Make-Out Bottle Girl

UGH! Okay, so I'm sitting in the school's coffee shop computer lab, dutifully working on homework, and the like, when a person walks in and sits at the computer right next to me. Nothing too bad...yet. So we are surfing away, me and my buddy, I'm looking for articles and she...well, she is looking at articles with awful pictures pasted of Pres Obama. I don't know what that is about. Anyways, we are still doin fine here, but then she decides she is in great need of a drink. So she hops up and goes right into the Hopper store to get something. She comes back. I notice she's gone with an Izze bottled drink. A fine choice and I mentally commend her for it.
I soon regret my appreciation.
She doesn't just drink from the bottle. She sips. And sips. And sips. And sips. CONTINUOUSLY! Folks, I counted 30+ little tiny baby sips in one setting before she even paused or put the drink down. One. right. after. another. Within about 30 seconds she has only drunk about 1/16th of this normal sized bottle but has taken a MILLION sips. And they are the loudest slurpiest most discusting sounding sips I have ever heard. I felt like I needed to leave her alone with this bottle! UGH! So whenever I see said person, I will forever think of her as Make-Out Bottle Girl. Nice to meet you.
Shudders.

XOXO
Lindsey

Double Chins

So we have this little problem(s) ...  we have more chins than a chinese phonebook.  And I mean really...

Okay, so these were taken January of 2009, but still.  The problem is everlasting.

We have officially deemed ourselves honorary members of our own greek group: Badda-Genetica.


We found this online and really need to check it out: Neckline Slimmer
Let us know if you've tried it and seen results!!!  Comment below.  WE NEED YOUR HELP!

What's a girl to do?!

Usually, I don't look out for vengful vermits or vicious insect of any kind while walking into my house. It's not like I'm paranoid and constantly checking my surrounding for crazed creatures. Well, two days ago my laid back approach of going into the house from my car didn't really work as I'd like it to.
I was just a walkin' into the house when out of my pariferal vision this black thing flies super fast to my arm and attacked it! More out of shock than hurt, I flicked the wasp off my arm and screamed both out of shock and pain. (Maybe the scream wasn't a good idea, because the night before we had a creeper around our house at 2 am and Elizabeth and Liz had to call the coppy-cops out of fright. So maybe my timing wasn't on target, because I think I sounded more abducted than stung to Elizabeth who was sitting in the kitchen.)

Long story short.....I got my first wasp sting. Just because it happened so fast, it didn't happen as bad as I thought it would. I guess it was a good thing that I got it on my wrist instead of my eyelid!

If you ever find yourself in the same situation, I would suggest that (provided you don't seem to have an allergic reaction) you ice it for 10-15 mins if you can and then soon after apply a paste of Baking soda and water to the sting. Stick a giant bandaid over it and if you got the same result as me, you should feel practically nothing soon after! I don't know what it is about baking soda, but it certainly did the trick!!!

xoxo-Jenna

Muh sister

My sister is hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (for those of you asking what the crap that is, it's basically the Appalachian trail, but on the west coast that runs from Canada to Mexico) for the next 6 months.

She's keeping a pretty good blog found here.  So if hiking is you kind of thing, keep track of her and read all about some random girl and her friends hiking the trail!

xoxo-Jenna

April Showers, Won't You Please Bring May Flowers?

Are there enough words in the English language that can muster up just how cute my new rain boots are?

I think not.

Bring on the rain, ...man!

xoxo,
Elizabeth

How does our garden grow?

Does this not look like something we would have at our house?

Well we do now!
With the new Liberty Line at Target, I just had to get one. My little herb garden out back loves to be watered by this can! It's oh so "Cherry House!"

Homemade chi tea

I'm kind of addicted Real Simple the magazine and chi tea. So when Real Simple came out with a chi tea recipe I just about died! Ever since this March 2010 issue came out, I've been making some variation of the recipe. It's kind of the bomb. So, if you're into chi tea, I would highly suggest taking a sip of this concoction.
My own suggestions would be:
A) to add a little bit of Cool Whip (without High Fructose Corn Syrup, of course) on the top and mixed in to make it creamier and yummier.
B) Make the spices a little stronger. It really doesn't hurt.
C) definitely at least double the recipe, because it's so good you'll have wanted to anyway.

Ingredients:
8 Cardamom seeds
8 Cloves
4 Black peppercorns
2 Cinnamon sticks
1 1-inch piece fresh ginger, sliced
2 Cupes whole milk
4 Bags black tea (such as Darjeeling)
8 Teaspoons sugar or more, to taste
2 Cups water

• Place the cardamom, cloves, and peppercorns in a resealable plastic bag and crush with a heavy skillet.
• Place the crushed spices in a medium saucepan, along with the cinnamon sticks, ginger, milk, and 2 cups water: bring to a boil. Remove from heat, add the tea bags, cover, and let steep for 10 minutes. 
• Strain into cups. To each cup, add 2 teaspoons sugar or more, to taste. 
• Tip: You can make this tea and refrigerate it up to 2 days. (It's good cold or reheated!)
  
  Enjoy!