I is for Irresistible

       Faced with the letter challenge of the day I can’t get Robert Palmer’s song out of my head.  Because of this, I thought I would list a few things I find simply irresistible.

1.  My husband, which is a good thing since he is my husband.

2.  My kid’s smiles.

3.  Soft and Cuddly Kittens

4.  Adorable Puppies

5. Chocolate, especially if it covers marshmallows or coconut!

6.  Bradley Cooper in ANYTHING, or nothing if you catch my drift.  Since I just watched “Hangover” again, it is little wonder I still have him on the brain.  Let me just pick my tongue up off the floor so I can go on with my list.

7.  I love Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.  I don’t normally go for men who wear makeup, but Captain Jack Sparrow is in a class all by himself.

8.  Ice Cream with strawberries, whipped cream, nuts, and a cherry on top.

9.  An infectious case of the giggles!!

10. The smell of roses, lilacs, JOOP, and hot pizza!

11.  Funny movies, I love to laugh if you haven’t noticed.

12.  Music…let’s just narrow it down to anything with a beat or a message that moves me.  

 

 

    I could go on because I am having entirely too much fun, but I won‘t.  Yes, I like eye candy!  Yes, I love delicious smells!  And yes, I can’t resist puppies or kittens.   I guess that explains why I have 6 animals as full time residents.  Bottom line, I can’t resist things that make me happy.  Enough said until next time when I give you another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.

C is for Chocolate

      Is there really anything in the world that is better than chocolate ?  This time of year visions of chocolate bunnies hop about in my head.  Many will argue that marshmallow Peeps and jelly beans are just as wonderful, but it is the hollow chocolate bunny that is the star of the Easter Basket.

      Not to long ago I saw a picture on Face Book that perfectly represented the chocolate bunny’s plight this time of year.  It showed two chocolate bunnies together talking.  One complained that its butt hurt, and the other couldn’t hear.  Why you ask?  Some over eager soul had bitten off the one bunny’s butt, and someone else had nibbled off the other’s ears.  I personally thought this was hilarious.

      It got me thinking.  At no other time of year could you see people willingly eating a bunny’s a$$.  I mean gross, right?  You tell anyone they are eating the hind end out of an animal and they are most likely to spit it right out.  I would.  You would never have people begging to devour the chicken’s a$$hole or a cow’s crotch.

 
       Make those parts out of chocolate, and what one minute sounded nasty becomes doable in the next minute.  I am just as guilty as the next person.  I admit taking great delight in devouring countless chocolate bunnies over the years.  I always save their candy eyeballs for last!!  Every Easter we have all seen the Cadbury commercials where a lovely little bunny clucks away and then shoots Cadbury eggs out of its butt.  People are literally biting at the bit to gobble those things up.  It doesn’t matter if we seen it just come out of a bunny’s butt, it is chocolate and we are eating it!


       

       The sad thing is, even though I have contemplated all of this…Easter will soon come and I will be inhaling my chocolate bunny regardless.  What can I say?   I love chocolate until next time when I give you another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.
     

Tasty Tuesday: Rocky Road Brownie Pizza

2/3 cup all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon salt

2 ounces unsweetened chocolate

1/4 cup melted margarine

1 cup sugar

1 egg 

1 tsp vanilla extract

Topping

1/4 cup chopped mixed nuts

1/3 cup peanut butter chips or milk chocolate chips

1/3 cup miniature marshmallows

1/4 cup coconut flakes

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.  Spray a 9 inch pie plate with cooking spray.  Combine salt and flour;set aside.

Melt chocolate in a sauce pan; remove from heat.  Mix in margarine and sugar.

Add egg and vanilla to chocolate mixture in pan; mix until smooth.  Stir flour mixture into chocolate mixture.

Spread batter in prepared pie plate.  Bake until set, about 15 minutes.

For topping, mix nuts, peanut butter or chocolate chips, marshmallows and coconut together.  Sprinkle mixture over brownie layer.  Bake for 10 minutes or until pizza pulls away from sides of pan.  Cool before cutting. 

Bon Appetit!

Smart Cookie Award

   I was recently included as a recipient of the “Smart Cookie” award!  I would like to thank Paula Martin for her kindness for including me as one of many smart cookies who belong to the Writer’s Post group on Face Book.   The rules included with the award are precise. 


1. I must thank and provide a link to the persona who awarded me.  Check, did that above.
2.  Share 4 interesting or little known facts about anything.
3.  Pass on the award to other “smart cookies”.


    Thanks to a cool little website I was able to find some interesting facts that I didn’t know but found kind of amusing and simply had to share.  If you want to check out more freaky facts follow my link above.

1.  Turtles can breathe through their butts.  This little fact makes you think twice about trying to perform CPR on a turtle doesn’t it?
Ok, I will quit laughing long enough to share more!

2. Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 short months 2 rats could very possibly have over a million descendents. They actually have $ex 20 times a day!  Talk about screwing yourself out of a seat at the table!  It seriously must be all rats do.  What really bothers me about this little fact is why G0d allows this business to go on?? It is not like rats are all cute and cuddly! I guess I just don’t get the “why” behind rats!  It reminds me of my favorite scene in Disney’s Ratatouille where that crazy old lady starts blasting her ceiling with a shot gun and the whole thing falls to the floor with a zillion rats on it.  I would be running out the door and down the street screaming if I were her.  Instead she chooses to attempt to blow them away with her gun destroying her house in the process.

3. Cat pee glows under a black light.  Seriously, who here is going to get a black light and follow your cat around until it pees to see if it glows in the dark??  Someone must have though or how would they KNOW this little tidbit?  It is just too funny for words!  I wonder if it gives up enough light to read by. 




4. Did you realize $ex is in biochemical terms no different than eating extremely large quantities of chocolate??  Does this mean when a person isn’t in the mood you can simply feed a sinfully large amount of chocolate to your significant other without enduring the sweaty mess?  It certainly explains why folks are so hooked on chocolate and swear it is positively sinful!  A person could completely bypass all the red tape of $ex by indulging in chocolate. That is one form of birth control!  Just saying!




    Last but certainly not least I would love to pass this little award to some well deserving “Smart Cookies”.  In no particular order they are….

Glen at "Glenslife"

Amy McMunn Schinndler at “From the Mom Cave”
Elizabeth Grace at “Word Nerd Speaks”


  The award rules do not specify how many people to honor so I chose 3.  They are all people who are extremely talented writers and have the ability to inject humor brilliantly in everything they write.  I never fail to smile when I visit them.  I encourage all of you to check out their blogs until next time when I give you another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.

Tasty Tuesday: German Chocolate-Coconut Pie

1 9 inch unbaked piecrust

1 (4 ounce) bar sweet baking chocolate

2 TBSP butter or margarine

1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk

2 eggs

½ cup hot water

½ tsp vanilla extract

¼ tsp salt

½ cup pecans

½ cup shredded coconut

Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Prick piecrust in several places with a fork. Bake until crust is firm and lightly browned, about 10 minutes.

Let cool.

Combine chocolate and butter in a small saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently, until melted (about 3 minutes.)

Combine chocolate mixture and condensed mile in a large bowl. Add eggs, water, vanilla, and salt.

Pour mixture into piecrust. Sprinkle with pecans and coconut. Bake until slightly set, about 45 minutes. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and refrigerate for 3-4 hours before slicing for best results. Bon Appetit’!