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Weekend Round up /Contest reminder
- The Force of Nature’s soccer team won a game!
- -ate some wonderful food at Mezzaluna (try the Eggplant Parmesan appetizer; fantastic!)
- saw the movie “Good Hair” with some friends (I enjoyed it)
- Got some more Kureyon for the Lizard Ridge blanket (I’m halfway there)
- made zero progress on the Tapestry Cowl
- got “The Individual formerly known as Homeschool Kid”’s hair cut. Yay!
- since my hairstyle was making me feel OLD, I even got my hair cut (I now now own a flatiron to style it with….)
- no band rehearsal because the bandleader had a heart attack (please say healing prayers for Sylvester!)
- spent what seemed like endless hours tryna fix the Force of Nature’s cobbled-together iPod (I should post a picture – it’s held together with rubber bands for REAL) and to remove some rather nasty spyware from my ‘puter
- Studmuffin left for Cali on a business trip
- I didn’t remember to call my brother for his birthday til like 2 am. I still haven’t called
( - Natasha’s limp has gone away as mysteriously as it came.
- posted one of my cutest ever posts (I think) about Domo-kun with cute pictures AND NOBODY COMMENTED :::sad trombone::: I guess everyone is too busy? Or do you just hate Domo-kun? Or is it me?
Today, I:
- forgot to put out the trash
- felt like crap all day
- spoke to 2 wonderful friends on the phone (I love you guys!!!)
- finished knitting No.1 Son’s birthday prezzie and am felting it (and felting and felting….)
- took a nap and was
- late making dinner and so
- burnt the spaghetti with meatballs……..
Life is good but I still feel yucky. It will pass….. WHERE is the goshdurn heating pad?!
Meal plan Monday:
Mon- spags & meatballs
Tues- Shepherd’s Pie a la Cracker (this didn’t get made last week; I WILL share the recipe)
Wed- leftovers
Thurs- Mac & cheese & salad
Fri- Romano Beans & rice
Sat- Soup & sandwiches/Corn Chowder
Sun- Chinese take out
CONTEST Reminder
Contest ends on October 31st, 2009 at midnight Alabama time, and the winner will be announced when I get around to it (probably during the following week). My choice will be completely arbitrary and humor is encouraged. )
Please submit prospective names in the comments – the name I choose for him will win a $14 gift card to Starbucks. If you live someplace without Starbucks, I’ll contact you directly and we’ll work it out.
See all the other names submitted in the comments here
Toodles
I’m feeling better all the time…..
Hey y’all – sorry for the blog silence; I’ve been kept away from the ‘puter by my family but more importantly I have some actual knitting to take pictures of and cannot remember what I did with the special digital camera battery charger….so I was kinda waiting for that to reappear and 2 weeks slipped by.
HOWEVER, there are yarn crimes to report:
Even the model seems to have mixed emotions on this……
“Oh yes. Just the thing to throw on when heading out to the chilluns’ soccer game….”
It’s hard to know even where to start on this garment: the alien eyes located over the nipple area, the see-thru skirt or the open areas over abdomen? Boy oh boy, it sure does LOOK comfy to wear too. Well, at LEASt it’s EXPENSIVE…….
Of course, this designer has even MORE designs to show you here.
(A shout out to Marin at her very funny blog for introducing me to these criminal garments.)
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As amazingly mindbogglingly awful as the above yarn crimes are, the item for sale that inspired this post is one I saw in person today. My dear sister-in-law has been here all week helping me out and she has been just great. I decided early on that we really needed to goof off while she was here and that has proved to be a wise (but highly fattening) decision.
She enjoys going to the mall and so we have been touring some local malls and today we went to the oldest mall in the city. It’s been rather a while since I went there and many many of the stores that used to be there are gone and a few newer but rather less swanky shops have opened there. While Homeschool Kid was drooling over the used games at GameStop, sis-in-law and I got something to drink* sat down and we were able to peruse the offerings at a rather cool new shop that does a lot of wonderful airbrush painting. Of course, I was captivated by the TACKIEST thing they had:
It was the best pic I could get with my phone – I’m SO sorry you cannot see it in its full glory. It’s an airbrushed toilet seat with a portrait of………………………
……………that’s right: JOHN WAYNE.
If this had been a pay week, I probably would have bought it myself. Dad’s turning 70 in a few months and this may just be the commemorative item for that momentous occasion……
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* I totally wigged out the girl at the drink counter when I asked her for an orange sherbert milkshake. She’d never heard of such a thing, which isn’t surprising ‘cos I made it up years ago when I worked at the Mill Stream one summer. It actually has no milk in it: orange sherbert, ice and orange soda all mixed together. It tastes like a very sweet unhealthy Orange Julius. Homeschool Kid finished the last third of it, making happy noises the whole time.
A lovely little discovery for me
Organic V8 does NOT give me heartburn!
I’ve learned over the years than V8 is usually a “love it or hate it” thing and I’m one of the lovers. But I haven’t drunk very much of it for about 10 years because I would always get this bad heartburn about 20 minutes after drinking even a small glass of it with food. I put that down to “the adventure of aging” and resolved only to drink my beloved red stuff every now and again.
About 3 months ago at Costco, they has a really nice price on a package of 2 large jugs of Organic V8 juice and I decided to take the plunge. For over 2 months, the V8 has sat in the pantry looking red and luscious – practically taunting me with its tomato-ey goodness. I couldn’t wait anymore last night & I opened one.
YUM!!!!!!!!!!!
I had 2 glasses of it and then I waited for the ‘burn. And waited and waited and waited: NO HEARTBURN! Such a simple pleasure to be had so easily.
If you’ve had trouble drinking V8 in the past (Mom-this means you), I recommend giving the Organic V8 a try. You’ll know it is organic because it is written in BIG green letters on the label, plus there’s a nickel-sized circle on the right hand side of the label that says “USDA ORGANIC”.
I just love this lady’s hair. Amazing how that hairstyle on a 30-something woman (I’m judging that by her hands) makes her look 65+. Not a glowing recommendation for tomato juice I’m afraid. How *did* she get her hair to do that? Could it have been the pesticide residue? I’m pretty certain that massive quantities of Aqua-Net were involved at some point…..
