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Happy Birthday Ellen!

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Fabulous Ellen, aka, Elle-beau, Nellen, Elle.... Happy Birthday to you!!!! My favorite things about Ellen: ~She is beautiful, brilliant and completely hilarious! ~She will listen to all your silly stories about your boyfriends\ex-boyfriends\crushes! ~She has the kindest heart! ~She is always up for an adventure! Much Love, Love Love... Sabro

Not meant to be...

I had this big plan to walk around today and take pictures of what i do during my day. You know as a librarian girl. Then i come to find out that i took the battery pack out of my camera to charge. UGH. And on top of that... Since there is no school tomorrow, some teachers decided to dress up today for Halloween . There were two killer costumes that i so desperately wanted a picture of. It wasn't meant to be I guess. I myself am having a Halloween party, but not until Saturday . I am going as Fire. Like H.O.T. fire, not hot fire. Like SIZZLE fire, not sizzle fire. Like SMOKIN ' Fire, not smoking fire. Are you feeling me? Better yet don't... you might get burned.

TWD~Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes

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So here they are..Chocolate Chocolate Cupcakes. These were just delivered to the teachers\staff that have to stay late for those silly little conferences. I dropped them off, hoping to make a quick drop and dash, but teachers were actually waiting for me to arrive. Can we say embarrassing! I don't know why, but i didn't want a big to-do about this. I was making cupcakes anyway, so why not bring them over to the school? I had one on my way over and i thought they were super rich and dense. I didn't really like them. I like light and moist cupcakes (she said Moist!) and these were so thick, and a bit dry. I even added oil and sour cream. But whatevs, the teachers can eat themselves into a chocolate induced coma and I will be sitting on my couch watching The Office re-runs on TBS. Thanks everyone for all the tips, I think next time i would reduce the flour and add more sour cream, milk and oil. Or not make them at all, and just make cupcakes from a box mix. gasp! I hope that d

Snowy Sunday

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Oh Sven , you were so right about the snow. It really is snowing today. I can handle it though. Yesterday I raked my whole yard! 11 Bags worth of dead rotting leaves that were leaving death spots on my lush greenery. So now my whole yard is leaf free! So before you jump up and down and say OOH I won the leaf contest!, I kinda left out this minor detail and that is I raked the majority of the leaves off my grass and onto the patio. A fortress of leaves around my patio. I'm hoping this works as a deterrent from those pesky rabbits that keep falling in my egress windows. I saved one the other day, and lets not mention what happened to the other one. :( Today is a quintessential autumnal day to just be inside and watch crap tv, clean my gross bathroom and make soup! Inspired by the trucker-sounding, lip-smacking, often annoying, bad pun and joke telling Rachael Ray. She was making pumpkin penne and she mentioned making pumpkin soup and I thought, HEY RACH, You are either onto something

Not a Clue

If you look to the right of the screen you will see a picture of Sabrina from Charlie's Angel's circa 1977 (a great year to be born BTW). It says, Sabrina gets a clue. That is a farce. I do not have a clue. Sometimes i think i have things figured out, but then there are weeks when i have no idea about anything. Life baffles me sometimes, so do people, politics, religion, and leaves. Lately I have not been inspired to write, not even about the silly fun things. I've just had a lot of thoughts swirling around in my head. Many moments of questions and coming up with no answers. What is up with this week? It seems like a lot of people this week are having a rough go at it. It makes me sad to hear that people close to me are not doing well. I sometimes wish i could soothe other people's pain, like a Balm of Gilead. But i don't always know the right words to say, or if i should say anything at all. Or is it just a simple, I'm there for you. Do people sense kindness? D

TWD~Pumpkin Muffins

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I know, I know, its not Tuesday, but since i will busy both Monday and Tuesday nights I had to do my baking on a Sunday. I was really happy about making pumpkin muffins, so very autumnal. Did I make that word up? Sometimes I think I make words up. Acknowledgement is the first step to enlightenment. When it was time to make the muffins, I was once again faced with the fact that my muffin tin that made 12 muffins grew legs and walked off. Where would a muffin tin wander off to? I mean sometimes I used to find my muffin tin making out with the cookie cutters in a dark corner in the pantry, but to up and run away on me is just plain cruel. So i had two choices, use my silicon heart shaped muffin molds or my JUMBO muffin tin (well not mine, hey Kelly, BTW, I still have your jumbo muffin tin). I chose to make 6 Jumbo muffins. Because: A) I work at a Middle School B) My co-workers act like middle schoolers 5) giving a heart shaped muffin to a boy co-worker would = rumors x) Jumbo muffins have

Do you have trees? and a Contest!

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Do you have trees? I was asked that question yesterday at work. This was a question asked by a new homeowner, someone who shares almost the same predicaments i do when it comes to being a first time homeowner. My co-worker and I swap stories about the perils of being a homeowner. We shake our heads, laugh, kinda cry, and point and each other and say, You too? I KNEW you would be the only one who understands my leaf hell! At least i am not in this alone. Do I have trees? Yes, I do. One big giant maple tree that loves to shed its leaves creating the most monstrous display of leaves one has ever seen. Although I try and keep up, there is no end in sight! This is the public enemy number 1: This is the first bag of leaves: This is what i will be doing for the next 10 years: I have now raked 2 bags of leaves. If you can guess how many bags it will take to rake up my whole yard, You will win a prize. A really good prize... like your own leaf collage that i will be making and you can proudly

TWD~Lenox Almond Biscotti

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Oh Biscotti you are so very Naughty. Today for Tuesday's with Dorie, I was to make Lenox Almond Biscotti. I followed the recipe to a the "t" and so far so good. The biscotti were easy to make, smelled wonderful and I even got to use my jar of cornmeal that had been sitting, sulking on the shelf since 1985. I think these would go great with some coffee. But as a lot of you know, I can't drink coffee or hair sprouts from my chest and I howl at the moon. Maybe if I'm feeling spunky tomorrow morning i will stop in at Starbucks and get a DECAF (oh i am so my mother right now) and then drink that with my naughty biscotti. ciao

Orchards

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If you live in a state that doesn't have apples I don't know if you do this autumn ritual called, Going to the Orchard. Well us Minne-soh-tans go ga-ga for apple orchards. So every weekend in the fall you can find scores of people running through orchards, corn mazes, pumpkin patches, going on hay rides, chasing after their kids, yelling, and threatening to put them in the car and going home. I do not have children so I get my Baby Bjorn out and put my cat Marius into it and go for a frolicking good time at ye ol' orchard. I don't really do this, but the thought sounded so ludicrous i just had to write it. I went with my pal Shannon and we spent a lovely day at the orchard. Mostly stuffing our faces with apple brats (bratwurst sausage, i didn't want you to think we are eating the bad little children in the apple fields) apple doughnuts, caramel apples, apple cider, apple butter, apple salsa, apples. Just call me Bubba. Shannon, the apple of my one good eye.

Operation Baking GALS update

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Operation Baking GALS Round 3 was a success! Team Superfluous went crazy and sent one deserving soldier some fantastic goodies! Thank you to everyone who participated, your kindness and generosity was amazing!!! Last Monday I sent out some Snicker doodles and Chocolate Crinkles... and to be festive some Candy Corn! Here is Team Superfluous: Theresa Evans-Wooten Christine Busby of Please don't call me a Foodie Carrie of Carrie's Sweet Life Mary K of Alpine Berry Randy & Val Monday Morgan Cartusciello owner Four Corner Catering and Dessert in San Diego Amanda Jagla-Onstott Elizabeth de Saint-Aignan who made chocolate brownies, choc chip cookie bars, molasses gingersnaps and peanut butter cookies. Kim Onstott of Your Place Gourmet Jennifer Grimes of An Intern's Insanity Nanette Taho Barbara Cohen Dolores Ferrero

Giraffes It is...

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Because I really like this girl named Mary and I totally want to impress her, I will write about giraffes. This is how it will work: I will type whatever comes into my head about the subject of giraffes. Ready... Go! Giraffes Giraffes are my favorite animal. They are graceful and friendly. I once watched a documentary about a giraffe preservation in Africa. They would roam around freely. The house on the preservation had big windows and while you ate your biscuits and drank your tea a giraffe would stick its head in the window and you could feed it. Giraffe's have long necks. They like to neck. Their coat is colorfully brown and tan and it is cooler than wearing zebra stripes. I don't like zebra stripes as much as i like giraffe squares. How cool is it that they are so mod they get squares. God is Mod. Be careful when you are around giraffes. They might not see you and trample you. They are really strong so they could potentially kick the crap out of you. I once had a frou fr

Reader's Choice!!!!!!

I've been meaning to post something, but I also need to post my Operation Baking Gals Team Update. And since I do not have my pictures at work to post, I will write about that tonight. I have a great idea, since I always blog about what I like, I decided to stop being Selfish Sabrina and ask YOU to tell ME what to write. Just throw out a topic and I'm going to free style write ala Mr. O'Brien circa 7th grade. No subject is off limits. So throw something at me and watch the magic unravel.

The fabulous life of....

Friday after work i went to a funeral. I got really dressed up. My co-workers were shocked. I even got a 'hubba-hubba'... i guess its better than getting a 'tubba-tubba'. Actually I didn't feel that dressed up, because in real life i dress up, i just don't try very hard at work, because who do i need to impress? no one. The funeral was sad. I mean how do you talk about a funeral? It was very sad. I saw a lot of people i hadn't seen in years... For some reason a lot of people were under the impression that i had gotten married. Um no. Someone even said I was a fussy girl for not just sticking with one guy and settling down. Really? I felt like i was in a movie. Small town girl goes back home for a funeral and everyone questions why she is 31 and not married. So i compensate by saying, Well i just bought a house and I have a good job.... does that count? egads! Shannon Tweaker had a party that night, and all my BFF's from high school were there. We talked

As fate would have it...

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Never give the ONLY key to open something important to the girl who habitually loses her own keys. When I first started working at my job, I was given a set of keys. On that ring of keys was one small tiny key to the petty cash lock box. They said to me, "You are the ONLY one with this key, no one else in the building has it. So it is up to you to guard it with your life." All I could think was, Oh what joyous rapture to be the sole master of the "key". Actually, all I could think of was: a) I'm so going to lose this key b) remember what happened to Enron Let me just jump ahead, spare you the sordid details just to say that on the last day of school, I lost my keys. No where to be found. Kinda like John Mayer in his song Dreaming with a Broken Heart when he sings gone gone gone gone gone like 100x over and over and that is when you realize: a) he really isn't that great of a song writer b) I am so screwed!!!! But as fate would have it, all was not lost. A

Overheard in Media Center de Superfluous

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Student: Library Lady, can you help me find a book? Me: Sure, what book are you looking for? Student: I'm looking for a book series about girls. Me: Have you ever heard of the Baby Sitter's Club? Student: No, what's it about? Me: Oh are you in for treat! It's about these really cool girls who start a babysitting club and have all sorts of adventures and lots of cute boyfriends. Student: Cool! Next book series recommendation: Sweet Valley High!

Overheard at Casa de Superfluous:

Shannon: I swear when it's cold outside, ice cream melts faster! Last night Shannon came over to hang out with me. This has been a bit of sad week. I got some news that a friend of mine\my family suddenly passed away on Monday. He was so young and it is always so sad to think about those left behind and the grief they now carry. I always wish there was more I could do. But it just shows you how fragile life is, and how very short. Embrace those that you love. But last night was good for so many happy reasons: a) I made dinner for the both of us, tilapia and peanut noodles b) we went for a very lovely walk and got kinda lost c) we went to DQ (hence the ice cream comment) d) then we watched our favorite movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. We heart Dracula! It's nice to have good friends...

Can't say no....

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Last night a bunch of the girls met up for laughs and birthdays and catching up. Kelly, Megan (yes sensible of shoe was in the house) and Ellen. We went to this new place in St. Paul called Mango Thai . I love my Thai food! And since i make it a rule to always try the Pad Thai at new restaurants, thus i did. It was pretty good, but not the best I've ever had and NOT spicy at all. Overall the food was good, but the company was better. cheers.