Ten On Tuesday - 10 Things I Don’t Like About My Job

1. The pay just sucks!
2. No vacation or sick leave.
3. My bosses listen in on my phone conversations.
4. Management is out of control.
5. I get paid in homework paper with stars all over it.
6. My bosses are really demanding.
7. The hours are 24/7.
8. No one else can do the work I do.
9. I have to wear a uniform covered in spaghetti sauce or whatever else the little minions are wearing when they come up to hug me.
10. It doesn’t last forever…

Ten On Tuesday - 10 Things I Will Never Do Again

1. Go bar hopping dressed like nuns.  A)  Because nobody will go with me, and B) apparently nuns don’t dress like nuns anymore.
2. Turn left in front of a lot of traffic when somebody stops and waves me in - because some jerk will zip around the side of them and smash into you and it’s still your fault.
3. Go to a gay bar with friends to get hit on a straight drunk guy all night. ‘Nuff said?
4. Buy a vehicle from Folsom Lake Dodge - because they are rat bastards and will rob you blind and steal the shirt off your back while your babies are crying and tired.
5. Eat Jolly Ranchers - you can thank Shana the Beautiful for that one.
6. Have a baby - because three’s enough.  Eight, too much.  Just ask Tom Bradford!
7. Go to Las Vegas at 1:00 in the morning - because I’m not 20 anymore and now that it’s legal it’s no fun!
8. Forget to put on sunscreen or just not do it because it’s inconvenient - I’m surprised I don’t have skin cancer yet.
9. Drive to Utah in one day all by myself - because it’s more fun with someone else who can drive while you’re bored to death in Nevada.
10. Use a recipe in the crock pot that calls for beer as an ingredient - apparently that’s one place where the alcohol stays right there.

Ten On Tuesday - 10 Countries I’d Like To Visit

1. Spain - ‘Cause the guys are hot.
2. Greece - ‘Cause the guys are hot.
3. Italy - ‘Cause the guys are hot.
4. South America - I hear the surfing’s good, which means the guys are hot.
5. Germany - Because my husband served a mission for our church there, and hello… chocolate???
6. Mexico - Because Los Angeles doesn’t count.  Yet.
7. Brasil - Because they have excellent soccer players, which means the guys have great butts.
8. Belize - Because I learned about it in my Spanish class the second time I went to college and it looks dreamy.
9. Madagascar - Because I like to move it, move it.
10. Canada - Eh?

Ten On Tuesday - 10 Things To Do Before I Die

1. Go somewhere outside of the United States besides Los Angeles.
2. Learn to drive a stick shift.
3. Travel to Greece.
4. Graduate from college.
5. Stop cussing.
6. Save public education.
7. Eat fish without gagging.
8. Personally see to the destruction of Voldemart.
9. Travel to South America and not get freaked out by the bugs.
10. Travel to Africa.

More Proof That God Exists

As one commenter on this blog said, “It’s like p*rn for my mouth…”

Some poor soul without a/c in a place that rains a lot but is currently (or was) experiencing record heat invented….

THE MACGYVER WAFFLE .

Stay At Home Today

I decided to actually stay home today and see what I would do.  So far, so good!  I got everything I need put together to make dinner tonight, Stuffed Zucchini, and I’ll either be making oatmeal cookies or blueberry sweet potato bread later on today.  Maybe both!

Got the dishes done, ran by the post office, decided to stop reading “Airframe” by Michael Crichton because it’s boring as sin, and start putting together some good mail.  Oh, and I chopped up a small cauliflower (a.k.a. “white broccoli” to my kids) for a snack.

Well, now that I’ve whet your appetite with just the very mention of Stuffed Zucchini, I will put down the recipe here:

STUFFED ZUCCHINI

2-3 ginormous zucchini that you picked up at your church library because somebody’s garden grew too many of them and they want to share

3 medium garden-fresh tomatoes from same church friend above.

1 box Stove Top Turkey stuffing, prepared according to directions on box.

1/2 - 1 cup fresh corn kernels

1/3 - 1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese 

Directions:

Pre-heat oven to 375′.

Slice ginormous zucchini in half lengthwise.  Scoop out innards, leaving a slim shell.  Keep half the innards and chop finely, tossing the rest away.

Dice tomatoes and slice kernels from corn ears.

Combine prepared stove top, zucchini guts, diced tomatoes and corn kernels and 1/2 the parmesan cheese.  After it is well mixed, divide equally amongst the zucchini shells and fill to just over the top of the shell.  Sprinkle remaining parmesan cheese on top and bake at 375′ for 20-30 minutes, or until zucchini shell is peirced easily. 

Serve this with some No Knead Bread covered in homemade blueberry butter, sit back, and now you can die happy!

Ten On Tuesday - 10 Favorite Childhood Movies

I’ve chosen movies I actually saw as a child, not nescessarily in the theater, and not the year they came out.  As an adult I’ve seen movies produced during the years of my childhood but not seen back then so I did not include those here.

And here they are in no particular order…..

1. Annie - This was the very first movie I can ever remember seeing in a theater.  Can I just tell you, I had THE BIGGEST crush on Tim Curry from that film?  I used to shout out my bedroom window (which was of course, at the front of our home) “I love you, Rooster!!”
2. E.T. - This came out the year my daddy died.  It was pretty powerful for the grownups and super-exciting for me!  “I have absolute power, yeah!”
3. The Goonies - Ahh… I have fond memories of pulling out a blanket and curling up with chili dogs (the kind with chili inside them!) on rainy days (just like the one in the movie!) and going ga-ga over Sean Astin.
4. FOOTLOOSE - Drool…. can’t…. say…. more…. drool… everywhere…. electrocution…. imminent….
5. Ghostbusters - “I…. AM…. ZOOOOOOL”
6. La Bamba - I was into tragedies for a little while there.  And temporarily scared of flying.
7. Big - When I was 12, I went to visit my aunt and uncle in Manhattan.  They took me to FAO Schwartz and I got to see the piano from the movie. 
8. Flight of the Navigator -
9. Adventures in Babysitting - “Don’t EFF with the Lords of Hell!”, “Oh yeah?  Don’t EFF with the babysitter!!!”
10. Spaceballs - “May the schwartz be with you.”

Apparently not only did I watch large amounts of television as a child, but quite frequently went to the movies.  I was having trouble remembering movies from the 80’s that I might have seen in the 80’s, so I found a website that lists movies by the year they came out.  I learned two things from those lists:  1.  I think my family single-handedly funded much of those box office reciepts during those years, and 2.  There were a LOT of “s*x comedies” back then!  LOTS!  Kind of scary…