pancake helper

Happy Thursday all!

I'm here to share yet another secret of mine with you (this must be a week for secret-spilling!)

Making pancakes can get messy when you're pouring the batter onto your griddle. Clearly it's a problem because people are manufacturing tools (a la the Williams-Sonoma pancake pen) to alleviate the mess. I have a trick that's even better - and a fraction of the price! I read this in a magazine a while back -- Real Simple or BHG, I don't really remember -- where you simply re-use an old syrup bottle. Works like a charm!

Rather than discarding my old syrup bottle when it was empty I saved it, cleaned it out and now re-use it each time we make pancakes. I even toss it in the dishwasher. Great thing is when this one get old or beat-up I can just throw it out and start over again with a new bottle!

...and for those of you that have trouble pouring from the bowl into the bottle
without making a mess, try a small funnel. viola! mess-free!

wordless wednesday

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no more static!

Ok girls, I'm about to share a secret with you that is going to make your winter!

My hair is like a static magnet this time of year - no matter what I do the minute I step out of the house and put my winter hat on - done. Static appears. And those days that I brave the cold hat-less, by the time I get to work and turn on my computer - boom. Static.

Then one day a friend told me about her secret weapon® serum and I decided to give it a try. While on the hunt for it at my local drugstore I came across something even better! The makers of this secret weapon (and yes, it really is called "Secret Weapon®") now also make a shampoo and conditioner to help tame the static before it happens! {aaaahhh!! Cue the angels singing}

I have tried the shampoo/conditioner combo for a week now and I can honestly say I have had NO static problems. I've gone full days at work without having to throw my hair into a ponytail by lunch. I've even been able to wear hats! {gasp!} I think I'm in *love*

happy v-day

♥♥ Happy Valentine's Day to all you lovebirds!! muah!! ♥♥

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superbowl top spots

I know it's a week late and all the post-game hoopla over the best and worst Superbowl commercials has come and gone...but I still wanted to post my fave commercials for y'all to see.

{1} Bud Light - "Hack Job"

{2} Doritos - "House Sitting"

Grandpa!!

{3} Volkswagen - "The Force"

This is a clip of the :60 -- they played the :30 during the game spot but the :60 is great!

And saving the best for last, but certainly not least, the Chrysler 200 spot.

Anyone from Metro-Detroit or anyone that has any sort of tie to the city can't help but feel some sort of emotion when you see this -- it's clearly an anthem spot for all of us in the D.

At first I thought if only a Detroit ad-agency was behind this concept, then, then it would be really something...but after thinking about it a little more I had a change of heart/mind. Because this amazing idea was sparked from the West Coast -- well that means that people out there get it, get us...and that's saying something.

Imported from Detroit. We're certainly no one's Emerald City.

{4} Chrysler - "Born of Fire"

project 365 - week 6

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I know, I know...I wasn't very good at taking photos this week so it's a little sparse.

1 & 2. We met up with Michael's friends Emily and Steve at a karaoke/bowling birthday party

3. My wii avatar...challenged Michael to a friendly sporting competition

4. Sushi Friday @ work = yum!!