2012...
Well...here it is...day two of 2012 and I have survived the holiday season (my waistline...not so much). Whoever decided that eating should be associated with Thanksgiving and Christmas needs to get a swift kick in the a**! Unfortunately, I like to bake for the holidays and then I like to eat what I bake...how dumb can I be?
By the time I was finished with this holiday season, I had plenty of opportunities to eat...
This was my pre-"diet" makings for the New Year's Eve card party...
I made spinach dip...and I decided that the spinach itself looks down-right nasty after you have squeezed the excess liquid out of it and it's still in the ball form.
The spinach with the vegetable soup packet dumped in...
The finished product! This crap is so good!
I received a Christmas present from my friend Kelly. I was a little reluctant to add it to my collection of items...
Kelly bought me a Duke University keychain, which Duke is where she had her double-lung transplant surgery done at. I figured I could tolerate having it on my keys...even though it is a major slam against my Mizzou Tiger pride. I had took the above picture on my cell phone and sent it to Kelly and said "It doesn't look too bad on my keys..." to which her reply was "Lookin good". If I find a worthy Mizzou or Cardinals keychain, it might just be replaced!
It's strange though, as I am sitting here writing about Kelly's transplant I look over and I have my "backup" BlackBerry out. It has a skin on it that was picked up for me by the parents of the boy who's lungs went to Kelly. They picked it up for me while they were helping their son move in for his start of college. It's funny how the world goes round...people die whether or not they were prepared for it, but there's always little reminders of the loss and/or blessings that came from it.
By the time I was finished with this holiday season, I had plenty of opportunities to eat...
- Work Thanksgiving...
- Family Thanksgiving...
- Buddy's Place Christmas Party...
- Work Christmas Party...
- Christmas...
- New Year's Eve Party...
- ...and any other baking opportunity I made in between those events...
This was my pre-"diet" makings for the New Year's Eve card party...
I made spinach dip...and I decided that the spinach itself looks down-right nasty after you have squeezed the excess liquid out of it and it's still in the ball form.
The spinach with the vegetable soup packet dumped in...
The finished product! This crap is so good!
I received a Christmas present from my friend Kelly. I was a little reluctant to add it to my collection of items...
Kelly bought me a Duke University keychain, which Duke is where she had her double-lung transplant surgery done at. I figured I could tolerate having it on my keys...even though it is a major slam against my Mizzou Tiger pride. I had took the above picture on my cell phone and sent it to Kelly and said "It doesn't look too bad on my keys..." to which her reply was "Lookin good". If I find a worthy Mizzou or Cardinals keychain, it might just be replaced!
It's strange though, as I am sitting here writing about Kelly's transplant I look over and I have my "backup" BlackBerry out. It has a skin on it that was picked up for me by the parents of the boy who's lungs went to Kelly. They picked it up for me while they were helping their son move in for his start of college. It's funny how the world goes round...people die whether or not they were prepared for it, but there's always little reminders of the loss and/or blessings that came from it.
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