The one where I write over ... here.

Today I reviewed something I had been LUSTING after since I saw the first coupon for it.

I could not find it in any grocery store though...it was weird.

Then T-bone brought some home from the company store - and I got to try both Creme Caramel and Chocolate Raspberry - now I LOVE the Yoplait Whips Chocolate Rasperry Mousse (and all the sinful new dessert flavors of fat free Yoplait), so I had high hopes...

High hopes that were DASHED. Yoplait Delights are no delight.

not worth the effort to look for or purchase. sorry.

The one where I steal GOOP from Gwyneth.

It's time to dump your dull duds & sassafras your wardrobe!

Supah and I just handed you a big, phat (and very phake)
VISA gift card* with your name all over it.

Now, go spend it ... in the first evah,

All About MEme Shopping Spree-Spree!

Shop 'til you Drop and buy - you guessed it - FIVE new items of clothing, accessories, shoes ... something you put on your hot little bod! Tell us what you "bought" in words, photos, links, ... you decide.


"It doesn't matter what you wear
Just as long as you are there! "

*Just clarifying - for legal purposes and what-not - that the aforementioned gift card is not real. Please do not send your credit card bills to either MommyBrain or SupahMommy. We're just as dough-challenged and cash-strapped as the next SAHM ;) But please feel free to spend on this spree as if it were someone else's money ... just not ours ... for shizzle.

* join us
* make a post- grab our meme button or shopping spree pic
* come back here paste in your posts direct URL and your name into LInky
* comment on the two above you and 1 below you if you can
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Sue ME girls, I could not keep it to five because:

(give me everything below please, damn you Goop!)

- I am a raving online window-shop-aholic. I seek out cool and trendy stuff and then try to find it cheap online or in real-life. I cut stuff out of magazines and keep a folder of...

IF I WON POWERBALL HERE ARE THE CLOTHES I WOULD BUY!!

Seriously, my window-shop-aholic disease is CRAZY. But, does not cost me anything but a few hours surfing and magazine subscriptions.

Gwyneth Paltrow made it WORSE with her damn post about her Uniform...because it is EXACTLY what I would want for myself if I were:

a) that thin

b) that rich

Damn her cute trouser jeans and coat - except THIS look I have in a different color - dark trouser jeans and a recent find (Saturday at Marshall's for a blessed shopping day without Boo Boo La la) deep turquoise "Live A Little" jacket...LOVE IT! at 18.99!!

Ah - CASHMERE TRENCH AND RIDING BOOTS? Thank you, I will take it...

These booties seriously are calling for Mommy Lisa's feet.

Uh- HELLO! This is a perfect, "I am so rich that I sit on the board of your charity and can show up looking all 'artsy-cool' and no one will say sh++ to me about it. I am THAT fabulous."

Now the cat is out of the bag why there are abandoned shopping carts all over the internet. Mommy Lisa is to blame - sorry marketing people trying to up your surf-to-purchase ratio - when I win Powerball I will help fix that. ;)

November's Good Shopping Deed

I get emails from Envirosax - I am their friend on Facebook - I write about them all the time.

And now they are helping a cause that I find has touched some of my blogging friends. Having to give up pets because they have lost their home.

You are shopping for the holiday season already, right?

Why not participate by purchasing a set of bags for your Aunt or your Mother who you never know what to buy? Perhaps a socially conscious brother-in-law? Whomever!


Here is what Envirosax will do:

During the month of November, Envirosax is proud to donate $1 from the sale of every Graphic Series pouch (set of 5 bags, shown below) sold on the Envirosax website to the ASPCA®.
Recently there has been an alarming rise in reports concerning animals that have been left behind to starve or fend for themselves in empty foreclosed homes. Once discovered and taken to local shelters, many of these “foreclosure pets" are in desperate need of medical care.
Animal shelters nationwide depend on donations to help cover medical costs and provide food and shelter. Recently, donations have dwindled due to the recession and many of the shelters have been forced to cut holding periods from six days to three after which the animals are put down.
Not only are Envirosax pouches an affordable gift idea for the Holidays, proceeds from each sale of these select products will go towards providing food, medical care, and hopefully give abandoned pets a second chance at finding loving homes.

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If you purchase a set let me know! I want to personally thank you. ;)

Happy Sunday!

POP-up VIDEO!

Last weekend this movie was on TBS - (stands for The Best Shit on Television).

I love it for a few reasons:

1. Hugh Grant
2. Drew Barrymore
3. 80's pop - even fake - I graduated in 1985, so 'nuff said
4. A jane-schmo gets a chance to write for a living. Heck, if I could make money writing case studies I would do it.

Wang Chung my babies, wang chung.

Random Stories and Re-postings

I did not sleep very well last night. I woke up at 1:01am, 2:18am, 3:02am, and 4:12am. At which point I got out of bed and got dressed to make it to the Y by 5...

I get to the Y and get on a cross-trainer with my text book and headphones and am blissfully working out and learning (I learn/comprehend better when I am in motion - there is a term for it, but I forget) and an older gentleman starts to get on the cross-trainer next to me.

SIGH. Do you NOT know the rules? There are THREE machines to the right of me and FOUR to the left. DUDE, I do not care how charming you are with your "Good Morning!". LEARN THE RULES for gym ettiquette!
However, the rest of my morning has been awesome:

1. Boo Boo La la did not fight me getting dressed and got on her own hat, mittens and shoes.
2. I got a Grande when I paid for a Tall at Starbucks...mmmm Peppermint Mocha - do not judge I still am only at 1-3 caffiene drinks per week.
3. I got a PRIMO parking spot in the ramp.
4. A nice lady held the elevator for me.

Last night - oh last night. It was my anniversary you know. NINE YEARS with the T-bone. He had a Union Meeting and since he is the VP he HAD to be there.
I was home alone with the kids and after dinner both the older ones abandoned me and Boo Boo. So, I gave her a bath, we cuddled, played, and I put her in bed.

About 20 minutes later she comes running in and crying...

"Mama, mama, I got my kleenex stuck in my nose."

I pick her up and look - "I do not see anything sweetie."

"It is UP there! "
And points to the spot between her nostril and bridge of her nose...YIKES! What to do?????
I calmly...yes, calmly...lay her flat on the bed tip her head back and ask her for sure, "Which nostril."

She points to the right one and says, "IT HURTS MOMMY!"

I grab the saline at the bedside and spray some up there, sit her up, cover her mouth and left nostril and say...

"BLOW!"

She does and out pops a wad of kleenex this big - No joke!

Hubby came home shortly afterward. I explained the excitement - he said the appropriate "Ewww." to the size of the kleenex wad that landed on my shirt and then we just relaxed.

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Today I did not have ROOM for what I needed to say on one little post-it,

so I made my own special Halloween Post-It:

MEME Monday - Inspiration Point - hubba hubba.

This week SupahMommy and MommyBrain want you to either;
a: feed us some good details about you and your significant other's love life
or
b. take a load off and hand over your assignment to someone special

CHOICE A. Inspiration Point

Tell about:

1. A time you got 'caught' in the midst of inspiration point.

2. What is it about your significant other that makes your emoticon wink wink?
( push through the irritation over the dirty socks on the couch- u can do it!)

3. Do you have a funny story about a time when your saucy-time .. went array?


CHOICE B.

Inspiration Points
Ask;

Your significant other or your BFF ( OR someone who knows you) to finish some , one or all of these phrases ( listed below) about you.

Their choice.

See if you can post it without reading it. So that it can be a inspiring surprise for next Monday.

However - I followed MommyBrain and am re-telling the tale of the night we met!

Imagine June 1999 - it is HOT and HUMID in Minnesota and my brother, my buddy Kyle Ann and I decide we need some cold beers and sweaty singing. We head up to NordEast to hang at a place called Arrones -- not sure I would go there anymore, but at the time the bartender Mike* and the Karaoke chick were tons of fun --

I was wearing (or it was stuck to me) a cute Target grey tank top with blue flowers on it and these army green cargo pants I got at Abercrombie & Fitch. One day I hope to fit back into those things...the pants, I mean.

We sit on one side of the bar, Mike* gives us a cold one, and we begin to pick out our songs. If I remember accurately I probably sang (forgive me):

"Livin' La Vida Loca"
"Heartache Tonight"
"I touch myself."

But, wait! There at the "mic" is a cute guy in polo and shorts - and he is SINGING "Pretty Woman" ....I wonder if he will do the... Oh yeah, he can growl like Roy Orbison, SWEET!
I lean into Kyle Ann and say,

L - There is my boyfriend.
KA - HE's too old.
L - Too old for you maybe. Remember I have a few years on ya babe.
Brother Pete- HEY, should I go get my "Chocolate Salty Balls" cd and sing that?

Polo shirt and shorts finishes singing and starts to work his way around the bar to where we are sitting and gets halted by "Trucker Girl" wanting him to play pool.

L- Bitch, get away from my boyfriend.
KA - You need another drink.

FINALLY about midnight Polo shirt sits at the barstool next to mine -being the smooth chick I am I lean over toward him and say -

"You're cute, what is your name?"

Yes folks that is how I met the madman I am married to...he will say he sang the song because HE saw me first, I buy that, but he will also say that he TALKED to me first and that is a
bold-faced lie.

Just ask Kyle Ann, she was there. Unless she had too many Long Islands that night. ;)

* God bless Mike wherever you are!!(he died a few years ago, we went to the funeral. THAT is how charming this bartender was.)

p.s. the line I used on my hubby worked EVERY TIME. Single? Use it tonight!

A Gory Little Story.

I kept promising a story from vacation and just NEVER got around to it...so here it is because I have a Friday Video to go along with the story...

When we were up north at our timeshare we had the opportunity to use the pontoon of one of my husband's friends to cruise Cross Lake and the Whitefish Chain.

There was a lovely island in the lake that we decided would be perfect for a swim and lunch. So we headed over and unloaded all our stuff and played in the water and on the beach.

Very soon Boo Boo La La said, "Momma, I gotta pee pee."

"Go in the lake honey - that is what you do."
"I can pee in the lake?"
"Yup, but not the pool. Got it?"
"Okay!!!!"

She runs out into the water and hollars out to her sister, "SAIR!!! I am going pee pee."
Sair looked up from her book and called back from the pontoon. "And THAT is why I am not swimming in the lake." (she never swims anymore! not even at the waterslide pool!)

We have lunch and continue to enjoy our little island - it's the middle of the week and we pretty much have the lake to ourselves - suddenly Boo Boo La La exclaims, "Momma, I gotta POOP!"

uhhhhhh

"Okay, come with me." We walk around the side of the island that does not have the beach and well...I held my little munchkin up so she could squat and do her 'bidness. And I brought wipes so we would not have issues....with torn tissues. :)

She came back to the family and proudly beamed, "I POOPED!" and boy did she EVER poop.

Happy Halloween my little poo poo bears. ;)

Your weiner or Your life?

This is a picture that many in Minneapolis-St. Paul will recognize. Chris Shaffer from WCCO.

I know Chris Shaffer from working as a radio dj. Our paths crossed for a few years at KOOL 108 - he is a superduperextraspecialniceguy - so I feel bad about this exchange...but, I am sharing anyway! ;)

Last night watching the news Chris said something about the radar being "green and gold" for the Packer fans because of the rain.

I said, "Oh hush up Stillwater boy!"
The hubs responded - "Just kill him." (JOKING OBVIOUSLY!)
I responded, "Kill him? Just cut off his wiener!" (again JOKING!)
"THAT IS CRUEL", the hubs replied.
"Cruel? You wanted to kill him."
"Honey, ask any man, 'If you did not know it was coming, would you rather be killed or have your wiener cut off?' all of them will say, 'Kill Me.'"
"Seriously?"
"Seriously."

You men are just about weird enough that his tale may be true....so, let me know.

Your wiener or your life?

Baby Einstein - Not!

I find it funny that they are giving money back on these videos now - I had two that were given to us and Boo Boo La La NEVER liked watching them. We had way more fun with Ebee Baby videos and playing like they did!