good things

no, this post has nothing to do with martha stewart...but it does have to do with some pretty good things!!!

1. at approximately 2:30 pm, on january 22, 2011, lyssa krumholtz tells me i have been selected as the facebook fan sub winner. which means i won one free mr. goodcents sub per week for a year!! i've never felt so lucky in my life! this thursday i had my first free penny club. and it was awesome.

2. i got my camera!! (well, ordered it.) now i'm impatiently awaiting the arrival of my new Canon EOS Rebel XSi. i got an awesome deal by checking www.techbargains.com every 15 minutes. (i HIGHLY recommend this website, but like i said, you gotta check your category of interest often, as the deals sell out quickly.) i'm drinking the photography kool-aid that's everywhere, i know....but i am SO SO excited. for the past week i've been reading the manual online, so, you know, that clearly makes me an expert. ha. but get ready for this blog to start showing itself up, yo!

i could probably make up a 3. but i'm too fixated on the camera and sub sandwiches at the moment to think much further.

finally...

i finally got through the stieg larsson trilogy. the third one, the girl who kicked the hornet's nest, was a really slow read for me. if i buzzed through it at the same rate i did the first two, you would have received this review about a month ago.

so...the first one gave me nightmares (but they didn't stop me from all the glorious suspense), i loved the second one, and it all kinda needed to come full circle in the third one. i really didn't care for it at all though. it was such a let down since the end of the second one made me wanting more so badly, and so immediately that i spent $25 on book numero tres because i was too impatient to go my normal route and order online for much less. and then it wasn't even exciting!  the end is satisfying, but the means toward it was just too long winded and tedious.

but that's just my opinion....and that's where i've been book-wise. i am so ready to be free of swedish last names for awhile.

doppelgangers

Britt on the Bachelor is the real life Brittany S. Pierce!!!
Anyone? Anyone?
If I'm the 6,000th person to say this I apologize. I just can't believe this girl's name is Britt!

OFF!!

the soup was so so wonderfully good! you're in luck, pioneer woman! now i'll be making your burritos, all of your cream sauce-y pastas (weight watchers approved i'm sure), your enchiladas, and whatever else looks pretty in your pictures.

moving on....

now that there is no more of this:

(yes, he lost his furniture privileges. i'm sad that i lost my cuddle buddy but it's for the best. those couches weren't free.)
anyways, now that he's not allowed on the couch and doesn't try to get up on it, we have a 24 hour battle with this:

please, anyone out there, please, tell me how to get my dog to stop jumping on the counter every thirty seconds.

chef fights

#1: the pioneer woman and i are fighting after her recipe for 'pasta alla malboro man'. it was awful. i also tried her queso, revved up, and was pleased, but not floored, like she claimed i would be! so tonight is round 3, where i am attempting this chicken tortilla soup...

and it looks ok so far, but we shall see. if it's bad, i'm only giving her ONE more chance. ok, maybe like seven, the food pictures just kill me with their deliciousness.

also, fight # 2 is with ina garten. (i know, i know, she's wonderful and perfect and jeffrey blah blah) but her asparagus cooking time is not just off like my oven temp is off, it's off like i think foodnetwork.com made a serious, side-dish ruining typo which i committed TWICE now because the recipe looks so good and easy and i forgot the mishap from the first time.

giada and me are still cool. and ina's carrot cake i made for thanksgiving makes up for the asparagus. so does her lemon chicken, sliders and panko crusted salmon. YUM YUM CHOCOLATE CHIP, HONEY DIP.

but speaking of chefs, there is one i would never fight with. wanna know why? because i love, i love, i love, him just like mr. darcy loves elizabeth. and his name just happens to be tom colicchio. and his show just happens to be my favorite show. and tonight, my friends, just happens to be restaurant wars!!!!!

i wrote a 'reaction' post after the first episode of this season's top chef all stars, (which was the best idea ever to bring back old contestants), but never posted it, and you're lucky unless you're just as obsessed as me, because it was ridiculous. to sum up though, i'm loving it so much it's unreal. i get so giddy. i am pissed jenn got eliminated, since she was my pick to win, i still think blaise has a good chance, and i'm SO GLAD jamie's gone. and if i could be padma for one day i would die the happiest person in the world. being gail wouldn't hurt either.
the end!

man muse.

bigger pics ?

hahah....the first big image of my blog - one taken by the good ol iphone, when shamus was miserably e-collared. poor guy. loudest week of my life from all the banging of the damn thing into furniture. and now he has allergies, and has been itching so bad the vet had the nerve to suggest putting this thing on him again. are you kidding me? sorry, dr. charlie.

fun with the hipstamatic

he only lets three feet touch the ground at a time in the snow. wimp.

 lookin a little mangy. 

loaf love

i went to costco yesterday to purchase a new, less-apt-to-destruction, dog bed.
why?
let me show you.

our dog has a thing for stuffing.
but anyway, there weren't any sturdy looking beds....so instead, i decided it necessary to buy a LOAF of cheese on my costco trip. this LOAF of cheese, is tillamook medium cheddar, and it is heaven. according to the label, it has 32 servings, which means that it should last taylor and i about two weeks. i give it um, 5 days. we are disgusting.

it is in fact so good...that i found myself thinking about it when i was going to bed last night. which led to a thought process of creating a hierarchy of all the cheeses i love. for me, this tillamook cheddar, winner of the 2010 world champion cheese contest, falls just slightly behind french brie.
that is all i have to report.
instead of counting sheep, my fat behind ranks cheese. what do you do?

random

i'm going to re-create mill creek elementary's hot ham and cheese sandwich for lunch today because i can't stop thinking about it. i don't think it will be that hard.

growing up, my parents told me if i wanted to pack a lunch, i could do it myself, so i was totally a school lunch kid. and i loved it. i think it's hysterical how excited i would get for rectangle pizza - cheese, sausage, OR pepperoni, all being equally delicious, hot ham and cheese, charbroiled beef patty on bun...(wtf? why couldn't they just call a hamburger a hamburger?), chicken patty on bun (again, making sure everything was completely clarified when it came to the bun), corndogs, chicken nuggets and mashed potatoes with "gravy", and the list goes on of said crap.

i'm pretty sure now elementary kids choices involve like, hummus and rosemary grilled chicken. they're losing their YOUTH!!!

2010

was full of...
-GETTING Married!

-being a bridesmaid in courtney and davie's awesome wedding

-going to the superbowl and watching mr. garrett hartley help his team win...and set a super bowl record along the way...nbd. (and experiencing the trophy presentation ceremony on the field!!!)

-traveling to spain with my mom and sister

-getting our furry son of a dog shamus, shay, stink, bubba, shayla, whatever you wanna call him

-and watching him grow a TON

-spending eight days in cancun for the most wonderful honeymoon

-moving into taylor's bachelor pad that used to look like this and slowly turning it into a unisex home :)

-attending not three, or even ten, but FOURTEEN weddings! all being stellar and full of marriages that i admire and am so happy for.
-visiting adam and jamie in their new home in COLORADO!! (of course i do not have ONE pic)
-going back to manhattan for a pledge class reunion that was too much fun fun fun.

-a brief affair with bangs

- transitioning to working from home for taylor
- a job at an immigration law firm for me

overall another year of health, happiness, and love!
if i ever said my life was boring i was sorely mistaken....putting it all together like this makes you realize how much happened! woah!
here's to 2011, taylor and i agreed last night we think it's gonna be a great one!
-molly