It's still here?

Well, well, well.


I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.


For now.


We'll see.


What caused this post in the first place with this little treat:

Since it was from my sweet nephew Charlemagne I HAD to do it!  I have no one to pass this on to, so let's hope your mom reads this to you pups!

1) What is your favorite number?

28, it's Buster Posey's jersey number.

I have no shame.

2) Favorite non alcoholic beverage? 

Water. I don't drink enough of it.

3) Facebook or Twitter? 

Facebook. Too many #'s,RT's and @'s that I just don't get!

4) What is your favorite passion? 

Baking, perhaps learning how to make some dog treats for you and cousin Thor!

5) What is your favorite pattern? 

I have a fondness for polka dots. :)

6) What is your favorite day of the week? 

Any day I get to see your mom!

7) What is your favorite flower?

I love all kinds, I have no favorite!

Well, there you have it.  


We'll see if this sticks.


Until next time,




Sarah





P.S.


Here's a picture of Thor.

Cya 2010!

Well, December came and went, just like that. Basically, that's how the entire year went. I feel as though it's such a cliche, but we really do let time slip away from us, and hopefully realize it before it's too late.
2010 has been a great year for me. I have a job I really enjoy, and am appreciated for my hard work. I have a manager I can relate to, and co-workers I generally get along with, and enjoy the company of. I can proudly say I have a HUSBAND, and beautiful photos of a wedding that didn't break the bank.
My brother has become the proud father of a stunning baby girl, who I cannot wait to get to know and spoil endlessly.

The new year will bring:
A new(er!) car, as mine has kaput, but is being purchased by a mechanically inclined friend.
The honeymoon to Disneyland! Which was officially booked last night.
Hopefully more side jobs, because extra money is always good, even if it means working two weeks straight.
More fun adventures with new friends. (I'm looking at you, Sarah!)
A toned bod due to the P90X work out we will be starting next week.
And the rest....well, I guess we'll see.


Until 2011,

Sarah

Fa la la la la, la, la la, lah?

That might have been one too many la's.

I just deleted what I was going to post because it was far too negative. I've seemed to have caught the Christmas blues this year, and can't shake it off, try as I might.
But I have a WONDERFUL husband, a cuddly Thorbo, friends and family who would do anything and everything for me, and a roof over my head.
For this, I am grateful, and wouldn't trade it for anything.
If I don't see ya in a while, merry christmakkuh!
Where's my yamaclaus....

Until next time,

Sarah

Shop til' you drop.

Don't worry, I totally did!

Yesterday involved a trip up to IKEA, land of the cheap swedish goods, and I put a dent in my Christmas shopping, without burning a hole in my wallet. Spent a solid four hours in the store, which is very easy to do. Well, at least if you're me.
Had lunch at the cheesecake factory after that. BEST. THING. EVER.

Snickers Cheesecake. DELICIOUS.

Went to the outlet malls on the way home, which was filled with lack-luster employees at almost every store. I get it, it's the holiday season and you work in retail.
Get.
Over.
It!

Anypassiveaggressive, today I think we're getting our christmas tree! Also, hubby and I have the same days off, woohoo! It's going to be a beautiful weekend.


Until next time,

Sarah

It's December?

When did THAT happen?
Well, that's okay, I love Christmas time, and all the craziness that comes along with it.
I'm ready to spend way more money than I should because I'm obsessed about getting that perfect gift
for just about everyone.
Here's a few things I'd like for Christmas.... :)

It's supposed to be better than the Super Nintendo version. Pretty big statement as that is one of my favorite games of all time.

Le Cruset Spatula.
Yes, I'm really asking for this. If you've never used one of these before, I highly recommend it. You'll never want to use any other brand again. It must be the spoon shaped one, not the standard!



Plugs! Size zero g.
These are all so very pretty, I want them all! The orange is for my sf giants of course. :)
These can all be found @bodyartforms.com

It's a good start, I'd say.
Now, I shall leave you with a photo of Thorbo! Wreath edition.

Until next time,

Sarah

Leftovers for a week,

I love Thanksgiving for that, and many, many, other reasons.
I think I'll go have my ummpteenth slice of pie now.
Don't judge me!
Hope everyone had a fantastic holiday, and found the deals they wanted, if they braved the stores.
I slept a solid 10 hours and did my shopping on amazon.com.
Winner!


Until next time,

Sarah

November 23rd, 2010

Is the day Alexandria Tova Marie came into the world.
She weighs 7lb. 2oz, and was born at 3:43pm.
The kid's got some hair, pointy elf ears, and is melt your heart adorable.
It was clearly love at first sight for everyone, especially my big bro.
The roads were treacherous today, and our manager at work predicted a baby would be born today, we just didn't think it would be her.




Happy birthday, Alex. And prepare for a whole lotta love, girl.

Until next time,

Auntie Sarah

Highlight Reel.

Here have been bullet points of the last five days.
-Today marks the 3rd month of newlywedded bliss for me and hubbs!
-I'm good at my job. Really, really, really, good.
-Currently sitting at 9+ hours of overtime, and holiday pay this week to boot.
-My paycheck is going to be AWESOME.
-Had a wonderful friday with some great friends, shopping, deciding on a wedding dress, and good foods!
-My brother scored me a sweet side job that could open some big doors for me.
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Pt. 1 made me sob. Once. Twice. Trice.
-Saw Louis C.K.'s "word" last Saturday. Hi-LAR-ee-ous.
-It's supposedly snowing tonight? Mixed feelings on that one.
-Thanksgiving is three days away. Let the omm-nom begin!

Until next time,

Sarah

Make moneymoneymonaayyy

9 hours of overtime so far.
Holiday pay next week.
Payday will be sweeet.
But I'm tired, sore, and ready for a day off.
Goodnight, and good luck!

Until next time,

Sarah

Hello Kitty.

The image above is a cake I made For Mac's fourth birthday. Needless to say, she (and everyone else for that matter) loved it.
I was pleased with myself for the following reasons:
1. It looks prettttyyyy good, imo.
2. The only fondant on that cake is the bow, eyes and nose. kitty herself is a carved cake iced in white buttercream icing. The whiskers are straws. Which goes to show, with the right finesse, you can have smooth icing without having to resort to coating your cake in fondant.
3. I made this cake after being awake for about 27 hours. Thanks to an all night cleaning shift at work, and going to a duck football game earlier that day. The same game where someone projectile vomited down the stairs, right next to me. Time to leave!

Speaking of work, I'm doing a lot of that lately! Gearing up for the holidays on that. Bakeries and grocery stores alike get hammered on during the holiday season, so please keep in mind that while you may be stressed about that big dinner you need to cook, we have to keep in stock all the goodies you're looking for, with a smile on our face, and a positive attitude at. all. times.
Which isn't too hard for me as I LOVE the holidays, and when it's busy at work, the day goes by a heck of a lot faster.
Did I mention I love the ridiculous amount of overtime/holiday pay I'll be getting?
Maybe that's why it's so easy. Hmm. :)

Until next time,

Sarah

Have you heard?

My brother is have a baby girl next month!



I think it's great how far technology has come with the ultrasound, but to be honest the crazy close-ups of the faces and whatnot creep me out slightly. I'm sure when I have kids I'll love it, but I'll stick with the standard side view.
And while my sister has given me two beautiful nieces, I was sort of hoping my brother would have a boy. However, I'll settle for buying cutie baby girl clothes!

Like:I'm a sucker for polka dots!

And three-piece cutie bear sets!



I think however this last one is my fave.

Flannel onesie with a butt flap that says "naughty" for Christmas?
OH YEAH.

While I'm very excited to have children, hubbs and I decided to hold off, for a while. There's a lot we want to accomplish, and I'm not even 23 yet! Plenty of time, so stop asking! :D

Until next time,

Sarah

Cough, Sneeze, Ache, Repeat.

Hub and I are currently suffering through the first cold of the season.
It's quite the doozey.
Sore, raw throat (TWSS) achey everywhere, inner ears hurt, coughcough, sneezey runny nose.
This is the stuff dreams are made of.
I should say I lucked out and have the next four days off from work, which I guess is good for me physically, not so much financially.
Did I mention hubs has a sinus infection to boot?
Winners right hurrr.
A cup of sleepy time tea and a dose of NyQuil is calling my name...

Until next time,

Sarah

The next Julia Child.

Totes kidding.

However loaded baked potato soup came out AWESOME I will say. Here's the recipe, along with notes.

Loaded Baked Potato Soup ala Crock Pot/Slow Cooker.
(Yes, I even googled to see if there was a difference, and found out crock pot IS a slow cooker, as band-aid is a bandage. Get it? Branding will get you anywhere.)
Anynerd...

Yields: Four-ish.

4 large potatoes, ones you'd use to make a baked potato. What? My husband is the produce guy, not me.
2/3 cup butter
2/3 flour
6 cups milk
1 tsp. salt
1 tsp. peppa
4 chopped green onions
1 package bacon
1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar (or other omm nom) cheese
1 cup sour cream

Fry bacon. Try not to eat it all. Crumble. Set aside.

Bake the potatoes as if you were, well, making baked potatoes. Mine were in the oven for about an hour, wrapped in tin foil, and baked at 350 degrees. BTW don't forget to poke holes before wrapping them in tin foil. Especially if you're low in said foil. Heh.

When baked, let cool and chop into cubed, bite sized, pieces. Dump into your slow cooker/crock pot demi-god.

Now you're going to make the raux (roo). You'll melt your 2/3 cup butter in a DEEP sauce pan on low heat. Whisk in flour and mix until smooth. Gradualllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyy add your 6 cups of melt, whisking with each addition. Did I mention you mix this thing constantly? It's like gravy, scorchy=no no. Whisk continually until bubbly. Not boiling, but small bubbles will appear. Add to crock pot/slow cooker.

Also add cheese, salt, peppa, green onion, and bacon. Mix all together so everything is nice and coated and cook on high for aprox 4 hours, stirring once every hour. Mix in sour cream right before serving.

Notes: I ended up adding more milk about two hours in, so it wouldn't be super thick, but more creamy. I couldn't tell you how much I added, just sort of eye-balled it.
I didn't get to cook my soup with the bacon/green onions in it (new found vegetarian friends and I-don't-like-green-onions-husband) so I'm sure the flavor is very more bacon-esqe when simmering with everything for so long.


In other non-food related news, I won a contest!
Don't worry, I didn't have to get a Bieber tattoo or chug a gallon of milk.
I got to look like a bad-ass all day. I love Halloween. The photo used for voting was much better than this. My gun is hoisted in the air and whatnot.

Prize was a paid day off. And I never win ANYTHING so I was thrilled!
Especiallysincemyhourswerecutinhalffornextweek :X

Until next time,

Sarah

Creamy Tomato Garlic Soup

And yes, it is as good as it sounds.

I decided on my days off I was going to try to do some more extensive cooking. Not having a set work schedule makes it hard to plan what we'll eat when, and half the time I'm so tired when I get home I don't want to be in front of a stove for 2+ hours.
Besides, who likes eating dinner after 8pm? Not so much.

So I figured I would start with making soup! I love the stuff, and it can't be that hard, right?
Last night I made the CTG and tonight I am making loaded baked potato, and some minestrone to have tomorrow and the next day.

I'll post the other two recipes after I make them, so I can add my notes, but here is creamy tomoato garlic!

Creamy Tomato Garlic Soup:
Yeilds: was enough for me and hubbs, with a bit extra.

2 can condensed tomato soup
1 pint half and half
3-4 heads of roasted garlic

Set oven to 350 degrees.
Peel garlic gloves and lightly coat in olive oil (or canola, vegetable, ect)
Roast for aprox 40 mins until tender/golden. You can either put them on a baking sheet, or make a tin foil boat for easy clean up!

Make tomato soup as usual, only substitute water for half and half. You will end up needing just a smidge more liquid, so I just used water. Bring to rolling boiling, stirring frequently. Not a fan of the skin it makes on top when it sits for too long, just sayin'.

Add your roasted garlic and tomato soup into a blender (but be careful as it's HOT!) and puree until smooth and creamy.

ENJOY!

Notes: This soup was incredibly thick, due to the half and half. Hubby enjoyed it, but it was almost too thick for me. You can make the soup with milk instead of half and half, or just whisk some milk in until it's the desired consistency. I also might strain it after blending, and blend again so it's extra smooth.
Also, why in the world is garlic SO hard to peel? I smashed it with a knife but it still took over an hour. Any tips on faster peeling would be mucho appreciated.

Until next time,

Sarah

Mic Check, One, Two!

*dusts blog off*

Oh, herro!

Long time no see!

I decided I'd try another crack at this blog bizz, with a different set of rules this time.
Do I need to blog five days a week? NO.
Will I use this as a sharing tool for new recipes I've discovered and cakes I've made? You betcha.

Updates:
I'm married, it's awesome! Perhaps I will add a photo or 20 to show you our beee-utiful day. Honeymoon is set for Disneyland in early February!
Thorbo is alive and well, celebrating his 2nd birthday back in September.
The Giants won the freakin' WORLD SERIES tonight, booyah!!
Did I mention hubbs surprised me with plane tickets and great seats to a giants game the day after our wedding? He's a keeper. And yes, they beat the reds 11-2!

It feels good to be back.

Until next time,

Sarah

Dear Blerggh Blog,

Sorry I have neglected you.

I have always wondered how bloggers were able to post stuff 5+ days a week.
Then I realized that the majority of those people that have blogs, have office jobs that allow them to be on a computer some point during the day, or you are that .97% who are just so awesome and can do 10,000 things in an hour.
I work a very labor intensive job. We aren't even supposed to have our cell phones on, let alone spend any time near internetz.
So, while I would absolutely love to share the very details of my life, sometimes there are days that I don't even touch the computer. Or have anything worth sharing.
I also think my high-expectations of being able to post something almost everyday makes me feel bad about my scatter-posts.
So here is my goal, to you supposed six followers. I'll try to give the high and low points per week, or if something extrasuperspecial happens, I suppose it could get it's own post. Maybe.

I'm getting married in 10 flippin' days!
I'm going to pick up my wedding dress tomorrow. :D
I'm heading up north tomorrow to spend the weekend with my sister.
I'm working 30 hours in three days next week.
I'm the luckiest girl in the world.

Until next time,

Sarah

Getcha Hurr Did

Had my hair trial last night.It was everything my make-up trial was not.
It was exactly how I had envisioned it, down to the T.
My hairstylist is super friendly, and as she just got married herself in June, had a lot of good advice for me!
Ready for some photos?!Pardon the weird faces I'm making. I also got some new earrings to wear!


I love all the different shades of blue. Wasn't sure if N would like them, but he thought they were great! They're very dramatic, but since I'm only wearing these and a small blue necklace my dad got me when he went to Germany, it'll be fine.

Until next time,

Sarah

Oh, hey.

This week I've been trying really hard to stay calm and collected, but so far, it hasn't really been happening.

Because we needed more tables than expected, the linens ended up being 400 dollars. To rent. For a day. SERIOUSLY? Highway robbery for renting stuff like that, holy cats. Luckily, after a tearful and inaudible phone call with my mom, she came to my rescue, again, and offered to help me pay the extra I wasn't expecting to cover. Have I mentioned lately how much I love her?!
Really though, someone at work had an AWESOME idea. To lay butcher paper on the tables, so people could draw and write well wishes while eating/mingling/ect. Too bad we already bought all the stuff to make the centerpieces! They would clash too much, and my mom's head about exploded when I told her we were thinking about doing that instead of linen. However, I will be setting up some tables like this off to the side, so the kids who get dragged come to the wedding won't be completely and utterly bored. I even thought about how to make cute crayon centerpieces. Oh, well. Maybe at the 2nd wedding.
The caterer T and I got a chunk of the foodz shopping done. Cups, plates, and non-perishable items. I guess I won't make my guests eat with their bare hands, so we got some utensils too. That stuff wasn't very expensive at all, thanks to Cash N' Carry. It's like a Costco/Restaurant supply store. But super cheap!!
In other news, look what came in the mail today!



The only drawback is it's a men's size medium. If I were a streetwalker, it'd make for a great mini-dress. I have as much patience as well, someone who doesn't, and needed to have a Posey shirt NOW. Luckily it's cotton and I have full intentions to shrink it up. I found another one on eBay, that I thought was hilarious, but N wouldn't let me get it, because he feared I'd get leered at too much in public. Still might need it, to wear around the house!
linked here.

Until next time,

Sarah

To Do List.

1. Finalize table linen rental order.
one of the stupidest things we've had to spend waaay too much money on.

2. Finish custom wedding cake topper.
pictures to come as soon as they're completed!

3. Talk with our caterer and awesome friend T about extra platters/dishes we need to buy.
going to do that in about an hour!

4. Cash a check work gave me as they took insurance money out of my paycheck, even though I paid it while I was on leave for my dislocated knee.
Apparently it was the first time it happened to anyone ever in the history of the company.
Lucky me?

5. PICK OUT MUSIC!!
Enough said.

6. Find some "must have" wedding photos, and show them to our photog. K.
I've seen some really cool ones, and some not so awesome ones. Eep!

7. Watch the Giants hopefully destroy the Marlins and end this four game series already!

Plus, ya know, 10,000 other things.


Until next time,

Sarah

Terms of engagement....or something.

Engagement rings are spreading around like wildfire these days.I have two friends who became engaged this year within a week and a half of eachother (one being my BFF and bridesmaid Jess) and today marks a third today.
Shella!

I knew when my phone didn't stop ringing at the crack of nine am this morning, it must have been important. It totally was.Shella and her now finance J, both work at a camp down in California. I guess each day they get a task list. Today, Shella's lead her on a trail of love notes from J, to the ending point of rocks spelled out "will you marry me?" SO ADORABLE! Also, Shella, please forgive me if I butchered your story in any way, as I was half alseep. Alsoalso, thanks for calling me ASAP!! Here is one of my favie fotos of them:


It gets even cooler! As thrilled as I was for them, Shella asked ME to be her maid of honor!!
Very exciting stuff, folks. Now all my bridesmaids are engaged, with the exception of my sister who will have been married for 20 years this August. Foo to anyone who says you're too young to get married. They were 18!

Until next time,

Sarah