Random Musings: MM 3.19.12

{one} It has been a glorious month of March in Florida this year and by glorious I mean AMAZING - over 80 degrees every day for the last week! Which meant that Saturday was my first official beach day of 2012 :)

{two} It was also St. Patrick's Day weekend so we had an awesome time with some pretty cool peeps at a block party thrown in the Riverside area of Jacksonville. Cool atmosphere with live music and a place to hang with a thousand or so of our fellow Jacksonvillians...Jacksonvillites...people from Jacksonville?

{three} I have decided that my husband intentionally refuses to smile for pictures because he knows it drives me bonkers. Here is proof positive of my theory.

 Picture #1: Silly pose because he think sooo funny.

Picture #2: Not smiling because he's protesting a second picture. 

Picture #3: Success because I finally had enough and had to threaten him!

The thing is he hates taking pictures, but he should realize that I'm just going to badger him until I get a good one so he should just smile the first time and be done with it :) 

How was your weekend? Are you having equally amazing weather in your neck of the woods?

Update 2ThousandDozen

I can't believe I've been blogging for going on three years now, but it is true!

This will be the third time I've completed this exercise and if you're interested in the differences you can click here for 2010 and here for 2011.

TEN things you wish you could say to TEN different people right now:
1. I'm proud of you and glad you're back on track!
2. I love you more than yesterday, but not as much as tomorrow.
3. Call me more! I miss talking to you!
4. So excited about the next chapter in your journey and I'm glad I'll get to be a part of it!
5. We need to do a better job of spending time together, we're letting life get in the way. Let's fix it.
6. I wish you could stay the way you are right now forever - you are too adorable for words :)
7. I'm thankful for many things you've done for me, but also a tiny bit disappointed in one instance.
8. I hope you figure out what you're doing in this life and soon. This is not a dress rehearsal, it's the real deal!
9. Don't be so hard on him, he's doing his best and your pressure doesn't help.
10. I'm blown away by how great you are at motherhood, I love you and am so happy for you!

NINE things about yourself:
1. I am driven.
2. I really want to find a home church and family.
3. I love laughing more than any other thing in the world.
4. I've lost 12 pounds since December and I've kept it off!
5. I enjoy being an aunt but can't wait to be a mother.
6. My grandmother (Nanny) is one of my best friends.
7. I still make quite a lot of excuses when it comes to exercise, but I haven't given up yet :)
8. I am a shopaholic.
9. I have quite a temper that I'm trying to improve.

EIGHT ways to win your heart:
1. Make me laugh.
2. Spend time with me.
3. Tell me your dreams.
4. Be kind.
5. Be able to take a joke.
6. Listen to my crazy ramblings.
7. Read my blog and leave me a comment! ;)
8. Cook for me!

SEVEN things that cross your mind a lot:
1. My hair is really long.
2. I really would like a new car, but I kind of enjoy not having a car payment.
3. I want to travel more!
4. Can't wait until November when I get to stand beside my best friend when she gets married!
5. Also excited for October and the dirty thirty extravaganza in Las Vegas for my DH's a bunch of my friends' birthdays!
6. When can I go shopping again?
7. Do I really have to get out of bed??

SIX things you do before you go to bed:
1. Wash my face.
2. Brush my teeth.
3. Read a bit.
4. Watch some TV.
5. Say my prayers.
6. Kiss Tim.

FIVE people who mean a lot:
1. Tim
2. Parents
3. Grandparents
4. Brothers
5. Niece and Nephews

FOUR things you’re wearing right now.
1. Wedding rings
2. My company branded polo.
3. Comfy black flats
4. My favorite gray slacks

THREE songs that fit your life perfectly
1. We are Young by Fun.
2. Glad you Came by The Wanted
3. Good Feeling by FloRida

TWO things you want to do before you die
1. Become a mother.
2. Write a book.


ONE confession:
I hope to have big changes to report when I do this again next year :)

Mmm...Bread!

One of my goals for March was to try a new recipe each week and I had recently pinned this seemingly simple recipe to make Beer Bread. I got home last night determined to succeed, slapped on an apron and rolled up my sleeves, ready to make delicious bread :)

First I preheated the oven and gathered all the dry ingredients - all purpose flour, sugar, baking powder and salt and sifted them all thoroughly together using a fork.

Next, I grabbed the rest of the ingredients - one can of cheap light beer and about 3 tbsp of butter.

I poured the beer in and got a little messy mixing everything together. Also forgot to pre-flour my hands to keep the dough from sticking to me...ooops.

Then, once I was able to get everything off my hands I plopped the dough in a silicone bakeware loaf pan, I melted the butter and "basted it" (read: dumped on top of) the dough and shoved it in the oven.

Forty minutes later I was in bread heaven! It was dense and fluffy and delicious :) I highly recommend this recipe and the website I pinned it from - www.honestfare.com has really great simple recipes! I think the best part about it was since the beer acts as the yeast there is no kneading required!

Have you ever made beer bread before? What types of beer did you use?

Mythbusters!

When we're growing up there are many things you "learn" that later in life you find out were completely bogus or even downright silly. I'm breaking down those myths and crazy falsehoods in today's blog post!

Girls/Boys have cooties. Clearly this is something one kid started to keep another kid away from them. Leave me alone, I don't like you, you have cooties. But it stuck because kids are impressionable :)

He hit you? Oh he must like you! Seriously? Little boys can be mean and no wonder they are because girls let them get away with it since they tricked themselves into thinking their actions meant they liked them. No. That boy does not like you - he's just annoying.

Don't make that face it'll stay that way! If this were the case I would be one unfortunate looking girl! I am the queen of face making - crossed eyes, eyebrow raising, goofy grinning, that would be me.

It's only funny until someone gets hurt. Ha, sometimes it doesn't even start being funny UNTIL someone gets hurt! We learned that from the boys of Jackass. 

Tell me your favorite - which ones did I forget?

Friday's Letters

Dear Friday - I am so happy to see you again. It's been a long week and I missed you.
Dear Blog Friends - Thanks for sticking around through my blogging drought, it's been nice to reconnect.

Dear Husband - Can't wait for our date night tonight. I love dancing with you :)
Dear Brother - I can't wait to hear how your interview went this morning! P.S. I'm proud of you no matter what!
Dear Pregnant Friends - There are a lot of you out there right now! Can't wait to meet all your babies!
Dear Niece - You are quickly developing a hilarious personality, I love the little girl you're becoming!
Dear Sister in Law - Thanks for sending the text sharing this precocious child's sense of humor! "Sometimes Uncle Tim loves to be pretty. He just wears dresses."
Dear Apple - I will not be buying an iPad 3 since I just bought an iPad 2 at Christmas. I don't feel bad about this because the new one isn't that different from the 2!
Dear Allergies - I loathe you.
Dear Florida - I am loving this 80 degree weather!
Dear Kony - We will find you. And we will stop you. 

Product of the Week

I buy a lot of makeup. There is no denying this fact. It is a rare occasion if you meet me in public somewhere bare faced. I also love to conduct experiments with new products so I try a lot of products but if something becomes a favorite it stays in my cosmetics case FOREVER. Urban Decay's Eyeshadow Primer Potion is one of those products. I use it every.single.day.

Put this stuff on your eyelids before your eyeshadow and that stuff is glued on until you wash it off. It won't even smudge if you jump into a pool, true story. It's waterproof and sweatproof, I call it the catcher's mitt of eye makeup. The color I use is "Sin" but they are all fabulous. Highly recommend you check it out :)

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

If you're not already singing the song in your head, "that is something quite atrocious!" As a child Mary Poppins was one of my absolute favorite movies and as an adult it makes invokes memories of watching Disney movies in my living room with my Dad. He let me watch movies again and again, until everyone in the house could speak the lines and sing the songs from memory :)



They simply do not make movies like this anymore. Even Disney has become modernized and panders to a more "grown up" audience of children. Well, I digress. This wonderful song and film is in the news because one half of the famed Sherman Brothers, Robert that is, has passed away and with him goes his legacy of writing great music with his brother Richard. The article talks about the process the brothers used to develop this tantalizing word, "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" and turn it into Disney soundtrack gold.

As children the brothers used to make up words and introduce them into their group of friends and if the word gained favor they knew where it originated! That is just so clever, are children still this precocious? I hope so!

What's your favorite Disney movie?