The choice is up for grabs should you happen to win any of the 4 trips that BluFrog is offering right now in their It’s a Blu World contest. If you are at least 18 years of age and a U.S. citizen then this contest is for you. There are 3 ways to enter and you can enter using all 3 methods should you choose. The first is by commenting on the contest page, sending a tweet via Twitter and must include #bluworld and http://bit.ly/UiiJy in your tweet to be registered for the contest, and finally write a blog post about the contest that BluFrog is offering. The contest opens June 16, 2009 and end July 17, 2009 so there is plenty of time to get the entries in on time.

Grand prize is a trip for 2 to any of the aforementioned cities with the winner choosing the location. I think I’d pick Orlando or Aspen. Orlando merely for the fact that I love vacationing down there and could see my grandfather. The Orlando package includes a rookie driving experience though and we all know that I love to drive fast. Aspen for the fact that I have never been there and 2 tickets to the Winter X Games. I love the skiing and snowboarding events.

Chicago will get you 2 tickets to Lollapalooza should you want to see how many of the 120+ acts you could cram in 3 days. New York gives you the opportunity to see Times Square on New Years Eve as well as a helicopter ride for 2 over New York.

Now should you not win one of the 4 trips, there is also a fifth prize of an ultimate gaming package. The package includes an Xbox 360 Elite System, Rock Band 2 Bundle, Call of Duty, Xbox wireless adapter, Complimentary X-Shot, and lets not forget 2 cases of Blu Frog Energy drink so you can stay up all night long playing these games online with your friends. So be sure to get those entries in now as the contest is already open.

Time to learn more food facts according to me. If you are not interested you can move along. As always be sure to check out Fun Craft and Recipes to join each week and to spread the news so others might join as well.

1. bestmomma’s question. If you could copy the cooking expertise and ability of one person, who would it be?
Hmm, maybe Ina Garten off of Food Network. She comes up with the best dishes and has excellent desserts as well.
2. What’s the first red food that comes to your mind?
Lobster of course. You can’t go wrong with that while living on the coast.
3. How do you eat your strawberries?
Ala carte. Nothing on them, just slice them up and chow down.
4. Share a recipe that uses cherries.
Well, I was going to try this soon as I just got a cobbler recipe and cherries would be good to use. This is taken straight from Rachel Ray off of the Food Network website yesterday as a matter of fact since I am going berry picking tomorrow.

* 5 to 6 cups frozen fruit [your choice - original recipe was for peaches and 2 (1-ounce) boxes or 1/3 cup golden raisins, a couple of handfuls]
* 1 package complete biscuit mix (recommended: Jiffy brand)
* 1/2 cup water
* 1/2 cup granulated sugar, plus 2 tablespoons, divided
* 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon, divided
* 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg, eyeball it
* 1/2 teaspoon ground allspice
* 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, a couple of pinches
* Pinch salt
* 1/4 cup, (2-ounce) package, sliced almonds

Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F.

Place frozen fruit in an 8 by 8 glass baking dish, defrost in microwave for 3 minutes on high. While the fruit is defrosting, make the cobbler topping. In a bowl, combine the biscuit mix with a 1/2 cup of water, stir until thoroughly combined but do not overwork. In another bowl combine 1/2 cup of the granulated sugar, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, pepper, and a pinch of salt. Remove fruit from the microwave and combine with the sugar mixture in baking dish. Top the seasoned fruit with biscuit mix, use your fingers to press out until even. Top the biscuit mix with almonds. Mix remaining cinnamon and sugar together and sprinkle over the biscuits. Bake until cobbler top is firm and lightly golden and fruit is bubbly and hot, about 20 to 25 minutes.

Serve warm as is or with ice cream and whipped cream if you have some on hand.

So recently I took a trip to Tennessee for our kidney camp and I had to put my beloved girls in the kennel. Now it should not have been traumatic of any sort due to the fact that it was at the vets that I use so they know all the people. It was just the idea of them away from me and locked up in a strange place. Well these photos are ones I took when I got back on Saturday because I realized I did not transfer mine over from the computer that I took on the old phone but these are way better. Pepper will be turning 10 this year I believe, maybe 11. I’d have to pull her paperwork but she’s holding her own and the little one is keeping her young wanting to play all the time.

Recently, however, they have caught some fleas from probably the neighborhood cat that has been skulking around so obviously they are scratching more now. Not only that though the little one is shedding up a storm recently too which I could assume would be a winter coat coming off but she really did not have that much fur to begin with I thought. Well, it could be lack of some minerals as I have them both on weight loss dog food which is grain-based due to the little one being overweight and I cannot really feed them separately because they would want each others food. Over at Dinovite in the solutions center is a quick and easy test to find out what minerals perhaps are missing that might help with the shedding and fleas. I do not like to give Pepper human food because she does not tolerate it that well except for the fruits and she dearly loves bananas. According to the test Pepper might have some common nutritional deficiencies due to her being a senior, using the weight loss dog food and probable lack of meats. They suggested Carnoyum as a dog supplement which has some Omega-3 and -6, amino acids, and antioxidants. Luckily, Stormy gets the same results so I could try this and see if it helps any and maybe these are the same ingredients that Pepper needs to be able to digest our human food more better because usually I will have to clean it up when she throws it back up.

The camp theme this year was Pirates and Princesses as evident to the entrance of the prom on Thursday night before everyone left. Yep, the kids get a prom every year they are there. Dresses get donated to the camp every year so the girls can pick out the one that they would like to wear and one of the nurses will stay up as long as possible to do a quick sewing job on them so that the girls can wear them and I tell you she does an excellent job. The bonus is that the girls get to keep each of their dresses and most of them if not all are brand spanking new. I saw the tags on some of them and they ranged anywhere from $800 to $1600. I was in shock. The boys got to wear cumber buns but I don’t think they were allowed to take those home. I spent most of the prom on the other side of the hall watching cartoons with some of the little ones. You can’t beat Looney Tunes you know.

One night there was a carnival and they had a hot air balloon tethered to 3 trucks and took the kids and adults up for rides. I wish I had been able to get on that thing but I was running after 2 very active 6-year-old’s lol Once they hit the jump castle though it was all over. They must have spent at least an hour in there total and were ready for bed soon after. Good thing the little one was on the bottom bunk too because she ended up falling out of her bed that night and all she wanted when I helped her back in was her pillow because it went with her to the floor. She also had a visit from the tooth fairy one night as she lost one of her baby teeth while at camp and boy was she excited when she received a dollar for her tooth lol

Apparently I have one of these now. I was getting into my car to go to the gym when I found a note folded left underneath my drivers windshield wiper. Grabbed it and opened it up and it was a full page single spaced about some guy who has seen me in the neighborhood but apparently figured writing a note would get my attention better than coming up to me personally and essentially left his email address for me to contact him if I wanted to. Really? Think not. I find this a bit odd and a bit freaky.

What would you do?

I dearly love my football and this announcement excites me but also bums me out because I have too many trees in my backyard and behind my property to even get Direct TV. I have had a rep out here and he said that it would be horrible if I got it. My current cable system does not offer it anymore because they said that it was too expensive. The only other option for cable does not offer it either. I’m pretty much screwed in that department and have to go to the bar to get any of the good games that are on Sunday and Thursday.

My boss has the NFL Sunday Ticket as well as the NFL Network and I’m jealous. He also has a humongous flat screen panel so that when he splits the screen into 2 or even 4 to watch a few games at the same time he can actually see what is going on in them all and can move any one of them to the front when something exciting happens. I mean where’s the love for the people who can’t get any of these options? I guess I should get some satisfaction in that the Eagles are at least going to be playing the Falcons this year twice, once in the pregames and once in regular season even though they have never done that before and I could go to any of those games in person which I have never done before but getting the money together at this point in time is sort of tough. I really want to go to the one game in December if I can find some affordable enough tickets. One of my friends from the gym already has box seats for that game in December as he is an Eagles fan too and I’m so jealous.