Since we have no Krispy Kreme’s within 8 miles of us, we usually save getting a dozen of their lovely chocolate iced cream filled for an every once in a while treat. Sure we could get them at the local grocery stores but let’s face it, they’re nowhere near as good and almost always stale and not worth the money. Today we made the journey and when we got home we were miffed to day the least. Before, you would barely have enough room for the donuts to fit. Now they practically look like appetizers. They’re roughly 1/3 to 1/2 the size they used to be and yet they’re still charging $7 per dozen. Do you think we don’t see they are visibly smaller? Do you think we don’t realize we’re getting financially raped by yet one more friggin’ company who has decided to charge the same price for less product?? Yes because with the economy in the crapper we enjoy yet one more company being financially greedy and taking advantage of the little money we have left after paying our mortgage, higher utilities, higher taxes, etc. So we’ll either stop going there and find another donut place who doesn’t relish in giving us less for the same price or make our already infrequent visits there even less frequent. Corporate greed sucks.
(Excuse any typos, I’m in a hurry but not enough of one to not bitch for a moment)
We’ve been watching Food Network since its inception and always loved these charismatic chefs they chose. We were die hard Emeril fans and I admit the last 2 years of his show on FN, we slacked off being as regular viewers as we once were. When they had Bobby Flay on neither of us cared for him because he just came off as an arrogant tool. I think he’s softened a bit but the man thinks he’s still full on tool. I, like many people, just loved Paula Deen when she came to the network. It was like watching your down home grandma make your favorite comfort foods. After her ballooning in success, it seemed ol’ Paula was everywhere and her accent seemed more and more grating to the point, I can’t even watch her anymore without changing it halfway through. This accent has ruined us for Down Home with the Neeleys between their accent and their constant dry humping, I’ve yet to make it through a whole episode without muting or saying “that’s enough.” Then you have Giada DeLaurentis. Petite, all teeth and forehead, Giada. We loved her show more for the beautiful way it was shot and the man liked watching her boobies the whole time. As time has gone on, her head has gotten bigger and her bitchiness has come through quite a few times. Well a perfect example was Oprah yesterday. She was on with Oprah and that Nate dude and made some disgusting brie, basil and chocolate panini. Nate was very polite and even took a 2nd piece which you knew he’d probably “accidentally” drop, Oprah called it “interesting” and then upped it to good when Giada was getting visibly pissed they weren’t fawning over her childhood nosh. Then they gave it to the audience and she asked them what they though and you didn’t get an overwhelming “Mmm” or clapping or anything, you could just hear a few “interesting’s” or random noises. (I’m sure they edited out the sounds of people horking it back up) She was not a pleased little diva. Two of the few “old standbys” that I still like is Alton Brown’s Good Eats and Ina Garten’s Barefoot Contessa. Now yes, Alton can get a tad annoying at times but overall his show is so entertaining, we overlook it. Ina, I really should loathe given she’s showing off her Hampton snoot which should make her completely unrelatable to 90% of her viewers but somehow she still reels me in with the good recipes.
I’m not a Britney fan and I do little more than shake my head at her most times and move on with my life as some new story pops up. I got reeled in by my morbid curiosity to watch her special Britney: For the Record which was pretty much uninterrupted except by her own fragrance commercials. I was hoping to come away with some understanding of why she’s made the choices she made over the past few years but that wasn’t really the case. She didn’t say more than she was going through hard times or how her marriage ending was hard on her. Well, okay…most of us surmised that on our own. The whole head shaving thing? “People shave their heads all the time.” Um actually no they don’t Brit and especially not one of the most searched people on the internet so you can’t see why this would be news? I mean I don’t particularly care but apparently lots of people do or else people wouldn’t bother to tune in to your latest train wreck. I don’t know how she lives with the whole paparazzi thing but I still felt like a lot of the things she was saying were off of a script her Dad probably gave her to make her appear sane to the courts. Of course, that dude isn’t the most stable either. When you dress up in a killer, evil clown that would induce a heart attack to a 30 year old, why the hell would you dress up in it and terrorize your grandchildren with it?? This will surely be a topic in their therapy as they recall one of their first memories. I weep for those children.
The most shocking thing in this special actually had nothing to do with Britney but Madonna. What the HELL happened to her face??? I mean I remember seeing that one really hideous pic of her without makeup coming out of the Kaballah place and her face looked all plastic surgery mangled. I just figured it was a weird angle or something. Well that special showed that that pic was no weird angle. You know that “Cat Lady” they’ll occasionally show who looks like a lion from so much plastic surgery? Well let’s just say the man and I saw the definite beginnings of that look. She looks like she might’ve had cheek implants and maybe collagen in the lips and her forehead definitely doesn’t move. I shudder to think what she’s going to look like in 10 years when she hits 60 and has that tell tale old woman neck and gnarled hands but this smooth, injected face. People, learn to grow old gracefully. Seriously, you look idiotic.
But before I talk about that I want to mention a few things that are rollin’ around in the ol’ noggin.
Since when did we as a society accept that having an ad for another TV show that takes up 1/4 to 1/2 of the screen while watching another show is okay?? I can’t remember what I was watching last night but it was on TBS and the bottom 1/4 of the screen filled up with a color band and words and then at the top of the screen a rope drops down and some chick repels down the screen to the bottom. This is about 2 minutes into the next segment of the show I was watching and blocked out a key piece of something I needed to see. I don’t know what show it was promoting because I was so pissed that the show I was currently watching was being interrupted that had it penetrated, I would’ve likely boycotted it. Why are we allowing ourselves to be subjected to more ads that we’re already forced to watch during that 2-5 minute period called commercials??
I read this story about how we shouldn’t honk the horn and how it’s not effective anymore, blah blah blah. Yes, I agree that people honk entirely too much and there should be some quota or something. But the writer suggested that if something gets in your way in the road, you should simply brake. Well sir, that’d be fine but given I’ve been on the bleeding side of more people not checking their mirrors and veering into our lane than I can count and had my husband not honked, they would’ve hit us. Hell, we’ve even had a dude actually hit us while backing up at a light despite us laying on the horn! Of course the resulting crap cakes in his drawers after seeing my burly husband in a screaming rage was satisfaction enough for us. I don’t know about you but I like the horn as a last resort option. I don’t think it should be overused or even used until about 3-5 seconds after a light turns green for the inattentive driver but don’t pass any laws taking away my right to safety.
Tomorrow is turkey day. I hope everyone out there enjoys their day whether you’re spending it with family, friends or preferred solitude. Me? I’ll be making the “tasty” turkey to help feed our brood at Grandma’s and 15 lbs of mashed potatoes. Pity the man, he’ll be the one peeling them. Then I plan to be in a food coma the rest of the weekend! Happy Thanksgiving!
Most people know that Dr. Pepper said that if Axl Rose finally got off his ass and released his album Chinese Democracy in 2008 after 13+ years of ego laden procrastination that they would give everyone in America a free Dr. Pepper. (Except Slash and Buckethead…whatever.) Problem is, when you have XX million people slamming your website (this was the actual link http://www.drpepper.com/freeDrPepper/?icamp=hp_dpfree_coupon) then you can’t exactly get your coupon for your promised Dr. Pepper.
Yeah, it was having fatal errors all over the place, clocking out, not letting you register, etc so it would be interesting to see how many people actually get this coupon because we’ve been trying for 12 hours and nothing. It’s not that we’re desperate for Dr. Pepper, I don’t even like the crap but it’s the principle of it. Give people a week to register, one coupon per household and be done with it. How hard is that?? *rolling eyes*
I’ve been MIA lately, sorry about that. Miss me? Didn’t think so. HA! It’s another rambling post so settle in kittens.
I have this massive procrastination problem in finishing projects. We began painting our great room on October 13th and finally finished like 3 weeks later. The actual wall painting part took a few days but it was the trim and the open stairs and 5000 spindles that took forever. Semi gloss is a real bitch and more than a few times I wanted to dump the can of paint over the head of the douche at Home Depot that recommended it. But now that it’s all done, it looks great. That’s not even the procrastination I was talking about either. I have this habit of undertaking a massive project like that and then when you get to that very end part like putting your pictures back in order and getting everything tidy, I just fizzle out and the place remains in disarray. So it took the threat of company to finally get everything where it needs to be…on this level. Don’t look in the guest room because that’s where all of the stuff is that I couldn’t find a home for down here. I am looking forward to digging into that and getting stuff in it’s place. I’m in a pitching kind of mood so nothing in the house is safe.
Something that made me laugh out loud today? Sarah Palin being interviewed while turkeys were being slaughtered behind her. Maybe think of where you are standing next time honey.
It’s over!! The election is over!! Congrats Obama…but that’s not even why I’m happy. I am SO done with the mudslinging ads, the whining on both sides, promises from both you know will never be kept, local ads digging up when a candidate picked their nose in 2003 and the friggin’ political emails. I had to actually use filters in 2 email accounts to stop the political emails because I was losing respect for people. I cannot believe how preachy and judgmental people can be about politics. I have NEVER forwarded a political email to anyone that I didn’t know they specifically felt the same as I did and even then, I could probably count on both hands how many times I’ve actually forwarded them. Out of 50 contacts have 4 people I could knowingly forward things on to but I just think it’s such a personal thing that it’s tacky to do so because people who would get their political knowledge from email forwards should be stripped of their rights to vote.
I had someone forward a political email and say “this is why STUPID PEOPLE vote for Obama!” to a bunch of her friends. Now she knowingly sent this to Obama supporters and is essentially calling people who are supposed to be her friends stupid to their faces. I don’t care how you feel about a political candidate or how completely stupid you think they are, that’s just disrespectful. America is about having freedom of speech but it should also be about having common courtesy and the filter intact to not alienate people around you because of something as stupid as your political views. No wonder the world looks at us like we’re pond scum because we’re so arrogant about politics and our freedoms that we take for granted. I hope that is about to change. I hope the state that this world is in will teach people to eat a little humble pie and stop being so hateful and unite. There is no right side or wrong side in politics because we all live in the same country so our interests should be in making this world a better, kinder place. Let’s hope the next four years are better than the past eight. The Republicans had their shot now let’s give the Dems their turn.
I call this story The Tale of the Procrastinating Wench. Yes, I got sucked into the Halloween marathon of Are You Afraid of the Dark? until 3am. I loved that show when it was on. Just creepy enough to be interesting but just lame enough to make fun of. Recognized a young Ryan Gosling in his first acting job. I was surprised how many of them I remembered and that I didn’t remember how bad the acting was on most of them. Wow.
I got most of my Christmas wrapping done last night. YES! I only have one friend to shop for and I predict it will be the same standard answer of “oh I don’t need anything.” Christmas isn’t about needing anything, it’s about asking others to get you the frivolous things you’re too cheap to get yourself. You know, like a kitchen gadget, a video game, a DVD of your favorite band in concert, Mighty Putty or a gram of coke. Okay, I draw the line at getting someone else’s coke but you get my drift.
I was watching The Biggest Loser and this bitch on there (Vicky) who purposely threw the challenge and the prize was videos from home. She said seeing her kids on video again after seeing them not too long ago “didn’t mean anything” to her and she didn’t care to do it. Oh I’m sorry Ms. Thing but 1) you’re not the only one on the team and 2) I’m sure your kids really appreciate knowing seeing them didn’t mean anything to you. I hope you gain all of your weight back.
The man was looking at the paint ingredients the other day and pointed them out to me. After reading off a list of unpronouncable ingredients the last one was rather curious. “Some ingredients unknown.” Um really?? How do you not know what ingredient you’re putting in a product?? Here’s some unknown goo seeping toward the sewer, this looks like it might go well in the paint. I mean it’s not even like “we’ve boiled down a boot and used the juice for your painting pleasure.”
I’ve been perfectly content with living with our stark white walls for over 12 years. Never had an itch to change until a few months ago when I saw just how much stuff shows up on the walls when they’re white. I decided I wanted a light to medium gray green color and went online on Glidden’s site to see the paint colors they had. I had taken a pic of our living room and was surprised to see colors that looked good on the little swatch actually looked a lot different when “painted” on the virtual walls of our living room. I picked out 4 or 5 different colors I liked and kept coming back to this one called “Main Street USA.” It was exactly what I wanted. So we went into the local Home Depot and picked up three gallons and I saw it looked a little darker than I remembered on the card but didn’t think much of it.
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