It only took about oh,  20 some odd years but I FINALLY got a camera!!!  

Since gaining posession of this lovely piece of silver and black technology (only 2 weeks ago mind you), I have taken almost 500 pictures!   

(I think I may have some sort of addiction, , , but I can’t be sure.)

I honor of my new found love I have decided to post some lovely pictures taken by yours truely! 

Behold the Lily ! ! !

The other day Twin walked into our living room and found me bent in half backwards over the coffee table with the camera in my right hand twisted under the vase, and my left hand flipped behind me on the ground!   This picture is the result of that oddly embarrassing pose!   I think it was worth it! 

I can’t decide what I like better. . . the lilies that are half open, , ,

  the lilies that are just opening  (cute little baby lilies). . .

or the fully in bloom “grown up” lilies!!!   

Baby’s or youth or adults??  

Babies????

Youth????

Adults????

I can’t decide. 

Which do you like better? 

Hint # 1 - Using a recipe that JP found at her daycare 

Hint # 2 – Assuming that I would have all the ingredients needed in my fully stocked kitchen.  I mean really how much stuff do you need to make hummus?  Chickpeas, salt, pepper, and some sort of liquid, , , right?

Hint # 3 – My old weak barely able to mix water blender is going to be the focus of our little experiment.

Hint # 4 – Thinking a recipe that calls for a can of pre-soaked/shelled chickpeas would somehow be superior to a recipe that (granted takes longer) starts the delicous process from scratch, soaking the dried peas over night, simmering for 2 hours etc.

 It should have been glaringly obvious that this night wasn’t going to be successfull.  I mean seriously how many hints do you need, , a recipe from a day care doesn’t exactly scream, 5 star cuisine (sorry JP). 

 But in spite of all the signs we went ahead with our hummus making night.   The girls assembled, veggies and hordes of chocolate was purchased (because it doesn’t really matter what we’re doing chocolate will be involved), movies were rented, and sleeping arrangments were made.

Finally ay 10:00 pm on that fatefull friday night we began  (10:00 pm – ya we weren’t exactually thinking this thing thru).

Me and JP manned the blender, in went the can of disgusting smelling chickpeas, follwed by lemon juice, salt, peper, garlic . . . wait I don’t have garlic ?  Oh well it’s probably not that important.   Some olive oil next, , I could have sworn I had olive oil, what kind of self-respecting cook doesn’t have olive oil in the house??  Ah well vegtable oil should work!

Spices go next . . . “Hey JP what kind of spice is that?  I’ve never heard of it before!  Well lets just toss in a little of this and a lot of that!” 

Yup that  should do the trick!

Turn the blender on and watch it go!!   Or in our case stand by it for 20 minutes as it painfully tries to mix, puree and blend the ingredients into a half-respectable meal!

We plop the mixture  hummus into a bowl (a very sexy bowl if I do say so myself), place it and the vegtables on the table and start the process of choosing the “lucky” person who gets to try it first!

The verdict:

NEVER TRY IMPROVISING ON A HUMMUS RECIPE ! ! !   Basically the hummus tasted like lemon juice with a slight hint of chickpea, and a after taste of pepper. 

Interesting would be a very generous description!

Live and learn!       Right?

I have been tagged once again, this time by Two Mom’s.   I’m not sure how these meme’s get started or what there purpose is, mindless entertainment is my guess.   I’m okay with that. 

 This is the What’s In A Name? Meme started by Two Moms In A Blog.

My name is: Heidi Lianne

It means:  Goddess Divine!  - What you don’t believe me!!

Well Heidi means noble one, and who is more nobel then a goddess!  Lianne, is a combination of Lee and Anne which mean respectivly, grace , favor and meadow.  Grace! Favor! Both very divine qualities.  So there you go Goddess Divine!  (never you mind about the meadow it’s just there to confuse the common folk)

Origin: Has its roots in ancient Heidistive  (roughly translated Heidistive is a combination of German, Gaelic, Hebrew and English).

I am tagging: Bob the Builder and Dr. Suess

Okay fine I tag Kari (Hey sis, you still reading my blog) and Michelle (scribbit rules!!)

If you have been tagged, copy and paste all of this – from the image to the end of the instructions – into a blog post. Then, change the information to match your name and tag three other bloggers. If you don’t know what your name means, you can try looking it up on Baby’s Name World.

I had my site rated, and apparently it is PG worthy.

Does that mean I’m boring!!!!!!  I mean seriously Walt Disney has PG movies, teletoon is probably PG also.  But I doubt Phantom of the Opera, or the Bourne movie (WATCH THEM ALL), or Casablance are PG.  They must be PG-13 at least.  Right.

Does PG mean perhaps I’m a great family friendly site, wholesome and entertaining?   Ya that’s it.  What an awesome site I have here, nothing base or dirty here, just fun little musings about life.

Now that I think of it Phantom couldn’t possiblly be more then PG. (The death scence,  cemetary dual and interesting constumes don’t count)

Casablance?  There’s absolutely nothing -13ish about that movie, except maybe the fact that most of it takes place in a pub, ,  ,and one or two people die.

Well that settles it, I’m more then happy to have a PG rating.  Good clean wholesome fun to be had by all.