Top Ten Tuesday III went out to breakfast at Denny's this morning, so my topic today will be the top ten breakfast foods.After this week, we will venture out and explore new horizons, shoving aside "food" as a topic for awhile. It will be hard, but I know it can be done. 1. French Toast, made with cinnamon, drizzled with maple syrup and...
At about 2:30 p.m. today, our house became an orphanage.My Grandma Kaiser has a time-share in Florida at Sea Club V, and every year, my sisters and their husbands go down there to stay for a week. This year, my mom and Aunt flew my Grandma down, and now my sisters (Tonya & Brad, Tasha & Tom) flew down tonight to stay w/her...
The is it.The results are in.Coming in at first place is number 3, a homemade skillet cookie with 2 scoops of vanilla ice cream, hot fudge, and a cherry.With only one vote less EACH, second and third place goes to:6. A Strawberry Cheesecake blizzard from DQ, and 10. A Mocha Moo Latte from DQ.An exciting piece of news for the week:The inhabitants of...
My blog needs something consistent and fun. Here is what I propose:Top Ten Tuesdays.Other than being inspired by Priscilla's Thurday Thirteens (thanks for the idea! :) I'm making this up as I go, so forgive the unorganization of it all.Top Ten Tuesday posts will be made weekly, every Tuesday. I will post my top ten "somethings" of the week. These "somethings" could be...
At 2:30 p.m., I sat down at my computer to start working on my portfolio. It is now 7:42 p.m. and I have not budged since then.Ok, maybe I got up a few times to get a drink or change my CD. But other than that, I have been extremely concentrated on my project. You could have brought in a band and started...
I just got done buying a book about making web pages on Amazon.com for a class. Welcome back to life at ISU, Taryn. I was suppossed to have the book for tomorrow in class- oops!- I found out, upon reading the syllabus. Oh, well. It's good to be back! I arrived tonight and immediately went into a cleaning/organizing frenzy. I cleaned out our...
Yesterday afternoon, Kristi was over and we were making chocolate chip cookies. I almost have the recipe memorized, so I was shooting off instructions to Kristi. "Go preheat the oven to 375 degrees," I told her.I finished putting a cup of brown sugar in my bowl, and then look down to see Kristi kneeling in front of our dishwasher."Taryn, where's the temperature dial?"...
I went to Steak 'n Shake with Kristi tonight.I am addicted to online euchre.I think dogs smell (therefore, I will never own one.)If you substitue real chocolate with milk chocolate, you will age slower (I learned that on Oprah today).Kristi is my friend.If I could have one item attached to my body for the rest of my life, it would be a camera.My...
Thursday, January 5Tammy and Tracy's last day. Very sad day for them. It was also the first day without the boys... took us all awhile to recover from that one. Actually, we welcomed the girl time :) although I do have to say, it was much more relaxed and lazy, spent mostly lounging by the pool or on the beach. That night, we...
Saturday, December 31I awake to my alarm at 4:05 a.m. after about 2 hours of sleep. Rolling over in bed for a couple more minutes, I give up and decide to get up. A half hour later, Tammy, Tracy and I are all piled into my little car to head to the air port. We arrive in Fort Lauderdale after a slight wait...