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– The Neil Patrick Harris SNL is already a classic in our house. This skit is another one of my favorites. It’s one of those things that’s probably funnier if you grew up in the South, but regardless, it makes me happy. Hope it makes you happy, too.
– American Idol starts tonight!
– Dear Bachelor Fans,
You’re welcome.
Love,
Me
I spent this past weekend in Atlanta with my sister-in-law Janie. Janie designs and sells fab jewelry travel cases, and when she asked me if I could help her for a couple of days at market, I was more than happy to oblige because 1) I love her and 2) I knew we’d eat a lot of cheese.
Seriously. You have never seen two girls who love cheese more than the two of us. Sometimes we even clap our hands when we talk about it. If we’re looking at a magazine and run across a recipe that contains cheese, we will read the recipe aloud and then talk about how good all that cheese would be. This probably explains why we spent a full fifteen minutes Saturday afternoon speculating on the finer points of a recipe for Potato Lasagna, a dish so decadent that in addition to pasta AND potatoes, it contains at least four different varieties of cheese, hallelujah.
(Have I mentioned to y’all that my husband has decided he doesn’t really like cheese anymore?)
(MY HUSBAND HAS DECIDED THAT HE REALLY DOESN’T LIKE CHEESE ANYMORE.)
(We are considering counseling to help us through this unexpected cheese-related difficulty in our marriage. Please keep us in your prayers.)
Friday night Janie treated me to dinner at a place called One Midtown Kitchen, which was great fun for me because I don’t normally eat at places that require a reservation. I normally eat at places where you sit down briefly and then FIX YOUR OWN PLATE, though if we’re really feeling fancy we’ll eat at a restaurant that provides complimentary chips and salsa before we order enormous plates of tortillas, beans and cheese.
Surprisingly, I don’t really have a problem with that last option.
Anyway, we had a delightful meal at the One Midtown Kitchen, and afterwards we went back to the hotel and put on our pajamas and watched HGTV and ate chocolate. In my opinion the only thing that would have made the night any better is some combination of A) a Dave Barnes show B) SEC basketball and C) a “Project Runway” marathon. Though that would’ve probably sent us into Fun Overload.
And when having fun, it’s important not to overdo it and also to stretch beforehand.
Saturday at market brought lots of great conversation and lots of anticipation about the cheese dip we were planning to eat for supper. By 6:15 the cheese dip was right where we wanted it – DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF US – and by 7:30 we were back in our room, back in our pajamas, and ready to get back to the TV. Janie missed “The Bachelor” when it was on in the earlier in the week, so I watched it again with her. It was actually quite productive because I discovered some subtle “Bachelor” nuances that I missed in my first viewing, and I don’t know when I’ve ever felt more prepared for a season’s second episode. It’s my greatest “Bachelor”-related accomplishment to date. You can imagine my joy.
I drove home yesterday afternoon and got all caught up with my little family and then, once the boy was asleep, watched what is no doubt one of my favorite SNL episodes in recent memory. Mainly because of this.
WHAT A DELIGHT.
Now do have a lovely day.
Hey y’all –
I’m hanging out with my sister-in-law this weekend, but I wanted to hop on here for just a second and tell you that Compassion is gearing up for its next bloggers’ trip – this time to Calcutta, India. If you’re a blogger and would like to be considered for the trip, click on over to the Compassion Bloggers site.
If you aren’t familiar with the previous bloggers’ trips to Uganda and the Dominican Republic, you can read about those right here.
Hope y’all have a wonderful weekend!
– Entertainment Weekly has compiled a list of the 16 best American Idol performances. I’d forgotten how supremely brilliant Melinda Doolittle’s version of “My Funny Valentine” was. I have to say, though, that EW‘s #3 might very well be my #1.
p.s. – WHERE’S MANDISA?
– EW also has a list of 12 songs they think should be banned from AI forever (and for the record, I agree with them on all of them except for number nine).
– Finally, you can imagine my delight this morning when I saw that a 114 year-old woman is giving bacon the credit it deserves.
I’m not much of a resolution fan, mainly because resolutions just remind me how bad I am at finishing the stuff that I start. I mean, I can sit around and dream big dreams and share big ideas all the livelong day, but when it comes to, you know, actually doing those things consistently, it’s a crapshoot. I might or I might not. Depends on my mood. And whether or not there’s a marathon of “Flipping Out” on Bravo.
The bottom line is that I’m just not very good at setting what I like to call FAYNCEE GOALS because FAYNCEE GOALS overwhelm me. FAYNCEE GOALS pretty much ensure that I’m going to give up within a short amount of time. FAYNCEE GOALS make me want to run in my house and lock the door and eat fried chicken and watch DVDs of “The Office” until ALL THE GOALS GO AWAY.
I know. It’s an inspiring approach to life, isn’t it?
So when 2009 rolled around, I didn’t make resolutions for the reasons I just mentioned. I love fresh beginnings, but I hate – HATE – feeling overwhelmed. I thought about a couple of things I’d like to try to do differently, but there were no 180s, no radical changes. Just some general thoughts about possibilities that might be worth considering.
Because I’m very structured.
Over the last week, though, I’ve been pretty convicted in two particular areas: 1) breakfast and 2) faithfulness in the small things. I’m not saying by ANY stretch of the imagination that these are the only two things in my life that I need to work on, OH MY WORD NO, because truth be told if I made a list of every single area of my life that needs improvement I WOULD NEVER GET OUT OF THE BED AGAIN, but these two areas keep coming to mind as places where I can make some good changes without sliding into the dreaded state of being overwhelmed.
Which brings us to breakfast.
For the last couple of years I have been Queen of the PopTarts. At times I’ve felt like that grandmother in “Sixteen Candles” who opens up a box of Hostess donuts with a spatula and then says, “VOILA. BREAKFAST IS SERVED.” Because that’s about how much effort I’ve put into what our little guy eats in the mornings (me? I eat a scoop of peanut butter, so obviously there is room for improvement in this area). I know that he loves grits and bananas and bacon and biscuits and pancakes and lots of other breakfast options, but between getting the two of us ready to head out the door, I’ve slacked on the cooking. So I’m trying to do better about that. We’ve had a hot breakfast every day in 2009 (our friends got us off to a great start on New Year’s, and David cooked this past weekend), and so far I’m enjoying it just as much as Alex is.
Neveryoumind that my hair smells like bacon by 7:00 every morning. THAT IS A SMALL PRICE TO PAY FOR HOT BACON.
As for being faithful in the small things, that mainly means that I want to try to help my husband by doing the little things that speak volumes to him: sticking to the grocery budget, getting my oil changed when he asks, throwing out stuff in the refrigerator before it grows legs and tries to make a break for it, taking time to think about wants vs. needs when I’m in a store, etc. I’m not an extravagant person by any stretch of the imagination, but I have a bad habit of justifying minor purchases because they’re minor purchases. $10 here. $15 there. $25 at the other place. And before I know it, I’ve spent $100 on, I don’t know, pens and shampoo and chicken breasts and a couple of shirts from Target.
So I’m hoping that developing better habits with the little stuff will communicate to my husband that what matters to him matters to me, too. I know in my head that the little stuff adds up and makes a big difference, but the problem is that sometimes the selfish part of my heart cries out for a cute pair of wedge sandals. Or a funky pair of pants for the low low price of $19.99. Or countertop spray that makes my kitchen smell like a forest of evergreens.
But 409 will be fine in 2009, oh yes ma’am it will.
So what about y’all? What are you working on in 2009?
Holla back in the comments. I’ll just be sitting here eating leftover bacon.
See? Breakfast is a MIGHTY GOOD THING indeed.
– My friends over at Culture11 are kicking off their 2009 Ladyblogger Awards. A panel of REAL LIVE JUDGES will evaluate / narrow down the list of nominees, and voting will begin January 19th. You can find a list of judging criteria right here. This is a perfect opportunity to nominate a blogger who might not have a lot of traffic but consistently provides excellent content on her blog.
In other Culture11 news, Shannon and I are working on a really fun project with them – so stay tuned.
(edited because I completely mixed up the award procedures thanks to my mad reading comprehension skillz)
– I’ve been listening to Andrew Peterson’s “Resurrection Letters Volume II” for a couple of months now, and y’all, it is so stinkin’ brilliant. Check it out for yourself.
– Travis Cottrell is recording a live worship CD in Atlanta on January 25th, and guess what? You are totally invited.
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