No Bake Cookies

Maybe it was the snowy day, whatever the reason I was feeling nostalgic.
So I dug out a recipe for No Bake Cookies. These bring me right back to High School Home Ec class and our teacher we all loved Mrs. Stewart. These were easy to make and I'm sure Mrs. Stewart had to know that in order to keep us happy, you need to feed us. So the No Bake was a very needed staple for our class!

So here is a piece of my High School.
No Bake Cookies
1/2 cup butter
2 cups sugar
1/2 cup milk
4 Tbspn cocoa
1/2 cup peanut butter
3 1/2 cups quick cooking oats
2 tsp. vanilla

In a pot mix the first 4 ingredients and bring to a boil. Add the next 3 ingredients, stir it all together.
Drop onto wax paper, let cool and sit.

The only difference is I no longer throw them in the freezer so they set up faster. I have self control to wait the old fashioned way :)

being prepared

Tonight when I got home I made these amazing looking chocolate chip cookies.

They are good too, I couldn't help myself and had to sample one or four.

I made them to prepare for tomorrow.

Chocolate makes things better. I wish it also made things go away.

Tomorrow marks our 2 year anniversary.

Instead of celebrating, I'm going to eat these and will myself not to cry.

I'm so tired of crying.

I don't know what I will use to wash them down.

I know it won't be milk this time.

I will be okay, I will make it through tomorrow.

I will be okay, I will make it through tomorrow, I am strong.

Lord please give me strength.

Aren't you dying to know?

I made cookies last night!
I only baked 6 of them and put the rest of the dough in the fridge for tonight, but I did make the dough!

Today I was wondering around this place. They have lots of different things, however this place could be very very dangerous.
When I started spending some money in my head I slowly backed away and clicked the little X button in the top right hand corner. It was a close call.

Today it's snowing, this makes me sad. We are on winter storm warning until Thursday. Is it technically supposed to be a winter storm warning in the middle of spring?
This makes me want to move to Tahiti and drink cocktails by the pool or ocean ALL DAY. Of course that will never happen, unless some one buys me a place there. Any takers? Anyone? Anyone? Buller?
No? oh that's what I was afraid of.
(Funny story? At work just now, I got a "Vacations To Go" email. No seriously I just did and I deleted it. Why must they taunt me?? WHY?)

Tonight I'm going to finish baking my cookies and frost them and decorate them all pretty and then put them in bags and tie them off with pretty ribbons.
Then I'm going to give them away because my jeans can't get any tighter. New jeans aren't in the budget just yet.
I talked to my Mom today and she said I needed to eat more salad.
Um, do you even know me? Salad? All I do is drench it in Ranch anyways so it's just as fattening as chocolate. So I might as well just eat the chocolate from the beginning.
Plus I have grapes in my fridge Mom! GRAPES, and I ate a handful, see I'm healthy.
She must have noticed that my jeans were getting tight. Don't worry I'll get off the couch when it quits snowing. (This gives me another 4 months of sitting on the couch)

Seriously though, I'm going to be healthy I eat better in the summer for several reasons.
Fruit is in season and it's not nearly as expensive. (Weird you can't grow fruit in Montana year round) Plus it's hot out and you don't really want a 5 course dinner every night.
And (Mom are you reading this) there are nights in the summer where all we eat for dinner is SALAD! (and then my ice cream desert after but it's summer it doesn't count)
See I'm such a health nut aren't you proud Mom?

I think the world needs a drink

Well put Terry Clark well put.
It's Short, sweet, simple and to the point. And not to mention how I feel. About me and my world. In my world I have a few things that are quick fixes, chocolate or in general anything sweet, drinks (lately it's wine) Ramen noodles.
Do you have any quick fixes? Anything that if your world is falling down some small thing brings you hope, comfort and a full belly?
Do you realize when people are down we turn to food? Well I do, I wish I was one of those people that turns to working out, that would be awesome. I'm pretty sure it will never happen, I have no motivation when it comes to getting off the couch. (No really I don't unless its for VB open gym)

My life is stressful, wanna know how I know? I found a gray hair this morning! (Gray hairs make me want to cry)I pulled it and inspected it on the off chance it could've just been really blond.
I want hair like my Dad....wait let me rephrase that. I want to hold on to my hair color like my Dad, I want to keep my hair like my Mom. Dad is losing hair, not what I want, but he kept his hair color until he was sixty, this is what I want. My Mom still has a head full of hair, yes that's what I want, but she went gray really early, this thought makes me cry.
So maybe my life isn't so stressful and it's just in my genetic makeup for the stray gray's and receding hair line. (My hair line really isn't receding)
However it makes me feel better to blame it on stress. Cause if I move and go on permanent vacation the grays will stop all together! Good theory no?

Tonight is the night. The night for what?
Tonight is the night I will make the Easter cookies.
Wanna know how I know? I've been craving them all day!
Maybe I'll make a double batch of dough and bake and decorate them all tomorrow night. Good plan? I think so.

I wonder if it will stick this time.
Either way I'm getting my quick fix tonight, I have left over Easter Candy still!
I bought enough to last at least until next week.
Wouldn't it be funny if they (who are they?) came out with a new break through.
"Chocolate and in general things sweet create and generate gray hairs."
My world would be devastated. I don't think it would help though, I'd still eat it. It's like my protein.

Oh Man

So if you know me well, you know that I'm not connected to the wonderful world of Internet at home.
So this post is coming to you from work.
If you read my post yesterday, you know this isn't good.

If you didn't read it, I wanted today off so I could run some errands.
The fact that I'm here is poopy, I was denied my day off.

Oh well that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes.
At least I will get more of the green on pay day.
I hate money.
But I love it.
But I hate it so much.
But still I love it.
No, no I hate it.

It can't buy you happiness but if you don't have a lot of it, you are often stressed out and unhappy. It's a cycle, a really bad cycle.
Just thinking about it is tiring. Makes me want to pack my bags and run away.
There is one good thing about today.... all you 8-5 er's M-F say it with me. Thank God it's Friday!

What are your plans for the weekend?
I was going to go grocery shopping today so I could make Christmas Cookies and 25 different types of Molasses Cookies all weekend, for 2 days straight....
But my plans have changed. (I really hate when that happens)

Now I don't know what I'm doing. I feel lost, confused, wondering if I can ever get back on track, hopeless.

Okay okay, I'll stop being so dramatic, it's not really in my genetic makeup.... I don't think anyways. (DON'T ANSWER THAT)
Well one thing is for sure, I'll be enjoying lots of hot chocolate. Why? Cause the weather outside is really frightful! Hey... isn't that a song?

Christmas Time = Baking & weight gain!

Forgive me for yesterday. Will you please? If it was you in my spot I'm sure you would have complained about your darn tire too.

I got the tired fixed and all is right once again.
Now back to the regular scheduled programing.
But I don't really have a schedule... oh nevermind.

Molasses, Moalazzes, Muhlesses
You ever do that with a word? Oh, I know you do don't lie.

Anyways, the other day I was having a craving for something sweet and well I went overboard.

I made chocolate chip cookies and rice crispie treats. Crispy, Crispee, Chrispee.
They were delish, wanna know how I know. They were gone the next day. Ryan had a healthy breakfast of coffee and rise chrispee treats!

The chocolate chip cookies didn't stand a chance either.

Now, I'm on a mission to try out 3 different Molasses cookies recipes. Yes 3.
It's okay Molasses is okay in moderation right? RIGHT?
Well I will report back to you and let you know how it goes.
Also once I get the family recipe from my Mom I will be making the best sugar cookies EVA. NO SERIOUSLY they are awesome. They could save the world.

Sadly I won't share that recipe, it's a family secret. So that means I will make them and rub it in your face at how wonderful they are.
Then you'll laugh and call me fat cause I've been eating too many treats.
Then I'll go home and cry and eat some more.
Then I go to counseling and be miserable.
And it will all be your fault for laughing at me and calling me fat.
All over sugar cookies.

See I told you they are powerful.