http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Zdz88MBWomo#!
Fab Alert!
Just click it. You will love. If you don't love it, then you need it more than any of us.
I think my fave scene is #1, the river. The chirping insects. So cool.
P.S. This is the 99th Fab Alert. That's also cool.
Credo
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
-Douglas Adams
How to Smile Naturally for Photos
This is actually fairly helpful. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aJjnNix-Lp8
Shea of the Day
My grandmother sent this super-cute pic of Shea. She always pastes little comments on her pictures. Such a sweet, grandmotherly thing to do.
Berkeley Pearl
She might be crunchy, but she's no Telegraph Ave. panhandler. Nay, she couldn't be further from a scruffy underachiever. She is, in fact, a Buddhist Studies professor at UC Berkeley. She enjoys travel, yoga, upcycling and vegan cooking.
Black + Pope = YES
Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, the current president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, is rumored to be a potential option for new pope.
I'm keeping my fingers tightly crossed that Turkson gets to wear the Mitre. He'd be the Obama of Catholicism. It's just what the Church needs, I say.
Shake things up, cardinals! Vote Turkson!
Credo
The Winner of Most Fab Super Bowl Commercial is...
Will Ferrell for Old Milwaukee! http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ok6dXmFaYq8
Brownie Break
For Your Lunchbox
Not your kid's lunchbox. Nooooo. Don't want no CPS visits.
I just used a double-negative and can't just let it be there and know that my intelligent (and, of course, fabulous) readers will presume it's deliberate. I have to directly state that it's deliberate. I don't really use double-negatives! I don't! I'm just trying to be witty. And I'm stereotyping. Because those who put wine in their kids' lunchboxes likely aren't strangers to CPS... and double-negatives. Oh, c'mon---you know it's true. Maybe not wine, though... more like malt liquor? Hell, I don't know. I guess I need to work on my stereotyping. There's one for the to-do list. Send... overdue... holiday... gift... thank-you... notes. Compile... baby... albums. Work... on... sterotyping. Take... Volvo... for... oil... change.
I digress.
This is for your lunchbox, dahling. From STACKED Wines: Single servings of vino, prepackaged in sealed plastic glasses.
Five stars. This screams summertime croquet match in the park! Don't give me no flack for loving croquet, either. Intentional double-negative.
*NOTE: Although you should absolutely should watch this whole clip, if you don't have time, just hit the one minute mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5ZCfo9RzO8
via NOTCOT
I Have No Words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VZ-aoTDamc UPDATE --- 1/25/13
No, that's not Pearl.
Pearl is five months old.
Five-month-old infants don't stand on chairs, sway in rhythmic motion and deliberately hold their arms in the air like that. If you know of any who do, kindly let me know what they're ingesting, because my kids need some of that. They have choreography to learn.
A Sincere Apology
I'm deeply sorry for unleashing the unbridled passion of these irresistible Churro Waffles on you.
Yes, Churro muthaf*ckin' Waffles... beeeeotch. Courtesy of Chica Chocolatina Bakeshop.
Click here for the recipe. ¡Solo vives una ves!
Best Funeral Ever!
Please tell me you've had the pleasure of experiencing TLC's Best Funeral Ever. Please. Recently, Best Funeral Ever was followed by Here Comes Honey Boo Boo. I decided to watch that, too. Here's my synopsis: TLC is no longer the learning channel, it's a sadistic pusher of asinine, guilty-pleasure programming that does not, in fact, involve much learning at all... and I loooove it. I watched those shows with such delight that it's probably not OK. I'll watch them again, too. Help me.
Best Funeral Ever is totally my new favorite show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mrz9q1tjSV4
Viva Civility!
Thanks, Dinah!
Fab Alert!
Influenza Sorbet by Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams. Kick ass!
Cayenne pepper, ginger, Maker's Mark bourbon, honey, and cold- and flu-fighting orange and lemon juices. Cures whatever ails you.
Says Jeni via her site:
“This is our flu-season fix. It’s proven to clear nasal passages, ease a sore throat, and soothe the body. It’s modeled on the home remedy my mother and grandmother made when anyone in the family was under the weather. Sniffles, aches, and fevers meant one thing: a mug of hot whiskey with honey and lemon juice, then straight to bed.”
Credo
I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
Dalai Lama
Portland Pearl
Pearl has gone totally indie-rock.
She's ready to move to Portland and catch a Grizzly Bear show. You need not ask if she owns a backpack; the answer is clear.
Shea, however, is none too thrilled. He's tired of Pearl raiding his wardrobe. He's over her style-copping ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJpC9JqSnJk
Brownie Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXD4_qXo4us
Ugh.
Hope your Sunday is going better than mine. Clearly, I'm working today... and it's not going so well.
What might make me feel better is a praise break. Several of them.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jgv6BS5jP4
That definitely helped.