That was my day. How was yours?

Today as Alayna and I were walking in Downtown Naperville I was approached by Mike Flannery from CBS News. Yes, this actually happened.

He asked if I could give a few thoughts on Obama's speech in Berlin. I think I did all right. I'm not going to watch. I can't stand CBS and to be honest, I may just have an anxiety attack after seeing myself in HD. After the interview, I noticed that Alayna still had some lollipop gunk on her face from moments earlier. Look out Chicago, here comes toddler sucker schmutz..in HD!

Moral of the story: Always leave the house looking relatively decent and presentable. You never know when you will be speaking nervously into a microphone in front of a large camera about a subject you care little about.

Fortunately for everyone, I think I looked kickass.

Ol' Scratch

I simply love Trey Parker and Matt Stone. No matter how ridiculous they get, I love 'em. They could fart in my cereal if they really felt inclined. Well, hmm. I have to think about that one.

Anywho, here is a great video I found of them circa South Park First Season ('97 ish). It's called "A Fireside Chat with Matt and Trey." Surprisingly only one or two F-bombs. Enjoy.

I miss "Buttsbob".

Alayna: I want to watch T.V.

Tim: The T.V. is broken, the picture isn't coming up. (actual television issues, not a lie)

Alayna: Oh. I guess I watch Golden Books movie then.

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Me: [while making her favorite sandwich ever] We go through so much peanut butter in this house!

Alayna: You could grow peanut butter sandwiches. Nah, I just kiddin'.

Coming Soon to a Playground Near You

Hey! I have a better idea!

Last night I was looking up various ways to make broccoli and cheese. Simple, yes. I had a brick of Velveeta, frozen broccoli, rice/noodles, cream soups..etc at my disposal and was going to find some casserole recipe. All said and done, I just melted the cheese on the broccoli. This, however is not the point.

People will voice their opinions on just about anything as a blog comment no matter how trivial and mundane the original post may be. I found a question on Yahoo Answers (a veritable cesspool of information) that was similar to my broccoli and cheese needs. The comments were outstanding. There were people posting completely different recipes for this girl to try instead, people telling her to just throw out the Velveeta and go buy some real cheese, arguments about the importance of Veganism, Europeans making fun of fat Americans and so much more! I was expecting to come across a comment about how processed cheese is one of the causes of Global Warming. But, alas I did not.

Give me a fat, flabby American break. Spare yourselves the small physical effort to move your fingers across the keyboard and go back to your coffee house poetry readings. Or simply skip the question all together and find something you are interested in. Perhaps berating a girl who asked how to make a damn broccoli casserole on Yahoo answers is how you get your kicks. To each his own.

I'm going to go back to sucking down Milanos and watch South Park.

Fruit and Veggie Art

Of all the pictures I've seen of cute food, these are certainly some of them.



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