Cocoa and Bowie, and it's not even my Birthday!

The cookie battle has continued. Last night it took up my whole evening...which I generally prefer to fill with sweet nothingness. So I got home at about 6 (stupid traffic...) and was going strong until 9:30 (at which point I was exhausted and passed out). This morning, I jerked up in bed after something had seemingly fallen on me (in my dream). George looked at me like I was a mad woman and my 5 o'clock alarm went off about a minute later...at least I was wide awake already? That didn't change the fact that I desperately wanted to crawl back under the covers and sleep for another couple hours.

So Little Red (mixer) was brought out again last night. This time I was making Mexican Wedding Cookies (I always knew them as Almond Crescents when my sister made them)...which are basically shortbread cookies with pecans (or almonds or whatever) that are dipped in icing sugar when at a temperature you can handle (or a little too hot really...the hotter they are, the better the icing sugar melts). Those turned out quite successfully (if I do say so myself), but no pictures were taken sorry...too busy, too sticky of hands!
For a recipe, I don't have a go to one yet. I just Googled Mexican Wedding Cookies and picked which ones were either rated the best or seemed the most suitable to me.

Afterward, I wanted to make a few plain shortbread cookies (only about a dozen) for those who can't eat nuts. So those were easy enough. I tasted the dough, which was quite delish, but I actually didn't have a baked cookie. By the time they were done (and I had munched on a couple of the other cookies), I was in no mood for anymore. (Again I just pulled any recipe off of Google).

Then I was wanting to make a little snack type recipe and I was curious about something Sally (from Sally's Baking Addiction) seems to rave about loving ALL THE TIME! Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Bites. So, fairly easy recipe...unfortunately, for me, it was a little difficult. I'm not sure if I just had too much peanut butter in there or if it was just way too hot in my place (which it was...) but the peanut butter mixture was pretty sticky for me, even though I kept adding icing sugar. Eventually, I just sucked it up and made it work because I didn't want to go overboard with the icing sugar. I do love peanut butter, but by the time I had finished these little guys, I was sick of liking the stuff off my fingers so I couldn't bring myself to eat one. But I'm sure they're really good! I'll let you know how they are once I've actually tried one...but for now, they're in my freezer. But thanks for the recipe Sally! Next time, I won't make something at the same time (so the oven isn't acting as a second furnace for the place) or I'll open all the windows :D
Again, no pictures...hands too sticky, Trudy too tired. Sally's look a little nicer anyways ;)

So that was my evening! This morning, after jerking awake, I did my usually morning things and jumped into my workout. Today I did an Insanity workout..."Max Interval Sports Training", if you were wondering. It's a toughy...good workout!

Do you remember last year, my love of Tim Horton's Candy Cane White Hot Chocolate? Well peeps, today was my first of the season and it was delish ;)

Though delicious, this thing seemed so dang sweet! (And it was too big, but someone got it for me and I was excited...). I don't know if it's just because I've been having a few too many sweets lately...but it was a bit of an overload. (But still yummy, love you WHCCC~!)

Never fear! I've been keeping up with my advent calender! Yesterday being the 18th, I got my first Santa! I will share though, that I have not eaten him yet... too much sugar yesterday!! Though tonight probably won't be better D:

So today is the 19th! What's my favorite stocking stuffer??
 I don't particularly know why, but I've always loved the stocking :D Usually just filled with a few little random things like chocolate, little piece of jewelry, lip balm (I always lost them) and my favorite thing was snuggled right up in the toe...... A CHRISTMAS ORANGE! I don't know WHY I love the Stocking Toe Christmas Orange so much...but I just do and that's the way it is ;)

What's YOUR favorite Stocking stuffer? What does Santa put in the toe of your stocking? ;)

12 Days of Christmas!
On the 7th day of Christmas a Trudy gave to you, 7(+) songs for singing, 6 lengthy foot rubs, 5 booooxxeess of Godiiiivvaaaaaa, 4 festive movies, 3 pomegrantes, 2 pairs of sweatpants, and a fuzzy kitten named Georgey!

{Obviously I mean Christmas songs...I love singing Christmas music! (Ok, all music...but ya) ;).}

On tonight's agenda...MORE baking and I'll probably try to get the vacuuming done as well. We'll see what the night brings ;)

Toodles for meow :)!

PS. Only 2 days left for the giveaway yo! Only one person has entered for a couple of the things...chances are high! For goodness sake, why haven't you entered yet?!

The past few days I have just been CRAVING this song. I kept hoping it would play on one of the dang radio stations and it probably has, just not while I was listening. Well I decided to take things into my own hands... one of my faves! (Love the Bowie...and everyone loves Bing).
**Skip to about 1:50 for the song** ;) You're welcome.



Dang Bowie, your voice is so smooth...

Jeez.

It's actually difficult to get on here after being gone for a bit. Where do you start back up? Do people even want me to post?

I guess what it all comes down to is...I don't care :D It's my bloggy and I'll do what I want to!

Alright, so I went up to Lethbridge and there were a few things I wanted to share from there. One I'll share in it's own post (for ease of putting up pictures). SO! (Oh my stomach just gurgled...breaky time! I brought a yogurt and berry bowl - delish~!). Back to Lethbridge. I was down there for a few days. Visited some family, got wedding invitations out (thank goodness), and got some help from my aunt on my wedding dress (oh and ran a few errands).

Anyways, I've needed to go down there for a bit...so it was nice to get that taken care of. Though I, unfortunately, didn't get to see W this time around as she was busy with work. Next time!

Other than that...still getting wedding planning done (PS. that's happening in like a month and a half hey *.*). And still looking for apartments! We decided (I think?) that it may be a little too difficult, time wise, to buy a house this year. So I've been searching and setting up appointments and seeing a lot of rental properties. Needlesstosay, we've basically run out of time for finding something (decent) for the beginning of June and are more looking for the beginning of July.

Problem with that? Well... my lease is up in the next couple days here at my present apartment. So measures needed to be taken; 80% of my stuff is now in a storage locker (waiting patiently to be moved into a home). The rest of my stuff (food) will need to go to someones home. Other than that, it's basically just my mattress and clothing which I will be taking out to Strathmore for a month to live with my sister and her family!

So I'm Strathmore bound tomorrow night! The rest of my time has been taken up, for the most part, by cleaning the apartment for moving out. It looks so empty and clean. I'll miss it in some ways.

The last thing I'm going to say about myself...I did one of the 'Insanity' workouts (by Beachbody) this morning. Have you done them? There's no other way of putting it...they're INSANE. I did the 'Plyometric Cardio Circuit', and I was dying....sweating, panting, collapsing, dying. Dying. It was difficult. But I was so proud of myself in the end :D Go me!

Other things worthy of mention, wouldn't be in regards to me...

1. Scott is coming home tonight! He's been gone for 2 weeks and goodness it'll be good to see him again...

2. Francesca and Benifred get married this Friday... AH! That's also INSANE. But exciting :) Congratulations.

So the summary of this post? Things are going pretty alright...they're moving forward and life is still good.

Hope all is well with you :)

Anything new? What did I miss?

Toodles for meow :)!

(now to my yogurt and berries...)