Supreme Breakfast Casserole: Wal-lah!

Not to toot my own horn, but I made my first breakfast casserole......and it was the bomb-diggity. Coming up the with recipe was easy. The hard part was waiting for 1.5 days in agonizing anticipation to test taste my masterpiece of a creation. All this bragging, and Patrick didn't even get to try a single bite, since it was devoured during the meeting I brought it to.......Oh well, guess I'll just have to make it again! Supreme Breakfast Casserole Ingredients: 1 can Big and Flaky Croissant Rolls 1 package HOT Jimmy...

Spatchcock: Get In My Belly!

As I mentioned before, I had to work for Thanksgiving, and since it is also one of the most traveled days of the year, we decided it would be safer to stay in Dallas.  But Carrie and Ryan didn't want us to spend the holiday alone, so they invited us over to have a celebration at the White House. We spent Wednesday night putting finishing touches on a few dishes and sipping on Poinsettias, a holiday drink I heard about consisting of Cranberry Juice and Champagne.  Really, I think Carrie just wanted to take advantage of our cooking...

Two Words

Holy. Crap. I really haven't felt like that after a workout since Highschool. Really. Not even while training for my half-marathon.  I've never been a power person, just mediocre to minimally powerful at best.....which is why I've always been into long distance running instead of something cool and exciting like sprints or hurdles or relays. Slow and steady, that's me; I'm the tortoise. Jumping is not my best suit. It zaps my energy faster than an orgasm, but with way less satisfaction involved.  All this talk is about how Insanity...

Making Me Cray Cray

Google decided it had enough of my parasitic ways and tried to make me fork over my hard earned cash to keep posting photos on this "free" blog. Did you know they also limit your email space? Why can't they just jump on the Yahoo and Facebook bandwagon and annoy us with an overabundance of advertisements we can ignore and stay out of my pocketbook? All this technical nonsense made me so crazy, wasting hours of my life before I found a way around it, which is how I turned into this!!! Actually I'm doing my own facials these days because when...

Time Out

Have you ever been so dog tired that you were snoozing on the couch, but dreaming about actually going to bed and woke up rubbing your hands around as if you were indeed washing your face (because it's your night-time ritual to wash your face before bed)? Me either, except for one day this week. And then I awkwardly pulled my hands back down to normal position (hoping Patrick didn't see), got up and drug myself to bed. Without washing my face. Because, let's face it, when you're that tired pretend attempts count....

Now I'm Jealous

Mid-November finally brought cold enough temperatures at night to bring my plants in. I have no idea what kind of cactus this is that my mom gave me, but I love it and it loves me. It just keeps growing and growing and growing.....my theory is it wants to be taller than me so we can slow dance together in the living room like two beings in love should do. I really didn't know I was the plant lady until I brought all my pots inside and realized I had nowhere to put them. So obviously this meant Jess...

Time Heals All Wounds

Me: Ommigod, that really hurts. I always forget how bad it hurts! Patrick: How in the world could you forget how bad it hurts to get a needle gouged into your skin a million times? Me: Shrugs shoulders. I dunno. I guess time really does heal all wounds. I started the day with an ankle and ended it with a cankle, but it was all worth it. For 7 months I starred at flat black outlines and imagined what they would transform to when it was done. No one else could ever make any sense of the swirlies, but I knew it...

It's Me Again (That Nerd You Know)

Source: someecards.com via Maren on Pinterest Hi. I'm Kayla, and I'm a nerd-a-holic. Sometimes people tell me they think I'm cool, but I think it's on days their contacts are distorting their vision....or mini aliens are controlling their brain, like in the book The Host (which I can't wait for the movie debut this spring), or the movie Men in Black (the scene where the man's head opens and a cute little alien is controlling the body like it's a massive tractor). I swear my house was freezing. I slept with a heating pad and...

Cuteness. Beauty. Joy.

It's usually a major struggle for me to keep things short and sweet, but it's been super easy this week. Being off work for the last 7 days has kept me on my toes!!! I swear I could never work again and stay busy everyday......as long as I didn't run out of money......that could be problematic!!!! While I'm on the subject of short sweetness, let's take a moment to admire how cute my youngest niece is!!! She was a 3rd grade Duchess for her school's fundraising event. They gathered thousands of canned goods for charity.   Advancing...

Times a Changin'

It's amazing how dramatically one hour can change your day. It was disorienting how dark my drive to work was the first day of the time change. I kept forgetting that small detail and couldn't figure out if I was late to work or if a big storm was shunning the sun. Turns out it was neither of those things.  Jessica and I went for one of our nice jogs after work and us nocturnes were officially blinded by the light.  I'm going miss getting to watch the sunrise as we lap around the preserve, but soaking in some vitamin D before...

What?!?!

Any Triple D (Diners, Drive-in's, Dives) watchers in the house?!?!  Cane Rosso was featured in a Dallas episode, which happened to be located two blocks from our concert, and so we thought what safer way to ensure a yummy dinner adventure??? We told our waiter, Travis, we'd never been there before and asked for recommendations. He invited himself onto our bench immediately and broke down the menu with genuine enthusiasm. As we placed our order, he shook his head yes and confirmed we chose the best on the menu.  We waited with...