Tricks for Celebrating Halloween at Every Stage of Life

In lieu of my own scrawl and blather today, I am going to treat you with a very funny article by Robert Brockway at Cracked.com - ENJOY!

Looking at Halloween across the span of our lifetimes, we see an oscillating parabola of hedonism: Babies, being stupid, don't understand the day and find it worrying, kids get their first taste of true euphoric excess, teenagers think they're too cool for it, young adults use it like a nation-wide masked orgy, and adults are just inconvenienced. But at each stage of our lives, different techniques, costumes, and behaviors may be called for to optimize our Halloween experiences. They are as follows:

 

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/blog/tricks-celebrating-halloween-at-every-stage-life/#ixzz12iswJQoj

Salty Sayings for Celebrities

Last night, I know I should have been watching the amazing live footage of the rescue of the miners in Chile for its social significance and stuff, but I wasn’t. I was trolling the internet to get the scoop on all the celeb news that has been popping up. If celebrities actually ate cookies, I’m sure they’d be all over our goods.

Christina Aguilera could have ended her marriage to that guy that I get confused with Tori Spelling’s first husband with this message:


(And how utterly unfamous you are, Jordan Bratman.)

Courteney Cox also ended her unexplainable marriage to David Arquette this week. I like to imagine she would pack all his kooky crap in a box and leave it on the front porch with an order of these on top - tied with a coordinating ribbon, because she seems like a classy lady.



And somehow Rachel Zoe, who lives on a diet of coffee and air, is pregnant If we were friends, she would have gotten a double order of these cookies:



Laura Dern and Ben Harper also called it quits but I always forget they were even married, so I’d probably forget to send them a break-up cookie, too.

Oh, baby. Come to mama!

I love finding new recipes online and as I was looking for some tonight I came across this picture, it stopped my search and caused me to begin drooling. Say 'Hello' to Cookies 'N Cream Oreo Fudge Brownies.

The recipe calls for cookies and cream ice cream, chocolate chips, hot fudge and box brownie mix all stirred up together and spread over lots of Oreos before going in the oven. GACK! I'm not sure if I should continue to elaborate on how the idea of these brownies make me want to hold myself and weep, or if I should just let you get on with your own reaction.

kevinandamanda.com are the proud makers of these sweet treats. They have LOTS of other delicious looking recipes on their site as well. Take a look, snoop around, run to the grocery and start cookin'!