Thursday, March 06, 2008

I don’t like titles

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Its not like I don’t have anything else to do

Want to know how I spent the last 2 hours? Not cleaning this pig pen of a house, not paying bills and not editing pictures. No no no. Instead of doing any of that I read hotel reviews on hotels.com, well after I made my reservation. I swear, I don’t have that much free time to kill. I wasting precious minutes reading review after review for no reason at all. I just couldn’t stop.  Of course, reading story after story about roaches and mold I’m no longer interested in staying at any hotel...ever again. Not even a 5 star, which yes had a few roaches stories attached to their names.

Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Whats Better…

Thanks a picture of a lamp post? A picture of the shadow of a lamp post...duh!

Monday, March 03, 2008

Chicken Pie

Its late. My eyes are burning as I just spent the last 2 hours replying to a dozen non-work related emails that have been sitting in my inbox for well over a month. I want to go to bed but, well, I have this little commitment hanging over my head. I was tempted to take the easy way out by posting a picture (believe me, I have plenty to show) but I’ve been having to do that a lot lately. Tonight, I want to post a picture and be done with it but I don’t HAVE to so...here I am typing away. I have 25 minutes to get this in before midnight.

I have to admit that I’m very surprised I’ve stuck with this 365 thing so far. Yes, like I sort of said above, I’ve had to resort to pictures with no or very little words a lot but at least I’m making an effort with the little time I’ve had. Considering that I managed all of 10 posts during the entire summer of suck 07 (must.import.old.entries) this is something for me to be excited about. Give me a break, people. I need to take the excitement where I can get it these days!!

I’m not 100% exactly sure why I’m doing this or what I hope to get out of it. I’ve been trying to figure that out since I started. Write better? Yes but it seems like more than that. Hopefully I’ll figure this out before January 1, 2009 rolls around.

And now, thanks to the “How To Of The Day” widget on igoogle, A link. How to talk to your chickens. You may not own a chicken but you never know when you might need to talk to one.

Sunday, March 02, 2008

Tulip

I, like a lot of people, am in dire need of spring. The cold, the wind, the snow, the sand - I’m tired of it all. I need spring! Tulips are the closest thing to spring as I’m going to get. Apparently I’m not the only one with that thought. I had to go to 4 florists before finding one that was not sold out.

Saturday, March 01, 2008

I should probably get over this

I’m being obnoxious now, I know. I can’t help it though...must go back to SF. 

Friday, February 29, 2008

Food Fight

This...this is just awesome. More info here.

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Sleepless randomness

I really want to talk about how I’ve been sitting in a pile of self pity this week but I’ll spare you. For now at least. Self pity takes a lot of energy - I’m tired. So instead, some random thoughts:

* 22 days ‘till spring, not that it means anything. I’m putting money down that we’ll have 3+ feet of snow on March 22.
* Not once, not twice but four times today I wished there was a tivo like rewind feature for my brain. Wouldn’t that be cool? No? K, fine.
* Something big came up this evening, something that would normally have me twitching in anxiety. I’m not twitching though and that is making me anxious.
* Pity only has one “t” ?
* I think I’ll stop here. Its for the best, really.

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Le Sigh

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

My lamp post obsession continues…

Monday, February 25, 2008

Door Open

I saw this dangling thing on my way back to the car last weekend. Finding it somewhat interesting (ok, not really) I stopped to take this picture. I then proceeded to walk right into it. I swear, my brain just isn’t with me sometimes. 

Sunday, February 24, 2008

All these years

I used to think the lyrics to the Full House theme song was the following:

Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, even MTV! 

After all of these years I find out the lyrics are actually…

Whatever happened to predictability? The milkman, the paperboy, evening TV! 

Evening TV, Even MTV. Same thing. 

Saturday, February 23, 2008

Peppermint Patty

So, what is one supposed to do when their Friday night plans are canceled due to Mother Nature’s hissy fit (aka yet another snow storm)? Make peppermint patties of course! What made me decide on peppermint patties instead of oh I don’t know, cookies, is beyond me but I did so...take that Charlie Brown.

Sorry.
Actually, the ingredients list was short which meant I had everything in house already to go. 

So, want to know what 2 cups powdered sugar, 1.5 tbsp butter, heavy cream, a lot of peppermint extract and very little vanilla extract (close call side story: almost used maple extract by accident. Ick!) looks like?



Yummy? Not. Ick? Yes.

Ok, now do you want to know what chilled peppermint patty dough looks like rolled out and flattened?



Look, complete with hand prints!

Moving on.

Melting pot.



The recipe called for vegetable shortening to be melted in with the chocolate but that sounded pretty nasty so I used butter instead. Butter in the form of margarine. Same thing right?! (j/k)

Dipped!

After letting them “chill” for an hour I tried one.

Ick!

My homemade peppermint patties were gritty, bitter and...just gross.  The rest are in the trash. What a waste of a Friday night.

Friday, February 22, 2008

One of the many reasons…

Why I belong in San Francisco:

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Pigs are flying

Today I did something I’ve never done in the last 5 years. I willingly (?) skipped the gym today for selfish reasons. Not because of work or because of injury but because I wanted to.

I will now spend the next 3 days asking the husband if I look fat.