Colligan Adventures

I hate waking up in the morning. I don't usually wake up until after 8.

We have a cat. She can be way annoying way too early.

This morning she was playing with a book and meowing on my side of the bed.
So after hitting her with a pillow a few times. I looked to see what she was doing. I move the book and then i saw what looked like a hair tie in the carpet.

Thankfully, instead of touching it. I woke Brian up....

We looked at it and he grabbed a pair of tweezers. He started to pull on the "hair tie" and it sprouted a tail. At that point we both realize it's a snake. With it's head stuck in the carpet. I mean stuck in the carpet. we have shag carpeting and it was trying to burry itself as deep as it could go. So we had NO idea how big this thing was with just it's tail sticking out. And we were afraid it would scurry off and we'd never sleep again.

Long story short, after some freaking out and going to get the kitchen tongs. This is what we caught.

Little brown snake. Still gives me the heebee jeebies. Thankfully because we keep the basement so cold, it wasn't able to move fast. And the cat totally clawed some holes in it. *Good kitty*

Thats all. Happy Thanksgiving.

j&little boo

New Years Intentions.

I stole the idea from another blog I read. But I couldn't tell you who it was because I've looked at so many different blogs over the last 24 hours. So not resolutions, but intentions.

I have things I want to accomplish this year. Practical goals, that at this point if I could accomplish one I'd be happy. Ok so here goes.

1. Never stop growing in the Lord
2. I want to get back into shape by graduation (May)
3. Succeed at selling Pampered Chef
4. Generate enough interest in this blog to get out of blogger. Maybe onto wordpress?
5. Make a divider curtain for our apartment
6. Go to Maine at least once before Christmas.
7. Organize my crafting supplies
8. Have a big girl camera to take better photos.
9. Get my church to accept the C.R.U.D. and hold to it.
10. Save up to buy a photo editing program

... anyway thats all i can think of.

right now my goal is just to have this house packed up before saturday with out going crazy....


.... i'm totally going crazy...

thats all for now
-j

Maine girl - Meat = death

For the last 13 days Brian and I haven't eaten meat. We are doing this for the whole month of August. It's been interesting.

Growing up the only kind of meal I knew was meat and potatoes. Thats really all we dad every night. If I was lucky my mum wouldn't feel like cooking and then it would either be pasta or tacos. Now, I've grown out of that cooking style. But still, what kind of meal is it if you dont have some type of meat. ... Like I said the past 14 days have been interesting. Unfortunately there have been a few repeat meals. And surprisingly we've only had maybe two salads.

Anyway the whole point of this post is to brag at my cooking skills .. well maybe not skills but rather guts at trying new things.

Yesterday for lunch Brian and I made this sandwich. And it was awesome! Yeah, it would have been more awesome with some chicken in there. But it was still good. You have to check it out. Even if to just be impressed that a all veggie sandwich could be that good.

Also: just a tip i left out the squash. because i dont believe in eating things that are named squash... because really if thats what you're putting in your body, what is it going to be called when it comes out... just at thought

thats all for now

-j

Cinnamon Explosion pt. 1

I hope you like my name. I feel pretty proud of myself... No Cinnamon didn't explode in my kitchen... well it has, just in a good way.

I love to bake.

My husband love that I bake.

My friends love that I bake.....

I made. Cinnamon Raisin Bread

A couple weeks ago I wanted to make bread. My awesome Sister in law gave me a bread pan for Christmas. And I wanted to use it. So I did and I made cinnamon raisin bread. I made 3 loafs of it (I gave some of it away so Brian and I wouldn't eat it all.

Before I show you pictures and feel prideful about myself. I'm going to embarrass myself.

I use allrecipes.com I LOVE that website. There is a automatic calculation; you type in the number of servings you want, and it tells you how much you need of what. Well I only wanted 1 Loaf of bread. Seemed reasonable to me.

I started to make the bread and I thought "1 Tablespoon of flour?" How can 1 Tablespoon of flour make 1 loaf of bread. But I've been wrong before so I kept trucking.

Finally when I had all the ingredients in I realized there was NO way that this was going to make a whole loaf of bread. So I asked Brian what he thought. He changed the calculation to 3 loafs of bread because thats what the recipe was originally. Again. Calculations were SOOO small. Then I hear this "oooohhhhhh". Like in Despicable Me when Gru says "Light Bulb"

Brian, My Genius husband informed me that I was trying to make 1 SLICE of bread. That instead I should have been calculating 12, for 1 loaf.

Yep. He's pretty smart.

so then after feeling like an idiot, I made bread. And it was glorious. We ate half a loaf in one night. yeah, it was that good.

If you'd like to try this recipe it's

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Cinnamon-Raisin-Bread-I/Detail.aspx

I suggest it. It's amazing.