This is the one with doggy treats.

For Christmas, Dan got a book called Chow Hound.  And this morning I decided to give one of the recipes a try.

I chose Here Kitty, Kitty Tuna Pie (don’t let the name fool you…it’s a dog treat).  I picked this one simply because we had all of the ingredients in the house already.

Start by gathering your ingredients:

• 1 Tablespoon of Olive Oil
• 2 Eggs
• 1/2 Cup Low-Sodium Chicken Broth
• 2 Cans of Tuna
• 2 Tablespoons of Dried Parsley
• 1/2 Cup of Bread Crumbs

Preheat the oven to 400 degrees.

Coat a 9-inch pie plate with Olive Oil.

In a medium-sized bowl, beat together the eggs and the chicken broth.

Throw in the Tuna.  If you’re using chunky (like me), I’d suggest you fork all of the pieces into smaller chunks.

Add the Parsley.  Mix it all together.

If you’re doing it right, your dogs should be standing at your feet already salivating over the treat you’re creating.

Pour the mixture into the pie plate, and sprinkle the bread crumbs evenly over the top.

Bake the pie for 45 minutes…or until the eggs are set and the bread crumbs turn golden brown.

Remove the pie from the oven and allow it to cool.  You can serve it warm or at room temperature.

I made little cookies out of ours.

This is the one with my (late) 12 of 12.

Because of the move, I’m pretty late posting my 12 of 12.  Forgive me.  If you don’t know what 12 of 12 is, here’s the basics: On the 12th day of each month bloggers all over the world take 12 photos throughout the day and post them on their blogs. It’s Chad Darnell’s idea, and you can see his website and a list of links here.

To see my photos from past months, click here.

Here are my photos from January 12, 2010.  This should be called “The Diabetes Edition” of my 12 of 12:

What a cute face! Beezus is getting big, right?

Dan and I are obsessed with these Not-A-Paper-Cup ceramic coffee mugs. They look like disposable coffee cups, but are made of glass and can be washed in the dishwasher.

Kind of a boring morning for 12 of 12...I had a meeting in Gilbert until almost 1:30. Bleh.

My office-mate is kind of disorganized, and it drives me nutso! This is what I'm greeted with each day when I arrive.

When our members arrived I took a couple of minutes to play some CandyLand. Damn, my job is hard.

We installed these lights in both bathrooms. It's kind of dark, but you can see the paint color too.

This is the beginning to a very long night. 233 is WAY too high.

My friend Lee Ann Thill writes a blog called The Butter Compartment, named after the place that most of us keep our insulin. Maybe I should create a blog called "The Mustard Shelf."

After some insulin, my blood glucose level is slowly creeping down. 196 is still too high. I'd be happy at 85 or 90.

Getting there...

Not on target, but close enough to go to bed.

Fucking Diabetes. I woke up feeling panicked and shaky, and tested. 66 is too low. I drink some Mountain Dew and wait.

Exhausting. This picture is taken after 2 a.m...which is technically the 13th, but whatever.

This is the one where I’m a famous photographer.

When I went to the Arizona State Fair in 2008, I took a bunch of photos and posted them on my Flickr account.  And then about six months ago I got an email from the people that run Schmap City Guides…which is a website and iPhone app that guides people to places around cities.  They wanted to include one of my photos in the description of the AZ State Fair.  They picked this one:

The State Fair is under the Zoos, Farms & Aquariums page (don’t ask) located here.  And my photo is even credited.  Pretty sweet.

This is the one where I’m not dead.

As you can read in my last post, I recently switched banks, and I had to live for almost 3 weeks without a debit card.  In that time, my hosting for this website was supposed to be charged, and my site was down until I contacted my hosting service to tell them my new bank card number.

So I’m here.

Since my last post I’ve been pretty busy.  I’ve received a promotion at work, and I’m now the director of my own club.  In the few weeks that my blog was down, I wouldn’t have blogged much anyway.  I was dealing with closing up shop at my old club where I ran technology programing with children, and I was training and getting settled into my new club which is in Tempe.

In that time I also missed a 12 of 12.  Bummer.  Here are some photos that people took of me in the past few weeks:

This is the one with NOLA photos.

I’m posting here some photographs from my New Orleans trip I took this past weekend.  In the next couple of days I’ll update y’all on some of the fun stories that happened (including my 2 breakfasts with Kevin Spacey).

This is the one where I visit California.

I took a bus load of pimply teens to Southern California last weekend.  We actually had a lot of fun.

The only downer was that we left at 11pm and drove through the night…and since I was driving the bus, I was exhausted on Saturday.

The kids thought this motel sign was hillarious.  We had to stop to photograph it.

The Buena Park club let us stay in their teen center.

This sight really brings back memories.  How many times did we cruise down Grand Ave.  Especially when we were poor teenagers, moving our car every three hours so it wouldn’t get towed.

This is the one with my 12 of 12.

On the 12th day of each month a bunch of bloggers take 12 photos of their day. Here are mine for May, 2009.

If you’d like to see the collection of everyone’s photos, go to Chad’s page.

Mr. D is in Flagstaff for the week, and he sent me a text to remind me to take photos for the day.

My little lunch box that I put my insulin in.  How do you guys keep your insulin cool?

I woke up high…again.  I think I need to up my basal intake.

Checking my Twitter. Unhealthy obsession.

“Please walk me,” she begs.

Why am I always wearing this shirt on the 12th?

New diabetic supplies make it feel like Christmas.

Bathroom reading material…you should be glad I took a picture of the magazine, and not anything else.

I voted for 2 of these guys.  Guess which.

More needles.

Going for another walk.

Ouch.  Testing blood before bed.

This is the one from the pride festival.

I went to Phoenix’s Gay Pride festival this afternoon, and snapped a few photos:

First we parked at the Park-And-Ride and took the light rail downtown.

The annual Pat Tillman run was this morning, and there were sleeping marathoners on the train. Cute.

We found a spot on the parade route. It was warm and sunny out. Really a beautiful day.

The American Gay Rodeo Association

This church had a ton of their congragation marching. Straight/Gay whatever.

Love me some John Jay and Rich from Kiss

This is the one with a reminder.

Remember that tomorrow is the 12th of the month, so you should do 12 of 12 with me and a ton of other people.

The instructions are easy:

1. Wake up
2. Turn on your camera
3. Snap 12 photos throughout the day
4. Blog those photos
5. Go to Chad’s webpage
6. Add a link to your blog post with the 12 pictures
7. Make new friends

Seriously, on the 12th, 13th and 14th of the month I see a wave of traffic sent to me from Chad’s site.  And I get a bunch of comments and emails from really friendly people that have done their own 12 of 12s.

Don’t miss out.

This is the one where I play with Photo Booth.

Just sitting here watching Nip Tuck season 3, and I started messing around with the program called Photo Booth.

Here’s what I look like:

And then here are a few photos with effects added: