Bright's thoughts

ANyone want to come make soap tomorrow? I will be making it at 10AM and 7PM at my house! Email me at brghtii AT gmail.com for the address. :) More the merrier!

That sounds like a song title, Scott told me. I keep tryign to talk and something else comes out. I told my daughter to go put something on the couch instead of the table. That isn't the only thing. I keep transposing words. SILLY me! I went down to St. George this weekend. I went with a bunch of CRAZY ladies. I so needed the break. Oh boy I got it! It was absolutely fabulous to be away from the rigamarole of stuff. No Laundry, no dishes, no fighting kids oh, you get the idea. The biggest descison that had to be made was "what are we going to eat for dinner". It was wonderful Oh and I didn't have to cook. I got to know some friends better and made a few new ones. I have a new admiration for one. She is definately one I would like to be like. She has a quiet strength that I REALLY admire. We went down to see Les Miserables at the Tuacahn. I had NEVER seen it. I really liked the message it had. We can all change. It takes work and a real desire. W...

Aren't democrats supposedly liberal? She is making great points! Adding my favorite politician's words Wednesday, September 24, 2008 Dear Friends, Whenever a Great Bipartisan Consensus is announced, and a compliant media assures everyone that the wondrous actions of our wise leaders are being taken for our own good, you can know with absolute certainty that disaster is about to strike. The events of the past week are no exception. The bailout package that is about to be rammed down Congress' throat is not just economically foolish. It is downright sinister. It makes a mockery of our Constitution, which our leaders should never again bother pretending is still in effect. It promises the American people a never-ending nightmare of ever-greater debt liabilities they will have to shoulder. Two weeks ago, financial analyst Jim Rogers said the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac made America more communist than China! "This is welfare for the rich," he said. "Th...

I will be starting my preparedness classes again. They will be at my house on Wednesday's at 10 AM and 7PM. You can email me at if.ye.are.prepared AT gmail.com. You can go to my other blog http://learnwithmeclasses.blogspot.com/ I have the classes for the next few weeks there. I may have to reschedule so I need you on my email list if you are interested, please feel free to email me. I am trying to keep that email clean and free from fishing that is why I din't put it as a link. I have a working link (I think it works anyway) to my email ont he other blog. I was told the one here doesn't work. It works for me though. Maybe cuz I have gmail? Merilee you need a gmail account ;) Soap on OCT 1 and beans on the 15th. I had to change to the 15th. I have to be somewhere on the 8th.

  I used to make dolls as a hobby. I would buy regular play dolls and strip all the paint and "hair" off and start over. This is one of my favorites. He went to live with a gal in Florida. I love reborning dolls. It is such a stress relief and creative outlet. If it wasn't such and expensive hobby, maybe I would pick it up again. In the reborning process you repaint, change eyes, add hair (mohair)give them a new cloth body. I sold all the ones I did except one I did for Dejah, Rachael. It was a birthday present for her 8th birthday. Racheal is a copy of a doll I did years ago. Dejah cried when I sold her.        

Have you ever had those moments? Where you can't find what you are looking for? I am notorious for loosing my keys. I ahve a very nice key rack to put my keys on. Scott had it made special for me a bit after we got married. He must have had a crystal ball. I bring them in with whatever I carried in and tend to leave my keys beside what was brought in. Well, this morning was NOT the case. I was in bed yesterday, sick. I didn't not use my keys yesterday. My mom came and got my kids around 4 or so. She took my van and Scott went and picked up the kids last night. He had keys, why bother to get mine? You got it, I HAVE no keys! Scott is at work and so is my mom. BOTH with keys to my van! I have no desire to go anywhere today, I would actually be in bed again. I told myself I would act as if I felt good and try to get things done. You know that laundry doesnt' wash itself. DANG IT! I am leaving to go with some gals in the ward to St. George on Thursday. I bett...

I feel like crap.... When I feel like crap I tend to be more judgemental than normal. I went to church today, well Sacrament anyway. Iw as seriously annoyed and couldn't keep focus. Is it the pain? Is it the medicine? Is it that I'm a lousy human today? The young man blessing the sacrament had his hair in a mohawk style. I HATE those and felt it was too extreme for blessing the Lords sacrament. "Uh hello....atleast he is there, blessing the sacrament and probably worthy to do so". Get a grip! UGH! The pews were full and a family came in and sat in the second to front row and they got up and down the WHOLE time. Drove me nuts. A little girl kept going up and down the asile and the mom or brother kept chasing her. "Um, hello, they were THERE! Partaking of the sacrament! Doing what they should be doing!" Get a grip! MY own kids have tendency to STAND UP in sacrament and walk to a differnet spot. DRIVES ME INSANE! I got on to my almsot 9yr old abo...

This is an older video with Ron Paul on Glen Beck's show. I find it interesting that the people in control of making the chioces of bailouts (not COngress the way it should be) have a clue to what they are doing but do it anyway. We can't even say "we voted for these guys". This is only part one. Glen doesn't agree with a lot of Ron Paul, but he does on this. Food for thought. What is going to happen? Is this one of the reasons we have been told to get our houses in order? Oh and go check out http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/business/21cong.html?ex=1379649600&en=0c605e6a7a72c896&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink NICE! Consipring Men..... Are ya mad? I am!

I went to a soap making class last night. It was SO exciting! I bought a kit on Ebay about two and a half years ago. I never used it. I was afraid of the lye. If you go read about it, it makes you a wee bit weary. Like, I have five kids and that stuff could KILL them. I was put at ease last night. She demo-ed TWO batches and I got to help with one batch. WOHOOO! It seems SO fun! I am an instant gratification type gal though. You HAVE to let it cure for atleast TWO WEEKS if not longer! Oh man! I went to Skinetics in Payson. http://www.skinetics.biz/index.htm Kim, the owner is such a great lady. I like essential oils and had wanted to go in. Everytime I would drive by I would try to remember the link she had on her sign. I always forgot. At Scott's September class a lady told me I should go in. I made a point to go in. I took my two youngest. I must have stayed about an hour. Her place is small, yet the company is wonderful! We talked EO, soap and makeup. Sh...

That is what I heard yesterday. I had my checkup yesterday. He reviewed his notes then said "It doesn't make sense? If I didn't know it I would have thought you were a EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD ATHELETE " talking baout my blood work (emphasis added). Well, that is cool that my blood work came back "perfect" BUT that doesn't explain the pain. Why did the prednisone work beautifully and without all the normal side effects? I had the minor ones and I am only on a half regular dose (SHEW!). I was so paranoid to take it. I had a rough time with it before. I am feeling good overall, so I'm happy. The pain did start to come back yesterday, I told him. I think it is becasue I am weaning off the prednisone. Then again maybe it is the "nantucket mix" I have been inhaling. The nantucket mix came from Costco it is a nut fruit mix. YUM! I thas almonds, pistacios, raiins, dried cherries and cranberries. OH, some of my favorite foods! He gave me so...

  Here it is. It isn't done yet, I still want to paint and add a few throw pillows. But here is my "new" livingroom. I got the stretch surefit sofa/loveseat covers on ebay. They fit so nicely and make the furniture look brand new! I just put up the sheer curtains (like 45min ago). My neighbor was taking that ficus tree to DI. Thank you Alicia! Now, to figure out the paint color. That will be out of next month's budget.

I was up early and heard on the radio the government bailed out AIG for EIGHTY FIVE BILLION dollars! I don't get how that is a good thing for really anyone. Okay besides thousands keep their jobs. I picture it as, "fire up those printing presses, run them on full speed until we can MAKE 85 BILLION dollars". You know it won't stop there.....keep on bailing out everyone who played stupid. I so believe in consipracies! I think this is one! ARGH! So how much is the dollar worth today? In reality that is? Less than yesterday, no doubt! So my great, great, great, great, grand children will still be paying for this. What ever happened to personal responsibility? Over rated? I think not! Ezra Taft Benson http://www.awakeandarise.org/Benson.htm gave a speech that is so good. He talks about socialism. Definately worth listening too. This was not as a GA. Then as a GA he gave this talk. We live in The Book of Mormon times. Time to be aware of what is going o...

I just went to my friend's house to see her newly redone bedroom. She has a friend who sees things many of us don't (no NOT dead people). She has a knack to pull things together and make it look wonderful. My friend pulled together some money and her friend helped her create a SANCTUARY! She was so cute, she called me as soon as her friend left. I went over and she said she had to see my face. I covered my eyes and went in. It is GORGEOUS!!!!!!! SHe chose bedding that she normally would NOT have chosen, she said it was "BOLD". I LOVED it. Well, the room is gorgeous! Absolutely gorgeous! I am dreaming of a way to create such a place in MY home! I have been working on my living room (the first room you see in my house). I had gotten $20 furniture at a garage sale and decided to recover it with slip covers. The slipcovers are amazing. They are STRETCH kind so they form fit to the couch. I love it. I hung a few pictures and bought a rug. I need a few mor...

I ran into WalMart and saw a "Missing" poster it was of a 14yo boy who had been missing since yesterday morning. My heart sank! Whose wouldn't? I can't imagine the heartache the parents msut be feeling. As I was leaving I wanted to look better at the boys face and catch his name. The poster was GONE! I went back in to ask the "greeter" about the poster. My immediate thought was it was "against rules" to post anything in that area. I wanted to look at it again. She told me he had been found!!!! He showed up at school that morning! YEAH he is safe!!!!!!!!! He snuck out on Saturday night and went to a friends house. The friend's parents were out of town (the kid was THIRTEEN!). I don't know if he was with siblings or what, but goodness! ANyway, the parents had grounded him so he decided to leave and sleep over an his friend's house. (YEAH he is safe!!!! So back to my question what would you do? I mean seriously, you ground you...

SOmething terrific has heppened this morning. My clothes fit! ROFL! The lat time I put this skirt on (a few weeks ago) it was tight. So was the shirt. Okay the shirt is one that is normally slim fitting. Neither are uncomfortable! I actually have room at my waist band (like na inch and half!). What a relief this is! It had gotten really snug and almost too uncomfortable to wear! I am feeling better, minus the tummy ache (bug) Scott and I had yesterday. I'm having some minor pain this morning, but over all I am doing good. The prednisone must be working in my gut and shrinking the inflamation that was causing the swelling. Hmm isn't inflamation and swelling the same thing? LOL! I hope I am on my way back to me. I'm sure m family would like ME back, I'm much more pleasant when I am feeling good. I HATE taking drugs, but I am thankful Heavenly Father has give "us" the knowledge of some of these medicines. I hope my body kicks in and finishes the re...

  Yes, that is my messy kitchen. I can't believe i'm showing it on the internet. My in-laws brought me two boxes of apples from one of their trees. These are special apples...they are Idaho apples. They came to me from far way (okay about 4hours). My SIL, Lisa came early this afternoon to "learn" how to make apple sauce. When she left, my mom came to help. Without the two of them I would STILL be peeling apples. As is, I did not finish all of them. I cna't believe how long it takes to make apple sauce and apple pie filling! Good grief! It felt like forever. Then for dinner (you have to do this on occassion), we had Apple Puff Pancake with cinnimon ICE CREAM! Oh ya, we were healthy! APple Apple apple apple! I ended up with only 14 1/4 quarts of pie filling and 12 1/2 quarts of apple sauce. I forgot how many apples it takes to make quart of sauce! LOTS! I think I will finish cleaning tomorrow.

The pain I had been experiencing came back on Sunday. I was thinking, here we go again, WEEKs of pain ahead. I decided to call the gastro since something STRANGE had happened on Sunday evening. They got me in with the nurse practioner. It is a HE and I really like him. He listens, which is nice. I felt like I had not been listened to witht he previous 4 docs I saw last month. It felt good. He told me to go ahead and start the prednisone. I relented and started taking it on Wednesday morning. Today will be day three on the prednisone and do I dare say I am feeling better? Either I am feeling better or the anticipation of my period is clogging my brain. My period is 2 days late and I'm paranoid. I feel it coming....it just won't come. Which makes me think back to my first pregnancy. I cramped for a week thinking it was coming. I cramped longer than a week, but it took me that long to THINK of a pregnancy test. ROFL As I hit the publish button I'm sure it will...

  This poor kitten! It was "abandoned" with a group of kittens. It is unwanted. I brought it home and introduced it to my dog, Nala. At first there was a hiss from the kitten then a lick from my dog. It was as if the kitten was in heaven then. Nala would follow it around and lick it. I decided to put the kitten (about 8wks) on Nala's back and Nala stood there until the kitten jumped off. Nala was SO sweet with this kitten. I asked Scott if we could keep her, he said "NO!" It just purred and purred with Nala. It was the sweetest thing. We have a cat, Teeka, who is 10. She is and "only animal" kind of cat. She is snobby! So if we didn't have her, I'm sure Scott would say yes. Then again, if she was not so snobby he might say yes. But until Teeka grows older and leaves us, we won't have another cat. This kitten is so sweet! It needs a mommy. Nala nor I get to play mommy though. Sigh

My husband does preparedness classes at our Stake Center each month on the SECOND Tuesday at 7pm. You guessed it, it was last night. I wanted to post about it so some of you that read (that I don't have emails for you...ehem, Marla!) could come. Last night's class was on Emergency Heat and cooking. As usual he did a fantasic job. If you want the hand out or the powerpoint I will see if I can email it to you. That is IF you use the "drop me a line" button to give me your email addy. ;) BTW, I need your email for my classes too. I'm sorry, I didn't post it here. Next month the topic will be the "Pandemic preparendess". Mark your calendars if interested OCT 12th at our Stake Center, you know the one. :D Scott puts HOURS and HOURS into his presentation and does a fabulous job. He gathers stuff to illustrate different methods. We have tables of stuff he has borrowed to show. Last night we had camp chefs all the way to my wonderbox. SOmeone b...

  When I look at the difference in the eyes of my girls and my boy, I'm glad he is a boy. Sure he has long eyelashes like the girls. The color is different. His are more of a muddled color, almost a hazel (in real life). Here they look almost brown. I can imagine the complaints if he was a girl "how come I got muddy eyes? I'm the only one with 'different' eyes." I guess I would understand. I was the only blue eyed blonde in my immediate family. My brother and mother have brown eyes, brown hair. My dad has hazel eyes with light brown hair. I thought I was adopted. I look A LOT like my mom now. LOL! I can't forget my hair has gotten DARKER with age, so we all fit now. It is strange how genes work. What I thought would be recessive on both mine and Scott's side, became dominant for my little guy. I dreamed of having dark hair dark eyed kids, once. None of my kids were ever as light as I was though. So in a way I got it, right?

It is no secret that my family is very into preparedness. We started working on food storage when we lived in Hawaii. We moved to Washington in 1998 that October President Hinckley gave the talk "To the Boys and Men" in the priesthood session. Since then, Scott has been all gung ho about making sure we are ready. I read an article in the Ensign this morning http://www.lds.org/ldsorg/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=2354fccf2b7db010VgnVCM1000004d82620aRCRD&locale=0&sourceId=cfb4fd758096b010VgnVCM1000004d82620a____&hideNav=1 it was actually posted on a website I visit. I have always thought I would share, but I also have had issues with the fact I have been working hard for the past 10yrs to gather food and other items for my family when others are going on all sorts of lavish vacations or buying things that aren't really needed. I struggle with this. I struggle with the thought that the 5 virgins who were prepared did not share with those who weren't. The one...

My friend Heather gave me this recipe............YUMMMM! It is also a WEIGHT WATHCERS recipe, makes it better, right? With my trip tot he store yesterday and failing by eating 4 loft house cookies and a brownie, I am going to do good today. I'm drinking my water. I had a peach, half a banana and kefir for breakfast. YUMMM! I will probably eat a FIBER ONE bar for a snack in a few minutes (need that fiber 9g of fiber). Okay here is the fabulous entree (not sure how to put that ' on the first e) Chicken Parmigiana POINTS® Value: 5 Servings: 4 Preparation Time: 15 min Cooking Time: 35 min Level of Difficulty: Moderate Make seasoned chicken smothered with cheese a reality with our lightened-up version of this Italian classic. It's a guaranteed family hit. Ingredients 1 sprays olive oil cooking spray 1 pound uncooked boneless, skinless chicken breast, thinly pounded (four 4-oz pieces) 2 large egg white(s), lightly beaten 1/2 cup dried bread crumbs 1 Tbsp Italian seasoning 1/2 tsp...

You Are Ariel! Headstrong and fiesty. You have a mind of your own that's full of romantic dreams about the world around you. Exploring exotic places is your ultimate dream, and although you can be a little naive you'll realize that there is something to be gained from your family's wisdom. Which Disney Princess Are You?

I went to the store last night and bought lots of "good for you foods". YEAH! Today I went to Smith's and they are having a GREAT case lot sale! Well, they are also having a "tempt you" sale. Everything I put in my cart, minus 3 small boxes of frozen veggies were JUNK! My cart looked like this..... Ice cream Mint brownies 3 things of pringles 3 boxes of little debbie snacks 1 container of LOFT HOUSE cookies 4 Hawaiian's Own juice (not 100%) Fried chicken Only the brownies were full price though. So..........tell me what is wrong with me? Making up for last night...rounding out all that fiber? The veggies? Brussel sprouts and broccoli.