Parents are always telling you things growing up. Lessons they have learned in hopes that it will sink into your head. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. I'd like to think that for the most part it sunk in, though the budget part took me awhile. I mean, who saves up money just in case the car needs repair? Certainly not a 22 year old in need of new boots! Too bad my transmission needed a complete overhaul! Yikes. Live and learn, and so I did. I also ate Ramen Noodles for 3 months to pay for it. One thing my parents drilled into me is that it is always the stuff that you are unprepared for that gets ya. I guess that is what happened to me last week, something that I was not prepared for me sidetracked me. Nothing bad or life altering mind you, but something that I definitely was not expecting (no there is no baby on the way...that would fall under the life altering category). I really don't want to go into it as it really isn't worth it, it just gave me a few more bumps in my … [Read more...]
Life with a teenager….bunny that is…
I don't have kids and yet somehow I got stuck with a teenager. You see, Little Fuzzy Bunny was suppose to be “fixed” a couple months ago. It gets done right around the time their hormones kick in, at the six month mark. But because LFB was in a waiting pattern about her eye we have not done the surgery yet. See it's not recommended to put two pound bunnies under anesthesia that often, so we waited to see if she has to have the eye removed (which as of yesterday she does not...she gets to keep the eye!). What that means is that I have been stuck with a teenage bunny in all her hormonal glory. Now, it's not nearly as bad as if she were a human teenager. She can't scream at me that she hates me, though I do get that message when she claws my arm to a bloody pulp that she is unhappy with me at that moment. She doesn't make me walk 10 paces behind her when we would go to the mall together (I had several friends who made their mother's do this). She doesn't beg me for a … [Read more...]
Worth the trouble…
They say that puppies and babies are made cute so that you don't want to kill them when they drive you insane (though I have seen some ugly babies in my time so I am not sure how true that is :P ). I must say that as a dog owner, it was a lot easier to forgive my dog for throwing up grass on my $1500 chair (that I saved for over a year for) which stained it permanently, when she looked up at me with those sad little cocker spaniel eyes. Those woeful eyes have saved my puppy many a time from having to take a long walk off a short plank. In the cooking world there are recipes that drive us insane but in the end they were worth it. This recipe is a case in point. The first time I made it many, many swear words were spewed from my mouth. You see, this is a very easy recipe....until you have to assemble it in the pan. First you lay down the caramel and pecans...and then spread thick batter over that. Umm, that doesn't work all that well. Then you top that with streusel (that was easy). But … [Read more...]
