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So my cousin is throwing a wedding shower for me in two weeks and it has me wondering... What the heck is a good gift to give them for doing this for us? I'm thinking homemade cookie and brownie mixes in mason jars. Is that lame? I hope not because it does take some work and I'm sure they will taste yummy. My other thought is Irish blessing coins. I noticed how nice they were when I was looking for reception gifts. I decided not to go with them previously because I found a better idea for reception gifts. They are inexpensive but I don't know if that is quite good enough. 

I'm so excited. I registered at Target finally. I don't have much on that list because we are limited on space but I'll be grateful for the stuff we do get. It's getting closer. Less than two months and I will be Mrs. Dunn. I'm thinking of changing my blog name to something that reflects the new name. 

I applied for a work at home job today. Act is hiring people with bachelor's degrees to grade essays. I hope I get the position it would be awesome to be able to help B with finances. 

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Last night was fun. I played Scrabble with B. We totally suck. We can't figure out what's considered a word and what's not. It was fun. He kicked my ass by 7 points.

I'm also finishing up Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury. I'm not quite sure I like how they talk to one another in this book. It really ticks me off to hear the "n" word. I mean good God I get offended and I'm white. I guess that goes to show exactly how old this book is. I think it's just a no-no word that shouldn't used by anyone.

I'm with Morgan Freeman on this one..................

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Last night we went to Buffalo Wild Wings and hung out with some pretty cool people. I'm not a big baseball fan but it was fun to watch Monica get all excited over the players. Ha ha. I guess I'm just more a football fan? We had a great time even though service sucked and I had to wait forever to get my food and then forever to eat it because they forgot my salad dressing. I think BWW service everywhere sucks. 

I'm really grateful to Moncia for my something borrowed. Until yesterday I didn't have anything for my something borrowed. Now I have three things! Plus an extra garter. The wedding is in exactly two months and one day. Oh man, I'm getting anxious!!! Plus B breaks out next week. Exciting!! I'm so proud of him. He works hard and deserves it! 

118:Fake-It Frugal's Homemade Bisquick Recipe

So I finally got all my stuff together to make this simple and cheap recipe for homemade Bisquick. It's sort of messy but oh so fun. Oh, did I mention you save a good chunk of money too?


Homemade Bisquick

5 1b. bag of All purpose flour

20 teaspoons of sugar

5 teaspoons of salt

2/3 cup of Baking Powder

2 Cups Shortening (I used Crisco)

Kitchen-aide Love

1. Mix all dry ingredients together with a whisk until fully mixed.

2. Now take off rings and jewelry because this next part is messy!!  Add shortening and mix thoroughly making sure there are not any lumps of shortening in the mixture. It should have the consistency of cornmeal when uniform and should be mold-able. (Namely you should be able to make balls without them falling apart.)

3. Separate into plastic bags. Mix keeps up to a year in the pantry.

4. Pat yourself on the back. You just saved some cash.

Fake-It Yourself Cost:  $3.92

Real Bisquick, 3 Boxes ($3.59 each)

Total Fake-It Yourself Savings:  $6.85

117

Whoo hoo! Meatloaf night with B. I made meatloaf and okra. For snack we had kale chips. I love days like this. Seriously, what is better than great food, beer and watching King of the Hill with B? Absolutely nothing. Ha ha!!

I'm reading Faulkner again. This time I was smart instead of re-reading his hard to follow written work, I picked up his book on cassette. Yes that's right people, I said CASSETTE. It's been at least 5 years since I've seen one and I even forgot whether I had to re-wind them after I listened to all of side B. lol. I had to ask James. I'm just so glad I still owned a cassette player. The funny thing is I actually own 3. Gotta love good old solid backup copies. I love Mp3 and 4's but I've lost my music on Itunes one too many freakin times. Did I mention I am not a fan of Apple? Overpriced bullshit. Unless you're really into photo editing, PC all the way.

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Got back into running again. I took 3 weeks off out of training to let my knees recover. They were sore for quite a while. Now that I'm back I'm taking it slow. Yesterday I only did 3 miles walking mostly, and I'm sore. What the crap?! I guess that was still too far. Anyway, I took today off because of soreness until I can devise a new plan of action.

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I can't help but love this show. I really loved the original and now that some of the original characters are making a comeback, I'm glued to the television.

114

Snake bites.....................I think so. After the wedding of course. I'm excited 2 for 1 at White Buffalo. Here I come!!

113

I'm sort of late with this but......................Marilyn Manson= psycho but brilliant. I don't know what rock I was living under but it's like I finally got out from under it and discovered.........that I absolutely love Metal. I don't give a damn if you think I'm a freak for admiring him. He's got more brain cells then half of the celebrities out there. Love this video because he's lashing out at the media and their labeling of things. Wish the tickets weren't sold out in SA so I could go. :(


Went to tattoo convention today with B. Possibly found someone I might be interested in for my idea. We shall see.....

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Just finished reading The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck. I've wanted to read this book forever. It was incredibly interesting and the wife in the book sort of reminded me of myself. She was pretty rough around the edges. In fact I wish I was as hard working as she was. The lady gave birth without a midwife or anyone else in the room. That pretty tough. Anyway awesome book. The only thing I didn't like is how ungrateful the families children were and how they lavishly spent their parents hard-earned wealth. There is nothing I despise more than a spoiled brat. Waste not, want not.

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I swear some days it's nothing but dishes. Over and over again, I just wash dishes all day. It's sorta like Mary Poppins' never ending bag of tricks, except in my case it's dishes. I wish the water here didn't suck so bad. Screw you, Dishwasher!!!

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I found a new band I like. Not really what I'm usually into but they are so interesting (looking). I can't stop watching their video for some weird reason.

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She reminds me of Joan Jett. Plus she's pretty bad ass on guitar too.

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Book Review Here: Freedom by Johnathan Franzen. Such a horrible and sucky book. It's really not even worth mentioning. I was extremely disappointed and disinterested. Bring on the next book, for the love of God.

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Friday the 13th. Thank God nothing bad happened to us today. You can be sure if it's bad luck it happens to us. lol. I'm thinking this Friday the 13th stuff is BS!!!

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Im getting a little bored of blogging. Can you tell?!

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I am so obssessed with this game. I can't stay away. Why do you have to be so fun to play? Why? lol.

I guess it will just have to do until the movie comes out.....

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Yay! It's entry one hundred!!! I haven't been keeping up like I should. oops. I'm so busy doing nothing. I just can't seem to get out of that. lol. I've been cooking and baking but since half the time it's hard to upload photos I don't post my recipes. It's really a pain in the ass. I can't automatically upload photos because for some reason blogger turns them sideways. Anyway, I'll be grateful to have these random entries to read at the end of the year.

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I'm so behind this is going to take forever catching up entries. ugghh. I'm such a procrastinator.

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I've been watching this series again. It never gets old. Why can't they just bring it back like they did with a crapload of other shows that didn't fare well. For crying out loud they brought back Family Guy?!?! Of course I'm a big fan of Claire Danes so I may be a tad bit biased. Jared Leto was easy on the eyes as well even though he couldn't read (???) in this series.

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This song is awesome...............................
Don't even get me started with the Misfits. I just recently discovered them. (I know they are super old. What can I say? I must live under a rock or something) The lyrics are so crazy and even though I don't particularly like horror films, I freaking love the misfits. They have such a classic punk sound. I don't know what my deal is lately with metal and punk but it's all I want to listen to right now.

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And of course I have to talk about the very handsome, Davey Havok. He's one of my celebrity crushes. Even more so now because he's toned down the makeup and actually looks like a man. J/K. I like his look either way but without all the eyeliner his eyes are actually pretty gorgeous. I really wish their songs were more like they used to be. The new stuff is good too but I like more of a punky sound.

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I know he's kind of creepy but for some reason the lyrics of his songs just speak to me. If you can get past the shock rocking to pay attention to what's really being said you be surprised. 

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I found out I placed 7th in the half marathon. 77 placed 7? at least it was 66 placed 6.

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oops. I keep forgetting to enter HEB's recipe contest. I'm a total spaz. ^.^

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Saw Hunger Games. It was cool but for some reason I felt it was missing something. Don't ask me what because I can't exactly put my finger on it. Act of Valor we saw right after and I feel asleep. It was a good movie for what I saw. I normally don't fall asleep but it was almost one in the morning and I ran 13 point freaking 1 miles that day so what do you expect?