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Foodie Friday!!

Another Friday is upon us and that means today is "all things food" here on my little corner of the web! I have a yummy recipe, a cool and handy gadget and of course my weekly menu! So sit back and be prepared to get hungry..LOL

First up, the other day I told you about my little pavlova mishap and how I fixed it, well as it turns out I didn't invent some new dessert but apparently somewhere in the inner depths of my foodie loving mind I must of remembered seeing the recipe on NIGELLA's cooking show and I made what is called "ETON MESS"

You can watch the very lovely Miz Lawson making it right here on the youtube video!!

It was yummy stuff indeed!

Moving on to this weeks gadget. I could really use a few of these Taco plates. I had some taco stands that came with taco shells but they got lost in the move, still haven't a clue where they went...anyways these one seem pretty cool and a good deal at 7 dollars!

TACO PLATES (<--LINK)



That brings us to this weeks menu. This coming week is all about fast, easy and cleaning out the pantry/freezer, so nothing to glamorous!

Menu for the week of May 30th until June 5th

• Sat- Out at the mall so most likely McDonald's.
• Sun- Pancakes - Fresh Fruit.
• Mon- Potato Salad with Smoked Salmon and horseradish creme fresh - Garlic Bread.
• Tues- Frozen Pizza.
• Wed- Hamburgers - Fries - Cut up veggies.
• Thurs- Macaroni & Cheese - Spinach Salad.
• Fri- Wild card. (Take Out or Leftovers).

With that I will call it a day! I hope you have a fabulous and safe weekend and until next time...TATA!

Insanely busy today.....

I have a ton on my plate today, so I will just leave you with a fun quiz for the day!! Until next time..TATA!!

You Are Aphrodite!

A total shining star with a ton of admirers And no wonder: you live life to the fullest! When things get bad, you can easily take off to a happier place But occasionally, you need to deal with problems head on

What Goddess Are You?

Middle of the week ramblings....

Top of the morning to ya! For some reason I am having a hard time getting my rear end out of bed this week..yawn..so anyways, my sound card died of me yesterday. I was drinking my coffee and surfing away and my sound card driver thingy kept popping on screen and I kept hitting close and was getting annoyed when the blue screen of death happened and I stared slack jawed at my screen for a good five minutes! I restarted and all seemed OK, then the sound card thingy started popping up again and freezing up my computer, so I called my very own computer genius who said "sounds like your sound card is dead, go into the bios setup and disable it" After two full minutes of laughing, I realized he was serious. Now I consider myself OK with computer stuff, but going into settings and stuff like that freaks me out! Alas after ten flippin minutes of me trying to get into the settings, I finally managed to open them and get the card disabled. Restarted and so far that seems to have been the cause of the trouble. Unfortunately my sound card in situated on board my motherboard so that means I have to go and buy a new separate sound card. Luckily they are not to expensive!

After that little fiasco I decided I had enough of the computer and the little man and I headed out to the playground. The weather was gorgeous and we stayed about two hours, alas it then started to cloud up and look like rain so we headed home making a stop at the bakery on the way where the little guy hit me up for a donut and chocolate croissant. lol

The day before yesterday DH brought me home 2kg of strawberries, so I have been trying to come up with ideas for using them up. I finally decided I was going to try my hand at making a pavlova, it seemed simple enough and indeed it was easy and looked really good going into the oven, that is where the good ends though. I followed the instructions to the letter and when I tried to take it off the baking paper it would not budge!! It was like it was super glued on there and it was cracking and breaking up and ya, just a mess! I put on my Martha cap and decided all was not lost! I crumbled up the pavlova, whipped some cream and folded in the pavlova pieces, then I folded in the chopped strawberries and YUMMY is about all I can say about that!

That about wraps things up here for today..I hope you have a great day and until next time..TATA!!

Books and TV...oh my!!!

Good morning peeps! Another day..another dollar as they say! I wanted to let those of you that read this blog and have a book addiction like me know that I started a new blog. A group of friends and I have decided to challenge ourselves and take part in a "50 Book Challenge" basically that means we have set the goal for ourselves of reading 50 books in one year. Now considering that I read at least 1 to 2 books a week, this should be a cake walk! lol Anyways, I wanted somewhere else to keep track of the books I read and so people could find the books and reviews easily without have to dig through my other rantings and ramblings.

If you are interested the link to my 50 BOOK CHALLENGE blog is HERE (<--LINK) you can also find the link right there off to the right under my little smiling photo! LOL If you scroll down to the bottom of the book blog you can follow me or subscribe, if you so wish! Book #1 is already up and I am starting #2 today!

So onto some TV talk! With 99% of our usual viewing done for this season DH and I had been searching for some new shows to catch up on in the off season. We have had our eye on SUPERNATURAL for awhile and so we nabbed the box sets and have happily been watching 2 to 3 episodes a night for a couple weeks now!



What can I say..hot guys..demonic possession..vampires..who could ask for anything more?? It really is turning out to be a really great show! Show this one gets two very big thumbs up from us!

With that I will call it a day for today, I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

An update and clearing something up!!

Who knew that a vent would cause so many people to email me! First up, the blog post was aimed at a very specific person who I know reads this blog and still has not emailed me back, so rest assured if you emailed me in the last 24 hours it was not aimed at you in any way! I am going to down low the vents from now on on here..or maybe not! LOL

So onto the update! The bad thing about having four days off is trying to get your butt out of bed on the fifth day..6 am came WAY to early this morning! We had a pretty nice little break..Thursday was a holiday here so everything was closed so I decided to strip the coverings off my sofa and chaise and take it down to the monster size machine at the laundry mat, three hours and 250 kr later and my sofa is back to looking sparkly white! Have I mentioned before how much I adore IKEA stuff??!! I love being able to strip and wash the furniture. After I was finished with that DH had to leave to go help his brother move some furniture, so the kids and I just hung out here at home and chilled.

Friday the weather was not on our side so we decided to hold off on Tivoli until we have a nicer day to go. It's not fun dodging rain whilst trying to ride the rides. We did go out though for a bit and do some shopping. I actually popped in to the 10kr store (like the dollar store for you peeps living the dream on the other side of the world) and what did I find...why one of those cool nail buffers that someone at the mall tried to sell me for 400 kr a couple weeks ago, you know the kind from the dead sea that buffs your nails all shiny like, well I nabbed one that works as well and it cost me a whole 10 kr, go me! Later for dinner we had a picnic on the floor of the livingroom and ice cream sundaes for dessert, was a good day all around!

Saturday the kids and DH headed off to do the rest of the grocery shopping and I headed off to meet a group of ten expats, we all have known each other for over 10 years now, we meet while attending danish language classes way back when we were all newbies here! We try and meet once a year to catch up and see how everyone is doing. I was really looking forward to it this year and was pleased to hear that everyone is doing wonderfully and still enjoying living here and raising their kids here. We had a rousing conversation and Danes and expats, good times I tell ya!!

Sunday we just chilled again, the weather left a lot to be desired, so it was officially cleaning, playing Wii, reading day. Nothing to exciting there to report.

So now you are all caught up on all things me, so I will wrap it up for today! I hope you have a great day and until next time..TATA!!

My pet peeve for today!

A grown woman acting like a three year old and ignoring my emails..grow the flip up..this isn't grade school anymore! Can you tell I am in a mood?? LOL

Things that make you go Hmmmmmm........

I seem to be a weirdo magnet..no idea how..no idea why..but they seem to flock to me like flies to honey!! Luckily I escaped this latest one with minimal exposure, so maybe I am starting to get better at scoping them out before they get to close! LOL My husband finds it very amusing..though he does give me props I have an uncanny ability to see who a person really is before they show their full self to the world. When we were fixing up this apartment we had had hired a contractor and he had a helper, well after a ten minute conversation I said to DH "that guy is both high and insane" DH thought I was just being mean..well two months later he got fired..why..for being high and insane..LOL Anyways..just something I had on my mind today..until next time..TATA!!

Bing Bang Boom!!

Happy hump day peeps! Last night we had the best thunderstorm EVER! It woke me up at 3am and I rolled over and poked DH in the head and said "hey, can you hear the rocking storm we are having??" He grunted and then decided he needed to use the loo, on the way back to bed my son came stumbling out of his bedroom with tears in his eyes afraid of the "booms" so he came and slept all snuggled up with us for the rest of the night. My daughter of course slept through it all! LOL I love thunderstorms, especially ones at night, there is just something about it I find very soothing..weird, I know!

In other news my daughter's recital went off without a hitch and I must say it was just adorable! We video tapped the whole thing, so that was nice. She is now done with ballet until the end of August so that will free up our Tuesday nights. In fact she only has a month and a half left of school. I can't believe how fast this year has flown by and how much both my kids have grown. At first I was reluctant to start her in school I had my heart set on homeschooling her (which I did for the year before she actually started) but we always agreed that is SHE wanted to go to school we would try it out and she has taken to it like a fish in water! She is part of an awesome class (a mix of Danes and kids with one parents from somewhere else) and her teachers are lovely and encourage the kids to think outside the box and be themselves. I am also equally impressed with her after school place and that is why I have no qualms about sending my son there in August. So, ya, we have been happy all around and I am excited to see what the coming years bring!

Today is the last school day/work day for the week since tomorrow is a holiday and my daughter and husband also have Friday off. We are hoping the weather is nice Friday because we are hoping to plan a surprise for the kids. Not 100% sure yet, but it may be the Zoo or Tivoli, so fingers crossed the weather gods are on our side!

One last thing before I go...my inlaws yorkie had puppies not to long ago. The mommy had six, alas three have passed, but the three that are left are growing like weeds! One they are keeping, another is already promised to someone and they are selling the third! Here are a couple of photos..be prepared though..the cuteness may be to much for some! LOL





With that I will wrap things up for another day here..I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!

Quick Blog Update today!

Just a quick post for today! My daughter has her end of the season ballet recital today and my inlaws are coming into the city to visit us and watch the recital, SO that means I have a million and one things to do before they arrive. I also need to run out and do a few errands and drop a couple books back at the library..busy..busy day!

I hope yours is lovely and a tad less hectic and until next time..TATA!!

Weekend Update and a Couple new LO's!!

Good Monday morning peeps! I hope you all enjoyed a lovely weekend, ours was pretty layed back. All last week was environment week at my daughters school so they learned about alternative energies, picked up trash, visited a windmill farm and a bunch of other fun things and then Saturday we were all invited to the school to see the crafts they made from recycled materials and she was part of a little dance, so that took up part of the day. It was raining and kind of "blah" so we just hung out at home the rest of the day and cleaned a little, read a little etc. Saturday night I snuggled up on the sofa with my snacks and watched Eurovision. It was actually decidedly less cheesy then previous years and I have to say there were quite a few good songs this year!

Sunday the weather was much improved so we spent the day out in our courtyard. I can't tell you how much I enjoy living in this building, we have great friendly neighbors who always say "Hej" when they see us and there are a lot of kids always playing around for mine to play along with. In fact I pretty much adore this whole neighborhood and have threatened DH's life if he ever thinks about moving us from it! LOL That brings us to today, this week is actually a short week as Thursday is a holiday here and pretty much every one takes the Friday off also, so my daughter and DH have both of them off. You have to love May in Denmark, there is pretty much a holiday every week of the month! lol

In other news I have a couple new LO's to show off! The first is from Cre Bisontine, she has a new kit coming out tomorrow at Shabby Pickle called DELIGHTFUL COUNTRYSIDE...



The second is with Libby's new BLUE EYED BEAUTY kit available over at Sweet Shoppe Designs!



So with that I will wrap things up for today! I hope you have a good one and until next time..TATA!!