Category: Friends

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Cookies for Carl

This is a photo of peanut butter cookies that I just made for my good friend, Carl. He loves cookies and I always take a dozen over to his house when I am baking.

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The recipe I use for these cookies is my own, but it is adapted from a recipe I found online. Their recipe was called Peanut Butter Blossoms, because we put unwrapped Hershey’s Kisses in the middle of each cookie right after it comes out of the oven.

My secret for this recipe is which peanut butter you choose. Some people might be tempted to buy the cheapest brand of peanut butter, or something on sale. But I ALWAYS use Peter Pan Creamy in this recipe and they are simply DELICIOUS!

I think its about time I make a batch of Oatmeal cookies with raisins and chopped walnuts. That always hits the spot with a glass of ice cold milk!

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Fishing with Owen

This weekend I plan on doing something new and fun. I need to get out of the house and out of my rut. My friend, Owen, suggested that we take a drive to one of the big lakes and try fishing. That sounds like fun if we can get a boat. If he just wants to stand on the shoreline and get bit by mosquitoes for 10 hours then he’ll have to do that on his own. Not this girl!

I would love to rent a decent sized boat and hire a guide to take us out on Nickajack Lake or one of the other big lakes further north. My idea of fishing involves floating on the water, having a cooler with some cold drinks, and some pleasant company to talk with for a few hours. If the weather won’t be rainy or risk of thunderstorms, that’s our plan for Saturday.

Now to think of something fun to do on Sunday, too!

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Baking Bread with Charlotte

I was invited to come to a cookware party by my good friend, Miss Charlotte, so I went with a skeptical attitude and a tight fist on my checkbook. Turns out that I’m not really interested in the line of cookware that she was offering and I didn’t buy anything that night. But while at the party we did get to chatting about cooking and baking and different shortcuts and kitchen tips.

Miss Charlotte invited me to come back one weekend and spend the day baking with her. I think that would be great – I love to bake and it is even more fun when you have someone there working alongside you.

Net weekend we are going to spend Saturday afternoon together in her kitchen making some different breads and rolls. She wants to donate the finished products to a church function the next morning. So I am looking up bread recipes online and finding two that I want to try. We are not using a bread machine to make these – they will be completely from scratch, hand rolled and raised, and then baked with love. I can’t wait to see how they turn out!

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Happy Birthday, Spencer!

Today is my buddy’s birthday. Spencer is turning the big three – o. We wanted to throw a surprise party for him, but he caught onto it and had a fit . He doesn’t like anyone making a fuss over him, so I guess we have to respect that. Its just that it can be hard to tell if people just say that of if they really mean it. But Spencer really did wig out for like, two days, about it, so I think he was serious this time. But we will still be celebrating with him later tonight.

Happy Birthday, Spencer!

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Valentines Hearts

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Valentines candies that say how us single-and-not-really-dating-anyone people feel about celebrating a holiday for people in love. And we are not. So this holiday is like, a waste of time. Except that tomorrow I can buy up a big stash of good candies on sale for less than half price! There’s always a silver lining!

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Facebook Frustrations

This is the second year that I’ve had a Facebook account and I’m getting frustrated with it. I know most people like to complain about the changes being made to the program itself. They complain about the new looks and new features, saying that Facebook staffers are meddling with something that is already good. I think most of those people are just old fuddies who don’t like change – for the sake of not liking change.

But my frustration is from the people who are on there using it. When I started out with my account I had about 80 friends. These were people that I know in real life and most of what I said on Facebook was a close match to what I would say to these people to their face.

Somehow over the past two years my friends list has grown to almost 500 people and I have to admit that there are a lot of people on there that I do not know personally. They are more like friends of friends and maybe i will meet some of them one day.

But these people who are friends of friends can be a strange bunch of people. They spout off about all kinds of things that I do not agree with, on every subject from religion to politics to bashing celebrities. I worry that these people who say such extreme things might be reflecting on me, even though I do not agree with a lot of what they say. I am seriously considering deleting a lot of these people who are not really friends and who do not reflect my own values.

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New Movies

I love the way Redbox sends me an email every week with a list of all the new movies that are coming out. I read over the email and decide which movie I want, then I reserve it online. It works like a charm! I’m so glad my girlfriend Robin told me about Redbox last year. I had no idea it was so easy!

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Reposting Scams

An uncomfortably large number of my Facebook friends seem to be extremely gullible and naive. I am going to have to give this some serious thought. They are way too willing to repost false statements on their walls without checking them out first. The one that really ticks me off are all the self righteous faux christians reposting the lie that Pepsi or dr. Pepper have cans with the Pledge of Allegiance on them and theat they deliberately left off the words “under God.” This is not true and yet I see this reposting almost ever day for weeks now.

If people judge you by the friends that you keep, I do not want other people to think that I am this stupid, too. I am seriously thinking about unfriending anyone who reposts these and just thinning out my list.

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Open Letter to My Friend

To respect your privacy, I’m not naming you. But I want you to know this:

Sorry to read this and that you are having a hard time right now and that you don’t think you have any friends. I do want to say that to have a good friend you have to BE a good friend.

A good friend is not someone that you lie to, steal from and only talk to when you want something. It’s a two way street. And there is a huge difference between being a friend who has your best interest at heart and being an ENABLER, even if you don’t realize it at the time.

Until you get serious help and beat your drug problem, you will never know who your real friends are – they are all just people for you to exploit.

I hope you take this to heart and get help from professionals – not the “help” from your sucker list that you just want to exploit.

Some of your friends want to help you in the true sense and see you happy and productive, and yet all you do is break their heart.

When you are ready to accept real help from a real friend, call me and I will come get you. We will figure something out together. You do have real friends and I want you to know that.