Shelby Stidham

The College Breakfast Club Sandwich

November 21, 2007 – 1:54 pm
Welcome to the world of being a college student with two problems: you need a snack but you're out of groceries! Don't run out to the store just yet--there's a way to use the heel of your bread and that last piece of juicy lunch meat. It makes a great breakfast sandwich, or, as I'd like to call it, The College Breakfast Club.  Let's get started! Here's what you've probably got left in your refrigerator right about now, or, Your Ingredients: American cheese, ham or turkey lunch meat, eggs, and bread. You would'nt think this could make a delicious breakfast or snack, but it can so don't throw away that last bit of bread yet! Here's what you'll need, or, Your Supplies: a working stove, a frying pan, a flipper or fork, and some butter/margarine/Pam spray (optional, but I use it because I don't have non-stick cookware). Turn your burner to medium ...

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Pumpkin Cheesecake for Dessert

November 21, 2007 – 1:19 pm
If you like pumpkin pie and you like cheesecake then you'll absolutely love this yummy Pumpkin Cheesecake. It's not a complicated recipe at all and it's relatively quick to make. This dessert is actually my favorite for Thanksgiving because while everyone else is making pumpkin pie, you're spicing it up with a Pumpkin Cheesecake!  A lot of people are intimidated by cheesecake because the cooking, cooling, cracking.. whatever it is, don't worry! If I can do it, you can do it. So let's get started! Here's what you're going to need, or, Your Ingredients: Regular Cream Cheese, Vanilla flavoring, Cinnamon, Large Eggs, Pumpkin Puree,  Pure Cane Sugar, and a Graham Cracker Crust. You will also need, or, Your Supplies: a large mixing bowl, a mixing spoon, an electric mixer (optional but handy), a small second bowl, measuring cups, a spatula (optional) and measuring spoons. Plus a cup of coffee if you ...

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The Defining Moment

November 13, 2007 – 1:37 am
Cynicism is knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.-Oscar Wilde What is it about life that makes things change so fast? One minute you're feeling fabulous, looking fabulous and then right after you wash your face you become this tired old twenty something with a sore face and an aching to go to bed. So what is it that makes everything change so quick? I know it can't just be washing my face, but I also think great change, inescapable change, happens in just the blink of one eye; in just a brief moment. Have you ever been doing something, maybe at work or at home, and been completely at peace with yourself and what you were doing and then, in a split second, your whole persona has flipped 180 degrees? It's like, no matter how good you felt organizing your iTunes or how happy you were wrapped ...

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Trying to Learn Photoshop

November 13, 2007 – 12:31 am
I am not good with Adobe Photoshop CS3 Extended yet, but I'm so definitely working on it. My fiance, on the other hand, is great with Photoshop and quite honestly can do anything. I'm so jealous! But he's had it since he was younger and has been working with Photoshop for years. I was just introduced to it a year or so ago, so I really can't say I've had much time. I want to eventually be able to do everything on Photoshop, but right now I've been trying to teach myself creative photo editing. I like to search Google for high resolution pictures of people, head shots mostly, and edit them. I slenderize faces, change eye color, get rid of wrinkles, whiten teeth, and smooth faces. You know, all cosmetic type of stuff. It's hard to teach yourself because you don't have someone to tell you how to do ...

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Searching For New Hair, Part 1

November 11, 2007 – 4:44 pm
So I haven't had my hair professionally styled, colored, or cut in almost a year. Wowzers! And I haven't fooled with it in about 8 months. Do you know what that means? My hair is almost at its natural color and I'm ready to dye it! It's a light brown with dark blond and some very light strawberry in it. I think if I gave it five or so more months, all the remnants of bleach and dye would be grown out and I'd have a very light brown color. But it's so blah on me. Sure, Jennifer Aniston can pull it off but she's also you know, Jennifer Aniston. So on the 16th, when I get my hair done, I think I'm going to take this hot picture of Hilary Duff with me and ask for something like that. See, I look better as a blond--I've been blond for ...

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She’ll Want to be There, too.

November 10, 2007 – 3:44 pm
You drag it around like a ball on a chainYou wallow in the guilt, you wallow in the pain You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown Got your mind in the gutter bringin' everybody down You bitch about the present and blame it on the past -The Eagles, Get Over It Have you ever had a friend who didn't know how to be happy for you, themselves, or anyone else for that matter? I had this friend--she was my best--for many years. She had all these excuses why her life wasn't working out the way she had planned but you know what? She didn't have one single reason why she wasn't happy. And our whole friendship was a roller coaster. As time went on, I realized I was turning into her. I became moody, jealous, and frequently found myself bitching about why my life was so horrible. I ...

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Celebrate the Whole Instead of Dwelling on the Bad

November 10, 2007 – 2:55 pm
Only when you live lifeThen you become what you are -Dave Matthews Band, What You Are In life, it seems like we are eager to forget the bad things that happen to us, the people that walk on us, and all the messed up shit that happens to us. We want to remember the good times and try to always be happy but you know what? I've found that its way easier to remember the bad stuff than it is to try and forget and ignore. Personally, I am the way that I am today because, mostly, of all the bad stuff that I've been through. So why hide that? It seems like we should embrace all of our memories equally, making sure we value each person and experience. Sometimes if we try and forget things, we end up pushing them away from us before we get a chance to learn ...

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My Favorite Children’s Books

September 9, 2007 – 2:09 pm
Remember when you were a little kid and one of your favorite things to do was get your favorite story read to you? I do and I loved it. I know a lot of people hate reading, but because my mom made it so fun when I was young, I've grown to love it as an adult. And now I'm taking an upper-division English class for my concentration in my major, and it's all about children's literature. It's quite possibly the most enjoyable class I've taken yet. I mean, a lot of work goes into the class but the fact that the work is based around two great things (children and books) makes it well worth it... and fun! If you had to pick your top five books from when you were a child, what would you choose? It's tough for me because I had so many favorite books, but ...

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People Who Annoy Me

September 2, 2007 – 9:28 pm
In life, there are always going to be people who annoy me, piss me off, make me extremely happy and make me laugh. Typically, those first two categories are always the same people, over and over. It seems like you never know the type of person who is going to make you happy and make you laugh, but you always know what type of people are going to piss you off. The person behind you in line at the grocery store who rams their cart into your butt or stands an inch behind you. This person I truly do not understand. Will it kill you to back up one foot? Are you going to get your groceries any faster by standing on me heels? And finally, do you not notice that the back of your grocery cart is pushing my body? These people (and you know who you are) need to ...

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