Thursday, March 26, 2009
Sugar, Flour, Eggs, Milk...
I LOVE baking. It doesn't really matter what. Whether it's a cherry pie for my dad, a birthday cake for one of the kids, sugar cookies for my ma, or just a pan of brownies from a mix! Baking is something I've done since...well, since I could stand on a chair beside Mom in the kitchen! It's just something I can concentrate on, what with having to be precise with measurements and times. There aren't too many things I can do well, but baking is one of them. And if I can bake a favorite for someone I love, that's even better!
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Summa-, Summa-, Summa-time!
That's right. Summer's almost here (okay, not ALMOST, but close enough) and it's shaping up to be a GREAT one! So many concerts going on! So far, I'm gonna see Wicked at the Murat with my sissy-poo, then I'ma see No Doubt and Paramore (together! OMG!) on July 10, THEN I get to round out the summer with DMB on August 1!!! I'm hoping to see Nine Inch Nails with Jane's Addiction on May 30, but I'm having a hard time finding someone to come with. Any takers? Nickleback is coming sometime in August, I think. I've never seen them live, so that could be fun. I dunno yet. But I'm just so danged stoked about No Doubt! They haven't toured together for a LONG TIME, and I never got to see them when they DID tour. My sweet darling cousin Krysti brought me a tee from one of their concerts. I was, like, a freshman or sophomore in high school! Needless to say, that shirt has not survived the years. Yeah, I wore it till the holes were too noticeable!
A summer full of awesome concerts and good times with great friends! Can't wait!
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
A movie quote that gets me gigglin' every time!
Ever licked a window?
"The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!" Okay, I know it's originally from "Willy Wonka", but it's just awesome here. These 3 college boys are driving down the highway with weed and mushrooms in the car when they're pulled over by two troopers. One dude just EATS two bags of weed and a baggie of 'shrooms so the cops don't find it. Needless to say, he very quickly gets completely stoned--plus he's tripping from the 'shrooms. Anway, the cops put them in the back of the squad car and the dude licks the divider window and says, "The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!" Total crack-up moment!
First post...ever!
Okay, time for the obligatory "this is my first post, this is what the title means, this is who I am, yadda yadda yadda." Well, this is my first post...j/k.
My friend just sent me a link to her own blog, so I thought I'd start one up myself. I had one a couple of years ago, but I let it dwindle into nothing-ness. Probably because I had nada to write about. Life was pretty dull. Now, however, life is beginning to pick back up (after a 3-4 year hiatus), so there may be some interesting tidbits here and there. Not often, but sometimes!
So, the title. It's a line from, you'll never believe this, a Dave Matthews Song! Yeah, you didn't see THAT coming, did ya? :) It's from "Grey Street" off the Busted Stuff album. Actually they had written the song long before Busted Stuff, and it can be found with a heap of other previously-recorded Busted Stuff songs on what is widely-known as "The Lillywhite Sessions". It's a bootlegged album produced by Steve Lillywhite. It's really not an album, per se, just a collection of recorded songs that didn't make it to a CD til they re-recorded them for Busted Stuff. The band just felt the timing wasn't right. ANYWAY...this is one of my fave songs DMB wrote. Here's a link to the lyrics: http://www.nancies.org/music/lyrics/grey/
This is my interpretation of the song (b/c, after all, we each interpret art differently): A woman is reflecting on her life and realizes none of her dreams and aspirations have come true. She doesn't know why. She wishes and prays that things would change, but she isn't proactive. Instead of actually doing something about it, she sits in her home and whines. She can change her grey world using colors "bold and bright", but she just lets those colors [dreams] mix together til they're just grey [boring, uneventful]. I could have it all wrong (if I do, sorry Dave), but that's what the song says to me! I've realized that while none of my dreams and aspirations have come true, I need to go out and use some bold and bright colors of my own to stamp out my grey world. Insightful? Hmmm, maybe. Let's see if I put it all into action, folks.
My friend just sent me a link to her own blog, so I thought I'd start one up myself. I had one a couple of years ago, but I let it dwindle into nothing-ness. Probably because I had nada to write about. Life was pretty dull. Now, however, life is beginning to pick back up (after a 3-4 year hiatus), so there may be some interesting tidbits here and there. Not often, but sometimes!
So, the title. It's a line from, you'll never believe this, a Dave Matthews Song! Yeah, you didn't see THAT coming, did ya? :) It's from "Grey Street" off the Busted Stuff album. Actually they had written the song long before Busted Stuff, and it can be found with a heap of other previously-recorded Busted Stuff songs on what is widely-known as "The Lillywhite Sessions". It's a bootlegged album produced by Steve Lillywhite. It's really not an album, per se, just a collection of recorded songs that didn't make it to a CD til they re-recorded them for Busted Stuff. The band just felt the timing wasn't right. ANYWAY...this is one of my fave songs DMB wrote. Here's a link to the lyrics: http://www.nancies.org/music/lyrics/grey/
This is my interpretation of the song (b/c, after all, we each interpret art differently): A woman is reflecting on her life and realizes none of her dreams and aspirations have come true. She doesn't know why. She wishes and prays that things would change, but she isn't proactive. Instead of actually doing something about it, she sits in her home and whines. She can change her grey world using colors "bold and bright", but she just lets those colors [dreams] mix together til they're just grey [boring, uneventful]. I could have it all wrong (if I do, sorry Dave), but that's what the song says to me! I've realized that while none of my dreams and aspirations have come true, I need to go out and use some bold and bright colors of my own to stamp out my grey world. Insightful? Hmmm, maybe. Let's see if I put it all into action, folks.
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