When I saw Ted Murphy’s custom Twitter t-shirt, I knew I had to have one since I’m a shameless self-promoter. I enlisted the help of Stacy, who changed up the color scheme to match my site and ordered from Uber Prints, which was super easy and reasonably priced.

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Four Foods on Friday is getting a little crazy this week. It’s all about weird ways we eat normal foods.

1. What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever made with bread?

A brown sugar sandwich. White bread, butter, and brown sugar. A friend in college was addicted to them. I think it’s a southern thing.

2. What’s the oddest thing you’ve ever done with mac and cheese or pasta?

I mix stuff in with my pasta all the time. Tuna, peas, broccoli, artichokes, cheese. I’ve also made pasta in the oven, microwave, and crock pot.

3. Is there a food you eat other then it is intended?

I would say ketchup on eggs, but not as many people are grossed out by that anymore. I dip shrimp in Ranch dressing instead of cocktail sauce.

4. What’s the weirdest food you’ve ever seen?

Fresh conch in the Bahamas. The fisherman pulled it right out of the ocean, dug it out of its shell, and chopped it up and ate it. If I were to go back, I’d definitely try it.

After a night of babysitting three of my four cousins, I don’t think we’ll be looking to buy baby bedding of our own anytime soon. They are loud, exhausting, messy, and absolutely hysterical.

They immediately dig in my purse to see if I brought my camera along, and then they begin hamming it up. There would have been triple the pictures, but my battery ran out within the first hour.

I was so swamped at work today that I didn’t even realize it was Friday! After the 5 o’clock bell rang, it was great to realize that I had Four Foods on Friday and two days off to look forward to.

This week is all about parties, because it’s Val’s son’s 9th birthday! I’m not known for my hosting skills (we’re still the youngest married couple in our families, so we still get invited to other people’s house and aren’t expected to host…yet), but I have coordinated quite a few work-related shin-digs, so I might have some party merit.

1. Cake. Buttercream, whipped cream or ice cream?

Buttercream. Cold buttercream. I don’t like whipped cream and I don’t like warm cakes.

2. When entertaining do you use real, paper, plastic or styrofoam dishes?

Usually the heavy duty plastic so we don’t have to worry about anything getting broken, and sometimes we even wash it and reuse it!

3. When hosting a party do you cook, have it catered or go to a restaurant?

A party is any gathering with more than two people in our house, and it usually caps out at four when my parents visit, so there isn’t much need for catering.

4. Share a recipe that you frequently serve when having a party.

Uncork cheap champagne, pour in glass, drink from noon until the guests leave.

How come nobody winks anymore? When is the last time you were having a conversation with someone, or passed someone on the street, and they gave you a wink?

Occasionally, I’ll have an older gentlemen send a wink my way, and it always makes my day. Winking used to mean that you were interested in dating someone (or something a little more…casual), or that you were in on a secret, but either way, it has always been a form of communication, and I think it’s a shame that’s its gone out of style.