well, it is now January 2013! i have not been blogging in a terribly long time now. school was extremely time consuming this past semester. i have sooo enjoyed my vacation. i go back in a couple weeks.

i miss my power tools! i have completed few projects during vacation. i painted our kitchen table and chairs. i think it is a grand improvement. hubby and i painted one of the kitchen walls red, which i love.

so, now my goal it to work on the bedroom. i have big plans so stay tuned...

i'm back...

September 2012

we'll its been an long summer, but i'm finally home. hubby and i left our apartment at the beach in May and headed out on the road. he's a truck driver so i tagged along. i read thirty books and started crocheting a blanket. then two weeks ago we rented a new apartment. the timing was tough because i started school again this week. hubby and i had projects every single day right up until last weekend. the carpet were replaced and i had to do lots of cleaning.

however, i did get a few fun projects done too...

i made some livingroom curtains with the ever popular drop cloth! hubby wasn't sure that i hadn't lost my mind, but they turned out very cute if i do say so myself.

baby, i'm back...

i am back among the "normal". i have spent the last two months traveling with my hubby in his big rig. we spent a lot of time sweating down in Kentucky. but, today i am back in raining Maine. all is well however. i am moving into a new place in a couple days in preparation of heading back to school at the end of august. i am very much looking forward to getting into some new projects. i've missed my power tools!

i am planning to build a kitchen table with chairs, a couple stands, maybe a coffee table... my head is spinning :)

i can't wait to get started...

who am i...

i am back on the genealogy trail! i have been interested in tracking my roots for several years and have made some very interesting discoveries along the way. i found three siblings that my dad didn't know he had...imagine that conversation! we have since met two of the three. i am most amazed at how nature not nuture has affected the personalities of these siblings. although some of them were not raised by their mutual father, some show amazing similarities to that man. i so wish my grandmother had still be alive when i made this discovery. i would love to have asked her if she knew about the other children of her husband...perhaps that was the reason for their short marriage all those years ago.

i have hit a road block with my father's line. they settled quite close to where i live now...just a couple towns away, in fact. i have found a few pictures and have seen pictures of some of the family plots. last night i started to pull up my mom's line on ancestry.com and was thrilled to find that someone has done it for me! they had traced the line back to Canada and England. my father's family came from Ireland. I now want to know where my paternal grandmother's line came from. i was always told she was Scottish, but a quick search didn't pull up anything. i guess i'll have to do actual research to figure her out...library bound!

no better than yesterday...

i posted somewhat of a rant yesterday. well, today was worse. my eyes are red and puffy and my outlook is quite dim to say the least. i really don't want to be a whiner, but i'm about at the end of my proverbial rope.

job prospects did not pan out today as we had hoped they would. we are now packing up our apartment because we can't afford it. tomorrow we will put it all in storage and have no where to go...and no job to get us anywhere. bank account is way in the red due to my hubby's last employer's paycheck bouncing. i guess when we run out of gas money (this weekend) we will be sitting wherever we stop, staring at each other!

i'm praying for a miracle...

my american dream…

I was one of those people who once bought into the “american dream.” then I realized it was all a crock of crap that the government has been trying to tie us down with since the beginning. Is it really our dream to be in debt to mortgage companies, credit card companies, landlords, tax collectors, etc? I think NOT. even if you buy your house and are fortunate enough to pay it off before you die, you never really own it. try not paying your property taxes and you will quickly find out who really owns “your” house!

when the bottom fell out of my hubby’s industry a few years ago I decided it was time for me to go back to school. I have completed 3 years now with 2 years to go. now, almost on a daily basis we remind ourselves that our situation will be better….someday. I am so damned tired of waiting for someday.

when will it ever be our turn? I mean I’m not asking for much. i want a steady job for both of us, a decent place to live where I can build projects and plant flowers. I want my kids to be able to come for dinner on sundays and sit around the table laughing and loving each others company. I want to be able to afford gas for my car, food in the fridge and the occasional date night. THAT IS MY AMERICAN DREAM!!

pallet scrap tray…

hubby and i tore apart an old pallet project today and i was left with a small pile of scrap wood. so, as i was standing there looking over my junk pile i recalled a tray that i had seen somewhere and decided to make a cute little accent piece. i dragged the branches out of our brush pile to make the handles. i need to find some thicker chunks for attaching the handles to the tray, but in the mean time, i think it's pretty cool :)