Very early morning post for Thursday

Since I have a very hectic day planned for tomorrow I figured I would write my post for Thursday at 12:45am Wednesday night/Thursday morning.

I've been having some very vivid, lucid dreams lately and one of my friends has been telling me that it's my subconscious trying to tell me something but so far I haven't been able to find any common thread in the dreams.  I have started trying to remember to write down my dreams when I wake up, it's kind of a goal like this in terms of it's a challenge for my memory; this is a challenge for my memory just to remember to sit down and do it, with the dreams it's a two-fold challenge of trying to remember to do it and to try and focus and remember as much information from the dream as possible. 

The weather has finally shifted and it's really starting to feel like fall outside.  It has put me in the mood for all sorts of wonderful fall/wintery foods like; soup, pot roast, chili, stews, hot chocolate, hot tea, pies, homemade bread, yummy stuff!  It also means I'm breaking out my favorite section of my closet; my jackets, coats, scarves, hats, gloves, and all those fun clothes!!!


I just finished reading The Martian Chronicles by, Ray Bradbury and I've come to realize why I love and am indifferent to Bradbury more than any other sci-fi writer and it's fairly simple he writes about the topics I like in an almost painfully beautiful way but there's a detachment.... sometimes with him I feel like the writing is so beautiful and detailed that the story and the characters get lost in it.  I don't know I like it but I kind of don't at the same time...  Next on the reading list is Michael Crichton's State of Fear and it's really the last try I'm going to give Crichton.  I love his ideas, I think they're amazing and cool and different but I feel so bogged down with details in his stories that I often end up losing interest and it's unlike Bradbury because with Bradbury you can get lost in the details but the writing is so elegant and with such a flow that you kind of don't mind getting lost in them... with Crichton sometimes I feel like I'm reading a textbook or a manual.  So far the only Crichton book I have liked enough to keep has been Eaters of the Dead.  I have read Sphere and Timeline and both of them just overwhelmed me with really unnessesary (in my opinion) details.  I have two friends that are constantly astonished at my distaste for this author and one of them is the reason I'm trying State of Fear before I totally give up trying to find anything more than the one book by this author. 

I think that's all for the day, I need to get to bed to make it through that hectic day tomorrow.  I might write more for Thursday or I may just save it all for Friday :D

Until than enjoy the little things and think happy thoughts.

The realization of failure on Wednesday

Damn, I failed to remember this for two days in a row....
Sigh, well, got to move on and keep going. 
Monday: me and Jason went "shopping" which is code for us just to get out of the house together, we walked around for a while talking.
Tuesday: Was Joey's (Jason's son) second to last football game and he did really well.  He has been playing defense and really starting to show his strength in the game.
Today: I have been dwelling on the desire for a change, more so a change in my work life than my home life, so with that I'm on my way to work with no motivation but I am going to try and continue the philosophy of bringing happiness to work.

So, sorry for the failure and know that I haven't given up the goal. 

Enjoy the little things and I will try and do more than a recap for the next post! :D

Sunday... ish

To say I'm writing this on Sunday would technically be a lie, it's 1:30 in the morning on Monday morning.  I worked 11 hours at work today (Sunday) got off work at 10 pm, had to run some errands, got home at 11, and fell into my normal routine of watching shows, working on the blanket for Zoe and Ciara and totally forgot about this post. So here I am blurry eyed and ready to be laying down but keeping with the goal! 

I had a very weird dream last night...  The dogs had dug holes in the backyard (in the dream) and when I went closer to investigate these holes I found out they were actually these tunnels the dogs had dug all throughout the neighborhood... it was odd too because they were big enough tunnels for people to walk through... I may have to think more on this and find a way to turn it into a story...

The bed calls, I'll still count this as keeping with the goal just because I stayed up to write it instead of just going to sleep ;)

G'night, and don't forget to enjoy the little things even in your dreams :D

Saturday

So, I figured this needs to be one major disclaimer for this goal I have which is; in order for me to post something everyday and to still get my list of other stuff done in a day spell check is about the extent of the editing I intend on using for most posts.  Today I went back to work, it was fairly normal.  I was inspired by the Campbell's soup commercial that says it's bring your happiness to work day and I tried to employee that way of thinking for  my shift.  Well, dinner is sitting in front of me smelling amazing so that's all you get for the day :D

Enjoy the little things.

Friday

Today, Friday the 14th of October in the year 2011 I am setting a goal.  A goal I am going to desperately try to achieve.  Lately I have had the feel that I just need to set a goal and stick to it.  So, what's this new goal you ask?  My goal is to post something every single day for one whole year, except for certain exceptions I am about to state:  Out of town, or out of the house for the entire 24 hours of the day.  (The only reason this is still a hard a fast exception for me in this technologically linked world is because I still have my bad choice smart phone: the crapberry and it doesn't do so well with anything other than facebook, email, texting, and calls.)  But anyway the only other exceptions are the obvious ones: really bad illness, misfortune to myself or family (Heaven forbid) etc.

So, I am not promising brilliant posts everyday, I'm not even promising much more than a paragraph about the general theme of my day but I at least have to post something. 


Today, I stayed home from work for the second day.  I haven't been feeling good, yesterday it felt like a fever achiness, swollen joints, pain, tiredness, nausea, etc.  and this morning I woke up with a sore throat and I am one of those unfortunate people that strep throat is as common as the cold to me.  So today I have stayed home to try and beat back any germs.  I have to work a lot of the weekend so that some of my co-workers can have fun ;) Happy Birthday Josh!  So, I wanted to make sure I was all healed up by tonight. 


I have had a piece of toast with a glass of orange juice, a bowl of chicken noodle soup (the best remedy) and another glass of orange juice, and now I'm sipping on some wonderful Earl Gray tea.  We'll be have an Italian casserole concoction that we just make up as we go.

I have been doing some research on getting a Camellia Sinensis plant, which is the plant that yo get tea leaves from because me and my Momma were talking about blending our own herbs in our teas to help with our specific health problems and since me and Jason already have the research in place to start our herb garden next growing season, and I'll have mint and thyme and sage and whole list of other wonderful things so I think it would be great to grow my own tea :D


I need to get to work on dinner, so this is my post for the day, I'll talk to you tomorrow!


Enjoy the little things!

Try, Try Again

I'm not the most technologically savvy person on the planet, by a long shot, and I've been having difficulty logging on to this blog. Sigh. Hence some of the delay in posts. I say some because well, work sucks :/ but we all gotta make money right?

I have been making homemade breads lately, and we've been liking them so much we have actually stopped buying store bread :D  We usually do one of three different kinds; white (wonderful, fluffy buttery taste with a nice crunch from the crust), whole wheat, or a half and half wheat and white mixture.  Can you tell which is my favorite? :)  Anyway I will post the recipe for those and some pictures on the next post, I still need to take some pictures when I make it! 


So I wanted to branch out and make my very own sourdough starter so as to make wonderful homemade from scratch sourdough bread as well as some wonderful sourdough pancakes I found a recipe for.


To begin I would like to preface with the knowledge that I have only been working with yeast doughs for the last year or so and all of my stuff has been based off of recipes I either already have or find online through many of the wonderful bloggers out there who are much better at this than I am as well as any advice I gather from friends and family.  Some examples of the internet bloggers who are an unmeasurable help are bakerella, not martha, The Hungry Mouse, Joy the Baker, Unsopisticook, and Closet Cooking just to name a few of the many people out there who constantly inspire me and offer fantastic words of wisdom.   With that out of the way I will continue.

The recipe I used is from Unsopisticook, the link the her page is above and here is the link to this specific recipe, Sourdough Starter.  I did not taking any pictures of my attempt unfortunately but we'll just leave it at saying that if at first you don't succeed try, try again.  I will take pictures on my next attempt because we are having a severe drought/heat wave from Hell here in Oklahoma and the grasshoppers have been invading the town I live in.  It's bad and with three dogs and therefore a door that opens a lot during the day and night and the fact that my kitchen/dining room area is where my backdoor is, sigh, need I go on?  To make a long story short, where I would probably whine and bemoan my horrible luck far too much than is decent, I did cover my starter and even place it high on a shelf but alas a grasshopper and a his grasshopper buddy took a dive in the mixture on only the third day of the fermentation process.  To save myself more heartache, I will wait probably till that first beautiful cold snap of winter to come and kill all of the little pests before I try again.


On a brighter note the two months whose name begins with "A"'s are birthday filled times in my little world.  And this month since it begins with an A is no exception; Jason, 3 of my uncles, my aunt, my niece, my cousin, and 3 friends all will be celebrating birthdays this month!  We are throwing a little shindig for 6 of them this coming weekend and I (in a fit of insanity) volunteered to make the birthday cakes for all of them(the six that we are celebrating this weekend)!!!  I will be making a Carrot Cake, a Red Velvet Cake, a Chocolate Cake, a batch of Vanilla Cupcakes, and a Pillow Cookie translated into a cake!  So wish me luck and I will try and remember to keep the camera with me!!  Look for more posts and I will try and not let you down!


Remember to fall in love with each day and all the little things!

Update

I'm sorry for the lack of posts but, I have good news!!!!

Tomorrow, I am baking chocolate chip cookies with a brownie center!!!  They have become kind of a trademark for me!  I get requests for them almost daily!!  So tomorrow will be an all day affair of baking!  I'm excited to show everybody these, unfortunatly I have promised Jason that I will not post the actual recipe, which is okay because I don't really measure anything anymore for these because I make this so often!!!  But there will be pictures and I will be talking about what goes into them just not the quantitiies!!

The other good news is that I am past the halfway mark now on my knitted blanket for my nieces!!  I will be posting pictures but I ask everyone to keep in mind that it is my first knitting project of this size and that I was just making up a lot of it as I went so don't judge it too harshly!!!

I also have four reviews, that I need to finish up and than post.  Two books and two movies! 

Until later than, continue to be fascinated by the little things!!!