shesaid.

shesaid @ 2009-07-27T11:06:00

2009-07-27T16:06:56Z

This is where I've been lately.
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wisdom

2009-05-27T02:13:22Z

Recently, we've had every weekend full of plans. We've seen lots of family and friends, celebrated Mother's Day, went on a church marriage retreat, met lots of new people, started membership classes at church.

We have our rain garden now. I put lots of photos up on facebook. I'm excited to see it grow and especially see what it ends up looking like next year. It was a lot of chaos and work, but I think it will be worth it.

I got all 4 of my wisdom teeth removed on the 18th, and contrary to what everyone has told me, it has not been easy! It's been a really frustrating healing process for me, still pain and soreness every day. I went back to the dr. today instead of waiting for my check up appointment next week, and they told me I have dry socket and put some dressings in the two lower sockets to help with the healing and pain. It makes everything I eat taste like cloves! But it has made me feel a lot better today! And I got refills on my pain meds also, so hopefully I'll actually be able to sleep through the night tonight. I haven't been able to for over a week.

I got belated birthday money from my in-laws and grandma in-law recently, so I bought myself a new iPod that actually works! Mine was 4 years old and acting up and then pretty much died on me. It's nice to have a new "fancy" one that has way more space and I can watch videos on and stuff. Love it.

I also went to IKEA today after my check up and bought new laps for our bedroom. Every lamp I tried on my nightstand was a pain to reach to turn on and off, so I finally got one that works nicely.

I can't believe that it's already almost June. 6 months with no job and time is flying by with my days still full and haven't gotten dull yet. Still applying and getting lots of rejection e-mails but I'm hopefull that someday it will work out for me. These last few months have been hard but amazingly wonderful at the same time. I feel like I've been growing and learning so much.

I left this one large so you can see my slightly swollen and bruised face on Friday.

visitors and things

2009-04-28T22:05:00Z

friends, shopping, scrapping.

katie in town from baltimore.

michelle visited from fergus and we got some scrapping done!

bought some thymes olive leaf lotion on sale after not having around for a while. love that stuff.

joined the church choir and am singing in the soprano section.

getting a rain garden put in our yard next week!

have a long list of to-dos! and am excited to make some cards and send some snail mail.

shesaid @ 2009-04-22T16:00:00

2009-04-22T21:10:28Z

Low - Words

Many memories. ;-)

I found some CDs in my closet when I reorganized it last weekend and I've been putting them on my iTunes, finally! I am rediscovering all kinds of great music.

Today is a great day! Love that the sun is shining! I took Cash for a 45 minute walk on the parkway and it was lovely. He was pretty exhausted and I found it quite funny when he just laid down in the hallway when we got home!

It has been interesting getting to know the roads and parkway intersections and everything better. Have to find new routes to familiar places because we are one block off Lowry, and they closed Lowry and tore it up for who knows how long. They are continuing the nice boulevard that they started on the other end of Lowry, so it will be nice when it's all done. There are other random spots of road construction around the neighborhood as well. Victory Memorial Parkway is much busier these days!

Off to do some dishes. I still haven't done yesterday's....I was cooking dinner and doing dishes and it really smelled nasty so I opened up the cupboard beneath the sink and there was water in there. It was so gross! Trevor had to run to the hardware store and fix the problem after dumping out the cleaning supplies container that was full of old dishwater....I'm glad it was an easy fix, but I put off being around the sink for as long as I could before trying to do the dishes!

On life

2009-04-20T21:51:22Z

Hello. Not as many people updating these days, and that includes myself. I guess I admit it's much more fun to post when I am getting comments. ;-)

On job:
I am still looking. There seems to be more out there right now than when I was looking in January and February, so I have hope I will find something good in not too long. I've been contacted about a few jobs recently, but they have been entry level or temp positions, and it's hard to go back to a $12 an hour job, when that's where I was years ago and that's less than what I get from unemployment! I am holding out hope for a bit longer that I can get a job that I can use my experience at and that I can enjoy at least a bit. ;-)

On house:
We have been getting bids for stuff that needs to be done around the house, mostly exterior stuff. Then we need to figure out where/how we're getting the money to do it. This includes a new driveway (I should take a photo of ours so you can see why), a retaining wall because our yard is eroding and falling to the sidewalk (we live on a corner), new gutters, a new fence (Cash can actually sneak out of our yard now due to our fence that's falling apart), a new garage roof, etc.

Thankfully, we are getting a new roof for our house for free due to hail damage that we hadn't realized was there. A new 10k 30-year roof. How awesome is that? We're having the same company due our new garage roof, but will have to pay for them to raise the roof to put on a proper one along with the new shingles.

Through our neighborhood, we are most likely getting a rain garden put in as well. A landscape guy came by last week to discuss it with us and will be sending us his design ideas. Then it is dug for free, and we are given a $100 rebate for the plants. Pretty sweet. We are thinking we'll put it in the front yard.

On church:
Our class through church, City Matters (on justice, race, and place matters of the city) ended, and we miss seeing those people every week! We continue to attend the monthly neighborhood gathering and are really liking it and the people. We signed up for a marriage retreat in May (the goal is 60 couples) that should be pretty cool, just got to find a place for the dog for a night. And right now I am debating on going to the relaunch of the Sanctuary Choir...it's tonight. The only thing that is holding me back is the commitment. If the choir sings every week, that would be tough. There are two services and they are long...and we are gone a lot of weekends. But, maybe I should just go and find out? I tried to e-mail with some questions but haven't heard back.

The past three weekends have been spent with family- for Trev's cousin's wedding festivities and for Easter. It's been really great! This weekend one of my best friends will be in town from Baltimore, and we're going to M. Ward at First Ave. Saturday night. Then on Sunday my friend Michelle is coming from Fergus to stay a night and hang out and be crafty.

I'll have to update again soon. But right now I've got to get dinner started!

At Easter in Sheboygan:

At the Wedding:

They had a photo booth!

Here's Trev with some of his cousins. Six weren't at the wedding:

sunglasses.

2009-03-21T19:11:34Z

Made this page last night. I am really happy with it.

I am, on the other hand, missing my family a lot. my relatives. and wishing i could be in warmer weather like i was in this photo!

Royce was over last night and we watched some season 1 episodes of Flight of the Conchords. Today Trev is at the North Housing & Home Improvement Fair. We have neighborhood group at Neeraj and Erin's tonight, then dinner club with Timi and the rest she's gathered. It's at Spoon River. Never been there before.

Hope you're all having a fantastic weekend!

The latest.

2009-03-13T19:50:10Z

I'm still around.

This week I made two photobooks. One on Shutterfly and one on Snapfish. One I got free with mycokerewards points and one i thought was free due to a blog I read but they were wrong.

I hung out with my friend Emily and met up with my friend Jahna I haven't seen in years.

I watched a weird New Zealand movie that had Jemaine Clement from Flight of the Conchords in it called Eagle vs. Shark.

I felt weird and down and uncomfortable on Tuesday and then realized on Wednesday that Tuesday was a full moon. Never fails.

I worked out at the gym 3 times and brought my iPod with me for the first time. Went much faster.

I completely cleaned and organized the laundry room.

I cooked a few meals and cleaned up those meals.

I designed invitations for the family wedding shower for Trev's cousin and I'm putting them together this weekend.

I went to City Matters class and had really good discussion about identity. Next Monday is the last class. I'll be sad that it's over.

I thought about updating my amazon wishlist again....my birthday is the 31st. I'll be 29.

I looked for jobs and tried not to get too frustrated.

Now I must get a few more things done before Trevor gets home. We are driving to Fergus to stay at James and Michelle's house for the night and then drive back home tomorrow. Our friend Jen is house-sitting/dog-sitting (J&M have two cats).

Hope you all are having a good week!

shesaid @ 2009-03-10T18:37:00

2009-03-10T23:37:27Z

Pretty happy

2009-02-23T18:27:38Z

+Happy with the Oscars. Those Slumdog Millionaire kids were so cute!

+Happy with my weekend. Good movies, new friends, good church.

+Cash the cockapoo and Jaxon the shih tzu chasing each other around looked like two teddy bears playing.

+Happy that I have such a great supportive husband and that his 31st birthday is tomorrow! Cupcakes and pool league.

+Saw this pillow in a magazine months ago, finally saw it at Target and bought it. :-)

shesaid @ 2009-02-16T14:13:00

2009-02-16T20:18:15Z

Some layouts I did this past weekend, all photos from 2006. Most of them are from camping with Kyle, Erin, and the kids. we want to try and go again this summer!

listening

2009-02-04T20:46:19Z

the playlist i made that i've been listening to these days. well, it's a work in progress. i am always adding and changing. but this is it today:

"new life"

shesaid @ 2009-02-01T15:11:00

2009-02-01T21:13:07Z

happy football day. i made rice krispie treats and artichoke and spinach dip and we are headed over to cousin Kevin's to hang with the cousins. hope you are enjoying your day!

around the house

2009-01-23T18:53:44Z

First of all, I showed you our recycling situation, and it is what we've had for years! We always recycle a lot, so I just got more and more annoyed with all the space the paper bags took up.

This is what it looked like:

I took Jeanette's advice and bought recycling bins at IKEA! Here's what it looks like now. The whole booth area is free and clear and the dog's food and water moved over there, and the recycling is now by the garbage can in the corner by the fridge:

I love it!

Secondly, Cash Howard got really hyper randomly a few minutes ago so I decided to catch it on camera. I think I need to take him for a walk!

Enjoy!

shesaid @ 2009-01-22T10:50:00

2009-01-22T16:54:41Z

So Lost. It was good. I won't spoil it for those of you who still have to watch it.

A few people came over to watch the premiere last night, so I was prepared with this:

So, what did you think of the season 5 premiere?

shesaid @ 2009-01-21T12:03:00

2009-01-21T18:05:16Z

The dog is at the groomer getting his hair cut. He's going from big fluffy teddy bear to skinny poodle looking thing I know. So sad but it must be done. We waited too long since his last cut!

Already got some grocery shopping done this morning and some things done around the house. That feels good.

Lost is on tonight! I can't wait!

ideas ideas

2009-01-15T18:55:11Z

For those of you that have a lot of DVDs, how do you store them? We have run out of room in what we have, and I'm thinking something that has doors or something would look better.

For those of you who recycle, where do you keep your recycling? What do you use to sort it? Right now we have paper bags on the kitchen floor and i hate how messy it looks. I'd like something that keeps it all together that I can move out of the way when I need to reach the cupboards near where we are keeping the recycling. We don't have any closets in our kitchen and we don't have an attached garage. Any ideas?

dinner

2009-01-15T00:48:07Z

I made this Broiled Tilapia Parmesan for dinner tonight and served it with steamed broccoli and rice. I thought it was delicious!

Broiled Tilapia Parmesan

PREP TIME 5 Min
COOK TIME 10 Min
READY IN 15 Min

Servings 8 (with mine I only did it for 2)

INGREDIENTS

* 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese
* 1/4 cup butter, softened
* 3 tablespoons mayonnaise
* 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
* 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
* 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
* 1/8 teaspoon onion powder
* 1/8 teaspoon celery salt
* 2 pounds tilapia fillets

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat your oven's broiler. Grease a broiling pan or line pan with aluminum foil.
2. In a small bowl, mix together the Parmesan cheese, butter, mayonnaise and lemon juice. Season with dried basil, pepper, onion powder and celery salt. Mix well and set aside.
3. Arrange fillets in a single layer on the prepared pan. Broil a few inches from the heat for 2 to 3 minutes. Flip the fillets over and broil for a couple more minutes. Remove the fillets from the oven and cover them with the Parmesan cheese mixture on the top side. Broil for 2 more minutes or until the topping is browned and fish flakes easily with a fork. Be careful not to over cook the fish.

Lost returns

2009-01-14T21:35:25Z

Tonight the 3-hour finale of season 4 of Lost is airing on ABC from 7-10 central.
Next Wednesday is the season 5 premiere of Lost!

Season 5 & 6 will be the last 2 seasons of Lost. Will they answer all our questions? Of all the mysteries and questions, what are you most wanting to know about?

*What are the whispers?

*What is up with Walt? What makes him special and how does it fit in with everything?

*Why does Richard never age and exactly who is he?

*Why did Libby appear in others flashbacks and in the mental hospital with Hurley? Who is she really?

*I want more info about Russeau. What was the sickness?

*Polar bears?

*The monster?

shesaid @ 2009-01-12T16:21:00

2009-01-12T22:27:57Z

I haven't posted any scrapbook pages in a couple of months, so here are a few I made recently.

Some I made the other day:

These are all from 2005.

Make Believe by Jeremy Larson

2009-01-12T21:46:00Z

shesaid @ 2008-12-12T12:17:00

2008-12-12T18:20:02Z

I can't even tell you how many times it happens. Someone on the phone verifies my address (today it was the mail order pharmacy) and they say "MinneNapolis" instead of Minneapolis. The woman today told me she has never been able to pronounce it. She tried saying it 4 times and said it wrong each time. ????

Really feels like December now!

2008-12-07T17:57:05Z

It's Christmas in our home! We got the tree and a few of our decorations out. It feels so nice and cozy in our house now. I love it!

We are going to see the movie Slumdog Millionaire with Durwood and Kirsten this afternoon and get some dinner at The Malt Shop. Hope you are all enjoying a great weekend. It's snowing here and the snow is so pretty!

Coldplay

2008-11-17T15:23:16Z

I don't care what the StarTrib reviewer said, the Coldplay concert Friday night was excellent and the sold out crowd loved it. Mary Ellen and I had a great time!

These are videos that I took.

And a couple photos.

Does anyone know who opened? I had no idea who the opening acts were and I can't find anything online either!

shesaid @ 2008-11-04T11:09:00

2008-11-04T17:10:00Z

I had to stand in line for 2 hours to do it, but I voted! There were so many people there and that is a great thing!

The line was down the block, wrapped around the church, and down 2 hallways inside the church. There were people there of different races, babies, in wheelchairs, etc. It was inspiring to see. Lots of people were talking in line and laughing.

Please vote!

What were you for Halloween 20 years ago?

2008-11-04T02:43:29Z

I was a punk rocker.