Be less bitchy with Midol! Get your ass in the kitchen where it belongs, ladies!

I saw these over at Forever Decorating, and just had to share these with you. I don't think any of these would fly today. Hubby saw these and said he was going to return my Mother's Day presents and get me a new vacuum. I told him that he must not like sex very much.

Kitty Litter + poo = yumminess

No, I haven't gone off of my rocker. Have you heard of a Kitty Litter Cake? It's yummy, but you might have to eat it with your eyes closed.

At hubby's work, the person who had the last birthday is responsible for the next birthday person's cake. They used to always make fun cakes, but then people got busy/lazy/whatever, and started just picking up a cake at the grocery store. But what's the fun in that? The birthday lady, Janet, has always been wonderful to my girls, so I really wanted to do something special for her.

I originally found the recipe here, but after reading thru all of the reviews, decided to alter it a bit.

Ingredients

1 box german chocolate cake mix

1 box white cake mix

1 4 count package of vanilla pudding cups

1 bag of vanilla sandwich coookies

10 or so tootsie rolls

new kitty litter box (the small one was about $3 at Walmart)

new litter scoop

Bake both cakes according to the recipe on the box. let cool. Try not to eat too much of it (I heart warm cake fresh out of the oven)

After the cakes cooled, I put the chocolate cake on the bottom. Trim if you need to to fit. I forgot to take a pic of that. So pretend this pic is of chocolate cake, about half as tall. 

Then put the white cake on top of that. Mine is cut up in pieces, since my cake pan was being stupid and wouldn't release it in one nice piece.

I then took the pudding cups (I used all 4) and spread a thin layer on top of the white cake.

I used the cheapo Walmart brand of the vanilla sandwich cookies. Apparently they are really good though, since hubby said I'm not allowed to buy them anymore and I had to keep him from stealing the cookies from me. I put about 2/3 of them in a large ziplock bag, and then used a rolling pin to crush them. The original recipe says to use a food processor, but I'm cheap and never bought one.

I then spread a layer of the crushed cookies on top of the pudding layer. Apparently I sucked at the taking pics part of this tutorial.

I used tootsie roll minis, since the long tootsie rolls are too thin. I just unwrapped two of them, and worked the two ends together. Then put it in the microwave on a plate, heated them up on high for 10 seconds. Then when they're soft and pliable, have your hubby form them into "poop" (twist the ends so they are no longer blunt, curve them, etc). Then place them on the cookie layer.

Try not to gag when hubby is finished with the poop part. He had too much fun with these.

And voila! Poopy cake.

Oh, and apparently it was very good. Hubby texted me this pic after the party. Scraped clean, yo.

What I learned:

• You can use any kind of cake you want, since the vanilla sandwich layer covers everything. Some reviews said they used marble cake, spice cake, etc. 
• Other people used peanut butter cookies (i.e. Nutter Butter) instead of the vanilla. But I was happy with the color of the vanilla cookies. 
• The original recipe calls for you to save part of the vanilla cookies and mix them with green food coloring and sprinkle that on top. But I don't remember having green bits in my litter when we owned cats, so I nixed that part. 
• The original recipe calls for you to crumble both cakes, then mix the vanilla pudding mix until it's moist but not soggy. But that just sounds weird to me, and some reviews said it wasn't very tasty and was hard to scoop out, so I just did layers of cake. 

Oh, and you want to know how you know if your cake was a success?  When the party started at 2, and your facebook page looks like this at 2:30.

We all love a good party:

    
   

Kreativ Blogger? Who, me?

What is it with these crazy people wanting to give me these blog awards? Don't they know I just write about random crap? Apparently random crap = creative blogging. Hell, I'll take it. So here is my Kreativ Blogger award. It's purposely misspelled so it's uber prestigious.

Kim at Little Rays of Sunshine has given me this award.  She has a super cute blog and is the mommy to a precious baby girl. 

Same rules as all of the other awards. Thank, share random interesting facts about yourself (this one requires 10 instead of the normal 7),  and pass on. 

So here we go. 10 interesting things? Yowzas. 

Cute, right? I would name him Bill.

1. I really want to own a donkey. I think they're uh-dor-able! We have a lot of farms around here, and there are always donkeys in with the cows. I looked it up one day, and apparently the donkeys protect the cows from predators. There is a cute donkey at one farm around here, I keep telling hubby that I'm going to stick it in my pocket one day and bring it home. Think of all the time it'll save him from having to mow the lawn. I keep using that as part of my argument, but hubby isn't going for it. Apparently our backyard is too small, blah blah blah.

2. I have the coolest parrot in existence. His name is Jack, and he's an eclectus parrot. He says a lot of words. Hello, Come here, step up, hey what are you doing, No no bad bird. Things like that. One of is favorite things is to take a shower, he'll stretch out his wings, flap, squawk, etc. He looks horrible in this pic. I normally do a very conservative wing clip (just take off the first 3 or 4 flight feathers) but I had the vet do it when he trimmed his nails. And the vet clipped off ALL of his flight feathers. All his pretty blue feathers, on the floor. I was pretty upset.

3. I just realized that I had no damn clue how to spell "squawk". Tried 4 or 5 different ways, and had to google it. Kept putting the q and the w in the wrong places. 

4. Law & Order SVU is one of my favorite shows. Besides Olivia and Eliott, my favorite characters are Agent Wong, Fin and Munch.

5. I bruise super easily. Most of the time, I don't even know where I got my bruises from. Two nights ago, I was drying off after the shower, and brought my arm down and hit the back of my arm on the shower door handle. And yup, the back of my arm has a huge black and blue mark on it. I think someone said I'm supposed to eat more bananas?

6. My favorite cereal is Basic 4. I heart it. And Walmart doesn't carry it, so I'll make a special trip to the grocery store just to buy it. And I'm a mean mommy and won't share it with my kids. A small box of it is like $5. Mommy is stingy. Here's a bowl of generic lucky charms. Eat up.

7. Coming up with 10 interesting things is really freaking hard. I've already done 3 posts before with seven interesting things. Apparently I'm only about 27 facts worth of interesting. 

8. I love playing Words with Friends on my phone. Wanna play me? My user name is jenfur427

9. I was not even kinda interested in the Royal Wedding. Hell, I only knew it happened today because of all the updates on facebook. I guess I'm missing the Fairy Tale gene or something. 

10. We went to Discovery Cove on our honeymoon. I've been wanting to do it for FOREVER. Hubby sprung for the Trainer for the Day program, which was awesome. Extra time in the water with the dolphins, behind the scenes tour, we were able to pet other animals not on the program (nurse shark, sloth, owl, etc)

Okay, so here is the part where I'm supposed to spread the blog love. Here are my picks in no particular order. 

Lesley at So Fabulously Flawed

Kristen at Who's Watching the Baby

Erin at Life in the Dub Lane

Julie at It's Sew Stinking Cute
Janice at Whimsy-Ma-Blog

Megan at Miss Madison's Charmed Life

Go check them out, I heart these ladies. Do it. Doooo eeetttttt.

I Spy: Jewelry and shoes edition

I'm hooking up with Ashley over at LMM for her new series, I Spy. 

Today's theme? Jewelry and shoes. 

I'm a shoe whore. Admittedly. I love them. Sparkly, strappy, platform, heels, wedges, boots, name brand, non name brand, I heart them all. This was originally my husband's DVD shelf, but I made asked him to move them so I could have more room for shoes. Sadly, this isn't even all of my shoes, I have 6 or 7 more pairs in the hallway closet. 

Can you see how much I love boots? I heart me some knee high boots. You know how you can buy those boot inserts so they stand up? Seriously, save your money. Shove some of those trashy celebrity gossip magazines National Geographic magazines that you've already read in them. Roll up, insert. Easy peasy, Japanesy.

Ashley posted an individual pic of all of her shoes, but considering that I'm clocking in at over 70 pairs, I don't have the time or energy (nor do I think you'd have the patience) for that. So I'm sharing my top favorite 5 pairs (not including the Old Navy flip flops that I buy every year in practically every color)

I heart this pair. Got them from Shoedazzle.

I got these from Kohls, the brand is Candies. Ridiculously uncomfortable, but I don't care. The more uncomfortable they are, they cuter you look, right?

This pair, I just got. They are Carlos by Carlos Santana. Got them from CSN (even though I hate CSN) thanks to a giveaway I won.

Another pair of Candies. I heart wedges. I just notice that I say I heart stuff a lot.

And one of my favorite pairs of boots. Got these bad boys off of ebay.

I don't wear a ton of jewelry. I have my ears pierced I think ten times in all sorts of weird places, I figure that's enough jewelry. I love long necklaces, but haven't worn them lately cause of a certain grabby 8 month old. I really should go thru my earrings and get rid of some. I mean, am I really going to wear cherry print plastic circle earrings? Prolly not, I mean, I'm not 15.

The jewelry I always wear? My wedding ring set.

Do sunglasses count as jewelry? Probably not. They're both accessories, so in my part of Blogland, they count. While I don't care if my shoes are designer (hell, I'll rock a pair of $15 shoes from Forever 21), I do love designer shades. Versace, Coach, D&G, Christian Dior, oh be still my beating heart! The three pairs of Oakleys in the upper left are hubby's, the rest are mine. I heart them. I really need to find a better place for them though, they get dusty sitting on the shelf. Makes me sad. 

My favorite pair are these Versaces. But the lens on them is pretty light, so I don't wear these when it's really sunny out.

My other favorite go to pair are these. I feel like a rock star in these. Minus the whole, baby fingerprints on the lens thang.

And my last favorite? My pimp shades. Gold Oakleys, baby.

Mommies aren't allowed to get sick.

I'm alive. Somewhat. Sore throat, slight fever. And I have a cough that is trying to kill me, one ab aching spasm at a time. Normally if I get sick, it's a 24 hour thang, and it's over and done with. This has been going on for a week. That, combined with the dental work (4 crowns) I had last Wednesday, and I think my body is just trying to heal too many things at once. 

One of my temporary crowns came loose on Saturday night. Hubby went to the store and got me some denture cream until I was seen this morning to reattach it. So I was then dealing with tooth sensitivity to temperature. Seriously, in tears. It hurt so bad to eat or drink anything that wasn't the exact same temperature as my mouth. I had it reattached this morning, and my pain meds refilled, so I'm doing somewhat better. As long as I take a pill every 4 hours on the dot, I'm good. Anything more than that, and yowzas. Ended up taking a 3 hour nap yesterday, just to sleep off some of the pain. Thankfully my hubby put the parrot in the backyard so the sound of "Hello! Come here!" wouldn't wake me up, and the girls were all quiet too. It was just hard, that morning. It's Easter, you want to be excited for your kids, and run around with them and be silly and hunt for eggs. But if you've ever had a tooth ache, you know how it just totally consumes anything that you try to do. It's like it doesn't want your attention on anything else. Geez, selfish. 

I'm in such a funk today. Usually if I'm feeling blah like this, I try and go for a jog. Clear my mind, listen to some music. But with the toothache, sickness, and weather, it's not really working in my favor. 

We have family pictures scheduled for the end of May with one of my favorite photographers. I'm basing our outfits around a dress I got for Ava from Old Navy. Adorable, right? 

I ordered two dresses for myself off of Ebay. Got them both in today. Completely convinced that I look three months pregnant in one dress, and my boobs are falling out of the other dress. And last I checked, cleavage and boobage aren't appropriate in family pictures. So now I think I just wasted $50. I'm sure my mood isn't helping. I'm going to think on it for a day or two. If I still hate how I look in them, be prepared to see a post about how to jazz up a plain tank top. I'd normally just stick some fabric flowers on one side of the neckline, but I'm doing that for my middle daughters shirt. I want to be cohesive in the pics, not matchy matchy, ya know? 

So thank you, dear friends, for letting me check in and vent. Hubby is making dinner right now, and I have a feeling that an early bedtime is in my future tonight. Stayed up until midnight last night catching up on old episodes of Parenthood. That 3 hour nap threw off my bedtime.

Send some happy, feel better, no toothache vibes my way, wouldja? I'm usually such a positive person, I hate feeling so blah.