hello, lovely

I need to eat something other than Hershey’s Kisses & the rest of this chocolate pie (THAT JOE ATE MOST OF!! ehhe love you, baby! :D) for dinner.

So here’s inventory of my pantry:

- Kraft Mac ‘n Cheese (no milk, though. ew!)
- Cereal (no milk though, ew!)
- Crackers
- Flour
- Sugar
- Syrup
- Peppermint Tea
- Trash bags
- Ziploc Bags

Now, if you can make a (good, yummy-tasting) meal out of that, you will win a prize. Like… erm… the ability to tell everyone honestly that you made a good, yummy-tasting meal out of that list of things. Sounds like a stellar prize to me, no?

In the meantime, I’m going to get something for dinner. Or maybe just some milk so I can have mac ‘n cheese for dinner & cereal for dessert. *lol*

Stolen from Manda.

I’m using M since she took A, already, and using her answers would just be cheating.

Rules: Use the 1st letter of your name to answer each of the following…They MUST be real places, names, things…NOTHING made up! If you can’t think of anything, skip it. Try to use different answers if the person in front of you had the same 1st initial. You CAN’T use your name for the boy/girl name question.

Your name: Manda
Athlete: Mike Modano
4 Letter word: Maar (how geeky is it of me that I actually looked in the dictionary to find a “cool” m word? hahaha)
Street name: Mockingbird Lane
Color: Magenta
Gifts/presents: Marble Magnets
Vehicles: Mustang
Tropical Locations: Manda Bay (I totally have to go there now. LOL)
College Majors: Meteorology
Dairy Products: Milk
Things in a Souvenir Shop: Magnets
Boy Name: Mark
Girl Name: Madeline
Movie Titles: Moulin Rouge
Alcohol: Merlot
Occupations: Makeup Artist
Flowers: Morning Glory
Celebrities: Mandy Moore
Magazines: Martha Stewart Living
U.S. cities: Menasha (no one said it had to be a MAJOR city. LOL)
Pro Sports Team: NY Mets

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DIBBIE!!!!!!!!

all is quiet around here today… in the office and in blogland. it seems like nothing is going on today!

my sister and i are going to see epic movie tonight. i’m in the mood for stupid-funny, and i’m hoping this fits the bill. no idea what we’re going to do for dinner, but the movie theater is surrounded by and near a bunch of food places, so i’m sure we’ll find something.

yesterday and today have just been very…. blah. my mood is grey… kind of like the background of my blog. (how emo/teenage angsty/bad poetry did that sound?? lol!!)

joe flies in tomorrow though. that’s a good thing. i think we’re going to sit at home and watch movies all weekend, so it’ll be nice and relaxing. too bad i have to work monday. he gets the place to himself, while i have to work, and then i get off work just in time to take him to the airport.

some people have said it’s kind of hard to read the text here. if i think about it, i’ll lighten it a bit so it’s easier to read.

oh well. have a good weekend, just in case i’m not around much.

It’s only 12:25???

*sticks pen in eye*
*repeatedly*

Dear Lovelies,

I desperately need your help. I’m in search of the perfect shampoo. Okay, honestly, I know it doesn’t really exist, but I need something better than the Sunsilk shampoo I’m using now.

I ran out of the Herbal Essences shampoo I was using, and I generally like to change it up every time or two that I have to buy shampoo. I’ve used the HE the last two or three times I’ve had to buy the shampoo, and it was time for a change.

I’ve seen all the commercials on TV and decided to give it a try because a) I needed shampoo and b) it’s new, and I like to try new stuff. But this? This stuff is annoying. I’m generally an every-other-day hairwasher, but since I got the new stuff, I’ve been washing every day, and my hair looks shiny (in a bad, greasy way), even on the day of first washing.

If all else fails, I will go back to my Old Standby of Pantene, but I wanted to get your suggestions.

My hair doesn’t really have anything special about it. My hair can get a little poofy/frizzy, and it’s definitely on the oily side, but other than that, it’s just….. hair. No color, no perms, no curls, no crazy stuff.

Thanks in advance…
Love & soft, shiny (in a good way) hair,
Manda

**EDIT**: My spam filter seems to be going into overdrive and detecting a bunch of legitimate comments as spam. I do get an update of all comments that Spam Karma catches if it thinks they’re “real”, so if you get the error, don’t worry, I’ll fix it.

well, it’s not really about weird food. it’s about weird ways that i eat food, i guess. i found this on ro’s myspace or blog or something.

1) when i go to chili’s, i always have to get chips & salsa w/ a side of ranch. in fact, i can’t go to chili’s w/o getting the ranch on any/everything. [it's the best, and imo, they should bottle the stuff and sell it. because i can't find anything in the stores that tastes like it. wishbone is the only one that comes close.]
2) i love to eat pickles & ketchup. it’s usually best when the pickles are cold & the ketchup’s room temperature, but i don’t discriminate.
3) i can’t/won’t eat leftovers if they’re more than a day old. sometimes i’ll be brave and let it go 2 days. because i haven’t mastered cooking for 1 or 2, this results in me wasting a lot of food…whether i get rid of it right away or let it sit in the fridge until i feel like cleaning it out.
4) pretzels & cream cheese. yum.
5) joe and i go to applebee’s at least once everytime he visits. sometimes more than once. we almost always order the chips & queso w/ the spicy beef (applebee’s has the best queso, imo.)

in case you haven’t noticed, there’s a new layout up. i like to haunt the wordpress themes site every now and then and find something new since i don’t have enough brain power or desire to design a layout all my own.

i also put a new theme up at KP… there’s lots going on over there, since all i do anymore is knit. lol

right now, i’m going to target… going to get a new toothbrush and some food. and i have to go to the container store to get a box… and um. yeah, i think that’s it. exciting, huh? when i get home, i’m going to clean up a little bit, then i’m going to sit and knit.. finish watching the Charmed dvd I have, and whatever movie DVD i got from Netflix… i want to try to finish socks i’ve been working on (probably won’t happen, but i want to make progress on them anyway).

i live such an exciting life.

my head hurts. i just took some excedrin. too bad it’s not instantaneous.

i mailed off a bday present to pieness because today’s her birthday, and i’m nothing if not punctual. (happy birthday, mellypie!!)

then i went to staples and bought printer ink and paper. they were all about the same price i’d pay at target, so what the hell. i’m very proud of myself for not buying 7000 pens, but i actually didn’t see anything that jumped out and screamed “TAKE ME HOME W/ YOU!” except the 29-pack of extra-fine sharpies, but i didn’t feel like spending another $20, so i didn’t get them. besides, with all the sharpies i have at work, i probably have that set. i ♥ sharpies.

i haven’t been doing much of anything else. i’m kind of hungry, but i don’t really have any food that doesn’t require cooking, and that requires washing some pots, and i just don’t feel like it. i really don’t want pizza, so i may venture out into the cold dark night to get something. i ate a really late lunch so i was hoping that i wouldn’t want/need anything, but i guess that’s not the case. i’m thinking i may need to go to wendy’s or something like that. i’m in an “i don’t know what i want!” mood, and when i go to the store like that, i always walk around the store for an hour, and end up coming home with a bunch of crap i don’t need (cookies, chips, ice cream, pie… lol), and usually still don’t end up with anything that could be considered “dinner”.

i did get to the next color change on joe’s afghan, which is reason enough to celebrate. i need to have a party when i finish the thing. *lol*

back to my netflix dvds.

I have nothing of substance to post, and Blogthings posted a few new quizzes, so… here you go:

In 1980 (the year you were born)

Jimmy Carter is president of the US President Carter announces punitive measures and embargos against the USSR in retaliation for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan Mount St. Helens in Washington state erupts in a violent blast estimated to be 500 times as powerful as the Hiroshima atomic bomb Ronald Reagan is elected the 40th US president in a sweeping victory US Representative Michael O. Myers is expelled from the House for his role in the Abscam scandal Hewlett-Packard announces release of its first personal computer Microsoft announces their version of UNIX, Xenix Christina Ricci, Chelsea Clinton, Venus Williams, Jessica Simpson, Macaulay Culkin, and Jake Gyllenhaal are born Philadelphia Phllies win the World Series Pittsburgh Steelers win Superbowl XIV New York Islanders win the Stanley Cup The Empire Strikes Back is the top grossing film “Lady” by Kenny Rogers spends the most time at the top of the US charts U.S. viewers get caught up in the “Who Shot J.R.?” cliff hanger on the soap opera series, Dallas, which is solved on a November 21 episode, drawing a record numbers of viewers

You Are Not Very Worldly…Yet

You haven’t really traveled the world yet, but you’ll get around to it someday. In the meantime, it couldn’t hurt to broaden your perspective a little. Try a new type of foreign food or pick up a foreign movie to watch. You can become more worldly without a passport!