going to have to make more bread soon here cause we are going to probably go through those two loafs quickly considering one loaf is gone and we have cut into the other loaf. I also made Zucchini bread, and that was good too! It seems a bit softer in the middle than I would like, but it's still pretty yummy. Next time I think I will cook it at 350 for longer time. This time I cooked it at 400 for 35 minutes.

I also have a lot of tomatoes, so I think I will take a few of them and some onions and cilantro and make some salsa... or I might make a pasta sauce for eating with spaghetti... not sure yet. I think Salsa is probably a better idea. I will have to google salsa recipes and see what else I could put in there, need some kind of spicyness. I don't think I have any though so it might call for a trip to the grocery store. Not sure though.

Got our CSA box yesterday... got Carrots, lettuce(green and red leaf), beets (they were huge!), cucumber, zucchini, cherry tomatoes, larger tomatoes, cucumber, Lemon cucumber, cilantro, potatoes (red and white), corn, walla walla onion, and garlic. I split it with my sister in law. :) We usually cut the lettuce in half so that we get a variety of greens. I need to make salad with that today, although I still have a lot of salad left from the other day... we need to eat our salad! :) I will probably cook the two beets I got, they really were huge, size of baseballs, the last few we have gotten have been between baseballs and golfball size. I got the onion this time, and Katie took the cucumber and two of the corns, I got one corn on the cob, I might put that in the salsa. I also got the garlic and zucchini and Lemon cucumber and 3 carrots. Mmm these foods are good. I have really been enjoying the beets over the last week or so, definitely like candy! I could eat them for desserts they are so sweet! Can't wait to try the walla walla onion, cause I think that might be very very good. I still have green beans and green onions from last week that I need to chop up and do something with. We also still have peas... lots of peas. I put those in the freezer.

As of October 5th I will be working. :) I have a job babysitting Paul's cousin Phoenix. She's such a cutie pie! I am really looking forward to it, having a baby around will be fun, perhaps dangerous for that biological clock that's ticking, might set off the alarm something fierce. Oh well. I look forward to all the rocking to sleep and the snuggling and talking and cooing that gets to be done. Watching her learn new things, crawling and walking and eating new foods. I am very excited. :) Will let you know how that goes as we get closer to the date.

Got a sewing machine from church, so I can give the other one back to Paul's grandma. The one from church is a Singer model 401, made in the 1950s and 60s. :) It works great! I am really enjoying learning about it. I have found a manual online for it that is free, so that is good. I will probably need it.

Sewing stuff... well let's see, yesterday I helped my sister in law and her mother in law hem up some of my sister in law's scrub pants. :) Does that count? I also looked through a Kaffe Fassett quilting book and fell in love with many of the quilts in there. I love colors and fabric and shapes! I really need to start sewing together some of the projects that I have. If I don't I might go crazy. So I am setting aside the strip quilt that's for mom and going to work on one of the baby quilts I want to do. Probably the one for the girl. I have to figure out what kind of quilt I am going to do for her, but once I get the fabric it probably won't be too hard to figure it out. I have a bunch of little girl prints that would probably look great on a quilt, just need to get them out and figure out what to do with them. I have a few books with some great baby quilt ideas, so I am excited to try them out. I also won a giveaway for a little dress for a baby girl so I am excited to send that to my cousin and hopefully they will love it as much as I do. It's blue and wonderful! :)

I am reading a lot of books lately. Have you ever heard of the Elm Creek Quilts series? Well they are books written by Jennifer Chiaverini. They are very good! The stories are about quilters, and yes they quilt and talk about quilting, but it's more than about quilts. These are people and you learn about their lives. People say you can read them in whatever order, but I really like the published order.

K, well time for me to go and do dishes I think. :( housework, ick. I think I might be allergic. hehe. Who knows what I will do when I have kids... are they good at doing housework? I guess they are only as good as you teach them... from the time they are born till Kindergarten I will teach them how to clean! Hopefully they enjoy it. :)

Oh and it's been 50-70 and raining the last few days! Woohoo! finally! Brown grass go away!

Rain

It's not a surprise that it is raining here... just it seemed that when other people were complaining about rain lately, we were getting beautiful days. Today it is raining.

Just went to get Paul lunch, burger king, he is definitely feeling better if he can eat a Whopper Value meal and still feel good.

Went to the grocery store too while out to pick up some toilet paper... 9 pack of mega Quilted Northern for 4.99 when you buy 3... Well I personally dislike it when stores do this whole thing of buy more save more... blah. But I figured we do use toilet paper and that is one thing you don't want to run out of ... ever. I can pass the buy 10 cans of tuna deals, and the buy 20 packages of mac n cheese. But when I can save $12.00 when I buy three packages of toilet paper... well I think that's a good deal. Also we do have a spot for it, so that makes it even better.

Goal for today: To hang the pictures up... I have them all sitting and ready to be hung, just need to go around the apartment and poke holes in my walls. This is a record if I can do it today, considering every other place it's been at least 6 months to hang pictures. The first two places I lived in when in Wisconsin I didn't hang any pictures... and that was 3 years of my life in Wisconsin. The last place I lived in, it took about 6 months before I hung any up. This time I am at... 3 months! Woohoo, it's a record.

Other thing to do today is going to the library, I need to return two books. One I couldn't renew cause it was requested by someone. These were due on May 8th... I am a little behind, it doesn't help that we had both been sick the last 4-5 days... oh well. 25 cents isn't going to break us. :)

I might try to get the dishes done today too, they are piling up and really need to be put in the dishwasher... it's hard to do things when you don't feel good. Every day Paul was sick I would get to the end of the evening and think "I should do the dishes cause I don't know if I will be feeling up to it tomorrow, I might be sick." And sure enough eventually I was sick...

Gotta plan dinner tonight too, maybe something simple, some rice and veggies with chicken or something. That would probably do well in our bellies.

Well anyways, off to the library then back here to do the few things that are on my to do list.

By the way, I love Paperbackswap... just got this quilting book in the mail. I should go through and make a list of the books I have gotten. It's a lot of cooking/quilting books. Perhaps I should branch out to something different. Hmm, maybe.