In honor of PRIDE month, sugar rainbow toppers for cakes or cupcakes! You can also search this site for “rainbow” and find rainbow sprinkles of various types and some rainbow glitter, too. Make some PRIDE cupcakes and celebrate, ok?
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Happy National Doughnut Day – courtesy of Krispy Kreme! I love KK doughnuts – the yeast type, not the cake type (I don’t eat any cake type doughnuts). I prefer a "hot n now" glazed or a "hot n now" chocolate covered glazed but will pretty much eat any other variety. Except the topettes. I do not like sprinkles on my doughnut. Yuk.
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I misplaced Dinner with Anna Karenina so I just grabbed the first book from the pile… Are We There Yet? It’s a young adult book about two brothers (a high schooler and his older brother) who get “tricked” into taking a trip to Italy together. The brothers were close when they were young but as often happens, they aren’t close now at all. There’s lots of brother angst, usually not vocalized but internalized. And, there’s a happy ending, which was sort of nice.
Quick read, easy read. I liked it. Now, back to dinner with Anna
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I have been a Jodi Picoult fan for many, many years (thanks Ky, wherever you are – certainly not in the 10th Circle…). The Pact was the first book I read and The Tenth Circle, the most recent. I haven’t loved all of her books but I haven’t truly hated any of them either. Tenth Circle, right up there with The Pact.
I think the comics between chapters was a nice touch. (I didn’t search for the secret message, did you??) I like the tie in to Dante. I always like the lack of totally happy endings in her books and this one was no different. There are a ton of triggers in this, for people with their own experience with rape so beware if you trigger easily. The only thing I’d change would be the date rape drug stuff. I don’t think it was necessary at all and particularly not the almost ridiculous buyer/seller twist. The book didn’t need that in order to keep you twisting along with the characters.
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I only made it halfway through “To Hell With All That” and accidentally returned it to the library on Sunday. Oops. It wasn’t a bad book, interesting in many ways but a little slow. Some of the funny anecdotes weren’t all that funny. I’m sorry I returned it before I finished it. Maybe someday I’ll check it out again and finish, though probably not. There are too many books to read and not enough time.
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Susie Bright linked to The 25 Sexiest Novels Ever Written and has posted some interesting comments and ideas of her own. This topic is giving me a good reason to avoid the non-fiction I’m still avoiding – I’m trying to think of my own list of 25 Sexiest Novels…. I feel like “pure erotica” isn’t going to come close to making it onto my list.
What would make your list? Do you like Susie’s ideas? Agree with the books in the article? Is it wrong to think about sexy novels on Memorial Day?
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Last week, TW was making those scarey noises. Not the house noises, the noises about theme parks and kids and trips and stuff. Those are seriously scarey noises. So scarey that they pushed me to search for some OTHER alternative. Something safer. ANYTHING would be safer than theme parks over Memorial Day weekend. Actually ANYTHING would be safer than theme parks at anytime. So I surfed. And just as I was about to give up and face my fears and give in to the theme park I found salvation in the form of sweet corn and country music. The Zellwood Corn Festival!
I like to say that I don’t like country music and it’s mostly a true statement. But when I see Terri Clark something clicks in my head and I’m a country music fan. (Can the woman wear a hat or can she wear a hat? umm err ummm sorry I got distracted for a minute.)
I sent the link to TW and crossed my fingers. TW is less of a country music fan than I am. She didn’t spend four years in love with a huge country music fan. When you do that, the music sort of rubs off on you and it has a tendency to stick. (It isn’t JUST Terri Clark – it’s also Reba and Kathy Mattea and Faith Hill and The Dixie Chicks and Trisha Yearwood if she would see the light and ditch that jerk Garth Brooks but since she won’t, she’s scratched off of the list) TW said "Sure, it sounds fun." Yes!
I think Saturday must have been the hottest day of the century or they piped in some extra heat just to sell more beer to the rednecks and more lemonade to the kids. (By the way, it was a surprisingly mellow and happy crowd. No loud or obnoxious drunk behavior anywhere in sight. Way to go beer drinking Zellwood people!) It was HOT. So hot that we took a break after a couple of hours of FUN to drive around the county in AC comfort. (Who knew Mt Dora was such a tourist mecca, by the way.)
After the cool down and some ice cream we went back, found a shady spot to sit in our chairs and on our blanket and ate a lot of free sweet corn and listen to Cowgirl Crush (they weren’t bad). It was sweet and it was good and it was a rare treat for TW and her special colon. The kids rode more rides with TW and ate more food (turkey legs and Italian sausage) and I listened to Neal McCoy, who was surprisingly funny. We moved our chairs mid-way through his set, for a better view and because we apparently needed more sun beating down on us. We ate more food, (swirl fries, rootbeer floats and snowcones this time) and waited for Terri Clark.
We played gameboy. We played rummicube. The Gameboy battery died and suggesting a book was met with the cold stare, a child was not so good at rummicube while her sister was very good at it and a wee bit of frustration set in. More rides for the two frustrated children and another Canadian country girl whose name I can’t remember sang remakes of great songs. Finally, Terri Clark. (Can that woman wear a hat or can she wear a hat????)
She sang some olds ones, she danced around with her guitar. She sang some sort of new ones. She sange a verse and a chorus of Emotional Girl, which made the frustrated Emotional Girl very happy. She sang Pitiful Me which made the emotional and no longer frustrated Warren Zevon fan very VERY happy. Life was good for some of us who don’t love our Gameboys more than really excellent country music. For those with Gameboy loss, it was just ok.
Nice bit of family fun, nice to be reminded that country music isn’t so bad and nice to see a woman who can really wear a hat. Nice, nice, nice!
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Three of these nutcrackers belong to Jenn and two belonged to TW’s dad and now seem to belong to Prince J. What’s scarey is Prince J already has about 200 of those nutcrackers in his room and is making noise about wanting the bulk of them to live somewhere else. What are we going to do with a couple hundred nutcrackers if he evicts them? I’m not even sure why we have these five on the top of the entertainment center in the living room. I think I’m going to ship Jenn’s back to her, that organization clutter dude is always talking about how you shouldn’t hold onto other people’s clutter, right?
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TW really likes cows. A lot. She wants a family cow. Or one of those miniature cows. Or both. I guess I should feel almost lucky that we only came home with Elvis Rat last weekend. I should but I don’t. It’s a rat! Anyway, about the cows. She likes them. She moos at them when we’re driving past their fields on the freeway. It’s weird but it’s that quirky kind of weird that makes her "TW" so we sort of like it that she likes cows.
I felt very lucky to have been falling asleep in a phone meeting last week because it caused me to do something productive like surf blogs with Blogmad or Blogclicker or Blogexplosion. Don’t ask me which because they’re all the same to me (sort of, but that’s a different blog). While I was surfing to stay awake I discovered The Cartoonist They Call Stik and I smiled.
I sent the link to TW on AIM and she smiled. I clicked through a bunch of the pages and giggled a lot. I subscribed. You never know when a cow cartoon might cheer up a disgruntled webmaster girlfriend. The very next day I saw a contest being offered. Easy too. You just had to answer a simple question about one of the cartoons. I knew the answer, even if it hadn’t been multiple choice. I entered. Never thought I would win but guess what – I won! I am lucky that way. I win cow tshirts and lube, lots and lots of lube. Some people win millions in a lottery. Not me, I’m not that kind of lucky. But I’m not complaining, not really. I felt lucky to win because I knew TW would smile at the shirt I won. And she did. It arrived today:
Go buy your own or buy one for me. Do you know which one I want? I bet you do…
You should also subscribe to the blog – there seem to be an awful lot of freebies given away there and if you don’t enter to win, then I’m going to have to enter and with my luck I’ll have an entire house full of cow shirts.
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In honor of our weekend plans, today’s cupcake toppers follow the cowboy or cowgirl theme! (I obviously prefer the cowgirls but whatever your needs…) Cute little plastic cowboy hats! Or how about tiny felt hats? If those won’t work, then click in and try boots or little guitars or line dancers…
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