feeling good and in the mood...

for a little, baking!!!
get you're minds out of the gutter, pervs!

Tonight i felt like i needed to let go of some stress. I thought baking would do the trick. So, I made some yummy chocolate chip cookies!! Ahem, from my own recipe...after many attempts at stealing and trying to recreate the "famous Bradley cookie" recipe...I finally mastered my own style. And they are quite scrumdiddlyumpcious, if I do say so myself.



I took some over to my lovely friends at the Hobbit household and then some to my neighbors.

I felt like Betty Homemaker; only cooler, of course!

Bus Riders of the World UNITE!!

Sarah and I have been going GREEN in the area of transportation this summer!!!

Me, because I want to save gas,
Sarah because her brakes on her car are no more.

I love public transportation...
however, my high strung stick to the plan side of me does not always enjoy waiting when they are behind schedule. Because if you have to catch a connection...then you're screwed. Okay okay, I must admit, I'm getting the Boulder go with the flow, it's all good vibe, don't pollute the earth with your gas guzzling ride down. And, you know, the extra wait time, that others find so inconvenient because they need to get there quicker, isn't so bad. Actually, it gives me at least a good 45 minutes a day to myself to think and be alone--well as alone as you can be on a bus filled with a diverse group of people. you know what i mean, anyway, moving on...!!!! I have that extra time to process my day, read a book--right now I am reading The Hobbit, and overall have time to not have anyone demand/ask/need something of me. And that, my friends, is priceless!

So...let's HOLLA for the Denver RTD!!!!

seriously?

i mean, seriously!!!

F.

Some Days...

ARE just way too long!!!

Crawfish Boil: Part 2 -- Featuring Chief Brianna

for your viewing pleasure....

Crawfish Boil

tonight i ate crawfish for the first time!!!



we had our own little crawfish boil at the Hobbit House--Jayme and Brianna's current residence. i was a bit skeptical at first because i didn't want to do any of the breaking or de-veining or pealing apart of any crawfish. but, jayme insisted i do it myself. so Joe, who is a great crawfish instructor, walked me through the steps of eating crawfish.



i can honestly say that it wasn't bad. i didn't hate it.
but i can't say that i'll have a hankering for it either.

the night was full of laughter, songs, and great friends. it was a fantabulous way to spend a saturday night.

i had this whole other life when i was younger

and it looked something like this...





i believe i'm ready to do this again!

my mom is a baller!!!

when my mom picked me up from the OKC airport this week, i didn't recognize her at all.

here i was standing in passenger pickup looking for her black dodge durango. as i'm there looking around and waiting, i see this slick black ride pull up with someone waving at me. i just dismissed it, but the hand wave become more intense, and then there was a honk...i squinted my eyes and tried to peek in the tinted windows that were now becoming closer to me. since i am from oklahoma, i thought that maybe someone recognized me. but much to my surprise, it was indeed my mom in her new ride, a black dodge magnum with 22 inch rims. (she added the rim size when she told me what her car was...so out of respect, since it apparently seemed important to her, i am now telling you!)




when i opened the trunk to put in my luggage, i believe my first words to my mom were...
"mom, i didn't know you were a baller!"
which brought huge laughter to my nieces--who were also in the car--and my mom.
oh, the joy i do bring to my loved ones. :)