Tagged by Brenda...

.... my quilting friend who doesn't know that I only know about 3 people and they are all my family that might plot my demise if I send this to them. But since I'm having a difficult time lately drumming up something to blog about, I'll play along...

What I was doing...
20 years ago...
1. Moved to Lompoc, CA where we bought our first home

2. Went on our first family vacation that didn't mean driving to just Utah. We went to Olympic National Park which started our tradition of camping and hiking in a different National Park every summer.

3. Bought our first VCR (the budget was cut to the bone saving to buy our house) We must have been the last family in the United States to own one. We still didn't have a remote for the TV.

10 years ago...
1. Lived in Broomfield, Colorado where my heart still belongs

2. Did away with the TV stations for the next 7 years and only used the TV for renting movies. Was that ever a mistake.... I would much rather Tyler and Andrea were watching the TV other than the things they were actually doing.

3. Had stayed married for 17 years and loved every year of it, except for that time Ken cosigned on a motorcylcle for Tyler. I wasn't happy then.

5 years ago...
1. Lived in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and walked every weekend on the white sandy beaches and swam and body surfed in the warm bath-like water of the ocean. Those are my happiest, wait my only happy memories of living there.

2. Made my first quilt

3. I quit smoking. Yeah for me. I was finally able to cross that goal off my list where it had been for 20 years.

1 year ago...
1. Almost died from pnuemonia... spent a week in the ICU on life support. I don't think I would have survived it had I still been smoking.

2. I quit making lists of the things I didn't like about myself and what I would change and started just doing things I liked doing. I'm as good as I'm going to get and I've made alot of quilts.

3. Moved for the last time to Orem, UT. I love our little condo and my own "creating" room.

This year so far...
1. Experienced the sadness of having a sibling die.

2. Felt the love and closeness of all my family and extended family.

3. Made 8 quilts for Quilts for Cancer.

Yesterday...
1. Picked out more Asian fabric for a quilt that will go on the cousin list

2. Finished an Asian theme wall hanging for one of the bedrooms. Now I need to get it to Kim to work her magic and turn it into a work of art.
3. Bought a new pair of levi's.

Today...
1. Babysat for Quik Quilts, otherwise known as Mecca or Jeruseleum by my family, while they are at the Utah Quilt Guild Festival
2. Cut out the next block for the Block of the Month quilt.
3. Picked up some grape juice and Gaterade for Annie on my way home. She has a horrible sounding cold and I'm sure it doesn't feel good either.

Tomorrow...
1. Still babysitting at Quik Quilts
2. Cutting out kits for Shop Hop

3. Eating the rest of the little snicker bars Melissa left on her desk.

So closing my eyes and picking 3 names out of a hat are Marshall W (or Jana), Misty B, and Stacey W. You're it.

For Dinner Tonight...

We are having one of my favorite meals... chicken sandwiches on a croissant and potato salad. The most difficult thing about potato salad is getting the dressing right. I use Hidden Valley, the original ranch dry packet with 1 c. of milk and 1 c. of salad dressing. I figure Hidden Valley has mastered putting the spices together so why should I spend time trying to improve it. All I put in is potatos, eggs, celery and Kosher baby dills.

The chicken sandwiches are crumbled up Quorn chik'n tenders, a small apple, red grapes cut in 4ths, chopped celery, and a pkg. of cashews.... I moisten it with some of the dressing I put on the potato salad. The croissants are from Costco. And there you have it... I have plenty of time to make gourmet meals but I still like to do what is fast and easy. Some days I spend more time cutting, slicing and dicing things I need for different meals during the week... and then on those days I spend a minimile of time just throwing everything together.

We're Going Asian...

I know.... it has been awhile.... thanks for the prompt Rachel. All of a sudden I ran out of things to say.... not that, that has changed... but here are the things I am working on now... aren't you getting tired of recipes and quilts? Everytime I get the urge to mull over all the ways I could improve as a human being, I go work on a quilt until the urge passes :) However we are looking forward to a visit from the Wilcox gang and other exciting news, for me at least is Tyler & Lindsay, sent me a ticket to Colorado so I can be there for Kenzie's 4th birthday party.... so of course I am working on a super dooper birthday present...

Ken just finished a remodel of the downstairs bathroom which we (Ken) painted purple and green. Now he has retiled my bathroom and is painting it purple.... my room will be a very pale purple.... so I am trying to get new quilts done for the beds.... we are doing an Asian theme.
I pulled out the paper pieced cranes I started working on last year and I need 60 more to do one quilt.... the other one is going to be like the star in a star quilt except using the Asian fabrics. All the fabric has a gold thread that runs through it, giving it a very elegant look. Otherwise I've been busy trying to finish "the boys" bug quilts for Christmas and one for Jana from T-shirts she had of races she has been in. Next on the agenda will be quilts for Kyle and Diane from David's levis, which I've found a cute pattern for.... and so it goes, there is no end to the quilt projects I want to do...