My Best Friend...

Tonight I'm wishing that I had the movie Bride Wars. I wish that I could be staying up late for a girls night with my BFF watching it. But I can't so I'm writing this blog to just take a minute and say that I have the greatest best friend ever. Bride Wars is OUR MOVIE! I swear it's so much like us. We watched the movie separately and still thought the same thoughts and had the same feelings about the movie. She's the "Emma" in our relationship and I'm the "Liv"....we balance eachother and bring out eachother's very best. We truly were meant to be best friends. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have her in my life. I remember that about a month ago she sent me chocolates just because I was having a really bad month....on the box it said something like "I thought you could use these...love Emma" ..... no her name isn't Emma. Not even close. But she's the greatest. My very own Emma. And I'm very grateful to have her. So "Emma" if you are reading this today, please know that I love you. You are the greatest best friend a girl could ever ask for.

Mastering the Art of Cheesecake....

Well, as I mentioned in my last blog post, I got a springform pan for Christmas. I have since made 3 cheesecakes. I'm quite positive that I am going to weigh 850 pounds before I finish making all the cheesecake recipes I want to try! Oh well, I've really enjoyed that pan. This weekend I took one of the cheesecakes with me to my Mom & Dad's house, along with some plates that belong to a set of china that my Grandma Inez gave me when I was 9. Grandma always told me never to touch those dishes so I have never used them, never wanted to because I was afraid of her. She passed away around Thanksgiving this year so I decided I was going to eat on those plates if it killed me. I don't believe in having dishes that you don't use....there's not anything in this world that's "special occassion" enough for me to save my dishes for. So I wanted to eat this cheesecake with Mom & Dad on Grandma's dishes. It was fun. No one died and the dishes are still fine.

I made another cheesecake today. It's a Chocolate Amaretto Cheesecake and it looks so pretty I almost don't want to cut into it. But it smells SO good! I am taking it to my inlaws tomorrow and plan on eating a piece while I'm there! I hope it tastes as good as it looks! This whole cheesecake venture was set in motion by them, they were the ones that bought the pan for me.....so I'm hoping they don't mind eating cheesecake with me for the year. I have so many recipes I want to try! I just wanted to share my latest crazy venture. The one that allows me to use my standing mixer....my most favorite kitchen appliance! That's really the latest going on with me this week. Making cheesecake....eating cheesecake....looking for lots of recipes for cheesecake....and trying to remember to exercise everyday so I don't weight 850 pounds!



And I hope you have enjoyed my latest post! I'm going to try and do this maybe once a week....but life gets busy so no promises! And here's just a random picture of my latest look.....along with one of my many scarves....I have a scarf fetish.....LOVE scarves....would be happy if I had 100 million of them....they make me happy. This one was a gift from my Brother & Sister in law....

Christmas, snow, and all the rest....

So Christmas was almost cancelled this year in Oklahoma because a blizzard came thru! It was crazy insane but somehow my amazing husband made it to my parents and we were able to spend Christmas Eve there with them! I love getting to spend that time with them! I gave my brother & sister in law the greatest gift ever! You see my brother thinks he's hilarious, and while somedays this is true, somedays, like my birthday, he isn't. About 8 or 9 years ago for my birthday I asked him for a cd that I wanted really bad. I figured, hey a cd is only around $13 so that's not too bad. Well apparently my brother thought to himself, gee, Sis doesn't need that cd, I'll go to Goodwill. So he took a trip to Goodwill and bought me an hor' dourve tree. It cost him 15 cents. Yes he left the price tag on it and that is all I got. I was so mad I didn't talk to him for a week. He did finally make it right and go get me the cd I had asked for but I kept the damn tree. For those of you that don't know what an hor' dourve tree is, well it's a plastic plate that has a plastic tree coming out of the middle of it that you stick finger sandwiches, olives, and other things of that nature on. Well, for Christmas, he got it back. The look of shock and surprise on his face was classic! I had asked them what they wanted for Christmas and they said they wanted gift cards to fix up thier house with....well I hate buying gift cards, what if what you need isn't at the store you are going to? So I figured money is better, and I could tie it to the tree and then wrap the tree. I haven't seen my brother "get got" in a long time. He was speechless at first and then he just started laughing! He couldn't believe that I had held on to that stupid tree! I loved it and got a great laugh out of it too. I don't know that my sister in law appreciated the joke as much as my brother did but it was well worth it just for the look on his face! I also got to spend some time with my grandparents. I swear, I love those to people. They had a good time opening up thier gifts and just being there with us. I got my Mammaw a prayer box and her face lit up. She loved it.

We spent Christmas day with my husbands family. It was nice. We always go over there on Christmas morning and open gifts and everything. Since everyone was pretty much snowed in we got over there and they had breakfast for us! That was a nice treat! Who doesn't love breakfast when they don't have to cook it or clean it up? We had a great time with them and even got to go and spend some time with Seth's family later that evening at his Great Aunts house. We got to catch up with family we hadn't seen in a while and that was fun. We enjoyed seeing Seth's uncle and listening to the noises of Christmas.

I haven't taken any pictures of the snow. I'm not digging it much. I don't like the cold and since it makes everything slippery and wet I can't wear my cute new shoes and so that is frustrating to me. I got some really cute heels that I want to wear. Oh well, maybe this snow will pass soon enough. My dog has loved it! He's jumped and played in the snow drifts and just loved every minute of it! It's been funny to watch him run around out there! Anyway, that's my holiday. I'm enclosing some pictures of the hor' dourve tree all decked out in money. Oh and also, I got a new springform pan so I can practice making cheesecake now! I made my first one! I'll enclose a picture of that too! It was delicious!!

Thursdays....

So this week, yeah, it hasn't been the greatest one ever. And right now I'm trying to gear up for tomorrow. See, Thursday and I, we have a Hate/Hate relationship. The last 5 or 6 of them have treated me pretty badly so I've decided to boycott them. I know, it sounds so stupid. But I feel a little better about it. I mean it all started when my best friend of 10 years decided to tell me that I was the most horrible person ever, then the next week, we had to put one of our dogs to sleep. It just continued from there. I've not had the greatest week this week and I'm not really looking forward to tomorrow. I figure whatever can go wrong, will. I'm usually not this negative and that bothers me that when Thursday rolls around my whole outlook changes. I mean, I usually don't think this negatively so why do I let Thursdays control so much for me? Who knows, maybe sometime soon, Thursdays and I can patch things up and won't have to be so cold to one another. I laugh when I type that because it reminds me of my favorite tv show, The Gilmore Girls. If you've ever seen it you know that Loralei loves snow and at one point, she and snow "break up"....that's kind of how I feel about Thursdays right now. Maybe someday we will get back together. Like Loralei and the snow......

The Good Kid

So, ya know what my favorite thing is?? Being the good kid. Getting to spend time with my Mom and Dad and just getting to be with them doing fun stuff on Saturdays. Today I went and shopped with my Mom. I got some of my Christmas stuff bought and out of the way. We had such a blast. We always do. We got to talk and be together. That is always so nice. I even got into the spirit of Christmas by listening to my most favorite cd on the way home. It's a holiday tradition for us to listen to "The Cabbage Patch Christmas" from 1983 every single year since I can remember. I recently found it on cd and well it's the only Christmas cd I own. I hate to listen to Christmas music because it seems like during this time of year, there is NO escape from it. But that cd makes my heart smile. So many memories in every single song. So today, was a great fun filled day with Mom, topped off with great 1983 vintage Christmas music!