Home Alone Moment of the Day: December 3

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The Wet Bandits

Cookie Exchanges make me nervous

So, I really like Cookie Exchange parties. I mean any excuse to bake, eat, drink wine and be with a bunch of girls is definitely considered a good time by me. They also really make me nervous. I like to make cookies, A LOT. But, I usually don't get out of the box much. I stick with the my classic, the oatmeal chocolate chip, which is the chocolate chip cookie recipe from the Magnolia cookbook (giving to me be S.E.S.) with two cups of whole oats mixed in. BUT, if I'm going to a Cookie Exchange I put this unnecessary pressure on myself to step it up. I feel bad if I bring classic/boring oatmeal chocolate chip cookies. I need something new, fun, different, themed!

The last Cookie Exchange (why am i capitalizing that?) that I went to, I didn't plan ahead and I ended up making (yawn) oatmeal chocolate chip, they didn't have enough time to cool and they were flat and not pretty. I was really disappointed in myself and I am NOT going to be unprepared again. On December 14th I'm invited to a Cookie Exchange, by one of Robert's good friends' wife. She has a one and a half year old and I just love her. I'm assuming she'll have several young mommy friends and you know they are going to bring their A game to this Cookie Exchange. So, naturally, my Cookie Exchange stress level is growing by the day.

I've been researching cookies and these are the three I'm liking so far.

Classic gingerbread via Martha Steward. Recipe here.

Or these Chocolate Peppermint Bark Cookies look ridiculous. Recipe here.

Or the ever so scrumptious Buckeye. Always a holiday hit. Recipe here. I can eat so many of these. It's scary.

Oh what to bake?! Even after I've chosen a recipe, I need to do a trial run before I spring it on the Cookie Exchange girls. The pressure of a Cookie Exchange, oh the pressure. At least this gives me an excuse to bake. Robert likes to ask me when I'm making cookies if there is a reason I'm doing it. There usually isn't. Well, now there is! I'll have to find something else to confuse him with. ;). 

Home Alone Moment of the Day: December 2

Old Man Marley/South Bend Shovel Slayer

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VOTE VOTE VOTE

Pepsi is generous. They give away 1.3 million each month to fund great ideas. 

Click on this link and please vote for this idea!!!! Watch the video and you'll see what it's about!

This non-profit was started by one of my first friends when I was little. Her name is Zandree. She was two years older than me and she and her older sister babysat me a lot. I adored them. They taught me about Milli Vanilli and Ferris Bueller. Zandree is all grown up now and honestly we haven't communicated in years except via Facebook. She has her PhD, has started Adylene's Hope (The deal the Pepsi grant would support), has four kids and manages to inspire me from just her Facebook profile. Anyway, if you have time, please vote for her cause. Just watch the video...it'll move you. Thanks :)

Could have done without seeing this headline today......

Delayed Childrearing, More Stressful Lives

A new study finds that delayed marriage and childbearing are leading to increased stress for American men and women in balancing work and family obligations.

AWESOME.

You know what else leads to more stressful lives?

Teen pregnancy.

Debt.

Famine.

Unemployment.

Alcoholism.

WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT THAT. Leave us innocent people in our late 20s alone. We're already dealing with enough- i.e. still not knowing what we want to do with our lives and trying not to be distracted by the Internet. 

Is your hometown having a parade in your honor?

Probably not. Unless your name is Cody Ross and you helped the San Francisco Giants win the 2010 World Series.

This Friday at 4:00 p.m. in my beloved Carlsbad, New Mexico there will be a Cody Ross Parade and Cody will be presented with a Key to the City.

A key to the city of C-bad?! As if you already didn't want to be him!

Cody in the parade celebrating the win in San Fran. Two thumbs up.

Speaking of people I wouldn't mind being....the Victoria Secret Fashion Show aired last night. 

heyyy there....

perfectly normal outfit.

Do you think their hometowns have parades in their honor?? I hope so. 

Home Alone Moment of the Day: December 1

Buzz....your girlfriend...WOOF.