So, to start my newest interest, recipe stealing from other blogs, I baked these great French Breakfast Puffs from Pioneer Woman’s blog. I pretty much love them, though I have to agree with her, these are definitely not French, never once in my time in France did I eat these. Though we made something similiar when I was working at the daycare, and sometimes it seemed like those kids were speaking French, if French were a language full of screaming and 2-year old cursing.

Anyway, they are delicious, but we didn’t have any nutmeg here in Emporia so I used a bit of cinnamon in the dough and it worked out well. They’re tasty. And pretty. I mean, just look!

If you want a prettier picture of them, go look at that link, because I seriously have mine on parchment paper and took the picture with my cell phone, I mean, thats not a recipe for success right there.

So, I’m spending my weekend here in Emporia and deep down in my soul I know it was time for an update. But instead of really giving you a real update, I’m giving you an update I should have updated months ago. But there’ll be something new at the end, I promise, I promise you with all my heart that will happen.

So, for The Boyfriend’s birthday I made him something he’s been asking about for ages…a zen garden. My dad was supposed to aid in this little project since when it comes to … oh … hammers and nails and anything else I’m kind of an idiot. So, since The Dad is about as productive as that time I made two dozen cupcakes in a 6 cup cupcake pan, I had to go to Plan B, take apart something else that will work.

So, I found this box at Michaels, it had that hardware on it, and since I’m awesome with a screwdriver I just took it off.

In this picture you can see what became of my apartment that time of the year, it was just before spring break, I had just prepared for Birthday Cupcake Fiesta and I also had some finals going on then too. It was a crazy week, let’s not even go into the fact I was trying to pack for my trip to Seattle. ANYWAY, MOVING ON. I used some dark brown stain, not as dark as I wanted, but dark enough, and just stained the box I bought. Don’t tell The Boyfriend that I totally took the easy way out…Because he wouldn’t ever look at this blog or anything.

Then in the end, it looked a little something like that. Notice the lovely use of the pizza box to stain on (long story on how I got all that pizza that week without paying for it. The Boyfriend just kept ordering and ordering and ordering wondering where his pizza was going, and I just kept eating pizza all the time)

So I bought some white sand for it, and because I’m the most caring and thoughtful girlfriend on earth I had saved these rocks from one of our first trips to the beach together and added them for effect (the effect being The Boyfriend peeing himself in excitement). The retarded cats that live at his brother and sister in law’s house with him immediately looked at it as a sandbox and since neither of them are really capable of controlling their bowel movements I figure it’s only a matter of time until they use it as a sand box…if you know what I mean, as you can see they did immediately step in it.

Now, for that something new, I helped The Sister clean her house yesterday and completely overhaul my niece’s room. This is where the title from this blog came from, Rebecca pulled a box off of the dresser and dumped hair doodles all over me while I was working so hard (laying on the floor complaining) and Amelia freaked out because HOW DARE SHE THROW DOODLES ALL OVER HER NEW AUNT SARAH!?! (I don’t know what happened to the old Aunt Sarah, but apparently this new one is better). But after I finished all that hard work, I used my AMAZING, INCREDIBLE, non-existant, ARTISTIC SKILLS TO MAKE THIS BEAUTIFUL PICTURE ON HER CHALK BOARD!

Amelia is currently a big fan of Mo Willems and the newest Pigeon book came out and the Pigeon now wants a puppy, no more hot dogs, it’s all about the real dogs.

Well, look forward to more really old posts soon, I still have to post those pictures of the things I made in Seattle, the God of Blogs is totally going to take this blog away for being so lazy. SAD.

So, Amelia came to visit me yesterday since I had a little thing called MUSEUMFEST happening at the school. People came. They watched me be an actress. None of you (with the exception of my sister and Amelia) did. Thats okay though, I’m only in the bitter barn for other reasons, reasons I share with my bitter barn roommate Alexis.

So, also while she was here she introduced us to this wonderful new thing she loves called “POTTY PARTY!!!” When she has a potty party we are all to go in the bathroom while she, well, she does this..

oh look at me being a jokester, i’ll have to come update this later, the video must be … whatever it is they do to videos so they can be on the internets.

In the meantime, do what I’m doing, listening to Mr. Bojangles on vinyl and dancing around. I’m jumping high, so high, and then lightly touching down.

AND HERE IT IS!

A ton of stuff has been happening lately. Not only has the boyfriend fixed my little porn bot problem, with the help of my favorite Kelly (the boy version), but I’ve also done some visiting to a few people I rather enjoy. Colby also supposedly fixed this whole not being able to upload pictures directly to my website thing, but I ill believe it when I see it

First order of business…A couple weeks ago I was substitute teaching for a local middle school when my phone was stolen. I knew what hour it happened and the office did approximately nothing to retrieve it, so the people in my life took matters into their own hands and scared the crap out of the little middle school girl who stole it, who ended up returning it within the week. Not before she deleted all the pictures from my memory card and added her friends phone numbers to my phone book. Oh and let’s not forget she took a picture of herself with my phone and didn’t delete it before turning it in. My legal counsel (my sister) told me it was not in my best interest to post the picture online, which is what I REALLY wanted to do, so instead I took an almost identical picture of Ben’s the girlfriend, Alexis. Here it is…

It’s practically an identical picture, trust me.

This little beauty popped up a few weeks ago, April Showers bring REALLY AWESOME TULIP TREES. A couple days later I had nature romancing me a little bit by putting flower petals all down my walkway. That nature is a pretty hot boyfriend…or cold…whatever.

This past weekend I spent some time with Amelia (videos will come at the end). We met a bunch of the sister’s internet friends in Kansas City for some fun times. I made a new friend named Elly and I also solidified the fact that I am, indeed, the worlds most awesome aunt. Let’s just face it. Here’s some pictures I have from that trip, nothing great, but you know…

So this little trio is Amelia on the carousel, Elly in one of the rooms at Wonderscope, AND THE BEST PART OF ALL WAS THE LEGO ROOM WHERE I DIED AND WENT TO HEAVEN IF HEAVEN EXISTS OF A TON OF LEGOS.

I also spent most of my weekend making Amelia learn some internet lingo and the phrase “Dinkin’ Flicka” of Office fame.

Here’s the proof…and the end of this massively long-absolutely pointless, blog entry.

…oh screw it, I hate this website.

So, I’ve been getting loads of comments lately, from porn spam, that sucks.  The Boyfriend might set up a little security code for it.  Also on the list of things the boyfriend is supposedly doing, the pictures from Seattle, which were supposed to be the cause of my new update, are still not anywhere near me.

and not to be a whiner, but all I’ve done for weeks now is tons of school work.  The updates would have been boring anyway, trust me.

and to finish…let me hear a big HELL YES on college basketball being over after tonight, is there really anything worse than people FREAKING OUT about a sport?  oh no, there isn’t.  I get being into it, I don’t get being all over-reactive about it.

the end!

Xanadu has really taken over my life this week, not only did Aunt Dee have the soundtrack to Xanadu AND the DVD there is a club not far from Colby’s that’s called Xanadu.

But what is really important is this guy we saw in downtown Seattle today (while I was carrying my new Beatles record by the way!)  We got a short video of him, and by the way, YES, that IS  a possum on his shoulder and some sort of fur hat.

let me just update that record list for you as I got a few more in the past 2 days,  Aunt Dee let me go through some of her and Uncle Tom’s and I picked out a couple there…heres the new list….

The Fifth Dimension - Reflections

The Carpenters - Close to you

The Chiffons - One Fine Day

The Righteous Brothers - You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feelin’

and of course my new love…

The Beatles - Beatles ‘65

Pretty much all week we’ve been saying things like “I need to update my blog” or “you should update FTHW” (because in Seattle we talk all in internet lingo.) So, you’re not getting a real update because I’m going to see Casablanca in a while, but, heres a little teaser of .. oh .. one thing we’ve done.

We made some Seattle cookies, but the boyfriend was all like “I NEED TO PHOTOSHOP THESE PICTURES THE LIGHTING IS BAD” so I didn’t want to post a bunch of them. I would like to point out I cleaned the granite counter tops before COMPLETELY DEFILING THEM WITH FLOUR AND COOKIE DOUGH OMG PLEASE DON’T TELL MATT AND MCKENZIE NO I MEAN MCKENZIE AND MATT RUN ON SENTENCE.
Tomorrow I’m spending the day and evening with my Aunt Dee for a dual birthday fest, we’re going to this place.

Speaking of great places to eat, I was completely craving fruit waffles the other morning (which happens a lot, just ask my family, by that I mean the sister) so I searched up some breakfast places here in Lynnwood with fruit waffles. Now, not to be picky, but I want my fruit waffles with pie filling on top, not fresh fruit, because I mean cmon, thats gross. So we discovered Family Pancake House. It was delicious. I have some pictures from there too, but those are on my phone.

Alright, to finish up this lengthy update of a post I’m going to tell you what I’ve spent most of my time and money on since I’ve been here…Records. This week I have bought/recieved…

The Elected - Sun, Sun, Sun

The Elected - Me First

Elvis - Moody Blue (on blue vinyl, this is for Colby’s mom for a birthday gift, we all know how much i hate Elvis)

Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes from Say Anything (it’s a 45)

Bob Dylan - Greatest Hits (yeah, I already own this, but this copy is in much better shape)

Country’s Greatest Love Songs - it has a ton of Johnny Cash on it, including my favorite song ever If I were a carpenter by Johnny Cash/June Carter

Nat King Cole - Unforgettable

Herman’s Hermits - The Best of

Herman’s Hermits - On Tour

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poorboys

John Lennon - Walls and Bridges

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Simon and Garfunkle - The Concert in Central Park

Don’t worry Amelia, I saved a little money to buy you some presents too!

I wanted to post a few pictures of my birthday party, it was basically amazing.

The whole gang at BWW, these people rule.

It’s a horrible picture of me, but my best friend looks totally hot!

And then Amelia totally let Mark hold her AND laid her head down on his shoulder, she NEVER does this. She hates people and never wants to rest when there are people around so this was a true miracle. AWWW

I’m headed off to Seattle on Thursday to spend a little over a week, I’m very excited, but there’ll probably be some bloggin’ while I’m gone.

I made a lot of cupcakes today. With the help of my niece who is here for the afternoon. Heres our adventures, mostly pictures, few words…

Red Velvet Cupcakes!

All baked, some frosted, some with a start to the decoration.

all decorated!

A close up

Amelia enjoying the cupcake she decorated

We got “pretty for the party” before she decided to eat her cupcake.

And finally, a special someone who can’t make it to my party tonight that I’m flying a long ways to see on Thursday is getting a cupcake too.

So I kind of died. Last Friday I drove to my sister’s house where I promptly took my temperature (because my body was screaming YOU’RE HOT! YOU’RE COLD! YOU’RE GOING TO DIE!) which showed 102.1 or something similiar. But I did get the chance to give my niece all those things I’d been knitting for her. She promptly fell in love with the cat, which she named Ugly Cat. She swung it around by it’s arms and played Ashies (thats Ring Around the Rosie in toddlerspeak) and wore her hat, then put the hat on Ugly Cat. Then to seal the deal she threw a 45 minute fit that night when she got ready for bed because UGLY CAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATTTTT was in the car with her mom. She finally fell asleep when Rebecca got home and handed her Ugly Cat. I’d say it was good. Here’s some blurry camera phone pictures of her enjoying it.

Taking pictures of Amelia is an adventure anymore as she spends most of her time screaming NOOOOO! and running away. Trust me, she does adorable things that you’ll never see unless you spend time with her.

This sort of loving on Ugly Cat may also lead to the death of Ugly Cat. We’ll see.