Crap Storm at the Not So Glad Home

Let me get one thing straight. I ADORE my family. I ADORE being a wife and mother. I generally even really like myself most of the time too. But friends, this week was so terrible that I was wishing I knew how to use Dave's hand gun on myself. Okay, not really, don't call the cops or the bishop or the state hospital, I wasn't considering suicide, but man what a week.

Two Friday's ago Jordan and Tiny had Gum Grafts. Oral surgery that, for Jordan's case was quite serious and precarious, but for Jordan it was a snap. She had very little pain, and was back to work full time on Tuesday.

But, for my poor Christina, her pain was never under control. (at the ER) The surgeon gave her Forinol. This was a drug I had never heard of and when I read the pharmacy drug information sheet, I noticed that it was usually used for chronic headaches. (Later in the week my Pediatrician had NEVER heard of it either).I thought this was a strange choice of pain medication, but I really put my faith in this surgeon. We called him the next day and said she was in such pain, he said he didn't feel comfortable prescribing Lortabs to her. So we proceeded as directed adding Tylenol and Motrin alternately. By Monday morning she was vomiting, and her bowels were completely stopped. (I stopped the Forinol on WED.) Thursday night we spent the entire night in the ER. They pumped her full of morphine, took an xray and some blood and sent us home. The ER doc did say the xray showed that she was full of gas and good luck working that out. I had her at the Pediatricians by noon Friday.
He took one look at her and got our story straight and sent her right to the hospital.

He said he can't count how many times he has had to clean up messes left by surgeons who just send kids home with pain meds and that's it. He didn't even want to talk to the surgeon. We got her there and they pushed IV fluids and poor thing was so dehydrated that she didn't start to urinate until the second bag was nearly gone, almost 10 hours later.

The Good Boyfriend

IN THE MEAN-TIME.....Thursday night while we are at the ER with Tiny, a 6'1" white male PERVERT was snooping through my 21 year old Malaina's dorm room apartment up at the University of Utah. Her dorm has a kitchen-living area and 4 private bedrooms. Her roommate closest to the entrance woke up startled to see a man sniffing her dirty laundry. She let out a scream and the man groped her and stole her underwear and bras, then ran out. The girls have no idea how many hours the man was there. Malaina was freaked out. She sleeps with earplugs and an eye mask and is a very heavy sleeper, could he have gone through her bedroom, did he touch her? Those are the questions she is asking herself. She is very distraught. So Several hours later, after fingerprints, detective interviews, locksmiths etc. she is a wreck. She packs up her bags to come home on Trax. Jordan picks her up in Sandy and takes her to dinner and a movie, then to top it off....to put a nail in the Gaddis coffin 'o crap.....

Jordan gets the mother of all Migraine headaches in the movie and they have to leave. ( When she gets a migraine it is Really bad and evil) Thank heaven Malaina can drive a stickshift and she takes her home. Jordan calls me in tears to check on her sister and I say :"Get thee to bed!!! Two percocets go now!" It was so bad that she woke up at 10:30 that night and was still sick and had to take two more tylenol pm's.

So let's recap Friday:

• Mother on crutches
• Sick Child in the hospital
• Distraught victim adult daughter, barely holding herself together.
• Drastically ill third daughter, with no one to care for her.
• Husband who is ready to wire my jaw shut. (poor guy..it ain't easy living with 4 women including one freaked out wife and mother)

Here I am clucking over my chick

Sunday afternoon, I am still worried about Tiny, she has a low grade fever, and is not sleeping well. She is able to eat, but is too weak to walk and try to keep her bowels moving. I stay home with her while Dave takes Malaina back to the "U". The University is moving them to a new building and apartment, and is going to provide counseling. I hope she can get through the week. I think she may opt. to stay and Grandma and Grandpa's house. Jordan is better and is the least of my worries, except that she has a boyfriend she really likes.... but that is a whole other story.

Dave and Cindy still have the energy to race to the car at the end of a rotten day.

I Shed Some Real Tears Today.

My sister and I would listen and listen and dance and dance to this record (Don't Stop Till You Get Enough is my favorite M. J. song). Yes, I love Michael Jackson. Always have, always will. I remember when...... ahh, good times. Thanks Michael. (Hopefully- just for my sake....no one will leave negative feedback about how you lived, I just hope it is positive feedback about your amazing talent)



I also watched every single episode of Charlie's Angels. I thought Farrah was the worst actress in the show, but I loved when she would hit the tennis ball into the net and then run to the phone. I was secretly jealous of her legs, and I bought every single issue of Rona Barrett's Hollywood, or Gossip magazine when she was on the cover with her former husband Lee Majors. (Also reply to this post if you can name the color, make and model of the car she drove on the show.)

Reply to this post if you can name every single actress on the cover of this magazine (no fair cheating by enlarging the photo's to read the names)

DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR HUSBAND IS???

S.C. Governor's Strange Absence Gets Stranger

By now we all know that the Governor has been playing nookie....I mean hookie with his mistress in Argentina. You know, out there among the Appalachian Argentinian mountains.

Why does it seem that 1 in every 5 governors in America is having trouble reining in their willies?(because 1 in 5 gov's IS having trouble reining them in) Do you think that these men reach a place of power and then become intoxicated with it?
I think so, also, they have far more freedom to come and go as they please. Most governor's can get in the car and go to the airport without anyone knowing who they are.

If I was a horny governor, I would keep a spare crappy car in some parking garage that has a cheap monthly rate. Then I would have $10,000 in cash stashed at an airport with a fake passport. I would take trips to the Caymans, and Mazatlan, like, all the time with my mistress. Then I could go home to my wife who has been running the household in my absence and explain that my tan came from my town hall meetings at Cape Hatteras and maybe swinging some clubs in Charleston. Yeah, that would be my plan. And if I get caught, who cares? I'll still run for president in 2012.

Cooking Attempt

I just made Sopa de Fideos (a yummy lowfat Mexican pasta soup) for our lunch today. It was an exhausting procedure. In the normal world it would take 10 minutes to cook and prepare, and add in a 5 minute clean-up and voila, lunch.

In the Gimpy world, it took 20 minutes just to gather the ingredients, 10 minutes to prepare, no time at all to make a total mess everywhere, and a 1 1/2 hour nap between preparation and clean-up.

GOOD NEWS.....I haven't had to take a pain pill yet today!!!

Sopa de Fideos
2 tablespoons or less olive oil
1 small package of broken up vermicelli
1/2 small onion, finely chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
1 quart boiling water
1 can diced tomatoes, undrained
3 cubes Suisa (Knorr) chicken bouillion (chopped to a fine grit powder)

In olive oil on medium heat, in a large saucepan, pour in the uncooked vermicelli and stir fry it until it becomes a golden toasty color, add the onion, stir for about 2 minutes more, add the garlic, stir for 1 minute more. Add the boiling water, the canned tomatoes, and the bouillion. Bring back to a boil and cook for 2 minutes or until pasta is al dente. Serve immediately.

Hijinks and Fun For All at Wal-mart

So we have all seen the Wal-mart Bingo Game right? You can link to a copy by clicking on the name right here. Well, yesterday I was an official game piece of the game;
"obese person using scooter".


Yes, even my well dressed husband, just home from the office was sorta embarrassed to see me in the scooter. I had a bad day and was using Tiny's blanket around myself all day. I had no idea it shed lint like a dog in the spring. I had little white and pink cotton balls all over myself, no make-up and bed-head hair. I had on sweat pants and a "right from the trailer park" scowl of misbegotten fortune. I had never been more proud to be included in the Wal-mart family as I did yesterday! I am only sorry we didn't get a photo. Just close your eyes friends, picture it in your minds as you have just read my vivid description, and maybe, just maybe the picture in your mind will be even better than one I could provide.


Tiny has missed camp this year. Her gum grafts are still miserably painful. She is having a hard time swallowing her spit, standing for any length of time; you know, that old chestnut.

Jordan has done miles better, she was back at the office today.

Malaina wisely chose not to come home to the "Glad Convalescent Home for Losers" this weekend, and holed up in her "choice" dorm room up at the University of Utah.

And I would not blame my darling husband if he somehow forgot his way home from work tonight, or suddenly had to go out of town on a business trip.

Oh-My-Gosh!!...Did anyone watch Jon+Kate =8 last night? I do not watch the show, but I was scrolling down my menu guide and couldn't resist looking at it.
If there is ever a more sad ending to a marriage than this one I hope I never see it.

• What was Jon doing with two diamond solitaires in his ears?
• Jon says, "I'm only 32"--translation: "get me the hell out of here".
• Kate says, "I don't hate Jon"
• Jon says, "I don't hate Kate."
• Cindy says, "What kinda crap are you trying to shovel me here?"
• The dissolution of the marriage was going on for months and months, if they went to marriage counseling, I am sad it wasn't enough for their kid's sakes.
• Lesson: Do NOT BARK at your husband! And never stop COURTING your wife.

2 Screws

No wonder I can't bear weight for 6 weeks: This top screw is a small screw that is holding a bone graft in place. I liken it to Norm Abrams on PBS's New Yankee Workshop gluing in a shim to straighten a piece of warped wood.
This bottom screw is a bit more malicious in size and width. It is going to hold my heel in correct alignment with my brand new rebuilt arch.

I get a walking cast on July 6. I am anxiously looking forward to it. My entire family is sick of having to wait on me, but they have done so with NEVER a groan or moan. I love them dearly.

Poor Malaina has had to wait 3 weeks to get her birthday presents. Happy 21 st Malaina. I am so proud of you. You can follow Malaina in her laboratory madness as a member of Nobel Prize winner Dr. Cappeci's team to turn mice into bats by linking to her blog here

Friday leads to more Gaddis insanity as yet two more girls go into surgery for sub-epithelial gum grafts. Oh ho, this should be fun watching Nurse Dave make his rounds.

1. Soft diet for bed's 2 and 3.
2. Normal Diet for patient 1.
3. Medication for all three patients every 4 to 6 hours.
4. Walk patient 2 to the toilet every 2 hours. Take her back to bed. Change gauzes.
5. Walk patient 3 to the toilet every single hour, Take her back to bed. Change gauzes, wipe tears.
6. Make sure big fat patient in bed 1 hasn't fallen on her ass again. Give her a pill just to keep her happy.
7.Then take patient 3 to the toilet again. Wipe tears.
8. Refrain from helping self to patients pain meds.


We are a happy family.

A Tale of Two Falls

The girls got me out of the house for my first field trip on Monday. We went to University Mall. Tina was hecka excited to use my handicapped sign for the first time. It really did come in handy. I needed lots of extra room just to get out of the car. And, I am still quite loaded down with pain killers, so the fact that the parking spot was close to the front door of the store really helped. I bought my knee walker on ebay and let me tell you. ...even though it is a piece of crap, it really helps. My poor wrists and shoulders just get hammered with crutches. MY walker is like the Yugo of walkers. It has the turn radius of a real car. I spend most of my time trying to back out of situations. So, on with the Falling part of the story, I still can't sit here very long, and I am ready to pass out soon.

We went into Express. Jordan's mother ship. they had these racks of clothes that had really wide bases with wheels on the bottomand my knee walker has wide front wheels as well. The two got tangled up and I took a header over my walker and landed really hard on my right hand. I secretly think it is fractured, but I refuse to put a cast on it so I will suffer here on my ownn. I was on the floor of Express crying and all sad and confused. When I took my header, I remember yelling, "oh my gosh Jordan, help me!!! " There were these two men there, one was picking up my peice of crap walker, and trying to put it together and the other one was trying to help me my saying nice things. Jordan was trying to pull my shorts down over my garments, and saying "oh poor mommy, oh poor mommy" . They picked me up and sat me on the walker. I insisted that we continue on with our outing, but I had a hard time picking up my spirits. I am still pretty sore from that experience.

Then yesterday I had to go with Tiny to a doctor appointment. As I was going up our cement stairs into our house I missed the last one and crashed onto the pavement and just started sobbing like a ninny. I hit my right hand again, and jarred my shoulder and wound up crying and sobbing as I crawled up the stairs. Christina helped me into bed and I took two percocets and a valium and went to bye- bye land for the rest of the day.

I think I am going to have to go get my hand x rayed.

I have more shitty things I could talk about but, you don't want to hear them. Believe me.

Tomorrow's post, if I can post, will be much more positive.

I have two feet still.

This is all a bit more than you wanted to see reguarding the foot surgery. I used Picasa to upload it here quickly because I still cannot sit very long. My foot is starting to scream at me now.

The staff at the Timanogos hospital was fabulous. Right down to the cleaning crew. My surgeon didn't have a problem with my nurses taking photos. I have some pretty grewsome ones here. I think the best one is the bottom left one. If you look carefully, you can see that the bright white tendons should actually be one tendon, but mine was ruptured so bad it appeared as two.

Ok, thats all for now. I will try to do more as the week progresses, and the throbbing goes away. Thank you to all who prayed and sent good thoughts my way. Love to you all!

Alphajores and Lecture #2

So it is no secret that the Glad children have been all over the world. Daughter number 2 is back from South America and has been asked to give her second Brown Bag Lunch Lecture to the BLM her employer here in lovely Provo.
She is an excellent speaker and an excellent baker, but she is a rotten cleaner upper of the kitchen. Mother was doing the dishes at 2:00 a.m.

Alphajores are a delectable cookie that screams EAT ME!!!. Filled with Dulce de Leche, you will find these treats hard to resist. They can be found in every Panaderia in Argentina.>Click here for your own Alphajores Recipe

Here I Go

My physician is excellent. I can't live with the pain of this foot any longer. I will post when I am able.

Advanced Baking 310

Happy Birthday to Malaina and Dave.

This is the last big thing I have made for my family before the big operation on Thursday.
if you have not made a "real butter-cream" you are missing out

This recipe is from the May 2009 issue of Bon Appetite' Magazine. My photos are above. The magazine's are below. I think my cake looks better than theirs.

Mile-High Chocolate Cake with Vanilla Buttercream

The attraction of mile-high desserts is undeniable. Here, the base is a chocolate cake that is then filled with not-too-sweet buttercream. Covering the cake with white frosting would make it too sweet; instead a chocolate glaze drips down the sides. For tips on putting together this beauty of a cake, see How to Make Buttercream and How to Assemble a Layer Cake.

16 servings

Recipe by Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito

Photograph by Brian Finke

May 2009

Ingredients

cake

• 1 1/4 cups hot water
• 3/4 cup natural unsweetened cocoa powder (such as Scharffen Berger)
• 2/3 cup sour cream
• 2 2/3 cups all purpose flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3/4 cup (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, room temperature
• 1/2 cup solid vegetable shortening (preferably nonhydrogenated), room temperature
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 cup (packed) dark brown sugar
• 3 large eggs
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract

vanilla buttercream

• 5 large egg whites
• 1 2/3 cups sugar, divided
• 1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter, diced, room temperature

chocolate glaze

• 5 oz high-quality milk chocolate (such as Lindt), chopped
• 5 oz bittersweet chocolate (54% to 60% cacao), chopped
• 1 1/4 cups heavy whipping cream
• 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
• 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) unsalted butter, cut into 1/2-inch cubes, room temperature

Special equipment

• Candy thermometer
• Instant-read thermometer
• Offset spatula

Preparation

cake

• Butter three 8-inch-diameter cake pans with 1 1/2-inch-high sides. Line bottom of each pan with parchment paper round; butter parchment. Dust pans with flour; tap out excess. Whisk 1 1/4 cups hot water, cocoa powder, and sour cream in medium bowl until smooth; set aside until mixture is cool, 20 to 30 minutes.
• Position rack in center of oven and preheat to 325°F. Sift next 4 ingredients into another medium bowl. Using electric mixer, beat butter and shortening in large bowl until well blended and smooth. Add both sugars; beat until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs 1 at a time, beating until well blended after each addition. Mix in vanilla. Add flour mixture in 3 additions alternately with cocoa mixture in 2 additions, beginning and ending with flour mixture and beating just until incorporated. Divide batter among prepared pans (about 2 3/4 cups batter for each) and smooth tops.
• Bake cakes until tester inserted into center comes out clean, 50 to 55 minutes. Cool cakes in pans on racks 20 minutes. Run knife around sides of cakes to loosen. Invert cakes onto racks and cool completely. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Wrap in plastic and store at room temperature.

vanilla buttercream

• Combine egg whites and 1/3 cup sugar in large bowl of stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment; scrape in seeds from vanilla bean.
• Combine remaining 1 1/3 cups sugar and 1/3 cup water in medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Attach candy thermometer to side of pan, making sure that bulb of thermometer is immersed in syrup. Increase heat; boil until temperature registers 238°F to 240°F (soft-ball stage), about 5 minutes. Immediately remove syrup from heat (use within 2 minutes).
• Meanwhile, beat egg white mixture on medium speed until very soft peaks form (mixture will be slightly opaque).
• Increase mixer speed to high and slowly pour hot syrup down side of bowl into egg white mixture in slow steady stream; beat until meringue forms stiff peaks. Cool meringue in bowl until lukewarm (instant-read thermometer will register 100°F), about 30 minutes. Do not beat.
• Start beating meringue again on medium speed of stand mixer. Gradually add butter, 2 to 3 tablespoons at a time, beating constantly until absorbed before adding next addition. Continue beating until buttercream is smooth. (If buttercream looks broken or curdled, place mixer bowl with buttercream over medium heat on stove burner and whisk with large whisk for 5 to 10 seconds to warm mixture slightly, then remove from heat and whisk vigorously or attach bowl to stand mixer and beat mixture again on medium speed. Repeat warming and beating buttercream mixture as many times as needed until buttercream is smooth and no longer curdled.)
• Using serrated knife, cut each cake in half horizontally, forming 6 cake layers. If necessary, trim any domed tops of cakes to form even layers. Place 1 cake layer on platter. Drop 3/4 cup buttercream by tablespoonfuls over top of cake layer, then spread evenly to edges with offset spatula. Top with second cake layer, then spread 3/4 cup buttercream over. Repeat with 3 more cake layers, spreading 3/4 cup buttercream over each and pressing slightly to adhere. Top with 6th cake layer (do not spread buttercream over top cake layer). Chill cake at least 1 hour.

chocolate glaze

• Combine both chocolates in medium bowl. Bring cream and corn syrup to simmer in heavy saucepan. Pour hot cream mixture over chocolate; let stand 2 minutes. Whisk chocolate mixture until melted and smooth. Add butter; whisk until melted. Chill glaze until slightly thickened and glaze drips thickly when poured slowly from spoon, 30 to 45 minutes.
• Spoon glaze around top edge of cake by teaspoonfuls, spacing drips up to 2 inches apart and allowing glaze to drip slowly down sides of cake. Spoon remaining glaze over top center of cake and smooth with offset spatula, covering top completely. Chill cake until glaze sets, at least 1 hour. DO AHEAD Can be made 1 day ahead. Tent with foil and keep chilled. Let cake stand at room temperature 1 hour before serving.

Hungry for More? If you have a question about this recipe, contact our Test Kitchen at askba@bonappetit.com. To see more recipes like this one, check out our Diner Desserts Slideshow.

Crow Eating Results ; But Ate Elk Instead.

So, only a few people have responded to the poll about whether or not I need to eat crow. I was interested to note:

• Only one person said Kris had a better voice than Adam.
  
• And only 2 people were offended by my liberal use of the word boring.
• 6 people thought Adam had the better voice and it was a popularity contest.
• One person thought the voting was rigged.

So, I am not going to eat crow. (And frankly aren't we just a little bit bored by the subject?)

I am suffering the birds though. Some starling chicks have flown the nest and their parents are still chasing them down and feeding them like crazy. They are making such a racket in the area. So I am getting my comeuppance. The birds are flying, and I don't mean the middle fingers.


I was trolling the television recently. I came upon Apollo 13. I LOVE that movie. I think it might make my top 100 list. The only reason it might not is because of that

"BORING" actor.....Gary Sinise. I really strongly dislike him.A person might even think I hate him

. I do loves me some Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon. They are two of my favorite actors.

There are so many talented actors out there who are some of your favorites?

1. Ed Harris
2. Tom Cruise
3. Kevin Bacon
4. Johnny Depp
5. George Clooney
6. Hugh Grant
7. Clive Owen
8. Sean Connery
9. Alec Baldwin
10. Shah Rukh Khan

to name a few. I am sure I can think of others, but it is 3:00 in the morning!!!

Elk Roast:
The Russ Fuller Family invited us over for a great dinner yesterday~~~
I just love that family .
YUM that Elk Roast was really good

Braise one or two roasts quickly searing them on each side.
Put them in a crock pot, with a bit of water. Score the tops of each roast;add onion soup mix and onions to the crock pot and let it go for about 10 hours. You can add potatoes during the last 2 hours of cooking ,and then make a great gravy to go over the whole thing. You will get a really lean dinner and one that is delicious and wholesome.

Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

This is the coolest video, and song. I need shelter!!

Some Crap Going Down

Posterior Tibial Tendonitis (means I can't walk for s*&t) and if I continue this way, I will get arthritis and fused bones. So, if orthopaedics and PT don't work..then I face a life with a brace or I get flat foot reconstruction. My foot is so flat that it turns in by almost 30%. So, alas, I am faced with a painful future for a year (yes that is how long it takes to feel better) with the surgery or a painful lifetime of really bad problems.
Medializing calcaneal osteotomy(reposition the Achilles tendon, plantar fascia and the bone more laterally)
first cuneform flexion osteotomy (bone graft)
soft tissue reconstruction (excise tibial tendon, realign a neighboring tendon)
with FDL transfer (move the heel into alignment, think screws and stuff)
and accessory navicular excision. (boney excess crap scraped off ..have lots of that)

I am terrified; the procedure IS as bad as it sounds. My surgeon says this is the biggest operation he does and , and it is more drastic than knee, or shoulder replacement. He said" it is a grueling recovery." I will be non-weight bearing for 6 to 10 weeks. In a boot for 2 months and swollen for several more. BUT, I will get the spring back in my step and be glad I did it now rather than when I am older.

I plan on crawling on my hands and knees a lot, and I bought this really cool knee walker for going out and about. I don't think I can do crutches permanently. When I broke my foot in Malaysia I was on crutches for a time, and it really hurt my wrists and shoulders. I just need to go easy and hope my other foot stays OK. I can't afford for this to happen on that side too.
Okay, on another matter.... I am placing another poll....DO YOU THINK I NEED TO EAT CROW? I proclaimed Kris Allen as a boring contestant, yet he won the popularity vote that American Idol has become.

Seeing the contestants side by side tonight I would like you to honestly (all musical taste and visual preferences set aside) judge whether or not the BEST singer won. Do you, you,you, the reader here and now really believe the BEST singer won?

Or do you feel it was a popular vote like I do? I feel that Adam was too progressive, people didn't like his makeup, his sexual orientation, his glam - rocker style. Most of you know that I am left of center for an LDS woman, I would not consider myself a conservative. I have homosexual loved ones, I go to rock concerts (Green Day in August) I have opinions that are quite a bit more "out there" I voted for Obama for Pete's sake (and I strongly encouraged my husband to vote for him too). But , I am fair, and I will eat crow if you think, Adam was worse.

Vote at my poll on the right.

I watched the Ford commercial, and it was so good. I loved it, but it was good because of Adam's powerful harmony. You can watch or grab it too in the next post.

And what do you think of Adam and Kiss? Was that incredible or what? My father in law would have hated it. My husband says he and has dad had more than one altercation about that band when he was in highschool.

I Will

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With Love

My camera rocks. Look at the amazing photos, including the banner, that Tiny took in about 20 minutes. I sent her outside to complete an assignment and this is a small sampling of what she came in with.

Hosta

Iris

Mexican Beach Rocks

i have a lovely mini zen garden

Delphinium

Bleeding Heart

Thanks be, to my wonderful husband who buys the plants, tubers, etc. And then plants them, cares for them and loves them. God's hand in these small things is glorious.

My Great-grandma Suazo would be 120 today. It seems like yesterday, that I was wishing her happy 100!

American Opinion

So, I have not posted about American Idol yet this season. I have been kinda sick of blogging for a while, but now I am ready to pick up my "poison pen", so to speak. I have not been very opinionated in a while and frankly reading over some of my past posts, I have been bored to death. And speaking of boring....

....the guy on the left is so boring I can't even remember his name. I yawn every time he opens his mouth. ZZZzzzzz.

He has had maybe one good song all season. And, It was so boring I can't remember what it was.

We are ambivalent towards you, guy on the left. I would not recognize you on the street. You will go the way of all the other boring contestants.... into the" ether of ordinary".

But, I believe everyone should have their own right to vote and choose, so when it all comes down to it, I think it is rigged; the producers choose who is going to make the most money for the show. I am going to post a poll in the right hand column of this blog. Do you think American Idol is rigged?

Now let me get one thing straight. I do not necessarily love Adam Lambert. Sometimes he bugs me. But, he is more talented and has a better voice and stage presence than the other guy.( I think Alison was ripped off) I REMEMBER what he sang from several weeks ago. I REMEMBER him.

As I sit here writing this, I honestly cannot remember Chris's last name. ( wait,,, I am going to google it) "Allen" his name is Kris Allen.

I agree with Entertainment Weekly. Adam Lambert is the most exciting contestant since Chris Daughtry. So, I am through with the opinion. Love me or hate me, I am too tired to care, I will end it right now with the following sentence:

If America gets this vote wrong, I am through... through with Idol I tell you!

BBQ'd Birds

This is the third starling nest I have pulled from my BBQ. I need my BBQ. I use it quite often. They like to sit on the shelf and poop. Keep in mind that my BBQ hood was down. They were entering it from the back side. There maybe was a 3 1/2 inch gap between the BBQ and the wall. My good for nothing cat would just sit and watch the nest building. I even took this BBQ to an event and even its absence would not deter these birds. Now I have had to resort to stuffing the entire back part of the BBQ with towels to keep them from nest building. I have to shoo them from the window above my kitchen sink.

Now, if only I could be as persistent and industrious as these two birds, imagine what I could get done!

Here's to a Great Saturday!

A person would have to have been living....in a cave (pun intended) not to have heard about Gollum and his "precious" ring.

Well kids, I too, have a "precious" . My precious camera has been returned to me whole and in perfect form. For some unknown reason, there were two screws loose...(hmmm, does that bring to mind any person you know?) inside the camera. While "precious" was being fixed, I crocheted a cover for my neck strap. It used to drive me insane because is was so rough and prickly. Now it is soft and cushioney.

Dave and Tiny were gone camping, and Jordan was in Idaho with a friend
so Malaina and I snuck off to see "Angels and Demons", with Tom Hanks.
We enjoyed it. It had been years since I read the book, so I couldn't remember who or what was happening.

Then we went for Indian food. Oh, it was fabulously good! But 'spensive!

India Palace

My new favorite restaurant. Fabulous food, excellent service and ever so clean!!!

Watch This!

Get ready fellow foodies. Top Chef the Master's is coming June 10, on Bravo TV!!!!
If you are a true foodie, you will recognize all the people in Chef's jackets above. And, there are 19 more who aren't pictured!!! All the chefs on the show are playing for charity, and all have cookbooks, restaurants, limos, and bitches to do their everyday work. YES!!!