Ka-BLAM!!!!

HELP! look what naughty Cruiser did! (there was more behind me as well!)

I'm so glad he didn't pull ALL of the stuffing out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and that he didn't do it in the backyard!-then I would be wrestling it out of the grass!

I havn't decided yet if I should fix it and give it back so I can go through this again with a potentialy worse result, or if I should just throw it away! I'm leaning towards throwing it out but will have to get the ok from my husband first who bought it from a garage sale for $0.25! He was like "but it was only 25 cents!"

I was impressed he had washed it before giving it to Cruiser first! This stuffed bear lasted a LOOOOOONG time! and I kept waiting for Cruiser to ruin it so I could throw it away cause it's so monstrously HUGE!!!!! But all he did was pull the arm off so it's an easy fix unfortunetly!

only his bed he left mostly clean! He usually "fluffs" his bedding, but hasn't been doing it much recently!

But the stuffing! I'm always amazed at how much is in these stuffed animals!

The innocent suspect found nowhere near the scene of the crime -Who would ever think such a cute innocent looking puppy would make a mess like that? Do those eyes look guilty or what????
anyways,

MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!! We've eaten lots of it already so it's not all we had.

Chayote Squash next to some of the world's most hugest navel oranges! I've never had Chayote to my knowledge, so I'm hoping I'll figure out what to do with it before it rots! but it sure is poky! owch!

My fridge full of greens and watermelon from my garden! and about 10 large cucumbers! 11 for $0.99 at Pro's Ranch Market! So I bought 12- what was I thinking! but they're so crispy sweet good! and they have pina colada yogurt!I love that place! It has such a beautiful produce section and the produce was so cheap! and Fresh! it opened on wednesday and was so well worth the 1 1/2 hours I stood in line waiting to enter!

         -and yes I officially have no life!-

I figured I had nothing else to do that day but clean my house and I was SOOOOOO excited to see the inside of that store and buy cheap produce that I didn't mind the wait and actually enjoyed it cause it gave me a chance to relax and I people watched and the bakery department people came out with cookies many times and I got 2 of them! 

There was so many people but I kept my hand locked over the zipper of my purse the entire time and never felt scared except for near the end of waiting in line when a strange and creepy mexican guy who ducked under the line barrier next to me kept creeping along in line with me getting closer and closer to me till I made a big loud fuss and yelled that the end of the line is back there and go away! and shooed my arms like a deranged weirdo till he scooched back in line about 10 people cause he felt stupid enough too even though he just stared at me like he couldn't comprehend....( I really did do that! and I'm proud of it!) and it was so exciting and .....

 I could go on! but I thought the wait well worth it for the price I got my groceries for! I was so excited shopping and it was so crowded and I had to wait in a long line again to buy my food, but was fun waiting (people watching). I was quite irritated at myself for getting in the line that was backed up into the fake perfumy chemical isle and ended up getting a headache waiting in line there, but I lucked out at getting the fastest line after a well trained cashier took over to let the other one go home! So the line went so fast after that!

my cute sweet puppy- I didn't even disipline him after he "unfluffed" his bear! He was just so innocently curiously watching me clean it up I couldn't "bear" to do it! I laughed and actually thought it a funny mess! It was so big!

Like the desktop on my computer??? My husband says "save the planet!" when I come up with new ideas to save $$$ cause he thinks that's why I change things and that's not true, so I came up with a better idea to show him it's not about saving the planet, but a way to live cheaply without fighting with him. (cause I could care less about "saving" the planet.) I'm not a tree hugger, but someone who would like to live a life as healthy and cheaply as I can. Surrounded with things I care about- not tons of useless chemical filled junk filling up my house! I think he thinks that way cause I like to buy things that aren't made of plastic which leaches chemicals into your food and prefer organic and things made out of natural materials that don't have harmful manmade chemicals in them!

I prefer to live this way cause since changing my living habits (going mostly chemical free), I've had less headaches and when I do get one, they aren't as bad and don't last as long as they used to!
 But maybe I'm just labeled as a wierdo tree hugger sort of person cause of the way I like to live even though I use paper and all paper products cause trees are a

RENEWABLE RESOURCE!

I use rags though in place of paper towels not to save trees, but to save money- you just throw away money with each paper towel, but I wash laundry anyways so whats the difference of washing a few more rags? they don't make a whole new load themselves! I don't even use much!


Whew! I feel much calmer now that I ranted and raved to all you people! I don't even know who all reads my words and thoughts on here!
would be nice to know who all you people who read my words are! But I guess if you want a life of secret annonymous-ness then go ahead. :-)

Going to a Christmas party tomorrow! Will get to see my aunts and uncles and hopefully if they go-my preciously cute baby nephew who I could just eat up cause he's so sweet!

Who would of thought my sister could make the world's sweetest cutest babys!

 I never thought the most wonderful feelings of aunty-love towards your nephews could come out till I saw my very first nephew! and how special he was- and perfectly beautiful! It's a whole new loving caring nurturing feeling when they are of your own flesh and blood! and it just deepens when you see your second nephew and you realize how special and what an honor it is to be blessed with little babies who will become the next generation of your family and you get to be a part of their life as they grow! I remember all my aunts and uncles growing up and they played a huge role in my life and helped shape me with who I am today. It's almost scary to think I'm now in their shoes! I get to see this beautiful little boy grow up and get to be a part of his life cause I'll be his aunty forever! And I'm SOOOOOO lucky! I got the cutest ones!
I feel I'm getting all mushy, but it's so hard to explain the happy feelings you get when you become an aunt!

Anyways, I just noticed the sun is starting to go down and I really should finish cleaning my house! I got so much done today, I'm excited to finish! I can't believe the amounts of energy you get from eating healthy! I've been eating very little meat and dairy, (I won't cut it out entirely cause I feel there are nutrients your body needs in them) and I've been eating so much fruits and vegetables lately that strangly, I am now experiencing a new type of energy I've not felt in a very long time! I feel so energized and alive!It's strange but I can actually feel it coursing through my veins and I don't think I'm imagining it! I feel I'm coming out of my tired exhausted rut and into life the way it should be! I feel like being part of the world again!
Look out world! I'm back!
Have a great rest of your day!
Trisha

Burp!!!

I'm still full of Thanksgiving! MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!
today, I clean the office, then my husband is going to pick me up to help him finish his work, then he wants to take me to see a fishtank he wants to buy.
BBBBuu-bbuu-But I don't want a fishtank! I just remember the last ones we had smelled of wet fish and lake water in the house and I don't want to smell it again! But he's so excited!
Ohh welllll.
Gotta go and get started on today!
Bye! Trisha

Fall is for Harvesting! and for Thanksgiving To God for food

Look! look! look! look! look!


look at my harvest! I also put new vidoes up on my YouTube channel if you want to see them in "action"!
I am so proud of myself at getting so many sweet potatoes and such huge ones all from only 1 plant!

you might notice in that picture, the wonderful detail of my finger forever suspended in action for eternity in that picture! That's a true ACTION SHOT! anyways, back to the harvest, you might notice that's a 15 inch ruler there! WHAT"S UP WITH THAT POTATO? it's like it couldn't figure out where to stop!
 POTATO: "MMM right here? nope... theres still room on that root.... right here? nope, let's just go a little further... You know- the winter's coming and we need to make sure we store enough! better go a bit longer..."
ME: "Well potato,  I don't know what to do with you! It will be interesting peeling you! Thanks for all your hard work storing up for the winter!"

WOW!

 keep in mind here, thats a 15 inch ruler I have in there! I'm still shocked!

Check out the fat size of that one!

before shots. Before I roughly yanked the plant from it's comfortable bed of all summer and ever so gently dug up it's buried lumps of gold! such pretty flowers it had too! But I didn't grow it for decoration! Just for food. did you know that the leaves and stems of the potato plants are edible? cook em up like spinach. I've never tried it yet, but I've read about it. I just don't dare. It's not something I've ever seen anyone eat and I'm scared at how it will taste! Guess we're not that starving!

vacant spot in garden for sale!

I am in complete aww of what came out of that dirt! I wasn't expecting much because I ignored that plant so much this summer!
 Anyways, I told you I would post about the harvest, and I did.
So now I'm free to go back to being lazy! :-D
Have a great afternoon!
Trisha

Pretty orange like pumpkins!

I fixed my blog. I was so sick of that pink for a long time and finally remembered how to change it. Orange looks lots nicer I think!
         I've had a very lazy day today. Not much going on. Just a day of relaxing for me and my husband. He actually got up early! About 10:30AM! I was so impressed!

I should go out and dig up my sweet potatoes, but I don't feel like it yet. I read somewhere that the starches change to sugars and the potatoes get sweeter if you leave them in the ground till after the first frost, but no longer. it hasn't froze yet, but has gotten cooler. I don't know if that qualifies, but I'm getting excited to dig them up and see how many I grew this year! Maybe I'll do that today!

       Then I have laundry and my entire house to clean. I don't like cleaning my house. I feel like moving to a smaller house so I'll have less to clean! My husband likes big houses, and then won't help me clean it. I think a small house is perfect- costs less to heat or cool, easier to clean and maintain, and there are so many other benifits and I have a difficult time trying to convince my husband a small house is better!

       

Maybe I am just lazy! Thats probably all it is!

My motto is still less to clean and I'm still going to get rid of a lot more things just as soon as I can get into all the stuff in the garage! For some reason we piled all the big things like shelves and dressers in front of all the smaller things that I have wonderfull plans to get rid of, so it's all sealed in waiting for our house to get painted and then we can move the big things out and uncover all our treasures trash!!!
I can't wait! everytime I've gotten rid of stuff, I've felt so free! now living in my house right now, the only decorations I have are houseplants and 1 vase and a fake tree! so easy to clean you think! But I'm missing the biggest thing about cleaning- MOTIVATION!!!!!

I did organize the desk drawer and the dreaded drawer of papers that always builds up! So I really did do something productive!Well, I'm going out to dig potatoes! Will update you with the harvest!
Till later,
Trisha

officially free! and Happlily Full of Cinnamon Rolls and Apple Cinnamon Rolls!

I've got my last paychecks from the roach motel, and was at Mom and Dad's all afternoon!
I had a wonderfultastic day today! I originally went to mom's because I didn't want to sit at home looking at all that needed to be done, because I felt I couldn't do it cause my neck hurts and I still had remnants of the headache I had yesterday. I don't know if I slept wrong, or pulled a muscle in my back, neck or shoulder, but my neck is in a hard knot on one side and I can't turn it too well. I had a pretty bad headache yesterday and my mom thinks it tensed my muscles which is probably the case.
 
 anyways, we went to Anthem and bought stuff for cinnamon rolls. Then mom made dough while I washed dishes and then we sliced apples to fry up in butter for some of the cinnamon rolls! then I went to Anthem and got my checks, came back, and mom was already half way done with the cinnamon rolls! I helped her to finish, and then washed all the new dishes- I love washing dishes at other people's houses! does anyone else? we cooked and visited all afternoon and I had so much fun and feel more relaxed than I have in ages! I just needed time with mom! I havn't seen her in forever it seems!
I had so much fun and came home with some delicious rolls and wonderful supper for my husband and pomegranate seeds and don't you think I have the most wonderful mom on earth? she also put muscle relaxing cream on my neck before I left, and made a nice warm rice sock to put on my neck for on the way home. She's always been such a sweet caring mom, and still is! She still takes care of me! She is the best! I still have that sock on my neck! and it's working!

But oh those rolls she made! I felt like I was melting inside eating them! They are so delicious and juicy with buttery melty appley carmely goodness, or just plain buttery cinnamony carmely deliciousness in the whole world that makes you feel like you are in a world of your own with each bite savoring the flavors, and they have the most beautiful texture and have the most best flavor ever! and the supper she made! I have never been able to make that dish taste as wonderful as she made it tonight! I am even further convinced that I really did grow up with the world's greatest chef even more cause no one can top the way she cooks! I can only hope to be able to cook as great as my mom someday! THANK YOU MOM! THANKS FOR ALL YOU DO!!!!
I am so happy I went there today. I had so much fun!
Goodnight everyone!
Trisha

FREE!!!! (of the roach motel)

I'm free at last, but will have to go back to the roach motel to pick up my last check next Friday.
I have to work in the kitchen tonight at church, and tomorrow morning. I also received a call yesterday that I'm on the coffee committee tomorrow night. so when it rains, it pours!
I made pasta last night. MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!! It was the best yet I have ever made! I kneaded the dough extra long and used less egg this time so I think thats why it was so nice and aldente instead of soggy! I also rolled it out thicker than normal.

I made a lot and froze some after it dried for later.

then I cooked some up, drizzled it with first cold pressed extra virgin olive oil (which is the absolute best tasting stuff on the planet-besides chocolate avocado pudding), and put it on plates,

added deliciously thick spagetti sauce, sprinkled parmesan cheese on my husbands (I don't like it on spagetti)

toasted up some garlic bread-didn't take a picture- and ate. it was so good! Sometimes I impress myself.

MMMMMM see those yummy garlic chunks?

here's Cruiser with his blue squeeky ball. He loves his squeeky balls- you can see his green one in the background, along with a tennis ball. this dog lives for any game involving throwing a ball. here he's trying to give it to me to throw.

before the party- my kitchen getting painted. almost there!

closeup of the intricate details of many layers of different colored paint and unpainted texture, and paint cutting done before painting. (this is the wall in my kitchen) I'm glad you can't see this part anymore.....

another attractive picture of the dog and his blue ball..... no other explanation needed.
see how fuzzy he is after his bath though? his shampoo makes him smell like marshmallows.....
This is a picture of my husband's plate of food from the Pink Lotus where we had takeout about a month ago. I was shocked when he told me he was hungry and proceeded to dump the entire contents of his order on his plate and then ate it. I guess he WAS hungry!! and he's not fat at all and not a fat roll in sight on him! And me, well we won't even go there. let's just say, if I ate all that, it would form a roll the same size on my belly without any trouble. aparently 2 different metabolisms here.

plotch- thats the sound of the splat of dumping it on the plate- notice the splatters on the placemat? :-)

Thats a mountain of rice and onions huh? It was very spicy mongolian beef or something.

Leave it to my husband to make it an "attractive" presentation! :-)

ANYWAYS, enough of my yapping. I gotta bring lights over to the house we're fixing up because my husband forgot them and called me to bring them, and it's 1:01PM and I'm still in my PJ's and I have to get ready for Bible Camp soon! So will update you later!

Make it a great day!

Trisha

Freedom Soon!

I'll be free in 12 days! I quit 1 job. told them my last day is November 4th. No more club! I'll be free from the roach motel!!!!! That place smells so bad also, I'm always embarresed when the members come in and can't believe they'd actually eat there!
WARNING: IF YOU ENTER A RESTURAUNT IN THE FUTURE AND IT SMELLS A LITTLE FUNNY, IT'S PROBABLY BECAUSE THEY DON'T CLEAN PROPERLY. AND ALSO MIGHT HAVE ROACHES ALL OVER AND DROPPING INTO YOUR FOOD AS IT COOKS BECAUSE ROACHES CLIMB WALLS AND CEILINGS AND DROP OVER THE STOVE AND INTO THE FOOD PREP AREAS(THATS WHAT THE COOKS AT THE CLUB TOLD ME HAPPENS THERE!) and do they just pick the roach out and serve it anyways? I didn't dare ask.
so BEWARE of stinky or strange smelling places that cook your food.

I have been unable to update anything recently because the motherboard in my computer decided to not work anymore. It's fixed, and working now! So you get the opportunity to be bombarded with my weirdo postings again! aren't you excited?!!!!!!!
Sometimes I wonder if I really make any sense when I post or if it's just a bunch of mangled up garbage that just mumbles and jumbles across the page and mixes up everyones brains into thinking "it really does make sense- RIGHT?"
Guess I'll never know. but you are always welcome to tell me the truth because i'll post my garbage anyways and you just don't have to read it if you don't want to! SO THERE! :-)
my house is dusty, and still needs mopping, and still needs painting and still needs dry wall, and still needs.....could go on and on and on and on.......
oh and the grass needs a haircut again!
and the dog needs a bath still and and and and and and .....
I cant wait to have Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays back to myself again! that will mean 4 days to myself a week! 3 days of work, each 12 hours long, but add in 1 hour worth of driving there and back each day, and also there's 1 hour break waste of my time per day it totals
39 hours total gone from home,
3 hours break wasted time and
3 hours drive time so
6 hours wasted time total, and
33 hours actual paid work time.
Dumb how you have to use your own time to help someone else make money.

I dislike working with a passion. But how else do you live in this world? Money is such a dumb idea cause you need it in order to survive comfortably in this world. You can't just live in a place without owing money and you won't have water if you don't have $ unless you have a well and then you'll still need money for a permit anyways for a well always
$$$$$$$$$$$$$ the whole world is dependent on it! and it's worthless paper and cheap metal! Just stupid when you actually sit down and think of the meaning of what $$$$ has done to the world! And the greed!
oh well. someday maybe we'll get ahead. I'm just tired trying to get there. :-)
Have a good day.
Trisha.