Today’s video that makes me happy is another Simon’s Cat video.  This video pretty much portrays exactly how my cat, Rosie, reacts to any box that comes into my house.  The other night she managed to wedge herself into a tiny box and then proceeded to meow loudly and pitifully to the point where I thought she was stuck.  When I got over to the box to help her out, she simply crawled out of it and walked away.  Cats!

Earlier today I was taking a break from work (shh, don’t tell my bosses…I hope they don’t read this!) and I came upon this cool website called louderbacks.com.  If you were me, you would click the link to see why I think it’s so cool, but since you aren’t me and I can’t guarantee you will do this, I will summarize what it is.  Basically the site lists what national “day” it is for each day of the year.  For example, today is Australia Day.  Happy Australia Day everybody!

I also checked my birthday, which is March 3rd, and apparently in addition to celebrating my birthday on this day I can also celebrate “I Want You To Be Happy Day”, “Peach Blossom Day”, and “National Anthem Day”.  I personally hope everyone I know is singing “Happy Birthday” to me, but I bet a lot of people will also be singing “The National Anthem” to honor the day.  What National Day is on YOUR birthday?

So I’m trying to give up soda, at least for the most part.  I’ve tried this before and I usually end up doing pretty well with it…until I press snooze on my alarm clock one extra time in the morning and don’t have time to make myself coffee.  When this happens, I think I’ll be fine and then a couple hours into my day, usually around 11, the fact that I didn’t have my morning caffeine fix kicks in and my body decides it wants to go to sleep.  When this happens, I simply head to our work fridge which is always stocked with Mountain Dew and Diet Pepsi and I easily cure my caffeine need.  Then I decide that I will just start my no soda rule the next week.  However, I recently discovered that our water cooler has a hot water button on it and this makes the water come out hot enough to melt instant coffee.  I have a instant coffee stash that I now keep at my desk, along with a creamer in the fridge, should the need arise.

I’ve determined that it’s not even really the taste of soda that I crave, except for a choice few like Cherry Coke and Dr. Pepper, it’s more the carbonation that I like, so I think it should be fairly easy to do this.  On special occasions I’ll still drink soda and when I’m eating things like Taco Bell and pizza, obviously.  Hopefully I can actually stick with the no soda for-the-most-part goal this time.  Wish me luck…and lots of instant coffee!

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For Christmas I got a couple of crockpot cookbooks.  I know what you’re thinking…she doesn’t cook so why does she need cookbooks?  Well, it just so happens I actually asked for them!  I have a crockpot and I’ve successfully made some pretty delicious chili in it, but that’s about it.  From what I’ve heard, crockpot cooking is a pretty easy thing to do, so I decided why not?

Last night I attempted a recipe from one of my new cookbooks…and succeeded!  The recipe I made was called Salsa Chicken.  It was super easy…all I had to do was cut two chicken breasts in half, add 3/4 of a cup of salsa, and add juice from half a lime and then put the cover on and let it cook for two hours.  I can’t believe how well/delicious it turned out.  I had leftovers for lunch today and I couldn’t wait to eat them!  It turnouts, with the help of my trusty crockpot, that I’m actually a pretty decent cook!

Today’s video that makes me happy brings me back to the good old days when cartoons were actually awesome.  This was one of my favorite cartoons when I was little…and yes, now the theme song IS stuck in my head.  Be prepared…it’s about to be stuck in yours as well!

I know tomorrow is my day for posting something that makes me happy, but I just couldn’t resist sharing this link from Buzzfeed with you!  The second picture is definitely my favorite.  I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this before or not, but pigs are my favorite animals!  Because of this, I’m not the biggest fan of ham although I will admit that I absolutely love bacon.  I think ham bothers me because it’s the actual color of the pig.  Think about it…hamburgers aren’t the color of cows!  Anyway, I hope you enjoy the link!

Today we won’t be posting a real blog because we don’t support SOPA.

This past weekend I got to hangout with two of my college friends!  One was in town from Albany for a work event and the other, who was also close with the friend from Albany, lives in Buffalo, but her and her boyfriend got a hotel room in Rochester for the night so they could partake in any debauchery that would occur without having to worry about a designated driver.

We had a really good time.  We started the night at Sticky Lips, which in my opinion is one of the best barbeque places in existence.  (If you don’t live in Rochester and you ever happen to visit, I highly recommend eating here).  After dinner, we went back to my friend’s hotel room and began trying to act like we were in college again by playing a variety of card games.  For all of you still in college, we had to re-remember the rules for the different cards in Kings…how old does that make me feel?!

Anyway, after we finished our card games…and our 12 pack…we ventured out to the bars.  One of my friends was having her birthday party at a bar called Mex, so we started out there.  The bar was pretty fun…and had excellent margaritas that were only $4.00.  The bar, as my boyfriend described it which is actually a really accurate description, is that it’s “like your Grandma’s house.”  The bar has a bunch of different rooms and several long hallways.

After Mex, we went to another bar called O’Callaghans because we all wanted to play darts.  However, it was around 12:30 when we got here so we had no such luck, as there was only one dart board.  However, this bar did in fact bring me back to college, as the bar was so packed you could barely move and this was almost always the case with Ithaca bars…I’m sure that the fact that there were two main bars there didn’t effect this at all.

We left the bar as it was closing, which also took me back to college…and then we went and got pizza slices across the street, which was another  flashback to college.  Well, actually two of us had pizza and the rest of us had to settle for garlic knots because that is all they had left.  All in all, it was an awesome night but I did learn my lesson…I am not in college anymore and just because I’m hanging out with college friends, I’m not 21 again.