Random Tuesday Recipe and Ramblings…

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This cake was so good that there are only pictures of it sliced since we couldn't wait to eat it. My three day weekend was spent organizing and cleaning the house. We got most of it done. My office will probably never be this clean again. Picky Eater also came by and was nice enough to fire up his old computer since mine was dying. We are hoping this one will last until computers go on a good sale. I'm far too excited about this. They better do it in my lifetime or I'll be mad...or dead. Either way. The dog is very excited that hockey is back. One of the most asked questions I get are who is the couple you always take pictures of on Instagram? So first off they are not a couple. Just friends. Almost brother and sister like as they are always beating each other up and picking on each other. I took their photos first as a joke and now it's just what we do. I joke that I am going to get their photos mounted and show them in an art show. :P The other question is … [Read more...]

Weighing my options…

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Other than when is the wedding the other question people feel compelled to ask me is if I am going to lose weight for the wedding. First off not telling right now when the wedding is but I will say it’s a while off. Wedding planning is fun and pretty…why would I want that to end? :) Plus it’s nice to have a wedding board for a reason instead of the oh gee I want to get married I guess I should get a boyfriend board. :P As for the second thing….first off how rude? And second am I going to lose weight for the wedding? Maybe. I have been tracking what I have been eating and sometimes I let that influence my choices and sometimes I don’t. And if at the end of it when it comes time to throw on the wedding dress and I am smaller so be it. If not, oh well. I wasn’t proposed to when I was a bikini model. I was proposed to how I look now. And I look good. And I look good to MDP all the time. I mean the man has seen (and smelled) me at my worst as we play hockey together. Let me … [Read more...]

Best of friends…

I don’t think best friends work for most adults. I don’t really think they work all that well for kids either but right now I am focusing on the adults. A friend of mine basically started a discussion on how we don’t really have best friends. Most of us had concluded that we had someone we called our best friend but they were back from college or even high school days and in reality knew very little about what was actually going on in our day to day lives. And we all concluded that no one we know lived like a Friends episode. I have this too. The female that most people assume is my best friend still lives in Phoenix. I probably speak to her physically on the phone maybe once a year and we text maybe a few times a month. How is it that this person is expected to be my best friend? It’s a good question and the one that we have been mulling over. I think one thing that comes into play is that people end up marrying their best friend kind of thing. When you used to run and … [Read more...]

When life…

“Unless life hands you water and sugar your lemonade is going to suck” I saw this today on Pinterest (btw several people asked to follow me…it’s just my name so feel free to look it up, it’s a public site) and it made me laugh. Because if you are already a cranky pain in the butt and someone hands you lemons, you aren’t going to make lemonade…you will probably just chuck the lemons at people…which sometimes, let’s be honest sounds better than making lemonade. :P I didn’t get lemons but I got a large box of Satusumas and needed to do something with them. I love orange and chocolate together. I also love Ina Garten’s lemon yogurt cake. I thought why not change it to orange and add some chocolate. Changed the recipe a little but it’s all good. No really, it’s good. Like hide it so others don’t get to have any good. :) Give them lemons instead. :P Orange Chocolate Chip Yogurt Cake 2 cups all-purpose flour 2 tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp. kosher salt 1 … [Read more...]

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