In a baking mood.

I have been wanting to bake for a week now. I always hear people say how much a pain baking is, but i love to make cookies and cakes and all kinds of things. I'll admit I only have a couple of recipes that I have made, but im determined to have more. I've been looking at recipes today, I have a recipe box that I have yet to fill so I'm trying to fill it (but now just with baking recipes).



Here are some of the cookies I make (I didnt take these pictures by the way):

Peppermint Snowballs

I make these at Christmas time, however I'm not sure if I'll be making them this year.


Lemon Coolers

I was so happy when i found this recipe! Nabisco had a branch called Sunshine and they made cookies called lemon coolers when i was a kid and I absolutley loved them. They stoped making them and I have tried to find them but no luck. This recipe is actually called Lemon Snowballs, but I like Lemon Coolers better.

Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Cookies.

I make these around Halloween and Thanksgiving. My Grandma cant wait for this cookies every year. I gave her the recipe but she says they never turn out the way mine turn out. I love to hear that :)

Cake Balls

Now, I have not made these yet but I am dieing to make them. When i worked at the candy stand just a month ago we sold these and they were sooooooooo good! I cant wait to make them, but i feel like I need an occasion to make them for because it makes so many.

If anyone out there would like the recipes all you have to do is go go allrecipes.com (no, none of my recipes are original) and search for these cookies (remember to search for Lemon Snowballs if you want the lemon coolers recipe). Or I can share them! I love baking, i might just make some tonight :)

Well it snowed

So it snowed here in Union Saturday night, but it was the big snow that im dreading. It covered the grass and streets and the roads were pretty slick. The big snow I'm talking about is where the snow is coming down really hard and its so beautiful and the your prediction is 3-5 inches. This big snow has signifigance thats why I'm not looking forward to it.

You dont know how bad I want to spout off about some things that have been happening, but I'm to scared to post it on here. Remember that confusing I was talking about a couple of posts ago? Well its still there and its gotten worse. I keep telling myself: Good thing, good things come to those who wait. Just be patient, but good god this is going a bit to far.

Chelsey i need that sleep over, i need to get a lot of this stuff off my chest. I'm going crazy.

The Temperature is droping.

So it is getting colder and colder by the hour here in Missouri. I have a Weather Channel desktop thingy on my desktop that i can click on to tell me the weather and theres an icon on the bottom right corner of my computer that tells me the temperature, and everytime i look it has droped. We are suppose to get 1-2 inches of snow, but it hasnt started yet.

So I am becoming more and more obsessed with makeup. I have been wanting to find a good pallete with a bunch of different colors in it so i can take that when i travel instead of putting a bunch of different eye shadows in my makeup bag. I have also wanted to buy some stuff from Sephora for the longest time, but its just so expensive. I may pay the money though to get a good eyeshadow pallete.

These are the ones I have picked out: The Beauty Encyclopedia: Basic Eye Edition $5 at eyeslipsface.com


Smashbox Eye Wish Palette $45 at Sephora

Urban Decay Urban Ammo Eye Palette $36 at Sephora

Now of course I'm sure a lot of people would say to go for the cheapest one, which isnt a bad idea cause i love E.L.F. cosmetics, but i've always wanted to get some makeup from Sephora. So I may spend some Christmas money on that :).

I can not wait to move back to Springfield (i swear i never thought i would hear myself say that). I am ready to go back to school and work, I am so bored here in the house all the time. All of my friends I hang out with here work during the day and one has classes at night during the week, so I dont really get to do anything. So I'm ready to be busy again.

Things are going ok with me, gotten a bit better so thats always good =)

Hope your enjoying the Christmas background!

I have a home

Well i got accepted for an apartment, thank goodness! I'll be moving back to Springfield January 3, but then I'll just be turning around and coming home that weekend for my friends birthday. Oh well!

I have been so down lately. Theres all kinds of problems going on around me and I cant stand it anymore. I dont seem to have anyone to talk to about it either. I text my 2 friends who I normally talk to and they send me 1 text in reply and thats it. I dont have anyone to hang out with during the week either which doesnt help.

It's still 2 weeks until Christmas, but as the days go by and it gets closer I realize more and more that I'm going to be alone this Christmas. Yeah, I'll have family but it's not same. Having a special someone to spend the holidays has been amazing the past 2 years, and now I dont have that anymore. Plus I had grown very close to his family, and I wont get to see them anymore. Thanksgiving was hard, but I think Christmas will be much harder.

Confusion

I have so many thoughts swirling around in my had its not even funny. I'm a believer of the saying "Good things come to those who wait" but I am not the most patient person in the world. I want to know whats going on, but I do hope It's positive, but I'm trying not to get my hopes up but i think they are starting to slip up there.

I feel like the first big snow is just around the corner....and I'm dreading it. I wish it wouldn't snow this year, that would be great. Seeing as I live in Missouri though, I'm sure it will snow big a couple of times this year.

I am starting to get a little more excited about Christmas, sort of. Mitchell has a Christmas program this Thursday and I'm happy I get to see that, if i was still going to school I would be missing it. One of the songs they are singing is Feliz Navidad and he gets to play the maracas :). One thing I do always look forward to every year is watching A Charlie Brown Christmas, I never miss it.

So those cups I talked about in the last post, i ended up returning them and getting a different set. I didnt like the others ones very much.

The end.

Money troubles.

So im starting to completly freak out about money. I have spent all of the money in both of my checking accounts and I am coming really close to maxing out my credit card. I applied for unemployment and got denied, which i was really counting on that. I still want to buy my mom one more Christmas present, I need someway to pay my credit card bill, and I keep thinking of more things I need for my apartment. ugh. I'm sure my dad will give me money, but my parents are having some pretty bad money troubles of their own.

I got a little lucky and go was able to buy a couple of things for my apartment already (i know i'm kind of jumping the gun seeing as i havent even gotten the apartment yet). My dad got $45 in Kohls cash last week. If you dont know what that is, every so often Kohls has a week where if you spend $50 you get $10 in Kohls cash, and my dad earned $45. I use this to get somet things.

I got lucky and found these glasses on clearance for $15 (originally $40). They were marked down cause the set was missing 2 of the small glasses, which didnt bother me any, i'm still getting 6.

I also got a cute set of salt and pepper shakers for $3, originally $15 (i think). I couldnt find a picture of them but they kinda look like fish, even though i have a feeling they were going for that. And i got a paper towel holder, nothing special but i need it.

I've asked my family for a couple of the things I need. I asked my grandma if she still needed an idea for me to get me a microwave and I asked my parents to get me a pot and pan set. This is the set I want, It literally comes with everything and its only $40.

Well I'm really hoping I come into some money soon, I just dont know how.

My decision has made me feel goood.

Since I've made up my mind about moving back to Springfield I have actually felt a lot better. I am excited to go back and start school again, I've only had a couple of weeks off and I'm going crazy with nothing to do.

I went to Springfield yesterday and had such amazing luck. I went to get my last check at Lady Foot Locker and I ended up getting my job back. I was so happy, i didnt even have to ask, my boss asked me if i wanted it back. The candy stand has now turned into a jewelry stand, but my boss also offered my job back there as well. I couldnt believe it, i was really suprised.

On that note I decided to find an apartment instead of signing up for a dorm. So i got to stay at the hotel that Chelsey works at, it was kinda weird though. I woke up a couple of times expecting to be in my room, but then realized I'm a hotel room. I did decide on an apartment, the building has been remodeled and looks good on the outside, but hallways look crappy but i'm not worried about the halls. The apartment is actually very cute, they have remodeled it (the kitchen doesnt look extremely new but its not bad) and the living room is HUGE! I'm excited to get but now im worrying how I am going to afford some stuff i need. I need cups and pots and pans for the kitchen, a couch and TV stand for the living room and possibly a bed. I could probably take the bed I'm sleeping on now but It's usually the guest bed.

I have signed up for my classes, my schedule kinda sucks though. I'm not positive on my science class just yet.

This week has already been busy, and it's only Tuesday.