...And 31 is ANCIENT

As a youngster, my mom would often ask me how old is OLD? I would always say that an age higher than her was old...

One day, right after she had just turned 31, we had an argument about SOMETHING stupid (as they all are, right?) and I spun around and told her "29 is old...31 is ANCIENT!"

Well, now it's "proven" that I was right, as a wee little 6 years old...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7945569.stm

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Chocolate Cherry Cordial Cake

I figured I could share this on my public blog... Last weekend, after a week of eating healthy, my boyfriend was craving some chocolate cake. He asked me what was for dessert, not knowing that I had a few cake mixes in his pantry, I asked him what he wanted. He told me (expecting me to tell him he was crazy, I guess) that he wanted a chocolate cake. I advised him I had yellow, lemon and vanilla cake mixes, but that I had cocoa powder, so I could turn one of the plain cakes into chocolate. He was ok with that...Then he tells me "Wait, I want chocolate cherry cake." I knew I didn't have any cherries, but that he had given me all of his candies and things so that he wouldn't want to snack on the sweets during the week. I happened to have a box of chocolate covered cherries in the car.

So, a new cake was created. I'm sure that someone, somewhere has come up with this already, but I thought it was pretty creative for me to come up with this on the spot... So without further ado, I give you Chocolate Cherry Cordial Cake:

1 box vanilla cake mix - follow directions on box
1 box of chocolate covered cherries
a couple of tbsps of Ghiradelli unsweetened cocoa powder
Chocolate chips

(for the frosting)
Powdered sugar
milk
butter (2 sticks)
cocoa powder
vanilla

Mix the cake mix per the instructions on the box. Add in cocoa powder to desired flavor. Pour into cake pan. Randomly drop all of the chocolate covered cherries onto the top of the cake mix. Where there are no cherries, sprinkle the chocolate chips. Bake per the instructions on the box.

While the cake is baking, soften the butter, mix in powdered sugar, milk & vanilla, and cocoa powder. add ingredients to taste (I don't measure... He doesn't even have a measuring spoon set!) Set aside until cake is finished.

Normally I don't frost a cake until the cake is fully cooled, but he wouldn't have anything to do with waiting any longer. I stuck it in the freezer for a good 15 minutes, and that was as long as he would give me to get to eat it.

Cover the cake with the frosting. I keep the cake in the refrigerator even after it's been cut into, just because of the milk in the frosting.

It was an instant hit. We took it over to another friend's house for the football games/motocross race on Sunday and it was gone within minutes. You won't be disappointed. S did say the only thing that would have made it better (besides bacon... oy) is that if it was all made with dark chocolate cake mix and dark chocolate frosting...(Which he, after seeing me spend an extra 10 minutes in the kitchen after the cake went into the oven, asked me where I got the frosting from. When I told him I made it (again) he was awestruck. C'mon, frosting isn't that hard!!!

I'm alive and back online! Hope all is well with everyone out there - and that all of you have a happy holiday season! :)

X-Rated Cupcakes

http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2005/10/22/shf-13-x-rated-cupcakes/

Just had to share a discovery!

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Sometimes you just have to laugh...

Friends Are Friends Forever

I was browsing through random blogs via people's blogrolls, and found this song that rushed back into my mind after years of not hearing it.

This was a big graduation song for people in the Church family when I was in HS...

Friends Are Friends Forever by Michael W. Smith

Packing up the dreams God planted
In the fertile soil of you
I can't believe the hopes He's granted
Means a chapter of your life is through

But we'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

And with the faith and love God's given
Springing from the hope we know
We will pray the joy you live in
Is the strength that now you show

We'll keep you close as always
It won't even seem you've gone
'Cause our hearts in big and small ways
Will keep the love that keeps us strong

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

And friends are friends forever
If the Lord's the Lord of them
And a friend will not say never
'Cause the welcome will not end
Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

To live as friends

Though it's hard to let you go
In the Father's hands we know
That a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends

No a lifetime's not too long
To live as friends