Wet Brain

This is so funny. I was just in conversation with my mother about an ex boyfriend who drank alcohol like a fish in water. The funny part is that I use to make fun of him and gave him a nick name. I called him wet brain. He knew I did not like it when he drank so I tried to insult him by calling him that. I cared for him, but I just couldn't handle his drinking so that relationship ended soon enough, but just a funny memory that just got brought up. Thought I would share it with you. In case you are wondering (before I go) where I came up with the nick name wet brain is originated from something my father told me. He said guys that drink too much after a long period of time get what is called wet brain which they seem kind of on the DUH side and act and say dumb things that do not make sense. So that is where I got the idea to call this particular ex wet brain, because even when being sober he was always saying and doing dumb things.

My Favorite Time Of Year

It is now getting closer everyone! I am so excited for the most best time of the year. My favorite time of the year is Christmas, and no it is not because of the gifts. That use to be my reason why I liked Christmas as a child. Now it is much different. I love Christmas, it is the only time of year where almost no one has to work and gets the day off. I love the family gatherings, and I love the big Christmas dinner. I mainly enjoy the home made stuffing and gravy that my mom makes. It is so delicious, I just do not understand why my mom never became a Chef. Another good perk of Christmas is just singing the songs and watching old classic movies about Christmas. Another enjoyable thing about Christmas is the tree, I just love the smell of the pine and the woodsy aroma off the tree. The best part of the tree too, is the whole family decorating together. Everyone in my family seems to have their own thing they do well with the tree. My father loves putting on the lights, while I enjoy putting on the garland or ribbon, my mom, brother and I take over with the rest of the trinkets too. Oh we can not forget about apple pies and pumpkin pies and all the tasty desserts. This year I definitely can not wait, because this year will be Aaliyah's first year of Christmas. I can not wait for her reaction to the tree with the lights flashing. This will most likely be one of the best Christmas' for me.

Stripped Hair

So I made the ultimate mistake back in August. I have had every color of the rainbow as hair colors for my hair, but I did the ultimate mistake of dying my hair black. Yes I dyed my hair black. I have tried all the home remedy advice online on how to strip the color. Nothing worked for me at all. I tried dawn dish soap, I tried washing my hair multiple times a day. I soaked my hair in rubbing alcohol (which only dried my hair out), I tried deep conditioning my hair, I tried heated olive oil and then applying it to my hair and letting it sit, I tried vinegar. Probably tried lots more too. So I think you get the picture. I tried it all. So do not listen to all them crap advice's online. Only thing I did not try is bleaching out my hair. I will not do that. I have dyed my hair all sorts of shades of blondes. I am sick of blonde,it looks horrible and it washes me out. Not to mention it dries your hair out badly and makes your hair stringy and makes it feel like barb wire. So after all my different attempts I finally went out and bough Loreals Color Remover. So hopefully this works, because I do not want to wait for my hair to grow out.

Hummus

Alright I finally made my own home made hummus. It was so delicious too!! I just read the main ingredients that is usually put into the whole mixture for hummus off the back a container of store bought hummus and also I worked at a greek restaurant that had a few secret ingredients of their own that they put in it. So to start here is all the stuff you will need: Chic Peas, Lemon Juice, Olive Oil, Paprika, Garlic Cloves, Salt. Okay so how I made it was took the can of chic peas and poured it including the water from the can into a pot and boiled it for a minute, then put it in the blender with some of the water from the can. Next I poured about a big squirt of lemon juice into it, along with olive oil ( well in my case grape seed oil, because it is healthier) than I put in 2 tablespoons of paprika. I turned on the blender. As I kept blending I just kept adding a little water here and there, because chic peas tend to get really thick so thin them out I would add some water and every now and then keep adding a few splashes of grape seed oil until you can see the blender swirling the chic peas around. Then I added 5 chopped garlic cloves to the blender along with a pinch of salt. There you have it. Yummy hummus

Free Blogger Layouts

So as you already know I have a new layout for my blog. It was free. Some person on blogger here has decided to be nice enough to generate a bunch of nicely designed layouts for blogs. That are really really nice. Here is the link to this ladies blog if you want a free layout: http://www.leeloublogs.blogspot.com/

Prank

So my family and I decided to prank phone call some people with this website where you enter the person you want to pranks number. Then you select the type of prank you want to do to them. You listen to all the kinds of pranks to choose from. There are some from accusing you that you called their girl friend in the middle of the night and one where a guy accuses you of stealing his news paper and a bunch more. The site records all your calls you make and you can save them onto your computer for something funny to listen to. Some time also let the person you prank listen to the recording of the particular prank that was received to them.  The site I do believe is called: prankdial.com. It is a very funny site. So if you want to prank someone check this site out to see if it is for you.

Reunited with an old friend

I have had the privilege to reunite with an old friend of mine back home from Saint John NB. He moved out to Alberta when I was 16 and now that I am 22 we finally got to see each other again. His name is Rob Stewart. He took me out for a drive to help me get use to the city. Since living in Edmonton is so confusing and big. Which was really nice. He is still the same old Rob that I have known back then. He only lost a bit of weight and is now taller than me now. He still has a funny sense of humor as always. Rob pretty much drove me around showing me where I should move to once the lease we signed is up. What parts of town is good and what parts of town is not so good to live. It is good to have a friend looking out for you the way Rob is. It is too bad that Jonathan was sleeping when Rob picked me, due to the fact that his first day of his new job was later on in the afternoon. I really think that Jonathan and Rob would make good friends in one another. I am hoping that next time Rob decides to get together on one his days off that Jonathan and Aaliyah can join us next time. Hopefully they click just right with one another. Anyways that is my little excitement for the day.

My Mom Is Making Red Chicken Tonight!

YAY!! How excited I am for red chicken. Okay so maybe you're a bit confused and do not know what red chicken is and just to get this out of the way: it is not chicken smothered in ketchup if that is what you are thinking. So I am going to tell you what it is.  Well I only get this cooked for supper once in a while and it is tasty and all you have to do is get a package of boneless skinless chicken place it into a roasting pan and then take a bottle of Russian dressing and a jar of marmelade and mix them both together thoroughly until marmelade is not orange any more and is all red. Pour the sauce on top of chicken and cook it in your oven on 350 for about 45 minutes. There ya go!! Yummy in my tummy. I hope this sounds as appetizing to me as it is to you. I just love it. Anyways I would stay on longer and blog on other topics, but today is a hectic day today.

Grape Seed Oil

I have been trying to eat my healthier and switching up my usage of oils, margarines, sugar etc. So I just stopped using all kinds of oil and replaced it with grape seed oil. Which is suppose to be good for cholesterol. I have found a big improvement from using it. I make my own salad dressings when I have a salad and when it calls for oil I now use grape seed oil. Same goes for pan frying potatoes to make home style french fries, and to my surprise they turned out great and the taste is lovely. I have found just this one minor switch has been helpful to me. Along with other things I have started to doing. I have been trying to consume a variety foods with protein in it. Which I find it a main contributor to some of my weight loss. So I highly recommend grape seed oil. It is awesome!!

Immortal Island: The Vampire Masquerade

So, as you already know, I am reading my cousins Sabrina's book Immortal Island. I am very excited for the new release of the second book the Vampire Masquerade Volume 2. I can not express enough to everyone reading this how awesome this book is. If you are a vampire lover I highly suggest that you check it out and read it. Here is her facebook fan page link: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Immortal-Island-Series/195654497129751 Check it out! She has all the links provided on her fan page for you to order either a hard copy or an e-book. She is also on blogspot here at: sabrinaross.blogspot.com and on twitter @SL_Ross so please I highly advise everyone to check it out.

Fruit Salsa

Oh how I live salsa and also love fruit. What makes this mini blog better is I am about to tell you is you can do both all in one. I went to this Victorian Epicure party that my Mother hosted for one of her friends and my moms place like a couple of months ago. I totally forgot that I bought a bunch of products from this vendor. What is awesome is you can make a fruit salsa. All you have to do is buy the fruit salsa spice blend and then have a cup of diced pineapples and a cupped of diced tomatoes and if you don't have one of the two you can substitute either one of them with peaches or just add the peaches in for if you prefer it like that. All you do is just mix 3 tablespoons of this fruit salsa spice mix in with the two fruits in a bowl and let sit for a while. It is always better with any recipes to sit it over night if you are planning on entertaining people and making food for them. This is a good choice if you are into eating healthy there is NO SALT in the Epicure Spices. Anyways thought I would share this with you, because this is what I am making for an afternoon treat for my family and myself.

Taking on Photography

I have always had a love for photography ever since I was a kid. I was always a ham for the camera. I love getting my picture taken and also taking pictures as well. I have for a while practiced trying to take pictures the way photographers do. So I noticed I have actually done a some what good job for being self taught in the line of photography. So I am going to try and attempt to do photography for fun for now. Just to help make a jump start on my portfolio. So for now I consider myself an Amateur Photographer learning each passing day. Although I have made a huge improvement within the last 2 years of photography. All of my photos I have done are completely self taught and I have not taken a course although some of my photos look like some one professional did them. So here's to hoping to improve more and more each day. Hopefully maybe someday I can go big with this as it does spark my interest I am sure I will achieve my goal as a photographer. Eventually I will post up some of my photos I have taken on my blog here for everyone to see.

Blog Employed

So as some of you may already know if you have read my other blogs. I am a stay at home mom and I do not work and income is crazy especially raising a kid so if you feel that my content on here is worth a dollar or two and wish to donate feel free I have generated a pay pal button for you to do so. If you wish not to that is ok as well. Any thing helps. I appreciate what ever any one can give. I thank you all for your awesome support.

Baby is up for the night

Alright, so as you know Aaliyah is going through the teething phase and as most of you know especially if you're parents. Well they tend to keep you up through out the night for long periods. Aaliyah has been up for at least 2 hours now. I am pooped. Jonathan is taking a turn trying to sooth her, while I take a mental break from her. I am exhausted, but I can not sleep it seems. He is offered to put her to bed and let me sleep, but I just can't sleep now since she has woken up the whole house hold. I just wonder how long this will last for her. I tried baby oral gel. I don't find it work nor does baby advil. Well I am going to attempt to sleep. Night all.

Immortal Island Review

Ok so as one of my older posts I talked about my cousin Sabrina Ross's new vampire book she just published. Well I had finally had it come in the mail to me, so I have read it and here is my review of the whole book. Well I definitely love the book. It is your typical vampire and werewolf book of course, however it is not so cliche and there is a different twist to it than normal vampire novels and books I have read. I  am not going to discuss anything in the book I will leave that up to you all to find out, by buying and reading it yourself. It truly is a good book. There are a few things in the book that are similar scenario's as what takes place in vampire books, but however if it were not close to other books then it would not feel like a vampire book. I find this book is nice if you like different a point of view on vampires then what you usually expect to read. The only thing I find that Immortal Island is similar as other books is in the characters dating. The girl is a typical vampires girlfriend. For the most part though, this book is amazing and I love it. I am not saying this, because this is my cousins book, because if I did not like a book I would say so. And all I have to say it 2 thumbs up to my cousin Sabrina. She has a good mind for making up situations and making them feel real.

Hate uploading photos on facebook

I made the mistake by taking photos of my sister in law Liza's wedding and telling her I will put them on facebook. Definitely a bad idea especially since facebook is slow as molasses and also I took like at least 100 or more pictures. It drives me nuts. I love facebook it is my favorite site, but the down fall is no matter what computer I am on it always seems that uploading photos is always a hassle. Anyways I am done ranting for now. Bye

My Book

So for the longest time, I have always dreamed of publishing a book full of all the poetry I wrote through out my life, along with other stories I have written. I do not know when any of this will be accomplished, but just trying to figure out sites that offer the best of the best for copy right and publishing my content. I am so excited with this idea. I can not wait until the day I come here and blog about it on here of me actually accomplishing this goal. I wish to at least by end of 2012 have my manuscript revised and reviewed and reread a few times and read to be published.

90 Days of No Junk

Alright I am doing this for a second time. I made this attempt once before this was way before I even started blogging. So to give a brief description I did this healthy eating thing with my husband for 90 days. We both got a piece of paper out and wrote down the junk we ate and agreed to give it up for the whole 90 days. Stuff such as pop, chips, candies, butter (not using excessive amounts like we usually do), cheese and lots more stuff. The agreement was if we slipped and ate or drank something that was on the list we would have to eat and drink for the rest of the day during meal times a can of beans and water with bread minus butter or margarine and if we did not want the canned beans we had to eat green beans with no butter or margarine. So I am planning on doing this again with out cheating this time. I have been eating too much of this junk excessively in between meals and sometimes substituting my meals for some of this junk. Here is a link with a list I created on my listography.com site if you wish to check it out. That is what I am willing to give up. If I think of more things to add to the list in the mean I will surely update it here is the link http://www.listography.com/ashleyschecklist

Listography

I was browsing through other bloggers websites and came across some pretty interesting links that this particular blogger was joined up with, which I clicked on out of curiosity and most of the links were pretty interesting. Like I mentioned in one of my previous blog posts about pinterest.com which is one of them, well there is one more that I thought was pretty neat. This website was a site to organize your own lists of anything from movies you have seen, to movies to see, to things to do, goals, charts and anything else you can think of and the cool part is when you are editing your lists if you have accomplished something on any one that is mentioned on the lists you can make it appear to be crossed by putting "-"  or make a check mark by putting "/" after the "*" you apply either one you would like to use according to preference. So I joined up for this neat site and see what I come up with on my own with this site so feel free to take a look at my lists. http://www.listography.com/ashleyschecklist

Cursive Writing

I have always thought that cursive writing is very nice and very classy. However, now a days, no one takes pride in making it look nice. People are so in a hurry that it seems as though no one takes pride in appearance of many things from hair to clothes to make up and all the way down to things such as Cursive Writing. It looks like a big nasty scribble that a kid did with a marker all over the page. Take doctors for an example, they write out prescriptions for us and when your walking out the door looking at what it says you can barely differentiate what it the prescription and which is the doctors signature. Doctors are smart people, but what I do not know is how did they pass medical school especially knowing that there most likely a lot of written projects and exams and they can not even write their name neatly enough to know what it even says. I think people should take cursive writing more seriously. Back in the days before I was thought of in the 1800's it was all cursive writing or Calligraphy as they call it. The writing is so neat and beautiful and they took pride in the small things as they did the big things. I know my self I am guilty of being so sloppy. So from here on I am making the best attempt to try to be more neat and cursive writing to be more improved. I might even go buy a plume with the feather stick and the bottle of ink or maybe buy the Calligraphy pens in the craft stores or maybe even try a fountain pen. Anyways enough rambling on for now about Cursive writing.

Immortal Island

Immortal Island is a book about vampires. Which I think is really interesting book to read. Since vampires seem to be on top of the popularity list lately for movies and books. I only had the privilege of reading a tiny section of the first chapter and so far I am hooked. I order it online. This book is only for the time being until further notice able to be bought online. The author is not only a good writer with a good imagination, but she is also my cousin Sabrina L. Ross. Here is a link to her facebook fan page for all you facebook users: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Immortal-Island-Series/195654497129751   and I have a link for you to be able to shop online to buy this wonderful book at: https://www.createspace.com/3478896. So please check out the following links if you wish. I highly encourage it if your a vampire fan. When my book arrives in the mail and I have read it in full I will blog again with at least a brief description of the book and my thoughts of the book. Anyways that is all for now. Good night to all.

Randy Trott Sr in loving memory

I just wanted to make a special mention in memory of a friend of the families. His name is Randy. He was that guy who I called my uncle which was not related to my mom or my dad. Just someone I loved and also someone my parents loved too. He is a funny character always full of great humor. He had a burnt out sense of humor and personality. He was a man who had done a few too many drugs in his time back with my father when my father was into that stuff. I sometimes blame all the drug in take for the reason why Randy was such a funny man. He was not afraid to be silly or funny in any way in public and not in public. I remember when I was little he use to chase me down the hall making the scaring nose laughter like them scary halloween decorations with the scary laugh going something like this "MUA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA, MUA HA HA HA HA HA". He was quite the entertainer. Oh gee could he ever make a good western omelet. He was very good at combining foods he claims he was a chef (in his own mind) by trade although he did not take any culinary courses for it to be true. He was such a great help when Christmas came. He always did a good job with the decor too. He was also a decor designer by trade as well. Full of crap as he was that is why I loved him. He was funny. I just let him go on and say what he wanted. Sometimes his was annoying, but for the most part I loved him so dearly through thick and thin. He and I shared a few yelling matches back and forth. I found that is what made us stronger through the years. I just wish these memories I could share more and make more with him again. However, I can't, he is gone now and passed on into eternity. I miss him dearly.

Pinterest

Well I decided to join this site called pinterest. It is really interesting. There are a lot of things you can get into. A lot of ways to reuse things in your house hold that you would not think to use. There are so many things to do to use for home decor and also recipes stuff for kids and loads more of stuff. I suggest any one to give it a try. It is so interesting. Anyways just wanted to fill ya'll in on this. It might be some what useful to some people out there.