the life and times of brooke

so, Elisabeth memed me and i don’t want to be a rude blogger and ignore her mem, so here goes:

(btw, elisabeth, you hold your hands higher than your heart when you hike!!!)

MEMING  RULES:
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules on your blog.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.
4. Let them know they are tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

1. when i was little i thought spiderman lived in the bottom of my toilet and that he was going to cast his spidey web on my bottom and pull me down to his watery underworld every time i went potty. you can imagine what a frightening experience going to the bathroom was for me.

2. i HATE small repetitive noises of any sort.

3. i get overstimulated really easy. for instance, if i am trying to have a conversation, i have to turn off the tv, radio, etc. if there are more than 2 people talking to me at once, i freak out. if i’m at a party with too much noise i usually will go outside and be alone.

4. i love country music. it’s just about all i listen to.

5. i am not a morning person. it’s difficult for me to speak before 9am.

6. when i was in 6th grade (and had just moved to washington from texas) i had to go to speech therapy. as it turned out, the teachers were trying to teach me to talk without a southern accent. it worked!

7. i never give money to bums. i usually try to talk to them first about using their marketing skills to get themselves a job instead of begging for money.

now, i mem: monica, angie w, kristin, ian and tam. GO!

my favorite recipe books are the old ones. i like fanny farmer’s the best, but my next favorite is a california state grange cook book i got at a thrift store in lakeport a few years back. i’m not sure when it was published, but based off the graphics and pictures, my guess is in the 70’s. it has some pretty interesting recipes, including one i want to try called “pea picking cake”. another weird one is “potato chip cookies”. there is a large selection of fruit cakes that i will  NOT be making, along with the mayonnaise cake recipe ( i actually tried the avocado pie recipe once, but it was as bad as it sounds).

one of the things i love about this cookbook in particular is all the recipes with names in them. there is a viola’s chicken casserole, myrnice’s christmas fudge, a gladys, edith, betty, freda, berniece, and my personal favorite, brooksie. i also love the creativity of names of the recipes. here are a few; won’t last cake, nameless cake, the aforementioned pea picking cake, and celestial cookies.

recipes and cooking trends definately change with each generation and future generations may chuckle at what is popular now, but it’s fun to look back and try “new” things.

btw, i’ll be absent the next few days slaving away on the house painting. argh.

i know it’s a bit early to be thinking about christmas, but i already know what i want. two things, actually.

1- a sewing machine.

2- a (reasonable) spending spree at ikea.

i used my mom’s sewing machine to make this,

but it died on me mid-inspiration and mid-projects. i regularly check this blog and this blog, which give me many ideas and i’m itching to sew!

as far as ikea goes, it’s just a fun place to spend money. plus, i think it’s time we moved past the college-hand-me-down-furniture-phase!

one of my teammates from roller derby is doing wife swap this week. we had the “swapped” wife at derby practice tonight, poor thing. she was terrified, actually shaking, while getting her gear on. we were told to go easy on her and make sure we didn’t hurt her! anyway, the abc film crew was there filming the whole thing, so my team is going to be on national tv when the episode airs, so you may see me on tv! you’ll recognize me by my rainbow stripped socks! i’ll let you know the airing date later.

1. we have the unfortunate necessity of having to paint the exterior of our home. and true to Schlange form, we will do it the cheapest way possible, which means we will do it ourselves. so steve powerwashed and prepped the house this weekend and we will do the actual painting this upcoming weekend. yay.

2. i had a bout on saturday night and made my jamming debut. it was only the second time i have ever jammed, the first being in a scrimmage practice once, like 2 months ago, which doesn’t really count. but i did get lead jammer, so that was exciting.

3. our second born continues to pester those smaller than her in sunday school, earning her the “toddler-bully-award”. at least she’ll make a great roller girl someday.

my latest yardsale purchase is keeping them very busy.

addie decided if she wore a diaper she would go faster down the slide like paigey.

because my husband works from home, i am lucky enough to have some freedom in the afternoon while paige is sleeping. today addie and i went on a bike ride to downtown spokane and played in the fountain.

here she goes!

ohhhh! it’s cold!

can’t get enough!

warming up in the sun.

the result of steve’s hoopfest tournament

i realize i should be ashamed to make this public knowledge, but i really like watching “America’s Got Talent”. Besides the highly entertaining remarks from (don’t hassle the) Hoff, i have learned all sorts of things.

for instance, last night i learned about busty heart.  she smashed soda cans with her BOOBS! it was crazy! it looked like it would hurt, but “they” looked pretty, uh…strong. i mean, her boobs are the size of small children, so the mere force of such weight and intensity would do the job. honestly, i did not know it was possible to have such large bosoms.

so, besides entertaining, this show is educational, and i recommend you give it a try. let me know what you think.

when i picked addie up from sunday school today she told me, “the little boy with brown skin kicked me in the leg today”.

brown skin??? what is that?

then…

paigey’s sunday school teacher told us that paige was bullying one of the girls in her class.  great.

as it turns out, it was a little girl with down’s syndrome.

 i hang my head in shame.

some things never change….

i cut paigey’s bangs just a LITTLE short.

before:

after:

she doesn’t look too happy about it either.