Get Well Soon Broken Heart Card

This is the newest item in my Etsy shop, a linocut card with band aids.

Everyone has needed a get well card for someone's broken heart.

Happy Valentines Day!

Help!

As a person who is obsessive compulsive (literally) about brushing her teeth ALL the time AND flosses every night AND does not drink soda, eat candy, and rarely eats sugary treats at alI, I feel like I should NOT EVER get cavities. But I did. My second one in my adult teeth. Could anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? Any dental geniuses out there? I have even started using toothpaste from the health food store with no sweeteners in them. Baking soda? What else can I do?

I am also going to use this blog space to be mad at my dentist, whom I've always loved. I've gone to the same dentist since I was a kid, he even did my braces. He used to say things to me like, "BYU would let you in in a second if they knew how good your teeth were." And I am 26 and should be able to handle getting a filling. But I like people to tell me exactly what they are doing when they are using sharp tools on my body. And when he is clamping metal stuff to my gums I can not ask. So I'm silently freaking out with my eyes and he of course, doesn't notice, because he is talking to the hygenist about some people that live in St. Anthonly that I have no idea who they are. I know he does a million fillings a day and to him it is nothing, but to me, who is upset to tears that I have a cavity at all, it is a big deal. I guess I need to tell him that I want to know what he is doing before he starts going at my face. I'm not a person that is afraid of the dentist. I am just a person that thinks cavities SHOULD be preventable. Seriously, what can I do differently? What gives me these cavities? My google search has not been helpful. Does anyone know?

*WARNING*WARNING*WARNING*

I haven't been watching the news faithfully and I didn't realize the pollution level in Utah was in a Red Zone thanks to the inversion, although my brother told me Saturday the air was bad, but I had already been running on Saturday and was fine. It was sunny yesterday and I thought how healthy it would be to go running outside, plus the internet wasn't working at Char's so I was going to use the internet at my uncle Bruce's house. It is (according to my pedometer) .36 miles to Bruce and Nancy's. So I ran up there, not far, which I did on Saturday too with no ill effects, and Paige let me in to use the computer. But as I sat there waiting for the computer to boot up, my feet were really hurting, which had never happened before. I thought maybe I just sat down too soon after running. But then my throat was really hurting like strep throat so I went downstairs for a drink but could hardly swallow. Then I noticed my eyes and nose and lips were swelling up huge so I decided to leave because I had no idea what was going on and I didn't want to give any sickness to my cousins, but as I was walking back to Char's house my tongue swelled up so much I could hardly talk, my eyes, ears, lips, nose and hands were so so so so fat. My throat wasn't swelling so I could breathe (and my gigantic tongue only swelled in a U-shape as opposed to an O so it wasn't blocking too much of my air), so I didn't think I needed 911. Not that they could have understood me if I called. My poor dad got the phone call instead and I'm sure he could barely understand me (I was sort of paniky) but he called Char who came to get me and take me for an Epinephrine shot. It was ridiculous and I was shocked when I saw myself in the mirror. No I am not going to post a picture because I looked horrendus. I'm really thankful Char didn't have work so she could take me. After the shot I felt better. They gave me a perscription for an EpiPen shot in case it happens again because apparently it gets worse every time. So I'm allergic to the pollution. I'm still a bit swollen today, collegin lips, sleepy eyes, and pudgy hands, but I feel tons better. So weird I lived in Provo for 3+ years and never had a reaction. So, please everyone, learn from me. Watch the news and don't go outside during the inversions. Especially don't exercize in it. Just don't breathe if you are outside.

Organized, here I come!

I always have a desire to be organized but sometimes fail in the execution, so I made myself a planner this year hoping that since I MADE it I will feel obligated to use it all the time. It turned out pretty cool I think. Here's to being organized:

Something sad.

My family has always had (outside) cats, but we've also always lived on a street with a 50 mph speed limit, which (I know it is sad to say) made it so we never had cats with a really long life span. Until our cat Friedrick. She is the smartest cat we ever had and the best mouser. She was the best mother cat and always taught her babies to be good mousers and to be very clean (and not to poop in the grass which is what one of our other cats does which is so dumb for a cat!). We think she is 10-11 years old. Or was. She got kitty leukemia in her nose and she cleaned it so much she licked her nose off. But she was still such a good cat, catching mice all the time. We think the leukemia got into her lungs because she got pretty sick and we had to put her down. It is the first time this has ever happened. Pretty sad. Good bye Friedrick.






She was cute even without a nose.

Happy Birthday Mom!

It was my mom's birthday on January 9th. Happy Birthday Mom! Those of you who have met my mom know that I have the best mom in the world and feel free to leave a comment about how great she is (but do not mention anything about the one time you claim she forgot to give you chocolate cake in one of the many times you ate Sunday dinner at our house...). Here a few representational reasons I think she is the best mom ever (I clearly can't list them all):

1. She makes breakfast mostly every day. Early. Good breakfasts too like pancakes or french toast with eggs and bacon or sausage or whatever you want.
2. She grows a great garden and she freezes corn and strawberries and raspberries and peas, bottles green beans, applesauce and peaches so we can eat great healthy food all year AND she went to all the work to bubble wrap, tightly pack, and mail a few bottles of peaches to me on my mission. I love those peaches.
3. Just to add another food reason, I was reading in my year book from high school and someone wrote that they wanted my mom to make them a lunch because everyone was jealous of the lunches my mom made for me.
4. She is really great at sewing and quilting. And whenever I want to make something and can't do it myself she can whip something great out. Like a crazy Pen hat for Halloween.
5. She has her own chickens and now her own cows and she feeds them every day and shares the eggs and meat with us.
6. She has a great testimony of Jesus Christ and is always trying to help us be better people.

Obviously this list could go on forever but I'm just going to put 6. I will also post the SWEET card I colored for her with crayons. I made it to the fridge. Woo hoo! I was glad I could be home for her birthday.

Shirt Skirts on my Etsy shop.

I made a couple of shirt skirts like the one I made for myself out of one of my grandpa's old shirts and put them on my etsy site. I think they are both really cute. I can never get enough of those shiny snaps. I love 'em.

Goodbye Holidays.

Every time I do a post I think the group upload on Blogger will work the way I want it to and every time it makes it crazy. All I want is for the pictures to line up on the left so I can put captions under them. All I get is a mess.

We had a great Christmas and New Years. The boat house down the street was lit up better than ever this year. My brother made chicken cordon blue for New Year's dinner (that is his apron that he wears around the house all the time). My favorite part about Christmas day is the crazy outfits everyone ends up wearing because you try everything on at the same time (Drew is wearing barbed wire pajama pants and an argyle sweater). Bring on 2009.