My Life Is Average

I don't know how many of you are familiar with the phrase "MLIA", but it means "My Life is Average". It comes from a website called, surprisingly, mylifeisaverage.com. It's where people post things that happened to them that are just part of life but are exceptionally funny or sad or ironic. One quote from the site:

"Today, I walked into my sliding glass door. I am no longer a fan of Windex. MLIA"

Check out the site. Some of them are pretty funny.

Christian, as of this last Tuesday, is now 22 years old! For his birthday, I got him a video game that he's really been wanting: "Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Sith Edition". Too bad I didn't realize that it's a one-player game and that we don't have a TV. Epic fail on my part. I figured he could play it at his friend's house since he goes over there a lot, but I guess it's not very nice to go over to your friend's house and monopolize his TV to play a one-player video game while all he can do is watch you. So we went back to the store and exchanged it for the same game but a PC version. We went home and he tried it out, and apparently the graphics card on our computer isn't advanced enough to run the game. Epic fail two. So now, if he wants to play it at all, he either has to play it at school in the campus computer labs (causing him to spend more time away from home), or we need a new graphics card, which will run you close to $100. *sigh*

Guys are so much harder to buy for on Valentine's Day. Your gift has got to be romantic, and all the "romantic" stuff is girly except chocolate, and Christian said he didn't want chocolate (for a reason I'd later find out). Flowers are too girly, stuffed animals are too girly... I thought about cologne but I didn't know what kind he'd like, or if he'd even like some. I didn't want to get him a bottle of cologne and have him hate the smell of it. What else romantic is there? Nothing, that's what. I couldn't think of anything romantic that he wanted, but I did know he wants that graphics card. So I got him a Best Buy gift card putting money towards the graphics card. And I got him some Cadbury eggs despite his wish for no chocolate (don't worry, he liked them anyway), and his very own 2-liter bottle of Dr. Pepper - he's been wanting soda and every week we leave it off the shopping list because it's not necessary. I need to start right now coming up with ideas for next year's Valentine's Day, because it was totally sub-par this year. :( And guess what else? I was just informed that even if we got a new graphics card the computer couldn't handle it. So we'd need a whole new computer. Epic fail 3.

Despite my gift for him, Christian was amazing on Valentine's day and surprised me early (Thursday when I got home from work) with a bouquet of lovely flowers, a cute little teddy bear which I named Aurora (she can be married to the bear he got me last year which I named Prince Phillip- how cute, right?), a small box of chocolates, and a package of lavender-smelling shower gel/bubble bath/bath salts. I loved them! Then Saturday night he also surprised me with a giant 3-POUND Hershey's chocolate heart. This thing is more than a square FOOT! By itself it is 6,600 calories! This thing can be all the food we need for a 72-hour kit! Of course, about 60% of those calories are from fat... Here is a picture of everything he got me.

Isn't he sweet? I have the best husband in the world. :)

The other day, Christian and his friend Chris were over here and stumbled upon the website http://verydemotivational.com/. I walked in and found them both laughing so hard they were almost crying and I was honestly surprised they didn't have an accident. Here are their 7 top favorite pictures from the site. Beware browsing through the site yourself, though, because there are quite a few inappropriate ones, but they managed to skip across those and find these gems:

Edit by Christian: For those of you who don't understand this, Paladins are a type of character from the game Dungeons & Dragons. They are holy fighters - think Knights Templar. They are described as lawful good - Lawful meaning that they obey oaths they have taken, etc and good meaning they are compassionate. The violent part refers to the fact that they are fighters lol.

This week we also went to see the movie "Tooth Fairy" with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Julie Andrews in it. Christian and I agreed that it was kind of a takeoff of "The Santa Clause". It was basically another The Santa Clause, but instead of applied to Santa Claus, it's applied to the tooth fairy. It's cute, I guess, and worth seeing once, but I'd see it in the dollar theater or rented from RedBox, because it's not worth much more than that. Planet 51 was much better- if you have a chance to see that one, it's way cute, I'd even consider buying it.

Recipe of the week: Chicken Divan

6 chicken breasts, boiled and skinned

2 cans cream of chicken

40 oz frozen or fresh broccoli

2 cups mayonnaise

2 tsp lemon juice

1 tsp curry

2 cups shredded cheddar cheese

1 cup soft bread crumbs

2 Tbsp butter

Boil or steam the broccoli in salted water. Drain and put in the bottom of a 9x13 greased baking dish. Put the chicken on top of the broccoli. Combine the soup, mayo, lemon juice and curry, and pour it over the top of the chicken. Sprinkle with cheese. Combine the crumbs and butter and sprinkle over the top. Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes or until thoroughly heated.

This recipe is really tasty. It serves about 6. You won't have leftovers for long. If you end up with extra sauce, it tastes really good over white rice. :)

Love you all!

Brit and Chris