Sundae Cupcakes

I’m really hoping that one thing I will gain from this Cupcake Challenge I put on myself is to learn to make the most perfect, most consistent cupcakes. So far…. It hasn’t happened, but I am getting closer…. maybe…

I truly think that out of all of these cupcakes, this is one that most everyone was looking forward to. I know I was kind of dreaming about them. And they definitely top the cake over last months. maybe top the cupcake? Would that be icing… like the icing on the cake. Okay, I’ll stop now!

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Yearly Answers

Answers at 3 year old.

1. Why do you like being a kid? I like being a little girl

2. What is your happiest memory? Kissing a dolphin (She talks about this ALL the time)

3. What do you like to do for fun? Kiss a dolphin (She’s only done this once… she also likes to ride horses….)

4. What was the nicest thing you ever did for someone else? When I was at home, Tbug was at her mom’s house (I don’t know nor do I understand.. haha)

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School Daze

We may have been dangling school in front of Abug to try and get her potty trained. She’s talked about wanting to go to school for as long as I can remember it seems. Then one of the local schools around offered summer classes for students of all ages. They had a 2 1/2-3 1/2 year old class that is one day per week for an hour for $10. It was first come 1st serve. We actually got her signed up. She’s been back and forth on being happy and being scared. Luckily parents stay with their kids that whole time so it’s a great way to break her in to a classroom type setting.

About a week before we went she had a breakdown one night at bedtime saying she DIDN’T WANT to go to school EVER. I’m talking this was almost an hour breakdown about going to school. It was sad but funny at the same time. I guess I’ve always been kind of a nerd and kind of liked school (quietly). I was excited to be able to give her this experience.

Last Thursday was her first session. That morning I couldn’t get her to get out of bed. She threw a fit and cried and everything else. I was able to get her out of bed by brushing my teeth. She immediately jumped out of bed and said, “I have to brush my teefps (teeth).” The kid loves to brush her teeth… no joke. Otherwise, that blanket, that’s where she was hiding.

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Currently

Hi, have we met? I’ve been in a funk here lately and I really hate it. In fact, yesterday a couple friends said hi to me and I barely acknowledged them. I promise, I’m not a snob. Life has been throwing me curve ball after curve ball and I’m just in a funk. I think that early life crisis is hitting in again… or maybe close to midlife although if that’s the case, I’ll make it to my 60’s. That’s a morbid thought. See… funk! I’m not kidding. So, just because, let’s do a currently post. This should be fun, right?

Reading: I started reading Lauren Graham’s Book, Talking as Fast as I Can, but I’ve misplaced it. Otherwise, the other night I was reading Frozen to the bug. Exciting right? We also read Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and some book she gets monthly in the mail.

Listening to: both fans run. Otherwise it’s quiet in here right now. Oh and I guess I hear the tick tick of the keyboard.

Planning: The trip to my aunt’s house in a couple weeks and Abug’s birthday party this weekend. Can you believe she’s going to be 3? Where in the world has time gone…. seriously!

Wishing: That someone would take away my bad luck so maybe I could get just a bit of good luck… seriously. Oh and wishing that I could move my silly blog from Blogger to WordPress. I think Blogger doesn’t want me to leave and WordPress doesn’t want my ramblings. I have no other explanation. I’m going on 2 weeks of hardcore trying to move it and still coming up short. ACK!

Watching: Yesterday I was watching Gilmore Girls, again. My husband owns all the seasons and made me watch them once after we finished watching Friends for his 1stish time (all the way through) and my like 256,532,123.5 times or something like that. I have to say, I really like the Gilmore Girl series! I want to be Loreli Gilmore, sort of anyway.

Hoping: That I don’t have a breakdown. haha… just kidding. I really am just hoping for something better. I don’t know what at this point…

Learning: I try to learn something new every day. Right now, I’m learning that I can wake up at 6am and be a functioning human being. I’m not now nor have I ever been a morning person. Today Abug starts a summer class. It’s 1 day a week for an hour. I needed to get up and do chores and get this, I actually fixed my hair. I didn’t just pull it up in a messy bun and say screw it. This is a first… not really but you know. I wonder if I should show up in boots, cut off shorts, a t-shirt, and long coat like Loreli did on Rori’s first day at Chilton. Oh heck no…. I’ll save that for a day that Abug is being ridiculous and needs a less or something… you know when she’s a teenager and not a threenager.

Browsing: Oh heck, I can’t do that these days. I guess this morning I browsed through Facebook and some blogs that I follow. Then I wondered if anyone who I follow and I know used to follow me still does or if I lost most people. I know there are a handful of you out there who for sure read, and for hat I want to say thank you! I swear, someday I’ll get my mojo back. These days I just feel lost.

Going: To school… yet it isn’t for me this time! Whew! Nope, Abug starts a summer class today (mentioned above I know). One minute she’s excited and the next she’s scared to death. The other night at bedtime we had a breakdown about how she didn’t want to go to school and she refused to go to sleep because that meant she had to go to school and she was no longer a big girl, instead she was a baby so she didn’t have to go to school, and you get the picture.

Wish us luck!

Technology Hates Me

These last few days have been extremely stressful. I’m ready to crawl in a hole and not come back for a while. Ugh! So my iCloud account was shut down because apparently it had been hacked. I had to change my password. Once I did, I run a Mac and had to update everything on my laptop as well…. BUT… there’s always a but… it’s not working totally right. Oh… and I can’t remember what I changed my password to.

So then let’s move on to this blog. I’ve been trying to move it over to WordPress. Yes I jumped on the WordPress bandwagon, or at least I have tried. {beats head on wall} It’s a nice thought… but the stupid program won’t import my previous blog. I’ve been trying for 2 weeks. I keep getting error messages.

I went on line trying to find help. All it sent me to was forums that didn’t help. So I tried to contact them. Well even though I have a WordPress account, I can’t figure out how to log in to anything but my wordpress site and so I can’t contact WordPress people because they don’t believe I have an account. Either A) they want me to start one, which I already have or B) use the forums which don’t help.

So I googled contact WordPress and wound up on some 24/7 WordPress help site. They got my password and login information for both Blogger and WordPress and logged in. Then said they could help me. I said great and that’s when they said, but it’ll cost you. Wait what? If you knew it was going to cost me, why the hell did you get my login information. sigh! And it shows that they are located in California but the people helping me were from India.

I hate technology. I can just hand move 2200 posts over if I wanted… but then A) that takes a lot of time. B) I lose all comments from everyone. Etc. I’m so frustrated.

Then add trying to find a job. Technology hates me right now. Kind of like the stoplights. I swear, if I go through a stoplight I’ll hit it on red no matter what. Anyway, I want to cry now… but it won’t do any good so I guess I’ll get back to something… I’m not really sure what. Wish me luck!

11 Quotes to Remember About Life

The other night as I was lying awake at 2:30am I was thinking about a lot of things… mainly life. I got tired of thinking about life so I jumped on Facebook. Isn’t it funny how sometimes when you least likely expect it you see just what you need?

Life is an interesting thing. I wake up some mornings and feel like I should be 20 because I feel like in life I’m where a 20 year old is, yet in a little over a month I’ll be 34 (does someone want to please verify my math….). What does that sentence mean? Well obviously, I don’t know my age but I know my birthday. Okay okay, seriously, that sentence means, I have an almost three year old. A lot of my friends had that in their early 20’s. In my early 20’s I wasn’t responsible enough. I knew that then. There was no question in my mind of that.

When I got out of college I had a pretty new degree that said I was qualified to teach high school students 9-12. I was 22 years old. If I were to teach a senior in high school, I was looking at 17 and 18 year olds. That made me 4-5 years older than they were. Would they have listened to me? Probably not. I didn’t get a job right out of college as an agriculture teacher. I spent that first year out of college as a substitute teacher and a part time server. Wow did I learn a lot that year, including how to do proofs (you know those things in Geometry that I failed in high school… No, I didn’t fail Geometry, just the proofs unit….).

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Quilt Block 25 & Putting the Quilt Together

To tell you the truth, I’ve been chomping at the bit to get this quilt put together. I have loved every minute of it, but I’m truthfully not a put it off for 6 months kind of girl. Now okay, I’ll admit, I didn’t start this challenge the first week it was out there… in fact I don’t think I got started until February some time but dang… it’s been going on for a while. Last week I thought I had all the quilt blocks done until I realized there were 25 not 24. I ran out of time last week to get number 25 done so here…

Here is Number 25. I absolutely LOVE it!

Monday I started trying to put it together. It required 167 2.5″ squares. HOLY CRAP! That’s a lot of squares. It took quite a while. Normally you sew strips together and then cut the strips and it goes faster…. but not in my case. 1) I couldn’t decide on just 2 colors for the blocks. 2) When I did decide on the colors to use, there was no making strips. So putting this thing together was going slow!

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Prayers

My husband’s grandma is in the hospital. I don’t know what to ask for in the way of prayers. Unfortunately I’m not sure she’ll leave the hospital, although they talked like she might today sometime. She went in on Friday. After we got out of the hayfield we went to see her. She didn’t have a clue who we were or really even that we were there. I heard that they have her on morphine and that hospice (who has been at her house) had her on 3x the amount of a person in pain… I guess they’re trying to keep her comfortable?

We were there Saturday evening to check on her and they verified that she had a blood clot in her leg. She was more lucid while we were there and was hitting on the male nurse even. Then when my father-in-law came in and we were telling him she was hitting on the nurse, she blamed me. I took one for the team. Then at one point she said my husband was sitting on a picture. There was a picture on the wall and he was apparently sitting on it. We accused him of being the elf on the shelf. And finally she kept asking us why we didn’t bring our niece (not our daughter….). So she was more lucid, but still not totally with it. I guess she thought we were my sister in law and brother in law?

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