Simple Pleasures are the best

One thing that I absolutely love about blogging is the certainty that simple things make most of us happy. Despite our bizarre media and rampant consumer culture, blogging has shown me that most of you are quite content with easy pleasures.




Some of them include:

For Michael - it's his garden
For Johnny Yen - it's good music
For Lisa - it's her children
For Dr. Monkey - it's a good junk store
For Sheletta - it's her son
For Madame Leiderhosen -it's a good skein of yarn
For Bubs - it's a nice cocktail at home
For Little Sister - it's a craft project with her son
For Cheesecake Maven - it's a walk in the woods
For themom - it's hearing from her grown son
For Christopher - it's funny things kids do
For Shan - it's love from her daughters
For Fran - it's her dog
For Kirby - it's her son
For Some Guy - it's newfangled toothpaste
For Missy - it's the sharp dressed man
For Melinda June -it's finding some good cereal
For Kirelimel - it's Christmas figurines.

Strangely, for some of you I could link to individual posts. For others, well, not.

I really hope it's not just me

I'm starting to think the air freshener we use in the bathroom is worse than the smell we're trying to cover up.

Sometimes my husband's breath smells like an old man, and I don't want to kiss him. My breath, on the other hand, always smells like mint and unicorns.

I'm still absolutely shocked at how old I am.



I completely LOVE taking naps on our couch with my big green blanket.

I hate flossing my teeth and have to force myself every single night.

Each and every year reminds me what an utter dork I am, and I don't know whether to be proud or a tad bit upset.

Celebrity status, here I come

I'm going to be on the radio!!

My blogging friend Sheletta Brundidge, shown left, is the new producer for The Kevyn Burger Show on 107.1 FM here in the Twin Cities. She has asked me to do a little segment on adjusting to job loss and sudden poverty. Basically I'll be the Poor Man's Paula Deen giving you advice on broke-ass living! How sweet is that? Someone giving me a channel to do what I do best - yuck it up with an audience!

So listen for my first show next Wednesday, February 11th, at around 9am. You can listen online at the link above.

And visit Sheletta's blog - one of the funniest women around. Her blog won an Emmy last year!


Kevyn Burger

Blah Blah Blah Randomness

Not much going on, so I'll pass the time with some random thoughts.

1. I don't like Valentine's Day, never have. The screaming reds and pinks in the stores bother me, and I get a stomachache looking at all the candy. It seems rather rude to play up a "holiday" with the objectives of selling lots of cheap crap and stuffed animals and making folks without a significant romantic other feel like losers.

2. Why do we expect the GOP to accept the latest election and realize their practices just don't work and were rejected by the electorate? They are only human, yes with flawed philosophy in my opinion yet still mere mortals. The elections of 2000 and 2004 certainly didn't make US think that liberal thought had been rejected, and that we should therefore roll over and die away. It made progressives work even harder, which is what I assume the conservatives will do. I don't like it, but why do we expect different?

3. I subbed in 1st grade today and had this exchange with a student:
Me: My Mom always said "if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all". I say that to my kids too.
Kid: Yeah, my Mom says that too.
Me: Moms are pretty smart, aren't they?
Kid: Yeah, and Dads are kinda half-smart.

4. It's supposed to reach the 40s here later this week. It can't come quick enough.

5. I've lived in Minnesota since 1997 and have YET to see a hockey game.

6. I had some chocolate ice cream the other night and had forgotten how wonderful it is. For reasons unknown I haven't had chocolate ice cream in about 4 years. Now root beer floats are another story.

7. My back hurts. Wretched ultra firm mattress!

8. Just finished three superb novels regarding the Holocaust: Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Jack and Rochelle, and The Book Thief. Highly recommend them all, in particular Jack and Rochelle, a true story. Have now started A Pocketful of Names.

We don't need no stinkin groundhogs

Hope you can read our Mayor's latest proclamation defeating the notion that a mere groundhog can tell US when winter will be over. Read to the masses at the latest Defeat of Groundhog Day celebration in Northfield, MN. Evidently the gathering was a success. Alas, I couldn't attend because my kids were sick. Also because it was dark and cold outside and I had my comfy clothes on. If you want a better copy of the proclamation, click through the second link.

Northfielders like to proclaim their defeat of things. Note our historic Defeat of Jesse James Days celebration.

In honor of the Super Bowl

One of the best sketches of all time!

Super Bowly

Congrats to themom on your Super Bowl Champion Pittsburgh Steelers!

Have to say I was rooting for the Cardinals. Kurt Warner is an Iowan, and we corn-eaters have to stick together. And Larry Fitzgerald is not only a Minnesotan, but played for a high school in our conference.

The 100-yd touchdown by Harrison was amazing, but totally canceled out by the pummeling he gave another player. Rotten bad sportsmanship, that.

All-in-all another good Super Bowl game. The commercials? Meh, boring.