BLAH!

I just opened up a glade plug in and the oil stuff went all over my hands! Now they smell really strong....of "Sunny day", I don't like it! I threw away the bottle, but of course the smell is staying with me because of my hands!

That is all!

Pics

My life in pictures lately!

I got a new hair cut!

My nephew, so close to learning how to walk!

Gluten free Bread

Gluten free Cupcakes

I made a whole ton of beef stew! I might be eating for a while.

A shirt I made recently

Normal??

Today, actually the past week or so, has been one of those,

 "Do I even know what normal feels like anymore, and will I ever again?"

Sound depressing, but that is my life.

I stand staring at my bed, my body begging me to get back in, but my mind throwing a big tantrum. Not ever wanting to get back in bed again!

I don't understand anymore, not that I ever really did. My positive attitude seems to have been fading every year that passes and I don't get any better.

My life seems unchanging, no matter what diet I try, what pill I take, or what herbal remedy I have tried. Nothing works!


Now going through my mind is "should I even post this?" I know I will get calls from concerned family members.  I really do have an amazing support group, and I don't think I could ask for a better one. It is just one of those weeks.

hello all
i have been slacking off on writing on the blog of lately.

lots of things going through my mind.

main thing is this new diet I am on, gluten free.  the doctor i go to wants to see if it will help reduce my symptoms, but i have to be on it for at least 3 months, preferably 6 months to see the difference. Today is day three! that is an accomplishment!  Three days down, 177 days to go! totally should do a countdown on here someh were. i have made a cute binder called "the amazing book of record keeping!" i will have to show you some examples of what is in there,)

well it is late and i should get to sleep. finish up tomorrow hopefully!

It is July?

SO, it has been another month since I have wrote on this blog, Sorry. I guess I am more saying sorry to myself. This seems to be the main journal I keep.

Let us see what I have been up to for the last month and a couple weeks. I finished the landscape I was working on completely and I miss it. It was a really fun project. It would be nice to put my plan for my own house into action, but as of right now, I need to focus my money on other projects:) Like paying off student loans! Hate those pesky things, but I am glad for the opportunity I had to go to college and finish my degree. With out them, I would not have gotten my degree. SO I guess I also owe a "Thanks" to those student loans.

I finally finished organizing my craft room/whatever room. That took a long time. Got a new desk and some organizing shelf things for Christmas, so I finally got that all finished up.

I found out I have a PFO, that is cool, I guess. I will just say it is a battle wound. Going to a cardiologist later this month to figure out what to do about it.

hmmm, Went to bear lake last week, with my brother, sister, mother, grandpa, and one of my brothers friend. That was fun!

It sure has been a hot summer. The temperatures seem to be a little bit hotter this summer. Must just be one of those hot summers!

I have been playing around on familysearch.org you can now add pictures, and there are lots of pictures of relatives I have never seen :) It is fun to look at. I try to go back and find missing links and then try to fill them, it then gets frustrating when I can't, and so I give up for a bit. I should go take a class to find out more info about how to find people. Specially hard when you are searching for a missing person with a very popular last name!

My sister and I went to a yard sale, and I saw these huge boot planters and I just had to get a picture!

Going through old pictures and found this gem! I love it!
Me, my older brother and older sister!

Hi

yes yes yes, It has been a long long time since I posted anything on my blog.
I have been pretty dang busy, for me anyways. I have been having lots of fun too!

A couple years  ago I designed a landscape for someone, and this spring he called and asked me to implement the landscape this year.  He has a beautiful house and has been slowly building it himself for the last little while.  I will upload some pictures :)

This is his house, with some of the landscape put in.

This is just some progressions of what I have been doing. I hired some people, because of course I wouldn't have been doing all this work by my self! It has been really fun. I had some curbing done last Friday, I will have to take pictures and show you all later.

Onto another subject, I was attempting to weed my front flower bed and found a mother mallard duck nesting on her eggs. It was really fun to watch her over a couple of weeks and her ducklings hatched last Monday morning. She had 9 cute little ducklings!

Bad day, Good day

yes, It has been a long time since I posted.

Today, I am tired and frustrated!  Couple of things are just stressing me out.

Yesterday was a really good day for the "chronic fatigue" part anyways. I weeded out the flower bed by my mail box! Yippee!

I should really keep better track of good days and bad days, lets see how far I can go back.

Sunday- Bad day, slept a lot! didn't go to church, I was either suffering from allergies or a cold. Still don't know which it was.

Saturday- I had a family reunion, I felt like I needed to sit down a lot, kept getting that really out of breath tired feeling on and off all day long. My sisters family came to my house after, and played for a bit. Got a headache and went to bed.

Friday- Do not really remember what I did,  I think I went grocery shopping.

Monday through Thursday I was staying at my parents house and working on and off on a landscape, I guess I would say all those were pretty good days.

That is about as far back as I can remember, if it was a good or bad day anyways.

The weather has been normal spring weather, one minute it is hot and the next it is raining, and then the next it is freezing. That seems about normal here though.


Maybe it is time for a nap.....we will see.

k, bye

Treasure Hunting!

Hello Fellow blogging world!

Didn't sleep well last night, because I had treasure hunting on my mind....Yep, you heard right, treasure hunting. Have you heard about that guy who apparently hid about 2 million dollars worth of stuff somewhere in the rocky mountains, and he left a poem full of clues? Well I have read and reread the poem several times.... and it kept me up thinking.  He has given other clues to where it is hidden. This is what I have researched/found out so far:

-The treasure is located above 5000 ft in elevation.
-It is north of Sante Fe, New Mexico
-Somewhere close, where you could drive to, and since he was 80 years old when he hid it and it apparently weighs 42 pounds, it isn't in a bizarre place...like having to hike up to the top of  a huge mountain (but this one throws me off, because.....If you knew my grandpa at 80, he could totally have done that).
-Lots of people think it is somewhere in NM, but I have read several places that say he never said that, only that it was north of Sante Fe, NM.
-It is surrounded by trees, but seriously this could also be anywhere.

This is the Poem, where it has apparently several clues, and he says to start from the first one, "Where the warm waters halt." If you start with another clue, it won't work, so you need to work them out in order.

So here is my thinking of the list of clues in order...

1-Warm water halts- A hot spring that flows into a river or creek?? Maybe.....I have found several (like   hundreds) in the rocky mountains.

2-"Take it in the canyon down, not far, but too far to walk":  A hot spring that flows into a creek that flows down a canyon alongside a road.....

3-"Put in below the home of brown" : I pretty much get stuck here.....Home of brown? hmmm, I have looked up some historical places with the "home of brown" in it, don't come up with much... Lots of ideas are flowing through my head on this one.
- An old cabin, that is brown, or the tenants of the cabin were once named Brown. So maybe there is a cabin near by?
-could be maybe talking about people who lived in cliff dwellings, there are a lot of those in NM, and they are kind of brown.
-Maybe there is an old legendary bear called "brown" That used to make its home in a cave nearby....I would be a bit freaked out to venture into that cave though.
-One lady thinks that it is a home of the brown recluse spider...Maybe, but wouldn't the spiders be dead by now...

4- From this point on in the poem, I get a bit confused at what the actual clues are, like "No place for the meek", or "The end is drawing nigh". Are those clues? Or are they just part of the poem to make it continue on?

5- The next clue (I think),  "If you have been wise and found the blaze". Hmmm so being wise....and finding a blaze....I am still drawing a blank to this one. Maybe there is a legend out there of an old wise blaze... of something... Maybe a really old rock that looks like it is on fire. There are a lot of interesting looking rocks in Yellowstone, that have some pretty cool colors. They are really orange, and maybe there is one that looks like it's shaped like a blaze. Or maybe I'm thinking this whole blaze thing wrong....Maybe blaze doesn't mean a fire like object.  Next sentence, I think, Goes along with this clue, but again I am not sure. "Look quickly down, your quest to cease". Pretty much I think that is saying, look down and you will find it......hopefully :)

*Side note, I know I use a lot of periods, it is my way of putting long pauses for thinking. I know it will really bug some people, but it is just what I do.

I have lots of more ideas, but I will settle with this for now :)

EVIL

      Well, It is currently Wednesday evening and the garbage truck comes tomorrow, my garbage is full and I have absolutely no desire to take it out and put the big garbage can on the street. I really should! I have basically been sleeping all day, it has been kind of weird. I haven't had a "sleeping all day" day in a long time.

       I think, I am just a bit depressed. I had a doctors appointment yesterday. It was an interesting one. She was a physicians assistant and claimed there was no such thing as chronic mono or chronic Epstein Barr  and yet here I am, researching (again) and there is tons of cases of where people have chronic mono. I am going to be sticking with what my actual doctor said (it was my yearly women checkup, so I wasn't at my normal doctors). It is so frustrating! I came away depressed from that appointment. I get blood work done all the time and my levels of the chronic mono are elevated a lot! compared to someone who has had or hasn't had the virus  Once you get a virus,  yes it is always in your system, but your body is supposed to keep it under taps.  So here is my thinking on it. They have blood work for all different types of viruses.  So most people have been exposed to this virus sometime in their life and if they were to get the test that I get done, it will show a certain number of these evil little viruses running around in their body, but their white blood cells (which produce antibodies) are able to keep them under control and so they don't show symptoms. So what is up with my body??? I don't know, it can't seem to keep these EVIL little viruses under control! Not sure what is going on, wish I could just ask my body......I have so so so so many thoughts on what is actually going on.  There is a war going on in my body, I need a bigger army!


Anyways, My life is same as always, nothing new really.....I sleep a lot...... that's about it......(can you tell I am not in a good mood).

This is awesome. Where this video was shot is kind of what I have always dreamed would be in my own house someday!

Wishing!

So I was looking through my camera and realized that I had some pictures of the day I went to the beach this past summer. I am not exactly sure what day it was, but it was one of the funnest days at the beach ever!


My sister, RB, and I drove up to the canyon to the beach! It was wonderful. I was craving making a sand castle, and so I started and had help from my sister. Before I knew it, I had about five young boys helping me out (ages ranging from 4 to 11). It was so much fun and epic.

It was great! I had three red headed little boys helping me! They were so fun!

RB had actually brought his laptop, and was working on it, but when it died.He saw how much fun we were having and decided to come join in the fun of helping us make the sand castle.

Well Hello There!

So today is Sunday! I did not go to church....Maybe I am a little overly worried, but I keep reading about everyone being sick, and I am really scared to get the flu! I am afraid I will end up in the ER...I am probably way over reacting..

I just watched a really funny video, that made me smile huge!

Dance Walk


So I have been thinking about writing a blog post about things that make my life easier!

Here are some..This will probably be an ongoing list over several blog posts.

Thing number 1:

OK, so If you have a smart phone, then you will want to check the app out too! I think that if I didn't have a smartphone, I probably wouldn't be using this website at all.
EBBA
OK, so with budgeting have you ever heard of the envelop method?  Well if you haven't it goes something like this: Each month you decide how much money is going to be allocated into each category (i.e. Grocery, household, entertainment, etc), you then get envelops and  then label each envelop for each category and put the money into each envelope. So when you go to the grocery store and buy groceries, you pull out your groceries envelop and use the money it that envelop.
I never liked carrying money around with me, so this does it all digitally and will tell you how many days you need to stop spending money in each category to get caught up (if you over spend, anyways) . If you are married and your spouse has a smartphone you can sync them! It is great!

Thing number 2:

This Awesome  little portable vacuum, has great suction! I love it because I literally just walk around the house, vacuuming up everything..I use it to dust a lot too! It makes things easier to clean. No bag, so it can pick up the bigger stuff and you just empty it out. It really helps out in the kitchen, it does wonders! I vacuum up any crumbs or small papers, on the counter and those hard to reach places (stove)!


That is my list for tonight! I know only two, I will do more later.

sorry....no capitalized letters in this post:)

this post shall be a '' what i did today'' post,

but before that, the snow plows just past my house! they are quite noisy.....ok and now my uppercase and the shift button isnt working on my phone...annoying.

today went a little something like this....woke up really late, due to not going to bed really late, ate food, on my computer doing stuff when the iternet stopped working.. called internet company and something about a power outage somehwere was causing me not to have internet. roamed around my house vacuuming this and that with my little portable vacuum ( great for dusting also).i then decided to put together two of my christmas presents, they are storage wood box things to go in my craft room, then made me some dinner/ lunch. grilled cheese with carrots dipped in ranch (yummy).

spent some more time on computer working on stuff, took a bath, attempted to call rb, no answer, watched tv, until rb called me back......dont know why i am still awake....and sorry for having nothing capitalized....as stated earlier my shift( or caps lock button) is not working on my phone.