Valentines Day is just around the corner and while we won't be sipping expensive cham-pahg-nah by candlelight at our house. Heck, my plan is to make the kids eat at their play table by tea light while H and I sit at the nearby dining room table and try not to have anyone bite, scratch, pinch or pull hair while we eat. I'll probably have to bribe them with the sugar cookies we'll make earlier that day just to get a hot bite of food in my pie hole before a ref call is needed.H and I have spent a lot of Valentines Day's together and he has always done pretty well - he baked a cake for me in college, gave me a ginormous box of chocolates when I was hitting my due date with TD and all I wanted to do was sit my pregnant ass on the couch and literally eat a whole box of … [Read more...]
Rednecks vs. White Trash?
The other night while awaiting the opening act at the DC Improv H and I got into the discussion, "Is there a difference between being a Redneck and being White Trash?" Initially, I thought no. I'm a Yankee with a side of WASP thrown in for good measure so what do I know? I don't talk through my jaw or anything but I've been known to get all in your face in the nicest most conflict-free, passive aggressive way about manners, the importance of thank you notes and general day to day etiquette. H, who admits to having a nice chunk of Redneck in him (the man cleaned his shot gun twice this week.) says White Trash can technically be anywhere location-wise (W.T. goes global!) but Rednecks are typically a southern only thing. White Trash constitutes a lack of manners and is prone to fighting. So … [Read more...]
Like Totally and Gag me with a Spoon
Apparently I upset the 80s gods the other day when I innocently set my Facebook status to having an urge to listen to "bad 80s music". While I do love my fair share of 'I love the 80s' on VH-1 and all that I had no idea people were still so passionate about day glo colors, triple-layered socks, tight-rolled jeans (Sorry Ms. Holmes), WHAM!, Vuarnet (anyone else covet that V in a circle symbol back in the day?) and Duran Duran I am still much more of a bring on the funk and boogie on down to some do the hustle disco. You all seriously don't like having the 80s called "bad" unless it's by Michael Jackson do you?So what's your favorite song, movie, style or trend from the 80s? Do you still miss wearing your sunglasses at night and believe that Nicholas Cage's greatest movie role was in … [Read more...]
Random Questions #127
I feel like one lazy S.O.B today. This cold (numbre trois, I think) is totally kickin' my slowly pilatisizing butt again this week. Seriously, if I can't get some solid sleep soon I think I'm destined to be in my late 30's and still walking around with post-nasal drip and a swollen glands. I'm a petri dish in leggings. So I give you all sorts of random today.If Stouffer's is just getting around to making it's lasagna "now with real ingredients" what was in it before? a. Battery acidb. Flobee trimmingsc. reconstituted cheese and meat with space technology like the astronauts used tomato sauce.ord. You supply your answer!I leave you with Mixin' don't cryp. … [Read more...]
Random Questions #195- The Holiday Edition
Yes, it is 65 degrees and sunny but 'tis the holidays and all that good stuff so let's begin with the Random Questions shall we?1. What's your favorite holiday song? I have a few - Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree, Wonderful Christmas Time (my all time fave actually. I dig Linda's Jazz hands) and Jingle Bell Rock. Pretty secular, n'est pas?2. Is there a holiday tradition that you have or had with your family now or in the past that you simply must do each year?H and I like to run around the house yelling, "Christmas Time!!!" while throwing our arms in the air above our heads. This year TD has begun to do it. Once one person starts it we just keep going. Pretty corny, I know but it stems from us being alone one Christmas with no family and we were feeling no holiday love so we did … [Read more...]
Random Questions #193- and a Random Twilight Question
I was sad to hear the news this weekend of Paul Newman's passing. Indeed, one of the nicest looking men ever to grace the silver screen. With that in mind, it's the Random Question Hottie edition.1. Older actor you have always swooned over (can even be from the silent days before the talkies if that is your thing).I'm sticking with Newman.2. Who served time in your locker in high school?I know. You were expecting this guy and it's true, but there were others.Like this one. Before the Dark Knight and American Psycho there was Lord of the Flies and his role as Laurie from Little Women.3. Got a secret crush now that even your significant other and/or friends find bizarre? Fess up here.And can someone? Anyone, tell me why I need to jump on the Twilight bandwagon? Everywhere I turn my friends, … [Read more...]
Random Questions #187
1. What's a 187?2. What are you most vain about?3. What's the last book you read?4. What was your childhood nickname? Love it or hate it?5. Favorite snack food? … [Read more...]
Random Question # 172-‘Burb Life Edition
You know you live in Suburbia when you hear the following sentences uttered...Have you been to the new Wegman's yet? It's amazing! You must go! (This is akin to having a new Trader Joe's/Whole Foods/World Market opening in your 'hood. The giveaways, the samples, it is enough to make a person faint over dead in free basting oil.)I LOVE tea parties! Let's have a tea party!!! (This is not said by anyone in the age 3-6 set who has a tiny Disney princess tea set. No, it is said by a grown woman.)I think we have a hook, er, working girl living on our street... (seriously. We might.)Did anyone have someone knock on their door at almost 9 p.m. the other night? Me too!!! Who does that? (It was then blamed on a John who must have been in the 'burb to see the hooker.)The inevitable talk of paving … [Read more...]
Part of the Bush Abstinence Program?
There I was listening to my Saturday Snark, a.k.a. "Wait, wait, don't tell me..." on NPR when I hear them discussing Kmart's latest foray into fashion- Chastity Pants.Immediately I had to go and look these puppies up. Was this some sort of joke? Nope. They are not and here is the proof- and bonus! They are already marked down!While the whole needing a key to pry off some sort of metal belt is not an option (this is the millennium after all) I couldn't help but wonder what the sam hell the slogan was doing being splashed across the butt. I mean seriously! Is that really the way to proclaim your stance these days? It doesn't count unless it splayed across your tookas? Is it any better than a shirt like this? … [Read more...]
Random Question # 113
While you can easily admit that you are obsessed with your iPod or MP3 player you know that what is on that little device also consists of some dirty little secrets. Go on, share. You know you want to. What dreadful songs do you rock out to or harmonize with when no one else is around? If someone at the gym just grabbed your earbuds would you melt into the treadmill in shame because you were listening to something like, Vanilla Ice or Weird Al?I'll confess to-The Muppet Theme Song (shut up, it destresses me.)I Gotta Man by Positive KFreak Like Me, Adina HowardFaded, by Soul DecisionThe Power of Love, Huey Lewis & the NewsArthur's Theme, Christopher CrossThere are more, many more that are equally bad or even worse. H says, that it just demonstrates my lack of taste in music, but I … [Read more...]