Bullet Sunday #12
- I think margarine is disgusting and I will only eat and use real butter in cooking. (I’m pretty sure margarine is evil for diabetics too. At least that’s my excuse if anyone offers me that disgusting crap.) So I picked up a clear glass butter dish a while back. It attracted me because It looked big enough to hold two sticks of butter. It turned out to be very thick …. very VERY thick and heavy … very VERY heavy glass and only held one and a half sticks of butter. Does that make sense to you? I hated the damn thing because It was so wide and SO heavy I could barely hold on to it especially if it got slippery with butter. The kids? Well, they just didn’t deal with it. Once they got the lid off, it stayed off. This resulted in the dogs assuming that an exposed stick of butter sitting on the counter was fair game. It was driving me mad so today when I noticed my lovely children once again left the butter dish cover off, I made a point to show them *how* to put the lid back on. I should have used both hands because really, there’s no way they could have put the lid back on with one hand. My point was driven home as I was a little too deliberate when I set the lid down onto the dish. It slipped out of my hand and broke. I think I lost some of my uber ninja points on that one. It might have been funny if steam hadn’t started rolling out my ears at that point. I’m pretty sure I heard suppressed giggles but no one dared laugh out loud.
We got this new normal butter dish today and it has a little handle on the top. Little fingers, including those with short stubby fingers *ahem* should have no trouble with this butter dish lid. You know how they say it’s the little things? Well….this butter dish makes me happy. Then again, can you blame me after having the butter dish from hell?
- We decided to do some more Christmas shopping while we were out today (buying my new happy butter dish) and as we pulled into the parking lot of Target, we were faced with a situation we’ve never quite faced before: Playing chicken with a shopping cart. A rogue shopping cart was barreling down at us at an amazing speed. We slowed down to see if it was actually going to hit us. It swerved and bounced off the curb and came back for us again. Jack stopped the car and we let it hit us head on. I then got out and put it up on a grassy area up against a tree where the wheels dug into where the grass met the bark dust surrounding the tree.
- It’s always interesting to go shopping this time of year. You see all kinds of strange people. If you’re a people watcher, as we are, it’s the best time of year for it. Today the very overweight woman with skin tight high water camouflage pants (not capri pants) got a chuckle out of me. I guess she heard about the flood watch, too.
- After yesterday’s joke of a snowfall, today we’re having tons of rain and wind. (The kind of wind that allows you to play chicken with shopping carts.) I twisted my hair into a knot and secured it with a hair claw as I knew there’d be no point in doing anything else with it in today’s storm. I am pretty sure I resembled Medusa by the time we got into the mall anyway. I could tell I was being ‘people watched’ myself as tried to fix the mess my hair became.
- A couple weeks ago we got the notice of the value of our home. It went down slightly. This might be good thing for us short term as we might see a slight decrease in our property taxes. I think??? I found out I might have been able to protest the value they set when we bought the house. They (whoever they is) claimed our property went up $70k in value in one year. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t right. This real estate stuff can be confusing.
You have been warned: One of our purchases today was a video camera. We’ve been waiting to get one … for many years. People often gasp at us when we tell them we don’t have one. You have how many kids and you don’t have a video camera? What is wrong with you people?? I’ve used the crappy little video function on my digital camera many times but it takes postage stamp size videos. Kevin has the lead role in his high school’s musical performance coming up in January. I absolutely want a video capture of this and I’m tired of begging others for copies of their videos. We were going to pick one up months ago before I lost my other job, but put it off after that bomb was dropped. Now that I have a job again, it’s time. We got a JVC GZ-MG555U which was the best HDD (hard disk drive) one we could find for the money/features we wanted without going to a High Definition one (although those were temping too). I feel I must post this as a warning because I’m sure until the novelty wears off, I’ll be posting lots of videos.
Ummm Margarine has 0 Colesteral and 0 Carbohydrates…its actually VERY good for Diabetics.
Margarine has concentrated trans fat, at least it used to until very recently.. which promotes heart disease and …diabetes. Managing diabetes is not just about managing carbs.. and I would not consider butter OR margarine “very good” for anyone, let alone diabetics. My comment on it was tongue in cheek.