Recipe!

Mmm mmm good.

Cream puff! From scratch.

-----you will need---
-1/2 cup water
-1/4 cup butter
-1/2 cup all purpose flour
-2 large eggs

Preheat the oven to 425º or for a convection oven, put on 400º

1. Measure water and butter into a heavy sauce pan; being to boil

2. Add flour all at once; stir mixture vigorously until dough leaves sides of pan.

3. Remove dough from heat. Add eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.  Dough should be glossy and stiff enough to hold its shape.

4. Drop dough into six mounds onto a parchment paper covered baking sheet.

5. Bake puffs until they have doubled in size,  about 20 minutes.

6. Reduce heat to 350º F and continue baking puffs until they are crisp and golden brown,  about 10 to 15 minutes.

7. Turn off heat and remove puffs from oven; make small slits with a sharp knife in the sides of the cream puffs so steam will escape.

8. Return puffs to oven for 10 minutes.

9. Remove them from oven and allow them to cool I'm a place that is free from drafts.

10. Fill with extra thick pudding of your choice. Frost if desired or sprinkle with powdered sugar.

Property of lees summit district cook book. :)

-baking machine sarah

School.

You know what has me confused? Why people make it such a big deal that we graduate high school. After high school we gotta go to more school to make more out of our life.
   Is it like a check point? If it is, we should celebrate elementary to middle school and middle school to high school too. 
    Aren't those important too?
Well the way I feel about school is that I don't think people should celebrate high school graduation so much. I mean some of us have a few more years to go. The others that aren't going to college are gonna end up in a dead end job and they are going to eventually end up wishing they went to college. So what is it that we are really celebrating?
   A lot of you have good reasons why. I wanna hear em! Convince me.

-bound for college sarah

Myself.

Look, I know this is supposed to be a blog about just whatever. Today I want to shed a little light on myself. Not all about me, but what's been going on through my mind. My mom.
     My mom is completly sensitive. Shes so sensitive that you can say what you really want to say because it would crush her. Right now she is on a custody battle for my brother. She has kinda had a rollar coaster of emotions. Losing my brother and when he is at our house, he is bored so she feels like she is the boring one and dad is the fun one.....which is kinda true.
     A while back she was suicidal and had to be in a hospital for it. Ever since then I have been terrified that if I ever hurt her feelings, she will think about ending her life again.
   Its like I can't ever be mad at her because she will go overboard.
    Right now, we had a fight. Sorta. She talked to me and acting like it was my fault when it wasn't. I got mad and when I left my house to go to my sisters, she was apparently crying.
   I'm worried. I really am. My brother went to a friends so what if she might think about killing herself again. She's at home by herself.
     I don't feel bad. At all. Not in the least. I am a person. I am aloud to get mad. I am aloud to not want to fix everything right after it happens. This just isn't fair. Why do I have to have the overly sensitive mom.
  If she wasn't sensitive, I'd tell her everything bothering me. I'd tell her that she's lazy. All she does is sleep and play on the computer. I'd tell her she is a terrible mom.
    Sure she gives us love and all that but she doesnt cook. And she works and when she gets home, she either sleeps or plays on the computer. And she doesnt have a discipline bone in her body. When we get in trouble, she yells and then that's it. No grounding and no punishment.
    If she has a punishment, she doesn't stay to it. She will just cut it short. Or whatever.
  She seriously makes me mad. I don't know what to do! I wish someone actually read this to give me some advice. :/

-troubled sarah

Hiccups

We have all had them at least once. If you're sitting there shaking your head, you had them as a baby. No lie.

They suck. I hate them. I don't get them a lot but i have had some. I had them just a few minutes ago and let me tell you, they lasted a few hours. I got a headache and most times I get a stomach ache.

Now your saying "that doesn't happen to me" so let me say this. I don't know anyone that has that too.

What causes these hiccups you wonder? Well let me tell you.
- eating too much food quickly
-drinking too much alcohol
- swallowing to much air
-smoking
And the list goes on.
What can you do to stop it?? Well there are a few things you can do but most of the time you just have to wait it out.
You can:
- take a spoonful of honey
-take a spoonful of sugar
- hold your breath and count slowly to ten
-annd drink some cold water.
These stinky hiccups are annoying. Lol

For more information, go to webmd.com
I got most of this information from there. Keep it cool. :)

-hiccuping annoyed sarah

Are you in a good mood?

   Tonight I have to say I am in a great mood. I will not mention why but it feels like anything can happen and that I'm ready to try every new thing. :))
     So, when I am in a good mood, I am hyper and can't stop squealing.  Hehe I think I might even have embarrassed myself on twitter. I think I posted like seven posts about how happy I am right now. In fact, this blog post might make you change your mind about reading anything else I post in the future. :) I don't really care at the moment. :)
     So I want to know what you do when you are in the best mood possible.
   Right now I am so happy that I might be close to tears. Lol its sad really.
   I wish I could have this mood all the time. Life would be emotional but it would ensure a good time. :) tehe okay I'm totally gonna go now because I'm going to get annoying if I haven't already. Lol
So what is it that makes you happy and what things do you do?

-hyper and happy Sarah

Do you ever?

   Do you ever have those times when you are so determained to be the right person and do the right thing but when you do, it ends up not being what people want? You know what I mean? Like the one time you actually try to be better, you just aren't? Then you feel like you should stop trying and don't for a while and then start trying again and it happens like a cycle. And no matter how many time you complete that cycle, you think maybe the one time that you try won't be a fail and that this time it will make people happy. Not like all those that haven't in the past.
   That little sheer of hope happens every once in a while and that's what keeps us going.
  Some people say there is no hope. They have no hope.      Wrong.
  even when you don't realize it, we have hope. No matter if we think we don't. We can have that one sliver of hope still inside of us that we don't know exsists.
  This world would be a different place without hope. Think about that.

-slightly hopeful Sarah
  

This is me..