If at first you don't succeed

try, try again!

So my second attempt at taffy was a success. Woot! I made it exactly the same, so who knows what happened the first time. Maybe it worked because I wasn't making it for other people... or because I was reading WOT while stirring... or because the atmospheric pressure is lower...

I had to call Grandma in florida to tell her. :D It's 80 degrees there and it's going to snow a lot tonight here. eeessh. I'm trying very hard not to be jealous.

Shelly and I pulled the taffy, the rest of the fam just wanted to eat it, and in my very humble opinion it turned out really good. Much better than at oak run. Of course shelly knows what she's doing... unlike some people... *cough* So anyway...

It's going to snow!
Blessings.

top three

Louis L'Amour books:

1. The Lonesome Gods
2. Sitka
3. The Haunted Mesa

and then of course all the Kilkenny stories.

I went to Oak Run on Friday. It was fun. Even though my taffy was a complete bust. (I talked to two other families that tried making it that same night and theirs failed too... so maybe it was the weather) I was told that I should stick to making pie. We played a lot of "I have never" and I have a bruise on my ankle now.

Otherwise, it's been a lazy weekend. :)

I found out

That I'm not very good at ping pong. O well. I still like to play it. I can't throw darts either. :D

Sydney's baptism was this weekend in Champaign so I went down on Saturday afternoon and chilled with the Hessel house girls and Kaleigh. We played ping pong....with eye protection just in case a light bulb got broken. :)


For supper we went to Cheddar's with some other yg people. The first thing our waitress said to us was, "are you Apostolic?" and then proceeded to praise the Lord (she was Pentecostal) every time she checked on our table. It was pretty funny, because that's the second time in a week that somebody asked if I was Pentecostal... the first time was a creepy guy at a Bloomington gas station...

It was good to be in Champaign again... Sydney's testimony was good... singing afterwards was great.... Kristen and I lost badly at ping pong to the Koch's. When everybody left Sprout and I sang through the Phantom of the Opera- great fun.

I didn't get MLK Jr. day off. *sigh*

Blessings.

graffiti

There's a super cool website called Wonderful Graffiti where you can get words and quotes to put on the wall. I just got some today. I like it a lot. This is a picture of my wall. *grin*

I've been listening to The Hobbit on CD while working on Gab's birthday present. (It's today- Happy Birthday Gab!)

road trip

It's been a good weekend. I spent most of it with people who have Chicago accents.

Sydney, Jody A., Markus, Nic, and I carpooled up to Belvidere Saturday. I was told that we were picking up a 15 year old (no license obviously) so rather than squeezing into a car or Jody's SUV we took our minivan. Which shakes. It's perfectly safe though... We were practically there before we discovered that we didn't have to pick anybody up.... *sigh* O well. At least we weren't squished. And we got to listen to my random music collection.

There was the usual supper and singing at Josh's house and then sitting around and talking. Natalie was there... and Bob... and elgin girls. Jody and Sydney and I stayed at the same place overnight. That was fun. :) After church we sang for some older ladies and then ate, of course.

It was kind of a quiet ride home. Nic was grading papers and he let me do a stack.... I learned about the parts of the eye. Kind of cool. High school kids write funny things when they don't know the answer. Then we talked about our favorite mammals and running away from moose and random stuff like that. :)

work tomorrow. mur.

Blessings.

plumb tuckered out

It was a long week.

I have to be at work at 6:30 now.... half hour drive.... waaay too early for me.

Learned a new test for biochemical oxygen demand and it's demanding.

Helped sew 50 pairs of pajamas for Magdalena. Which I love.

I'm going to Belvidere for the rest of the weekend with some people. I've never been there so it should be a good time.

Blessings.

blazes (or the lack thereof)

Why do weeks seem so much longer when there are holidays in the middle of them?

Last night I went to Jeremy and Brett's good-bye party at Heidi's because they're going to different places in Africa for a few months. It was good to see them again. And all of the other friends that we have in common. Old roomies, old neighbors, Chris and Ashley, interesting conversation (kitty vs. airplane scrubs, lighting trees on fire, the price of hogs)... it was a good time.

Mom took the Christmas tree down today and Jakey and I tried to burn it. It was a little too windy and damp outside because we couldn't get any of it to stay lit. Lighter fluid didn't help; it burned away and the tree never caught. O well, at least we know that it wasn't a big fire risk.

Blessings.

What a year

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Snow Fall!

Christmas was good, I didn't ask for anything exciting so I didn't get anything exciting. :) I did get a lot of books, which I love. I got to see my cousins. And didn't have to work. And got paid for it! Woot.

Amber, Sarah, and Kaleigh came over the other night. We ate out and played Settlers of Catan. It was really good to see them.

Alyssa got married Sunday, the last wedding for 2007. It was very nice, the bridesmaids were beautiful, the bride was gorgeous, they said yes... And there were U of I people there. A bunch of us went to Nic's to hang out after the reception. We played some games, stared at each other, and got a cow eyeball dissection demonstration. Gotta love being friends with a biology teacher. :)

New Years Eve I decided to brave the blizzard and go to Gridley. So I got to see Amber and Kaleigh again, not to mention a lot of other fun Gridley type people. It was a really fun evening and I'm really glad I went.

Today I was lazy. And panzed on going sledding. But it was 12 degrees out! And waay too windy. I went for a walk and came in practically frozen. It was a good excuse to drink cocoa. :)

Blessings in the New Year.