My 2 boys were discussing how you make a man a few years ago… they were 5 and 4.
JACOB: “Well, you can make a peepole with pop.”
DANNY: “No, you can’t make a peepole with pop, Jacob, you need watah, and juice, and MILK- pop makes peepole’s act crazy.”
JACOB: “ooooooooh. “
Ever feel like you are living in your own little world? Everything is distorted to everyone else? Like the reality you know is only your own?
For those of you who wanted the physical recipe for the Kitty Litter cake, here it is!
This cake tastes SO GOOD! And it’s totally gross to look at.
Ingredients:
1 (18 oz.) box spice or german chocolate cake mix
1 (18 oz.) box white cake mix
1 pkg. white sandwich cookies
1 large box vanilla instant pudding mix
12 small tootsie rolls
1 litter box (preferably a NEW one!)
1 plastic scoop
green food coloring
Preparation:
Prepare cake mixes and bake according to directions (any size pans).
Prepare pudding mix and chill until ready to assemble.
Crumble white sandwich cookies in small batches in blender, they tend to stick, so scrape often.
Set aside all but about 1/4 cup.
To the 1/4 cup cookie crumbs, add a few drops green food coloring and mix using a fork or shake in a jar.
When cakes are cooled to room temperature, crumble into a large bowl.
Toss with half the remaining white cookie crumbs and the chilled pudding. You probably won’t need all of the pudding, mix with the cake and “feel” it, you don’t want it soggy, just moist; gently combine. Put mixture into clean litter box.
Put three unwrapped Tootsie rolls in a microwave safe dish and heat until soft and pliable. Shape ends so they are no longer blunt, curving slightly. Repeat with 3 more Tootsie rolls and bury in mixture.
Sprinkle the other half of cookie crumbs over top. Scatter the green cookie crumbs lightly over the top, this is supposed to look like the chlorophyll in kitty litter.
Heat remaining Tootsie Rolls, three at a time in the microwave until almost melted.
Scrape them on top of the cake and sprinkle with cookie crumbs.
Place the box on a newspaper and sprinkle a few of the cookie crumbs around.
Serve with a new pooper scooper.
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Have you ever gone in the bathroom to brush your hair or teeth or wash your hands and ended up flossing for an hour or doing a facial deep cleanse, unprovoked?
Then you notice some darker areas in the grout of the sink and get out the bleach and sponge… it just takes over. Im not typically this anal or OCD, but it happens on occasion. My kids can walk into the bathroom finding me inspecting my teeth in contorted facial expressions.
In a way my brain is telling me Im preparing for bed and Im going to be THAT MUCH BETTER tonight as I sleep, but what I end up doing is climbing into bed at some awful hour only to wake up with toothpaste around my mouth, bits and peices of facial scrub in the corners of my hairline and nose, and a raw face- perhaps missing some of my eyebrows from over zealous plucking. I can only wonder what my husband is thinking as we wake up in the morning. “Sleep hard last night, Honey?”
But sometimes it’s late at night in the bathroom when you can really re-connect with yourself again.
If you have a family as large as I do, it can start to feel like your colors and features sort of blur and fade away and meld into everyone else. As I heard it once best said- where do I end and the family begin? You stop looking in the mirror- I mean.. REALLY looking in the mirror. The extent is about as much as enough to pull your hair up or make sure you dont have green herbs stuck in your teeth. What color is my hair and eyes again?
But late at night after everyone is asleep, you get caught in this alternate dimension of who you are. It’s just you the mirror and tools. Soaps, water, brushes, scrubs- you. You might just stand there and look at yourself in the mirror for a few extra seconds. No one is really waiting for you except the bed because- everyone else is already asleep.
Nothing is becconing you away from your dimension, needing anything, pulling you away from yourself. And you can take a moment and inspect your hands and face.
Hello hands, how are you? It’s been a long time since we have spent any special time together, I hardly recognize you anymore. Have you seen how grey hair has become lately? Yes, the years have gone bye, haven’t they.
My veins seem to be more pronounced than I have ever remember them being. I used to stare for a long time at my hands when I was younger and grounded to my bed or room. Getting lost in the creaces, nooks, and crannies of my skin patterns, the pores, the maps of veins and scars.
I never would have guessed that I would have ended up spending so much time away from myself, when I was younger. Youth is very self-serving emotionally yet physically you are a slave to everyone else’s plans for you. I’m not sure exactly what reconnecting with how time is effecting you does, but it was something interesting to ponder.
For the most part- all I want is to be satisfied in all I am and do. I don’t want to be wanting and dissapointed in the changes life shells out. I want to grow old gracefully with open arms, appreciating the wisdom I now have and embracing seniority istead of pushing it away.
Still, it feels good to know Im still here somewhere, locked in this mommy-body wih these hands, and this hair. I just need to say hi now and then late at night, when getting ready for bed.
-Jyn
I have been enjoying playing these games on Facebook recently that are for Uber multitaskers. I multitask very well so they are right up my aisle.
The thing is, that for as fun as these games are- they are formulated for the instant gratificationers, and the waiting period in the games make it tedious.
As a player you get anxious and the more you play, the more space you want to build out , the more your eye roams towards those special ‘dollars’ that they offer. You know- the perks of special items that only the game dollars can buy… you can buy your way through the game but… it will cost you.
So where once this was a free, fun loving game that all of your Facebook buddies play- it is now a race to get the bigger better levels and items and that will cost any of two things. Your identity or your money. You can pull out your wallet and buy the special dolalrs or… complete any of their hundreds of special offers from sponsers and get dollars that way.
FIll out surveys, sign a contract for Comcast, purchase a subscription to books or magazines or to get the joke-of-the-day texted to your phone (only $25 a month and service charges may apply). Not only that, but you are guarenteed in the fine print they say they sell your information.
Along with this temptation for special ‘bucks’, they force you to invite every person on your buddy list and spam them in order to get farther in the game- therefore resuming the cycle of temptation. The teasers, the bonuses, the gifts and the expansions.
You know these game applications are rolling in the dough!
So my big question for you guys is this… Have you been tempted enough to actually purchase or fill out offers for dollars for any of the games on facebook? Be honest!
And which game was it? How much did you spend and was it worth it?
-Jyn
“Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day; teach that person to use the Internet and they won’t bother you for weeks.”
Looks like Flickr is down today. The address is calling up a 404 NULL.
Guess I can’t upload any of my new images… I’m jsut hoping the site wasn’t hacked.
Need a new drive?