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Channukah Fun!
My brisket defrosted last night, so I am going to season and wrap it today and put it in to slow cook.
I picked up the slicer/shredder attachment for my Kitchenaid last night to replace my busted cheap ass food processor (I had a great ancient Cuisinart, but the bowl broke and I couldn’t get a replacement, so I picked up a cheap ass Hamilton Beach one years ago) that I had to Mcgyver to make work (I was missing that square oblong thing that makes the slices/shredder disk work). I got smart. I was gonna spend 50$ anyway, so I figured I’ll save counter space with an attachment instead of a whole new appliance. Yay me! Yay Gram for giving me money for it ;) So I can now easily shred my potatoes and onions for my latkes. I am using a recipe from the Vegenomicon this year and the ones I made last night were amazing! I want to add some spinach and feta to them – anyone think I can still deep fry them, or will I be better off in a pan?
Eshiva is home puke-y today, so I’ll be able to clean and cook in between making sure she is ok.
Everything is wrapped. Gram & Zaide gave me a check to go buy for all the kids so I went to Target last night and didn’t spend half the money and I think they now officially have WayTooFuckingMuchTM. It’s all good – we got new wooden play food for Eshiva for the kitchen set, Dorian got some Star Wars stuff that Michael picked out for him, so I’m sure he’ll love it, and we got Malachai FunKeys on clearance. He is way into anything involving online right now, and these you plug into the USB and they unlock games and stuff online. I think the rest of their money will go to clothes. They are growing way too fast.
They each have about 12 things to unwrap, but at least 4 of those things are for all of them, and I wrapped everything individually (like Dad got Mal two Goosebumps DVDs – they got wrapped individually instead of together). I am trying not to feel guilty over being so commercial, but… I bet this is the last, or one of the last Channukahs with the great grandparents, and I want them to enjoy it. I know “stuff” doesn’t make the holiday, and it wont. We’re lighting everyone’s menorah this year (so we’ll have at least four going lol) and having people over most of the week. I’m pretty excited about it actually.
I hope Eshiva is feeling better by Sunday – the kids are supposed to sing at Chabad on Sunday, and they wanted to go the the Channukah festival too.
Read MoreI need a large Sony Walkman case
Any ideas? We got Malachai a present today, a new Sony Walkman 8 Gig MP3 player. Why? He has done awesome at school this year, homework getting done (not immediately and not without a fight but no where near the fight it took last year or the year before) so I wanted to reward his good work. Why a new MP3 player? I am fairly certain that his old one is in the undercarriage of the car. Yep. He left it somewhere it shouldn’t have gotten lost (his headphones were still in the car, mp3 player no where to be found) and I will not fault him on that one. If it had gotten lost in the house or out, then no way would I have replaced it. So, we got one on clearance today and I am filling it as I type. Back to the question at hand.
It’s a pretty small device. I’d like something a bit larger for him to keep it in so it doesn’t disappear again. Ideas? I was tempted to knit a cord around his headphone cord (big over the ear types, not tiny in the ear types) and put a little bag on the end so as long as the headphones are plugged in, the mp3 played would just sit in it’s case, attached to the headphones.
That is more work than I want to do today. Knitting a tube around a headphone word just isn’t on my list of “fun” for things to do today.
So… ideas? I can’t exactly superglue it to his arm ;)
Read MoreYear Expo Report
We hit the South Florida Tattoo Expo last night. I have a tradition now. I have to go, because if I don’t go, something awesome will be there and I’ll miss it. Otherwise, it’s the same old craptastic expo that it’s degenerated into. The hotel that is it hosted at now is not laid out well for an expo at all. There is one largish room, but there are at least four smaller (much smaller) rooms that many artists and vendors get relegated to. I have to wonder how much foot traffic they get, as they aren’t really near the main room and are kind of hard to locate if you don’t know the layout. We’ve gone to this particular hotel for the past few years and last night I wasn’t even sure if we had more rooms to peek into or if we had hit all of them.
Now that I am done bitching about the chosen venue… There were some great artists there last night, and some not so great. I guess it’s same group we see every year. As soon as we got there we stopped by the Ink Fixx booth and said hello. I got a silicon grip for my grip (to booth the size and absorb some vibrations – the size was the enticement for me!) and we both got a bad ass Ink Fixx tee. Then we walked around the main room, stopping at some booths. We stopped at King Pin and Michael got a new bottle of ink and some stencil stuff and priced some other things. We made our way the rest of the way around the room and then checked out some other rooms.
We ran into the lovely proprietors of Rockin Mamaz and had a great chat and got to catch up with some old friends (who knew!) and got some awesome swag. Malachai got a shirt, Dor & Esh got wrist cuffs, Michael got a shirt and I got a bad ass bag. I joked on the way home I’d rather spend 40$ on a purse from someone I know than 20$ on a purse from Target. *shrugs* Support local business!
We looped through the last room after that and then headed home. All in all? The money we spend to go in goes to charity (after expenses of course, but they routinely donate multiple thousands of dollars a year from this event) so it’s not a waste, and hey, we got to get awesome swag this year too :-)
Today is Malachai’s 7th birthday. He spent the morning helping to clean the living room (we’re having company tomorrow, and hey, he had a party last weekend) and is now playing Lego Batman with Dorian. I suspect it will be a low-key kind of day.
Read MoreSo little to do, so much time. Strike that, reverse it.
Last night we went to Fogarty’s for dinner. They are the yum. Had a seared ahi appetizer (spit between us), I had mashed potatoes, asparagus, grouper stuffed with crab with a red pepper sauce and Michael had his steak mooing with mashed potatoes (I think), broccoli and onion rings (those thin fancy ones) and we split a piece of cheesecake.
We both brought half of our meal home – there is enough left for another two meals! I’ll be slicing his and bento’ing it for him for dinner tonight.
I got a bundle of new shirts last night – Target has them on sale, yay! They are the “tissue” weight ones I like, with cute prints on them. We picked on up for Eshiva too, but I need to add a modestly panel to the v-neck (we got it in an X-SM to be a dress, but it comes down a little too low in the collar).
I picked up a set of curlers so I can get that soft 40’s curl instead of the curl I already have. I’ll give that a try tonight after I shower.
We spent part of Sunday at a friends house, which was nice. Had a good time and I hope to head back down there again sometime. Then we rushed back home so I could finish cooking & preparing for family to come by. Gram, Zaide, Molli & Larry came over and we feasted on chicken, ribs, watermelon and a delicious trifle I made (yum, homemade amaretto whipped cream) and chatted and it was nice.
I think that wraps up my weekend. I still need to hang my stupid pot rack. I have to bring the ladder in and find the studs and mark them. Then I need to lay out the rack and figure out where the hooks need to be. It’s a process. If I miss the studs and wind up using toggle bolts, I can only put 40 pounds on it, which makes it a useless pot rack, so hope for studs!
Read MorePoster Start Posting!
Let me start with, we got a new car! We got a silver Mazda5 stick and I fucking love it. It’s the cheap model, but this cheap model has frills my van doesn’t have (although the van some some frills the car doesn’t have, so it’s a toss up). It’s got a black cloth interior, next to no trunk, but it has rear air which is why we got a new family car and not a new Fishie car. I’ve promised him in five years once it is paid off we’ll get him a new car.
I have had something in my right eye for two days. I think it’s an eyelash, but I can’t get it out and it is annoying.
I double paid a bill, so I am broke till the 24th, which sucks. At least I had the money to cover the double payment, but I feel so effing stupid for doing it to begin with.
I have an idea for a new style tattoo needle, Michael is going to bring his soldering gun and needle jig and stuff home so I can test it out. If it works, it will have limited use (like dedicating an entire machine specifically to this needle, so it’s not gonna be the next big thing lol it will be nice if it does what I envision it doing though!) but if it makes things easier, is it worth it? Well, maybe just for me lol
The Orkin man came to take care of the bee nest that was under the kids fort part of their swingset. We need to get out there with gloves tomorrow and pull the planks up and get rid of the actual hive, and then hose it down but good. He said not to touch to powder or let the kids touch it. Joy. We put some stuff in the pool today to keep it clear and algae free. I need to recover it and turn the pump off. I know, not running the pump 24/7 doesn’t help, but I can’t run it 24/7 as the outside socket doesn’t work.
Is there more? I bet there is, but my brain is mush right now.
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