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Since Sexy Nerd had to work yesterday, while I got to lounge around the house, I thought it would be nice if he came home to some tasty doughnuts. I found the recipe here . Oooh, ingredients!   The first step was to "scald" 1 cup of milk. I'm not sure that this actually made any difference whatsoever. Next, the butter. Yummy. Melt, darn you!   Once the milk was thoroughly scalded, (pfft!) it was time to cool it down. Thank goodness for YouTube when waiting for your originally cold milk to cool back down. Go Britney! Beat some eggs.  Sift some flour. Ooh, that falling flour is beautiful! It's a pity that the sifter is covered in water spots. Get everything mixed nicely.   The original Recipezaar recipe resulted in dough that was much too sticky to work with. Adding additional flour fixed the problem. But how was I going to get these doughnuts to look doughnuty? Sexy Nerd & I don't have any cookie cutters. Seriously! Clever? Oh yes!

It's a bright, sunny day in Albuquerque. Did you remember to put on sunscreen? You grabbed your hat and water bottle? Great! We're off to the Albuquerque Zoo, which is waaay better (and less crowded) than the San Diego Zoo. Don't believe me? See for yourself: Once he had our attention, there was no stopping him from screaming HELLO! and swinging and doing flips along the top of his cage .. Mmmmm, furry bacon! This mountain lion has been pacing back and forth, scouring the crowd for weak children to pick from the pack, every time we've ever been to the zoo, except for this visit. Perhaps he finally caught one. He does look content. Sexy Nerd insists this bird was watching me. But is his eye missing? Someone's cute and knows it. Wow. A zebra. Yeah, he's pretty special. What do you do when you're a polar bear in the desert? You "chill" out! (I hear you laughing!) This

Sexy Nerd and I seem doomed to lose a tree in our backyard every summer. Here is our yard two summers ago: See that big, beautiful ash tree? The focal point of our yard? Don't get too attached to it. Here is our yard last summer: No ash tree. Just the neighbors ridiculously close house, perhaps placed at an angle so it could be as close as possible. Lush green (fake) lawn though! Once we'd realized the tree was infested with ash borers, it was too late. It was a sad loss, but we moved on, planting sticks in its place that will one day (Sexy Nerd insists) grow tall enough to block the neighbor's windows. This summer was going to be better! Just look at all the cherries we got from our 2 cherry trees: So much cherry goodness! My mom is going to be so mad when she sees I posted photos online with my house a mess! Do you know where I'm going with this? If you have a cherry tree, you may not want to finish reading this post. It gets pretty scary

Have you heard? LambAround has topped 200 followers! WOO HOO HOO! My little blog has come a long way since those days when I wasn't sure why to bother blogging at all. To celebrate, I'm having a party, blog style. You're invited! I won't try to sell you Tupperware or Longaberger Baskets or Mary Kay cosmetics (though, admittedly I may try to get $10 by signing you up for Groupon ). This is going to be much better than the last party I promised you, which I was totally robbed of! Put on your dorkiest hat. It's party time! And, FYI, that is a ginormous ball of deep-fried mozzarella on my plate. Come see my beautiful, mysterious flowers . (HA!) I'll regale you with my tales of jury duty and all the times Sexy Nerd has put his foot in his mouth . Eat some employer-donated cheesecake and deceptive salad off of my fancy schmancy Noritake Colorwave Floral Accent Plates . Everything will be delicious - as long as we don't put Sexy Nerd in charge of

This is the soap I use in both of our guest bathrooms. The bottle is pretty and it smells like honey. I like it...except for one tiny annoyance. See if you can guess what it is. So far, so good. The little beehive and lovely oranges make this bottle look adorable on my bathroom countertop. See it down there on the bottom of the label? Grrr. Am I naive for thinking that my San Diego Soap Company soap was made in San Diego? *Sigh.*

OMG! These cornbread muffins are yummy!You know that feeling you get when you eat sooooo much? The feeling where you just want to waddle around the rest of the afternoon and do nothing but complain about how full you are? I'm there. I had the day off from work and decided to do some much needed tidying up around the house. While cleaning out the pantry, I discovered a few pouches of cornbread mix. Printed on each was Better If Used By 21NOV2009. 2009?? Not wanting to let my purchase go bad, (though, some would probably argue that it already had gone bad) I sprang into baking mode, conveniently leaving no-fun-whatsoever cleaning mode in the past. I had no intention of blogging about this, but the finished product was just too tasty not to share. Look at all that muffiny (yes, muffiny!) goodness. Pigging out on cornbread muffins isn't that bad if 9 are mini muffins, right? Really, it's like I've had just 2 muffins. By moving all the muffins out of the pans, Sexy Ner

Today I am going to let you, my fabulous readers, in on a snazzy website that’s full of great deals. My mom was actually the one who found it first. She told me that she received an email telling her to go to a site and hand over her credit card information in exchange for a coupon she could print herself. Can you guess what my reaction was? Oh yes, I thought that whoever it was over in Mauritius or wherever these wacko emails originate had found the perfect sucker and that she had been ripped off big time. My mom continued to call and pester me about whether or not I’d visited the site yet. “Yeah, it’s great,” I told her, rolling my eyes. Links from her email address flooded my Inbox. Finally, just to prove what a waste of time and money the website was, I took a look. Damn. She was right. I purchased a coupon for $140 worth of fancy spa services for $70 and another coupon for $15 worth of fancy (everything on the site seems fancy to me) food at a restaurant in Old Town for

It's already Tuesday night and I haven't posted anything. This calls for a rerun (don't worry - it's a good one!) And, yes, I am still working at the same place. No, my boss has not changed at all. What's Your Size? An Embarrassing Work Story Working in a dental office is wonderful. I have an extremely lovable, quirky boss. Remember when she bought me a cheesecake and a box of Fairytale Brownies ? She's all about doing nice things for her employees. Christmas is no exception, of course, and every year we wonder what gift she's going to give us. The other day, there was a list posted at work, asking all employees to write down a couple personal details to help our boss with her holiday shopping. Personal? Just little things, you know, like your bra size . On display. For everyone in the office to read. I don't think we're getting food this year. I answered her questions (nothing like a little peer pressure, right?) and returned to my job, an

Have you seen this months issue of the Oprah magazine? They have a section called "25 for $25 (or Less!)", which is full of beauty bargains. Usually, I breeze through features like this, scoffing at their so-called "deals" for items I either would never want to buy or items I can find for even less. This 3 page section was different though. It had 3 items I wanted and if I bought all 3, I would be spending $75, plus shipping, but the regular price of the items would be $360! All I had to do was use the coupon code OPRAH or OPRAH25. I know, I know. It doesn't matter if the regular price was $5000 if I wasn't going to buy the products to begin with. True, I hadn't even heard of these before, but after reading about them, I had to have them! Or (cheap side kicking in) at least one of them! Dr. Loretta Dermatologist Skin Care Youthful Wri-Lax - regularly $100!    Peter Thomas Roth Mega Rich Intensive Anti-Aging Cellular Creme - regularly $120!

And what a beautiful strawberry it was! Delicious!