this will be about croutons.

so. i glanced at the ingredients part of the ceasar croutons box we have, and frankly, i'm shocked. three different kinds of cheese powder? skim milk powder?? words i can't pronounce??? this is just ridiculous for a tiny piece of hard-as-rocks bread. so i made my own croutons. and they are just made of bread. i just cut them into pieces and let them sit there for a day. and now i have croutons.

i was just thinking...

i love music. it boggles my mind how they can come up with so many different melodies and tunes that they all sound original. well okay there are those few that sound the same, but they're mostly pop bands. (oh backstreet boys) but recently phil & i are just coming across so much music that we love and it's all insanely different from the next. like yesterday he downloaded a bunch of k-os and now we might have to start having dance parties. and last week i discovered richard walters on csi:miami and now i can't wait for his cd to come out.

the other thing i think i should write down is our youth leaders meeting on sunday. we did a liturgical prayer thing where dan read 1 Thessalonians 1, and we thought about one word that stood out to us. mine was "work" and what i heard from God was that our faith should produce work. kind of how people who believe in a cause like breast cancer or aids hold fundraisers to create awareness for their cause. in the same way we are to be actively creating awareness for our cause. and not necessarily through like missions or anything, but primarily in how we live and present ourselves to the world. our sermon that morning was about spiritual disciplines, and how through them God can make you a person more like Him.

oven fires

my culinary skills showed their true colors as my oven burst into flames on saturday. that sounded like a news headline. but weren't you all just waiting for something like this to happen to me? i've posted my crazy cooking/baking stories before, well this is the only one that involves fire thankfully. So me and phil and eric decided to have pizza for supper, but i was already using the oven for baking banana loaf/muffins (which turned out great by the way). so i tried putting both pizza's on one rectangular pan, but their edges stuck over the edge. no big deal we thought (except for phil, who knew what would happen but neglected to share his opinion), so i stuck it into the oven. about 10 minutes later i opened the oven and both sides had flopped over the edge and the toppings were dripping onto the oven bottom. so we put them in one by one after that. BUT. about 15 minutes after that, phil goes "HOLLY!" and runs to the oven. he opened it to reveal the toppings burning brightly in my oven. yay. we quickly debated if it was baking powder or soda that puts out fire, and apparently it is soda. good work phil. so the pizza had a nice smoky flavor to it, which i actually didn't realize until now was probably due to their being a fire in the oven whilst it was baking. ha. anyways, good times in my kitchen.

ps. spenst has a new steak & cheese pizza, and it is fabulous.

grouchy

i just had this huge urge to yell the f word loud and long. i'm becoming worried about that. i'm not even watching anything with f words in it ever. what is with it being in my head all the time. these are things making me cranky right now (in no particular order):

1. my arm which is shringing like crazy
2. i ate a lot of dessert at lunch. like 5 chocolates and a piece of cheesecake. that's almost more food than i had for lunch.
3. we don't get to go anywhere fun for our 1st anniversary cuz we're going to joel's wedding.
4. heidi left today.
5. everything melted yesterday and then froze so i almost slipped on my driveway. i HATE the feeling of almost falling. all my insides get jerked around.
6. for some reason i couldn't do the circuit i normally do at the gym yesterday and i had to quit early on account of my being half-dead.
7. i don't know the proper accounting procedures for year-end entries and adjustments which is sort of important so i can begin this year properly.
8. the laundry is piling up.

i just Want more time and money to do whatever I want!