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  • This is my favorite all time thing to make and eat. I am pretty sure I could live off of it:

    2 onions
    7 strips bacon
    lots of potatoes (I think I used a whole bag yesterday)
    1 can creamed corn
    1 can not creamed corn
    salt
    pepper
    and I don’t think it is complete with out Johnny’s

    Cook bacon in little pieces:


    try not to eat all the bacon after you take it out of the pan.

    Cut up your onions really teeny tiny:

    Then to make it extra yummy you simmer the onions in the bacon fat in a big soup pan with salt and pepper (and Johnny’s). While this is going on peal the potatoes and cut them into chunks. Then after the onions have been going for like five minuets put in the potatoes and just cover with water. I add more salt and pepper usually. I cook this until the potatoes are soft. I like doing it with the lid off because I think the texture is better. Then after the potatoes are cooked drain the non-creamed corn and stick it in, and then stick in the whole creamed corn can. Add in the bacon that you cooked earlier.  Make sure it all gets warm. Serve with grated cheddar cheese and homemade biscuits, yum, yum, yum.

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  • 1897 is when some clerk started this ledger for his business. I don’t know why. I think it might be for personal records or a small business. He bought eggs, milk, oil, and paid five dollars rent for his house. I just love this thing. I got it off eBay a month or so ago. It is fourteen inches tall, nine inches wide and an inch and a half tall. I’ve had an affection for these kinds of things since I saw one my professor Julie Green had altered to be an art journal. I finally found one I really wanted on eBay then I had to spend a whole month just looking at all the old writing and ink stains before I could do anything to it. I think I am ready now. I just read this entry on Ali’s Blog about signing up for an online class on art journals with promps and things. It’s not really my style to follow any kind of direction but I did like the idea of finally starting on my journal. I might use the stamps I got on eBay as well. They are old sign making stamps. Gosh I love eBay. Well I think I will have to be getting to work soon. Bj’s slightly catatonic right now after staying up until 6:45 am working on the footer for the new site. But he seems to be coming around:


    Why does he always pick the small couch? At 6’4″ this is a mystery to me.

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  • Last night I was watching an episode of Smallville in real time (gasp!) and there was this Mentos commercial on there that killed me. It was so weird and funny, basically the kind of thing that gets me on a roll. It starts out with little birds in a nest and the momma bird feeds the little bird a Mentos and then they start chirping this song. Well then all these other birds chime in and you hear a parrot say “there’s no limit,” I don’t think this commercial has anything to do with Mentos but whatever. I rewound it and watched it until Bj threatened to take the TiVo remote away from me (nooooo!). So I can’t find a down loadable version of the commercial, however I did find out the song is “No Limit” by 2 Unlimited. And you can bet I am going to get that today! If I figure out how to get the commercial off of my TiVo and on here I’ll post it (but it’s not looking good since TiVo to Go isn’t available for OS X yet).

    And in other TV related news my brother’s super smart friend is going to be on Judge Judy for beating up a car with his bear hands! You heard me right people. The car he beat up was, unfortunately for him, a football player’s so that guy beat his face. This has to be up there with my cousin’s then boyfriend who got mentioned on David Letterman for getting an antenna crammed up his nose while working on his car. Ya, I don’t really have much else to say.

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