The Cookbook Junkies

I’m such an idiot – I gave a friend’s three year old daughter a birthday card with a frog on it that said HOPPY BIRTHDAY…they are Chinese. Hoppy Birthday. Such an idiot. I’m one step away from Rosie’s big slip up insulting the entire Chinese community. If that isn’t enough…a couple weeks ago I asked the same friend, who is so sweet, if she could write the name “Lily” in Korean for me – because I wanted to decorate one of the cookies I made for a shower with that for the mom who happens to be Korean. She said, “I could copy it for you if you had it written somewhere but I can’t write it.” Jokingly, I said to her “what kind of Korean are you”, she said, “I’m Chinese”. I said, “Are you sure?” Then I said, “Can you learn Korean by Saturday.” God helps the idiots….he’ll help me.

My two “friends” (and if they weren’t truly my friends I don’t think that I could bear it…to quote Doc Holliday in Tombstone) who I asked to “stop smoking” in an earlier blog are giving me grief…thank God they are too lazy to open a google account so they can’t comment. I use to smoke I know how hard it is to stop…my dad died of emphysema and I still smoked, my uncle died of emphysema and I still smoked (both in their early 50’s)…and I stopped because Jim told me that he couldn’t be with someone who smoked knowing that they were killing themselves..several of his aunts and uncles – dead of lung cancer. Hormones, fertility drugs and four miscarriages have gotten me out of shape again coupled with slacking on my exercise and stopping my isometric exercise…I’ve started exercising again – but tomorrow I’m hitting it hard and going to do a couple weeks of protein shakes and salads and detox myself…I can’t ask others to stop destructive behavior when I am doing the same thing. Just so my two friends know…I do love them and I only say these things out of genuine concern because if they were to get sick – I really don’t think that I could bear it…seriously.

Someone once told me that smoking is an oral fixation (he wanted to replace the cigarette with something else)…it was such a lame comment for a male to make….almost as stupid as me asking three male friends at a St. Louis Blues Hockey Game if they had something to suck on (I had a sore throat). God helps some idiots slower than others.

New Curious George episodes this week….

What the hell is wrong with Britney Spears – someone needs to help that child before she ends up like Anna Nicole – her mother better haul her ass from Texas and give her a come to Jesus meeting – do people really not care about her? As a human being and a mother – I worry for her two children and truth to be told – I worry about her, I feel bad about Anna Nicole – if people are in crisis why don’t their friends, employees, anyone – CALL THEM OUT and help them. I have two friends (who read these posts) and they smoke – they have adorable, beautiful little boys…and every time I see those Stop Smoking commercials where the young boy is telling “us” how much he misses his dad who died from lung cancer or a smoking related disease – I want to drive to their house and smack them. I love them and I want them to stop – so this is my CALLING OUT.

We all need to get involved in our friend’s lives – we need to get involved in our strangers lives – if we suspect something is wrong with a child report it, if we have a friend who is self-destructing – nag the shit out of them until they aren’t your friend anymore – but at least you’ve tried…

Stepping off the soapbox and heading to watch George…

Do you invite people over to your house and not want them to come? I just invited Jim’s whole family over for dinner Saturday night – and now I want to call them up and say – “sorry, changed my mind – I’m going to spend the evening looking down the ever emptying end of a mudslide bottle.”

I started this post on Thursday and now it’s Monday – half the family couldn’t come – so we postponed until March 3rd – hooray!!! I can be lazy. We went shopping and out to lunch Saturday – so we had leftovers Saturday night – I love to cook – but I did not feel like cooking Saturday at all.

Saturday afternoon Jim and I broke up ice and cleaned up sidewalks for two neighbors and worked on ours. Every snow/ice – we take care of our neighbors or try to — do you think Wednesday when it was icing and miserable and I had a toddler that didn’t want to leave my side – that one of them would have spit in our direction – I’m not talking about our elderly neighbors but there are big healthy males in this neighborhood – and not one of them ever thinks of someone else. It irks me that two renters in this neighborhood wouldn’t think to help their elderly landlords clean their sidewalk – I’m beginning to really hate people.