Who Is That Masked Woman?

Whoa. Dude.

Saint Cloud represent!

Smarter Than The Average Bear

Hostile Takeover

Apparently Rachel Ray (or Martha Stewart, or Paula Dean or the Barefoot Contessa or anyone of those deviant cooking ladies really) hijacked Santa's sleigh, stole my toys, and left me cooking utensils for Christmas.

Yay Christmas!

Christmas time is neaaaaar

Snowman Making!

Building snowmen with Justine!

Guess What?

Catch Up

Long time no update. Not much going on up here. Winter has descended and i'm freezing as usual. My statistics class is going okay even though my assignments put me in a state of panic for about a week before i manage to get a grip on myself and do them. 4 assignments have been turned in and 3 to go before its all over.

Also, tonight i baked fluffy pumpkin cheesecake pies. No major disasters to report just a bit of messy goo everywhere when i stuck the hand mixer into the bowl and didn't notice the setting was on high. Oops.


Happy Thanksgiving

Brownies with Lyan

I decided to bake brownies today. There was a rough moment when i couldn't decide exactly what was an 8 X 8 or 9 X 9 inch pan. And i couldn't find a ruler. I grabbed a passing roommate and asked her to pull out a pan for me. She did. And i proceeded to make my brownies. Usually i burn them but not this time.

They were delicious.

Happy Halloween

Between Between And Drink A Chair

Abuelo,

I'm sorry i thought you were crazy for saying this every time we walked into the house.

I was reading messages on my friend Ingrid's website when someone said drink a chair. And i said...wait a minute. My abuelo says that all the time. And Ingrid had to tell me that yeah its pretty common.

Who knew? I still think you are crazy, abuelo, but not for that anymore.

Love,

Lyannie

Seriously

If my kid ever starts seeing demons or telling me there's something in the closet when we move to a new home...I'm going to believe him/her and get the hell out of there. All the horrible things that happen in these movies could be avoided if they just LISTEN TO THE KID. Oy.

I shouldn't be watching scary movies before i go to bed.

SEE

I get no respect

I told Cory i baked an apple cheesecake today.

Her response?

Cory: YOU baked apple cheesecake?
Cory: YOU?
Cory: :O
Cory: :O
Cory: SRSLY?!

And then someone else...

"Lyan! You baked an apple cheesecake?!?!"

Baking with Lyan

I don't pretend to have any kind of skill in the kitchen. I have a lovely rice cooker and I'm decent with meat. If there is no one else around i'll try and get fancier in the kitchen. Makes it easier for me to waft smoke out of the house or clean up whatever might have happened.

Since we went apple picking this weekend i decided i'd do something with my mess of fruit. So i picked out an easy recipe for an apple cheesecake.

I started off by:

-I scraped a bit of skin off of my finger while peeling the first apple.
-I have no idea what an apple corer looks like.
-I cut my finger with a paring knife as i dug the core away from my apple.
-I broke a spoon after i abandoned the knife to scrape the core out of my apple.
-The blood made the apple slippery and i dropped it and the cat jumped on it.

Not a good start.

Then I:

-Attempted to mix cream cheese with sugar and vanilla
-Did not have cream cheese thawed to room temperature.
-Cream cheese that is hard does not mix.

So then i figured id just used my hands to mix all of that up first and then use the hand mixer.

So:

-Did not notice the mixer was on a high speed when i put it in the bowl.
-Exploded cream cheese on my face, in my hair, and on my clothes.

After much muttered swearing i cleaned everything up, mixed my ingrediants and poured the cream cheese on top of my apple filling. Then i stuck it into the oven. And nothing has caught fire yet.

Apple Picking

I didn't do it.

Jenny

Amy

Justine

Impressive

I'm always proud to see my dog Max get out of his kennel. He sticks his paw into the chain link door and uses his nails to pull the door open inward. And then slides right through when the gap is wide enough. But i must admit the beagle puppy in this video is way awesome.



But this cat seriously freaks me out.

Cats

I don't like cats. Kittens are okay for awhile. But they have a disturbing tendency to turn into cats. Predator cats are okay too. Anyways, i was awake till 2 this morning because of a cat. While i was sleeping my roommate's cat managed to push my door open, sneak across my room, and then jump into my bed! And she's a big heavy cat so the entire bed shook when she landed which made me scream like a little girl and jump out of my bed. And then i smashed my already injured foot against a chair. Stupid cat. It took me almost two hours to fall asleep and this was even after i picked it up and shut it into my roommate's room downstairs.

I could still feel it outside my door. Waiting for me to fall asleep again.

Mmmm Donuts

My family is silly.

I use multi million dollar satellite technology to find tupperware in the woods.

This Geocache required pirate poetry to be left in the logbook before you could take any "treasure" out of the box. I left a haiku that went something along the lines of:
Pirates Rob and Rich
must surrender the booty.
Or the parrot dies.


Pirate Rob there has discovered some kind of jellyman.


I went geocaching with the folks while in Virginia for Labor Day weekend. There was a cache out in the middle of extremely high brush and none of us were dressed for it really. I told mom and dad to wait for me while i forced my way through the undergrowth and to the prize. They, being awesome, refused to stay behind and broke trail through that mess. Mom in front, because she is Rambo and hardcore like that. Dad bringing up the rear and occasionally getting us back on course.


Mom found the cache!

haha