Has it already been another year? How can it be that it’s Boomer’s birthday already? It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long, but here we are enjoying a weekend-long bacchanal of cupcakes and televised hockey, so who are we to complain? And really, there isn’t a person we can think of more deserving of a dozen assorted fancy cupcakes and a restful few days of stitching in front of the TV. Happy, happy birthday, Boomer!
Oh, and it should be noted that last year, Marty injured his arm on Boomer’s birthday. We appreciate the NHL not scheduling a Devils game on November 1 this year, just to insure that wouldn’t happen again.
Bon anniversaire Boomer!
Hippo Birdy to Ewe, Boomer!
I also really, really want a cupcake right now :D
Boomer says “Thanks!” to you both!
And Mags, these are very inspirational cupcakes. I had long pooh-poohed the cupcake trend, but now I’m fully embracing it. And making up for lost time. Heh.
Schnookie, I’ve always loved cupcakes. Cupcakes are awesome. They’re bite sized tastiness. You should definitely eat as many cupcakes as you can in your lifespan. (Says she who hasn’t baked or eaten a cupcake in months. Pathetic really)
Oh, don’t get me wrong — I’ve always loved cupcakes, too. I just wasn’t on board with the gourmet, bakery-bought cupcake trend. Until a truly fantastic gourmet cupcake place opened up near us. Then my cake snobbery went right out the window. Heh. And now we go out of our way when we’re in the City to hit all the big cupcake superstars. I can’t decide if the primary purpose of our trip into NYC on Friday was to get my boss’s visa or to get Boomer’s cupcakes. :P
The cupcake trend has not hit France yet. These days, we’re in the middle of a big macaron craze . All sorts of macarons everywhere… I’m not a huge fan of them, though.
Happy Birthday, Boomer! Those cupcakes are insane! (In a good way)
Oh, one of the funnier things I’ve heard today: The interviewer was asking that Bruin Derek something about his team playing through injuries with Lucic’s broken finger, Savard’s broken foot, and Kessel being in Toronto. ??? Apparently playing for Toronto qualifies as an injury? :D
I can’t decide if the primary purpose of our trip into NYC on Friday was to get my boss’s visa or to get Boomer’s cupcakes. :P
Totally the cupcakes.
I’m totally on board with the whole gourmet bakery cupcake thing, except I have yet to find such a place in my neck of the woods. I’m definitely moving.
Apparently playing for Toronto qualifies as an injury? :D
A brain injury maybe?
Apparently playing for Toronto qualifies as an injury? :D
A brain injury maybe?
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Grrrreg, those macarons look lovely, but I’m not sure they look like my cup of tea either. I’m definitely grateful to be in a cupcake-crazed country!
And mcguffers, Boomer says thanks! :D
A brain injury maybe?
Well, there’s that.
I’m just gonna go ahead and forget that I watched my two teams almost lose to them this weekend. Kessel-less as it were.
Oh, and speaking of desert, I watched Sandra Lee today! She was doing a show on cost efficiency (no store bought/pre-made/unfrosted cakes today!) and made her version of Tiramisu. Her’s cost $6.37 while the traditional recipe cost $10.00. They flashed a thing on the screen saying that if you made her tiramisu twice a month, you’d be saving $100 a year!! Or you could use my method, and make tiramisu NO times a month and save ONE BILLION* dollars a year!
*numbers may not be accurate.
Happy Birthday, Boomer!
Next summer when people start asking me what I want for my birthday, I’m just going to say, “Cupcakes.”
Or you could use my method, and make tiramisu NO times a month and save ONE BILLION* dollars a year!
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I followed that method this year, yet I don’t have a billion dollars. I must be doing it wrong.
They flashed a thing on the screen saying that if you made her tiramisu twice a month, you’d be saving $100 a year!! Or you could use my method, and make tiramisu NO times a month and save ONE BILLION* dollars a year!
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Or you could use my method, and make tiramisu NO times a month and save ONE BILLION* dollars a year!
I followed that method this year, yet I don’t have a billion dollars. I must be doing it wrong.
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I followed that method this year, yet I don’t have a billion dollars. I must be doing it wrong.
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I mean, who is already having tiramisu twice a month?
I decided my twice a day crack habit was cheaper.
I was going mentally going through my cupboards thinking how I could replace some of her ingredients though. No lady fingers? I’ve got NutterButters! No coffee. Aha! Green Tea! No whipping cream. Well there’s Lactaid!! Best. Tiramisu. Ever.
I followed that method this year, yet I don’t have a billion dollars. I must be doing it wrong.
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I love Sandra’s money saving tips. She’s always like, “If you use a cheap disgusting product, you’ll save money!” and then ignores that the dish will taste like the most disgusting thing on Earth. It might as well be “if you use the extra Styrofoam packing peanuts leftover from sending packages instead of fresh chicken in your soups, you’ll save $10.66!”
Best. Tiramisu. Ever.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I also love when she says, “You already have these ingredients in your pantry!” She said, in the show we watched yesterday, that of course we have 3 cans of mandarin oranges in our pantry. Uh… we do?
I was going mentally going through my cupboards thinking how I could replace some of her ingredients though. No lady fingers? I’ve got NutterButters! No coffee. Aha! Green Tea! No whipping cream. Well there’s Lactaid!! Best. Tiramisu. Ever.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: And as I’m watching the Sharks beating the snot out of the Hurricanes, I’m thinking there are a lot of hockey fans in the Raleigh area who would much rather be eating that nutterbutter/green tea/lactaid tiramisu than be watching their team this weekend. Yee-owch. I’m taking Paul Maurice in the “first coach to be fired” pool.
I followed that method this year, yet I don’t have a billion dollars. I must be doing it wrong.
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I mean, who is already having tiramisu twice a month?
I decided my twice a day crack habit was cheaper.
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I fscking hate tiramisu. One of my aunts always brings it to family dinners, and I’m always forced to say it’s wonderful. Which it might be, in the hands of a better cook. But hers is not. It’s gross. I’d rather eat newsprint than her tiramisu.
I love good tiramisu, but that’s a very small slice of the tiramisu universe. There are LOTS of terrible tiramisus out there in the world. Including, I suspect, Sandra Lee’s money-saving version. Heh.
Happy Birthday, Boomer!
if you use the extra Styrofoam packing peanuts leftover from sending packages instead of fresh chicken in your soups, you’ll save $10.66!”
That was eerily close to today’s substitution. If you use the pre-grated Parmesan cheese from the can in your risotto made from Uncle Ben’s, you’ll save 66% over using fancy-dancy Parmesan and arborrio rice.
“if you use the extra Styrofoam packing peanuts leftover from sending packages instead of fresh chicken in your soups, you’ll save $10.66!”
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And Rachel Ray does that “stuff you already have at home” all the time! Not only do I not have that in my home, I would not even know where to find it in Wegmans.
Poor Furry Canes. I’m sure Sandra’s got some cocktails that will heal their wounds for under $45.00/ fl oz.
If you use the pre-grated Parmesan cheese from the can in your risotto made from Uncle Ben’s, you’ll save 66% over using fancy-dancy Parmesan and arborrio rice.
::shudder:: And your risotto will taste 166,000% worse!
If you use the pre-grated Parmesan cheese from the can in your risotto made from Uncle Ben’s, you’ll save 66% over using fancy-dancy Parmesan and arborrio rice.
That sounds SO delicious! Heh. :P
I love the assumption of things you already have in your own pantry. We watched a Sandra episode yesterday that had her boasting how much cheaper it is to make your own hoisin sauce over buying it, but there was no mention of how much more it’s going to cost you if you don’t already have all the components in your pantry. Oh, the hidden costs of Money-Saving Meals! :P
I also love when she says, “You already have these ingredients in your pantry!”
I’m doing the Fall Kitchen Cure with the folks from the Kitchn, and you’ll be surprised what people have in their pantries. Those 3 cans of mandarin oranges aren’t too far of a stretch for someone who’s got 35 bottles of green chili sauce and 5 half used containers of crisco.
Those 3 cans of mandarin oranges aren’t too far of a stretch for someone who’s got 35 bottles of green chili sauce and 5 half used containers of crisco.
This green chili tiramisu is going to taste good. I’d just suggest to add a few funfetti, et voilà!
*googling “hoisin sauce”* Oooohhhhh. Seeing that Chinese take out is approx $7.00 and that includes rice, an eggroll, and a fortune cookie, that better be some massively awesome money saving tip.
Oh, and Grrrreg posted the video of the Leafs scoring while the Habs fans sang the “Na na na na” song. If the Leafs had ended up winning in overtime, I would have driven to Montreal and punched every one of those fans in the face. Then burned and looted the city.
This green chili tiramisu is going to taste good. I’d just suggest to add a few funfetti, et voilà!
:^::::::::::::::::::::::: speaking of the devil…
This green chili tiramisu is going to taste good. I’d just suggest to add a few funfetti, et voilà!
:^:::::::::::::::::::: That is DEFINITELY what I’m bringing to our Christmas potluck. I bet it’ll taste better than my aunt’s.
This green chili tiramisu is going to taste good. I’d just suggest to add a few funfetti, et voilà!
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If the Leafs had ended up winning in overtime, I would have driven to Montreal and punched every one of those fans in the face. Then burned and looted the city.
And I don’t think there’s a jury that would convict you for it, either.
Tell Boomer that Myra, Hub and the Kid all wish her a very Happy Birthday!
(Hub’s mom’s b-day was yesterday. I’ve gotten a few mother-in-law jokes out of that one.)
Boomer says thanks to everyone, Myra! And happy birthday to your mother-in-law! :D
Are y’all watching the Caps v BJ’s game? The BJ’ just tied it with 20 seconds left. And Ovie is out of the game.
Hehehe.
Oh yes, Myra, we have been watching that game. Heh heh heh. I would like to note for the record that I did NOT race over to any Caps blogs to prattle on about how happy I am that Grape Ape left the game, unlike some Caps fans I can think of who did exactly that when Marty got injured last year. Because I’m the bigger human being. Heh. Heh heh heh. :P (Seriously, this game was delightful.)
Deeeeeeeeeeeelightful!
And we just went out to pick up dinner, and it’s chilly, with a bright moon, and someone in the neighborhood has a wood fire. It felt like November! Thanksgiving season!!!
I love November nights!!!
Oh, and one should never lower themselves to the level of Caps fans.
Oh, and one should never lower themselves to the level of Caps fans.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: That’s very good advice.
Would it be lame of me to admit that I’m in full-blown Christmas-season excitement now that it’s November? I think I’m getting a bit ahead of myself…
I don’t think your getting too far ahead at all. My sister and I are obsessive about Christmas. They bought a new Christmas tree yesterday. And she is fretting about not having their Studio 56 Christmas Village up yet because they are getting the interior of their house repainted. I’m fretting because I haven’t started my Christmas shopping yet.
So someone else might say that, but definitely not me.
It’s November?
I’m so relieved to hear that, Myra, that I’m not alone! I also love that we’re twinsies in jumping the Christmas gun with you and your sister. :D
I’ve gotten almost all of my Christmas shopping done already (we like to put the presents out as close to Dec. 1 as possible), and we just got all our wrapping paper, and we’re giving Boomer a present that is time-sensitive to the first week of December, so I’m all in a tizzy about that, so I’m feeling like I’ve got just a month to go! When really I have two months. :P
It’s November?
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When I worked in retail, we’d get Christmas stuff in August and have to play Christmas music starting the day after Thanksgiving. I take my time with Christmas now. And Britney Spears should not have been allowed to record a Christmas Album. Holiday Cheer Fail.
Alright, I need the Canucks and Avs to light each other up tonight! 10-9 blowout, baby! Let’s do this, Fire Clowns!
If you use the pre-grated Parmesan cheese from the can in your risotto made from Uncle Ben’s, you’ll save 66% over using fancy-dancy Parmesan and arborrio rice.
If you’re that poor, I don’t understand why you insist on making risotto in the first place!
Next season, I’m calling my fantasy team The Terrible Tiramisus. DIBS!
When I worked in retail, we’d get Christmas stuff in August and have to play Christmas music starting the day after Thanksgiving. I take my time with Christmas now.
Yeah, I could see that. When we were kids we weren’t allowed to put up any Christmas decor or anything until Christmas Eve, which was how our dad grew up. I’m making up for lost time now. I was telling Boomer today that it’s because my childhood Christmases were stunted. :P
If you’re that poor, I don’t understand why you insist on making risotto in the first place!
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I understand all too well! Ha!
I like to get everything done (decorating/shopping) by Thanksgiving, so all I have to do is cook during December.
I’m woefully behind. I think we completely skipped October some how.
Terrible Tiramisus is a great name for a fantasy team, too!
I think Terrible Tiramisus would be delicious.
My sister and I were raised by an equally Christmas obsessed mother.
My mom worked in small Five & Dime in our little burg. Think small Walmart. We had a house covered in cheesy 5 & 10 decor.
IT WAS FABULOUS.
I am SO JEALOUS of your over-the-top cheesy 5 & 10 Christmas decor! I have to say, the “no decorating until December 24″ rule was fun when we were little kids, because by the time Christmas Eve rolled around, we were just ready to explode. But when we got older, it meant that we often didn’t put up a lot of our decorations because none of us had the energy to do all of it. And can I tell you, it SUCKS to be hanging up Christmas lights outside in late December in this neck of the woods. It was often pretty damn cold.
I think last year was the first one we jumped right in with the decorations on the day after Thanksgiving. This year I’m like, “Is November 2 too soon?” :P
The Craig Andersoxers can’t wait to beat up on the Terrible Tiramisus!
I was telling Boomer today that it’s because my childhood Christmases were stunted.
I get that. We always got our tree the weekend of Thanksgiving and left it up until late January. My Christmas tradition rebellion is that I always decorate the tree very dainty and Martha Stewart-y to make up for the eye sores that we had when I was a kid. Rainbow garland does not touch my tree now.
My Christmas tradition rebellion is that I always decorate the tree very dainty and Martha Stewart-y to make up for the eye sores that we had when I was a kid. Rainbow garland does not touch my tree now.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I went through that kind of childhood Christmas tree backlash, but now I’m deep in the kind of nostalgia that prompts a girl to think rainbow garland is a good thing. :P
The tree has always gone up on the day after Thanksgiving in our houses. We had to have artificial trees even when I was little because my sister was allergic. So we could do that even then.
My mom had two trees, the family tree in the den and the “decorator” tree in the living room. White flocked fake with all one color satin balls. Either red or blue. Incredibly tacky but I’m sitting here with a big ole grin on my face thinking about it.
I’m going to stop now before I start to cry!
I had always assumed that Dad didn’t let us put anything up before Christmas Eve so that there would be activities to keep everyone occupied when the grandparents were visiting. Which is pretty smart, I guess. It should be noted that a lot of our Christmas decorations are handmade, so it’s like, “Why spend a bizillion hours needlepointing a stocking if it’s only going to hang on the mantel for a week?”
My family split the diff. We couldn’t get a tree until after my Mom’s birthday on the 14th. I found out years later that that was code for, “when Dad gets paid on the 15th.”
White flocked fake with all one color satin balls. Either red or blue. Incredibly tacky but I’m sitting here with a big ole grin on my face thinking about it.
Oh man, I would LOVE that! I’m getting all nostalgic for your Christmases now, Myra! :D
I found out years later that that was code for, “when Dad gets paid on the 15th.”
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We put up decorations right away, but we insist on a real tree, so we get it a bit later in the month. December is an ongoing celebration of slowly and lazily overtaking the entire house with decor here at stately IPB Manor. :D (AND I CAN’T WAIT!) (What I really can’t wait for is putting the heap of presents out.)
I always decorate the tree very dainty and Martha Stewart-y
I’m sorry, mcguffers, but this phrase does not fit my image of you at all. Such conformity?
I was thinking the same thing, Myra! We might need photographic evidence of this. I demand a picture of Kittymaki posing in front of the Martha Stewart tree this year!
Ok, our feed of the Avs v Canucks is the worst we’ve had since getting Center Ice.
There are these blue blobs and these white blobs moving very quickly on one big white blob.
And don’t even get me started on the goalies.
Raycroft looks like some sort of big blue Sasquatch.
I found out years later that that was code for, “when Dad gets paid on the 15th.”
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I’m sorry, mcguffers, but this phrase does not fit my image of you at all. Such conformity?
I’m such a non-conformist, I don’t even conform to non-conformist images. :D
Our Christmas went through an overhaul when I was a freshman in high school. Dad gave me budget and told me I could redo the decorating. The first purchase was a creche that had 3 wisemen, not 4, a non-decapitated inn keeper, four-legged farm animals (not Stumpy the donkey and Humpy the camel with one leg and three toothpicks) and a Joseph who wasn’t missing half his face a la Phantom of the Opera.
Of course I don’t want you to think I hate nostalgia. The old creche still gets put out in the computer room, decapitated inn keeper and all.
With that kind of hard sell, Myra, I’m glad we’re watching our backlog of tivoed House Hunters! (Or House Hunterses, I guess. :P) I think there might be a TV signal filter all across the US-Canada border. Like, that they’re sending out a regular HD picture, but then the filter doesn’t let it through into the country.
(We’re watching an episode of House Hunters International featuring a British couple buying a house in France, and needless to say, the three of us are all screeching at the TV in our best Monty Python voices. Spam spam spam spam spam!)
Raycroft looks like some sort of big blue Sasquatch.
I don’t think that’s the feed…
The first purchase was a creche that had 3 wisemen, not 4, a non-decapitated inn keeper, four-legged farm animals (not Stumpy the donkey and Humpy the camel with one leg and three toothpicks) and a Joseph who wasn’t missing half his face a la Phantom of the Opera.
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Ours would look like that, but someone did a good job of finding all the broken-off pieces as they happened. Instead, all the animals and people are spiderwebbed with glue-filled cracks.
This episode of House Hunters has the Monty Python people looking at a place that has a bit of antique barn attached, complete with a big stone trough. The woman says, “I’d love to make this into the dining room. Of course, I’d keep that feature [points to trough].” Marty Brodeur’s like, “Damn straight!”
We didn’t have a creche when we were little, apparently, the 5 &10 didn’t sell them. :P But Mom bought a big white set to go on top of the console color TV next to the white flocked fake tree when we got older. Sigh.
Ours would look like that, but someone did a good job of finding all the broken-off pieces as they happened. Instead, all the animals and people are spiderwebbed with glue-filled cracks.
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: I asked about that and Dad goes, “The cats probably knocked the pieces around before we could.” Yeah, get a mental picture of a cat batting around the inn keepers head.
Ginger (our cat circa 1986): “No room in the inn, huh?? This one’s for the baby Jesus, you heathen!”
Oh, and Pookie, I’m working on the picture! I’m trying to find one with Kittymaki. :)
Ginger (our cat circa 1986): “No room in the inn, huh?? This one’s for the baby Jesus, you heathen!”
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But Mom bought a big white set to go on top of the console color TV next to the white flocked fake tree when we got older. Sigh.
Stop it, Myra! You’re killing me! I’m going to start assimilating your Christmases into my own! :P
“No room in the inn, huh?? This one’s for the baby Jesus, you heathen!”
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We are now watching a House Hunters in the Dallas area featuring people who don’t want a two-story house because in their last house, their children refused to go to the upstairs. The wife claims the children would insist on sleeping in sleeping bags in the living room rather than going to their bedrooms upstairs. I think these people and I have divergent ideas of what qualifies as effective parenting.
But Mom bought a big white set to go on top of the console color TV next to the white flocked fake tree when we got older. Sigh.
Myra, I think I would have loved everything about your Christmases!
Alright, I have two photos because I couldn’t really find one where Joey was sitting peacefully in front of the whole thing. I just don’t want to mess up the comment section, so how do I post a link?
You mean like how to do the html?
Happy birthday Boomer!!
Those are some good looking cupcakes there
Yeah. I just don’t want the whole picture to pop up. Can I just cut and paste the link?
Boomer says thanks, Kathleen!
mcguffers, you can just cut and paste the link, and we could all take the extra step to copy and paste it ourselves. The html is like so (use the carrot thingies that I can’t type instead of the brackets):
[a href="LINK"]TEXT[/a]
Okay, hopefully this works. The first one is my frilly tree combined with my dad’s sense of humor. Yes, the tree is that crooked. And the second one is another perspective of the tree.
PICTURE #1
PICTURE #2
Or not.
Oh, and speaking of desert, I watched Sandra Lee today! She was doing a show on cost efficiency (no store bought/pre-made/unfrosted cakes today!) and made her version of Tiramisu. Her’s cost $6.37 while the traditional recipe cost $10.00.
Nilla Wafers, instant pudding, and Nestle Qwick?
Rats! That looked right! (Pookie’s fixing the links now…)
Nilla Wafers, instant pudding, and Nestle Qwick?
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Nilla Wafers, instant pudding, and Nestle Qwick?
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That’s got to be it. :D
OK, links are fixed and I have to say — are you sure you didn’t scan a picture from last year’s Martha Stewart Living Christmas issue? :P It’s FABULOUS! So classy and frilly! And Joey looks classy, too, only he needs some bows or rainbow garland. (I adore the wrapping paper in the second picture!)
Nilla Wafers, instant pudding, and Nestle Qwick?
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: For a twist, you can use Strawberry Nestle Qwick! Goes great with funfetti!
Whoa! mcguggs, your tree is so frilly! And awesome! And matches Joey’s coloring very nicely. He’s totally plotting how to make the tree straighter, though. Either that, or plotting how to get rainbow garlands on there…
Myra is laughing too hard when I gave told her about our manger scene.
It was cardboard with little tabs on the base to hold Mary, manger, animals, etc. It went on top of our fake cardboard fireplace (had to put the stocking somewhere). We had a Cardboard Christmas at our house.
Mom also didn’t put out gifts until a few days before Christmas if not the night before and never with names on them. I don’t think she trusted my sister not to sneak a peak of her’s early.
Myra’s Hub
For a twist, you can use Strawberry Nestle Qwick! Goes great with funfetti!
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It was cardboard with little tabs on the base to hold Mary, manger, animals, etc. It went on top of our fake cardboard fireplace (had to put the stocking somewhere). We had a Cardboard Christmas at our house.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That is FANTASTIC!
We had a Cardboard Christmas at our house.
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It was cardboard with little tabs on the base to hold Mary, manger, animals, etc. It went on top of our fake cardboard fireplace (had to put the stocking somewhere).
I love that!!
So classy and frilly! And Joey looks classy, too, only he needs some bows or rainbow garland.
I bet you never thought you’d use the words “classy and frilly” for me, right? And dad actually does use the rainbow garland to play with Joey. It gets some use.
And matches Joey’s coloring very nicely.
Who doesn’t match their Christmas tree to their cat?
Who doesn’t match their Christmas tree to their cat?
:^::::::::::::::::: Favre and Rollie, bitterly: “The Ookies.”
It’s a few steps up from Little Matchstick Girl. :D
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It’s a few steps up from Little Matchstick Girl. :D
:^:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Probably shouldn’t say “matchstick” around Hub’s flammable cardboard Christmas…
Favre and Rollie, bitterly: “The Ookies.”
Awww. That’s just not right!
Probably shouldn’t say “matchstick” around Hub’s flammable cardboard Christmas…
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Probably shouldn’t say “matchstick” around Hub’s flammable cardboard Christmas…
Good point! That’s probably why Hub went into plastics.
I think I hurt something laughing. Hub had a very sad sad sad upbringing. I’ve seen pictures of the cardboard fireplace. It was just so so sad. But I don’t think I’d heard of the card board manger scene until tonight. I’m not surprised.
They also couldn’t open presents until they had eaten breakfast and cleaned up the dishes. And if it was Sunday, they had to wait until after church. I think that qualifies as child abuse today.
(Also, the worst Christmas I ever had was the first one we spent at his family’s house. Ebinezer would have been proud.)
mcguffers, your tree is lovely. But just wait, someday you will have your own version of a rainbow garland tree.
They also couldn’t open presents until they had eaten breakfast and cleaned up the dishes. And if it was Sunday, they had to wait until after church.
Are you serious?!? That’s terrible! Now I’m crying! It is the Little Match Girl!
They also couldn’t open presents until they had eaten breakfast and cleaned up the dishes. And if it was Sunday, they had to wait until after church. I think that qualifies as child abuse today.
Ebinezer would have been proud.
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They also couldn’t open presents until they had eaten breakfast and cleaned up the dishes. And if it was Sunday, they had to wait until after church. I think that qualifies as child abuse today.
That was only when my Grandmother was around. The old grew up on a farm when chores had to be done traditions.
That’s when I say, “Tradition Schmadition!”
The old grew up on a farm when chores had to be done traditions.
Our dad always tried to sell us on stuff like that, going on about how our great-grandmother would have lived. We never fell for it. :P
Just one of many reasons Hub married me, he knew he would never have to have another Matchstick Girl Christmas ever again.
After that first Christmas at his family’s house, I pretty much took over the holidays.
Well, the blobbie Canucks and Avs are going to have to play the third period without me. I’m calling it a night.
I have a feeling I’m going to have some bizarre dreams tonight. Somewhere between red satin balls and cardboard creches.
Good night and Happy Boomer Day!
After that first Christmas at his family’s house, I pretty much took over the holidays.
I hope the Kid appreciates it!
I hope the Kid appreciates it!
Yes. Yes, she does.
I have a feeling I’m going to have some bizarre dreams tonight. Somewhere between red satin balls and cardboard creches.
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But just wait, someday you will have your own version of a rainbow garland tree.
Yeah, I’ve already succumbed to the fact that I will become my dad one day. :) (I’ve already got the flat chest! ba dum bum)
Our dad always tried to sell us on stuff like that, going on about how our great-grandmother would have lived.
My great-grandma was usually on her second White Russian by the time we were opening presents. That’s a tradition I will gladly carry on!
G’night Myra! Hope you have visions of sugar plums and not dancing cardboard donkeys!
That’s a tradition I will gladly carry on!
That’s where I say, “Tradition? Top me off!”
It’s bedtime for me, too, so good night everyone!
My great-grandma was usually on her second White Russian by the time we were opening presents. That’s a tradition I will gladly carry on!
:^::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: We do mimosas with our presents. And last year we discovered the joy of replacing the orange juice in our mimosas with Grand Marnier. It just makes for a more jolly holiday, I feel. :P
Myra does have a way with Christmas. Our first Christmas she picks out this really sad looking tree, but when decorated in our apartment it looked good.
Would have been a picture moment, but after putting the lights on (and in) the tree Myra had to clip one last branch and cut throught the lights. Had to to take out all the lights, get new ones and start again. I think that was the only real tree we ever had (those needles hurt after awhile trying to get the lights evenly distributed inside the tree).
I can’t imagine having to eat AND clean up before presents.
My parents forced me to wait until after church to open presents. It was such a farce – getting up and getting dressed and then coming back home to put the pajamas back on so we could open presents.
Would have been a picture moment, but after putting the lights on (and in) the tree Myra had to clip one last branch and cut throught the lights.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! But didn’t that fresh tree smell so nice when you cut into it? Mmmmmm Christmas tree smell…
Amy, that’s so sad that you had to wait until after church, too!
Good morning, everyone!
Good morning, everyone!
Would have been a picture moment, but after putting the lights on (and in) the tree Myra had to clip one last branch and cut through the lights.
That’s sort of fantastic. Neither of my parents have done anything like that yet, but one year our entire tree fell over while Mummers was taking a picture of it. That was pretty hilarious.
oh good god with the christmas talk. not that i’m minding it, but my biological clock has a glitch and i keep skipping all of November in my head. and this really isnt helping any.
to catch up:
Red Velvet cake cupcakes are my favorites.
the x-mrs used to make tiramisus and were always mushy horrible messes – good ridance bitch. i can definitely save a billion now.
my mother made me a ginger bread house to bring to my kindergarten class, a typical german beautiful GBhouse, and the teacher wouldnt let anyone take anything and she took it home for herself. i got straight A’s that year.
if you use the extra Styrofoam packing peanuts leftover from sending packages instead of fresh chicken in your soups, you’ll save $10.66!”
and they float, so its easier to pick out all the “chicken” pieces. you’ll not only save $10.66 you save lots of time eating it.
and :^:::::::::::::::::::::::: to Ginger the cat, and cardboard fireplaces, and the Leafs, and everyone else.
and hurray for Elias practicing with the team!
A day late, but happy birthday to Boomer!
Christmas is taken very seriously in my family, particularly by my (Jewish) father. But then again, my father takes his holidays in general very seriously. There was definitely no Christmas-day church going though. I think even our Christmas Eve church-going ended by the time I was about 10. Now we do things the whole family can participate in on Christmas Eve. Like eating.
Happy Birthday Boomer!
a typical german beautiful GBhouse, and the teacher wouldnt let anyone take anything and she took it home for herself. i got straight A’s that year.
I am totally blaming my lackluster performance in elementary school on my mother’s horrid cooking skills!
Now we do things the whole family can participate in on Christmas Eve. Like eating.
Hopefully that menu includes Nestle Qwick Tiramisu, styrofoam peanut soup, and Uncle Ben’s Risotto!
Would have been a picture moment, but after putting the lights on (and in) the tree Myra had to clip one last branch and cut through the lights.
Dave failed to mention that I nearly electrocuted myself and he got introduced very loudly to my swear word of choice. Blew out every string of lights on the tree because I had connected them all together, which I learned a little too late, you are not supposed to do. :)
Happy Boomer Day (Belated)!
Hopefully that menu includes Nestle Qwick Tiramisu, styrofoam peanut soup, and Uncle Ben’s Risotto!
Usually we go with hors d’oeuvres that can be heated in the toaster oven, but I’ll be sure to suggest those things to my mother! I can’t think of anything more fabulous than Uncle Ben’s Risotto.
Nestle Qwick Tiramisu, styrofoam peanut soup, and Uncle Ben’s Risotto!
Bread dip made with Lipton’s Soup Mix is still acceptable, right?
And Pommerdoodle had a little pommerdoodle today! The sound you hear coming from Buffalo is many teenyboppers and puckbunnies wailing in the streets.
And Pommerdoodle had a little pommerdoodle today! The sound you hear coming from Buffalo is many teenyboppers and puckbunnies wailing in the streets.
I’m convinced it looks exactly like this: PICTURE
And I don’t know, but I sure do think that last month the teenage girls of WNY ripped their Pommerdoodle & Roy posters off the wall and started scrawling “Mrs Tyler Myers” across their trapper keepers.
Well that did not work at all. Sorry :(
It’s almost right, Kathleen. You just need to replace the brackets with those little arrowy things over the comma and period on your keyboard and then put the web address inside the quotation marks where you have LINK. Then, where you have the web address you can put whatever text you want.
Does that make sense? I should really leave this html stuff to the experts.
Also, that is one cute little labradoodle. :D
Happy belated birthday, Boomer!
Hello, guys! I’m alive! And moved! And woefully ignorant of all things hockey at the moment, but figured I’d stop by to say hello. :D
Hey Caitlin!
I ran into a friend of your mom’s this weekend and she said you had gotten moved this week! Yeah!
Kathleen, I fixed the link for you and holy cow, that puppy is almost criminally cute. Heh. (For future reference, THIS SITE has a good tutorial for the tags for posting a link.)
Caitlin, congratulations on moving! How exciting! How’s the new place treating you?
Now we do things the whole family can participate in on Christmas Eve. Like eating.
Hopefully that menu includes Nestle Qwick Tiramisu, styrofoam peanut soup, and Uncle Ben’s Risotto!
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It’s been totally nutty at work today — I so needed that laugh!
I ran into a friend of your mom’s this weekend and she said you had gotten moved this week! Yeah!
I barely survived but yes! So now I have a life again. The past couple of months have been really hectic. I hope all’s well with y’all!
Caitlin, congratulations on moving! How exciting! How’s the new place treating you?
Actually, pretty well. The next door neighbors are fond of loud door slamming, but other than that, it’s a nice and quiet complex. I’m really enjoying it, so far!
Happy Birthday Boomer! So sorry I missed it. Those cupcakes look AMAZING!
Hello, guys! I’m alive! And moved! And woefully ignorant of all things hockey at the moment, but figured I’d stop by to say hello. :D
I’m glad you survived it! Moving sucks. Just. Sucks.
Pookie, I’m sorry your work day was crazy! You guys should make some tiramisu tonight and start saving your way to $100!!
Oh, and in case anyone is wondering… the Fire Clowns plan on igniting some Bees this week!! A whole Beard of Bees in fact!! I hope you like your honey charred!!
Dudes, today was the most Mondayish Monday that ever did Monday. Just awful. I’m assuming this means the rest of the week will be a cakewalk.
I hope you like your honey charred!!
That might be the best IPB League trash talk EVAH.