Category: Everything Else

Because it sure would be fun to get all dressed up. Lacey and I headed to Portland today to pick out her prom dress. I am staying at Nick and Lacey’s until Wednesday. Nick and Lacey are my all time favorite kids from my Summer Sitting Service I had many years ago. Every Wednesday we would have little adventures, make movies, swim, and play. It was so much fun. Now I come to Salem to stay with them whenever their parents go out of town for a while. They are 13.5 and just fifteen (and Lacey just got her permit,…

This is my favorite all time thing to make and eat. I am pretty sure I could live off of it: 2 onions7 strips baconlots of potatoes (I think I used a whole bag yesterday)1 can creamed corn1 can not creamed cornsaltpepperand I don’t think it is complete with out Johnny’s Cook bacon in little pieces: try not to eat all the bacon after you take it out of the pan. Cut up your onions really teeny tiny: Then to make it extra yummy you simmer the onions in the bacon fat in a big soup pan with salt and…

Last night I was watching an episode of Smallville in real time (gasp!) and there was this Mentos commercial on there that killed me. It was so weird and funny, basically the kind of thing that gets me on a roll. It starts out with little birds in a nest and the momma bird feeds the little bird a Mentos and then they start chirping this song. Well then all these other birds chime in and you hear a parrot say “there’s no limit,” I don’t think this commercial has anything to do with Mentos but whatever. I rewound it…