Lazy Saturday

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Because I've spent enought time recently dwelling on the dark side, I give you this:


Things by which I am amused...

1). The End's "Brigham Blocks" weekend.

2). This

3). What? "People don't take this costume seriously."

4). A fitness magazine, paid for by my hard-earned insurance-premium-paying money, which concludes all the educational articles regarding HEALTH with a recipe for Raspberry Swirl Squares containing the following ingredients: 3 Tbsp. fat-free tub margarine and 2 cups frozen fat-free or light whipped topping, thawed. (Methinks they need a more enlightened editor. Perhaps Carina?)

5). Little son at breakfast: "Mom, I want you to make this again sometime when no one else eats so I can eat it ALL!"

Me: "You like the farm fresh eggs?"

Little son: "Fresh off a chicken butt?"


Don't laugh. It only encourages him.

Comments

~j. said…
I wouldn't like to throw things at the chicken as much as I'd like to visit Bald Knob.
22/7/06 8:59 PM
Lorien said…
Fresh off a chicken butt. I love it. But were they fresh off a chicken costume chicken butt? You know, you almost have to have a calling from the Lord to do that type of work.

Regarding brigham blocks, Guy and I figure Brigham is in heaven going, "Now that's something I didn't expect. A valley blossoming like a rose, yes. A stone cut out of a mountain and rolling to fill the earth, yes. But what music would I listen to 150 years later if I was alive? nope, didn't see it coming."
22/7/06 9:06 PM
LuckyRedHen said…
Chicken butt. Can't get away with saying that too many times. Haha.
23/7/06 3:55 PM
Carina said…
That fat free margarine will send you to the morgue. So, that's pretty healthy.

"Whipped Topping:
Water, Corn Syrup, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil* (Coconut And Palm Kernel Oils), High Fructose Corn Syrup, Less Than 2% Of Sodium Caseinate (From Milk), Natural And Artificial Flavor, Xanthan And Guar Gums, Polysorbate 60, Sorbitan Monostearate, Beta Carotene (Color)"
* aka transfats

Go HEALTH magazine!
24/7/06 4:56 PM
dalene said…
Exactly! Although at last night's 24th of July BBQ I finally figured out why Fat Free anything will eventually help you lose weight: Those of us with tastebuds won't touch the stuff! I passed on the onion and ranch dips both made from fat free sour cream.

I'd rather just go without.
25/7/06 2:03 PM
Geo said…
I remember when my cute little niece first made the barnyard bio connection--she brought out from the kitchen a nicely-chilled large white wonder a la styrofoamed Macey's brand to show her parents . . .

"LOOK, Mama!!! It's a CHICKEN egg!!!!"
25/7/06 6:12 PM
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