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AMERICAN IDOL

Please tell me Sanjaya is going home now. Please tell me none of you voted for him. He really can't sing and something about him bothers me. I don't know what it is. I know that probably sounds me but I don't mean for it to. Anyway I am busy at work and I don't have my home computer back yet so the posts will be limited.

LONG TIME!!

It has been a while since I have posted. I have been busy and trying not to post at work but our computer is being fixed so I have to post from here at the moment. I have been reading blogs just not posting on mine.

It seems as if my husband and some of my friends think I am wierd. They don't understand why I have been taking pictures of the food I cook. They had never really even heard of a blog until I showed them mine. And then they thought I was even more crazy. So sorry to some of you out there they think you are crazy too. But it won't stop me I enjoy taking pictures and posting them altough by the lack of pictures on my blog you couldn't tell. My husband thought I was crazy of always taking pictures with him for no reason or when friends and family come over. Then the other day he said to me. We don't take enough pictures. I asked if he meant the professional pictures he said no just of us and friends. Then he told me he sees why I was talking all of those pictures.

I took my hubby to the airport today. He flew to Orlando for a cast convention. He will be back on Sunday. I was going to go but when we checked on plane tickets it was @ $500. Not going to pay that much for at ticket. It is spring break so that is why it was so high. I miss him already.

My mom is coming to see me today and spend the weekend. I don't know what we will do but we will think of something. And I will take pictures.

Well thats it for now. I hope to get my computer back soon so I can post pictures.

SMOKED SAUSAGE AND FRIED POTATOES

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My sister told me about this meal. It really doesn't require a lot of ingredients but I think it is yummy.

1 pkg smoked sausage (any flavor you like)
1 green pepper
1 very small oinion
Potatoes (depends on the size of your family as to how many potatoes to use. Same for sausage you may need 2 pkg's smoked sausage.

I slice the smoked sausage so you get a lot of little round sausages. I cut up the pepper and oinion. I make them big slices incase you have someone that doesn't like them they can easily push them to the side of their plate. But they give a nice flavor to the meat. I put the sausage, pepper and oinion in a skillet to fry. I put a little veg oil in the pan and let it get really hot then I peel and slice my potatoes and put them in the skillet. I like my potatoes a little crispy. I put them in a different pan to fry and once it is all done I mix them together. I know the fried potatoe aren't the healthiest but sometimes you can splurge and it tastes so YUMMY!!!

PICTURES PICTURES PICTURES!!!!!!!!!

Here are some things we have been up to over the last couple of weeks. We are hooked on homemade pizza. It's so easy to make and so yummy!! We usually make it on the weekends but have leftovers. This is my pizza sausage, hamburger, and pepperoni.


This is my husbands pizza same meat as mine but he likes black olives and mushrooms on his.

I was going to make a sour cream angel food cake but I didn't have a bundt pan and it took too long to cook. So I found a chocolate cake recipe online and made the cream cheese frosting I was going to put on the angel food cake. This was moist and YUMMY!!! Chocolate cake is my fav.

My husband works for a Drs. office. One of the Docs we call DR. J gives us Hornets tickets so in return I sometimes make him a pan of brownies. So I tried to get creative and I put Dr. J on there with M&M's.

I thought Sixer was going to give me a kiss, instead he nibbled on my ear.

This is Monday night after I picked Sixer up from his neuter surgery. He was a little groggy that night but the next day he was back to himself.

This is my hubby (in the black shirt) he is training to put casts on. I went with him to work this past Saturday and he put a cast on me. That is the saw they use to take it off. I have never had a cast so when he got the saw out to take it off I started sweating a little. But he did great and it never even got close to my skin.

SURGERY

Keep Sixer in your prayers today. He is getting neutered. They are suppose to call me at 2pm and let me know how it went.

We had a really boring weekend. The only thing we did was go to my husbands job on Sat morning. He is traing to be a cast tech. So he put a cast on my arm. Then he had to cut it off. That is scary. I took pictures. I will have to post them tonight when I get home.

Update: The vet called and Sixer is doing fine. I will pick him up @ 5 after I get off of work. If anyone cares to share how the surgery went for there dog I would love to hear it. Or really how they acted afterwards. Thanks, Chandra

100 Things about me

1. I Love Jesus with all of my heart
2. I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior Nov 1998
3. I am happily married
4. As of Jan 23, 2007 I have been married for 8 yrs.
5. My dad passed away from pancreatic cancer Sept 1996
6. My mom lives 2.5 hours away, I try to see her once a month
7. I have one sister, she lives 2.5 hours away also, in a town near my mom.
8. My sister has 1 girl and 2 boys
9. My husbands sisters have 3 boys and 1 girl
10. I do not have any children
11. We may have a child and a few years or maybe not
12. I love having family and friends get together
13. Once after prom I ate taco bell, then I threw up
14. Not because I was drinking, I guess it was the food
15. I love sweets, mainly chocolate sweets
16. I love Dr. Pepper
17. I can only drink soda when I am eating
18. If I am not eating and drink soda it makes my stomach hurt
19. I drink water a lot
20. I love coffee too. Starbucks preferably
21. I only drink regular coffee, no sugar or cream
22. I don't drink flavored coffee, I have no desire to either
23. I have a pug
24. His name is Sixer, after the Philadelphia 76ers.
25. That was because of Allen Iverson
26. Now Allen Iverson plays for the Denver Nuggets
27. But I am not changing Sixer's name
28. I love to go watch the Hornets play in person
29. But they will not be here next year :-(
30. I am obsessed with reading blogs
31. I read them at work, sometimes too much
32. I am doing this 100 things at work
33. I have a lot of grey hair so I dye my hair
34. I have been light brown, dark brown and really blonde
35. I am not exactly sure what my natural color is anymore.
36. Right now I have dark brown hair
37. I am obsessed with home makeover shows
38. But I have never done any of my own home makeovers
39. I wish I could
40. I LOVE FOOTBALL
41. College and Pro
42. I like OU, OSU and Arkansas
43. I have never attended any of them
44. Basketball is ok
45. I would rather see it in person
47. I would rather watch football at home
48. I went to one OU football game
49. I never want to go again
50. The people beside us were rude and we were not comfortable
51. I love reading
52. Especially the bible
53. I like to write poetry
54. Someday I want to write a book
55. I don't have a lot of confidence in my writing
56. But I know GOD will help me
57. I currently work in accounting
58. I have an associates in Business Administration
59. I will probably go back and get my accounting degree
60. I would also like to have my real estate license
61. I love warm weather
62. I don't like cold weather
63. I believe you should treat all people with love like Christ
63. I strive for this everyday
64. Even though I disagree with certain lifestyles (according to scripture)
65. I do not judge them, I love them
66. I strongly believe in 1Ti 6:10 For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
67. I know we need money to live but you should not love money.
68. I grew up in a Pentecostal church
69. My mom use to be an evangelist
70. My mother in law is an evangelist
71. I don't claim any denomination.
72. I just believe in the bible
73. I think it's crazy if we are suppose to separate church and state why do they have voting ballots in church's?
74. I have 3 aunts on my dad's side
75. All of there names rhyme
76. There names end like this maye, raye, faye
77. My middle name is Faye
78. I have a cousin whose middle name is Faye
79. And 2 cousins with middle names maye and raye.
80. I spent a lot of summers and my dad's parents house
81. My dad was in the Vietnam war
82. After he got back he was different, that's what everyone says
83. Him and my mom divorced when I was a baby
84. He never remarried
85. He was an alc0holic
86. He lived with his parents after the divorce and until he passed away
87. He was a great dad and I miss him
88. He died a week before my niece was born
89. I love the weekends
90. But they are too short and go by too fast
91. I use to have my belly button pierced
92. But after I got saved I took it out
93. I wish I would not have, I liked it
94. I don't think it's wrong to have a tattoo or piercings
95. I love lip gloss and getting my nails done
96. I hate taking pills it makes me want to throw up
97. I have tried coke, meth and pot
98. I thank GOD I don't do that any more
99. I love my husband
100. I LOVE GOD WITH ALL MY HEART


Does anyone know how to add this as a link to my sidebar? I am not sure how to do it.

Shopping

I am not a big spender on clothes. I don't go clothes shopping much at all. I haven't bought anything in a really long time. I do like to look nice and dress nice I just keep my clothes for a really long time. I have sweaters I bought in 1997 in fact most of my sweaters are from back then. But I need some new clothes. Really bad. It's tough because we live pay check to pay check. We don't have any xtra money. I refuse to put stuff on credit cards because I can't pay it off in a reasonable amount of time. So I don't know what I am going to do. God will work something out.

It's suppose to be in the low 70's today. That is great. I am ready for Spring and Summer. Did you know daylight savings time has been moved from April to March 11? It will be daylight longer after I get off of work. Yeah!!

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

JUST TWO THINGS...

Two Names You Go By
1. Chandra
2. Mrs. Harrington

Two Things You Are Wearing Right Now:
1. Jeans
2. Blue/brown/beige sweater

Two Things You Would Want (or have) in a Relationship:
1. Love
2. Fun

Two of Your Favorite Things to do:
1. Spend time with my hubby
2. play with my dog Sixer

Two Things You Want Very Badly At The Moment:
1. to go home
2. start a business and make money from it

Two pets you had/have:
1. Scooby, dog from childhood
2. Sixer my dog I have now


Two things you did last night:
1. Read
2. Painted my toenails

Two things you ate today:
1. Ham sandwich
2. trail mix

Two people you Last Talked
To: 1. Husband
2. Boss

Two Things You're doing tomorrow:
1. Reading
2. cleaning

Two longest car rides:
1. Atlanta, GA
2. Nashville, TN

Two Favorite Holidays:
1. Christmas
2. Other people’s b-days

Two favorite beverages:
1. Dr. Pepper
2. coffee

YUMMIE!!!!

On the weekends my husband likes to eat sweets so every weekend I make cookies. For him it is m&m and chocolate chip, for me its just chocolate chip cookies. Sixer always thinks he's going to get a taste but he never does. Poor boy chocolate is not good for you.

Pug owners I need your help. Right below Sixer's nose it is really pink almost like it is raw. He keeps eating snow and now he keeps licking and I am afraid it is raw and chapped. Has anyone had this problem before. I tried putting something on it but he just licks it off. This is what it looks like.

What a huge difference

My husband and I go to the gym in the a.m. before we go to work. There is a few people that go in the morning, not as much as after work but still a few. This past week I have really been noticing a difference between the men and the women. It has nothing to do with working out. It is about interactions. I have noticed that almost all of the men will say hi to each other every morning. Some have conversations with each other while they are working out but at the least they say hi. Women we hardly even acknowledge there are other women in the building. Isn't that crazy? I think so. I know I am shy and don't usually strike up a conversation but I try to say hi to the other women when making eye contact. Sometimes that's difficult because they ignore me. So it makes me not want to speak but I still say hi. Some women have there buddies there and they talk and work out. I would much rather say hi to the men working out because they say hi back and look at you in the face. Most of the men say hi to the women also and the women's reaction is a lot different when the men say hi to them. I guess it shouldn't surprise me but it does. Why do women act like that towards each other? And it's not just at the gym. Except for work it seems like that is how we are towards one another. Even women at church tend to do that. I pray that GOD helps me to be able to speak with my head up and not think those thoughts us women tend to think, why did she say hi to me, why is she wearing that, I can't believe she wore her hair like that all of those things are not important in life. We should learn to enjoy life more. It would make for such a better world.

CANCER

My grandfather on my mother's side was diagnosed with lung cancer this pas summer. He was not a smoker but lung cancer is the #1 killing cancer, more than breast, prostate and another one that I forget. My uncler (her brother) found out last week that he had Stage 1 lymph node cancer. He had cancer 30 years ago but fought it with chemo and was ok until now. But today they called my mom and said he also has Stage 4 bone marrow cancer that is not curable.

I will probably never understand why people get an illness or disease that kills them. Maybe GOD will tell me when I met him. Maybe, Maybe not. I just pray that before my grandfather or uncle or anyone accepts Jesus as there savior before they pass on. That is the most important thing we will ever do in our lives. We can have the best car, the nicest house, the perfect life or we can be homeless, have no job, no money, no family in either case accepting Jesus as our Lord and Savior is still the most important part of our lives. I pray that my family does this. I pray that all of you do this. Not only accept him as LORD AND SAVIOR but live as he would have us to live.

My dad also passed away from cancer. I am curious how many of you have had a family member that has had cancer?

WEATHER

No disrespect to my Northern friends but I don't know how you do it. I do not like cold weather. We had a lot of sleet this past weekend. For 3 days that's all it did. Our lawn is white and looks like snow but it is sleet and it is slick. We don't get a lot of bad weather in Oklahoma, well winter weather that is. They had cleared the highways pretty good. But some of the main streets that we have to drive on are still bad. We go down 23rd st to get home. It is a 5 lane road usually. Now it is only 2 lanes. They cleared out one lane on each side and pushed all of the ice to the other lane making it impossible to use. I think they are doing a horrible job on these streets. They are also pushing this stuff into other roads that cross it and people are getting stuck. It is piled so high there cars, trucks and suv's can't go over it. I will be so glad when this melts but it looks like we may have more snow this weekend. Ugh go away!!!!

TIME

I have a lot of things on my mind. Things I want to do but time is not on my side. I don't know what to do. Let me start with my work and sleep habits. I have to go to bed at 9 pm because i get up at 4 am. If I go to bed any later I am miserable at work. We get up at 4 because we go to the gym in the morning before work. We only have one car. We have to be to work at 7:30 and get off at 4:30. We live 30 minutes from our job and we get home a little after 5. When we get home I have to cook something (if I have not prepared our meals on Sunday) and eat which can take 30 min to 1 hr. so by then it is 6. Now that we have Sixer (our dog) he needs attention. He is a puppy so I am hoping as he gets older he grows out of the stage he is in. I constantly have to watch him because he is always getting into something. If I try to read the bible he is constantly on my lap or bringing me a toy or trying to get my attention. I can't concentrate. I also would like to finish studying for my real estate license, work on a ministry newsletter, read the bible and pray. We are also talking about me going back to school in august to work on my accounting degree. I really feel like time is not on my side. On the weekends I have plenty of free time. But I feel like I need to work on this stuff during the week also. Another thing that bothers me is that I am constantly sleepy. When i start reading or if I try to study I can't concentrate because i am so tired. I try to get plenty of sleep, I eat decent and I work out so I feel like I try to be healthy but I can't figure out why I get tired all of the time. I have been to the Dr and they tested my blood and everything was fine. Please pray for me in that area. I don't know how some of you moms do what you do. I will start praying and asking GOD to guide me in what I need to do and how i can do it. I know he has the answers I just need to talk to him more. I trust him and he always comes through.

ICE STORM

It is freezing outside. Sleet is coming down and sticking to the roads. It's amazing that yesterday it was in the 60's and sunny. Today sleet and in the 20's. That's a 40 degree difference. I know for those that get this stuff on a regular basis it's no big deal but here it's the talk of the city. I think they even have names for it Ice Storm 2007. I kept hearing all these people talking about going to the grocery store yesterday and having to stand in line for an hour. And a lot of people were making fun of them. Not me cause I have to go today in this stuff. NOT FUN. They were smart to go yesterday. Anyway we are closing down at 12 so I am outta here.

Update: We went to the grocery store @ 12pm and they were out of hamburger meat. How do you run out of hamburger meat at a grocery store? There were a lot of empty shelves. My husband and I were talking about how people were buying up stuff like they were going to stuck in there house for two weeks. This is a 2 day ice storm. By Monday everything will be back to normal. I guess everyone needed groceries for the weekend. By the way we go to the grocery store every Friday. We didn't just go because of the ice.

SIXER IS NOT SLEEPING

Sixer is waking up at 11:30 or 12 at night and not wanting to go back to sleep. We get up at 4 a.m. This is not good. Does anyone know if we have him neutered will that change his sleeping/calmness? He is hyper all the time right now. He is 8 months old. I need some advice. My vets office is not very helpful.

I haven't posted any pictures of Sixer lately. He has gotten so big. My how time goes by so fast.




This is Lady, our friends dog. Sixer likes her but she detests him. They also have a cat named Nemo. He hates Sixer also. My poor baby has no friends.







Sixer loved the snow we had in November. It is suppose to snow here again this weekend. We will see. We usually have 1 snow per winter sometimes 2 so if it does snow it will be the 2nd time.





My husband has come to love Sixer. At first he was hesitant to agree on having an inside dog. He wasn't to fond of the idea but now he loves Sixer. He loves how Sixer is so excited to see us when we get home from work.





Sixer had just gotten a bath and needed to snuggle so he could get warm.






This is our friends baby the day he was born. His name is Jaylen. He is precious.




Ok enough pictures.

I am not good at titles!!!

So anywho I don't really have a title for today. GOD is good as always. I have been feeling lately that I need to do more for GOD. I mean I give him the glory for everything in my life but I feel like could be doing more. What do you ask? I really don't know but I just love him so much and want others to know him. I have been praying and seeking him to guide me. Maybe its just me and my feelings. My hubby and I are on different pages on this. He feels like we are doing what GOD wants us to do. I have things I want to do but haven't and feel like I don't know how to do some of the things I have a desire to do. For instance I want to write a book about marriage but I don't have eloquent language skills and get stuck while trying to write. I feel like I repeat my self over and over. I know there are people who don't have the best writing skills that write all the time. Maybe I am scared to do it. I do make excuses a lot. Like there are to many things going on, to many distractions. I will be praying until I hear from GOD.

Hopefully I will be able to post some pictures soon!!!!

GOOD IS SOOOOO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!


Big news, for us anyway. GOD is soooo good. We closed on our house today. I wrote about us buying a new home back in Aug or Sept. We had it built. We weren't suppose to close until Feb 1. We basically had $4,000 not returned to us from a bad business deal. (we were going to use that for closing) Well we closed with no money down and actually got @ $400 back at closing. God is good I will post more about this after Christmas and hopefully some pictures. I hope everyone has a great Christmas and remember Christ is the reason for the season. Remember him in all you do!!