I haven't been able to do crafts since around November or December 2007 because my hands would get numb and I would even feel some pain when crocheting in my wrists so I was forced to give it up. Not too long after that I was diagnosed with carpel tunnel syndrome after harping on my doctor every time I went 3 visits in a row. He told me it's probably carpel tunnel but sent me to a neurologist to get a proper diagnosis.
Ever since then I haven't been able to do any crafts at all. I've had to wear wrist straps every night to bed which helps for some strange reason. Also not doing any crafts helped too. I still type because I don't feel that I can use voice recognition because when I do talk my voice is carried into the living room so nothing is private.
Since I haven't been doing ANY form of crafts I've been going nuts. Last week I picked up a crochet hook and some yarn and started crocheting. I've actually done a good amount of a new blanket. I went looking in my closet to see if I had more of the avocado color but instead I found these embroidery Christmas stockings that were given to me last year that I knew I couldn't do. I gave 1 a chance and so for the last 2 evenings I've been working on it and I have to say it's not as hard as I thought they would be. I'm actually having fun with it.
My left hand has been getting numb while holding it and my right hand was getting a little bit of pain here and there and so when I get the numbness and pain I stop for awhile. This stocking obviously will not be finished within the next week and half so I'm going to just keep working on it at my own pace and hopefully it will be done by next year.
There are 3 stockings (below) and I would eventually like to have them all done but I gotta do baby steps here lol. 1 at a time for now.
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Sunday, December 14, 2008
Cost of a fruit cake
I just cannot believe how much it costs to make a fruit cake. Now I know why those things are so expensive. Dang $51 so far and I still need eggs and margarine. By the time I have all the rest of the ingredients it will be $55. I just hope that it makes a whole lot of fruit cake. It better.
I wanted to make it so bad because I can never find it in the stores and when I find it online it's so expensive. A 1lb cake is $25. I'm sure that I have about a 10lb cake so far lol. I'm going to have to split it up into a few smaller ones because fruit cake doesn't have a very good reputation. I bought these small loaf pans that have lids (disposible pans) and there are 3 in the pack so I can make 3 small. I also have a regular size loaf pan which I'm going to start with then put the rest in the smaller ones. I want to bring the small ones because I know that people are going to waste big slices if they don't like it and it's too expensive to throw away.
All I know is if I see 1 piece of fruit cake in the trash I'm gonna lose it lol. Just kidding. Maybe lol.
I wanted to make it so bad because I can never find it in the stores and when I find it online it's so expensive. A 1lb cake is $25. I'm sure that I have about a 10lb cake so far lol. I'm going to have to split it up into a few smaller ones because fruit cake doesn't have a very good reputation. I bought these small loaf pans that have lids (disposible pans) and there are 3 in the pack so I can make 3 small. I also have a regular size loaf pan which I'm going to start with then put the rest in the smaller ones. I want to bring the small ones because I know that people are going to waste big slices if they don't like it and it's too expensive to throw away.
All I know is if I see 1 piece of fruit cake in the trash I'm gonna lose it lol. Just kidding. Maybe lol.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Bromosexual?
Ok, what? When did this happen? When did they start saying Bromosexual? What the hell does that mean?
I was bromo-curious to find out what this meant so I just went to the yahoo search engine and typed bromosexual and got this...
Urban Dictionary: bromosexual
ROFL what the... these people that come up with words... And the person who said it was Ryan Seacrest. Need I say more?
I was bromo-curious to find out what this meant so I just went to the yahoo search engine and typed bromosexual and got this...
Urban Dictionary: bromosexual
ROFL what the... these people that come up with words... And the person who said it was Ryan Seacrest. Need I say more?
Skeletal Remains Found in Florida
Skeletal remains of a little girl found in Florida not far from Caylee Anthony's grandparents home. They think that it might be the skeletal remains of Caylee Anthony, the little girl who was murdered by her mother allegedly in June 2008. Notice I said allegedly?
Casey Anthony who is in prison right now for the murder of her daughter will probably get the death penalty. They took that off the table but it can be put back on the table. They are also testing the duct tape that was used to cover the child's mouth with for finger prints on the glue as well as the duct tape that was used to wrap the little girl with a plastic bag. When they finish looking at the finger prints they will know without a shadow of a doubt who killed Caylee if it is her. Also they said there is still some flesh on the skeleton so they can probably do a DNA test to make sure that it was Caylee's body. I guess they would do like a maternity test by comparing the DNA of the body with the mothers DNA.
Even though this is good news for everyone to find the body it is still bad news knowing that poor Caylee is not still alive. But it is not a fact that this is indeed Caylee until the autopsy has confirmed who it is. The skeletal remains have been sent to the FBI office for study.
Oh one more thing, they said that they found out that there was Chloroform used, they determined that by the smell inside the bag and they talked about how Casey Anthony was doing a search on the internet for Chloroform. The Fox News team were saying that it is not uncommon for parents to use Chloroform on their children to put them to sleep if they cannot find a babysitter. WHAT!?!? Not uncommon? Holy cow! What's going on in this world?
Update: I saw on the Fox News ticker just now that a utility worker who was going into those woods to take a leak found the bag and picked it up and a skull fell out. The skeleton was found 1/2 a mile from the grandparents home in Florida.
Casey Anthony who is in prison right now for the murder of her daughter will probably get the death penalty. They took that off the table but it can be put back on the table. They are also testing the duct tape that was used to cover the child's mouth with for finger prints on the glue as well as the duct tape that was used to wrap the little girl with a plastic bag. When they finish looking at the finger prints they will know without a shadow of a doubt who killed Caylee if it is her. Also they said there is still some flesh on the skeleton so they can probably do a DNA test to make sure that it was Caylee's body. I guess they would do like a maternity test by comparing the DNA of the body with the mothers DNA.
Even though this is good news for everyone to find the body it is still bad news knowing that poor Caylee is not still alive. But it is not a fact that this is indeed Caylee until the autopsy has confirmed who it is. The skeletal remains have been sent to the FBI office for study.
Oh one more thing, they said that they found out that there was Chloroform used, they determined that by the smell inside the bag and they talked about how Casey Anthony was doing a search on the internet for Chloroform. The Fox News team were saying that it is not uncommon for parents to use Chloroform on their children to put them to sleep if they cannot find a babysitter. WHAT!?!? Not uncommon? Holy cow! What's going on in this world?
Update: I saw on the Fox News ticker just now that a utility worker who was going into those woods to take a leak found the bag and picked it up and a skull fell out. The skeleton was found 1/2 a mile from the grandparents home in Florida.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Day Without A Gay
Today is Day Without A Gay day. That means that all the gay people are "supposed" to call in sick (or gay) and not work today and not even spend any money today as a form of protest because of Prop 8.
I don't really have to go to a job every day so that isn't a problem for me but I do support this protest. For example, I barely have any food in the pantry and fridge but I will eat tuna and egg salad sandwiches for lunch and dinner if that means I am helping out.
I don't really have to go to a job every day so that isn't a problem for me but I do support this protest. For example, I barely have any food in the pantry and fridge but I will eat tuna and egg salad sandwiches for lunch and dinner if that means I am helping out.
Monday, December 08, 2008
Recycling Numbers
Today we went to turn in our plastic to recycle and found out that different plastic containers have different numbers and they cannot all be recycled together. See I never knew that. I found this website that shows you what the difference is.
What do those recycling numbers mean?
I had all these different types of plastics. I had clear soda bottles, milk cartons, yogurt containers etc. and they had to seperate the clear bottles with the rest. The clear soda bottles had the 1 on the bottom inside that little recycle symbol. Those get you more money than the other ones which were 2 and up.
We had basically half number 1 and the rest were 2-6. When the guy gave us the reciept it showed us how much each plastic cost. The plastic with the 1 was a lot more than the rest. I think it was $7 something for all the number 1's but all the rest we got like .45 cents and that's it and it was half number 1 and the other half was all the rest and that rest was less money. So basically it's not even worth recycling the rest.
They basically told us that it's a waste of time to save anything but the number 1 plastic as well as even paper. The reason I am recycling isn't for the money although it helps in todays economy but also because those brita commercials where they say like 30 minutes on a treadmill, forever in a landfill. Those make me feel guilty for buying anything that comes in plastic or anything lol. But, you know if they are so concerned with it then they will have a machine that goes through the trash cherry picking all the certain types of plastics and paper etc. Chip told me that he read in the newspaper that there is like a mountain of recycled paper that they are having trouble getting rid of, that's why paper is so cheap to recycle. That's probably also why the plastic that isn't number 1 is cheap.
I'm not saying to not recycle because the CRV items like the soda bottles/water bottles and soda/beer cans give you a lot more money but I'm certainly not going to waste our patio space recycling milk cartons and yogurt containers and other plastics anymore. I'm going to find out about steel cans too before I waste any more time with those. I want to save the planet but at the same time if they don't want to recycle certain things then it's out of my hands. I can only do so much by using the cloth grocery bags and recycling plastic and aluminum.
What do those recycling numbers mean?
I had all these different types of plastics. I had clear soda bottles, milk cartons, yogurt containers etc. and they had to seperate the clear bottles with the rest. The clear soda bottles had the 1 on the bottom inside that little recycle symbol. Those get you more money than the other ones which were 2 and up.
We had basically half number 1 and the rest were 2-6. When the guy gave us the reciept it showed us how much each plastic cost. The plastic with the 1 was a lot more than the rest. I think it was $7 something for all the number 1's but all the rest we got like .45 cents and that's it and it was half number 1 and the other half was all the rest and that rest was less money. So basically it's not even worth recycling the rest.
They basically told us that it's a waste of time to save anything but the number 1 plastic as well as even paper. The reason I am recycling isn't for the money although it helps in todays economy but also because those brita commercials where they say like 30 minutes on a treadmill, forever in a landfill. Those make me feel guilty for buying anything that comes in plastic or anything lol. But, you know if they are so concerned with it then they will have a machine that goes through the trash cherry picking all the certain types of plastics and paper etc. Chip told me that he read in the newspaper that there is like a mountain of recycled paper that they are having trouble getting rid of, that's why paper is so cheap to recycle. That's probably also why the plastic that isn't number 1 is cheap.
I'm not saying to not recycle because the CRV items like the soda bottles/water bottles and soda/beer cans give you a lot more money but I'm certainly not going to waste our patio space recycling milk cartons and yogurt containers and other plastics anymore. I'm going to find out about steel cans too before I waste any more time with those. I want to save the planet but at the same time if they don't want to recycle certain things then it's out of my hands. I can only do so much by using the cloth grocery bags and recycling plastic and aluminum.
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