thrifty projects

so i posted about me starting to do some crafting, and little things like that, and i showed you my first project. well i have been working away whenever i can, but i've started a few things, and finished only one haha.

its my fall basket.

but i have gotten the spare room set up and organized as my new crafts room, so now i think i will be more inclinded to get up there and work away... haha

weekly weigh-in week 2

so this is my week two weigh in. and i'm not going to lie, it was much harder this week. i don't know why, but i had noo will power this week. i did a very bad job at sticking to the plan. it all started with my tuesday night golf game with the boys, which turned into an extended round of golf, followed by what was supossed to be a beer at the smokin' bull, but turned into a few beers. and it all went down hill from there. YET! i still lost 1.4lbs!! i know that doesn't seem like much compaired to the 6.4lbs i lost last week. but if you think about how much a pound is, i did really good! think of a pound of butter! thats alot! so far i have lost 7.8lbs!! so yay for me?! right? except i have set a goal to reach my 5% weight loss goal. of 8.5lbs by next weigh-in. so i will let you know how i do!

also i have good news! i had a job interview on monday! yes yesturday, and today i got the call that i got the job! i start monday morning!! and its only 10mins from my house!! sooo much better then the 45mins i drive right now. but i'm going to miss working at the golf course, i really like the work, and the people. i am going to try and keep working some weekends though, so that could help me. haha

weekly weigh-in

hey everyone! well as some of you know, or have read, i have decided to start weight watchers. not because i'm overly huge, but i'm not happy, and i am bigger then i ever have been. so when a good friend did so well with it i thought it must work, and it must be worth the money. and guess what! i was right! every week i will post my weekly weigh-in ammount. and let you follow along with my weight loss! it will keep me motivated, so by you reading this helps me stick to it!
i joined last week, i went to my first meeting monday night, and got weighed-in, and wow i wasn't expecting that! i was a whopping 173.2!! so i set out to follow the rules. and i did pretty good at doing so, i just wasn't able to fully weigh out how much i was allowed to have. i just made smaller portions, and used nutrition lables alot. and even just by doing that i was able to loose 6.4lbs!!!!! ok so that might not seem like alot, but for one week, and a first week at that! that is amazing! if you want a visual of how much that is my good friend used blocks of butter, so think of 6 and almost a half blocks of butter!! and thats how much i lost... in ONE week! i can't wait to really move forward with this, and start weighing everything out, now that i bought myself some food scales! so i hope you follow along, and enjoy watching me transform into a skinner, happier aries!

do it yourself? i think i will!!

so a good friend ashley decided to get herself a blog, and its dedicated to crafting, and thirfting, and do it yourself things. and it got me very inspired to make stuff! haha so last weekend ashley and i went out shopping, at the thrift shop, value village, and the dollar store, for our main things, we all went into jysk, and micheal's which was dangerous! haha but we had sooo much fun. and i have a tone of great crafts and things to make an ideas now. so the other night i decided to do one! and it turned out great! i even had some girls over last night before we headed out for a girls night, and they all loved it, and want one too! haha so here is some pictures..

this is the glass bottle i got from the thirft store for $1.99

and this is what it looked like after i wrapped it in twine!

and this is the finished product! i love it! its upstairs in the hallway to our bedroom. it looks great!

i'm having alot ot fun, and will be adding more projects as they come! also, stay tuned for stories of mark's lawn tractor races!

pretty sky...

one of the many things i love about the country is the beautiful sights you get to see. last night while i was cooking supper on the bbq, i got to take in this beautiful sunset.

hope you enjoy it as much as i did...

me a suzie homemaker?!?

i know it sounds so strange to hear it. and anyone who knows me well is probably on the floor dying right now of laughter. but the day has come, i felt like baking all day, but i limited myself to bannana nut bread and a cherry pie. i feel so good about it too. want to know why? well i'm going to tell you... in the past any time i've tried to bake anything, it always turned out (as i liked to call it) "nicely browned" (everyone else called it burnt) but today i made two different things and both are not burnt!! i'm soo proud of myself!





ok ok now that i've talked myself up, i'll let you in on a secret, the pie didn't take much magic... it was a store bought crust, pie filling from a can and a roll on top. BUT i did make it look very pretty!!

i know corny eh! haha a+m like i was in public school again, but someones gotta be romatic and corny around here!! haha

another big change in my life is that i'm not happy with how i look right now, so i have dicided to follow in a good friends foot steps and join weight watchers. so i will keep you all posted on how things go, and post my progress. i am REALLY looking forward to it. my friend didn't need to join, but like me just wasn't happy, and through this she has lost 23lbs!! and i can't wait to share that kind of success.

i am also going to start to decorate our house, and make it feel like a home. so any ideas on cute things to do would be lovely. also i would really like to hear any good and cleaver ideas on how to reduce clutter. i dont know how or why, but we have alot of paper clutter around here. you know bills, sheets, pay stubs, magazines, farm papers. so any pretty and functional ideas to hide away that would be more then wanted! haha

sorry for the wait

well i haven't wrote in a very long time. and i'm sorry. life gets away from you some times, and you forget to just sit back and take some time to yourself. and trust me life has really gotten away from me lately, but things are getting better, much much better.

i've learned more around here, like the difference between hay and straw. i know silly me! and then there was the day i really got to find out about hay, when mark put me on the tractor that was hooked up to a set of rakes, and made me rake a feild of hay. now usually this is a pretty simple task, but to "save time" they have attached two rakes togather and at the end of each windrow i would have to pull a leaver up to pull the rakes in so that they rake the same area. and at the start of the next windrow i had to push the leaver down to pull the rakes back out, so that i was raking two windrows at the same time. smart idea, frustrating to do when the windrows don't always match up. but by the end of the feild i got the hang of it and even kinda liked it. which was a mistake to admit, because it then became my job... and i raked quite a few feilds.

and i guess since i did that soo well, or more likely because there was no one better around i was sat up in the tractor that was hooked to the square bailer. which was exciting, untill i learned how many leavers, switches, pully's and attachments. then i couldn't believe i had to aim the bail's of hay into the wagon!! but yet again it was much easier after the end of the feild came around. but i have been called apon doing this tak a few time too. so now all thats left to learn is the round bailer. and i'd rather not learn that. haha

but back to the real world, i am a few steps closer to living life normal again. or as close to normal as is comfortable! haha, but in a few days i will recive the results from my second biopsy, this one was taken during surgery. and once i get them back i will know if its all been removed for sure or not. i will however have to go ever 6 months for check up untill i get 3 clear reading in a row, which for some poeple takes a few years, but i'm hopful it will be sooner.