r|break: ... when blog posts collide, it may be a recipe for disaster (or not)

... or at least when tangents run amok and get swirled around in my grey matter on an early saturday morning.

although it may be considered tmi, deal with your conservative threshold. here's what happens when i'm at a loss of how to fulfill my promise to billn that i would write a non-pr5air post. (WARNING: hyperlink hell post with trying-too-hard bad puns and some blue-ish prose)

in the spirit and with the intention to keep my promise to billn - AND - with a somewhat limited creative bent this weekend, i asked myself - "what can i throw together for billn?" ... turns out, as i age i have learned, my memory not being what it used to be, i may simply draw on this past week's memorable-enough events - - - previous blog posts, e/m exchanges with iceman, sense of nostalgia with my 1-yr work anniversary coming up, telephone conversations with friends, dinner with cal gal pal, and work stuff. "ah-ha! i'll hyperlink the hell out of sh** (or repost) and mash-up my week to serve up a post for billn!"

the ingredients? ... just like a tasty baked good blueberry muffin recipe, here's my test-kitchen, weekend recipe (with ingredients and portions that may later vary) -

• 1/4 teaspoon ... peeing on a stick - with yesterday's t.v. ad, current reality is i can use my pennies for something else that may result in needing to pee on a stick (?!)
  
• 1/4-cup ... #11 asian girls - was talking with a friend about the yellow fever yesterday (and how i also may see wb#2)
  
• 1/2 cup ... BA dating life - it's why i don't need to worry about peeing on a stick for now
• 1 tablespoon ... IJAM - i sent to iceman a link to the monikers-r-us SD dating moments and also had an oracle-ish moment
  
• 1/2 cup ... enviro-stuff - it contributes to my passion in life, so i strive to reduce, reuse, recycle
• 1 cup ... napkin life planning - one of the many reasons why i so **heart** and cherish sactofloyd!
• 1/2 cup ... apartment therapy - with a bit of home organizing still afoot and getting caught up on my fave magazines (which includes cooking stuff)

directions (just like the little muffin recipe!) ... preheat oven at 375 deg F. make sure your prep station is nice, tidy and clean. consider, perhaps spit-shining wiping clean the countertop(s). then, in a large bowl, combine the dry ingredients. cut in the wet ingredients. stir until moistened. fill paper-lined or greased muffin cups (... i choose to use both, just in case) to about two-thirds full. comfortably situate the pan in the middle of the rack for at least 69-minutes depending on your elevation and all ... (i know, i know!!! - stop trying just a little too hard (bwahahahaha!). knock it off, already!)

how will i know when it's ready to serve? ... take a toothpick and poke the top of the tasty-treat to see if there are any crumbs sticking to the toothpick or not? and you just keep poking it until the toothpick comes out clean. and unlike the blueberry muffin recipe, remove the pan with a towel (or something) and let it sit for a while to just air dry. while this is going on, get all the utensils nicely cleaned up and put away. and make sure that kitchen countertop is spit-shined wiped clean again, just in case you wanna serve up something else!

yield? ... an IJAM-esque tale about my kinda-anemic BA dating with a splash of green a la mode.

for now, i'll end this with the rather inspirational (or at least thought-provoking, to say the least) iceman oracle-ish moment:

"Then again, if you spend your whole day walking through a landfill all the time, you might come to the conclusion that the planet stinks."

enjoy your saturday
while i figure out what ingredients i'm really going to mash-up.