The holidays are in full swing and while many people are throwing parties and having little get togethers that you invite your single friends to; I encourage you to adopt a single person this year for Christmas Day. Sounds silly I know but if you have a single friend who either can’t afford to go back home for the holidays, or can’t take off work, or has no family to go back to, this time of year can be especially hard for them. Christmas Day can be mighty lonely if you have no one to share it with. I am lucky in the fact that I have my hockey family. It’s a rather large one at that. I also have non-hockey friends who were amazing after my divorce to make sure I had somewhere to go for the holidays. I did, but I greatly appreciated them offering as I have spent the Thanksgiving with just me, the dog, and a box of take-out Chinese food. And while I love both the dog and Sesame Beef, it kind of sucked and magnified the fact that I was alone. My mother is a collector of … [Read more...]
Peek-a-boo…
Today I’d like to discuss a trend I really don’t understand. Now there are actually a lot of those, but this one was on my calendar the other day so it’s been sticking with me. I am talking about the phenomena that is grown women shoving animals into their cleavage…and then photographing it. Ladies, 99% of men are already staring at your breasts; you don’t need to shove a baby animal in there to get people to look. I can whole heartedly say that I have never looked at my rabbit and thought, gee, I think I will shove you down my bra today…now that’s an accessory. It’s not like I go out seeking these photos…they have been in my desk calendar twice now. And for reference, don’t Google Cat Cleavage when wanting to look for pictures to reference on your blog…you will not like the search results. WOW. If you are saying what kind of calendar is this, it’s the Cute Overload calendar, which is usually just cute pet photos. But their website actually has a whole … [Read more...]
Getting over it…
"Negative thinking destroys your brain cells and causes global warming. Source: The Scientific Institute of GetOverIt!" Saw this. It made me laugh. I really wish there was a Scientific Institute of GetOverIt. We should totally build one in Laid Back Land. I especially love when you give someone an answer and they don’t like that answer, so they keep asking. Only to get the same answer from you. Only to piss them off. The answer isn’t going to change. So get over it and move on. Is it the answer you want, no. Is it the one you have to deal with, yes. When I asked my parents for a Nintendo when I was a teen the answer was no. No matter how many times I asked or annoyed them, I never got one. I was told feel free to save up for one. Which I didn’t. So I didn’t get one. End of story. Not getting your way happens a lot, at least to me. Probably to most people. Life is compromise. Life becomes hard for you when you can’t compromise. When you can’t compromise you don’t … [Read more...]
Somethings are best not known…
I won’t make dump cake. I won’t make my mom’s fried rice. I try not to make homemade caramels or toffee and I sparingly make bread pudding. Why because I will eat it all. I held off for years at making soft pretzels since I feared those would just be added to the list of things to not make at home or I will have to invest in Pajama Jeans. That was a good fear to have. :) I went to trusted Alton Brown when I decided I wanted to make soft pretzels for some soup I was making. I must say that I have never really had anything fail by him as long as I follow step by step so I did just that. Other than not putting salt on I followed it to a T. Just as I suspected these will have to go on the do not make at home list. Or else I will just sit there and go into a carb coma. It will be a nice way to go….but still. :P Soft Pretzels 1 1/2 cups warm (110 to 115 degrees F) water 1 tablespoon sugar 2 teaspoons kosher salt 1 package active dry yeast 22 ounces all-purpose flour, … [Read more...]
