Sickos

Hi Everyone,

I have several children sick right now, so am not keeping up on my blogging. Will be back when they get better.

Liz

Sadness

Instead of Sunday Funday, I'm sharing this - and I'm asking you to share it, too. Put it on your blogs, forward it in email, do whatever you can to get this crime against humanity out into the open. (pun intended)

http://asknicola.blogspot.com/2009/10/trembling-with-rage.html

Thank you.

Liz

Saturday Silliness

Here's some pics of a fun family outing today. My daughter Maggie at Union Station West getting her "snakebites." She's wanted them forever, but we made her wait a year to make sure it was what she really wanted. She was so brave. She didn't even flinch or make a sound! Just held on to Daddy's hand. They look great. Her lip will be swollen tomorrow. In 2 weeks, she can take these long studs out and put in some that hug closer to the lips. The long ones are to accommodate for the swelling. She's such a cool kid. She can shred a mean guitar, too.

Liz

Friday Top Five

Hi Bloggers,

My internet went for long visit to Suckville Wednesday and Thursday, so I wasn't able to do Wednesday's Woe ("Yay!" they shout) or Thoughtful Thursday. My apologies. I know you were hanging on the edge of your seats for it. Today, however, we're back in Cybertown, and I'm ready with my top five. Came up with this one Wednesday and Thursday while impotently banging keys in a futile effort to get some kind - any kind - of connection with the information super highway.

Top Five Songs To Listen To When You're VERY Pissed:

1. This Love, Pantera

2. Break Stuff, Limp Bizkit

3. Whatever, Godsmack

4. Fucking Hostile, Pantera

5. Seek and Destroy, Metallica

What are your top five Don't Fuck With Me Right Now songs?

Liz

Two-fer Tuesday

Two great recipes that take under 15 minutes:

Chocolate Pudding

4 heaping tablespoons unsweetened cocoa

4 heaping tablespoons flour + 1 tablespoon cornstarch

1 cup sugar

4 cups skim milk

1 tablespoon butter

2 tspn vanilla

dash of nutmeg

combine: cocoa, flour, cornstarch, sugar in medium sized heavy sauce pot. stir with wire whisk until well blended. put on burner on low-medium heat. stir in milk slowly, one cup at a time until smooth. continue cooking until light boil and pudding thickens. Once thick, remove from heat, add butter, vanilla, and a dash of nutmeg. stir and serve. Oh, yum.

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Lushie Slushies

1 can frozen orange juice concentrate

1 can frozen white grape juice concentrate

1 can peach juice concentrate

1 can apple juice concentrate

(you can use ANY flavor frozen juice concentrates, as long as they're 100% juice

and you use 4 of them, play with the flavors and see what you come up with)

8 cups water

2 cups vodka

2 liter 7 up, Sprite, or Sierra Mist (can use diet sodas, too)

in large stock pot combine juice concentrates and water over low heat. stir until

concentrates are well mixed. don't get it any hotter than luke warm. remove from heat,

stir in vodka. pour into LARGE tupperware container (I find the empty plastic gallon

ice cream containers work great for this). allow to cool 30 minutes. put in freezer. stir

every half hour or so for the first two hours, then let sit in freezer over night. It will not

freeze completely. more like the consistency of lumpy ice cream.

to serve: using ice cream scoop, put 2-3 scoops in tall glass. top off glass with 7 up (or

soda of your choice). Oh, yum.

Monday Book Review

Hi All,

I don't have much time today. Busy, busy, busy. 1 & 1/2 chapters written, two edited, and it's 1:57p.m. in the big country. Have to haul wood to the garage, cook a chicken, and grade three math tests before 3:00. I can't write a detailed review. But, if you haven't read The Thief of Always, by Clive Barker, please do! It's an amazing adventure. Dark and sad, mysterious and funny. It seems to be geared toward younger readers, middle grade or so, but the undercurrents are definitely for older readers. It's an old book, but still on my top ten list, and I can't recommend it enough!

The book starts out introducing Harvey Swick, a ten-year-old who's bored (surprise!) with his life, school, etc...until Rictus literally blows in on a storm and lures him to Holiday House. Naturally, Holiday House seems to be a place where kids' wildest dreams are fulfilled. Harvey falls in love with the place and decides to stay. After a month, he realizes everyone's in a trance, he's trapped, and all at Holiday House is not what it seems.

This book is at once exhilarating and terrifying. I've loved it for as long as I can remember, and I'm reasonably certain that you will, too. You can probably pick it up at the local library.

Two thumbs up!

Liz

Sunday Funday

One minute and seventeen seconds of your life you will not regret wasting on watching this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAoZ1p3nA3U&feature=PlayList&p=601BDB772CB892A4&index=0