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Tagged!?!

Thanks Surrounded by seamonkeys... :)
A) Four places I go over and over:
1. Work, either location
2. Kids school, thank goodness for all day kindergarten or it would be a whole lot more often. 3. Church, at least on sundays
4. The cleaning supplys under my sink, for cleaning.:)
(B) Four people who e-mail me regularly:
1. Spammers
2.My dad, if you include forwards. (I still like them, because their from my dad.)
3. Fast web...its a scholarship search engine.
4. My sisters when they can't get a hold of me any other way...can't imagine why they couldn't get a hold of me.....:P
(C) Four of my favourite places to eat:
1. Rumbi
2. Olive Garden...it's where my husband and I had our first date, so more than anything it's sentimental.
3. Family's when I don't have to cook. :)
4. Sam Pan
(D) Four places you'd rather be:
1. A nice beach in California
2. A movie theater watching a good movie
3. In a really good book, where I can shut out everything else with a few sentences of reading.
4. A good tourist vacation any where.
(E) Four TV shows I could watch over and over:
1.Big Bang Theory
2. Scrubs
3. Heros
4. Star Trek...reminds me of staying up way to late watching them with my brother.
(F) Four people I think will respond:
1. Um...Surrounded by Sea Monkeys, but she tagged me.
2. Wendy?
3. Heather?.
4. Leslie?
I obviously don't have much of a following....owell. It doesn't bother me. I consider this an emotional out let anyways. :)

Strawberry sugar cookies

I decided that I would post recipes when I have nothing better to say. So here is my recipe for Strawberry sugar cookies (my husband says that they are strawberry jello cookies and won't stop saying so till I note it.), or any other desired flavor of sugar cookies you might thing you want to try.

Ingredients
1/2 cup margarine 1/2 cup butter 3 eggs 1 cup sugar
1(3oz) package of gelatin(Desired flavor for cookies)
3 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt

Cream margarine, butter, sugar and gelatin until light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beat thoroughly. Add Dry ingredients and mix. Chill several hours in fridge. Roll 1/2 dough at a time, into 1/4 inch thick, and cut into desired cookie cutter shapes. Bake on ungreased cookie sheet at 375 for about 8 minutes, cool and then decorate or eat plain.

Note, I have used other combinations for butter/margarine/shortening. Any combination seems to have worked so far. Raspberry is a good strong flavor, as well as orange as well. I've done Lime flavored, and I liked it, but the rest of my family didn't care as much for it.
So enjoy the recipe, and take it or leave it. Recipes to look forward too, when I have nothing better to say....Banana bread, Bread maker rolls, Homemade chocolate cake. Mostly the stuff people will actually request me to make. :)

My husband says that I also need to mention I orginally got this one from his mother. So thanks to her as well if you like it. (I've made small modifications)

OCD

OCD....Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. How sad is it that I have to not have that last blog up for that long. It just bothers me. If it were something extremely cheerful or funny, I would be OK leaving it for a very long time. Any way... This is my OCD moment.
I'll take a tag from surrounded by seamonkeys.
What is your husbands name? Matt
How long have you guys been married? 8
How long did you date? Lets see...we started dating...oh lets just say little under a year.
How old is he? 29 Who is taller? Him Who can sing best? Toss up
Who is smarter? Not sure that is the right question, more like who is more stubborn, and that would be me, half the time.
Who does laundry? Me when I remember, him when I forget
Who pays the bills ? me Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? Umm, laying down on my back, I would be on the right side.
Who mows the lawn? mostly him before we had a cousin start mowing it. Who cooks dinner? Mostly me, but he cooks better in general when he does cook.Who is the first to admit when they are wrong? Um...not sure. But I would venture me and he would probably say him. Who kissed who first? He kissed me first, if you call it a Kiss, because I couldn't stop laughing and all he got was teeth.
Who wears the pants? We both wear pants.....

Tag to whoever reads this that it's applicable to. :)

Sleep does wonders

Thanks to all of those who noticed my last blog. Despite being OK, I appreciate it. I've learned in life, what little I've learned, is that life isn't going to stop because it's not going the way you want. I don't know that there has been a whole lot of my life that has gone the way I've planned. I'm slowly, and I mean slowly because I started coming to this realization before Trev was born, and he's five now. Sometimes just moving and keep pushing through is part of what life is about. I'm getting to be an expert at that. Doesn't mean that it's not rough some days, just that it's getting easier.
Also a big note to mark is that sleep is a big factor on function ability. I finally got some sleep. In fact I got to sleep in this morning while Matt got the kids ready for school, and made their lunches and was even going to take them to school, but I woke up. No wonder my three year old alarm clock always gets up at the same time. She can't sleep in any longer, because her body tells her she should be awake, just like mine does.
Speaking of sleep....I think I'll get some! :) Good night to all of you other night owls, but this one's bowing out.

Also as a side note, I heard Beastie Boys for the first time on Monday. The two guys I was working with really like it. I still don't get it. I guess it's just not my type, I like more mellow stuff.

I feel that I am at a bit of a cross roads. I know some of what I have to do in my life, and like in all change, I'm scared. I know that I've got to go back to school. I know that I still have to work. I know that I love my kids and I don't want to loose any more time with them than what I have already. I'm trying to figure out how to make this work, and I'm at a loss. For most people the suggestions and the answers would be simple, but for me, in my situation they aren't. I guess my sparkle is a down a long road that's ahead of me.(thanks Nicole) So I guess you get to a point, when nothing becomes impossible to overcome.
I was sitting in church on Sunday when I wrote this down. I feel less confident than I did then, but I guess like I have in the past I need to keep pushing forward, and remembering that feeling I had and have faith.

I can see the light breaking, -wanting to break through the clouds, rimming on the edge of a cloud. The storm has left much to clean up. I've weathered the storm with help from earth and heaven. I can tend the battled garden and make it beautiful again.

good intentions...

Here I am, awake at the late hour, when I should be asleep. I even told myself I would go to bed at a descent time tonight, when I woke up this morning. So here I am still awake, and why? I'm not really sure. I'm kind of tired, but my mind is still going. Brie just woke up and thought it was time to get up for the morning... I can see this may be a long night.