West Elm's Organic Cotton Pin tuck Duvet's... I have two, one in Sea Spray that I bought last year as a gift from my father. This year I bought the Slate colored one, again from my dad I thought the slate would be great since it would hide the pups muddy paws. It does that but I didn't think about Calli's hair color or just how much she sheds. Oh well, I love both colors, I want it in every color West Elm sells. I just love the texture they give the bed, its not what you normally see. The pin tucks are a challeng with the dogs and truth be told me. I am totally notorious for laying on it and then trying to move it at the same time, which is not a good idea. However, I have become an expert as sewing them back in. I have a few I need to get done on the sea spray one. My next two colors would be Sea Grass and Steel Blue, they are wicked expensive though and shipping kills me. I hate to pay for shipping, in fact I never do. With these I wait for them to go on sale and justify the shipping that way.
I also want the square tuck duvet in Dandelion.
Yes, it's excessive and unnecessary and I can here my father in my head going. You want, you want, you want.... Well that about sums it and me up sometimes. I do want...
Friday, February 11, 2011
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Am I making cheesecake?
Mr P's and my black lab aka Baby Girl had learned to steal food. BG is a sweet lovable ADHD lab (you know, pretty much like Marley) and totally beautiful. The one sin she did not have until now in her ninth year is this stealing food.
This really started a few weeks ago when CD was coming to visit.In prep for the reuniting of the Ducksters, I was making some yumos. I had put a stick of Smart Balance/Butter combo on the counter to come to room temp. I came back to make the first item--Liptauer, Hungarian cheese spread made from cream cheese and butter whirled together and then flavored with minced onion, smokie sweet paprika, capers, and caraway seed--and found that the stick of marg/butter was gone. Huh. I looked all over thinking I had moved it or absent mindedly put it back in the frig when I was cleaning up. Not there. Ah huh. I suspected the true culprit right away but what was to be done at that point. I set out another stick and the cream cheese to soften but this time in the cupboard. The Liptauer got made and I started on the shrimp spread--a combo of shrimp, grated cheese, and sour cream flavored with a secret ingredient. When finished I put all the wrappers in the sour cream container, snapped the lid shut and shoved it in a plastic bag I had hung on a drawer pull specifically for garbage--something I commonly do when making several different items at once. Later, I heard a strange sound from the kitchen and shouted out "Bingo" a name I frequently call the Baby Girl. Dead silence and then the sound of the dog door. I went to investigate. Oh yes. The sour cream container had been carefully removed from the bag and was gone.
When CD was there with her two pups she went out and investigated the yard. Yup. Cream cheese wrapper, marg//butter wrappers, and the sour cream container, neatly opened.
The next theft was totally my fault. I had bought some lemon shortbread cookies and had decided I really did not like them. I had taken them from the biscuit tin and put them on a plate to take out and totally forgot. Mr P. saw them and put them up higher but not high enough. BG struck again. The next event was a few days later. As I went to make toast the morning after making hot bread under the broiler, the marg was missing. She got a container of Smart Balance off the counter. I looked I high and low since I could not remember leaving it out. I asked Mr P if he had moved it. No. I suggested that when the rain stopped he check to see if there was a container of marg in the yard. Oh yeah. Neatly opened and partially licked out.
I was telling my friend Vicky about this and she said, "I sounds like she's trying to make a cheesecake in her tummy with a lemon shortbread crust." So, Baby Girl, are you making cheesecake? Will the sugar disappear next if I leave any out?
This really started a few weeks ago when CD was coming to visit.In prep for the reuniting of the Ducksters, I was making some yumos. I had put a stick of Smart Balance/Butter combo on the counter to come to room temp. I came back to make the first item--Liptauer, Hungarian cheese spread made from cream cheese and butter whirled together and then flavored with minced onion, smokie sweet paprika, capers, and caraway seed--and found that the stick of marg/butter was gone. Huh. I looked all over thinking I had moved it or absent mindedly put it back in the frig when I was cleaning up. Not there. Ah huh. I suspected the true culprit right away but what was to be done at that point. I set out another stick and the cream cheese to soften but this time in the cupboard. The Liptauer got made and I started on the shrimp spread--a combo of shrimp, grated cheese, and sour cream flavored with a secret ingredient. When finished I put all the wrappers in the sour cream container, snapped the lid shut and shoved it in a plastic bag I had hung on a drawer pull specifically for garbage--something I commonly do when making several different items at once. Later, I heard a strange sound from the kitchen and shouted out "Bingo" a name I frequently call the Baby Girl. Dead silence and then the sound of the dog door. I went to investigate. Oh yes. The sour cream container had been carefully removed from the bag and was gone.
When CD was there with her two pups she went out and investigated the yard. Yup. Cream cheese wrapper, marg//butter wrappers, and the sour cream container, neatly opened.
The next theft was totally my fault. I had bought some lemon shortbread cookies and had decided I really did not like them. I had taken them from the biscuit tin and put them on a plate to take out and totally forgot. Mr P. saw them and put them up higher but not high enough. BG struck again. The next event was a few days later. As I went to make toast the morning after making hot bread under the broiler, the marg was missing. She got a container of Smart Balance off the counter. I looked I high and low since I could not remember leaving it out. I asked Mr P if he had moved it. No. I suggested that when the rain stopped he check to see if there was a container of marg in the yard. Oh yeah. Neatly opened and partially licked out.
I was telling my friend Vicky about this and she said, "I sounds like she's trying to make a cheesecake in her tummy with a lemon shortbread crust." So, Baby Girl, are you making cheesecake? Will the sugar disappear next if I leave any out?
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Mr P as a little boy
OK Here's the ad. You must view this to get it,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSz_SF-Bhc
Mr P said "I can see myself doing that at four."
BIG SMILE TO SEE THE BOY MY MAN WAS.
Love you, sweetheart.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqSz_SF-Bhc
Mr P said "I can see myself doing that at four."
BIG SMILE TO SEE THE BOY MY MAN WAS.
Love you, sweetheart.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Let me go boys, let me go boys by the Pogues in Subaru ad
The song in the Subaru ad featuring three young hockey players being ferried safely around by their hockey mom is by The Pogues.
To see the ad check out:http://www.aolradioblog.com/2010/10/30/subaru-forester-hockey-mom-commercial-whats-the-song/
When you hear the song in the ad its seems fairly innocuous and the boys are cute.
Did no one really research this? Do they really want music from a band which was originally know as Pogue Mahone an Anglicized version of the Irish for "kiss my arse." (Wikipedia) Further the title of the song is If I should fall from Grace with God. To get the full lyrics go to:
http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/IfIShould/IfIShould.html
or if you want to see a video of The Progues and hear the song go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBLqp-s__o
The first verse and chorus are as follows:
If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can receive me.
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive.
Let me go boys
Let me go boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry.
The first three lines of the chorus are what we hear best in the ad while the little boys knock the bejeesus out of each other on the ice.. When I heard the music, I went, "I know that." I thought it might have been from the Maritime Provinces of Canada, specifically Cape Breton, since although it sounded Celtic it was not traditional. Of course, I had to find out who, what, and where. Now, it is a catchie tune and if you ignore what the whole lyric means you can pretend its about these little boys playing hockey dudes until mum takes them home while they sleep in the back seat, all neat and tidy and safe. But knowing the whole song really puts a damper on that safe image since its really saying "die and go to hell." Is this really really what Subaru had in mind? They have got to be paying royalties to at least Shawn MacGowan the writer of the song and lead singer for The Pogues, if not the whole band since it is them singing. MacGowan himself was one of the Irish badboys of the 1980s and 1990s.
To see the ad check out:http://www.aolradioblog.com/2010/10/30/subaru-forester-hockey-mom-commercial-whats-the-song/
When you hear the song in the ad its seems fairly innocuous and the boys are cute.
Did no one really research this? Do they really want music from a band which was originally know as Pogue Mahone an Anglicized version of the Irish for "kiss my arse." (Wikipedia) Further the title of the song is If I should fall from Grace with God. To get the full lyrics go to:
http://www.pogues.com/Releases/Lyrics/LPs/IfIShould/IfIShould.html
or if you want to see a video of The Progues and hear the song go to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrBLqp-s__o
The first verse and chorus are as follows:
If I should fall from grace with God
Where no doctor can receive me.
If I'm buried 'neath the sod
But the angels won't receive.
Let me go boys
Let me go boys
Let me go down in the mud
Where the rivers all run dry.
The first three lines of the chorus are what we hear best in the ad while the little boys knock the bejeesus out of each other on the ice.. When I heard the music, I went, "I know that." I thought it might have been from the Maritime Provinces of Canada, specifically Cape Breton, since although it sounded Celtic it was not traditional. Of course, I had to find out who, what, and where. Now, it is a catchie tune and if you ignore what the whole lyric means you can pretend its about these little boys playing hockey dudes until mum takes them home while they sleep in the back seat, all neat and tidy and safe. But knowing the whole song really puts a damper on that safe image since its really saying "die and go to hell." Is this really really what Subaru had in mind? They have got to be paying royalties to at least Shawn MacGowan the writer of the song and lead singer for The Pogues, if not the whole band since it is them singing. MacGowan himself was one of the Irish badboys of the 1980s and 1990s.
His need for dental work alone would frighten the average American hockey mom into mild hysterics if she ran into him at the rink. So, what WERE they thinking ? Stay tuned for MrP's favorite new ad.
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