I’ll be back in day or so with my usual hodgepodge-y mess but I wanted to take a second today and remind everyone…
If you have someone in your life who served in the military and you know or suspect they suffer from PTSD…please reach out to them this week and make sure they’re doing ok. All the Paris stuff has the potential to be extremely triggering for those who served…esp in Iraq / Afghanistan. Someone special to me was wounded in Afghanistan and it’s been a rough week for him. So y’all be a good friend / family member and check on your sons / daughters / bros and boos. 🙂
First, thank y’all so much for indulging me with the last post and even more for reading it. I know it’s my blog and I can write about whatever I want…and I will always do that…but without you reading it would just be a journal or something. So thank you. 🙂 I have a few more things to add about that topic and will mix them into the randoms then I’ll move on til the next incident of athlete behaving badly. 🙂
Thank you to the new subscribers. 🙂 When I switched to this blog I was worried about expressing myself but holding back just isn’t me.
Words I will always live by so thanks for embracing that whether you agree with my point of view or not. 🙂
Since we last met…
Panera in the car. Yum. But is it really a grilled cheese if it’s not cut diagonally? One of life’s most philosophical mysteries. 😉
So this happened.
Remember that $10k package of maroon M&Ms I bought a while back? Well I also had a full jar of Cookie Butter that I need to use. So I made some Monster Cookies.
3 Eggs, 1/2 cup each brown and white sugars, 2 tsp vanilla, 2 tsp baking soda and 1 cup nectar butter of the Gods (Cookie Butter). 🙂
4 cups Oats and 8 oz M&Ms.
Baked 350* for 12 minutes.
I will most definitely use Cookie Butter in this recipe again. But next time I think I’ll use butterscotch chips. Don’t get me wrong these are really good. I just think with it being cinnamon everything time of the year butterscotch chips and some more cinnamon in these would be divine.
Randoms…
In the year 2015 people are still this misguided / awful / hateful? I don’t know what antiquated research this judge cited but it’s funny…the most horrible parents I know are all (as far as they let on) heterosexual.
Someone actually contacted me once here on this blog and wanted to know if I’m gay. Not that it’s any of your business but no I am not. Someone important to me is. But ya know what? Even if I didn’t know one single gay person I’d still call hateful people out on their bullsh.. Because this is 2015 and it’s way past time for this to stop being a conversation.
I don’t know where you’re located, Grace Lutheran Church but Amen x infinity. 🙂
Humanity, we have a problem.
Those are screenshots of commenters blaming the victim or minimizing her bruises. There are more comments like this than I cared to sit around and count. I have zero problem posting these here. They posted their comments on public comment sections.
Y’all just keep right on shining a light on yourselves. And don’t think we don’t see how defensive y’all are getting at being called out for supporting him. Really boys (well mostly boys) y’all know you’re wrong…stop acting out when being called on it.
Have y’all seen these scales that just tell you how much you’ve lost or gained?
I was on high dose steroids for a good part of this year. From March to June I gained 12 pounds and then from Aug to Oct 13 pounds. I’d reset the scale though between the two (thinking I was thru taking them and could start trying to get the weight off). The scale just goes up (or down) so like I gained 13 pounds and didn’t reset it…have now lost enough to take it down to 4.6. Am I making sense? If you don’t reset it won’t show your minuses on the way down til you get back to where you were when you set it the last time. Anyway. I like it a lot. The model I have lets you see your progress without the emphasis on the actual numbers. I just checked the website though for the link and it looks like newer models can do both…actual weight or just the plus / minuses.
🙂
And lastly…
A reader reached out to me re: the domestic violence post and named some abusive musicians (because I put so much music on here). I addressed this with him but want to say it here too. I can’t be responsible for knowing the background of every single person in the public eye. What I can be responsible for is not supporting that person in any way once I DO know about their history. I don’t honestly think I’ve ever used the music of a domestic abuser on either blog but if I have and you want to call me on it…please do. Because what you’ll get in return won’t be a bunch of excuses or defensive nonsense. What you’ll get is that video’s immediate removal. 🙂
edit note: I edited this post to correct a couple typos and also correct the link to Deadspin.
Supporting domestic violence / rape survivors is something that is extremely important to me. Those of you who know me in real life know why I have to do this post today. 🙂 Everyone else…this is something different from what you usually see in this space. I hope you read it but if you don’t…that’s cool. 🙂 I’ll see you in a few days with happier stuff.
Quick back story…earlier this year Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones signed this convicted domestic abuser. (I refuse to use his name and instead will refer to him simply as what he is.) Today Deadspin released pictures from the domestic abusers bench trial and the above mentioned team owner / public supporter of the domestic abuser continued to defend his decision to sign him…said he didn’t see the pictures and also decided not to cut him. Claiming he’s giving him a second chance. Somebody find me a vomit emoticon.
Ok so wait a minute Jerry J, in march when you or really you trotted your daughter out to sign this piece of human garbage you said you did your homework. Every legit media source says that while you didn’t see the pictures you were told in graphic detail what the pics showed. So exactly what kind of homework did you do? Oh that’s right, you looked at game film…you needed a pass rusher…and that’s pretty much where you tuned out.
And you’re giving him a second chance? You horrible horrible excuse for a man…a SECOND chance is for someone who has ya know…actually been punished a FIRST time. This week alone you cut a troubled player. So are you a beacon of light and second chances are you just picky about who you help? The latter makes this even worse. But ya know…like attracts like and all that.
AT&T you must be so proud to have your name on the stadium of an organization that is supporting a domestic abuser…and a murderer…and a man who hit his mom…and who knows how much more garbage is piled up at Valley Ranch (Cowboys headquarters).
What about you Salvation Army? Your organization actually helps battered women. Yet you’re just fine teaming up with an individual who supports domestic abusers? Really? I”ll be sure to skip your bell ringers this holiday season.
I volunteer / work with a domestic violence support group and this whole thing just makes me so sad. I won’t even get into how I feel about the league, commissioner and players association.
It was one thing when Cowboys fans were blindly supporting this piece of garbage before the pictures were released. Disgusting…but sadly not surprising in this “pics or it didn’t happen” culture we’re living in today. But those of you who actually looked at the pictures today and are still defending this piece of excrement? What the everlovin’ H—?
And make NO mistake YOU ARE defending a domestic abuser. No hair – splitting or semantics. He’s not two different people. The garbage you’re cheering for on Sunday is the same piece of excrement who did this…
The person who can look at these pictures / read the transcripts and still defend him today? I won’t even say what I really wanna say about you here…but how very sad. 🙁
And now for the first time in my life I’m gonna say / type something I never ever thought I would…
GO EAGLES! 🙂 y’all don’t know how hard is for me not to add the traditional theater good luck wish (times two) right here. 😉
Hi, y’all. Sorry I’ve been quiet for a little while. I’ve been fighting thru the health stuff and nobody wants to hear how bad it is all the time.
I’m going to have to have an endoscopy soon. 🙁 I don’t know anyone in real life who has had one and could share what it was like…but I’m so scared I’ll choke to death or something. 🙁
Since we last met…
Can y’all believe gas is a $1.75?
We voted early. I jokingly said to the fam / friends that I didn’t want to hear what they had to say about anything political in nature unless they had a sticker on their shirt. I was joking then but I think that’s gonna be my new thing…if you can’t produce your “I Voted” sticker…I’m not interested in anything you have to say. 😉
On the same topic…have y’all been watching the debates? I tried but didn’t last long before thinking…
😉
The birthday cake I made didn’t turn out all that great so it was Cheesecake Factory to the rescue. 🙂
So good. 🙂
Took Papa B out to buy a new golf cart. He got the blue one.
What in the name of all that’s good and right is this? The past couple years I did buy some of the special limited time ‘designer’ stuff at Target…but this? Seriously y’all if you see this in person touch it and open it up to see the button situation. Is it a coat? A tunic? A prison dress? And why is the fabric so rough? Judging by the amount of stuff still sitting on the racks…epic designer fail this year, Target.
If you read the old blog you know that Mama B is having to do a low acid way of eating. I bought some test strips to test out stuff and made us all test our saliva. We were all between 5 and 9 (that’s good…the higher the better). I’ve been going around testing everything though.
Now I’m gonna have a little rant so some of you might wanna peace out here. 🙂
When I was in grad school I had switched to a new lower cost high deductible insurance plan 2 weeks before getting my Lupus diagnosis…and was then immediately marked with a preexisting condition. I was stuck with that high deductible plan until the Affordable Care Act passed and got rid of preexisting condition jail.
So the ACA passes and I’m finally able to get a lower deductible and just overall better coverage. A plan I pay for 100% out of pocket with ZERO help from tax rebates or whatever it’s called. Move on along anyone who wants to start screaming about your tax dollars and my health care. If you would like to take over paying my premiums then and only then will I be interested in your thoughts. This year I’ve had the best insurance I’ve ever had in my life. My premium was around $300 a month.
On Sunday the rates and plans for 2016 were released and to my shock (though apparently it had been in the news for a while) there wasn’t ONE traditional PPO plan available at all. Only HMO’s and some EPO thing that’s supposed to be like an HMO with a little PPO mixed in. I live in a small town and there is literally not ONE primary care doctor available in my town on any of the plans. Not one. (Which doesn’t matter to me because I’ve driven 2 hours away to see my current primary care doctor and would self pay whatever I have to pay to see her) but that’s really not the point. The lowest priced HMO plan with the same deductible I’ve got now is $100 more. A hundred dollars more to have almost no choice in my care? To have to beg to see a specialist? And to then have to just settle for whichever doctor is on the limited list of doctors? No thank you, Blue Cross.
It’s one thing, Blue Cross and Aetna if you want to limit the plans available for those getting tax help but to penalize those of us who are straight up paying you? Yeah, again no thank you.
I did find ONE company offering an off exchange PPO plan that I will most likely be switching to. It’s $140 more a month but to keep my doctors I’ll just have to make it work.
If y’all hear of any class action lawsuits over this drop me an email thru the contact form. 🙂
Ok I’ll stop here for now. Hope y’all are having a good week. 🙂
First…thank you to those of you who reached out re: the randoms from the last few posts. I’ll definitely keep doing them. 🙂 Also…if you email me a bunch of rage filled nonsense because you don’t agree with me…I seriously just roll my eyes and delete. Don’t waste your time.My space…my thoughts. 🙂
So I don’t know if y’all know this but a fractured tailbone hurts like hell. I’m sure you’re thinking no shi kidding, texas girl 😉 but I really didn’t think it would be this bad. I haven’t really done much…well anywhere…but esp in the kitchen so I don’t have a lot to share.
Let’s see…
I’ve become ‘addicted’ to chicken and beef pot pies. Some day when (if) I ever get some energy I’m going to try making homemade pot pies in a pan made specifically for it that I got a couple years ago but have never used.
I’d always heard about Freddy’s but there used to only be 2 in the Houston area…both located in parts of town I don’t visit. Now there’s one in a part of town I do visit a lot so I finally tried it out. Let’s just say I wasn’t impressed…with the food. The custard on the other hand…I can’t wait to have again. There was just nothing hype worthy about the burger. And their pickle game? A very strong F. Give me a Whataburger any day and twice on Sunday. The custard though was outstanding. It’s a good thing it’s located in a horror of a traffic stop so it’s not super easy to just whip in for a custard shake every single time I drive by. 😉
If you skimp on icing I can’t respect you. Sorry. 😉 Sorry x 2, Sister B. 🙁 I made extra just for you.
In the texas girl casa we fight over the scrap stacks. 😉
As you can see a few pics above I made the cake in 9 x 13 pan only to have issues with physically getting to that size cake holder…thank you fractured tailbone…so I had to cut it in half and use a round cake holder.
At the time of this post that’s as far as I’ve gotten. I’ll add a clean layer tomorrow after it’s rested / ‘soaked’ in some overnight.
So it’s birthday weekend and I had a fun trip planned but health and weather issues have ruined it. 🙁 So I made a cake. Red Velvet as always. It looks kinda sad and ridiculous right now but it tastes good…or it will based on the scraps. Here’s the post I wrote a few years ago as an homage to the grandparents anniversary / shared birthday / red velvet thing. Muchos love to them this weekend. 🙂 And happy birthday to a certain someone else in my life whose b day is also this weekend. 🙂
Mostly because of the weather but also tailbone we’re staying in and then doing the whole b day meal out thing in a few weeks when things are better.
🙂
(Photo from 
😉
