A New Me

I've always been proud to be a brunette. I even had a T-shirt in high school that said, "Brunettes do it better" (my best friend Lindsay had the Blondes version of the shirt) but since getting married and chopping off my long locks, my hair has just been growing out for months with no highlights or cute cuts. So with the onset of spring, I decided that I needed a change and wow did I get one.

Obviously, I'll never be a real blonde, but I figure that this is the closest I'll ever get. I hope that I don't look like a poser blonde (I still love being a brunette) but I really do like the new color.

I had an impromtu photoshoot, so I hope it does my hair color justice. Now that I'm posting pictures I'm thinking that it really doesn't look that blonde. My hair always looks darker when I take pictures, but I swear it really is light!

I'll see if blondes really do have more fun (haha sorry for the cliche, I just couldn't resist)

Cooking Fiascos

Monday night I decided to participate in our work challenges for National Volunteer Week. You all should participate (not only will it build my work Facebook page) but you will be helping others and feeling good at the same time :) There is my shameless plug for service.

Our service challenge on Monday was to serve as a family. So for Family Home Evening, I told Brody that we were baking cookies and delivering them. Well he watched and didn't help but he is good moral support.

So, now to the real meat of the story. I had wanted to make these cookies for a couple of days. While grocery shopping on Saturday I bought the extra ingredients that I don't have laying around the house (orange juice and oranges for orange rinds) Mind you, I had read the recipe before going grocery shopping and wrote down the necessary ingredients.

Well Sunday night I thought "I should make those cookies." But I get out the recipe, read it again and realize that I don't have any butter. So since it was Sunday, I decided to put off baking them till Monday (which worked out for my service challenge)



Well Monday night I told Brody I had to go to the store and buy butter. We walked to the local market one block over cause I was too lazy to go to the busy grocery store. We purchased our butter and then went home to begin baking.

Well I get out the recipe and read it for the THIRD time and see, oh wait, I don't have powdered sugar either. How is it possible that I had read the recipe 3 separate times and had, every time, missed a necessary ingredient. I was soo frustrated by this time that I decided to just make these cookies. While they are delicious, I still was disappointed.



So, I have a reading problem. Dislexia...I don't know, I need to be diagnosed with something, because this is not the 1st or 2nd time I've done this. Actually, I probably do it every week. I always pick recipes and go grocery shopping for dinner items and it never fails that I forget multiple key ingredients and end up back at the store with Brody laughing. It doesn't matter how many times I read these darn recipes, I still manage to forget things!

Well, this is my very long story of my strange faults. Happy Hump Day!