Just to confirm, this is what makes me happy!

Milk in a glass jug and brown eggs :)
Theses are a few of my favorite things

Odd Habit #5 <- Proof

Sunday Funday

It's Dewberry's nephews birthday party today and since I live on my own now I get to bring an appetizer to family functions (been waiting for this day forever!). Anyway woke up this morning, got the beer bread baking in the oven, because that's what I chose to bring for an appetizer, made some garlic and fiesta party dips to go with the beer bread. Life is going well, had a few extra minutes before the beer bread was done in the oven so I decided to vacuum some spider webs. As I was using the hose attachment I wasn't paying attention to what the other end of the vacuum was doing and heard a very loud noise, looked towards the source of the noise and saw both ends of my phone charger laying on the floor, with nothing connecting them in the middle. Death of a phone charger. Done vacuuming. Beer bread is done. Go to call Dewberry's mother to let her know what time I'll be at the party, my phone is dead. So is my charger. Luckily I have a car charger so I go outside to plug in my phone and notice I have a flat tire. No birthday party for me, but on the bright side, lots of beer bread for me and Snow berry because she is coming to visit!

Myth Busters vs Titanic

What you talk about at work one day will be on Myth Busters the next.


Myth Busters Video <- Click That!

Oktoberfest Taste Test

Leaves crunch under my feet, cold air paints my cheeks red and baseball playoffs are happening. October is here. Gone is summer and the need to drink only light, low calorie bathing-suit friendly beers. We need to star our winter coats and a darker, thicker, richer beer is needed. But which beer? To help answer that question a very extensive, in depth taste test was preformed in my apartment.

For this taste test 4 brews of Oktoberfest (Samuel Adams, Leinenkugels, Chop Block and Capital) were sampled by a panel of judges whose pallets ranged from sophisticated to not so sophisticated. The beers were chosen based on their availability and that is all.

The 4 beers were set before the panel, who then conducted a blind sampling of the beers, cheese was the chosen pallet cleanser as the salsa I originally provided was more of a pallet destroyer. After much sniffing, swirling and swishing, the best Oktoberfest of these 4 readily available brands was proclaimed to be Chop Block. The favorite/best tasting beer overall was said to be the Leinenkugels and the least favorite the Capital, leaving Sam Adams to fill the 3rd place slot.

What we can take away from this truly epic taste test is that if you enjoy light beer, most Oktoberfest brews will not appeal to you, but if for some reason you are required to drink a beer that is only an Oktoberfest, a Leinenkugels is your best bet.

Chicka-Chicka-Yeah

I met Sweet sop Passion fruit when I ran track in college, we pole vaulted together. In meets, after clearing a height, we'd like to say "Chicka-Chicka-yeah!", actually we'd do it in practice sometimes too. Anyway, we were vaulting indoors, I can't remember if it was during actual indoor season or if we were just vaulting inside because it was so crappy outside. Anyway, Sweet sop was up to take her vault, which she made (chick-Chicka-yeah!), her next vault however she did not make. What happened was she came down with a leg on either side of the cross bar, and took a hit straight to the ole crotch. I winced, laughed and felt bad for her. I can't remember how the meet finished for either of us. She has no idea how much anxiety I had about crotch shots for the rest of my track life.

Odd Habit #11

The main reason I make meals that require the use of an oven is so that when I'm done making dinner I can leave the oven door open and let the heat spill out into my apartment.

Beauty and the Review: Gel Manicure

What: Gel Manicure

Brand: Daisy

Line: N/A

Color: Not sure what the actual name is, but clearly it is bright pink.

Price: $30 at a nail salon

Application: Somebody else does all the work.

Coverage: N/A

Longevity: I have had this for 10 days now, the top photos was taken the day after I got it and the bottom photo was taken at the 10 day mark. Chipped nail polish is very annoying to me, so with regular nail polish I have to redo my nails every few days, not the case with the gel manicure. I did have a nail chip because I was moving into my new plance and banging my hands (and elbows) into EVERYTHING, and only having chipped one was quite the accomplishment. Not to mention my hands were submerged in every kind of cleaner imagineable and the gel is still on there! (I should mention that the top photo is a more true to the actual color)

Positives: It lasts forever and is so shiny.

Negatives:  As your nails grow out, so does the manicure, so getting one every 2 weeks might be in order if you don't want to look like white trash, however, that could get spendy at $30 a pop. I plan to explore DIY options, so stay tuned for that!

In a nut shell: I would reccomend a gel manicure to anybody who asked  my opinion, I love love love it.