and on my wedding day, i’ll be wearing this:
the last week and a half have been a mad rush to make a september wedding happen in january, and it has all been worth it. i am so blessed with unbelievably supportive family and friends and i could not be more excited.
best part of all is that i’m marrying my best friend.
I AM SO STOKED 
i have probably made buffalo chicken pizza at least a dozen times in the last few months. so much so that brett got sick of eating it and i had the whole thing to myself. i was totally okay with that.
if you like wings or buffalo chicken sandwiches, you’ll probably like this pizza. oh, and the picture is the pizza uncooked. i was too busy stuffing my face after this was taken.
(this is me procrastinating on other websites i should be working on, by the way. i needed a break and this wine is tasty.)
i do it the fun way with pillsbury pizza dough. this stuff is awesome and easy and awesomely easy.
first, spray down a cookie sheet with no stick spray. preheat the oven to 425F. unroll the dough and make it whatever shape you want. i wanted a circle, but it comes in a rectangle and after fighting with it for long enough trying to make it a circle, the rectangle won.
whatever. it’s still pizza.
i usually keep chicken breast tenderloins thawed out in the fridge the day before i make this so i don’t have to defrost anything. this is because i’m really impatient.
so now you have chicken. boil the chicken for a while until it’s fully cooked. i usually just let it go and forget about it for a while. i don’t really chop the chicken as much as i tear it apart. kind of like pulled pork/barbecue, but with chicken.
then i either take texas pete hot sauce and mix it with melted butter, or i just buy buffalo wing sauce. again, lazy. whatever you have at hand, throw the chicken in but don’t get too much extra sauce because this makes the pizza turn to mush.
i usually throw a little bit of shredded mozzarella cheese on the dough before i put the chicken on, but it doesn’t really matter. then i scatter the chicken bits all over the dough, and cover again with a little bit of shredded cheese. if it doesn’t look buffalo-ey enough, i’ll drizzle some extra sauce over the top.
bake for 18-20 minutes, cut, drizzle with ranch dressing, and devour!
i find that this goes especially well with a cold glass of chocolate milk. i don’t know why, but it’s freaking amazing.
we got home from our thanksgiving break yesterday afternoon and within an hour i had everything unpacked and the tree up and decorated.
there are like 6 ornaments on that tree that have brett’s name on them, and i don’t have a single one. i don’t really know how that works. i do, however, have my sparkly christmas pickle. i guess that’s pretty special. it sits beneath his christmas football.
i don’t know what it is about the glow of the tree while sitting on the couch that is so incredibly awesome, but it sure makes it feel better in here. and so far, thor hasn’t even touched it, except for while i was putting the tinsel on. i knew better this year than to leave any tinsel near the bottom. or dangly ornaments. i was still finding ornaments behind brett’s xbox/TV area several months after last christmas.
loki was supposed to have her second round of chemo today, but her white blood cell count was like 10% of what it was supposed to be. so instead of chemo, she got new antibiotics since she’s prone to infection. and i was so graciously blessed with another hefty bill, and sent back home to cry go grocery shopping. she goes back thursday to try again.
i hate bills lately. also, i almost puked in the pizza aisle.
the only upside to all that was that we bought ingredients so i could make broccoli cheese soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner. it seemed appropriate for a crappy, rainy night.
you really can’t go wrong with comfort food, sweatpants, and a christmas tree.
and i also bought pillsbury gingerbread dough. for 2 reasons. 1) i am too lazy to actually bake after i cook dinner, and 2) the last time i made gingerbread dough, it basically turned to cement.
the other news of the day is brett and i changed our wedding date. the venue we wanted got booked, and all the other venues in the area were either just “eh” or waaaay too expensive, so we bumped it back a week. and settled on a church. i faxed the church application in today, and once that gets somewhat solidified i’ll call the venue and get that booked. keep your fingers crossed that the new date doesn’t get booked before we get it.
that would be our luck, though. for now, september 29th, it is.
