He Did What!? Wednesday - By BM I Don't Care

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing Tweeting - Guest Post by BM I Don't Care

The other night, Professor and I went out on a Date Night - our first in months. We started this tradition when we had International Students living with us, as a way to get out and just have some time to ourselves occasionally, and we've continued it even though we're alone with each other all the time. All. The. Time.

We had been out all day at a religious assembly, so we were dressed up. I was quite happy to wear what I was wearing, being a Date Night and all, but Professor detests ties and decided he wanted to get changed. I said I would just sit in the car so we could keep it running to charge my phone, as I had left the proper cord at work and only had the car charger.

So I'm sitting in the car, and I catch up on Twitter. I catch up on my blog comments. I start to wonder where Professor is but decide he's pretty-fying himself for our date, so I check my emails. Still no Professor. I check FB and BB, and by now I'm starting to be concerned that Professor's had a stroke or an aneurysm or is having an affair or has disappeared into Narnia. 

So I do the only responsible thing, and instead of getting out of the car, I ring him from my mobile.

You know what he was doing? Cutting and cleaning his nails. All. Of. Them.

Also, the outfit he chose for our Date Night? Sweater shirt, cargo pants and thongs. THONGS.

I have not the words.

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Jody Jones, aka Lady Fabulous, blogs at BM I Don't Care, quite possibly the happiest looking blog in town with it's awesome rainbow coloured butterflies and flowers.

She started blogging to preserve her sanity as she and her husband, The Professor, tread the sometimes arduous path of Trying To Conceive (TTC).

I've been lucky enough to meet Lady Fabulous twice; once when I recognized her, like the blog goddess she is, at the movies; and once at a Perth bloggers meet up. Both times she's been awesome and I've wished I could talk to her more, so now I stalk her on Facebook and Twitter.

Next Week: We get in to Mumstrosity's knickers

Send your S/He Did What!? submission to Glowless@wheresmyglow.com

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Comfort Eating - Gourmet Glow Style

I'm up for a little comfort eating at the moment and I felt I hadn't made a new button in a while, so I've done the proverbial two birds with one stone trick and come up with 'Gourmet Glow' for your culinary pleasure. You can thank me later.

WARNING: The following post is not safe for dieters, diabetics or those with heart disease. Read on at your own risk.

Did somebody say cookies? No? It was just in my head? Um... right... awkward.

Never fear, that can be remedied! You will all be saying coooookies when I'm through here... either that or lapsing in to a diabetic coma.

I honestly have no idea where I got this recipe from, but I know the first time I made them was in August 2009 (how is it I remember the month I ate cookies but have no idea of the date I got engaged? Priorities!). If you recognize where the original recipe came from let me know and I'll credit it - though one of the things I learned at AusBlogCon was that if you put a recipe in your own words you completely circumvent any copyright... which seems a bit unfair to me, but for the purposes of these cookies, suits me very well.

The Best Ever Gooey Glowy Chocolate Chip Cookies

• 2 1/4 cups plain flour
• 1tsp baking soda
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup white sugar (I know, two different kinds of sugar! Awesome, right?)
• 2 eggs
• 2tsp vanilla
• 1 1/2 cups chocolate chips
• Extra chocolate chips for decorating (Cos 1 1/2 cups is never enough)

You can feel your arteries hardening already, can't you?

• Preheat your oven to 180C or 160C fan forced
• In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking soda and salt with a wire whisk and set aside
• With a mixer, cream the butter and both sugars
  

  

  Heart attack, anyone?
• Add in eggs and vanilla, then beat it, baby
• Add half the flour mix, beat, add the other half, beat (Or just dump it in one lot if you're lazy like me)
• Stir in chocolate chips while eating a few
  

  

  Chocolate

• Use a tablespoon to scoop the cookie dough out on to a baking sheet in to balls about 5cm apart - they spread like crazy 
• Bake for 6 minutes then take them out and put the rest of the choc chips on, to make them purrrdy
  

  

  Right side has extra to make it look nicer
• Bake for a further 6-8 minutes
• Remove and let them cool on a wire rack (or burn your mouth eating them straight away)

Always with milk

 Or if you're able to share the goodness, wrap 'em up and you'll have a friend for life

I could only share six

If you have a go at making these let me know, you could even post a picture up on the Where's My Glow? Facebook page if you're feeling brave!

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I've got HOT BUNS! - Giveaway

Nom nom nom nom nom. That is the sound of me devouring some scrummy hot cross buns that were delivered to me by courier from Bakers Delight. Courier, really? How cool.

I recruited the big guns for this review; my parents and my inlaws. Though not at the same time. The two sets of parents have met but if I can avoid it, they won't meet again. It's because I have the sinking feeling Map Guy's parents will see just how loopy my family is and say "Run, boy! Get out while you can!".

Why would they say that? Well, because of this:

Yes. That is my mother. They are her preferred poses for photos that are taken with the express purpose of being published FOREVER ON THE INTERWEBS.

*ahem*

So the tasting panel were there to taste, not to look either sane or pretty.

We got to sample three different flavours of hot cross buns; original (fruit with no peel), choc chip and mocha.

The verdict?

Original: Loved by everyone, particularly my Dad because he's not a fan of peel but loves the fruit. I really loved these cut in half and lightly toasted under the grill with a bit of butter on top. Divine!

Mocha: They tasted milder than expected after being smacked in the face by the overwhelming coffee aroma upon opening the bag. My Dad could only eat a quarter, they gave my Mum indigestion (though it could be related to how fast she inhaled it) and my Father-In-Law, the biggest coffee drinker of the lot, really enjoyed them. Map Guy and I don't drink coffee so we didn't try these ones.

Choc Chip: Both mine and my Mother-In-Law's favourite, after trying them we decided not to share them with the boys! There may be a fight between us for the last one, but I've got the home ground advantage.

Don't forget that this Saturday April 9th is ‘Bundraiser’ Day! All 630 Bakers Delight bakeries, donate $1 from every six-pack of hot cross buns sold to their local children’s hospital in an effort to raise more than $123,000 for sick kids. In WA it's going to Princess Margaret Hospital for Children, the hospital Tricky went to for his craniosynostosis surgery.

I've got five $5 vouchers to give away so if you want to get your hands on some delightful baked goodies from Bakers Delight (see what I did there? Clever, huh?) add a comment below telling me your favourite thing about Easter, even if, like me, you don't really celebrate Easter. My answer would be the public holidays.

TAC: Entry is open to Australian residents only. Prize will be drawn on Thursday 14th April at 8pm AWST. The five winners will be chosen using a random number generator and contacted via email - to ensure you are contactable, sign in to Disqus (the comment platform) with a valid email address. Winners will be announced on the Where's My Glow? Facebook page and notified via email. Winners have one week to respond to the notification before a redraw. The vouchers have their own terms and conditions printed on them.

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Glowless rocked the Aussie Bloggers Conference thanks to

HealthyChart and Baby Goes Retro and Simply Colors

FlogYoBlog Friday - The Heart Shaped Box Edition

Come As You Are, Floggers, there is no need to Stay Away.

I don't want to Drain You, but I need to know if you'll be linking up today? Or is there Something In The Way?

I've tried to make it as easy as possible, and if it's a bit hard, then All Apologies.

I know you're not Dumb, you might have baby brain if you're cookin' a little something In Utero, in which case you need to Milk It for all it's worth.  Check out the rules below, just like when you were at School, and link on up!

I wonder if anyone will link up a post About A Girl or a recipe that requires Sifting?

For now, I'm off to do some cleaning with some Bleach. If I inhale enough of the fumes I might even attain Nirvana.

Have you got any idea why I'm rambling on like this? No? Nevermind*. Let's just Flog:

The Rules

(As stolen from Lori, thus making Baby Jesus cry... sorry)

1. Follow Where's My Glow? 
2. Bow down at the alter of Mummy Time; Blog-goddess, all round groovy gal and creator of FYBF
3. Grab the FYBF button and post it on your sidebar or in the post you're linking up
4. Link in your favourite/best post from the week (don't just put your blog URL)
5. Follow at least 1 linkyer/blogger (Be nice and spread the comment love)
6. The list will be open for linkyers on Fridays (and for the foreigners Friday as well)
7. A new and fresh linky list will open every Friday. And you will have to link up AGAIN. The previous link list does not carry over to the following week
8. Because I live in Dullsville Perth the list will open around 7am AWST - I'm not getting up at 5am and the last time I scheduled a post it didn't work

<a href="http://www.wheresmyglow.com/search/label/FlogYoBlog"><img alt="FYBF" src="http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv316/mummy-time/FlogYoBlog/flogyoblog-1.jpg" border="0" alt="FYBF"/></a>

get the InLinkz code

*Today marks 17 years since the world found out that Kurt Cobain had passed away.

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Jinxed It

Have you ever written a post about the one thing you’d hate to see happen, then it’s happened and you’ve felt like you’ve caused it? Just by thinking about it?

When I asked this same question on Twitter, Tiff from Three Ring Circus was quick to answer in the affirmative, feeling like she'd jinxed Ivy's health at times by writing about how well she was doing.

Today I’ve been writing some posts to go up next week when my Dad has his heart surgery, thinking that I probably won’t feel like doing too much. I was writing about how we’re all understandably anxious and how I’m particularly worried the infection he has (from a frickin boil) will spread and that, at the eleventh hour, they will cancel his surgery.

I’d not long written those words when my Mum called...

A chest infection.

More antibiotics.

Surgery in doubt.

I know I didn’t cause this. I know my words have no impact on the world; that I’m not some fanciful omnipotent being who can write something and make it happen. Yet there is still that tiny little voice, at the farthest edge of my conscious that says I shouldn’t have written it. I should have just stayed quiet and this wouldn’t have happened.

He needs this surgery. He’s had to wait a month longer than they wanted him to because of scheduling conflicts. The conflict being the surgeon was going to Rotto for a holiday and didn’t want to pass the surgery to someone else. I’d call him a heartless bastard but if I’m not nice to that guy I’m afraid it will be my dad who will be the heartless one.

In this one, incredibly long, slow month I’ve watched him deteriorate from a man who was just a bit tired to one who sleeps most of the day and spends his nights on CPAP.

I have tried to spend as much time with him as possible but he stays away when he’s at his worst. Not wanting to be a burden. But all I want is to be near him; to drink in the joy of him and Tricky playing together; to help him sit down when he has one of his ‘turns’ and his heart races and he can’t breathe; to just be with him.

I’m worried his body is shutting down. He’s been on hardcore antibiotics and had penicillin injections all this week to try and knock the small infection yet he’s developed a bigger one.

I’m worried they won’t do the surgery.

I’m worried he won’t make it out of surgery.

I thought I was OK with it, this circle of life.

I thought I was learning to accept that these things happen, and to enjoy every day like it was your last because it just might be.

But I’m not.

I’m just a scared little girl who wants her Daddy to be better.

 

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