one year later

one year cuter. ooo I love her.

cousins like zehbra

I had a baby

she's pretty dang cute.

I need to buy a house by the beach

no big deal, if you could just arrange for me to have 100 grand? I would appreciate it.

love,
mp

ANGEL

we've been watching tons of Angel lately. it's awesome. except for the creepy muppet episode. jumped the shark, beezies.

Hey! do you want to make some delicious beans??

I will tell you how:

1. get some dry beans. I like black beans and pinto beans. and whatever.

2. rinse them off and look through them for rocks and sticks. I missed a rock once because it looked EXACTLY like a black eyed pea. My tooth found it later.

3. put the beans in your crock pot or rice cooker and fill it with water. I think I use 4 cups of water to 1 cup of beans.

4. NOW FOR THE MAGIX!!!
add 1 chicken bullion cube. (or what have you, vegetable if you're a vegetarian, ham if you're making black eyed peas, etc.)
4 cloves of garlic (peeled)
1 T (I eyeball it and use about 1/2 a lid full) of Old Bay seasoning. One time I used Tony Chachre's Creole seasoning, it made *spichy* beans, but you can try it.

5. give it a stir!

6. go do something for a few hours. I think 2 to 4, but I check them a lot because I get so excited.

When they're done you can just eat them, or freeze some for later.

*you're welcome*

xo-mp

Mr.Pig

1. the thing we like to do is find the local versions of national brand sodas. so from the piggly wiggly (I'm stickin' with the pig) we present Mr.Pig and Mountain Yeller as favorites. followed by Mountain Lion (the Food Lion version of Mountain Yeller) as a close second.

that's fun, eh?

2. we pretty much spent the weekend at the beach. so nice. swimming in the ocean is a crazy workout, it's so cold and the waves are pretty strong. It's nice here because it's pretty shallow out past the breakers so you can just float up and down on the waves for a while. don't get lulled into complacency! you will be sucked out into the wine dark sea like that. (snaps for emphasis).

3. we did conference for fun.

4. started a cross stitch project with the L. spoiler: it's a frog.

5. I don't know. my breath has to be insane right now, like so bad. probably I'm going to bed. wish we had some zoloft for our sins.

xo-mp

rv livin'

azaleas outside our window.

kitchen with dirty dishes (I'm a slatternly housekeeper-sorry)

I put a tea towel up in the bathroom. I just thought it was pretty.

bedroom- it usually looks a bit like this.

bedroom from the kitchen. I like the light.

my birthday shawl that I'm working on. I love it. I think the yarn is super pretty and the pattern is  interesting.

last night I had a dream about my grandparents. we were sitting in my great aunt marguerite's house and I was asking my grandma what I should do and she gave me an ugly shirt that made my bra look fluorescent. the dream changed before I could get to the crying part of dreams about my grandparents, which I was grateful for. waking up crying is not as much fun as one might imagine.