Jennifro

Virtual Vomit

I'm just here to spit it out

I feel like my brain is misfiring.  I cannot settle down for the life of me.  After drinking two cups of Sleepy Time Tea and getting no results, I decided to post a few of the things I was thinking about on the treadmill tonight.  Ah, the truth comes out.  I can never fall asleep when I exercise at night.

I have come to the conclusion that I could never run on a treadmill without music.  For me, it is pure torture without it--I don't care how good Oprah is, I can't last more that ten minutes.  I am not a runner but I'm starting to think I could be....?  Ha!  No seriously though, I'm pretty shocked at how well I do when I have good songs to listen to.  So far, my favorite is "Pump It" by Black Eyed Peas.  It just gets me uber happy.  And reminds me of dancing like crazy in my parents living room with all my bros and sisters a few years back--we had like a dancing FRENZY to that song--it was awesome.  Also, I love the one by the Killers "All these things I've done."  I think that's the name.  It gets me really happy too and running fast!  (Mitchie you know why)

Found myself chuckling about this next thing.  Last week.  Mitchell came into our room at 2:43. "Nicholas threw up and my woom stinks BAD!"  Now, Nicholas is old enough to make it to the toilet, but it must have been violent because the damage was indescribable! We're talking it hit two opposing walls....  Usually, I'll be nice and deal with this sort of thing, but when that stench smacked me in the face and I took a look at the ladder--I started dry heaving so bad--I had to run back to MY woom.  "Nick!! Waaaake up!!" There's like an inch of puke on every rung of the ladder!"  I am giggling even now picturing Nick's slit eyes as he gingerly tiptoed the ladder across the hall and into the shower.  I only shared this with you, so in case it happens to you, you know to take the ladder to the shower.  I thought it was ingenious really.  Whoa...when I pause to think how I would've gone about cleaning it.....ew!  shivvers.....

Pandora's box.  Have you heard of this?  It's so cool.  It's an internet radio station where you type in a band or song and then they create a playlist around it.  I've just recently discovered it and love it.  Check it out.

I was repeating one of the lines from this movie in my head while I was daydreaming tonight.  I love it when Jack (can't remember his movie name) comes storming in the room and yells to Greg Kinnear, "Are you gonna talk to me or what?!"  I LOVE that scene!  Of course you can't even appreciate what I'm talking about if you haven't seen it. This is for sure one of my all time favorite movies.  It is just fabulous and I am so ready to see it again.  The message is wonderful, the acting so good....I can't say enough about it.  If you haven't seen it, you should.  

I completely cured myself a few days ago with these two things. I kid you not.  I was getting the worst (I mean worst) cold.  The kind where it hits you in like ten minutes and you think the world's gonna end, and you sneeze like forty times in a row.  Nick went and got me this stuff and made sure I knew it cost "like 20 bucks" but it was WORTH IT!  I took the Zicam three times before bed and the Echinacea twice and it was gone the next day.  It came back a little the next night and I did it again....and it vanished.  I've never used Zicam before because my dad called it ZiScam so I figured he must know....anyway, he was wrong.  I was cured and I have witnesses.

So you know when you're on the treadmill and you start thinking about your kids and all their issues. Tonight it was about Natalie and I started wondering and worrying if it's normal that she has such a serious crush on a boy in her class.  I mean, I just think she's too young for that--3rd grade after all.  Then I started laughing to myself because I thought back to my first crush, and it wasn't on a boy in my class...no it was on a boy in Mr. Kotter's class!  That's right Vinnie Barberino aka Danny Zuko.  I had a tee shirt with John Travolta's face on it and I put it over my pillow case and slept on it. Many a night I cried about him because I was just soooooooo miserably in love with his laughing eyes, big toothy grin and to-die-for dimple!  Now the crazy thing is, I was picturing the bed and the room in which I did all that boobing, and it was in our house in North Las Vegas, which would have made me seven years old!  Okay, is that messed up or what?  Really... HOW ON EARTH could I have been bawling over him at such a young age? I'm still pondering that...and figuring Natalie's normal?  Normal...like....her mother?

So, then I started thinking about the time I fell in love with Stevie Wonder after a dream. This was one of those completely real dreams where you wake up and are majorly affected.  Like the dream has become your reality because you feel it in-your-bones strong...you know what I mean?  This probably happened about age fourteen because remember  I was completely obsessed with this boy named Donnie at the time.  The word "obsession" does not even begin to touch what I had for this kid.  Anyway, before I went to bed one night I crank-called poor Donnie and said nothing but played "I just called to say I love you" into the phone.  Well, little did I know how that simple act would affect my psyche during the night.  In the dream Stevie and I were laying on the floor next to the orange couch in my parent's family room.  We kissed each other (a lot) and he taught me that I could love a sightless man the same as any other.... and let me tell you, when I awoke.... the spell had been cast!  I  literally walked around for two weeks miserable over the guy....lovesick and crazy, believing somehow, against all odds, Stevie and I should be together.  That's sort of a bad memory for me...too real.  I must have been super hormonal.

Last but not least I thought about the email my dad sent all his kids today titled "Food Storage Recipe #1".  It's not often he exposes his expertise and I hesitate to share, but if you've hung with me this long...I figure you've earned it.

Family,

This is my old faithful spaghetti recipe, but it is very tasty and very inexpensive. I recently made a batch for the dove and me and it lasted for six meals at a cost of about $5.00 (less than a dollar per meal). We had a small salad...green (if available) with ranch or canned fruit and cottage cheese (if available) Both salads are very inexpensive.

Ingredients are:

1 26oz Kroger spaghetti sauce (about $1.09) Ragu, Prago etc. is fine but over double the cost
1 dry Kroger spaghetti packet
1 lb ground turkey or beef (if available) or no particular brand of canned meat (beef, turkey, or chicken)
Fresh chopped onion (if available) or stored minced onion (onion is totally optional)

DIRECTIONS

Brown onion and meat and drain...with turkey there is 0 grease to drain
Add wet spaghetti sauce to meat and onion. Put spaghetti dry mix into empty spaghetti bottle and add about 2 full dry spaghetti packets of water to the dry mix in the bottle. Shake the crap out of the water and dry mix and pour it into the meat and wet spaghetti sauce. If you have music available, you can dance vehemently while shaking the crap out of dry mix and water.

REHEAT AND SERVE THE FAM!!!!!!!!

I can completely make this in 15 minutes if I don't use fresh onion. While the water is boiling for the noodles, I can have the meat and sauce ready when the water and noodles are done.

Love from,

Big Al's Tightwad Survival Kitchen

Tomorrow will be Food Storage Recipe #2.

What are some other good songs to run to?

I like alternative stuff mostly.