So I have been tagged by three people now to do this. Eunice at Lemon Almond tagged me for and 8 things meme and Lis at La Mia Cucina and Elle at Feeding My Enthusiasms tagged me for 7 things about me meme. So I will do 7 ½ . I apologize ahead of time, I am horrible at doing these and I don't tag people. So if you read this and want to do it, then tag, you are it. :P 1. I am a card carrying member of the Official Marshmallow Peeps Fan Club. 2. I desperately miss the Muppet Show and wish they would bring it back. My guilty pleasure show now is The Girls Next Door(hangs head in shame). 3. If someone were to look at my desk they would think belonged to a 6 years old...there is the entire Star Wars Mr. Potato Head Collection, The Cookie Monster dressed up as a chicken(and does the chicken dance when you press it's hand), a stuffed Marshmallow Peep(see number 1), a M&M's Boba Fett(more Star Wars) figurine, a plastic black rat, a plastic lizard that barks, a mole with a sombrero … [Read more...]
Wishful Thinking…
My mother is one of those mind over matter people, I'm sure you know the type. Whenever we were sick(the knocked out ratty hair, snotty red nosed, swollen eyes sick) my mother would make me do my hair, put on make up and get dressed in one of my best outfits..."if you look good, you'll feel good." No, I just feel like crap and now I have make up on to run down my face when my eyes and nose run, fabulous. But genetically it must have rubbed off a little, for I am baking with hot chocolate in order to "will" Fall into showing up early. I am sooo not a Summer girl as many long time reader know. And this Summer is really making me hate it just a bit more. We are breaking heat records, my allergies are insane from always having to have the windows open, I'm injured and can't even enjoy the outdoors, and I am allergic to half the stuff at the Farmers Market. Boo. Bring to me my crisp mornings. Bring to me my cool, rainy afternoons that are perfect for a blanket, good book and some hot … [Read more...]
No team left behind….
So after I made ice cream for Danny Briere(and the Flyers) I got a few comments and a few emails as to where was the love for MY hockey team, the Calgary Flames? Where was MY ice cream representing MY team? This was actually harder than I thought it was going to be. I had quite the list going on of various flavor combinations and mix ins. But when it came down to it, I needed something simple. The Flames are a fairly simple team, rarely getting fancy, just the usual try and score and knock a few people down on the way to doing that. If it had not been so muggy here, I would have made these cookies that are like thin brownies that I would have chopped up and thrown in there instead of the chopped semi-sweet, but the chocolate was just fine. If you make this ice cream, it will not be that neon yellow color you are seeing...that was achieved after many additions of yellow food coloring. I left that out, for as it pains me to think that people are not wanting to run out and make … [Read more...]
Melting me….
"Warm? No. This is a setting for London broil." - Adrian Cronauer(Robin Williams) from Good Morning Vietnam. That about sums up our weather here right now in the beautiful, yet craptastically hot Pacific Northwest. It was so hot that even the dog had to sit with me in our “pool,” otherwise known as the bathtub. I didn't plan on her coming in, she just jumped right on in there. There is nothing better than being miserably hot while having the lovely aroma of wet dog. :P Since I am obviously not turning on the oven this week, I did what almost everyone in the blogging community seems to be doing, I went frozen. Change for some is impossible, for others they just take it as it comes. I like to think that I am the later of the statement. I am doing my best to to embrace the Philadelphia Flyers(I have memorized the current roster and went back through archives to read up on the teams history). Though they are not my “team”, that would be the Calgary … [Read more...]
