Marvelous Pigs in Satin

I have this problem where I bookmark sites and then can’t remember why. Even putting my links into categories wasn’t helping. So I have created a new list of “Projects I want to Make.” It has the direct link to the pattern/tutorial that I plan on following. Maybe this will help me…

Okay, so I tried being super. Which really isn’t unusual for me. Those are the things I always try to do.

But remember that Adam Sandler movie where he gets a remote that can rewind & fast forward life?

I just want to get that remote and put my life on pause until the DH comes home.

**Insert Picture of Zombie Lady here**

Only I realize that I will waste a large portion of my life and be a bad mom if I do that.

So I keep trying to keep going.

But sometimes it sucks.

At least I fixed my vacuum today. So it sucks!

And guess what? I took a quiz and

Twilight Quiz » QuizRocket.com’s fun quizzes!

You are beautiful beyond measure — the envy of every girl. Your loyalty to your family is as fierce as your sense in fashion. You love your family very much, and wish you could have your own one day.
*********
Which just goes to show how psycho and unbalanced I am right now.

…..

But wait!

I am gorgeous

and value having children

and can be very cold to people that I view as a threat to my family.

I guess it’s true.

I’m Rosalee

At least I’m not Bella.

Can I still have Edward?

p.s. I had to say no to a murderous # of adds to get my results on this quiz, so I don’t recommend it. But since I clicked so many times to get it, I posted it anyway.

So my cousin over at Merrie Melody tagged me. I suspect foul play because she has a cute bag and it is pretty clean. Mine on the other hand is frightening. But I am being a good sport. So here are the rules:

1) Post a picture of whatever bag you are carrying at this moment. No going up to your closet to pull out that cute one you use for special occasions. I want to see what you carried today or the last time you left the house.

2)I want to know how much it cost. This is not to judge. It is purely for entertainment. So spill it. If there is a story that goes along with how you obtained it, I’d love to hear it!

3)Tag some peeps then link back here so people know why the heck you’re showing all your bag business!

Right. So there’s my bag. I got it free at the hospital 4 1/2 months ago when Julia was born. It was full of baby formula samples (the evil formula company trying to undermine breast feeding Moms) and coupons for diapers and the like.

Being a Mary Kay Lady, I have a lot of bags, and many of them are cuter than this one. However, about 3 weeks ago, I realized that I had 5 different bags that I was using as a diaper bag/purse. I could never find anything because I had to check all 5 to find it. So, I dumped them all out and made the decision that this bag was to be THE diaper bag.

Currently, my diaper bag is holding all this junk:

the junk can be classified as follows:

Baby stuff: a diaper, case of baby wipes, 2 foil packets desitin (though I much prefer using this stuff.), comb, saline nasal spray & nose sucker bulby thing, baby nail clippers, sunday tights, a lone baby sock

Momma stuff: zebra wallet (yes, one cool thing in the bag!), nursing pads, lanolin salve, chapstick, maxi pad, foil packet of prep H, lipstick compact, lysol disinfectant spray, pink planner for MK appointments, hair scrunchie, hair clip, check book, both sets of keys to my van, Relief Society phone book, pen

Random stuff that needs to be put elswhere: the boy’s tie from sunday, a broken diva bracelet, some rubber bands and a paper clip, left over postcard invitations from my last Mary Kay event, a DVD (Stuart Little 2), a rubber spatula, various reciepts & coupons, a Hello Kitty coloring book, actual trash, a diva corset from the princess birthday party (also where the bracelet came from, two cards with information about the Mormon Tabernacle Choir concert in Kansas City, 2 pencils, empty ziplock bag

Yeah. Don’t worry. My purse is a reflection of my house cleaning skills. Isn’t that scary

I am not super.

Well, my DH left today for Officer Candidate School. He will be gone for 8 weeks. So I am sad and lonely. But I am only allowing myself to wallow for tonight. Then tomorrow, I must become SuperMom/SuperHouseCleaningLady/SuperMaryKayLady/SuperYoungWomensLeader/SuperQuiltingLady/SuperTakesDinnerToHerSisterWithANewBabyLady/SuperOnADietLadyWhoWillSoonWeigh30PoundsLess

and stay so busy that I don’t have time to think about how long he is gone for.

P.S. Yes, I do consider Mom and Cleaning House to be 2 separate and distinct jobs.
P.P.S. Just to put off going to bed alone, I will share with you my most fabulous breadstick recipe. Don’t lie to yourselves. Breadsticks are food for the gods.

Easiest, Yummiest Cinnamon Breadsticks ever:

Easiest, Yummiest Garlic Parmesan Breadsticks ever

Dough: (this is the bread dough recipe that I have memorized. THerefore I use it for every bread-like recipe because I know it works and it saves me the time of looking up recipes.)

3 cups warm water
2 Tbsp active dry yeast
1/2 sugar or 1/3 cup honey
1/4 cup oil
1 1/2 Tbs salt
5 cups Whole Wheat Flour
3-4 cups All Purpose Flour

Dissolve the yeast in the water (if you have instant yeast instead, mix it with the flour). Add the rest of the ingredients in the order listed. I mix it in my KitchenAid. Use enough flour that the dough no longer sticks to the sides of the bowl. Knead 10 minutes. Cover with a cloth and let rise for about an hour. 40 minutes is good in the summer when the temperature is hot.

Grease 2 heavy cookie sheets with Shortening or butter. Use a lot. I prefer the shortening at this step because it won’t burn as easily as butter. Don’t worry, we get to the butter later.

Divide the dough into 2 balls. Roll one ball out on a cookie sheet.

Melt 1/4 cup of butter (1/2 stick)
Spread it over the dough.
Sprinkle GENEROUSLY with sugar and cinnamon

OR (decisions, decisions!!!)

Melt 1/4 cup of butter
Spread it over the dough
Sprinkle GENEROUSLY with garlic powder and parmesan cheese.

Better yet, do one pan of each.

Allow dough to rise for 40 minutes to an hour.
Use a pizza cutter to cut the dough into strips (see picture)
Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes

I suggest you double the recipe. One pan of each is just not enough.

1. Wrapping Paper or Gift Bags-Do Walmart bags count? Just kidding. I do usually wrap the presents at Christmas. Other times of the year, I use gift bags.

2. Real Tree or Artificial–artificial, no pine needles to vacuum or allergies to deal with.

3. When do you put up the tree-last Friday (December 12).

4. When do you take the tree down-as soon as possible, so that the kids don’t destroy it.

5. Do you like eggnog? The only question dumber than this would be “Do you like chocolate”

6. Favorite gift received as a child–That would be the 2 volume book set of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas I got in high school.

7. Hardest person to buy for–My son, Blueberry Pie. I am all about handmade gifts–but what do you give an 8 year old that he will really love? Because you know that all he really wants is an X-box.

8. Easiest person to buy for–the girls. Is it pink, fluffy, and include the word “princess” ? They’ll like it.

My sister has tagged me.(There seem to be a lot of tags going around recently. hmmm….) Here goes:

9. Do you have a nativity scene– I do. I made it myself and the pattern is coming out soon!

10. Mail or Email Christmas Cards–I never get around to this. sigh. Usually I mail out a family letter in January.

11. Worst Christmas Gift you Ever Received–too many people read this blog for me to say. Let’s just say that I was disapointed at the time, but the gift turned out to be very useful and I use it all the time, so I’m not sad about it any more.

12. Favorite Christmas Movie–Scrooge the musical with Albert Finney

13. When do you Start Shopping for Christmas– I actually bought a gift in September this year. But usually it is November.

14. Have you Ever Recycled a Christmas Present–No, but I did recycle a couple of wedding gifts.

15. Favorite Thing to Eat at Christmas–Pie Pie Pie Pie Pie

16. Lights on the Tree–Yes, but I don’t plug them in too much because I feel like it is a frivolous waste of electricity. Seriously, it stresses me out, all the electricity that people use up on Christmas lights.

17. Favorite Christmas Song–“We need a little Christmas” right this very minute, candles at the window, carols at the spinet.
and my favorite carol (a song about Jesus Christ) would be Handel’s Messiah

18. Travel at Christmas or Stay Home–we usually travel and visit family, but this year the family is coming to my house

19. Can you name all of Santa’s Reindeer–yep even Olive, the other reindeer

20. Angel on the tree top or a star–a star

21. Open Presents on Christmas Eve or Morning–Christmas morning

22. Most Annoying Thing About this Time of Year–kids going in and out of the house and letting in cold air

23. Favorite Ornament Theme or Color–every year my Grandma Bennion makes her grand/great-grand children an ornament. I love them! My favorite is the baby Jesus in a walnut shell. My kids like the chairs that hide candy. My DH likes the suger plum fairies.

24. Favorite for Christmas Dinner–Beef Briscuit and mashed potatoes and Pie and fudge and tamales

25. What do you want for Christmas this year–I want to get all the presents I’m trying to sew finished. Since I’m shooting for the moon already, I would also like a new vacuum and lots of chocolate and a CD player for my kitchen and new sharp sewing scissors. (Thanks, Santa)

26. Favorite Christmas Memory- We would stay up as late as we could, putting together jigsaw puzzles in our rooms. Dad would set the timer for 6:30 a.m. and we were not allowed to get up before then. We would wake up much earlier and all gather in one bed and shout Christmas songs at the top of our lungs until the alarm went off. Poor Mom & Dad. My children are not so naughty. I usually wake up before them, wait as long as I can stand it, and then have to go wake them up to see the presents.

P.S. Suddenly, my digital camera will not download its photos to the computer. Instead of freaking out, I am going to bed and pretending that everything will be okay tomorrow morning.

My cousin over at Merrie Melody tagged me. I am supposed to write 7 random things about me and then tag 7 other people. I did a tag like this before here and it was way hard to think of things.

This time I am going to tell you my top 7 favorite movie quotes of all time.

#7- “Luckily, movies have taught me exactly what to do in this situation.” (Said by the man in the yellow hat in Curious George)

#6- “Did he say, ‘Marvelous Pigs in Satin?'” (said by the glow worm in James and the Giant Peach–the lady bug replys–“No, he said, ‘Marvelous things will happen’)

#5- “No thanks, I choose life” (Sid the Sloth in Ice Age)

#4- “Carl, let me explain something to you, You’re Stupid.” (maid in The Return of the Shaggy Dog)

#3- “No joking, I beg you! There’s lace at stake!” (Cransford)

#2- Jack: How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can’t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.

Algernon: Well, I can’t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.

Jack: I say it’s perfectly heartless, your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances.

Algernon: When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, when I am in really great trouble, as anyone who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins. [ Rising. ]

Jack: [ Rising. ] Well that is no reason why you should eat them all in that greedy way. [ Takes muffins from Algernon. ]

Algernon: [ Offering tea cake. ] I wish you would have tea cake instead. I don’t like tea cake.

Jack: Good heavens! I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden.

Algernon: But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins.

Jack: I said it was perfectly heartless of you, under the circumstances. That is a very different thing.

Algernon: That may be, but the muffins are the same.

(The Importance of Being Earnest)

And finally, the Motto for my whole life:

#1- “I’ll MAKE it fit!” (Wicked stepsister in Cinderella)

I would love to hear everyone else’s favorite movie quotes because I’m sure I’ve forgotten some of mine.

So I tag

1. Lucy
2. Jill
3. Melody
4. Vicky
5. Brandie
6. Angelic

Such as

Guess what movie My Auntie and I went to see on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good Times

Also beginning with “T” is Thoreau, as in Henry David. I came across this marvelous thing that he said. I think certain people I know who are always too hard on themselves should adopt it as their motto.

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

I can think of other things I like that start with T also. It may come as a huge shock to you that most of them are food.
Tomato Soup
Truffles
Toast (good with Tomato Soup)
Toffee
Turky (Roasted)

Now that I am stuck on a food theme, I need to go to my kitchen. See You Later 🙂

Okay, We all know that gas prices are high–everyone complains about it. Everyone wants the government to “fix” our problem.

So

–Why do people leave their cars running while they go into the post office?

–Why do people who drop by my house leave their cars running in my driveway while they chat, sometimes for more that 15 minutes?

–Why do so many people drive their kids to school instead of having them drive the bus? They sit in line with their cars idling every morning and afternoon for 20 minutes or more to pick up their kids.

Do these people really not care about all the wasted gas they are burning as their cars idle? (I won’t even go into ozone pollution) I remember in school being told not to leave the water faucet running while we brushed our teeth–to conserve water. What about conserving gas?

Until the high school parking lot is empty and people start turning their cars off when they leave them, gasoline isn’t really a
“crisis,” is it?