Co-op Day!

Yesterday was co-op day.

Here is my haul!

This month's food was:

• 1 loaf Stoneground artisan wheat bread
• 16 oz. rice

• 7 oranges
• 8 pears
• 6 apples (Utah-grown)
• 1 broccoli
• 3 red bell peppers
• 4 tomatoes
• 1 8oz. mushrooms
• 1 5lb. bag russet potatoes
• 1 bunch asparagus

And I must say, I love the bread. When I first saw it I was like "really?", but now I want MORE! SO YUMMY!!!

I love my co-op!

Exciting Day in Jenni-land

Back on April 1st, I moved over to be the engineering/construction person for the watershed planning section of the engineering division. I was excited to move and enjoy being in the position I am, however it is a higher stress job than I had before. I dream more about work and I basically feel rushed all the time. Why am I telling you this? Well, part of my job involve me going out in the field (which I used to LOVE!) and today (much like yesterday and all last week) was one of those days. HOWEVER! today I saw a little rodent like animal digging a hole. I was fascinated by it and took 11 pictures of it from the car (I didn't want to get out and scare it, but mostly I didn't want to go out in the cold before the lady I was meeting got there. (It was really cold.))

Here is one of the many pictures I took.
It was really cool. I don't know what it is, but I think it is a gopher. I think I need to take some classes or read some books on animal and plant identification...
The second part of the exciting day in Jenni-land was coming home to this. Kitty PotPie just hanging out on top of the fridge. She is such a cute cat and makes me happy when I see her, pet her or think about her. She may hate the outside world (Sorry again about the attack, Christie.), but she loves me!
And of course, here is the dog. She is ALWAYS happy to see me. And usually I am happy to see her and play with her (we learned some new tricks last night)
When I finally got home today to stay (I got an allergy shot and went to a couple of little shops and blah blah blah), I made pumpkin pies for my work party on Thursday. I would have made them tomorrow, but alas, I won't get home until about 7:30p or 8p tomorrow and I have to make "healthified" cupcakes for my healthy lifestyles class, which is on Thursday night.

I think they turned out really well. And I am getting better at making crust, which makes me happy.

Another event in my "exciting" day was burning my forehead on a cookie sheet while I was rotating pies (I only have one oven rack, hence the rotation). I had taken out one pie and put it on the range and then bent down and smacked my forehead into the cookie sheet I put the pie pan on. My depth perception has been even more off than usual...
It really freaking hurts! And while I was icing it, I got a brain freeze. So looking at this picture all I can focus on are the bags under my eyes, now I know some of that is genetic, but I think a lot of it is due to the circumstances described this post's first paragraph. *sigh* oh another side effect of me being a stress case is I can no longer think of the proper words or spell, so that is awesome. But really I don't feel stressed ALL the time, just 75% of the time at work (the other 25% of the time, I am driving or talking to co-workers or walking or eating lunch or reading stuff) And I have gotten better at leaving work at work (except the dreaming of work part), so I am not so stressed at home (who could be with an adorable kitty and a PITA dog?)

Well, since I seem to be getting more negative, I should really go to bed. And don't get me wrong, today was mostly an excellent/exciting day. I really was so freaking happy to see the gopher! And my allergy shot didn't hurt and isn't red (yet) so that always makes my day better! PLUS! I have graduated to one shot a month! Granted, I have to go 3 weeks in a row, but after that ONCE A MONTH!!! I have been looking forward to this day for like a year! (okay so not like a year, but an actual year.)

nighty-night blogger-land

I HAVE A PORCH!!!

So my dad called me today at 5:10p and I rudely said "let me call you back" as I was in the middle of writing a letter to encumber $400k+ that I needed to get out ASAP (I finished just as my director was walking out the door, so I barely got his signature on it, before I emailed it to the UDEQ). SO then I rushed to my health class (I get points for work if I go and points=$$) and as I am leaving there at 7:19p I call my dad to say "what did you need? I just left work after TWELVE hours of being there". (I didn't even leave for lunch, I went to a presentation for lunch).

Well he plays dumb and just says he wanted to say hi and asked me what I am doing this weekend. So I say "working on my porch?". So he says "well I don't know if I will be able to come up" So I say "whatever you do is fine by me, I have other projects I can do instead, no biggie". (now I say this sadly, but I don't want to be ungrateful, because I know people have lives, and my projects are not always at the top of the list, plus I really do have other things I can do, I just really really really wanted a porch roof before the snow.)

WELL! As I am turning the corner to go to my garage, I see my porch light was on, and I think, "hmm that is weird". And then I notice that I have boards connecting my posts. And I think oh my dad was here and put up the boards. BUT he put up MORE than just the boards, he put up the roof sheets (?) as well!! YIPPEE!!

So of course I called to thank him and then I found out my brother helped too (THANKS STEVEN!!!!)

BEST FAMILY EVER!!

Here are some pictures.
I wanted the sun to be able to reach my porch, because I am a sun lover, so we opted for plastic sheeting. AWESOME! And we will eventually drill holes in the boards in between posts, then I can hang things. But I am so excited to not get rained on while unlocking my door or having to shovel snow off my porch a zillion times a day.

**oh and that is not the moon in that picture, it is my flash reflecting on a rain drop.**

THANKS AGAIN DAD AND STEVEN!! LOVE YOU GUYS! (and Annie and Bonnie and Anthony and Gloria) (oh and the rest of my family, they're are helpful too, they just didn't build me a porch roof or allow their loved ones to build me a roof)

Quilts

This post has been in the making for like, oh, 5 months.

Here are a couple of quilts I made this year.

This quilt was for Natalie. She is due this month. But I had to give her the quilt in July, because she moved away and was back in July for some business.
It was a simple tied quilt with a basic binding.
This quilt I started in June and then Holly had her baby early, so then I stopped working on it for a while and then her baby shower (well, Josh's baby shower) was yesterday so I picked up working on it again. I barely finished in time, but it got done.

Now it has Decepticon and Autobots logos on it, because Josh's Dad, Eric, had been trying to convince Holly that "Megatron" was a good baby name. Luckily, Holly did not believe him and now has a son named Joshua Allen, which is a much better name.

We will not discuss how much time I spent on this, but it was worth it. I really like how it turned out.

Now I am done crafting for a while and need to clean my house...