Friday, February 20, 2009

Meet Mason


Meet Mason, he is now part of my family. We've been wanting a dog, since forever. Now that we have a home, we can have a dog. He's only been here two days, and already I love him. He farts more then I'd like him to, he snores, and currently hes snuggled up doing both of those things by my lap as I type. Yes, the smell is terrible, and the snores? well they're cute as hell.

p.s. I love that he follows me around the house.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

little by little...

It begins...



little...



by little...



she's starting to get bigger...



and I don't want to realize...



That one day she won't be mine anymore.

Thank GOD for Bakerella!

So I was blog lurking one night and I came across Bakerella. Thus beginning my new obsession. Red velvet balls! For about 2 1/2 weeks I've been drooling late night at her pictures of endless oral godsends! Jesus F'ing Christ! (I don't say that often) I'm surprised my keyboard still works, because just looking at the genius tiny balls made my mouth into a river.

I finally was able to stock up on all the things I would need to make the red velvet heaven my mouth so desperately desired. Let me tell you. Oh-EM-Geee! They are delicious! Here is what I made!


The prep stage: The wine in the back isn't used in the baked goods, its so that I can have something to sip on while I wait.



Things got a tad bit messy, but most good things tend to get messy at some point right?



See no more mess!



This part was a tiny bit scary, I've never worked with candy melts, and chocolate. Guess what? I'm not scared anymore.



Bakerella has chocolate balls, and then she makes cupcake cake balls, same thing different shape. I wanted to try both. So I did.


Isn't that great?





My midnight snack...believe me its as good as it looks, if not better! The iphone camera doesn't do it justice.



It wasn't too hard, well worth the work. This bakerella is dangerous! I think this just opened a whole new world for me, so many possibilities!

Thursday, February 5, 2009

My failure "update"

I have been delaying this post for some time in hopes that things would change and I wouldn't sound so negative when writing this out. Well it seems that delaying it didn't help. I haven't lost any weight. I haven't been dedicated to working out. Life has taken me once again away from my selfish course. <---see that's how I justify my lack of follow through I'm not sure why I've stopped. I have a million and one excuses, but are they reasonable? some....some are just a bunch of bullshit and I know it. Just for fun, here are a few: Superbowl BQQ, leftover meat from the BBQ (cant toss things out when $ is tight!...right?) by the way we had burgers and hot dogs for two days..AFTER the Superbowl and the BAKING! got a hold of me...(sings)oooh it really got a hooooold of meeeeee!!!!!! I'll get to the baking later though.

It had been two weeks going on 3-ish and I had lost 5 el-bees. It all went to the crapper over a weekend. I was terrified of getting back on the WiiFit, I didn't want to know how bad I had done over the course of just a few days. Eventually I mustered up the courage and stepped on, I knew what was coming my way I felt it and my pants did too. My body felt gross, it still does. It didn't help that my two year old has gotten so use to my weigh ins that he now knows how to say and when to say "That's obese!" *face palm*

I'm having a hell of a hard time getting that motivation back, I've gone back to my own post to see if I could find some inspiration-no deal. I'm lost again. Tried to ask the hubby for some motivation but the poor thing is so tired from work I could see my words go in his ear and out the other. I could have thrown a bitch fit but if I was at work 12 + hours a day installing in the hot sun and forgot my wallet at home so I couldn't get something to eat/drink, I'd be out of it too.

As I type this out its been almost a week without a single jog. I don't feel healthy, I feel lazy, and I think I'm expanding... sideways. AHH the story of my life! All I want to do is sleep....and BAKE. Holy Yummy cakes batman! I have come across a TON of baking blogs and I am ever so anxious to try out the recipes and make them my own! I want to make a heart shape cake box and red velvet balls, and cake-lolly pops! Check out what hasn't been helping me keep the pounds off! YUM but be warned! If you stare at them long enough you might just gain a pound!


Its only been a day or two and something really exciting has happened. I'll blog about that later! but its great! And wipe that drool off your face! aren't those red velvet balls amazing?