Deep In The Forrest

Many of you have expressed interest in some of the tasty alternatives that Mr. J and I have been creating when we cook up our Low-Carb Meals. Low Carb doesn't have to be Low Flavor, let me tell ya. There are a lot of really cool substitutions and alternatives that make you wonder why you haven't tried them before, just for the heck of it. Now in this issue of Killing Carbohydrates, I will detail how to make a delicious "Chicago Style" low-carb hot dog, and since we're looking at the weekend, I will let give you my low-carb cheesecake instructions, so if you feel like a "treat"... dig in! Low-Carb "Chicago-Style" Hot Dog I'm not going to really put ALL this in "recipe form" (meaning measurements). Just let you know what to use, and you can determine how much you need. Here you go. Ingredients: Hot Dogs - You can use your favorite brand, don't worry about the fats that much, you are low-carbing it. Fats is a whole different bal...

It is so easy, it seems, to hate the bad weather, thunderstorms, rainy days. But for me, there has always been something about the storms that calmed and relaxed my inner beast. Think of it, the rain cleanses our souls and cools the burn of the hot sun. The lightening reminds us that there are things out there way more amazing and powerful than us, keeping our egos in check, and the thunder, well it sings us to sleep. I remember even back to rainy days, Mom driving me to Elementary School, and I got such a cozy, relaxed feeling. The classroom was darker, calmer. I could look out and see the rain drizzling against the windows... deep sighs of tranquility . Rainbows Are Worth The Wait! Yeah, the rain cleanses... it heals. It gives us a dark before the dawn. Without our "storms", we could never truly appreciate the "beautiful" ones. Have you ever payed attention, actually 'seen' a vivid sunrise after a good heavy rain? It's like a blinding vision of Heaven...

Just remembering the good ol' days of Saturday Night Live .

Here we go. I actually made it eh? I'm quite proud, even though my photos are nothing special. I just can't seem to get into things and/or get time to devote to trying to be very creative. I hate that! Anyways, here's what I have... for what it's worth. I promise to make my full rounds as soon as I can... see you in a bit. -AJ Tink's Words For This Week: "Fear" and "Four" I have a terrible fear of wasps Fear Of Cleaning My Dirty Keyboard Four Pennies, all I have to my name... alms for the poor?? Am I Dialing 411? HTML 4 See Who Else Is Playing!!

Here I am, working on getting perked up... working on getting back in touch with my writing, blogging and having my head back in the game. It's one of those things, I know anyone might say, blog or don't blog. Who cares? Well, it is one of those things. I love to write, love to blog, it's one of my "therapies" so I would prefer to continue it. Even if I had nobody to read or comment, I would still want to, even though I do love my visitors with a purple passion! ;) First off today, I must share this video that my ol' man (if I am talking biker trash), or 'the ol' ball-n-chain', or if I wanted to be sugary, sickeningly sweet, I could say my 'sugar-pie honey bunches of delicious love muffin excellence', but I know he'd kill me--lol, so I will settle to say "Mr. J" shared with me. Do you remember the ol' Rick Astley "Rick Roll" video that went around the net for so long, where people would share a link with you or y...

Hello Blog Family: I know I haven't posted much lately, and have been on a slight "hiatus" (especially for me), but I can't help but wonder where everybody went? Are you mad at me for not being able to make it by your place(s)? Have I turned you, my blog family, away? When times get tough and things get hectic, those are the times I need to hear from you most! An encouraging word, a joke, link to a funny video. Something to let me know that you haven't gone away for good! I promise, I will get around to you very soon and I will read your latest exploits and comment with great eagerness. Hopefully, you haven't forgotten your Aunt Jackie. I thought we had something special! ;) Anyways, on with the show I guess. I have been trying to catch up on the reading of my "Sookie Stackhouse" series of books, albeit in PDF form on the PC versions (E-books). They are pretty good stories. I am glad I read them. Maybe I will discuss these in detail later. The other ...

The weekend was busy for me, and I fell off my daily blogging by a long shot. Just a quick note I thought I would leave to let everyone know that I will TRY to post my Weekly Words Challenge tomorrow. Let's see if I can get back on track and post something of interest... stay tuned!

Nothing interesting to tell really lately, I have been pretty busy at work and so have fallen off of my daily July posting. I don't really feel up to making up the posts when I haven't posted on those days. So here I am, end of the work week and looking at the weekend with less-than-electric fervor. Nothing cool, nothing much to look forward to and just blah you see. I will post more feelings or epiphanies if they come to light. Just tired and feeling lazy right now. However, the weather today is nice.

I found a "roofing nail" in my back motorcycle tire. It didn't appear that the tire had lost any air, but with a bike tire you don't need to take any chances. So I ran it over to a nearby place (didn't go all the way to the dealer), and he said that with the positioning of said nail and the condition of the tire (about 6,200 miles on it) It wouldn't be safe to try to patch. I was going to go ahead and spring for both new tires as it is a good idea to try to replace both bike tires at the same time, but he didn't have them in stock and would have to order. Therefore, I decided to go with one, just the back tire that he did have in stock for now. I can get a good few more miles out of the front one anyway, and maybe I will be in better shape and can spring for a new set of really good ones. Was just the way my day started... I made the best decision I felt like at the time. So Jimi's all set for a few more miles then, and I am looking towards braving the...

First off this fine Tuesday, I would like to extend a special thanks to the ultra-sweet Angela of 'No More Empty Fortune Cookies' for sending me a very inspirational reminder to stop neglecting my creative soul side. I am guilty of doing just that, I put other things before my own heart a lot of the time, and I have neglected my painting among other things so I appreciate that lovely note Angela! Thanks and I am going to really work on that. Strangely I am not late this week putting up my Weekly Words Challenge (WWC) photos, and I know you are all shocked! The Lovely Tink is our MC as always. This weeks words were "SOUTH" and the letter "O" . Although I never feel like I excel with these as much as I should (or would if I had plenty of creative time-my fault) I have them. Tires are shaped like the letter "O". nOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Face "O" Face When you see "Welcome To Mississippi" have no doubt, you're in the South! W...

Manic Monday

I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to. ~ Jimi Hendrix If there is one (more) thing I cannot stand it is a person who has the nerve to assume something, or say something in regard to a person when they don't know the first thing about them. I may have my faults, I may talk about a lot of things and have confusion in my life but I hate drama, and if there was ever one true thing I can say it is that I know myself, and I know who I am. Nobody else really sees that or understands it, but it is my business just as your life is yours and I'm sure that everyone has enough to worry about in their own life that they have no business making judgments about another, especially when they are clueless about that person, and by no means balanced themselves! Lesson of the day?? Keep your own nose clean and keep your big fat fingers out of my face... Cowardice and Hypocrisy live on in one very special individual and they ...

Well, it's Friday. Yay.

My heart has felt very heavy lately. I've felt overwhelmed by a lot of things. While I advise others to let stress roll off their backs and say: "Don't worry over things you have no control over" it seems so hard for me to take my own medicine. Why?? I know it does no good to stew over anything... I'm trying hard not to. Just lately it's been financial crap, seemingly one issue after the other. I can't help but get a little tightened up over it because I have to pay the bills and we have to be able to get to and from work and groceries etc... I know that I am fortunate though so far that we are making it... albeit paycheck-to-paycheck, but still afloat. Many people have things worse than that lately, so I truly hope that things get better for everybody... not just me. People need to wake up and realize that we need to all help one another and when given an opportunity to make some sort of a difference we should take it. If everyone did one thing a day to ...

Just a quick note to say that I finally updated my photos to the Weekly Words Challenge for this past Tuesday. I was later than usual yes. I only posted 5 photos, but You Can See Them Here. My name is (Aunt) Jaxxx and I approve this message.

Yeah, um... just when I thought I didn't have anything to blog about, I found This Video . It was an accident. I swear. I wasn't looking for any cuss words or any derelict sexual maneuvers... it just happened. I know, another post not fit for children. I never promised you a rose garden... I have my Disney moments and then I am sometimes uncontrollably wicked. You learn to love all sides of me or you **** off yeah! So it's a good idea to learn English... or is it?? lol Maybe Ignorance really is bliss. I didn't have anything else interesting to post tonight it has just been one of those routine days.

**This post (or note) has sexual talk and adult situations so if you are around your children go ahead and mark it for a 'read later' type of thing. I don't want anyone mad at me for any adult material... since everyone's so darn sensitive... hey, you guys were all rad once... right? ha!** I digress... let's begin the post. For some reason, I am always wayyy behind on the news. For instance, A "Gene Simmons Sex Tape Scandal" leaked out in like February 2008 and I just now ran across this. Now, you might wonder why I would even be curious about the sexual exploits of some old-n-moldy, formerly cool Rocker dude like Gene... well, I wouldn't really, but he is a Rock Icon, and of course he has that gargantuan tongue and lots of money. That's the only "pro" that would get me with gene... well, pros. From the time when I even remotely could think of a fling with a KISS member, it was Paul (and I know everyone is really waiting for his Tranny vi...

Sorry for the extreme delay!! Here are my Weekly Words Challenge photos for this week... Tink had set the words for this week to "Happy" and "Blue". So here you go... Short and to the point! The blue items speak for themselves really... Dragonflies make me happy... Riding my motorcycle to scenic places makes me happy... The end! :)

Ask anyone who knows me really well, and they will attest to the fact that I am usually an upbeat, funny person to be around. I always want to uplift people, and I crack jokes, and keep people laughing and smiling as much as I can. It's a part of me that I inherit from my father. I would like to do the same thing when I blog, or write. I see the contrast between the person that I am when I am sitting at the table having coffee with you, to the person that I am through the written word. That's difficult sometimes though. I want to write comically all the time, but sometimes I just have to vent and get rid of aggression, anger or sadness. I've been thinking about so many things I wanna blog about and I will note them and safe them to refer back to later, and then when I finally get time to go back they are basically no longer relevant. So it's like I really should blog right when I am thinking about these ideas or they go flying moot out the window... what's a terribl...

Oops! I am trying hard but I missed a day... Here's a song that I enjoy to fill the void. Mary J Blige - Missing You Uploaded by Maryluvs . - Watch more music videos, in HD!

Happy Independence Day (4th of July as it is most commonly referred to). We take it for granted don't we? Our "Independence", but so many things about freedom and independence are taken away every day if not fought for, we have to remember the reason that we celebrate it, and remember to be thankful for our forefathers behind it, and the ones brave and strong enough that fought for what they believed in. Take a moment on these "holidays" to appreciate that, and then go ahead and dig into your barbecue and beer... enjoy and stay safe everyone!!! That being said... Have A Blast ! ! !

I always considered myself to be a really groovy chick who was happenin in a far out way , though I've had to remind myself from time to time... But I swear lately I feel like I have lost my mojo completely... it is really about time that I change my name to Stella and get my groove back (or maybe Marsha Brady). That doesn't (necessarily) mean that I am going on a trip to Jamaica to wook for wub in all da wong paces, of course not! I'm a sadistically evil and calculating femme fatale good girl!!! So I just have to find a way to get my groove back. Why do I feel lost? I mean, I have my strange and unusual husband, a loving Mom who thinks I've gone off the deep end, got my motorcycle (ILY Jimi!!), my music and band, and I work as an I.T. gal, and of course have my guardian angels working overtime trying to keep my butt out of trouble... so what's gone wrong? I have to figure it out. Well spoken... I think that could describe me. I just have so many thoughts run thro...

Oh my gosh, look what time it is. I guess I've screwed up the flow already. Give up? Never!!!

We're officially half way through the year I guess you could say. I made it through the June NaBloPoMo Daily Posting by the skin of my teeth (whatever that means). Now I'm dumb enough to commit myself to trying July. The July theme is "Routine". I guess that can be anything we do daily, or whatever creative way I can use "routines". We'll see how I do. I think I did pretty well with June's "Hero" theme. It isn't required to use the theme daily, although I can. The only thing I am supposed to do while participating in 'NBPM' is to post daily. That's it. July has 31 days so here we go. Anyroad! lolcat that has nothing to do with anything but lol That's it for my first July post... I promise to gather my thoughts and spout something meaningful very soon!