Daily Dose of Cupcake Toppers – Rubber Ducky

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mini_rubber_duckies250.jpgThe decision for today’s cupcake topper was one of the easiest so far. We’re in Miami at the Sunshine State Games. RJ is a synchronized swimmer. Her solo is performed to “Rubber Duckie” (you moms can start humming now) and her swimsuit has yellow duckies on it. I’m sure there are lots of people looking for cupcake topper ideas for rubber duckie loving kids (and grown-ups). Just go with mini rubber duckies or better yet rubber duck key chains (10 year olds love key cains). They’re 2″ or so, a little big for cupcakes, but still do-able. Kids will smile. And they will squeak the heck out of these things. If you hum the rubber duckie song loud enough, they’ll squeak along with the song. It will be fun. Trust me.

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The Naked Woman

2006, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction /

TW stole this book out from under me and read it first. I thought I might kill her before she finished it. She spent a lot of time staring at me and asking me weird questions like “Can I feel your ear?” and “Can I look at your belly button?” I thought RJ (the 10 year old) was also going to kill her for similar reasons.

Now that I’ve read The Naked Woman: A Study of the Female Body I see why she was staring and asking ridiculous questions. The book should not be read by people like TW because it’s just too much for them to handle. I, on the otherhand, found it interesting but found no need to wander around and compare various female bodies with mine or with other female bodies.

Very interesting book. Quick read. I’m not sure I want to read any of his other “studies” though. I really hope he doesn’t have a Cow Watching book… TW could be really embarrassing with that one.

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Daily Dose of Weather – Hurricanes

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Alberto is around here somewhere and we aren’t ready for him – or any other hurricane.  We discovered this last night, around 9:30, when the power went out. 

Yes, we have that nifty hurricane kit that TW gave me for my birthday a couple of years ago.  We have more "D" batteries than a family of a gazillion should have.  We have a bunch of flashlights, a very cool lantern that gives off more light than TW’s IKEA lamp and my leg lamp combined.  We have all of the RX mediciations various family members require.  We have pet food.  We have shelf after shelf of library books. 

We don’t have AAA batteries, which we really do need to get to power our book lights.  We also don’t have much bottled water, but we do have enough for Tiny Alberto.  What we don’t have and really REALLY need  is a replacement for the Wolfgang Puck canned coffee which is THE most important part of a hurricane kit.  I only have one can left.  I thought there were three.  I’m worried.

We do have a tiny sterno stove that I could heat coffee with.  I think there’s also a cigarette lighter powered coffee pot around here somewhere (Where is that, by the way?  It isn’t in the hurricane kit….)  Neither of those solutions are nearly as good as being able to have a few cans of self heating coffee around.  Why oh why did the magic Wolfgang Puck coffee have to go and melt or explode?  Why oh why weren’t people holding melting cans smart enough to put them down, shrug it off as a cool and interesting science experiment and keep quiet about it? 

Is it November yet?

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The Moonstone – Page 403

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A bunch of my friends joined me in my quest to finally finish The Moonstone and they’re grumbling through each and every page of it.  (I should say that my significant other is not grumbling, she’s actually enjoying the book.  Odd woman.)

In an effort to encourage them, I mentioned that I really enjoyed pages 403-405 of my version… unfortunately none of them have the same version that I have! So I guess my encouragement isn’t working all that well.

If you own The Moonstone or have a library copy around, could you open it to page 403 and tell me what it says?  Just the first line… mine says:

eighty years of age- never mind exactly where!

 

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Daily Dose of Stuff – Monday

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June_003These are tins.  Lots and lots of tins.  There are more tins in various places around the house.  Far too many to photograph.  I really should put them all in one place and take another photo just so you can see what happens when I say I like something.  What happens is TW goes into acquisition overdrive.  No tin was left unacquired, simply because I said I liked tins.  I’ve begun throwing out tins, slowly and quietly.  I am hoping to get rid of some more, a little more quickly and a little less quietly, at a yard sale sometime soon. 

Tins.  I like them but I don’t need or want 500 of them, ya know?  Even if it is sweet of her to acquire them for me.  What weirdness do you have in your house? 

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I am not a foodie….

2006, Books in Bed, Non-Fiction /

I am not a foodie. I’ve said it before and I’m going to have to keep saying it in case some people get the wrong idea because of all of the foodie type books I find myself reading, and of course my workday spent talking about food and encouraging people to talk about food. I’m fascinated by foodies and food talk is what pays my bills. I am still not a foodie. But, I do like a good foodie type book.

Tummy Trilogy – that’s a good foodie book. I liked the first two books of the trilogy better than the third. Maybe I was all foodied out by the third book? By the third book I was tired of hearing about the guy with the naugahyde palate. I was also tired of hearing about Alice and her three meals a day mantra. A wee bit tired of hearing about Sarah and her bagel… “just in case”. Yea, I think it was just foodie overload for me.

Good book – just a wee bit too much of a good thing, for this non-foodie, at least.

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Daily Dose of Problems – Fruits & Vegetables

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We are having a problem.  This whole going to the farm and getting fresh vegetables and organic vegetables (so we know the name of the man who knows the name of the man who picks our carrots – or would if we hadn’t forgotten the name of the man who knows the man… uhhh sorry, you probably are confused ’cause you didn’t read my blog a couple of months ago… oh I clicked that, his name is Don!)… has led to some problems.  First problem.  We dont’ really cook or eat vegetables.  Or fruit even.  Next problem.  The refrigerator is so full of fruit and vegetables that we have no room for things we do eat (and drink) like coke, pepsi, mt dew, Hawaiian Punch Brown, juice, eggs, cheese, salsa, cream cheese filling, and sour cream. 

We either have to stop ordering fruits and veggies – or reduce our order significantly, which makes me wonder if it is worth ordering at all – or start EATING the stuff we are ordering.

It’s a problem

Anyone want some tomatoes? Or green beans? Or snow peas?  How about spaghetti squash, blueberries, strawberries, peaches and broccoli?  We have a lot of broccoli.

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Bullshit

4 Comments / 2006, Books in Bed, Favorites, Non-Fiction /

When I was a kid, I didn’t hear much profanity at home. I had to learn my profanity at school like a good 70’s child. I was always fascinated when I’d come across adults who used “those words” and felt I had been born to the wrong family – I needed cool parents who cursed a blue streak, not my geeky, boring parents. Oh sure, my mom let a ‘damn’ slip every now and then, (and as TW says, she’s grown up to be a woman who can, and does, say FUCK – much to the horror of me and my siblings), and she always seemed shocked at her behavior when that happened. There was one tiny exception to this profanity-free household.

Bullshit.

My father said this. He said it a lot and I believe he learned it from his father since my family often tells about how I said “bullshit pappaw” to my grandfather when I was two – and that I learned the word from him…. In fact he said it so often and not really in the way I was used to hearing profanity used. He said it laughingly, mostly at himself, or if he was teasing someone about something. He still says it at least once everytime I talk to him on the phone.

Bullshit.

I don’t know how or why this tiny little book, On Bullshit, appeared on my library list. It doesn’t seem like the kind of thing TW would pick up on a whim. I don’t remember reserving it but I guess I must have. It is here and I read half yesterday because I was too exhausted to read a “real book” and finished it today while recovering from an annoying phone call – a bullshit phone call, actually.

What IS bullshit? You probably know it when you hear it – but maybe not. Some people are good at spewing bullshit and making you believe it’s the honest to goodness truth. On Bullshit was a little dry, a little boring, but also just a wee bit interesting.

On Bullshit … my father’s Christmas gift this year. I hope he likes it.

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Psycho Bums er Butts

2006, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Reading Lists /

In May, I saw this list of books recommended for kids, by kids. The list comes to us from Australia which made it extra interesting to me. I like all book lists but book lists from interesting places are the best. I scrolled the list and “The Day My Bum Went Psycho” caught my eye. Okkkkk, never heard of it but I decided I really needed to check it out.

I went to Amazon and discovered “The Day My Butt Went Psycho“. Of course it got a name change for the US market. Bum is not politically correct. Americans must say BUTT. I clicked my little library search tool, never expecting our library to have it, and they did have it. I reserved it and found myself number THREE on the list. Sheesh. Two people ahead of me for this book. Interesting!

Ten days later, I picked it up from the library and presented it to RJ, our 10 year old bookaholic. She started reading it on Memorial Day Saturday as we drove to the Corn Festival. She pretty much didn’t stop reading ’til she was done (except to eat fair food and ride fair rides). She read one page and announced, “Yep, his butt went psycho”! There was all sorts of interesting discussion about psycho butts as we drove toward the corn. When she finished, RJ said it was good – weird but in a good way.

TW read it next and said it was funny in that 10 year old butt humor sort of way. I didn’t think I wanted to read it. I have enough butt humor in my life already, thank you very much. But, I changed my mind after making it through The Moonstone (yea me!). I needed some butt humor after all.

And butt humor was what I got. We know butt humor but the author has gone above and beyond the call of butts err duty. If you have a kid who likes butt humor, this is your book. If you know people who find phrases like “cluster butt” and “butt-catcher” funny, then this is your book. If you know some folks who walk around with their butts where their heads should be (like bosses or idiot ex husbands or something like that) then this is your kind of book.

Butt humor. Sheesh.

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