Llamas Are Comfy, Chuck Norris Defeats Feminists, and Germs are Your Friend

Sewing on the floor, peddling the machine with my knees ;p 

I've realized that I share a lot of my thoughts, but I share little of my life. I don't know if this is a bad thing or not, but I still want to change it. So, if all goes well, starting now the last post of every month will be highlights from my last few weeks of life.

It will probably be mostly pictures.

Maybe some thoughts, too ;p

And anything else that I think it relevant to my recent life.

KNITTING: 
I had a custom order for two hats. I really enjoyed knitting again, as I haven't done it in awhile.

SEWING: 

One of my best friends found this gorgeous llama flannel, and so we both decided to buy a bunch and make ourselves something! My friend loves sewing so she finished her project (a skirt) awhile ago.

I have a linen dress I ABSOLUTELY love, so I used that dress as a basic pattern, made some changes, and sewed this dress up in a Sunday afternoon. It's very warm and comfortable, and I'm very happy with how it turned out.


Humor:
I love Chuck Norris ... I think the second one might be my favorite ever!

*Theses last two pictures aren't mine*

It's so much fun being crazy with friends ... especially when that craziness might be rooted in a bit of satire ;D 

Cleaning + work:

I see your dirt and it ain't got a chance 

Cleaning is art

My housecleaning has been a bit rocky the last few weeks. Have had a lot of people cancel because of being sick/ or something similar. But then I've also had a bunch of random one-time new houses. So I've still been really busy.

And then, on February 17, my sister and I started housesitting for a friend. We'll be at her house until the beginning of May. So far, that's been going well ... we take care of her animals, but mostly I spend my days the same as always: away cleaning other people's houses.

I've also started doing a bunch more babysitting again. So I have about five days a week full of eight-ten hours of cleaning or babysitting.

The weather has been crazy, too. Below zero isn't rare these days. The snow drifts are high, and are often covering portions of the road. I still walk to all of my houses close enough, but I wear tons of layers now.

I don't like the cold, but it can't defeat me ;D

Friends:

A couple weekends ago our family went to a small home school conference. I met a bunch of new people and learned a ton from all the sermons, and overall, was surprised at how much fun I had. I even stayed up later one night than I normally would (I'm very picky about bedtime because work demands I be rested) to visit with people, and it was so worth it!

Food:

I love trying new and sometimes weird food combos. This one is seeded crackers, hard boiled eggs, and mustard.

I asked my brother to get me chocolate ice cream, instead he bought vanilla. But instead of getting mad I decided to make mix some stuff into the ice cream, inspired after Gray's post. I stirred in a tablespoon of peanut butter, then ground some Baker's chocolate on top. This was delicious. 

I started making kombucha again this last month, and the first batch turned out so yummy. The second fermentation was flavored with blueberries. I've since done another batch with hibiscus and chia seeds.
Oh, but the greatest thing ever is that I found out how to make the kombucha with JUST honey and no sugar. Some of you that know anything about kombucha might not believe me. So I'm linking this video on how to do it.

Other:
I have a secret project that's been taking up some of my time. I'm so excited to be sharing it with you all soon!

Reading has been going well! I've been enjoyed Jill Williamson's second Blood of King's book. I listen to a lot of audio books these days, too. My favorite one that I've been listening to is Saint Augustine of Hippo.

I don't watch much anymore (too many other things I'd rather do) but now that I'm house sitting with my sister and the lady has Netflix set up for us, we've been watching The Umbrella Academy, Designated Survivor, and A Series of Unfortunate Events. The latter is the one I've been the most excited to watch—I've already seen the first season at a friend's house.

I've been pretty sick this these last few days. Normally if I get sick I sleep it off in a night. But this thing has decided to be clingy and make me miserable for about a week. Plus I have a wisdom tooth annoying me. I've been trying to sleep as much as I can, so I don't have to feel too much ;D

Mostly, though, I've just been cold and tired, while trying to keep busy cleaning ;D

SOMETHING I ... 
So, Ben Shapiro does this, "Things I hate, and things I like" at the end of his show.
I thought it would be fun to do the same thing!

LOVE

This is one of my favorite songs, ever. I've even wrote my own lyrics for it that I someday plan to record. Anyways, needless to say, I was excited to see Pentatonix covered "Sound of Silence". I wasn't feeling too well that day, and ended up listening to a bunch of their songs.

And somehow, in one of their rap-covers, I made up more lyrics for a song (don't remember the song). But here are my lyrics:

Ya gotta make it, 
Don’t matter if ya naked
or what you got and what you don’t got; 
a thought ain’t enough anymore. 
It’s what ya do now that counts for tomorrow.

AND SOMETHING I HATE
I should have given this book less than three stars so I can honestly say I hate it (I guess I don't hate it that much), but The Hate U Give is a hyped up anger manual, on "How to throw an adult tantrum fit when it's too hard to use your voice to speak out against injustices". My review is posted on Goodreads. 

How's your month been? 
So, should I do these life-posts every month? 
Also, I have some new followers on blogger and at Goodreads. Thanks so much, y'all!