peanut butter

if I had only known the ridiculous amounts of peanut butter that would be consumed in this household I would have bought stock in a peanut farm. Personally I can't stand the stuff I'll eat it maybe once a year by choice or by necessity if I haven't been shopping. The boys on the other hand have been know to eat the stuff by the spoonful, C has it each & every day for lunch and it is a frequent breakfast ingredient as well hence the need for the 20 gallon jug of pb. Even oscar loves the stuff! After watching a program on sandwich shops this weekend the boys are all about Peanut butter & Co. A little pricey but luckily available at local supermarkets, it'll be be a treat and not everyday pb and most certainly not offered to the dog! The dark chocolate & cinnamon raisin swirl have been huge hits so far selection has been limited so we may have to order the maple, honey & spicy kinds online. Maybe Santa will bring some...

the wearing of dead animals

I am not taking any sort of moral stance here come on I wear leather, am a meat eater, in fact my favorite meat is little milk-fed baby cows that aren't allowed to walk so while I have zero desire to own one the idea of a mink coat does not offend terribly much. I am however curious about the when & where of well wearing them. the Kroger? or perhaps the full length mink on campus this morning? Now maybe she was going to a lunch
or something but the coat just seemed a little out of place on the campus of a community college. I'm thinking if I owned a mink it would only get worn on special occasions, out to dinner, social functions maybe church not just roaming around town but who knows if I had one I might indeed where it everywhere...

glad we only have the one

because he won't stop talking to me, following me, asking questions, asking for food, can he have a hug, what about television, can he play computer, can he join this web site, what about that one, ohhh what can he do now, is it time for dinner yet, what are we having? Oh my God if I had more than one person doing this today I would wind up in a sanatorium. Heck if the one I got does not stop soon I might wind up there yet. Although if there were another rugrat maybe they could bug each other and leave Mommy alone?

let the Christmas season begin

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we set & it forgot it

here is our lovely leg of lamb cooked to yummy goodness in our Ron Popeil Showtime Rotisserie. I made fun of David to no end when he first ordered this after a bout of insomnia back in the old days before we had a computer and he called one of the many operators standing by....however this was one of his genius purchases this thing is great and we honestly don't use it often enough now that is resides in the garage so I have forgotten how little muss & fuss is involved in preparing dinner.

food prep

I probably should have started some of this last night but where is the fun in all that? Deserts are finished and most of the sides are prepared and awaiting oven time. C is the official family brownie maker, he does a good job with very little help from me. The lamb is the main course but quite frankly and even if I do say so myself I make kick a** side dishes. The usual suspects corn casserole, creamed spinach, rice dish, green bean casserole and this year I am trying my hand at the southern staple of mac & cheese. No no real mac & cheese not the out of the box stuff I grew up on & usually prepare. It looks good and I used my cute turkey shaped pasta I'll let you know how it turns out...

having to head to the store

yes I did jinx myself we do need a few things this morning. We could honestly make do for dinner lacking the couple of things I added to my list but we absolutely can not survive without trash bags! I suppose that would be the one drawback to C having chores he doesn't think to tell me when we are running out or have run out of something.

taxpayer field

one of many things that irk me is the seemingly endless practice of corporations getting stadiums & arenas renamed after them. I understand corporate sponsorship, lots of money blah blah but can't they find another way to get their name out there? naming every skybox or parking garage after the sponsor? or even street names perhaps? plastering logos over everything? something, anything other than taking away the personality & history of these venues. After all it did not work out so well for Enron field and now the diabolical plot to rename Shea Stadium is in question. With the current bailout some NY politicians are suggesting renaming the stadium Taxpayer field!

third grade extortion racket

in the midst of getting ready and trying to get out the door yesterday C comes into the room, closes the door over and does his serious face and the dreaded I need to talk to you about something. He then proceeds to spill a story about how he had pushed X but only in self defense but that T was demanding one dollar and a bakugan or he would tell Mrs H. I did refrain from laughing but told him it would be okay and tell T to go ahead and tell on him he wasn't going to get in any trouble a day later. I think T's career path as a mob enforcer might be numbered as he had apparently forgotten about the entire incident.

probably jinxing myself

but I have all of my grocery shopping done for Thursday-even the wine! I can avoid the craziness of the stores tomorrow & just get the house cleaned up and maybe just maybe get some laundry done.