Oh, and little nerd bombers who decide to get the girl by raising humungoid Venus Fly Traps. Poor kids.
Stepping away from that for a moment, I'd like to impart on the anxious world a discovery I made on Friday...actually, let's revise that statement. I'd like to impart on the anxious world THREE discoveries I made on Friday:
- In my apartment, Becca does the majority of baking/creating delicious confections, with Nadin coming in at a close second, Grandma clinching the third spot, and Yours Truly coming in dead last. However, I would say that after my exciting Friday afternoon that I'm going to start encroaching on Grandma's coveted third place position.
You see, Grandma has an inordinately large bag of Tootie Fruities [basically Western Family's answer to a certain toucan's staple foodstuff]. She decided that since there was no way she was going to even make a dent in this bag in this life or the one to come that it would be more intelligent to turn it into cereal bars. Once the idea was planted in my head, I was getting massively excited for someone to get to making them, as they sounded pretty dang good!
Two weeks later, the bars still don't exist and I'm beginning to wonder why anyone would bring up something so delicious just to dangle it in front of my imagination without delivering any real results. So, stepping up to the plate this empty Friday afternoon, I find a recipe online and go to work.
One double boiler and a lot of butter, marshmallows, and "Fruit Loops" later, a pan of cereal bars has materialized. If they aren't the most bangin' dessert I've had in at least a month...well, they just are. Srsly. - For some reason or other, Nadin discovered perhaps the greatest website we've been granted access to on the extremely sensitive BYU network: Hulu.com. Oh. My. Word. It has free episodes of shows at the viewing disposal of the public, which is awesome...but that holds no candle to the website's crowning feature: FREE FULL LENGTH MOVIES. ON THE INTERNET. FOR ME TO WATCH. WHENEVER I WANT. Discovery of Discoveries, baby.
- My last and final discovery of the weekend was definitely not as felicitous as the other two. After exulting over the greatness of Hulu for a little while, I thought I'd delve into my first legit free movie on the Internet. Now, the main contenders in my mind came down to "Jumanji" and "When A Stranger Calls". Maybe you can explain the thought process to me after this point, since I still can't quite understand what I was thinking:
Gwennifer: "Well, 'Jumanji' has been one of my favorite movies since childhood. It's got a great story, awesome special effects, likeable characters--OK, 'WHEN A STRANGER CALLS' IT IS!"
Honestly, it's like being given the choice between "Fiddler on the Roof" and "Carrie" and STILL picking the latter [Hey, how funny would the movie have been if they had combined the two? "Fiddler on the Carrie"? "Carrie, we shun you from normal teenage society because of TRADITION! Now, stop killing your classmates and get ready for the Sabbath!"]
So, I went ahead and watched "When A Stranger Calls". You know something? I'm still weeping internally for the hour and 45 minutes I will never get back from "Hello? Hello? Stop calling me, I'm only 16 years old in this big expensive house with two defenseless children, what could you possibly want from me!?" Honestly, it's now an official contender for a spot on the list of "The Worst Movies I or Anyone Else has EVER Seen". Discovery: that movie was terrible.
Well, I should probably take off to do good things on the Sabbath, like read the lessons for church in a few hours. Have a good church day, kiddos!
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