Jan 17, 2007

Chinese Popcorn Mix


For Charlynn :)

Susannah made this today!

You will need:

8 cups of popped corn
2 cups of chow mein noodles
1 cup peanuts
3 tablespoons butter
half teaspoon sesame oil
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 teaspoon ground ginger

Preheat oven to 250.

In a large shallow roasting tray combine popcorn, chow mein noodles and peanuts.

Melt butter. Add sesame oil, soy sauce, lemon juice and ginger.

Pour over popcorn mixture; toss to coat evenly.

Spread on shallow baking tray.

Bake at 250 for 1 hour, stirring every 20 minutes.

Spread on paper towels to cool. Serve immediately or store in an airtight container.

Make 8 cups.

Piggin juice!!!!

Charlie somehow got 2 cartons of unopened apple juice...in my LAUNDRY room (which she isn't supposed to get in to!!) and she chewed up the juice cartons and even though I have mopped the floor, it is still sticky :(

I should take a picture of her for you all - she has really grown! She is literally a 'fat pig'!!!!!!!!!

Hi Baby!

Lloyd if you are reading this - I love you!!!! Can't wait until Friday when you finish work for TWO WEEKS :)

5

Five more sleeps :)

sweet tooth?

http://www.dylanscandybar.com/

I was watching Martha this morning while I folded laundry......and she had Ralph Laurens Daughter on (she seems soooooo nice!)

Anyway, she has a chain of candy stores called Dylans Candy Bar.....but these aren't just candy stores - they are cafe bars and clothing stores all based around candy - and then the candy part of the store is INCREDIBLE.

But what is best is that there is a Dylans Candy Bar in FLORIDA MALL in Orlando....

So uh yeah.....you can guess where I"M going next week ;)

trying................

Do you think there sre some people you just CAN'T get along with no matter how hard you try? Do you think that can ever change? Even if you really want to like them.....maybe to make your partner happy or to make a mutual friend happy?

What can you do if you feel you have to like them but you just can't?

I try to like this person...I want to like them but they just rub me up the wrong way. So yet again I take a step back.

This situation makes me uncomfortable and maybe its just me...maybe I take things too personally or just think too deeply but then again...maybe I just don't like this person.

I don't like this person. This person makes me uncomfortable.

I think the feeling is probably mutual. But this person will be in and out of our lives for years - so I keep trying.....

You can't help the way you feel though right?

ideas?

It's date night and Lloyd says it's up to me what we do this time.....and I haven't a clue.....so.....any ideas?????

The children are working on portraits this morning......and this afternoon Susannah is making Chinese popcorn....she bought all the ingredients yesterday....

I was supposed to go out today but I cancelled...I am such a homebody in winter - any excuse to stay home......I literally hibernate....

I'm out tonight anyway.....

I think I'll call my sister......

Christie is coming over tomorrow - I'm looking forward to that...are you bringing Sugar with you Christie?

On Friday I am going to Theresa's house - she has saved 36 egg boxes for me!!!! :) so I will spend some time there before my Docs appt.....

movie time......

Movies I've Seen

(x) Rocky Horror Picture Show
(x) Grease
(x) Pirates of the Caribbean
( ) Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest
( ) Boondock Saints
(x) Fight Club
( ) Starsky and Hutch
(x) The Neverending Story
( ) Blazing Saddles
(x) Airplane
6

( ) The Princess Bride
( ) Anchorman
( ) Napoleon Dynamite
(x) The Labyrinth
( ) Saw
( ) Saw II
(x) White Noise
(x) White Oleander
(x) Anger Management
(x) 50 First Dates
( ) The Princess Diaries
( ) The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (not the whole thing, but I caught the end on cable)
6+5=11

(x) Scream
(x) Scream 2
( ) Scream 3
( ) Scary Movie
( ) Scary Movie 2
( ) Scary Movie 3
( ) Scary Movie 4
(x) American Pie
(x) American Pie 2
(x) American Wedding
( ) American Pie Band Camp
11+5=16

(x) Harry Potter 1
(x) Harry Potter 2
(x) Harry Potter 3
(x) Harry Potter 4
( ) Resident Evil 1
( ) Resident Evil 2
(x) The Wedding Singer
(x) Little Black Book
(x) The Village
( ) Lilo & Stitch
16+7=23

(x) Finding Nemo
(x) Finding Neverland
(x) Signs
(x) The Grinch
( ) Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original one)
(x) Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
(x) White Chicks
(x) Butterfly Effect
(x) 13 Going on 30
(x) I, Robot
(x) Robots
23+10=33

( ) Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story ("Nobody makes me bleed my own blood.")
( ) Universal Soldier
(x) Lemony Snicket: A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(x) Along Came Polly
(x) Deep Impact
( ) Kingpin
( ) Never Been Kissed
(x) Meet The Parents
(x) Meet the Fockers
( ) Eight Crazy Nights
( ) Joe Dirt
( ) King Kong
33+5=38

(x) A Cinderella Story
(x) The Terminal
( ) The Lizzie McGuire Movie
( ) Passport to Paris
(x) Dumb & Dumber
( ) Dumber & Dumberer
( ) Final Destination
( )Final Destination 2
( ) Final Destination 3
( ) Halloween
(x) The Ring
( ) The Ring 2
( ) Surviving X-MAS
(x) Flubber
38+5=43

(x) Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
(x) Practical Magic
( ) Chicago
( ) Ghost Ship
( ) From Hell
( ) Hellboy
(x) Secret Window
(x) I Am Sam
(x) The Whole Nine Yards
( ) The Whole Ten Yards
43+5=48

( ) The Day After Tomorrow
( ) Child’s Play
( ) Seed of Chucky
( ) Bride of Chucky
(x) Ten Things I Hate About You
(x) Just Married
( ) Gothika
(x) Nightmare on Elm Street
( ) Sixteen Candles
( ) Remember the Titans
( ) Coach Carter
(x) The Grudge
( ) The Grudge 2
(x) The Mask
( ) Son Of The Mask
48+5=53

(x) Bad Boys
( ) Bad Boys 2
( ) Joy Ride
( ) Lucky Number Slevin
(x) Ocean’s Eleven
( ) Ocean’s Twelve
(x) Bourne Identity
(x) Bourne Supremacy
( ) Lone Star
( ) Bedazzled
( ) Predator I
( ) Predator II
( ) The Fog
(x) Ice Age
( ) Ice Age 2: The Meltdown
( ) Curious George
53+5=58

(x) Independence Day
( ) Cujo
(x) A Bronx Tale
( ) Darkness Falls
( ) Christine
(x) ET
( ) Children of the Corn
(x) My Boss’s Daughter
(x) Maid in Manhattan
(x) War of the Worlds
(x) Rush Hour
( ) Rush Hour 2
58+7=65

( ) Best Bet
(x) How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
( ) She’s All That
(x) Calendar Girls
( ) Sideways
(x) Mars Attacks
( ) Event Horizon
( ) Ever After
(x) Wizard of Oz
(x) Forrest Gump
( ) Big Trouble in Little China
(x) The Terminator
( ) The Terminator 2
( ) The Terminator 3
65+6=71

(x) X-Men
( ) X2
( ) X-3
(x) Spider-Man
(x) Spider-Man 2
( ) Sky High
(x) Jeepers Creepers
( ) Jeepers Creepers 2
(x) Catch Me If You Can
(x) The Little Mermaid
(x) Freaky Friday
( ) Reign of Fire
( ) The Skulls
(x) Cruel Intentions
( ) Cruel Intentions 2
( ) The Hot Chick
(x) Shrek
(x) Shrek 2
71+10=81

( ) Swimfan
(x) Miracle on 34th street
( ) Old School
(x) The Notebook
(x) K-Pax
( ) Krippendorf’s Tribe
(x) A Walk to Remember
( ) Ice Castles
( ) Boogeyman
(x) The 40-Year-Old Virgin
81+5=86

(x) Lord of the Rings Fellowship of the Ring
(x) Lord of the Rings The Two Towers
(x) Lord of the Rings Return Of the King
(x) Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
(x) Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
(x) Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
86+6=92

( ) Baseketball
( ) Hostel
( ) Waiting for Guffman
( ) House of 1000 Corpses
( ) The Devil's Rejects
(x) Elf
(x) Highlander
( ) Mothman Prophecies
(x) American History X
( ) Three
92+3=95

( ) The Jacket
( ) Kung Fu Hustle
( ) Shaolin Soccer
( ) Night Watch
(x) Monsters Inc.
(x) Titanic
(x) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
( ) Shaun Of the Dead
( ) Willard
95+3=98

( ) High Tension
( ) Club Dread
(x) Hulk
( ) Dawn Of the Dead
(x) Hook
(x) Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe
( ) 28 Days Later
( ) Orgazmo
( ) Phantasm
( ) Waterworld
98+3=101

( ) Kill Bill vol 1
( ) Kill Bill vol 2
( ) Mortal Kombat
( ) Wolf Creek
( ) Kingdom of Heaven
( ) The Hills Have Eyes
( ) I Spit on Your Grave, a.k.a. the Day of the Woman
( ) The Last House on the Left
( ) Re-Animator
( ) The Ghost and the Darkness
101+0=101

(x) Star Wars Ep. I The Phantom Menace
( ) Star Wars Ep. II Attack of the Clones
( ) Star Wars Ep. III Revenge of the Sith
(x) Star Wars Ep. IV A New Hope
(x) Star Wars Ep. V The Empire Strikes Back
(x) Star Wars Ep. VI Return of the Jedi (Wow. Who knew I was a Star Wars geek?)
( ) Ewoks Caravan Of Courage
( ) Ewoks The Battle For Endor
101+4=105

(x) The Matrix
( ) The Matrix Reloaded
( ) The Matrix Revolutions (I finally gave up after the second one)
( ) Animatrix
( ) Evil Dead
( ) Evil Dead 2
( ) Army of Darkness
( ) Team America: World Police
( ) Red Dragon
(x) Silence of the Lambs
( ) Hannibal
105+2=107


107 of these movies I have seen......hhmmmm and that is a very small percentage of the movies I have watched...which makes me wonder how many movies I have actually watched!!! Yikes!

100 ideas

http://www.kerismith.com/funstuff/100ideas.htm

I love this!!! I have to do some of these......

great blog.......

http://www.kerismith.com/blog/


A quote:

slow down week is here.

1. walk as slowly as you possibly can for at least 10 minutes.

2. sit in a busy place and do not move for 10 minutes.

3. give yourself permission to not answer the phone all week.

4. take half an hour to peel and eat an orange.

5. have a conversation with a squirrel.

6. watch ice melting.

7. leave secret notes in trees.

8. write in a cafe for several hours.

9. conduct your own japanese tea ceremony.

10. grind ink to draw with, write in your journal using brush and ink.

11. sew something by hand.

12. take photos on your way to work.




I think I like 'slow down week'!!

desires...............

What is your deepest desire?

5 things

I got this from Jennifer Loudens blog.......

Five things you didn't know about me....

1. I once threw my underwear at Matt Goss, who was onstage performing as part of Bros!

2. I would LOVE to have my tongue pierced but I'm scared....

3. I walk on tiptoe on any hard flooring....I don't know why. People comment on it......

4. At 7pm each night I am falling asleep but by 10pm when I actually go to bed, I am wide awake. This drives me crazy.

5. I check the Global breakfast traffic news every morning to make sure there have been no accidents on Lloyds commute.....

regrets

I get an email sent to me regularly from the 'self-care minder'.......and today it led me to an article on regrets and asked the question....

If you died this year, what would you regret not doing?

Hmmmmm interesting question.....what would I regret? I don't have many regrets - not serious ones......I would regret not being able to grow old with Lloyd.....but can you regret the future???? Not sure that that counts...

Maybe I would regret always being behind the camera and rarely in front of it......the camcorder and the still camera......

blah!

I didn't sleep well last night...neither did Lloyd....Abigail had very bad dreams. She's had a few lately and has been overly emotional during the day too........I'm not sure if it's excitement about the holiday or tiredness from Christmas...or maybe a touch of SAD from hibernating with me all winter long......

She wants to go to preschool this morning but it isn't on today.....

Yesterday she asked her big brother to babysit her Tamagotchi for her while she was at preschool and in town......unfortunately he forgot and the 'pet' died. She was distraught! I told her that she could simply reset but she wasn't so much upset about that - she said she was upset because Laurence had promised her and he forgot....

It's hard to be 5. Well, almost 5!

Lloyd is worrying over what to get me for my birthday next week....because we will be on holiday so he is limited to what he can get (the VW Beetle won't fit in the luggage! Lol!) I told him I don't care - that the fact he is willing to spend the day on the beach is enough of a gift! He doesn't like the beach....which is funny because he grew up by the sea!

So he wants some ideas for my birthday.......and I can't think of anything so I suggested he takes me to a book store and lets me choose a few books. He bought me such great gifts for Christmas that I don't really need anything...or want anything....

Last night Abigail decided she wants a pet - because all the others have or have had pets. So she wants a fish - just like Franklin the turtle has...

Well thats nice and easy. She hasn't forgotten and this morning she asked if she could have 2 so they have a friend! Which is fine if the fish like each other - but imagine getting stuck in a fish bowl your whole life with someone you can't stand - someone that bores you silly!

So when we get back from Florida we will go shopping for fish. She asked for a pig but one pig is quite enough thank you very much! She suggested we buy the fish today and take them with us on holiday.....oh to be 5! Life is so simple when you are 5.

I have to go out this morning so I should go get dressed......have a great day everyone - what are you all up to?
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