tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74263366415705576062024-02-08T14:11:58.805-05:00Defying Gravity... Because I got tired of waitingMistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-63079175326356732232012-10-18T12:34:00.002-04:002012-10-18T12:34:41.548-04:00We've moved!Hello Friends.
I have decided to move to wordpress. You will find all the same articles that were posted here.. I'm simply imported them over to wordpress.
The link is:
http://flyinghigh88.wordpress.com/
Hope to see you there!
-NikkiMistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-56330801133281105382012-05-15T18:06:00.000-04:002012-05-15T18:06:10.645-04:00Tavern 131 - Milford, MIIt's been a busy, stressful couple of weeks. Find out some bad news and had to make some different arrangements, and started a new job on Monday.
Moving on...
A while ago, the bar and grill Forza in Milford closed. Not really sure of the circumstances surrounding that, but we heard while at breakfast at Americus that the family who owns that restaurant decided to open their own Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-60672538899614200102012-05-02T16:10:00.001-04:002012-05-02T16:10:27.510-04:00Musing of AmericaI haven't finished a book in a while. So I'm going to keep all my few people who read this entertained.
I spend too much time on the internet. Before now, when I didn't have a job, I was usually playing video games, watching TV, reading, crocheting... you know.. other random unemployed activities. Now I have a job, which I am happy about, but there is not a lot going on to keep me engaged. I Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-86114169730869886192012-04-23T10:16:00.000-04:002012-04-23T10:16:39.585-04:00Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran FoerThis was the latest pick for my book club. Seeing that our meeting is this week, I figured I should probably finish the book. So I picked it up last night and sort of sped through the last part that I had left to read.
**SPOILERS**
If you want the summary, as always, it is here.
My awareness that this book existed when I saw previews for the movie. I never saw the movie, so I Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-18136933033101561922012-04-15T16:03:00.001-04:002012-04-15T16:03:39.799-04:00The Secret Lives of Hoarders by Matt PaxtonI have so little free time these days, that when I actually have free time, I don't know what to do with myself. I have a list of things I would like to do, but I can't decide between any of them, so I end up doing nothing. Not very productive. Plus I am still waiting for my final email from Pottermore so that I can actually enter the site. *angry face*
However, I did finish this book early thisMistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-82770678255153341722012-04-11T16:40:00.001-04:002012-04-11T21:47:00.837-04:00Out of Oz - Gregory MaguireI finally finished reading this book. It took me about 2 months to read, which for me is a long time, but in my opinion, it was worth it.
**SPOILERS**
If you want a summary of the book, click here. Don't read too much if you don't want all the information, because I ruined a part of the end for myself by scrolling down too far. Just a word of caution.
Now that the summary is Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-26103098597702107742012-04-04T10:51:00.000-04:002012-04-04T10:51:30.838-04:00Cafe Wristers and April PlansOh, hello April. What happened to March? I was busy and lazy you say? Well, that's probably true.
Here's what I wish I could have accomplished during March:
-Finish a crochet project I started
-Read more than one book
-Actually write something worthwhile
Well, no sense in grumbling about the past. Here's April, the weather has gotten cold again, after that trickster March with 80 degree days in Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-86767296530408413632012-03-08T12:13:00.003-05:002012-03-08T12:13:39.534-05:00Same Blog - New TitleMy original title was based off a line from a song from the music "Once on this Island." The song is called "Waiting for Life" and it is sung by a girl who lives on an island that is populated by a poorer tribe of people, and on the other side of the island, the richer people. She's singing about wanting something exciting to happen to her.
That was my mentality for a while. Now that Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-72359534508804313422012-02-21T15:17:00.001-05:002012-02-21T15:17:58.955-05:00Blood, Bones & Butter - Part 2I have a goal of reading 50 books this year. I'm at 11. But that's why I pushed to finish this book so I can move on to other books. And here's what I have to say:
**SPOILERS!!!**
I'd like to start off with the end. What was with that? It felt like a total cliff hanger. Nothing seemed to be resolved at all, except that she cut down the tree enough for her mother in law to see the water. We Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comAnn Arbor Charter Township, MI 48104, USA42.2808256 -83.743037842.2338271 -83.8220018 42.3278241 -83.6640738tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-64807299382845273842012-02-16T14:46:00.000-05:002012-02-16T14:46:05.163-05:00Blood, Bones & Butter - Part 1The Huffington Post Book Club is currently reading the book Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef by Gabrielle Hamilton. If you have not heard of this book, the title pretty much says it all.
**Spoilers Follow**
So far, I am liking the book. I have read through Chapter 10, which is halfway. I hover somewhere between liking this woman, and Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-31993940518852974352012-02-14T11:22:00.000-05:002012-02-14T11:24:02.989-05:00What day is it again?I don't celebrate Valentine's Day. I really don't even like the concept of Valentine's Day. Same goes for Sweetest Day. Here's why.
In elementary school, at least at mine, the teacher gave everyone a list of names in the class, so you could make sure you gave each kid a Valentine with or without candy, depending on your parents. Of course, those cheap little Valentines were themed, Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.com416 E Huron St, Ann Arbor Charter Township, MI 48104, USA42.2808256 -83.743037842.2338341 -83.8220018 42.3278171 -83.6640738tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-74320844716145800082012-02-06T11:41:00.000-05:002012-02-08T16:17:31.648-05:00"The Tiger's Wife" ReviewI haven't been around since Halloween? Geez. Well the good news is: I finally found a sort of job. I'm only a temp, but it is full time position. Which is good.
Because my job doesn't really have much going on all day long, I decided to start reading news websites, which I don't like. So I start hanging out on the Huffungton Post, and saw that they started a book club. I joined, obviously.Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comAnn Arbor, MI, USA42.2808256 -83.743037842.2338341 -83.8220018 42.3278171 -83.6640738tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-20823351125567968692011-10-31T13:05:00.002-04:002012-04-04T10:28:08.888-04:00Happy Halloween!It my favorite time of year! Halloween! I'm passing out candy tonight for the first time in a long time, and I'm pretty excited about it. I love little kids in costumes. They're so cute!
Anyway, I crocheted some Halloween costume accessories this year, and I thought I'd share them.
This first one is a hat I made for my niece. It's a witch hat with dangling spiders. I got the pattern out of an Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-76135351198833139182011-10-11T17:38:00.001-04:002011-10-11T17:38:35.268-04:00Lions DesignI'm not sure I 100% like this format, but it'll do for now until football season is over. Maybe I'll tweak it again at some other future time.Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-11273778674735127872011-10-11T17:10:00.000-04:002012-04-04T10:38:01.383-04:00ASUS tablet cozie!I thought I wrote a post about this, but apparently not!! So here we go!
A few months ago, I bought the ASUS eee pad transformer. I love it. But that's beside the point. I needed something to put it in to protect the screen until I could buy a case.... which I finally did today, btw.
I used some of my Bernet Cotton Stripes yarn that I bought on clearance at JoAnns a while ago. I figured that Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comBrighton, MI, USA42.5294773 -83.780221442.5060743 -83.819703400000009 42.552880300000005 -83.7407394tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-7007638481443011192011-10-10T09:59:00.000-04:002011-10-10T10:00:20.198-04:00Fluorescent Light SurveyI'm doing a research project for my business writing class about fluorescent lights. If you're reading this, and want to help me out, I would LOVE if you could take this survey. It's 25 questions and anonymous.
Thanks so much in advance!!
Fluorescent Lights SurveyMistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-55353443439132486812011-10-03T15:53:00.000-04:002012-04-04T10:35:38.167-04:00Poof Ball HatFeeling much better than I was a few days ago. I had a called about an interview for a place I really wanted, and they asked me to come back for a sort of second interview, where I will get a little training so they can see how well I would work, I guess. That's tomorrow morning. Wish me luck.
Thursday night, after Mike passed out from eating five pieces of stuffed crust pizza...
I made a Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-42170894182617389442011-09-28T11:59:00.000-04:002011-09-28T11:59:41.912-04:00Day 2I'm on day 2 of feeling more depressed than normal. I understand that even with medication, these times come along anyway, just to be pains in my ass. But its interfering with my ability to apply for jobs, as I keep getting rejection emails (which frankly, I'm sick of), and of completing my homework, which I'm falling behind on this week. I have been spending too much time staring off into space Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-38451943315403247542011-09-27T19:06:00.000-04:002011-09-27T19:06:36.372-04:00Flower Hat and ScarfI feel entitled to complain a bit here, so I'm going to.
Been having one of those blah days. No motivation to do anything, and I could pretty much sleep all day... and all night probably. I'm feel depressed about the whole not having a job and not sure what to do about it/still waiting for HP to quit being douches (which apparently will be in November) and I've been stressing about if I should Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-45633856576785365172011-09-20T11:00:00.000-04:002012-04-04T10:36:48.032-04:00Its-a Me! Mario!I started this project in September of last year, and finally finished a few weeks ago. I've been too lazy/busy to post anything on here, but here I am at last, being a little more productive than usual (and avoiding working out for the moment).
This blanket is made up of 234 little 4" granny squares, that I sewed together with a yarn needle using various left over colors to minimize the amountMistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-11140999526903573452011-08-18T17:05:00.000-04:002011-08-18T17:05:43.268-04:00Knooking!I finally found the Leisure Arts Knooking kit at Wal-Mart when I was shopping before my trip to New Jersey. I was excited, so I bought a skein of Red Heart Super Saver (Yeah, I know) in pink so I could mess around with it.
Needless to say, I had a little trouble getting the hang of it. I couldn't, for the life of me, figure out which way to put the hook through the loop on the string. Finally, Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-24847724795944751502011-08-05T11:18:00.000-04:002011-08-05T11:18:17.478-04:00Mystery Plant!We have a deck in our backyard, and ever since we moved here, there have been this giant, unruly bushes growing on the other side. Finally, my mom and dad ripped these bushes out and planted normal plants. It really opened up that area, and makes it easier to see my nieces and nephew playing in the backyard from the deck.
This summer, though, we noticed that there were three plants growing in Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-80315961119521556772011-08-05T11:07:00.000-04:002011-08-05T11:07:15.890-04:00Pod B!tchWho knew that when I started dating Mike, I would become immersed into his world of paintball. I go to his practices (on the occasion that I can), attend tournaments, and even take weekends to go to national tournaments. At these national tournaments, I am on their roster for the team, so that I (and a few others) can be in the pits with the boys, cleaning off hits and filling up pods so they Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-60407854957931971682011-08-04T11:26:00.000-04:002011-08-04T11:26:17.175-04:00You'd think she'd know...A while ago, on Ravelry, I found these really cute Angry Birds patterns for crochet. I didn't realize it at the time, but apparently you had to pay for these patterns.
Now I'm pretty sure this person was not a part of the company who had the license to sell Angry Birds products and make a profit off of them. You'd think she'd know, as I believe she is a frequent seller of patterns, that you Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7426336641570557606.post-11773563055379235232011-03-29T11:02:00.000-04:002011-03-29T11:02:23.543-04:00The House on Tradd Street - Karen WhiteAh, a day off. Time to get laundry done, and make those cupcakes I've wanted for two weeks now, but have been afraid to try. Cause of the finger. But we have a new mixer now, a nice fancy one, so hopefully all goes well, when I get around to it. Also, I'm expressing my nerdy-ness by playing Star Wars Galaxies, a game which Mike got me into. Woohoo.
Anyways, last night, as for several nights, Mistress Cipherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04248409702101140420noreply@blogger.com