I HATE the new look.
Seriously, I hate it.
...how much I want this house.
...Or this one, too.
Oh oh, or this one.
Aaaannddd maybe this one. Yeah, that one's pretty nice, too.
Oh, and this one's nice, too!
And I think I could definitely stand living in THIS one.
But this one's perfect if we want to live near Tahoe.
But also off away from Reno.. this one's even better.
This one's more than tolerable.
As is this one.
And, umh....yeah. This one, too.
Oh, and this one! YEAH!
But lastly... this one. I mean, holy crap. It's perfect.
I mean, seriously - DREAM HOUSES MUCH!?
I want a home. :-( Or roommates that're responsible. I'm really day dreaming. Can ya tell?
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1 cup butter, softened
- 1 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/2 cup white sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 3 cups quick-cooking oats
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
DIRECTIONS
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
- In a large bowl, cream together the butter, brown sugar, and white sugar until smooth. Beat in eggs one at a time, then stir in vanilla. Combine the flour, baking soda, and salt; stir into the creamed mixture until just blended. Mix in the quick oats, walnuts, and chocolate chips. Drop by heaping spoonfuls onto ungreased baking sheets. ( I eye-balled the chocolate and butterscotch... I added however much I wanted. )
- Bake for 13-15 minutes in the preheated oven. It really depends on how hot your oven gets. Allow cookies to cool on baking sheet for 5 minutes before transferring to a wire rack to cool completely - keep in mind that while they remain on the baking sheet, they continue to cook from the bottom up due to the heat.
- Lastly.. if you want a more flavorful cookie - which these do not lack in flavor whatsoever, btw - you can add 2tsp of vanilla extract. But I forgot to add it in the first place (just a general rule, I add to almost any cookie) and they tasted absolutely perfect.
Please note: Original recipe said only 12 minutes, and it also depends on the size of the cookie you make. I made large mounds of dough, and needed the additional 2-3 minutes to get the lightly golden browned edges that I prefer on my cookies. If your cookies are taking a little bit longer to not be overly mushy in the middle, PLEASE DO NOT RAISE THE TEMPERATURE. Understand that raising the temperature alters how the cookie bakes, and the cookie will SPREAD OUT and become flat and unattractive. I believe the actual reason is that the butter MELTS too quickly, and practically kills the cookie :-(
..but the noise of the constant roar from the crowd filtered through a TV..
..the way men people seem to think that shouting from their couch somehow effects the game..
..how Sundays pretty much mean that the TV is glued to a game station, and the two above things continue to happen the entire day..
Yeah. That I don't like, that I can't stand.
Thankfully, the boyfriend is going to go play football with some of his buddies ACROSS TOWN (about 1.5 hours away, depending on traffic - thank you, Phoenix), and that means I can draw, clean, watch the Food Network, listen to music, or do anything I want - without the noise from football killing my head.
Joy. Rapture.
So I made some. Oatmeal cookies with chocolate and butterscotch chips, and walnuts. :-)
My picture for a recipe on allrecipes.com is being used for the main image of the recipe. (Sure, I don't know if it updates to the most recent picture of the recipe.. from what I've seen, that shouldn't be the case.)
I think it's pretty cool! I feel all special. Click here to see the recipe. you can also read my review by clicking "more reviews" or whatever it says to see how I changed the recipe just a bit. Pleast note: If you hover your mouse over that link, the picture that shows up is NOT my picture.. you have to actually visit the recipe. My picture is the one with the cream swirl in the soup.
Yay.
Apparently for working on MLK day, January 21, I will get paid for my full 7 hour day...
..and then since it's a holiday and I'm not taking it off, I will get paid an additional time and a half on top of the normal 7.
Basically.... double time, and a half.
SWEEEEEET
What won't you miss about 2007?
Submitted by uncagedbird.
- I definitely won't miss living in Phoenix. It's insanely hot here during the summer, it's huge and spread out, and in traffic it can take 2 or more hours just to get across town. ACROSS A SINGLE CITY! That's ridiculous!
- I won't miss my job. I work in a cubicle and I answer calls all day long for investors and financial advisers. It's a ridiculously stressful job; people call in and yell at you for absolutely not reason. Also, even if the caller is completely satisfied with your service - beyond satisfied and jokes around with you on the phone - you can still "fail" your calls because they grade on EVERY SINGLE LITTLE DETAIL.
- I won't miss the traffic. People here can't drive. Apparently, merging on to the freeway doesn't just involve the people GETTING ON THE FREEWAY, it involves everyone else driving and following speeding laws. Even people in the fast lane or the carpool lane must slow down because, Oh God!, there are cars getting on the freeway once every mile. ...Absolutely ridiculous.
- I won't miss the lack of family owned and operated businesses. Sure, there are some here and there, but they're so damn hard to find and when you do, it's sometimes not even worth it. Everything else is a chain restaurant.
- I won't miss... being overweight, moody, and unhappy.
- I won't miss being in debt and never having enough to make a difference on payments.
Hopefully the new year brings a solution to all of these problems. The problems that revolve around Phoenix are being solved here pretty soon - last minute decision to move back to my hometown and in with my parents. This will also help with the debt problem, since the whole reason behind it is to not have rent and all of those other bills that come with renting a place... all of that money can just be thrown at the debt.
I have hopes for 2008.
Has anyone ever heard of or taken alli? It was recommended to my sister by a doctor, and she started taking it a lost a LOT OF WEIGHT. Now, she's already on something else that was prescribed to her by a doctor, so when they recommended this as well it just boosted the weight loss further.
This is supposed to be available at WalMart, but if not I can check some health stores in the mall. I'm pretty sure I'll spend at least $40 on the stuff.
The only reason I'm actually going to give it a chance is because my sister took it and my mom specifically told me it sped up her weight loss dramatically.
I now have a plane ticket to Reno at the end of this month. I fly out Thursday night, January 24 and I don't come back to Phoenix until Sunday night, January 27. Since I'm currently at 170lbs, I'd like to lose as much weight as possible within the next month by eating strictly fruits, veggies, tofu, egg whites, and vitamins. I might toss in a tiny bit of chicken breast, but no more than 4oz. I will not eat pasta, pizza, or have Starbucks or Tully's. I am going to try to eliminate coffee in the mornings entirely, but that might take a week.
Multi-vitamins are going to be my best friend, as is my brand new juicer. I'll be drinking bottle after bottle of water every day to keep my body hydrated, as apparently alli may give you the runs for a few days if you've still got unnecessary fat in your diet.
That's the only thing I'm worried about: diarrhea at work. I don't want anything like that happening, so I'll be starting the weight loss drug this coming Friday and deal with any possible emergencies over the weekend when I'm safe and at home.
Also... my favorite part... with the juicer, I feel so much more positive about the whole thing. I only had a small glass of juice earlier this afternoon (4 carrots, 1 whole apple, 2 tangellos, 1 huge pear, and 6 strawberries), and I'm bursting with energy. I can't sit still. I have can't sit and finish the movie we're in the middle of because I want to do something. I already know this is going to give me just enough energy to keep me positive and start me on working out every night.
Lorean gets paid this Friday morning at midnight, so hopefully he has the money to take us to the store and fill our kitchen with fresh, organic fruits and vegetables. I want beets, parsnips, spinach, greens, everything. I want it all. And I want plenty of carrots and celery for that crunchy texture to snack on.
I figure if I mix the juice with some non-fat yogurt occasionally, I'll get a good source of dairy even though I almost never have dairy because I'm lactose-intolerant. Also, I plan to mix it with extra-silky tofu for a protein packed smoothie.
What does everyone think??????
I'd like serious feedback, if possible.. I know a lot of people don't comment or read anymore, and if I'm just clogging your friends page let me know and I'LL REMOVE YOU so you won't have to worry about it.
So. Anyone? Anyone?
I just found out my dad was T-boned on his way home from work.
He wasn't wrong at all, driving through a stop light that was green.
Another guy, facing the sun, decided to go on the red light.
Well, he went... and he went straight into my dad's car. PERFECT T-bone, dead-center to my dad's suburban.
Then, the guy ran from the accident. Drove off.
My dad and a witness chased him down.
He didn't have insurance.
He ran from the scene of the accident.
He ran the read light.
He was completely in the wrong.
My dad didn't press charges or anything, and the cop gave him the option of citing him for leaving the scene of the accident.
When given that option, my dad said to let him go.
He was only cited for failure to yield to oncoming traffic, and driving without insurance. That's it.
My dad's reasoning? He left work early to go home and spend time with his wife and four children, two of which are very little. Had he told him to cite him for running from the accident, he'd have been thrown in jail right then and there, and my dad couldn't do that to someone.
I love my dad. He is a very compassionate person. However, I'm PISSED AS ALL FUCKING HELL that he didn't send that man to jail. No insurance, ran a read light, hit someone and fucking ran off.
My parents raised me to stand up for what is right. No, I'm not perfect, but I sure as hell have a good set of morals. This man was wrong on so many counts, and my dad let him off VERY easily and the cop only wrote him up for the minimum.
My dad is a very, very good man. I respect him. I am torn about his decision.
By the way, he is already. But I found out this is the second accident he has been in within the last two weeks!
A week before Christmas, someone rear-ended him so badly that he had
whiplash and couldn't walk. The ambulance drove him off. It was that bad.
That woman?
Didn't have insurance.
Rear-ended him at 30mph straight on.
HAD A REVOKED FUCKING LICENSE.
I'm pissed. No charges against her, either.
Fuck.
I'm going home at the end of this month for a weekend before somebody fucking dies.
