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So I went a little crazy a few days back and was cleaning out our closet. Trying to purge! One of my secret [not anymore, obviously] resolutions was to simplify my crap and organize what I do keep. I think I’d use more of my stuff if I had it organized and in a place where I would use it. Anyway, the point is that I found some pajama pants. Dubble Bubble, Oscar Mayer Weiner and Oscar The Grouch. I love them and want to remember them but I don’t wear them so…

I got them together and started hacking away at them with my very awesome fabric shears. I promise, those scissors are the greatest thing ever. They have some spring action goin’ on and make it almost effortless to cut through fabrics. Anyway, what was I saying? Oh yeah, pajama pants. So I cut out 11″ squares of these three pajama pants. I also cut out 11″ squares of some of the same type of fabric in pink because I figured my faux-quilt or fuilt if you will, needed some solid in there with all of those busy patterns.

I sewed all of these together (about 42 squares total) and then sewed them to the back of a dark grey fleece throw that I had layin’ around. Thus creating the fuilt throw that you see above! The great thing I absolutely love about this is that one side is soft and cool, while the other side [fleece] is warm and fuzzy. It is a great contrast and I think I’ll probably end up using it a LOT! And since doing this I have really sparked my creativity and passion for making quilts or throws. I want to go buy a bunch of fleece and start throwin’ these badboys together! Good times and horrible carpal tunnel pain.

On The Wedding front, I have designed my invitations, I think. I’m taking them to mama’s house tonight to get her opinion or suggestions. I think my first draft is actually going to be my final! And how I love that so much… Now I need to design the Reply Cards and I think I will be all set for that. I’ll post my final design once I get them all complete and in the mail. What else? Hmm.. I changed my flower to the cala lily. Which I love and I’m totally excited about! I bought a few light pink lilies that were on the clearance shelf at Hobby Lobby to take to the wedding planner to see if she wants/can use them. They’re adorable and I’m sure they can be useful somehow!

Stomache is feeling better but I would definitely say that today was a rough day at work. There is so much stuff piled up on my desk right now and it made for a pretty stressful day. Not to mention, I had the Mother of All Headaches today for at least 2+ hours.

Candy :: Jan.30.2008 :: Health, Hobbies, Wedding :: Comments Off

I am finally feeling substantially better. I am finally not feeling stomach pain and burning inside. I am finally not vomiting or having severe diarrhea any longer. I am finally a real person again. I feel like the last 3 days have been a complete blur. My back is pretty sore from all of the laying around I’ve done in the last 72 hours but other than that I am ready to start a new day tomorrow.

The weather is going in a downward slope again. The wind gusts were up to 30mph today. The dogs were barking all day long, getting spooked by every little hiss of wind that came through the cracks in the doors and windows. There were a lot of noises coming from outside today, I’m guessing people’s trash cans were being blown all around the neighborhood since today was trash day and the winds were ridiculous. Temperature outside right now is 36° and the high tomorrow is 40°. I know people across the blogosphere are saying this but, I am seriously sick of Winter! I am soooo ready for Spring.

Candy :: Jan.29.2008 :: Health, Weather :: 1 Comment »

I don’t know if it was the shopping cart at Target on Saturday afternoon or if it was the cupcakes I made on Saturday evening but something has transmitted this horrible stomach flu to me and I will forever hate it/them. I got up Sunday morning at 6 AM and I have been in awful pain and ill ever since. I thought everything had subsided but about an hour ago it flared up again.

Going to get into bed now so I can try to get up and make it to work on time tomorrow. I’ll cross my fingers that I will make it through tomorrow with as little sickness and pain as possible.

Candy :: Jan.28.2008 :: Health :: Comments Off

So this morning I browsed a few blogs in the dieting/weight loss category and got the much needed inspiration I’ve been looking for. I am so happy right now. I feel so good about it. Yeah I ate way too many Conversation Hearts this morning and way too many Sour Cream & Onion Rice Crackers (which are actually really low in fat and calories, but I ate TOO MANY). But I feel a lot better. For lunch I am going to run home and eat some leftovers from the fridge and just relax. I’m really excited to get back into this whole dieting thing. I really don’t even want to consider it a diet.. It needs to be much more of a lifestyle change than anything. The word diet in this day and age seems so temporary. Like a quick fix. I want to be healthy! I don’t just want to lose weight, I want to be a healthy person.

One of my biggest motivations is that I really would like to extend our family in the next few years and I really want to be as healthy as I can before I do that. So here it goes.. I’ll try to post regularly about how I’m feeling and how it’s going.

Candy :: Jan.23.2008 :: Diet, Health :: Comments Off

Thanks Janet!

1. The last compliment I got was from Gene; he said I looked nice a few days ago when I was leaving for work.
2. I’m reading Lolita and I’ll be so happy to start a new book soon. It’s wordy! .
3. I woke up today and thought TGIF.
4. Why does life have to end? Why can’t it last forever?
5. The last thing I ate was homemade Salisbury Steaks made with 97/3 ground turkey, mac & cheese & stove-top stuffin’
6. January… can be over for all I care. This month hasn’t been good for people we care about and honestly? I am SICK of winter!
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to relaxing as much as possible, tomorrow my plans include driving 3 hours from home to spend the day with my grandma (who is extremely ill from cancer) and grandpa and Sunday, I want to relax if possible, maybe clean up the house a little!

Candy :: Jan.18.2008 :: Meme :: Comments Off

I just spent the last two hours upgrading Wordpress and it went a little something like this:

Reading Wordpress Upgrade Instructions. It keeps saying to backup your files but we all know what a pain in the butt that is.. So I think I’ll skip that step. Everything will be ok. It’ll never happen to me.

Uploading. Uploading. Uploading. It never ends! Why are there so many darn files? Done! YAY!

Run Upgrade PHP file. Everything appears to have gone smoothely… or so it says.

Reload page, getting the error: Sorry, no posts match your criteria. Um, excuse me?

Oh, I never deactivated my plugins before upgrading. Another step that it stressed I should do that I totally skipped because I think I’m special and nothing bad will happen to me. Deactivate plugins one by one until my entries reappear.

Start upgrading all plugins that are out of date. Get rid of a few that are taking up server space that I never use. I have my entries back and now I’m happy! Oh and now my e-mail works for getting comments.. so now I can actually reply to people who comment on here. Yay!

Lesson Learned? ALWAYS follow their instructions, even if it is something tedious like deactivating plugins or backing up databases. I did notice they have a”deactivate all plugins” link at the bottom of the Plugins page and I can’t really express how helpful that is! Wordpress (or maybe my server?) is a little laggy when activating and deactivating plugins, so wow.. huge time saver there, people!

I’m done with Wordpress tonight. I’m gonna go drag Gene to bed with me to cuddle. Haven’t had a lot of that over the last several nights because, well, let’s just say that I am pretty much gone as soon as my head hits the pillow at night. Sooo glad tomorrow is finally Friday!

Candy :: Jan.17.2008 :: Website :: 2 Comments »

We went to KFC tonight for dinner. So bad for you and made me feel SO gassy but boy was it delicious. Wednesday nights they have $1.99 Chicken Fried Steak meal. You get a chicken fried steak, two sides and a biscuit.. all for the very low price of $1.99 plus tax. You can’t really beat that and we needed to run out to get Gene’s car all gassed up so why not stop in for some yummies?

After that we went to Kohls where we walked around for over 2 hours and now I feel absolutely brain dead and exhausted. I’m about to go take a shower and get ready for bed. I hate that I feel this tired because I got absolutely nothing done around the house tonight. I am vowing to stay in for the rest of the week, which I realize is only 2 more days… but I am sick of going out every night and not getting home until close to 10 PM. And did I mention the weather?

Oh the weather! It has really lost it’s mind. It got up into the 50s there for a week or so and tonight? Snowing! Ugh. Right now the computer says it is 27° outside with Light Snow. Seriously?? Yeah. Gene almost slipped and fell on the slick pavement when we were leaving Kohl’s. I saw a couple of cars that actually had mounds of snow built up on their windshields.

Ok I got a whiney dog begging to go out.

Candy :: Jan.16.2008 :: Daily, Shopping :: 2 Comments »