117 posts tagged “qotd”

July is national ice cream month! What's your favorite flavor?
Submitted by LittleWiseOne.

I didn't know this.. national ice cream month, what a wonderful, wonderful thing...

anyway.

Coffee ice cream (preferably of the haagen dazs or starbucks variety) is my favorite.

Rocky Road is a very.close.second (also prefer to go with Haagen Dazs here).

Last but not least: Haagen Dazs Bailey's Irish Cream ice cream = HEAVEN. 

I'm also a sucker for any and all things Ben and Jerry's.

teeny tiny haagen dazs container!

heaven in a pint

How have you changed in the past year?
Submitted by littleduckling.

i was going to write a lot here, but i realized that there is a short, simple way to sum it up, and as i'm exhausted, i'll do that:

today, i am 200% more myself and 200% happier than i was a year ago. 

and that fact is wonderful :)

What was your biggest cooking disaster?

ahaha... in 7th grade, when I had just met my best friend Jamie, we did one of two things when we were together: we shopped (yes, we were those annoying little 13 year olds buying cheap jewelry in Claire's on a weekly basis) or we baked.  One day, we were over at her house and decided to make mint brownies - the recipe sounded mouthwatering, and we quickly got to work. 

Somehow... a little over 7 years later I'm still trying to understand how this happened... one of us misread the cookbook and decided that when we were making the mint frosting, cream of tartar was a necessary ingredient.

Needless to say, the frosting was horrible, and we still laugh about it to this day.

In November I was out doing some of my holiday shopping with a friend, and we were in Williams-Sonoma when I saw this:

Peppermintbrownie

Had I not A: already found my present for Jamie and B: spent far too much money that day already, I would have bought it for her :)

There was that disaster, and then a few years ago, everyone else in my family was elsewhere for the evening and a friend of mine was coming over so we could have a girl's night - pig out, watch movies, talk, etc.  I decided to make tortilla chips for us while I was waiting for her to get there.  I turned the heat on the burner up to medium and then the phone rang.  In answering the phone, I forgot that the pan was getting very very hot, and when I hung up the phone I started to pour canola oil in.... and it burst into flame. 
I didn't burn down the house or anything - it was a small enough fire that putting a lid over it killed it - but the light and fan above the stove were nicely blackened and so when my friend got to my house she and spent some time scrubbing away soot.  The light and fan still work but the vents are black to this day.  So now, when I'm cooking and have to answer the phone or there's another distraction, I turn the heat down and multitask (thank god for speakerphone).

How many houses have you lived in? How is where you live now different from where you grew up?

My parents say that we lived in two houses when we lived in Southern California, but I only really remember the second one.

So - SoCal 1, and SoCal 2.  Tally = 2

Then we moved to Montana, and we've only lived in one house here.  Tally = 3

I don't know if dorm rooms count, but I've spent more time living in dorm rooms these past couple years than an actual house, so Tally = 4, and 5, if we count both freshman and sophomore year.

And last summer I lived in an apartment in Florence - Tally = 6

Six.  And for the time being I'm back in the house I grew up in, so it's not any different. 

Share your favorite duet.

Elephant Love Medley

Nicole Kidman, Ewan McGregor

Sex and the City grossed $55.7 million dollars this weekend - the best opening ever for an R-rated movie. What did you think of the movie? If you didn't see it, do you plan to?

I saw the movie Saturday afternoon with a friend.  I'd only ever seen maybe a grand total of 5 or 6 episodes of the show, but the movie actually turned out to be pretty good.  There were a few melodramatic bits, but also some really hilarious moments - - "She Poughkeepsie'd her pants" for example, or the one that I'll be laughing about for a while:

Samantha: "Well I love to color.  I could color all day, everyday if I had my way.  I'd use every crayon in my box - "
Carrie: "OKAY. We get it.  You love to color." 

(Color meaning sex, of course). 

So, yeah, I thought the movie was worth my $6 matinee ticket.

What's your "go-to" movie?  The one you watch when you need to just get away from it all?
Submitted by uncagedbird.

Depending on what kind of time I have:

Loooong time slot available:  The LotR trilogy.  Also my go-to books. 

Galadriel and Frodo

Littleish time slot available: "Ever After."  I love this movie, and having watched it a good.... 3 billion times... I'm still not sick of it :)

Escape - Ever After

What is one thing you MUST do before you go to bed at night?

tea.  I must have chamomile tea, or I will be awake and staring at the ceiling all night. 

What are you most looking forward to this weekend?

There's a concert tonight and it's going to be SOOOOO much fun! * grin *

Miley Cirus has issued an apology for a "racy" Vanity Fair photo shoot with legendary photographer Annie Liebovitz. Considering the photograph is just of Miley's back, do you think this apology is necessary?

Oh man.  I got so sick of hearing about Miley Cyrus yesterday.  Every time I turned on the radio, there she was.  When I was watching the news last night... there she was.  It was a *bit* annoying.

Anyway... I don' t think it *would* be necessary but for the fact that she is a Disney Channel actress, and it wasn't "just" of her back - it was suggestive, she wasn't wearing anything except for a blanket or sheet or something she was holding over herself in the front, and it's not the first suggestive photo of her that's showed up.  If she were any other celebrity, it would be fine, but she's so young, and she's someone that even younger girls look up to, someone they admire and probably want to be like.  So the pictures were a little inappropriate and sending the wrong message for those much younger children that she acts as a role model for.