Winner of Ann's Bridal Bargins

We had a winner and she does not have a blog - yet!  But her wedding is planned for September 2012!!  

Congrats!

Christie said...Not sure if this is open for Canada too, but if so, count me in please! We are planning our wedding for next year and the Black Cocktail Napkins with purple foil embellishments would be perfect as those are our main colours! I'm not sure what picture we'd put on them since there are so many nice ones but probably the intertwining hearts to show our love :)

Thanks for the chance!
Christie

Monday Minute Memorial Weekend Edition

1 - Aside from your armpits, what body part of yours sweats the most?
My head - really if I start to sweat I sweat out my head first...and with fine hair that is so! fun!

2 - You have two slices of bread.  You can add one additional ingredient to make a sandwich, but as much of it as you want.  What are you putting on it?
Cheese, duh!


3 - Can you put your entire fist into your mouth?
Not even close. No.

4 - Open your email.  How many emails do you have in your 'Inbox'?
10 in my work email - just finished clearing it out.

and finally...

5 - If an adult male is taken for ransom, is that considered kidnapping?
I am not sure how to answer this except to say:

Kidnapping is a common law offence requiring:

1. that one person takes another person away;
2. by force or fraud;
3. without the consent of the person taken;
4. without lawful excuse.^[2]

At least according to Wikepedia

How to take a five year old Major League

And don't forget to enter the Ann's Bridal Bargins or Brookstone Giveaway!

Happy Boo Boo Saturday!

What Does Brookstone Sell - Mall of America

 Last week I was invited to shop the new Outdoor Living section at Brookstone.  I have to tell you that what I was shown was impressive!

Kevin, the manager at MOA store, met @IamBooBooLaLa and I up in the front on the awesome patio furniture they had on display.  They are selling all sorts of outdoor furniture, including drapes and rugs!

Boo Boo was especially taken with the display of pool toys on the floor.  She flopped on the Neo Noodles and wrapped up like a sausage in the bright yellow Neo Lounger.

Don't get me started on how badly she wanted the remote control sub!

Personally, I wanted the wireless outdoor speaker - it hooks to your MP3 player AND had great sound!
 
Our time invited to the Brookstone store at Mall of America was breif, but we sure enjoyed looking at all they had to offer.  Brookstone even gave me something JUST FOR YOU.  (Well, they gave it to me for this review - but I am giving it to you because that is just who I am.)

A 4 in 1 Charger

4 ways to keep your devices going anywhere. Keep your cell phone, BlackBerry®, other smartphones, digital camera, iPod® or iPhone® device charged and ready, no matter where you are—using a choice of 4 power sources: a standard wall plug, your vehicle’s power socket, a computer USB port or a 9-volt battery (battery sold separately). Cord retracts into charger for easy storage. LED shows when connection is made. Includes tips. (source of this copy and all photos is www.Brookstone.com)

To win?  MUST be a Google Friend Connect follower of Mommy's Nest!  Just click over to your right there under "Peeps".

Then, comment!  Tell me how much you get a charge out of that charger!  Ha!

Winner will be selected from all comments by having @IamBooBooLaLa draw the name of one commenter from a hat.  Comments must be posted by Midnight Central Time, June 2nd and winner will be notified on June 3rd.

Brookstone compensated me with this $39.95 plus tax charger, but as always the opinions given at this blog are mine and mine alone.  All contest rules subject to change at will by Mommy Lisa because, well, I am in charge around here. 

Love, Wedding, Marriage - A Giveaway

Happy Idiots

Once Upon a Time...In a land Far, Far, Away called Chaska two idiots got married.

The wedding?  Part humor, part hysteria, part BEAUTIFUL song, part planning on the cheap, part spending WAY TOO MUCH on flowers (because that is who we are), and partners becoming one.

Are you planning a wedding?

You know there is one thing I thought was missing from my wedding reception.

Personalized napkins. 




 

These?  Perfect for my navy and red wedding.

And if in the year 2000 we would all have spent more money and time shopping online - I bet I would have had them.

You can.

Ann's Bridal Bargins is giving one of my lucky readers $100 to spend on anything at their website.  You must purchase at least $100 worth of merchandise (Really it's for a wedding are you spending less) and shipping is not included.

To enter?  Please leave a comment on which personalized napkin would fit your theme wedding and be sure your email link to comments is activated, or leave your email address in the comment.  Only comments posted by MIDNIGHT May 29th will be accepted.

The winner will be emailed the code to use at Ann's Bridal Bargins after they are selected - Memorial Day, May 30, 2011. You lucky duck!!!  Winner will  be selected at random by @Iambooboolala - I will tell her to pick a number between 1 and (blank = how many comments recieved) and that will be the winner!

 Comment away Peeps!



With a limo yell....

 

Happy Home (Keep on writing)

I hope this song makes you feel special today.

I chose it for two reasons:

1) I want to keep life exciting
2) I want to not kill my hubby while we paint this weekend.

Happy Friday Peeps!

Mary had a little lamb

oh @blogger!  you FINALLY found my post.  *sigh*

WARNING - This is a blog of serious carnage and not for the feint of heart, or VEGETARIANS!!!

If you are a carnivore who occasionally likes to get down with a large plate of nuttin' but almost moo'ing meat you may proceed:


The Red Dress Club - Red Writing Hood prompt (from last week!) asked you to write about one of the 7even Deadly 7ins.  This (last!) week...the 7in of Gluttony! 


And I had a good tale - the Tale of Fogo De Chao!

Wishing they wore Zubas

My friend Becky is our crew’s unofficial coordinator of fun.  She plans our winter vacation to go snowmobiling, she plans our camping trip, and every Thanksgiving she makes sure we all spend one night together pigging out MORE at her home.

The fires of gluttony

And this one time, in Minnesota, she planned our evening of ULTIMATE GLUTTONY.

Fogo De Chao-style.

I had never been, and I must tell you, I was nervous.  There was so much to remember; don’t go to the salad bar, DO go to the salad bar, don’t fill up on the popovers – just eat one, and for heaven’s sake make sure you flip your disc to red when you have enough meat.  Enough meat?  What was I getting myself into?

So I did what a good little pack-follower would and ordered a caipirinha, took a deep breath, and waddled over to our table.

Yes, another caipirnha please.

I will tell you (Not proudly, but I still will tell you) that I ate about six months worth of beef, pork and lamb that evening.  Oh my word the lamb.  I still remember the delicious, rare, perfectly spice-rubbed lamb chops.

So here is to Becky for making us all eat way too much!  Skoal!  And then kudos to me for getting everyone to come back to our house for just one more glass of wine.

I'm STARVING!

Ah gluttony.  My jeans know you well.

Ready?

Set...

Go!!!

GONE!

Fogo De Chao is for Us!

A picture is worth a thousand words...

I like to pretend I am World Famous, pretty much, because I sometimes use a prompt from Mama Kat...like this week:

5.) Write a love letter to someone (some thing?) you love.  (and okay this is photo heavy, but can you SEE why I love this little girl?)

Dear @IamBooBooLaLa,

I love you more than you will ever know.  At least until you have a daughter of your own someday in the long, long, long off future. 

I loved you when you screamed as I changed your diapers...

My mad little froggy...

I loved to watch you learn...

It was joyful when you started walking.

I love your JOY at every gift!  Your "Thanks Guys!" is so spirited and full of wonder.

You are the goofiest looking "cowboy"

The cutest Pop Star...

I could never live without your face.

Even this lovable mug.

I love how you put up with my constant requests for pictures...

I love how you play hard and get dirtier than all the boys.

Your smiles for everyone.

You are MY baby love forever.

And Ever....

I love you, through and through...

Love you more,

Mommy

Know When To Shutup

Happy Wordless Wednesday to my Dear Know When To Shutup!

Circles in the Sand

The sun was really hot that day in early June 1985.  In fact the whole spring had been sunny, warm, and ripe for skipping class and sitting on our deck behind the lilac bushes - or stealing a few precious hours between classes and dinnertime lounging at our lake.

But today was different.  It was the very last day we would all be together.  That night we would graduate.  I did things I wouldn't normally do in the afternoon.  I drank large cold glasses of Malibu and pineapple juice.  I put Sun-In in my already impossibly blonde hair.  I kissed a boy in the shady patch of trees off the beach.  A boy who was taken, but used to be mine.

It was too much, so I left and went home to lay down.

Soon it was time...too fast I had to wake up from the lazy nap in my cool, dark room and get presentable for the ceremony.  Ugh.  Why had I put that Sun-In in my hair?  What was Colleen thinking telling me it was awesome stuff?  Blah.  Nothing a super quick shower won't fix.

I got to graduation in my "Marilyn Monroe" dress.  Showered, tan and sweet smelling from my favorite lotion.  I made it with a few minutes to spare and lined up between "my guys" Steven and Sean.  My locker posse for the last four years.  And as we were about to promenade through the gym and take our seats I reached up to scratch an itch and found the few grains of sand that I missed...and swallowed back the tears of what I was about to leave behind. 

Nickelback? Yes, they are terrible. #MondayMinute

Since our friendly neighborhood #SuperJew has decided to revitalize the Monday Minute - you bet your Sweet Aunt Fanny I am going to play.

1 - Since so many of you were so willing to wrestle naked with another member of the same sex for a million dollars, let's say we double it to $2,000,000 and put it on PPV for all to see.  Still willing?

I don't believe anyone would PAY to see me wrestle anyone, naked or otherwise, so I would go for it.   $2,000,000 and I blow this popstand.

2 - You just found a $100 bill on the ground while walking around your neighborhood. What's your first thought to do with the money?

Buy a lottery ticket, once I have looked around to be sure no one dropped it. 

3 - Mother's Day is coming up. (Note to Ian, it WAS yesterday man.) Name one thing you learned from your Mother that you'd like to share.

 My mom is pretty super-terrific and kind of bad-ass.  I cannot just boil down all the recipes, sewing lessons, life lessons and "how to embarrass your kid" lessons that she taught me over the years.  


I will share that V-8 Juice makes a pretty awesome vegetable soup base. 

4 - We all know that Nickelback, Kiss, Creed, Rush, the Foo Fighers and Axl Rose suck ass, name another band that should be added onto this famed list.

 Matchbox 20

and finally...

5 - Have you ever had a zit on your ass?

No.  Not that I am aware of...but I don't stare at or fondle my own ass.  And if I had you know I would share.  Evidence.

I want my MTV...well, circa 1990

I have a friend, let's call her "Hot Fresh Nug", and she posted a little Facebook discussion that started like this...

Someone wrestle the remote from (..her husband..). He's making us watch Biodome with Pauly Shore.

And instantly I was transported back to the days when you had no one to be responsible for but yourself - class was something you tried to get to - Jenny McCarthy was paid to punch guys about the head and chest - and a great movie had absolutely no.point.at.all.



Thanks Lisa - Lisa - the Gurl I a-DORE!

I quit.

 This weeks prompt I selected....

1.) A memorable high school job.

Except it is not a memorable high school job.  This one was a college job, or at least one of the many I had while I was attending Brown College.  Not "Brown University" - this was the COOL Brown College back in the day when Radio and Television Broadcasting was its main focus.

Yeah - I am "justifying" that choice just a smidge.

Anyresume.

I cannot say the name of this restaurant as it is still in business today - which is a shock to me because the owner is an asshole not very nice.  And whenever I see his face or hear the name of this restaurant my nose wrinkles and I make that face.  You saw it the other day here on this blog...

Whattaya Lookin' at Loser?

I was a waitress.  I needed a new job so I rolled up my apron and found a spot slinging hash, or pasta primavera, closer to home.  Heck this guy knew my minister so he must be all right, right?  And he was pretty cool in the interview and pretty much hired me on the spot.  I was a happy girl.  Then I started working there and in the short time I was there I:

• Watched him hire a chef I knew that got fired for embezzling from a local hotel.
• Got TOTALLY STIFFED by guys ordering round after round of beers during the SuperBowl - our restaurant was empty except for these guys, me, the owner, a couple cooks and the bartender - it sucked.
• Watched in HORROR at the way the owner and his son spoke to the servers.

...dum dum dum
Yes, I thought, he won't ever yell at ME like that.  He knows my minister for crying out loud.  Those other servers must be really REALLY bad if he swears at them like that.  I mean, wow.

One night I got a table early.  It was Friday.  I took their drink order and they ordered food right away too.  I served them their food and as it came up I got three other tables.

Bam
Bam
BAM!

But something was wrong you see.  My first table that .  Their potatoes were BLACK on the inside when they opened them up out of the foil.  Uh oh.  "Let me fix that right away."  I head back to the kitchen and bring back two more potatoes on plates and begin to take drink orders for my new tables when... "Oh Miss?"

Yup.  More BLACK potatoes.

I tromp back to the kitchen and show them to the chef that I knew and said "Dude, quick open me two that are not nasty so I can get back out there."  and right on my heels is the owner.

"What the FUCK are you doing?  Why aren't you out there taking care of my customers you stupid BITCH!"

Say wha???

Now keep in mind I had heard him speak this way before.  To more than one other server.  But my reaction was a bit "different" than theirs you see because IWILLNOTBESWORNATINTHEWORKPLACE no matter who you think you are.

I calmly took my ticket book from the back of my apron, handed it to the now stunned owner, and said, "Goodbye, you deal with them."  got my purse and left.


It would have been REALLY mature if I hadn't then cut my green bow tie up into little pieces and mailed it back to him after I got my last check.

Heard around the campfire

T-bone: You need to eat those beans.
Boo Boo: NOOOO.  They are yellow - I don't like them.
T-bone: They are exactly the same as the green one's next to them, just yellow.
Boo Boo: No.
T-bone: Eat.those.beans.or.tomorrow.you.get.peas.
Boo Boo: *poke bean* *pick-up bean* *eat bean* ---- *smile*
T-bone: SEE! I told you. *hmpf*

Well played Daddy, well played.