I generally do not choose to eat lemon flavored candies or desserts. Even some lemonades get swooped into the "inedible" category as deemed by myself. However, yellow sweet tarts are the best flavor among all the sweet tarts. I eat them first before moving to the green, then blue, then purple then red. For some reason sweet tarts got right combination of lemon and sugar to make it purely awesome yellow treat.
I do love good lemonade. I don't think there's any better lemonade than freshly squeezed lemons right off my grandmother's lemon tree. That's some good lemonade. And if you like my version of a lemonade recipe (skimp slightly on the sugar) Then I'm sure you'll agree. I guess I like the yellow sweet tarts best because they taste closest to lemonade. I call this flavor "The True Flavor of Yellow".
It seems there are two ways you can mess up achieving The True Flavor of Yellow. You can add to much sugar, which turns the natural sunny, tangy, zing of lemonade into a sappy, weak blend of nothing special. It's like comparing two little girls, one who is truly smily, happy, honest and bright to the one who sugarcoats all her actions, is not truly happy, and only has an outward display of sweetness. This is what lemon pies, custards, puddings, and bars taste like to me. Fake. Not truly lemon. Lemon is ridiculously sour and pies, cakes and cookies that add all the sugar and frou-frou to a lemon dessert sap that tartness away. It's not sunny, lemony, zing anymore. It's covered up and hidden.
The other way to destroy The True Flavor of Yellow is by somehow chemically morphing it into a cheap, mass produced treat that is more bitter than tangy or sweet! Now I know you're probably thinking "well she's dump, sweet tarts are mass produced, and cheap" Yes, but they taste good, so it's beside the point. Lemon drops, skittles and lemon starbursts all taste slightly bitter to me. They taste like the girl who not only pretends to be sunny and nice, but isn't at all and really says nasty things about people behind their backs.
Thus is my analysis of The True Flavor of Yellow. When the right amounts of sugar and lemon are involved, yellow tastes sunny, bright, happy, tart, energizing, exciting and zingy. Bananas and pineapples evoke other shades of yellow in their right dimensions, but lemon yellow has very definitive properties, that when messed up only portray the wrong ideas, and of course color. To me, eating too sweet lemon tastes more dull gray, and too bitter lemon is just painful highlighter yellow. But lemonade with just the right amount of sugar is the perfect pretty shade of sunny yellow. :)
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Sunday, April 10, 2011
Happy news!
Oh dear. This blog is becoming more Mormon Mommy... *sigh... But I need to share my happy news first! And I voice another opinion at the same time.
We found out on Friday we'll be having a little boy. I'm very excited. I was hoping for a girl, even thought I felt in the back of my mind it was a boy all along. I have three younger sisters, and I know what to do with a little girl, so a little boy just scared me some. I don't like bugs, I don't understand half of Kason's silly antics, and I was so terrified I'd be a terrible mother to a little boy. Miraculously, I'm not so nervous about a boy any more. I'm still nervous about being a mother, but looking rationally at how I react to kids, I don't think my disciplining is too harsh, but it is firm, and my opinions/judgements do not change. My primary class still likes me even after I tell them to behave, so I think I'll be okay.
We have decided on a name. Kason and I actually have all the names we like picked out. We're boring like that I guess. This little boy will be Christian Andrew. After his two grandpas. My father, and Kason's. Christian is also my grandfather's name, but he goes by Raymond. It's a good, strong name and he'll have 3 wonderful men to look up to and to fill shoes. His initials will also be similar to his father's. I like family names. It's nice to use them when possible. Not all the other names we've picked our family names, but they are still special.
A name is an important thing. I feel this name is pretty solid against any name-bullying that may come about from evil other children. It's not too weird, or old-fashioned, and hopefully his name will hold significance to him, so he'll carry his name with honor. Hopefully this name will keep him a good kid who wants to serve the Lord and lead a righteous life. Because I love this squirmy little booger to let him lead any other kind of life!
On a slightly different topic, people keep telling me to "be prepared" because my "kid's going to be so hyper and crazy" "just like his dad"! Personally, I truly hope he is an energetic, imaginative booger! It's better than some boring bum of a kid, who watches TV all day. I don't care how many doctors we fund expensive cruises, and lavish dinner parties fixing up his broken bones and stitching his scrapes and gashes. We'll have fun doing it. Plus, if this kid is crazy, he gets just as much of it from me too. I may be the one who currently keeps my husband calmer than before, but I was a bouncy, crazy little girl, and I still have copious amounts of energy and spark. Remember, this kid is half mine! I'm a booger too!
We found out on Friday we'll be having a little boy. I'm very excited. I was hoping for a girl, even thought I felt in the back of my mind it was a boy all along. I have three younger sisters, and I know what to do with a little girl, so a little boy just scared me some. I don't like bugs, I don't understand half of Kason's silly antics, and I was so terrified I'd be a terrible mother to a little boy. Miraculously, I'm not so nervous about a boy any more. I'm still nervous about being a mother, but looking rationally at how I react to kids, I don't think my disciplining is too harsh, but it is firm, and my opinions/judgements do not change. My primary class still likes me even after I tell them to behave, so I think I'll be okay.
We have decided on a name. Kason and I actually have all the names we like picked out. We're boring like that I guess. This little boy will be Christian Andrew. After his two grandpas. My father, and Kason's. Christian is also my grandfather's name, but he goes by Raymond. It's a good, strong name and he'll have 3 wonderful men to look up to and to fill shoes. His initials will also be similar to his father's. I like family names. It's nice to use them when possible. Not all the other names we've picked our family names, but they are still special.
A name is an important thing. I feel this name is pretty solid against any name-bullying that may come about from evil other children. It's not too weird, or old-fashioned, and hopefully his name will hold significance to him, so he'll carry his name with honor. Hopefully this name will keep him a good kid who wants to serve the Lord and lead a righteous life. Because I love this squirmy little booger to let him lead any other kind of life!
On a slightly different topic, people keep telling me to "be prepared" because my "kid's going to be so hyper and crazy" "just like his dad"! Personally, I truly hope he is an energetic, imaginative booger! It's better than some boring bum of a kid, who watches TV all day. I don't care how many doctors we fund expensive cruises, and lavish dinner parties fixing up his broken bones and stitching his scrapes and gashes. We'll have fun doing it. Plus, if this kid is crazy, he gets just as much of it from me too. I may be the one who currently keeps my husband calmer than before, but I was a bouncy, crazy little girl, and I still have copious amounts of energy and spark. Remember, this kid is half mine! I'm a booger too!
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