Trouble with the Curve…

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I watched Trouble with the Curve on Christmas night while snuggled up eating Chinese food (which was surprisingly a little too hard to find a place that was open)and of course all that ran through my head was the part in Christmas Story where they sing farararara-rararara. :D I liked the movie though the part with Clint Eastwood going blind makes me nervous and worry about my parents getting older. The part we will concentrate on though is how his lawyer daughter while good at her job realized baseball is what was in her blood. I often watch shows like Triple D or other restaurant shows where they interview the owner and often they had a change of career. And more often than not it’s because their parents owned a restaurant when they were growing up. I learned about 10 years ago that while I enjoyed teaching in some aspects (the kids and inspiring part) it was really cooking/baking that I wanted to do with my life. I knew I didn’t really want to own a restaurant though tons of … [Read more...]

1000 and counting….

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I randomly noticed that this was my 1000th post. Some bloggers reach that much quicker than me…some never do (so sad that many of my favorite old blogs are long gone). It took me 7 years and 6 months to get to this point. Had I known that I had hit this milestone I might have done something more exciting but alas I did not. I did use up my Kit Kat’s though. :) If you want to be nice and you haven't feel free to like my Facebook page in honor of my 1000th post! Continuing on with highlighting blogs I am thankful for: Blog #5 Not a food blog but a blog that always makes me laugh…always out loud and usually with snorting involved. The Bloggess is not for the faint at heart though. If you can’t handle the f-bomb this is not the blog for you. She also wrote a book which was the best book I have read in a long time…Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir). Blog #6 What’s Cooking Chicago. Part I love it because Joelen has great dinner ideas on her blog and … [Read more...]

Now that’s recycling…

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*The president was in town on Friday. He didn’t stop in and say hi. How rude. :) *Yes Paula Deen makes food that is bad for you. So do I. She has diabetes. This should shock no one. I don’t have diabetes, I’m going to guess because I weigh less than her and workout daily. And when I make a batch of brownies I don’t sit around and eat the whole batch (I chop them up and put them in muffins). *I swear spiders are mathematical geniuses knowing how to calculate the exact distance to make sure you can see them but you can’t get to them to squash them. And they just stare you down with their wee beady eyes secretly plotting your death and waiting for you to go to bed. *I’m not really loving any of the new cookbooks coming lately. Seems to be the same recipes over and over again just in a different book. *I think the clutter on my counter is reproducing. Every time I look even after I clean it expands. *There nothing more satisfying than knowing someone is lying and … [Read more...]

I got mad skills…

There is nothing to make you feel more uncoordinated than playing video games with kids. I had an 8 year old desperately wanting to play Halo with me. I informed him that I was no good at playing Halo. That was putting it mildly. Being 8 an optimistic he didn’t seem to take me all that serious and assured me that he could do what others had not been able to before, he would teach me Halo. I was already down and out staring at my little pink Xbox controller (yes, mine is pink) while he quickly went over what each button did and then listed the exceptions, which there seemed to be many of. I think at this point I was mostly blinking when I was informed just follow my guy and I’ll tell you what to do. You think that would have been easy? Just follow his guy. Sure. Yeah, not so much. I couldn’t get my up and down right. I would move when I was supposed to be looking. And then the next thing you know I was somehow on fire. To which he was in awe that I was on fire since we … [Read more...]

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