Unable

I hate these kind of posts, yet here I go with it, the statement I read on so many blogs:

Lately I have been unable to write.

My worrying seems to want to eat me up, and I can't seem to have the happiness here; it's on reserve for my family and friends. It's been tough lately, and I'm not sure why. Maybe the Holiday cheer finally chewed me up and spit me out and now I am just kind of bitter. Tired and bitter. Tired, bitter and grumpy. (Are bitter and grumpy the same thing? Is one mutually exclusive of  the other?)


Sorry for that.

I'm trying to work on getting my mojo back, and get some year end posts done, and work on my New Blog and my giveaway (ends tomorrow- go over there now).

Also, please think good thoughts for my Mom, as she is having surgery on her other rotator cuff on her right arm today and will need physical therapy and months of recovery.

Santa's Creepy Christmas Wishes

I'm in yer mall, gettin' yer Christmas wishes,

I'm going down your chimney, and eatin' up yer cookies,

then I'm gonna fill up yer stockin's,

Later, I'm in my house, cuddlin' with yer puppy.*

Now, I'm in yer computer, 

Wishing you a Merry Christmas. 

...now try and get yerself a good nights rest.


* for those keeping track- Puppy countdown = 9 days

Quick Take

I sent Mr. B off to get groceries today with a long list, was that unkind of me? Hopefully he will be back before Christmas.

Also, my giveaway over at my new blog, The Bees Knees, is fully in swing, and NOW you can comment on it- woo hoo. Thanks to Carma for pointing it out.

New Blog

Hey all, up in the tabs you will see I have added a tab for a Review and Giveaway Blog. Please go check it out, I am having a giveaway over there! Here is the link as well. The Bee's Knees

This will allow me to have giveaways and still comply with all of the new regulations that I don't completely understand, and also let me keep this blog about writing asshat stories, which you all like (that, or at least you like the word asshat). I wonder if you Google asshat, my Blog comes near the top. Damn, no it doesn't. Apparently other people use the word asshat? What's that about? Don't they know that is MY word?

Anyway, let me know what you think. It's still in the formative stages, so constructive criticism only. (Webmaster, I am not.)

Not Me Monday- 4 days until Christmas Edition

I did NOT spend 15 hours last week baking cookies. Consequently when I was done, I did not take a celebratory nap.

Today is Mr. Bee's Birthday! Yay! I love my husband, and he is totally older than me so I can NOT gloat about him being old. 36! Yikes! (Hahaha) Happy Birthday Mr. Bee, I love you!

I also did NOT hint to Mr. Bee to pick a Birthday meal that I didn't have to cook. (Hey I baked all week.)

This post was NOT thrown together at the last minute, NOT at all!

I am so NOT counting down the days past Christmas when we get our new puppy! (Puppy watch is 12 days and counting- I hope he still has puppy breath then!)

I am NOT totally done this year on all my Christmas tasks. (Sigh of relief.)

I totally do NOT feel guilty about missing all of my workouts.

I totally do NOT regret the 15 cookies (or so, I lost count) I consumed this week and the cookie dough. (Who doesn't love cookie dough? Fascists, that's who.

I did NOT write a whole post about Christmas Cookies. I am NOT cookie obsessed at all.

What are your Not Me's this week?

This blog carnival was created by MckMama. You can head over to her blog to read what she and everyone else have not been doing this week.

Cookied out!

So today has been a quiet day on the blog front. Quiet days make me nervous. It makes me think you are all ready for my cookie stories... no? Well too bad, I like my asshat stories, so here we go....

I've been way ahead of schedule on all of Christmas tasks this year. The house was decorated the weekend after Thanksgiving, I've been shopping since Fall, and you all saw how awesome my Christmas cards turned out. So this year I decided to bake Christmas cookies. No biggie right? I am not a baker though. Hell, I'm barely able to stand cooking. I am not fond of cooking and my kitchen is not one that calls spend lots of time in me, I ahm so pretty. It is a fugly kitchen to the nth degree. I have counters that are never clean, no matter how many times I wash them, the cupboard hinges are all breaking, and the floor is white tile therefore perpetually dirty.

Still, I decided to trudge through. Here is the list of cookies I wanted to make:

Magic Cookie Bars
Skill level: Easy

These were pretty easy, however I added too much chocolate. Drew wanted to know if these cookies were actually magic. Nope, but the kids seemed to think they gave them super powers. Drew transformed into a duck and began quacking through the house. Jacob gained the power of SUPERSPEED and ran laps around the house. I'm sure this was due to the "magic" and not the extra chocolate that was added.

Tri Cornered Cream Cheese jelly things (Maybe not technical name, but I'm lazy so live with it!)
Skill level: Oh my Freakin' god I never want to make these again.

These took me three and half hours to make. Towards the end I just ate a big gob of dough so I wouldn't have to shape another cookie. Of course Mr. B loves them and wants more to make more *SOB*.

Fudgy Bon Bons
Skill Level: Meh- not too bad! Messy though.

I made these for the name only. Drew was able to help peel the Hershey's kisses that go in the middle of these (Jacob helped by handing the kisses to Drew, it was a regular assembly line), and the kids love them.



Sugar Cookies
Skill Level: Ridiculous amounts of work, for realsies.

It's a good thing Christmas only comes once a year because mah God do these things take a long time to make. I hate any recipe that calls for a rolling pin. It is not my forte. Somehow we manged to get about 30 usable cookies and we frosted them. Any ill feelings that I had toward the cookie making process were forgotten when Drew began frosting. Not only did he have a great time (he called himself "the Frosting King") but he had a little secret for me midway through the cookies.


"Mommy, I love you." He whispered.

I think the sugar cookies were a good note to end on. The biggest pain in the ass with the biggest payoff. . I don't do this for me, I do it for them. If I carried them in my belly for 9 months I guess 15 hours of baking is small potatoes And they loved it. The baking cookies, not the belly thing, although the probably loved that, too.

So those of you that made it through a post about sugar cookies, congratulations! Now please don't hit the unsubscribe button.

He may be on to us...

Drew: Mommy, you love your Ipod so much.

Me: Yes, I do. I love something else more, though. Do you know what it is?

Drew: Eating?

Me: I love something else more... what is it? (Who) is it?

Drew: Hmmm... you love buying puppies.

Me: Um, why do you think that?

(I mean, okay, yeah, we bought a puppy (!) this week, but it's a surprise y'all! How did he know?)

Drew: Well, you buy puppies for everyone but me.

(Whew, he doesn't know... maybe we should stop hinting, you think?)
Here's our puppy! If this picture of him doesn't melt your heart, you must be a Grinch. Or have Grinch-like tendencies. Our puppy will be coming to live with us January 2nd. Yes I can barely contain myself...and it's a secret... at least until Christmas. Right now we are trying to come up with names- any suggestion? (No, we can't ask Drew either, just this past Saturday he called himself Savishaaallaam and his brother he named Fart-Fart-hksihebfilk.)

By the way... Drew never figured out the answer... himself (and his brother and Daddy of course). It was a close race between the "eating" that I love, and them. Somehow they won out.

My Confessions

I will sometimes jam out really loud to a really dorky song in my car and then turn it down when I get to a red light.

I am obsessed with American Idol.

I giggle at inappropriate things.

Whenever I lose weight, I lose it first in my ass. This makes me sad. I NEVER lose it in my stomach- I'm like a reverse hourglass.

I own seasons 1-3 of Dawson's Creek. (Pacey forever!)

I dance around to my Ipod while I clean my house.

While I hate cooking, I'm actually a pretty good cook.

I love to talk about and think about food. It's my addiction.

I am never full. I just stop eating when everyone else does.

I am actually very concerned about the Eggo Waffle shortage. Damn you Kellogg company!

My biggest fear? Flying in an Airplane. Ever since I saw the movie Alive when I was 10 in the theaters. I cry every time we take off and then I'm okay once we are in the air. Poor Mr. B hates flying too, but he has to keep me calm. Next time I fly, I think I will need drugs.

I have seen New Moon twice.

I'm pretty sure I'm going bald, also maybe blind.

I might be a little bit of a hypochondriac.

My Family still thinks of me as the baby of the family. I'm pretty sure they can't believe I am raising two kids.

I saw the movie 2012, and now I am a little scared for December 21, 2012.

I would eat at Noodles n' Company every day if I could.

I put cheese on everything!

I'm comment obsessed.

I have something big that I am excited about... but I am not telling you guys yet.


What are some of your confessions? I would love to hear them!

Merry SITSmas!

For more Holiday Wishes and the chance to win some awesome prizes, check out The Secret is in the Sauce!

Sunday Citar

Welcome to Sunday Citar! This blog quote meme was created by http://www.freshmommyblog.com/. You can stop by her blog to see the quotes and photos that she and everyone else is loving right now.

~ Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe. ~ Summer Redstone.

Today has been a day of frustration for me with many different little things, but especially this blog. I know not everyone will like me or my blog and yet I let it get to me. So I just have to let it go, and know that what matters is that I am proud of my blog, and not worry so much about what others think.

New Moon's Location Pictures! Well, without the cast... sorry

Last year my parents went on a trip to Italy. They were driving and came across Volterra, and stopped into the town. Last night when I saw New Moon, I immediately recognized Volterra from my parents pictures, and I thought I would share them with you.

I asked my parents if they saw any of the Volturi there, or if any hot vampires tried to accost them while they were there.

My Dad thinks I'm super hilarious.

Anyway, here are some of the pictures my Dad took. They're beautiful on their own, but if you need to, just superimpose shirtless Edward in them in your mind.

Again, I'm super hilarious. You are laughing on the inside.

Maybe this is the window Edward looked out while he pined for Bella? Well, one can pretend.

December Playlist

This list is a little odd and a lot dance-y, but that is because I have been on a gym kick lately, but it begins slow and ends slow. No there are no Christmas songs, I'm doing a workout playlist AND a Christmas playlist in a later post-try to contain your excitement!

1. Paper Bag- Fiona Apple
2. Before we Come Undone- Kris Allen
3. The Breaks- Kurtis Blow
4. Pork And Beans-Weezer
5. Floorplan-Tegan & Sara
6. It's Like That- Run-D.M.C.
7. It Don't Move Me- Peter Bjorn and John
8. I like to Move it- Will.I.Am (this is for the kids... I never, um listen to it on my own...)
9. A-Punk- Vampire Weekend
10. Kick Push- Lupe Fiasco
11. Animal- Mike Snow
12. Policy Of Truth- Depeche Mode
13. Night Windows- The Weakerthans
14. A Comet Appears- The Shins

What's on your Playlist this month? Any good Holiday songs? Workout songs? Rainy day Songs? LMK in the comments please! I'm always looking for new music.