- I finally get to go see my favorite band, Fountains of Wayne, tonight! Why the dramatic finally, you ask? Because the tickets were for November 1st last year, but since the entire state shut down due to that vengeful tramp Superstorm Sandy (wth is a superstorm, btw?), they moved the tickets to tonight. And I'm so super psyched.
- So, Dave Chapelle has been randomly performing at comedy clubs lately, after swearing off the spotlight and blowing up his career 7 or 8 years ago. That makes me super happy, because he is hilarious and broke a lot of racial barriers for comedians. But mostly because he's hilarious.
- This list from momswhothink.com has a bunch of baby names for future chefs. The boy names mostly make sense (Herb, Baker, Alton, etc.) but the girl names? Greta, Tina, Marianne, Bryce, Dana, I see no common thread here. Odd.
- I love Panera bread, and when Stenni asked me to take her out to lunch there today, I happily obliged (what mama wouldn't?). I love their Spinach Power Salad especially. How much? Enough to forget that it's Friday and I shouldn't have eaten the bacon on it. Whoops. It was still delicious, and this lady needs to eat her greens.
- When I heard my daughter singing Taylor Swift yesterday, I almost gagged. But then I thought, would Barney really be better? I think we should have stuck with the Beach Boys and Eddie Cochran. As a mom who thinks most "kid's music" is garbage and won't ever bring one of those cd's into my car (besides certain Disney sing-alongs -my stance on them is softening- and maybe Raffi), we do listen to pop radio a lot, and maybe I'm regretting that now.
- These SyFy movies are just getting better and better. Megashark vs. Crocosaurus? Count me in! Are Debbie Gibson and Lorenzo Lamas in every single one? I almost hope so. This one also stars TV's Urkel. Bonus.
- The World Baseball Classic is making TV worth watching these days. I almost wish I lived in a place where the games were being held, but then I think, Florida? Arizona? No thanks. But the games are really getting me all excited for regular-season baseball, which actually begins on Easter Sunday! I'm loving the fact that I get to see some of my Brewers and hubby's Blue Jays play together, and it's really awesome when regular-season teammates playing for different countries have to face each other! Talk about intense! It's baseball at its finest.
Showing posts with label quick takes. Show all posts
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Friday, March 15, 2013
7 quick takes
Friday, January 27, 2012
7 quick takes
(btw, i mean to post this on friday. i was busy, y'all)
1. I am throwing my brother-in-law a housewarming party tonight. However, I am unusually short on funds this month. That doesn't mean the party will be any less awesome. Some of the best parties that I've ever thrown/been to have been scaled back, impromptu, or otherwise not as originally planned. He wanted a BBQ and bonfire, but it is raining, foggy and soaking wet here, on account of all of the melted snow. Also, his wife decided that she would go on a business trip at the last minute, so she won't be there. I won't share my thoughts on that, but suffice it to say that it kinda hurt my feelings. Wait, scratch that, feelings are for sissies and mama's boys, I don't have feelings. Back to the party. we will follow the fail-proof party plan that I've been using for indoor parties since the beginning of time: Bread and cheese, homemade pizza, meat, booze. Who could ask for anything more? Oh PS we got him a sweet ax as a housewarming present.
2. my house smells like baking bread. that is, of course, because i am baking bread (again). i wish my house always smelled like this. in a few minutes, it'll smell like pork loin. that's good, but not nearly as good.
3. i looked at my table yesterday, and it was like looking into a sea of denim jackets, 3 of them were mine, and one was stenni's. i do own quite the variety of denim jackets, but of all of the things to pass down genetically, i didn't think that would be it.
4. lifesaver's sweet storybooks (you know, those cardboard boxes that have a bunch of packs of lifesavers in them that you sometimes get from your mom in your stocking at Christmas) don't contain butter rum lifesaver anymore. to me, they are no longer worth purchasing. if you're as upset about this as i am, go write to you senator.
5. my mom in in NYC today watching them tape the view. she asked me if i wanted to go and i said "no way? why would i want to see a bunch of old ladies yelling at each other?" she may have thought that i meant her and her sisters, who were accompanying her. oops, my mistake. i really meant the view ladies. but seriously, who wants to see all that?
6.i finished caleb's crossing, and it was good, if unfulfilling. if you like geraldine brooks, check it out.
7. lastly, i wanted to share this link from one of my favorite slacker websites, Aiming Low. it's about the mean bloggers on the block. thankfully since my blog is not popular in any way, i don't have to deal with these snarky comments and catty remarks, but i know that other people do. just because you don't show your face when you comment on the internet doesn't mean that you can't make people want to punch it. go here now: How to Beat the Mean Girl Mom Bloggers at Their Game
1. I am throwing my brother-in-law a housewarming party tonight. However, I am unusually short on funds this month. That doesn't mean the party will be any less awesome. Some of the best parties that I've ever thrown/been to have been scaled back, impromptu, or otherwise not as originally planned. He wanted a BBQ and bonfire, but it is raining, foggy and soaking wet here, on account of all of the melted snow. Also, his wife decided that she would go on a business trip at the last minute, so she won't be there. I won't share my thoughts on that, but suffice it to say that it kinda hurt my feelings. Wait, scratch that, feelings are for sissies and mama's boys, I don't have feelings. Back to the party. we will follow the fail-proof party plan that I've been using for indoor parties since the beginning of time: Bread and cheese, homemade pizza, meat, booze. Who could ask for anything more? Oh PS we got him a sweet ax as a housewarming present.
2. my house smells like baking bread. that is, of course, because i am baking bread (again). i wish my house always smelled like this. in a few minutes, it'll smell like pork loin. that's good, but not nearly as good.
3. i looked at my table yesterday, and it was like looking into a sea of denim jackets, 3 of them were mine, and one was stenni's. i do own quite the variety of denim jackets, but of all of the things to pass down genetically, i didn't think that would be it.
4. lifesaver's sweet storybooks (you know, those cardboard boxes that have a bunch of packs of lifesavers in them that you sometimes get from your mom in your stocking at Christmas) don't contain butter rum lifesaver anymore. to me, they are no longer worth purchasing. if you're as upset about this as i am, go write to you senator.
5. my mom in in NYC today watching them tape the view. she asked me if i wanted to go and i said "no way? why would i want to see a bunch of old ladies yelling at each other?" she may have thought that i meant her and her sisters, who were accompanying her. oops, my mistake. i really meant the view ladies. but seriously, who wants to see all that?
6.i finished caleb's crossing, and it was good, if unfulfilling. if you like geraldine brooks, check it out.
7. lastly, i wanted to share this link from one of my favorite slacker websites, Aiming Low. it's about the mean bloggers on the block. thankfully since my blog is not popular in any way, i don't have to deal with these snarky comments and catty remarks, but i know that other people do. just because you don't show your face when you comment on the internet doesn't mean that you can't make people want to punch it. go here now: How to Beat the Mean Girl Mom Bloggers at Their Game
Friday, January 6, 2012
7 quick takes friday
1. i bought an iron today, like for clothes. i have never owned one before. i purposely buy clothing that does not need ironing or, if it does, gets steamed in the bathroom by the shower at best. but since hubs now dresses like an upstanding citizen at work, he needs his shirts ironed. i don't know who is going to do it (i will probably ruin a few good items of clothing before it get it down pat. maybe that should act as a deterrent), but now that we own an iron, it will get done. probably.
2. i am obsessed with the artisan bread in five minutes a day book. it's awesome, and it has changed my whole perspective on like everything in life. and i've only been using it for 3 days. i just don't think i'll ever buy bread at the supermarket or farmer's market again. when i think of the crazy stupid money i've spent on my bread obsession, i want to hurl. never again.
3. hubs is in the middle of an existential crisis, big time, about the possibility of moving to the 'burbs and suiting it up and whatnot. as a man who only wants to farm and play music, this shift would be momentous. i think it's part of growing up but shouldn't have any real effect on who he is or what he wants, and will be a stopgap between where we are now and where we eventually want to be. he says that it probably would end up being permanent, and basically that i don't understand men, and it's true. i don't. no woman really does i suppose. i always wonder what's going on in the strange place that is my husband's brain (his is probably a good deal stranger than most men's too, i'd wager). women really just don't think like men. that's not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing, but despite what the feminists will have you believe , it's totally true.
4. i'm still thinking about opening a shop on etsy. it would be called "the awkward broad vintage" and i would sell the awesome vintage houseware and whatnot that i've been collecting but not using for a decade. i know it's supposedly super simple and everyone uses it, but i'm scared that i'll just half-ass it like i do with most other things in life. also, i don't want to delete pictures off my digital camera to take new ones, and i don't want to buy a new card. there, i said it.
5. one of my very close friends just told me that she is pregnant, and since it's still a secret i won't name names, but since nobody reads this it doesn't really matter anyway! but she is very excited and whatnot, and i'm excited for her. when i think about the people that we were four or five years ago, it is both amazing and horrifying that we will both be mothers. i worry for the future of this country, because we were scoundrels as adolescents and young adults (and frankly, i'm still kind of a scoundrel, though i won't speak for her), and i have to wonder if that will translate to our children. i'm guessing it has to somewhat, because at some point your kids realize what you were all about when you were younger, and you can't be a total hypocrite and pretend that you were always good. this is what i'm scared of. not for her, but for me, but thinking about her having a baby puts this fear into sharp perspective for me.
6. i'm thinking of going to the jazzercise instructor pre-screening at the end of january. i am super psyched/terrified. my sis and i are thinking of trying out together, and keep going over the pros and cons. we are both still heavy, but also love the classes and the moves and could probably teach the classes we already take. i am just hoping that self-consciousness does not win out, because it's something that we'd both like to do and would be good at, and it's kind of motivational since we're almost competing.
7. ever since stenni was born, she and her papa have listened to music together in the mornings. i think it's a nice tradition, and it allows them to spend some time together doing something they both enjoy and bonding and whatnot. there's just one thing: she loves what we affectionately refer to as the "acid trip" beach boys songs. so we put this video on last night and she didn't even blink. i hope that doesn't make me an even crappier mom cuz of the guns and whatnot. here you go:
it's trippy. i like the sun/moon and the ocean made out of mouths.
2. i am obsessed with the artisan bread in five minutes a day book. it's awesome, and it has changed my whole perspective on like everything in life. and i've only been using it for 3 days. i just don't think i'll ever buy bread at the supermarket or farmer's market again. when i think of the crazy stupid money i've spent on my bread obsession, i want to hurl. never again.
3. hubs is in the middle of an existential crisis, big time, about the possibility of moving to the 'burbs and suiting it up and whatnot. as a man who only wants to farm and play music, this shift would be momentous. i think it's part of growing up but shouldn't have any real effect on who he is or what he wants, and will be a stopgap between where we are now and where we eventually want to be. he says that it probably would end up being permanent, and basically that i don't understand men, and it's true. i don't. no woman really does i suppose. i always wonder what's going on in the strange place that is my husband's brain (his is probably a good deal stranger than most men's too, i'd wager). women really just don't think like men. that's not necessarily a good thing or a bad thing, but despite what the feminists will have you believe , it's totally true.
4. i'm still thinking about opening a shop on etsy. it would be called "the awkward broad vintage" and i would sell the awesome vintage houseware and whatnot that i've been collecting but not using for a decade. i know it's supposedly super simple and everyone uses it, but i'm scared that i'll just half-ass it like i do with most other things in life. also, i don't want to delete pictures off my digital camera to take new ones, and i don't want to buy a new card. there, i said it.
5. one of my very close friends just told me that she is pregnant, and since it's still a secret i won't name names, but since nobody reads this it doesn't really matter anyway! but she is very excited and whatnot, and i'm excited for her. when i think about the people that we were four or five years ago, it is both amazing and horrifying that we will both be mothers. i worry for the future of this country, because we were scoundrels as adolescents and young adults (and frankly, i'm still kind of a scoundrel, though i won't speak for her), and i have to wonder if that will translate to our children. i'm guessing it has to somewhat, because at some point your kids realize what you were all about when you were younger, and you can't be a total hypocrite and pretend that you were always good. this is what i'm scared of. not for her, but for me, but thinking about her having a baby puts this fear into sharp perspective for me.
6. i'm thinking of going to the jazzercise instructor pre-screening at the end of january. i am super psyched/terrified. my sis and i are thinking of trying out together, and keep going over the pros and cons. we are both still heavy, but also love the classes and the moves and could probably teach the classes we already take. i am just hoping that self-consciousness does not win out, because it's something that we'd both like to do and would be good at, and it's kind of motivational since we're almost competing.
7. ever since stenni was born, she and her papa have listened to music together in the mornings. i think it's a nice tradition, and it allows them to spend some time together doing something they both enjoy and bonding and whatnot. there's just one thing: she loves what we affectionately refer to as the "acid trip" beach boys songs. so we put this video on last night and she didn't even blink. i hope that doesn't make me an even crappier mom cuz of the guns and whatnot. here you go:
it's trippy. i like the sun/moon and the ocean made out of mouths.
Friday, December 23, 2011
7 quick takes: the Christmas edition
since you inevitably won't hear from me for a while, here goes nothing:
1. i hate Christmas cards. i hate sending them, so i don't. i hate receiving them, so if you send out Christmas cards thinking that you will bring joy to the recipients, don't send one to me. instead just sit down, pour yourself a glass of wine, drink it and think "merry Christmas, v." i'll be imaginarily air-cheers-ing you. ps i especially hate the cards with pictures of families and children on them. however, if you only have furry children, then i don't mind the cards at all. i would gladly display pictures of various animals in sweaters or huddled under trees.
2. i cannot find mistletoe, like, anywhere this year. i am having a chrismukkah party in 3 hours and i need some mistletoe! how else will everyone be able to get drunk and make bad decisions?
3. a confession: my wonderful, loving husband has to have my mail-ordered/internet presents sent to his parents house, and then wrap and hide them there. he even drops off the ones he buys in stores there too. why? because i'm sneaky, and i will literally rip the house apart to find out what i'm supposed to be getting for Christmas. my family now just asks me what i want or tells me what they bought for me. the surprise (i do hate surprises, really) is gone.
4. at the jazzercise holiday party (which i didn't go to and i'm glad and read on for the reason why) they hired a santa claus. a santa claus who gets naked and dances. a stripper claus. yeah, really. i won't tell my husband because he still has the santa suit from church and an affinity for stripping at parties, so let's keep that between us.
5. i am in pure, full on panic mode. why? because i have only one gingerbread house kit for the whole party. we are usually so...um...festive? by the time i break out the gingerbread that we demolish at least one kit before making a gingerbread house that actually stands up for more than 5 minutes. i suppose that the part full of roofers, construction workers and engineers will have to find something else to ruin...er, build. it's like the andrew w. k. show destroy build destroy only we really don't end up building much of anything before it gets destroyed again.
6. i didn't decorate this year. at all. i mean i put a wreath on the door and put the tree up but i think that's it. i didn't even break out the Christmas potholders. my mom actually hung up some extra stockings around the house and put out some candy on a red dish when she was here before so that it would look like the place where the party is being held, instead of a house for sad atheists, which it is not. between having my kitchen ripped apart and whatnot, i just didn't have the energy to decorate AND put my house back together. also, my house is still not 100% together. eh, neither am i. that's life.
7. i spent more at the booze store this year i think than at any other store where i bought presents. most presents are either booze- or knife-related (but not both. i made sure i planned that pretty carefully). don't you just love the holidays?
merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, etc. hope everything is great in your lives now and in the new year (and between now and then i'll be eating cheeseball and cookies and watching the nye twilight zone marathon and probably also gaining 5 lbs. for good measure. holiday cheer weighs a ton).
1. i hate Christmas cards. i hate sending them, so i don't. i hate receiving them, so if you send out Christmas cards thinking that you will bring joy to the recipients, don't send one to me. instead just sit down, pour yourself a glass of wine, drink it and think "merry Christmas, v." i'll be imaginarily air-cheers-ing you. ps i especially hate the cards with pictures of families and children on them. however, if you only have furry children, then i don't mind the cards at all. i would gladly display pictures of various animals in sweaters or huddled under trees.
2. i cannot find mistletoe, like, anywhere this year. i am having a chrismukkah party in 3 hours and i need some mistletoe! how else will everyone be able to get drunk and make bad decisions?
3. a confession: my wonderful, loving husband has to have my mail-ordered/internet presents sent to his parents house, and then wrap and hide them there. he even drops off the ones he buys in stores there too. why? because i'm sneaky, and i will literally rip the house apart to find out what i'm supposed to be getting for Christmas. my family now just asks me what i want or tells me what they bought for me. the surprise (i do hate surprises, really) is gone.
4. at the jazzercise holiday party (which i didn't go to and i'm glad and read on for the reason why) they hired a santa claus. a santa claus who gets naked and dances. a stripper claus. yeah, really. i won't tell my husband because he still has the santa suit from church and an affinity for stripping at parties, so let's keep that between us.
5. i am in pure, full on panic mode. why? because i have only one gingerbread house kit for the whole party. we are usually so...um...festive? by the time i break out the gingerbread that we demolish at least one kit before making a gingerbread house that actually stands up for more than 5 minutes. i suppose that the part full of roofers, construction workers and engineers will have to find something else to ruin...er, build. it's like the andrew w. k. show destroy build destroy only we really don't end up building much of anything before it gets destroyed again.
6. i didn't decorate this year. at all. i mean i put a wreath on the door and put the tree up but i think that's it. i didn't even break out the Christmas potholders. my mom actually hung up some extra stockings around the house and put out some candy on a red dish when she was here before so that it would look like the place where the party is being held, instead of a house for sad atheists, which it is not. between having my kitchen ripped apart and whatnot, i just didn't have the energy to decorate AND put my house back together. also, my house is still not 100% together. eh, neither am i. that's life.
7. i spent more at the booze store this year i think than at any other store where i bought presents. most presents are either booze- or knife-related (but not both. i made sure i planned that pretty carefully). don't you just love the holidays?
merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, etc. hope everything is great in your lives now and in the new year (and between now and then i'll be eating cheeseball and cookies and watching the nye twilight zone marathon and probably also gaining 5 lbs. for good measure. holiday cheer weighs a ton).
Friday, August 26, 2011
7 quick takes friday (mostly link love)
- I bought these lovely little ankle-breakers at target the other day (for like 6 bucks...i couldn't pass it up!), thinking about how cute they'd look with the shorts i never wear, and promptly almost broke my ankle teetering around my kitchen. lesson learned. i'll stick to flip flops for the rest of the summer.
- I love that maxi dresses are "in style" right now because until like 6 months ago, i had the hardest time in the world finding long skirts, which is what i prefer to wear year round because i'm not really lady-like enough for shorter skirts and pants are just annoying, plus they make you look like a dude. however, the necklines on some of the dresses, well i guess they're like cleavage-lines and not neck lines, are like mid-nip. i'm not like, insanely shy with my chest, i mean i don't go around in turtlenecks all year, but i don't want the girls popping out either. i prefer a little mystery/modesty, to a degree anyway. so, with the maxis out now, i just throw a sweater or my favorite old stand-by, the levis jean jacket over top, or a v-neck or tank underneath, and i'm golden. maxis let me be a little lazy and still not look like i'm homeless, which is always a plus if you ask me.
- stenni turns 1 in like, a matter of days. i know, i know, how could that be? i'm not really sure. all i know is that she barely even needs me anymore! she's practically a grown-up, feeding herself and sleeping in her own crib and whatnot. i really fought having her sleep in her own room in her own crib (ted insisted), but now she's really happy about it and sleeps better than she did in our room. she isn't quite walking yet, but i think she'll skip that and go right to running. she's that kind of kid. we are currently planning her birthday party, which will really be nothing but an occasion to show everyone how cute she is. let the jealousy commence.
- i am in love with the pioneer woman cooking blog. it is incredibly exciting and beautiful and the pictures make me want to headbutt my monitor just to get at them. i read her book (not the cooking one) a few weeks ago and the story of how she fell in love with her husband is adorable. i'm not usually the mushy, romantic type, but i immediately recommended the book to my mother (who absolutely is), but since she has serious doubts about both my taste and judgment, i doubt that she has read it. have you, mom? you should.
- have you been to eShakti? they make beautiful dresses that they will customize for you at a minimal cost. sleeve length, skirt length, neckline, you name it. no one does this nowadays, folks. and, they are super affordable. since it is full-blown wedding season for my husband's family, who never gets together and so celebrates a trillion weddings and birthdays in one year so that they can ignore each other for another five, i need to find a dress to get me through the next two weddings (fall). I wore one of their dresses to Ted's brother's wedding in April (but bought two, obvs), and am considering this or this for the next few. this site is not exactly my reason for getting up in the morning, but it certainly doesn't hurt.
- we are thinking about going away this weekend, sans kiddo. i don't know if this will actually happen, since there's a hurricane coming and whatnot. that pretty much knocks out all of the usual getaway spot contenders, like the cabin, the beach, six flags, atlantic city, etc. even nyc is miserable in the rain. plus being broke on top of that doesn't really help. maybe this will be an opportunity to get more creative and explore some? or maybe it'll be an excuse to lay around my house and make a turkey or something.
- grit magazine is fabulous. its sister publications, such as mother earth news and capper's, are nothing to scoff at either. if you are thinking about homesteading, small-scale farming, or just becoming more self-sufficient, these are definitely must-reads. they include articles about seasonal cooking and eating, farm and garden prep and maintenance, earth-science type articles relating to the environment, advice for homeowners, and much more. even the ads in the back are awesome! oh yeah, and they have a page with a little description to help match up pen pals! like real ones, not for e-mail! I love it (i theoretically love it. i have not actually answered any of the ads). i found grit at tractor supply like a year ago and then subscribed for my husband as a Christmas gift. he eagerly awaits every issue like it's baseball digest or something, and by the time he's done reading it he's ready to sell our house and build a farm in the midwest or something and i need to talk him down. what i mean is that it is inspirational. read it.
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