Happy Birthday to My Boyfriend!!
Today is the day! It’s official. For the next 5 months I am only 3 years older than my BF! Then it’s back to the gap! 4 years! No big deal now…but that would have been an entire high school term back in the day! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!
So anyhoo, he leaves for work as usual and none of us get up. And when he says goodbye to me, I don’t remember that it’s the birthday. Finally, as I am getting ready to make lunches and I go into the kitchen I see lottery tix on the table…and THEN I remember! Duh. Nice girlfriend. (On a happy note-he got a whole bunch of lottery tix at his party and he won $77 and a free ticket. The $75 I didn’t see, but there are 3 scratch offs waiting for later! He’s a lucky duck. Haha)
I call on the phone and wish him a happy birthday. Say I’m sorry I didn’t remember earlier. Stevie is yelling her happy birthdays in the background. Mason, however, says that he doesn’t have to say anything because he sent his message “telegraphically”. Please check the word of the day for clarification. But it was pretty funny!
So we next have to decide if we should totally go off the EFS for b-day dinner, or just stick to the plan…ugh…weigh in is technically Sat. AM for us and Friday AM for the kids–they go to their dads this weekend so we have to bump it a day (we have them on a super modified plan–just to keep any chunk from accumulating on their little growing bodies and get them in the habit of healthy eating for life). I can think of excuses all day. So I spent a moment and came up with something pretty reasonable sounding. I am weighing us after school today, and if we are the same or below our last weekend weight…dinner is ON! If not, stick to the lean times. It’s fair. We work hard all week. We are pretty careful not to overdo it. So one dinner won’t break the bank! The BF gets to pick the food-pizza-so I hope we all do well-pizza- and are able to slip in one bad meal-pizza-and just work a little harder-pizza-tomorrow! I don’t know what he’ll choose-pizza-and I hate to influence-pizza-his decision. Whatever you want baby!
(Pizza.)
So, I have to go volunteer at the school for lunch time, but I want to get in a music list. In honor of the boyfriend and my brilliant son, I am creating the birthday-telegraphic-telepathic-ESP-reading your mind-playlist. Have fun with it! Just close your eyes, think music, birthday, ESP…. there. You have it?? It’s good isn’t it??!!
And for those of you who are unable to read my mind and hear the music thru un-earthly channels, I’ve written it down, just below!
Keep in “mind“, however, GREAT liberties were taken with this list. Unfortunately there just aren’t enough songs about actual ESP and Mind Reading. Maybe I am wrong, and if you know of some, please let me know. But I kind of veered off into the “in my head” category and more general “mind” songs. I even found a few “voices in my head“. It does border on the crazy a bit, but it’s my list. So, BROADLY enjoy:
The “SOS-ESP-B-DAY” List. Music for the psychic! (And those schooled in Morse code! (among other things)Love it!)
SOS-ESP-B-DAY Music List (stretched a bit…)
1. S.O.S. / Rihanna
2. SOS / Abba
3. Radar Love / Golden Earring
4. S.O.S. / Jonas Brothers
5. S.O.S. / Good Charlotte
6. A Desperate S.O.S. / The Dollyrots
7. S.O.S. (Anything But Love) / Apocalyptica feat. Cristina Scabbia
8. The Psychic / Crash Test Dummies
9. Veteran Of The Psychic Wars / Blue Oyster Cult
10. Read My Mind / The Killers
11. Eye In The Sky / The Alan Parsons Project
12. Head Games / Foreigner
13. You Better Run / Pat Benatar
14. Where’s Your Head At / Basement Jaxx
15. Can’t Get It Out Of My Head / Electric Light Orchestra or Velvet Revolver (whichever speed you prefer)
16. Out Of My Head / Fastball
17. Head On / Pixies
18. In My Head / No Doubt
19. Can’t Get My Head Around You / The Offspring
20. All In My Head / Shawn Mullins
21. Change Your Mind / Sister Hazel
22. Free Your Mind / En Vogue
23. Guided By A Voice / Feeder
24. Voices In My Head / Denis Leary (may not be suitable for the youngsters!)
Day Quote
Something funny for today. By one of the greats in cinema…
Those are my principals. If you don’t like them, I have others.
—Groucho Marx
Cool Word of the Day!
Telepathy (noun)
Definition: Communication between individuals by using mental processes rather than ordinary sensory means
New Look! New Feature! Quote of the…
Not sure how often I’ll hit a new quote. I’ll try daily. Everyone needs a motto even if it’s just for one day. Enjoy the new look of the site. I really like it. Looks more like me.
These words actually got me thru alot at one point in time. They still help whenever I need to be reminded about the bigger picture. Not sure where or who I got it from–it was a long time ago. Here it is:
To be too large for worry,
too noble for anger,
too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
—Unknown
Cool Word of the Day!
Triumph (verb)
Definition: To be victorious: win; to be jubilant: exult; to achieve success
Tuesday EFS Off The Wagon…or something like that
This is Day 7 of the second week, but not really. Since we fell off the wagon for the weeekend, not completely, but we WERE hanging over the side dragging the ground pretty good; we decided to extend week 2 thru Friday. Thereby starting Week 3 on Saturday and bringing us in line with the BFL system we had begun previous to this Extreme Fat Smash idea. Now that that’s all straight…
The point for today is to say, I exercised and followed the diet up until 1 pm or so when I decided to partake of some fabulous beer cheese dip left over from the party on Sunday. OK. It wasn’t really left over. It never got put out. Silly Me.
My brother-in-law makes THE best Beer-Cheese Dip in the WHOLE world. I don’t know exactly what it is and I don’t know what’s in it. But I do know that you eat it with pretzels and it is awesome! Some people will tell you that it’s good with other crunchy things like Triscuits, Pita Chips, or Melba type cracker things. But they would be WRONG. Pretzels are the only way to go. Now, he had some at his Crawfish Boil the day before, and I begged him to bring some to my party the next day. He doesn’t make it all the time so it’s like a big thing for me when he does. In the spirit of brotherly love, he packed some up, WITH pretzels, and drove an hour to our house to have it for the b-day party. It was even still cold! Then I slyly put it in the fridge and there it sat until everyone left. But he saw thru my deception. He noticed and commented on how tricky that was and how he kind of wanted some…OMG! I totally forgot! I meant to put it out but there was so much confusion when everyone got here and I had all this other stuff…and then when I remembered it was too late…blah blah blah….Yeah Right! He wasn’t buying it. But he was kind and let me keep it anyway. I did give back the pretzels though.
So, long story short, I ate some of that most delicious Beer-Cheese Dip this afternoon after my workout. My own private stock! I did the work at the gym to allow for the discrepency. And I didn’t eat alot. Just enough. Got to have some for tomorrow! Or later with Beer. Actually no, My bro-in-law also made a Louisiana Punch concoction to go with the New Orleans theme they had rolling for the Crawfish Boil so he brought that over too. Add just a bit more vodka and you got yourself a party in a glass! I throw on the beads we all got, close my eyes, and its like I’m in the Big Easy. Well, not really, but it’s the perfect segway into my Music List for the Day!
In honor of my most beloved Brother-In-Law and his Beer-Cheese Dip and my happiness over having it, I have dedicated the list to him today.
It’s all about New Orleans, Beer, Cheese and Whiskey. Please take a Drink from the “Big Easy: Beer Cheese Whiskey“ List. Right below here!
(FYI–it’s a little country music heavy–we aren’t haters but we like more variety—strangely enough alot of country music has to do with drinking and the South! How ’bout that??)
Thanks J. You Rock!
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Big Easy: Beer Cheese Whiskey List
1. Proud Mary / Ike & Tina Turner
2. One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer / George Thorogood & The Destroyers
3. Chicken Fried / Zac Brown Band
4. Whiskey In The Jar / Metallica
5. Before He Cheats / Carrie Underwood
6. Big Bad John / Jimmy Dean
7. Me And Bobby McGee / Janis Joplin
8. Boot Scootin’ Boogie / Brooks & Dunn
9. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend / Miranda Lambert
10. Have A Drink On Me / AC/DC
11. Delta Dawn / Tanya Tucker
12. Dry Town / Miranda Lambert
13. All Summer Long / Kid Rock
14. The Girl’s Gone Wild / Travis Tritt
15. What’s Your Mama’s Name / Tanya Tucker
16. Lonesome, On’ry And Mean / Travis Tritt (tribute to Waylon)
17. King Of New Orleans / Better Than Ezra
18. Whiskey River / Willie Nelson
19. City Of New Orleans / Arlo Guthrie
20. House Of The Rising Sun / The Animals
just shy of pretty 