Review of last years resolutions and making some new ones

Here's my list of last years resolutions with my comments on how they went below them:

1. Pay off more than I spend on my Visa. (wasn't really possible this month because it still had Christmas stuff on it)

~~HA!! I think I did this for awhile until the economy decided to screw me over and double my interest rate for no reason. So now I'm no longer using said Visa card and trying to pay it off (which will only happen if I marry a millionaire in my lifetime)~~

2. Only buy the necessities: groceries, cleaning products, things I need for the house. (no buying clothes or anything I WANT at least until this summer)

~~I am still doing this for the most part with the exception of some lamp making materials and Christmas presents recently. I have only bought a handful of clothes this year and may have to become a nudist soon.~~

3. Make a new recipe at least every 2 weeks and put the pics on here...coming soon.

~~Have been doing this fairly regularly and I have a ton of new recipes that I still need to try out.~~

4. Only upload pics from my camera at the end of every month to take up less files on Picasa.

~~This was an easy one that I could definitely do, even if some pics from events are slightly overdue, whatever.~~

5. Start exercising on my new Wii Fit Plus on all my days off.

~~HAHAHA. Not happening at all, especially in the winter when I have no motivation. I got on the Wii Fit at some point during the summer and it said that I hadn't been on in 99 days. I don't even want to know what it would say now.~~

6. Start wearing a pedometer on my days off and when it gets warm enough to walk in the park again...only done this once so far, because it decided to reset itself and said I only took 37 steps...so I'm mad at the pedometer right now.

~~Well I didn't use the broken pedometer obviously, but I did walk every chance I got during the summer, which wasn't a lot since I spent most of my days off walking through Barnes. But it still counts...~~

7. Look for a house to buy in this area and hopefully move out in June sometime.

~~HAHAHA. Yeah I looked hard at many really crappy houses that I would never be able to fix up on my own. And since the economy screwed me over, this was not happening. Even though a mortgage would be like 2/3 the price of my rent!! Seriously though they just don't want to give houses to single people anymore.~~

8. Start some jigsaw puzzles and post the pics on here...bought 2 so far...hopefully I can figure out how to glue them together and frame them.

~~Did that and wish I had more space to continue doing it now, but lamp making has taken over. I did frame one puzzle for myself and one for Mike though.~~

9. Avoid men as much as possible especially one in particular.

~~I didn't see said person for a little over a year, but it is always inevitable between us no matter how long we go without speaking. He started calling during the summer and I avoided him until October. Things are going slow (too slow for me anyway), but they are going in a somewhat forward motion. There's no denying of feelings anymore and his eyes light up when he looks at me. No matter how long it takes, he is the only person that I can talk to about anything with no judgement.~~

10. If by chance I meet a guy with said person's name...run as fast as possible in the opposite direction.

~~See above.~~

Now for my resolutions this year:

1. Pay off my car. Which should happen by May and then I can use that money to continue paying down that damn Visa card.

2. Sell some damn lamps! They're on etsy.com in case you hadn't heard. And if they don't start selling there, I need to find some craft shows to get into in 2011, especially the Strange Folk Festival!

3. Have a big yard sale this spring with the whole family!! I have had stuff piling up in the garage for at least 2 years and I'm going to clean out my closet and drawers this week, so get ready people cause you're helping!!

4. Continue talking to a certain person and not let him get away with going MIA again because of peer pressure from a certain friend who is miserable and wants to make everyone else miserable.

....ummm, that's all I can think of right now. I'll let you know if any new ones pop up in the next couple weeks.....

Bacon and Cheese Stuffed Chicken & Shrimp Parmesan

First up is Bacon and cheese stuffed chicken. I'll take any excuse to fry up some bacon...
Chicken all rolled up with cheese and bacon inside.

Marinara bath...

Final product with some spaghetti. It was good, just a little dry...I really don't like chicken that much anymore.

Shrimp Parmesan with bread crumbs, mozzarella, and Parmesan.

Ready to bake...

Final product. It was really good, but you have to really love shrimp cause it was very shrimpy tasting.

More lamps...and a baby blanket

First up is my favorite lamp I've made so far...because it's orange, duh! It's a Gordon's London Dry Gin bottle, for sale on www.etsy.com/Freefallin44
Here it is all lit up... I'm working on the picture quality...

Here's a Serena Red Table Wine bottle

Lit up...it has all red lights inside.

And here's the baby blanket I knitted for Jonnie & April. I'm definitely taking another knitting vacation after this...

Now I guess I'll go work on another lamp. I haven't made any since these last 2. I'm drowning in wine bottles, but if you have any free liquor bottles send them my way!!

The rest of the balloon puzzle...

Here is the final product of the balloon puzzle I finished last month... No more puzzles for me for quite a while.

My 5....Deluxe Edition

Does everyone remember this episode of Friends?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUOe0JBy8n8 Well about a month ago I read on another blog where a lady and her husband picked their 5 after that episode aired. So I decided to make my list, just for the hell of it. Enjoy!

#1: Zac Efron

Seriously. So Hot!! The reason why I bawl my eyes out every time I watch 17 Again. And if you haven't seen Charlie St. Cloud, then you have issues.


#2: Josh Hartnett



He's been on my list for many years now. Especially after Pearl Harbor.

#3: Matthew McConahey

Another long time favorite. Love all his movies, especially Dazed & Confused. And there's so many pictures of him shirtless....

#4: Topher Grace

Gotta have a nerdy guy. Love him in Win a Date With Tad Hamilton.

#5: Joshua Jackson

You know you loved Pacey. But I've loved him ever since The Mighty Ducks 1,2, and 3!!

Honorable Mentions/Runner Ups


John Travolta

My first love. Pretty sure that Grease was the first movie I ever saw, and I have the entire thing memorized, seriously quiz me!

And Urban Cowboy, the movie about the perfect redneck relationship.

Chris Pronger

The main reason why I love hockey, and why I stopped watching it when the Blues traded him.


Jason London

Also from Dazed & Confused. But, more importantly from my favorite movie The Man in The Moon. It's Reese Witherspoon's first movie, and I used to watch it all the time with my grandma. If you haven't seen it, I might let you borrow it if you can tear it away from my death grip.

Devon Sawa

I was totally obsessed with him from about 10-15. He is of course from Little Giants, Now & Then, The Night of the Twisters, and Casper was his first big movie. In Jr. High my friends had a slumber party at my house that we called D-Day and we stayed up all night watching all of his movies.

Fun Fact: I have his biography and in it, it says "Devon, rhymes with heaven."

Next category: If I were a necromancer...

Christopher Reeve

Of course everyone knows he's the ONLY Superman. But I really fell a few years ago when I saw Somewhere In Time (because its the favorite movie of another teenage crush, Bryan White, who I forgot to add to this list...gah!). This is another movie which you need to see if you can pry it away from me...even though I stole it from my aunt....don't tell her!

Patrick Swayze

My other first love. I completely bawled my eyes out the day he died last year. And I still can't watch any of his movies, especially Ghost, which they played over and over right after he died. What is wrong with these networks??!!

George Harrison

My favorite Beatle, in case you didn't read already in my previous posts. If you listen to While My Guitar Gently Weeps without weeping, something is wrong with you. If anyone needs schooling on what good music is, take a ride in my car where I have about 6 or 7 of their albums.

That is all...until more hot celebrities appear.

Lamps

Here are some pictures of the first 3 lamps I have listed on etsy. Here is a pic of my new workspace I have cleared off to make lamps.
Pictures of the flowers I'm using.

This is the lamp that I put into a wine lovers basket for Mike's golf tournament/benefit.

The next 3 lamps are for sale on etsy. Here is the link to my shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/Freefallin44

More to come next month!! I am literally drowning in wine bottles right now, but if anyone has any liquor bottles, send them my way! The pictures aren't great because all my walls are white, but from now on I have a new technique to shoot the lamps, so stay tuned.

I'm so tired

Let me tell you what I'm tired of. I'm tired of always having to count on other people to get the things that I need. Like waiting for 3 years to have a yard sale because I have so much stuff piling up to get rid of, but I can't have a yard sale by myself. Like waiting for people to buy my lamps on etsy.com because I'm broke as hell right now. Like waiting for a doctor's approval to put Mike into the clinical trial I found that cured 8 people of their brain tumors. Like waiting for a goddamn man to grow up so I can have the family that I have always wanted and the house that I have always wanted because I can't afford to live by myself. I'm tired of other people not caring. I'm tired of having to rely on people who are unreliable. Am I the only one around here who does what I say I'm going to do? I do what I say I'm going to do, and I'm not wishy washy about it. I make up my damn mind and stick to it. That's why I can't stand having to wait for others. It goes against my nature, I'm an only child and a Taurus. Which means that I have always done everything on my own, other people be damned. Now I'm stuck in a million situations where I have to wait around for unreliable people to just let me down over and over again. My biggest problem is that I care too much, even if I don't show it. I care way too much about too many people and things and they don't care enough...or at all. I'm sick of being stagnant. Of watching everyone else's lives continue moving forward, and I'm just stuck. And the only way to get un-stuck is up to other people's decisions about my life. Like credit card companies, the state of Illinois, the government, healthcare providers, and did I mention men?? I'm just tired of being in a constant state of worry that I can do nothing about.

Fundraiser and Peanut Butter Pie

Last month we held a fundraiser at work to raise money for NAMI- The National Alliance on Mental Illness. I told my clients that if they raised $100 in a week, they could pick out me and Mary's clothes and do our hair and makeup. All week they went around the nursing home getting donations and on Friday they got to make us over with all of our wackiest clothes and makeup.
Full shot of Mary...

Full shot of me...

We had to walk around work all day like that and the doctor really got a kick out of it.

It might have been the same day, I brought in a peanut butter pie. Here is the bottom chocolate layer getting ready to chill.

Peanut butter mixture...mmmm....

Final result. It was sooo good and I'm gonna make another one next month for Bob's birthday.