Friday, January 30, 2009

Kyle's Quilt

So Valentine's Day is right around the corner and I have not an idea of what to get Kyle, however yesterday I had the most awesome idea. He bought material a while back to make a quilt for himself (he is currently using my Disney Princess one which isn't as manly as one would like), so why not get a pattern going and make it for him for a gift. Excellent idea right? Well I thought so at least. I spent all day Thursday going over and over plans and patterns before I could fit a skull on a 2 yard by 2 yard quilt backing. Hours of math and drawing and coloring. Finally I made it fit, I had success I could do this. I knew if I played around long enough I could do it and I did. *Pats on the back* So now to lay out the material, first fold the 1 yard by 8 yard brown material into a 1 yard by 2 yard rectangle, easier said then done. My living room really isn't big enough for my projects (I tend to go overboard, you know go big or go home). So after an hour of making the brown flat and nice and folded I start on the white. The white has been pre-cut into strips to be cut down into squares for the quilts I was making for the holidays but I ended up having left overs. So Kyle had said to me before he wanted it left in strips and then sewn together from that. So I folded each strip down to the size it was supposed to be, taking FOREVER to measure and put out in the right place. Finally after a whole day of working it was complete, and I must say a master piece.



Look at it, it is simply amazing. Kyle was going to love this, my time isn't a waste. Well again that's what I thought. Kyle came home looked at the layout and said, no that's not really the look I am looking for. I was in a good mood as I was going to basketball that night so I didn't kill him right there. I asked how I could better catch the look he was going for, apparently he wanted the skull more rounded and it in general wasn't great looking. So how could this get worse? I went to basketball thinking that I could brainstorm out some ideas and go back to it today and make adjustments to it to better suit Kyle. But I came home to this site.....

I guess she heard her Daddy say he didn't like it so she made sure he didn't have to look at it anymore. I couldn't believe she had completely destroyed an entire day of work. Oh well I needed to redo it anyways......

Thursday, January 22, 2009

Funny Stories

Ok so as far as I am aware I have never posted this story here, though it was funny enough to tell a couple people that I talk to on a regular basis.

It all starts October 13 2007, a Saturday for those of you who need to know. We were having Kyle's parents and Oma and Grandpa Gil over for the first time to see our new place. A very exciting time indeed getting to show off how well we were doing. We got up early since they said they would be over around 9am. We had power cleaned all that week so that everything was just perfect (ladies you know what I mean, expecting a visit from your mother in law), so everything was pretty much perfect and we were just buzzing around making 100% sure everything was good. Kyle was trying his best to make the water jug thing work, we have had it for 3 years now and it still doesn't work. Anyways I am really busy and so is he and we aren't paying any attention till we hear these terribly sad cat cries coming from near the window. I figured it was one of our neighbours cats, most likely the one that is always outside. So I thought nothing of it other than wishing someone would help such a sad cat. After 10 mins of crying I couldn't take it anymore, I needed my cat to make me feel good about how great a care taker I was. I called and called and shook some treats and nothing. Now this is weird as Sugar is immediately at my side if I call. So now the cat is crying louder I walk over to the window upset by my own cat no longer loving me only to see no cat outside. And the cry was muffled. I call Kyle to come listen and he said it sounded weird. Yep you guessed it, twas Sugar. But now where was she to be making such a noise? Well my friends Kyle had lifted the water jug base and put it down not paying attention in his rush and she had gone under there and for the hour that we were trying our best to clean she was stuck under the water jug thing. I still laugh at how silly that whole thing was, like something in a sitcom. An after note, she never goes near that water thing anymore.

How about one about Kyle's little sister? We were at his parents house over the holidays and I was working on the computer trying to do my year end budget stuff when Lindsay enters the computer room. She asks what I am doing, I explain that I am doing my budget. Your budgie she replies. I laughed so hard and answered yes my budgie.

And now about me. I have always been into conducting my own science experiments, much to the dislike of Mamaz who had to usually clean them up (IE the time I wanted to know what happened to bread in a bag of water, I forgot it after a week and Mamaz caught it and threw it out before it was to explode in my room). Anyways I was told as a child, like most children, if I swallowed my gum it would take 7 years to come out and that I would be sick. So as to prove once again Mamaz was lying I took to eating gum. Now this part was not as a child, but rather just a year before I got married. You see the Christmas before our wedding Kyle gave me a big bulk barn bag full of my favorite gum, Double Bubble. So I would eat maybe 3 to 4 pieces a day, and for those of you who aren't aware of said gum it is bright pink. Imagine my delight when just a few days in I look in the toilet and there it was pink poop. Ah it still brings a smile to my face. I got in a lot of trouble for that one and I am now monitored when I eat gum. Kyle thinks that I will eat it again just to be entertained in the bathroom. So in conclusion gum goes through like food but is far more colorful than food.

That last one was pretty bad, though I am entertained by it, it is doubtful that any of you are.

Saturday, January 10, 2009

Stolen From Anothers Blog

Ok so I have seen this on multiple blogs so I guess I should get with the times and do one as well.

Challenge
Rules are: Anything you have done has to be in bold. How much have you done?

1. Started your own blog 
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii 
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland 
8. Climbed a mountain 
9. Held a Praying Mantis 
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch 
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables 
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb 
26. Gone skinny dipping 
27. Run a Marathon 
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset 
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing (does indoor count?)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt 
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted 
48. Gone deep sea fishing 
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain 
53. Played in the mud 
54. Gone to a drive-in theater 
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business 
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies 
62. Gone whale watching 
63. Got flowers for no reason 
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma 
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy 
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial 
71. Eaten Caviar 
72. Pieced a quilt 
73. Stood in Times Square 
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person 
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car 
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper 
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating 
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous 
92. Joined a book club 
93. Lost a loved one 
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone 
99. Been stung by a bee 
100. Visited Italy


Ok so in my life I have not done much of any of this stuff..... Maybe this year is the year I get a life and do something with it.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Rant

Ok so I was watching The Drs today. Now I don't make a point of watching this as I am not a big fan of such programs. However today they sucked me in when I seen a picture of a pregnant lady so I watched some of this episode. It was on the medical trends of 09. And this is redic "designer babies", you can choose everything about your baby. Now I am not a mom nor do I think I will be anytime soon so I don't know if I get a say. But to me this is like almost Frankenstein-ish, and what ever happened to the good old days when making a baby was about a drunk night out ending in a forgotten pill and a broken condom? I mean at the very least you had a fun night, not some time in the lab creating a monster. I dunno the old fashioned way has been working for thousands of years, I mean Adam and Eve invented it and look at how it worked for them. Plus in the end it is fun, isn't it? I don't know it seems silly to me but it might not for other people. I laugh at the fact that you ask most pregnant ladies what they want and it is always the same. "as long as it is healthy I don't care", well I guess that is the end of that saying.

Alright and I was watching TV last night and I seen a preview for a movie called Last Chance Harvey, or something like that I don't remember movies that don't seem like a movie I like (IE Disney Princess). It is about a guy and girl who seem to be at the same place at the same time and never notice each other until one day they do notice each other and they presumably fall in love. I was thinking about it and about Kyle and I and our whole story. How could we have gone almost a year without ever noticing each other more than to know each others first names and that we were in the same church. How much do we miss when we aren't fully aware of what we are looking at? I mean Kyle talks all the time about the fact that all through his life it had always been about a Laura with red hair and yet he never noticed me. The sparks were there, the electricity was strong but I don't know, we lacked the sight we needed to see everything. It is funny once we met, I mean really met, it felt like we knew each other forever. It was a perfect fit, everything he searched for as Kyle would say. I wonder how many times we were in the same place at the same time without knowing it, I mean once we got together we realized that our mothers shopped at the same places and such when we were growing up. Anyways I just wonder what else I have missed in life because I just didn't see.