umba-way

It is literally impossible to be sad while listening to this song.

Maybe you're stressed out, having a bad day, or trying not to be sad. If you are, take a couple minutes and listen to this song. Seriously, it's impossible not to feel a little happy while jammin' to it.  Plus, if you're in your early/mid twenties, it probably reminds you of this:

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Happy Monday!

egg-citing

heeee-ya

I'm starting to think that this will be a recurring post theme. Environmental fail #3445.

My chissy has the prettiest, thick, auburny-ish hair. Because it's that unnameable season where everything gets super cold and gross, her hair has been looking dull. Naturally (pun intended), she wanted to try something environmentally friendly that would spruce up her hair,so she tried putting some egg in her hair and then let it sit for a little while. 

 She rinses it all out, blow dries her hair, and heads out into the wide world.

Then she notices that she has PIECES OF FRIED EGG in her hair. Apparently, she hadn't rinsed her hair as well as she thought, and the blow drying had effectively cooked the eggs into a delicious breakfasty treat in her hair. 

On the plus side, she had something to snack on during the day. kidding!

Basically, my sis and I are the ultimate failures at being green. Poo.

disgusting

hurrr

Imagine that you are me.  You decide to be daring today and shave your legs (dream big!).  You slather some of that coconut oil that you wrote a post about loving on your legs. While pouring it, you notice some weird white streaks, but ignore them. Then, after you have covered both of your legs, you notice a strange smell. 

"Hmmmmm..... what is that smell?" you think.  You take a whiff of the usually delicious smelling oil and EW, it's the oil. Then, the words of your old "Nutrition of Domestic Animals" professor pop into your brain...

When the oil begins to oxidize, it will go rancid.

Horrified and covered in rancid oil, you start panicking and scrubbing at your legs for 20 straight minutes. 

So the moral of the story, friends, is that even little j sometimes must eat her words and take back all the nice things she said about coconut oil.

Additionally, we ate at a place that served all organic and locally produced food on Friday and I was sick later that night.

I'm noticing an unpleasant trend. While I had dreams and aspirations that this blog might one day chronicle my ever increasing efforts to be green (and pretentious), it seems that instead, I am recording all the times I tried to be environmentally conscious and decided I didn't want to do it anymore, like switching from "clean" conditioner back to Tresemme.

Hopefully, this doesn't become a pattern.

Over and out,
littlej

ridiculous

Did you know that there's a website named "Drinkify"?  You type in what kind of band you are listening to, and it tells you what alcoholic beverage will accompany your musical choices. I'm not really sure why StumbleUpon thought this website would be relevant to me, except that I'm writing a post about it.

After typing in 2 or 3 bands, I decided to see what would happen if I searched for Christian artists, and VOILA

"The Chris Tomlin"
1 oz of Hennessy (Henny? really?)

AND
"The Kari Jobe"
4 oz of Roses Bourbon
4 oz of bitters
Combine in shaker and strain into glass.  Serve.

AHAHAHA. This is what I do with my time people.

Firebolt Friday

As I am currently re-reading the Harry Potter books and it's "Harry Potter Weekend" on abc family (again), I'm dedicated this post to pure HP goodness. Also, I keep a folder of cool things I find on the WWW to share with you guys, and half of them were related to JK Rowling's magical series, so I figured it was time. Enjoy!

i waste so much time

@Lord_Voldemort7 (The Dark Lord): Unstable Creatures: Dementors. They kissed a girl, and they liked it.

I know I've posted this one before, but it is SO hilarious.

i waste so much time

"Dudley looked alot like Uncle Vernon. He had a large pink face, not much neck, small watery blue eyes, and thick blonde hair that lay smoothly on his thick, fat head.
Aunt Petunia often said that Dudley looked like a baby angel. Harry often said that Dudley looked like a pig in a wig."

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Did anyone else notice how yummy Neville got by year 7?

"I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's a half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones...the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur." 

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harry potter surnames quiz 

2. Gilderoy Lockhart, the insufferably vain professor and celebrity from The Chamber of Secrets, was based on someone Rowling knows in real life.  “He used to tell whopping great fibs about his past life, all of them designed to demonstrate what a wonderful, brave and brilliant person he was. Perhaps he didn’t really believe he was all that great and wanted to compensate, but I’m afraid I never dug that deep,” she has said. “He’s probably out there now telling everybody that he inspired the character of Albus Dumbledore. Or that he wrote the books and lets me take the credit out of kindness.”

10 things your probably didn't know about Harry Potter

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Cheers!

[witty post title]

This morning I woke up and it was raining. Ugh.
And the weather had gotten all cold and winter- like. Double ugh.
And we're still out of bagels and cereal. Triple ugh.

In a classic case of self-fulfilling prophecy, the rest of the day followed along those lines. Headaches, bickering children, rattly cars, and STILL NO LAW AND ORDER ON TV.   (Side note: When I first moved home, L&O:SVU was on EVERY DAY and now it is nevereverever on. Does anyone really watch Burn Notice? NO.)

Basically the whole day felt like this:

Blurriness and all. And if you are wondering why I'm wearing glasses that were trendy like 5 years ago,  it's because I woke up this morning and my eye looked all gross, and because I am always behind the trends.

Also I had this conversation with someone that I spend 4 days a week with...
Person: Did you get new glasses?
Me: I don't normally wear glasses.
Person: Oh, I thought you looked different.

sigh.

I tried to listen to some Switchfoot and get my worship on, but even they were like "Don't bring that bad 'tude here." So I quit.

But now I'm home and I ate breakfast for dinner and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is on and things are looking more positive, so I'll stop writing this ridiculous post and go enjoy the rest of my night.

pb&j oatmeal

Confession: I do the grocery shopping in our household, and sometimes I'm really lazy about it.  So when I woke up this morning, we were out of bagels, good cereal, and bread. I put my coffee on (we would NEVER run out of that), and looked into our near empty pantry and found a lone packet of REGULAR flavored instant oatmeal. Why do we even have that?

And then I got inspired.

PB&J oatmeal. Here's how:

1. Heat a little water to boiling and add just enough to the instant oatmeal for it to be moist.

 

2. Add a heaping spoonful of peanut butter and a normal-ish spoonful of jelly (so precise, I know) to your oatmeal and stir in!

3. Add a splash of milk or any amount to reach the desired consistency.

4. Enjoy with a cup of coffee and reruns of the Fresh Prince.