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Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Yet Another Palate Pleaser

“As far as I’m concerned, ‘whom’ is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.” Calvin Trillian

Hello, all! It's time for another post, or basically another recipe post!

It's {über} hot outside, and so I revived a family fav that we haven't made in a while! They're cream-wiches! I'm sure we didn't totally invent it ourselves, but I made up the name, so tell me if I need to rethink it.

It's like an ice cream sandwich, only it's coolwhip and cinnamon graham crackers! They're really easy to make, but I took pictures anyway.



I have all the ingredients out: tin foil, a tub of cool whip (thawed), and a box's worth of cinnamon graham crackers!


You just take one cracker and snap it in half like you would for a s'more.




Then put a not-so huge dollop of coolwhip on one of them, and gently press the other cracker on top to make a sandwich, cinnamon goodness on the outside, of course!

I wrap them in tin foil, no tape or whatever is necessary.




Then you just pop 'em in the freezer! If you have to eat them immediately, I'm guessing if you give it 2-3 hours they should be good to eat--freezing them makes the sandwich stay together, because thawed coolwhip just squirts out of the edges. When we make 'em, we actually freeze them overnight and enjoy them for a few days or two, or however long they last!

I hope you enjoy this quick little treat (it's actually a healthy alternative to ice cream sandwiches) and hopefully I'll think of new and fresh things to blog about in the near future!

I have precisely 3 weeks (21 days!!) until I leave for the MTC and it's gettin' me all giddy just thinking about it! :)

Saturday, June 11, 2011

My Silly Scribbles from ENG 218

It's good to be back! If you've been starving for some ridiculousness from me, I'm sorry I made you wait a decent 2 weeks. We were supposed to go on a trip of a lifetime back to visit Germany, Italy and Denmark but because of stupid weather, unlucky circumstances, and no wiggle room to rebook our trip we had to cancel. It meant a lot to our family, especially to visit family in Denmark.


Vader isn't what you would call a "people person."
So the next best place we could think of was, naturally, DISNEYWORLD. and HARRY POTTER WORLD. if you're FB friends w/ me, go see the 80+ pictures that were taken by your's truly.


Tagent= almost over


I bring this up, because on this trip, I brought a writing journal w/ me to fufill my writing goal of writing everyday {which I would give myself about 3.5/5 stars--but I read 5 books! Holy whuuut??}


And because I brought it w/ me, it brought back memories and I decided to post some of the ones that I enjoyed writing, and reading over again. These posts are unedited, how they are seen in my journal. The journal entries were part of a class requirement--I just had to have a certain amount of writing but I could write about anything--which I did. The freewrites were timed and I had about a max of 5min to write.


Journal Entry 9/3/10
A list of interesting sentences created with fridge magnets (mostly if not all credited to my roommates):
  • *Her hair felt gone.
  • I am raw gorgeous sweat.
  • Delirious women scream and use knives.
  • Bitterly rips gown after swimming club.
  • We white boys live have purple smooth language.
  • We produced one in the hot spring.
  • Me feet is languidly moaning.
  • Boil and smear beauty but iron shadow.
  • Worship puppy love, please.
  • I must like life after death.
  • Stop chanting at me luscious forest.
  • This mad man moons their mother.
  • He is staring as she sleeps in water.
  • Incubate our pink eggs and they will blow up.
  • Whisper a sweet symphony.
  • Some enormous chocolate fluff is under the TV.
  • Trudge beneath the garden and fiddle.
  • I want black lust.
  • I shot him.
  • Frantic meat spray.
  • Think about my ugly blue tongue.
  • Lick a juicy pole.
  • Winter is the cool of summer.
  • Watch your falling blood.
  • She shakes her butt delicately.
  • Lie those out next to the sordid bed.
  • Honey you’re behind rocks.
  • You could run away but I will crush you.
  • His elaborate apparatus drools.
  • My milk eat a girl.
  • Me want her rust like skin goddess.
  • Drunk though essential.
  • Wax my bare smelly legs in the misty wind.
  • Mostly we cry but manipulate men easy.
Freewrite 9/10/10
{describing a childhood home/setting}


Germans. Everywhere. Mountains faced us on the east all covered with thick evergreens. The Tree of Life is the left, probably the tallest and biggest tree I’ve ever seen in my whole life—taller and thicker than a mansion, with a handsome bird’s nest on the highest point. Some of our crazy neighbors are herding their flock of sheep; those buggers always manage to break out and graze by the Tree as though it’s a magnet to all living creatures. Depending on the time of year, the grass is tall and bends like waves on a windy day, or the field gets a buzz cut and hay bales that look like giant marshmallows take its place. Germans are staring at me through their windows.
Journal Entry 9/21/10
What I am good at: dansk, writing, making up/finding names, cooking/eating, ping pong, reading, talking, clarinet, piano, singing, dancing, drawing, photography, laughing/getting people to laugh.
What I am not good at: sports (Frisbee/Capture the flag, volleyball), eating veggies, break-dancing, math/chemistry, thinking realistically, remembering names, focusing on homework (especially boring homework).
What I want to be better at: writing, racquetball, working out, sign language, listening, being assertive
{There are some things that I’m not good at that I don’t really care to improve. Good or bad?}
Journal Entry 10/4/10
List of Problems I’m Glad I Don’t Have (or hope not to have):
  • a crazy/psycho ex
  • mean roommates
  • food allergies
  • car/motion sickness
  • divorced parents
  • switching majors
  • abuse (of any kind)
  • debt
  • unemployment
  • death of a child/stillborn (this is what initially started the list; I could’t fathom how hard it would be to be pregnant only to lose a child that’ll never grow up.)
  • illegible handwriting. 
Fast Freewrite cir. September '10
Smells remembered from childhood:
1.       Fudge—Mississippi
2.       Grandpa’s farm
3.       Mormor’s house
4.       Homemade rootbeer
5.       Camping
Unusual people I met recently (this week)
1.       Bree’s sister
2.       New coworker
3.       My bishop
4.       RS stake counselor
5.       Oskar
Earliest Memories
1.       Kindergarten naptime
2.       Getting a “bad apple” card to take home
3.       Heart-shaped sunglasses
4.       Playing at the beauty salon w/ Polly Pocket
5.       Singing to Lion King.
Things that make me mad:
1.       Lies
2.       F’s
3.       “holier/cooler than thou”
4.       Obama/politics
5.       Mormon haters
Calming places:
1.       Temple
2.       Art museum
3.       Pool
4.       Bookstore
5.       Bed
Things that hurt:
1.       Migraines
2.       Braces
3.       Tight pants
4.       Burns
5.       Soap in the eye
Things I’ve ignored:
1.       Messy room
2.       Dishes
3.       People on FB from high school
4.       Practicing clarinet
5.       My journal
Things I wish I could do again:
1.       White water rafting
2.       Be in a relationship
3.       Live in Germany
4.       Travel
5.       Speak German
{the thing that I love about this list, is that I’m currently happy because I’ve got a #2 again, and on August 3rd, I’ll get to have #3-5 back in my life. WHUUUUT?!}