Is it Monday? Or Wednesday?

A whirlwind day. We've been in a major snowstorm, and lost two school days to it. You wouldn't believe the size of my email inbox when I returned to work today. Like hacking through the jungle with a dull machete.

The home computer is on the fritz - for some bizarre reason we have lost all communication with Google. It just won't go there. I've done scans, I've uninstalled and reinstalled Mozilla, I've gone through Internet Explorer, but no luck. I can get there at work, but not at home. So I have no access to my email, my calendar, etc.

AND it says it's low on RAM. Got any good suggestions about buying RAM?

Watched bits and pieces of The Evil One's speech at the sore loser's, oh I mean tea bagger's convention. What a moron!! If I were a Republican I'd be totally ashamed that my party thought she should even be let near a microphone, let alone public office. She has to read things like "Lift America's Spirits" and "Energy" FROM HER HAND?????? I might understand a few figures or stats in there, maybe her pin number, but ENERGY? TAXES? LIFT AMERICA's SPIRITS? What an idiot. They are only smitten because she's pretty. If she looked like me, they'd have left her in Wasilla on the city council.

Tapas Post

The small plates of my life.

1. Earliest sign of Spring in Minnesota - when the ice on the windows starts to shrink.

2. Focus on the Family can kiss my liberal feminist agnostic ass.

3. I have another winning crock pot recipe. Want to hear it or are you tired of recipe posts?

4. Does anything feel better than silky long johns?

5. Coffee and half & half are my drug of choice.

6. Come on someone! Those dishes aren't going to wash themselves!

7. If facebook starts charging, I am outta there.

8. I just read about an Andy Warhol painting going for $21 million at auction. I know it's someone's personal money, but do you realize how many families in foreclosure that $ would save? How many kids without health insurance it could cover? How many books it would buy for poor school districts? Why do clueless people get all the money??

9. My husband is a cutie. A cutie that makes me want to kill him in his sleep sometimes, but still a cutie.

10. Actually, my true drug of choice is Pepsi over ice.

Cracking me UP!

You people are totally freakin hilarious!

First good laugh of the day came from my cousin Anne, a nurse, and if you knew her Pulmonologist husband it would be even funnier:

"I just got home from Sam's Club where everybody and his dog who lives in the north hills was stocking up on milk for the expected 3 feet of snow. I drove into the garage and Husband popped his head out of the back door and jumped to my assistance to haul in the groceries - just a few things, really. Unfortunately, the 3-can pack of Dow Scrubbing Bubbles bathroom cleaner was on top - and he tripped and the cellophane-covered 3-pack landed right on it's nose on the kitchen floor. The lids broke on all three - and the white foam comes spraying out - and under pressure from the clear-wrap. Like a surgeon extricating a foreign body out of someone's gut, Husband swoops to pick up the foamy monster and throw it in the kitchen sink - it only continues to explode and foam and the next thing I know he's performing some kind of Heimlich maneuver and the spray adjusters are going nuts and he's covered with foam and now really trying to hog-tie a greased pig. The green hard-plastic canister tops are all splintered and he's tearing away the plastic wrap likes its clothing and he's got to stop arterial bleeding. I tell you, by this point I am just doubled over in painful laughter. "What's this scrubby bubble for anyway???" The look on his face - so serious - like he was really in a full code - if only we had paddles: "Charge to 300! CLEAR!!"

He honestly thought I was crying - but I was just laughing so hard.

When I told him it was bathroom cleaner, he gave up all heroic measures and the hissing subsided. And then, after he just abandoned all efforts and left the foamy corpses in the kitchen sink, he looks at me real serious.

"Honey. Don't worry. We can get more."



My #2 good laugh was here at Skyler's Dad's blog.

My #3 was here at Grant Miller Media

#4 was Dr. Monkey's Science Day!

Teriyaki Chicken in the Crock Pot

This blog is like my mind - all over the place. One day politics, next day jokes, next day recipes. At least I actually remember writing each and every post, so we know it's not a dissociative disorder. But if I start to talk about myself in third person please bring it to my attention. Yeah, like SHE'D listen!

Anyway . . . . . today's offering to you all is,

TERIYAKI CHICKEN IN THE CROCK POT
Because what busy person doesn't enjoy a good crock pot recipe?

6-8 skinless chicken thighs ( I kept the skin on - who wants skinless chicken? And I think you could use any cuts of chicken, but legs might fall apart)
1/2 cup of soy sauce (I used 1/2 low sodium and 1/2 regular)
2 T. brown sugar
2 T. or more grated fresh ginger
2-4 garlic cloves, minced

Place chicken in Crock Pot. Combine remaining ingredients. Pour over chicken.
Cover* and cook on high for 1 hour, then on low for 6-7 hours.
Serve over rice.
*If you had to be told to cover the crock pot, there is something wrong with you. Then again I recently forgot to plug the blasted thing in, so who am I to judge?

Best slow cooker cookbook series out there!

These never cease to make me smile

I received an award today! From Mommylisa over at Mommy's Nest, who blogs with humor, grace, and much funny love for her munchkin.

She has given me the Beautiful Blogger award!

I'm so honored.

First I'm amazed that 46 people actually admit that they read me, and more tell me they read too but haven't logged on. Again, that just fascinates me because I think I'm boring.

And now I will share the love:

I'm going to pass this award to Mama in Wonderland.

Not only is she a real-life flesh and blood friend, but she's a real-life published author! Her essays recently appeared here, in the collection P.S. What I Didn't Say, Unsent Letters to Our Female Friends, published just this Fall.

Mama writes with good humor, love, and self-deprication about the mind numbing aspects of parenting young children on one income while trying to maintain some adult decorum and sanity.

Thanks again Mommylisa!

This so SOOOO GOOOOD!!

Stewart reviews Obama’s “awesome” Q&A with House GOP, rips Fox for bailing

Why wasn't this everywhere?? Evidently MSNBC carried it live.
No small wonder why FOX cut if off immediately.

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Tell CBS how you feel

From NARAL:

CBS cleared the way to subject nearly 100 million people to Focus on the Family’s extreme agenda by agreeing to air its new pro-life ad during the Super Bowl.

Focus on the Family has an unmistakable anti-choice, anti-birth-control, anti-sex-education, anti-gay agenda. If that wasn’t bad enough, its views on women are just plain insulting and dangerous. For example, its web site urges women facing an unintended pregnancy to seek “wise advice” because “the hormones and extreme emotions of pregnancy make reasonable decisions more difficult.”

CBS still has time to change course if enough of us apply pressure. Urge CBS to drop Focus on the Family’s ad.

You can go to the NARAL site and sign their petition.
Or you can Email CBS here. If this link won't work, go to cbs.com and scroll to the bottom and click the "feedback" link.

Here's what I sent:

"I am respectfully asking you to drop the planned Focus on the Family ad during the Superbowl. Pandering to their extreme agenda during a family/recreational event is shameless. I will avoid the Superbowl, and all other CBS programming until I hear your decision has been reversed. I may be one person, but I will spread this message and urge others to do the same."