Nightmare/Porch/Agape

I went to see Nightmare on Elm Street last night. That was fun. I thought it was pretty good. I was a little different from the original but I still liked it. I turned my eyes on a lot of the gory scenes because I'm still terrified of blood. I have no idea what caused that. I never used to be afraid of blood. We went with Charlie and Jenny. Then we ran into Kristen, Britney, and Sam!

Eh but before Ben and I went to his house and sat on his porch. His mom had talked about kind of easing me into the house - I haven't been around Tim since we Ben and I started dating. We sat on the porch waiting for her to get home from the store to ask if now was a good time to hang out in the house for a little while. Once she got home Ben went inside and I guess him was downstairs out of his room, which is pretty unusual. He felt so uncomfortable that he had to type the question out on his phone to show his mom "Josie is on the porch. Can she come in?" His mom said no. He came out pretty upset but he told me we would talk about it once we left and he brought me stir fry out to eat. I ate it as fast as I could because I didn't know what was going on. He went back in and in front of Tim his mom said "Do you have your girlfriend on the porch?" Ben said yes angrily and left. He said Tim had a funny look on his face. Ben was upset for awhile. I don't know what's going on. I guess we'll see.

Agape is tonight and I'm extremely tired. The skies are already a dark gray, agape weather. :P We're tie dying shirts in yearbook today. :) I made cookies for fiesta friday too!

life is...

Ben and I kind of got in our first argument/fight type deal. I think it's impossible for us to stay mad at each other. I actually think fighting made me like him even more. We're incredibly alike, so much it's weird. We basically can read each others minds and just know what the other will do. After we fought we talked about a lot of things that i've never told anyone before. I felt incredibly connected. All of that being said we did get very angry/upset, we just talked it out.

Senior year is coming to an end, and i'm ready for it. My college classes end in two weeks and my high school classes end in three. I may or may not try to get a job. I have a decent amount of money right now from Easter and Rudy's senior pictures. I can't wait to stop being stressed with school work, it's been overwhelming lately.

Ben got a job and may be getting an apartment. I hope it all works out well for him. If the apartment works out it will me him and Charlie. I want to half live there. It could help me keep my sanity while living at home with my parents.

We've been changing the house around a ton. The backroom is actually almost completely clean. It's going to be my room and I can't wait!

Oh, also Ben and I went to the Jacoby Art's Center for the LCCC Art Show. We thought the work from the Lewis and Clark students could have been better, but that kind of made us feel better about us being successful in art fields. We want to become members there and take classes eventually.

I feel like i've done a lot of growing up this year. I've become much more independent. It was almost lonely. I started college before all of my friends and I felt like I grew apart from a lot of them. I'm completely convinced I'm doing something right though. I really like Lewis and Clark and next year people I know will be going there. Even though I felt like I was losing touch with some of my old friends I made some new ones I realized today like Lexy Brueggerman, Jenna Moulton, and Tj McNew, I feel like I've become pretty good friends with all of them. Next week a bunch of activities are planned for seniors. I can't wait. We have a really awesome class full of some amazing people. It'll be hard to leave but also incredibly right. After that there is prom! I'm in love with the Willy Wonka theme! After that I graduate!

I'm so excited about planning my graduation party, seriously. I've already picked out recipes I want to try and decided a lot about it. I want it to be outdoors with a spring theme. I want things like kites, sidewalk chalk, bubbles, maybe even water balloons, basically everything good? Next step is the invitations, even thought i've made it into an event on facebook I need to send out a few.

I've already got my graduation present. A MACBOOK PRO. I'm using it right now. It's beautiful and amazing. I'm very glad to have it.

Ben and have been on a movie watching kick. I watched nightmare on elm street for the first time. It's was really good. I feel like I need more scary movies in my life. Tonight we got the corpse bride from the library, only the disk is damaged. What we watched was really good and I really want to finish it sometime. We watched Edward Scissorhands after that. That movie is soo good. I love watching movies with Ben because we joke the whole time we're watching them and make side comments and connect. Then we sat in my car in front of his house and talked for a long time. He was supposed to go hang out with Charlie but he had to text him and tell him that he would be late because we got into talking. Poor Charlie.

Next weekend is Agape! I'm very excited of course.
Paper Route!?

Ben Folds

DIY ideas I want to not lose:

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S'mores Sandwhich Bar Cookies

1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
3/4 cup sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/3 vups all-purpose flour
3/4 cup ghram cracker crumbs
1 teaspoon powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/3 cups (8-ounce package) hershey's minin milk choclatae cars or 5 Hershey's milk chocolate bars (1.55 ounce each)
3 cups miniture marshmellows

1. heat oven to 350. grease 8-inch square baking pan
2. beat butter and sugar in large bowl until well blended. add egg and vanilla; beat well. Stir together flour, graham cracker crumbs, baking powder and salt; add to butter mixture, beating until blended. PRess half of dough into prepared pan. Bake 15 minitues.
3. Sprinkle mini chocolate bars over baked layer or arrange unwrapped choclate bars over baked layer, breaking as needed to fit. Sprinkle wiht marsmallows; scatter bits of remaining doubh over marshmallows, forming top layer. Bake 10 to 15 minites or just until lightly browned. Cool completely in pan on wire rack. Cut into bars.

Yum!

Edible Bird's Nest

Bird Nest Recipe Ingredients:

4 cups chow mein noodles

1/4 cup butter

2 cups mini marshmallows

non-stick cooking spray

candy eggs





Bird Nest Recipe Instructions:


Coat a 12 cup muffin/cupcake pan with non-stick cooking spray.

In a large pan, melt butter and marshmallows over low heat.

Stir in chow mein noodles until completely coated with marshmallow mixture. This will be similar to rice crispy treats, but not as sticky.

Fill each of the cups in the muffin tin with chow mein noodle mixture, do not overfill.

Spray your hands with non-stick cooking spray and use your hands to gently hollow out the center of each cup, pushing the noodles up the edge of the pan to create a nest.

Cover the muffin pan loosely with plastic wrap and put it in the refrigerator until set, usually about 1/2 hour.

Remove the nests from the pan and carefully place on your serving tray. Loosely cover again with your plastic wrap and return to the refrigerator until completely set.

Once your nests are set, remove them from the refrigerator and let them dry out a little bit. These treats will be much less fragile as they dry and harden.

You are now ready to fill with your candy eggs and serve or place in cellophane bags.

My Easter Eggs 2010

Tegan and Sara

I got free tickets to the Tegan and Sara concert from Jenna Moulton. They were terrific, and I got to meet them!