It's been a while since I posted, but I've been super busy. I finally got all of my Christmas shopping done yesterday, and I'm almost done making that pair of socks for my mom. I made a couple mistakes in the first sock, but they're not that noticable, and the second sock turned out just fine so far.
One thing that I always seem to notice about myself when I go shopping is that I'm very frugal...just like my dad. I seem to get most of my traits from my dad and my brother gets his from our mom. You'd think it would be the other way around. Anyway, I have this habit of finding something I really like and I'm thinking that I'm about to get it, but then I make myself look at the price tag before I absolutely fall in love with it and it turns out to be some stupidly high price, so even if I can afford it, I'll put it down and walk away. My brother on the otherhand, if he finds something he likes and has enough to afford it, he'll buy it with a lot less hesitation. I guess either one can be good in its own way, but I always end up having more money...haha I guess I'm just wierd like that :)
Anyone who has read my previous post would know that I absolutely love to cook, which I guess isn't very strange for a girl. But I tried making something new today (I like trying new things) - caramel flan! It looked really easy at first, but I think I made it more difficult than it really needed to be...it took me three tries to get the caramel right. I ended up going on google (haha) to figure out how to get the sugar and water to turn into a nice light brown caramel. Finally on the third try it worked, and it really wasn't that hard. The flan just came out of the oven and is cooling off. I hope it'll be good! I put way to much effort into making those little custards for them to not turn out right!
On a more serious subject, I'm not sure if I already brought this up, but my elder step-sister, Jamie (18 years old) moved to Michigan a couple months ago to live with her boyfriend. None of my family or hers approved because she met this guy online when she was 16! Not only that, he's a whole 10 years older than her. He came down here to Washington to visit us once before Jamie moved, and we didn't really like what we saw. As much as we tried to persuade Jamie to stay, she was set on leaving, so now she lives in Michigan. She says shes doing good down there, but I'm guessing (well, it's not so much guess as it is fact) that she's not doing as well as she says. There are a whole bunch of problems that she's not letting us know very much about, but my other step-sister, Jennifer (Jamie's twin), is hinting about. To top it all off, Jamie has some very serious health problems that have been going on for a long time. She's been sick for a while now in Michigan, and we can't exactly help her since we're all the way over here, and I don't think she really knows what to do either. She says she's going to see a doctor, and I really hope she does. Her boyfriend doesn't seem to be taking very good care of her either, and I think she's working way to much. She's been working over 40 hours a week, which I know is normal, but think, she's not feeling good at all, and her boyfriend apparently isn't working very much, which puts everything on her shoulders. I'm really worried about her...Please, if you have read this, pray for my sister to come back home, or at least get better. I love you Jamie ♥
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~KJ
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