Of Mice and Men

"The best laid plans of mice and men oft go awry

and leave us not but grief and pain for promised joy."

  - Robert Burns

Or, in the original Scot, (read as you would Mike Meyer's character in "So I Married an Axe Murderer")

"The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men,

Gang aft agley,

An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain,

For promis'd joy!"

Petersons 1

Mouse 0

Give a mouse a cookie...

...or a bag of powdered sugar...

...and he'll move right in.

6 degrees of Kevin Bacon

I tried to find some nice headshots of Kevin Bacon, but he has a lot of awkward pictures, so I decided to post one of the most awkward ones I could find instead.

If you've ever wondered if you could be connected to Kevin Bacon in six steps, you can, because I can do it in four (that means you can do it in 5 if you know me). Here goes:

• I was in West Side Story with Jaymz Tuaileva
• Jaymz was a dancer in a scene in Legally Blonde 2 with Reese Witherspoon
• Reese Witherspoon was in Sweet Home Alabama with Fred Ward
• Fred Ward was in Tremors with Kevin Bacon

Ta Da! BTW, I get a kick out of this commercial.

Tamales and Sprite

A friend of mine recently recommended I keep track of the foods I've craved since I've been pregnant, so here's another pregnancy related post. Sorry if your getting sick of them. 

• Most recently, tamales and Sprite. I was worried I wouldn't be able to satiate the tamales craving (which I've had for about a week), then I learned that a Mexican restaurant in town sells them!  I might be visiting them more often. Tamales were all over in Utah. I got hooked on them when I lived on the farm, the Mexican employee would occasionally bring me homemade tamales and I would give him some of Scott's chocolate chip cookies. Those were good tamales.
• In the Mexican theme: I had about a two week period where I really wanted fresh churros. Unfortunately, I never found any.
• Sweet things
• Chex mix
• Cream cheese.  For about two months, cream cheese on anything sounded delicious.
• Good melted mozzarella cheese (on pizza or pasta or bread)
• Sweet and sour sauce
• During my first trimester I had a lot of anti-cravings where I didn't exactly crave a food, but the thought of eating anything but that food made me feel sick.  The most prominent of these was my party ham casserole week.  I ate this really basic casserole of egg noodles, cream of mushroom soup, sour cream, ham and croutons every day for a week, sometimes for lunch and dinner.
• Another anti-craving: waffles, specifically with strawberries and whip cream on top.

I wish I craved things like spinach and broccoli, because I really should try to eat better. Clearly none of my cravings have been very healthy... oh well.