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July 2009 ArchiveJuly 21, 2009
You know what's yummy?
Microwave
Kettle Corn with that Nacho cheese sprinkle stuff on top. Salty with a
hint of sweet. It's my new favorite snack. SERIOUSLY. ADDICTED.
(Nothing like adding seasoning salt to an already salty food though, right? BRING ON THE HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE!)
July 20, 2009
Update
is complete!!! Whew! That kinda took all day long. I finally got off my
ass and finished my long-ago-started and crazy-ignored Etsy shop and
put up all my silver core beads over there. Why? Just figured a little
branching out couldn't hurt. You always gotta be looking for new
customers and Etsy seems like an easy way to do that. And, with my EPIC
LAZINESS, I 'm all about easy. :)
July 16, 2009
The title of this post should be: Oh Bead Blog - I'm Just Not That Into You.
It feels like I update the other day and,yet, it's been a week.
MADNESS, I say! I have been working on some new beads though - even
some big hole ones. So I'll have those ready for this Monday. :) For
the rest of the week I fell into a rabbit hole for a bit there as I
concentrated all of my energy on book-reading and yarn frustrations.
The first thing having to do with this:
I
*had* to reread it so I can be properly prepared to see the movie.
(Which probably won't be for another week or two because I have to wait
now for the hubby to reread it as well because I made it clear he
wasn't allowed to ask me any questions during the movie unless he had
reread the book. I'm evil like
that. :)) I'm not sure why I reread it though because 3/4's of the
stuff never makes it into the movie, which is annoying. Oh well. I'm
all REFRESHED on the details now! :)
The second rabbit hole I
fell into this week had to do with a yarn of skein. A badly wound (not
by me) skein of yarn. Which, when I tried to unwind the badness, kind
of dropped from my hands at a crucial moment and fell into a big
gnarled 400 yard mess. Which took me over EIGHT FREAKING HOURS to untangle. Think I'm exaggerating? I'M NOT. I COUNTED. ON MY FINGERS.
IT WAS EXCRUCIATINGLY LONG. AND FRUSTRATING. And we're not talking 8
hours of kinda sorta working it. We're talking about 8 hours (over a
couple days) of serious concentration, without bathroom breaks. And
just WHY did I go through all that? Because the yarn in questions was
cashmere. Enough said? If it was just wool I would have trashed the
mother-effer about an hour in. But cashmere......sigh. You don't throw
cashmere out because of a tangle or two. Or three thousand. (Though
having said that....the next time this happens..if there IS a next
time...IT'S GOING IN THE TRASH no matter what it's made of. I don't
think I have the patience for another go round. EVER.)
July 8, 2009
Another
finish! I started this one back in February or so during the height of
the craziness with the FIL in the hospital with issues relating to his
lung cancer. I liked the sayings and it seemed to fit my mind set at
the moment. But I have to say it quickly got boring - a word, a color
block, a word, a color block, etc. The first two rows were interesting
but the other rows? Not so much. lol But I wanted to get it finished
before it turned into one of 'those' projects that hangs around for a
few YEARS before I get back to it so I rededicated myself to it the
last couple of weeks. I do like the finished piece though. I think it
would look nice framed up in the bathroom downstairs. That bathroom is
very sunny with white wainscoting /woodwork and butter yellow walls.
Not sure what kind of frame would go nice though. Have to think about
that one a bit. Hmm..
 
July 7, 2009
If
you like to cook and/or are always looking for some new recipes, I have
to say that the new Food Network magazine is pretty durn good. I got a
free year's subscription using my myCoke rewards or, I have to be
honest, I probably wouldn't have tried it out. I used to love love LOVE watching
TFN but they got rid of a bunch of shows I liked and brought in a whole
bunch of people last year or so that I think are 'ENH' and now I barely
watch it, except for my love for Bobby, Tyler, and Ina. (All
personality, nothing exciting going on in the food department now,
IMHO. Maybe I just maxed out on it?) But if you want excellent food
shows, you can always count on PBS for them, I guess, yes?
But
I'm three magazines into my subscription now (I only missed the
premiere one) and it's been great. Lots of interesting stuff that is
right up my culinary alley. lol I'm in a cooking rut at the moment so
I'm trying to dig up some new stuff to get me interested. I did a Pasta
w/Spicy Cauliflower Sauce last night from America's Test Kitchen and it
was YUMMMMM.EEEEEEEEEE. Very easy, using basic pantry items I always
have on hand. Whenever I have some cauliflower I need to use up, I'll
definitely remember to use this recipe again. I don't think they have
that particular recipe online (I got it from a 30 minute Suppers
booklet I bought) but, if memory serves, that is a fairly well known
recipe that everybody does so Google it! :)
July 6, 2009
Everyone
have a nice holiday/weekend? Mine, like a lot of US people I think, was
filled with hamburgers, hot dogs, corn on the cob, etc. It's not the
4th unless you've eaten your own weight in processed meat products,
right? lol
I managed to tick the MIL off though with my maniacal
laughing after she spouted off something out of the blue about moving
in with us for winters while she lives someone else during the summer.
Mind you, this little gem came out after about 3+ hours of her and the
husband bickering nonstop (literally) over every trivial thing that you can possibly imagine. LIVE HERE together? Those two can't even get through a LUNCH without
cannibalizing each other. I thought it was a JOKE and laughed til tears
came to my eyes and now she's mad. Boo-hoo? I want to care but I
can't. It's just so ridiculous. I can't even see her moving her stuff
in without them tearing the house down with an EARTHQUAKE of anger and
resentment, never mind staying here for any length of time. It would
be an EPIC FAILURE in the PLANNING STAGES, never mind IMPLEMENTING
THEM. Oh well. I'll have to keep my head down for a week or two while
the Drama Du Jour blows over. lol I hope she doesn't bring it up again
because I can't *NOT* laugh about it. I honestly can't. I'm physically
incapable of treating it as a serious subject. (To be clear: the MIL is
in no way hurting for a place to live and/or needing to go to those
lengths to save $$$. Hence the 'out of the blue' part.)
On the plus
side, it would probably make for a GREAT reality show so maybe I'm
being too hasty here. lol If VH1 or Bravo comes out with a reality show
in the next year about a mother/son forced to live in a house a la Big
Brother style until they pummel each other to death, YOU HEARD IT HERE
FIRST and they'll be hearing from my lawyers! Haha!
July 4, 2009Hope everyone has a happy and safe holiday weekend. :) Back to Articles |
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