My life...

If you've been through law school or know somebody who has, this is hilarious!

Close your blinds!

I just went to close our sliding glass door that leads to our balcony. Directly across and one level down from us I was surprised to see.......


A naked woman.


Yes, she lives there with her boyfriend/husband and was in her bedroom, towel on her head, stark naked. It's dark out, lights on in the apartment...you get the picture. I would find this disturbing if I had kids. However, I thought it was kind of funny considering Miles and I leave our blinds open often, knowing that technically somebody could see us, but at the same time not caring enough to close the blinds (they're a pain). At least we only leave ours open in the living room though and not the bedroom. So, unless we're walking around our living room naked (not a common occurrence), I guess nobody would see us.

A yummy recipe

Made this tonight and it was a big hit with the whole fam (including Ryan and his girlfriend Hanna). I doubled it. Easy too.

Garlic Cheddar Chicken

2 tablespoons butter
1 clove garlic, minced
3 tablespoons dry bread crumbs
2 tablespoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese
1/4 cup and 2 tablespoons shredded Cheddar cheese
1/8 teaspoon dried parsley
1/8 teaspoon dried oregano
1/8 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - pounded thin (I honestly didn't pound it that much)

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat, and cook the garlic until tender, about 5 minutes.
In a shallow bowl, mix the bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, Cheddar cheese, parsley, oregano, pepper, and salt.
Dip each chicken breast in the garlic butter to coat, then press into the bread crumb mixture. Arrange the coated chicken breasts in a 9x13 inch baking dish. Drizzle with any remaining butter and top with any remaining bread crumb mixture.
Bake 30 minutes in the preheated oven, or until chicken is no longer pink and juices run clear.

For Insurance Purposes

So, the recent fires reminded us that we should have pictures of the things that we own in case of fire, earthquake, robbery, etc. Today we finally got around to taking some pictures of our stuff.

Most pictures looked like this...




However, I think we got a little camera crazy...and we took pictures like this...

As if an insurance company would be worried about replacing our spices, teas, massive jar of pink sprinkles and cookie cutters. Does everyone's "utensil" drawer look like this? I figure there's at least $100 worth of stuff in there.

Are we the only ones who have empty picture frames lying around?

Oh...and here are my cookbook shelves. Miles finds it amuzing that I own so many cookbooks, but generally make the same things over and over again.

Hey, there are some random law dictionaries in there!

Post some random pictures of your home!

Fires!!!

Yes we're here and we're ok. No evacuating for us. It's actually worse in Orange County where I was yesterday. However, it is really dry and there's ash and smoke everywhere!

Reminds me of 2003 when I was living in San Diego and the same thing happened with all these fires burning at once. So sad. Hope things are better in the morning.

Race for the Cure

Yesterday, Miles and I jogged/walked in the Orange County Race for the Cure. We were on a team through Miles' company but really ran in celebration of Miles' mom. We were amazed by the number of people who were there! We had a blast and we'll be back next year.

Kid Nation

Did anyone watch this? How sad for the kids??? I can't believe they were going to keep an 8 year old away from his parents for 40 days!