every little thing

Time to move on

Long time no see!  Big changes going on these days:  I've sold Bake It Pretty and our family is moving back to Virginia.  All good things :)  

I'm taking a little time to regroup mentally, physically, and emotionally from the last few years.  Not exactly sure what's on the horizon, but I plan to keep you all updated in a few, new blog spaces I have going:

We bought a 69' travel trailer to renovate and I plan to document that, and other life-stuff, at Out Like Bandits.

And because I'm not finished with the baking world yet:

...catch up on my kitchen adventures, new recipes, and other deliciousness at Sweet as the Punch.

See you soon!

xoxo

Ho Ho HOORAY!!

Ohmygosh.  I've waited all year and it's finally here!  The new, 2010 zany Holiday Music mix from Sound Opinions.  It's a FREE download but it disappears after January 1st.  I've been collecting these since 2007 and they are so, so amazing.  I can't even tell you.  Not your average Christmas music— they don't call it Holiday Obscura for nothing.  I had to post here as soon as I saw it was up because I've been refreshing the page on their website for, like, three weeks now.  JOY!

Get your booty over there and download while it's still festive, people!

 

Raja

This is Raja, our new kitty, at about 10 weeks old.  He's a Bengal, and before you get on my case about how terrible it is to buy fancy breeds when there are poor, homeless kitties in need of rescue— chill. This was Mike's crazy idea, not mine.  And since Mike doesn't ask for much, I figured if he wanted a cat that was five generations down from a snow leopard then by gum, who was I to stop him?

Having said that, this is pretty much the coolest cat that ever was: he was so well cared for and socialized as an infant that he bonded with us immediately, he loves riding in the car, is cool as a cuke at the vet, and has a spotted jungle-cat belly that is to die for.  Oh, and get this— Bengals love the water!  Have you ever heard of such a thing?  Raja already peeks his head in the tub when I'm in the shower, and our the breeder said to watch out: when they're older they will jump in the bathtub with you and splash water all over the place.  Craziness, right?  

We were so pleased with our experienced with Alexander Bengals I definitely wanted to give them a shout out. We could tell right away that the breeder truly loved their kitties and treated them with exceptional care. if you're in the Western North Carolina area and you're looking for Bengals, well, there you go.  

As for the name...  I'm kind of ashamed to admit that we got "Raja" from a Disney move.  Ugh, how lame is that?  We were watching Aladdin on TV, and I guess the tiger's name is Raja, and it just kind of stuck.  Sorry, kitty.  Naming things has always been tricky business for me.  I'm still trying to convince some people that I didn't name our son after the lead character in Rushmore.  

I really didn't. 

What I did on Spring Break

By Amanda Krueger on Vimeo.

Music: Boum! by Charles Trenet

Not a fan

I'm breaking my blog silence to post unflattering pictures from the recent Masterpiece Classic rendition of Emma.  That's right, I'm a jerk.

 
 

 

Go back to Cuba where you belong, big face. 

Oh by the way...HERE!

Amanda fun-fact: When I was 14-ish I was OBSESSED with finding a long nightgown exactly like the one Claire (Karen Allen) wears in the flashback scene of Scroodged. I never found it.

Happy Weekend!

They Might Be Giants played a kid's concert in Raleigh last weekend and we missed it! I didn't even mention it to Max, he would have been crushed. The rest of their shows on this tour are just a little too far away.  So sad.   Max, Mike, and I have all been big fans for some time now.  At lease we have youtube!

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Halloweenie

I'm posting this video because my mom says I never post on the blog anymore.
Harumph. So there.

LOVE 4-EVER

I want to make a blog entirely devoted to photos of restroom-graffiti.  (I am sure such a thing already exists...but still, I've always been intrigued by this stuff.) 

(I heart this one.)

 

Lost In Austen

I spotted this mini series on Netflix a few weeks ago.  It was in my "if you like this, then you should try this" suggestion box.  I'd never heard of it, but just going by the synopsis I thought it sounded really dumb.  So dumb, in fact, that It might be kind of funny.  So I threw it in the old queue just for kicks.  But now that I've seen it, I have to admit that I truly liked it - kind of a lot.  So much, in fact, that I'm going to heartily recommend it to any of you Pride and Prejudice fans (and I know you are out there.)  Yes, the whole Jane Austen re-do trend has gotten painfully old, I've read several of the books and most of them are lame.  I don't think this show should have been very good either, but somehow they made it work.  Half of it is the stellar casting job, that my sister and I both agreed was just spot-on.  The story line gets a bit silly at times, but never goes too far off the deep end, so the suspension of disbelief came easily.  There were even a few plot twist that took me by surprise and actually made a lot of sense, like they could have come from Ms. Austen herself.  (and the main characters name is "Amanda" so that was kinda funny, for me.) 

You can find clips and previews around the Internet, but I'm not going to add any here.  I think that going into it blindly with no expectations was the right move...I suggest it for you, too.  But be warned: since it's a mini series, it's about 4 hours long.  Don't put it in at 11:30 at night like I did.  You'll be up the whole, bloody night.