Dear HIMYM: It’s not me, it’s you.

Reblogged from Caffeinated & Random:

Dear Barney, Robin, Lily, Marshall & Ted: You used to make me laugh every week. We had some great moments, you and me. Those times I almost peed my pants. The episodes I watched over and over again. The Pineapple, the Duel, the Slutty Pumpkin, the Goat… Sandcastles in the Sand and Let’s Go to the Mall had me rolling on the floor. All the hints and flash forwards kept me interested, trying to figure out if we had met the mother yet and who she could be. Every week I would be so excited for the new …

I feel the same way, but I’m too invested to say good bye now…
Hopefully the writers of the show will get their crap together and get back to the story instead of trying to stretch it all out!
If not, then I guess I’ll always remember HIMYM as one of my favorite shows that just got lost at the end. :(

Happy Valentine’s Day!

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I know I haven’t been posting here lately, but it’s not for lack of love. I miss you guys and I promise that next week (hopefully) I’ll be back and posting with a regular schedule!

Colin and I are going to the Renaissance Festival today just like we do every year. I’ll take tons of pictures just for you!

Oh and here are some of my recent videos to make up for my lack of posting:

Why American Kids Are Brats

Reblogged from TIME Ideas:

Amidst all the talk this past week about Pamela Druckerman’s new book, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting, there was one phrase that immediately lodged itself in my mind. It was in a sidebar that ran with the Wall Street Journal adaptation of her book, “Why French Parents Are Superior,” and it said this: “Children should say hello, goodbye, thank you and please. It helps them to learn that they aren’t the only ones with feelings and needs.” That …

Pasketti and Meatballs

The Friday before last Friday my mother invited me and Colin to a church Spaghetti Dinner and like the spaghetti loving people that we are we totally went. It was soooo much more delicious that we though it was going to be. The sauce was delicious and the meatballs! Oh my goodness! The meatballs were amazingly juicy and very flavorful. I still daydream about those meatballs. My mom promised me that she would do her best to get me the recipe and I hope that for my sake and for your sake too that she can. I’d love to share it with you.

The Week in Review – 02.03.12

What would any normal blogger do after being told by what apparently is an all knowing groundhog that there are six more weeks of winter? Obviously they would try out the recipe for frozen hot chocolate that was going around a couple of weeks ago. Bad idea? Not at all. It was totally worth it!

Also, I wore ALL THE SCARVES. Yeah, watch it. :D

from my channel Two Mermaids and a Vlog

DIY: The Braided Scarf

Good news everybody, we have six more weeks of winter! Don’t you think it’s time you made yourself a new scarf?

Usually when I want to make a scarf I just get out my knifty knitter loom and go crazy because I can neither knit nor crochet (still on the life list, #28). This time, however, I wanted to try something completely new!

Crap I Want Wednesday No. 11 – What I Should Have Bought Edition

Last Thursday my mom had the day off so we had a girls day and like all of our girls days we spent most of it at our favorite home furnishings stores. We didn’t plan to, but we ended up staying at Marshalls for about three hours. I did leave with a couple of goodies, but even now as I look back I regret not having piled all these things into a basket and making a b-line for the register.

Oh and we went to IKEA too, but that’s not really part of this story.

1. A Psychedelic Luchador Mask Pillow

Lately I’ve begun to realize that I don’t have enough decorative pillows. :( I don’t know if it’s a “girl-thing,” but the fact that my bed isn’t completely covered in pillows that I don’t actually use is kinda cramping my style. Dear Psychedelic Luchador Mask Pillow, We truly could have had it all. Love, Mariana and Mariana’s Bed. <3

Recipe: Quick and Easy Greek Salad

Before New Year’s I told Colin that I wanted us to try to cook more food this year. The reason being that we were in a fast food slump and it was starting to give me a chubby face. Oh, and also because I love to cook…. This salad is the first thing that he suggested that we make and I was ecstatic. Definitely because salads are the thing you want to eat when you want to lose some weight, but mainly because I LOVE FETA CHEESE.

This recipe below comes his friend’s mom just the way she makes it. We’re rebels though and we made some slight adjustments.

The Week in Review – 01.27.12

This week was a pretty mad scramble for me to complete all of my new year’s resolutions. In the queue: a salad recipe and something to keep you warm. :)

Miscellaneous

My best friend and I recently started a collab youtube channel in which we vlog back and forth. Here are a few random videos from the past two weeks. :D

You can find more at Two Mermaids and a Vlog!