Things

• I'm getting rrrrreal sick of winter. And the cold. It's been cold.

• I'm the warmest person in the universe, so cold doesn't usually bother me. Uhhhh....do you think it could be all the blogging/sitting around I do?

• I went to my old friend Holly's house yesterday. I didn't want to leave - I had so much fun visiting her and seeing 2 of her 4 kids (the other 2 were in school). They were cute as buttons. Her 4 1/2 year old boy came home from preschool and hugged his 2 year old sister right when he came in the door. It was the sweetest thing ever. How could I have lost touch with her?

• I know how: I'm a lazy friend. And luckily? My friends are so low maintainence that they don't seem to mind.

• I got a new job! Yay! It will be a 2-3 days a week thing and I'm thrilled. Sitting on my buttocks and blogging doesn't pay real well.

• Did you watch wife-swap last week? Holy shit. I need my good tv shows back. When are the writers going to be crankin' out the good stuff again?

• After that show, I started calling Zuddy "the gate keeper". Then I made him call me by my new work title, "Scientist". Ha! I'm going to be throwing that around for a while. You all may need to start addressing me this way as well. Heh.

• I know I need to share 3 recipes with y'all. One of my recipes needs to be documented - I never measure the ingredients. One of them is stolen from Ina Garten, but I always change the ingredients, so I need to document my changes.

• Speaking of recipes, do you know what I made the other night? After I read Sarah's blog and saw her casserole recipe, all I could think about was Tater Tot Hotdish. So I made it. Noodle hated it (of course), but Zuddy and I chowed down on it. It just hit the spot on a cold Wednesday night. Zuddy couldn't believe I made it.....I'm not a casserole lover at all, but the one on Sarah's site looked so good to me! Maybe I'll make hers next time.

• Just so you don't think I'm above mistakes in the kitchen - I made some scalloped potatoes last night and I didn't have enough cream for them, so I topped off the cream with milk and added some butter to replace the fat in the cream. Didn't work. The cheese curdled and the butter pooled all over. They were so gross and fatty - they tasted okay, but all that butter made me squirm.....Zuddy didn't seem to mind, but my intestines rebelled. Ish.

• MJ and I went to a conference for the Sustainable Farming Association a couple of weekends ago. It was awesome. So inspiring. So many farmers, students, people just interested in Sustainable agriculture and eating local, co-op owners, Vintners. At the very end of the conference there was a Wine and Cheese tasting and MJ interviewed all of the Farmers/Cheese Artisans/Vintners. She did such a good job and made everything so interesting! I truly believe MJ will be famous some day. One guy even stopped to talk to her and tell her how amazing she is. I can't wait to go to another event with this group. The people who come to these things are wonderful. Okay. Some of them are total hippies talking about auras and herbs, but they're still super-nice.

• What else? I don't know....oh! I went to see 27 dresses with my pal Sandy the other day. What a great chick-flick! Have you seen it?