Holy Hell, what a book! I finished it about 2 days ago and I'm still creeped out. It's very good. I love long novels. My hubby got me into Stephen King last year. We were sitting outside an ice cream shoppe, under the awning while there was a summer rain all around us, eating our ice cream, and he read me one of King's short stories, Quitter's Inc. The pinkie finger!! I was hooked after that and have read many of his short stories since then; this was my first novel by him.
The tale of Duma Key is weaved around a middle-aged man named Edgar Freemantle who has a horrible accident involving a crane and loses his right arm and nearly his life. He's retelling the tale of how he got back to himself again. He becomes a very angry man after his accident, so for a fresh start, he moves from Minnesota to Florida to start his "other" life. He begins sketching and soon finds a whole new life as an artist, but his pictures have a supernatural quality to them you soon discover. The mystery unfolds through his pictures until the climax at the end that terrifies you. As you turn each page the anticipation of where the story will go just makes you wonder when something terrifying is going to jump out and scare the hell out of you. I would have all the lights on at 2 AM while nursing the baby and eventually I'd have to put it down and put some mindless tv on like Jersey Shore to get my pulse down again. If you like intrigue and mystery with some scare thrown in, this is a wonderful long read.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Thursday, July 08, 2010
She's Alive!!
Yes I am alive. I'm sure y'all thought I forgot about this here lil blog, but I haven't. Getting my website fixed has been a bit of an issue. Hopefully in the very near future, I will have the tutorials all working again...very soon.
Big News...I'm officially a stay-at-home mommy again!! The last two months have turned us upside down. I had a baby, we moved, and my hubby started a new dream job. We've moved to a wonderful new house in a wonderful neighborhood with lots of kids and a neighborhood pool from a tiny shoebox apartment (starting life over is HARD!) . My hubby is studying for his stockbroker exam and getting paid to do it. He's performing with flying colors and at the end of the month, he will be an official stockbroker. So we made the decision that I can stay home, so I quit my job last week. It was hard...I worked for a breastmilk bank...I actually pasteurized the milk and was in charge of the lab. I have never loved a job more, and hopefully I can go back there to work in about 3 years when Miss Molly enters preschool. I hope to become a donor mom myself (feel free to email me about how to do that if you want to as well) when the baby is no longer exclusively nursing.
And the reason I'm a SAHMommy again? This adorable thing...named Molly Elizabeth...aka Punkin or Ladybug or Mollyball...born in April, she's 11 weeks old and the strongest baby I've ever had. She can nearly sit up alone, it's freaky....Her big sister and brother think she is THE most adorable thing ever and are the best little babysitters when I need them. She has the funkiest hair too and came out with a lot. When they gave her a bath in the nursery, she came back with a faux hawk and her hair naturally turns into faux hawk style, lol. She has adorable little ringlets of reddish blonde hair. 
Anyway...because I am now a SAHMommy again, I will be restarting my blog again with NEW tutorials and book reviews and more. Just give me a couple weeks to settle the website issues so that all those tutorials will return and I will be posting regularly starting next week. WOOHOO!! I will also be starting eBay auctions for my fabric hoard and an etsy store for my obsessive sewing to help me stay home with my kidlets.
Also...email changes...if you would like to contact me until I update all the stuff around here...try stephanickety at yahoo.com
See ya!
Big News...I'm officially a stay-at-home mommy again!! The last two months have turned us upside down. I had a baby, we moved, and my hubby started a new dream job. We've moved to a wonderful new house in a wonderful neighborhood with lots of kids and a neighborhood pool from a tiny shoebox apartment (starting life over is HARD!) . My hubby is studying for his stockbroker exam and getting paid to do it. He's performing with flying colors and at the end of the month, he will be an official stockbroker. So we made the decision that I can stay home, so I quit my job last week. It was hard...I worked for a breastmilk bank...I actually pasteurized the milk and was in charge of the lab. I have never loved a job more, and hopefully I can go back there to work in about 3 years when Miss Molly enters preschool. I hope to become a donor mom myself (feel free to email me about how to do that if you want to as well) when the baby is no longer exclusively nursing.
And the reason I'm a SAHMommy again? This adorable thing...named Molly Elizabeth...aka Punkin or Ladybug or Mollyball...born in April, she's 11 weeks old and the strongest baby I've ever had. She can nearly sit up alone, it's freaky....Her big sister and brother think she is THE most adorable thing ever and are the best little babysitters when I need them. She has the funkiest hair too and came out with a lot. When they gave her a bath in the nursery, she came back with a faux hawk and her hair naturally turns into faux hawk style, lol. She has adorable little ringlets of reddish blonde hair. 
Anyway...because I am now a SAHMommy again, I will be restarting my blog again with NEW tutorials and book reviews and more. Just give me a couple weeks to settle the website issues so that all those tutorials will return and I will be posting regularly starting next week. WOOHOO!! I will also be starting eBay auctions for my fabric hoard and an etsy store for my obsessive sewing to help me stay home with my kidlets.
Also...email changes...if you would like to contact me until I update all the stuff around here...try stephanickety at yahoo.com
See ya!
Monday, January 11, 2010
Sorry about the website thing and baby news
I haven't had time to be around here in awhile. I just realized my website expired about 2 months ago. I'm in the midst of updating it and will have the tutorial information back on in the next few days, just need to point the DNS servers the right way. Sorry!!
Oh and....the baby is a girl! She likes to clap too, lol. We had my big sonogram about a month ago and she kept clapping her hands in utero. It was quite weird, lol. I think I have a video I can upload here of her clapping. Her first name will be Molly....I'm not sure we have a middle name yet, we were both leaning toward Anastasia, but it wasn't definitive.
Oh and....the baby is a girl! She likes to clap too, lol. We had my big sonogram about a month ago and she kept clapping her hands in utero. It was quite weird, lol. I think I have a video I can upload here of her clapping. Her first name will be Molly....I'm not sure we have a middle name yet, we were both leaning toward Anastasia, but it wasn't definitive.
Thursday, November 05, 2009
Wedding Dress Plan
So here is my wedding dress. The long version on the right. Empire waist and I love the sleeves and it has this nice little pleat for my growing baby belly. I chose a claret stretch velvet. I figured the "stretch" will fit nicely with the belly as this has back darts and boob darts. And wow have my boobs grown, I just measured for sizing purposes...5 inches...my boobs have grown 5 inches since August. But I'm down a net total of 2 lbs from where I began. All that puking I suppose. Today was a great one too...the morning sickness combo along with a gushing bloody nose at the same time. Such a lovely sight to see in the toilet as you're dry heaving.
Anyway, I am never for going with the flow, and I blame Queen Victoria for her hideous choice of white for a wedding dress. Did you know prior to her, women just wore their best dress? Geez...and white is so not attractive on everyone. So...in other cultures they wear red, I thought why not me too?
I'm about halfway done with it right now. I love how the sleeves are coming out. So far I have not had the desire to throw it across the room...yet. I'm just worried about the zipper. Zippers and stretchy knits...I'm a wee bit scared.
Oh and I figured out the coolest wedding favor. It's my altered art version of those Hershey Bars. I love it, I'll put up pics as soon as I get a couple samples made up.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Going to the chapel and we're.....
Gonna Get Married!!
Yep, my birthday weekend, he proposed. So...my birthday was Sept 25th, a Friday. My ex had the kids that weekend. And N wanted to take me to his hometown (where we met) for Saturday. It was lots of fun. We went to the "square" (you know those fun little downtowns in small towns?) and shopped and went to our favorite little ice cream place and antique stores, etc.
Anyway, they have this amazing old bookstore on the square that was originally an opera house. How cool is that? It has all kinds of nooks and crannies and upstairs and downstairs, so much fun to get lost in. This was where we had our first date, cuz we are both such bookworms. It's also where we had our first kiss on that date...standing in front of the physics section, both of us looking for his favorite author, Richard Feynman, and I look up at him, and his looking at me and it was magic, and we kissed and it was amazing!!
There is nothing better than getting homemade cake batter ice cream and sitting outside the storefront while he reads to me from a book we picked up there. We do this about once a month. The time before this it was raining and felt so wonderful to be outside, our table was perfectly positioned under the awning so we stayed dry. He read a Steven King story to me that was frightening about a plan to stop smoking.
So I had my suspicions (more like wishes, lol) as he was being so cuddly and kissing me all through the bookstore, but I just assumed we were book shopping and he was in a mood. We wind our way back to that same physics section, and I'm looking for a replacement copy of his favorite book by, you guessed it, Dr. Feynman, as the cover is completely ripped off and pages are coming off now, and he needs a new one. I turn around to tell him there is not one Feynman book to be had when I look at him, and he smiles and starts pulling a ring out of his pocket and gets down on one knee...in the middle of the bookstore, and asks me to be his wife. Isn't that lovely? Of course I said yes, then let him put the ring on my finger and kissed him fiercely.
Our birthdays are both in September, so I requested a sapphire ring to symbolize both of us. It has four little diamonds on either side and it looks vintage. I love it. I found this picture online. I love it so much, we've decided to use it as my wedding ring too. You can't really see in the picture the designs on the sides that make it look so beautifully vintage.
Tonight I bought his wedding ring. He wanted a sapphire too, so I got him this titanium one with a tension mount. He has already seen it online and loved it.
So as soon as I can find an wedding officiant, we are going to elope on November 20th with my kids, then have our immediate families come that night to have a private party at a restaurant. Now I'm on to make plans for a cake and some little wedding favors and elopement announcements for the rest of our families and friends.
Sigh...It is amazing how much my life has changed in a year. I'm so very happy :)
Oh we had the ultrasound for the baby about 3 weeks ago. Everything is great aside from the morning pukings. I'm currently 11 weeks 2 days. Sometime in December we'll have the next ultrasound for the sex. I'm dying to know...I have suspicions it's a girl, and last time I was dead on with Mr. E. I knew he was a boy from the get go, but this time I don't feel so sure.
Yep, my birthday weekend, he proposed. So...my birthday was Sept 25th, a Friday. My ex had the kids that weekend. And N wanted to take me to his hometown (where we met) for Saturday. It was lots of fun. We went to the "square" (you know those fun little downtowns in small towns?) and shopped and went to our favorite little ice cream place and antique stores, etc.
Anyway, they have this amazing old bookstore on the square that was originally an opera house. How cool is that? It has all kinds of nooks and crannies and upstairs and downstairs, so much fun to get lost in. This was where we had our first date, cuz we are both such bookworms. It's also where we had our first kiss on that date...standing in front of the physics section, both of us looking for his favorite author, Richard Feynman, and I look up at him, and his looking at me and it was magic, and we kissed and it was amazing!!
There is nothing better than getting homemade cake batter ice cream and sitting outside the storefront while he reads to me from a book we picked up there. We do this about once a month. The time before this it was raining and felt so wonderful to be outside, our table was perfectly positioned under the awning so we stayed dry. He read a Steven King story to me that was frightening about a plan to stop smoking.
So I had my suspicions (more like wishes, lol) as he was being so cuddly and kissing me all through the bookstore, but I just assumed we were book shopping and he was in a mood. We wind our way back to that same physics section, and I'm looking for a replacement copy of his favorite book by, you guessed it, Dr. Feynman, as the cover is completely ripped off and pages are coming off now, and he needs a new one. I turn around to tell him there is not one Feynman book to be had when I look at him, and he smiles and starts pulling a ring out of his pocket and gets down on one knee...in the middle of the bookstore, and asks me to be his wife. Isn't that lovely? Of course I said yes, then let him put the ring on my finger and kissed him fiercely.
Our birthdays are both in September, so I requested a sapphire ring to symbolize both of us. It has four little diamonds on either side and it looks vintage. I love it. I found this picture online. I love it so much, we've decided to use it as my wedding ring too. You can't really see in the picture the designs on the sides that make it look so beautifully vintage.
Tonight I bought his wedding ring. He wanted a sapphire too, so I got him this titanium one with a tension mount. He has already seen it online and loved it.So as soon as I can find an wedding officiant, we are going to elope on November 20th with my kids, then have our immediate families come that night to have a private party at a restaurant. Now I'm on to make plans for a cake and some little wedding favors and elopement announcements for the rest of our families and friends.
Sigh...It is amazing how much my life has changed in a year. I'm so very happy :)
Oh we had the ultrasound for the baby about 3 weeks ago. Everything is great aside from the morning pukings. I'm currently 11 weeks 2 days. Sometime in December we'll have the next ultrasound for the sex. I'm dying to know...I have suspicions it's a girl, and last time I was dead on with Mr. E. I knew he was a boy from the get go, but this time I don't feel so sure.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Hey...
Well I think life has somewhat settled down for me to find time to blog. So many things have changed. I met the man of my dreams a few days before I quit blogging back in February. We have been inseparable ever since. This is him...and an original song he wrote:
My divorce was done and final way back in April. I moved out of my parents home. Now my love and I live together with my children. We are all very happy. I could not ask for a better guy, he fits in so well with my children and I, it's like he's been here from the beginning. We have plans to run off to Vegas in a few months to get married.
I'm almost finished with my bachelor's degree. I will "probably" graduate in the spring. Probably being the operative word because of some news down further in my post.
I was promoted and became the boss of the lab, and I've increased production and efficiency so they are very happy with me. The girl who was there before me went a little crazy and quit her job and behaved so disrespectful to me, they asked her to leave when she gave her 2 weeks' notice.
And the biggest news of all.....WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!! I'm not due til April, we just found a couple days ago. After all the infertility crap I had to go through with my ex, this surprise was absolutely wonderful. My love is thrilled, and it will be his first time being a father from the very beginning (he's already a wonderful parent to my children). Though I have to admit, I'm a tad worried....morning sickness and twinges of pain in my boobs and uterus have already started which make me wonder at only 3 weeks pregnant if I'm having more than one, lol. Both times before that didn't hit til 8 weeks.
Now the fun part....telling my boss...yikes!! And then telling my parents and the ex. We told the kids last night. They are beyond thrilled about having a new little one, and since they are going to their dad's tonight, I'm guessing I won't be the one telling him.
So hopefully I'll have some sew and shows of maternity stuff. This nausea is already forcing me into elastic waist pants, lol, and I feel like I'm wearing pajamas, so some skirts will be made this weekend....on another note...have you tried the Angry Chicken 5-minute skirt? I am totally addicted.
My divorce was done and final way back in April. I moved out of my parents home. Now my love and I live together with my children. We are all very happy. I could not ask for a better guy, he fits in so well with my children and I, it's like he's been here from the beginning. We have plans to run off to Vegas in a few months to get married.
I'm almost finished with my bachelor's degree. I will "probably" graduate in the spring. Probably being the operative word because of some news down further in my post.
I was promoted and became the boss of the lab, and I've increased production and efficiency so they are very happy with me. The girl who was there before me went a little crazy and quit her job and behaved so disrespectful to me, they asked her to leave when she gave her 2 weeks' notice.
And the biggest news of all.....WE'RE HAVING A BABY!!! I'm not due til April, we just found a couple days ago. After all the infertility crap I had to go through with my ex, this surprise was absolutely wonderful. My love is thrilled, and it will be his first time being a father from the very beginning (he's already a wonderful parent to my children). Though I have to admit, I'm a tad worried....morning sickness and twinges of pain in my boobs and uterus have already started which make me wonder at only 3 weeks pregnant if I'm having more than one, lol. Both times before that didn't hit til 8 weeks.
Now the fun part....telling my boss...yikes!! And then telling my parents and the ex. We told the kids last night. They are beyond thrilled about having a new little one, and since they are going to their dad's tonight, I'm guessing I won't be the one telling him.
So hopefully I'll have some sew and shows of maternity stuff. This nausea is already forcing me into elastic waist pants, lol, and I feel like I'm wearing pajamas, so some skirts will be made this weekend....on another note...have you tried the Angry Chicken 5-minute skirt? I am totally addicted.
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