Ack! Nobody knows why "The Skinny" is at the bottom of the blog. I will continue when I figure it out.

According to Big Ben it's Dada's Birthday

Happy Birthday to a jolly good fellow.

sign from somewhere else

time to ketchup on lists

ever look at a word or name long enough...

and it eventually doesn't look like it could possibly be anything? Today I was looking at the name "Hillary" and it happened, huh.

SMALL KLEENEX, fillet mignon & bon bons

this one didn't want to spell out the "b" word...

this is one of many more to come

back to blogging tomorrow (I think)...

Saw it, loved it, will see it again and again...

Ugh

I finally got to uploading photos, etc. so here it goes...LOL, this is when blogging becomes a burden!

The sale was fine, there will be another one in August. Moron that at another time.

I'm going to be tackling three books at a time each week. I'm calling it the RPM reading plan: Reading, Perusing, Mulling. I think my knack for stupid acronyms is about all I've retained from my time in "the office".

So here are the selections for the week of June 1st:




What's that? A list? A note? It's a special Mother's Day inscription from Tami to Sarah. It's written inside "You're Not the Boss of Me" (click to see what it says, it's a royal stroke-fest). Some would find that to be an irritant but I find it to be one of the many benefits of shopping at Goodwill (moron that later).

posting to be continued...

away from blogging

I am getting ready for my second annual garage (grog) sale. Posting on this blog, if any, will be at a minimum for well over a week. Good luck.

signs, overhead and overheard

signs from last weekend The second one is an eagle at the Komen walk...Overheard: "it's a sign."

it doesn't get much funnier

"Stuff White People Like"is the ultimate blog. He's on #99 (as of yesterday) and while I don't know much about some of the things he mentions, I can relate and nod my head about most. I think #9 is my favorite. Too funny. Thanks to Co for showing me that one. Link is on the left.

<---that qotd is different from this qotd

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
~John Hay

I used to listen to public radio a lot. I rarely take the time to listen anymore so thankfully This American Life has a podcast and now on Showtime. The "Ask an Iraqi" segment on TV prompted me to mention Ira (almost 50, what?).

some of our renditions are better than some of our other renditions

If you don't have the time to hear Marvin or Whitney, at least give Hillary a listen...It's the good stuff.

<---that qotd is different from this qotd

“Boredom is rage spread thin”~Paul Tillich

Mother's Day was very nice. We walked for the cure, had a nice lunch, walked through Underwater Adventure twice, went to historic Kelley Farm & then out for a couple plates of cheap but good Chinese buffet (suspend your disbelief, if you will, as the six year olds are restocking the salad bar).

Happy Mother's Day

Women's Liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's the men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one's likely to do anything about that. ~Golda Meir
A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. ~Robert Frost

what I thought about at 3:30 am

The Mormon TC doesn't seem to allow for a link so here's a stunning rendition from Brooklyn.

now watching

three things I've thought about today and now you can think about them too thanks to YouTube

Workout on Bravo

I want Erika to date her Sky Lab client and Jackie's new assistant isn't portrayed as being helpful at all. There.

things I used to like III

That's right, DQ. My parents used to bring me to the one in Elk Grove Village back in the day. I would get a small crunch cone & a free whistle. Now it's just "something different" and the whistles are now vintage and worth $9 each.

images found on hankandwillie.wordpress and tias.com

Hey ladies of Minnesota, two more days!

image found on Gray Flannel Suit

qotd

“Information is not knowledge.” ~ Albert Einstein

a temporary change in colors because me love cookies.

hair it is

My hair started to fall out after having Mr. Toddlerpants. That stopped happening after a couple months but to say it has changed since then would be an understatement. It seems to be growing back now, but if that wasn't the case I'd totally go with a modified mohawk as seen on TV's Top Chef (no energy to find photos). Here's about as close as I'll get until the hot flashes hit and I either do it for real or go for dreadlocks (or just wear a ponytail, LOLA). Although since I have young children, I may spare them a mom with whacked hair until they're adults.

song stuck in my head

Thanks to tech-recipes.com for the helpful hint on making youtube smaller!

they were all over eliminating things on this list like white rice

there must be 20 ways to lose your blubber

To Co: Here are 20 of the many foods you can eat without a care. I got this from "Foods That Cause You to Lose Weight" by Dr. Neal Barnard. I have more from other lists that I will be glad to give you. No full fat toppings should be used. Good luck and watch for bugs in your vegetables from Nicollet's Mall.

corn
rice
potatoes
lettuce
broccoli
carrots
black beans
kidney beans
spinach
lentils
celery
peas
cauliflower
pineapple
cabbage
oranges
apples
grapefruit
bananas
oatmeal

qotd

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan, 40th president of US (1911 - 2004)

now watching

qotd

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. ~Dorothy Parker

now reading

the winner of the most meticulous list thus far

Here's one found by TH. I have a few more from him but haven't taken very good photos yet.

now watching

I need to find out how Andie MacDowell became so big in the UK.

song stuck in my head

There's actually a YouTube video of Bonnie Raitt performing this but the person recording it felt the need to talk over it so it's not blog-worthy.

DIRTY WORK, Steely Dan

Times are hard
You're afraid to pay the fee
So you find yourself somebody
Who can do the job for free
When you need a bit of lovin'
Cause your man is out of town
That's the time you get me runnin'
And you know I'll be around

CHORUS:
I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah
I don't wanna do your dirty work
No more
I'm a fool to do your dirty work
Oh yeah

Light the candle
Put the lock upon the door
You have sent the maid home early
Like a thousand times before
Like the castle in its corner
In a medieval game
I foresee terrible trouble
And I stay here just the same

real reviews

While looking for an image of the sombrero wearing intercom dude from El Taco as spoken into by Elliot Gould who is attempting to order a cup of water for his wife, Dyan Cannon in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, I came across Yelp.

watched & watching

Heavy & heavier.

turning two part two

His birthday was a busy day. We had photographs taken, went to the science museum, went to lunch at our favorite alien themed restaurant and then to Chuck E Cheese for video game play. I think he had a good birthday :)

day out with Mr. Toddlerpants

I figure as long as he doesn't mind sitting in his stroller, we'll go places and do things so he can calmly see nice things. A couple days after his birthday, he and I went to Como Park in St. Paul. Truth be told, I was also hoping to catch a whiff of the "corpse flower" but it was gone from the conservatory by then.

boy turns two, mother doesn't post about it until well over two weeks later

a short break is in order

I have much to do (laundry fairy skipped our house this week) and blogging isn't on the agenda. I will be back to this after we bid Hank good night.

Simon says stick some songs in my head

This morning I have "You Can Call Me Al" on the brain.

A couple weeks ago as I was walking around the track at Lifetime I was nearing the end of the workout (screw those who don't think walking is a workout) and after 40 minutes of the best of my old friend Steve Dahl, I chose to listen to a few S & G songs...In particular:


Say what you will about how things went in the 60's but man, the music was good and geez! youtube takes up a lot of space...I'm sure there are ways to shrink 'em down. edit: shrunk

“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” ~Robert Benchley

Here's to you, Hank.

A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announces she never did care for pie. ~Tenneva Jordan

BBC's The Office, best. show. ever.

Google search of the day and it's only 8 am

While looking for savory crepe filling ideas I found Ask MetaFilter. Speaking of savory...Here's a hideous bit of swank from "Best Buffets" aka Simek's meatballs in a Michael C. Fina chaffing dish:

part of a song stuck in my head

I had no idea what the verses of this song were, here's a sampling:

GET OFF OF MY CLOUD
(M. Jagger/K. Richards)

I live in an apartment on the ninety-ninth floor of my block
And I sit at home looking out the window
Imagining the world has stopped
Then in flies a guy who's all dressed up like a Union Jack
And says, I've won five pounds if I have his kind of detergent pack

I said, Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Hey! You! Get off of my cloud
Don't hang around 'cause two's a crowd
On my cloud, baby

the sign I didn't photograph yesterday

The librarians in this town look so bored that I feared arrest if I were caught taking a photo of their sign requesting that patrons turn items barcode side up to prevent them from getting repetitive strain injury . See the irony in that very long, bordering on run-on sentence?

Dam! I wish I knew back when I worked in The Office that people in positions of performing tasks that fall under SSDD are entitled to put up a sign requesting that people do their jobs for them. Maybe my forearm wouldn't be such a hot mess.

image from busylife.com

Google Search of the Day

LOL! I just searched "why do we look down an outhouse hole?", which led me to Poop Report.

side note to Co: photobucket isn't posting for me either right now...f

my computer needs a set of whisky plates

My computer is at the Genius Bar therefore I didn't get a chance to blog about Mr. Toddlerpants and the fact that he turned TWO yesterday. I don't mouse very well so whenever it's back I'll get back to this.

add beribboned clay pipes

I really like James Lileks. I believe I initially found his site by doing a search on "gross food" while I was still working in The Office and my group was in charge of Friday fridge cleaning.

I have some cookbooks/recipes that are quite a bit like the kinds he posts in "The Gallery of Regrettable Food" and despite the fact that St. Patrick's Day has come and gone, here's my first example: