Archives for December 2009

YAY!  I finished all of my Christmas shopping today.  Finally!!  It feels great!

Here is one of my favorites!  This is for my dad.  One of his ambitions in life is to have a stache as sweet as Tom Selleck’s!  He’s got a pretty badass stache going on on himself!

My other favorite I can’t post because my brother reads this blog and the gift is for him.  It’s a good one though- I’ll post about it after I give it to him and he has reveled in the awesomeness.

I also made curtains for my kitchen this afternoon.  I haven’t had any curtains in my kitchen for about a year and a half because I’ve been looking for the perfect curtains.  Well, they don’t exist so I had to get creative, haha.  I randomly came across some fabric at Hobby Lobby that PERFECTLY matched my awesome polka-dot napkins that a really sweet coworker gave us for a wedding gift.  My whole kitchen is based on these napkins and a cool retro kitchen table that some awesome friends of ours gave us.  I’ve pretty much got a kindof modern 50’s vibe going on.  Love it, and the curtains are just the icing on the cake!!  My fiestaware also matches the colors of the polka-dots.  🙂

Oh and these curtains were quite a fete.  I can’t sew, nor do I own a sewing machine.  Thank goodness for that iron on hem stuff is all I can say- that stuff is seriously awesome!  My mom, who was a home-economics teacher for a long time is so proud I bet! LOL!

I also made Christmas bandanas for the dogs, lol.  I couldn’t help myself!  Of course Harley’s all about hamming it up.  Anabelle doesn’t mind the bandana- it’s the picture part that she has a problem with. It’s like pulling teeth to get her to let me take a picture.  She’ll only let me take a pic with my phone.  I think that maybe the flash on the camera scares her, so she doesn’t like the camera.  Who knows- dogs can be so strange sometimes!

Oh and whilst I’m posting dog pics, look at this pic that we used on our Christmas cards this year!  I tried to take one of Anabelle too- it didn’t work out so well.  She let me put the antlers on her, but she wouldn’t let me get a picture of it.  Hahaa!  Harley is the ham, so she was all about it!  Here it is-  It’s Harley the red nosed reindeer! 

And the card said “Happy “Harley”days”.  Hehehee.

Well, I guess I’m all caught up for the time being.  I need to go finish the wrapping of the Christmas presents!

Adios!!

Whole Wheat Biscuits
(makes approx 12 biscuits)

Ingredients:
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 cup all-purpose flour
4 tsp baking powder
1 Tbsp sugar
3/4 tsp salt
1/4 cup butter
1 cup milk

Directions:
In a medium bowl, combine flours, baking powder, sugar, and salt; mix well.

Cut in butter until mixture resembles coarse crumbs.

Stir in milk just until moistened.

Turn out onto a lightly floured surface; knead gently 8 to 10 times.

Roll to 3/4-in. thickness; cut with a 2-1/2-in. biscuit cutter and place on an ungreased baking sheet. (I usually just cut mine into squares with my pizza cutter.  That way I don’t waste any dough 🙂 )

Bake at 450 degrees F for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned. Serve warm.

It’s definitely been a while!  Unfortunately the blogging had to go on the backburner for a bit this semester.  Next semester will be a lot lighter so I should be able to blog a lot more!

So let us do a semester wrap up…

I started my first semester back in school!  I’m studying to be a dietician, which if you’ve read the blog before you know already :).  The first semester went very very well.  I’m really proud of myself and the things that I’ve accomplished this semester.  I discovered a lot of things about myself starting this journey.  I found out that I may just have a scientific mind, despite the fact that my mother always tells me I’m not good at science or math.  (I could write a book about all the issues my mother has given me though, so I’ll just leave that one at that).  I discovered that if I work hard I can pretty much do anything I want.   I also discovered that it’s NOT fun to commute 3 hrs a day especially if your route takes you through downtown Fort Worth during rush hour!  yeesh!  I also discovered that even though the Nutrition program that I’m in is the best in the state, the University that I attend is totally lame.  Love the program, hate the school.  Weird, huh?  I’ve remembered how to study again (it’s been a while!) and I also discovered that I miss my old university soooooo much!!  Go TSU!!!!!!!! 

Anyhoo…

I ended up with pretty good grades.  Got a B in Chemistry(I was two points away from an A and that makes me sad 🙁 ), a B in Statistics (had an A going into the final, but the final totally screwed me), an A in Intro to Nutrition, an A in Food Prep, and an A in both of my labs. 🙂

I actually made a 105 on one of my finals- can you believe that?!  It’s funny because I left that test thinking that I didn’t do well, then when I looked at my grade later I was like whaaaaa?  It’s crazy I say!

So I’m off until Jan 19th.  Yay for vacay!  I’m planning on catching up on my cleaning- the house has been so neglected the last few months.  I’m also going to be doing lots of resting and relaxing! 

Today I’m going to get my Christmas shopping done (I put it off until finals were over).  Right now I’ve got some delicious whole wheat biscuits in the oven just waiting for some yummy butter and preserves to be slathered upon them! YUM!

I’ll post the recipe here in a bit!  Now that I’ve got some time off of studying I’ll be blogging a lot more.  🙂 🙂 🙂