Music Monday
Hello everybody! Today is Monday so I thought I'd share a little post about music, because that's kind of how music Monday goes. Today we're gonna take a little trip to the past and look back at a whole bunch of songs that you know you've been obsessed with at some point in your life. I think everyone's had a slight "alternative phase" in their lives.
So, here we go with 30 Of Your Favorite Songs That You Haven't Thought Of In Years:
1. "Misery Business" - Paramore
2. "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)" - My Chemical Romance
3. "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" - Panic! At The Disco
4. "Hero/Heroine" - Boys Like Girls
5. "Stacy's Mom" - Fountains Of Wayne
6. "Basket Case" - Green Day
7. "Shake It" - Metro Station
8. "Whoa Oh! (Me vs Everyone)" - Forever The Sickest Kids
9. "Dance Dance" - Fall Out Boy
10. "Thunder" - Boys Like Girls
11. "Lying Is The Most Fun A Girl Can Have Without Taking Her Clothes Off" - Panic!
12. "Helena" - My Chemical Romance
13. "I Miss You" - Blink 182
14. "American Idiot" - Green Day
15. "Miserable At Best" - Mayday Parade
16. "The Anthem" - Good Charlotte
17. "Welcome To The Black Parade" - My Chemical Romance
18. "Move Along" - The All-American Rejects
19. "Sugar, We're Going Down" - Fall Out Boy
20. "Dear Maria, Count Me In" - All Time Low
21. "All The Small Things" - Blink 182
22. "Ocean Avenue" - Yellowcard
23. "Dirty Little Secrets" - The All-American Rejects
24. "Jamie All Over" - Mayday Parade
25. "Teenagers" - My Chemical Romance
26. "Girls & Boys" - Good Charlotte
27. "Jasey Rae" - All Time Low
28. "The Only Exception" - Paramore
29. "Grand Theft Autumn/Where Is Your Boy" - Fall Out Boy
30. "The Great Escape" - Boys Like Girls
Obviously, theres a whole lot more these are just a few of my personal favorites that I still love to this day.
x Mitchie
Homemade Pizza
Everyone loves pizza, it's impossible not to. The only problem is, ordering pizza is a major hassle and it's so unhealthy. The best way to have pizza is to make it homemade, trust me. It's not super healthy or anything but it's a whole lot less greasy than ordering take out. Also, you can make it healthier depending on what you put on it. It's pretty easy to make and can be a bunch of fun. It's a cool activity to do on a girls night, too.
What You'll Need:
- Dough, whether you make it yourself or get it from the store like I do.
- Sauce if you want (I don't eat tomatoes so I didn't have any)
- Cheese, again only if you want it & you can have whatever kind you want.
- Then any topics you want.
- Spices (they'll make it 100% better.
- Melted butter or olive oil
- Flour
So you'll first want to get flour all over the counter that you're using then get the dough on there and add a bit more flour so it's not wicked sticky. Next you'll roll out the dough into whatever shape you want, and get that onto an oven tray. Now it's toppings time. If you are gonna use melted butter or olive oil, put a little bit around the edge of your pizza, where the crust will be. This makes it a lot crunchier and tastier. Then usually you do sauce, cheese & toppings. I went for some cheese, black olives, and turkey bacon. I was just using up what we had in the fridge.
Now spices, use whatever you like obviously but I'd say adding a little garlic powder/ salt, onion powder, basil, parsley or anything like that makes the finished product that much better.
Cook at 425 degrees for about 10-13 minutes, or until the cheese/crust gets nice and golden brown. Let it cool for a few minutes then cut it up and serve. Depending on how you rolled out your dough, you should have enough for a bunch of people. Or, if you're like me and made it just for yourself, it's enough to last for both dinner and breakfast the next morning. Nothing's better for breakfast than leftover pizza!
x Mitchie
Peanut Butter and M&M Balls
On to the recipe... I found this online. I thought it was pretty cool and would make an excellent first food related post! It's super easy to make and inexpensive to get the ingredients.
What You'll Need:
- 1/2 cup of melted butter
- 1 1/2 cups of peanut butter
- 2 1/2 cups of powdered sugar
- Chocolate Chips
- M&Ms
To start this off, you should get an oven tray or really any tray that will fit in your freezer and put a layer of parchment paper on it. Next, put the peanut butter first in your mixing bowl first. Then your melted butter then the powdered sugar. To make melting the butter easier, I cut it up into a bunch of pieces then depending on your microwave it should take about 30 seconds to melt the butter. You'll want to work quickly mixing because the butter can solidify again when it cools down.
Mix the PB, butter and sugar together nice and smooth then add a handful of M&Ms or more if you want. Go ahead and mix that all together. The next bit is a little messy. You're going to have to take bits out and roll them into balls as big or small as you want. Then put the balls on the parchment paper. When you've used all the PB mix stick the tray in the freezer for about 20 minutes.
Now you have to melt chocolate chips. Pour a bunch into a microwave safe bowl then put it on for 30 seconds, give it a stir then put it on for another 15 or so seconds. If you want to make it a little easier on your self, put a little bit of vegetable oil in with the chocolate ships when you melt them. It will make the melted chocolate a little thinner and creamer and will help you out when it's time to dip.
You'll have to work really quick when dipping the balls in the chocolate because the chocolate will harden up again very quick. When you're all done with that put the tray back in the freezer for a while until they're nice and firm, I'd say at least an hour.
Hope you all enjoy!
x Mitchie
I've always been a fan of sudoku, which is odd because I've always hated math. Though, I guess sudoku is more of a mind puzzle/ game than a math equation. Anyway, yesterday (Friday 2/5) I re-downloaded the sudoku app that I used to have on my iPod a year or two ago because I'd somehow got to class an hour early and had nothing to do. From that point on, I rediscovered my obsession for the game.
If you don't know what sudoku is, you should really look into it. It's a great way to pass a little time. If you can't be bothered to look it up (which, I completely understand) here's the basics: each puzzle is a 9-by-9 grid of squares divided into nine 3-by-3 square blocks, which some of the squares filled in. The object is to fill in the blank squares in such a way that each of the numbers 1 to 9 appears exactly once in each row, column, and block.*
It's a lot of fun and really gets the wheels in your brain turning. The app I have on my phone is really great because it'll tell you if you make a mistake so you can do it over, but it also times you and that freaks me out. So, today I happened to be in CVS and saw a sudoku puzzle book and of course had to buy it. So, hopefully this will keep me busy for a while I've only had it for a little while and I'm already 7 puzzles in.
*The breakdown of how it's played was taken from the introduction page in the book in the picture.
x Mitchie
Now, obviously it's not snowing everywhere in the world, but over here in New England, it's ridiculous outside. It usually takes me about half an hour to get home from downtown Boston and today, it took me well over an hour. Just trudging down the street to get home took forever and a half.
I really wanted to walk around downtown and take pictures but the snow was still pounding down so it was impossible to even take out my camera without it being covered in snow. I'm going to try to get back out there later and get some nice shots. So hopefully, that'll all work out!
In other news, because of all the snow, I no longer have to work tonight. So it's time for Netflix & hot chocolate and as much junk food as I can eat.
x Mitchie
