Cookies! :)

Ok, so we have an aunt who is an AMAZING cook!! She can take anything and make anything out of it! So occasionally I like to ask her for recipes. Last night I asked her how to make coconut cookies. They taste just like Mounds bars! Simple recipe, so tonight I made them. For some reason mine don't want to set, but man are they good!!! My daughter started eating the mix left in the bowl, and she yelled "It tastes like yummy!" She's right! :) It made a ton of them, so I guess we're going to be eating coconut cookies for a while! LOL!

Well, it's 4:30 in the morning...

Dear Insomnia,

While I can appreciate your love of all things night time, I really do wish you'd go away and let me sleep. Seriously, Insomnia, it's late and I have stuff to do tomorrow!

Sincerely,

Ari

Fashion statement? I think not.

Normally I don't follow fashion, but there is one thing I've been fascinated with. Lately I've been seeing girls with nail polish that has little designs painted on them. I asked someone who was doing all the designs (thought I might go have some done at whatever nail salon was doing them) and it turns out everyone is doing it themselves. It sounds simple: paint your nails, then do the designs with a bottle of polish that has a special brush for fine detail. How hard can it be? Apparently it takes a lot of practice. I can't do a decent smiley face on my nails, let alone hearts or flowers.

Grrrr.....My nails look like crap. Oh well, that's what they make nail polish REMOVER for!!!!! *rolls eyes*

Well, I'm halfway to my weight loss goal....and I'm lagging. If anyone knows some good low fat recipes or smoothie recipes, let me know! :) I've been cooking low fat for months now, and been just about living on smoothies for the past couple of days, so new ideas are welcome!!!!! :)

...Now if only I could come up with some good stuff to do with the half a bag of spinach that has been in my fridge for a week and a half!!!....

I wish I had a picture of this....I have this dingbat cat named Goober, an orange and white tabby, not quite a year old. This cat lives up to his name. He is one of the sweetest, most adorable cats I have ever had, but some of the things he does truly take a Goober!!!

We have a fish tank. Before you say "oh no! Fish and cats don't mix!" I have to say, he never harms the fish. He only drinks the water from the tank. I guess he's figured out that as long as he leaves the fish alone, he'll get fish flavored water!

Anyway, this cat will walk on the edge of the tank, and drink. And then, he falls in. And while he's certainly making moves to get out, he doesn't act like he's in much of a hurry, and the fish have gotten to where they'll just go to the other end of the tank, point and laugh. I think it would be a good idea to throw in the fact that the tank is not deep enough for Goober to get hurt. He could stand on the bottom and keep his head above the water. He never hurts the fish, he just acts like he enjoys taking a dip. I guess he wants to swim some laps. I don't know. Maybe he knows swimming is good exercise and he's trying to keep his physique.

Now if you want to see something REALLY funny, fill the bath tub and stand back. He will immediately jump up on the side of a full bath tub, bat at the water, and I swear I think he must fall in on purpose at least some of the time. It's like this cat cannot resist water! He will walk back and forth on the edge of the tub non stop until he falls in! And once again, he'll jump out, but he doesn't act like he's in any huge hurry.

I think he must secretly like the water, but being a cat he knows he has an image to maintain. "I'll just jump up here, and woops! Fall into the water...then I'll jump right back out and act grouchy, but not before I get a nice relaxing five-second swim!"

And as if this cat wasn't living on the edge enough as it is by taking dives into fish tanks, his favorite playmate is a 90 pound rottweiler/black lab mix named Taz! He has the color and shape of a rottie, and the fur of a lab. Gorgeous dog! Of course, this dog is a big teddy bear. 90 pounds, I think 88 pounds is heart, and the other 2 pounds are fur. I was raised all my childhood life with the idea that cats and dogs don't mix. You wouldn't prove it by Taz and Goober! Those two will play in the yard together for hours!

And in addition to these two and a tank with 7 fish, we also have a little brown terrier named Gizmo, 5 hens and a rooster! Yep, we live in a zoo! And who has more fun than anyone with all these animals? My little girl! My three year old daughter has even the chickens so spoiled rotten that they will come eat out of her hand!! And Taz? He turns to mush when she's around! Ah yes, a kid and her pets! So sweet to watch!! And Goober doesn't mind it when she picks him up and gives him a great big squeeze hug!!! :)

How long to upload WHAT????

Ok, so everyone who knows me on Twit-world or Frazz-Book knows about the valley behind my house. They have heard ALLLLLL about the valley behind my house. Incessantly. Ad ubsurdum, ad nauseum. I tried to take an actual video of the valley so everyone could see what the fuss was about. This is a 3 minute video. You Tube said it would take 785 minutes to upload it. WHAAAA????? All night and half of tomorrow???? Good grief!!!

Maybe it's the camera I used. I have no idea. I used a Cannon Power Shot to take the vid, and when it uploads photos they're about 5 MB just for one pic, so yeah, I can just imagine how big a video file would be. But still, nearly 13 hours to upload off of a DSL???? Something has to be going on with that video or with You Tube, one of the two. Oh well. Maybe one night this week I'll just start it loading before I go to bed and when it finishes about noon the next day, I'll post the link.

Either way, the valley's lovely. Things are starting to bloom. I wish everyone could see it! :)

A new Blog. So what do I do with it???

Ok, so it's been suggested to me a few times to get a blog and write to it. I thought that was what I had a Myspace for until they completely changed the design and now I'm confused by it. Oh well.

So now I have this blank page before me, and a really good Paul Young song playing in the background. No, it's not playing ON the blog, though that would be neat...just playing over my computer.

So what so I do with this thing? Should I talk about myself? My life? Hmmm...not sure what's to tell.

Well, until I come up with something to say, here it is: my first blog entry.