Oh Nuts

In the week and a half that I have been out of school and on summer break I started re-reading the Fairy Tale Novels Series by Regina Doman . Since I hadn't read it in a while I started off by reading the most recent (as in a couple years ago) to the series and have since made my way backwards through the rest of the series. It also helped that on Wednesday last week I didn't have anywhere to go or really anything to do so I pretty much spent the entire day inside reading. The weather didn't help with that either since it was raining and rather dreary out.  The Midnight Dancers Waking Rose When I started doing my re-reading of the series it took me a day and a half to go through the first three books, but now my pace has slowed down a bit, mostly because I was rather busy on Sunday. But it probably won't take me terribly long to get through the book I am currently reading as well as the other two books that I still have left to read. 

--1-- Last week on Wednesday Amanda, Yavi, Aaliyah and I went and saw the new Avengers movie since Amanda and I were both off work and we didn't know when else we would be able to see it. We all liked it. On Sunday the rest of my family went and saw it and Aaliyah and I went with and saw it again. --2-- Right now "Heartbeat Song" by Kelly Clarkson is my new favorite song.  --3-- I started doing the reading challenge that I started back in January again. It's been slow but I am doing it again and now that school is over I will have more time to read. I was able to check off several boxes with "The Lunar Chronicles" series by Marissa Meyer. Now I am re-reading "Pride and Prejudice" to knock off a couple other categories. --4-- Tuesday morning, since I was feeling a bit bored and had some time on my hands, I ran to Wal-Mart for a quick trip to see if I could find any shirts and skirts to add to my summer clothing. I di...

Since January I have been working on and off on knitting a blanket. Currently I am on try number 5 for this blanket and hopefully I will be able to finish it with the pattern that I am using for it. Tries 1 thru 4 involved knitting it with a couple different patterns and trying to crochet it. I only tried crocheting because I was bored one morning and didn't know what to do so I decided to teach myself, by watching you-tube videos, but it ended up not working out. So now I am back to kitting the blanket again. Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of my past attempts but I did take pictures of the yarn being done into balls. My brothers were very helpful and willing in the winding endeavor. Look the end is in sight! the finished balls This is currently what the blanket looks like right now, and hopefully it will stay that way. Back in March I had acquired a boot box from Payless and decided to save it and paint it so that I could use it to put a gift in. I had...

On Pinterest one of my many boards is a board full of pictures to use as writing inspiration and since I couldn't think of anything else to write I decided to share some of the pictures from my board.

--1-- I would have posted something last week, but I forgot and couldn't think of anything to write anyhow. Not to mention my work schedule for last week was a tiny bit crazy, but that is just life and we have to deal with it. --2-- On Tuesday my friend Grace wrote a post on her blog My Spare Oom called What No One Tells You About College . " Talking about all the things people DON'T tell you about college - good and bad" (what Grace said when she shared the link on Facebook). --3-- --4-- Again on Tuesday I was reading another interesting article. This time on the subject of the words things that can happen to you in your 20s . Since I am in my 20s I thought that it was something to think about and potentially learn from. " The worst thing that can happen to you in your twenties would be if it were easy." --5-- "We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance...

--1-- I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! I did :) For as long as I can remember my family and I have tried to visit both sides of the family on Easter Sunday, but sometimes that doesn't end up happening. This year we went and visited my grandma in the evening on Holy Saturday. We had pizza dinner and watched the movie "Groundhog Day" on the tv since it was on. It was a funny movie. On Sunday we went to mass at our church and then came home and had my other grandparents over for dinner. After dinner and the dishes were done most of us went on the traditional walk that we take. And if you haven't read it yet here is a more accurate description of what my life has been like this week since Sunday. --2-- This is what the sanctuary of our church looked like on Easter! This is from our after dinner walk :) --3-- Well I decided to do Camp NaNoWriMo this month and I am doing ok in my writing. While it still needs some work before it...

If I had a better name for this post I would have used it, but I don't, though the title still fits how I feel this week. Monday I was supposed to go to work at one o'clock since it was the last day of break for the kids that I nanny. But the mom had to switch part of her work schedule around and ended up taking the day off, but forgot to call me ahead of time. So I ended up getting the day off. Tuesday (Yesterday, depending on when you are reading this), I had school all day and then I had to go to work after that. I didn't get home until closer to 8 p.m. Since it was AJ's birthday yesterday I quickly ate the \Italian sausage and french fries, that my family had saved me for dinner, before we sang to him and had dessert. Wednesday I had to go to work at 10:30 because the dad had to go in to work early and the youngest kids that I watch is doing part time school right now. So I stayed with her for a little bit before I had to drop her off at school. Once she was ...