Kris Kuksi, Delicious Cookie Recipe, and an Awesome Place for Us To Go

Kris Kuksi

A sweet treat for your eyes lays here.  The artist is extremely intricate, and in any medium he chooses you can literally feel the human struggle to become great under duress.  Id versus Religion versus Culture versus Death in a tightly contained package; I could sit all day with my eyeballs making small adjustments.  Ever had a skeleton question your moral standing?  Welcome to delicious Kuksi. 
Segue!


Delicious Cookie Recipe:

1 cup Milk Chocolate Chips 

1 cup Dark (Semi-sweet) Chocolate Chips 

1 teaspoon of salt 

1 teaspoon of baking soda 

1/2 teaspoon of baking powder 

3/4 cups Superfine/Caster Sugar 

3/4 cups Medium Brown Sugar 2 Large Eggs 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract (not vanilla flavoring, that stuff is crap) 

1 cup of Unsalted Butter (2 half-stick units of paper-wrapped or 8 tbsp of tub butter) 

2 and 1/2 cups Regular Flour (All-Purpose)

 
1. A flour sifter prevents clumps of unprocessed product in the final cookie.  Sift flour into a mixing bowl, adding salt, baking powder and baking soda as you go. 
2. In a different bowl, put in your unsalted butter.  Preferably you would take the butter out of the fridge a little beforehand so it can soften, otherwise nuke a little.  Add your superfine sugar to the softened butter.  Then add the brown sugar and blend until there’s no lumps.  I would get a hand mixer at this point to spare your wrists.  Add the vanilla, and then the eggs.
3. Preheat your oven now, to 350 degrees.  Get out an ungreased cookie sheet.  Flat thin cookie sheets work best.
4. Stir in the flour mixture from the other bowl, a little at a time until everything’s together.
5. Use two spoons to form 1-inch balls of dough and drop them onto cookie sheet.
6. Bake until cookie is golden brown around the edges.  This usually takes under fifteen minutes, so keep a close eye (not too hard to do).

Eat and repeat.  Play around with ingredients, the mixture is lenient in that these cookies turn out REALLY RICH by default.  It won’t hurt to sub margarine in, but the butter is way tastier.

Awesome Place for Us To Go:
This is a section I would love to introduce, where I put down stuff for husband/wife no-kids-some-pets combos to have extreme fun doing while Getting Outside.  May or may not include sun.  I will try to keep mine local, can’t-miss, or cheap; and ya’ll feel free to go off with some of your own.  This is my idea, what’s yours?  I triple dog dare you to beat TANDEM ZIPLINING!

Easter Earthquakes, Rocking This Week, Final Fantasy XIII Eats My Life, and Culottes!

Easter Earthquakes:


Not-fun stuff out of the way -- we had an earthquake Sunday morning, shortly after my first post.  There have actually been over a thousand earthquakes since the first big one in Mexicali, and they stretch all the way up to Santa Ana.  Rebel that I am, I was doing laundry Easter morning and somehow didn’t notice anything was out of the ordinary.  For oblivious people like myself, Google Earth has an useful tool that uses the US Geological Survey site to put location points and related info for each reported earthquake in the last week, and I put that here.  It’s under the Google Earth KML heading.

Rocking This Week Update:


Every week I am going to self-improve, and I can drag you along with me or you can walk yourself. 
This week I Am Rocking: 
No road rage, at any level, for any reason.  My friend X1 was in a confrontation with a man at a gas station (they noticed as he drove away from the crime scene that his license plate actually said “ROADRGR”).  Before this 250-pound man was done drunkenly pounding on the side of my 125-pound female friend’s head, he had also spat in her face, called her every filthy name he could think of and THREW HER BEACH CRUISER like a toy.  Welcome to the OC right?  And let’s give it up for people so aimlessly violent as to advertise it on a vanity plate!  My goal this week is to be a courteous driver, because I have been guilty of giving the Vicky to a few idiots.  No more feeding the hate.


Final Fantasy XIII Eats My Life:


It really does.  Especially with the switch in strategy guides from Brady to Piggyback.  Way more comprehensive, and available in Collector’s Edition, if you can find someone to part with it.


Culottes for President!


Where I live, we get Big Wind Come Over Mountain and it blows our pretty skirts right over our heads.  My solution: culottes, the mailbag lady staple!  They also allow me to rock the spring florals that I crave with some relative wind resistance.  Even better – find one hooked jumper status to a spaghetti-strap top for your new spring slap on and go outfit.  Not cool: this.

I’ll be back with more before you know it! Thank you for coming back by…………….!!!!

Introductions are in order!

First of all -- HELLO :) to my new visitors.  Thought the first blog should introduce some names that won't be strange to you...and to tell you more about the wizard behind the curtain.
First, there is me:



I am a goob and I have too many random interests to begin in this blog.  I live in sunny Southern California with my awesome husband and a dog and two cats: Spencer, our rescue pup, Samuel - loves to lay claim on anything out of its normal spot: money, clothes, books, and Mazy a.k.a Maizie, whose debatable name matches her debatable past.


All five of us in a little tiny slice of Orange-flavored heaven.  The weather is everything you've heard about, and the rat race is enough to make you LOSE IT.  But with modern technology not quite where it was promised, and then again so much more, I decided to utilize my laptop to bring that fun to your door, along with health and beauty product reviews, PS3 game first glances, movie discussions and pet care.

So you get a little idea of the author, let me start with my first love: animals.  I was born and raised in Florida fifteen minutes from the beach.  The area was purgatorial in its mix of youngsters milling around burning in the sun and old folks who retired and moved down from places with fun-to-say names, like "East Millinocket".  My parents had a sandwich shop which bankrupted us when I was in second grade, and from then on I learned to live (and thrive) without taking anything for granted.  I wore hand-me-downs from family friends, swum in the disgusting Gulf of Mexico and tamed the lizards outdoors.  There was a wealth of interesting fauna in my neighborhood.  I swam with manatees and sting rays in the channels, chased shorebirds, and hunted for living sand dollars on the sandbars.  I raised backyard caterpillars to butterfly-hood in plastic pencil cases and called anything that followed me home a pet, including a mongrel dog I called White Lightning (I guess 'coz it was the eighties, gosh) and a couple of box turtles I caught in the ditch.  My first thing I got to actually keep longer than a month besides the butterflies in the garage was a black cat named Veddie.  She was an alley princess and never really adjusted well to indoor life, climbing the curtains in every room of the house as soon as she heard the vacuum start up.  Oh yeah, and she would attack my fluttering REM eyes in the dead of night.  I loved her dearly.  The pet thing went on hiatus when I moved at fourteen due to my mom's heart surgery, going to stay with my grandmother in South Carolina.  The only animal she owned was an unbroken horse named Pilltoro, who though altogether an awesome creature was easily spooked away and didn't really care about cuddling.  I washed it with the hose one day and it was an all day Farm Proj.   Back to Florida at fifteen and back to adopting animals off the street.  Yadaya, years later, I'm still doing it.  How can anyone say no to a little heart in need?  Pets make our lives very special every day, we should give back to them that comfort and companionship.  And that's a little about me and pets!

Hopefully this introduction post will encourage you to come back.  You're more than welcome here, and please leave comments!  I'm a newborn baby blogger...thanks for growing with me.