Cheese, Gromit! Cheese!

My husband and I have a tradition - stolen from the BYUH Science Department, who got it from the Head of the Science Department. (Yes, this did require that we spent enough time hanging out in the Science Dept front office to learn its particulars).
Every Christmas/New Years we buy a variety of special cheeses, some sort of meat, and crackers or another bready base. And then we sample them, savor them, and scarf them.
(The Dept head just did exotic cheeses from far off magical lands, so we can claim some sort of originality!)

This year's selection taught me some things:

1. Cutco knives are best for cutting cheese (hah hah)

2. Little Toasts are better than big crackers - even if the cheese book encouraged whole-grains
(They're about 1 in by 1 in and are not only super cute, they're also delicious and slightly salty. This makes them go best with Edam and other strong Gouda-style cheeses.)

3. Savory meat is better with Edam, and Irish Gouda, and Smoked Dutch Gouda than sweet. The sweet we bought is yummy on its own though.

4. Smoked Dutch Gouda is delicious - try it, you'll like it.

5. Some things in life are worth lactose-intolerant bloating.

6. I always knew there was a reason I connected with Wallace and Gromit - I think I too could conceivably go to the moon for cheese if this world ran out.

No, Im not a male stripper!

So I have found some work recently, and its a decent gig. The up side? Lots of cash. The down side? I have to stand out in the FREEZING (yes, freezing, as in WELL below 32 degrees) cold for HOURS at a time. I work usually from 5pm to 12am doing valet at a high end restaurant. And let me tell you, there is lots of plastic surgery and cougars there! (Not the typical BYU cougar, mind you.) So anyway, its been fun driving ridiculously expensive cars, and doing so has really spoiled me. I drive Bentley's, Maseratis, Corvetts and we even had a Ferrarri. Pretty nice cars.... and then i get back into my 1992 honda accord every night. /sigh.

So anyway, I have a lot cash, specifically $1 dollar bills. When I went to the bank to deposit it all, I was really tempted to apologize for all the $1 dollar bills, then say something along the lines of, "But thats just what you get when you're a male stripper." But i decided not to when the teller was a 60 year-old lady with a giant cross around her neck... I think I would have given her a heart attack. Oh well. Maybe next time.

This is the cutest picture ever.

So, this is my niece and nephew. It isn't staged. Aren't they absolutely adorable.

Im working on it...

So I've made an unwritten goal to blog more. So here I am. This holiday season Lianna and I have continued somewhat of a new tradition to our family: ginger bread house making. We did it last year, and continued this year. So we'll see how long we keep it up. Its sure fun and tasty. One of these days we won't buy a kit, but make our own ginger bread. Maybe.

Gingerbread house in the making

Finished. Ain't we cute?

New Favorite Movie?

So without a doubt, my favorite movie of ALL time is Stargate, and amazing sci fi adventure that has spawned 3 separate T.V. shows totaling hundreds of hours of pure entertainment. However, with the opening of Avatar on the 18th, my favorite movie may have changed!

Why did I absolutely love it? It has a decent, though somewhat predictable storyline. Though it was somewhat predictable, it still had you guessing at just how they were going to overcome certain situations more than a few times. It had some awesome sci fi future tech, gorgeous CG, and a main idea (storyline) that boggles the mind. (I wont go further in order not to spoil the movie). They also did a great job at casting, and the acting was pretty decent. One thing that astonished me was how intricate, correct, and accurate the emotions were portrayed on the CG characters. It was a fabulous movie, and I can't wait to buy it. If you haven't seen it, it is WELL worth the money. This may just be my new favorite movie, and trust me, Stargate is one hard one to beat.

The Verdict is IN!

So for those of you who don't know, I'm going to go to Nursing school instead of medical school. To make a long story short, Heavenly Father had a different plan, and opened up the path for me to go into nursing. So that is what Im going to do...

So theres really only 1 accelerated program (for people with a bachelors degree) that is only a year, and that happens to be at the best Nursing school in Colorado. It's called Regis. So I applied after I took some additionally prereqs, and I got an interview.

I GOT IN! So thats very exciting, and for the field of Nursing, Regis will make many doors open that otherwise would not be available. So I'll be starting in May of 2010, provided all goes well and according to plan.

Thanks for your prayers and your thoughts. Lianna and I appreciate it.

Novemberween

This year for hallow's eve JD and I carved a pumpkin! However, because our livelihood for the time being depends on my having whole hands to work with, he did the carving while I picked the pumpkin, the design, the strobe light, and scooped the seeds =). I hadn't done it for many a year, so it was kindof like an early Christmas - or like me not having any clue about this fun new tradition.

The seeds - which I dried and salted and am probably the only one who enjoys. ^_^

The Great Pumpkin

Happy Halloween!

ps. did I mention that we did this during the first large snowstorm of the winter?

Hence, the time together to do this ^_^