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.

Projects in the works

The first project is one that I just finally finished a few days ago. Here's the beginning of the last puzzle that I will be working on for some time.
All of the sides put together, except for one missing piece which took me forever to find.

Yep, that piece is still missing...

Ok, finally getting started. The finished product is coming in a few weeks.

Next project, which will undoubtedly make me very rich soon....

Wine and liquor bottle lamps!!

I told you all a few months ago to send me your bottles, and this is why. This is my first lamp, which I gave to my mom. It's an Apple Crisp wine bottle from Grafton Winery.

I have many more lamps coming, and have started my account on www.etsy.com . I'll start putting my lamps on there at the end of the month and my shop name is Freefallin44 if you want to have a look.

Strawberry Freezer Jam

Last month I did my first try at canning, before I plan to really delve into it next spring. Here are the jars and lids after washing.
Getting ready to squish a lot of strawberries.

All the strawberries ready to go.

The strawberry and sugar mixture.

Blending it all together with pectin.

The final product in my adorable jars!

FYI: I have plenty more and it stays up to a year in the freezer, if you want some let me know!! It was gone pretty quickly when I took some to work, and I don't really eat jam very often...so you are free to have some...before I start charging next year!!