So I got older last weekend. We won’t say how old – but I’m not 20, 25 or 29… Anyway my mom and uncle got me a KitchenAid stand mixer and the poor thing has been used almost every day since. I started with Alton Brown’s soft pretzels. Which turned out to be the ugliest pretzels you’ve ever seen, but quite tasty if I do say so. Next I tried cookies. I had some random things in the pantry and thought I was being creative by putting them together in one cookie and then the next day found several recipes for my ‘creation.’ woops.
My husband works in a 90% male office so I sent the cookies with him knowing they’d be gone in an instant instead of staring at me and calling my name over and over. He took them in and they were devoured. I got requests for more. Well I have to do what the people want, right? So I made more cookies and more cookies and more cookies. I may have started a problem because now they’re going to expect them. Oh well.
Oh! I didn’t tell you what kind I invented – or didn’t invent. They were Oatmeal, White Chocolate, Cranberry. Yum!
So then Tuesday night I had plans to go with my mom to meet my idol. I joke with my husband that I want to be her when I grow up. I’m not sure what I love more – her stories, photos, or recipes. Check out her blog if you get a chance, you’ll love it. We gave ourselves plenty of time to get there -or so we thought. Traffic was a nightmare and we barely made it in time. We lucked into getting some seats up front, but off to the side. So no great pictures, but that’s ok. Her hursband and kiddos were there too and we made small talk with them while we waited for her. She was just what we expected. A little shy, a lot funny, and very real. We waited in line to have our books signed, took pictures with her, her hubby, and her son.
On Thursday I got to indulge in another of my obsessions. The Twilight Saga: New Moon came out at midnight. My sister and I bought our tickets ahead of time, slammed some caffiene and waited for the movie to start. Oh emm gee. Amazing movie. Still not as good as the book, but much better than the first movie. I loved every minute of it, even the cheesy lines and scenes. I do wish that there was more of the romance from the book in the movie to help people understand why Bella is as obsessed as she is and why Edward did what he did. Oh well, I will still probably see it again in the theater and will for sure buy it. How old am I? Hahaha.
Friday night I made a recipe from Pioneer Woman’s cookbook and TOTALLY forgot to take pictures of it. I’ll do better in the future I promise. I will say though, if you happen to be married to, dating, living with etc. a meat eater, you must make this sandwich. The meat eater will grunt and thank you profusely.
Sunday capped off the week with surprise tickets to a box at the Rams game. As usual the rams were disappointing, but we had a blast anyway. Very thankful for our friends.
Well that’s all I have for now. Hopefully this week I will actually get some pictures and recipes up here. That’s my plan at least. I also need to post some pictures of my jewelry. I got another order last week and I’m really excited. The more people I have wearing it, the more orders I’m likely to get! Right? Right!
I think I will try not to make long posts like this one in the future. Too much to say about each thing. Still finding my voice.
