Bar Cookie

So I was looking ahead at my calendar only to see that coming in June is BlogHerFood12. Normally this would mean nothing to me other than the fact that I am going this year. I always want to go but usually don’t have the means. But this year it’s in Seattle and right around the time tickets went on sale for the event, this girl won herself some money for growing a home farm on her patio. I took that as a sign. The last blogging event I went to I will admit I mostly went to meet people. I didn’t really care about the speakers, with the exception being Penny De Los Santos, I wanted to meet people. And I did and it was odd. I am who I am on my blog….but many other people are not. They are much more subdued than what they are on their blog. Which in a way makes sense as it is some people’s outlets. Sadly my partner in crime from last time Amanda of Food Porn Daily won’t be there. She was my partner in crime for the fact that we had a habit of sneaking in and drinking beer … [Read more...]

Do you believe in magic…

This weekend I saw Kung Fu Panda 2. Unlike most sequels I enjoyed it as much as the original. It was funny, sweet, and had a nice moral to the story…plus Poe as a baby Panda is too freaking cute for words! Without totally giving the movie away it touches on something that I think people dwell on a little too much…revenge. Some peoples revenge comes in different ways but always has the same results…you spend too much time obsessing over something that happened in the past and therefore you cannot control that it takes over your life. Only to either get revenge and find it not satisfying or to have it come back and bite you in the butt. Either way, clearly wasted energy. Ironically enough, I saw the movie with my ex-husband. He has no problems going to movies himself, but we both agreed that a single male sitting in the afternoon showing of basically a kids movie seemed a bit on the pervy side, so I offered for us to both go see it together. That is not the irony part. The irony … [Read more...]