Life.

Hey there!!

I've been thinking about you.

I wanted to write this a few days ago but things have been rough for me. I have been kind of in a dark place, I’m trying to get out tho! Hopefully soon things will get back to normal. I have been kind of angry with life and angry with people and even my friend noticed yesterday and she said things must be bad because usually I’m a really calm/chill/nice person and lately I’ve been kicking ass and taking names. I’m just so sick of stupid jerk people. If you have to be a jerk, just keep your mouth shut and move on. Seriously. What is the point of being mean and ruining someone else’s day? Its rude and it just spreads bad & negativety. It’s just as easy to be nice, to help people out- to take 5 seconds out of your super busy day to stop and smell the flowers.... to smile at someone… I feel really bad for humanity.  In the past 3 days I have gotten into it with someone because they are simply rude and ignorant. And mostly it has been online… A page on facebook that I am a fan of recently posted a picture with words and it said “ On the internet you can be anything you want, it’s strange that so many people choose to be stupid. “ I feel like since its been warm, or maybe since school is out – peoples brains have melted and no one seems to see fit to use them. Using your brain is one of the only things left that is 100% free, why do so few people use it. JEEZE

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I finally finished LOST. I was so sad when it ended.  Hubby was like what are you going to watch now I was like .. ohh I think I’ll rewatch LOST again. And he got straight faced and was like really? I was like no babe, I love LOST but I don’t think I could watch the entire show back to back. That’s a little much. So I have been reading.

Happy Fathers Day to all the awesome Fathers out there. My Dad had yesterday off so we went over there to spend some time, we had Chinese take-out for dinner ( the Chinese place by their house does not have nearly as good tofu lo-mein as the Panda by my house. Just sayin’ ). We talked, I stopped at the dollar store on the way there and got a Chinese takeout gift bag thingie and I gave him one of the Jameson Whiskey marmalade that I made. I also gave one to my uncle. 

This was the FIRST thing I have EVER canned, omg I had a blast. It was sooo much fun! I can’t wait to can more. I have to boil the 2^nd batch I had made, it didn’t set correctly. I guess I didn’t add enough sugar. They will make great gifts! The first batch I made, I had almost forgot to get the brine set up and I was heading to bed and hubby goes- did you make your jelly stuff and I was like oh wow I almost forgot 2 days in a row! That’s bad. So it was late, I was tired, I didn’t think it was going to take as long as it did to get everything set up so I only did half a batch that night and it worked perfectly. I was so excited. So I decided I would use up the rest of the fruit that I had so it didn’t go to waste. I don’t have an oven right now so I can’t really bake anything, and last paycheck hubby bought me a suet and a suet holder to feed the birds, because I felt bad that I couldn’t keep making the bird seed orange holders and I felt bad that they were probly getting hungry.. They are fun and cute to make, but if I cant do anything with the rest of the orange, it’s kind of impractical.. I hate to be wasteful! So. I made my mom open one of the first jars that I had made the first night ( it made 4 ) to taste test it to make sure it tasted ok – since the 2^nd batch made like 10 jars! She said it was amazing. She also gave my brother a jar, I’ll let you know how he felt about it! 

I haven’t made my orange vinegar cleaner mix yet. I have been real lazy and just haven’t felt like dealing with all that yet. But I will. And I will let you know how I like it. I’m sure I will absolutely love it because so far I have loved everything that I have made homemade. My laundry detergent is awesome. I absolutely love it. I want to try the liquid next I think. There’s nothing wrong with the powder, I just think that I prefer to have liquid. I’ll just have to suck it up and spare some of my very little spare space. < I cannot wait to own a home someday >. I also need to find a new brand of soap to use. I recently learned that Ivory soap is owned by P&G and I think they are one of the worst and most terrible companies in the world. Their animal testing practices and procedures are unnecessary and absolutely CRUEL! I recently learned A LOT  of companies are owned by them, if you can at all substitute another company for one that is owned by them, I assure you the many animals that they cruelly test on would be very grateful! There is a great list of product companies who DON’T test on animals for the same price as one that do. And you can find that here Animal testing is something near and dear to my heart, we saved my dog from being tested on. She is the most wonderful and loving and special ( and sometimes a pain in the butt ) dog and I couldn’t imagine anything like that happening to her. And I get super sad when I think about it. In this day and age, it’s a completely unnecessary for animal testing. So let’s get rid of it! Frankly, you have to wonder if there IS a need, what are they putting in your products?

Noner Girl

I have been talking to a friend about canning, how much I loved it. I am like seriously addicted and I want to learn to can EVERYTHING! I am so for getting back to my roots and making shit from scratch and saving and canning. When I made the marmalade I had gone to my Moms house because her kitchen is huge and she has a dishwasher and well.. Her stove works. She had a lot of fun watching me, we talking she stirred we laughed we boned. It was great. I get to see my mom and dad often and I am thankful for that, but I haven’t gotten to bond with my mom like I did when I was canning. I loved it. I wouldn’t trade that for the world. So I searched pinterest yesterday for ‘canning’ the first picture I clicked on brought me to an awesome blog for canning and I have been browsing it since yesterday afternoon. So many ideas!!! Oh! I also got a brand new noodle maker thing at the Goodwill for 5$! I am so excited. I was going to buy one for my kitchen aid mixer but I was like psh who needs that when I have this and it does ALL the work for me! And it only costed me 5$! It also came with like a million and a half noodle attachments so, I’m going to pack that baby up, bring it over to my moms and we are going to have a great time making some noodles. Ill post pictures of how that goes. I am pretty excited. I wish I had one of those air sucker saver machine things.. I also got a sweet Dinosaur cake pan for 50 cents brand new. I was like who could pass this up? So I got it and I have made 2 cakes with it so far. Both vegan chocolate cakes and they were absolutely amazing! I made the 2^nd one for hubby for his potluck they were having at his work. I made it with avocado frosting, it was the only vegan frosting recipe I could find without using margarine.. He said it was gobbled up and people were raving about it saying it was the best cake they have had. Now that’s what I love to hear!! And I bet no one even realized that it was a 100% vegan cake! My mom didn’t believe me until she saw me make it. Oh and it’s so easy to make that’s what is even better, I didn’t even have to get my mixer I mixed it all by hand. Love easy baking! 

Ohh hah!! Guess what. I made my own nail polish. It was really easy and a lot of fun. I made my mom a really light pink with glitter ( which I forgot to get a picture of ) and I made me a dark grey purple. I wanted to have a purple but it was hard to get the shade I was looking for then I ended up adding to much and it was getting too thick so I just stuck with the color I had. It wasn’t bad. It was purple just like a greyish tint. It was pretty and I added some wet n wild glitter. I love wet n wild! They are cheap and they don’t test on animals! I just bought a really pretty yellow nail polish from wet n wild too – it was 1.99 but I had a .99 coupon so I got it for .99 cent. Woo hoo!

  

And I decided to make my nails little bumble bees! Which I uploaded on facebook and stupid people had to make stupid remarks about them. They are kind of retarded looking bumble bees, but I thought they were super cute still! 

Hope you Enjoyed.

xxooo

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