My Heart's on Fire for Elvira

[whitelop]

Lisa, I don't mind folding, but its putting them away that I hate doing. Ugh. I wish they would magically put themselves away, it would be so much nicer. haha.

I made the soup last night so I didn't have to make it today when I was starving. Its actually REALLY good! I put the cabbage, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, and celery and the onion soup packages. It would be really good with some provolone cheese and some crusty french bread rounds. But by itself its pretty good too. I highly recommend it if any of you guys like oniony soup like that. Plus, its healthy! Other than the possibly high sodium in the onion soup packets, but I'm sure you could get low sodium.
Like I said, its banana and milk today, so I got to put milk in my coffee. Well, thats just how I'm interpreting it! hahaha. I've been drinking black coffee for days and I'm way over that! haha. I'll get sugar free-fat free creamer or I'll just work out after coffee, but I NEED COFFEE CREAMER! haha. Call me spoiled, but I do! hahaha. Coffee with milk is still not great. Ugh. I also haven't been drinking the highest quality coffee this week, I probably should have gotten my starbucks back and it would have tasted better black. LOL

I want to talk about AJ. He's hilarious. But he's all a food scavenger. I gave him a pop tart for breakfast and then I come in with my banana and he's trying to eat my banana! I'm like 'whats wrong with you, that pop tart is WAY more delicious than this banana so eat that!' Like yesterday, he ate 5 chicken nuggets, a handful of whales and then he ate my whole apple and a whole cup of juice. Then after that he got animal crackers and a granola bar. He's eating like a horse! I think he's going through a growth spurt at least I hope, because he's put on 3 pounds this week. haha. And he was fighting my hub yesterday for the cookies he was eating. Hub said he only gave him one cookie and AJ wasn't happy about it and hub had to put the cookies away. haha WOW!
So then I tell the hub to put him in his high chair for dinner and AJ starts to protest, and the hub was like 'stop, we're about to eat steak! Its going to be good!' then AJ was like 'stop you're hurting me!' the hub was like 'no, I'm not, be quiet.' Then AJ was like 'NO, YOU BE QUIET!' I laughed so hard. I was in the kitchen and I could hear them a few minutes before and AJ was being insane, so I was laughing at that then then he told his father to be quiet I was crying. I was silently laughing so I didn't make my husband mad and I could barely breathe.
And then whenever AJ hands me something, he says 'here' I say 'thank you' he says 'melcome' hahaha. With an M! Its so funny. And sometimes he confuses thank you and melcome and uses them backwards and its hilarious.
Now if only I could get him to stay in his room with his toys, then he would be the most perfect child ever. haha.

Actually I have a solution for the toys, when I redo the coffee table into the ottoman, I'm going to put some of those canvas baskets inside of it with toys, so it will be easy living room toy clean up for me! I think it sounds like a wonderful idea. That coffee table make over will be this weekend, since I got my garden in the ground, my brain isn't clouded anymore. I just have to find the right fabric, maybe I'll go to JoAnn's. I'm scared of that place! I don't want to spend too much money, but I need something thats tough and durable but still in a nice pattern. I'll take pictures! I'm also repainting or staining a headboard that we got with the new bed and I really hate it, so I'm going to redo it somehow.
I really wish I knew how to sew, I really want a new comforter. Actually I want a feather comforter and a duvet, so I can just change the duvets and I would totally make a duvet if I could sew.

Okay I'm so done, today it was like my project diary! hahaha. Sorry for the really long post guys!

 

[whitelop]

Here are some videos of Ellie that I took the other day, when she first started her hole.
Please ignore my commentary. And crazy shaky hands. haha.

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[Chrisdoc]

Oh, I just love this little Miss Ellie. OMG that hole is enormous compared to her. it looked big on the photos but it´s even bigger on the video. She is so quick when she dashes about...she moves just like Houdini, he does dashes like that from one end to the other in his enclosure, they are so alike. You´ll have to be careful or she´ll dig it so deep, she´ll go in there and not come out haha.

 

[Katielovesleo3]

Okay one more vent ( sorry I'm being negative, haha) but in Iowa we do May day baskets....do any of you? We make little baskets full of treats and you deliver them to your neighbors. I had to make 33 may baskets (UHg) but basically we've gotten about half that in return (since Lenox is an only child) so I've had a constant stream of popcorn, candy bars, jelly beans, carmels, mints, jolly ranchers,,,,etc, left on my doorstep.,,,.hahah........it's so tempting!

No we sure dont do that...I am assuming that here in Texas we all kind of hate our neighbors lol. Like we like 3 of our neighbors on this block....we have about 10 neighbors on this block...that's sad. But we can't help it that they hate us!
I was reading the news in East Tx where my Grandmaw lives and on her road there's a lot of action going on! The swat team is there, helicopters, polices! All bc someone got in a fight with their neighbor, he held his wife at gunpoint with an AR and now he's running around in the woods!!! My Grandmaw and P-Tom are fine though and locked up ad have guns in case of emergency. I'm worried that the guy will run off behind their house and spook the horses. We have terrible crazy people in Texas lol.

 

[whitelop]

To me the best kinds of neighbors are the ones that don't talk to me, but I can pass by and wave. Thats how I have it with my neighbors across the street, we all wave at each other and thats it. They're all pretty old, and I have met them and they're really nice people, but I don't want to have a buddy buddy relationship with them. Now, if something were to happen, I would go check on them without hesitation or help them in any way what so ever, but they're pretty self reliant. They're old farmers and there are 3 generations of them living over there, so they get it done. haha.

I woke up this morning with a headache, thats the worst! And when I wake up like that, it seems like my husband is EXTRA annoying. Like, this morning, he decides he's going to stand in the kitchen and eat his breakfast instead of leaving with it. So he's in my way when I'm trying to put the coffee on and get AJ's breakfast made. Its probably because I had a headache but it just amplified his actions and I really wanted to tell him to leave! haha. I didn't. Its weird, like I do week day stuff when my hub isn't here and then weekend stuff when he is here in the morning. But when he's here in the morning when he's not supposed to be, it makes me feel off. Like if he takes a weekday off or he has a mandatory weekday off day it completely throws my whole day off because he's here. Its like I feel really awkward about doing the stuff I normally do during the day. Its so weird. Am I the only one who feels like that?

Maybe I'll put Ellie out later, but I think the grass is really wet because it drizzled last night, so I might just dry off her pen and bring it into the kitchen for her. Its a lot bigger when you open it and have one side open against the wall, so I'll be able to open it and get it to just block off the problem areas! haha.

Oh I wanted to tell you guys this because I thought it was CRAZY! So my hubs co-worker, Eddie, his wife just got this huge dose of radiation. She had thyroid cancer, so they took her thyroid out and did a huge dose of radiation to make sure it was all gone. Eddie was the only one who was in the right age group and healthy enough to stay with her while she was quarantined to their room. Her son who is like 15, her daughter whos 21 and her granddaughter who is 2 had to leave the house for over a week because of the radiation. Eddie said he could FEEL it. Like riding home from the appointment with her, like the 30 minute car ride made him physically ill because there was so much radiation radiating off of her! Then her daughter came by to see her and she was there for a few minutes and got a headache from it and had to leave. He said that he had to stay in the garage for the duration of the week because that way he could hear her but he was far enough away that the radiation didn't reach him. I think he was having to sleep on the couch because he couldn't sleep near her.
I thought it was totally insane! Thats ridiculous. I don't know how she was okay after that when it was effecting the people AROUND her.

Today is my meat day on the cleanse. Thank god! I have a big ole T-bone steak thawing out right now. I'm going to pan sear that sucker up and eat the hell out of it! hahaha. Too bad I can't saute some onions with it, that would be perfect.

 

[TuckerandGusGus]

Ellie is definitely a cutie, I am such a weirdo when it comes to my animal stuff being clean.. including my animals; I'd prob. freak if my buns got that dirty! BUT, she obviously is enjoying herself! & that's all that matters!!!

I basically go crazy when I go in my bunny room because the bunnies always making a mess of their cages, & hay being EVERYWHERE. But I'm learning to deal. :|

My Mum had small cell lung cancer, she went through chemo and radiation.. I wasn't personally AROUND her right after she had her radiation.. but she is doing well now. But seriously, that's insane!!! I couldn't even imagine how her poor family felt, let alone her! :\ That sucks! Did it only last for a week?

I hope you enjoy your steak!

Also, I kind of get like that with my alone time, too.. I think when you're stuck in a routine it's your usual thing, and anything little that changes it, makes you go nuts. Like Saturdays my boyfriend works and I have off, so I like to sleep in a little... and then I do my own thing. Sometimes I go out, most of the time I like to stay in and hang around, but now that I've gotten involved with this fostering of kitties, I almost always have someone coming by to check out a kitty or two.. & i absolutely hate it. -.- Like I'd much rather NOT do that, buttttt they need to go to their forever homes; and I need to meet the people, so it works out But I understand you.. and sometimes Mike (other half) will say he's going out or whatever, and will end up NOT going out, or not taking as long as I thought and I had so much in my mind I wanted to do and I didn't even get to do them, then I get upset and almost wanna tell him to go back out ! lol!!

 

[whitelop]

I don't mind when she's dirty. It doesn't bother me much. Her feet will probably be permanently stained but oh well, it makes her happy to dig! haha.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who is weird about having someone in the house to mess up the routine. Don't get my wrong, I love my husband and I love spending time with him, but when he's here during the weekend or on those chance off weekdays, he's not very helpful and tends to be in my way. Then I feel like I'm obligated to spend time with him and not get the stuff done that I normally get done, on the weekdays I should say. Weekends I enjoy spending time with him and we spend all weekend together. But then sometimes I feel overwhelmed with him and AJ together its like I have 2 kids to clean up after! haha.

So I've been watching Hoarders for 3 days now. I kind of can't stop. What is wrong with me that I love to see this stuff? I really really do. I've talked about this before, but to me its like a train wreck, its so bad but I just can't look away. Like no joke, I'm mesmerized. BUT its making me want to clean more and I have been! haha. I see some stuff and I get up and run to clean something. haha. Like I saw a dirty dirty dirty bathroom and I thought about my bathroom that had a small pile of clothes in the floor because I was too tired to take them to the wash bin in the kitchen, so I left them. I ran in and cleaned my whole bathroom because I was scared it was going to turn into a hoarder situation because of a shirt, pants and a bra. ahaha.
I really hate how they call themselves "collectors", I'm always like "wtf are you collecting? Soup cans and bottle caps? Bags of poop? Boxes? You're not a collector you're gross and you're 'collecting' TRASH! Old newspaper isn't a collection!" LOL

I just ate a steak at 10 am. haha. It was delicious, but I got like half way through it and I didn't want it anymore. I thought it was weird. I have to up my water intake by a quart today, thats 4 glasses of water. Thats a lot.

 

[TuckerandGusGus]

Good luck! I know what you mean with the hoarder show.. ugh, my boyfriends parents are hoarders, & it's ridiculous, atleast I can say that they actually have STUFF that they hoard and not TRASH. But theres nowhere to walk and it's ridiculous. My boyfriend actually introduced his Mom to Ebay in hopes that she'd start up like her own online store.... & instead of selling stuff, what do you think she is doing? Buying stuff! It's ridiculous! UGH.

They are always up real late and everything, too & always randomly stop by and unload stuff on us... like just JUNK. My boyfriend will be like "Atleast we can just toss it, and it's getting it out of their house" Yes, true.. BUT they're just making MORE room to put the crap she is buying!!! It's gotten to the point where his Dad had a major health issue and elderly services won't let him move back in with his wife because it's a health risk, the ambulance people can't get in the house let alone move around to get him on a stretcher, etc. It's just wrong.

I go through phases where I'm obsessed with watching stuff too.. something similar to this, ... animal hoarding. UGH! That actually truly brings me to tears EVERY time. :| I know I have a ton of animals (2 buns, 4 cats [soon to be 5], 2 dogs, and all my foster babies [10 cats right now] also) but I'm NOT a hoarder. My animals are all healthy and fixed and NOT making babies.. aside from the one feral momma cat I have who just had kittens and the kittens themselves they're all spayed & neutered.. and the kittens will be spayed and neutered before they go to homes, and Momma cat may have to be released outside again, and she'll ALSO be spayed before being let out. Just be responsible about things, ugh... drives me nuts. Breaks my heart.

I also enjoy my time with my boyfriend, but I work all week long and Saturdays are myyyy day... b/c he works, so I love my sundays with him especially but if he tells me hes gunna be busy one night I get all excited thinking I can do so much things I want to, and then he ends up coming home and sitting on the couch or whatever and I lose all my motivation, too.

Also I'm right there with you - as long as it makes her happy it's def. a-ok!!!

 

[Chrisdoc]

Steak at 10 in the morning....that´s a big breakfast lol. Bet it was lovely after not having eaten meat for quite a few days.

Miss Ellie with dirty paws.....she looks so happy with the work she´s done.

I like my neighbours like that. We only see each other when we´re going out or coming in and give a wave or have a few words and that´s it. Would hate to have my neighbours popping round every five minutes but I would be there if they needed help.

I hate my routine being interrupted and I suppose it´s even worse when you have husbands, partners or children. Having that little bit of time to yourself to organise things or get or with things is so nice.

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

The birds singing in the videos sounds so nice. I tried to get Monty's harness on her last night while she was eating from my lap and I only got the neck strap on . She is NOT letting me reach under her to get the chest strap on. SOON, I hope to keep working on this so I can take her outside!

 

[Katielovesleo3]

That's a great hole!!!! I loved her zoomies! HAHAHA! Shes such a cute little ball of terror!

 

[whitelop]

AJ spent the night with my MIL last night, so my husband and I went shopping! haha. We got a few things from big lots, what a silly store. But they have cute yard stuff, but I didn't get any. I was yelling about a gnome because I got excited and my hub was like "you need to calm it down woman, we're in public!" haha. It was hilarious. But they had this one gnome that was sleeping in a hammock and you tie the hammock on the tree, like around it. It was SO cute. I want one! They also had the tree faces, the one they had had a BEARD! It was creepy. haha.
But we also got a new comforter set! So we can be like adults! hahaha. Its really pretty, its cream and brown and green and has some flowers and some stripes. We have like one matching comforter/sheet set that I brought to the relationship from when I was a teenager, its NICE. Its stripes and flowers, but its not really "adult" ya know?
So this one is like Better Homes and Gardens looking. AND my husband even picked it out! hahaha. He doesn't like flowers that much, so I found this one that was really pretty with autumn color flowers and he was like, no not THAT many flowers. So he saw this one and was like I like this one, it doesn't have that many flowers on it. They had the green one and one with like a burnt orange, I liked the green and I didn't say anything because the other one was nice too. So I let him pick it between the two and he was like "uhhh...orange...no...greeen. Yeah green!" hahah. Its like he knew it in my head that I really wanted the green one!

He's out cutting the grass, I have to paint part of the wall in the kitchen. Hahha. When we painted, we didn't paint where the fridge was. LMAO We did a good job painting but it was just me and my mom and we didn't feel like moving the fridge, so we said f-it and didn't! haha. We painted far enough behind it that you couldn't tell that it wasn't fully painted back there. But now, the new fridge isn't there! So there is a huge place of wall that isn't painted and its refrigerator shaped, its hilarious.
I'm also going to paint the coffee table today, hopefully. And maybe go to JoAnn's and get fabric. Do they have an app for coupons? I will totally download one if they do. hahaha.
Then my hub wants to go look at fish and possibly get a new fish. haha. I love going to the fish store, its huge. If we go, maybe I'll take some pictures, they have some really cool display tanks. They have sharks! They're flipping amazing!

Time to start my day! Happy Saturday everyone!

 

[HolyHandGrenade]

Yes, Morgan, there's a free app for iphones and any phone running Android I also signed up for the text messages, so if you need a coupon code, let me know and I can forward it to you. (Except the only ones I have right now expire today, but they'll probably send me something new tomorrow). (What am I thinking, I have the next flyer too, duh)

 

[whitelop]

Missy thanks! I will totally look up the app when I go to get fabric to hopefully get a coupon!

So it has been raining for like a week straight. I've had enough. haha. I haven't seen the sun in a week and I'm going insane. Nothing will dry out and my chicken coops are a mess. I haven't been able to put Ellie outside and I still can't let her in the kitchen because she just goes straight to being bad. ahah. So she's been in her cage for 2 days. I'm about to get the pen and put it in the kitchen for her to be out in.

So today is the last day of my cleanse. I think its gone pretty well. At like day 4 I really wanted to quit and eat a really delicious salad, but I didn't. I stuck to it! haha. I have cheated a few times, I'll be honest, especially when I was super starving from not having any meat, I would eat a string cheese. But other than that, I think I did pretty well. At like day 5 it got much easier, because I was able to eat meat and that was so nice. Then day 6 was easier because I wasn't as hungry and I got to eat more meat, now is day 7 and I get to eat brown rice and veggies and fruit juice. I probably won't drink any fruit juice since I don't really like it, but I like rice and veggies. I think I'll make an asian style stir fry for lunch and dinner. ahha.
BUT I think the biggest thing of this whole thing, I don't really want junk food anymore. Like yesterday we passed by my favorite fast food eatery, Cook Out and as much as I THINK I would love to eat from there, I probably couldn't bring myself to do it. Or we stopped at a gas station to get me a water and my hub a drink, I saw on the sign they had iced doughnut holes, as much as I think I would have wanted those, I probably couldn't eat them because they would be overly sweet. And last night, I took a small sip of my hubs drink, it was strawberry-melon brisk and it was GROSS! I would have loved it a week ago, but it was SO sweet. I was like 'how are you drinking that?!' He was like, 'its not that sweet.' But to me it was! So to sum all that rambling up, I think that this cleanse other than starving me and probably being unhealthy, it has made me see that junk food isn't all that good! My body knows that healthy foods or healthier options are the way to go! So I will say that it was worth it, but I don't know if I could recommend this to anyone! haha. Not that you guys couldn't do it, but I know by like day 3 I was totally miserable, it was a really hard day. And it was probably not that healthy to do, in hindsight.
But its totally changed my views on eating healthier. No soda and no more fast food. I've always had healthier options but I just never ate them, I took the easy way out, but now I know I can eat the healthier things.
Oh and I'm totally going to share the healthy recipes I find, if they are good. I have healthy dessert recipes already, that I'll try when I get off the cleanse. So you guys can share in my healthier eating! haha.

And we got two new fish yesterday, they're golden severum's. They're really cute!

 

[JBun]

Your weather sounds pretty miserable right now. I bet those chickens will be glad too, when the rain stops. Ellie too! Since she seems to have taken to liking it outside. I'm sure she'd like to get back to her burrowing efforts

Good job on the cleanse! I know I would have had a hard time sticking with it, but you did it! Things do taste different after eating healthy. I had to go off sugar for about a week, and when I started eating it again, it almost didn't taste good anymore. Of course that didn't stop me, and I ate it anyways

 

[Ilovemyrabbit]

I wish we could trade the weather with each other. Its been dry here for over a week, we can't light any fires until it rains because there is risk for forest fires. Besides, we need the rain for watering our trees. We have been ordering tons of trees and planting them in our yard. We have more than 30 trees. We have bamboo, Jujubee, PawPaw, Plums, Cherries, Persimmons, ect. So we are going to need a lot of rain, or else we will have to water them by hose. Which will still be hard with the amount of trees we have.

I'm glad your cleanse went well. It does sound like it helped you, I mean not wanting junk food is a pretty good start. Anyway, great job! :great:

That's cool that you bought two new fish! You'll have to post pictures.

 

[PaGal]

Congratulations on sticking with it and finishing the cleanse!

Ellie looks so cute out there running around!

I get it with the hubby being home. I love my man and we really enjoy our time together. We really could spend every day together, like all day and enjoy it but it's odd when they are home but shouldn't be. Hubby took Friday off. I was trying to clean and as soon as I started to dust mop my floors before scrubbing them he came in to make something to eat which put a halt on what I was doing.

Weather has been lousy here to. I like mowing our grass and enjoy working on a tan at the same time. I had to cut grass yesterday as it had gotten super high from me waiting till it was done raining for days and I had to wear jeans, a sweat shirt and jacket and was still cold plus it sprinkled on me. It needs to get warm and stay warm too so kids stop getting sick.


ILoveMyRabbit...a few years back when we were living at another house we planted 100 Leyland cypress saplings. The yard was an acre and we planted around the whole yard. That's what we had to do was water every day for months by hand because it got hot and dry as soon as we planted.

 

[whitelop]

My husband had to cut the grass too, it also got high because he was holding out hoping for better weather. No such luck. Then I got out to feed and water the chickens, of course I get all wet because the chicken hose has a leak and that water was COLD! haha. We have a well, so the water is super cold. But sometimes I drink out of the hose because it seems like the water is better, even though its all the same water. haha. How silly, I guess it just reminds me of being a kid.

Thanks everyone for your praise for finishing my cleanse! haha.

Elise, thats a lot of trees! Are you guys starting a small orchard? I have a few fruit bearing trees, a peach tree, a pear tree, a persimmon tree, then the blueberry and black raspberry bushes. Then we have a wild blackberry bush. Oh yeah and my whole yard is filled with black walnut trees, but its so much a hassle to actually harvest the nuts! haha.
What will you guys do with the persimmons? I never pick ours and let the wild animals have them, because I don't really know much about them or know what to do with them once they've been picked. haha.

So I set up Ellie's run in the kitchen, the pen was outside and when it rained last night and this morning, it got wet. So I put an old comforter down below it so it didn't get my floor all wet. She seems to be enjoying herself. She's digging in the blanket and running around. I put some of her favorite toys in there for her and she's been playing. She also boxed my hand when I was trying to grab a bad piece of cilantro out of her box. haha. She's such a moody grunty nut. Maybe I'll take some pictures later, after I get some chores done.
I WAS going to clean the chicken coops today, but it started raining really early on and I don't want to be out in the cold rain in a muddy chicken coop. That does not sound like a fun activity. I might go out there and put some sand down for the rooster and feed them but other than that it can wait until it stops raining! haha. Poor birds, I know they're so tired of it.

 

[Chrisdoc]

Good on you Morgan for finishing the cleanse, it is hard to give up things you like but it does make you think about what you´re eating.

I can´t eat things that are really sweet. My mom bought some cakes when we went to Gibraltar but only ate one and I was going to finish them but tried one the other night and it was toooo sweet for me. I do like chocolate now and again but don´t like really sickly sweet things.

I love plums and cherries but persimmons, not so much. You could make loads of jam though with all the left over fruit.

Weather has been lovely here today, I sat out for a little while to read this afternoon and it was just such a lovely temperature. I am hoping the sunshine is here to stay now.

 

[lyndym]

Congrats on finishing the cleanse! Where do you go from here? Just try and keep similar healthy habits? How is the exercising going? I've been pretty good for the past week or so, been too busy to slip up!

Ellie's hole and Ellie herself look bigger in those videos than in the pictures! Has she gotten much farther down in there? I think Rory's jealous of Ellie's hole, she's always digging into the bottom of her cage, which is really loud.

I did not know that people who have had recent radiation therapy can actually radiate to those around them. That is insane. Do they warn about that when someone gets a treatment, I wonder?