Tuesday, August 4, 2009

how to make chocolate chip cookies

1. preheat oven to 375 degrees
2. in a small bowl combine 2 1/4 cup flour, 1 tsp of baking soda, and a pinch of salt. set aside
3. in a big bowl beat 2 sticks of softened butter 3/4 cup granulated sugar, 3/4 cup brown sugar and 1 tsp vanilla
4. add two eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.
5. gradually beat in flour mix
6. stir in as many chocolate chips as you see fit (milk chocolate is my favorite but it doesn't really matter what kind of chocolate chips you use)
7. drop by tablespoons onto an ungreased baking pan or cookie sheet.
8. bake for 9 min or until it just starts to turn gold around the edges.
9. use a spatula to remove cookies onto a wire rack
10. eat eat eat!!!!!

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

How to write a haiku

A haiku is just a really short Japanese poem. it should kind paint picture in your head. here's how to write one

1. choose a theme
2. write your first line. it should be five syllables. The first line should tell what your writing about.
3. write your second line. it should be seven syllables. it should tell what your subject is doing.
4. write your third line. it should be five syllables and should wrap up your poem.
EXAMPLE:
sunlight on water
dapples the smooth riverbed
hides the spotted trout

Saturday, February 28, 2009

How To Annoy People in an Elevator

1. Make race car noises when anyone gets on or off.
2. Blow your nose and offer to show the contents of your kleenex to other passengers.
3. Grimace painfully while smacking your forehead and muttering: "Shut up, all of you, just shut UP!"
4. Whistle the first seven notes of "It's a Small World" incessantly.
5. Sell Girl Scout cookies.
6. On a long ride, sway side to side at the natural frequency of the elevator.

7. Shave.
8. Crack open your briefcase or purse, and while peering inside ask: "Got enough air in there?"
9. Offer name tags to everyone getting on the elevator. Wear yours upside-down.
10. Stand silent and motionless in the corner, facing the wall, without getting off.
11. When arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act embarrassed when they open by themselves.
12. Lean over to another passenger and whisper: "Noogie patrol coming!"
13. Greet everyone getting on the elevator with a warm handshake and ask them to call you Admiral.
14. Talk to yourself
15. On the highest floor, hold the door open and demand that it stay open until you hear the penny you dropped down the shaft go "plink" at the bottom.
16. Do Tai Chi exercises.
17. Stare, grinning, at another passenger for a while, and then announce: "I've got new socks on!"
18. When at least 8 people have boarded, moan from the back: "Oh, not now, stupid motion sickness!"
19. Give religious tracts to each passenger.
20. Meow occasionally.
21. Bet the other passengers you can fit a quarter in your nose.
22. Frown and mutter "gotta go, gotta go" then sigh and say "oops!"
23. Show other passengers a wound and ask if it looks infected.
24. Sing "Mary had a little lamb" while continually pushing buttons.
25. Holler "Chutes away!" whenever the elevator descends.
26. Walk on with a cooler that says "human head" on the side.
27. Stare at another passenger for a while, then announce "You're one of THEM!" and move to the far corner of the elevator.
28. Burp, and then say "mmmm…tasty!"
29. Leave a box between the doors.
30. Ask each passenger getting on if you can push the button for them.
31. Wear a puppet on your hand and talk to other passengers "through" it.
32. Start a sing-along.
33. When the elevator is silent, look around and ask "is that your beeper?"
34. Play the harmonica.
35. Shadow box.
36. Say "Ding!" at each floor.
37. Lean against the button panel.
38. Say "I wonder what all these do" and push the red buttons.
39. Listen to the elevator walls with a stethoscope.
40. Draw a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers that this is your "personal space."
41. Bring a chair along.
42. Take a bite of a sandwich and ask another passenger: "Wanna see wha in muh mouf?"
43. Blow spit bubbles.
44. Pull your gum out of your mouth in long strings.
45. Announce in a demonic voice: "I must find a more suitable host body."
46. Carry a blanket and clutch it protectively.
47. Make explosion noises when anyone presses a button.
48. Wear "X-Ray Specs" and leer suggestively at other passengers.
49. Stare at your thumb and say "I think it's getting larger."
50. If anyone brushes against you, recoil and holler "Bad touch!"


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