Wings book series

Okay since I am still awake since my previous note. I just wanted to share my excitement about the 4th book being in the process of published. I got to see the title it is called un-enticing. I just love the series. Also Aprilynne Pike had included at least half a chapter in one of her blogs as a sneak peak. I am so filled with joy and can not wait to read this book and see what it all entails. Anyways I am going to try and go to bed now. Night all. Sorry for posting such a short blog, but I can not think of anything else to add.

Can't sleep! Is it insomnia??

So I am up and can not sleep it is 12:19 am and I went to bed at 10:00 pm. I do not know why I am having such a hard time falling asleep. I usually always have this problem, but it has not been like this for a long while now. It has literally been months. Only thing I can think of for a good enough reason for me not being able to sleep would be the fact that Jonathan is going back to work on the rigs for another three weeks again. It kind of sucks, because he gets one week off and then works like crazy. I miss him terribly when he goes. So while I am up I decided that a piece of old cheddar cheese was good to munch on along with a piece of shaved black forest ham and then a little bowl of yogurt. I should not be snacking so late, but it is not like I am eating full course dinner and besides it is not healthy to ignore your hunger pains and that stomach yelling from inside you saying "FEED ME" until you decide to get up and feed him. Well I guess I am going call it a night with regards to blogging to you all for now and see what I can do to tire myself out. Good night all. :)

Baked Soaked Oatmeal by Emily

I really love to cook and bake and love new recipes so as of right now I am trying this recipes that I came across on my cousin Cory's wife Emily on her blog. It is very scrumptious looking just from staring at the picture Emily has featured for this recipe. I just have to get a couple more ingredients to get this recipe started. Here is Emily's link if you wish view her blog on the recipe: http://vail-family.blogspot.com/2011/09/baked-soaked-oatmeal.html

I really hope you think it is yummy in my tummy looking as much as I do. I just drool from looking at the picture. Yum. Feel free to browse her site she has awesome recipes on there for a lot of different things. Thank you Emily for posting such appetizing looking recipes.

Autism

What I do not understand about this world is that people label things such as Autism or Autistic people as dumb, because they lack certain types of knowledge or not only that, but lack good motor skills, and also lack speech and are silent. There are different types some are mild cases and not so severe and can not do a thing, but rely on their care taker. I find that autistic people and kids mainly some with mild cases are very smart and intellectual. If you put them in an environment of their own interests they know everything about that particular topic or interest. For an example my unlce Derek he is autistic he is a bit higher than normal mild cases, but he is very smart. His thing is cars. He has a love for them always has and always will. If you walk down the street with him, if you point at every car that drives by he can tell you the year, make, model and all the other significant things to know about cars. Derek is very knowledgeable when it comes to cars and he is good at reading more than anyone I know. Here is another example my brother Joel who is also autistic (as you are becoming aware autism runs in the family) he has bad motor skills when it comes to tying shoes, buttoning buttons and zipping his coat up. It does not make him stupid because he does not get it. He clearly sees how it is done, but what it is is that he gets to that point when he tries he thinks he is not doing it right when he is. I have seen him through good and bad and he does not have good confidence in being able to do it by himself. Another thing with Joel is he is very smart and has a good memory for things. I can tell him today that I had a stomach ache and vomited up all my supper and years down the road he will ask me if I remember me telling him how sick I was. Of course I would not recall, because we get sick in that way at least once or twice a year. So I would not recall that particular time. Or he will remember me talking to someone on the phone and then ask me months and even years from then about that conversation and I will not remember that at all. Another thing that I find interesting about Joel and autism is that like I said before about things that catch their interests about Derek well same goes with Joel. Joel loves video games. You buy him a game for either video game program he has like nintendo, play station, x box. As long as he is interested in that particular game he will beat it from beginning to end. He will make a mistake once with the video game and when he dies and re plays the game again he will recall out loud "oh i can't do this move or else my enemy will attack my guy and then it will start me over again". He has a good memory for when they are coming out. He remember every movement he has to make in all his video games in order to complete the game and beat the bad guys. One thing that I want to get clear and straight across is to those of you type of people and I know your type is out there I have witnessed it happen plenty of times. I can not stand when these people  who see a person like my brother or like my uncle Derek and look and laugh, because you can tell the people who are mentally retarded or just have disorders and I am not only speaking about autism now I am speaking for people who have all kinds of disabilities. Is YOU people sit there and make fun of them and do mental retard type movements and suggestive actions. Or you just plain sit there look and laugh out loud right in front of these people innocent special people. I have seen people do it out in public towards my little brother a few times and it makes me sick that this world is becoming more corrupt. Also you blunt people who have enough gull to just straight come out to people like this and call them retards to their face. You think because they are retarded or mentally disabled that they do not understand. Well I am telling you one thing people they do understand. I have had a talk with my brother Joel and he asks me why people think he is stupid and retarded. He feels dumb because he is in the special class and he knows he gets made fun of by the kids who just don't know any better because their parents are idiots and uncouth. He asks why he has to be dumb and not learn as quickly as the others. And it breaks my heart that there are people out there that are like that and allow their kids to act in such a way and when this is brought to the attention of some parents how their kids are treating the special needs kids with in their school in such a way they dismiss it like it is not of importance and that these special needs kids don't have feelings. Well they do. They are just like the rest of us. I am so tired of these types of people. I see it not only done in school with regards to my brother, but I see it with other individuals just by random people walking by looking and pointing and making fun. I find autism amazing. These people little kids and adults are the ones with the most beautiful minds ever.

This topic is for you Joel and uncle Derek. My two great loves. You are loved no matter the people who seem to think you are not worthy of it. I love you all with my whole heart.

Al Cannon

I worked at a call center the name is NCO. I worked on the Capital One campaign on day shifts on the year of 2007. I was there for only 6 months. I met a lot of people there and made one good friend along the way. The funny part is this friend I met was actually an old high school friend of my mother's. This friend was a grade younger than my mom. His name was Al Cannon. I only kept our friendship strictly at work basis. I than moved away for the summer time to Ontario, but I could not bare living away from home so I came back to Saint John NB and worked back at NCO. I had no family. I room mated with another friend I had met from working at NCO. I reapplied back to NCO. Al and I reunited and started hanging out all the time. I never would have thought that I'd become best friends with an old friend of my mother's. We just hit it off. Rumors started that Al and I were dating. Which were not true. You see I was 18 at the time and for my age I was a very mature. I never got along with girls my age. They always seem to start unnecessary bull crap. I always did get along with people much older than me anyways. However, the accusations of me dating my friend Al was too much so we stopped hanging out as much to shut people up. I did end up leaving the call center and kept in contact with Al. We remained friends forever. The following summer we spent almost everyday together and I met his sons which were close in my age. We all got along which was nice. Then after the summer we all got busy. I was in a new relationship with my now husband Jonathan. About 6 months after I was in my relationship Al was in a relationship too. He was happy which was nice to see. We always intended on doing double dates since we now  have a significant other, but as you know relationships always tend to keep us busy. I eventually got married to Jonathan. Al made it for a split second to the reception. I wish he could have stayed longer, but he was busy with work and could not get it off for my wedding. I made attempts plenty of times to get together with Al and my husband and Al's girlfriend. I eventually got pregnant and Al's girlfriends daughter was pregnant too. However, her daughter gave birth before I had mine. So I went into labor approximately 2 or 3 weeks after her daughter. I texted Al from my cell in the middle of the night to let him know I was in labor. He did respond and said he will come in with his girlfriend to visit me. I gave birth to a beautiful baby girl on January 30th 2011. I was in the hospital for 2 days before I was released . I had not seen Al at all. He hadn't come to visit me at all. I was kind of sad and a little mad. Only because we try to make plans and nothing has been falling through for the past year. On the day of my release I received a phone call from my mom while I was being driven home by my grandparents. She told me that she was talking to his eldest son on facebook chat. He said that his father took a heart attack the night Aaliyah was born. So it was not long after Al and I texted that he had passed away. And the part that really gets me the most. Is in the most happiest time of my life giving birth to my daughter my friend was dying while I was being happy. So I sometimes still feel guilty for being happy, because I was mad that Al had not shown up at all before and after the fact I gave birth to Aaliyah. So here you go. This is a blog story of my best friend Al Cannon. I love you Al. I miss you so much. I'd give anything to be eaten a shawarma with you one more time. Rest in Peace my dear friend. I am sorry for being mad that you weren't there. It was not your fault.

Two Years of relationship with my husband

Today is such a special day for my husband and myself. Two years ago today Jonathan and I were hanging out together as friends for most of the day. We enjoyed having lunch together at his parents place. Then we went out for a nice walk down the road from his home. We ended up down at the res beach on loch lomand road. In the back trails. It had lots of dirt road with deep holes filled with water from the down pour we had over night. So we ended up playing around and trying to push each other in the puddles. I ended up giving up on trying to push Jonathan in because he always some how twisted me around in such a way that he always had me in the position above the puddle by inches away. So after we were done messing around trying to push and trip each other, we made our way back to Jonathan's parents house. As we were walking we ended going up a side street where some newer homes have been recently built. Which was a nice view to look at. Most of the houses were astonishing. After we were halfway through street Jonathan asked me "THE QUESTION", but he did it different from other guys who ask women to be their girl friend. He stopped me a little and started walking with me at a very slow pace, then said to me as he turned his face to mine and asked me the following words "do you want to take it up a notch". Surprised as I was I knew what he was asking, but I did not know if I wanted to date him, only because we have only been hanging out for three weeks and before that I only seen him in church on Sundays. So I played the "give me time to think about it card". So as we kept walking in silence passed more beautiful houses I really thought about it. So I came to the conclusion before we ended our walk that he is different than most guys I have dated. He is very respectable towards me and I really liked how he was a gentlemen to me unlike others I have dated in the past. So I just blurted out to Jonathan "my answer is yes". So here is the funny part of the whole story that I laugh at each time I think about it. So once I said yes, Jonathan said "we have to seal the deal". I never had a guy ask me to kiss him with out actually asking me to kiss him. Instead he just uses funny phrases and figures of speech all the time. So I did kiss him which was so different. Since it was a mature relationship and not like other guys that just try to be perverted. So this is my story about how my husband and I first became an item. And also in case you ever read my blogs Jonathan Happy Two Years. I love you dearly.

Spaghetti Recipe

I have a really big love for food and cooking food. So I just wanted to share my favorite recipe for a nice spaghetti dinner with you. So here I go:

Ingredients Needed:
1lb ground beef (my preference lean)
1lb hot Italian sausage (I prefer ground or some times I just sliced them up if I get links)
Onions
Mushrooms
Green bell pepper
Garlic
Spaghetti noodles
Tomatoes for sauce
Thyme
Oregano
Any kind of spice or herb that you prefer in your pasta
Mozzarella cheese

Sauce: Take whole tomatoes boil them in water until the skins are easily to come off. Should not take longer than 5 minutes. Once done take tomatoes and mash them up with a potato masher or put them in blender. What ever you find more convenient for yourself. Add thyme, oregano, garlic and take an onion and grate half of it the sauce and put it on the stove top on simmer. Stir occasionally.

At this time add noodles to boil water and keep eye on them so they don't go to stringy.

Meat: Take sausage and ground beef cook them on stove top on number 3 add salt and the above seasonings to both meat types. Break up the ground beef up in small pieces as they cook. Do the same if you choose the have ground sausage. If you do not do your sausage that way and choose the links I find it tastes best if you slice them as thin as possible and fry them up in all the seasonings mentioned or whatever you prefer to use.  Break down meat occasionally.

Moving along to the rest of the ingredients, take your mushroom and slice them and dice them up. I like them tiny in cube like forms same goes with the green bell peppers. Put them both together in a bowl. I like to sit them soaking in olive oil or grape seed oil with all the seasonings and take your onion and grate that into the mushroom and bell pepper mixture and stir it around so the flavor get all through the ingredients.

By this time your noodles should be done so strain them out and put them back into pot. Also your meat should be done by this time. I like to add both meats in with all the grease from frying pan into the sauce. I find the grease holds lots of flavor and plays a big part in flavor since the meats were both seasoned. However that is optional if you want to use the grease left over. So add meat to sauce. Now that you have done so take the bowl mixture of mushrooms, green bell pepper and grated onion and put it onto a frying pan on low heat and just let it slowly cook. Once you have done so take a few cloves of garlic approximately two and grate them both into the frying pan. Than once all the mushrooms and bell peppers are cooked add all the contents from pan into sauce and allow sauce to simmer and absorb all the flavors.

Now that you have everything cooked just add desired amount of cheese either into the sauce and let it melt or just add it on after you plate your meal.

Edward or Jacob

So as you already see my topic is about Edward and Jacob of course, but I just can't help  but write about it.
I know that all the bloggers on here may have their blogs about it, but I think mine may be a bit more intriguing. My reason being for that is the following. Okay so we got Twilight the first book and movie. We have our adorable Edward so charming and sweet and also might I ad the picture perfect boyfriend we all would love to have as our own. So you see when I watched and read twilight I  minus Bella and vision me as in her place. So for as twilight goes I am TEAM EDWARD. Because he treats ME (not Bella) so awesome in OUR relationship. Now onto New Moon, I love Edward a lot until MY birthday in the movie (not Bella's) because the day after he breaks up with me. Although I do realize he was only leaving me/Bella for OUR protection, but not only did I stop being team edward , Edward pushed Bella/ME into Jacob's arms, by not being around. So I fell for Jacob in New Moon. Not only because he was hotter than he was in twilight, but because he helped heal Bella/ME through out the time of depression. So my choice has jumped from Team Edward to Team Jacob. So here we have Eclipse. So I am kind of playing both sides I really love Edward and Jacob. Although I don't fully trust Edward since he left Bella and myself. So because he left Bella  has this unavoidable bond between Jacob that just can not be undone now. I do not like the way Jacob is being a jerk in eclipse, but however I see where he is coming from. He loves Bella, but some times I feel his rudeness is uncalled for.. So here I am stuck between the two in eclipse and just can't chose although I more so chose Edward over Jacob, but will not make the decision definite at this point. So we have breaking dawn which is not yet done as a movie yet, but at this particular moment is being filmed. I did read the book so my view on the last novel is I am totally stuck even more between the two because they both genuinely care and it is hard to just to chose. For some reasons I chose Edward, but than for others I chose Jacob. We all know Bella picks Edward in the end, but for some reason I am still undecided. I want them both, but still more Edward than Jacob. So that is how I view it. I put my self as Bella's character. It almost feels like you when you read this novels and it really cuts deep when Edward leaves Me/Bella in New Moon, because with my imaginary mind reading and taking it all in I don''t vision Bella there at all. I vision myself. If what I am talking about makes any sense. So here it is Team EDWARD. Only because we can live on forever, and some day Jacob will die and Edward will not.

Coke or Pepsi

I always thought for the longest time that I love pepsi only, because everyone else loved pepsi. Also when my parents bought groceries they didn't have a favourite or particular one they bought, they always bought what was on sale between the two of them. So since my friends and all the families were big pepsi drinkers I thought it was awesome. However, when I got my first job when I was seventeen at a dollar store. They only carried Coke. So no problem to me. Pop was pop in my eyes. So I spent that whole summer every day I did work buying a bottle of Coke on all my breaks all the time along with my lunch. So once summer was over and gone back to school I had a pepsi for the first time in like three months. My parents started buying Coke all summer from my store I worked at because it was a good deal for a 1litre of Coke for a dollar so they stocked up in a bunch of Coke all summer. So I finally had pepsi not much longer after being into school after I was done my job. I come to realize that Pepsi now to me and my taste it seems flat and does not have much fizz to it nor does it taste good at all. I like Coke, because it is sweeter and has more fizz and flavor. So there you have it. I love COKE!!

David or Tamani?

I have been reading these books written by Aprilynne Pike called: Wings, Spells, Illusions. So there are obviously two guys that the main girl kind of like so those of you who may be reading whether you know the book or not. Who would you pick? I ask of those of you who have read the series? David or Tamani. So just to give a brief explanation to those of you who haven't. Well the series of the three books are about a girl named Laurel. She finds out she is a faery and David is her boy friend whom she confides to when she finds out abnormal things happening to her body. And Tamani is her long lost faery soul mate she is in love with Tamani clearly, but is clinging onto being in a relationship with David , because she feels she owes him loyalty since he was there for her during her process of finding out what was going on. Tamani is also a faery as well and they are meant to be together from what he talks to Laurel about before the faery queen decided to erase her memory and turn her into a scion as a young baby to save their faery land. Before Laurel lost her memory she was suppose to be with Tamani in the faery world, but she does not remember him, however, she loves him for what she knows of him in the current situation.
So I pick Tamani. I encourage you all to read these three books if you're into faery books or mythological type stories.