planting fall mums.....winter wheat?....

Thinking about those flowers called mums...they are ready to plant in the fall...I already saw a few of the mum plants on sale at the store yesterday!

They have all colors of the mum flowers...They have yellow, orange, gold, dark rust colored and white ones...I think if I can find them I will buy 2 plants...2 different colors, or 2 of the same color and set them in planters....

I can't decide yet what I will choose, but I know I won't be getting any of those mum flowers for a while until the weather gets cooler because I think right now that the sun will make them wither away...so I will wait on that...just thinking.

going to church today so I will have my usual sunday routine...I always look forward to getting coupons and looking at sale ads from the stores after church and having lunch with my Grandparents in town...it's always a lot of fun to read the sale ads on sunday and just look at things in the store for sale by reading the ads...

Stormy my calf is growing and she's been drinking lots of water and still eating those creep pellets I think I will be switching her to alfalfa pellets pretty soon and maybe some hay sometime...

almost time to plant winter wheat so my uncle is probably thinking about working up the land over here and then my Grandpa is probably going to have to start planting his too on his usual wheat field...

I remember one time a few years ago we went to help him and it was really cold and windy and that cold wind was blowing dust all over us and all in the air when it got planted...There were a bunch of dried up old sticker weeds all over the field and when we went to plow up the land the sticker weeds all got wrapped around the springtooth and we had to dig them out of there with a stick...it was dirty and dusty but I liked doing that!...lol..

I know to wear a dust mask whenever I go out there to help work on things like that but I don't know when we will be working on that or where....

going to church in a few hours.

hugs! 

random saturday.....

Had to put my old dog Rowdy to sleep yesterday....It made me very sad...I cried a while over it but I know that she's not suffering anymore....She was just really old....I'm ok now..not sad anymore when I know she's not in pain any longer.....

Got 2 new flea & tick collars for the other 2 dogs and they are turquoise I think...they have a bad case of the seed ticks I suppose they get them from roaming around in the pasture or in the yard....Those ticks will make a dog really sick so I gave them both a flea & tick bath today when I got back home from town and then I gave them both a new rawhide to chew on...they were happy!...lol..

Goofball our new dog liked his rawhide and after I gave him a bath he ran all around the yard and he took his rawhide and tried to hide it from me!.....haha!!! I laughed at that dog he makes me laugh all the time....he's funny!....Whenever I put his new flea & tick collar on him I made sure that it is snug so it WILL NOT choke him and so he WILL NOT get the collar hung on anything like a fence or a tree or anything like that...so he's safe and I make extra sure that I am careful when I handle any kind of flea & tick shampoo or collar so I'm safe and the dogs are safe...

I know what I'm doing when I take care of dogs and cats both!...My cats take flea & tick baths too even though they live in the house and there are no fleas or ticks in the house...just spiders and scorpions for Pumpkin cat to wrestle!....Haha..

today when I went to town I found those Ty Beanie Boos that I want to collect...I just started collecting them and today at the store I found one named "Spells" and he is a white owl..it's cute!...just $6.....I also found a black cat one that looked like Pumpkin cat....but it wasn't a Ty Beanie boo or anything...so I bought it anyway for $6....

I really think Ty Beanie Boos are cute and they name them cute names on the tag...I want to collect the Halloween ones when they arrive in the stores, but I want to collect them pretty soon myself...I like looking for those Halloween ones by myself...it's a lot of fun going into Walgreens or CVS just to find them....

then for $3 I found a black crow fall decoration that sets on a shelf...it was all fall and cutesy and I had to get it...add to my fall decoration collection!....haha...

bought some allergy medicine I have to take and I had a $4 off coupon and it made it a lot cheaper! yay! ;)

that Braum's sausage egg, cheese biscuit sure was good this morning!....Haha!!!

love, Julie

i like crickets, they sing.....

Braum's sausage egg cheese biscuit is really good for breakfast! with orange juice....Haha!...Just letting ya know...tried one the other day and it was just as good as McDonald's.....lol...Maybe I will get to have another one of those biscuits tomorrow.

One of my older dogs is getting sick and I think she may not make it...She's about 15 years or more old and she looks bad and can't walk and she drinks lots of water but I don't know...I just think she's getting old and she's lived a good long life for a dog....makes me sad but I know that's just life!
:(

My new dog he's a Goofball and we call him Cat...lol....he likes to drag up things in the yard and chew on them all the time...sticks mainly....I buy him a few of those chewy rawhide treats and he always chews those or buries them!...he's so funny and he makes me laugh...he likes to lick my hand and lay his head against my shoulder when I tell him that I love him... everybody say aww....lol.

One thing I have been seeing a lot of lately are black crickets they sing pretty songs at night that help me go to sleep....so I never step on crickets!!!.I know their "chirping" sometimes annoys people...but not me!..I don't know why I guess it's just me being my weird kooky self but I like to listen to them sing....

I think it's called "chirping" when they sing...I can't be sure.

you know people pay lots of money for those alarm clocks that play nature sounds to help them sleep...they play frogs, crickets, ocean sounds, thunderstorm sounds...I like nature...I always wanted one of those alarm clocks like that, but I suppose I pretty much have one when I already can hear frogs, crickets and thunderstorms...haha.

I don't really like to look at those brown wood crickets they kind of are creepy they live in caves and rotten wood...I don't know if they sing or not but if they sing that's alright!...I just don't like to see them....lol.

I guess crickets are one of my favorite creatures...so don't step on crickets they sing and I like them!!!....haha.

j.

painted kitchen....

Finished painting and decorating the kitchen....I painted it white and bought those wall decals and stuck those on the wall around the edges...They were $10 for a box and I bought 1 box of coffee decals...I just made a wall border out of them...super cute! ;)

I guess I will find some more decorations sometime that are coffee themed somewhere and not expensive ones at that!....lol....I can "design on a dime" as they say!....haha...I just combine all kinds of decorations from any kind of store that are not expensive I have even bought some small decorations at a nice garage sale last year....for a quarter....lol..

I have been watching QVC and HSN on tv....I like to watch their fall/winter home interior design shows..all kinds of cute decorations on there...I never buy anything on there though, I just like to watch it....

going to get my black sunglasses out in 1 week and start wearing them....September is next week so time to change my sunglasses from white to black sunglasses for fall and seasonal wear.

maybe it will rain a lot the next few days.

j.

Tassimo and cappuccino/coffees......

Man....I wish summer was over.

Starting on painting the kitchen in the morning...bought new curtains...coffee themed...on sale! paint was on sale too!!! I can theme and paint a kitchen on a dime....lol....change is always good for things like that....gets rid of memories and a new coat of paint and new theme is great.

wanting to get all this painting finished by fall...make it comfy and pretty....can't wait to get out my Tassimo coffee maker my brother gave me...kinda tough finding those T-discs!!!..My favorite is Cappuccino and there are other T-discs I want to try.....they also have hot chocolate!...

I like the sound of the machine and the smell of the coffee and other T-discs when I make them in the mornings...the smell of coffee in the morning is so nice...I like the smell of all those coffees and cappuccinos but that's just me.....

too hot to drink coffee for me right now but soon when the weather cools off (whenever that is? hopefully SOON.)......Haha....I will be drinking all those cappuccino/coffees....

hopefully pretty soon I can find and purchase some more T-discs for my Tassimo coffee maker...

go away summer!

j.

Sunday, August 24th....

Going to church this morning...Really wish it was cooler weather!!!

Just want to say "Happy Birthday" to someone in my family.

I love you more than anything!

love, j.

vegetables i like....

My Grandma has always told me that I need to eat vegetables...She has always made dinner for me when I was little and she has always made sure that we have had vegetables on the table...She will still tell me all about how important it is and healthy it is for you to eat vegetables every day because they are healthy for you....your body needs vegetables to function properly they have vitamins and all those good things you need...

My Great-Grandpa (her dad) when he was alive he always had the biggest prettiest garden you could have ever imagined and he grew all kinds of different vegetables in that pretty garden..i remember seeing it and it was very pretty...I don't know how he could grow so many different vegetables like that but it must have been the soil....

he grew just about every vegetable you could think of and I suppose that's why my grandma has always known all about eating vegetables to stay healthy...when my Great-Grandpa was alive, whenever I would get to go visit him he would always send home vegetables with us...so I learned all about all the different healthy vegetables since I was a little girl...

vegetables are always important to me to eat because they are some of my favorite foods.

Haha!....I'm being silly right now, so just for fun my favorite vegetables are:

green beans
tomatoes
broccoli
corn
beets.-I prefer them pickled! but also cooked normal.
turnips
potatos
asparagus
peas-chick peas and green peas
lettuce
carrots
yellow squash
okra
onion
mushrooms(if they're a vegetable?...lol)
radishes
black olives(are they a vegetable?...lol)
brown beans
bell peppers-all colors
jalapeno peppers
cauliflower
zucchini
bean sprouts
pumpkins--for pies, bread, cakes, decorating, (and of course I have a cute black cat named after this vegetable because of Halloween & Fall!...lol) so I suppose it's my favorite one!...haha

that's all I guess....but I like to eat vegetables all the time...they make me feel better when I eat them all the time....I'm so thankful my Grandma has always told me to eat vegetables my whole life and told me all about them....

love j.

my favorite breakfast items....

I think breakfast is one of the most important things of the day and you should always eat breakfast to make sure that your blood sugar levels and your energy levels are in check....

this is just to be silly this morning so here goes! ;)

my favorite breakfast things:

I'm not diabetic so one of my favorite things to eat for breakfast is blueberry pancakes and waffles...homemade ones are the best!!! with milk.

French toast is a favorite--homemade with pancake syrup and milk.

people always talk about eating Eggs for breakfast and how they aren't healthy and then they are healthy...well I like to eat my breakfast eggs like this: salt/peppered, fried and a little runny!....lol....I know it's probably gross to some people but that's how I like them...they are also good scrambled with a little cheese and pepper/salt too...

Egg omelets are also good with cheese and spinach or mushrooms in them a little taco sauce on them when you aren't having ulcer problems!...haha!!!

bacon is ok but not all the time.. breakfast sausage pork or turkey is not something I like really.....but I do like a good Mcdonald's breakfast sausage/cheese/egg biscuit once in a while when I am in town that early....they have hashbrowns with orange juice too...they're good also.

hashbrowns are pretty good or tator tots with orange juice from Sonic I like that when I'm in town in the morning.....

lately I have been eating plain bagels with cream cheese on them...plain bagels are my favorite I think so far blueberry is ok, but sometimes plain tastes the best with cream cheese....

biscuits and gravy all homemade is something I also like for breakfast....

I like healthy cereals.

I like to make crepes for breakfast with some kind of pie filling or fruit/cream cheese

cooked white rice with a little butter, sugar and milk

cream of wheat in the fall/winter is something I like for breakfast with some butter, milk, sugar.

oatmeal(everybody's favorite) lol.....I like peach oatmeal the best but I know that plain oatmeal is the most healthy for you.

I try to always take a cranberry AZO tablet for my kidney/bladder every morning or I always make sure I drink some 100% cranberry juice every morning to keep the infections away....

but if you are diabetic you need to be careful about drinking cranberry juice or eating a lot of sugar....you should always keep that in mind...use fake sugar! ;)

mountain vacations........

Thinking about how much I would like to go see and visit some of the national parks and see the mountain ranges there....I like nature and one of my favorite things is sightseeing and taking pictures of the mountains in the distance

Whenever you are in the mountains or looking up at them you realize how small you are in this world...you know only God could make those mountains so tall and up in the sky like that..Whenever I look at them I see all the colors of the mountains against the sky and when they are snow covered they are very pretty!

there are things you need to be prepared for when you are going to go stay on vacation in the mountains and one of those things is called Altitude Sickness....When I went to New Mexico I was told about altitude sickness before I went..well I was warned about it!!!...haha!...Good thing I listened because when I went there a lot of people got light headed, dizzy and puked!!!

you shouldn't drink alcohol while there or while going there...I don't drink at all anyway, but alcohol is something you should avoid in the mountains...only makes you sicker they say....it confuses your mind worse while there.

it's very tough to breathe while there also, it puts a lot of pressure on your lungs sometimes...so if you smoke you shouldn't do that either...bad...I have never smoked so if you do you shouldn't...

I just prepared myself before I knew I was going, so a week ahead I started drinking only water and sports drinks like PowerAde/Gatorade.. and I chewed lots of chewing gum on my way there up into the mountains so my ears wouldn't pop so bad because the altitude makes your ears stopped up and they pop the whole time...it's funny! 

just drink lots of water.

I have been told that the further west you travel the higher the altitude and the higher you are climbing while driving and you don't really even know it...kind of weird when I think about that...so you start out in the lower altitude and travel and it gets to higher altitude when you go west...

it can affect your brain and your health once you get into the higher altitude and the mountain ranges so you should always be prepared for it by taking precautions and while in the mountains you need to make sure you keep yourself hydrated....

one of the funniest things about the altitude is that when you pack a suitcase and you have items in them that are packaged like chips or things in sealed bags or even toothpaste tubes they can explode because of the pressure of traveling into the high altitude!!! so avoid aerosol cans when packing your suitcase!

at a grocery store there where I went, all the chips and prepackaged food items were full of air and about to explode...it was funny but strange!

you won't be like a bag of chips and be full of air or anything unless you are full of hot air already!!!...Haha!!!

anyway I really like road trips and all that traveling....it's fun driving but it's always good to find an easier route that isn't confusing or makes you car sick!...lol....with your friends and family that you love and care about, road trips like that are always comfortable and most importantly a lot of fun...when you know they love and care about you as well..you can have fun together and laugh all the time and look at things and whatever you want to see that is pretty, or the gifts you buy to take back home with you to remind you of your vacation...

love, j.

???......

Large Print bible
shirt
whoopee cushion
sugar free candy

hee-hee!!! ;)

love ya!

painting, storage and organizing....

Finally finished painting that old bedroom of mine...It took quite a while!!! The paint I bought was to cover bright colors and it took 2 buckets of paint to get it completed....The old paint sort've showed through the new white cover-up paint....But I re-covered it with the white that was left in the bucket and it looks good now....

I really thought it would only take a few hours so I woke up early at 4am and started painting the bedroom so I could open the windows to air out all the fumes from the paint because it's toxic to breathe in a closed room...AND the weather has been sooooo hot in the 100's degrees and I wanted to get that paint dry in that room before it got so hot and I had to close the window...so it took me several hours and I was finished painting by 10am.

drink lots of water in this hot weather...I just drink plain water...no flavored waters...I'm highly allergic to some of the flavored waters....some of them have acesulflame in them which is a chemical they use and it makes me really nervous and itchy...just like some allergy pills I have had to take have done to me....nervous sick feeling..Claritin and Allegra allergy pills make me nervous but Zyrtec is ok......

I have to be careful about what over the counter medicines I take because it seems as though I am allergic to a lot of things and a lot of additives in flavored waters and candies/gum....

went through some of my clothing dressers and threw away old clothes I had...cleaning them out of there...it's stupid to keep old clothes that have holes in them just because they are comfortable....makes more room to put other clothes in....I need lots of space and storage room!....lol....things have to be organized for me..not messy!....haha!!!

I have to have my things tidy and stored properly and everything has to be clean for me.....having things like socks in one drawer, underwear in one drawer, pajamas in one drawer, shorts in one drawer, and I also have a miscellaneous drawer which is important things I don't want to lose and/or things that have no where else to be stored but in that one drawer---things I want to keep and don't want to lose.....haha....that's the drawer.. 

love ya, j.

suicide is awful.....

Woke up this morning...life is so peaceful early in the morning...I like to set outside on the back step in the cooler mornings and listen to nothing but wind blowing through the trees.....it makes me feel better when it's cooler because it's not so hot outside and humid and you can actually breathe....asthma is not so bad then.

thinking about how when I have a bad day I always work at making it better...even when I don't feel so great or I'm upset or angry about silly things I try to make my day better by laughing about something and turning my frown upside down into a smile....haha!

If you have a bad day make somebody laugh or do something nice for someone even if it's just being nice at a store and saying thank you to the cashier or something like that....It also helps to get out of the house and go somewhere with your friends & family and talk about how you feel....

I've never had any issues with depression or anything and never needed medication for anything but if you need medication for depression or mental disorders you should always make sure you take your medications...

one thing that I have been hearing a lot about everywhere in the media/newspaper etc...is about suicide and I think about how awful and sad that is when someone gets so upset and sad they want to do away with themselves...It's so upsetting to me when I would find out anyone in my friends or family would ever think of ending their life! when they love and care about me I would never ever want them to even think about suicide because I need them in my life...I would tell them everyone has bad days and things will pass and get better!....everybody has bad days and they don't last forever...

if you are ever suicidal you should always talk with a mental health professional get help and/or medication and get out there and do something heroic & amazing with your life to make the world a better place!!! There's a million good things you can do with your life and set an example for your friends, colleagues, and especially your family members who love you!

so get your butt out of bed and throw back the curtains and do something good with your life! there are always good things to do for the world and always occupations out there who need more help to make the world a better and most importantly a safer place..and especially make people in your family that much more proud of you!!! ;)

when you do that, you make the world that much more happier and safer with your ownself...anybody can make a good difference in the world...it may seem like a small happiness and goodness but even that little bit of good can change the world....so don't ever end your life because everybody has somebody who loves them and would miss them like crazy!!!

just make good things happen with your life!!!

going to church this morning and donating some more canned food...even that helps make the world a better place!

gotta get my newspaper for coupons today, and go have lunch with my grandparents.

love ya, julie

satellite tv is boring........

Something that has been annoying me lately is satellite tv.It has given me so many problems and it starts to become a nuisance more and more everyday.The tv satellite will get a problem and you have to call the number to repair it yourself and half the time you can't even understand what they are saying over the phone or telling you what to punch in on the remote or the tv buttons....I just get so frustrated with how it is always getting stuck on a channel and won't change channels!!! or download programming guide...never ever is it fixed right....*eyeroll* annoyed.

have the cheapest package on the satellite and it's still expensive...not even worth it I don't think...They never have anything different on and all these stupid reality shows annoy me I don't watch those things...I guess I just can't get interested in anything on tv...I listen to the satellite music channels that have just music playing and a dark screen....but that's not all the time.....satellite tv is just not worth the expense or the time.

I mainly like to watch weather(yes, I'm a nerd) I don't even really watch the Weather Channel anymore because it's all about stupid news and stupid shows they have on it!!! I just want to watch weather and radars not all that crap....lots of people have told me it's stupid to them too now....

I like to watch weather related channels to get away from having to watch news reporting all the time...life is stressful enough and then it's news constantly on there now......just give me a weather channel that is strictly weather!!! I like just weather....please?

 sometimes I listen to the music channels I mentioned..and I like old sitcoms from the 1950's and old cowboys...but I have noticed on my Grandparents plain old antenna signal that is digital they have all those things I like to watch on there already and that's free....Haha!!! why pay extra expense for crap I don't even watch or care about?! my tv pretty much stays off most the time...I don't care.

that way a regular tv antenna doesn't have all that nasty over sexualized gross programming on it...safe and clean tv.....and is free/cheaper!!! too many bills these days! who needs an extra bill with satellite tv?...I don't.

love, j.

Friday evening......

Slept in today...then fed Stormy some pellets and water...Remember it's hot out there and to always drink plenty of water and keep all animals watered and fed at all times!!!...well, always do that! duh!....lol...

Bought a pair of Hello Kitty Pajamas (the fuzzy fleece kind) today at the store for $10...I thought that was a good sale....I can't wait to wear them when the weather gets cooler!...so comfortable and soft...sleepy....

also bought 2 buckets of paint to paint that old bedroom of mine...trying to get all the rooms in the house re-painted before fall gets here and all the holidays ya know....I'm just painting a few of the rooms white so it's easier to color coordinate bedding, decorations, wall borders and all those things like that....

I really like to paint and change up things to look even better before...my mind is always looking at the color of something and wanting to make it look even better or change the theme....color makes the world go around I always say..it can change how you feel and how you view a room or anything.In your house exterior or interior painting is always a good thing I think....

when am I going to start a painting business???...haha!!! lots of people have asked me that! who knows with me.....seems like that's all I do all the time is paint or decorate....you can find decorations that are seasonal pretty much anywhere and sometimes really cheap...don't matter to me if they are cheap! they're all decorations and they're all cute!

I'm so funny when it gets time for fall or winter I like to start gathering things like I am a little squirrel getting ready to hibernate in a little nest!!!.....I know it's soooooo funny how I am, but that's what I always do! I start collecting things(like fall/winter clothes/decorations) and canned food and freezing things...most squirrels don't have freezers or can openers!!!....Haha!!! I suppose that maybe they can decorate their little nests for fall and winter!!!.....lol...

love ya, j.

dementia and mind disorders....

Worried about that silly dog....I worry about him all the time because I love and care about him...I certainly don't want anything to happen to him...I've had lots of sadness with losing dogs in the past, them getting ran over by cars in the road, getting sick, getting old etc....

The dog loves to roam around and I'm afraid that he might go across the road and get caught in a trap those idiot people across the road put on the ground and lose his leg/paw like that last poor old dog...he went across over there by the creek and was missing for a week...finally he appeared and his paw was gone....then there's coyotes who could get him at night and he's still a puppy and I don't want them to kill him.....then there's people who drive by way too fast at night and he's been chasing cars and he could easily get ran over....so what is a girl to do about this situation?....

I've been tying him up with a light weight rope/cord for dogs on his collar to keep him safe in the back yard and I think he needs to be at night and when I go to town....I just don't want anything to happen to him because it can happen so easily and I don't want anything to happen to him.....kinda stressful worrying about him getting hurt. :(

Thinking about my Grandpa and his mind lately....My Grandpa has been diagnosed with dementia and it's just from getting older...lots of people in the world have dementia....It's a mind disorder....and I know he is slower and I know he gets upset because he gets confused easily and he forgets things...I know that must be very upsetting and frustrating for him to not be able to remember things and not be able to think about things.....

The human mind is a very complicated thing and it's very delicate also...There's all kinds of medicines for mind disorders that people can take and need to continue taking to help their mind...I know it must be very upsetting when you can't think right or remember how to do simple things or know where you are at most times....and whenever he gets confused I understand that....

whenever people have dementia or other mind disorders they can have mood swings and throw temper tantrums and yell or anything...that's just how the human mind works and how the dementia or mind disorder affects it...so what you get is that you never really know how the person will be one day or the next day.My Grandpa doesn't scream or throw things....I think everyone with mind disorders or dementia have good days and bad days....

I can totally understand that and I do have compassion for people with dementia and mind disorders...Things like mind disorders are very serious and need to always be taken care of with medicines and with therapy....I think therapy is good for people with mind disorders...My grandpa doesn't take therapy because he suffers dementia...

There are all kinds of ways to strengthen people's mind when they suffer from dementia...Music therapy is one way and books that are simple and reading is one way that it can help train the mind...My Grandma doesn't suffer from dementia but she does lots of word search books everyday and she reads all the time....her mind is pretty sharp!!!....

you should always remember that when people have mind disorders or dementia that things are different for them and you need to think about that always because they feel different and see the world different than you do...you should always take extra time to listen to how they feel and how they want to do things their way and help them make the right decisions but not be pushy or hateful with them...you have to be considerate of their feelings and emotions....just help them make the right safe decisions in everything they do....

when you love someone with dementia or mental disorders you always want to help take care of them and help them do the right things and make the right choices to keep them safe....

the saddest thing I think is when your loved ones with dementia or mind disorders would be mean to you or forget who you are and that can be a tough thing to understand but sometimes that's what happens....it's not that they are wanting to be mean or hateful with your or even forget who you are...it's just the dementia or mind disorder...and I understand that.

love ya, Julie

sewing......

Thinking about making a new purse and a pair of pajama pants out of fabric that is fall print!!!

Since fall is going to be here pretty soon I want those 2 things to be finished by the time the season arrives...I really enjoy going to all those cool crafting stores like Hobby Lobby, Jo-Ann's and looking at their fabric they have lots of cute ones for all seasons...

If I want to get these 2 things made by fall, I really need to be looking for the pattern for pajama pants and looking at fabric...Surely they have some fabric that is fall and is unique, cute...whimsical....I like fabric that you can buy and make things on your own with, because it is something that you yourself choose and make....it's unique and always different and I like that.

I'm looking for some material with black cats, pumpkins, scarecrows, witches, leaves, candy corn, fall scenery...those are the things I will be looking for on the fabric....who knows what I will find but I bet it will be something cute!!!

I will have to find some thread for the bobbin...and for the purse I will make I will need to buy a zipper that I can sew onto the top of the purse and zippered pockets inside the purse....I always have to have a zipper ontop of any purse I have because I will lose everything in it without one..lol.....I get kinda clumsy and I will lose things and you never know when somebody in a store might try to steal or put something into your purse when you aren't looking....

I will probably choose 2 different fabrics....one for the pajama pants and a different one for the purse....I think this will be something good to work on getting completed by the Fall....

I already have a pattern for purses...I bought it quite a few years ago and made a purse for a great friend of mine....I will have to find one for the pajama pants because my Grandma can't find the pattern I borrowed from her last time I made a pair of pajama pants...

I really like pajama pants to be made with fleece but I want this cutesy fall fabric so I will probably be using regular cotton fabric....

weather was cooler yesterday morning it felt like it was already fall outside...it was nice...too bad it's going to be in the 100's degrees in the evenings....can't ya tell I like fall...how many times have I said it in my post today???...Haha!!!

bought some jolly rancher hard candies...pretty good...I think peach and the blue raspberry are the best...

love ya, j.

spider surprise.....

I guess water spiders make good presents?!!....Haha!!!

Pumpkin (my cat) brought me one this morning...he had battled it....it was drying up and I guess it was a good enough gift he thought! it was the size of a quarter or maybe more...

guess it's worth a quarter....lol...

he placed the spider in my bedroom floor and meowed at me.

too bad they don't come with gift wrapping....Lol.

love you, julie

fall clothes.....

Going to start looking for a few new long sleeve tops, jeans for fall...I notice that they are advertising a lot in the store ads and they are starting to put those fall/winter clothes out there on the racks....I like the onsale racks!!!....haha!

I don't usually buy any clothes at all...I just wear whatever to keep warm I don't care...but it's always rather fun to choose a new orange colored sweater or long sleeve top for fall...when I buy sweaters I like to buy oversized soft ones that are comfortable...not too big, but oversized and one that's definitely not scratchy!!!...lol.

I usually start wearing orange, gold, navy blue, gray, black those are colors in the fall I will wear...

and then winter I wear bright purple, aqua blues/teal, gray, those are the colors I think look icy, like the weather and the sky in winter...

nothing is more comfortable than wearing a sweat shirt and sweat pants that match...those are fairly inexpensive and you can choose whatever colors you wanna wear.....I really like to wear them anyway...they are really nice for sleeping weather when it's cold outside...lol.

I'm going to buy me a pair of pajama pants too....I like those.

love ya

be a giving person.....visiting museums ?......

Bought a pack of canned food to take to the church needy pantry....I feel better when I can give things to the church like canned food items or whatever they ask for the needy pantry...It feels GREAT to do nice things like that for people in need...it makes the world go around a lot happier!!!

this morning when I go to church i will take those to the church and donate them...I hope somebody will appreciate them...hopefully next week or so I can save up enough money to buy a few more dollars worth of food items....they always want things to be non-perishable so they won't spoil or get old fast sitting at the church....but they have been feeding quite a few people.

I purchased a bag of butterscotch hard candy disks...I like butterscotch hard candy!!! it's an old candy but I still like it....

I was talking to some of my family yesterday and we were talking about museums.I really like all the history and artifacts that museums have...you can actually see the real things from who or what it came from in history or also things that have been recent...

Sometimes they have displays of things that are also artistically creative as well with photography, writing or actual objects in cases as well....they don't have to be well known they are just there to be seen and represent a culture or an idea---make you think about things!...lol.

There are a lot of museums I'd love to visit and go see these cool things at.....I'd like to visit all the museums in Oklahoma most of those I'm sure, and I'd like to see anything with dinosaur exhibits, or old artifacts or displays of world known people or art....something like that...

I think museums are pretty cool.

love ya j.

saving up canned items for Fall cooking....

Had a mild uti yesterday.....I kept needing to pee and it just kept hurting...I started getting upset and I couldn't get into see a quick care professional so I thought well, drink lots of water and take an AZO cranberry tablet....lucky for me I had some of those cranberry tablets because of previous advice from friends & family.....it seemed to work...and a cranberry water from Sonic that was advice from family...

that's just how things go for me sometimes...just get through being sick and go to the doctor then a week later uti is here!!! feeling better today so I'm going to keep drinking cranberry water and a cranberry tablet or 2.....women get uti's more than men I've heard....hopefully I will keep getting better!!!

yay for cranberry tablets!!! ;)

Thinking about how it's almost time to start saving up canned food for fall...I always like to make a list and start buying canned foods for fall cooking...because that way you have already got those canned items already there when Thanksgiving gets here!...

I really hope I get to spend Thanksgiving with my friends and family that I love and finally get to see my Dad and Uncle B...That would make me happiest.

so if you start saving up canned food items now you don't have to have a lot of money when Thanksgiving gets here...canned items don't perish and you can buy them and store them til november...I think it's a good idea...and then after Thanksgiving start saving up for Christmas the same way...

it's good to always pre-plan things or be prepared so you know what the heck you are doing when you get to a situation or something that you will need to be at or help out with...always be prepared and be thinking ahead of time.

 I like to cook a lot in the Fall...it's my favorite season....I also like to decorate for it as well...you know me...

I'm going to start buying:Green beans, corn, cream style corn, green chilis, pumpkin pie mix, Rhodes rolls(freeze),cool whip(freeze), butter(freeze) dry macaroni, cans of broth, sweetened condensed milk, cans of cherries, gellied cranberry, pineapple chunks...

things that I would start buying up closer to the day of Thanksgiving would be things like:Shredded cheese, Velveeta, milk, cornbread mix, onion, celery, apples, potatoes, eggs.

love ya. j.

oh snow......day dreaming in august....

It's been really hot outside in the 100's and when it gets this hot I start hurting all my joints hurt and I am drinking ONLY water....that's all I can drink is water and all you should drink is that.....I quit the lemonade and the slushes because of my stomach acid/ulcer problem and I just drink water so that is helping....water is the best thing for your kidneys that is all I ever drink....

since it's been so hot outside with the sun never stopping it makes it hot at night and it's rather unbearable at times in this house even with the air conditioner going....can't sleep too good along with all the hurting it causes from arthritis....Haha!!!...I sound like my Grandma!!! taking Tylenol....

It makes me start day dreaming about all the snowy mountainous ski locations I would rather be at than stuck here in Hotlahoma!!!....Lol! I could be out in Red River, New Mexico where it's probably about 45 every night and 70 degrees during the day....that sure sounds nice...bet I could sleep like a baby there...that would be great!!! I would get me a lot of nice new pillows take them with me and a nice bed and just sleep....

I know that's not gonna happen right now though...but it would be nice if I could go skiing!!! I'd like to go back out there sometime in the future and try skiing and snowmobiling....I think I'd really like snowmobiling.....it'd be nice to go out there in the snow and do that...watch the snowfall at night with the moon and the mountains in the background like last time...it was really peaceful and beautiful....

maybe I could go back out there next year or sometime soon with people I love and care about so they could snowmobile and ski too!!! and fall on there butts and cry like I did last time!!!.lol...that was funny I think the snow broke my fall I landed on a nice snow hill!!! Haha!!! that was tubing down the hill and I just got up and my tailbone was bruised and sore for awhile...everybody saw me and I just laughed...I'm really clumsy so I will fall or something all the time....I always work on not being a clumsy mess!!! ;)

I'd have to get me some new wintertime clothes and ski clothes whenever I would go..i'd like to buy some things in the shops there too little rocks/fossils that I wanted but didn't get and some clothes...jewelry....

oh! and one of those good loaded baked potatoes that have everything on them!!! Haha!!! best baked potato I have ever had in my life! Lol!

day dream.....day dream.....day dream.....

love ya, julie

just be a cowboy....

People often wonder why I like cowboy things and I collect cowboy things...I guess it would have to be because both my grandpa's and my favorite uncle is a cowboy.....lol...basically we all are really...

I like history and I have studied my family background and heard all those old hand me down family stories about my family members and one thing I have learned about all my great grandparents for generations is that the women and men in my family were really tough and knew how to survive all the bad weather, all the poverty, starving, and all the bad times that they had to face...

they made it work and they survived.

they never had electricity, running water, never had food most times, just horses or t-model fords if they had one of those at all to get somewhere they needed to go....they've just mainly been plain people and lived off the land and whenever people would try to hurt their family they protected their family and loved them...

they always had church/God and they had each other...so when somebody hurt one of their family members they all stood by each other and fought back.....they didn't put up with people's crap at all!!! I like that.

I know most of them were cowboys and they fought and farmed and I'm sure they were probably pretty mean sometimes but they had to be..to keep themselves safe and their families safe...

they didn't care about fancy clothes or electricity or all those stupid things we all worry about all the time now...it wasn't really ever about money because nobody really had money back then...people who have money now are way too greedy and do bad things to get all those dollars and continue to do bad things...money is the root of all evil, and greed will get you nowhere..read your bible!!!

it was about surviving the weather, all kinds of illnesses...the storms and the dangerous people in their lives...so they had to be tough and follow God.

I think about all of them sometimes when I get to feeling weak or upset and I think to myself:"Ya know what? It's not so bad I can survive this crap in my life..hopefully it'll pass soon." I come from pretty tough people so I can face this standing up no matter what it may be....if they knock me down I will get right back up and stand up for myself and people I love/care about...I think you should look at all things in life that way..just get tough when things get upsetting or make you weak...just be a cowboy I think..

because I know that I get whiny and cry about things and it's always ok to cry even if you are a man or woman and you just have to have your emotional moments and get up and go on....I'm sure my family cried way back them even my tough old great great great grandpa's did cry some but they never gave up...because if they had given up I wouldn't be me and I wouldn't be here....

when I am made up of so many tough people I know I can rely on God like they always have and I can rely on my mind because I know that if I think tough I will be tough so you can always keep that in mind....things will always pass...My favorite things to keep telling myself when I am in a situation and I am annoyed or worried is:"This too shall pass" and I know that it will!!!

so when people want to know why I like cowboy stuff or why I like cows, horses, or whatever I like cowboy, I just want to say:"Duh I am a cowboy I'm tough"....that's what has gotten me through all the pain in my life both physical and emotional....being strong and tough....

nobody has to actually be a cowboy you can just think like one and be one...so whenever I've got land and cows and things cowboy I collect, and some people don't have those things well, they're still a cowboy when they think tough, stand up for what is right and don't take sh*t off of nobody!!! haha!...

that's a cowboy....that's why cowboys are my heros....I look up to them for their ability to be tough and stand up for what is right and get things done right and over with...no waiting around or anything just get crap over with and go on with life..fix things right and go on down the fence line...

I'm tired.

love j.

was sick.... feeling better.....

Feeling better today!....My stomach has been really  hurting me for 2 days and I got sick and puked!!! icky! At first I thought it might be the flu but I think it's nothing but this stupid ulcer...I got a stomach acid medicine and it's helped...You just take 1 pill a day and avoid spicy, acidy foods...which is hard to do...

there's so many acidic foods and spicy foods....and I like spicy foods!!!....so that's probably what has caused my stomach problem...I'm just eating bland boring foods..cheeses and milk products...which is about all I can eat right now...this medicine will help it...the doctor prescribed it for me but you just buy it in the store it's called Prilosec....I'm already feeling better...

when you have an ulcer it makes you really sick and causes a lot of pain and hurts....it's from eating too much spicy, greasy food..i couldn't even sleep very good because of the pain..I'm going to make sure that I continue to take my Prilosec once a day....and avoid eating spicy food for awhile til I get better and over this stomach problem....

love ya,  Julie

first sunday in august.....

Going to church this morning so far I think...I'm feeling better this morning I just know that I'm going to have to avoid spicy/acidy things to eat or drink for a while until I get better and that ulcer goes away....

saw some of those candy coated almonds at the store called Jordan almonds they are all different colors...I like all kinds of those things...I like walnuts, cashews, almonds, pistachios, sunflower seeds...those are my favorites especially cashews...I used to like peanuts but they make my stomach hurt....like peanut butter but not just peanuts...weird I know but them by themselves make my stomach hurt.....

thinking about looking for some new curtains for the kitchen to change it up and I'm going to paint it bright white here in a week or so...going to theme it something..don't know yet what....lol..kinda tired of chickens as the theme...

something funny that makes me laugh is when I go into a store and I find old toys that I liked as a kid...I used to like whoopee cushions!!!...Haha!!! I always would buy one and blow it up and hide it underneath my family member's chairs and they would sit down and it would make a toot noise!!!...Haha!!! Those made me laugh...I think they are really funny still!....I also liked those punching balls too....I liked to play with those and punch them.....lol...

so when it gets your birthday you might get a whoopee cushion from me!...haha! I think everyone needs to laugh!

ulcer?.....

Been having stomach pain...I think I'm getting an ulcer again...once a few years ago I had a peptic ulcer....I know all the medications I need to take and what not to eat or drink to get better..No spicy food or anything spicy or acidic and no fruit/vegetable that are acidic....

my stomach hurts when I worry a lot so I suppose that's what is causing my pain....I wish it would/could stop.

I hate this! I will get better I know...*fingers crossed* almost through with my z pack for my sinus infection.

leukemia & people i love and care for.......

Just saw something on tv about leukemia and it makes me think about people I love and care about who have had leukemia one of them is an uncle of mine...my favorite uncle....he goes for check-ups and things and he keeps a watch on his blood through the cancer doctor...He's going to be just fine..he's had it for several years now I think...he's healthy....he drinks a tiny bit but that's not much...thank goodness!

I was scared when I found out that he had leukemia because I love him and I care about him...when he's your favorite uncle that's worrisome and scarey....Not too many think about leukemia much I don't think so I think more people should be aware that there are people I know and love who have had leukemia....

getting proper treatment and taking care of yourself and your eating habits and getting rid of bad habits is the best thing to do...Be Healthy!!! I don't think people need to be drinking or anything bad with leukemia and their prescribed meds.....

Drinking and drug use, or any of those bad things are NEVER good for people who take prescribed meds or who have any diseases....it's never good anytime or any day anyhow!!!You have to keep your body healthy and don't drink/take things that will wear your body down....you have to keep your body free of poisons to help it to repair itself continually....

makes me mad when people I love refuse to be healthy when they have ailments and they need to do all they can to be healthy to continue to get better and fight off bad things!!!

whenever I love people I want them to do all things healthy so they will stay healthy...so when I get a little upset and mad and tell them to stop the stupid stuff to get better and they don't understand why I say that or why I get mad.....it's all because I love and care about them.

anywayz, going to eat a bowl of cooked 5 minute white rice this morning for breakfast with toast.....I just put a little butter, teaspoon of sugar and a splash of milk in it and mix it up....I just use some butter on my toast...good!

love,  julie