2009 movie lessons...

what i learned from the movies i saw...

- "i love you man" - venture out. dont cling to one person, have your own life. otherwise no one will come to your wedding. make new friends. pick crazy person if possible.

- "earth" - reduce, reuse, recycle. hug a polar bear. cut up those plastic things you buy cans of coke in before you trash 'em. birds are funny.

- "paranormal activity" - if an entity is following you, please sleep with a light on and the door shut. if the entity wakes you up in the middle of the night, for pete's sake, TURN A LIGHT ON! and, OMG, if the entity already hates you, please for the love of God, do NOT taunt said entity...

- "2012" - befriend rich people, befriend crazy people, write a book only a scientist would love, save up a billion euros, always have a tuxedo jacket on hand for those special party-crashing moments.

- "he's just not that into you" - hes just not that into me...

3 - apple cinnamon sorbet

i skipped the whole sorbet part...
apple cinnamon sorbet
1 golden delicious apple, grated
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 c apple juice
1/2 tsp lemon juice
1 c ice
1/2 c vanilla ice cream

seriously, if you like applesauce, you will LOVE this. i added the ice cream and left out the 3 extra apples and shaved ice. im not into "1cee" type drinks and well, i like ice cream.

day 2 - the purple cow...

i finally made smoothie #2!! yay me!!

and it was goooood. i dont usually like grape things. i like grape juice & i like grapes, that it. but like grape drinks, grape candy...not so much. but this was good.

purple cow: 2c vanilla ice cream, 1c milk, 1c ice, 6Tbs grape juice concentrate.

loved it, loved it, loved it. tasted more like a milkshake than a smoothie but surprisingly good. a grape milkshake? sounds gross, huh. well, it wasnt!!

fantastic! :)

day 1 - better late than never

well, i was supposed to make the smoothie on monday. i made it on thursday. and im blogging about it on sunday. this is why i cant get projects finished.

watermelon waistline - 2-1/2 c watermelon, 1c raspberry sherbet, 2 c ice

see? it really is mostly water. but damn its good. and i think it has like 2 calories so thats good. i would drink this every single day if i had enough watermelon. it was AWESOME.

other than myself, i gave it to 3 people. they all said i should make it again, so i guess im giving this one a big 'yes'. i did have a problem with the blender though. IF you end up making this, note the following: cube the watermelon kinda small. the watermelon wouldnt hit the blades in the blender and the more i pushed everything down, it all just mashed into the watermelon. cube it!!

and that is my professional opinion on watermelon. :)

watermelon waistline - part I

i know - im supposed to writing this really exciting blog about making smoothies. i havent exactly started making the smoothies yet. HOWEVER - i know which smoothie im starting with. and i picked it b/c its the one i have the ingredients for. :) thats called not planning ahead...

its the watermelon waistline. it has 3 ingredients and its mostly water. im sure its going to be the highlight of my monday. which is when i plan to make it. and being that i have like 3 lbs of watermelon, this seemed like the right place to start. and i like watermelon. i mean, who doesnt like watermelon??!

anyway, i almost forgot about my smoothie project until about 3 hours ago. like i said, im not good at following thru with project ideas. this is proven by such hits as the wikihow fiasco of early 2008 & the now-infamous 'lost book club' incident.

omg - i just remembered the wikih0w project! i may just have to start that one over again....

for the ultimate blog steal...

yes, ive stolen a lot of blog ideas, but this one is the queen mother of all blog steals.

see if you can figure out where i got this one - im going to try my hand at basque cooking. im going to COOK MY WAY THRU A BASQUE COOKBOOK AND BLOG ABOUT IT. ha. if you cant figure out which recent movie this is from, youre lame.

now, you may... a) not know what basque means and b) not want to eat their stuff when you see some of the ingredients. but thats neither here nor there. i may make one recipie and move on to something else. i do this "new project" thing a lot. does anyone remember my "wikihow" phase? i did one thing.

anyway, i figure if i write it, ill have a better chance of doing it. and since my poor forgotten blog is, well, forgotten, i am resurrecting its purpose.

if you want to...

...read more about my hijinks, please re-direct yourself to faceb0ok, where i now write notes.

i get way more comments on there, which leads me to believe - more readers.