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Quick Question

What is your "binge" food?

You know, the one you get that you just plan to eat a little bit of and you end up eating the ENTIRE THING? Or maybe it's the one you think about briefly in the morning but by the end of the day it's the only thing on your mind and you can't rest until you have it. You know. THAT food. Decidedly evil and divine all in one mouthful after mouthful.

So... fess up. What is it?

Mine, of late, is ridged potato chips with French Onion chip dip.

Uhh... gotta go!

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Here's a preview of my first time baking with the baker's at Tuesdays with Dorie. I am way out of my league here but want to learn how to be a better baker and thought this would be a good way to get more experience.

This is called Snickery Squares even though I made mine more into a pie since I used a springform pan. If you like Snickers candy bars, you will FLIP OUT over this!

If you would like more information, feel free to contact me. If you'd like a piece of whatever I'm making, come on over!

Just for fun...

Crazy kiddo.

Sarah Palin - What do you think?

Well, again I feel as if I am an American without a political party. But McCain choosing Sarah Palin as a running mate got me a little excited. As a woman, I would love to see her in an executive office plus, I just kind of like her.

However, when I heard she has a 4-month old son with Down's, something else kicked in for me. Maybe maternal instincts, maybe something else but my gut instinct is that she just needs to be home with that baby. Not to mention her other kiddos, one daughter now apparently pregnant at 17. It's not that I don't think she can't handle ALL of the responsibility but how well can one person juggle all of that? I can't help but think that baby needs her.

Does it come down to regrets? Which would be bigger - missing out on a big opportunity to be a major world leader or missing out on your family?

Maybe I am underestimating her or overestimating her family's need for her. Like I said, just my gut instinct.

So, what do you think?

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The Cows are Messing with Me!

Okay, so there are these cows that are messing with me. I've never really had an issue with cows other than when Mom and I mooed at a herd of Beeson's cows on a walk to Gramma's and started a stampede - right at us! So maybe these are decendents of those cows or something but I am telling you - they are messing with me.

So these cows down the road that I drive by on my way to work. They seem to me to be living in a bucolic daydream... gently rolling fields rich with dark green grass, the sunlight streaming onto the meadow like it is painted to do so and the cows themselves are simply and bovine-ly beautiful in this field of gold. It's my goal, nay, mission to get THE picture of this pastoral nirvana (can you tell I've had too much caffiene today? But I digress).

I've called Dave on my way home shrieking at him to get the camera ready because I am going to lose the light only to get back there and the cows have gone into the barn. I've driven by the perfectly composed shot only to get back there and have them be all bunched up trying to get shade under the pitiful little tree right beside the road. I've come close to being hit by a truck as I'm trying to get a shot from the side of the road as a hard rain starts and I have to run for cover.

I've probably picked up a tick and have gotten Lyme Disease from this folly as well but just don't know it yet.

I do feel kind of tired. Is that a bite with a circle around it?

So, this is the only picture I've taken even remotely worth sharing from this misadventure that has lasted for about two months now.



I can hear them laughing at me.

I hear you and I am now going to go sit on my large leather sectional and eat a hamburger... so there.