Here's a non-fattening, diet friendly recipe for anyone interested in expanding your waist line...This summer when we were in my favorite place(aka Texas, which is not really my favorite place at all) I made fun desserts quite often. One of my personal favs is this oreo ice cream cake.
2 pkg Mint Oreo cookies(or plain if you are plain)
1 gallon mint ice cream
1 gallon chocolate ice cream(*or whip cream)
Chocolate fudge ice cream topping(not hersey's syrup but good thick fudge topping)
Crush up a bunch of oreo cookies and put them on the bottom of a 9x13 pan...there is no exact amount of oreos for the bottom...just enough so you get a nice thick crust. I think I used about 2 1/2 rows.
Layer the oreo crust with mint ice cream...don't make it too high because you still have another layer of ice cream to put on latter. I used like 1/2 gallon-3/4 gallon. Quick freeze.
Layer mint ice cream with fudge topping. Freeze again.
*You can either make the next layer with whip cream or another ice cream. I've done both and I like both...I feel like sticking with ice cream makes it more of an ice creamy cake! So I layered mine with chocolate ice cream. Top with crushed up oreos.
Freeze.
You obviously need to make sure that the ice cream and fudge are nice and soft or you will not get very good layers...it will turn into one big cookie/cream MESS. I put the ice cream in the fridge for a couple hours so it would get soft but not too soft.
Maybe I'll post a picture of my wonderful creation...probably not though. Lets be honest.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Emergency Life In the E.R.
Okay so this story is not about an actually emergency nor did it occur in the E.R. but don't you love the dramatics of it? I do.
Today I was outside soaking up the rays, chatting with my favorite chatting buddy Jessica about all the real problems in the world like the Bachelor, when all of a sudden something flew into my hair. I am a spaz about bugs so I stood up and started swinging my hands frantically through my hair trying to get it out all the while trying to pay attention the juicy Bachelor details I missed since we no longer have t.v.! I drop my phone, and all of a sudden my thumb felt like it was on fire. I look down and its got a little red dot that kept getting bigger. I was confused. Did I cut my thumb on something in my wild attempt to shoo the bug away? I keep chatting...my thumb keeps stinging and SWELLING...It was so swollen and shinny I couldn't bend it. Then I couldn't take it anymore. I started freaking out running around all confused, I had to hang up with Jessica, some guy came over and said it was a BEE sting. I HATE bees...good thing I didn't see it because if I had I'm sure I would have been hysterical about it. Matt made me go to the nurse station...she put meat tenderizer and some ice on it, checked my vitals and called it good. Within 20 min. the swelling was almost gone and the pain disappeared. Meat tenderizer is amazing I tell ya. So sad day for me...You better believe I will be nursing my would like no body's business for quite some time!
Today I was outside soaking up the rays, chatting with my favorite chatting buddy Jessica about all the real problems in the world like the Bachelor, when all of a sudden something flew into my hair. I am a spaz about bugs so I stood up and started swinging my hands frantically through my hair trying to get it out all the while trying to pay attention the juicy Bachelor details I missed since we no longer have t.v.! I drop my phone, and all of a sudden my thumb felt like it was on fire. I look down and its got a little red dot that kept getting bigger. I was confused. Did I cut my thumb on something in my wild attempt to shoo the bug away? I keep chatting...my thumb keeps stinging and SWELLING...It was so swollen and shinny I couldn't bend it. Then I couldn't take it anymore. I started freaking out running around all confused, I had to hang up with Jessica, some guy came over and said it was a BEE sting. I HATE bees...good thing I didn't see it because if I had I'm sure I would have been hysterical about it. Matt made me go to the nurse station...she put meat tenderizer and some ice on it, checked my vitals and called it good. Within 20 min. the swelling was almost gone and the pain disappeared. Meat tenderizer is amazing I tell ya. So sad day for me...You better believe I will be nursing my would like no body's business for quite some time!
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
A Work In Progress
I just have to give a shout out to my honey. He has been kicking butt(literally) at this Biggest Loser challenge. So far he has lost 30lbs!! I can not believe it. I tempt him all the time with junk and he just won't budge. Tonight for example...we had left over pizza, I was feeling lousy from a hard day of school, so I decided to eat all the junk in the world to "swallow" all my tears. Ha. Okay well that's a bit dramatic but I really was in a junk eating kind of mood and I really did eat an obscene amount of pizza and an obscene amount of ranch and Matt sat contently by my side eating his little egg sandwich...not even tempted by my gluttony. Just after dinner we opened a package from Bry and Les that had Marg's final pictures from our photo shoot. We popped the disk in to take a look...and were SHOCKED by how different Matt looks. He couldn't believe how big he was and neither could I...I don't remember him ever looking overweight to me but looking at him now compared to then he doesn't even look like the same person! I am so proud of his will power and all that he has accomplished so far. His whole attitude about working out, eating, and living a healthy life have changed so much. He's realized that he was making excuses about how he ate and even felt like those excuses were trickling over into normal life. He's made a conscience effort to cut the excuses and be responsible and boy is it paying off!! Good job babe. You are so hott. I just love you to pieces!
Here are some other before and "after" pictures. I wish you could just see him in person though because these pictures don't even do him justice!
You have to click on these pictures and make them REALLY big...then you'll REALLY see what I mean.
Alright now...time to finish my paper. Woohoo, yippee, fantastic!
Here are some other before and "after" pictures. I wish you could just see him in person though because these pictures don't even do him justice!
You have to click on these pictures and make them REALLY big...then you'll REALLY see what I mean.
Alright now...time to finish my paper. Woohoo, yippee, fantastic!
Free Day Extravaganza
As many of you may know the Lakes are doing a Biggest Loser contest agains the Proberts. What many of you may not know is how much planning goes into Matt's free day food.
Here's a nice little picture of his free day stash...he piles things up in the cupboard all week long planning out exactly what will be on his free day menu.
Last week it started out with a nice healthy breakfast of chips ahoy. He was wondering what the heck I was doing taking pictures of him all day long. I told him he needed to sacrifce in order to save our poor blog which has been suffering greatly these last few months.
After breakfast we hit up Costco and McDonalds(which is not what I look forward to in a free day meal...yes it did cause a momentary tiff but all is well now) For dinner we had some delish cheesy cauliflour. You don't even want to know how they are made, no you don't. You might gain a pound just thinking about eating them. Seriously.
Later in the evening Matt and I went on a day and "shared" a sunday...can't you tell that we were sharing??
To end a perfect free day you must finish what you started, the box of chips ahoy.
Here's a nice little picture of his free day stash...he piles things up in the cupboard all week long planning out exactly what will be on his free day menu.
Last week it started out with a nice healthy breakfast of chips ahoy. He was wondering what the heck I was doing taking pictures of him all day long. I told him he needed to sacrifce in order to save our poor blog which has been suffering greatly these last few months.
After breakfast we hit up Costco and McDonalds(which is not what I look forward to in a free day meal...yes it did cause a momentary tiff but all is well now) For dinner we had some delish cheesy cauliflour. You don't even want to know how they are made, no you don't. You might gain a pound just thinking about eating them. Seriously.
Later in the evening Matt and I went on a day and "shared" a sunday...can't you tell that we were sharing??
To end a perfect free day you must finish what you started, the box of chips ahoy.
The Driver on the Bus Says Move on Back...
My life is full of learning moments as of late...how to shower properly at the gym, how to move 10 times a year and not go insane and my lastest conquest-how to ride the city bus!!! I was very nervous, as you can well imagine, about how in the world you ride the city bus. When the bus pulled up I started to get on. That was my first mistake, you apparently have to left the people OFF the bus before you get ON. When I finially did get on I asked if the bus went to Talent. He said yes and then told me to just sit down and I could pay when I got off(probably because I was on the phone with Jessica, chatting away while searching through each of my 3 bags to try to find money). I felt like a dummy-everyone on the bus seemed to be staring at me and saying what a dumb girl who doesn't know how to ride a bus. Just as I was settling in and feeling like I had the hang of things the bus driver came up to me and said "To the back of the bus" and then cackled. Apparently I was sitting in a handicap spot and a lady in a wheel chair was trying to get on. Jessica said it was very Rosa Parks of me, I agreed. The back of the bus is where the rif raff sit. It smells back there. One boy was making dread locks in his hair.
I wasn't sure where to get off the bus, I saw what I thought was my bus stop pass, sad day so I pulled the yellow pully and waited for the next stop. The bus driver stoped at the stop sign and said I could just get off. Now I am confused. Can I pull the pully everytime at the stop sign and get off? Because that would really be the most convinient, or did he just do that because he knew I was the dumb girl that didn't know how to ride the bus OR pull the pully at the right time? Well I went to pay and asked him how much....Oh two dollars he says. I'm shocked, I thought it was like a quarter, so I search my bag again. Oh how much do you have in your hand he asks. One dollar. Oh thats fine thats fine. Well is it a dollar or two or however much I feel like dropping in the slot???
I wasn't sure where to get off the bus, I saw what I thought was my bus stop pass, sad day so I pulled the yellow pully and waited for the next stop. The bus driver stoped at the stop sign and said I could just get off. Now I am confused. Can I pull the pully everytime at the stop sign and get off? Because that would really be the most convinient, or did he just do that because he knew I was the dumb girl that didn't know how to ride the bus OR pull the pully at the right time? Well I went to pay and asked him how much....Oh two dollars he says. I'm shocked, I thought it was like a quarter, so I search my bag again. Oh how much do you have in your hand he asks. One dollar. Oh thats fine thats fine. Well is it a dollar or two or however much I feel like dropping in the slot???
Monday, February 23, 2009
First Time For Everything
Alright here's a doozy.
Our renters were supposed to be out of our house a couple of weeks ago, but they aren't gone yet so we are staying at Hotel Bluth in Medford. It's not really a hotel it just feels like one. Great tv, great food, fancy bedspreads. You get the picture. Since Molls and I go to school in Ashland and our gym is in Ashland I had to pack my stuff and get ready at the gym after my workout instead of going back home like we usually do. Can I just tell you how nervous and traumatized this made me??
First of all it is just one big communal shower with showers heads all over the place. Second of all the old lady swimmers had just got done with their class and were walking freely all around like there was no one else in sight. I tried to undress as inconspicuously as possible, hang my towel on the rack outside the shower, and jump in quick as lightning before the swimmers swarmed the showers. I chose the shower head right in the corner and rushed before the ladies came in. Rushed, exposed, cool showers are not my cup of tea. It all went down hill from there. People blow drying their hair with no clothes on, chatting about the weather (to me) with no clothes on, wandering around with no clothes on. I don't know if I can do it again. Very uncomfortable. Gyms should be required to have mandatory changing stalls and private showers!
Our renters were supposed to be out of our house a couple of weeks ago, but they aren't gone yet so we are staying at Hotel Bluth in Medford. It's not really a hotel it just feels like one. Great tv, great food, fancy bedspreads. You get the picture. Since Molls and I go to school in Ashland and our gym is in Ashland I had to pack my stuff and get ready at the gym after my workout instead of going back home like we usually do. Can I just tell you how nervous and traumatized this made me??
First of all it is just one big communal shower with showers heads all over the place. Second of all the old lady swimmers had just got done with their class and were walking freely all around like there was no one else in sight. I tried to undress as inconspicuously as possible, hang my towel on the rack outside the shower, and jump in quick as lightning before the swimmers swarmed the showers. I chose the shower head right in the corner and rushed before the ladies came in. Rushed, exposed, cool showers are not my cup of tea. It all went down hill from there. People blow drying their hair with no clothes on, chatting about the weather (to me) with no clothes on, wandering around with no clothes on. I don't know if I can do it again. Very uncomfortable. Gyms should be required to have mandatory changing stalls and private showers!
Monday, February 2, 2009
I Run a Tight Ship So Be Ware
That's right you heard me. It may come as a surprise to many of you(and definitly not to others) that Britney Spears is basically my sister. I have become her new bff...fan for life. Now you are probably thinking the same thing that Matt tells me all the time about my not so new, but but newly revived britney obsession, that it's pathetic. That's okay. Go ahead and say it. I don't care though, I'm coming out of the Britney closet. I LOVE every song on her new cd, with the exeption of one not so appropriate one, but other than that I listen to the whole thing everyday. I have even been hearing her songs in the background of my dreams. Please go buy the cd and then tell me you love it too!
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