i just found my son intently amusing himself...

what was he doing, you ask?

he was thoroughly licking the back of a party invitation he got from school today and then sticking the "wet" side to the back of the couch to see how long it would stay stuck.

how amusing...

(don't ask me what his record time was. )

felt like actually posting something...

so i have this breadmaker that my friend gave me. i've been having so much fun trying out every recipe in the manual. today's menu: "Lemon Poppy Seed Bread". sounds yummy! did the groceries this morning, and i was smart enough to buy a lemon (thinking that it might come in handy with the recipe). got home and realized that the recipe actually calls for "DRIED lemon peel, crushed". ok, so i only have a wet lemon on hand. i figured i would just go with grating the WET lemon peel to make lemon zest. what could be the difference? i added double the volume of what the recipe called for since i figure a dried thing is usually smaller than it's wet counterpart.

a few hours later...

my kitchen STINKS!!! i have no idea what on earth happened. but the smell in the kitchen is horrible. smells something like burning lemons. no other way to describe it. the loaf is ready now but i'm afraid to try it... ha ha! i think i will let my husband try it first... <snicker, snicker> (hopefully he doesn't read this first!)

i also had a weird experience with the poppy seeds. i thought i would use some ancient poppy seeds i have in my collection (i think they are at least 5 years old). opened the jar and took a whif... ewwww, they smelled totally rancid. dumped them out in the trash and dragged my kid back to the grocery store to get more poppy seeds. bought new jar or poppy seeds. got home. opened them. smelled EXACTLY the same as the ones i just dumped out. tried looking up "smell of poppy seeds" on google to see if they are supposed to smell really gross. didn't get too much information... except that they do have a tendency to go rancid pretty quickly. in my frustration i decided to use them anyway (i already had all the other ingredients in the bread maker just WAITING for the poppy seeds) 

now that i think of it, maybe the poppy seeds are also helping with the interesting aroma of this bread. ha ha! anyone wanna come over and share my creation?

PS: everytime i try to type "poppy", "poopy" keeps coming out...  maybe i've actually baked a loaf of "Lemon Poopy Seed Bread". that would explain the smell...

What do you call an X that just got out of the bathtub?

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A clean X
(get it?! a Kleenex!)

LOL!!!
(yes, i am easily amused...)