Why I hate banana bread....scrapbook Sunday.

This is a page from my scrapbook...And the reason I do not like banana bread.

Sandra and I thought it would make it a nice personal touch to the first Youth Conference dance if we made the refreshments. Being in charge of the dance, we felt like we had a responsibility to the dance-goers to be creative and fun.....at the beginning of the week, we bought a whole case of bananas. Not knowing what to do with them, and knowing that they had to be just about rotten....we thought we could stash them in Sandra's closet. I got to go home......Sandra had to live with the smell of a CASE of rotting bananas.....IN HER BEDROOM!!!!! Poor girl.

Well, the day came where we had to bake it. By the end, we were delirious.....Had a banana batter food fight.....and pretty much hated the word banana and bread....We were tired....and no one even noticed the food....in retrospect.....kids between the ages 14 and 18 who are grouped together with the prospects of slow dancing together....are too hormonal and goofy to really care what they are ingesting.

Brownie Love

I made five batches of brownies today so I can take it to a church potluck tomorrow one batch was raided. The proof is hard to hide.

Now that I got the hang of mobile blogging, beware... You will be in for double the posts.

This picture was taken in February while Veida and I went to party city to kill some time.

Defeat

This picture represents the defeat of the day. Half of a tank of gas gone and nothing to show for it. I run around for other people and am back where I started.

What I have been up to....

A few things to throw out in the blogisphere...

1) WHY WHY WHY do you the fellow bloggers insist on writting a bazillion blogs while I am not checking my bloglines every day....it is overwhelming and very time consuming to have to catch up on 97 written blogs....When I don't have the time to read, you are banned from blogging no questions asked...just don't do it! ha ha ha...ok really I don't mind catching up, just don't be mad at me if I don't read every one of them....(but I do tend to feel like I missed something fun if I don't read every word! ha. obssesed much? yeah.)

2) I have been making oreo truffles out the wazoo to help with a bakesale that helps pay for the summer camp Aaron already went to....oh and made banana bread that stinks and makes me gag.

3) Still doing laundry.....i took a few days off....but, i am back in the saddle again.

4) Watching kids. kids. and more kids. I am watching Alyssa, Aaron of course, then at night i watch three kids at their house, and while I have watched Alyssa and Aaron during the day, I have had Aaron's cousins, Delia, Shayla, Jasmine and thats about it....

5) Hanging out with myself...Friday night Jason went to a campout, Aaron was at his mothers, and I was home alone with the dog. I was supposed to bake, and wash laundry and clean because that is what I thought I could get done without anyone to bug me, but instead I rented movies, watched tv and got a to-go order from my favorite restuarant.....it was great ME time.

Anyways, that is a few things I have done in the past few days that has kept me from sitting down at the computer and enjoying your lives......I am back now, ready to read read read, and write a few blogs for myself....yay!

Does it FRUSTRATE you

.....when you lose a recipe that is near and dear to your heart.....and it is the same recipe that makes the most awesome treat....and it is the recipe that has made everyone love you....yeah it frustrates me too...

And Sandra, I am not talking about the banana nut bread.....I can STILL live without having any of that, even 14 years later.

And if by some miraculous chance Elisabet, Kjerstin or Sarah is reading this......it is your family's chocolate chip cookie recipe.....

I think I have it down ALMOST but I made it tonight, from the memory of a forgetful person....and they are not the same....HELP!

This is what I THOUGHT it was....but it isn't fluffy and soft...they are flat and crunchy (gag)

6 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp salt
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp vanilla
3 eggs
1 lb butter
2 c brown sugar
1 1/2 c sugar
chocolate chips......


I am sad to say that the cookies I have made for the fundraiser for Aaron's camp isn't going to be the yummy one that a lady has been braging about....if we don't meet our goal, I am totally to blame. *sigh*

This leads to the question....

Do you like your cookies crunchy or soft? (If you can't tell, mine is soft....)

Again

Hey...guess what...I moved again...for the 123,564,567,852,234,125,235 time in my life....We moved from Arlington's Ghetto...to Grand Prairie....it is a bit nicer of a place. We lived a building over from Jason's brother (who has managed to make his way over a few times this week for dinner) but now I have to live in Dallas County...blah. Not sure how much I love it.



We are STILL unpacking....STILL doing laundry....STILL tired.



BUT YAY we have washer and dryer connections! NO more lugging to the washateria!



A funner and more intersting blog to come...promise.

But until then...go visit these places....



Culturally Shocked

Tag from Sandra

I was tagged by Sandra almost a month ago.....I am just now getting around to doing this...sad I know...and to tell the truth I forgot about it for a while there....Sorry Sandra!


How To Play This Game of Tag:
Post these rules on your blog.
List: 3 joys, 3 fears, 3 goals, 3 current obsessions/collections, 3 random surprising facts about yourself. Tag 5 people at the end of your post by leaving their names. (Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog!)

3 Joys
1. Route 44 Dr Pepper with extra ice.....don't judge me...it is summer in Texas
2. Being with my sisters...despite one being a traitor....sorry V
3. Cooking a good meal and making everyone happy
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3 Fears
1. Being knocked unconscious or dying and no one being able to figure out who I am.
2. Becoming a TLC "World's Heaviest Woman" show
3. Never having children of my own.

3 Goals
1. Get all unpacked and in order from the latest move.
2. Buy a sewing machine
3. Learn to sew......and sew well.

3 current obsessions/collections
1. Selling stuff on Ebay
2. Jon and Kate Plus 8
3. Fabric Squares

3 Random surprising facts
1. I have no tonsils
2. I can easily state my name backwards Ilatsam Secnarf Alyal (I wrote that without having to think about it....thats what you do your senior year in high school...did you know that?)
3. I can wiggle my ears...and I credit that to watching the music award show and keeping the beats with my head and slowly my ears followed suit.

I tag:

1) Shayda
2) Stephanie
3) Christine
4) Any lurkers who read my blog
5) EVERYONE (Ok so I don't have a huge following on here...)

Things I want today....right now....get it for me....

I WANT ONE....what you ask???? I want my own rubber stamp. Laugh at me all you want. But I want one. One for my address, one for home card making, one for the to do lists I make...I want it...I want it now.
Since the world wide web allows me to window shop in my pajamas...I ran across this custom rubber stamps, oh my word. Like I said, I want it. They have all the rubber stamps you can want or need...plus you can make your own with the home stamp kit. Did you know that Martha Stewart makes stamps for weddings? Yeah me neither....but I found some on this site.
Doing more browsing I found something that would be perfect for me. Embosser. You can buy the embosser and the gold stickers to emboss. This wayI can make my own home made awards and certificates and stuff for Aaron, and make it look professional with the embosser. HOW FUN IS THAT????? I am so freakin excited.
Things I want to use stamps for:
Scrapbooking
Letters
Envelopes
Lists
Lists
Lists.....

My birthday is coming soon....buy me one! (But first let me know so I can tell you what I want on it....ha ha)

MySpace Steal #2

Another blog I wrote on Myspace.....

Saturday, November 03, 2007
Inspired
I have finished A Thousand Splendid Suns....I recommend that book and Kite Runner, I think I grew a bond with the similatities in my life to the language and behaviors of that book, but none the less, good readin.
I just looked at a blog on blogspot of this lady who takes pictures for a living. I am inspired. I want a cool camera and photo editing software. I wanna do it all.....

I want to...
sew cool bankets
sew cool stuff in general
make cool jewelry
do cool scrapbooking
take cool pictures
cook cool food
make cool gourmet stuff
open a cool place to sell all my cool stuff.

So I guess I just wanna be cool.

MySpace Steal #1

I wrote this last year at this time in my myspace blog....I eventually want to put all my blogs on this blogspot and do away with myspace....so I am bringing them over.....please forgive the historical blogs...but I need to journal all my thoughts together...bare with me.


Sunday, June 17, 2007

Fathers Day
Tomorrow is Fathers Day. There are a few people that come to mind when I think of this day...
I think about my father a lot. He came from Iran in his early 20's. How is it a kid can find such strength and courage to pack up and leave everything he knows and love behind. Not that it wasn't a great move, but it was one that took a lot of guts. Then, in 1980 he comes upon the situation of having to decide...change his path and life and be a father, or turn the other way and keep on what he had his heart set out on...the american dream. And instead of seeking education and money, he chooses to stay and raise me. I am what turned into his American Reality. He worked countless hours in kitchens to eventually create his own cullinary empire. To lose it all because of failing health. He never quite recovered to the success of the Restaraunt he owned called "The Terrace" but he did after 20 something years complete his bachelors degree and become the computer geek he wanted to be. He then had to work overnights babysitting printing reports and when that job didn't pay what he needed to support his ever growing family, he had to take a day job delivering pizza's. Sleeping was an luxury he could not afford. Courage and strength is what it took to seperate himself again from his family to branch out and learn how to recreate a life that was loss amid lies and abuse. And now reunited with himself, his goals, and the loves of his life - his daughters - He has come full circle with the American Dream, and the American Reality as he lives contently. I love my Baba.
Uncle David.
He is a man of a few words but of many actions. I have seen him raise a family yet have no children of his own. I have seen him take in countless numbers of people into his home and guide them by his stern words and example. He came from a family of misfits who stuck together only because of the time periods rules rather than love and affection, only to learn from the mistakes. Some lessons learned later than others, but he was self taught none the less. He understands me. He loves me. He is my team. I can do nothing but love him and look up to him and know that no matter how much I stray, he is right there to give me guidance when I am ready.
Jason
To watch him is to know him..there is no hiding who he is. You see is what you get. He has an endless amount of paitence...something we all know I need more of....He has the ability to make anyone laugh, and every child he comes across love him....well all except for Whit's son...but I hear he cries with everyone. Coming from the school of hard knocks, he does his best to emulate the postive parts of his father, while stopping numerous amounts of abusive cycles. He is a self taught father, having to learn on his own, for his own, with no assitance from a companion. He is the modern father. I can do nothing but love him and give him all the support he can ever need or want, I just pray what I do for him benefits his life.
Happy Father's Day.


Jennie
Awhhhhhh, I like this blog!! YEAH!! Happiness!
Posted by Jennie on Sunday, June 17, 2007 at 11:40 AM

Chrissy
Truly one of the best blogs ever written by Miss Layla! I couldn't put it into words as well as you do. Love you cuz!
Posted by Chrissy on Monday, June 18, 2007 at 10:07 PM