Frankenstein Knuckles

For the Halloween season I decided to make some chocolate covered pretzel sticks look like fingers of Frankenstein, like this:

Found on Pinterest

I melted some white chocolate, then added some food coloring to make it white. 

Side note: regular food coloring makes white chocolate seize up.

Side note 2: Seized up chocolate does not stick to pretzels very well.

After I noticed the chocolate had seized, I came up with the excuse that the hot bowl it was in was just over cooking it.

I took out more white chocolate, melted that, then proceeded to add food coloring in a bowl that was not nearly as warm.

The result:

This is when I found out that the food coloring was the problem.

After a lot of practice, I was able to spread the white chocolate onto the pretzel sticks like a very hard-to-work-with peanut butter. 

Even though the chocolate seized up, it still tasted delicious.

After I was finished, I tried adding some milk to the leftover chocolate to see if it would un-seize it.

It just made the chocolate oily and weird.

Sleeping

Today I learned David sleeps with one eye a little bit open.

Cornbread Muffins

I've made cornbread muffins a few times, and I think they are delicious. I was quickly trying to finish dinner the other day because the missionaries were coming over to eat and we were running late. The recipe called for the normal ingredients: corn meal, flour, sugar, melted butter, etc.

When they came out of the oven, they hadn't risen as much as they normally do, and they didn't look as yellow as they usually do. But whatever, maybe I just remembered wrong.

After I ate one, I noticed they were definitely more dense than the last time I made them. It must be because I had only made them in Utah, which is at a higher altitude and much drier climate than San Diego.

Yeah. That must be it.

Dinner goes fine. Nobody mentions anything about the muffins.

The next morning, I go to heat up some oatmeal in the microwave and... what? Why is there a bowl in the microwave? I pull it out and look inside the bowl.

WHAT?

HERE IS THE PARTIALLY MELTED (and re-solidified) BUTTER THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO IN THE MUFFINS!

And suddenly it all made sense. 

Clumsy

Sometimes Lots of times I'm clumsy. If you are a clumsy person like me, don't put your hamper within 2 feet of your bed. You will somehow roll off the bed (while awake) (how did I even do that?) onto the hard edges of the laundry basket and make some nice bruises on your legs. But, it's worth it because it was really funny.

I got one just below my knee, and one righ above my ankle, because that's how big my laundry basket is.

Frosting Brownies

When making the famous BYU mint brownies, make sure to do the following: 1) carefully read the directions, and 2) think rationally before making any decisions.

I made these brownies, followed the instructions, put them in the pan, then put them in the oven. All was well.

Then I went back and looked at the ingredients list. It listed chocolate frosting.

What??! I DIDN'T PUT ANY FROSTING IN THE BATTER! (Here is where I ignored rule #2)

I then took the brownies out of the oven, poured the batter back in the bowl, made some chocolate frosting really fast, mixed it in with the batter, and put it back in the oven.

Whew! That was a close one! Good thing it had only been in the oven for 5 minutes before I re-read the directions!

Then I made some mint frosting, and a second batch of chocolate frosting. Man, this recipe takes a lot of frosting.

The brownies were supposed to cook for 25 minutes, but they were still liquid at that point. They weren't done until 45 minutes had passed. Strange.

When I told the story to my mother, she thought it was odd that the recipe called for frosting in the batter.

I re-read the recipe.

HAH! IT DIDN'T CALL FOR FROSTING IN THE BATTER!

I didn't follow rule #1 or #2, and for about 10 minutes I was very stressed, and it made me make extra frosting, but in the end the brownies were delicious and sweet so it wasn't all that bad.

Hair Treasures

If you're not careful, you might accidently rip off your ear cuff when taking your shirt off. And if you do, you might spend the next 15 minutes looking all over the room/house (just in case!) for it, only to find out it was very secretly hidden in your hair.

The cuff that went missing.

The hair where the cuff was hiding.

There it is!!

How much?

I like to watch TV at a lower volume than David does. And this happened tonight.

David: "Want me to turn down the volume?"
*Red Lobster endless shrimp commercial starts*
Me: *Thinking about the volume level*
David: "How much?" (Talking at the TV, asking about the cost of endless shrimp)
Me: "What's it at?" (Talking about the volume)
David: "Red Lobster"

Sometimes misunderstandings make us laugh.

P.S. The deal is $16.99 for endless shrimp, in case you were wondering.