Archives for March 2012

03/30

Big Events in the Bluegrass…

I’m not sure if you guys are aware, but it’s a pretty wild time in the Bluegrass this time of year…

First, yesterday was my mother’s birthday.

To the best woman I know, Happy Birthday!

Uploaded from the Photobucket iPhone App

Second, Derby is in the air!

The big race will take place in 5 weeks and the opening ceremonies will kick off in 3 weeks! I participated in one of the many fashion events that happen this month – Calospa’s Winning Derby Looks event, benefitting Churchill Down’s Backside Learning Center. Get ready for hat season, ladies…

and lastly, The UK/UL Game!

The two biggest (and best) college basketball teams in the state, who happen to also be HUGE rivals, University of Louisville and University of Kentucky, are playing tomorrow in the NCAA Final Four. It’s kind of a big deal here.

Approximately half of my known friends/family are heading to NOLA for the games and I’m a little jealous. But only a little, because UK and UL fans are known to rumble a little bit when they’re playing each other. Especially when there’s alcohol involved. Did you guys hear about the two guys that got into a fight while they were each receiving dialysis? Wow. So I’ll be watching safely, from Buffalo, NY.

Happy Friday!

posted by Ami McMullen 4 Comments
Filed Under: Kentucky, Kentucky Derby, mom

03/28

I Confess:

“I Confess” theme by Carissa

Today, I confess the following:

1. Chelsea turned me onto this song yesterday

and I can’t get it out of my head.

And I’m not mad about that.

2. I cried for nearly 5 minutes from a scene in The Hunger Games last night.

If you’ve read it/seen it, you know the scene.

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3. I need to cook more. I just do. It’s not hard.

I’m just lazy in the kitchen.

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4. Even though I just got back from vacay in CA,

I’m sooo ready for my BFF trip to Charleston next week!

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5. I told myself I wouldn’t buy another “fun” book until I finished my “work” book.

Then I finished The Girl Who Played With Fire

and immediately bought and started

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest.

#selfcontrolisabitch

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posted by Ami McMullen 4 Comments
Filed Under: BFFs, I confess

03/27

Tea Revelation…

I like green tea in the mornings…

So, most mornings, I put water on the stove to boil,

and nine times out of ten

I start doing something else and forget about it.
And when I return
there’s hardly any water left,
as it’s been left to boil for about 30 minutes…

So I thought to myself, out loud unfortunately,

“They should really invent something

that tells you when your tea water is ready…”

Oh yeah.

They did.

So now I’m in the market for a tea kettle.
These are cute:

Crate and Barrel: $70

Wha? It’s cute and all, but for $70

it better pour my tea for me.

Macy’s: $60

BUT on sale for $49.99

mm hmm

Target: $19.99

that’s what I’m talkin’ about

Is there a need for a $70 tea kettle that I’m unaware of?

If not, I’m sticking with the $20 one…

I mean, it just boils water and whistles… right?

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03/24

Playlist: My New Favorite Song!

Watching so many March Madness games and seeing the same commercials over and over again can be annoying… UNLESS they play a new fun song that ends up being your favorite, inspiring a new playlist, and becoming your new ringtone. Look out.

Kudos to the Pandora commercial that features

Neon Trees and “Everybody Talks”

Here’s a little workout playlist for your weekend!

As always, it’s an hour long with cool down music at the end.

GET AFTER IT! : )

Everybody Talks by Ami Scouton on Grooveshark

Happy Saturday from NYC!

posted by Ami McMullen 1 Comment
Filed Under: motivation, music, playlist

03/23

Things I Learned Making Lemon Meringue Pie…

Since I love to bake and hate to do yard work, my roomie and I have an agreement:

She doesn’t make me mow grass, and I make pies.

It’s a win-win. And since it’s super warm out and everything’s blooming early, it was finally time for T to cut the grass… and for me to make my first pie of the season. Tamara chose Lemon Meringue, which I’ve never tackled before. NBD.

*Hot water pastry is the easiest/fastest way to make the crust.

* When making the pie filling, don’t try to multitask. It makes your pan look like this:

*When a recipe calls for a double boiler and you don’t have one,

you stick a bowl over a pan and voila!

(ghetto, but it works)

*When you can’t find your mixer, you can just make meringue

by beating egg yolks with a fork really effing fast.

*Approximately 90 seconds after, when your arm is about to fall off,

just go search for your mixer. Mine was in the attic.

*Mixers are the BOMB. Kudos to the mixer inventor.

*If you feel like you burned your filling(when you tried to multitask earlier), don’t worry.

It all works out once you add in the rest of the ingredients and cook.

*Getting a “few” gratings off a lemon rind takes elbow grease…

or a sharper grater.

*When it’s done and you put the pie in the oven to brown,

only put it in for 3 minutes, instead of 5, so it doesn’t burn.

*If it’s not as brown as you want it for looks,

you can use a lighter!

*Just don’t burn yourself. Obvi.

I used a long candle lighting lighter…

again… ghetto, but it works.

*If you’re making the crust from scratch, all in all, this pie took me 2 hours (I think) to finish.

Glad I had a few hours free. First times take me forever.

*Lemon Meringue pie is yummy, and not as hard as I thought it would be.

For my Cherry Pie musings, go here.

posted by Ami McMullen 2 Comments
Filed Under: baking, learning

03/21

Ghetto Skyping

Me, Bonna, and Amanda are trying to finalize the BFF 2012 trip details…

I Skype, they don’t.

SO they download Skype so we can have a 3 -way convo.

Then this happened:

Bonna’s video wouldn’t work.

Then we discovered you can’t 3-way without paying for it.

Amanda and I pay for it, Bonna can’t from her iPhone.

I decide to speakerphone Bonna from a regular call so Amanda can hear her.

THEN we decide to FaceTime Bonna from my iPhone,

point her face at my computer, so she can us, we can see her, etc.

It was GHETTO.

But it worked.

Amanda’s hubs, Josh laughed at us.

My arm got tired.

This is what it looked like:

See Bonna’s tiny little head on my iPhone screen?

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Filed Under: Amanda, BFFs, Bonna

03/20

What I Did (and didn’t do) on my Vacation

I DIDN’T…

actually tell you I was going on vacation therefor going to be MIA for a week. My bad. But you survived (surprisingly). ; )
work out. Not even once.
see my girl, Whitney, for the millionth time in a row. We have cray cray schedules, because we’re so awesome, so we’ll just let it go.
didn’t get crazy on St. Patty’s Day. I watched basketball games instead. It was enjoyable and I was over alcohol by that point in the week…
didn’t set foot on a beach (gasp!) but it was chilly and rainy the whole time I was there.
I definitely didn’t have enough time with Ted and Ann. But it’s ok. They’re coming to KY for Derby… right, guys? ; )

I DID…

get an average of 9 hours of sleep per night. Sometimes more…
eat mexican food more times than is probably safe… (gastrointestinally speaking)
drink margaritas. Several of them.
spend an entire day watching basketball games. I couldn’t do this with any other sport, except World Cup soccer or the Olympics.
take 30 minute showers. I blame Ted and Ann’s shower. It’s just too wonderful, there was nothing I could do…
have an amazing girl’s night.
get to be 5th wheel with my two fave SD couples…
have fish tacos, which I’ve come to the conclusion that you can’t have good fish tacos ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD other than SD. I’ve tried.
take a nap nearly every day.
go to a gun range to shoot rifles and pistols with Ted (you’d think I was still in KY).
make some kick-ass summer plans with Jenn! More on that later…
get jet lag like a mo-fo. which is why i’m posting this past midnight, EST.