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Finally, all of my stage momming has paid off!

Published on October 31, 2009 in animals, books, food, life, pictures and veganmofo. 11 Comments

I’ve been waiting for this day for a very long time.  I always knew that Bonny was a star, and now the whole world knows!

I didn’t test for Isa and Terry’s cookie book, for weight reasons, but when she said she was going to put tester photos in the back, Melisser and I begged to be able to submit photos of our dogs.  If you’ve never seen a picture of Strummer, this is really the only one you need to look at.  All we had to do was take their picture with some cookies.  Easier said than done!  I made a batch of the Chocolate Chip Mint Icebox cookies, gave Bonny a bath, and told her to be her cutest.  In my defense, I had done something similar with Chester a few years ago…

…and it was all I could do to keep him from eating the cookies, so I was honestly surprised when Bonny’s reaction, was, well…

Sometimes, if Bonny can tell you want her to do something but she doesn’t understand what, she gets upset.  So she just stood there and shook and looked really unhappy.  I tried having her sit in Brian’s lap, but no.  Also, Bonny isn’t that into people food and we don’t feed it to the dogs hardly ever, so she had no reason to think those cookies were for her.  To be clear, I wasn’t trying to get her to eat them, I just wanted a picture of her sniffing them.  I would never feed a cookie to my dog, even without chocolate!  So finally, I broke up a dog cookie, hid it under the top cookie, and snapped away as she sniffed and ate those.  You can see the dog cookie a little bit in this last picture.

Also, I obviously totally bailed on MoFo this year.  Personal issues have kept me from eating much outside of oatmeal and cereal (the plus side to the depression diet has been losing ten pounds), and from wanting to blog a lot.  I don’t see that changing until after the holidays are over, when we’ll be moving out of this miserable cesspool.  The only interesting thing i’ve made all month is Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls for a friends birthday.

Don’t you want to hit this book up?

Published on December 16, 2007 in books, vegan, veganomicon and yellow rose recipes. 5 Comments

Like you needed anymore reason to order Yellow Rose Recipes, now we see that it has cute as hell illustrations by Amanda. She also did that drawing of me on the ‘about’ page and I liked it so much that I asked her to do one of me and Brian for his birthday.

Also, I got my copy of Veganomicon in the mail the other day. I really enjoyed reading through it and got very excited about making the food in it. I bought a couple of other cookbooks with my birthday money, and…eh. I like reading cookbooks no matter what, but after I was done they went to the shelf untouched (not naming names). Bonny got excited too, so much so that when I went to the bathroom for five minutes she tore the shit out of the cover.

When I got to the back, I was surprised to see that Isa had thanked the forum mods, so technically my name is in the book. I’m easily amused so that made me happy. I also jump up and down and scream, “The new phone book is here, the new phone book is here!” whenever they release the new phone book, so.

Something I actually want to read.

Published on August 19, 2007 in books, internet and life. 6 Comments

I haven’t gone to the library in awhile because I ran out of how-to books to look at, but I think i’m going to have to go check out Skinny Bitch*.  Excerpt:

Aspartame (an ingredient commonly found in diet sodas and other sugar-free foods) has been blamed for a slew of scary maladies, like arthritis, birth defects, fibromyalgia, Alzheimer’s, lupus, multiple sclerosis, and diabetes. When methyl alcohol, a component of aspartame, enters your body, it turns into formaldehyde. Formaldehyde is toxic and carcinogenic (cancer-causing). Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don’t fucking drink it. Perhaps you have a lumpy ass because you are preserving your fat cells with diet soda.

That’s pretty awesome.  In something similar, this is a (fairly) recent blog post from Natalie Dee that I really liked.

Hey, guys. We need to talk.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but I think I need to set the record straight about something.

Vitamin Water is not water. When you add those little pouches of lemonaid flavor or mango passion fruit breeze or watermelon tsunami to your bottled water, that’s not water, either. You just made kool aid.

I actually saw in some magazine recently, some ladies’ magazine (hi, magazines! I love you!) where they were comparing two separate meal/snack choices. Their equation basically stated, you can have 20 oz of Vitamin Water, or 20 oz of regular water, plus a piece of watermelon and some candy.

When you read the new copy on the back of a case of diet soda, and it says something that amounts to HEY, GUYS, DRINK THIS STUFF INSTEAD OF WATER…IF IT’S WET, IT COUNTS AS WATER, they are just trying to sell you more soda. That ticked me off so bad that I have began to slow and painful journey of dropping the diet soda addiction… it is a hard row to hoe, but when you are insulting my intelligence, I have to quit buying your product. Cigarette manufacturers at least are KINDA honest on their packages, they are all like THIS WILL FUCK YOUR FETUS ALL UP and YOU WILL GET LUNG CANCER FROM THIS. They are not like HEY, YOU BREATHE IN CIGARETTE SMOKE, YOU BREATHE IN OXYGEN, THEY ARE THE SAME THING! IF YOU GOTTA BREATHE, WHY DON’T YOU BREATHE IN THIS NICE, COOL, MENTHOL-FLAVORED OXYGEN WITH NICOTINE!!

I suppose next they will be selling COLA FLAVORED FIZZY WATER and CHICKEN INFUSED NOODLE WATER FORTIFIED WITH CARROT CHUNKS and HOPS-FLAVORED ALCOHOLIC POWER WATER.

Water is a major ingredient in a lot of stuff… Vitamin Water is water as much as shampoo or Formula 409 is water.

That is all. Carry on.

A lot of the time, people say things better than I do, so it’s best just to admit it and copy and paste shit.  I should also note that a couple of years ago when I was trying to lose weight, I did drink diet soda and I think I tried to bake with Splenda a few times.  It was pretty gross.  I don’t drink soda now unless i’m running errands and i’m really thirsty, but if I do it’s regular sprite because diet soda taste like…well, chemicals.  I’m not saying that regular soda is good for you, but it’s still better than diet soda.  And i’ve determined that i’d rather be kind of fat and not have cancer than be slightly less fat and feel crappy all the time and maybe get cancer later.

*Or I would go check it out if the local yokel library had a copy, according to their website they don’t.  Bummer.