Soon after one is married, almost everyone starts to ask the dreaded question, “when are you having kids?” You gain a little weight and people jump with excitement because they think you are WITH child...nope, just WITH cheeseburger. Every time you say you are nauseous every person tells you, “must be pregnant” or maybe I just don't feel good? My husband and I fall into the non-breeding category. We are child free by choice. Which is something many a person can not get a handle on. When I tell people I am not having children they give me a sad look and usually tell me, “there's always adoption". There is, just not for me. It's not that I can't have them, I don't want to have them. I'm all for everyone else having them, don't get me wrong. Have as many as you like. I'm just not of me having them is all. One of the greatest things my mother ever said to me was that though she loved me dearly she was quite sure that her and my father could have lived a full … [Read more...]
Rejects of the World Unite….
First off let's set the mood. My background theme music is “We are the Champions” ala Revenge of the Nerds(1984) when Louis is giving his speech about being a nerd, being a loser. Lately I have been noticing a trend in posts around the food blogging world. Rejects. Yes, many, many of us, myself included are being rejected by the new Tastespotting. I will be honest and say that I personally had only posted one photo on Tastespotting when it was ran by the previous hosts. I only had to do it once because some person named gingerbreadgirl always posted my photos for me. And though I sometimes didn't agree with the photo she went with(meaning I thought others from the post were better) I never had to worry about posting. It was a great situation for me. All the traffic but none of the work. ;P Well, let me tell you, I need the gingerbreadgirl back. For I do not have the magic touch to make it on to Tastespotting. Now, that is not entirely true. I do have 9 photos(including … [Read more...]
Dig in…
I grew up not really liking chocolate pudding. The only kind I ever had was instant and the texture just always seemed weird to me. Then I went on a diet(one of many in my life before realizing that extra cushing for the pushing was better than starving). I was introduced to the world of fat free pudding cups. Not terribly exciting but in those days it was that or diet Jello. So I just got used to it. At no point in my life would I ever call it good. What I would have called it was tolerable. And when I gave up sugar for a year the sugar free kind was a God send I will not lie. But again, I wouldn't call it good. Not until I was in a pastry class and I had to make a cake with a chocolate pudding filling did I come to realize what all the fuss over chocolate pudding was. Thick and chocolate velvety goodness, this was like no pudding I had ever put in my mouth. When I saw the recipe and saw that it called for using a food processor I decided to pretty much stay the course and … [Read more...]
Put some real into reality…
I must confess that I am one of those people who watches the Bachelor/Bachelorette. I don't really like it but some how get sucked in. I really haven't like a Bachelor since Andrew Firestone and I did like Trista the first Bachelorette. Though Trista's pink extravaganza wedding on TV did give my husband a slight heart attack as pink is my favorite color. I think he envisioned that I would want that too. I did not. But more power to her and very sweet of Ryan to go along with it. If you watch the show(and even if you don't) most of you probably know that things don't work out on that show. They work out on the show but usually a few weeks(sometimes months) after the show ends they somehow are not together. Some speculate that no one can fall in love that fast. I can't jump on that bandwagon as I was engaged to be married after 5 weeks of knowing my husband. The difference is though that we didn't go on group dates with people or see each other once a week. We pretty much spent … [Read more...]
