I bet Oprah loves meatloaf...
...and mashed potatoes, and gravy, and corn, and stuffing...
I used to have this job where I would travel and had an expense account. My meals were all in restaurants and paid for by the client. On the surface that may sound really good, but I much prefer my new role where I don't travel anywhere and all of my lunches are frozen leftovers from days or weeks past. Yesterday I had beef stroganoff leftovers from a month ago and the red wine was so strong in it I was worried my colleagues would think I was drinking at lunch.
Today was even better because it was surprise leftovers. The container had so much ice and snow in it, I couldn't even tell what it was. It could have been beef bourguignon or it could have been turkey stock. Lunchtime came around, I popped it into the microwave by the coffeemaker - went to the bathroom and returned to find ... meatloaf and mashed potatoes! Score! (Picture me on one knee repeatedly punching the air like Tom Cruise talking about Katie on Oprah.)
Johnny Depp and Technology
Eduardo Dedos de Tijera
Last year, the kids and I watched the movie: Edward Scissorhands together. There's this one part where Edward tried to make a phone call and gets a busy signal. Ellie asked: "What's that sound?" She didn't know what it was. So, it looks like busy signals have gone the way of typewriters and reheating food on the stove.
After the movie, Nik drew some pictures of Edward Scissorhands and then asked me to cut them out for him. I dutifully cut out his pictures and then had a thought. I said, "Hang on a sec." I slipped the pics under my flatbed scanner and scanned them into Photoshop. Then I quickly arranged them into a single sheet and printed them out on the laser printer. Finally I gave him the printout and then stood back feeling satisfied. He looked at the sheet and said: Why did you do THAT?
5-year olds have no appreciation for technology.
Steph Learns Guitar - Day 27
There's no longer any need to continue...
I'm fortunate to have found this. Now there's no longer any need to waste hours practicing chords and picking or developing callouses on my finger tips or getting cramps in my hands. Mastery is just 41 dollars and 98 cents away! And with the E-Z Chord Kit I'll finally want to learn to play rockabilly, something I've never wanted to learn before...
Funny?
I think so.
This Walmart ad has gone viral because it is a little different than the usual smiley face-laden messages pumped out by the chain. The site where I found all this out had lots of comments stating that it just isn't that funny, but I laughed.
And continued to laugh for a while afterwards. I'm still laughing now. And since I'm an authority on what's funny, (sorry Patti) it must be.
Today, I learned how to tie my shoes
This is incredible.
I'm actually a little embarrassed to admit it but today I finally learned how to tie my shoes. Until today I had no idea that I didn't already know how. Oh sure, I thought I knew how to tie them as far back as 1985 but as it turns out when it comes to shoelace tying (as Sergeant Schultz would say,) "I know NO-THING!" It turns out that all these years I have been tying my shoes with a granny knot when I should have been using a reefer knot. What motivated me to investigate this? My shoes always come undone on me no matter what the shoes (even shoes without laces! :-) and I always have to double-tie them. Double-tying works OK but can be a pain when it comes time to untie your shoes. Now, thanks to the Internet, I know how to tie my shoes! Yay!
Rather than lord it over all of you who still don't know how, I will share the secret. Check this out.
Isn't that amazing?! FYI, even more efficient is the Ian knot, which is billed as the quickest way to tie shoes and which seems to result in a perfect reefer knot! I've already mastered this knot and like it even better than the reefer! I think it was well worth the 5 minutes (Ok - 2 hours) it took to learn how to tie an Ian knot...
Now, both of you who are reading this are probably a little skeptical. I was too so I did a simple test at work. I have to wear steel-toe safety shoes, the ones with the with the round and infernally slippery laces; they are the perfect "test" shoe...so what I did was yesterday I simply tied the left shoe in a reefer knot and the right shoe in a granny knot. The results? Within 2 hours the granny knot came undone, and over the course of the next few hours it again came undone a total of three more times. And the reefer knot on my left shoe? It didn't come undone once. After 4 hours I discontinued the test because getting that close to my shoes...well, the smell was just too much for me, but the test results prove it. The Ian/Reefer knot rules!