Freedom of the 'Net Is No Longer

So I am thankful for my nice friend and dear neighbor Neha. It was because of her I have had Internet for the last few months. I sadly must say now, though, that is is no longer my neighbor. She landed a job in Boston and is moving in the next several days. This means I have to come up with alternate ways to get online. 


On a good note, I no longer use Facebook, so I don't have to stress about keeping up with that... (I'm telling ya it's like a breakup... I can't just seem to let it go, even though its done gone let me go and hasn't looked back hahaha) 


Really all I use the Internet for is skyping Carling and Jeremy, occasionally my family too, checking email, and writing in my blog.


So farewell, Internet. Perhaps I will catch up with you soon. 


<3 <3


.::AFarOffBritt::.

AHHHH SUMMER :)

7:35P

So I'm home from work, hit up the pool, and now doing some chores before I make dinner and head off to the movies :)   Yay What a wonderful evening and a wonderful life God has blessed me with! I've missed Stacy!! She is such a sweet girl with a big heart! It's hard trying to keep in touch with people, but I know that in the midst of barely talking for months, I know she is there no matter what.

Weird!!! As I was typing that, the song on Pandora was singing, "you were always there..."  Well I guess it's just confirmation for Stacy that by always being there she is emanating the Holy Spirit manifested in her :)

Buuuuuut   my list of chores is this:

> Do last load of laundry [check]
> Gather and take out trash [check]
> Gather and take out recyclables [check]
> Sweet linoleum [check]
> Wash linoleum [check]
> Vacuum Carpet [check]
> Fold clean Laundry [check]
> Shower [check]
> Make dinner [check]

I think I can accomplish all that!

anddddd if I'm feeling really good for time:

> Give Beamer a bath
> Clean cat barf off floor
> Wash papazan coushin
> Sort clothes to take to Plato's tomorrow :) [check]
> Take clothes to Plato's tomorrow [check]


Nothing like a good long list! But I have 1 hour and 15 minutes to do it all!

There is something about having so much to do and yet being excited to do it all I feel is quite disturbing. I know I should be dreading this, and on the opposite end of the spectrum, elated that I finally have the energy... So in all reality, I'm just a mixed ball of confusion and energy and motivation!  Now I better stop writing b4 I find I change my objectives.

P.S. Thank goodness I gave up Facebook or I never would have even got that list out!!  I'll update you in a bit

[Updates in RED]

Like a minor break up

Today I feel a little mixed...

It's my first full day without Facebook. I did well! I was a little twitchy at work, because when I want escape from what I'm doing for 20 seconds I'd see what my brother or carling "liked" or "wrote"...

Facebook itself even tantalized me for a minute. An update to my phone came through, and it was blank! What the heck!!! haha

but I survived! Even had a bit of encouragement from but dear ole friend Ndub, also known by many other wonderful names, but in my phone, he is Ndub!

I got some kudos for giving it up, but it was just nice talking to him. Its been waaaaay too long!

So I'm sure you're all curious as to what I did tonight with no Fbook in my life...

I tried running... but my legs were hurting...

So I showered, made dinner and am now going to Phil's to try and regroup the gang.

Again, its been waaaaaay too long!


Night! <3

.::AFarOffBritt::.

Goodbye Time Waster

So I deactivated my Facebook account tonight.  

It actually makes me cringe saying that word.  <<::shudddddderrrssss::>>  I think from now on we need to refer to it as "the site which must not be named".

Okay so I may still be in Harry Potter mode from this past weekend, but what can I say? It's fitting…

The challenge is to see how long I can go without it! And then compare it to how much my productivity increases!

Lets see... Since the deactivation of the "site which must not be named" I:

>Showered

>Did dishes

>Did 2 (almost 3) loads of laundry

>Organized my recipe holder

>Cleaned off the top of my fridge

>Changed my sheets

>Folded (and put away) towels (which have been in the drier 2 weeks)

>Skyped Carling (BIG SURPRISE)

>Made my bed

>Now going to bed!

WOW I am intrigued to see how much I can get done!!!

In the meantime, I need to:

>Begin apartment shopping

>Decide if I'm going to school in the fall

>Get my PA DL

>Become a certified Skydiver

>Shop for a new car

>Buy a camera

>Buy accessories for Holga

>Eliminate the word "buy" from my vocabulary

>Especially when it’s following the words "need to"

>Especially when it’s not a "need to" scenario!

Night!

.::AFarOffBritt::.

My Blog is Official when I decide to write about my baking :)

It is that time of the year again!

Time to bake! For some reason I always feel more drawn to putting my oven into overdrive, using all 4 burners, making delicious sweet treats in the summer and 9000 Degrees outside!

So what is the task at hand, you ask?

A cake.

A warm, gooey, delicious, cake.

I just found a collaboration of recipes online of this cake I want to make. I have little experience conjoining recipes, but they all state different directions with the same 4 ingredients. I only have 2 of the 4, so I'm going to wing it and go with what I got in my kitchen! I'm pretty sure I've already made 3 trips to the store for these ingredients--I'm not going back again.

Unless it totally TANKS, and I have to make it all over again!

So I begin!

Step 1) Open the cake mix, pour it into the bowl.
Step 2) Do the same with the pudding mix. (Oh yes! There is pudding in here!)

Mistake #1)
I realize I never preheated my oven!
Or even took my new mixer out of the box!

Detour #1) I stop the mixing process and empty the oven.
Detour #2) Find mixer.
Detour #3) Take out of box. Wash Mixer.

Distraction #1) I look down into the bowl of delicious cake/pudding mix powder and my eye is caught.
I'm kind of a sucker for that part of the cake powder that's kind of lumpy... You know what I'm talking about...

So I grab a little spoon and swipe a chunk of cake mix and plop it into my mouth. I eat.
Realization #1) I figured I should wash my hands and in the midst of the activity,  I made my mistake.

I breathed.

Finite cake powder rushes into my lungs.  I cough and gasp and reach for my water bottle.
Now I've choked on water before and survived, but this is much worse! Each cough is preceded and followed by a gasp, so every minute piece of micro-powder that escapes my lungs gets re-inhaled of everything that is still loose inside my esophagus.

I might potentially die from cake powder inhalation!

Somehow I lived to tell the tale, but as I continue to clear the paste it created in my throat, I'm thankful it's at least vanilla flavored cake. Yummy?

.::Back To The Cake::.

Step 3) I add a couple more ingredients, veggie oil and applesauce (I don't have eggs) and then I pause at my secret ingredient....  I pause... it may cause an explosion...

Oh yes. Its that kind of cake.

I think, "here goes nothin...." and I crack open the can and pour the fizzy, bubbly liquid into the mixing bowl. The. whole. can.

I glance back at my directions now to make sure I just did this right.

Mistake #2) It says, "pour half of can into bowl, mix until smooth, pour other half of can, then mix until smooth..."

Oops!
Realization #2) I never learn! I NEVER EVER read the instructions in it's entirety before making whatever concoction it is I dare try.

I look back into my bowl and it looks like one of those volcano science projects and its bubbling over...

Re-written Step 4) I do the only thing there is left to do,  I grab the mixer!

Good thing it did what I was hoping it would do! Calmed it all right down and by golly it looks like cake batter!

Step 5) I pour it into my pans (Step 6) and into the oven we go.

Well... not "we" as in me an the cake, but you know what I mean!

.::35 minutes later::.

I have 2 baked cakes. One is the guinea pig and the other is the prized possession. Good thing I had a guinea pig because I sure annihilated it with different attempts at making up my own glaze and frosting and none were really good.

.::Hour Later::.

I let the other cake cool and now I must cut it down to fit into the small container for shipping. Oh I wished you could have watch. I tried to chisel a perfect circle, which wasn't too bad but then it was stuck to the pan. So I tried to jiggle it while it was upside down... potential bad idea, and it failed. I tried to shove a knife under it and scrape it out. Still did not work. finally I ripped the sides down in the fold and took a knife and scraped it out. Unharmed at that. I then added some padding inside the new container with the sides I cut off of the cake and managed to do this flippy thing with the cake that I got it into the shipping container. WHEW!

It is now all saran wrapped and packaged and off to Australia :)

Hope you love it Mr. Ford!

.::AFarOffBritt::.