Changing Location of Blog

I am changing the location of this blog. Blogger is driving me crazy, so I'm switching over to wordpress. I've moved over all of the previous posts and all new posts will be on the new blog. You can find it here:
http://www.divergentramblings.wordpress.com

Plinky Question - What's something you never believed until you experienced it?

This is my first ever plinky question!

I never believed in the power of forgiving someone else until I experienced it. I always knew that we should forgive, but I never realized how powerful, freeing, and healing it is to forgive someone who has REALLY hurt you until I actually did it.

150 Good Things

I've decided to embark on a mission. I am going to do 150 nice things for random people, neighbors, people I know, etc between now and the end of the year. There are 186 days left this year. I'm so excited. I'd like to, as much as possible, avoid repeats, so I need lots of great ideas. If you have any suggestions of things that could be done for just about anyone and don't cost a lot of money (on a tight budget over here), please share! My plan is to post about all of them, so that I can keep track. Not many people read this blog, so I feel reasonably confident that the people I am doing things for won't find out who it was, unless I want them to know. I've found a few suggestions online. Here are some of the ideas I've found:

1. Watch someone's children for an hour or so, so that they can have some quiet time.
2. Write loving letters to those who are important to me.
3. Write a letter to a child or send a small gift to a child by mail.
4. Pay for something for a person in line behind me.

In The News

Every now and then you find a news headline or article that is just so poorly writen it's scary. Yesterday Erik found a whole site of them! The scary thing is they aren't done on purpose. Here are a few of my favorites:

Headline: Orlando's Harry Potter Ride Fat Park
Harry Potter ride fat is way beyond the safety harnesses at the Orlando theme park

- I never knew rides had fat.

1st paragraph of another article :
Shipwreck found after 112 years named L.R. Doty near Milwaukee. The ship was 300-foot-long and named the L.R. Doty, which sank during a storm. What's left is a wooden steamship that violently sank during a storm 112 years ago.

- Those 112 years named LR Doty were fantastic, weren't they?
- Do you think that ship might have sunk?

Headline and description of article:
AirTran Turtle Plane Delayed
Turtle plane responsible for delaying AirTran travel. An Airtran passenger jet was delayed after two sisters were busted for bringing a 2-inch turtle onboard.

- turtle planes?
- on a more serious note... really? a 2 inch turtle stopped a plane from taking off?


Just for the record, I don't claim to be a perfect writer, but seriously, doesn't this news site have an editor?

Healthy Bread In 5 Minutes - Hearty Wheat Sandwich Bread

I made up the master recipe from the bread book a couple of days ago, and made the sandwich loaf yesterday. It was delicious, but not a great sandwich bread. The crust was too crunch and the bread a little dense for our tastes for sandwiches. It was wonderfully yummy with honey though! I can hardly wait to try the rest of the dough out with some other recipes and to try one of the other sandwich bread recipes.

Bread Update

I've started the first batch of dough for my Healthy Bread in 5 Minutes book! The basic idea is that you make this dough and keep it in your fridge. It takes about 20 minutes to make the dough, but you can get about 4 loaves out of it, so if you do one a day it averages to 5 minutes each. Actually, I saw them completely make a loaf (minus rising and cooking time) in a 2 minute video, so there's hope it could be even faster eventually.

I'm a bit nervous, because it seems excessively wet, but I'll see tomorrow. You can still work with it if it's too wet, it's just a bit harder. The other thing is that whole wheat breads tend to take longer to really absorb the water, so that may be what is going on. Tomorrow I'm going to make sandwich bread with it, and then we'll see what I decide to do with the rest, probably another day. Now I'm just hoping it doesn't overflow the bowl!

New Books, New Ideas, New Adventure

I just got a couple of books i ordered off of amazon. I'm especially excited because I got to use the gift certificates I've been saving up from Swagbucks, and even have lots left.

Anyways, the books "Healthy Bread in Five Minutes A Day" and "Make Your Place; Affordable, Sustainable, Nesting Skills". Both books bring with them their own adventures!

I LOVE to bake homemade bread. I don't think anything tastes better, and the wonderful smell in the house when it is baking is just heavenly. I've been trying to move our family away from processed breads to healthier breads. I've been making wheat bread with home ground wheat for a little over a year, but now I'm so excited to have some new healthy bread recipes! I'm going to try making a bunch of different recipes from here, and I'll tell you all about it!

The second book is full of make it yourself recipes for cleaners, first aid products, etc. I'm hoping I can find some great, inexpensive cleaners that will work as wonderfully as our homemade laundry soap recipe does! I'll post my adventures and findings on this one too as I go!