accident prone

so apparently i am accident prone.

remember when i was stupid and tried to be a pro at yoga and hurt my back?

well now my back was all better...then yesterday came.

it was a beautiful sunday morning, we got to sleep in and matt was going to make me pancakes

(which he never does but i always beg him to do).

he had gone downstairs to start the cooking while i woke up our cute puppy.

i was bringing her little house downstairs when BOOM!

yeah...i fell halfway down the stairs.

matt came to my rescue and helped me down the rest of the way and sat me on the couch with yet another ice pack behind me.

right back to where i was 2 weeks ago.

what is the deal??

i would put a picture up but the baseball sized bruise from the fall has formed mostly on my tooshy and that's not a place you take pictures of.

no way jose.

but it is there.

it is very large and making it very difficult for me to walk, bend, sit and sleep.

and i can't let matt anywhere near me because he always forgets i'm hurt and touches it.

so not cool.

at least my accidents haven't had to do with any broken bones yet.

(knock on wood)

only back issues.

apparently my accident prone-ness is selective.

walmart vs. every other grocery store

fact: walmart is completely and totally awesome.

fact: it is way better than every other grocery store on earth.

fact: people who say they don't like walmart are lying to try to make themselves sound cooler but they really are secretly in love with it.

fact: matt and i are 100% walmart fans.

last night matt and i tried to do some thifty shopping business.

my big sis told me that fry's usually has some amazing deals and since matt and i have never shopped anywhere but walmart we decided to do a little experiment.

our experiment was to answer this question: is shopping somewhere other than walmart really cheaper?

so we started at fry's.

we bought 20 items all of which were on our shopping list and the total came out to $52.90.

that doesn't sound too bad except for the fact that we had only gotten about half of our list and bought almost all sale items.

yikes!

next we went to walmart for the other half of our list.

i gotta say, for the most part walmart kicks fry's butt!

at walmart we bought 24 items including at least 7 things that weren't on our list but we wanted anyway and the total came out to $47.97.

now i'm no mathmatician but i do believe that 47 is less than 52.

just saying.

while we shopped at walmart we kept our fry's reciept handy and checked the prices on the stuff we had bought there.

the only thing i'm glad we bought at fry's is pistachios, for some reason they were cheaper there.

but walmart's prices were almost identical on everything else if not cheaper.

bread was cheaper, avocados were cheaper, mayo was cheaper, tortillas were cheaper and the thing i'm most mad about was that we bought alfredo sauce at fry's for 3.39 and at walmart it was like 1.79!

what the heck??

stupid fry's alfredo sauce tricking us into buying it 'cause it's so tasty.

so what did our experiment tell us?

walmart is still the king!

or maybe we need to take some lessons in how to shop sales.

whichever.

who needs a hairstylist when you got me?

sometimes matt makes me cut his hair.

i like when he asks me because it makes me feel like a ridiculously cool hair dresser but every single time i get so scared and worried that i'm going to mess it up.

i haven't made any really noticeable mistakes yet but every time i start cutting i think "this is going to be the time".

so i always get about half way and freak out.

this time was no different.

matt sat down on a chair in the shower (we decided that's the best place to cut hair and have easy clean up).

he wanted it shorter than i've ever cut it before which meant using the razor a lot more than i like to.

i started with the razor on the back part of his head and then i got the scissors out to blend it with the top and that's when i panicked.

blending hair is hard!

it doesn't look hard when the real hairstylists do it but oh man it is!

i had a nice freak out moment and told matt i wasn't going to finish but, as always, i sucked it up and cut the rest and everything was fine.

i wish i had taken a before shot of his hair because we could've made a wig with all the hair i cut off!

after matt played with it for a while he decided...

he like it!

i sighed with relief.

i gotta stop doubting my skills because between his scruff and my haircutting talent my man looks dang GOOD!

best easter treat in the world

we finished another easter treat creation and this one is super duper tasty!

i actually saw this idea on a commercial and told matt that we must do it!

first you make rice krispy treats.

when they are finished you lay them out on a pan to let them harden up so they're really really sticky.

then you start shaping.

first you make an easter bunny, of course!

body...

head...

tail...

ears...

so cute!!

then i put matt to work making another one.

then we had two bunnies so they can be friends and kiss and stuff! aww!

now you're going to turn the rest of the rice krispy treats into eggs.

when those are all shaped you start melting the chocolate.

we used hershey chocolate bars and set the stove on really really low so it wouldn't burn the chocolate before it melted it.

while that is melting you get a bowl and pour a bunch of sprinkles into it and put it aside for a minute.

when the chocolate is all melted you now get to do the fun part.

take a rice krispy treat egg and dip it in!

then immediately dip it into the sprinkles bowl!

now set the eggs aside to cool off.

we put them upside down in a mini muffin tin and that worked perfectly.

then you repeat the dipping process until you're all out of eggs!

so fun!

if you run out of sprinkles (like we did) just make chocolate eggs.

still just as delicious!

best easter treat ever created!

thanks rice krispies commercial!

unique easter fun!

matt and i aren't like normal people.

we don't do the traditional things that you're supposed to do around holidays.

easter is a perfect example.

for some reason matt hates coloring eggs for easter.

this will be our 4th easter together and i think i only talked him into coloring eggs with me once and even then he pouted the whole time.

this year i wasn't even going to bother him with it when he told me he wanted to do eggs.

i couldn't believe it!

then he told me he didn't want to color them, he wanted to turn them into little chicks.

yeah i thought it sounded weird too but then he showed me what he meant and i loved the idea!

here's what we did...

first you look up how to perfectly hard boil an egg. we went with this website and it worked wonderfully!

you start out by keeping the eggs at room temp for a while and then you put the eggs in a pan (or pot) and add enough cold water to just cover the eggs.

you cook them on high like that until it starts to boil

when it's boiling you move the pan off the heat and cover it. you leave it like that for 17 minutes.

after 17 minutes you immediately take the eggs out and put them in a bowl of freezing cold water (you can even add ice cubes to it) then you put the bowl in the fridge for 10 minutes.

after those 10 minutes the eggs are complete and you can taste one to make sure that it is perfection!

ours were!

now comes the fun part!

matt found a website that showed him how to do this.

they do it a whole lot better than we did but oh well!

first you start out by peeling a few eggs.

make sure you remember which eggs in the fridge are the hard boiled ones or you'll end up like matt with yolk all over your hand!

after you peel a couple eggs you're going to cut a little zigzag pattern along the white part, try not to go too deep because you don't want to hit the yolk.

then you slowly pull off the top so that one side of the white egg part comes off all nicely.

then you're going to cut up a thin slice of tomato (or red pepper) and give it a scalloped edge.

you're also going to cut up some little carrot slices that look like half moons.

at this point you're supposed to also cut up some olives into little tiny dots but we didn't have olives so we used sprinkles instead.

now some of your eggs are zigzagged and one is peeled and left alone.

now you start putting all the pieces together!

carrots are for beaks, sprinkles (or olives) are for eyes and the tomato slice (or red pepper) is for the mama's comb thingy on her head.

and when you're all done you end up with an adorable little hard boiled egg chicken family!

now tell me this isn't way better than coloring eggs!

if you want to see the original website that taught us how to do this go here!

they did a much better job than we did!

we're going to dare another easter treat creation tonight and it's going to be so much more chocolatey!

i was wrong before

yoga isn't torture, it's pure evil!

the devil himself created yoga and you want to know how i know that?

he tried to kill me with it last night.

yesterday, when matt and i woke up we didn't feel any soreness at all.

i thought to myself "man, maybe we're not as out of shape as we thought we were."

WRONG!

slowly throughout the day i started to get more and more stiff.

holy cow! you have no idea how stiff i was by the time matt got home!

and he said the same thing happened to him!

so we decided to do the stretches at the end of the P90X yoga video because a couple people told us that those are good stretches and we needed our bodies to loosen up.

it sounds like a good plan right?

well we were going along all fine and dandy when we got to the point where they do the bridge/wheel stretch.

bridge is for unflexible people and wheel is for the experts.

please.

i have done this wheel move a million times in my younger years and i knew i still could so i decided to show off for my cutie patootie husband and show him what i can do.

oh how i wish i could go back in time and make myself NOT do that because i then spent the rest of the night like this...

with an ice pack on my back and my feet propped up and hardly able to move.

i can honestly tell you how it feels to be a middle aged man when his back goes out.

awesome.

now i know that you're all thinking "what an idiot!" and yes, i am an idiot but let me tell you where my problem started.

obviously it started when i decided to do that little wheel move but the real problem occurred after that.

i was up in the wheel pose all fine and dandy and thought that i could move my hands even closer to my feet for a bigger bend.

THERE! right there is when my problem happened!

i already have a bad lower back issue going on and this took that issue to the breaking point!

i fell back on the floor consumed in a pain that i have never felt before in my entire life!

i actually had to ask matt to help me up because i couldn't move an inch on my own.

i then spent about 10 minutes straight curled in a little ball trying to stretch my back out the opposite way which didn't help very much but i didn't know what else to do.

then the rest of the night was spent sitting with an ice pack or heating pad and ordering matt to get me stuff so i didn't have to get up.

love you matt!

moral of the story kids: don't do crazy yoga poses to show off to your hubsy because you might hurt your back so bad you won't be able to walk for days...or you could die!

yoga = torture

matt and i decided that we are going to start working out together at night time.

we haven't been doing a very good job because watching tv while snuggling on the couch seems like a much better plan than going out and running, right?

well last night we decided to kick our bad habit and do our exercising together.

i've been wanting to do yoga because countless people have told me that if i did some yoga before bed it might help my insomnia and i realized something...

people who say that yoga is relaxing LIE!

i do have to admit that we did the P90X yoga which is probably normal yoga on steroids but still,

you can't breathe and relax while you're bending all crazy and holding yourself up in awkward positions and making your body do things it really REALLY doesn't want to do.

but i guess i need to keep doing it to see if it gets any better.

plus out of an hour and a half video we only made it half an hour.

we got sick of the stand up pose, plank, upward dog, plank, downward dog, back up and again.

it was basically this...

over and over and over and over again.

now tell me, does any of that look normal to you?

negative.

after the half hour we gave up on the video and just went for a run.

let me correct that, matt went for a run while i jogged/walked/died of an asthma attack.

oh the joys of exercise.

i can't wait to do it all over again tonight!