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Music Monday: Lullaby by Dixie Chicks

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Drunk Girl by Chris Janson

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Writing Prompt Wednesday: Hypochondriacs, aging clowns, garage sales, & airplanes OH MY

Happy Wednesday Everyone! It is Writing Prompt Wednesday! Make sure to go watch my video for more details and an original writing Prompt by me! This is a new weekly video feature on my YouTube channel, make sure to subscribed to get notified when I post new writing prompts and other content! Watch the video now: The Storymatichttps://youtu.be/H6f8f2v9CrY 

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Music Monday: Cry Pretty by Carrie Underwood

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Middle of a Memory by Cole Swindell

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Peace by O.A.R.

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Satellite by Nickelback

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Used to Be by Matt Nathanson

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Get To You by Michael Ray

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music! I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Wicked Game by Phillip Phillips

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music!

I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

Music Monday: Poison by Jackie Foster & Self Portraits

Mondays are hard, so let’s conquer them with music!

I love music; I listen to music in the car, at work, and it is also part of my writing process. Sometimes a scene may be inspired by a song or I find songs that relate to what I have written; either way I always have a separate playlist for each project I’m working on in addition to a master playlist of all the songs I come across and enjoy…

If the Hat Fits by Eliza Boyd Release Day!

If The Hat Fits by Eliza Boyd is out today! Don’t miss Jake and Diana’s emotional story of finding and then choosing love against all odds. Find out for yourself why everyone loves #Jake in this brand-new adult romance, which is FREE on KU and $2.99 on Amazon! Eliza Boyd – If The Hat Fits Release Day: 9/28/2016 Genre: Adult Romance Publisher: Patchwork Press Buy: Amazon Add to Goodreads here.…

The original recipe can be found HERE and I also made some tweaks by using Oreos instead of graham cracker crumbs with another excursion in Baking post, which can be found HERE.

The ingredients below are of the standard measurements. I used a 7 x 7 inch pan because I like thicker bars; user a larger pan if you want them thinner.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

2 cups Graham Cracker crumbs

2 cups confectioners’ sugar

1 cup peanut butter

1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

4 tablespoons peanut butter

Directions:

Use an electric chopper or a food processor to turn the Graham Crackers into Graham Cracker Crumbs.

Put the Graham Cracker crumbs, confectioners’ sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter in a medium bowl.

Mix together until well blended.

Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased pan. With the standard recipe I like thicker bars so I use a square 7 x 7 inch pan. when I doubled the recipe I used a larger pan that was around 12 x 8 inches. The chocolate is for the next step, I just forgot to take a picture of it before I added it for this recipe.

Melt the chocolate and 4 tablespoons of peanut butter together. I miserably fail at the stove method for doing this, so I used the microwave. I feel like you are less likely to ruin the chocolate this way. I microwaved in thirty second increments and stirred the chocolate and peanut butter together until it was fully melted and combined.

Spread the chocolate mixture over the prepared crust.

Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.

ENJOY!

The original recipe can be found HERE, which I also made without changes and will also share in a separate post.

The ingredients below are of the standard measurements, but I doubled the recipe. The original recipe calls for gram cracker crumbs which I also made, but I decided to try Oreos instead and it was a  hit! In this case I used the limited edition Peanut Butter Oreos, but the first time I made it I used both and it would come out just as good with just regular Oreos.

Ingredients:

1 cup butter

2 cups Oreo crumbs

2 cups confectioners’ sugar

1 cup peanut butter

1 1/2 cups semisweet chocolate chips

4 tablespoons peanut butter

Directions:

Use an electric chopper or a food processor to turn Oreos into Oreo crumbs. I currently have a small chopper which I’m in love with, much more effective than plastic bags and meat hammers… I now want too get a larger food processor to make it even easier!

  Put the Oreo crumbs, confectioners’ sugar, and 1 cup peanut butter in a medium bowl.

Mix together until well blended.

Press evenly into the bottom of an ungreased pan. With the standard recipe I like thicker bars so I use a square 7 x 7 inch pan. when I doubled the recipe I used a larger pan that was around 12 x 8 inches.

Melt the chocolate and 4 tablespoons of peanut butter together. I miserably fail at the stove method for doing this, so I used the microwave. I feel like you are less likely to ruin the chocolate this way. I microwaved in thirty second increments and stirred the chocolate and peanut butter together until it was fully melted and combined.

Spread the chocolate mixture over the prepared crust.

Refrigerate for at least an hour before serving.

ENJOY! (Please ignore awful cutting. I forgot to take a picture before I brought it to work to serve and was stuck using a steak knife to cut it instead of a proper knife.)

Social Media & False Connectedness

I’ve been thinking about Facebook and social media a lot lately. I think social media, especially Facebook, gives us a false sense that we are communicating with our friends and family. It makes us believe we know what is going on in someone’s life because we see their posts and click the like button and maybe even write a little comment and they might do the same in return. Here is the thing. We…