Random Things

After all, that is the point of this blog! 

So, I added another word to my list this weekend...brisket.  That just does not sound appetizing to me in the least. In fact, it sounds disgusting.  So, brisket is now on the list.

In the meantime, I am left over with some ham from Easter (not complaining), but trying to think of different things to do with it is not my forte.  However, dinner tonight will be a ham and bacon quiche, thanks to good ol' Southern Living.  Normally, I am annoyed because I don't have all the ingredients to make Southern Living recipes on a whim and when it requires a sudden trip to the grocery store, I quickly change to pb&j's for dinner!  But not tonight!  I have everything on the list and am excited to make something delicious out of the leftovers.

As I'm baking, I'm thinking how I have not been good in doing my "Thursdays of Thanks." I haven't really been good at doing anything except trying to make the dog treat business work!  But, I am thankful for many things, especially in April.  So many celebrations of the births of some of the most important people in my life! And for that, I am SO very thankful.  More to come on that.

I hope everyone had a beautiful Easter weekend and a happy Monday!

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Do Not Use These Around Me

In my strange, strange mind, for as long as I can remember, I have kept a running list of words I just don't like.  They're not necessarily bad words, but to me, I can not stand hearing them in any way.  I add to this list at least monthly, coming upon a word that hits me wrong then saying, "that's going on the list!"

Here are just a few of them in no particular order (some you may understand why, some, maybe not):

*molest
*puss
*penetrate (they use this in football all the time and it just makes me cringe)
*ooze, oozing (any form of the word)
*hairy (when describing a situation...sick)
*scab
*phlegm
*willies (as in "gives me the willies")
*flesh, fleshy
*chunky
*navel (I prefer belly button! and in the sense of an orange - eww! although I love the oranges!)
*goiter (ever since the Seinfeld episode and Elaine's face seeing the goiter...I just imagine it being horrible!)
*fondle
*brilliant (when people from America say it like they're from England.  Makes me mad! So, now what was a great word has gone annoying in my book.)
*worm, wormy
*squirm (makes me squirm)
*goat cheese
*friction
*titillating
*putrid
*leatherneck
*giblet
*fester
*belly (even though I prefer belly button, I don't like belly by itself)
*moist (in describing anything other than a cake)

You get the idea...