'Tis the Season

Christmas was great! Santa still knows where we live and the snow blew!! Oh my heck! It was sooo beautiful!!!


Until....


Mr. Wonderful and I went out and spent 2 hours shoveling and snowblowing our driveway. We had lots of fun trying to figure out where to put 2 feet of snow from our driveway without snowblowing it into our neighbors' yard. We finally decided it was going to have to pile up on either side of our driveway..clear out to the road. The problem with this is that the snow plow came by to clear a one car clearance pathway...thus a wicked huge pile of snow in front of our driveway...well, ok maybe a little on the road.

The next thing you know a neighbor down the street got stuck right in front of our house! Imagine our suprise when her not so nice husband began yelling at us! As if it was our fault. We happened to be in the garage...Mr. Wonderful was helping me load a big box into the car to return to the store, when she got stuck. As soon as her husband got there, we immediately asked if we could help...

The response was no...so we continued loading the car.

Big BIG mistake!

Mr. Jerk Face (aka Neighbor) decided he wasnt finished with the yelling as of yet. He decided to tell us that we were terrible neighbors! WHELL! That just doesnt sit right with me!!! I had to start yelling back! The funniest part of the whole thing was Mr. Wonderful yelling about the creepy neighbor jerk face's dog "taking a dump" on our lawn! Hilarious!!!

I spent the rest of the day feeling bad for living up to my rep. as a bad neighbor...so that night after I had cooled down I went outside to take out the garbage (much to Mr. Wonderful's chagrin) and Jerk Face was out there...complaining to my other neighbor about us...I can't leave well enough alone...just ask anyone!!!

I yelled, "Hey, *insert neighbors last name here*, did you pull your panites out of your butt yet?" I'm a good ice breaker...a good example...and a good neighbor!

This was my day today while out doing last minute Christmas shopping...maybe my new perfume?

I've Done It! (and now I'm doomed)

About 5 years I was at a meeting in L.A. and the speaker brought in 2 HUGE boxes of See's Chocolates. I mean, I am a chocolate officianado and I didn't even know they made boxes that big. Well, as the BIG box was passed around the room I happened to choose a Butterscotch Milk Chocolate Square...I was in love! After the meeting I went to the boxes of chocolate and proceeded to "weed out" the rest of the butterscotch squares...for the sake of the others. I was saving everyone from certain weight gain! I'm so good to others!

For pretty much every holiday or special occasion Mr. Wonderful will get me a honkin' box of just butterscotch milk chocolate squares...be still my heart!

Mommy was telling me that she had a recipe for the delectable filling in these little pieces of heaven...called Penuche (pa-NOO-sh). Then when I was reading the Martha Stewart Christmas magazine I found the recipe in there. I, of course, made it and the taste was RIGHT ON...even though the texture was not. With a few tweaks to the recipe...WAHAHAHAHAH (evil scientist laugh) I've Done It!!! I have replicated the See's Butterscotch Milk Chocolate Square filling! and last night I made chocolates!

I can totally compete with Mrs. See now. Oh yea Baby!!!! My toughest critic, Mr. Wonderful, even said they taste EXACTLY like the See-Miser's ( Miser, because she always tries to ruin my holidays with her tempting treats and imminent fatness...like her brothers, Heat and Snow trying to ruin Christmas with their weather! She wins!)

I continued in my chocolate making effort with some Cherry Cordials (the kids dig 'em) and some lemon, RUM (shhhhhhhhhh), mint and orange flavored butter creams....they are all relatively fantastic, but I think I've made it clear where my heart is.

All I have to say is, "Beware, Ye who sit next to my big butt..thanks to my fabulous taste for the good stuff...you'll have even less room than before!"