BABY BUMBLE BEE

A friend did a line from this little song as a subject line in an email and ever since I can't get the song out of my head....so I hope to infect others with this little diddy...

BABY BUMBLE BEE

I've caught myself a baby bumble bee
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me?
I've caught myself a baby bumble bee...
Ouch! It stung me!

I'm squashing up my baby bumble bee
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me?
I'm squashing up my baby bumble bee...
Ew! What a mess!

I'm licking up my baby bumble bee
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me?
I'm licking up my baby bumble bee...
Ugh! I feel sick!

I'm barfing up my baby bumble bee
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me?
I'm barfing up my baby bumble bee...
Oh! Another mess!

I'm mopping up my baby bumble bee
Won't my Mommy be so proud of me?
I'm mopping up my baby bumble bee...
Mommy, aren't you proud of me?

Cookies!

I made cookies last week that turned out really pretty good...for the first time of making them. Usually what happens is I make a cookie - it fails due to the altitude and then I work on ways to improve it to work here. But these worked FIRST try!

They really should be called Death by Chocolate - they are triple chocolate cookies. They had cocoa powder, white chocolate chips and then were suppose to have semi-sweet chips but all I had was dark chocolate so I used those. I am going to make some for some friends today and ask Michael to mail those off tomorrow.

Here is some pictures...

St. Patty's Day

In the 3 years of being with Michael - I have gotten out of making corned beef. One year we forgot that it was St. Patrick's Day and so he just got a deli corned beef sandwich. And I can't remember the other years why but something came up. Anyway, this year I am having to make it. I don't like corned beef at all. I can't stand the smell or the taste. ewww! So tonight I will have some left overs and Michael will have his corned beef brisket. They had a great deal on them at Safeway - by 1 brisket get the other free. So I will be making it again too.

I was looking for ways to cook the corned beef brisket before I had a chance to ask Michael how he wanted it cooked and I came across an article at the Irish Culture and Customs website. Corned Beef on St. Patrick's Day isn't even a tradition in Ireland....only in the USA.

Caution: Political Rants ahead....

Darby convinced me that I should connect my political rants blog to our Michael & Darby blog as well...

...so... just putting out the careful caveats that sometimes the rants are very ... colorful because I have a great deal of passion for what this administration has done to our country.. That said, I'm also very quick to point out that I also don't think the Democrats would fare much better - but what bothers me more than anything is that there is a complete failure by this administration on so many different fronts..

Clinton may not have been the "gem of a President," but we're losing lives.. Our government is corrupt and rewarding companies while our citizenry scrambles to get by.. We're not safer than we were before 9/11 - and it gets worse as time goes by..

So without further ado.... I introduce you to Spoons Rant..