Friday Fill-ins

And...here we go!



1. I need __to get my blogging mojo back. I do hope that Tracie got the heart shaped rock? ___.

2. ____Th weather this September is absolutely beautiful, I think how_ lucky we were.

3. A great deal __of my day today was spent running around, well actually a great deal of this month was spent running around. The older boys have joined Cross Country running and I've been going to the meets. ___.

4. ___I would like this evening to have a rum and coke in__ big tall glass.

5. It was announced __to my children that I love them___.

6. ___I also need to buy some new__ steak knives.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I'm looking forward to _going shopping this evening with the "magic" money____, tomorrow my plans include ___helping hubbie to build a mini putt__ and Sunday, I want to _get the children off to Sunday School, where did the summer go? Yep GONE____!

Happy Friday, tonight it's VGNO~

I do not have a pic of my visit with the heart shaped rock yet.

this keeps you all in the know...

I had to get my camera working first from the trip to the Island and then well I didn't GO anywhere. CRAP I thnk I just heard thunder. If it's not one noise it's another round her. 20minutes ago? it was neighbours setting off fire works? Really? Who needs fireworks in their back yard (surrounded by trees) in August?  Provincial (Banky holiday) was last week?

So tonight I'm sitting around having some drinky poos. Yeah It's Friday I had originally planned to get my but out the door and go to a Pschyic Fest. My partner in crime, didn't call back. So much for my girls night out, so here I sit, Rum and pepsi Max in hand playing on the laptop. The breeze is passing over the keys, the spell check is probably having a cow and I'm having some time with Captain Morgan. Nice Guy.

Snacks? What else, Canadian Ketchup Chips.... oops so much for the diet now. I was doing really well this week. I was watching myself like a hawk. I saw the "reunion pics" it's bad, so much for my 2yr plan (2yrs ago)

So tonight it's blog hopping. Go on get yourself some VGNO time.
I'm probably early since it seems my Ann is posting a la 1999?


So go to the side bar of her blog and grab a badge. Tell her you're coming to join. Happy Friday all. (yes I may have actually did the whole drinking while posting thing, ignore if necessary)


I wonder if the heart shape rock drinks? hhhhhhhhhmmmmmmmmmmm

Friday Night, so VGNO!

I'm home here with 2 of 3 boys so and they are either sleeping or playing on their own computer so it's I've got some quiet time to participate in VGNO. I'd like to say a Belated Happy Birthday to Ann over at AnnagainandAgain, Sorry I missed the party last week.



Food, I've got the virtual snacks, so I'll get us something to eat. I'll try to keep it within the 4 food groups and that fat for those that count that as a group. Let me see. Some BBQ Chicken off my Hemi Orange Grill


and a side salad. I'm going to stick to the easy stuff, nachos and salsa?
Salads around here fall under, "do we have any..." and "yeah throw it in" Lately the boys are liking bell peppers. This is great but there is a downside. Did I mention we have skunks? yeah well I think the boys just might be competing with the skunks.
I'm sorry I'm talking about the boys again, sometimes that happens around here, I guess they are my little fan club. They call my name often enough 'MOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM! he's blah blah blah' and 'MOMMMMMMMMMMMM where's the .....' oh wait you mean you hear that at your house too?

So back to the adult conversations I hear go on at these VGNO, in the last month we've found a new station to listen to here. It's all "classics" but the classics they are talking about fall in the 60, 70, and 80's, yeah that's all they play! So I'll be sitting here or out on the deck directing the boy traffic and petting zoo, when all of a sudden I find myself pulled into some kind of time warp. It's the weirdest thing and I'll even find my brain going back to some memory of being at my parent's home growing up, or going on a date with Hubbie. Tonight at supper I had a flash of being 5yrs or 6yrsold and being a bit of a stubborn child. I was in my room getting ready for school and uh these were the years where my mom would put the clothes that "she" wanted me to wear out. I hated her choices, I'm not sure that I hated them because they were not nice or just because they were "her" choices you know? So I dawdled, and dawdled and I hear (full name) being called from the kitchen, so finally I put on the dreaded clothes, walk out, and I'm hooking the hook on my buttons of my overalls and I look to the right, there on the kitchen counter are flames shooting out of the toaster. The song that was on the Radio? was the song that I heard tonight at supper.
This!

you know without youtube.com, I'd never know the right words to these songs. It says 1979 so that'a bout right for me being 6 or 7 ish.

Ok so back to the story,she used to tell us the toast wasn't burned it was "well done" when it was in fact burned. I was a "smartypants" then too, so I walk into the kitchen and say "uh I think the toast is well done now" well you should have seen my mother jump! She got the baking soda pulled the plug on the toaster put out the flames, and the fire that had started to climb up the cupboard doors. Dad of course took the wood down and sanded and re varnished all the "fire" off the cupboards eventually. I wonder how much longer I'll remember this?

So I could offer you well done toast to go with some, or just getting toast on this recipe I
found over at drinksmixer.com
Memory Loss recipe

Scale ingredients to servings
2 oz peach vodka
2 oz Jamaican dark rum
2 oz gin
2 oz apple juice
1 slice lemon
Pour the rum and the vodka over ice into the glass, and then add the rum. Then pour in the apple juice and squeeze the lemon on the top. Do not stir.

I just told Hubbie(he came home while I was searching recipes) this story too, he's the type of person that doesn't remember things or stories. Me?? I can remember the first day one of my school friends came to my school in grade 1, and say "Hi (second name)" :) She had heard my brother 1yr younger say my name and he had always called me by Just my second name. We did go to "head start" together but this was almost 1.5yrs later. Today I harvested her virtual farm. See with the Aid of FB I can easily go floating back to my childhood days. You know maybe I should drink more? Not everything is something I want to remember.

So if you're home tonight a Summer Friday night go on head over to Ann's and go Blog Hopping! You might even jog some of your own memories.

VGNO- I'll give it a go

Good evening, I went and grabbed me a badge From Ann over at Ann Again




Now Bare(not no stripping) with me, I may need me a drink to do this right?
So I'll keep it simple, Rum and Diet Coke, since it's evening and Hubbie did the shopping for supplies, it's Caffeine Free Diet Coke with Rum measurements may vary as the evening goes on.

I also baked... okay really the baking is for the people that have volunteer to help us replace our roof. I made Brownies for a crowd, it came out of a cookbook I got as a wedding shower gift and the cover is gone but the recipes are awesome! It was a fund raiser kind of cookbook, people submit and they make a book and sell it. I'm so glad my aunt bought it! I don't care if it was part of her gift closet. :)
(read turn out every single time!)
Brownies for a Crowd: the page is very messy! so you know I use it a lot
1 1/2 cup flour
1tspsalt
2cups sugar
8TBSP cocoa
4 Eggs
1Cup oil or 2 squares of butter (it's a Canadian thing margarine and butter come in squares vs US sticks, 1/2 cup size)
2TSP vanilla
1/4 cup water
(and if you like it) 1/2 cup walnuts.

Grease and flour 11X15 pan, mix dray ingredients together add liquid;Mix well. Bake 350F for 30minutes.

see the pics even dated!
I also iced them...you can scrape that butter cream icing off if your watching your portions of stuffs, and then the brownies wont count right? Last time I made these I used Peanut Butter Icing, you can't mess these up unless you like use too much oil I guess? Sometimes the easiest recipes work the best you know?

I also baked some ginger snaps, and that recipe is already on the blog here..(I'll have to link that up when I find it again, it's super easy too)

Music, it's quiet here, clicking away at my computer while I wait for my Family to arrive. My SIL will of course join me in a drinky-poo or few and there will be pizza eventually, she's my girls night out I guess, but I have t wait for her to get here and put her kids to bed.




Now question for this first time VGNO-er is there a them for discussion or do we just sit at our computers/laptops/internet able phones and get plastered and eat? or is everything suspose to be virtual? cause I'm almost toast here and I've only had 2 Rum and Coke and I'm not sure if that guest bed will ever get made. If I'm doing this wrong can you all just let me know?I can take being told I'm wrong, or just sit and point and laugh that works too. Thanks! for putting up with me :)