Random Tuesday Thoughts!

It's that time again! I love Tuesdays! Happy Random Tuesday! Click the box below and join the fun over at Keely's blog.

1. I don't mind fanfic at all. As a matter of fact . . .  I may have been known to read some of it. However, and I found this very disturbing, fanfiction should be used with characters that have been created and NOT real people. I've signed up for some google alerts and I'm constantly getting links for "fanfic" stories involving these people and their friends. REAL people, not characters, the actual people. Ick. I sure hope these people never see this.

2. Adam Lambert. AMA's. What the  . . . ??????? (Just FYI This video is PG-13 at least)

3. I dreamed about Adam Lambert Sunday night after the AMA's . . . It was bound to happen . . . *Shudders*

3. I play Date of the Day on Facebook everyday. I NEVER end up with anyone I'm interested in ending up with. Although I've been dating Leonardo Dicaprio and Robert Pattinson pretty regularly. I'll let you know how it's going. My real question is why do I keep getting stuck with these guys and my friends get Johnny Depp?!!?!?!?!?

4. I HATE being broke this time of year (I hate being broke any time, really). Last year I had garland up around all my doors and doorways. This year I have streamers in the appropriate colors. Oh well, at least I have streamers.

5. Saw New Moon last night. I really liked it. A million times better than Twilight. Taylor Lautner made me feel bad for and even kind of like Jacob (NOT an easy thing to do, let me tell you). Also, I think Michael Sheen as Aro was great. He stole the scene. I'm looking forward to seeing more of him.

6. I updated my blog editor thing. WHERE is the spell check?!!?!?!?!?!?!? Help! Please???

Christmas Movies

I can't seem to get away from the Christmas stuff recently (Sorry, Cate).

I'm happy to report that I've seen a few houses around town with twinkling lights and Christmas trees in the windows. It makes me smile.

Around this time of year I like to break out the Christmas movies. The problem with that is that I don't have a lot of Christmas movies. Hard to believe, I know. Actually as far as "Christmas" movies go we have a grand total of four. Three Santa Claus movies (Tim Allen) and A Charlie Brown Christmas.

Some of my favorite mood movies:

Little Women. I know this isn't technically a Christmas move (that's why it wasn't on the above list). But it just puts me in a Christmasy mood.

Then there's White Christmas, a classic. Gotta love Danny Kaye (I do anyway. Hehe)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas. How can you have Christmas without the Grinch?

A Christmas Carol. I prefer the movie "Scrooge" (with Albert Finney from 1970). It's a musical and it's so much fun.

Of course there are others however my brain is fried right now and I can't think of them. I'll have to do another Christmas movie post.

What are your favorite Holiday movies?

Cookies!

Alright! Cookies! (Not random at all . . . )

I want to bake Christmas cookies. The only problems are A. If I bake them now I'll eat them all. B. I could freeze them but I'm afraid they won't freeze well and then turn out icky. (Has anyone ever frozen cookies?)

I have a few recipes I'd like to try. But, I need to be in the mood to bake cookies. They take a lot of time (I only have two cookies sheets) and space. Dedication is required to put in a few hours of cookie baking.

Any suggestions on good cookie recipes that freeze well? I need them to freeze for about a month (if I made them today).

I saw this website today. I might give some of those a try. I also spend a lot of time on the All Recipes site (If you've never been there you should absolutely check it out). I've found a few cookie recipes there that look like fun.

Now my problem is deciding which ones I actually want to make. I can't do them all.

Six Word Saturday!

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Hot. Cold. Hot. Pick a temperature!

Chloe 2

August 27, 2009: I purchased Chloe (My LGenV3).

Most of the time she worked great. Then after I had her for about a month she started acting up. I would go to make a phone call or send a text and find that she had powered off. So, I would turn her back on and go about my day.

This would happen every other day, every three days, occasionally every day and it was starting to get irritating. I have a phone so people can get a hold of me and I can get a hold of them. How is anyone supposed to get a hold of me when my phone has turned herself off? (Maybe it was some form of protest?)

A few days ago (Sunday) I took Chloe to the Verizon store and told the lady what the problem was. She said "Oh you just need a software update. Let me do that for you."

I gladly handed over my phone and she went to update. The Kiddo and I ran to the store and then back for my phone. She handed it to me and I was very happy. I assumed I would no longer have to deal with Chloe's tantrums.

I walked out to the car, buckled the Kiddo in his car seat, sat down, started the car and looked at my phone. Off. Okay, I figured, optimistically, she was just resetting. Fifteen minutes later, Off. Does anyone see a pattern forming here? A couple hours later I was home, grabbed the phone, Off. This is now getting annoying. More annoying than it was before. She would throw her little tantrum and power off at least twice a day.

So, Wednesday I took her back. I couldn't handle it anymore. I traded her in. I am now the proud owner of Chloe 2. Same exact model phone, just a new one. It took AGES to get it all taken care of and get all my numbers and photo's transferred. Of course, I also lost my ring tones (Bye bye, Christian Kane). So, now I have to do those again.

I'm hoping however that this has taken care of the issue and Chloe 2 (Which will most likely be shortened to Chloe. Hey, it's almost still her, same battery.) and I will be great friends.

HGotW - Simon Baker (Third Edition)

Welcome to this weeks Hot Guy of the Week post! This weeks edition is dedicated to my Mom and Cate. (Check out Cate's awesome blog: ShowMyFace.) 

I give you . . .

Simon Baker

(I wonder what he's talking about.)

Just look at that smile.

And for the guys:

Jennifer Garner

I hope you enjoyed todays post! Have a great day!

P.S. This post was edited to include a special pic just for Cate. :)

How do you like it?

How do you like your coffee?

I can pretty much drink coffee in any form. I don't care, just hand it over and no one gets hurt.

When I first started drinking coffee I drank it black. My Dad drank it black and I guess I figured if he did it all the time, then why not?

I asked him once why he drank it black. His answer was this:

When he was younger he lived in a house with his Dad, his step-mom, four step-siblings and his own sister. He said every morning there was a line at the cream and sugar. He decided that he didn't want to stand around and wait so he skipped the line and drank the coffee black.

I often drink mine black. Unless I find a really great looking creamer at the store. Then I have to try it. Currently I'm using International Delight's Caramel Macchiato. It's good but it tastes NOTHING like a REAL Caramel Macchiato. I'm just trying to use it up so I can try a Gingerbread or Peppermint or something. Tis the season!

Iced Coffee from McDonalds is delicious, I usually get Hazelnut and I let them put all their cream and sugar in that too. See, I told you I drink it anyway you hand it to me! (as long as it's not lifting weights or trapping large animals. That would be "strong" or "tar-like.")

Random Tuesday Thoughts!

Random! Random! Random Tuesday! Yay! I love Tuesdays!

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1. I saw two deer the other night in the middle of town. They were running from one little patch of trees on one side of the road to another little patch of trees on the other side. I have no idea where they came from or where they were going because we really don't have "woods" around here at all. Just little patches of trees here and there.

2. There's this movie that I've been waiting and waiting for. It's called Ca$h and it's been in production in some form or another for years. I'm talking something like three years. I think it was supposed to come out in '07. Well, that never happened but it's FINALLY getting there. I am so excited. I sure hope it's worth all this anticipation. Sean Bean is in it so even if it turns out it's not that spectacular, at least it won't be a total waste.

3. Making Caramel French Toast for breakfast today. I'll let you know how it turns out. The picture makes my mouth water and I want a glass of milk just looking at it.

4. If you didn't see my blog yesterday you should really check it out. Brighten a Soldiers day! (Especially around this time of year.)

5. All the hype about New Moon has me almost wanting to read the Twilight Series again. Maybe just the good parts? (That would be anything with Edward and nothing with Jake. Sorry, Jake.)

6. Nice and cool here yesterday (and hopefully today too). We even had the heat on. Although to be honest I probably wouldn't have turned the heat on except that J really wanted it. He seems to get cold a lot faster than I do.

I hope you enjoyed this weeks, rather short, edition of Random Tuesday Thoughts! Have a great day!

Forty-four Cents a Week?

I was on Twitter the other day (naturally) and I came across something very interesting.

It is from the website Thank You Soldier. It is the "Letters" Project.

You can go to the site and sign up to recieve a weekly e-mail that includes the address of a Soldier.

For the price of a stamp and a few minutes of your time you can brighten a day and show your support for our Troops.

I absolutely signed up and I'm excited to participate. I think it's an awesome thing for us to do to try to encourage our men and women.

If you feel that this is something you're interested in, check out "Letters" Project.

Snug as a Bug

Blankets.


I love blankets.

I have so many blankets, you wouldn't believe.

I don't know how this obsession started or when actually. I just know that I've accumulated a vast amount of comforters, throws, fleece and baby blankets during the past few years.

When I was younger I had a bunk bed. Yes I'm an only child, what of it? I was just spoiled blessed when I was younger. Actually I don't really think I was that spoiled. I just asked for a bunk bed for Christmas one year and received it as a joint gift from my Gram and an Aunt. I often had friends over so it was nice to have a bed for them.

Anyway, with the bunk bed came two cute, matching, flowery comforters. I also, of course, had a comforter for the bed that I had before that one. So, at this point I was, oh maybe 9 and had three comforters.

Quite a few years later I requested a down comforter for Christmas. Kind of as a "hope chest" item. (Even though I never actually had a hope chest.) I didn't get my down comforter but I did get a large "Down Alternative" comforter. (That's Four comforters so far, if you've lost count, by age . . . 17?)

When I got married my husband and I received an awesome leopard print comforter for a wedding shower gift.

Later while my husband worked as a Mall Security Guard he was driving around the parking lot after closing and in the dumpster behind a store was a brand new (to this day I don't know WHY it was in there) queen size comforter. Bright green on one side and kind of checkered on the other with green and pink and white. Very cute.

Also somehow we acquired another twin bed comforter from some friends. (We're now up to 7 comforters.)

This does not include the myriad of throws (Two of which were 25 dollar soft and fluffy blankets that were in the dumpster with the green comforter.) that we have. A blanket that was made for my husband, a Sun Moon and Stars fuzzy blanket that was a gift from my Mom, a soft and fuzzy planet/space themed blanket that is my sons, an afghan that was made for me by my best friend, a giant teddy bear blanket also from mom and the million and one baby blankets, baby comforters and fleece throws.

To top it all off, the other day I went next door to a yard sale and found an awesome full size comforter that goes great in my son's room. (Comforter 8)

Needless to say when someone comes to stay at our house, they'll NEVER be cold!

(Thanks for sticking around for my history of blanket acquisitions.)

Six Word Saturday!

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"The secret lies within The Order."

If you've read The Lost Symbol that will make sense to you. If you haven't read The Lost Symbol you really should . . . after you read Angels and Demons and then The Da Vinci Code. Dan Brown is awsome. I just finished The Lost Symbol and I really enjoyed it.

Friday the 13th

So It’s Friday the 13th. *Insert high pitch moaning sounds here*

Are you superstitious? I’ve never been superstitious. I’ve never been bothered by a broken mirror, spilled salt, crossing paths with a black cat, walking under a ladder or opening an umbrella inside.

Right here I should mention that it’s a good thing that I’m not bothered by the black cat thing because we have eleventy thousand stray cats in this town. On Halloween night TWO black cats crossed my path! If that’s not bad luck I don’t know what is!

As of now, I'm happy to report that I've experienced no bad luck (no more than normal anyway) associated with this encounter.

What about you, are you superstitious? Maybe today I'll spill some salt or open an umbrella inside or break a mirror and see what happens . . .

 . . . Or maybe I shouldn't tempt fate . . .

HGotW - Second Edition

Welcome to this weeks edition of Hot Guy of the Week! Today's entry is one that I'm thinking will have a broader appreciation base than last weeks edition.  (Although to be fair I'm a HUGE fan of last weeks guy.) Well, without any further ado I give you this weeks Hot Guy.

Ewan McGregor

Last week I posted little tidbits under the pictures but I don't really know what to say for these.

They speak for themselves.

Ewan McGregor always makes me smile. Especially when he's a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He is so very funny and how can you not like a guy that looks like that and makes you laugh? Oh yea and if you've seen Moulin Rouge you know the guy can sing too!

Some things you might have seen him in:

• Star Wars Episodes 1-3
• The Island
• Angels and Demons
• Black Hawk Down
• Moulin Rouge
• The Men Who Stare At Goats

(Among other things)

And because I'm such a nice person . . . For the guys . . .

Salma Hayek

 

Dr. Suess, The Library and The Circus (Put them together and what do you get?)

Our town is a Circus City. Basically this means that over the winter the Circus stops here. There are at least three, possibly four, Circus' that live in our town. Because of this you can see Circus related stuff everywhere.

The Library is no exception to this. The Kiddo and I went to the Library the other day to hang out for a little while. He loved it.

(Note: I forgot my camera at home so these pictures were taken with my phone. Not excellent quality, but they'll do.)

Thanks for joining us at the Library. We came home with a plethora of Dr. Suess related materials. It was fun!

Random Tuesday Thoughts!

Happy Random Tuesday to you!!! If you like being random you should click the little box below and join the fun over at Keely's blog!

1. We Finally bought a router! I'm so very very happy! I'm no longer confined to one spot on the sofa while using the computer! Freedom!

2. Happy Birthday to the United States Marine Corps!!

3. Do you still type "www." before your web addresses? Because I've noticed that it's not necesary (for the ones I've tried anyway) anymore. Although, I still type it almost all the time. It's ingrained into me. My fingers just automatically go there.

4. I really wish I had the whole series of Gilmore Girls on DVD. There are times I just want to watch it and I can't. I love that show.

5. It's ridiculously cute to hear my three year old "read" Green Eggs and Ham. Sam-I-am is every two or three words and then he goes through the list. "In a tree, in a box, in a car, with a fox. In a boat." It's great!

6. I finally discovered the "updated" version of the blog editor. I've been working with the old version and all the time wishing I had different options. Well, I finally found it!

7. I hate sucking stuff up in my straw. I don't care if it's an ice chip. (I don't do well with slushies.) Something about chuncks in my drink totally messes with my head and triggers my gag reflex.

8. I'm very picky about my hangers. I hate wire hangers. I only use the plastic ones that you can buy in packs of ten (or whatever). I realize I would have more room if I used wire hangers but I just can't bring myself to do it. I also toss (or leave at the store) the plastic hangers that clothes come on when you buy them. I know, I 'm strange.

9. I sang my Kiddo to sleep last night. I haven't done that in AGES!! Talk about Precious Moments. He's growing so fast. I'm really going to miss these time.

Happy Random Tuesday to you!!!