Hey, y’all. 🙂
Our newest Christmas yard ornament. 🙂
That cactus will not stop leaning. I’ve yet to get a good pic at night so here’s what it looks like in daylight. We always have to explain this so…the snow woman is tubing the Guadalupe complete with belly button ring / bikini and beer. 🙂 I added that piece kinda as an homage to my Mema who 1. loved Christmas yard ornaments so much and 2. loved tubing the river. The beer label used to say Old Milwaukee…again, in her honor…but it’s faded. Yeah, I know it should say Shiner or Lone Star to keep with the theme…but it’s never going to say that.
Do y’all think I have a problem? 😉 That’s a drawer full of post Halloween Frankenberry.
If you know me in real life…if I showed up somewhere in these what would you think? 😉
But speaking of…ModCloth, how do you know what I’ve looked at if I haven’t signed into my account? I’m not sure I like that. I was searching clothes but I know without a doubt I wasn’t logged in. Then the next day this showed up in my email and I had looked at every single one of those dresses.
Have y’all seen this at Target? How hard was it not to buy that Strawberry Shortcake? When I was a kid I couldn’t have Strawberry or her friends because of their smell. I am so allergic to any kind of perfume-y type smell. So no Shortcake gang for me. That’s ok though because I more than made up for it with Smurfs. 🙂
Buggy number 1 of toys for CPS children. 🙂 Just a reminder…if you’re doing any sort of charity type shopping most of the organizations want the items turned in soon. 🙂
Ok so I know I’m kinda crazy late to this but I searched for gluten – free versions online just to read some reviews and couldn’t find any with pics.
Cake mix waffles.
I had bought that King Arthur gluten – free cake mix and a box of their gluten – free flour. I hated the flour. So much. As you run your fingers thru it you can feel the rice bits. It’s definitely not a super fine blend. At all. So then I was scared to use the cake mix because I hate to be able to feel the rice bits in the finished cake.
Solution? Test it out with waffles.
Y’all that cake mix was amazing. Silky smooth.
When I was looking at recipes for the waffles I decided on the one where you just make up the cake mix like it says on the box but then cook as pancakes or waffles. I weighed out half the box of cake mix (11 oz) and then halved all the ingredients. I got 7 waffles out of that amount.
These were so good. Everyone loved them. What I would do next time though is use my regular pancake / waffle recipe and sub the cake mix for the flour and the dry ingredients. Also…for these I just used a store bought tub of cream cheese icing (melted a little bit). Next time I would mix up a simple powdered sugar / milk drizzle. The icing combined with the sweetness of the cake mix made these way too rich tasting for breakfast. And if I’m saying something is too sweet…y’all know it must be super sweet. 😉
King Arthur gluten – free cake mix, you definitely have a spot in my pantry. 🙂
I’m not in a randoms mood today but one more time… Blue Cross Blue Shield, you suck.
Those links link to local stories about cancer patients who will no longer be able to use some of the best doctors in the world. People come to the medical center in Houston from all over the world…but BCBS customers right here IN Texas won’t be able to use them.
I really don’t think I would ever go back to BCBS after this. Like I said before…it’s one thing if these insurance companies want to limit what they offer to those using tax incentives. But for those of us straight up paying out of pocket? This is ridiculous. I’ve moved to United Health. It’s more expensive but I get to keep all of my doctors…even the big deal scleroderma specialist I don’t see til next month. I would not have been able to see her if I’d stayed with the crappy HMO plans BCBS is offering. Which of course…they do not care. They want our monthly premiums but they don’t want us to actually use the benefits.
Have a good day and I’ll see ya soon. 🙂