Cold again!

I am still alive, kicking, breathing, screaming....and like you so busy! I am struggling to finish my 2nd paper for school. Turned the first in last week and trying to knock out the 2nd, which is due tomorrow! Bad student. Also trying to knock out baby quilts and pick out my perfect bday cake recipe.

I did finish 2 quilts for the twins and of course I didn't take pics of them! Whatever!!! Basically, I'm tired and my brain is frizzled. Maybe I can download pictures tonight of my fabric mess :) , it is huge!

I am planning on using my spinning wheels in my term paper review presentation. I am incorporating them into my discussion on Madeleine Leininger's Transcultural Care Theory of nursing....I know you are interested, ahhahahaaaaa....but that was my topic for my RN to BSN concepts class...now for coffee!

Can you scream slacker????

Yes, I am a slacker....big resolutions to be on top of my blog and then nothin! Well, one good reason...I discovered Facebook, great...I agree. However, it gave me a vicious virus! Vicious, wiped me out, killed my laptop, eeeevviiillllll! I had to wait for His Majesty to help reformat my laptop and then try and reload what I was able to salvage. I was mad and sad!

Anyway, back in the saddle and virus free so far! Of course, now very skeptical of Facebook. But here are a few things I have been doing sewing wise....making lovely little tissue holders that I found on Sew, Mama, Sew blog. LOVE that blog and have learned so much from the great tutorials! Please check it out and try some of the ideas. These were superfast to make and will be great gifts!

Also working on two baby blankets for the Meadow's twins. They are boys and I have been making little quilts for them. Have the tops done, but need to finish the backs! I have that as a weekend to do this coming weekend! One is greens and blues and the other is yellows, oranges and a little blue-green thrown in. I just hope she likes them for her precious boys!

The pics look a little sad, bad, and lackluster. But the tops are cute in real life, believe me!

Then there is school, ick! Just had my midterms in Nursing Informatics and Concepts of Nursing and I am working on my papers for each class. I do not like writing papers! Nope, not at all and have to buckle down and work each every night.

Now I have to go find my size 7 knitting needles to start bibs :)

Besides homework...

What have I done this week?
1. made a chocolate chip bundt cake
2. made apple cranberry wheat bread (YUM, wonderful as french toast)
3. made a scrub top, cut out another
4. scheduled an appointment for a facial and a massage on Saturday, just because I deserve it
5. knit, knit, knit on my sweater and getting so close to sleeves
6. went to a Boot Camp exercise class and survived it!
7. stopped being upset over my laptop death :(
8. bought Valentine's cards and remembered to mail them earlier this week
9. made beef and broccoli (with chicken added in) that was great
10. didn't cry when I came to class tonight :)
oh yeah, new running shoes for my next 5k!!!! oh yes....will be doing it!

Homework, sitting...what I'm doing

Guess what? Yes, in class....reviewing Nursing Informatics. Want to be at home eating soup and grilled cheese and surfing my favorite blogs. Have sewn a little bit this week :) Makes me happy, doing more tomorrow afternoon. And almost ready to knit my sleeves!!!

Laptop crash was from a virus and waiting on it to be reformatted

Leave my peanut butter alone!

I love peanut butter, love it! I eat it everyday, several times a day. I am so sad about the salmonella outbreaks from contaminated peanut butter. Please don't shy away from safe PB, don't turn your back on it! I eat Naturally More (with flaxseeds) and it is safe....so give it a try.

It is awesome on toast with honey and cinnamon, yummy in ice cream, scrumptious in oatmeal, and of course the bomb with jelly (strawberry please). Just ate some a few minutes ago....go get yours!

Now, camera battery issue is still going wrong and hopefully to be fixed tomorrow after gym run and errands are complete. Here is a quick pic of the lovely fabrics I purchased last week. I am in the process of cutting out my patterns for scrub tops....actually already have one complete. Yea me!!! The cupcake pattern is next on the chopping block and that will begin in the morning.

Sttttiiiiiillllllll working on my first sweater and eyeballing my sock stash. I will soon be taking a class to refresh my sock skills. Yes, added to the ever growing list!

PLUS have caught the Facebook bug. Oh my goodness what an addiction!! Why didn't you tell me about this! I think I need an intervention and I haven't been on a week yet. Well, guess I will go check my facebook page now....

So much to do and sitting here....

I have so many things I could be doing productively, but in class reviewing databases. Keep your fingers crossed that we get to leave early!!!! Early enough I can hit Wendy's drive thru and get a chili and potato, rather than eat my leftovers.

Battery eating camera has killed another set of new batteries, so picture taking is nil. Any recommendations on batteries? Have tried many brands, no luck!

Have to take notes now, so no chitty-chat from me....

Cake kit giveaway....

I am all about cake! I was reading my favorite blogs and ran across this giveaway! What a wonderful prize for any cake lover.....go and see what All About Cakes has to offer and is about. You will be impressed, I was! I love inspiration and she has it!

I am digging the coca cola cake! Need to add tha tto my list :)

In classsssss

well started back to school last week and it has taken over my life once again. I am in class right now, shhhhhhh, supposed to be listening to lecture. I am disliking class very much! LOVE my instructor, an awesome lady, but not jiving with the course study at this time. Maybe it is really the idea of sitting in a class once again from 3pm to 10pm every Thursday night. That's what I don't like :(

Oh well, I have to do this and will put on my big girl panties and buck up and keep going. I do have some gorgeous fabric to show....bought this past weekend and can't wait to start sewing with it....beautiful!!! Also, still plugging away on my knit project of the decade (so it seems) of my 1st sweater.

Have a wonderful night...I will go back to being a good student!