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Yesterday we had a Christmas party potluck at work. I’ve showed you the sign I made for it here. We were all supposed to bring in a dish. I decided on a Seafood and Spinach stuffed pastry which I talked about in my last post. so here is the hit recipe. I’m sure someone else has already come up with it before, but it was completely new to me soo…
What you will need.
Crab Meat: (Fresh, Canned, or imitation. ) I used about six ounces. And yes I did return it for the stuff in date. ;P
Shrimp: I used a precooked frozen bag.
Spinach: 3 16oz packages. I used a frozen spinach for easiness. If you really want to go fancy I think fresh would be yummy too. But It should be cooked.
Cream Cheese.: I used two regular sized boxes.
Ingredients
Pastry Shells: I used a frozen pre baked box of Athens Mini Fillo Shells.
Shells
Steps:
1. Thaw out spinach. Just run it under some hot water and break apart. Then let all the water drain out through a strainer.
2. While spinach is draining. Peel tails of the Shrimpies if there are some. Cut as much as you think you would like to use.
Tail less Shrimpies
3. Prepare your Crab if you use it. Make sure that is in tiny pieces as well.
4. Put all ingredients together in a bowel. (except the shells of course. 
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Pre mixed
Mix it all together. I made two separate bowels. One with crab and shrimp and one without the crab.
5. After mixing squish it into the shells. I saved some of the little shrimpies with tails still on to put on top of the ones with just shrimp. That way people will know they are different.
All done!
Then you have a tasty little appetizer!!. Every one at the party loved them. There were hardly any that I could get to. 
Ok don’t get me wrong…. I love Crab. I can cook and eat basic crab legs like no other.
So now for my story:
I came home tonight instead of going out so I could do some prep work on food I have to make tomorrow . Borrrring right? Oh well. Basically what I’m making is a variation of Scoob’s wonderful idea of Crab and Spinach stuffed pastry. Yum. But I wanted something with a little less work. So I thought up crab, shrimp, spinach and cream cheese stuffed pastry. I asked scooby first if this might taste at least alright. He said sure. I bought everything pre cooked. Pastry shells too. 
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I get home tonight and was planning on making up a little so I could taste it. I’d rather not poison someone with grossness. I open up the crab meat first and this is what I find…….
EEEEWWWW!!
I tried to look past all the little nasty looking claws. But I couldn’t do it. There was little legs mixed in and every thing. Now when I usually eat crab legs they are these huge honkin red things. Not little creepy pale and grey things. EEEWWWW!! Then when I couldn’t take it anymore I started to bag in up to take to the garbage. Thats when I noticed eeewwww number like……. 85.
The date is out!! I’m sooo getting my money back. That crap cost like $3.00 a can!! eeeww!
out of date crab meat
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Over the last couple of days I have been just slightly busy. Well….. Maybe a little bit more than slightly. So I’ll break it down.
Monday: I drove my sister Stephanie to Susanville. Its about a 45min drive. She had to go over there to apply for emergency cash aid from welfare. I hate that she had to do that but I believe welfare is there for that purpose. Her and her husband Andrew work really hard to keep afloat in todays economy. Andrew is a maintenance worker at a near by golf course in a country club. It snows here, so there is little to do from December to February. He gets laid off for the season. Normally this would be the time to collect unemployment, (that is one of the reasons we pay into it each paycheck). His boss did the paper work wrong and now they will not get it until his boss gets back from vacation. This put them in a real bind. They were about to get their electricity turned off. She handled it, but the electricity place said that it might be too late to get in touch with the worker who is scheduled to turn it off. I ended up taking my neice Cadence for the night just in case
That little girl is one huge handful. She is 9 months old, cute as a button, but such a mommies girl. She did not like to be away from my sister for so long. Add that to the fact that she was getting sick made for a horrible night from home. She only slept for about 20 to 30 min at a time. I ended up waking with her every time. I was soooo tired! I took her home at seven am tuesday morning. Remind me that I never want to be a single mother.
Tuesday: As you can imagine I was wiped out. All I wanted to do when I got home was fall back asleep. But I could not. I had obligations. I was supposed to drive my friend Summer to Chico. It takes about an hour and a half to get there. 30 miles of the drive is hairpin turns down a canyon and out again. I love the drive but its always a little scarier when you have someone with you. She asked me to take her because she doesnt like to drive it herself, and she needed to take her two daughters with her. She has a two year old and a six month old. Those kids are adorable too. We left at 9:30 am. first we went shopping for a new bouncer for the baby, then we went to find a gaming store to find a special airplane game for an x-box. Her husband is way into video games. Then to the Olive Garden for lunch. Yum. I had lasagna. After that we went food shopping. I live in such a small town that its actually cheaper to drive a hundred miles out of the way to go serious grocery shopping. She spent like $300.00 on food that day. It took hours to get that much. Finally we headed home. We got home at 7pm. I was pooped. I spent some time relaxing then fell asleep on the couch at like 10pm.
Wednesday: Some time in the night I moved to my bed. That part is a little hazy. I was very tired. At about 5:30 am I got a call from my sister. Poor Cadence had been fighting a fever all night. It had just reached 105 degrees when my sister called me to drive her to the emergency room. I hate the hospital here. i would never go there unless I had no other choice. I always prefer to go to Susanville. But in the case of my niece her fever was way too high to drive that far. I got to take her home at 8am. Of course I went back to bed. I am the queen of sleeping . I woke up about 11:30. People would not stop calling me. Who knows what they wanted. I didnt answer the phone. But I certainly heard it ringing. I went to Summers house for coffee. Then did some “spring” cleaning at my apartment. Then back to Summer’s for dinner. We had a yummy garlicky Pasta that I make and Chicken and Shrimp. It was good.
That is what the last three days have been like for me. I’m still tired. And today I’m back at work. Its only 7pm and I’m not sure if I can make it.
Yesterday was thanksgiving day and of course I worked. I actually can’t remember the last time I had the day off. I always work on christmas as well. I don’t have a husband or children to celebrate with. I can’t really stand my family so I see no reason to make someone else work when I would be more than happy to do it. The only thing I require on those days is the dinner. Turkey, Stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, cranberry sauce, my grandmothers fruit salad recipe, and of course pumpkin pie. All are a requirement. that is all. Yesterday I didn’t think i would get any of it. I was sad enough to cry. Can you imagine being sad over turkey? Well I was. I was shocked when my friend Debra brought me a plate. Now that is one of the most selfless things some one has done for me in a long time. My own family didn’t “feel” like bringing me a plate. It was kinda disappointing actually.
And here is Adam Sandler.
So wordpress has a stats section that lets you see how many people have read your blog. It seems that only four total people care about what I have to say. 4. The stats has recorded only four pople each day for the last 6 days. Now I know who three of those people are I think, but who is the fourth? This is a call to that fourth person. Whats up dude? Who are you? lol and leave a comment.
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Over the last couple of days I have been working on a couple of graphic projects. The first was something that just came to me and I failed horribly. I wanted to make a line drawing of a girl that had eyes that changed color. I found a great .gif through google images. I changed it up and made it fit what I was doing. here is what I came up with
not the look at all that I wanted. The colors are way too bold and sketchy. I hate it.
This is what the look should have been like. Softer and more concise.
See the difference? If I could just merge the two I would be in heaven.
The second project I just completed today. Its a sign to announce the annual Christmas dinner at my job. I think it turned out great. I love it.
Ok well you know how my last post talked about how strange I was? Well this one will Explain what an idiot I am. I went to Hawaii about a month ago. In order to do that I had to put off some bills for the month before and the month of my trip. So I finally caught up on them all here in November. Or I thought anyways. I never paid my propane bill. I had the money set aside to do it but I just completely forgot. I even remember wondering how I had the money to afford new clothes when I last went shopping. Yep thats me. An IDIOT. now I have no heat. they had to turn it off today. I’m now typing in my extremely cute new gloves. And thats a hard thing to do. So wish me luck on convincing them to turn it on tomorrow.
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It’s five o’clock in the morning and I can’t sleep.
I guess that in itself isn’t very strange.
How about its five o’clock in the morning. I can’t sleep so I decided to clean my very messy apartment.
Nope. Not yet.
It’s five o’clock in the morning and I can’t sleep. I decided to clean my messy apartment, and found a spider.
hmmm…. no
It’s five o’clock in the morning. I can’t sleep so I decided to clean my messy apartment. I found a spider and I couldn’t kill it. It is under a clear plastic tup-a-ware.
I guess that still not very strange. The fact that I felt the need to write about it just might be though. I am terribly freaked out by spiders, and all creepy things that can crawl on you while you sleep. Not only do spiders scare me I can’t kill them. I have to capture them because the feeling of them being squashed is almost as repulsive as they are themselves.
So that is why there is now a spider chillin’ under a clear plastic tup-a-ware bowl on my kitchen counter. I have gotten up about five times while writing this just to make sure the stupid thing is still there. And to top it off I am more hyped then I was before and can no longer clean. I’m too scared that there is more waiting for me. This is one of the half dozen things I hate about winter. All the little ickies come out and play. I am completely convinced that this spider is really a spy of an underground spider colony looking for the person who killed three little baby spiders last week. Which just happens to be me. Yep spiders are out to get me. I will be holding this spider for ransom until they surrender.
And this is what happens to people who find spiders at 5am.
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I do a lot of graphic type stuff. It gives me something to do when I’m so bored I could sleep. 
This picture of Carmen Electra is my most recent favorite.
Before Image of Carmen
before
After Image
After
I also did a banner to go at the top of the main page and forum for a site called Les Pink Planet. Its a Lesbian Site based in the U.K. Geared of course…. towards Lesbian. The person who actually asked for it to be done is a member of their site that I think just wanted to help. Her is what it looks like.
Les Pink Planet
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