My aunt took my grandmother to the casino for her birthday. The three granddaughters surprised her at the entrance to Paula Deen's restaurant, where we ate lunch. Great fun!
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Day Zero Progress, July 3, 2013 (Day 80)
Day Zero Progress, July 3, 2013 (Day 80)
Anything with no writing beside it
means I've done nothing recently towards that goal.
1 Buy a Minivan
2 Travel
to Hawaii
3 Paint
the boy's room
4 Make
$400 in one month doing consignment sales Tagging items for a children’s
consignment sale coming up now.
5 Listen
to the entire bible - We have heard through 1 Kings 7...several days
behind schedule, though.
6 Travel
to Key West
7 South
Carolina Beach Vacation
8 Find
a new church - Done!
9 Trip
to Washington D.C
10 Make
a quilt for David - bought most of the material. Have the pattern
planned.
11 Make
a quilt for Daniel - bought most of the material. Have the pattern
planned.
12 Make
a quilt for Benjamin - bought most of the material. Have the
pattern planned.
13 Make
a quilt for Simon - bought most of the material. Have the pattern
planned.
14 Make
a quilt for me
15 Make
a Star Trek Blanket - bought the
material.
16 Get a
new best friend – Just forget it!
17 Do a
10 day juice fast
18 Read
10 books – Finished Kahless; still working on Einstein's Theory of
Relativity and Frankenstein.
19 Make
Benjamin's baby scrapbook
20 Do
some volunteer work
21 Visit
the Jack Daniel’s Distillery TENNESSEE
22 Take
a free online class
23 Host
a board games night
24 Host
my poker party
25 Host
a Star Trek party
26 Learn
50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia
3.
IMWe
(International Creative Workshop in English) is an annual Scouting and Guiding
event run by the German Scout Association.
4.
Anthotopos may refer to two settlements in Greece:
·
Anthotopos, Kozani, a village in the Kozani
regional unit
28 Identify
100 things that make me happy - the list is up to 67 currently (that
sounds right, anyway).
29 Go
horseback riding
30 Get
down to a healthy weight - eating better
31 Reverse-pickpocket
someone
32 Find
12 Free things to do with the kids locally
33 Get
or buy storage units for the basement
34 Organize
the basement Moved boxes around and working on going through them.
Tagging several items for the consignment sale (see #4)
35 Don't
speak a single word for a day
36 Create
100 Note Cards to sell - Made 8 so far
37 Become
debt free – Still paying bills
38 Become
a published author
39 Go to
New Orleans during Mardi Gras
40 Become
a millionaire
41 Spend
Christmas in a mountain cottage
42 Learn
sign language - I know the alphabet.
43 Take
a painting class
44 Build
Lego displays for my cabinet
45 Get
the entire 1976 Star Trek card and sticker set - Have one sticker
and 1/4 of the cards.
46 Go on
a spa retreat weekend
47 Attend
a couples retreat
48 Get a
degree
49 Learn
the piano
50 Donate
blood again
51 Attend
an opera
52
Send something to
someone I love monthly
June
– Sent frozen prepared foods to my grandmother through my mother when she
visited her.
53 Join
a church group
54 Go
camping Went camping as a family with the Boy Scouts. First time one had
ever been camping and the first time two had been fishing.
55 Make
a will
56 Send
flowers to my mother and sisters for no reason
57 Get
the teapot to go with my dinnerware set
58 Get a
big screen tv – We did that, but we were completely schmoozled! It’s a
piece of crap. Now we still have to get another one…so…this was Done! And now
it’s not.
59 Create
and sell one or more comic book furniture pieces – bought more comic
books and the supplies to use for creation.
60 Take
the kids to the Space Museum
61 Have
$3,000 in a savings account - $5
62 Complete
24 Swap-bot Swaps -
6.
Be a LEGO Showoff! – June 2013
7.
New Starter SLAMS #3 – June 2013
8.
101 Things Progress – Currently doing
9.
Send a Small Seven Dollar (LEGO) Set
Swap – Currently enrolled
63 Read
10 classics I should have read but have never got around to
1.
Reading Frankenstein
64 Have
dessert before dinner at a restaurant
65 Perform
5 random acts of kindness - 2 done.
66 Go
barefoot for a whole day - Done!
67 Learn
a new word every day for a month
68 Get
rid of 100 things – Done!
69 Compliment
someone every day for 10 days straight
70 Bake
something new each month
May
– Chicken Tetrazzini and Asparagus Casserole
June
– I probably did, but I don’t remember what, so I can’t count it.
71 Memorize
the presidents in order
72 Get
my handwriting analyzed
73 Complete
a daily challenge every day for one year I thought I was on a 196 day
streak; but the site says 133 day streak. That’s still meeting my goal though.
74 Go to
5 different museums
75 Go
vegetarian for a week
76 Scan
and print photos to replace kids artwork in albums
77 Create
family recipe book with sisters
78 Organize
the files on my computer
79 Print
out photos and organize for scrapbooking
80 Private - Waiting
81 Decorate
my house like I really want it to be
82 Finish
all sewing repairs
83 Finish
Final Fantasy 8
84 Start
and Finish a journal
85 Listen
to 26 bands I’ve never heard of, each starting with a different letter of the
alphabet
· A - Angelle, Lisa - Country - ***
· E - Eager - Rock - *** ½
· I – Innovators – New Age - **
86 Win a
contest
87 Learn
to play the Star Trek CCG Game - Got more cards and found a site with
different instructions. I still wish I could find a trainer because I’m very
kinesthetic.
88 Get
Benjamin potty trained – still working; very slowly!
89 Make
my wardrobe mine
90 Buy a
house
91 Serve
Thanksgiving dinners as a family at KARM
92 Attend
the gym at least twice a week – Work stopped paying for this, so I may
as well give it up.
93 Drink
4 big glasses of water daily for one month – I’m doing 2 now, but not 4.
94 Watch
10 documentary films
95 Tip a
server $100
96 Buy
another coffee pot with automatic off – Done!
97 Go to
the Egyptian restaurant in Knoxville
98 Open
Benjamin's Savings Account...contribute to all three
99 Find
ways to declutter house – Decided to get rid of homeschool books. I’m
tagging those with a bunch of other items to sale (see #4)
100 Pull
all non-Lego Brand blocks out of collection
101 Grow a Big Flower Garden
– This probably won’t happen until next year.
Monday, June 17, 2013
Let's Talk Lego Blocks!
06/17/13
I signed up for a swap called "Be a LEGO Showoff!" because I love Lego blocks! This post provides the requirements for that swap.
First, I'd like to show off my collection. I keep them stored in two places. One is the shelf of grey bins. They are not categorized in any way currently. I have to sort through and pull out all of the blocks that are not Lego brand.
Here are some projects that I've worked on either alone or with my kids...I even won a prize for one!
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06/17/13
Be A LEGO Showoff Swap Details...
I'm a member of a website group called Swap-bot. There (or here) you can swap items to mail to each other via snail mail or electronic mail. It's a way to connect to the world by sending and receiving fun little "packages".I signed up for a swap called "Be a LEGO Showoff!" because I love Lego blocks! This post provides the requirements for that swap.
First, I'd like to show off my collection. I keep them stored in two places. One is the shelf of grey bins. They are not categorized in any way currently. I have to sort through and pull out all of the blocks that are not Lego brand.
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| Great investment! This holds A LOT of Lego bricks! |
The second unit I have is a display case. I have only just pulled everything out of my room to put them there, so they are also not yet organized...for the most part.
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| Man...I've got a lot of work to do. |
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| Many different sets |
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| The older sets are some of my most prized sets |
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| This is where my built displays will go |
Just recently I had to tell my boys that they could not play with any of my Lego bricks anymore. I know that sounds like I'm the worst mother in the world, but they keep losing my stuff and mixing mine with theirs! They'd feel the same way if I did that to their sets, I'm sure.
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| Empty boxes (mostly) |
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| Instruction manuals |
PROJECTS
Here are some projects that I've worked on either alone or with my kids...I even won a prize for one!
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| Lego Christmas Village |
This is the working carousel I built. I'm sorry that it's sideways, but my camera is weird!
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Our Big Fort...admittedly there were some other bricks than Lego used here.
This is the Lego storage units we made out of Lego blocks (and a few others)
So which one do you think I won a prize for?...
...It was the carousel. I entered it into a contest at the library and won first place for my age group (old).
Friday, May 31, 2013
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Day Zero Progress, May 29, 2013 (Day 45)
Anything with no writing beside it means I've done nothing towards that goal yet.
27 Start a compost bin
Anything with no writing beside it means I've done nothing towards that goal yet.
1 Buy a Minivan
2 Travel to Hawaii
3 Paint the boy's room
4 Make $400 in one month doing consignment sales - Sold 4 items this week. I'll have to recalculate from this time last month and find the total.
5 Listen to the entire bible - We have heard through 1 Kings 7...several days behind schedule, though.
6 Travel to Key West
7 South Carolina Beach Vacation
8 Find a new church - Done!
9 Trip to Washington D.C
10 Make a quilt for David - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.
11 Make a quilt for Daniel - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.
12 Make a quilt for Benjamin - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.
13 Make a quilt for Simon - bought most of the material. Have the pattern planned.
14 Make a quilt for me
15 Make a Star Trek Blanket
16 Get a new best friend - I found someone who needs a friend as badly as I do. I've been helping her through rough times and we have several things in common. I thought she might be this person for me. I realized on Memorial Day, after she cancelled our plans again, although for valid reasons, that she just doesn't have any emotional cash to spend on anyone else at this time. It's okay...we've all been in that place at one point, I think. My husband's a great best friend, I just want some girl time sometimes. It's okay...God will give me what I need instead of what I want.
17 Do a 10 day juice fast
18 Read 10 books - Read Odd Hours by Dean Koontz, working on Einstein's Theory of Relativity, Kahless, and Frankenstein.
19 Make Benjamin's baby scrapbook
20 Do some volunteer work
21 Visit the Jack Daniel’s Distillery TENNESSEE
22 Take a free online class
23 Host a board games night
24 Host my poker party
25 Host a Star Trek party
26 Learn 50 new things by clicking the random articles button on Wikipedia
- 2010 AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_about_the_Vietnam_War
28 Identify 100 things that make me happy - the list is up to 67 currently (that sounds right, anyway).
29 Go horseback riding
30 Get down to a healthy weight - eating better
31 Reverse-pickpocket someone
32 Find 12 Free things to do with the kids locally
33 Get or buy storage units for the basement
34 Organize the basement - moved freezer around, moved tables, and emptied clothing bins Sunday
35 Don't speak a single word for a day
36 Create 100 Note Cards to sell - Made 8 so far
37 Become debt free - Paid off the truck last week! Yay!
38 Become a published author
39 Go to New Orleans during Mardi Gras
40 Become a millionaire - Still buying lottery tickets...nothing to invest yet.
41 Spend Christmas in a mountain cottage
42 Learn sign language - I know the alphabet.
43 Take a painting class
44 Build Lego displays for my cabinet
45 Get the entire 1976 Star Trek card and sticker set - Have one sticker and 1/4 of the cards.
46 Go on a spa retreat weekend
47 Attend a couples retreat
48 Get a degree
49 Learn the piano
50 Donate blood again
51 Attend an opera
52 Send something to someone I love monthly
- May - Mother's Day Cards to Grandmothers and Aunts
53 Join a church group
54 Go camping - Made a reservation to camp with the Boy Scouts
55 Make a will
56 Send flowers to my mother and sisters for no reason
57 Get the teapot to go with my dinnerware set
58 Get a big screen tv
59 Create and sell one or more comic book furniture pieces - pulled up a shelf and bought some frames and outlet covers.
60 Take the kids to the Space Museum
61 Have $3,000 in a savings account - $5
62 Complete 24 Swap-bot Swaps - 3 are now under my belt; joined another.
Joined - May the Fourth Be With Us! - Sending on May 17/18
- Lego Photo Scavenger Hunt - April 30
- 101 Things Progress - April 2013 - April 27
- Lego Minifigure - May 11
- May the 4th Be With Us! - May 27
- 101 Things Progress - May 2013 (presently completing)
63 Read 10 classics I should have read but have never got around to
- Reading Frankenstein
64 Have dessert before dinner at a restaurant - I had dessert AS dinner when I took my aunt to the doctor's office with mom. We didn't get to eat lunch until 3:00 p.m. so I didn't want to eat again at 5:00, but I knew I needed something or I'd be starving at 7:00...so we got yogurt at Menchi's. Yum!
65 Perform 5 random acts of kindness - 2 done...Bought lunch for the car behind me at the drive-thru, took homemade chicken and dumplings to a sick friend.
66 Go barefoot for a whole day - Done!
67 Learn a new word every day for a month
68 Get rid of 100 things - Send 46 items to the donation center Saturday, two weeks ago. Took two bags of items yesterday. I'm up to 89.
69 Compliment someone everyday for 10 days straight
70 Bake something new each month
- May - Potluck Chicken Tetrazinni
- May - Asparagus Casserole
71 Memorize the presidents in order
72 Get my handwriting analyzed
73 Complete a daily challenge every day for one year - 196 day streak!
74 Go to 5 different museums
75 Go vegetarian for a week
76 Scan and print photos to replace kids artwork in albums - Did several from a box I went through.
77 Create family recipe book with sisters
78 Organize the files on my computer
79 Print out photos and organize for scrapbooking
80 Private - Waiting
81 Decorate my house like I really want it to be
82 Finish all sewing repairs
83 Finish Final Fantasy 8
84 Start and Finish a journal - Worked on third page....moving very slowly!
85 Listen to 26 bands I’ve never heard of, each starting with a different letter of the alphabet
- A - Angelle, Lisa - Country - ***
- E - Eager - Rock - *** 1/2
86 Win a contest - Entered two...didn't win either.
87 Learn to play the Star Trek CCG Game - Got more cards!
88 Get Benjamin potty trained - starting leaving him in big boy underwear during the day. Washing a whole lot of laundry!
89 Make my wardrobe mine
90 Buy a house
91 Serve Thanksgiving dinner as a family at KARM
92 Attend the gym at least twice a week
93 Drink 4 big glasses of water daily for one month
94 Watch 10 documentary films
95 Tip a server $100
96 Buy another coffee pot with automatic off - Did this Sunday!
97 Go to the Egyptian restaurant in Knoxville
98 Open Benjamin's Savings Account...contribute to all three
99 Find ways to declutter house - Emptied two bins of clothes in the basement when we changed from winter to summer clothes in our drawers.
100 Pull all non-Lego Brand blocks out of collection
101 Grow a Big Flower Garden - Asked husband to make me a plot.
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