Get Lost...

I did!!! So it started a few weeks ago when Matt said he wanted to start watching LOST. I refused. I simply don't have time to pick up a TV show after it's been on for like 3 seasons!!! Then I remembered something interesting: I have nothing BUT time, so I said OK. That was three days ago. In the past 72 hours, I have spent about 24 of those hours sleeping, and 12 of those hours curled up on the couch watching Season 1 and I'm only like 1/3 of the way through! There are SEVEN disks to Season 1!! After the first disk was over, I demanded more. Our blockbuster didn't have it, so we had to drive to another one. Thank God they had disc 2 and 3. Finished Disk 3 tonight. Just 16 more hours left of Season 1, then I will move onto Season 2. I think I'm an addict. Now I feel like I have my foot in the door of the exclusive club of LOST watchers. You know those people.... who are always asking, "hey dude, do you watch Lost?". I would be willing to bet either YOU have asked that question to someone, or someone has asked that question of YOU. Now you can ask ME!!! but please wait at least 150 more hours.

You're Invited to a....

B.Y.O.C. (complaint)! Here's mine: Both Matt and I graduated from good schools, we work hard, pay our bills, are fully involved in our own careers, and we have no children. So… why am I watching a television set that is 15 years old that used to belong to my mother? Why, as I type this post, am I sitting on a broken ass couch? Why do I put my clothes away in a dresser set that used to belong to my sister in 1985? Why do I sit on a vanity stool (also passed down by my mother) that doubles as my cat’s stratching post, and why is my shoe holder propped up with a hanger? I will stop there because I honestly just threw up in my mouth a little. So please tell me. Why can’t I afford better things? Why do people I know purchase a new bedroom set every single time they move? Why do they have granite counter tops? They barely have jobs. Will there ever be a time when I look around the house and see NOTHING that used to belong to someone else?

El Avocado Preciado :)

Dearest Avocado, where have you been all my life?! As I get oldER, I am finding that I am craving foods I've always told myself I hated.

Recent discoveries include (not limited to) beans (black, refried), black eyed peas, and red wine vinegar. Some weird force drew me to these foods like a pregnant lady to pickles- I couldn't describe it. Now-- there are some foods that I will never go near despite how badly my body wants to try them: mayo, sour cream, mustard, jelly, seafood. Mainly because I want to gag when I think about them, but also because I am a teenie bit afraid I will like them, and I kinda like things the way they are.

So anyway, my latest revelation: AVOCADOS. I heart them!! on everything- and I absolutely cannot get enough of guacamole- not the creamy dip kind, but the chunky mashed up avocado"y" kind with peppers, onions, cilantro. Here is a good (and simple) recipe I've found that I make often. I am still searching for others. This one claims to be the Chipotle recipe (which undeniably has the BEST guac ever!) but sadly it's not as good... but still my go-to recipe at home. Got a guac recipe to share?

1 large ripe avocado peeled,pitted (I use two smaller avocados)
2 teaspoons fresh lime juice
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro

1/4 cup finely chopped onions
2 cloves garlic, finely minced
2 large serrano chilies, seeded,chopped (poblano peppers work good, too!)
1/4 teaspoon salt

Mash up avocado with a fork or electric mixer.
Add lime juice.
Add all other ingredients and blend well.
Serve with tortilla chips (lime flavored are yummy!!)

I'm a Fab Summer Wife...

It's just during the year I suck. I didn't really realize this until I started noticing how much Matt kept referring to how great the "summer" will be.... and won't it be nice when I am out for "summer" And "summer" can't come soon enough... and well, you get the idea. The sad part is, he's right. Summer WILL be great. I will be home, decorating and updating our house, cooking dinner, tending to the childre... I mean cat, doing crafts, reading, actually paying attention to my husband! I can't wait to get back on track. Summer-wife RULES!

Mother's Day + Heart Pendants = Why?

Why is Mother's Day synonymous with buying busted gold heart pendants?!?!?! Seriously...the mall jewelry stores must plan all year for their annual ug*i*ly heart necklace campaign. How WILL they outdo their competition?! Zales knows! A heart with a mother and child IN the pendant... brilliant.

Pollination is an important step in the reproduction of seed plants... or so says Wikipedia.

Pollination seems pretty simple to me. I mean, if there's pollen waiting to be moved, a willing pollinator waiting to move it, and a receptive flower stigma... then what is the problem? I'll tell you the problem: pollinators such as bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, moths, some flies, some wasps, and nectar feeding bats don't know and/or don't give two craps how much plants benefit from their unique miraculous maneuvers. They are just selfishly concerned with meeting their own energy requirements for survival. They are painfully unaware that part of their existence is to be spent fertilizing these flowers in order to help them develop seeds. There is no communication between the pollinator and the pollinated. I look outside and I don't see any bees, wasps, nectar feeding bats. Instead I see a bunch of lonely flowers who will never get the opportunity to develop seeds...