Reader Lisa says:
I recently wrote an article for Compassion International, (the child sponsor organization), and am looking for people to read it and leave a comment. I know you have a huge following and am wondering if you could post the link and ask people to take a look? The article is called “Iowa, Flooding and the Global Food Crisis.” It’s about how the floods in Iowa are going to effect the global food supply and those who live in poverty in other countries.
Y’all go check it out and comment on the article, would you?
Someone did a site search on “Dancing Guy Video” yesterday. It used to be here, but it’s been removed due to copyright infringement. DAMNIT.
How is it that a cat can get in a litter box, do his (OH MY GOD THE STANK) business and then scratch around for five full minutes and THEN go skipping off without having covered their great big nasty pile of stank? HOW? I spend half my friggin’ life using the litter scoop to cover the nastiness myself, and that just ain’t right.
I have a confession.
I’ve been watching Tori and Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood. On purpose.
I kind of enjoy it – ALTHOUGH I should add that I’m usually playing Scrabble on Facebook (on the laptop) while I watch it.
Dean is SERIOUSLY whipped, but he’s kinda likable in a bumbling sort of way. I’d prefer it if he’d STOP CALLING TORI “MAMA”, but whatever.
Shaddup.
A few weeks ago when I made pineapple upside-down cake, Fred asked if I’d used dark brown sugar when I made it. I told him that I had, and he asked if, next time, I’d use light brown sugar instead.
“Brown sugar is white sugar mixed with molasses,” he said. “And the darker the sugar, the more molasses are in the sugar.”
“I never knew that!” I said. Which is to say that I never thought about it – and if I had, I probably would have come to the conclusion that dark brown sugar came from a different part of the… cane than white sugar. Or something. I don’t know – who the hell thinks about these things?!
“Yeah. And you know I don’t really like molasses.”
“I know, baby.”
So yesterday when several of you pointed out in my comments that Bush’s Baked Beans have molasses in them, Fred was all “They need to look at the ingredients on a can of Bush’s! There’s no molasses in there!” Because during the bean-baking process, we’d both looked at the ingredients to what was in those damn baked beans.
“Well, except for the molasses in the brown sugar, right?” I said.
Silence.
“Because brown sugar is white sugar mixed with molasses, right?” I prodded.
Silence. And then I heard the tappity-tap-tap of a man looking on Google.
“Huh,” he eventually said. “It IS. I didn’t know that!”
So my question to you: when the Alzheimer’s gets really bad, would it be better to feed him to the pigs or just chop his head off with the hatchet?
By the way, thank you, all of you who shared your baked bean recipes with me! I’m going to have to buy several bags of navy beans at the grocery store later so we can try them all and decide which ones we like the most.
Hey, remember a couple of weeks ago when I dropped a bunch of bill payments in the mailbox and then realized later I’d sent them out with 41 cent stamps affixed instead of the correct 42 cent stamps?
Not only were the bills not returned to me, all the checks I sent out that day have cleared.
Kinda cool.
“Nyah.”
Previously
2007: (Yeah, yeah, har. I am HILARIOUS.)
2006: No entry.
2005: No entry.
2004: No entry.
2003: No entry.
2002: “You mean Todd Beamer wasn’t the only one on that flight?”
2001: That’s it, that’s all the Miz Poo stories I have at the moment. I hope that’ll hold you.
2000: At the end, after having achieved a size 8, Jemima porked ALL the way back up to a 10, the cow.
found your blog a few days ago from a link..it’s really interesting..that stamps thing is awesome, cheat the system!
I like Tori and Dean too.
Tori reminds me of myself when I was a control freak, the only way I could feel safe when I was afraid of the world and what was to come my way.
I understand, and hope she grows and leaves that fear behind…cause it’s no way to live =(
Phew, so glad I’m not that way anymore.
Anyhoo, I think it’s sweet when he calls her mama, I like their little family.
Questions for Friday:
Do you watch Chelsea Handler? If so, what do you think? We are definitely on board. Have to DVR it though, can’t stay up late to watch it real time
I can’t remember, what happened to Jake kitty? I think that was his name. He had been adopted and brought back maybe a couple of times.
Good Morning Robyn.
When I read your conversation with Fred, I was like “What?? He just told you it did!!??” Then I read your next paragraph about what to do with him and lost it. LOL That was funny!
Thanks for sharing Spanky! You know he’s my favorite!
Oh my Gosh, I freakin’ LOVE Chelsea Handler!
I recently started watching Tori and Dean and I don’t know why but I love it. I used to think that Dean was not very good looking but he is growing on mw and their baby….OMG so cute!!
Actually, brown sugar is just less refined than white sugar. If you don’t have brown sugar handy, you can add molasses to the white sugar to make a substitute.
If Fred really hates molasses, you might try turbinado (Sugar in the Raw) or Demarara sugar. Both of them are just unrefined cane sugar and might be more to his liking. I’ve used a combination of maple sugar and turbinado in baked beans, and it works well.
Or is is possible that Fred just doesn’t like sulphured molasses? I like unsulphured, but I’ve never cared for sulphured.
Question for Friday:
Bonnie, just wondering if you know what Bonnie, used to be Bontasia, from San Antonio’s website is? My computer crashed and I lost it.
Robyn, I apologize for the typo in the name.
Hi Robyn,
Oops, got another question for you. If I remember right you had a “I want it” attack about key covers some celebrity had. I just found a website that sells different types. I think you later changed your mind but I thought I would insert some temptation into your life. Heh.
Concerning:
“So my question to you: when the Alzheimer’s gets really bad, would it be better to feed him to the pigs or just chop his head off with the hatchet?”
:hehe: just think what a loss of great blogging entries if you do either, especially when he starts forgetting he has done something and starts to do it again in the next 10min…. also there’s the many video opps you’d miss:)
(I’m not being mean. I take care of my mom and she has Alzheimer’s. It’s better to laugh than cry.)
Awwww…how can you resist Spanky’s warm, fuzzy-ness?
That is interesting that all of those bills got where they were going with a penny less postage on them. I am assuming the recipients all paid a penny postage due. When the postage changes there is probably quite a bit of that.
I was looking for something to kill thirty minutes of time on TV the other evening and how I came across Tori & Dean I do not know but it was entertaining.
I was also thinking that brown sugar is just less refined than white sugar – so white sugar is brown sugar with the molasses removed. Or something like that.
I wish that everyone would read your blog. I have had several times when someone has told me that they love cheese – so of course I ask them if they like it on salads – and they don’t know how funny that is! What a waste of a great joke.
I too thought that brown sugar was simply less refined than white sugar. Like, you would have white sugar over for a garden party, but you have brown sugar over for the Super Bowl, where brown sugar will crush beer cans against his head and hit on your friends. That kind of thing.
It doesn’t matter though, really, as my version of homemade baked beans means putting the Bush’s into a dish, covering with bacon and heating up in the oven. Thank God for the unsophisticated palates in this house.
Somewhere I read that the credit card companies would rather pay the measley(in comparison)postage due shortage to the postal service (to get the money in their hands) than waste the time and loss in the return to sender process. Of course, I wondered that if they did that, then they would miss out on all those late and over the limit fees. Hmmmmmm….I wonder.
Hey Robyn! My grandmother’s recipe for Maine Baked Beans is here (I hope HTML works in your comments). Since I’m from Maine, you’re from Maine, and she’s from Maine, you gotta know these are the real deal!
Try to remember all of Fred’s interesting facts and then one day just spout them all back to him. He won’t remember telling you and he’ll think you are just the smartest woman in the world!
Robyn, thank you again for posting the link to my blog post on Compassion International’s website. I’ve already seen some new comments pop up — really great comments from your really great readers. 🙂 What a wonderful community you have created here on your blog.
Laura said:
July 24th, 2008 at 10:57 am
Hey Robyn! My grandmother’s recipe for Maine Baked Beans is here (I hope HTML works in your comments). Since I’m from Maine, you’re from Maine, and she’s from Maine, you gotta know these are the real deal!
I’m from Nova Scotia. Is that close enough for the whole deal to work???
Seriously though, I was thinking yesterday I need to go buy some navy beans and try a heap of these recipies. Thanks to all who posted them.
Thanks so much for the Spanky. I LUV LUV LUV him =).
This has nothing to do with your entry, but I know you love to hear about people dreaming about you and Fred. I had a very drawn out dream last night about how my daughter and I went to visit you, but then I couldn’t get onto your computer to buy a plane ticket home and I had to explain to my husband that I was stuck in Alabama. Then we were outside, and you had a gigantic paved driveway with a basketball hoop and a ton of cars (I think you had a lot of visitors). I guess I must have left eventually because then I ended up in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, complete with my own odd little updates.
All I did before I went to bed last night was watch the season finale of “Deadliest Catch.” I have no idea why I dreamt about you!
If you mean Matt, the dancing guy, he’s here: http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/?fbid=he3Jo
Awww, Spanky!
Robyn, what ever happened to the Spiderman you used to photograph when you were remodeling/painting Crooked Acres? I haven’t seen him in a long, long time. Did he get et by a pig perhaps?
I love me some Ms Poo pictures. Such a beautiful kitty.
I love baked beans. Mom and Dad are from Maine, so yeah, I make them.
I have a question about squirrels (I know you have had your fun and games with them). Someone in the neighborhood is giving them peanuts. They are planting the peanuts in my flower garden, digging in the soil and killing all my plants. How can I get them to stop?
i saw this on apartment therapy and just had to share the photo with you…are you sure that’s not your house:) hehe
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/la/look/look-catshelving-057553
No surprise to you since have similar taste in crap tv, but I like Tori & Dean, too.
Are you watching Date My Ex? I keep forgetting to ask.
I cannot stand Tori and Dean, yet I watch that damn program every week. (I usually catch the 15th out of 45th rerun, or some other such nonsense.)
Do you think their marriage will last, or will it implode just like about every other celeb marriage that is the basis of a television show? Nick and Jessica. Hulk Hogan and Mrs. Hulk Hogan. Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro. Britney and Kevin.
Change of topic . . .
When making your homemade laundry detergent, did you use an old stockpot? I would really love to try and make this, but I don’t have a stockpot that is not being used for cooking food. (And I can’t use that one, lest I poison all the people in the house. Right?)
Do people really have pots that they use just for non-food purposes?
Sorry, it’s probably a goofy question but this dilemma is preventing me from making my own laundry detergent. Help!
I LOVE Tori and Dean. I need to get her book so I can read all the gossip about her mother. 😛