Love, Erika

R.I.P. Chef--we'll miss the vegeble medley

Issac Hayes died yesterday, who will always be known to me as "Chef" on South Park. I haven't watched that show in years but Chef was one of the characters who was the most memorable to me (I still love to sing about the vegeble medley).  The whole Shaft and disco thing is waaaaay before my time, so to me Issac Hayes will always be Chef. 

Also!!!!  In a strange twist of fate, he just finished making a movie with Bernie Mac and Samuel L. Jackson.... and seeing as how he and Bernie Mac died within days of each other, I think if I were Samuel L. I'd be watching my back!!!

I love my silly boys

Look closely, the joke is on their shirts. Christmas gifts from my brother... thanks, D!

What fresh hell is this?

Yes, it's still snowing way up here in New Hampshire. (photo by Dave) This was Friday morning (today).  We're also supposed to get another Nor'easter on Sunday/Monday but hopefully they're saying it should be rain instead of snow. Flooding rain, yes, but I'd much rather take that than another foot of snow. Dave said he would put me on suicide watch if it snows again.

We've started watching the new show "Notes from the Underbelly." It is freaky. It's like our life right now. After the first segment, during the commercial all we could say was "wow." It's about a couple who decided to have baby and all the should we/shouldn't we stuff and all the crazy stuff that goes with pregnancy and making room for baby yadda yadda yadda. It was like all the conversations that Dave and I have had, and the people that we know, all kinds of stuff. I guess it's universal. TOO funny.

I'm trying not to get sick with the creeping crud that is everywhere at work. People are dropping like flies with this nasty cold that includes a fever and being laid up for a week. People come in moaning about how they have a fever, and I'm just muttering to myself, "get away from the pregnant lady...." I haven't been sick yet and I hope it stays that way because I can't take anything if I do.

Oh!! And also! If any of you are big fans of the Gordidas dinner kits (yuuuuummmm) you will know the glory of the zesty ranch sauce that comes with it.... too bad it only comes with one foil packet of it. Well, now your wishes have been granted! Dave found THIS at the grocery store yesterday.  No more fighting over the last of the baggie.  I can't seem to find a picture of it. But it's beautiful in an inverted squeeze bottle. 

LOST!

Oooh boy. Dave and I have been saving Season 2 of Lost on DVD for a while now so we could watch it all at once as a Marathon. We kind of caught on late in the game, too late for trying to catch up on TV. We've already missed too much and they're already onto Season 3 now. So we just wait until the end of the season and get the DVDs from Netflix and spend hours glued to the tv.  So exciting!  We just finished our eighth episode last night, and drat! We're out of discs. Gotta get more in the mail.

My mom is the coolest person I know

He is, and I quote "shorter and thinner than on TV"   Thanks for giving us the first-hand account, Mom! (in the comments)

Chris Daughtry

The hot news item while I was at home was of course hometown celebrity Chris Daughtry..... what a bummer that he got voted off, but it wasn't from a lack of support from Greensboro! All these photos were taken prior to Wednesday night of course..... :) There were signs everywhere. Everywhere. My mom and I even drove past his house, LOL!

The words "Chris Rocks" written on the back of this windshield......

Word of the Day is....

CUANDO!  As in Spanish for "when".....  I love that Eclipse gum commercial with the big hot dog with onions in Mexico, and he's translating this sign that says "When we find bad breath we kill it." Bwahahahahahaaaa!!!  I love how he goes, "cuaaaaando??"  Cracks me UP. So I've been saying that all day, "Cuando??!"

Another commercial that I love (oh there are so many) is the Mountain Dew MDX with Lionel Richie's song "All Night Long" and all the little jungle animals are dancing and singing in night-vision. Heee heeeee! 

Been painting until I'm blue in the face, so I think I'm just going to stop. I think I'm done. We found out that Dave's cousin Joe is coming next weekend to see the house (and bringing a puppy!!), so that is plenty motivation to get this crap cleaned up and back to normal. This whole process has been dragged out long enough!

A new post is on Cravings today! The Cheesecake Factory.

First Day of Spring

Most of you know that I have a sarcastic streak about a mile wide. My spring so far has been various shades of gray, how about yours?

Tonight for supper I made swedish meatballs, MMM MMM good. With some foxy cream of celery sauce/gravy. Super easy! I used to love me some Swedish meatballs at the dining hall at UNC, they were so yummy.

This afternoon I caulked the baseboards in our bedroom so I can paint the trim..... <sigh> I really hate doing that, but it just doesn't look right if you don't. And doing it right now means I don't have to do it again in a year.

I'm still really tired from our busy and exhausting weekend of home improvement, but there is no early bedtime tonight. Prison Break is back on and all new!!

TGIF

Waaaahhoooooooo!!!  My dream has come true. Yesterday for the FIRST TIME EVER somebody left me a comment on my Cravings blog!!  I'm just ecstatic! I've only been waiting since October for it to be acknowledged. I feel validated. :)  Thank you Mom!!

So Tuesday's  American Idol: Greensboro I watched for about the first hour. I thought it was funny how they kept calling Greensboro a "small town".  Huh??  Dave laughed at that one too.  It was maybe unfortunate that they didn't really have many "normal NC people" on there.... they all seemed like poor uneducated redneck and/or ghetto weird people, which is not how I know Greensboro at all. (but then again American Idol does attract all the wackos all over the country)  That Sonic girl from Albemarle was just cute as she could be.  I have to say I was pretty proud to say that I didn't recognize anybody I know. :)

Happy to announce that my friend Christina has started her own Frog Blog.  Hop on over to the lilypad.

HOF entry is pretty much finished I think except for one last thing. I am just dying to get this mess copied at Kinko's and then gone postal..... it will be a great feeling. I entered the Hall of Fame Contest!!!  It's such an accomplishment to even say that. :) Hee. It's a positive thing. 

I have a busy weekend coming up. Stay tuned for updates!

a sneaky peek

So we heard that Chili's is having a "Southwest Combo" promotion right now so we had to go check it out. Yuuuuum. We kind of didn't mean to go out to eat again so soon, but yesterday was a rough day with the stupid snow and everything, so it was just a nice diversion. Anyway, I did get some pictures for my upcoming review, but as it turns out I LOVE them so much I also have to show them off here because my Cravings blog goes pretty much unnoticed. Ha! I went a little bit overboard with the depth of field, please pardon my enthusiasm.

 

Tonight I'm trying to get everything wrapped up so I can try to watch American Idol a bit before I go to bed.... they're in Greensboro NC tonight! My hometown.   And in other tragic, tragic TV news. They changed the day and time of Bones to Wed. at 9pm which is quite a bit too late for me to stay up. 8:00 I could do, but staying up till 10 and then trying to get up at 4:30am isn't likely to go over well.