Claw Your Eye Out

I totally forgot to tell you the best story of Christmas!

At approximately 2am on Christmas morning, my cat, Cobalt, and I were sleeping.  She was sleeping on top of me like she always does when something startled her and she clawed my eye out before running away.
Alright, so she didn’t claw my eye out…but she came really close.  Close enough for me to wake up screaming and thinking she did claw my eye out.  She cut me right below my eye and there was a tiny cut on my eyelid.

It scared me so much.

Christmas Weekend

My Sunday morning breakfast of champions!

 
Does anyone else still feel like they’re in a Christmas coma?!

Christmas was very good to me.  I got everything on my list and then some!  I also got the best gift:  3 days of laying on the couch!  #solazy

Speaking of lazy: Saturday, my husband and I discovered Once Upon A Time on Netflix and watched like 8 episodes back to back.  We’re hooked!

Aaand to end this blog post on a hilarious note, here’s a #selfie of my cat, Cobalt.  I love the front facing camera option!

Cobalt #selfie

A photo posted by Tiff (@rockin2thesound) on Dec 12, 2014 at 12:30pm PST

Last Minute Shopping

I thought I was done with Christmas shopping.  I was informed last night that I was not.  Noooooo!  Last minute shopping was done and it actually wasn’t too bad.  I’ve been the biggest Grinch this year.  Next year, I plan to get my ish together and have all of my shopping done at a reasonable time.  Yeah right!

Christmas Cookies

 

My mom makes the best Christmas cookies.  Last week, the baking was in full swing at her house so I snapped a few pictures.  I can’t wait to eat these on Christmas day!

Cola Cupcakes

My husband had a work party last week and wanted me to make Coca Cola Cupcakes.  These cupcakes are time consuming but very good.  They also were a hit at the work party, so there’s that.

My Christmas List

My Christmas list is weird this year.  I think I’m at the age where my wants and needs meet up so there are some practical things on here as well as some extravagance.

Water FlossserI’ve mentioned before that I have some teeth issues.  I also hate flossing.  Enter, the water flosser.  I’m convinced that if I brought this into my life, I would be the best flosser in the world.



Samsung Galaxy S3My current phone was probably used to call the dinosaurs.  I need an upgrade yesterday.  I know this isn’t the newest model, but with my service plan, this is probably the cheapest route for me to go.  It also has an 8MP camera.  My current phone has like a 2MP camera.  Also my current phone shuts off for no reason and I have to take the battery out and put it back in order to turn it back on.  So, there’s that.


Portable Hard Drive
I take a ton of pictures and I hate storing them all on my laptop. With the portable hard drive, all of my pictures will be in one place. 


Winter Coat (Not Ugly)I’ve had a ton of winter coats in my day.  The coat I got last winter (that I’m still wearing, btw) looks like it was put through a shredder.  It also makes me feel like a T-Rex if I wear layers under it.  One of these days, I think I’m going to rip it like Chris Farley in “Tommy Boy”.



Wild
I watched a show about Wild yesterday and now I want to read the book!  Never mind the fact that I’ve been reading Gone Girl for months and am still only on like page 70.

Linking up!

Nightmare

I had probably the scariest dream of my entire life last night.  In it, I was driving late at night and somehow lost control of my car.  I closed my eyes and prayed that my car would stop before I came to the intersection.  When it finally stopped, I was somehow out of the car.  I went back to the car and could feel that my side airbag and front airbag had went off.  I managed to pull the car ahead as another vehicle passed by.  I got back out of the car and started walking down the road where I saw a car with its roof completely gone.  There were also vehicle debris everywhere.  I wasn’t sure if someone had been in the car until I saw just a hint of blood where the windshield should have been.  I then kept walking and found the person’s dead body underneath debris.

Then I woke up, completely mortified.  I made my husband come back to bed with me (he usually falls asleep on the couch most nights), telling him that I had a bad dream.  He asked me if I wanted to talk about it and I said “no”.  How could I tell him that I just saw someone die like that and it was probably my fault?

What does that nightmare mean anyway?  Probably that I’m messed up!

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Chili

If only my picture taking could be as good as this chili!

As you know by my incredibly easy recipes, I’m not a chef.  Not even close. 

Yesterday, I wanted to make chili.  But how?  How do you do it?  I think chili is one of those recipes that everyone does differently.  It’s also one of those things that my mom cleverly sticks venison in.  Fun fact:  mom took a slow cooker Sloppy Joe to a family party once and excitedly tried to get everyone to try it and guess the secret ingredient.  I jokingly said “Is it deer meat?!”.  Aaand it was.  My family gets as weird as I do about venison.

So, back to the chili.  I cooked some hamburger meat (beef) and then put it into a pot with beans, diced tomatoes and corn.  Then I added about a million secret ingredients and called it a day.

It was the best chili I’ve ever had in my life.

I told my husband about it and he was all “You only think that it’s the best because you made it.”.  Then he had some of it and commented that it was the best chili that he’s ever had in his life.

Sometimes I get it right.

Wedding

This picture is legendary for so many reasons:
- Gretchen, who is the one with her hand up.
- Kyle, her brother, who is dancing with her and has his tongue out.
- Chris, the mother of Kyle, Gretchen and the groom back there.  She’s the one with the crazy look on her face.
- The bride and groom, completely oblivious to the awesomeness that is going on right in front of them.

As you can probably tell, we went to a wedding this weekend.  It was awesome. 

The wedding DJs are my heroes.  They played “John Deere Greene” and “Tik Tok” back to back.  They even played “Ice Ice Baby”.  I also may have found out the hard way that the “Macarena” could be my personal field sobriety test.  If my soberness is ever in question, just ask me to do the “Macarena”.  If I can do it, I’m sober.

The wedding was all kinds of fun and we were home by 8:30PM!  That’s totally my kind of night!

Online, I’m Mysterious

I have such a love/hate relationship with this blog.

As I’ve mentioned briefly before, a couple years ago I used to have another blog.  That blog was way more anonymous.  I loved being anonymous because I could basically say and do whatever I wanted.  No one knew who I was in real life and it was awesome…for a while.

This blog?  rockin2thesound? People know that.  I’ve been @rockin2thesound on twitter forever. I’ve tweeted to and met people in person because of that platform.  People that I actually know in real life follow my tweets. I’m sure sometimes they read this blog because I tweet links to my blog posts on occasion.  That’s why it’s so difficult for me to let go on here.  When I write, I’m thinking in the back of my mind that someone I know might read it.  That’s not necessarily a bad thing because being an a-hole online isn’t my jam anymore.  Even though I still want to be the child, I feel like I’ve grown up a lot and adults don’t go around being a-holes on the internet.

I love this blog because it’s more of who I am, but I hate it because, well, it’s more of who I am.  Putting myself out there is difficult.  I think that’s why I haven’t really posted a ton of stuff here.  Being real just gets too real sometimes.  I also have to remember that my page views suck, so a ton of people aren’t reading this anyway!

What I’m trying to say is that I’m going to try to blog more often and get outside my comfort zone just a little without being an a-hole on the internet!  Let’s see how that goes!

Also, you should just read this post by Nicole.  She said all of this way better than I could.

Peace Out, Adulthood

Racing back to my parents' house [via]

I no longer want to be an adult.

After going waaay outside my comfort zone and talking to a mortgage lender alone over the phone, I just want to nope out and never think about buying a house ever again.
 
I think I’ll just move back into my parents’ house…they seem like real adults who can have legitimate conversations over the phone with people and do adult things, like obtain a real, live home mortgage.

I’ll just go back to being the child…except with alcohol.  I want alcohol.  Actually, if going back to being the child means no bills, I can do without the alcohol.  Juice boxes can be my jam.  Who am I kidding?  Juice boxes are already my jam.

I’m eternally 10 years old.  I just play an adult in this show called “Life”.

PS:  I went to tag this post ‘responsible’ and spelled it wrong.  Further proof I’m not fit to be an adult.

Keith Returns

About a year ago, our cat, Keith, went missing.  I let him outside one day and he just never came back.  I assumed the worst since he left in the winter.

Sunday morning, Keith came back!  My husband heard meowing outside and at first thought it was the stray cat that hangs around our neighborhood.  When he looked outside, he found Keith out there, meowing like crazy!

I have no idea where he’s been this entire time.  I didn’t see him around at all.  He looks really healthy too, like he’s been taken care of.

Dad’s Nifty 50

My mom wrote “50” on the cake in hopes my dad would be as mortified as she was with her big day!

So Much Code

So I changed my layout!  It now looks like this:



I found this template on Pinterest & spent about 35435345345 hours customizing it.  Now, I know some HTML, but mostly it’s just trial and error so it takes me forever to customize.



After looking at that for hours, my head is ready to explode!

If this were the old Blogger customization with just HTML, I would be awesome!  This new stuff is so confusing to me.  Can we just go back to the HTML of like 15 years ago?!

Aaand now I’m aging myself.

Nifty 50

 

You guys!  My mom is 50 years old!  How did this happen?!

Her birthday was last Sunday & my dad’s nifty 50 is this Friday.  I can’t believe both of my parents are 50 years old.  That means I’m on the fast track to being 30 years old.  I can’t even!  Where did the years go?

The day after my mom turned 50, she received paperwork for AARP in the mail.  I laughed about it at first and then I realized that AARP offers awesome discounts!  Maybe not awesome enough to admit you’re 50 though!