Question # 17

If you suddenly became blind, how would your idea of the perfect mate change?

I am quite independent now so it would change alot. I would have to rely on The Husband to do more things for me and that would be quite a challenge for me!

Six Degrees

I live in a fairly small area and it seems that everyone is connected somehow. My co-worker lives right across the street from my step-daughters. Now they live 45 mins away from us so we aren't even talking the same town. Anyway this morning I came in to work and before I even got my computer on my coworker said I read about J & J's (step dd's) grandfather dying. Huh, what? Its 7am, I'm still asleep so don't just throw that out there. I immediately think that something happened on their mom's side of the family. So I go online to look at the obituary and its my step-daughters step-father's father. (holy moly, can you say blended?)
I call The Husband, just because I wanted to share the gossip. He didn't answer because he was working. So I just forgot about it and continued working.
Fast forward to 8:30am and my mom calls me to tell me. Apparently she reads the obituaries online in my newspaper? She lives an hour north of me, whereas these people are almost an hour south. I didn't even know she knew the girls mother's married name to be able to recognize when their family dies. Interesting!

After writing this, it probably has more to do with nosey people. I don't think many normal people read the obituaries for the 10 surrounding counties.

I also realized that we should never attempt to make a family tree.

I just made a whole post about someone I don't know that died. I'm a weirdo!

Question # 16

This should be an interesting one.

What first attracted you to me? How has that one attraction changed since then?

Yay, an award!!

I am so excited to accept this lovely award! Mel has chosen me to pass this award along to........

Here are the rules:

List 7 things that you love and then pass the award on to 7 people...tagging them and letting them know they won! You can copy the picture of the award and put it on your sideboard letting the whole wide world know you are KReATIV!

Seven things I love:

1. my family (they rock!)
2. my cell phone
3. the Internet (how did we live without all of this at our fingertips?
4. my laptop (it allows me to be lazy on the sofa instead of an office or something)
5. M's cat (he is such a snuggle bug to me!)
6. watching seasons change (I couldn't live somewhere that didn't have 4 seasons)
7. playing in the snow with M
8. watching kids grow up (its truly amazing to watch them develop)
9. shopping (love it!)
10. sleeping (there is nothing better than a nap on the weekend)

Now I pass this on to:

Three Prince Designs

Life According to Jennifer

Schmoochiepoo

Mama Talk

The joys of raising boys

CocoMom

Heidi

What color are your toenails?

ew, toenails, I agree. The things I blog about!

I can't not have my toes painted. I think toenails are ugly and everyone, including men, should paint their toes.

I like to have bright toes so they are never a pale pink or any dull color. I stick to red, hot pink and a silvery purple color. But not today, nope!!

Tonight I am going to paint my toes BLUE! How's that for living on the edge?

Question # 15

We are almost half way to the end! Anyone still playing? lol
Do you prefer receiving expensive gifts or ones that come from the heart?

The Husband will say that I like expensive gifts, which is true. BUT I think I like gifts from the heart too. I am ridiculously hard to buy for though.
Now when I give gifts I try hard to make them heartfelt. My oldest step daughter loves writing and got some stationary for xmas and mailed her mom a note from our house. So while at Micheal's one day I saw note cards with her initial on them and I bought them for her birthday (next week). I will give her enough stamps to send out all the cards also. To me, that's better than a toy she will forget about next week. I know kids love toys but I like to give a little of what they want and what my heart says. I'm so excited to give them to her.

Ok, wake up now!

huh?

What's with the follower box? I dont really like it but I dont do change well either.

Friendship Casserole

I know,I know, food again. Can this girl talk about anything but food? Any thing?

We had Friednship Casserole for dinner last night and I had leftovers for lunch today and its so good that I wanted to pass on the recipe. This recipe makes 2, so you can either freeze one or give one to a friend. Im selfish so I always keep mine. Its very easy to make also. The only thing I do different is I make mine own spaghetti/pizza sauce. (just started this recently)

Ingredients

2 lbs ground beef
1 (48 ounce) jar spaghetti sauce
2 tablespoons sugar
1 (16 ounce) package medium egg noodles
1/2 cup margarine or butter
3/4 teaspoon onion salt
3/4 teaspoon garlic salt
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
12 ounces shredded mozzarella cheese

Directions
Preheat oven to 350º.
Brown meat, drain fat.
Add spaghetti sauce and sugar to meat; simmer 20 minutes.
Cook noodles as directed (al dente); drain and toss with margarine, salts and Parmesan cheese.
Spray two 9x13 pans with non-stick spray. In both pans layer half the sauce,all the noodles, rest of sauce; top with mozzarella cheese.
Cover with foil; bake 45 minutes.

Question # 14

If you could live one year of your life all over again without changing a thing,what year would you choose? Why?

Tough one!

Hmmm. I can always think of things that I would have changed.

Yummy Food!

Let's talk about non healthy food for a second. I love it, I do mean LOVE! Hence why I need to lose 10lbs but lets not ruin the fun by talking about diet junk.

Do you like Chinese donuts?
I do! I DO!!!
Never had them? You are missing out on some sugary goodness. I havent made them yet but I found a recipe online. They look the same so hopefully they are as good.
Here is the recipe.

While searching for cakes that my step daughter may love I found this, a rainbow cake! I love rainbows! (Hence the blog name) Too bad its not my birthday, huh? She wants chocolate so I cant make this. *sigh*

So who is going to be the experimenter and make one or both of these? I think I have everything to make the donuts.