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May 28, 2010

weird dreams

so, i had this weird dream last night. i won't bore you with too much of it, because i know that reading dreams is lame but: i had a dream about survivor. like the show. that i am obsessed with. in the dream all of the "castaways" ( i guess that's what they're called, right?) were people from my highschool. what??? and i guess i was also a contestant/castaway..(is that really what they are called? i need to go check) and anyway the island was actually a very small apartment and nobody could leave it.
i have issues because i'm REALLY sad that survivor isn't on right now and considered getting past seasons to RE-WATCH while i wait for the fall season to start. FYI, past seasons are only available on netflix and WHY THE HELL DOESN'T THE LIBRARY HAVE THEM?????

okay, here is another video

i used to watch it a few months back and then forget about it and i remembered it earlier today when we were watching video's. it reminds me of the sugar cubes.

boo boo is turning two next week and i keep mentioning it to people in passing, like they might actually care (they don't) but i try to be all casual about it like, 'oh he's gonna be two soon and youbetterbelieve i'm gonna take him to that little playland place in the store so i can shop by myself for once!...heh heh...'

the store we shop at has race car carts and it is the only thing that we can use now, or else esmond WILL NOT go in the cart and it is miserable. the store also has a thing of cookies out (prolly for the same reason, to make shopping pleasant for the parents) and yesterday we were there and i saw a fat lady and her kid both eating a cookie....which isn't that big a deal except that she had taken two extras for later. i feel guilty if we go to the store more than once a week and boo boo gets a cookie both times. i feel guilty if *I* take a cookie when i feel like i'm having an 'OMG I NEED A COOKIE" day. but two extras???? they aren't even good cookies.

okay, i'm really grouchy so i'm gonna go look for something on the internet that makes me happy.

Posted by alison at 11:12 PM

May 24, 2010

"what i did last weekend" and something to listen to.

SOOOOOO, last saturday we had a date night. the plan was to eat food somewhere and to "see a movie" even though i'm really grumpy about movies these days because they are ALL TERRIBLE. corey showed me the preview for kick ass and so i had to decide between that and date night. OMG I'M SO GLAD i picked kick ass. i can say with certainty that it was "good" and that i "liked it". AND THAT IS REALLY SAYING SOMETHING. because the only movies i really like are anne of green gables and muriels wedding.

so there.
before that we had a late lunch (last ones served before they closed to get ready for din) at agua verde and it was good. the last time we ate there i was pregnant with booper and i couldn't hardly finish one taco and then got insane heartburn. but not this time!

a while ago i was searching for covers of ace of base songs and found this:

which led me to this:

which i enjoyed even more.

and so there you have it.

Posted by alison at 11:10 PM

May 20, 2010

coooooookies.

yesterday was depressing. i got to go grocery shopping BY MYSELF while esmond and corey walked around fremont. i was checking out some purple kids sunglasses that we had looked at over the weekend for esmond. i wanted to get them for his birthday but decided that i didn't need to be spending so much money on non essential items ( i, uh, wanted to get myself some new sunglasses too....) so i walked away to go look at brussels spouts when another lady and her daughter started looking at the glasses and put them in their cart. WAH. i don't know why but i felt terrible. it is lame, i tell you.

anyway. last night i decided that i would make cookies in the morning. I LOVE COOKIES. especially if i make them because i never feel guilty eating all of them. even though i should.

this recipe, here, for lactation cookies is my current favorite. there is just a few add-ins that separate it from being regular cookies and i usually have them on hand: flax seeds, oatmeal, brewers yeast. (actually the only reason i have brewer's yeast on hand is to make these cookies. which, of course i ran out of and didn't use today. butwhatever!)
the only thing is....i'm always changing the recipe around. adding 1/2 regular flour / whole wheat, part reg sugar/agave... or butter/ coconut oil/shorting.. more or less oats...and so on.
here is my recipe for today's batch.
i used some new coconut oil which had a pleasant coconutty smell and taste. very subtle but it made me SO HAPPY!

1/2 c. coconut oil
1/2 c. light brown sugar
(less than) 1/2 c. white sugar
ground flax seed
1 egg
1 tsp. vanilla ( i always add a little more because it's good)
1 c. flour ( i used some whole wheat pastry and some white)
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 c. to 1.5 cups oats (i used combo oats and barley flakes)
1/2 c. chocochips
sprinkle in flaked coconut if you want

heat oven to somewhere in between 325 and 350 (my oven is way outta whack so i'm always adjusting it)
cream coconut oil and sugars. add egg. mix. add vanilla. then flax seed. NOW, mix the dry ingredients in, then oatmeal and after that stir in the chocochips and whatever else you are adding. taste of few spoonfulls. yum, good!! scoop onto cookie sheet and bake until desired done-ness. maybe between 9-11 minutes. i'm sure this will vary depending on your oven though. mine were crispy and light brown on the bottoms and just barely set on the tops. so both chewy and crispy and saltly and sweet and YUUUUUUUUUMMMMM to the max.

Posted by alison at 11:31 AM

May 12, 2010

what is this blog for again?

ugh. oh right, it's for me. to remember stuff. later. . .

boo boo is turning TWO next month. i'm always asking him how old he'll be next month and he says "freeee!!" and so yeah, i guess in a way he is sort of right because he'll be finishing his second year of life and starting on the third year.
anyway, i'm kinda pooping my pants about it because he should have some sort of b-day party which needs to be planned AND we are going on a "camping" trip a few days after his birthday. i feel like there is a lot that needs to be thought of for that and it's inevitable that i will forget everything i've thought about when it's time to get stuff packed.

not much else is going on right now. today is nice out so we'll probably go to either the zoo or library. i need to take a shower and get some snacks ready for going out. god, this blog is so boring!

Posted by alison at 11:53 AM

May 1, 2010

lost photos

now that we have a mac it's so much easier to go through all the pictures in iphoto. I LOVE IT. i feel so much more organized and i hardly had to do anything.
here are a bunch of photos that i found and edited with picnik. yeah, i went crazy with the rounded edges and the '1960's look'. it's like i'm scrap booking or something. shut up.

it kind of enrages me that flickr is putting that little border around everything so that the rounded edges MEAN NOTHING. jesus christ. i just spent a lot of time doing this, but whatever. WHATEVER IT DOESN'T MATTER. go to flickr and look at them there in all their edited glory.

p.s. HAPPY MAY DAY.

edited: COREY FIXED THE BORDER so i don't have to freak out about it anymore. yay!

Posted by alison at 11:38 PM