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The Garlic Misadventure

Monday, April 30th, 2007

I should have been Italian. I love garlic. (I don’t love tomato-y stuff though, I like white sauce–with garlic.) So. Tonight I was frying some hamburger, and I grabbed the garlic–first ingredient!–out of the cupboard, and since I always keep it in a certain way, I was confident…I opened the “sprinkle” flappy thing on the lid, the flappy thing that was further away from me (you know, just right), and started shaking garlic all over the hamburger. That’s what happened–theoretically!

In reality, I had opened the “dump” side of the lid, and I was dumping garlic over the meat. AAHH!! See, since I cook, I always keep the spices in the cupboard in a certain order, with the “sprinkle” flappy side of the lid conveniently where I need it. Unfortunately, sometimes people do not leave it how I do!

(Mom, don’t look at this next part.)
Soo, I figured hey, I’ll just strain it and get all the garlic out. People, water may go through colander’s holes, but garlic doesn’t! Instead it coated the meat even further. And since water goes out colander holes, I rinsed the meat. That seemed to get some off.

Then I put it all back in the pan and on the stove, turned the burner on, and came in here (only a few feet away from the stove) to write about it. After a while, I didn’t hear anything and didn’t smell anything cooking. I go in there and guess what? I had turned on the wrong burner. Good grief.

Anyway. I thought somebody might be amused by the story.

And I’m sure it’ll be good! After all, is there such thing as too much garlic?

I Don’t Know How Old He Is, But…

Monday, April 30th, 2007

Once upon a time, there was the morning of April 30th, and on this morning, Dad, Mom, Rase, Jay, Abby, and I were in the living room. Abby was on my lap, giving me hugs (at one point she threw her arms around me and said “I love you!” ).
“It’s going to be your birthday pretty soon, Jay! Do you know how old you’ll be?” Mom asked Jay.
He kind of laughed and thought about it and said “I don’t know.”
“How old are you now?”
“Three.”
“So what comes after three?”
At this point, Abby held out one of her hands with all the fingers up and said “Lots!”

Hey Guess What? Some (mildly) Interesting Things Happened Today!

Sunday, April 29th, 2007

So I suppose the point of this is to tell you about them, right? Well what if I didn’t? You’d see that title and think “Oh yay, something very interesting happened in the McNerd household, and I’m gonna read about it!” then you get here and…nothing.
I’m so mean.

Ok, fine, I’ll tell you.

Oh rats. There went my train of thought. (Just kidding about that!)

First of all, Dad’s been working on the CD heavily lately, so he can get it finished soon. As far as I know, he’s working on one of the four last songs as I type. Man, it’ll be so good to have it all done!! Last few things are recording his vocals and my vocals.

We’re having spaghetti for dinner. I bet you really wanted to know that, didn’t you! Well we are. And while I was cooking the hamburger, Ben comes in, sniffing. He headed straight for the delicious-smelling pot that was holding the cooking hamburger and…no wait…the pot didn’t smell good, the hamburger did. He headed straight for the pot which was holding the delicious-smelling hamburger. He leaned over and took loooong sniffs. (For anybody who doesn’t know Ben…and who doesn’t? Ha! He is an avid lover of food.) As he walked away he said, “You should just lean over that all day! Sure beats the heck outta sprayin’ rose stuff all over you!”

And also speaking of Ben, he washed and waxed his pickup today. It looks sooo nice…red as a cherry. Joe offered to take pictures of it (with his good camera…the dinky one is exactly that…dinky), but Ben wouldn’t. Too bad.

It got up in the 80’s again today! It’s supposed to storm in what’s left of today–the few hours of it. Ooh, I just took a peek at the forecast, and it’s supposed to be in the 70’s the next couple days!

Hm, there my train of thought derailed again. And you know what it did? It spilled all the thoughts all over. Thoughts for sale, FREE!

Hm, maybe I should go now, eh?

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Sunday, April 29th, 2007

The Weather (The weather is always a good subject, isn’t it?)
We have long been bemoaning the absence of Spring…the temperatures haven’t been much above 60º, and it snowed a week ago or so. Well, today it got up to 85º, and is supposed to be 81º tomorrow! The kids washed the van today–and it rained three times afterwards!
Want it to snow? I know a sure-fire cure: When Dad had his new Ford pickup(s), whenever it got washed, it would snow the next day! Washing the van only makes it rain.

Spring
Besides being nice and warm today, the lilac bush is budding and we have tulip leaves coming up! In town some people have daffodils and they’re so pretty!

Abby
Abby had never had cold cereal before a few days ago. Mom got some cereal free (don’t ask me how she managed!–coupon or something)…Frosted Mini Wheats and Cocoa Dino Bites. Well, somebody gave Abby the Cocoa Dino Bites. She looks down and is like “What are all these brown things and am I actually supposed to eat them?!?” Then somebody made her take a bite and she realized it was better than it looked!

The Cat
I don’t remember if I said before, but one of Pi’s loose teeth fell out. So far this makes a total of three she’s lost…isn’t that weird? They’re growing back, too. Anyway.
Remember couple weeks ago I wrote about that stove? Well, in the middle of admiring it, we were all out in the garage. Then Tess realized what she’d been stepping on–she’d thought it was a little mound of soft dirt. A mouse. My cat kills mice, but rarely does she eat them! (She did once, and…well, that’s another story…)

The Mice
In the garage is an entrance to the attic. Normal attics may have a floor and be used for storage, but our attic isn’t…just rafters and bare insulation. Well, where these mice have taken up domain is over the computer room and over my room/twins’ room. Unfortunately, there’s only entrance enough for mice, not cats, so Pi can’t go back there. She does her best, but…anyway. We had two choices: buy this special kind of mouse poison, or get these electronic mouse-driver-out-of-the-homer things. Well, Mom decided on the electronic thingies (because the boys wanted the mice to go in the shed so they could shoot them with their BB guns), so we went to a feed store last week and got two. One for upstairs, one for downstairs. I was afraid they’d bug the cat, too, but they don’t.
Anyway. (Yes, it’s quarter to one, and my train of thought keeps derailing. Silly train!)
Mom wanted to know how the electronic thingiemabobs were working, so she asked us.
*Somebody said the shed was full of mice.
*I haven’t heard mice in my ceiling much.
*I heard mice in the computer room’s ceiling still.
*I have seen where the mice have moved insulation in front of the hole and away from it! (Goofy mice can’t make up their minds! Worse than females!)

So anyway. I’m not sure if it’s worked or not, and I totally can’t remember the purpose of saying all that or what my conclusion was going to be.
Maybe I should go to bed, eh?

I’m a morning person. I go to sleep after midnight!

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