This Sunday-through-Thursday-night posting thing isn’t working for me. I’ll post the comment-answering extravaganza tomorrow morning, and go back to the old Monday-through-Friday morning posting next week.
So if you’ve got questions, ask ’em!
Fred wrote a truer (and far funnier) account of why we (HE) needed Q-tips to clean between the floorboards.
He asked me to proofread the letter (yes, he really did send it to the founder of the company, and I hope the guy has a good sense of humor, because a letter like that deserves to be appreciated by the recipient) and when I got to the part where he talks about Mister Boogers, something about the so-very-casual mention of the cats name just cracked me up and I laughed until I cried.
Most of the time, the fact that we have a cat named Mister Boogers (and one named Sugarbutt, for that matter) doesn’t really strike me as all that funny. That’s just his NAME, I don’t really think about it, but the idea of a complete stranger receiving a letter and reading that we have a cat named Mister Boogers just hits my funnybone for some reason.
And yes, I AM getting a sewing machine – this one, to be exact. Y’all were pretty much unanimous that I should stay away from Singer and go for a Kenmore, and after some consideration (and an email from fellow not-much-of-a-seamstress Styro), I decided to go for it.
I’ve already told Fred I could probably make my own curtains – how hard can it be to whip up some valances, right? (When I’m swearing up a storm because I fucked up yet another set of curtains, remind me I said that, would you?) Hopefully the hardest part will be finding fabric I like. I hope so, at least!
I went to the recycling center today for the first time in about two weeks. Surprisingly (not), when you don’t use four 20-ounce plastic bottles a day, the recycling tends not to pile up. I know I mentioned that I bought some 1-liter Sigg bottles back in December with the intention of reducing the amount of trash I generate on a regular basis. Unfortunately, what I should have done was order 20-ounce Sigg bottles, because I just don’t care for the 1-liter size. So I’ve been using 20-ounce plastic water bottles for a week at a time before I recycle them. We got a Pur water dispenser I keep in the fridge in the laundry room (the filter that you can attach to your kitchen faucet wouldn’t fit so we went with the dispenser instead) and I fill the bottles from that.
Anyway, I was able to put off going to the recycling center for about two weeks, and the majority of the recycling were the cans of cat food from Snackin’ Time. Damn those cats and their Snackin’ Time.
After the recycling center I stopped by the bank to make a deposit and then to Big L0ts. Before we moved to Smallville, I had never once stepped foot into a Big L0ts, and now I go by there every other week or so. I never buy much there, but if they’ve got cans of compressed air I generally snatch them up, and I like taking a walk through the food section (a box of Cheerios for $2? Yes, please!) and the cleaning section and the kitchen section. It’s a good store to browse in, and I never spend very much money because everything is so damn cheap.
I was disappointed to find that they didn’t have any egg noodles though, damnit. How’m I going to make chicken noodle casserole without egg noodles?
Which reminds me. Anyone out there got a good chicken noodle casserole recipe? Something simple? I saw a recipe on the back of the box of cornflake crumbs for tuna noodle casserole, only I don’t eat tuna (because even contemplating eating tuna reminds me of when I was 8 or 9. At the time, I ate tuna a LOT. One day I took a bowl of tuna (mixed with mayo, of course) out of the fridge, took the top off the bowl and saw a dead fly floating in the pool of mayo around the edge of the bowl, and if that’s not the last time I ate tuna, you could probably count the number of times I’ve eaten tuna since on one hand) so I thought I’d substitute chicken for the tuna, and then I promptly threw the freakin’ box away and thus have no recipe.
Yes, I could Google up a recipe, but I’d rather one of you point me toward a recipe you’ve used and like.
Speaking of food, damn you, Ali. That Paula Deen recipe you linked looks so damn good I have no choice but to make it, possibly even this weekend. My arteries curse you as well. And damn those of you who mentioned the banana pudding recipe, because I might have to make that as well. DAMN YOU ALL.
I left Big Lots, got home, did some laundry (since it was a bright and sunny day, why not hang the towels out to dry? Nothing I love more than using a towel that smells like sunshine.), stalked the cats (who were in the back yard) with the camera, filled the bird feeders, took a thousand pictures of cats and chickens, fed the chickens some cracked corn, and just puttered around the house.
Then I plunked my ass on the couch and watched TV while I cross-stitched.
A totally relaxing day. I love days like that!
(flickr) 9:13 am:
Momma: “What doin’, Skittyboo? What it do?”
Spanky: “Nothin’.”
(flickr) 11:22 am:
Momma: “What doin’, Skittyboo? What it do?”
Spanky: “NOTH. ING.”
(flickr) 12:55 pm:
Momma: “What doin, Skittyboo?”
Spanky: “Jesus goddamn motherfucking christ WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU THINK I’M DOING? DO I APPEAR TO BE LUNCHING WITH HILARY CLINTON AND DISCUSSING HER PLANS FOR HEALTH CARE? AM I SAVING A SMALL CHILD FROM A BURNING BUILDING? DO I LOOK LIKE I’M GIVING A PRESENTATION TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ABOUT STRING THEORY? I AM DOING NOTHING. NOTHING. NOTH. ING. I AM STROLLING AROUND THE BACK YARD TRYING TO ENJOY THE DAY AND YOU KEEP BABBLING GODDAMN NONSENSE AT ME, DEMANDING TO KNOW WHAT THE FUCK I’M DOING. DO YOU NOT HAVE ENOUGH TO DO? DO I NEED TO FIND SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO? SHALL I WORK UP A MULTIPLE ROOM SHITTING SPREE? WHAT THE FUCK? WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU WANT FROM ME? WHAT? WHAT? NOW I UNDERSTAND WHY MISTER BOOGERS KEEPS TRYING TO RUN AWAY, IT’S TO ESCAPE THE CONTINUAL “What doin’? What doin’? What doin’?” LEAVE ME ALONE! GOD!”
(flickr) 1:38 pm:
Momma: “What doin’, Skittyboo? What it do?”
Spanky: “Please god, help me make it to and over the fence before her tiny little brain figures out what the hell I’m doing.”
Previously
2007: Who knew that Hellcats enjoy ripping eyeballs from your face and then batting them around the room?
2006: Yeah, one of those days.
2005: So sue me.
2004: Always.
2003: What keeps me sane.
2002: No entry.
2001: Plants.
2000: Translation: Iām going to get a gown that will cover your fat ass.
so, your diabolical plot to ruin my day didn’t work, and you are now posting LIKE YOU SHOULD! fear the power of my mind!
actually it just threw my week off because each time i would read an entry i would have to look at the calendar and figure out is this the entry for yesterday, today or tomorrow? consequently, i never knew what day it really was!
i’m sure no one would complain if you decided to post several times a day!
Right around the time I started reading you, I also started reading a blog by someone named Shelley. She wrote a HILARIOUS entry about Assless Chaps Man (complete with Assless Chaps Pictures) and she had a hairless guinea pig.
Do you know if she still has a blog out there anywhere?
LOL, well put Lisa! I too love my Bitchypoo in the morning. So that makes three of us so far who will be happy again.
Does the Pur water dispenser make the water taste better? I should buy one because I refuse to drink the water from my faucet. I don’t like having to buy water all the time.
T hank ya jeebus that you’re going back to post in the morning! I haven’t gotten shit done all week, because I’ve been sitting on my ass all day waiting on you to post.
Bethany, that’s Shelley of Shelley(ness) and no, she no longer has a blog. But she’s doing fabulous! And is fabulous and has a fabulous little family. I love me some Shelley. Can you tell?
Oh, shit. I didn’t realize that was a question for tomorrow’s Q&A (because I am a serious tard). Sorry!
Jeebus, I damn near peed myself at that third photo of Spanky and its caption. That’s some funny stuff right there.
My 10 month old cat used to suck on my hands and shirt when she was a kitten and while she no longer does that regularly, she likes to crawl under my covers while I’m sleeping and suck on my back, which is really gross and wakes me up. Why would she do that? Do you have any sucking cats or did I get stuck with a weirdo?
My vote was for “string theory.”
*snort* Go Spanky! Give her the whatfor! Oh my goodness, Robyn, that one is the best. ever. yet. !!! (Couldn’t help it… need more exclamations! heh)
Is snackin time the only time they eat? Or is that when they get the canned food and they also have dry food out all the time? Do they eat people food?
Carol, yes, it does. I have a pitcher I leave at work because the water from the faucet here tastes like an old cinderblock basement smells. It absolutely makes it taste better. And now they even have little flavor inserts for most of those things, so you can make raspberry water if that’s your thing… (I just go for the plain stuff.)
i have a pur water pitcher, with the flavor insert- strawberry is delish! i got mine on clearnance at wally world for $10.00 vs. $24.88, because the bonus freebie aluminum water bottle was red* instead of steel or green (not that it mattered to me at all) i have well water that is so nasty it comes out with little bubbles like champagne and tastes like gutter water looks. the pur makes the water good and delicious, better than bottled. i just wish it drained faster or there was a larger size. you have to refill it too often or else i drink too much water.
*since it was a shiny and glittery red, i gave it to my sweetie for valentine’s day, so i saved on a gift! SCORE twice on the freebie!!!!
*whew* Pert near died laughing here.
Underneath that quiet exterior Spanky has quite the amazing sense of humor. š
I am very glad you are going back to your old timetable. I have no idea when you used to post but it would greet me every morning (DownUnder) and was part of my daily routine. I could work out time differences but I can’t really be bothered. Please don’t tell Jane.
That was a long winded way of saying that I don’t know if my question will make this week’s extravaganza. I think not but maybe I can be first in for next week.
And THAT leads to a rather pathetic question … who is now the oldest Anderson cat? In years and/or length of service. And I know I could do some research but I’m busy getting my house ready to sell. OK. I’m also rather lazy.
Yuck Mary. š One of my cats has a hair fetish. Her eyes get big when she sees a chance to get in my hair. I guess it’s the length of mine or something, she ignores everyone else’s in the family. She’ll sniff my husbands and then try to sneak over to me.
Haha Robyn – you’ll be a Paula Deen fan if it’s the last thing we do!
Definitely make the Not Yo Mama’s Banana Pudding – it’s heavenly. I also change the recipe once in awhile and use 2 cans of blueberry pie filling instead of the bananas. It’s awesome and saves you all that time slicing so many bananas. AND, now that they’ve come out with chocolate Chessmen, I make it with chocolate pudding instead of vanilla and use sliced fresh strawberries in place of the bananas. It’s SO GOOD, I’m sure even Paula would approve!
Try them all and let us know what you think. š
Hi Robyn, Thanks for the laugh. That last photo and caption actually made me laugh out loud, and that is something I seldom do. Even when I think something is really funny I just laugh under my breath.So I have a question for Friday, what was Fred really eating ice-cream or yogurt?
Shirley: Ice cream!
Laurie in NJ: I’ve got all the stuff to make it this weekend! š
Here’s a link to my favorite chicken/noodle casserole. However, I just realized I change almost everything:
http://www.meals.com/Recipes/RecipeDetails.aspx?RecipeID=28515
I use noodles instead of shells
I use Portobello Alfredo Sauce instead of plain
I usually slice and saute fresh mushrooms and add them
And, I use leftover grilled chicken breast pulled into chunks (leftover Persian chicken kabobs are really good)
Otherwise, this is a really great recipe!
Oh my God, Robyn. You are so funny!!! Thanks for the laugh. Give Spanky McSpankerson a smooch for me. š
P.S. to the chicken noodle thing: I add some peas to it, too. Maybe I should just type up “my” recipe.
The evening reading (what? I can’t wait until morning) got me in trouble last night. I mistakenly tried to read this post while an IMPORTANT scene of Lost was on and my husband was completely peturbed that I was laughing so freaking loud. I made him read the stalking portion and he understood a bit.. but he still insists I need to respect Lost viewing hour. Argh!
DO I APPEAR TO BE LUNCHING WITH HILARY CLINTON AND DISCUSSING HER PLANS FOR HEALTH CARE? AM I SAVING A SMALL CHILD FROM A BURNING BUILDING? DO I LOOK LIKE IāM GIVING A PRESENTATION TO THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCE ABOUT STRING THEORY?
Pure gold.
a suggestion before you tackle the curtains–sorry if these were mentioned before– is to either buy the cheap remnants at the fabric store, OR buy those cheapass sheets they sell at Target and you can hem and hem and hem to your delight without risk of ruining good curtain fabric. Incidentally, I’ve actually used nicer sheets AS my curtains (the summer ones). The bottom hem slipped over the curtain rod perfectly and all I needed to do was adjust the length, and it was way cheaper then buying fabric.
Awww is The Spank!!! He is so so freaking gorgeous! I can imagine him thinking exactly what you wrote, he looks a little, um, put out.
But whatcha doin’ now skitty boo? Huh? What’s him doin…………..???? š
Oh man, I greet my cats with a “wha’cha doin’?” too. Like, every freaking time. Multiple times a day.
Now I don’t feel so bad.
i have used twin sheets as curtains. you don’t have to sew anthing if you make a tiny slit with a seam ripper in the side hem of the curtain. i didn’t adjust the length and just let them puddle on the floor. one of my GAY husbands was over to see the house after i got them up, and he grabbed them and said soemthing about me “being miss fancy with her expensive suburban window treatments” and he couldn’t believe they were just bed sheets. works, plus they have a line at linens-n-things called colorups that you can buy in a jillion shades and just buy only the twin flat sheet for like $5. i usually hung them up in pairs, and if i didn’t puddle them on the floor, i would use tassels from dollar tree as tiebacks. fancy schmancy!