HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

I'm about to start getting ready for my New Year's festivities. We're going to dinner at the yummiest restaurant ever with some friends and then going to a party. I hope you all have a wonderful New Year's Eve.....see you next year!

I'm back!

I had a wonderful Christmas and I hope all of you did too! I've got a lot of stuff to get done around the house after being gone for almost a week and LOTS of blog reading to catch up on, so I'll be back later today or tomorrow with more details.

Stay Tuned.........

happy holidays!

I'd like to wish all of you a Happy Holiday!!! I'm leaving to go out of town in the morning. Tonight I'll be having a pre-Christmas Eve dinner and drinks with friends and then I have to come home and start packing.

I'll be back Monday and can't wait to read about everyone's holiday adventures!

tagged

It's been so long since I started my tagged post, for your convenience, click here to get to it.

silent treatment

I just wanted to clarify #3 from my last post. I'm not really a spoiled brat and I don't use the silent treatment often at all. Only when it's something really important. And usually when it's something really important, my boyfriend knows this and uses it to really push my buttons. For some reason, he thinks it just hilarious when I get all fired up. So usually, in order to not give him the satisfaction of getting me all fired up, I just stop talking to him and go to another room. Then, when he realizes I'm not talking to him, he likes to follow me and continuously talk to me until I just can't stand it anymore. We usually end up laughing about it.

and the award goes to......

ME! I got my first award from Soliloquy (She Just Had to Say It). If you haven't already been reading her blog, you should check her out, she cracks me up! Especially the stories of the presents her husband got her each day because he's a freak (her words not mine) and put up the Christmas tree way before Thanksgiving. Just for the record Soliloquy, I agree with you that he did it to intentionally aggravate you.

Here are the rules:



list 10 honest things about yourself

pass the award onto 7 blogs that you find brilliant in their content or design

link to the blogger who gave you this prize

link to the blogs receiving the prize

notify the recipients







1. I'm really bad at coming up with lists of things about myself (just ask Lipsmacker, I still haven't finished her tagged post).



2. My boyfriend thinks I'm a neat freak, but I don't think I am.....I think it's just because he grew up in a house where you can't even walk through any of the rooms because his family, a. Doesn't throw anything away (when I say anything, I mean absolutely nothing, these people are PACK RATS) and b. Are disgustingly filthy not clean people. Seriously, it's gross....I refuse to go inside their house.

3. I give the silent treatment when I don't get my way. I'm not sure why, because it doesn't seem to work.

4. I love food and I love to cook.....I especially love to try new recipes.

5. I was engaged once. For less than 24 hours. Not kidding.

6. I love to read. Seriously, Amazon could stay in business even if I was their one and only customer.

7. I actually like working for my boss when she's not driving me totally insane. I know that makes no sense, but you would just have to know her.

8. I hate driving. Mostly because of all the other people I encounter on the road that can't drive for shit.

9. As much as I don't ever want any kids of my own, other people's kids love me.

10. Wow, I actually made it to ten. I've only made it to three on my tagged post.





Now for the lucky seven:

1. 27 Dresses in Cleveland: I just recently found her blog, and I love her dating stories. And I can definitely relate to being "Always a Bridesmaid".

2. That Girl: She actually found me, and I'm so glad she did. I love reading her blog and I can't wait for her Saturday Posts.....She's going to start sharing her fashion experience!

3. Puttin' on the G.R.I.T.S.: A fellow southern girl and I can't wait for her to move to Charleston with the love of her life!

4. Misadventures of a Newlywed: Mrs. Newlywed was one of the first blog's I started reading; I found her through a friend's blog. I always get a laugh when I read her blog, especially when she posts about one of her "misadventures" with Mr. Newlywed or when she receives such lovely emails from her devil-in-law.

5. Lipstick Diaries: Another one of my favorites; she definitely tells it like it is!

6. Cocaine Princess: She has the most fascinating stories!

7. Just Won't: She cracks me up! I just lover her sarcasm.

alfredo sauce

I still haven't finished my tagged post (I've got 3 out of 6 done), so I thought I'd post another recipe today. This alfredo sauce is quick, easy and really good. You can add chicken, shrimp, or whatever you want. I usually buy the Tyson popcorn chicken, cook it, cut each one in half and add it to the noodles and sauce.

ALFREDO SAUCE

INGREDIENTS:
1/2 cup butter
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
garlic salt (I don't measure this, you can just add to your taste)
2 cups milk
6 ounces grated Parmesan cheese
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper

DIRECTIONS:
Melt butter in a medium, non-stick saucepan over medium heat. Add cream cheese and garlic powder, stirring with wire whisk until smooth. Add milk, a little at a time, whisking to smooth out lumps. Stir in Parmesan and pepper. Remove from heat when sauce reaches desired consistency. Sauce will thicken rapidly, thin with milk if cooked too long. Toss with hot pasta to serve.