Eat your heart out, Martha Stewart...

Yeah, Martha Stewart, I love her...but I was channeling a little domestic goddess this evening. So, I love banana nut bread...LOVE it. And instead of getting it at Starbucks for $2 a slice, I decided to make my own. I go online to my most trusted recipe source (www.marthastewart.com) and find a simple recipe for banana nut bread, then it's off to the grocery store to get the ingredients. My holiday bonus from work was a $50 gift card from HEB, so that was more than enough to get supplies (side note-I cannot add to save my life...I had to make sure that I stayed under $50 and I actually put stuff back because I didn't want it to go over what the gift card was for; the total bill was $27-great math, Michele).

Okay, so I set out to make my banana nut bread. Incidentally, I learned a new way to mash bananas...put 'em in a measuring cup and mash them down with a glass. I'm sure that I could've just used the mixer, but this was messier and as many of you know, I love to make a mess of things. Get all of the ingredients in the bowl, toss it in the oven and wait. The smell coming from the kitchen is promising after an hour and I keep checking in on it to make sure that it doesn't burn. I finally take it out and the smell is to die for. After it cools, I take a taste and it's almost perfect. There's still something missing, but it is damn good banana nut bread.

Wow, did I really just do a whole blog about baking banana nut bread? Yeah, I did. It's 3:30 in the morning and I can't sleep, so I'm blogging. I have no more movies to watch because I just watched all that Netflix sent me (Shrek the Third and the 3rd Disc of Eureka), so now I may play some video games before bed. Another side note...John ordered me the memory thingie that I need to save my games, so that'll make Hitman so much easier. Man, that game is hard...I manage to kill both targets in my second 'assignment' and then I can't get back down to the plane because the bad guys kill me off.

Anyhow, I'm off to toss and turn 'til I fall asleep.