Happy New Year!

I am on vacation this week. Oddly I do not want to fix the breaks on the car, go to the doctor, or even make dinner. I just want to sit on my butt all day and play video games. I wish I was this spoiled in highschool when I had the time to sit on my butt! So far what has been accomplished since my last post has been the retrieving of my husband, Christmas, new year, and my cousins wedding! The makings of a great start for 2011! We got an amazing Teflon pots and pans set for Christmas, which resulted in splurging money to make an amazing crab dinner. We bought some cheap champagne for new years, which we popped open...and then we didn't really feel like drinking haha. It went back in the fridge and in the morning we found it spilled all over the floor and in the drawers of our refrigerator. I made homemade pancakes from an online recipe, which weren't that great. Bisquick is better I think. Overall, completely not exciting.

Our fancy crab dinner, it was amazing!

With the New Year I believe in reflecting, not creating new goals for things I can't predict. I've often found goals are made to be broken lol. So some things I have learned:

1. when you live in the country, city drivers are CRAZY. But somehow when you live in the city, country drivers are NUTS!

2. There is a difference between baking soda and baking powder, confusing these can really screw up a recipe...

3. no matter how careful you are, or your age, your legal identity can still be stolen (and it SUCKS!)

4. getting legally married is not near as difficult as everyone makes it out to be, nor does it cost much

5. there are some things worth giving up everything for

6. It is very difficult to find a better feeling than using proper cooking supplies

7. It is very difficult to find something more frightening then the first time you truly tell your parents "no"

8. When you feel like no one was there for you, it is much better to be there for someone else than to seek revenge against lost friends

9. Being homeless makes you really appreciate any home; tent, car, or ghetto apartment; much much more

10. Sometimes you really need to stop caring if you look girly, and cry it out

11. Love can't conquer the bills, or find a home, or even get you food to eat. But it conquers the pain you carry with you, supports you when you fall, and sustains the parts of your spirit that defines who you are.

the year that rocks

The "In's and Out's" for 2011 according to Larisa:

IN

The Color Purple

Evil Vampires

Cooking (this is always "in")

Turtles

Beaches

OUT

Mountains

Family Dollar (where everything is not a dollar)

A Missing Husband

Movie Sequels (and 3rds...and 4ths...and prequels...)

Walls painted White

skinny jean have been (thankfully) declared "out" and I'm all for the leather!

"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye." ~Miss Piggy