Doggie treats

Mmm!  Snoopy Cookies!  Yum!



Have you ever had Snoopy Butter & Chocolate Cookies?  Well, if not, that's not my problem.  Just kidding!  That was mean.  Unfortunately, I don't have any more left.  Why?  Because I ate them all up!  They were awesome!



There were different shapes, kind of like those Danish butter cookies.



My favorite was chocolate chip.  Nom nom nom.  So delicious!

A plumber named Mario

Around the holidays, I met a plumber named Mario.  He started acting strange while we were chatting.



So I decided to be strange, too!



I stood next to him and tried to copy what he was doing, only it didn't work too well since my arms are kind of stiff, seeing that I am made of plastic.



Then, all of a sudden, he turned around and tackled me to the ground. 



Good thing he soon left.  He was terribly rude.  I hung out with these spotted guys for a while afterwards, but they weren't much for conversation.

The art of making a foil ball

Happy 2014, awesome blog readers!  My first post for the new year is all about making a foil ball.  There's more to them than what meets the eye.  Why, there's an art to the whole thing.  Let's start off with the type of foil. 
 


Wrong kind of foil.  Won't stick.    



Right kind of foil.  But a lot of work. 



"Work" meaning that you have to separate the foil from the paper.  This type of foil comes primarily from gum wrappers and, due to the adhesive residue, the foil sticks and makes for a pretty foil ball. 



Paper on left.  Foil on right. 



A pile of just separated foil.  Whew, exhausting!



I already had a small foil ball I had started.  I rolled another piece of foil around the ball. 



Then I kept rolling it until it was nice and smooth. 



It's a lot of work but it's totally worth it.  All you gotta do is keep rolling more foil around your ball to make it awesome and large.  Foil balls rock!

Rocks alive

Hello, all my little peeps with little green thumbs!  I hope you all had an awesome Christmas; I sure did!  Today we look at the wonderful cactus known as a living rock or lithop.



This plant looks a little dead!  Fear not, the plants typically only have two leaves at a time and as new ones grow, the outer leaves die.



Let me rotate the pot for you a bit...  Here you can see there are actually two plants emerging!  How awesome!



Also, as you can see, I give all my plants the loving care they deserve.  I'm giving the plant a hug right now!

Game night with Little Man #2

My big friend and I had an awesome game night.



We decided to play Tri-Ominos, the super awesome triangular domino game! 



Each player grabs nine triangles. 



What spiffy black equilateral triangles with such fine white numbers!



I happened to have drawn the triangle with the highest number in triple so I moved my triangle to the middle of the table to start off the game.



To play the game, you take turns connecting triangles by matching up the numbers on the sides.  If you don't have a matching piece, you get to pick a new piece and add it to your bunch of triangles!



Make sure you have a large enough surface area to play on 'cause it can get long and winding!



I happened to win, which was way awesome!  Wahoo!  I look forward to more game nights with my big buddies!

Eat a star, be a star!

When OneRepublic sings that they'll be counting stars, they're probably not talking about star-shaped crackers.



But I am!  These are Safeway Kitchens Flavor Burst Starfish crackers.  "Ex-tra" cheddar flavored!



After opening the package, I eagerly reached in and grabbed a star.



None of the stars had smiley faces like the box depicted but they were still awesomely cheesy and delicious!  Awesome!

Gotta eat 'em all -- chocoballs!

I had this awesome bag of Lindt Lindor Dark Chocolate Truffles.



As I stood there looking at the package, I decided I might as well open it!



So I opened it and dumped the truffles into an awesome, festive dish.



See the spiffy snowflake decorations on the dish?  And see those things that are not truffles?



Those things were a dandy coupon and a piece of Lindt Excellence: A Touch of Sea Salt Dark Chocolate.



I saved those for later and grabbed a truffle.



My, how grand and round it was.



I took a nibble.  Boy, oh, boy, was it tasty and smooth!



And inside was, oh my, liquid chocolate!  Normally the filling is solid.  Maybe there was something wrong with this batch of chocolates.  Even so, I ate 'em all!  They were mighty tasty!