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Bumper Stickers I Love
Most of these I found on Pegasus Publishing. www.pegasuspublishing.com
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the East and Juliet is
AAAAAAAAAAAA THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! *FOOM*
–Vampire Theatre
MY KID SELLS TERM PAPERS
TO YOUR HONOR STUDENT
Knowledge is Power.
Power corrupts.
Study Hard. Be evil.
God was my Co-Pilot
…but we crashed in the Andes and I had to eat him.
My kid swindled your honor student at the
FERENGI COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Where students learn to profit from more than just mistakes.
And the one that used to be on my van…sadly totaled with the vehicle by the insurance company:
I get along with God just fine
It’s his fan clubs I can’t stand!
Enjoy guys…I’m off to Oklahoma for a conference. I’ll try to post more about my movie night tomorrow.
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Gimme, Gimme, Gimme
Hello all four of you my many fans,
I’m selfishly demanding feedback. Yes, again…I know I’m always nagging for that. But you get to connect with me and I love that yet I want more I want feedback, harrassment, comments, something! I NEED to know I’m loved, remembered, respected, or at least a dammned irritant!
Can you tell I’ve discovered a new toy for the blog? Now if I can just figure out how to get a picture small enough to upload to this site, I could REALLY play! Hmmmmmm….play…….. oh, sorry what was I doing? Oh yes, a general blog.
So speaking of playing…I’m the GNO (girls night out) coordinator and I’m taking options for June. I briefly played with the idea of joining Nancy at Vegas…but financially and time-wise I don’t think it’s going to happen. And I’m still on the hunt to SEE the cubs picking up the cougars and to that end I’m contemplating a dinner evening at the Sagebrush Cantina for GNO.
The other option is a movie night…and by that I mean have ya’ll come over to a central location and watch something fun and funny with dinner, drinks and girl time. I’m thinking a drunken marathon of The Big Bang-season 1 which I got on DVD, or the Dr. Horrible DVD by Joss Wheden I also have. Both of these are hilarious.
Everyone give me you’re feedback on GNO so we can plan the day. I’m out of town to Oklahoma at the end of the week but back on Saturday.
And speaking of movie night…I won another contest!!! Yes, I played worked my radio station every so well this time. I was finally able to enter all my accumulated points yesterday after my last win. All entered points are wiped for all the contests I enter and I can’t enter any other contests for 30 days after a win.
So I looked at all the prizes with June deadlines and chose the two I would really like to win that ended this week. No sense spending all the points on other stuff in case I won these.
Sadly I didn’t win the trip for 2, airfare and hotel included, to NY to see Offspring in concert AND see the Lakers play in the Eastern conference. Dammnit that would have been sooo cool! But I did win the other contest I was hoping for…2 tickets to see The Hangover movie! So who wants to go???!!!
Next month I’m going to shoot for No Doubt tickets! I’m telling ya…become a Rockaholic on the station www.star987.com and earn your points. It’s totally worth it. In 10 minutes a day I can earn at least 8,000 points. In a 30 day period I earned over 320,000 points and spent almost all of them in one day and won.
For those who have read “Cat”…if you don’t buy a ticket, Herschel, you’ll never win!
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Salad Dressing
My girlfriend’s trying to do it all. She’s working 30 hrs a week in the public school system, going to college part time to get her teaching degree, raising two daughters and wistfully thinking about what it might be like to have a personal life.
So on days when she had custody of her girls and she has to take a class (because the custody schedule alternates days during the week just like it alternates weekends) she drops her girls over at my house to play with my boys. (Wow…that’ll sound dirty when they’re all teens. Luckily that’s several years away.)
The point being that her girls say “Yeah! We’re having dinner at Heather’s house!” Because I’ve managed to learn how to cook meals that kids love, well, because they’re the ones I have to make sure get fed.
About ten years ago my Aunt introduced my mother to a garlic salad dressing that I fell in love with. Over the years I’ve modified it and my kids adore it. They’ll scarf a salad down with this dressing and sometimes I use it as a marinade. And it’s light on the calories so I love it on rice and pasta, too.
I know, your thinking…make my own salad dressing when I can buy the stuff off the shelves…WHY! Well, I only know the reasons I do it. It’s cheaper, I can’t find anything with this taste, and I know the ingredients I’ve put in it. And I’ve got a great Tupperware container made specifically for salad dressings, with measurements on the side, that makes this incredibly easy for me.
The recipe is as follows and this is my changes from some other recipe.
4 oz Seasoned Rice Wine Vinegar, 1 oz Olive Oil, 1 tablespoon Grey Poupon, 2-3 shakes of Maggi seasoning sauce (or soy sauce) and 4 cloves of crushed garlic.
So my dressing container reads in ounces so I go up to 8 oz vinegar and 2 oz olive oil and then double the rest of the ingredients. And when I crush the cloves I dump everything into the dressing because raw garlic is so great on your cholesterol.
And I have a large Tupperware I use to keep my premade salad in, serve what we’ll be eating into a bowl, add cucumbers & any other wet ingredients like cut tomatoes and the dressing. So the salad is pre-prepped for at least several servings. Saves me time and hassle. And I’m selfish enough to want to free up every moment I can for myself.
Try it, you’ll like it. The dressing tastes like a very garlicky light creamy Italian. It’s also great as a meat marinade on flank steak.
If you like your dressing a little sweater.. I’ve recently added about 2 tablespoons pineapple juice.. (since we add pineapple to our pizza from a can I use the juice for my dressing.) AMAAAZING flavor addition.
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My Music
Music is something that is everywhere. Live, phones, radio, almost all media except print has it. No one can go to the gym without their music and if they forget…well the gym plays its own! Although sometimes…who chooses that stuff…sheesh, disco, really?!
Gowing-up there was always music playing in my house. I remember the moment I realized as a teenager that perhaps the reason I was depressed all the time was because I was listening to love songs without a boyfriend! I quickly switched to rock and roll…much happier.
And something we all don’t realize is the viscous cycle that is the radio. That’s where the new music is played…it’s where we hear new bands and new songs from our favorites. Yet to support our favorites we go out and buy their CDs and play them. And then we’re not listening to the radio anymore. So before we know it we’re only listening to the albums we own and maybe just a little of the radio until a commercial comes on and POW in goes our CD. And it’s amazing how decades can pass you by like that.
But sometimes a life change is reflected in your choice of music. Well it sure is for me. A couple of years ago I was a firm lover of Jack FM radio (here its 93.1) I loved their “screw you” attitude and they played all my old favorite songs.
Then one day I hit on another station, an independent station. I liked some of their songs but fate intervened and BAM they were gone…replaced by a Spanish station. So I searched around because my drive to work is about 5 minutes and I never get around to actually using my CDs. And I hit on Star987 which almost immediately changed its format. They fired their morning crew and played A LOT less mushy song and more contemporary rock. And I was hooked.
That music on that station is resonating with me on a level I can only explain on another blog! I really don’t enjoy going to a bar and listen to the 80’s and sometimes not even the 90’s music they play ANYMORE. I want to hear something produced in the last five years!
So you want to know what’s floating my skirt right now…go to www.star987.com and see. Oh and you should become a Rockaholic. You can find me there! Yes, my picture is someone in their Photos page because I won tickets to see Carolina Liar in the Penthouse! The coolest! I’ll have to blog about that experience later.
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Virgin Blog
Wow…blogging. So many would say, “yeah, so?” My friends would say, “About time girl!” And I’m like…oooooh a shiny new toy. I immediately went to sort it and change it and style it. But my webmaster said to get used to the blogging first.
Well I didn’t listen! I did all the sorting, changing and styling I could. Lucky for all of us that really wasn’t much because I was soooo unprepared for how fast this would all get set up! So I have no pictures…yet! And I’m thoroughly not thrilled with the color scheme and all that jazz. But anyone who knows me won’t be surprised that my first act on my new website is to creating sorting categories for my blogs!
Yes…hello…my name is Heather Barton and I’m a sortaholic. I love the joy of sorting. Well, perhaps it’s not a joy for you but half the fun of buying a new book is putting it into my library and resorting everything to get room for it.
Example…one of my first jobs was at Baskin Robbins (who hasn’t worked there…really!). So on my first day they are showing me where everything is and they have this drawer full of the flavor signs (this was way back when, children, when they used to list the flavors on the walls). I turn to my boss and said, “Oo, can I alphabetize these?”
She, of course, looked at me like I was insane. A look I have become very, very familiar with. And yet she also became my best friend for ten years, another thing that many do, like all the people I meet on airplanes!
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