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Birthday Booty
Feb 3rd
Let me tell you a about a little something that I fell in love with at Christmas and again this past weekend. Settlers of Catan is the board games of all board games. T got the original board game for Christmas from one of his brothers. We spent hours playing it at Christmas with his family. Then this past weekend for his birthday he got the player expansion and the Cities and Knights Expansion from that same generous brother (and no, it wasn’t the brother that spanked M).
This game takes a good long while to play (think Monopoly) and even a longer time to read all the instructions and understand how to play – but boy is it fun! If you have a weekend evening to kill and a few friends who love to play boards games, buy a bag of chips and a couple of 6 packs of beer and Settlers of Catan.
Oh and in case you are curious, the large box wrapped in unseasonal Christmas paper was my gift to my husband. I am such a good wife that I got him a mini fridge to put next to his computer. So this way when he is killing aliens or saving the world from zombies, he won’t have to run upstairs while regenerating to get a drink or snack. Now all he has to do is reach over and grab his sustenance to refuel himself. The world is safer because of my birthday gift to T, not many wives can say that!
You’ve Been Almond Joyed!
Nov 3rd
Them: (Knock Knock)
Me: (open door)
Them: TRICK OR TREAT!
Me: (asses the situation- see steps below)
- Are they too old to be trick or treating?
- Are they wearing a costume?
- Is it a good costume or just a pair of ears glued onto a head band or even just some paint smeared on their face?
- Do they have a good attitude?
- Double candy for originality.
Me: Happy Halloween! (put the candy the kid has earned into candy bag.)
Top Shelf Candy!
You have been Almond Joyed!
I personally enjoy an Almond Joy. I like coconut. I like chocolate. I like almonds. What is not to like? Kids on the other hand, usually don’t like Almond Joy candy bars. So when kids didn’t earn Top Shelf Candy, they got Almond Joyed!
These are some of the kids who got Almond Joyed:
- Tween Girl: When I answered the door the girl, who was probably about 12 (too old!), held up her finger to me and said into her phone – HER CELL PHONE!- “Hold on a minute.” Then turns to me and says in a sweet voice, “Trick or Treat!?” — Almond Joy
- Ambitious Greedy Boy: A boy bordering on too old to trick or treat got Almond Joyed because when I answered the door, he looked at me expectantly, held out his comforter bag (the clear big bags that comforter/bed in a bag sets come in) and said in a very snotty – you owe this to me voice “Trick or Treat.” Almond Joy. Too old. Bad attitude.
- No Costume kids. Enough said. If you don’t even TRY. Not even a fake, headband with ears attached costume, I didn’t even hesitate. Almond Joy.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I am not the grinch of Halloween. I am no Scrooge. I love it. The fantasy, the costumes, the candy, the general energy of the night! I over give candy to creative, fun costumes. Young kids who are excited and eager and gratful, will get a handful of Top Shelf Candy.
Kids who got Top Shelf Candy:
- Jelly Belly Costume Genius: A clear big garbage bag around the torso (as if the kid was the trash in the bag) and then the bag was filled with blown up brightly colored medium sized balloons. She had a Jelly Belly logo taped to the outside of the bag. She looked like a bag of Jelly Bellys. So cute. So original. So inexpensive. Handful of Top Shelf Candy.
- Sushi Girl: This girl was a large LARGE sushi roll. Cardboard was shaped around he torso and packing peanuts were hot glued on for the rice. The veggie and meat were just drawn in the center. Very original. Top Shelf Candy Worthy.
- Themes. I love a costume theme. I love when a group comes up and they are apart of a group. Clever. Well organized. Top Shelf Candy earned.
I love Halloween. I buy the good candy for the Trick or Treaters. I give it generously, but you got to earn it.
Biggest Loser Premiere Party
Sep 14th
Tomorrow night the latest Biggest Loser season premieres on NBC.
Stoked does not begin to express how I feel. I can not wait. I am pumped. I am excited. I am ready. I LOVE Biggest Loser!
I love Biggest Loser. I will say it again and again. I love everything about it. I love the reality TV aspect of it. I love that there are alliances formed and broken. I love the competitiveness of it. I love that there is more than just a cash prize for the contestants to strive for. I love the host, I think Allison Sweeney is at her best on this show. I LOVE the trainers. Jillian is my hero and I want her to help my get strong and become a kick-ass-self-empowered-bad-ass-motorcycle-driving woman and I wish I could have Bob train me so I could touch my hands to my toes with out feeling shooting pain up my calves. I love how inspiring the show is. I love that the contestants have to WORK for and they EARN everything they win. I love that it is a positive show about getting healthy. I love love love sitting on the couch watching the contestants huff, puff and sweat while I eat a bowl of ice cream.
So this season, to celebrate the show and all that it stands for, I decided to host a Premiere Party.
I emailed out the invites today, knowing that not everyone would be able to make it and a lot wouldn’t want to come. I know the die hards will come and a few intrigued friends who have heard us said die hards rant and rave about BL will show up. But honestly, if no one comes I will be more than happy to sit on my couch and eat ice cream by myself (is that a sign of an addiction, like when you drink by yourself?) while I scope out this seasons contestants.
This was the invite:
Tomorrow Night!
Biggest Loser is starting up again!!Come on over for some indulgent food and drink
Show starts at 7pm.
I will be in front of the tv at 7 and will not answer the door unless it is during a commercial break so either come before 7 or let yourself in. We will be in the basement
Our dog barks, our dog does not bite. Call her by her name, Lucy, and tell her to sit and she will most likely sit for you. I will put a bucket of treats out side the door for you to bribe Lucy with if you have to come later than 7 because… “I will be in front of the TV at 7 and *will not* answer the door unless it is during a commercial break so either come before 7 or let your self in.”
If you can’t come, don’t worry about it. If it is to far to drive on a work night, don’t worry about it. If you don’t like Biggest Loser and you mock this one of a kind, incredible and inspiring reality TV gem, don’t come. You are not welcome… I am kinda serious about that. You can come if you don’t like it, just check your anti Biggest Loser attitude at the door next to the dog treats.
I also put together a little challenge for the ladies that will be coming over. The winner will get something… probably some chocolate and or some cheese.
Here are the challenge forms, feel free to print them out and play along or use them at your own BLPP!
I am also going to print out a contestant reference sheet to make the challenege easier and so we don’t have to refer to the contests as “that one there” or “that one that just fell of the treadmill” They are real people. We owe it to at least try and learn there names in return for the hours of entertainment they will provide of us!
So, now I need a shopping list for my BLPP….
- good cheese
- cheap, but good wine
- chocolate
yeah… that about does it.
Tomorrows To Do: Put on sweats, set out the dog treats, cut up some cheese and plop my Biggest Loser loving bum on the best seat in the house!
Free Fun
Sep 6th
We, like so many others in the country, our tightening up our budget. We like free fun. The boys love, not like they love mac ‘n cheese or how they love bath time, my boys border on a worship level – a sort of an agape love for tractors.
M’s vocabulary revolves around tractors or any other heavy machinery. He knows what an excavator is. He can point out a backhoe, differentiated between a cornpicker and a combine. So when I asked the boys, “Do you want to go to the tractor store?” I was expecting an excited response. Maybe a, “Yeah!” or a, “Mommy put shoes on!”
I wasn’t expecting an incoherent high pitched ramble that went a little something like this, “GOGOGOTractorstoreseeCOMBINEtouchtiregoneedshoesBarneybackhoe–breath–bringblankiegoseetractorgototractorstoreseeCoreyCombine–breath–seeGradyGrader?”
Needless to say, the boys loved just walking around the tractor lot. Touching tires. Sitting in seats. Standing in Barney Backhoe’s bucket.
Free Fun. You just can’t beat it.
