Archive for October, 2008
10.28.08
Posted in Public Service Announcements, Rants at 9:35 pm by Adriene
It’s Election Season, folks! Strap on your body armor and batten down the hatches, because the mud-slinging is at its slimiest!
You may remember several months back during Primary Season where I was venting about the sheer volume of phone calls I was receiving from one Mitt Romney. For those of you who don’t recall, in the span of three hours, his campaign called our house not fewer than seven times. I made up my mind right then and there that unless the voice of God Himself told me I had to vote for Mitt Romney that there was no way in hell I would cast a vote in his favor.
You’ll be glad to know that not much has changed during the general election. I’ll give both presidential candidates credit: I have yet to receive a phone call from either of them. However, our Senate race is going to drive me batty. I’m not usually an irrational person, but if you call a sleep-deprived mother of twins THREE TIMES while she’s trying to take one of the rare naps she gets, she’s gonna get cranky. And probably won’t vote for you.
Screw it, I’m flipping a coin.
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10.26.08
Posted in General at 2:25 pm by Adriene
1. Cooked four sugar pumpkins and pureed them. Managed to burn all ten of my fingers in the process.
2. Upon burning my fingers, said a few words that I’m going to have to remind myself to stop saying soon, or else I’m going to have them repeated back to me.
3. Remembered that normal people use canned pumpkin.
4. Learned that four sugar pumpkins make a crap-ton of pumpkin puree. Will be baking muffins well into April.
5. Realized that I hate the smell of cooked pumpkin when it is not accompanied by pumpkin pie spice.
6. Baked approximately 5,987 pumpkin chocolate chip muffins. Beginning to think that these muffins are actually what Jesus fed the multitude, rather than the fish and loaves we’ve been taught since children.
7. Dropped one muffin on the floor and watched it fall apart during the act of transferring it from the muffin pan to the cooling rack. Wept silently for ten minutes.
8. Ate not more than four but not less than three muffins straight out of the oven. Felt my ass grow by a quarter-inch.
9. Stared blankly at my overflowing kitchen sink. Wished I had a magic wand and Molly Weasley nearby.
10. Sat at the kitchen table and typed this blog entry. Noticed muffins on cooling rack across table from me. Felt ass grow by another quarter-inch.
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10.24.08
Posted in Confessions at 12:57 pm by Adriene
1. This morning, I finally put the copy of Ratatouille that Netflix shipped to us on JUNE 28 in the mail. JUNE 28 PEOPLE. I freaking paid nearly $32 to rent that movie ($8 a month x nearly four months). It was good, but not worth $32.
2. I recently added Twilighters.org to my feed reader. Yes, it’s run by people literally half my age. Oh, and they have a video podcast called “Bite Me” that is scarily reminiscent of “Goth Talk” on SNL (I swear one day the guy and the chick on it are going to refer to themselves as Azrael Abyss and Circe Nightshade). Go ahead and mock me.
3. I’ve recently become addicted to Flair on Facebook. Two years ago, I would’ve told you being on Facebook itself would’ve qualified me as “lame,” but I’ve sunk even farther. I check for new Flair more often than I should (and yes, before you ask, most of my Flair is Harry Potter related). Though I don’t get the random Flair people create saying they’re going for 2,000 Flair Credits. I appreciate them, because they remind me that I am still somewhat normal.
4. One of my new goals is trying to score above 1200 on Spider Solitaire on the “medium” setting. Go ahead and call me Creed Barton.
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10.10.08
Posted in Public Service Announcements at 12:35 pm by Adriene
It’s probably not a good idea to make tuna salad in a house that also contains a very fat cat if you want to eat your lunch in peace.
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10.02.08
Posted in I am smrt., My Immaculate Taste in Music at 7:04 pm by Adriene
Lately, I’ve been trying to get back in touch with the music world after taking about a year hiatus while getting into the groove of motherhood. One of the first steps I took was to see what was in my iTunes library, and tried out the new Genius feature that will recommend things to you based upon what you already have in your library.
It was during one of these perusals of my iTunes library that I discovered that I must have had a momentary lapse of sanity on several occasions, because there are quite a few songs that I do not recall downloading at all there. At first, I thought I could blame one of my late night bouts of insomnia and heartburn during my pregnancy (and therefore the cause was obviously “pregnancy brain”), but no, the songs were all downloaded BEFORE I got pregnant. So, I’m at a loss as to what happened.
Here are the ones I have no memory of downloading:
- “The Human Hosepipe” by Harry and the Potters (I’m blaming this one on Kari)
- “Hysteria,” “Supermassive Black Hole,” and “Starlight” by Muse (I’m thinking I’m going to have to blame my emo/goth/intellectual alter ego for these)
- “Angel” by Aerosmith (WHAT THE HELL?)
- “Ana’s Song” by Silverchair (I… have no good explanation.)
- “Song 2″ by Blur (WOOHOO!)
Has anyone else had this happen? Oh, just me? That’s what I thought.
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