New Music Monday!!! 09/26/2011

Today's New Music Monday is brought to you by Jemina Pearl. This is the music video for her song featuring Iggy Pop, "I Hate People."

Being a server, this video is awesome. It features so many things I only wish I could do to some of the people who come into the restaurant where I work. If you are a server than most likely, you hate people too!

This song was from 2009 and I hope she comes out with more music. She has such a unique voice that's different from a lot of singers out there today.

My favorite song is "Nashville Shores" but there is not a video for that song unfortunately. I hope you all enjoy this song and the singer, until next Monday.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

My Future House

So do you think my future husband would object to a ton of pink in "our" future house?

I think this pink striped laundry room is a great idea.

And how about this hot pink front door? I think this would look amazing on "our" future house.

I did an earlier post of my pink dream kitchen, which you can find here. 

I just hope he likes pink because there is going to be a lot of it in "our" future house.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

New Music Monday!!! 09/19/2011

I found this song on facebook and I love it! It's a country song and very cute. This is Marlee Scott singing "Beautiful Maybe". I think I am gonna go buy this song on itunes and I recommend you do the same. Enjoy the music.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

Cooking Lesson #2 - Stuffed Peppers

On Tuesday Jeremy actually had the day off, so I experimented and made stuffed peppers for the first time. I found the recipe on the back of a Minute rice box and it looked interesting and easy.

I chose 4 of the brightest color peppers I could find and I had to go to two different stores to get them. I wanted one in every color just so things could be festive.

Cleaning them was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be, the insides just scooped right out!

For me, this was the gross part. I am not one for touching raw hamburger meat, but I did it.

They already look so pretty, even with the raw meat inside.

Oh my gosh, the smell while they were cooking was amazing. I only wish I could put the smell onto my blog page.

This is my finished product, ready to eat. I added a few spoonfuls of marinara to the bowl, I knew the amount on top was not going to be enough for either of us. 

The recipe said cook them for 45 minutes but I had to cook them a little longer to get the pink out of the meat. I also had to call an expert, my grandmother, to make sure I had done them right. Once I saw the pink inside I wasn't sure I started to doubt myself. It didn't saw to cook the meat before had so I was a little scared but she assured me that you don't cook the meat so it can mix with the peppers.

I think I did a fantastic job on this recipe and I hope you all enjoy. Here is a copy of the recipe in case you want to try it out for yourselves.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

New Music Monday!!! 09/12/2011

Today's New Music Monday is Megan and Liz's "Run Away". I found this one on Facebook. I hope you enjoy.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

Remembering

Photo taken by Jessica Lanham

It's been ten years to the day and I still get goosebumps about what happened. I remember my sister calling me on the phone and telling me that we (the United States) were being attacked. She said that they struck in New York. I turned on the television and say the most horrific thing I could imagine, the Twin Towers were on fire. At the time I worked in an office building in Franklin and was completely scared out of my mind to go to work. 

Still, I got dressed and drove up to the school where my mom worked to see if she had heard. They only told her she was not allowed to turn on the TV, she didn't know anything else. I told her what had happened then left for work. I didn't want to leave her, I felt like I might not see her again. The only thing that keep me sane was knowing that my dad worked as a security guard just down the hall and if anything happened, I was 100% sure he would save me first. 

When I got to work there were people crowed in the lobby watching the news. I just wanted to go home where I knew I would be safe. I saw my dad and he came to check on me right when I got to work. I was only there for an hour before they told us to go home. I was so relieved. I never went back to work there again, I just couldn't imagine working in an office building after what happened. 

It took me about nine months to recover from what happened and actually get a good night's sleep. I was always thinking that any minute now something else was going to happen. Then I would think who would attack a small town in Tennessee. I was afraid to fly, afraid to drive, afraid to leave my family because I thought they could be gone at any minute.

I have actually been to the top of one of the towers. I think it was in eighth grade while on a church trip. There was a Sbarro's on the top floor of the one we went too. (At the time I worked for Sbarro's at the Galleria Mall.) The halls at the top were lined with some sort of cut out figures and my ears were popping all the way up to the 110th floor. I think of actresses and sports figures unique to New York. I just kept thinking about all the schools that were touring the building when went and what if a group of children were there at the time of the attacks. 

My favorite memory was putting money into the binoculars that were outside and looking up into the sky when a plane flew by,I was trying to peer inside the plane. I was so sure that since we were so high that I could actually see people inside the plane. I was able to make out figures, but a lot of the blinds were pulled down. Still, I was thrilled and scared at being so high off the ground.

I will always remember that day for the rest of my life. I am sure we all will. 

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥

New Music Monday!!! 09/05/2011

Today's New Music Monday is brought to you by Oh Darling's "Prettiest Thing". I found thing while surfing itunes. It's an interesting song and I hope you enjoy.

xoxo, am&a lynn ♥