Tasty Thursday

It's been so hard for me to get back in a routine since moving.  It wasn't really until the last couple of days really that things started going back to normal.

Anyway, I'm the type of person that likes to find an occasion to bake something.  Well, prior to moving, I made these delicious peanut butter cookies.  OMG.  Normally peanut butter cookies are on the crunchier, harder side.  Not these babies from Sally's Baking Addiction.  The softest PB cookies ever.  And since I made these for July 4th, I snazzed them up with red, white and blue M+Ms.

Peanut Butter M&M Cookies
from Sally's Baking Addiction

1 stick of salted butter, softened at room temp
1/2 c light brown sugar
1/4 c sugar
1 egg
3/4 c creamy peanut butter (I'm pretty sure I put in more but it still tasted good)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 tsp baking soda
1 1/4 c flour
1 1/2 c M&Ms

Cream together the butter and sugars.  Mix in the peanut butter, egg and vanilla, in that order.  Slowly mix in the baking soda and flour, but don't over mix.  Fold in the M&Ms.  Chill the dough for at least 30 minutes.  You can also do what I did and take a couple bites of the dough as it chills...

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.  Drop the chilled dough onto ungreased cookie sheets.  And to make the cookies pretty you can press a couple of the M&Ms onto the top of the dough balls.  Press the dough balls a little since they don't spread much during baking.  Bake for 8-9 minutes.  

Don't over bake them!  They'll be soft and look undone, but they'll firm up as they cool.

Post Move

Lesson Learned:  Get rid of your junk PRIOR to moving.

This moving thing sucked!

Our original plan was to have a week to transition from old place to new place.  Welp, no, that didn't happen.  We couldn't get our new keys until later than expected and only had about one day to move everything.  We had a friend help us with the bulk of the heavy stuff thankfully.  Our moving went from 5pm to noon the next day.  That's with 3 U Haul trips and about 1 hour of sleep and no food.  I'm just now getting over my soreness (the move started Thursday night, it's now Wednesday).

Looking back, our biggest problem was the sheer amount of stuff we had.  The BF and I lived at our last place for years and accumulated alot since.  But mostly everything had a place, so it was hard to tell how much stuff we truly had.  I couldn't even tell you how many boxes we had of stuff that I haven't seen in years. 

But now that we're moved in and in the process of making this our new home sweet home, I'll just have to add a massive purge to the ever growing list of to dos.

A Dog and Cat's Life

High School Reunions

My ten year high school reunion took place in my hometown over the weekend.

Yea.

I didn't go.

And looking at the pictures that some of my former classmates posted online...I'm glad I didn't.

I'm not saying I'm too cool for school.  In fact, I'll admit I'm the complete opposite.

Jase Robertson, from that Duck Dynasty show (which I'll admit to watch every now and again) summed it up best with these words: 

"Here's my take on high school reunions, if I haven't contacted you in 20 years (10 years, in my case) there's probably a reason."

And besides, there's something called Facebook nowadays.  We can all remain "friends" with each other after graduation.  Years later, if we're curious about what someone's up to, there's always Facebook stalking.

Sure we're told the reason for high school reunions are to "catch up" and "make more memories."  Well, we all know the real reason for reunions are to see what everyone is up to because, let's face it, we're nosy and we want to be judgy and feel better about ourselves, because...we're a bunch of bastards and bitches.  And with the power of the internet, we can do that in the safety of our own home.

Once I grew out of my awkward phase, I actually liked high school and I genuinely liked my classmates...most of them anyway.  But another reason I chose not go to my reunion, is I don't have much in common with these folks anymore.  Back then, we were all high school students.  Just being classmates bound us together.  After ten years, we don't have that connection anymore. 

Who knows, maybe I'll go to the twenty year reunion.  At least at that point, most of us will have our own families and have done more with our lives.  That would at least make for better conversations.

 

Go Colonels!  Class of 2003.