Is It Possible To Get A Buzz From A Banana Smoothie?

No? Must be the wine, then.

The fact that I'm typing this entry means I survived yesterday's road trip intact. Turns out all my worries were for naught, as not only did a third coworker accompany us, thereby upping our chances for lively conversation, both of the guys were cool enough that we spent most of our car time swapping drunk-college stories. My worst drunk-college story dates back to freshman year when I got wasted for the first time off strawberry Boonesfarm, but that would've involved talk of bowel movements, and THAT would've involved the loss of my dignity. 'Twas best to save it for another time.

Tonight was relatively uneventful. I made it to the Y for the third time this week, and I'm surprised at how much I enjoy my time there. Sometimes it's hard to get motivated and out the door, but once I'm there, it's smooth sailing. My new routine is forty-five minutes of brisk walking on the treadmill (enough to work up a good sweat but not even close to a jog) and between twenty and thirty minutes of strength training, alternating between the upper and lower body; my goal is to go through that routine three times a week in addition to one aerobics class, mainly hip-hop aerobics, but I've haven't made it yet because I'm a chicken who's afraid of getting laughed at, although I had every intention of making it today and would have if I hadn't left my pocket book and consequently my membership card at home.

The last couple of hours have been spent racking my brain over what to bring for the lab's summer pitch-in tomorrow, as even people who don't know my last name can somehow recall my inability to boil water. (This MAY be because I told them, but still.) I finally settled on peanut-butter cereal bars because I remembered the lunch ladies at Saint Joe made them all the time and I loved them very much, plus there's no actual cooking involved, so I felt confident that the margin for error was slim to none.

But then Luke had to intervene when he saw I was about to measure one cup of corn syrup into a solids measuring cup, and my hopes for an incident-free no-bake experience were ruined.

They still look pretty damn good, though. I'd show you how good, except Blogger is being an a-hole AGAIN, leaving me no choice but to search for possible domain names right this very minute. Stupid free bastard software.

Comments

[Mrs. S]

I left Blogger over a year ago for the same reason - it's SUCH A WHINER!!! And it hardly ever works the way it ought to, from deleting posts to not allowing people to comment to just basically SUCKING. Seriously, get a website for yourself, they're fairly inexpensive (especially if you pay by the month) and then you can have a customized URL!!

Just make sure to tell us if you switch.

[Luke]

Actually, I think I intervened when you almost mixed up the measurements of 1/3 cup of sugar with the 1 cup of corn syrup.

And the reason you use dry and liquid measuring cups is for accuracy, not necessarily for a difference in amounts. At least as far as I know.

[Brooke]

I use the same measuring cup for everything. I never have a problem and if I may say so myself, I am a pretty darn good baker!

[Liz]

I've been thinking about breaking up with Blogger, too. It really, really annoys me. Like Ross on Friends.

[Sambo V.]

I can't wait to see the picture! ;) Sounds like you are a little miss Betty Crocker! ;) I love you.
XOXOXO

[Britt]

I'm going to be left alone in the uncool Blogger world because I'm too technologically impaired to get my own URL. Sniff, sniff.

I've never understood why there are different measuring cups for solids and liquids. I think the ones for solids are easier to use because you have a cup for each measurement. Just fill the cup full, right, whereas with most liquid measuring cups, you have to go by the lines in the cup. It is very difficult to interpret when the liquid is level with the appropriate line. Yep, I think I'm right on this one :)

[Elizabeth]

I'm glad your road trip went well. Cars are weird places to be with people you don't really know.

[daddy d]

The size of dry measure to wet measure is different because of the density differences of liquids and solids. In general, solids would be more dense than liquids. Since density is the mass to volume ratio, the liquid has part of its volume taken up by some solvent. (Many times, I am assuming it is a mixture.) Thereby, to get enough of the good stuff (solute), a larger volume is required. While this is not 100% true for all possible cases, it sounds like it would be the case about 8 out of 10 times.

[Mrs. Daddy D]

Oh no, the Physics Teacher of the Year strikes again. Although when cooking his famous Zucchini Pie, Daddy D always asks which cup to use for the flour.

An easy way to remember, which cup to use for liquids, is that the liquid measuring cup has a handy pour-spout-thingy. The dry measuring cup lacks this handy extension.

[Lost a Sock]

My body's too fremalicious for you babe. And then, I had this thought also. Hmmm, you get a little corner of the internet, and then you have to do something with it. Like, write code, or do something that involves colors. EEK!

You are that cool though. ;0)

[Jenabeeb]

Hey, Bree - nothing since Thursday? I'm missing you...;)

[Luke]

I can't believe you didn't like fremazing.com. I just checked, and it's open. So is frematastic.com.

[Frau Dunscombe]

But as undountedly you know, frema.com is taken.

Es kommt nicht darauf an, wie viele Ideen Sie haben, sondern wie viele Sie tatsächlich verwirklichen.
Ganz egal, ob die Idee von uns oder von Ihnen kommt - Frema Group hilft Ihnen, Innovationen in Resultate zu verwandeln.

[Isabel]

What? There is a solids/liquid measuring cup?

(I knew this, but didn't really know it mattered. I suck!)

Yes, Blogger is sucking. You must come up with an awesome domain name. Maybe www.lancebassisgay?.com

I love it.

[Isabel]

Do I date check out www.frema.com, or is it porn?

What about something super cute like www.iloveluke.com or www.callmemrsluke.com?

or www.talkdirtytome.com

(I need to stop. NOW!)

[Silly Hily]

I want me some fremalicious!
Boonesfarm! HA! There's a blast from the past.
And OMG Frema, if you didn't have a piece of my heart before, you definitely do now b/c I always loved the peanut butter Rice Crispy treats they had at my high school but never knew how to make them. My sister loved them too and we always talk about finding a recipe. Her b-day is in two weeks. I'm going to make them and surprise her. I'm so pumped!