Category: MISC

UNCONSCIOUS MUTTERINGS

I say … and you think … ?

  1. Homicide :: TV drama
  2. Divisive :: Invent
  3. Flash ::Drive
  4. Steaming :: Vegetables
  5. Crunch :: Crackers
  6. Look out! :: Accident waiting to happen
  7. Anticipating :: Excited
  8. Slim :: Last lifetime
  9. Navel :: Orange
  10. Help :: Tutor
  • Free association is described as a “psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content.” Over time, this technique is supposed to help bring forth repressed thoughts and feelings that the person can then work through to gain a better sense of self.
  • That’s an admirable goal, but for the purposes of this exercise, we’re just hoping to have a little fun with the technique. Each week I’ll post ten words to which you can respond to with the first thing that comes to mind.
  • “Rules are, there are no rules.” There are no right or wrong answers. Don’t limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head. AND you don’t have to have your words up on Sunday. Take all week if you want! Read the FAQ for more information.

Food for thought

When I stand before God at the end of my life
I would hope that I would have not a single bit of talent left
and could say
“I USED EVERYTHING YOU GAVE ME”
~ERMA BOMBECK

Menu Plan Monday

  • Monday~Hamburgers & 2 1/2 Bean Salad
  • Tuesday~Linguine & Clams
  • Wednesday~Pork Chops & Apples
  • Thursday~Chicken Enchiladas & Salad
  • Friday~Home style Macaroni & Cheese
  • Saturday~Mahi Mahi with Lemon Sauce & Salad
  • Sunday~Spaghetti & Salad

I also do Favorite Ingredient Friday hosted by Overwhelmed with Joy, so this is making a great addition to help keeping me on track and finding so new recipes! Doing more than one helps keep me on track, though you’d never know this week!!

21 day challenge update ~ Days 3-8

I began this challenge as a way to break the bad habit of writing ideas all over the place AND leaving them that way. I wanted to get them organized and allow me to write daily and successfully. While I don’t have beautiful pages to display as the others do, I do have a working journal and am getting the clutter under MAJOR control. So from here on out I will update every 5 days or so on my progress.

The inspirational quotes for the past 6 days are:

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You will imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. ~George Shaw

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. ~ Aristotle

A wish changes nothing. A decision changes everything! ~UNK

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ~Marianne Williamson

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. ~Dr. Seuss

Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, “Here is an opportunity for you to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary.” ~Anthony Robbins

Day 3: Start sorting the 3+ letter totes full of old articles torn from magazines and newspapers as well as the notes written on cocktail napkins and scraps of paper.
Day 4: Start transferring the scraps of paper and cocktail napkin ideas in the proper categories on pages that fit within my journal.
Day 5: Start to read the articles.
Day 6: Decide which articles to keep and here’s the really hard part, which to throw away forever.
Day 7: Decide to trust my own heart and instincts and throw even more articles away. All I really need are my ideas and reference books.
Day 8: Write a query letter to send to Cook book publishers and start researching those publishers.

Unconscious mutterings

  1. Chemical ::not natural
  2. Poker ::the dog picture
  3. Federal ::red tape
  4. Mattress ::comfy
  5. Who am I? ::Dr. Seuss
  6. Investigation ::CSI, NCIS, Without a Trace, Bones, House, etc…
  7. In good hands ::GOD
  8. 8:30 ::time for more coffee
  9. Creditors::unscrupulous
  10. Resource ::books

Free association is described as a “psychonanalytic procedure in which a person is encouraged to give free rein to his or her thoughts and feelings, verbalizing whatever comes into the mind without monitoring its content.” Over time, this technique is supposed to help bring forth repressed thoughts and feelings that the person can then work through to gain a better sense of self.

That’s an admirable goal, but for the purposes of this exercise, we’re just hoping to have a little fun with the technique. Each week I’ll post ten words to which you can respond to with the first thing that comes to mind.

“Rules are, there are no rules.” There are no right or wrong answers. Don’t limit yourself to one word responses; just say everything that pops into your head. AND you don’t have to have your words up on Sunday. Take all week if you want!

Photohunt ~ Different

About the PhotoHunt: A theme is given for each Saturday. Post a photo that best represents the theme. New and old photos welcome but must be from your personal collection and not photos obtained from the web. Play along once a week by posting your photo on your site.

8 about Me

Forgetfulone tagged me for this meme.
Here we go!
8 Things I’m Passionate About:
1. God and family!
2. Being Healthy
3. Finishing this house!
4. Organization
5. quilting
6. cooking
7. reading
8. writing
9. blogging

8 Things I Say Often
1. Let’s go!
2. Whatever!
3. The point is?
4. Turn off the light!
5. What I’m trying to say is …
6. Well?
7. Close the door!
8. What was I looking for?

8 Things I’ve Read Recently
1. Quilters Apprentice by Jennifer Chiaverini
2. Round Robin by Jennifer Chiaverini
3. Quilters Homecoming by Jennifer Chiaverini
4. The Rising by Jerry Jenkins and Tim Lahaye
5. The Regime by Jerry Jenkins and Tim Lahaye
6. Heart of Texas Vol II by Debbie Macomber
7. Heart of Texas Vol III by Debbie Macomber
8. Treasures by Nora Roberts

8 Things To Do Before I Die:
1. Get all of the kid’s photos scrap booked
2. Finish this house
3. lose 2 pounds
4. go to Disneyworld, Epcot Center, Universal Studios, etc…
5. Finish all the quilts I’ve started
6. Continue to make new friends
7. Take a trip to Washington DC, the Smithsonian, etc…
8. Take a trip to New England & Nova Scotia

8 Things I Could Listen To Over and Over Again:
1. My One and Only Love by Louis Armstrong (hard to find)
2. Thunder and a good rainstorm
3. Kids playing and having fun
4. Wind whistling in the trees
5. Children Laughing
6. The sound of a fountain or waterfall flowing
7. My husband telling me he loves me
8. birds chirping in the spring

8 Things That Attract Me To My Friends:
1. Positive Attitudes
2. Loyalty
3. Similar Values
4. Ability to carry on a conversation
5. Ability to listen
6. Caring and nurturing
7. A shoulder to cry on, or mine for them to cry on
8. Trustworthiness

8 Things I Learned In The Last Year:
1. Electrical
2. Plumbing
3. Framing
4. HTML code
5. New scrapbooking techniques
6. Patience is truly a virtue
7. I like to garden
8. I need to make more time for myself, to do things I enjoy, or I am going to burn out.

8 People I am excited to tag (random order)
1. Scribbit A blog bout Motherhood in Alaska
2. Stitching in Texas
3. Yours ’til Niagara Falls
4. Creative Little Daisy
5. The Simple Life at Home
6. Misty’s Words
7. Big Blueberry Eyes
8. From My Cherry Heart

The Romance of Cookery and Housekeeping



I found this awesome book at a rummage sale a few years ago and it’s just been sitting on the shelf begging to be read, “A Thousand Ways to Please A Husband with Bettina’s Best Recipes”, by Louise Bennett Weaver and Helen Cowles LeCron. This is a 1932 complete revised edition. It was originally written in 1917.

It appears (I have hardly began to read it, only leafed through it so far) to have been written as a novel of Bettina’s life and interjects the recipes as needed to emphasis the points of the message.

By today’s standards it is obviously outdated, but I found it amusingly quaint and it has some awesome recipes. It’s in like new condition. This too I find amazing, it obviously wasn’t well used. Over the next few weeks, on Tuesdays, I will post several of the more appealing recipes that I’ve adapted to today’s ingredients and standards.

Friday's Feast

Appetizer

If you could be any current celebrity for one whole week, who would you want to be? Paul Newman

Soup
On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being highest), how much do you enjoy talking on the phone? 3 depending on who and why

Salad
Name a charitable organization to which you have donated (or would like to). St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital

Main Course
What is a food you like so much you could eat it every single day for a month? peaches

Dessert
Have you or anyone in your family had the flu this year? unfortunately yes, but small bouts, not the horrible stuff

The Ultimate BLOG party

5 Minutes for Mom is once again hosting their annual Ultimate Blog Party. It’s an opportunity to get to know bloggers from all over the world that you probably wouldn’t have met otherwise! There are already lots of great bloggers participating so I hope you can join us!

For those of you who may not know me, let me give you a few quick highlights:

  • I’m a fairly recent transplant to the U.P. I love to quilt, cook, read, garden, write, swap, meet new people and learn new things.
  • This blog began as a place to vent about a real estate nightmare and the forced remodeling of this 115 year old house, but quickly developed into a place for creative juices and ideas to take root.

On my sidebar you can choose what you’d like me to make you for party refreshments. There are lots of delicious recipes to choose from. Enjoy them. They all go really well with any spiked punch or soda.

Thanks for stopping by. Come on in and take a look around my place. I’ve made some great blogging buddies, and I really want to make some more new friends! Don’t forget to please leave me a comment so I can visit your blog! Let’s Get it Started in Here! Then you can party-hop over to 5 Minutes for Mom for some more celebrations!


Have you seen the terrific list of prizes for this year’s Ultimate Blog Party? It’s hard to narrow it down but here are my top picks:

And if you haven’t already, go visit the 2008 Ultimate Blog Party and get linked up.