I made fried chicken, mashed taters and gravy tonight. I've been trying for YEARS to perfect my gravy. It's not easy. I've been studying.
I've watched Mrs. Irritation make it. I've watched my mother countless times make it. Why is it SO. STINKIN'. HARD. FOR. ME???
I was determined--tonight would be THE night I had success. I didn't add too much flour to the grease. I let it get nice and brown. Oh no, I ran out of milk, and didn't have any canned evaporated milk! I thought we'd be eating dry potatoes.
Not to fear! I just discovered that I actually LIKE soy milk. They were giving away samples at Costco last weekend, so I tried it. I really liked it! I bought a case just in case I ran out of milk and couldn't have my standard Kahlua & milk to drink. It tasted like the real thing to me when I sampled it, just like milk. So I used a box. My gravy consistency turned out JUST RIGHT! Finally, I had a great looking gravy! I timed it perfectly for the taters to be hot, the gravy to be done, the chicken to still be warm.
I served it up. We started to eat. That's when I realized. Vanilla soy milk does NOT taste like regular milk.
Sorry dear.
(at least it LOOKED good)
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Total Waste Of Makeup
Well today has been a total waste of makeup.
Pretty much a crappy day worthy of THREE items from my CDP. It was that bad.
1) had to work on my annual goals--I hate this with a passion. Can't I just work hard and they just take care of me because my awesomeness just shines through in every way? No? You mean I gotta document this crap?
2) our local storage area a mile down the road was broken into. Really upset that our post hole digger THAT WE NEED TO USE IN A MONTH TO BUILD A FENCE AROUND THE GARDEN along with the power washer and a few other items were stolen. I just can't even go there.
I have very pretty new nail polish in fabulous colors to use now (one blue, one green). I must go find a new place for my new hot-pad in very bright gorgeous colors.
Good riddance, Wednesday.
Pretty much a crappy day worthy of THREE items from my CDP. It was that bad.
1) had to work on my annual goals--I hate this with a passion. Can't I just work hard and they just take care of me because my awesomeness just shines through in every way? No? You mean I gotta document this crap?
2) our local storage area a mile down the road was broken into. Really upset that our post hole digger THAT WE NEED TO USE IN A MONTH TO BUILD A FENCE AROUND THE GARDEN along with the power washer and a few other items were stolen. I just can't even go there.
I have very pretty new nail polish in fabulous colors to use now (one blue, one green). I must go find a new place for my new hot-pad in very bright gorgeous colors.
Good riddance, Wednesday.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Suzie's Poodle
Every once in awhile when I need a pick-me-up, I look at this picture on my phone. Tell me, how can this NOT cheer you up?
Monday, March 5, 2012
CDP partially unveiled
Sunday, March 4, 2012
I'm Such A LUSH
I am not being endorsed in any way for this post--if you know me, you know this topic is straight from my heart.
If you don't know what LUSH is, let me introduce you. It's the BEST, most fun store ever. I saw a comment from Mouse the other day on Anonyvox's post, and it reminded me that I had this post in progress. If you are lucky enough to live in a city where there is a LUSH store, even just a little corner in a Macy's, then you are very, very lucky. It's a fresh handmade cosmetics store. Not cosmetics as in makeup, although they do have lip balm (hardly makeup, I know). It's bath bombs, bubble bars, bath melts, massage bars, fresh face masks, soaps, moisturizers, lotions, and potions and I ABSOLUTELY ADORE this company. My ultimate crazy wacky dream is to someday own my own LUSH store. I'd sell jewelry too, and mix my own soaps in the back room. MMMWWWwwhhahahahahahaha (evil scientist laugh).
Mrs. Irritation introduced me in Vegas when we were there with our hubby's. We went to LUSH again on our first girls trip to Vegas, which was a first time LUSH visit for Becky and Erica, it was so fun! I got Dawn hooked on it when we decided to unexpectedly go shopping 2 years ago in Dallas. I am so lucky to live just an hour from the store in KC now, and I had to get a present for Tullybird before my final move (can't wait to take her to the actual store). Whenever I travel and have this stuff in my bag, I wreak in a most delightful way--during a business trip to Chicago, I picked up Suzie's 40th birthday present last fall.
My favorite product: Soft Coeur Massage Bar. This stuff allowed me to live in the high desert and not shrivel into an old wrinkled prune. It's amazing stuff! There is a trick to using this: After you get out of the shower, warm it up in your hands, roll it all over, and THEN towel dry yourself off. Not only will your skin be soft and hydrated ALL day, but your towel will smell like Heaven too. If you think the feel is too greasy or you need to get dressed quickly, just sprinkle on some Silky Underwear Dusting Powder or any of their dusting powders.
Need something else that moisturizes? Their bath melts are AWESOME! Try this one Floating Island or this one MMM Melting Marshmallow Moment. Or this one Deamtime, or You've Been Mangoed, or the witchy one. I love every single one of these for a really moisturizing bath that takes your stress away.
When I was in NV, I LOVED the closest store in Sacramento. The employees were always so fun and everyone is always knowledgeable about all of their products. I've only been to the store in KC twice, so I haven't gotten to know their staff. Yet.
Now let me warn you, if you visit a store and the employees seem a little eager in a crazy kind of way, like they believe their stuff is just SO awesome, well, it's cause their stuff IS. JUST. SO. AWESOME. Really. I am this Canadian companies' biggest fan. Oh, oh, if you are lucky enough to be there at the right time, one of the employees might mix a "bath time cocktail" for you. It's usually some kind of complimentary scented bath bomb and bath melt, or bubble bar and bath melt. They swirl the items together in a big bowl of water, and messier the better!!! You can stick your hands in and feel how nice a bath full of that stuff would be.
I love most of the products I have ever purchased and all of the products I have been the very lucky recipient as a gift. Christmas time is SO MUCH FUN to sniff your gifts first, if you think it might be LUSH, or if you recognize the paper. I've been SO EXCITED to unwrap presents from Suzie, Tullybird, Mrs. Irritation and my parents in years past when I saw the LUSH paper. See what I was like at Suzie's last December?
I am not a sales person, it's not in my DNA. But this stuff? I'm their biggest cheerleader.
Here's my little protégé. Mrs. Irritation sent this pic one time they were in a LUSH thinking of me. Her daughter loves the store as much as I do:
I do love their 9-to-5 to wash off eye makeup. It's so gentle. I just use it in the shower on my eyelids. Another product I love is their lip scrub, Sweet Lips, which was another mandatory item when living in the desert.
I am a certifiable LUSH fanatic! If you have never been and have a LUSH accessible to you, GO, GO NOW!!!! Or shop online. I have absolutely no idea what you are waiting for, an engraved invitation? I'm working on it. But go now!
If you don't know what LUSH is, let me introduce you. It's the BEST, most fun store ever. I saw a comment from Mouse the other day on Anonyvox's post, and it reminded me that I had this post in progress. If you are lucky enough to live in a city where there is a LUSH store, even just a little corner in a Macy's, then you are very, very lucky. It's a fresh handmade cosmetics store. Not cosmetics as in makeup, although they do have lip balm (hardly makeup, I know). It's bath bombs, bubble bars, bath melts, massage bars, fresh face masks, soaps, moisturizers, lotions, and potions and I ABSOLUTELY ADORE this company. My ultimate crazy wacky dream is to someday own my own LUSH store. I'd sell jewelry too, and mix my own soaps in the back room. MMMWWWwwhhahahahahahaha (evil scientist laugh).
Mrs. Irritation introduced me in Vegas when we were there with our hubby's. We went to LUSH again on our first girls trip to Vegas, which was a first time LUSH visit for Becky and Erica, it was so fun! I got Dawn hooked on it when we decided to unexpectedly go shopping 2 years ago in Dallas. I am so lucky to live just an hour from the store in KC now, and I had to get a present for Tullybird before my final move (can't wait to take her to the actual store). Whenever I travel and have this stuff in my bag, I wreak in a most delightful way--during a business trip to Chicago, I picked up Suzie's 40th birthday present last fall.
My favorite product: Soft Coeur Massage Bar. This stuff allowed me to live in the high desert and not shrivel into an old wrinkled prune. It's amazing stuff! There is a trick to using this: After you get out of the shower, warm it up in your hands, roll it all over, and THEN towel dry yourself off. Not only will your skin be soft and hydrated ALL day, but your towel will smell like Heaven too. If you think the feel is too greasy or you need to get dressed quickly, just sprinkle on some Silky Underwear Dusting Powder or any of their dusting powders.
Need something else that moisturizes? Their bath melts are AWESOME! Try this one Floating Island or this one MMM Melting Marshmallow Moment. Or this one Deamtime, or You've Been Mangoed, or the witchy one. I love every single one of these for a really moisturizing bath that takes your stress away.
When I was in NV, I LOVED the closest store in Sacramento. The employees were always so fun and everyone is always knowledgeable about all of their products. I've only been to the store in KC twice, so I haven't gotten to know their staff. Yet.
Now let me warn you, if you visit a store and the employees seem a little eager in a crazy kind of way, like they believe their stuff is just SO awesome, well, it's cause their stuff IS. JUST. SO. AWESOME. Really. I am this Canadian companies' biggest fan. Oh, oh, if you are lucky enough to be there at the right time, one of the employees might mix a "bath time cocktail" for you. It's usually some kind of complimentary scented bath bomb and bath melt, or bubble bar and bath melt. They swirl the items together in a big bowl of water, and messier the better!!! You can stick your hands in and feel how nice a bath full of that stuff would be.
I love most of the products I have ever purchased and all of the products I have been the very lucky recipient as a gift. Christmas time is SO MUCH FUN to sniff your gifts first, if you think it might be LUSH, or if you recognize the paper. I've been SO EXCITED to unwrap presents from Suzie, Tullybird, Mrs. Irritation and my parents in years past when I saw the LUSH paper. See what I was like at Suzie's last December?
I am not a sales person, it's not in my DNA. But this stuff? I'm their biggest cheerleader.
I do have to admit there are a few items I wouldn't purchase again.
- Phoenix Rising bath bomb is a beautiful product with a different scent that had me enjoying it after getting used to how different it smells. However, when I went to drain my fresh clean tub? I had to scrub it 5 times because the bath water had left a pink stain all over my tub. Not happy about that especially since I had JUST CLEANED IT BEFORE THIS BATH. Use this only in a hotel. ;-)
- If you like your hand soap to suds up a lot, I'd recommend skipping their bar soaps. However, you are missing out on some killer great scents. Honey I Washed The Kids soap and Rock Star are my two favorite bar soaps. You can't beat those scents.
- This eye cream, Enchanted Eye Cream, is inconsistent. Since their products are hand made, I experienced a difference in this. The first bottle I ever bought, I loved it. The second bottle? Not so much. It was much thinner and didn't work well. It actually didn't work at all. I SHOULD have taken it back to the store and gotten a replacement. A sales person told me that since they are hand made, that batch may not have been the same, so I should have brought it back. So that is really my fault, but I had purchased it while on an out of town trip. I could have called them. But I'm still not going to purchase it again. At one point in time, I did love it though.
Here's my little protégé. Mrs. Irritation sent this pic one time they were in a LUSH thinking of me. Her daughter loves the store as much as I do:
I do love their 9-to-5 to wash off eye makeup. It's so gentle. I just use it in the shower on my eyelids. Another product I love is their lip scrub, Sweet Lips, which was another mandatory item when living in the desert.
I am a certifiable LUSH fanatic! If you have never been and have a LUSH accessible to you, GO, GO NOW!!!! Or shop online. I have absolutely no idea what you are waiting for, an engraved invitation? I'm working on it. But go now!
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Flash Back In Time
We watched a movie tonight. The movie is a year old, cause honestly? We aren't real current on movies. We literally have movies produced in the past 10-15+ years that we haven't watched. Current movies produced today... We'll be watching in several years. It's just the way life goes.
We watched the light hearted adventure comedy, Paul. The movie was OK. It had a few cute moments and a few funny moments I laughed out loud. I can't remember what they are today, so it wasn't overly fabulous, but it wasn't a waste of 2 hours of my life. That isn't in itself blog worthy.
You guys, what transported me back instantaneously to 1980 was the song at the end. ELO All Over The World. I was immediately transported back into like a 5th grader when I knew every single word to the Xanadu record. I lived for and loved that movie. I loved Olivia Newton-John, the music, the clothes (leg warmers!), the roller skating; I loved EVERYTHING about that movie. I wanted to be Olivia. She was so romantic and beautiful to my pre-teen self. During the winter months when I couldn't be at the local public swimming pool growing gills, I was at the skating rink. I LOVED to roller skate. I can't tell you why, but just hearing that ELO song tonight got me all choked up remembering that movie before I could consciously even recognize the memory. Somehow, it had a profound impact on me. What the impact was, I don't really know.
What's ironic is that we just found my old LP from back then--the very record I listened to over, and over, and over. Now I need to buy a record player. Do you recognize this cover?
On one hand, I'd like to watch the movie again. But on the other hand (maybe my dominant hand) I'd like to keep it a sweet childhood memory. It could never possibly live up to my memories, so why ruin it. The fantasy in my head skates on!
Do you remember Xanadu? Did you live at the skating rink too?
We watched the light hearted adventure comedy, Paul. The movie was OK. It had a few cute moments and a few funny moments I laughed out loud. I can't remember what they are today, so it wasn't overly fabulous, but it wasn't a waste of 2 hours of my life. That isn't in itself blog worthy.
You guys, what transported me back instantaneously to 1980 was the song at the end. ELO All Over The World. I was immediately transported back into like a 5th grader when I knew every single word to the Xanadu record. I lived for and loved that movie. I loved Olivia Newton-John, the music, the clothes (leg warmers!), the roller skating; I loved EVERYTHING about that movie. I wanted to be Olivia. She was so romantic and beautiful to my pre-teen self. During the winter months when I couldn't be at the local public swimming pool growing gills, I was at the skating rink. I LOVED to roller skate. I can't tell you why, but just hearing that ELO song tonight got me all choked up remembering that movie before I could consciously even recognize the memory. Somehow, it had a profound impact on me. What the impact was, I don't really know.
What's ironic is that we just found my old LP from back then--the very record I listened to over, and over, and over. Now I need to buy a record player. Do you recognize this cover?
On one hand, I'd like to watch the movie again. But on the other hand (maybe my dominant hand) I'd like to keep it a sweet childhood memory. It could never possibly live up to my memories, so why ruin it. The fantasy in my head skates on!
Do you remember Xanadu? Did you live at the skating rink too?
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