A Lesbian in Ohio

I've been listening a lot to Stephen Lynch lately. I'm especially fond of my CD on warm days during rush hour. Most of my fellow drivers are annoying jack asses. People wait til the last minute to change lanes, don't use turn signals, barge right in between you and the car in front of you... it's a mess, really. 99% of Dayton drivers are goddamn idiots. It's only fair then, I suppose, that I try to drown out their rap bullshit or their Glenn Beck haaaaate with something funny and witty and definitely offensive. The looks rich white men give a girl when "Vanilla Ice Cream" starts playing is the stuff of comedic gold. I love it!
Unfortunately, today I was feeling too sick to blare loud music. I missed my classes, barely made it to work, and then barely survived by groceries (mostly because all of West Carollton left their brains at home today). You know what made everything better?
Frozen banana bites.
They're pretty easy to make. I found a recipe on Sea Salt With Food that just looked amazing, so I decided to try it before the fruit flies that invade my kitchen each summer show up in force. That's a pretty good recipe, really, but I adapted it slightly because I'd rather not eat coconut if I don't have to. If I had to choose between eating coconut and dying, I would seriously consider death for at least a split second - that's how much I hate it.
Recipes after the jump!

Watching this made me feel slightly more secure about holding my wife's hand in public - but only slightly. It's a good video, very touchy. Even in Texas, people will stand up for gay rights.

Oh, that sweet, sweet sugary goodness!

As a human being with an inner fat man lurking somewhere beneath the surface, I occasionally experience the urge to try new, disgustingly unhealthy foods. A friend of mine that I do roleplaying with online brought up that she had had Oreo truffles and they were amazing. Being a fiend for all things chocolatey that have no nuts, coconuts, or strawberries in them, I had to try it out.

There are a lot of recipes out there, and they're all a pretty good base. Truffles, however, are meant to be toyed with and experimented upon. Tomorrow I'll add a picture to show how pretty mine came out, but tonight, here's the recipe.

You'll need:

1 package of Oreos. I used double-stuffed because fuck yeah! extra cream!
1 8oz bar of cream cheese
Some kind of chocolate to melt! I used the Toll House mini morsels.

Set aside 9 oreos. Separate the cookies from the filling. We twisted off one end, put the cookie part into a gallon-sized plastic bag, and tossed the filling into the large mixing bowl we stuck the cream cheese in. Crush the 9 cookie parts into a fine dust, set aside.

Now do the same thing with the rest of the pack! Just toss the filling right into your mixing bowl on top of cream cheese! Once your cookies are crushed, pour them into the bowl. Make sure your hands are clean and then use them to thoroughly mix everything together.

Once everything is mixed, get a baking sheet and put something down that stops stuff from sticking to it, like parchment paper or foil very lightly coated with cooking spray. Very. Lightly. Spray it on a paper towel or something and just gently coat the foil. Once that's done, roll the mixture into 1" balls (we got 42 out of ours! Oreo truffles are the answer to life, the universe, and everything!) and put them on the sheet. Put that sheet in the fridge.

Walk away.

No. Stop checking on them. Fucking walk away, bitch, and don't come back for an hour.

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Has an hour passed? Okay, go check! Now that your balls are chilled (that'swhatshesaid) pull the baking sheet out of the fridge and melt your chocolate. I recommend putting your balls into the chocolate and using a couple spoons to make sure each ball is totally covered in soft, dripping, creamy chocolate before putting it back on the tray! Once that's done, grab your reserved, crushed, delicious Oreo crumbs and sprinkle them liberally all over all the truffles.

If you run out of chocolate like I did, or don't want to use chocolate, you can roll the balls into the Oreo dust to coat them.

Hell, coat them with almonds, caramel, marshmellow fluff - go nuts! Be fat! This recipe isn't meant to be savored only as a light snack after hours of exercising and eating celery. Oreo truffles are a celebration of life.

Go nuts. :)

I hope everybody's having/had a good holiday. :)

I'll talk about that later. I need to get something off my chest right now.

It must really be nice to be straight. You can go out, meet somebody, get married three months later, have kids before you're financially stable and mentally ready, and nobody bats an eye because you're straight.

I've been engaged to C for five years, desperately want to raise a family with her, and I can't, because I live in Ohio and I'm gay. :( I think it's time to get another kitten.

Today was a very good day. After spending most of last night baking sugar cookies and preparing the pie for dinner guests we had tonight, I spend this morning and the afternoon icing cookies and then baking. Dinner was fabulous. Company was fabulous.

The college I go to runs on a quarter-based system. We go ten to eleven weeks at a time, and we get all of December off of school. Thus, I haven't seen a single friend since before Thanksgiving. Tonight remedied that. I feel happy, well-socialized, and I love that I got to feed people (spaghetti and meat sauce, my special veggie dish that my wife loves above all foods, breadsticks, and salad).

Then I get home tonight, check my email and find that DON'T ASK DON'T TELL HAS BEEN REPEALED!!! I'm so excited to see this! I wish it had been repealed about 8 years ago when I still wanted to join the Navy. I didn't though, because I couldn't serve dishonestly like that. It would kill me.

This is a nice step forward though. I'm very pleased that it passed. :D It's about time our Congress actually did some good, though I have a feeling that's the last step forward we'll see out of the courts for a few years. Stupid tea baggers are taking over.

Ever had somebody get mad at you when you don't wish them "Merry Christmas"? Earth to Christians: NOT ALL OF US BELIEVE WHAT YOU DO!

This single-minded belief that many "Christians" have that the world needs to think the way that they do irritates me. This is the reason that in America, gay people do not have equal rights. This is why, in Africa, gay people are being killed and/or brutalized on a daily basis.

I don't understand this. I was raised Christian, then later saw sense and left, but I left with the understanding that Christianity was about loving one's neighbors, not oppressing them. It's frustrating to see good legislation blocked time and time again due to religious or political motivation. It's terrible that because of the high Evangelical population in my area, my would-be wife and I don't DARE hold hands like other couples do. If we do, we could get shot, beaten, or raped. Happily, the worst that has happened thus far is that we've been hit on and asked for a threesome (by a creepy old guy. Double gross!).


This is the holiday season. People of all religions need to man up and show a little more love and open-mindedness to everybody else. 

I've been trying to figure out how to start off this blog for a day or so now. I don't have anything overly profound to say, no wonderful advice to offer, or even an opinion to offer at the moment.

This blog, if you are not aware, is about the life of a 26 year old lesbian living in southwestern Ohio with her wife and cats and the difficulties that must be faced day to day. I hope to provide other people (straight people, I'm talking about you) with a view point from "our side". Hopefully, we can all find some common ground here.

So let's start. I like a lot of things, but I hate vegetables, bigots, and flower print patterns. I love cats, jewelry, making bows, watching movies, hanging out with friends, and respect.

What about you guys?

Once I have this page ironed out the way I like it, I'll start writing. Probably should be up and moving soon.