In case you have been wondering..

...but you probably haven't!  I did finish my new tree skirt late last night.  I love it.  Here are some pictures:

Ugh - sorry for the blurry picture there at the end - I will get a better one later, but doesn't it look awesome.  Much better than the old one we had which was much too small for our tree (seriously you couldn't even see it unless you laid on the floor to look).

see ya later

Today would be day one of week 3 for my power90 routine.  However I am telling the power90 see ya later.  Not because I don't want to keep doing it, because really I do want to do it - but because of this:

my beautiful, colorful, festive and very painful broken toe!  Yep.... fun stuff.

Wise Men Still Seek Him

it didn't kill me today!

The power yoga on the p90 about kills me!  I can do everything else fairly well, but man the power yoga is intense.  

I worked on my tree skirt for a bit yesterday - got the base cut out.  Today I have worked on it for a while eventually I will be able to get it sewn all together and then I can share some pictures with you.

start of week two

Today marks the start of my 2nd week doing p90 and my 2nd weigh-in.  According to the scale I gained just a just over a pound -  last week 254.3 this week.255.8 (these are listed at the bottom of the side bar on the left) - which makes sense because muscle does weigh more than fat.  As I posted last week my clothes all already fit better and overall I feel tons better - I'm not as tired all the time AND I seem to sleep better at night too which is a major plus.

Anyway that is all I have to say right now - going to work on making my new tree skirt this afternoon, wish me luck that is doesn't just turn into one huge disaster!

how do you spray that which is not a spray bottle?

I believe that every time you get a new pair of glasses they come with a little complementary bottle of lens cleaner - at least every time I have gotten new glasses I have.  It also always seems to be the same little bottle with the label on the front changed for where ever it was you went to get these new glasses.  Here is the part that amuses me:

That is the picture of the back of the bottle.  Read the directions "Spray onto lenses..." and the one caution "Do not spray..."  Well first off I won't ever be spraying anything not from that non-spray bottle bottle that is!  I mean I guess it does squirt out a pretty good stream when you squeeze the bottle but that isn't a spray.  So maybe it should say "Do not squirt near eyes," or something that actually made sense.  I know I can squeeze it all out into my own spray bottle - but that isn't the point.  Okay that is all for now goodbye.

resisting temptation

I have to say that I really feel quite proud of myself when the phone rings in the middle of the night waking me up and it is just someone at the stupid complex gate dialing random numbers hoping someone will let them in.  

I am proud of myself when I just answer the phone and hang up instead of answering the phone and telling them just what i think of them calling random numbers at 1:30 in the morning (last time it was Bills phone at about 4 am).  

Though I guess since we are in Georgia I would have to be "polite-rude" or whatever tehy call it and say something more like "Well bless your soul - trying to get someone who doesn't even know you to let you in in the middle of the night - good luck!" then hang up!  HAHAHA maybe just maybe I won't be able to resist the temptation one night.

Now - if you are a friend or a relative showing up for a surprise visit - if you do get here in the middle of the night you should call me from your phone before you call me from the gate then I won't be tempted to tell you what I want to tell those idiots.

The Coat: A Story of Charity

its only day 3!

I started power 90 on Monday, that makes today day 3 and I am real impressed with the results already.  At this very moment I have a pair of pants on that no amount of sucking in would help to do them up (and they have been that way for months).  Today when I got dress I pulled them out of the closet and said to myself "they probably still won't fit but I will try any way," and they did up with no problem!  I was pretty excited.

excited! (to finally share this post!)

Most of you know that I love Christmas.  This year I made quite a few things for different people and now that most of these items have been received I can post pictures of them, which I have been wanting to do since October!

First are the ornaments that I made for the Smiths this year:  adorable bottle cap snowmen

(I got the idea on What I Live For - last year lol)

Next up I made quite a few of these babies - Christmas Light Christmas Card holders - this were fun to make and once I had made several and I was finally getting the hang of it I was done.  Here is mine hanging up with the 2 cards we have gotten so far:

(I got this idea at We Are the Joneses  - also last year!)  I hope everyone likes them!

I also made an ornament for the ornament exchange - Walter the Farting Dog:

(I got this idea from my head ^^ and I know you would all like a link to that but I won't give it out sorry)  Richard the recipient of this ornament is the person who first introduced me to Walter, and last night he told me he laughed and laughed when he opened it.

Bill and I made these one night:

(The idea came from here - but I only painted our fingers then painted the bottom of the ornament white so the snowmen wouldn't just be floating)

Once I was making ornaments I was on a kick and had to convince myself that we had gotten plenty of new ornaments this year.  But that I was after I made this one:

Finally the sad story, though I know it is totally my fault.  I made this beautiful ornament for my friend Courtney who got married this past summer.  Here it is:

That is her wedding announcement cut up and rolled up inside.  The sad part is I didn't pack it well enough and it arrived in Utah in pieces - sorry Courtney, I hope you enjoy the pictures at least.

A Gift to the World