There are quite a few things that I should be doing instead of posting on xanga. I have ironing to do yet tonight. This weekend promises to be very busy. Tomorrow after work I’m helping some friends with QuickBooks work, Friday night is a spelling bee/fun night at school, Saturday night we are doing a V banquet for the youth, Sunday carry-in after church…. well, you get the picture. But I thought I’d take time to post some pics from the past. I am putting together a slide show for the 50th anniversary celebration of friends coming up in 3+ weeks. So much fun seeing their pictures from way back so I thought I’d show you my senior pics that I found recently while cleaning out in my room.

Yea for the class of ’91!!!!!

Happy V Day to all!!!

 

Edited to Add: Later after I posted these pics and I got to thinking these might not be my senior pics after all. I think they were taken 2 or 3 years after I graduated. lol. I had taken these with the same photographer but I’ll post the actual senior pics when I find them. So funny!

 

I was tagged by Carolyn for the follow compilation of things about me which are weird, unusual, habitual, or just plain fun to hear about (and true). I think six was suggested but I came up with more.

1. I like coconut flavoring but strongly dislike coconut flakes unless chopped very fine.

2. Although I love roses, I dislike rose scented anything, except for the occasional real rose.

3. The weirdest thing about me: my sense of humor. Probably more times than not people laugh at me laughing at my own jokes than they do actually laugh at my jokes. Weird as it is, I wouldn’t trade my sense of humor for any other.

4. My tear ducts work well. I don’t have to laugh long until I have tears on my cheeks. I don’t have to cry long either for tears to come. Ha!

5. Often if I get suddenly upset or irritated about something, I get the hiccups.

6. I do not like to write in pure cursive. My handwriting is well, unique. I sometimes use a cursive r and a printed r in the same word. I both like and dislike my handwriting. I like it because it is unique, I dislike it because it is inconsistent.

7. I would 10 times rather type a letter than handwrite one. So, if you get a handwritten letter from me, it must be pretty special!

8. I visualize things as people describe them to me. Sometimes if I hear the same story often enough, I begin to think I actually saw it happen.

9. I love old movies, even old silents! I can watch an old favorite over and over again.

10. I don’t especially care for Karen Kingsbury’s books. Okay, so maybe there are many others who also are not fans but it seems like everyone I know really likes them.

11. I have yet to find a gray or white hair on my head. I’m 34.

12. I love audio drama and books. When I travel, I love to pass the time by listening to them. I love classical music turned to a moderate level, but when I need a good stress reliever, I will crank up my one classical cd, and lay on the floor and soak it in. (Canon in D, Music for a Found Harmonium, Fantasy for Violin & Orchestra, etc.)

Okay, I guess that is enough information for one post!

I tag Jairia, Bernie, Ginny, Annette, Freida  and anyone else who reads this and wants to take the challenge.

Don’t you just hate it when you find something you really like but it is too expensive to buy just because you like it? In my search recently for a pepper jelly to eat with cream cheese and crackers, I finally found a small gift shop in town that had hot raspberry preserves, a close replacement. It really is better than it sounds and is fantastic on water crackers and cream cheese. Although the preserves were expensive, that is not what I was referring to. This little gift shop has a line of Arthur Court designs. I particularly like the magnolias.

Ebay has been no help in searching for these items at reduced prices. And I doubt it is something that you would find at a garage sale. Sigh… so I’ll keep looking. Maybe sometime I can find one at a reasonable price. I love pretty things but I don’t like to spend big bucks just to have them because they’re pretty.

On to other news…. had family around for the weekend. Yay!! My aunt Naomi and some of her family were here, arriving Friday night after attending a funeral in S.C. We ladies (including Yoderfamilyof5, erlinyoder, southern_beachy) ate lunch at Ruby Tuesday and shopped Saturday afternoon. We had a group of 30 at Overpass for supper. I’m pretty sure you’ll find some pictures at Andrea’s site since I saw her camera out more than once and she is good at getting pics and posting. Joe & Sadie hosted all of their family, Naomi’s family and our family for lunch on Sunday.

Tonight it’s making an Italian supper as a birthday gift for someone from her sister. Hope the cheesecake is all it’s cracked up to be. Yeah, my first one and it cracked kinda badly. I’ll put some chocolate topping over it and that should help redeem it a little. It’s a chocolate cookie cheesecake like my sister makes. Yummy!!! After I drop that off I’ll be going to Ginny’s house to keep her company since her husband is out of town AGAIN!! j/k! Looking forward to it!! I told her to call me anytime he’s gone on an overnight run.

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Conversation from nursing home singing last night:

Elderly lady says to me, “I studied under Mennonites in Florida.”

Me: “You did?”

Elderly Lady: “Well, I hope it’s okay to say that.”

Me: “I guess I’m not sure what you mean by studying under them.”

Elderly Lady: “I attended their church services for a while.”

 

Thanks to all who participated in the poll!! Interesting to see the response! For myself, I follow recipes meticulously when it involves any rising agent (b. powder, soda or yeast), but tend to go my own direction making anything else. Sometimes I hit a homerun, occasionally they bomb and I’m glad no else is forced to eat it! One of the reasons I asked the question is that some years ago a friend asked for a recipe (chicken stir-fry) and I said I didn’t have any, just threw the seasonings in as I went. Her response was, “I wish people wouldn’t say that!” For her it was frustrating because cooking was a chore due to some other issues. Her frustration was not directed to me personally but at the fact that cooking was no easy task for her. Now whenever someone asks for a recipe which I don’t have, I feel slightly self-conscious in telling them I don’t have one. I guess that’s my issue, eh?

Another question I have is: when working off an existing recipe, when does a recipe become your own? If you change 1 ingredient? 2? 5? Several years ago we put a cookbook together and I wondered if I needed to change anything on the recipes I had gotten from others that I planned to submit. Maybe it only matters if you’ve copied it from another cookbook or other printed matter. No, I don’t have OCD!

And option “e” in my last poll wasn’t supposed to make sense, JoAnn. Can you say strange sense of humor??  You married someone who is slightly related to me in that area!!!!!

We still have a few cookbooks left to sell. I think less than 25. I’m not sure if we’re ordering more or not. They were for a fund raiser for new construction at church. Need one? Around 400 (?) recipes in an attractive hard-cover, comb-bound book for $12.99.