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Utensil Pot Clip

I haven't cooked at home for awhile now ... too tired and I have to admit a bit lazy.   But I must say that seeing this Utensil Pot Clip on Outblush today made cooking a little easier to do.    It is crafted using stainless steel and attaches to the sides of your pot or pan.   This way I don't have to use a plate to lay down my messy spoons, etc ...     Another big plus is that it's only $6!

My House So Needs One or Two or Three ...

We lose an average of 3.2 pen caps every day and I know where they are going.    These caps are being secretly stored by our two kitties in their highly top secret hiding spot.   All lost things go there, I know it.   To curb my kitties from building up their cap collection I need to get a Cap Trapper from Savvy May.     What an awesome product.     I can stop buying pens over and over again because they dry out from being left with no caps.    

As seen on Mighty Junior.

Obsession

Ever since I bought my first pair of Sam Edelman shoes, I cannot stop obsessing about flats.   Whether they are gladiator sandals or lovely thong sandals, like the one above from Matt Bernson, I can't stop thinking about them.     I browse over Piperlime, Shoes.com, Endless, Nordtsroms, ... at least once every day.    What I love about these sites is the return policy.   Each site has a fantastic return policy where I can return all unused shoes and they give you free return shipping.    Nordstroms is the exception but since there is a Nordstroms 15 minutes away from me, it's no biggie.   I must have purchased about 20 pairs of shoes and I only have kept 5 pairs so far.   Everything else went back.    I think these sites are terrific alternatives for someone like me who does not have the time to go to a store and try on 5 pairs of shoes.    Who does these days?

My favorite site has to be Endless.      They offer buyers free overnight shipping.   That's right folks, free overnight shipping.    Can't beat that offer!     It's almost as good as going to Nordstroms yourself.     Though each site differs in selection, there's always something that I see I like on each site, of course.    

I will end this post as I noticed when I was setting up the links, that Nordstroms has some new shoes on their site.    Another feature of Nordstroms website is that they are offering in store pick up.     It's another terrific alternative to paying for shipping fees.       Who knew buying shoes online could be both fun and easy?      

Keep the Faith

Oh yes baby I saw the man, George Michael in concert last night and he can sing!   I loved hearing his voice and seeing George reminding us fans that he can still shake his groove thing.     Let me tell you, aside from the songs that I was not familiar with and the confusing arrangements on some other songs, it was the encores that twisted my insides into a nervous flutter.     For his first encore he did "Praying for Time" and "Careless Whisper".      I love love love the song "Careless Whisper" and hearing it sung live was pure bliss.      His second encore was one of my favorites, "Freedom".    I anticipated that it would be his last song and I was correct.    

All in all I am so glad that my husband and I got to see him perform.   We had awesome seats and at times I felt like I could actually touch him.     The stage design almost, and I say almost outshone the performance.    I loved the huge LCD screen that was laid out in across the stage in three different areas.      I was afraid at first because usually they seem so karaoke like, but in this case it was not so.    I liked that they played bits of old Wham and George Michael videos in between.   It brought back a lot of memories and also reminded me of how old I am.     Bleech.   But anyways waking up this morning I thought wistfully that I wished I could see him perform again.    That instantly told me that I would give this concert a HUGE thumbs up!

Photos: San Jose Mercury

My Child is Rude

There's an interesting article on MSNBC on "What I Hate about Other People's Kids".       Interesting for most, but embarrassing for me.    Scan down to the examples of a rude child.   My child fits every single example, except for one.      Oh lordy.    I'm reading the examples and in my head I'm thinking, "yes he does that", "yes", "yes", "SIGH ... yes", ...   My child is surely gifted.

Safest Place on Earth

If I was this little girl, I would feel as if I was in the safest place on earth.    Pictured is Dallas Cowboys awesome lineback Demarcus Ware.   Recently he shared his hardship at becoming a father.   Touching story ... read here.

Two Volumes

These days I only seem to have two volumes when I talk to my children.   It's either in my normal voice or I'm yelling.    I don't have anything in between the two.  I'm not sure if I'm supposed to have an in between volume but I definitely don't.     I'll ask my oldest to stop scaring his younger brother.   Of course his selective hearing turns on so he pretends he doesn't hear me.   The second time I tell him to stop I'm yelling at him, loud enough for the whole neighborhood to hear me.    I guess subconsciously I'm tired of asking him to stop 4 or 5 times before I start yelling.   Overall I suppose I'm just tired in general.    So tired of telling my children the SAME thing over and over again.   It's either hear me now or face my wrath.   Though I think that my children have seen my wrath so frequently lately that it's not anything to fear.   "Oh my mommy always talks like that.", I can just imagine my oldest telling his friends or his teachers when they hear me yell.

Happy Father's Day!

Happy Father's Day to my wonderful husband and my dear father.      May you both have a very special day!!!

Whose Child are You Yelling At Now?

I don't know why but my husband is a yeller.    Lately I've noticed that he yells a lot more in the past few years.     Whenever my boys do something that is well, bad, he yells.     Most of the time, he yells.  But the fuse is short and sometimes I cringe when it starts.    Now don't get me wrong, he's not a mean person.   He's as sweet as pie, sometimes even a pushover.   But I noticed that when the boys need a scolding he's quicker to scream and yell, rather than reason.    That annoys me.    Of course I yell, I scream, I holler at times, but I try to remain calm and reason with my boys.    Though trying to compromise with a 2 year old doesn't always work.   

Getting back to hubby, his yelling now has gone outside our family circle.   I now noticed he's started to raise his voice at my son's friends.   When I first heard it I dismissed it as "Oh well, he's not familiar with playground politics."   But now it's happened more than a few times and I'm almost well embarrassed when it happens.    I mean, the boy is not mine.    He does deserve a scolding but from someone else?     My husband?     My friend, the boy's mom, though has her hands full most of the time so I know she doesn't always see or hear what her child does.     Thus one can't say she's letting the bad behavior go.     She just doesn't have those most wished upon feature all moms want ... eyes behind our head.   At times I scold the boy if need be.   I don't raise my voice but I do bring attention to the bad behavior in hopes my friend will see.    A great majority of the times she does.   But my husband ... sigh, he yells, not all the time, sometimes.     I hate it.    I feel weird.   He's not our child so we don't "deserve" to yell.   It's not our "right".     I haven't told him how I feel.   I'm not sure how he'll react, telling him he's doing something wrong.    But sometimes I'm wondering if maybe telling him to stop makes me the one that is wrong.

Fecal on Your Lemon Rind?

Oh that's just gross.     There is an article where the show Good Morning America tested the lemons from Applebee's, Chili's and TGI Friday's, and found that the lemons were contaminated with fecal matter AND E.Coli!   Yuck!

As seen on Splendora.