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Our Lady of Chlorine


Our Lady of Chlorine, originally uploaded by Big DumpTruck.

I had to stop by and see my friend Peg today, and we made arrangements to meet up at Hampton Beach. I of course took at least a couple of photos. This is one that I like just because I’m sort of stunned by how close the Church is to the water slides. As in practically touching. Maybe parents bribe their kids to go to Mass in the summer?

Feel free to check out the whole set on Flickr.

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Full Day

I’m a teeny bit annoyed right now, because I didn’t get to use the camera at all today. This was not the most relaxing day, can I just complain about that. Some woman I don’t know was talking to me in the cafeteria yesterday, about how she’s just as busy on weekends as she is at work during the week. It’s just a different kind of busy. Today was a different kind of busy. We did grocery shopping, laundry, baseball tryouts, Target and Dick’s Sporting Goods errands, picked up dog poop in the yard, dishes, more laundry, get the house picked up a bit because Junior is having a sleep over tonight. Oh, ya, his first sleep over.

So I finally sat down to eat something (I had chicken breasts, chicken stock, canned mushrooms (shut up, they work better in the crock pot) and cream of ‘shroom soup in the crock pot all day. Served it over No Yolk egg noodles. It made me happy. The boys were eating something else and ended up asking for some of the chicken, and Junior even asked for seconds. I’m still stunned. But they are off playing Roller Coaster Tycoon and I’m finally sitting down at the computer. Ahhhh.

p.s. Baseball tryouts went great. I was terrified he’d be awful because he literally hasn’t touched a ball since last summer. He more than held his own in there, and I was SO happy. And hey, when he had me hold his glove during the batting part of tryouts, a kid hit two foul popups into the bleachers and I held out Michael’s glove to catch them. Everyone was actually cheering me the 2nd time it happened. In your FACE, other parents!

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I Must Have Done It Wrong

I was reading Dilbert creator Scott Adams’ blog and he said Google Alerts tell him when people like me are talking about him (“Hi Scott!”). I have had Google Alerts turned on for about two years now, and seriously, the only thing it ever tells me is my reviewer rank on Amazon.com. Which isn’t all that great, by the way. Maybe I should review a couple of things, and try to make the reviews helpful while I’m at it.

Before any of you guys feels the need to point out that he’s an internationally famous, and might I add, beloved cartoonist, and I’m some slightly crazy woman who can’t quite keep up with the dishes while trying to become an internationally famous and beloved writer-photographer-interpretive dancer-Wii Champion.

Well, I’d write more about this, but I think it best if I head over to Amazon and review a couple of things. And then I’m going to play Virus2 for a while (http://www.rfshq.com/forum/games/virus2.swf). Please don’t blame me if you get hooked.

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Boursin Cheese Kicks Butt

Today’s lunch: A turkey sandwich with boursin cheese, caramelized onions, tomato and leaf lettuce.

Anyone have a casket? Because I died and went to heaven.

I would have enjoyed it without the turkey, even. I love a boursin and tomato sandwich. Of course, caramelized onions put it over the top. There are only two ways I like to eat onions. Caramelized and in beer-battered rings. Never ever ever raw. But cooked onions (sauteed or deep fried) rule. And french onion soup counts because it is made with caramelized onions.

Sorry, had to find a drool bib just thinking about it.

Friday’s List of Jody’s Favorite Cheeses
American (sorry, I won’t lie)
Feta

Cheddar
Havarti
Mozzarella
Ricotta

Cream Cheese (Does this formally count as a cheese?)
Neufchatel

I’ll put up with a lot of the others – I like blue if it’s in a stuffed mushroom or salad dressing. Provolone is okay, but not a favorite. On of the few that I can honestly say I don’t like is Swiss, which bugs the heck out of Mr. Dump. I just don’t like it. I don’t like sourdough bread. Swiss cheese is the sourdough bread of cheese.

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