Day 3 Photo Challenge

DAY 04: A PICTURE OF YOUR FAVORITE DAY


My favorite day is:

Wednesday :)

Day 3 30 Day Photo Challenge

DAY 03: A PICTURE OF THE CAST FROM YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW

Law and Order: SVU

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I love this show. Which is funny because it use to scare the heck out of me. Before my husband and I got married we lived in the same apartment complex but in different apartments. He lived with his brother and I lived with 10 furry lbs of attitude. I would be at my soon to be husbands' apt in the evening and then leave when it was time to go to bed. And I would never want to watch the Law & Order SVU episodes on TV because I am a chicken and being in my apartment alone made me "what if" all the crazy scenarios that I saw on the show.

I don't have that problem anymore (hello desensitization!) and I love the show. I love me some Stabler and Benson. I love how Olivia (Mariska Harigtay) has changed her hair over and over through the seasons and just gets better. Being a short hair kind of gal myself I know I've tried out a number of looks too and I've loved seeing her's. And I swear she just gets prettier every season. I love Elliot Stabler and seriously wished he was real when I was living in my apartment alone looking under my bed at night for bad guys.

Favorite episode: I loved when Cynthia Nixon guest starred in the "Alternate" episode about the woman with multiple personalities. I also loved "Baggage" which guest starred Delroy Lindo, very sad episode but powerful.

Least Favorite episode: "Identity" with the twin kids, which if you've seen the episode is probably all you need to remember it. And "Avatar" which was about online / alternate world role playing and just super creepy.

I have to admit I feel like I've learned a lot of about crime scenes and medical examiner jargon from watching this show. But mostly I just love the idea of people that want justice and good guys to win in life.

Anyone else addicted to this show?

30 Day Photo Challenge - Day 2

DAY 02: A PICTURE OF YOU AND SOMEONE YOU USED TO BE CLOSE WITH

This is a picture of me, my sister and my two best friends enjoying some ice cream after my rehearsal dinner. I'm close to all of them still but geographically I'm not really close to any of them right now. For now.

There are people that were once an important part of my life that I'm not close with anymore. Time and distance can do that to a relationship. I admit that I have cyber peeked (I don't like the word "stalked") people that I went to school with on Facebook from time to time wondering what they are doing now. And that is why Facebook is as popular as it is today :)

I just want to see where they live and how their life has changed. In some cases there really isn't much to talk about so there is no point in sending a friend request. I know that for me there are many people that I am "friends" with on Facebook that after that intial "Hey what have you been up to" message that the conversation just ceases. And that is ok sometimes. Relationships (platonic and romantic) are not all meant to be novels. Some are only suppose to be short chapters.


Anyone else want to confess to being a cyber peeker?

30 Day Photo Challenge

So my blogging muscles are feeling a bit weak right now. I needed to come up with something to get me to stretch them out a bit and my bloggy buddy Miss Jess over at the mundane adventures of Miss Jess started doing the 30 Day photo challenge and was doing such a cute job that I decided to go ahead and follow her lead.

So here we go.

Day 1: Post a picture of yourself and 15 facts.

My best friend from college took this picture of me when we lived in Lakeland, Fl. I loved this garden and I felt like Alice in Wonderland there!

1. I became an RA in college solely based on the show Felicity's RA, Noel Crane.

2. I'm probably one of the few people that really hates both The Goonies and The Wizard of Oz movies.

3. I've never left the country before.

4. I quote the Ghostbusters' movies an obnoxious amount. But so does my husband.

5. I really dislike ripe bananas.

6. I'm terrible at song lyrics, I almost always have them wrong.

7. But I have a great ear/ music memory for a tune.

8. My Etsy shop/ illustration business is the most rewarding job I have ever had. I love doing custom personal work.

9. I feel like I could be borderline narcoleptic with how fast I can fall asleep on the couch. Or maybe I'm just old.

10. I love being efficient & blowing through my "to do" lists.

11. I took Spanish in high school but the only phrase I can remember is "Vamos a la playa" Which I believe is "Let's go to the beach".

12. At my first real job, at a grocery store, I found my future husband to be. He was at the #9 express check out register.

13. I was on my high school marching band and flag team.

14. I met my best friend in pre-school. We're still best friends today.

15. I use to love the color pink but now I'm all about green.


Want to play along with the 30 Day Photo Challenge with me?

Playing Catch Up

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

It's been awhile since I've posted so let's play some catch up, shall we?

- Happy St. Patrick's Day! I'm wearing green because I am part Irish. My paternal grandparents came from Ireland and even had to drop the O' from their name when they came over on the big boat. Tonight were having corned beef sandwiches on rye bread (almost a Reuben) and some mint choclate chip cupcakes to celebrate St. Patrick's Day.

- Things have been so busy and disorganized lately because of being busy. My poor blog has been the main focus of my neglect, hopefully things will get more balanced soon.

- Have some big news to hopefully share soon.

So what do you do to celebrate St. Patrick's Day?

Disney-fied

I love all things Disney. The parks, the magic, just about everything that Disney does.


I saw these photos on another blog and I just had to post them here. There is a lot of criticism that the pictures are too heavily photoshopped and they chose the wrong actors but I'm liking it. Most of it.

Jessica Biel as Pocahontas

Roger Federer as King Arthur

Rachel Weisz as Snow White


Gisele Bundchen as Wendy Darling, Mikhail Baryshnikov as Peter Pan, Tina Fey as Tinker Bell.

All photos, and many more that I didn't include can be found here.


So which one is your favorite?

What Do You Have Cooking?

I love reading cook books. I love getting a new cook book and a stack of post it notes and going through the book and placing a post it note on each new recipe that I want to try out.

Many times the recipes that we collect come from a variety of sources including cook books, blogs and Food Network shows.

If a recipe is found online many times we print it out and place it in our big notebook of recipes.

The idea of organizing our recipes in a notebook probably made you think we had this whole organization thing down pretty well right?

Not necessarily.

There are folders to help organize aka "just hold it" for us, and that still works too. Lots of notes and recipes that were scribbled down find there place here.

We do use traditional cookbooks too.


This one is pretty classic. You can't go wrong with Paula Deen. You can end up with an increase in your waist line because of Paula Deen though :) Moderation, all in moderation.

Favorite Recipe from this book: Mac n Cheese.


My mom got my this cook book for my birthday one year knowing how much my husband loves Italian food. Happy birthday to me!

Favorite Recipe from this book: Chicken Saltimbocca

This is one of the first cook books that I got, back before I had any interest in cooking. I never cracked it open until many years later and to my surprise it had a number of good recipes in it that we keep in rotation now.

Favorite Recipe from this book: Chinese Peanut Chicken



This cook book is pretty amazing. It's huge and chock full of great Southern classic recipes. It also includes information on where the recipe originated from, a little Southern history, some top Southern restaurant profiles and tons and tons of great recipes.


Tons of great recipes. Got a little crazy with the post it notes.


Favorite Recipe from this book: Southwest Egg Rolls



We made these on Valentine's Day and they turned out amazing. They are similar to the egg rolls that you get at Chili's but much better. My husband really blew this recipe out of the water.


This book has more party and event type recipes.

Favorite Recipe from this book: Shrimp and Grits


This book is like a huge encyclopedia of cooking knowledge. If you want to know how to skewer shrimp, cook an egg, tie a roast this book will have your answer.

Favorite Recipe from this book: none. It has recipes in it but we've used it more as a resource so far.

Do you have a favorite cook book?