Menu Monday

I know it has been a long time since I have posted anything, but things get busy and life gets a hold of you and wont let go.

So here is my latest favorite recipe. But first an advertisement.

I subscribe to this magazine, and I absolutely love one little feature in it. Every month there is a little pull out booklet of 50 things. So for example this month is 50 things to do with pesto, or during the holiday season it was 50 holiday cookies. You get the idea.

So one of the summer months it was 50 burgers. Now I am a fan of the hamburger, and 50 different variations on a burger is like a little bit of heaven for me. I found this on in there and we have been having them a lot, and they are spectacular!

So here it is.

Thai Pork Burgers

For dressing:

1/4 cup lime juice

1 tbsp. fish sauce 1 tbsp. olive oil

salt

sugar

For slaw:

one shaved carrot

one sliced red onion

about a half cup of whole cilantro leaves

For burgers:

1 lb ground pork

1 big pinch salt

chili sauce

mayonnaise

Combine lime juice, fish sauce, olive oil, salt and sugar (to taste). Toss half of dressing with carrots, onion and cilantro and allow to marinate for a while. Make patties with pork and salt and remaining dressing. Grill or broil in oven. Serve on a toasted kaiser roll with chili sauce, mayo, and veggie slaw.

So I know this recipe isn't the most specific in the world but that is the way it is in the little booklet. It is kind of a throw together meal, but I promise it is really good!

If you do try them come back and tell me what you think...

Reluctant

I haven't been blogging for quite some time now. I'm not sure if it's because I am bored with it or I just don't want to. I was talking to a blobby friend the other day and she said she thinks it is a fad that she thinks is just over. So here is my question for you...
Do you feel that the magic is gone?
Are you still blogging?
Are you still reading blogs?
What makes you come back to read the same blogs?
What keeps you interested in bloggingnyourself?

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

100 Truths

I stole this from Amber, it seemed like a good idea at the time =)

1. Last beverage: Water, I don't drink much of anything else lately

2. Last phone call: Husband, of course

3. Last text message: Jodee

4. Last song you heard: Talking Heads- Burning Down the House

5. Last time you cried: Today

HAVE YOU EVER:

6. Got back with someone you've broken up with: Yes, stupidly!

7. Been cheated on: Yes, the idiot!

8. Kissed someone & regretted it: Yes

9. Lost someone special: Yes.

10. Been depressed: Yes.

11. Been drunk and threw up: Nope

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:

12. Blue

13. Pink

14. White

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU: (2010)

15. Made a new friend: Yep

16. Fallen out of love: Nope.

17. Laughed until you cried: Yes, but not often enough.

18. Met someone who changed you: Definitely

19. Found out who your true friends were: Yeah, but I pretty much already knew that.

20. Found out someone was talking about you: No

21. Kissed anyone on your Facebook friends list: Well... yes... but I am married to him!

22. How many people on your friends list do you know in real life: Most of them

23. How many kids do you want? More than the two I have

24. Do you have any pets: Yes, the cutest puppy ever.

25. Do you want to change your name: Yes, I always thought it was really boring, and it isn't like I can shorten it to make a nick-name

26. What did you do for your last birthday: Uummm... is it bad that I can't remember

27. What time did you wake up? 6:30

28. What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping, thank goodness.

29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: Thanksgiving, I love it.

30. Last time you saw your mother: Monday, she did a great favor for me.

31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life: My health issues

33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom: Yes, a couple.

34. Who is getting on your nerves now? 1st graders!

35. Most visited websites: Facebook, godealgo, IMDB

36. What's your real name: Sarah Rebecca

37. Nicknames: Sariah, Mom

38. Relationship Status: Happily Married.

39. Zodiac sign: Cancer

40. Male or female: I'm female.

41. Primary School: 5 at last count, too many to list.

42. Middle School: Bennion Jr. High

43. High school: Cottonwood

44. Hair color: Blond

45. Long or short: Longer than I have had it in years.

46. Height: 5' 5"

47. Do you have a crush on someone? Yep, and its a good thing too, cause I am married to him.

48: What do you like about yourself? I have a good sense of humor, and am friendly.

49. Piercings: Ears, two in each but I only use one set.

50. Tattoos: No thanks

51. Righty or lefty: Righty.

FIRSTS:

52. First surgery: Wisdom teeth

53. First piercing:12 ears

54. First best friend: My hubby, and Cassie, and Vennessa

55. First sport you joined: I DON'T SPORT!

56. First vacation: First one I remember was Yellowstone

58. First pet: First I remember was Sassy (snif)

RIGHT NOW:

59. Eating: Nothing right now but I am making corned beef for dinner

60. Drinking: Nada

61. I'm about to: Finish dinner

62. Listening to: The sound of my little fingers rapidly typing.

63. Waiting for: Hubbs to come home

YOUR FUTURE:

64. Want kids?: Yes more please

65. Get married?: Only once

66. Career: Teacher, maybe some day.

67. Lips or eyes: Eyes, lasik again would be nice.

68. Hugs or kisses: Kisses

69. Shorter or taller: depends on who I am standing next to

70. Older or Younger: Younger would be nice

71. Romantic or spontaneous: Spontanious

72. Nice stomach or nice arms: Can I say both...

73. Sensitive or loud: Loud

74. Hook-up or relationship: Relationship for sure!

HAVE YOU EVER:

76. Kissed a stranger: Yes

77. Drank hard liquor: no

78. Lost glasses/contacts: Yes

79. Sex on first date: No.

80. Broken someone's heart: Yes.

82. Been arrested: no

83. Turned someone down: Yes.

84. Cried when someone died: Yes.

85. Fallen for a friend: Yes

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:

86. Yourself: Most of the time, depends on the situation

88. Love at first sight: Yep... again married him

89. Heaven: Absolutely

90. Santa Claus: Yep

91. Kiss on the first date: NO!

92. Angels: Yes

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:

94. Had more than 1 girlfriend/boyfriend at a time: Nope

95. Did you sing today?: Yep, with the music but nobody was home to hear it, thank goodness.

96. Ever cheated on somebody: yes, but it wasnt on purpose

97. If you could go back in time, how far would you go?: High School, improve grades, stay away from boys, go to college after.

98. The moment you would choose to relive? My wedding day

99. Are you afraid of falling in love?: Nope, already there

100. Are you afraid of posting this as 100 truths?: Nope they are all completely the truth.

Wordless Wednesday

Drivin'

Do you remember what it was like when you got your drivers license?

Or when you got your first car?

For me that is what its like every time I get into my car.

Driving equals freedom for me, I love to drive. I will never understand women who stop driving when they get married. As far as I am concerned that is MY car and no one else should be driving it. Especially if I am in it. I hate being a passenger. My friends give me a hard time because any time we all go somewhere together I have to drive. Mostly it is a control issue, but a lot of it is also that I get a kind of trill from driving. It really is one of my favorite things to do. I love long road trips. Emanhaud and I have the best conversations while we are driving too. For some reason we can let loose and really talk to each other when we are in the car. We discuss politics, movies, books, finances, and just about anything else that might be on our minds. The funny thing is that we don't talk to our kids at all when we are in the car. The Bug gets really annoyed by this, because she really wants to be part of the conversation.

For me being alone in the car is the best time for me to think. I just let my mind wander and think about things in a way that I just don't normally. I get some of my best thinking done this way. Any time you pull up next to me you can guarantee that my music is going full blast too, and you can almost always catch me singing along as loud as possible. (Windows up of course!)

Don't worry I obey traffic rules while doing this!

Maybe I like driving so much because I waited longer than most to get my license. I was 18 and graduated from High School before I could drive. I bought my first car just before I got my license. I paid $125 for it when I bought it from my uncle and I put $800 in repairs into it, a lot of them myself. I will admit I did NOT like driving a mini-van but it was still freedom and I dealt with it until I finally sold my van this summer. Driving is also the thing that makes me the most mad. I hate it when people don't obey traffic rules. I will yell and cuss at people for doing stupid things. This makes my family very happy as you can imagine. But I still love driving and they will have to remove my license from my cold dead hands at the age of 100 before I give it up. Maybe I will request to be buried in my car!

How about you do you like to drive?

Friday Randomness

So I know it has been quiet a while since I have blogged. I just haven't felt that there was much to say. Not that there wasn't anything happening in my life, I just didn't really feel like writing about it. So hopefully what I do have to ramble about today will take up some space and fulfill my bloggy quota for the month.

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I would just like to say I hate airports. I seem to have only sad moments at airports, mostly because it is not me doing the traveling. I am usually the one dropping off. I had to take MJ to the airport to go home today. I was very proud of myself that I didn't cry, because I didn't want to make her feel bad. But I really wanted to. I just don't know what I am going to do without her here now.

Who will keep me company?

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I have to say I am loving Junior High... no... really!

My girls have the best teachers.

It is far less of a nightmare that I thought it would be.

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The Bug went to her first JH dance today... this makes me scared and fall over with laughter all at the same time. I desperately want her to grow up and start doing age appropriate things. At the same time, I am terrified of her spending actual social time with the kids at her school.

Does this make me one of those loony over protective parents?

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I swear I will never shop in Walmart again if I can help it. Every time I go in there, not only do I have to look at and swerve around the very dregs of humanity, but I have to deal with the people who shop there too. Their employees are getting less helpful by the minute, and they no longer always have the lowest price, so my thought is, why bother!

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I am up to walking 4 miles a day now, not that it matters. I have gained 20 pounds since spring, (AKA my last surgery) and none of that weight wants to go away. It is time to really buckle down and start actually depriving myself of things that are doing me no good. Like ice cream, and all that Halloween candy that is just sitting around. I am not far away from cutting out sugar all together. I did it once for a while and I did feel better. The problem is I am not sure I have the will power. I have to start reminding myself, that it just isn't worth having all this weight on me, and feeling like crap.

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The back problems are back. I have a herniated disc in my lower spine, and osteoarthritis, in addition to that. I am going in for steroid shots in my back on Monday. I am just hoping that all goes well and it actually makes me feel better.

I am so tired of being in pain.

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So what are you watching these days, me... I'm loving Big Bang Theory.

What!

You haven't seen it?! Well check this out.

OK that's all I got, so here are the tunes. Enjoy!

1. Strip- Adam Ant

2. New Moon on Monday- Duran Duran

3. Tenderness- General Public

4. No One- Alicia Keys

5. Another Day in Paradise- Phil Collins

6. One Night in Bangkok- Murray Head

7. Imagine- John Lennon

8. The Emperor's New Clothes- Sinead O'Connor

9. 74-75- Connells

10. Jane Says- Jane's Addiction

Bonus: I'm Your Daddy- Weezer

Question of the day?

How do you feel about children calling adults by their first name?

Do you feel that it is OK or not?

Tell me why.

What Happens on the Playground Stays on the Playground

Actual Conversation heard between two sixth grade girls...

(Sugar is talking to Freckles about the cell phone rules in her family, names have been changed because I can't remember their real ones.)

Freckles: "Are you the oldest kid in your family?"

Sugar: "Yes, accept for my two older sisters."

How do you not crack up, when you hear something like that?!

HOLY FREAKING COW!!!!

I just got home from work and realized that my dog was freaking out in the back yard. There was a loud chirping accompanying this freaking out and I assumed that there was a magpie in the back yard taunting my dog... again. I looked through the back door and saw that my dog had something cornered in the tall grass that my husband needs to cut badly. Hint hint. I went into the back yard to rescue the "bird" and it began to run around chasing my dog. The dog was also chasing the critter at the same time so you can imagine the mayhem that was going on. So you know that thing that all the dogs do in the movie Up? You know when they all yell SQUIRREL and look around at the same time. Well it was just like that, accept that my dog had an actual squirrel (not a bird) cornered in the back yard. Needless to say you all would have been very amused had you seen me trying to lure my dog away from said squirrel.

And no the bologna, that I was using for this purpose did not work!

I don't know who was more worn out by this experience, the dog, the squirrel,

or ME!

Wordless Wednesday

Question of the day?

What is your favorite "acquired taste"?

You know the thing that when you are giving it to someone who has never had it before you say "Well, not everyone likes this, it's kind of an acquired taste."

So what is it?

Black Licorice

Coffee

Grapefruit

Artichokes

Come on you can tell me!

Wordless Wednesday

Is Laughter Truly the Best Medicine? Or NOT!

Wow! We had quite the day yesterday! Let me start by saying I love my children with all my heart! They are truly an inspiration to me.

Yesterday, however I was willing to sell one of them to the gypsies.

Yesterday we had a gooey-a-thon.

Lou Lou has a problem with the dry fall air. It makes her nose itch. So to relieve this particular problem she sticks her finger up there. Which inevitably leads to blood. The great thing about Lou Lou and blood is that she likes to share it. And it doesn't have to be shared with a person, it can be shared with carpet, walls, clothes, you know whatever is around. One of the really fun ways she chooses to share it to blow blood out of her nose at a high speed, and to aim it at whatever unsuspecting person happens to be trying to help her to stop bleeding. This of course leaves said person looking like they have just stepped out of a zombie movie.

Anyway, we were trying to help with the problem, and possibly put a stop to it, so we took her to the doctor yesterday. (Thank heaven for the Kids Care that is open on Sunday.) We made an appointment, and were in the waiting room watching a movie when one of the offending nose "geysers" occurred. I quickly yelled at the top of my lungs to whoever might be around "Shes gushing blood"! (Which technically she was not, at least not like she was 15 minutes earlier when we decided to take her in.) The problem was not the quantity of blood, but that I had nothing on me to help stop the flow, not even a Kleenex. Several people came out and helped me lay her down and gave me something to soak it up. I carried her into a room, and Emanhaud and I explained the problem. Now keep in mind this is probably her tenth bloody nose in the last four days. Some of them were small, like the one she had in church earlier the same day. And some were "geysers" like the one to come. The doctor told us there were several options. The first he suggested was packing her nose with cotton balls soaked in cocaine.... yes that's right COCAINE! We joked and said she was already keyed up, and he said it wouldn't be enough to make her worse. He made several more suggestions, including cauterizing the nose.

This is my autistic child that is incredibly strong for a 50 lb child. It took four of us just to keep her on the table long enough for the doctor to look at her nose. We mulled over our options and decided to go with whatever the doctor thought would work, this was done in about one and a half seconds. After we papoose wrapped her it was discovered that they did not in fact have the supplies to do what they wanted to. The doctor decided to try cauterizing it. This is done by sticking a wooden stick with silver nitrate on the end up her nose...

YEAH RIGHT!

We held her down, me holding the chest, Emanhaud holding the legs, a nurse holding the head, and the doctor holding the stick. Well he sticks that thing up there and the thing that you would expect to happen when you put a stick up someones nose happens. It begins to gush, in a way that I have only ever seen in movies. The funny thing is, he has a second stick in his hand and he sticks that one in there too. By this time she is howling mad, literally! So the second stick goes in, and it changes from a stream to a raging river of blood. Plus while this is happening she is trying to blow the thing out of her nose full force. So the doctor, Emanhaud, and I all look like we have been sprayed with blood...

oh wait we were!

At this point the doctor looks at us and says there is nothing he can do further and we need to go to the ER. We bundle her up and put her in the back seat with her head in Dads lap, and head up to the hospital. A twenty minute

drive away. Which of course means that it stopped bleeding on the way. We get to the ER, and check in and the doctor comes in, this all happened in about 15 minutes. The doc looks at her and says there is nothing he can do for us...

wait...

REALLY!

So apparently you cannot cauterize something that is not bleeding...

They gave us some info about nose bleeds, and sent us packing. We were there for maybe about 30 minutes.

We got in the car, very frustrated, and I said to Emanhaud, she will be bleeding again within an hour. Needless to say I was right!

The funniest thing is that to top it all off durring dinner last night after everything had calmed down. The very same child slid backward through a dining room chair and got her head stuck in it.

How can you not laugh at that.

Gardens Bounty

Introducing...

There is something I have always wanted to do. More for the experience of doing it than because I thought it would be fun. An opportunity came up to do this very thing and I jumped on it when it presented itself. So here I am introducing to you our very own Foreign Exchange Student.

MJ

We have had her living with us for about 2 1/2 weeks now, and I have to say it is going much better than I ever could have expected. She is actually more of a teacher than a student. She came here last fall and has been staying with another family until now. We are hoping she will choose to stay with us for a while too.

She has been a great influence on our kids and on me.

So here are some things I have learned about her...

She is 20 years old

She is from South Korea

She is majoring in Social Work

She loves cheese

She loves to cook and learn new dishes to make

She is a great cook herself

She loves and is excited about watching American movies and TV

She likes comedies

She loves to laugh

She has a great sense of humor and is learning to understand and use sarcasm

She is very pretty, especially when she dresses up

She loves to eat

She is very caring and misses her family terribly

We are so excited to have her come and stay with us, and hope she feels the same!

Dropped the ball

I feel like I am letting people down. I have almost completely stopped blogging lately, and I am sorry. I just don't have the energy or time to sit in front of the computer lately. I blame my Iphone. Ever since I got it, I can check email, facebook, and anything else I want without having to venture into the deep dark basement in search of the computer. The nice thing about this particular device is that I can do almost anything on it, the down side is that I cannot update my blog. It is also very inconvenient to read other blogs on it as well. So not only do I not update, but I am not reading either.

I am sorry about this.

I do want to keep up with what is going on in every ones lives, I just can't seem to find the time.

It seems however that neglecting your blog is the way to get new followers, mine have doubled since I started ignoring my blog.

(Not that that really matters!)

Hopefully things will get back to normal when Lou Lou and The Bug go back to school.

Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday