17 posts tagged “qotd”
I'm tired of working. I feel like jumping in on this one.
Name three words or phrases you wish you'd coined:
I actually did invent this one: Squoozle
If you squeeze something, and it oozes, you are squoozling it.
Feel free to use this any time you'd like.
&:o)
My ex came up with this one many many years ago: Pork Roger
Many many years ago, he was at an office party. Booze may or may not have been involved. One of the Big Bosses got up to the microphone and said "Now it's time for Door Prizes." My ex, gem that he was, yelled out "Pork Rogers??? What the hell is a Pork Roger????" The Big Boss replied "I don't know what the hell a Pork Roger is. I said Door Prizes." After everyone stopped laughing at him, my ex decided (for whatever reason) that a Pork Roger is what you get when you roll a slice of lunchmeat into a tubular shape, so you can eat it like that. To this day, I use that word and I'm pretty sure my kids still know it (how about it LG???) and my BFF uses it like a real word too.
Please feel free to use Pork Roger whenever it's appropriate, also. It needs to catch on more than it has.
I wish I had coined the word: Schnorgle
I was doing that for years before it was officially named over on Cuteoverload.com.
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If I don't talk to you guys anymore before I leave for the weekend tonight, I'd like to tell you:
I hope everything is good with all of you.
I hope all of you moms (whether it's to a hooman kid or a furry kid) have a wonderful weekend and a peaceful happy Mother's Day on Sunday!
Take good care of yourself --- all of you.
And
Huggs and loves to you all.
&:o)
P.S.
Should driving while talking on a cell phone be outlawed?
Submitted by Soup.
I can't answer that question right now, because I am busy texting while I'm driving 70 MPH on the Schuylkill Expressway and I might miss my exit. I'll answer it later, when I get to a red light.
What are your favorite ways to reduce, reuse & recycle?
I'm leading a kind of simple life right now, so anything I do to reduce, reuse & recycle is mostly because I can't afford to do otherwise, NOT because I'm so ecologically aware or thrifty. So the things that I do, that HOPEFULLY are helping our environment and/or other people too, are:
I don't buy food containers. When the margarine is empty ( or other foods that come in plastic containers with lids ) I save them & use them like Tupperware. I save small glass bottles too and take homemade iced tea to work with me, in the reused bottles.
I get my clothes ( and other household stuff sometimes ) at a local thrift store. When we're done with OUR clothes, we put them in bags and lug them to the same thrift store & donate them there. Deniro even donates his no-longer-played-with toys and says that he's giving them " to some little boy who doesn't have any toys. " &:o)
Sarah has become the Queen Of Coupons and Deals. She has become so Coupon Savvy that if she spends $30.00 on a grocery order, she ALWAYS SAVES almost the exact same amount in coupons! I've even seen her spend LESS than she SAVED in coupons, and get a TON of groceries.
She also knows about a bunch of web sites where you can get FREE stuff from manufacturers, and TRADE stuff with other people. Here's the link to one of her favorite sites:
http://boards.babycenter.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?folderId=1&listMode=13&nav=messages&webtag=bcus5465
She says there's a board where everyone swaps coupons. She trades coupons that are useless to us with other people who can use them, and in return, they send HER coupons that are useless to THEM but WE can use them. She gets a couple of letters a day anymore with bunches of good coupons in them. She has traded Deniro's small clothes with other people in return for their LARGER Deniro clothes.
The thing that impressed ME the most was, she said there are boards where people trade THINGS that they don't want anymore. A couple of months ago, my VCR died. My TV, my DVR & my VCR are all pretty old. The TV is ancient and isn't cable ready, so the 3 items were all linked together & hooked up a certain specific way. When the VCR died, it left my DVR unusable until I would be able to buy a different cable to hook the TV & DVR together with, and I just couldn't afford to get it right away.
So Sarah went through this one on-line board and traded A BOTTLE OF BATH & BODY WORKS LOTION that she had but didn't want, for a MODULATER ( which is what I needed to hook my TV and my DVR up to each other! ) that somebody else had but didn't want! So now I'm able to use my TV and DVR again. &:o)
What was your worst hairstyle decision ever?
I have super-duper long hair --- it's thick and is wavy/curly when it's shorter. I almost always just pull it all back in a ponytail.
When I was newly divorced (about 15-ish years ago) I got involved in a community theater group. We had an annual awards banquet and I wanted to have my hair done * special * for the banquet. I told the stylist that I wanted it done up like a Gibson Girl hairstyle --- loosely gathered into a bun, with soft wisps framing my face & lying on my neck. I wanted to look soft & romantic for once.
I didn't think I was asking for too much. Evidently my stylist didn't get it.
After a really long time at the hairdresser's and NOT enough time to do it over again (because the banquet was in a couple of hours. . .) me & my hair looked exactly like this:
I have nothing against Alice nor any of the OTHER Brady Bunch, but it was NOT QUITE the look I was going for. . .
I cried on the way home in the car. My kids giggled at me and then when they realized it made me start crying more, they tried to console me between giggles. I ripped my Gibson Girl ala Alice hairdo down, washed it like a madwoman, blow-dried it and pulled it back in a ponytail and went to the banquet.
&:o(
Here I am . . . late again . . .
&:o\
Yesterday's QotD asked:
What time is your alarm clock set for? Do you use the snooze button?
My daughter & her 3 year old son sleep in their bedroom with the door shut, which is a short hallway away from the livingroom, where me & Wembley sleep on the sofabed.
Sarah's up before I am, so she sets her alarm for 5:00AM. I hear her alarm go off each morning, even though her door's shut & the alarm is one of those quiet teeny tiny electronic chirps.
I lay there then and worry about whether or not I'll be able to fall back to sleep for that important last 45 minutes of snoozin'.
I DO doze back to sleep.
I wake up & hear her going into & out of the bathroom each time.
I doze back to sleep.
I wake up & hear her getting herself breakfast in the kitchen.
I doze back to sleep.
I hear her turn the tv on to check the weather & news.
I doze back to sleep.
At 5:45 I hear her say "Mom, it's time to get up."
I say "OK".
I doze back to sleep.
At 6:00 I hear her say "Mom, it's 6:00" as she goes back into the bedroom to start waking Deniro up & getting him ready.
I say "OK".
I doze back to sleep.
At 6:15 I hear Deniro talking & being awake now. I look over at the microwave clock and see what time it is. I wimper to myself. I think about whether or not I can doze back to sleep or not one more time. I wish I could call out sick for once.
At 6:20 I think "Damn. I really need to get up and get moving I guess."
I drag myself out of bed & shuffle like Sean of the Dead into the bathroom. I sit in the bathroom & try to wake up while Wembley is going crazy in the sink meowing at me because she wants her breakfast NOW now now now dammit!
Then I'm awake, and suddenly all hell breaks loose as I do the typical mad rush to get ready & leave the apartment at 7:00 after I :
feed and water Wembley
clean her litterbox
put the sofabed back and put away the pillows and blankets
take a bath
brush my teeth and take meds
get dressed
gather any food or drinks that I'm taking with me
yikes!
I haven't ALWAYS been like this --- it's just a sloppy routine that I've fallen into since Sarah & Deniro moved in with me. I'm having a hard time motivating myself to break this habit...
I HATE being late and rushing --- so of course, I drive myself crazy every morning doing this...
I noticed other peeps talking about how their critters serve as an alarm clock. Wembley is kind of like an alarm clock that's broken --- it keeps going off, all night long, and there's no way to make it stop. Here is Wembley's typical night:
Step # 1. YGRS lays down to go to sleep for the night & Wembley floomphs down next to her face and expects to be rubbed & kissed over & over again.
Step # 2. YGRS finally falls asleep. Wembley looks at YGRS for awhile and eventually realizes that the rubbing & kissing will not continue any longer, so Wembley falls asleep too.
Step # 3. 1 or 1 1/2 hours at the MOST later - Wembley sees that YGRS is STILL not rubbing her or kissing her. So Wembley pat pat pats YGRS gently but persistantly on the cheek with her little hand until YGRS wakes up. Then if YGRS doesn't start rubbing & kissing Wembley again, Wembley butts her head HARD against YGRS's lips until she DOES start kissing her again. So YGRS does the whole rubbing & kissing thing again for about 15 minutes.
From here on, just keep repeating Step # 2 & Step # 3 over and over and over again, until YGRS and Wembley have actually gotten out of bed the next morning --- THAT is a typical Wembley night...
If it was up to Wembley, we would be doing Step # 2 & Step # 3 allllllllllllllllllll day long - EVERY day & night! ( Except for a small break where I would get up & gave her her breakfast, and then get back in bed again ...) --- all day & night - EVERY day & night. . .
&:o)
What was your worst cooking experience?
I fortunately have been pretty lucky in cooking & baking ( knock on wood. )
One funny thing that I can remember though is:
We had friends over for dinner one night ( I was in my 20's, married & with 2 little sweeties ) and since I knew how to cook pretty good, I wanted everything to be as yummy as possible for our company.
One of the things that I had made was a jello salad in a big round bundt pan. ( The salad would be like a giant ring. )
It had all this fruit & layers in it --- it had taken awhile to make & set. I had made this awesome topping to go along with it --- it was going to be wonderful.
When you make a jello mold, before you flip it out of the pan, you're supposed to set the mold pan in a pan of warm-ish water for a moment or two so that it slightly loosens up the molded jello --- then you CAREFULLY/QUICKLY invert the pan onto a plate --- and
* VOILA * --- * La Jello. --- Que Magnifique! *
So I did the whole warm-ish water loosening up thing --- and then, standing there at my sink, I CAREFULLY/QUICKLY inverted the mold ( * FLIP! * ) over onto it's plate.
Only --- I wasn't holding the pan & the plate together as firmly as I should have been, and in one nano-second, the jello mold BURST out from between the inverted pan & the plate, flopped into the sink and SHOT down the drain into the garbage disposal --- it looked like some kind of huge swollen mutant slug fleeing into the sewer system for it's life.
In an INSTANT it was completely gone.
&:o(
What are some charitable causes that you support or would like to support?
WMMR is a "Classic Rock" radio station in Philadelphia PA --- and it's The Best. I think it's been on the air since the early 60's.
The morning show on WMMR is "Preston and Steve". I know that every radio station has their own unique morning personalities, but THESE guys are *Awesome*! They are REALLY funny. They have a HUGE fan base and their pod-casts are popular, even in other countries.
They Rock. &:o)
Every Thanksgiving season, they have a "Camp Out For Hunger" food drive. They've been having it in the Target Shopping Center, on Chemical Road, in Plymouth Meeting PA. They all spend the week living together in an RV in the parking lot and their shows are broadcast from a tent there. Thousands of people in the area bring bags of groceries to the food drive. There are contests for the most food donated at one time by an individual, and the most food donated at one time by a business, and the most food donated at one time by a school. Last Thanksgiving they collected 155 TONS of food!
155 * Tons * !!!
The food is donated to the Philadelphia Food Bank, which then distributes the food to needy families in the area, and food kitchens, etc, that also help hungry people.
The past couple of years I've been low on money. Last year I dropped off a bag of food anyway and it really made me feel good to know that even though it was a small donation, I was still helping.
So this year I decided to buy 1 or 2 food items each week when I do my grocery shopping. I'm saving up all of the items so that when it's Thanksgiving time THIS year --- I'll have a bunch of bags of food to donate --- without having to put alot of money into it at once. (which I couldn't afford to do anyway...)
I have 2 full bags of groceries already! Sometimes I'm broke enough that week that even buying one small thing extra is a strain on my "budget". But it still makes me feel good inside to know that I'm making the effort to help someone else.
I'm kind of excited to think about how much food I'll have stocked up by Thanksgiving! &:o)
What, to you, is the first sign of spring? Have you seen it yet?
Submitted by Spy.
Here in Philly, you couldn't tell by the WEATHER that it's Spring. We had a BEAUTIFUL week last week --- complete with temperatures of up to 72 degrees! Everyone was all like "Spring is on the way - yay" blah blah blah --- and then 2 days later, a freak storm dumps 6+ inches of frozen snow / frozen slushy on us! The city did not see fit to plow the roads for some reason... (?) ... and it was hard as hell to shovel and treacherously slippery and hard.
It's sunny enough now and the temperatures are supposed to be back up in the 70's this week ---- so hopefully that last freak storm was IT for the season.
So the only real sign of Spring here today is the actual DATE SAYING it's now officially * Spring *.
* * * Welcome Spring ! * * *
IT'S ABOUT TIME ! ! ! ! !
Did you order Girl Scout cookies this year? What kind?
I did NOT ---- ONLY because I'm really broke right now.
My granddaughter Amber is selling them & I feel bad that I can't afford to buy them to help her out --- But they have gotten WAY too EXPENSIVE!
Back In The Day ( uh-oh...I'm starting to talk like an Old Person again --- RUN! ) they used to be $1.25 a box....and you got MORE cookies in that box than you do TODAY for - what is it now - $3.50???
Plus --- the percentage of $$ that the G.S. actually GET from their sales is SMALL. . . the MAJORITY of the cost does NOT go to the girls, but to the manufacturer, etc.
I absolutely COULD
* LIVE *
on the Thin Mints alone, though!
What's your favorite blend or brand of coffee or tea?
Wawa regular coffee RULES!
The way I make it:
24 ounce cup filled with
1/2 regular coffee
1/4 hot chocolate
1/4 french vanilla creamer
5 sugars (so thick the stirrer sticks straight up in it!)
&:o)
