Hes leaving.....

My husband is leaving, ahhhh lol. Hubby dearest has decided to pursue his dream of becoming a motorcycle mechanic, which means hes moving to Orlando, for 1 year and 9 mths waaaaaa. We have decided that im staying in Jax, with mt bff, whos hubby is also going to the school with hubby dearest, just be easier financially as well as they own a house here. Hopefully all will go well but currently packing packing packing.

Life as I know it

Everything but nothing has happened in the past few months, I lost my job we celebrated Thanksgiving and Christmas in our apartment, Thanksgiving was wonderful we had many friends and family over, For Christmas I made a ham with Coke and brown sugar hubby loved it and so did everyone else :) I have been depressed over the job loss and trying to find something to replace it but having a hard time not meeting the qualifications that most require. In time id like to renew my security, well not really like more like going to have to renew it not much else out there to do...... well enough negative for now

Planning for the future.

Well we have decided that we need a plan, were living day to day instead of looking at the future so today is planning day, and monday is review 5 year plan, and budget for the rest of the year as well as a fun frugal way to budget our groceries at only $100 dollars a month which found a great blog that helps to start. http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/40dollarmenu.htm

Bird Crazy

Well this is Codi a 6 year old Quaker parrot hes a rescue bird, his former owner died and Codi was given back to the store he was origanilly taken home from. Well its been about five days now and im not sure how i ever lived with out him, he says the cutest things, like yum yum when he wants something to eat, and steup up to get on your finger, and tells you to stop if your walking to fast, and hes the cutest eating veggies he just loves his broccoli and green peppers, hes still stressed out from the changes in his lil life but seeming to get better, and him and apple talk to each other quite a bit which is cute, Harolds a lil worried his bird is just going to forget about him but for now all is wonderfull!!!!

Apple

This is Apple!!!
Our latest addition and littlest ever, we have had her for four days and she’s just now getting comfy enough to eat and drink and even starting to play with her toys, very excited. We have been leaving the TV on when we have to go anywhere, but today decided that we would leave music on soooo we put in Celtic woman, she got all poofy and seemed to like it at!! At least that’s what the book says she will do when happy. So for now just trying to see what else she might like!!! Our little budgie!!!

Essence Bread aka Manna

Well I have been doing a lotttttt of research on whole wheat berries and came across the coolest blogs and sites where they just sprout these little babies and pulse them and dry or bake and vola essence bread well I decided to try to make this at home so I started to sprout wheat last night in a giant old pickle jar and I do mean giant but there so little I figure im going to need a lot and it takes like days just to get them ready so I figure large jar gives me more to work with. well heres the blog I got the ideas from love the shapes she made hopefully mine will be just as pretty!!! (http://thehappyrawkitchen.blogspot.com/2009/09/raw-sprouted-essene-bread.html)

Bath salt scrub!

Ok well I was dying for some bath salt srcub and the stuff is wayyyyy to expensive so I decided to make my own,and happy happy me it works wonderfully and I smell divine and all silky, next time I hit wally world so going to grab a huge box of salt and a huge bottle of baby oil and make up a tupperware container full i'm in heaven!!!

Rosemary Mint scrub!!!
1/4 cup sea salt
3tbsp of homemade rosemary and mint scented massage oil
mix and scrub away
(*dont use on your face thou)

Crystal's Massage oil
1-glass jar
equal amounts of fresh dry rosemary and mint
baby oil or olive oil

just pack the jar in layers one layer rosemary sprigs fill with oil then one layer mint fill with oil and repeat till the jars full but with about 1/2 inch head room
cover and sit in a window sill out of direct sunlight for about 1-4 weeks each day just shake the jar a little and after a week check and see if its strong enough for u if not give it longer but I never go longer than 4 weeks, after its done just strain the oil out i use a coffee filter cheap and u get to throw them out when your done, store in a air tight moisture free container!!! only use it on the outside of body but still good in the bath and any other way u would normally use body oils.

Wheat berries and yogurt

Well I’ve made wheat berries two ways now in the crock pot and on the stove top, crock-pot is way easier and they seem to turn out more plump, hubby prefers them that way and who am I to argue save me time. But we only tried them with milk and cinnamon and sugar and even thou it was very very very good we wanted to try something a little more healthy, so we tried yogurt peach dannon to be specific
1 cup cooked wheat berries – 210 calories
1 container Dannon light and fit peach – 80 calories
So a great healthy filling meal at 300 calories!!!
YUM!!! Next time probably going to try half the wheat berries and added in some fresh fruit, but still good just the way it was.

Wheat berries are awesome healthy for u taste great n soooooo many diff ways to make them will post pics n recipes later.

I'm turning 27 on the 27th supossed to be a golden good luck thing n feel like were not doing anything at all n annoyed that I'm trying so hard to make it some what special just feel like I'm allways trying to do some sweet thing for others but no one cares about me no camping trip like I wanted no cake unless I bake it n no birthday presents I really want a working sewing machine just a pedal would be great wish I at least had the money to go to the thrift store n find one then some flower boxes lol with flowers n a TiVo remote but I can't get any of that right now I think I'm going to try making my own birthday linens at least the house will look festive n I can use them later on

We love our apartment!!!

Day after

Well its the day after moving day we have all and I do mean all of our furniture in the apartment!!! theres tons of boxes everywhere but were getting somewhere at least. One down side I couldnt reach the second shelf in the kitchen so I used our small porch table and fell and bruised my knee of well totally my fault. Funny thing our friend K dropped by with a step stool which was greatly appreciated. Well thats all i have energy for now hopefully soon there will be a few low cal low carb recipe posting at least as soon as i get the kitchen unpacked.

plan

Ok just wanted you to know what the moving schedule is, just in case you’re curious.

*Monday: I Work day shift (packing after work)
Hubby Works 4pm-4am

*Tuesday: I Work day shift (packing after work)
Hubby Works 4pm-4am

*Wednesday: I’m off and Packing.
Hubby Works 4pm-4am

*Thursday: (both off) Keys at 3pm- Moving In large furniture and as much of the boxes as we can for the night.

*Friday: I Work - Eve shift
Hubby is off work, he's moving any remaining furniture and as much boxes as he's able to do.

*Saturday: I Work - Eve shift (no moving anything)
Hubby works 4pm-4am

*Sunday: I’m off – but I will be at the house painting our shelves and
lamp black as well as picking up anything more I can get into the car.
Hubby works 4pm-4am

*Mon/Tue – Work-both of us

*Wednesday: I’m @ 10am picking up shelves and lamp, and anything
that's left hopefully last of it.
Hubby - 4pm-4am

Moving Day fast approaching

So far the move is going well, we were feeling a bit overwhelmed but its getting better. Just hate how messy the house is, our stuff is everywhere and I do mean everywhere lol :). I’m totally a clutter bug but were getting rid of a lot of stuff so far throw out and donation have amounted to 28 large trash bags and counting (I haven’t packed the laundry room yet or the kitchen I have been saving those for last dreading those the most as well as we still trying to stick to our diet which means cooking!!) but we have completely packed up the spare room that had my craft stuff and misc collectables ships and elephants ect, the only things left in our bedroom is the furniture which is so cool it definitely makes the move feel completely real :)

We have a dining room table its quite nice and good size Auntie gave it to Hubby years ago it’s been sitting in the attic!, it even has 2 leafs to expand it but no chairs any recommendation for finding any I thought Wal-Mart might have them but they don’t. (I’m looking for wood chairs preferably with the little design at the top of the chair and preferably not the same I like the idea of them being all of the same wood but different. Or even six different wood ones, three wood ones I would paint the seats black only. Three wood ones if need be painted solid black. I think that might look funky cute (what do u think of that idea?)

Van

Well we had to tow the van to tire kingdom on Atlantic n 9 a they were so wonderful they found the problem n fixed it in no time at all!!! Now were back on the road, still borrowing dads old car the weathers been to cold for hubby to keep riding his motorcycle!!!

It's a new day and were right back in walgreens parking lot praying this van belt will get back on.

Sitting in Walgreens parking lot frezing my butt off waiting for my bff's to show to help fix the van. It's been 3 hrs trying to get this stupid belt on..... Hopefully we will be warm soon.

Our possible new black n white bedding, just love it the whole apartments going to be black n white with a splash of red in the kitchen n splash of hot pink in the bedroom!!!

Happiness

Well today is soooooo cold, But still hope everyone has a wonderful Valentines Day, My Hubby Surprised me last night the house was a mess and it was really bugging me so he straightened up and made stromboli and got me a huge teddy bear and chocolates and a lil Dragon all PINK!!! Such a great thing to come home to!!! Love you Husband :)

mopey

Well today i started off in high spirits and now they seemed to have dropped. I started thinking about moving and how i cant wait, but am a lil stressed with hubby not working at the club even thou i know hes going to easily pick up hours at his other job. Then it started me thinking about all my friends and how it allwys seems to be me trying to set up an outing or me trying to help them and even though if i ask them there allways there to help i just wish sometimes that they would invite us to go do the simple things there were many a nights i just sat home alone because hubby was at work, and later found out they were out at dave and busters or out enjoying themselves just want to be needed i guess.

Egg Sandwich Breakfast

Well I have been having the hardest time getting things to stay on my blog lately, for some reason nothing is wanting to, hopefully this time it will work.

We have started a new diet, Healthy eating habits at least, so we did a breakfast which I just had to take pics of for some odd reason. But here’s our Daily calorie breakdown 1500-1800 a day Breakfast 300 Lunch 300 Dinner 500, and two snacks of 200 which is 1500 so it leaves 300 cal of wiggle room!!!

So we had two breakfast sandwiches @180 each and red grapes @110 for a total of 470 a bit over but we woke up starving so figured we were still good….. at least partially.

Baby still in the belly!!!

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,20808801-5006007,00.html

more cute animal baby belly photo's!!!

Happiness!!!

Well still have 33 days till we get the keys to our very first apartment, so excited so impatient cant wait to move ready to go right now. hahaha but were being good we have started packing n threw out/ gave away 20 plus bags of crap. So horrible errr makes me wonder what more crap we have that I can get rid of. Hubby dearest was so happy normally hes forcing me to throw stuff out and this time he was actually stopping me from tossing everything!!! But man do I have a lot of Elephants we aren't even going to unpack all of them when we move just those that will compliment our apartment..... well till next time peace love and happiness. ; )

We just signed a lease for our first apartment!!!!! Get to move in Feb 25th so there will be random pics of items till we get packing n moved in happily I'm documenting our move yea!!!!!

Ok haven't blogged for a while errr so bad of me but I have it set for my phone so hopefully I'll be good now

Apartment prep!!!

Well we decided to go apartment hunting and see what we can afford and live in an apartment for one year while sis-in law and her hubby are living with mom at the house. So we are preparing I'm trying to make sure we have food storage of the dry and can stuff for 6 mths just to be safe ad deciding what to throw out or donate i decided we don't need all the crap we have and even thou were not going anywhere till at least Feb i want it all clean and organized just in case we change our minds even thou i think we should at least do 7 mths just for a break. 7 years 7 mths sounds like an even trade lol. anyhow ttfn lots of love.

Well me and hubby were kinda obsessing on the idea of a place of our own, we went to look at foreclosure's with our Friends and anything we might possibly be able to afford is not live able or in very safe areas, we have been looking for around $5000 no more and have actually found a few places but one place we looked at was $30,000 it looked great from the front fenced yard built in 1909 big front porch but no parking area so we went around the to the back of the house and as i turn the corner i was so happy there was a lane i figured cool we can just park in the backyard than i saw the yard, figured we could easily fit 4 vehicles side by side and have running room for the dogs and a small garden yea! than i looked up wow is all i can say there was no back to the house the porch was gone so not live able. it really made both of us depressed to say the least and i started thinking do i really want to worry about going to my car at five o'clock in the morning for work, will i be able to be by myself in the house while hubby's at work if and when we have kids would i feel comfortable about them playing in the yard my answer was so loud and clear no, i cant force this on my family or friends, i will keep looking but i will make sure we are safe healthy and happy.

Thou looking at these homes did put it all into prospective i know know that i would love to have 1-5 acres with a reclaimed barn turned into a home or even a small mobile home, but most importantly in an area where i wont be afraid to leave for work in the dark. also in an area that i can have chickens and a bee hive and a small garden, so i now will stop freaking out about everything and try to remember that one day if were good we can get to that dream we just need to remember the long term when were about to buy the latest of something, do we really need it can we live with out it, will it enrich our lives, or just create more clutter, and than we will take a deep breath and imagine sitting on our own porch watching our dogs jumping after lighting bugs imagine eating a dinner we grew and knowing that we together created our home. these simple thoughts have really given me strength and hope.

Twilight Fan Mittens in Red !!!

Well i'm a total twilight fan so when the first movie came out last year I HAD to make her mittens but not that much of a grey fan so heres mine in red first one is finally done (first time doing cables love them !!) Now im working on the second one but just had to post the pic I just love them!!!!

If you want to make a pair theres a free pattern on http://www.subliminalrabbit.com/ top right hand love her blog!

Peach Jam!

Day one!

Well this is the first time I have done this so here goes nothing..... I have decided I need an outlet for my soul or its going to crack from trying to hold everything and everyone. Some times it might be a bit down but hopefully it will be up more times than anything.

Lets see the basics of our story......

Me and Hubby live with my Mother in law so we try to help out as much as we can but I still long for a home of our own, we have looked into everything from tiny houses to building one from tires, still need money no matter how big or small. So we plan.....One day will get there right now we are trying to fix the things we have screwed up in life (credit mostly) and take care of our Fur babies (Two dogs - Shinohkay and Toto)

So I restarted College this Fall right now im lucky my work pays for school and im taking one class this semester and two next i dont want to take to many and miss class or miss work because im wiped out. Next Semester Hubby should be starting... Fingers crossed his work takes a lot of his time from our lives.....

Anyway I have also decided this year to creat an urban homestead I will post pics as I go right now we just have a few green pepper plants and hot peppers trying to find free materials to build the raised beds as well as energy and time.

Well for now that actually made me feel pretty good just to write we will see how many entries I can do a week right now im hoping for twice. Hope all is well in your life, for all is well in mine. : )