2007 Best of: Part two
Here's the last of my 2007 musings
From the mouths of Jennas
"Lisa says I can get a drum set if I clean my room." -- Jenna
Sarah has a glass of merlot.
Jenna: I think I'd like some wine too.
Sarah: Ok, I'll get you some.
Jenna: Wait, I'm going to need a … shooter to go with it.
Sarah: A shooter?
Jenna: What is it called? A chaser I mean.
Sarah: What is this chaser/shooter of yours going to be?
Jenna: Um, diet coke.
Sarah: Merlot with diet coke to wash the wine down? If you don't like merlot, I'm sure I could get you a white wine of some sort.
Jenna: No, I need the black kind like yours.
(Lisa is also concerned about this "shooter")
Jenna: I need to go find some cohabitational mollusks…and some Snoopy Come Home videos.
Jenna read my cruise notes at work and was snorting in a room all night because it was so funny.
Dan in Hong Kong moment
Daniel: there are markets where you can find real live MONSTERS
me: WHAT!!!!
Daniel: some with many legs
Daniel: this one guy ate 2 pigeon heads
me: did he get bird flu?
Daniel: i had like, a little bit of brain
but i didn't keep at it
i didn't think about that
me: not like you. What else did you eat?
Daniel: we had chinese fondue
and they gave us monsters to boil
it's just shrimp i guess
me: oh no!!! Were they live monsters that were all crawling around the table?
Daniel: we had crab
me: did you eat the lungs?
Daniel: yes
me: Do you eat lung monsters for every meal? What about snakes and lizards?
Daniel: we went to this dessert place
and this one girl looked at a picture of something that she thought looked good
and ordered "harsmar"
she didn't know what harsmar was
neither did I
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsmar
me: I would've never guessed! Did you figure it out when they brought it to your table? Was it all froggy-falopy looking?
Daniel: it just look like some sort of jelly
it was served over a papaya
me: oh no.
the article mentions Snow Ear. Is that any good?
Daniel: she said she loved it a little
i didn't have any snow ear
me: good for her! Do they eat Snow Dog Goofy Bear dessert much?
Daniel: no, but i saw a shop that sells stuffed animals called Zoe and Bear
They won't let you in unless you eat 5 monsters though
me: get one. get two!
I see a link from that page that talks about Dragon Beard Candy and Pork and Nut Cookie -- do you eat those everyday?
Daniel: i'm eating some now
Daniel: time to go, later
me: bye bye! HAVE FUN. AND EAT MONSTERS BY THE DOZEN
Best comparisons to "Cartoon Planet" Characters
1. Jenna and Lisa had filet mignon and Jenna went into a "beef trance" which we decided was something Brak might have or... Dan. Jenna said, "They have the same boots."
2. Lisa saw Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello for a journalism assignment and told me, "Elvis was really good but Bob was scary -- I just don't know what to think" and that he sounded like a cross between Zorak and the Tasmanian Devil.
All Hail Brak
Haagen Dasz Moments
I was showing mom Lisa's facebook page and she read Lisa's Top Haagen Dazs moments and Mom said, "Can't people write normal stuff on here? She writes that she wants to Befriend a Swan and Ride on It. Why does she write things like that?" I'm like, Mom, it's LISA. don't you know your daughter?" "But can't people write normal things?" Mom asked again.
I called Lisa and told her how Mom wonders why she can't write normal things and she said she applied to a greenhouse and can hopefully sing to the plants. Later that summer she got a magazine internship at a gardening magazine where she would write an article on watering Geraniums by the moonlight while listening to Billy Holiday.
Top Momisms
There's a picture from the early 90s of Jenna reading a book on Mom's bed and Mom wrote as a caption: "on the bedspread with permission.'"
Mom sent me an e-card from "all your E.T.s and your lion" with rap music in the background.
Mom's been watching "Sopranos." She writes:
I like Carmilla, that is the reason I like the show, also seeing the kids grow up and change. I am in season four. I kept looking for Carmilla and Tony in church Sat. night.
Mom's once a year email where she channels dad somehow and it sounds nothing like her in the email:
>>"I checked in on the E.T.s and they seem confused. They are wondering where you are???? I tried to divert their attention by throwing a pillow at them. Then I told them I saw you downtown Oswego eating a ham sandwich. Well, when they heard the word ham, they knew better than to believe me, so I had to try and think of another excuse so I am thinking they are on to me. So right now I am avoiding them so they don't ask any more questions. Lv The ET dodger"<<
A Very, Very Long Sneezegagement
Midnight Movie: A Very Long Engagement. We go up to the ticket window thing to buy our tickets and there was a kid about 19 or 20 standing in front of the window in the middle of what appeared to be a gigantic sneeze. "Ahhh, ahh, ahh ..." we were waiting for the Choo and it wasn't coming. The man behind the ticket window (who looked
like a teddy bear) told the man to please step aside so people can buy tickets. The kid said, "One second, Ahh ahh ahh..... CHOO!" Good, he sneezed. But he was not moving. He was back at it: Ahh ahh ahh ahhh.... and nothing was coming out. I began giggling at this point because I couldn't help it. Either he was on drugs, or maybe this was some kind of Comedy Improv or Candid Camera type thing. We decided to go toward the concession stand because it looked like the teddy bear man was going to try physically move him out of the way or maybe call the cops. We got coffee and when I looked back, the Crazy Sneeze guy was gone. When we handed the girl our tickets she was laughing and I said, "I also have hay fever."
Favorite emails from afar
Megan:
Lightning snow is radical as shit. You're all like, "WHOA!" The weather has inspired us to watch all of Hobbit Doom X. Did I ever tell you that we got mad props for our dancing on New Years? Paige said that she laughed so hard and thought we were awesome. Thought I'd pass on the love.
Karen:
...I would just sign the only words I know in sign language over and over at a rapid pace. Like "grow, grow , pretty, girl, boy , thank you, blue, cheese, hog, rainbow". Which I'm sure they found annoying.
Lisa's anxiety over a romantic notion
Lisa: And to top it off Jenna finally got the BICYCLE BUILT FOR TWO and it came in a huge box and she wants me to ride it Uptown with her.
Sarah: Really? Is this something she has always put on her Christmas list and never gotten along with the pogo stick, trampoline, and stilts?
Lisa: Yes, but there is a problem. I do NOT want to ride this bike, especially not Uptown because I'm not good around pedestrians and cars.
Sarah: This is hilarious because a bicycle built for two sounds like a very enchanting thing. Aren't you the spokeswoman for enchanting moments?
Lisa: I can't break Jenna's heart by telling her I don't want to ride it. Or maybe we can just ride it on the driveway to practice first hopefully.
Sarah: Sounds like a Doom Bike for 2, but I wouldn't stress over it too much. Jenna has her whims.
Lisa: Yes she does.
Briana's Top Three
Her first visit: she brought me a prism, a wine opener, cupcakes, a copy of Moby Dick, and reserved seats with the star of a Seattle Film Festival movie. We watched Pollyanna over the wine & cupcakes.
Bite of Seattle beer tent where we mocked the Reality Dating booth's survey while Briana took sips of her chocolate ice coffee with her beer and mojito in the same straw and was saying it tasted "good" while we discussed our upcoming Orphan and Dudley Moore movie marathons.
"Dying in a dark place with only a light shining on these deliriously happy animals singing Polly Wolly Doodle is far more terrifying than any horror movie." -- Briana
People of 2007
Patrice who introduced me to his two pandas, Fluffle and Rubble. He used to do circus with his half koala half krizzly bear and Heedy the Hextra-derres-dreeal.
John Vanderslice -Winner of Sarah's Official If you Google "Nicest Man in Indie Rock" his Name Comes Up Award (since 2003)
Dwight Schrute - "Yes! Funtivities! I knew it wasn't just a trip to the beach." [Now I just want to quote season 3: Angela: Sometimes the clothes at GAP Kids are just too flashy so I'm forced to go to the American Girl Store and order clothes for large, colonial dolls. (I feel her pain). Pam: Phyllis – yogurt containers! (was this from the outtakes?)]
My Grandma Wahleithner - Creator of the Pooka Bear
Little Adelle - of course
Tom Petty - 30 Years of Running Down a Dream. My terrible 1996 letter: "Dear Tom Petty, I just wanted to tell you how much you have inspired me through your music. One time you were on the radio and I went to get the boom box to tape your radio concert but my Mom had stepped on the record button while she was cleaning and it was broken but then at the last second THE RECORD BUTTON WENT DOWN and it changed my life, Mr. Petty."
I spent Easter with Patrice's French friends.
This was our lovely meal.
Raclette is also a dish indigenous to parts of
Switzerland,
Wallonia and
France. The Raclette cheese round is heated, either in front of a fire or by a special machine, then scraped onto diners' plates; the term
raclette derives from the French
racler, meaning "to scrape". Traditionally, it is accompanied by small firm
potatoes (Bintje, Charlotte or Raclette varieties),
gherkins,
pickled onions, dried meats (such as
prosciutto and
viande des Grisons), sliced peppers, tomato, onion, mushrooms, pears, and dusted with paprika and fresh-ground black pepper.
There were lots of cute French babies at the house and some nice wine. Maybe that's why Patrice has this pink hat on.
