My Momma Told Me

She told me to wear a coat when it was cold outside...

Yes that was something that she always said, wear a coat, bundle up and make sure that they bitter cold does not get to you. But I am a typical hard-headed person and I never really listened well. In fact just yesterday in the pouring rain I forgot to wear a proper coat.

Speaking of rain, she always said to use an umbrella...

Yesterday I neglected to bring one with me when I took a walk down to the post office to pack and ship a few things and I got caught in the pouring rain all the way down and all the way back. I was not amused, but I came home to a really warm house and I was happy to cook a nice warm meal. Now however, I am sick. My throat is scratchy and sore and all I want is a real teapot to boil tea in. I have been waiting for weeks for one that my mother swears is coming from my neighbor, but I am beginning to think that I should just get one of my own and return hers if I don't like it better than the one I get... and if I do like it better, then I will return mine lol.

I am sick and lounging on the couch for the day, which isn't really off from a normal day, just more miserable than usual because I would rather the weather stay dreary, but the sun keeps peeking out. On the plus side I am finishing up a rather dull season of the L Word today. Only one more season and I am finished with it. I will be happy because they killed my favorite character last season and I still have not recovered. Sadly neither has the show and I am glad it no longer exists on TV. Some shows just are not meant to be. Speaking of which, it's almost that time of year to watch LOST I know I still have to get through the holidays and New Year before enjoying it, but it is one of those shows that should never end, and sadly this will be the last season. I am not amused, but I am planning on celebrating every episode of the final season. I was thinking of serving island treats at every showing.

Why Don't I Blog?

Because I make myself so busy during the day that I can't think. Today's chore was to move the bedroom around. Nick wants to be able to watch tv from bed, so in order for that to happen I had to rotate the room. The hardest part was moving everything out of the room. I had to empty all of the dresser drawers from the dresser, and drag them out to the living room, and that cut me off from being able to sit on the couch and take a break. So all day in order to make ti to my couch, I moved tons of furniture around the bedroom in a circle that somewhat trapped me in the middle.

The good thing is that Nick liked it. However he didn't see it until it he was almost ready to leave for a poetry reading. I was exhausted and dozing off when he gave me praise, and I think he was shocked that I had gotten it all done by myself in one day. I admit though, days like these really take all of my energy and make me want to sleep from when I finish (roughly 4:00pm this time) till the next morning. Now I am being really lazy, resting my muscles, and watching a tv show that I am a little submersed in. The L Word. I never watched it when it was on tv, and I think my parents would probably shoot me if they knew that I was watching it now, but it is a good drama with a believable story line. I think it sort of brings the complexities of life to light and makes me realize that no matter how bad things get for me, there is always someone else who had things much worse...like every character in that show for that matter. I like the show, but it is getting boring, I think I may need to find a new Netflix Watch Instantly series to keep me sane.

Pictures that I Blogged About

1st-Cake Topper
2nd-Wine Flutes
3rd- Detail on wine Flutes
4th- The cake service set
5th-Details on the cake service set
6th- Entire Set together... Doesn't it look phenomenal?!?

Visitation Rights

So my cousin came to visit Labor Day weekend and we spent a lot of time together talking, laughing and doing some girly things for the wedding. She is basically the first person from my family other than my parents who has seen the couches and the apartment since we moved in. Somehow the weekend didn't surround that topic though and like my cousin tends to do, she went all out to make me feel like a princess. She is my maid of honor and she brought with her some things that she knows that I have been interested in. She bought almost all of the remaining pieces of my Lenox wedding set!

I received toasting flutes as well as the table/cake topper for the set that me and Nick decided to use for the wedding. I have some photos but I will dedicate the following blog just for the pictures of that stuff. We also decided it was time to go check out some dresses for her and my sister to wear to my wedding. I made them try on a lot of styles and they even made me try on a couple. I have the photos if you want to see them, but out of fear that Nick might sneak into my blog, I can't post them publicly. However the bridesmaids dresses are up for your viewing pleasure as Nick has decided that he doesn't seem to care if those are a surprise. (Little does he know I am sneaky and although he puts in his two sense he may not get a choice but to be surprised.) So as weekends go, that was probably the best weekend that I have had in a long time.

This past weekend was like a completely invisible weekend and although I know we did things, I can't seem to remember what we did or when, and how I got through the weekend in such a fog. I did however realize that weekends like Labor Day weekend are the reason that I want to be in Central New York so much. I would never have been able to spend a weekend like that in NJ. I wouldn't have been able to call my sister last minute to have her meet us at the bridal shop, or call my cousin and say I wanted her to spend the weekend here. I honestly don't know how I spent so much time alone in NJ and did not go crazy! Don't get me wrong, I love NJ too. There are parts of it that I am going to miss, like the amazing weather and lack of snow, but there are parts of NY that make NY too good to be true. Family, friends, and snow on Christmas morning!! I can't wait to see my cousin again in a couple weeks, I am struggling with the perfect gift for her birthday, and not having much luck. So far it is looking like she will get something personalized like a fram or a piece of wall art, but I am not too sure just yet what I have in store for her.

Photo explanation:
photo 1 is some of the detail that I liked in the 5th picture dress, photo 2 is the detail on the leg of the same dress, photo 3 is the back of the dresses in photo 4, photo 4 is one of the two dresses we like the best. Photo 5 is the second dress we really like. Photo 6 is the first dress they tried on and allowed me to decide that I did not want tea length dresses. Photo 7 is the dress that allowed me to decide that the sweetheart bust line did not work well with large straps. Photo 8 was pretty but looked like it would be better for a beach, not a church wedding, photo 9 was a dress I made them try on to see if they looked good with the folds at the waist, needless to say it looked weird at the top as a result. The last picture is the two dresses that we are struggling with. We like them both but aspects of both are throwing us for a loop. We are going to decide after next seasons designs are released in January, this way we won't get something that will not be reproduced in the year we get married.

Video Music Awards

I know it is not front page news, but it is SHOCKING. If you haven't already heard, Kayne West grabbed a microphone from Taylor Swift, who won best video of the year, while she was saying her acceptance speech. He persisted to tell the crowd that Beyonce deserved the award and that she had had "one of the best videos of all time"

Not that I honestly care, but what's with the disrespect? I can't understand why someone would do that to a fellow artist. It's people like that who give others like them a bad name, and make me want to slash their tires, rob their house, and leave them penniless and friendless on the side of the road. I think that musicians especially have a hard enough time getting noticed and being liked, but country music is even harder to be recognized in. Taylor Swift caught a big break after working for 12 years to even get a start. Her family put everything aside just for her to get a start, not even to get popular. When she received the award for best video, she deserved it, and earned it. Kanye had no business telling her that someone else did it better.

Opinions are like Backsides...everybody has them, but respectable people don't share them with the world.

Egg-Ward Spatula Hands

I made what I would consider to be quite possibly the best omelette that I have ever eaten. I was puttering around in the morning on Facebook and was getting really bored with what the site had to offer. So I thought of the small amount of food that was in our refrigerator and remembered that we had a fresh parmesan cheese brick as well as half a dozen eggs. I also thought about the fresh garden herbs that were growing in a pot on my porch and realized that I should probably put them to good use before a frost came to take them. Parsley Parmesan omlettes were officially on the docket for breakfast and I was going off the cuff to make them with no idea on how they would taste. I had never had that type of Parmesan before and parsley, although versatile can be volatile if used it took large a dose.

I took my time and made Nick's first. Although he was still asleep, I knew it was only a matter of time before he would wake up and grumble that I had not made him something, but my stomach was grumbling so his was a quick fix. I think his might have come out better than mine, but mine was made with a more sincere love as I knew what I was doing the second time around. I did not rush as I allowed the eggs to warm slightly before cracking them, and as I snipped the parsley into a small container. I had used a little more parmesan the first time around so I grated the brick a little bit more, savoring the smell of it as it fell into the small tupperware container as well as the counter. I cracked my eggs, salted and peppered them and wisked them in a measuring cup then I threw them into the pan to let them sizzle just long enough to sprinkle the remaining parsley and parmesan onto them.

I flipped them and waited as they steamed (my secret to making them fluffier) It was the longest three minutes of my life, but the toast I was making was able to crisp just enough, and get buttered. By that time saliva was hitting the floor and Nick was half finished with his, so I slipped it onto a plate and ran it into the living room to eat with Nick as I enjoyed my coffee. My computer sat in front of me, with pictures of facebook glaring at me, but I ignored them as well as whatever Nick had put on the television and was lost in the dream of my omlette.

Quite possibly too perfect for words, and now officially a staple in my life. I think weekends were made for sleeping in as well as enjoying moments like this that I have with food.

Your House is a Massive Litter Box...

...So Pardon me if I do not want to eat there!

Tonight we are having dinner at a friends apartment. However it is one of those apartments that you would expect a crazy cat lady with ten kids, and no time to clean to live in.

It simply smells like a litter box, and burns my nose to be there for more than thirty seconds. The biggest problem is that when I am there my nose does burn the entire time, and my allergies spike so I am completely uncomfortable and can't think of anything but when we will be leaving. I definitely don't know how to get through spending what could quite possibly be hours at a place that makes me extremely uncomfortable. I guess you can't really understand unless you have a comparison to what I am talking about, but the only thing that it reminds me of is the cat room of a pet shelter, only she has two cats instead of 12-15 and she cleans up after them, but they smell rancid regardless.

I am hoping that tonight I don't spend my entire night holding my nose and wishing I weren't there, but I am glad I get to spend it with friends and I don't have to cook!! I think that is the perk of all of my weekends. Lately I have been crashing for the day at my parent's house and eating dinner there, but we get to stop free-loading off of them for once and have a homecooked meal elsewhere. Now let's hope the food tastes as good as it sounds! Looking forward to a good Chicken Parmesan. Haven't had one in over a year! It's sacrilegious, living with an Italian, and not eating Italian food!

Dress to the Nines

So my cousin, who also is my Maid of honor, is coming to visit me this weekend. I am really excited because I have not seen her since my birthday, which actually is not long, but we hardly see each other and it is time that we do. She has been having some issues with this being her last year of college and she is stressed and not sure of what life will do for her when she leaves, so she needs some times away from all the stress, and to feel like life is not crashing on her.

We have decided that we will go dress shopping for the wedding. I am going to call up David's Bridal in Syracuse, and take a trip out with her, my mother and my brother's fiance and try on dresses all day long. I think that it will get everyone's mind off of stress and put it into something a little less stressful, after all it is not like we are signing on the dotted line to buy them, we are simply looking and having fun while doing so. I am not really sure what the weekend will bring, but I am hoping that it will at least tell us whether or not we will have decided on a color or not. I am second guessing red now, and really need to see what the girls look like in it before we make a decision. I am also hoping that my sister is able to make it, because it would be really nice to have her around as well.

Here's hoping that the week flies by fast and the weekend is more fun that my icky summer cold that is making me miserable.