it's summer finally!

It's those first few days of real summer weather: an average of 80 degrees and a 50% chance of rain.  Time to get rid of the hot chocolate packets and hot coffee and pull out the lemonade and iced tea.  I'm a fan of simple recipes, since I really dislike cooking complicated recipes, so over the years, I've come up with the perfect lemonade recipe!  Hope you like it!

Ingredients:

1/2 cup lemon juice
3/4 cup sugar
cold water
ice, lemon or lime slivers (optional)

In a half-gallon jug or pitcher, add lemon juice and sugar. Give a quick stir to mix the two together a bit.  Then, add water to fill the rest of the jug or pitcher.  Stir well.  Take the seeds out of any lemons or limes and cut into slivers.  Add to the mix if you wish.  Best served on ice!

:D

officially out of money.. again

What the heck!?  Everyone is out of money! the whole darn country is out of money!  and yet everything still costs a fortune.  I was driving to someone's house today to pick up something and I saw this old guy mowing his lawn.  All of a sudden, he slipped.  He started holding his knee and didn't get up right away, so I turned down that road, rolled down my window, and asked if he was ok.  He shrugged it off, saying that he was fine.  He pointed to his house and I saw his wife starting to hurry over.  But he kept saying he was fine, he was fine.  I drove down the road where his wife was, told her what he said, and she shook her head.  "He'll always say he's fine, even if he broke it," she said.  She went on, almost crying, "The man works and is trying to find a job.. He works at Kohls" (and Kohls is at least 30 minutes away) "sometimes 5 hours, but they're trying to get him fired... and now he keeps hurting himself... I just don't know what we're gonna do. There's no more money."

What can we do?  None of us have money to help each other.. and yet we all watch each other fall beneath debt and bills till we're just little crumbs under the huge boulder of the government.  What's it all gonna look like in 20 years when I have kids?

yayness!

I was just thinking about how excited I am for this... I mean, I was just looking on one of my college friends' facebook walls, and someone had asked her if she wanted to join a group of ppl to go out for a movie... Like... because I live with so many other people, I have to make my life revolve around whatever's going on at the house.. not that there's anything wrong with that!  But, seriously... it's just another thing to make me excited: to get to run my own life.

On another note, I put my first bumper sticker ever on my car.. it's the one from the college.. and it looks SO NICE!!!! :D  I love driving along and checking my rear view mirror and seeing it there!

Don't ask..

Don't ask why I named my blog a crazy name like "Will You Be My Homie?"  In fact, I didn't even come up with the name.  A line of moms, relatives, and old friends pulled quirky little lines out of their minds or from commercials to try and create the perfect name for my college blog.  Yeah, high school is out the window, and in a few weeks I will kiss it goodbye forever and ever.  Time to say hello to college!  Classes, work, and just being on my own.... sounds daunting and exciting at the same time.  What if my car stalls one day, and my dad's not there to fix it and I have no way to get to class?  Or what if I can't tie the strings on the ends of my sleeves with one hand?  Yeah, a ton of questions... But I know that somehow it'll all be super great... As soon as I get there, I'll be fine.. Until then, though.. oh boy...