Saturday, December 27, 2008

Sur La Table


Kudos to Sur La Table!

Kudos to Holly Howarth for giving me the gift card a year ago that I "misplaced" and then finally found only weeks before it expired

Kudos to "Date night in Mexico City" the name of our cooking class

Kudos to Chef Kyle (or as Jim called him: Coach Kyle) for the 6 delicious recipes (eating more than a pregnant woman should at 8:00 p.m.) and wonderful instruction

AND finally, Kudos to the 15% off coupon (good only that night) that we would have liked to use on the Vitamix blender had it not been priced at $499.00 but instead left with a belly full of food and heartburn that would kill a cow hitting at 1:00 A.M.-

I guess a final Kudos to Tums inc. would be appropriate here

Thursday, December 18, 2008

Fart Fan - Guest Blog by Jim Hall


We are finishing the rest of our basement and I am down there with our electrician. We start talking fans in the bathroom. He refers to it as a "Fart Fan". I've got to tell you this really bothered me and I am not sure why. I am a dude. I am passing stuff out of my rear all the time. There have been times when I have never laughed so hard as to the sound and duration of a fart. So why does calling it a fart fan bug me? Then the heating guy comes by and I ask him about running an exhaust line for the fan in the bathroom. He says "yea I can run a fart fan exhaust" and I am thinking why is everyone calling it that. You need to stop, please. Refer to it as a "not so pleasant smell expulsion fan". Then I would be able to talk to you about it.

Also, when I am talking to the electrician, he asked if I want a quiet "Fart Fan" or a noisy one. What? Why in the H.E. double hockey sticks would you want a quiet "not so pleasant smell expulsion fan". One of the main reasons you have the fan is to hide the noise that is occurring in the bathroom. I dont like hearing the noise when I am in there, so I assume nobody else outside the bathroom will either.

Please join me in my "Renaming the Fart Fan" campaign. All donations are greatly appreciated.

Friday, December 12, 2008

Fa La La La La



It's over! I did it!

I am officially done with Christmas shopping and I couldn't be happier!

AHHHHH (big sigh of relief)

I bought my final gift last night

Everyone is accounted for

Now I just have to start wrapping all the stuff

Is it tacky to just put things in black grocery bags and tie them up with a bow?

Or maybe not wrap anything at all?

With this tough economy who can afford paper and bows?
OK really,who can afford tylenol, a massage, treats, ample coke and take out for lunch. . .
for the next 2 weeks that it will take me to do it all. :)

Sunday, December 7, 2008

'stache

Happy Monday
In my world, women with mustache's will be acceptable!

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Reflections

The Reflections contest theme this year was "WOW".
Anna decided to enter the photography category
Aunt Nancee took a Saturday and spent it with Anna taking really cool pictures and teaching her the art of doing so.
Here's the picture she entered:
Here's the award she won tonight for her awesome picture:


"WOW!" Congratulations Anna! You are so amazing and we are so proud of you!!!!!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008


About ten years ago at the Ricks College bookstore I made my first homemaker/adult purchase: The Martha Stewart Cookbook. I felt so cool and was so excited to become the culinary genius I thought it would make me. Well much to my shagrin, I never really used it until now. I like plan out my menus for two weeks, buy all the groceries and then I never have to worry about what to cook while I am up to my arm pits in spelling, sunshine math(nothing sunny about fractions!) and a screaming baby.

This is the review I read today on a classic cookbook that many prodigies of Martha own:

Martha Stewart Cookbook
makes you feel as though a fine and interesting meal is always possible -- even in winter, when the selection of produce can be pretty slim. Some the more inventive recipes include sauerkraut and fresh cabbage with browned mushrooms, fettuccini with pumpkin cream sauce, and sole cerviche mixed with grapefruit slices.

Yah, well here's mine:

Martha Stewart Cookbook makes you feel as though a dull and tasteless concocted meal is always possible--even in winter when the selection of produce can be pretty slim should you find yourself living in Kosovo. Some of the more inventive recipes ought not to be served to your family let alone any human aqcuintance you might have. This is a book you will want to keep on your shelf unless you are in need of a gag white elephant gift. Wrap up this sucker and companion it with sauerkraut and sole-talk about a hit!

Needless to say- after one week of crappy meals, I am now stuck with a weeks worth of useless recipes and the foods that go with them. In fact Right now as I type, Jim is picking up dinner at WENDY'S :)