Tongue Twisters
So my daughter and I were discussing tongue twisters the other day. The only ones i can say are Peter Piper and the woodchuck one. I was on a mission to find the most difficult one out there so I googled it and this is what I found. I didn’t even attempt the first, I got confused just trying to read it.
Three Swedish switched witches watch three Swiss Swatch watches switches. Which Swedish switched witch watch which Swiss Swatch watch witch?”
Shep Schwab shopped at Scott’s Schnapps shop;
One shot of Scott’s Schnapps stopped Schwab’s watch.
Top chopstick shops stock top chopsticks or If A Dog Chews Shoes, What Shoes Should He Choose To Chew.
The Couch vs Goodwill
I’m gonna step back in time to 1993, the yr I got my first apartment. I wanted to have my own place prior to getting married that June. So in Feb/Mar I found a cheap apartment for 210 a month and it included heat. I was ready to move in. I went to the Dollar store and bought some cheap replicated china plates and a box of mixed plastic silverware for 4 and plastic cups for $.25 each. Oh yea think I got a few dish towels too. So for less than 5 bucks I could entire 3 guests it was awesome. I felt so proud. So I move in on Feb 15th with pro-rated rent of course, I had found a table for $15.00 at a garage sale a few yrs prior and kept it in my parents basement insisting that some day I would need it. I moved all my stuff in and arranged the items throughout my new place. I didn’t have much and thinking back all the stuffed animals I collected as a child didn’t look as good for decorations as I thought they had. It hit me I didn’t have any furniture to sit on.
I needed a couch, so off to Goodwill I went. I found this awesome huge couch for only $25.00, I had to have it, it had 4 cushions and it was a lovely shade of burnt orange. So I bought it and used my friend’s fiance’s truck. Getting it through the door was no small feat for it was a very long couch and I lived on the 2nd deck. After much swearing and getting hands smashed between the stairs and that damn couch we got it in. I was so excited I had furniture. I got married a few months later and summer hit well that couch started to emit some funky smell and it had to go. The hotter it got the worse it smelled. I called Goodwill and they came out and wouldn’t take it. I was pissed and told the guy that Goodwill will take this couch back whether they wanted it or not. After all summer was almost over and it would no longer smell while cold out.
Later that night the truck was brought back over and I made John and our friend Phil haul that smelly, ugly, thing out of my apartment at 11:30 at night. Right down the road was a drop off trailer for guess who????? That’s right GOODWILL. It was dropped off at midnight with a sign that said here’s your damn couch back. I drove past 2 days later, the couch was gone and they had taped a sign to their trailer that said…”Please do NOT leave any furniture at our drop off points”
Constant effort
The older I get the less I like religion and the more I gravitate towards spirituality and inner peace. Religion is something you learn a doctrine with laws, rules, and consequences. Spirituality is who your are, your morals, values, happiness. I have always feared religion and church after all I was raised in a Bible thumping, preacher yelling, going to hell if you misbehave church. God is much gentler and kinder than I always believed him to be. Unfortuanately it has taken me 40 yrs to figure that out. better late than never I guess.
So what I have I been doing to find that inner spiritual side of me…well not much but I’m getting there. I try to remain calm in situations that normally I would explode in such as my children’s deep desire to kill each other off over who had their foot on the couch cushion first. Or I am trying to be kind to those less fortunate, everybody has good in them right? Well most everyone, so it is an ongoing process which hopefully I will grow into over time. In the meantime I will continue to pray for patience and look at the positive side of things no matterhow bleak. I just hope I don’t explode first.
Power of the human mind
The Paomnnehal Pweor Of The Hmuan Mnid.
Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch as Cmabrigde Uinervtisy,
it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
Quote of the day
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Cola Roast
This is one of my favorites and it taste even better the next day.
Crock Pot
2-3 lb beef roast
20 ounces of coke (diet will NOT work)
1 pkg of lipton dry onion soup mix
Place the roast in the crock pot, pour the dry soup mix over the roast, then pour the coke over top and cook covered on slow for 6-8 hrs.
Really good with noodles or rice on the side and some veggies.
Easy Beef Roast
1 (4 pound) boneless rump roast
1/2 cup flour, divided
1 (1.3 ounce) envelope brown gravy mix
1 (1.3 ounce) envelope beefy onion soup mix
Spray 5 to 6 quart slow cooker with vegetable cooking spray and cut roast in half to fit in cooker.
Place roast in cooker and rub half of flour over roast.
In small bowl, combine remaining flour, gravy mix and soup mix. Gradually add 2 cups water and stir until mixes well. Pour over roast.
Cover and cook on LOW for 7 to 8 hours or until roast is tender.
Red Velvet Whoopie Pie
Ingredients
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 2 Tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 tsp. baking soda
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 1/2 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 egg
- 1 tsp. vanilla
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 1-oz. bottle red food coloring (2 Tbsp.)
- 1 recipe Whoopie Pie Filling, recipe below
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. Line baking sheets with parchment; set aside. In medium bowl combine flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt; set aside.
2. In large mixing bowl beat butter on medium to high 30 seconds. Beat in brown sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla. Alternately add flour mixture and buttermilk, beating after each addition just until combined. Stir in food coloring.
3. Spoon batter in 1- or 2-inch diameter rounds, about 1/2-inch high on prepared baking sheets, allowing 1 inch between each round.
4. Bake 7 to 9 minutes for 1-inch cookies or 9 to 11 minutes for 2-inch cookies, or until tops are set. Cool completely on baking sheets on rack. Remove cooled cookies from baking sheets.
5. To fill, dollop Whoopie Pie Filling on flat sides of half the cookies. Top with remaining cookies, flat sides down. Makes 60 one-inch or 42 two-inch cookies.
6. Whoopie Pie Filling: In medium mixing bowl beat 1/4 cup softened butter and half an 8-ounce package softened cream cheese until smooth. Fold in one 7-ounce jar marshmallow creme.
7. To store: Refrigerate in airtight container up to 4 days. Let stand at room temperature 15 minutes before serving.
Dec 10, 2009
I took my psychology final today and got a B on it. I am officially done with school, however I did sign up for classes next semester but I don’t have to take them for the Massage therapy program. I signed up for Abnormal Psychology and Functional Anatomy. I need these 2 classes for the Occupational Therapy assisting program I am supposed to begin in spring of 2012. So I figured I would get them out-of-the-way.
I went into work today and got my nails done and my hair high-lighted, gotta love working in a salon. I only had one client today so I finished up early so that I could come home, put my lovelies to bed and watch the Browns beat the Steelers. I know my life isn’t too exciting, but that isn’t always a bad thing.
Childhood
What is it that we remember most about our christmas gifts as kids? I vividly remember asking for the same gift year after year after year, there was really only one gift I truly wanted as a child and that my friends; was a bean bag chair. I use to look at them in the Penney’s and Sears catalogs yet to this day I have never received one. How could a parent deny such a simple request and cheap too. There were so many sizes and colors I use to imagine laying on the floor in my bean bag chair reading or watching TV. Just sinking into it as it formed to the shape of my little body. How perfect and comfortable it would be, yet every christmas morning there was no bean bag chair under the tree.
When I had kids and they got a little older I bought all three of them one of those chairs I so desired. They really enjoyed them at first, then the excitement wore off. And I begun to realize why I NEVER got one of those comfy chairs. For starters where was I gonna keep them? 3 large bean bag chairs in the living room yea right. I was tripping over them they eventually became little baskets to throw the laundry into when I felt to lazy to fold them. I would tell the kids just put them on your chair. They were constantly in the way, then low and behold one day I picked one up and tossed it across the room, not knowing it had a freaking hole in it. I spent the next yr picking up these little while styrofoam balls that stuck to everything and it was endless. Never again will my children get bean bag chairs while living under my roof. I just wish my mother could have had the same experience with the bean bag chairs that I had.
