Playing Along with May Scrapjacked and Two Peas

Just a quick pop-in to post some layouts I've been working on.

Here's a link to the May 2013 Jack.  And layout:

Here is a link to the TwoPeas Challenge for using a view master on your project.

And here is the layout I made last weekend of my lovely 30th Birthday Party:



I have the best friends, seriously. They are hilarious. And make faux photobooths and drink whiskey and champagne while wearing cateye glasses. I mean honest, is there anything better?

Methinks nah....

On the Tail End of Election Eve...

Its the tail end of election evening. I'm honestly quite glad the stupid election commercials will finally come to a screeching halt and I won't have to see Jay Inslee duking it out with Big Bird, the district attorney or Maria CuntCantwell. (Sorry, habit, that's what my dad has always called her. And some of you wonder where my awful mouth came from???, its your lucky day, I've just solved the mystery).

Many of my friends on facebook felt it was necessary to share every nuance of the election through their facebook page, including liking a multitude of their favorite candidates, vomiting political crap, etc. To me, it was merely a source of amusement.

The only thing that makes me mad about peoples' opinions on voting is that PEOPLE WHO ARE ABLE TO, DON'T! It makes me so angry. (*&(*^*&%$##&&). All expletives aside, I'm not sure if its lack of education, ignorance, laziness, or all of the above.  But there's no excuse.

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Enough about election crap.  I've been editing some photos of my husband's college graduation in MAY, gasp...  I've got a girls crafty weekend coming up and I really need to get my butt in gear and get things packed and organized. I'm happy to report, they're now well on their way.

I plan on doing a little sewing, a little card making, a little scrapbooking, and a lot of crass remark making now that I know everyone's views on gay marriage and marijuana legalization. Jokes aside, I can't wait to spend time with the girls and relax. Aside from a cozy weekend watching movies with hubby, its my favorite way to pass my time off work.

Here are some of the photos of the graduation and after dinner at The Cliff House (mmmmm):

 

Music of the Moment: Maktub - Promise Me

Gangnam Style

I feel like tonight has been epic.

Epic-ness in a detailed list (because I like lists):

1. I had leftover Taco Time sauce in the fridge for my tacos.

2. Tenaya told me I was not "current" because I had no idea what Gangnam Style was. So, I watched it on youtube and then I figured out how to make free ringtones from youtube. And now, I am in Heaven.

3. Tenaya now has a Gangnum Style ringtone. EPIC

4. Bombshell brownies just came out of the oven.

5. My husband VOLUNTEERED to go get ice cream because you can't have hot brownies without ice cream.

6. We get an extra hour of sleep tonight!

In case you have not heard it, here is Gangnum Style

In English

In Korean

And, because you know how I feel about posting without a photo...

October 2012 In Photos

I had a fun idea (well, not really my idea... ) about posting the my month in pictures. So at the end of each month, I'm going to try to get together my favorites and get them uploaded to the blog. So here they are.

So excited, I start my new job in production tomorrow! And so glad its almost the weekend. Ahhh, happy sigh. 

Music of the Moment: Weezer - Pork and Beans

Skippy Cookies

I thought I'd post my very most favorite peanutbutter cookie recipe. My mom got it from a co-worker over 30 years ago. I've never made different ones. These have always been the family favorite. You can put in chocolate chips or M&M's, they're always muy delicioso.

Enjoy, friends!

Skippy Cookies

2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
1 cup shortening (thats the good stuff)
1 cup peanutbutter
1 1/4 cups brown sugar
1 cup granulated sugar
3 eggs
1/2 tsp vanilla

Cream together shortening and peanutbutter. Add sugar, then eggs, one at a time until mixed. Add vanilla and dry ingredients, mix until smooth. Drop by spoonfulls onto cookie sheet or roll in sugar and criss cross with a fork. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-10 minutes.

I'd like to say that I lovingly sift the dry ingredients together and carefully spoon into my mixer that's never going to fast and may or may not throw dust all over the counter. But lets face it, I'm a working woman, and there's no time for that. When I want homemade cookies, I want them NOW.

And I don't have any photos of peanutbutter cookies, so here's an unrelated photo, because I feel like blog posts should have photos:

This is Tucker. Tucker likes cookies and swimming in the ocean. We met him on our girls weekend in Tulalip at a beach house. We drank a lot of Corona that weekend and ate some amazing halibut and I danced wildly on the back deck until I ran into the sliding glass door. (Tucker's name is actually Duke, but we didn't know that until the last morning we were there, and Tucker fits him so much nicer, don't you think?) After he would swim in the ocean, he liked to come up on our deck and shake his wet, sandy body all over us. Invigorating, for certain. So we took to baricading the deck with chairs. Yes, we loved Tucker, but only from a distance. HA.

Music of the Moment: Queen - Under Pressure

A Chat That Makes You Go Hrmmmm.......

*Note: I haven't posted in EONS, and this blog post has been saved in my drafts since FEBRUARY 2012. Yes, I know I'm a bad blogger. But I logged in, saw it, and laughed my arse off so I had to post it. Sorry if its too graphic. And, I apologize if I offended you because you kept your baby's placenta. I'm sure you're a good person, we just have differing opinions. Its kind of like how in most countries, they store fresh eggs on the shelf instead of in the refrigerator. I don't necessarily agree with it, but I won't judge you for it.



Do you ever have a conversation that makes you laugh so hard, you have tears roll down your face? And then you think, where the **** did that come from?

Today I got into a conversation with a friend of mine about a teddy bear made of leftover placenta that's been dried and stitched into a teddy bear shape. You can see what I'm talking about, here.

And that's not even the funniest most twisted part... we had the cable guy out to install new internet today and my computer was on so my husband and he just decided to test the cable out on my computer. I still had the site up. CJ had to explain the situation to him... we weren't interested in said nasty bear, it was only a curiosity...

See below conversation that made me just about lose it...

T: do you know that some people save their babys' umbilical cord?

A: yes. barf.
T: Auroras looked like a little black turd, no thanks
A: some people save the placenta! and dry it, and grind it and put it in capsules and take it as supplements
T: mmmmm, delish
A: i don't know where i heard that but i vomited in my mouth
T: have you seen the placenta bear?
A: no?
T: http://www.inhabitots.com/doing-it-for-the-kids-design-exhibition-placenta-teddy-bear/
sustainable teddy bears
A: I just threw up
T: you should TOTALLY do it, sorry
A: that is gross! I'm all about sustainable... and being green and recycling...but some things people come up with, I wonder, were they dropped on their heads as children? I need to start blogging again, this would be a great topic. Like Alli its very controversial and sickening. Can't you just picture the little kid getting into that jar and gumming that nasty thing?
T: LOL
A: I'm having a vision right now of just that and myself standing there watching in horror, a train wreck, you just can't look away...
T: just throw it in the pool and reconstitute it!!!!
A: OMG. I'm seriously laughing out loud right now

Old Habits Die Hard

So I'm a penny pincher.

And by penny pincher I mean frugal as all get out. If I could save .10 cents on a dozen eggs by doing a backflip in front of the Safeway store manager, even my clumsy, chubby self would figure out how to do it somehow. (Probably by animating a photo of myself spinning around on a Youtube video I showed him on my phone but nonetheless...)

With one working adult in the household and one going to school money is tight. And I want to make sure that we can feed ourselves and pay our bills.

With that said my husband is a shop-a-holic. Over the years I've whittled and whittled and whittled and he's now quite well trained, but every once in a while he blunders. I mean he is human afterall...

The other day I walked in the door and he says, "I have a surprise for you! And you can't be mad!" Um... surprise and mad only go in the same category when too much money has been involved. So I close my eyes and play a good sport and he stands beaming in front of me with two huge grocery sacks full of DVD's from Blockbuster's going out of business sale. Several of which are duplicates to ones we already own because in his haste and excitement he may or may not have wily nily thrown piles into the keep basket.

To his credit he got me several "girly" movies, one of which I watched last night and it was quite good.

I love him dearly, its hard to be mad when he's standing in front of me with movies he's bought for me (and him, lots for him too) and smiling ear to ear like a five year old who has just lost his first tooth.

I guess the moral is just because something's a good deal doesn't mean you have to buy 300. HA :)