A question and a game

Please comment on my blog if
1. You love me
B. You can give me an awesome remedy for the piss smell that has seeped into my bathroom in the last year.

B. is much more important.
Potty training one boy led to cleaning the toilet All. The. Time. and using lots of concoctions and an old toothbrush to get the pee that missed the toilet from around the base of the toilet. Now that I have potty trained Max, I'm dying. I feel like the smell of pee is tattooed onto my nose hairs.  Not that I have any nose hairs, cause I sleek and sophisticated lady and all.

Now, I stalk blogs something crazy. I get up at 5:30 am even on my days off work and drink coffee and blog stalk. I have about 3 blogs I check daily and a couple I check a few times a week. It started when I became a stay at home mom looking for ways that other stay at home moms have survived  found ways of living off of one income. Then I started losing weight and found more. And, since I'm not shoving bowls of cereal into my pie hole, Mama needed another habit.

One of the blogs had a fun game: Finish This Sentence
I'm doing it, and I want my peeps to Blog them too. So go on Michelle, Ashley, Debbie, Melissa, and Cheryll. Go on.

1. People always tell me I look exactly like someone they know. 

2. In the movie based on my life, I'd like to be played by Kristen Wiig. 

3. Typically, I end up regretting eating at a Chinese buffet

4. I always ask to leave off the mayonaise. Who orders a grilled chicken sandwich that wants all that fat? If I wanted fat, I'd get a quarter pounder.

5. Kim and Kanye really need to send me money, then go away. Foreva.

6. My Parents always reminded me that I was quite the arguer back in the day. Getting my payback on that one, btw. 

7. Every single day I drink entirely too much caffeine.

8. This one time in College I did 3 keg stands in one night. Old Sara was a blast. And easier to lift.

9. My grossest habit is I pick the skin around my nails until they bleed.

10. My latest white lie was ummmmm "I was behind the slowest person ever" on the way to speech therapy.

11. I know all the words to Ice Ice Baby

12. When I grow up I want to be a blogger that makes money

13. Sexy time is Not eating until we want to puke or pass out or both on a date.

14. I will never, ever cheer for Alabama? Be stick thin? Have another baby? There are so many.

15. I think it's hilarious when Rylan asks us to 'turn up the vacuum' instead of volume.

Well, isn't that Pinteresting?

As part of my New Year, New Me, I've decided to try something off Pinterest every week and blog the results. Basically, I stay at home with my kids and I need more people to talk to, you know, other than the ones that talk about pee pee and tooting at the dinner table, so....Congratulations!!!!

Basically, Pinterest is as addictive as pizza, ice cream and booze. In that order. And just like losing weight, I am bad about reading about things and talking about things, but NOT ACTUALLY DOING THOSE THINGS. So, I pin things like a madwoman and I do a few of them, but not nearly enough. And, some things on there are really really awesome.

Because, I am in a weight loss frame of mind, I'll try to mostly post recipes that are "skinny". I also have a million things pinned to clean my house and make it beautiful.

So......here's Pinteresting Wednesday Part 1

Scrumptious Cinnamon Pecan Granola
adapted from this recipe
4 cups rolled oats (I used quick oats)
1 cup chopped pecans
1/4 cup ground flaxseed
1/4 cup brown sugar (I used Splenda brown sugar)
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup applesauce
1tsp cinnamon
1 tsp vanilla
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup raisins or craisins or dried blueberries

Preheat oven to 325. In a large bowl combine oats, flaxseed and pecans. Stir until combined.

In a small saucepan, combine honey, brown sugar, applesauce, salt, and cinnamon. Cook over low heat while stirring until the brown sugar is dissolved. Turn off heat and stir in vanilla.

Pour the honey mixture in with the oat mixture and stir until the oats are coated. Add raisins, stir to incoorporate.

Put entire mixture on a large cookie sheet and spread evenly. Bake for 30 minutes, stirring at least once. Granola should be browned, but watch for burning.Store up to 10 days in an air tight container. *

*10 days.....like we could make it 10 days before we ate it all.
This makes 10 servings, according to My Fitness Pal, one serving =258 calories

We like it with milk or over yogurt.