tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:20:38 +0000fun stuffbellydancesewingfoodrandomcool stuffbridal alterationscostumesdressesmovieshalloweenmuppet mondaymy hometravelbeadsweirdalterationsembroideryjust beautifulottoman trading companysnowblog friendschristmas stuffseattleflowersconcertsfamilyholidaymemphismy babiesmy gardenthe kittiesapronsartdecoratingetsymadina stuffmy momsci-fiJFKbarack obamacarloscollectingdr whoknit stufflatin spicemexicanamother's daysummerswapsthe purple costumevintage alterationwedding stuffb-moviesbakingbooksbostondaleksdoll quilt CrAzYecological homesemerald rainemerald sanctuary retreatguadalupanagypsy daysjust funnymaria morcamichael reynoldsmutant veggiesmy hubbynostalgiaseattle public libraryvampirawinchester mystery houseangie and rachelbabies moviebarbequebelly dancer usabirthday partyblade runnerblood slide candybloody finger mailblue angelsblue man groupbob wilkinsbratzbread and honey blogbrewingbruciecakecan-can costumecarving pumpkinscastrovillechildhood memorieschileschocolate guinness cakecindybindicivil rights museumcoolcouture dressescreature featurescrochetcrystal headcsicut-out-and-keepd's bustledalekdead bridedennis weaverdexterdunkin' donutselection '08fallfenwayfireflyfiremenfirst pinataflask coverflorida straitsfringefun saturday morning nostagiafuzzy monkeysgarbage warriorglitter-dotgrapesgreen homeshands of kalihawaiiherbshippie jeans skirtsjeansjfk library and museummedfestmeltdownmonster stuffmultnomah fallsmy haircutnew looknew year's eve bashnigellaoil spillouijapeacock stuffpeppermint red velvet cakeperformancephopink panthersportlandpresident obamapumpkin sconespumpkin scones and devonshire creamrace for the yankee zephyrrachel's birthday dressrantraul juliarita hayworthrod stewartsabinesabine of oregonsalem massachusetssan diegoseafoodseahawks gameshawlsilk road tribalsix feet underspamspam-alotspice box theatrespicesspidersspooktacularspring gardenst paddy's daysteviesuperhero partysword dancingterminator: the sarah connor chroniclestexas stadium implosion.the anticraftthe cakethe kennedy schoolthe knead for breadthe red dressthe thingthe vault of horrorvalentine's dayvampirahnavending adventuresvoodoo donutswitchboardzombie pumpkinszucchini bread'cause i seem to do stuff that draws bloodhttp://cydhig.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (cindy)Blogger435125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-1961958487336409321Fri, 07 Oct 2022 19:14:00 +00002022-10-07T12:22:40.356-07:00What I have been up to lately. Well, I did retire in June from my job where I had been for 11 years. I thought I would be able to do all the things I didn't have time for before. It hasn't worked out that way so far.  I went to Washington to try to help clean out my folk's estate. I hope to never have to do that again and I plan to downsize dramatically so my kids do not have to go through http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2022/10/hurricane-ian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)076RRJQXM+QR26.649438 -83.2154006999999890.1306526193418982 -118.37165069999999 53.168223380658105 -48.059150699999989tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-7016521210136259026Fri, 29 Apr 2022 11:44:00 +00002022-04-29T04:44:37.283-07:00Welp, I'm in Florida now.  Like, not visiting, I LIVE here. Beautiful sunsets, my favorite part of the day. I am working from home and don't get out much so still haven't experienced a lot of the Florida experience yet.I have started a little bit of a garden.  Since I love to garden and I didn't have much luck at my old place in Washington, I thought I would try some things in Florida.&http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2022/04/welp-im-in-florida-now.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-7874089978861900355Wed, 31 Mar 2021 06:13:00 +00002021-03-30T23:13:37.561-07:00I haven't posted in a very long time. I found my blog recently and spent hours reading some of the old posts and realized how very different life is now. I don't have the kitties anymore.  That is a great sadness for me.  The lovely yellow fur baby went to a friend who found him a good home and my beloved furry black kitty I finally lost after 19 years. I have traveled a lot since http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2020/03/so-very-long.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-8778137741287096967Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:12:00 +00002013-06-08T10:12:24.462-07:00i saw this t-shirt and it made me burst out laughing! i hate push-ups too!  just something hilarious to me about the mental image. is that sort of like laughing at a handicap? i'm a sick woman. lol!http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2013/06/just-lol.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-8722159212919086273Sun, 05 May 2013 16:57:00 +00002013-05-05T09:57:22.944-07:00happy cinco de drinko! http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2013/05/blog-post.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-780852644901889761Sat, 04 May 2013 16:33:00 +00002013-05-04T09:33:48.111-07:00wow, i had almost forgotten i still had a blog. the last couple years have been a little rough...a divorce, a few surgeries, a tough job. but they say what doesn't kill you makes you stronger! http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2013/05/gone-for-so-long.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-5727295109386466396Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:53:00 +00002012-07-01T09:53:05.459-07:00here is a photo of a fabulous double rainbow we saw a couple weeks ago. the camera does not come close to capturing how lovely it was!http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2012/07/test-post-from-blogger-phone-app.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-3111383366707847282Sun, 01 Jul 2012 16:21:00 +00002012-07-01T09:21:54.847-07:00just decided to stay cosy in my room and figure out how to blog again...it took me pretty much ALL day to get my last post going. granted, i DID change lots of stuff on the page as well.  i am going to figure out how to get photos from my phone again...aparently there's an app for that. there are so many apps!  they are so fun too.  i have a couple zombie games on my phone too.&http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2012/07/just-another-rainy-sunday-in-pacific.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-91337851997278788Sun, 15 Apr 2012 22:51:00 +00002012-04-15T15:51:22.249-07:00hi, i am still alive and kicking.  i know i have been MIA for a long time, nearly a year now, but 2011 was quite a hellish year.  i was soooo happy for it to end, and then 2012 started out worse!  in time i may explain more fully, but for now i will just say after two moves, two surgeries and starting a new job, i am finally getting back on my feet.  i just got internet http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2012/04/im-not-dead-yet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-2680998251343383161Thu, 19 May 2011 19:16:00 +00002011-05-19T12:22:02.575-07:00florida straitsmoviesrace for the yankee zephyrraul juliahad another sleepless night last night...well, i shouldn's say sleepless. i got a whole hour of sleep finally.  when i can't sleep, i have learned the worst thing to do is just lie there and try to fall asleep.  i get up and make some chamomile or linden flower tea.  or sometimes hot milk, even though i hate milk, but it actually really works.  but lately, if the pup hears http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/05/insomniaagain.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-3893556084757418202Mon, 09 May 2011 17:35:00 +00002011-05-09T10:35:01.196-07:00dennis weaverecological homesgarbage warriorgreen homesmichael reynoldsmy friend posted on facebook this link about bottle houses and i had to share it here.  i have found the idea of bottle houses facsinating ever since i was a kid.  we went on camping trips to death valley, and we saw some bottle houses in the desert in the towns of rhyolite and beatty. beatty bottle house  bottle house in rhyolite  i find the houses to be quite interesting,http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/05/bottle-homes-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-8243380688484068383Wed, 27 Apr 2011 20:08:00 +00002011-04-27T13:08:25.389-07:00hippie jeans skirtsjeansi have been loving these bohemian hippie jeans skirts made of recycled jeans lately. skirt from true religion  they were around all over the place in the 60's, and i loved them back then too, but i was just a kid and didn't get to wear one.  so now that they are around again, and i see them on popular clothing sites, but i don't want to pay over $200!  i want to try tohttp://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/04/hippie-at-heart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-4423767747471380041Mon, 04 Apr 2011 17:15:00 +00002011-04-04T10:22:44.228-07:00blue man groupboston while in boston, we went to this show, blue man group. i didn't really know what to expect...i had seen billboards and advertisements with them before, but didn't know what did these blue guys DO? (and i also used to think they were a little creepy looking.) well, i don't anymore. they were just so funny, and interesting, and UNPREDICTABLE, and we had a great time at the show. if you get a http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/04/blue-man-group.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-5073632263403787468Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:31:00 +00002011-04-03T17:40:08.742-07:00bostondunkin' donutsfenwayjfk library and museumsalem massachusets JFK library and museum in boston this morning we got back home from a vacation in boston.  it was a lot of fun, but very cold!  we (hubby and me) both had the jfk presidential library and museum on the top of our list of things to see.  it was very interesting and one of our favorite things of the whole trip.  we were both very interested in president kennedy http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/04/boston-trip.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-892357714216791466Wed, 02 Mar 2011 21:28:00 +00002011-03-02T13:40:23.413-08:00angie and rachelphotoday my girls came home from work at lunchtime.  that's why i love wednesdays!  today my middle child, angela, came home with a giant bag of hot pho soup, with all the condiments to eat with it. yum! middle child, angela, and my handsome hubby so me and my daughters, angela and rachel, sat down together and ate delicious, fragrant, hot pho on this cold, rainy, http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/03/wednesdays-are-my-fav.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-3041222423081887727Thu, 24 Feb 2011 03:16:00 +00002011-02-23T19:16:42.800-08:00cindybindi i made a new blog here, a new site to put some of the costumes and projects i have going, and some i did in the past.  i will still keep "band-aids required!", but it will be for the random stuff it has always been about, silly muppet youtubes, my kitties, recipes, and movies that i sometimes post about.  but the new one will have a little more of a professional feel...well, as "http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/02/i-made-new-blog-here-new-site-to-put.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-2458364600057555809Tue, 08 Feb 2011 02:12:00 +00002011-02-07T18:26:12.347-08:00chocolate guinness cakenigella this weekend i made a birthday dinner and this cake for my son, who celebrated a birthday on saturday.  i had been wanting to try this cake for some time, and since my son likes to brew his own beer and also loves guinness beer, i decided this was the perfect opportunity to try the cake.  i like nigella, and have a couple of her cookbooks, and this recipe was in her cookbook "http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/02/lovely-chocolateness.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-8488460408377450764Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:42:00 +00002011-02-02T10:42:42.360-08:00crochetshawl i think i mentioned i joined the ravelry site finally, and i am so totally addicted now.  i have been trying to teach myself to knit and/or crochet off and on for years now, and i decided i WILL do it this time!  i am practicing my crochet this time, and here is a photo i shot of my WIP, (work in progress) a shawl, early on in it's progress.  it looked so much like a head of http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/02/crocheted-lettuce.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-2547532946732903576Sun, 30 Jan 2011 01:30:00 +00002011-01-29T17:30:42.415-08:00knit stuffmuppet mondaynew lookhope you like the new look of the blog...it is dreary and drippy wet out and it seemed pretty appropriate for the day and the pacific northwest in general.  i like the rainy drops and the mountain in the background.  although when you see mount rainier here, it is actually a pretty clear, sunny day! so i know i have not been very comunicative in the new year, but looking back overhttp://cydhig.blogspot.com/2011/01/new-look.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-3661338843101119871Mon, 27 Dec 2010 18:21:00 +00002010-12-27T10:21:53.810-08:00elmo and robert de niro....awesome!http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2010/12/muppet-monday_27.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-5202185167350172145Sat, 25 Dec 2010 01:48:00 +00002011-01-29T17:47:24.450-08:00 merry christmas to all!  hope you have a wonderful holiday!http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2010/12/merry-christmas-to-all.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-833114791263903258Mon, 20 Dec 2010 18:01:00 +00002010-12-20T10:01:23.245-08:00this one was very sweet...and it has jim henson on it. happy holidays everyone!http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2010/12/muppet-monday_20.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-148106776531442194Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:38:00 +00002010-12-10T10:38:11.870-08:00babies movie "babies" movie poster yesterday i watched this movie with my daughter, while she was home sick from work.  it was really an interesting movie!  four babies from four different parts of the world, were documented from the time they emerged from the womb, to the time they took their first steps.  it was very interesting how we are all so similar in how we grow, even when http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2010/12/babies-movie-poster-yesterday-i-watched.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-7832158811717772854Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:03:00 +00002010-12-08T14:03:10.784-08:00i had to post my favorite john lennon song today...it is still as powerful as when he wrote it.http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2010/12/imagine.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34021957.post-647315332160992917Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:35:00 +00002010-12-06T09:35:38.001-08:00i am trying to start to get into the spirit of christmas, so i was looking for muppet youtubes with a holiday theme. this one makes me laugh, it has animal in it...he just so cracks me up!http://cydhig.blogspot.com/2010/12/muppet-monday.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (cindy)1