Funny!

So I saw this on popsugar and it cracked me up!!!! It is Will Farrell and a baby (I think the baby's dad is the other guy in the room). There is also another one where the baby plays a bad cop!! Hearing such a young child say this stuff really cracks me up!

Man Drops BlackBerry In Toilet, Saves It With Rice

This was kind of an interesting tip....

Story:

"What do you do when you drop your BlackBerry into the toilet? Turns out, it may be easier to fix than you'd think.

One Washington Post writer recently suffered a case of slippery fingers and dropped his beloved BlackBerry into the toilet. When he retrieved it (it was clean water, or so he says) it was completely unresponsive. He tried wishing - he hadn't stored his date's number anywhere else - then he tried blow drying it for a half hour. Neither trick worked.

Then, a friend told him to turn it off and leave it overnight in a bowl of uncooked rice, which would naturally suck out the moisture. The trick actually worked. Here's more:

I was able to turn it on long enough to retrieve the one number that might save me from offering the lamest and most embarrassing excuse for standing someone up. After sleeping in a bed of rice, my BlackBerry functioned well Sunday, except for the time function, which froze. It was flimsy on Monday, fading in and out, but sprang back to life Tuesday, after another night in the rice bowl.

The good news is, the girl agreed to a second date. The bad news is, his BlackBerry isn't going to last much longer. "

I would have never thought to do that!

A Pleasant Surprise!

I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised when I tried these new Sunsweet "Ones" prunes this week! I actually enjoy them! It has been many ages since I have had a prune, but I did not like them. I know my tastes have changed over the years or maybe these individually wrapped dried plums are just really tasty? Whatever it is, I highly suggest these! YUM!

Click here for more information on these prunes

I Love.....

I love these Genisoy Soy nuts!!! YUM!

I bought them the other day at Giant Eagle and I have to say I am hooked! They taste like a cross between a salted (but comes unsalted) peanut and a corn nut - so good!

These things are also good for you! 1/4 cup contains no cholesterol, 7 grams of fiber and 10 grams of soy protein! Awesome! I am always looking for more ways to get more soy in my diet b/c of the high fiber and protein it offers. I think a handful of these will do the trick!

Click here for other Genisoy products.

She's Back!!!!

So, after months away my sister has finally returned to the blogging world!!! (her link is on the side under...well.... My Sister's Blog)

She had some technical dificulty so she had to get rid of her old blog address....but is back with a newer, better blog!

Please visit often!!!

Welcome back K.!!!!!

Happy Birthday M!!!!

I hope you have a fabulous Birthday!!!

Enjoy your day :-)

LOL Friday part 2

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If this doesn't make you laugh, you must not be human!!!

Totally cute!!!

I want this.......

Holy smokes folks!!! I got so super excited when I was looking at the Target website and came across this awesome little treasure!!!

It is called the Sweet Machine and it is a small candy dispenser that works like those crane games!!! SO COOL!!!

"Keeping candy on your desk is more fun with this carnival-inspired treat dispenser. Plastic construction. Turn carnival music off or on; use levers to control crane to pick up candy."

AWESOME!!!! Click here

It is only available online and is only $33!!! sweet!

Who knows how great the machine works, but I love fun stuff like this and it would totally be worth my money to have this on my desk!!! It will entertain me AND make those greedy candy eating people work for their candy! love it! :)

LOL Friday (a day early)

I will not be around my computer much tomorrow as I have the day off, so I have decided to do LOL Friday a day earlier! Besides, I have been somewhat of a negative Nancy lately and a good laugh will be nice!

This is from the adorable John Heffron! (M & I met him!!!) He is so funny and this is a pretty funny clip! There is no video, just audio....but I suggest looking him up on youtube to see how adorably funny he is! Enjoy!


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Death by Chocolate!

So I am having a rather annoying day at work when all of a sudden the one super nice secretary brought me a sweet treat. A piece of chocolate cake. Now I normally wouldn't eat this cake b/c of (1) who it was originally for and (2) although I enjoy chocolate I don't like alot of it. However since I did not officially attend said persons party and was offered this cake by a VERY nice person...I couldn't refuse!


This cake is called death by chocolate, and I have to say if you ate a big piece of this...that is probably what would happen to you! So here is what makes it so deadly (by the way it is ALL chocolate, so I will not specify that)....

- A layer of cake
- A layer of dark mousse
- Cake
- Pudding
- Cake
- Light Mousse
- Cake
- It is surrounded with a fudge frosting with a thin layer of dark fudge on top of that
- AND (if that isn't MORE than enough) around the side of the cake are little milk chocolate morsels.

HOLY SMOKES! I have a toothache just looking at it!

But, I do have to say a couple bites made me happy and should give me enough sugar energy to last the rest of the day!

Thank you D.!!!!

My Name is NOT honey.....

I know I am probably in an overly sensitive mood lately and things are pissing me off more than normal due to some personal things. However, I would just like to make this clear ONCE AGAIN because it obviously hasn’t been made clear enough previously.

By no means should 98% of the people I am in contact with on a daily basis be calling me anything other than my name. For instance (but not limited too): Hun, Honey, sweetie, dear, etc. Now this is pretty much geared to the people I work with (excluding friends…see below) and customer service people. People I work with, ESPECIALLY the ones I do not know very well, should strictly be calling me by my name. If you should choose to call me by a name other than my legal name, there will be consequences for your actions.


- First time, a verbal warning & another copy of the rules.
- Second time, a slap on the wrist & a copy of the rules taped to every surface of your office or place of employment.
- Third time, I get to throw something hard at you while I yell curse words at the top of my lungs.
- Fourth time (if you dare let it get to that), well…let’s just say you shouldn’t let it get to that if you know what is best for you!

.......
So to help those who still are not getting this let us run down a list of rules, shall we.

Husband/Parents/Siblings – Jenn, Jennie, and well honestly pretty much anything they want to call me is acceptable.

Family – Jenn, Jennie, and any of those cute grandparent names (like the ones above that are banned by most of you).

Friends – Jenn, Jennie and any other nicknames that have been previously approved. None of the names mentioned above, unless joking or drunk.

Acquaintances – Jenn

Co-workers (who are not friends) – Jenn, Jennifer (I guess), Mrs. H*****

Customer service people (You all know who I am talking about but some include wait staff, Doctors, credit card companies, check out people who I may have given my name too or who are just serving us) – Miss, Jenn, Mrs. H*****, or the ever dreaded “M” word (even though I feel old when people say it to me)


I think that covers everyone.



Why do I get so upset….because it is honestly disrespectful to call someone you don’t have a close relationship with those names. It isn’t cute, it isn’t funny and it is 100% not acceptable. (period)


So, I hope we are clear on this.
Thank you.

I Hope This isn't a Reflection of my Friendship Abilities?!?!?!

So last Friday one of my friends gave me a bag/mixture of friendship bread. I had never heard of this until then. For those of you who have also never heard of this basically you get a bag with some ingredients in it and you have to follow specific instructions for each of the 10 days on how to make the bread. Then after 10 days you mix in more ingredients, divide the batter into 4 parts, keep one for yourself and give 3 to friends (the friendship part), and then bake it. It is suppose to be a sweet bread.

SO....I got this when it was on day 7 from my friend. I took it home that night and laid it on the counter - excited that in a few days I would be able to bake something! Well when I woke up Saturday morning I saw that our adorable little Belle chewed through the paper bag - luckily she didn't get through the plastic bag that the mixture was in- but still did a number on the bag. So Terry decided we need to put the bag on the pantry. I say Terry, because I knew I would NEVER remember it on the pantry...out of sight out of mind! However, he assured me that he would remember!

Fast forward to 4 days later - 6:30 a.m......."Holy Shit I forgot about the bread!"

So I went downstairs and took the bag off the top of the pantry. First this bag was huge and all puffed up. I assume there is yeast of sorts, but it looks like this bag is ready to pop! Plus I haven't been "mushing" the mixture the past few days and I am two days past when I am suppose to actually make the bread!

At this point I am just thinking it is a lost cause. The directions to make this bread seem pretty specific with lots of items to add to the mixture. I am not a baker...cookies and cakes a few times a year...but that is it.

I failed at making friendship bread....how sad it that!?!?!?!

Has anyone made this stuff? Is it still ok for me to ATTEMPT to make this....or is this bread a lost cause ;-)

I get it.....

I know, I get it....YOU'RE important!!!

You don't have to keep telling everyone!

P.S. Get over yourself!

It is a GREAT thing!

I have to say that I am very impressed with the store Steve & Barry’s (click here).

At first the store mainly had sweatshirts and athletic apparel for under $20….with a lot of it under $10! I think that is great, especially for parents who have to buy clothes for their kids and for all of us out there who can not afford to constantly spend excessive amounts on clothes!

But here is what I like better. Recently the store has introduced some new “brands” into their store, making cool and fashionable clothes/shoes affordable AND popular! First to enter S&B was the Steph Starbury (basketball player) line of clothes and shoes. Now kids could get shoes for under $15 that were created & promoted by an NBA player!!! Ben Wallace has recently joined S&B as well! And for the girls….the adorable Sarah Jessica Parker has created a clothing line called Bitten where everything from jewelry, shoes and clothes is under $20!!! Awesome!!!!

We all know that some kids may not like to shop at discount stores like Walmart (I have NO problem with discount stores) b/c they are not as recognized name brands or not as “cool”. However, when celebrities like this get involved and have this passion to create clothing lines that have a recognizable name attached, are in style, of good quality and are very inexpensive I think it is a win win situation for everyone! On Starbury’s website he even says that a kids self-esteem should not be tied to the clothes that they wear or the price of their shoes! This is true more now then ever!!!

There is NO need to spend an excessive amount on dressing yourself or your kids…and it is so good to see more and more people embracing this movement of creating head to toe clothing that ANYONE can afford!

Way to go!

In Memory of.....My bedtime shorts

So you know those clothes that we have in our closets that we have had for a very long time? Not the ones outdated or the ones we keep thinking we will fit into once again some day but the old stand by clothes. The ones that are worn, maybe torn, have stains, not necessarily presentable to wear in public but are so comfortable and just make us feel happy to wear them around the house?

Well I have a few of these items of clothing around our house. Some random pieces of clothing that I like to throw on when I get home from work and/or just want to be comfortable. Well last night, one of these articles of clothing may have covered its last tush :(

I have these shorts I wear to bed and I have had them for about 7-8 years. I love them! They are so bagging and comfy (probably b/c they are so worn the material is now like tissue paper)!! Now for a few months I have seen the impending doom coming....a small hole on the seam that was slowly getting bigger, yet I ignored this. Well last night I pulled the shorts out of the washer and there it was....I huge ass hole down the entire backside of my shorts...NOOOOOOOO!!!!!

I have to face it that there is no saving these shorts....I probably should have gotten rid of them years ago, however I still couldn't bring myself to throwing them away! Infact, I dried them and now they are sitting in my laundry basket (or purgatory) awaiting their final fate.

I know I will eventually throw these away, get a new pair of shorts to make my bitch, and once again in 7 years be doing this all over again....but my friends it is hard! So many memories can be tied to material possessions that sometimes it makes it hard to move on.

So today I ask you to share a moment of silence for my shorts and ALL the other worn articles of clothing that we have loved over the years.......

thank you


Jenn's bedtime shorts
1999-2007

I'll Take Them!

So I came across these online today. They are called FitFlops and if they do what they claim to do, they could be every woman’s dream shoe!

“They are UK’s hottest new fitness shoe! Every step you take in the FitFlop helps tone and trim your legs. Half sexy streamlining, half muscle-toning trainer, the FitFlop is the shoe to have this summer. FitFlops load your leg muscles more so you get a workout while you walk.

Every step you take while wearing FitFlops helps tone and trim your thighs, calves and glutes via a uniquely built multi-density midsole. In fact, they’re engineered to absorb shock, lessen joint strain and recreate the gait of barefoot walking with a powerful new built-in micro-wobbleboard workout-enhancing effect.”

So basically what I am hearing is you put these flip flops on, walk and these little wonders will help tone your thighs, calves and butt?!?!?!

Um – hell yeah I want a pair!

So currently they are sold at select Bath & Body Work stores and pre-order at Bliss.com. They seem to be about $45 for a pair. I don’t know folks….I may like a pair of these!!!


(So do you believe these shoes can do what they claim?)

How Does our Garden Grow

This past weekend T & I decided to get some plants and start our own mini-garden on our patio! Since we live in a condo we can not dig up our back yard, but we can have potted plants on our patio! So we got a tomato plant, a couple basil plants, a dill plant and some marigolds to put out back! YAY!

We have never really grown anything b/c we have always lived in an apartment, so we are very excited to see how this turns out! We are going to be getting a few more flowers for the front, a green pepper plant and some more herbs to fill up our planter! I can't wait until we can go out there and pick our own herbs and veggies - YUM!

Tomato, basil and mozzarella salads ALL summer! YAY :-)

Back & Relaxed!

So I am back from my “vacation”! While I am not 100% happy to be back to work, I am VERY happy to see my friends at work! Overall: T & I both feel refreshed and relaxed!

We had a GREAT time! We didn’t really have too many plans for our time off. We had some things we wanted to do, but we kind of just did what we felt like. I have to say though, for not having any plans we were VERY busy people over the last 5 days!!

We hung out with many of our friends, got my car fixed, went to a few Dr. Appts., went shopping a couple different days, ate good food, went and saw Pirates (awesome!), worked outside, worked inside, and also managed to sleep in every day and enjoy our time together!

SO FUN!!!