So one of my lovely coworkers, Mrs. Deb, was mentioning that her dryer wasn’t working right. I, while listening to her was also concentrating on something else, and so my response? “Oh your hair dryer?”
She laughed so hard and responded sweetly with, “No, my clothes dryer. It just needs a new heating element. You just crack me up, LeeLee.” (that’s my nickname for Mrs. Deb.) Those 4 words are words, I’ll never live down, but that’s ok, because I totally made Mrs. Deb’s day. 🙂
26. Strawberries
A sweet sign of spring
27. Cutting Back on Diet Coke
I’m trying to cut down on Diet Coke, so I went and got these powdered drinks. Not sure how much healthier they are, but it’s a start. Yes, I’m currently having to get the “Energy” variety because of my addiction to caffeine. I’m hoping to wean off that as well.
28. My current Read
Anyone recognize it?
29. Txting while Walking
1. My Yummy Experiment
2. Building Birdhouses
Den Meeting to birdhouses and practice their skit for B&G banquet next week.
3. Preparing & cooking an outdoor meal
Monkey completed the last requirement on Saturday so that he can be rewarded his Wolf rank at the B&G banquet next Friday. He with the help of Rob cooked an outdoor meal. It was yummy!
Routine
Daily devotion is an important part of my day that unfortunately I haven’t been faithful with lately.
Music
I love music. I think sheet music is beautiful.
Technology
My iPod
Show Me Your Style
I didn’t have a chance to take a pic of me to show my style this week. I did receive this JC Penney catalogue, which is where I do most of my shopping. I also where lots of orange.
Mismatch
Friday was Dictionary Day at Monkey’s school. His vocab word was DOWDY, which is a synonym for mismatched. How convenient was that?
Just wrote a fairly lengthy post about friendship. If anyone cares to read it comment below with your email address and I’ll email it to you. It’s not something I feel appropriate to post to the world and my password protect feature doesn’t seem to be working.
Me: Hey babe, can you get me a diet coke?
Alex: Sure Mom, I’ll get you a dieing coke!
Alex: Mom, I know a secret.
Me: Someone told you a secret?
Alex: No I have a secret.
Me: Oh, is it good?
Alex: I have 2 pimples on my butt.
Me: You do? You mean your bottom?
Alex: Yah, they’re big and brown.
Me: Those aren’t pimples. Those are big freckles called moles.
Alex: No, they’re pimples!
Alex: Mom, when were you born?
Me: 1975
Alex: Did they have cars back then?
Me: Yes, although, computers and cell phones weren’t things we had.
Alex: Woooooow (wheels just a turnin’)
How is it the end of another month? I’m just flabbergasted! Time goes by so quickly when you look back. Anyway, here’s my post about February!
This month I was happy about: getting a free meal for Valentine’s Day.
This month I was sad about: my sis-in-law moving and the situation with Mr. Penny.
Somethings I accomplished this month are: finishing editing the wedding that I photographed in January!
Something new I did was: keep my niece for 3 days.
Books I read were: The Help, but I actually had to give up on it. I’ll try it again later.
Catching Fire
Movies I watched were: none.
I don’t think I watched any movies, actually…
TV Shows I watched were:
FriendZone on MTV
Kardashians
Teen Mom 2
Survivorman
Kings of Queens
With Rob, we watched:
The Voice
American Idol
The Mentalist
Criminal Minds
CSI
CSI New York
My favorite song this month was:
Paradise by Coldplay
Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) by Kelly Clarkson
Don’t You Wanna Stay by Jason Aldean & Kelly Clarkson
What I remember about work was: the typical shenanigans of working with college students, which I love. One night I was working with Daniel* who was looking at one of the reserve items from the shelf. There were some decently disgusting pictures in this book. He proceeded to show them to me. Then, forced another student to look at them. Mark* thought it was disgusting and just kept talking about it. Well they both did. I was trying to forget about it, which perusing facebook. I’m was glancing over Mark’s facebook page and noticed it said he was interesting in men. Well, this disgusting picture we had been subjected to was having to do with men. It was just a weird set of circumstances. I proceeded to ask Daniel if Mark was Interested in Men or if his site had been hacked. And we were like…no….no way. A few days later, Mark came to “Clear things up!” I was so embarrassed, saying that one of his frat brothers had changed it. Never a dull moment supervising College students!
*names changed to protect the innocent…or the lack there of
A lesson I learned this month was: expect the unexpected!
A friend and I: enjoyed hanging out on the cub scout family trip to the McWane Center. Things were so crazy I didn’t have a chance to have lunch this month. 🙁
My favorite pic that I took was:
I cooked:
Guac
Turtle Brownies
The boys were: busy as usual. Alex has been finishing up his requirements for Wolf (Cub Scouts). Drew has had several band practices after school and soccer is back in full swing.
My husband was: busy and stressed. Nothing out of the ordinary there!
The thing I’ll remember most from this month was: the trip the McWane Center.
I was a total slacker last week, when it comes to my daily photo-taking. I’m trying to do better this week!
24. Pinewood Derby
This year we spent about a week on his car, not a month like last year. He got 2nd for his Den. Not to shabby.
Crossed
I was looking around the house for something to snap for this one. I found this and loved the way the pic turned out for it. What’s this thing called? The name of it has slipped my mind and it’s driving me crazy!
A Glimpse
I originally chose this picture because it showed a glimpse into this popular downtown hangout. Then, I noticed the reflection, where you see a glimpse of me! 🙂
Handwritten
I enjoy participating in Postcrossing, where you send and receive postcards from all over the world. This is one of the first ones I received when I started doing this a couple years ago.
Here’s the front of the card.
Bliss
Love is Bliss…or at least it should be, right?
Gray
So I mentioned in a couple of my picture posts that the cub scouts had a family trip this past weekend to the McWane Center. Such a fun place! Nearly all hands-on, very informational, just loved the place! If you ever travel to Birmingham, I recommend it. Anyway, so our family decided to get their early, so we’d have plenty of time to see all 4 floors. We were able to get through all the floors in about 5 hours and that was really allowing the boys time to stay at some of the exhibits for awhile, not just skimming over everything. We met as a Pack at 6pm, which is when the museum closes. We were able to bring our stuff in. We headed to the IMAX theater, where we saw a movie called Rescue. Then, it was off to the cafe for dinner. The boys had about an hour to site-see in the museum and then they all got to earn a belt loop. After that many of us got our sleeping bags out and got ready for bed. Although, lights out wasn’t until midnight. Needless to say after being there since 10 am, I was one of the first ones asleep. The fact we slept under the large-fanged Appalachiosaurus didn’t bother me at all!
I did this recipe quite awhile ago and just never got around to posting it…
My biscotti didn’t have the nice crunch that I thought it was supposed to have. Turns out I left off step 7, so that’s why I called it Wanna-Be! I’m going to try out a different kind soon, so we’ll see how it turns out next time.
Servings: 24 pieces
Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cooking Time: 45 minutes
Ingredients:
1 1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1/2 c. white sugar, granulated
1 tsp. baking soda
1/4 tsp. salt
3 large eggs
3/4 cup pecans, roughly chopped
2 tbsp. lemon zest
6 oz. semisweet chocolate
Directions:
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Sift flower, baking soda, sugar, and salt into a large bowl. Mix in eggs. I just used a fork to mix it all in.
3. Zest and pecans can now be mixed in gently.
4. Pour mixture on to wax paper on a cookie sheet.
5. Cook for 25 minutes.
6. Allow dough to cool and cut into long slices about an inch thick.
7. Layout biscotti on wax paper and bake for 20 more minutes, flip half way through.
8. Melt chocolate in a double boiler.
9. When the biscotti is done baking, let it cool.
10. Dip them into the chocolate and allow chocolate to harden.
~Adapted from Eat Boutique
