Guilty Pleasures

We all have them and seems like for me, they really come out when I'm pregnant. I'm sure it's a combination of hunger and hormones. Either way, they really become apparent. It's almost embarrassing. Current 'guilty pleasures' include the song Womanizer by Brittney Spears and Italian Grandmother Pie. I would never, ever, not now, not ever call myself a Brittney Spears fan. Frankly, most of her music, I could take it or leave it. Nothing personal, I just don't have a real use for it. However, I know that I like a song when I lose sleep because I'm choreographing to it. Funny story....that actually happened when I had a sleep study done to find out why I was literally sleeping like 15 hours a day when we first moved here. I spent the entire sleep study choreographing to an Incubus song. But for some reason, everything showed that I slept the entire night. Could have fooled me. Turns out I was having a hard time adjusting to the altitude. So the other night, much to Carson's dismay, I started to choreograph a dance to Womanizer. It bugs Carson because I end up moving around the bed much more than normal and I always end up tapping a beat against his leg with my foot. Combine that with the moving baby kicking his arms and back and it makes for a very restless night for Carson. Oh well. But the dance is going to be really cute. All jazzy and totally out of my element. I can't wait to not be pregnant and get through my six week respit so I can actually dance it!

Now onto the Italian Grandmother Pie. This dessert is amazing! It's also so easy! The crust has like four ingredients and the custard filling is much easier than I ever expected it to be. The hardest part of the custard is separating the eggs and making sure that the milk doesn't burn while you boil it. There are also many different variations that you can do such as adding citrus extract and zest to create either a lemon or orange flavor as well as making it a chocolate custard. Ummmmm, so good!

This picture is what the pie is supposed to look like....mine never turns out this pretty, but I would rather eat something that looks less than perfect because then I don't feel like I'm ruining anything. Anyone who knows us, also knows that we LOVE Italian food. It's a sick possessive love affair, really. We have something that is Italian in some way at least once a week, maybe even more. Needless to say, we go through a lot of garlic and basil in our house, oh and olive oil. My MIL sent us a fat cookbook (PHAT in that it's awesome and fat as in it's three inches thick) that has pretty much any Italian recipe in it. It also tells you the origin of the recipe and how easy or hard it it. We loves it! If you ever need a good authentic Italian recipe, let me know as I most likely have it.

Other list worthy items to include under the 'Guilty Pleasures' umbrella include Facebook, Organic Raisin Bran from Costco, Soda (I really try to limit my intake while I'm pregnant...hasn't worked this pregnancy), Adele, U2, actually indulging my pregnancy cravings, The Biggest Loser Couples and American Idol.

Now I feel that because I'm indulging all of these wonderfully bad for me things, I feel like I should indulge some other desires as well to balance things out. Maybe things that aren't as enjoyable, but things that will make my life better in the long run. This list includes becoming neurotic about making our bed, getting laundry done and folded and put away all in the same day, looking for people to serve-especially when I'm having a pity party, doing the dishes more often so Carson isn't always stuck doing them and the all important disciplining my children in a loving consistent way rather then flying off the handle. All of these seem doable.

By the way, has anyone noticed that Gavin Rossdale sounds exactly like Peter Gabriel when he sings. I only noticed it because I'm listening to my iTunes while writing this and it was on shuffle which resulted in one playing right after the other. I never realized it when he sang in Bush.