Hey - who knew Paris Hilton could look so good! Gotta say she's got a look none of our Reference Librarians have managed to pull off (ok, I confess, she's really playing the role of a high school teacher - but it LOOKS like she could be a librarian!) Even though she sounds like she could be Hilary Duff or any other teen popstar (years younger than Paris is), it's not an AWFUL song. So, for your personal enjoyment (or pain), I bring you Paris Hilton singing "Nothing In This World" (it's such a DEEP song! ;-)
Friday, September 29, 2006
Go Paris!
Hey - who knew Paris Hilton could look so good! Gotta say she's got a look none of our Reference Librarians have managed to pull off (ok, I confess, she's really playing the role of a high school teacher - but it LOOKS like she could be a librarian!) Even though she sounds like she could be Hilary Duff or any other teen popstar (years younger than Paris is), it's not an AWFUL song. So, for your personal enjoyment (or pain), I bring you Paris Hilton singing "Nothing In This World" (it's such a DEEP song! ;-)
Thursday, September 28, 2006
Great nite!
Wow, we had one of those really nice evenings!
Tomorrow's Brett's 31st birthday and we were just going to veg at home and order Domino's so we could try out those new Brownie Bites. Tonite was supposed to be leftover pot roast and maybe catch up on some TV.
Instead he suggested we order the pizza tonite - sure, fine by me! Pizza showed up (cute delivery guy - stopped to chat about the cats with me), and then we settled in to watch last nite's Jericho. As Brett pointed out, there were some very predictable parts, but over all it was great! Definitely gets ya with the suspense. And that ending, with the thumbtacks being placed on the map... (Sorry Peter - you and Conrad didn't survive!)
After that (and devouring half of the pizza) we started up tonite's Smallville (watching it after it started airing so we can bust out the commercials), and began snacking on the brownie bites. Good stuff! Sure, I prefer your average boxed brownie a bit better, but these definitely made for a nice change. Still trying to figure out what they do to sort of "encase" them... Slice them into cubes while still under done and then rebake them? Deep fat fry them? No clue! But dip 'em in that chocolate sauce and YUM!
Now all this snacking of pizza and brownie bites means the bday cake I made for Brett to surprise him with when he got home has to wait til tomorrow, but since he gets the day off from work, I'm sure he won't mind waiting til tomorrow to devour it! It has to be one of the least-fancy cakes I've made in a long time...but should taste great! Brett's coworker Rose recently made a Texas chocolate sheet cake (with a boiled chocolate frosting) and a peanut butter sheet cake (with a boiled peanut butter frosting), and wow were they good.
I figure what better time to try making the peanut butter one for my bf than for his birthday - he loooooves peanut butter. But then I couldn't decide which way to go on the frosting - peanut butter, or chocolate!? Heck - why pick!? I just made a half recipe of each, and made sure to overlap a few inches across the middle so we could see if I should layer the two frostings next time! >;-) (I know, pure genius!)
I also found out that SOMETHING about our oven or the baking rack or something has become uneven - or maybe it always has been, but was more noticeable with the incredibly thin sheet cake? Whatever the cause - one side of the cake is probably only a 1/4 inch thick - and dry! Well, I guess we'll consider this portion control - a diet cake where it all looks good, but only 3/4 (or less?) is edible? :(
Anyhow - here's my super low-maintenance birthday cake for Brett! :) Happy birthday hon!
Tomorrow's Brett's 31st birthday and we were just going to veg at home and order Domino's so we could try out those new Brownie Bites. Tonite was supposed to be leftover pot roast and maybe catch up on some TV.
Instead he suggested we order the pizza tonite - sure, fine by me! Pizza showed up (cute delivery guy - stopped to chat about the cats with me), and then we settled in to watch last nite's Jericho. As Brett pointed out, there were some very predictable parts, but over all it was great! Definitely gets ya with the suspense. And that ending, with the thumbtacks being placed on the map... (Sorry Peter - you and Conrad didn't survive!)
After that (and devouring half of the pizza) we started up tonite's Smallville (watching it after it started airing so we can bust out the commercials), and began snacking on the brownie bites. Good stuff! Sure, I prefer your average boxed brownie a bit better, but these definitely made for a nice change. Still trying to figure out what they do to sort of "encase" them... Slice them into cubes while still under done and then rebake them? Deep fat fry them? No clue! But dip 'em in that chocolate sauce and YUM!
Now all this snacking of pizza and brownie bites means the bday cake I made for Brett to surprise him with when he got home has to wait til tomorrow, but since he gets the day off from work, I'm sure he won't mind waiting til tomorrow to devour it! It has to be one of the least-fancy cakes I've made in a long time...but should taste great! Brett's coworker Rose recently made a Texas chocolate sheet cake (with a boiled chocolate frosting) and a peanut butter sheet cake (with a boiled peanut butter frosting), and wow were they good.
I figure what better time to try making the peanut butter one for my bf than for his birthday - he loooooves peanut butter. But then I couldn't decide which way to go on the frosting - peanut butter, or chocolate!? Heck - why pick!? I just made a half recipe of each, and made sure to overlap a few inches across the middle so we could see if I should layer the two frostings next time! >;-) (I know, pure genius!)
I also found out that SOMETHING about our oven or the baking rack or something has become uneven - or maybe it always has been, but was more noticeable with the incredibly thin sheet cake? Whatever the cause - one side of the cake is probably only a 1/4 inch thick - and dry! Well, I guess we'll consider this portion control - a diet cake where it all looks good, but only 3/4 (or less?) is edible? :(
Anyhow - here's my super low-maintenance birthday cake for Brett! :) Happy birthday hon!
(PS - notice one candle is out of place? Upper right corner SHOULD have a candle, but the green one was moved! That's because Brett was about to start hacking into it when I wanted to take pictures!)
Kitty Vids
Julie's been requesting videos of the beasts, so here we go!
First we have a very indecisive video - do they want to love each other or wrestle. Moxie seems like she's not really interest in either!
And then we have what starts out in the ying-and-yang position, and turns into a stretchathon cutie-fest. I only wish I hadn't maxxed out the memory card - this could've gone on awhile!
First we have a very indecisive video - do they want to love each other or wrestle. Moxie seems like she's not really interest in either!
And then we have what starts out in the ying-and-yang position, and turns into a stretchathon cutie-fest. I only wish I hadn't maxxed out the memory card - this could've gone on awhile!
Wednesday, September 27, 2006
Our little acrobat
Check out this balancing act!! Once we get little Moxie in the carnival we'll be able to quit our jobs and she can just mail checks back to her daddies...
Nap time's over!
Caught the beasts in various stages of waking up from their afternoon naps. Then they horsed around for awhile, and they've been sleeping while we ate dinner and watched TV. Now it's about time for us to go to bed - which means it's time for them to wake up and be all energized again!
Dinner Time
Look what just came out of the oven - and it should be cool enough to eat now. From this month's Cooking Light magazine (yeah, this is recipe #3 in one week from the magazine!) - beef pot pie, and there's a cheat - it uses one of those tubes of ready made bread sticks (first time I've ever bought 'em - we'll see how they turn out)
Oodles of noodles
The Yellow Dog's been raving about Oodles, which opened up near him down in Columbus.Wow, sounds great - I wish they'd open up one here in Kent. Heck, they just got a new BW3 down their way, so I think an exchange in eateries is TOTALLY fair! :) (Don't think too hard - it doesn't make the most sense, I know)
Maybe if some of us up here took up a collection, we could open up our own. They list the prices for what it takes to open a location.
Hm, maybe it's a little out of budget?
Bee swarm
Check this out - this is a picture from an old blog entry over at Hive Mind Backyard Beekeeping:
Hopefully he won't mind me redisplaying one of his photos here! Anyhow - this is from one of his adventures in beekeeping where one of his hives split and had a swarm travel a short ways across town, freaking people out along the way. If you check out the entry you can see more pics as they're following the swarm (or more appropriate would be "travelling IN the swarm"), and then once the bees settled, scooping many of them (including the queen) back up into a bucket (with a SPATULA!) and taking them back home again.
I love this stuff!
Sometime between, oh, '90-'92?...I was working at the Bookery Fantasy comic shop in Fairborn, Ohio when we noticed a swarm of bees outside. The queen decided to settle down in a hole in the brick wall of the firestation right next to us (there was just an alley drive between the two buildings). I think it was about midway up the second story of the building? Anyhow, while hundreds of the bees were covering the side of the building, there were still many swarming in a sort of "bee tornado" out in our front parking lot. So cool! So tempting!
So I went out and stood right there in the middle of the bee swarm - such an amazing experience. We're all so afraid of being stung by bees, and yet it turns out, when they're swarming, that's one of the last things on their minds. They're all bloated up with honey they're taking from the old hive to start their new home... Stinging you kills them. They just want to set up shop and starting building a new home. So you can stand right out in the middle of this swarming cloud of bees and feel totally safe.
Boy, I hope I get to do that again sometime!
Hopefully he won't mind me redisplaying one of his photos here! Anyhow - this is from one of his adventures in beekeeping where one of his hives split and had a swarm travel a short ways across town, freaking people out along the way. If you check out the entry you can see more pics as they're following the swarm (or more appropriate would be "travelling IN the swarm"), and then once the bees settled, scooping many of them (including the queen) back up into a bucket (with a SPATULA!) and taking them back home again.
I love this stuff!
Sometime between, oh, '90-'92?...I was working at the Bookery Fantasy comic shop in Fairborn, Ohio when we noticed a swarm of bees outside. The queen decided to settle down in a hole in the brick wall of the firestation right next to us (there was just an alley drive between the two buildings). I think it was about midway up the second story of the building? Anyhow, while hundreds of the bees were covering the side of the building, there were still many swarming in a sort of "bee tornado" out in our front parking lot. So cool! So tempting!
So I went out and stood right there in the middle of the bee swarm - such an amazing experience. We're all so afraid of being stung by bees, and yet it turns out, when they're swarming, that's one of the last things on their minds. They're all bloated up with honey they're taking from the old hive to start their new home... Stinging you kills them. They just want to set up shop and starting building a new home. So you can stand right out in the middle of this swarming cloud of bees and feel totally safe.
Boy, I hope I get to do that again sometime!
Dance!
Damn, this guy's crazy. I'm assuming he planned this all ahead and knew all the moves? Wonder if he dances professionally or what... Kinda cute too!
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Go2Web20.net
http://www.go2web20.net/
I'm mostly posting this as a reminder MYSELF to come back and check out this site/service (or should I say list of services), but also thought it'd be cool to share.
Click on that link above and you'll find this self proclaimed "complete web 2.0 directory" instantly catches your attention with the logos of dozens of cool sites out there. Scroll up and down with the little white-on-purple arrows that appear at the top/bottom of the page (kind of oddly positioned though), or with your scroll wheel, and you'll find there's quite a few sites listed. Click on one to get the description over to the right side. From there you can access any of these sites you're curious about.
I know what you're thinking - "geeky. I don't need this. what does it have to do with food?" Ok, well I haven't seen any FOOD sites there ;-) but I bet you find at least (AT LEAST!) one site there you're tempted to check out and possibly add in your day-to-day computer tools. On line chatting, web calendars, Writely (the free Google web-based word processor that I hope puts Word to shame), photo managers, things to help you shop (eh hm, Cindy), online music services, etc - TONS of stuff!! NEAT!
I'm mostly posting this as a reminder MYSELF to come back and check out this site/service (or should I say list of services), but also thought it'd be cool to share.
Click on that link above and you'll find this self proclaimed "complete web 2.0 directory" instantly catches your attention with the logos of dozens of cool sites out there. Scroll up and down with the little white-on-purple arrows that appear at the top/bottom of the page (kind of oddly positioned though), or with your scroll wheel, and you'll find there's quite a few sites listed. Click on one to get the description over to the right side. From there you can access any of these sites you're curious about.
I know what you're thinking - "geeky. I don't need this. what does it have to do with food?" Ok, well I haven't seen any FOOD sites there ;-) but I bet you find at least (AT LEAST!) one site there you're tempted to check out and possibly add in your day-to-day computer tools. On line chatting, web calendars, Writely (the free Google web-based word processor that I hope puts Word to shame), photo managers, things to help you shop (eh hm, Cindy), online music services, etc - TONS of stuff!! NEAT!
Monday, September 25, 2006
Jeph's Super Fantastic TV Review: Heroes
This is the new series I've been anticipating the most... Heroes started tonite, 9:00pm on NBC, and had very few commercial interruptions. Nice quick pace. LOVE the size of the cast - nice and big with lots of variety (the same good stuff I get from the Legion of Super-Heroes comic books!)
Who knows why these people have started developing powers. Or even how long for that matter - it's just been "fairly recently" I would guess. None of the people with powers new each other, and so far it seems all were in the US except for Hiro from Japan. The cast does a great job. The cast play a very diverse band of characters (likeable, hateable, those who would love for something like this, those who consider themselves freaks, etc). Loved tonite's episode, and am definitely looking forward to next week's!! Sure, it's up against How I Met Your Mother and Two and a Half Men, but that's why we have DVR! :)
Jeph's Super Fantastic TV Review: Jericho
So there's this small town in Kansas (aren't all towns in Kansas small on the tv shows?) called Jericho, and a whole network of characters interacting, and as the pace quickens in their own personal stories, a mushroom cloud rises on the horizon. This, of course, sends the town into panic! We later find that while that mushroom cloud arose from Denver (most likely), Atlanta was also taken out by a nuclear bomb. The people of Jericho, KS don't know if they were accidents or if the US is under attack.Skeet Ulrich (have always loved his name) is the major player in the CBS show (Wednesday nites at 8:00). Brett and I looooved it. We kinda figured it wouldn't be something worth watching, but the pacing was great, character development seems good, and we were reeled right in. It's set on the DVR to record the entire series now...
The best part of Rick's bday party!??!
I risk being torn limb from limb for posting this, but how ELSE will the folks from the party see it?!?!
Can you guess what they were doing?
Brett had 4 beers.
Rick turned 50.
Carolyn had a fantasy (ok, I made that part up)
I had bumped the camera to the wrong setting, and my timing was SO off.
You fill in the gaps... I'll never be able to look at my boyfriend or my coworker the same way again!
Rick turned 50.
Carolyn had a fantasy (ok, I made that part up)
I had bumped the camera to the wrong setting, and my timing was SO off.
You fill in the gaps... I'll never be able to look at my boyfriend or my coworker the same way again!
The death and rebirth of a frog
Well - sorta - I mean, if the frog's got any brain activity and even the most infrequent of heartbeats, doesn't that mean it's technically alive?? Still - this is very cool! Always good to learn something new each day!
Sunday, September 24, 2006
Lotsa cooking tonite...
Three out of four isn't so bad, right? In addtion to pot roast (from the new Cooking Light), Mac and Cheese (a recipe from a cookbook I got Brett last Christmas
), and Date and Apple Bars (again, Cooking Light), I had ALSO planned to do up some of Aunt Nadine's salsa and can it. But considering I got started at 330 today, I had to accept my limits...no salsa. Still, everything else turned out quite good!
), and Date and Apple Bars (again, Cooking Light), I had ALSO planned to do up some of Aunt Nadine's salsa and can it. But considering I got started at 330 today, I had to accept my limits...no salsa. Still, everything else turned out quite good!
Beef Pot Roast with potatoes, carrots and celery
Mac N Cheese
Big bowl o noodles!
A few pics from a recent dinner out to Olive Garden for the All You Can Eat Pasta Bowl! Should have been called All You Can Eat Grated Cheese While The Server Stands There And Cranks Away With A Dwindling Block Of Parmesian! MMM MMM GOOD!
Michele and John
Justin and Sharon
Brett
Belly Girl!
I've been a bad boy...
Mmmm...Jubilee Donuts, just off the Tallmadge Circle (and on my way in to work every morning, with an ever so convenient and fast drive-thru!) has the BEST cinnamon sugar cake donuts. Two of these bad boys was my breakfast the other morning at work. Mmmm....soooo gooood! (Hey, I think they're more fitting and acceptable, because they're very fall-like in flavor, and the weather's turned chilly...I HAD to eat them! They were fresh and just a little warm still!)
Hanging with the boys
After meeting up with Dave and Jay for Jackass Number 2 yesterday afternoon, we hit Winking Lizard for diner (mmmmm wings!) Jay said he had the pics from Canada to bring over and wanted me to post them, so he and Dave both came back to our place to do that and hang out. After dealing with the Kodak CD autostart, Picasa and who knows what else fighting for control of the computer for awhile, and then figuring out the best way to display the pics, we got 'em all on line.
And then it happened... It's been talked about for months. Nay, years. Jay's needed a new computer in the worst way, and it finally happened! We pulled up the Dell site and got busy... With the tech support and strong opinions of his friends, Jay will be getting a brand spanking new computer in the next week or so - and then the rest of us will be envious and feel the need to buy new stuff!! :)
By that time it was after 11pm and we were all getting sugar cravings and a joke about there being a new 24/7 Baskin Robins/Dunkin Donuts real close to us turned into a sugar run... MMMM ice cream - Jay's treat! Thanks Jay!
And then it happened... It's been talked about for months. Nay, years. Jay's needed a new computer in the worst way, and it finally happened! We pulled up the Dell site and got busy... With the tech support and strong opinions of his friends, Jay will be getting a brand spanking new computer in the next week or so - and then the rest of us will be envious and feel the need to buy new stuff!! :)
By that time it was after 11pm and we were all getting sugar cravings and a joke about there being a new 24/7 Baskin Robins/Dunkin Donuts real close to us turned into a sugar run... MMMM ice cream - Jay's treat! Thanks Jay!
Saturday, September 23, 2006
Brett and Jay's Big Fat Canadian Wedding Adventure
Photo album for Brett and Jay's recent trip to Halifax for Michael and Nick's wedding
Friday, September 22, 2006
Autumnal Boyfriend
More blast-from-the-past pics as I play around with Picasa (and need to find out why there seems to be a 4 picture upload-to-blog-from-Picasa limit). Don't recall what year this pictures were from, but doesn't Brett look cute? These are for all of Brett's secret admirers!
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